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Traffic moves along Interstate 80, Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises not to travel this holiday.

Covid readiness needs to be part of holiday travel planning “With Covid‑19 cases steadily increasing this month, the expected continued rise will prompt some would-be travelers to not follow through with upcoming travel plans,” Sergio Avila, AAA Northern California spokesman, said in a statement released Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises not to travel, and according to QuoteWizard by LendingTree, California is the sixth riskiest state to travel to and within based on Covid-19 health risks and

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FAIRFIELD — An annual holiday travel forecast anticipates 34 million fewer travelers compared to last year’s holiday season, a decline of nearly 30%. But that does not mean the roads and skies won’t be busy. AAA Northern California forecasts as many as 84.5 million people may still travel from Wednesday through Jan. 3. About 9.83 million Californians may be traveling, AAA reported.

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Group greenlights Moderna vaccine for use in state as hospitals struggle Los Angeles Times

by California and later joined by Nevada, Oregon and Washington, reviewed the vaccine separately from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which on Friday issued emergency use authorization. The group made its recommendation to the governors of the four states Sunday morning, officials said in a news release.

LOS A NGELES — A working group of scientists and experts Sunday endorsed the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health, clearing the way for it to be distributed throughout California and much of the West. The group, initially formed

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Official: Unclear if US has the UK virus mutation Tribune Content Agency It’s not clear whether a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that prompted tighter restrictions in the U.K. has made its way to the U.S., according to Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific adviser for the government’s vaccine acceleration program. “We don’t know,” Slaoui said on Sunday. “We’re looking at that.” Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir questioned the threat posed by the virus changes cited by the U.K. government, saying the coronavirus blamed for Covid-19 has mutated more than 4,000 times since its discovery. There’s no imminent need to suspend flights from the U.K., he said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We don’t know that it’s more dangerous, and very importantly we have not seen a single mutation yet that would make it evade the vaccine,” and while that can’t be ruled out for the future, “I don’t think there should be any reason for alarm right now,” Giroir said.

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders have agreed on a nearly $900 billion economic aid package to extend federal unemployment payments and forgivable loans for small businesses, and to give direct cash payments to many Americans. The leaders – under increasing pressure from constituents and rank-and-file lawmakers, and confronted with both a slowing economy and surging coronavirus infections and related deaths – are racing to pass it into law before millions of Americans lose their financial lifeline. The final text of the aid package, the second largest in U.S. history, is expected to become available Sunday evening, leaving members of Congress little time to review it before voting. “We can finally report what our nation has needed to hear for a very long time. More help is on the way,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor. The bipartisan deal crafted by the top four congressional leaders must be passed by the House and Senate and signed by President Donald Trump to become law. The additional federal unemployment aid created by Congress in March in the socalled CARES Act expires Saturday, and most other benefits lapse before the end of the year. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer predicted the House and Senate could vote as soon as Sunday. “It appears that barring a major mishap the Senate and House will be able to vote on a bill as early as tonight,” Schumer said Sunday. Congressional procedure could make that difficult though, and lawmakers were warned to be prepared to vote late into the night. Congressional leaders want to attach the aid to a must-pass $1.4-trillion package to fund the operations of federal agencies through this fiscal year ending Sept. 30. Congress has passed several short-term resolutions to extend the funding and keep the government open while the aid package was being negotiated. Lawmakers have until the end of the day Sunday to pass the bill and avoid a government shutdown, but may have to consider another extension. While Trump has not been involved in the talks, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin has, and the president is expected to support See Stimulus, Page A8

Trump downplays massive cyber hack on government Reaction dismays lawmakers, baffles experts office, Trump remains preoccupied with his falsehood-filled campaign to overturn the results of November’s election, and gave no indication that the United States would seek to punish those responsible for an unprecedented breach whose full scope was still being assessed. “Russia acted with impunity,” Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said on NBC’S “Meet the Press.” Romney, one of only a handful of congressio-

Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — President Trump’s dismissive characterization of a massive cyberattack targeting multiple U.S. agencies drew pushback Sunday from lawmakers and cybersecurity experts amid growing questions over the president’s refusal to acknowledge that Russia was likely behind the intrusions. A month before Presidentelect Joseph R. Biden takes

nal Republicans to criticize Trump’s conduct regarding the election, said that “we’ve come to recognize that the president has a blind spot when it comes to Russia.” Throughout his tenure, Trump has balked at consistently acknowledging that prior to the 2016 presidential vote Russian hackers sought to help him and hurt his opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has

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The Raiders – even in failure – give me hope . . . like the Titanic

tinues to make sense wrote a column for the Daily Republic called after the team moved, The Lighter Side of unlike the “SF” on the the Black Hole from helmets of the Santa 2006 to 2019 about my Clara (and currently beloved Raiders. I Arizona) 49ers. wanted to write about The Raider Nation them now as this is the stands behind our season of hope and the team – win, lose or tie. Raiders have left their Tony Wade That said, their inaugufans with plenty. The last laugh ral season in Sin City Stop scratching your has certainly not been a heads, I’ll explain all that later. return to glory. In fact, I started First I must address this to feel déjà vu when they got off weird thing that fans of other to a promising start and then (in other words, lesser) teams collapsed as the season went on, kept doing last year that was just like the 2019 campaign. irritating because of its ridicThe latest embarrassment ulousness. They assumed that was Thursday’s overtime loss since the Raiders were moving to the Chargers. Here’s the to Las Vegas that I and many thing: I am always hoping for a other Raider Nationals would Raiders win, but as for feeling abandon ship. confident? Uh, not so much. Uh, no. That’s because I’ve watched If you look at the Raiders’ the Raiders “defense” play logo (still the NFL’s awesomall year and while I am conest) it simply says “RAIDERS.” fident they could shut down It does not have a city attached many Pop Warner teams in to it. I am a Raiders fan – not the U.S., against other NFL an Oakland, Los Angeles or Las squads – negative. Vegas fan. At least our logo conI wasn’t confident even after

they went into Narrowhead Stadium and beat the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs (thanks a lot Niners, I still almost choke – kinda like y’all did in the big game – whenever I say those seven words). I mean even then they were giving up an average of 30 points per game. Some are asking, how did a team that was 6-3 and had the so-called “easiest” schedule in the NFL from then on end up 7-7 with two games left? The real question, however, is, how did they win seven games in the first place? The answer is obviously the offense that has sparkled at times, but that doesn’t win championships. If it did, then Buffalo Bills fans would be looking back on the glory days of when their team won four Super Bowls in a row. In the Chargers game, it was startling how wide open their receivers were. In fact, I sent an email to the NFL asking them to investigate whether Chargers coaches were illegally using

Star Trek transporters and just beaming guys onto the field. As a fan, I started to think that maybe the fault lay with me. I mean, was I not cheering loud enough? Not wearing enough gear? Was the cardboard “D” I cleverly paired with a fence not original enough? But then I remembered that I am just a longtime fan. I can’t play defense. So actually I could fit right in with them, but it’s not my job. So back to this idea about hope. Here’s the thing: Yes the Raiders’ season is done and there is no realistic hope of them doing anything if they somehow got into the playoffs on a banana peel. But the thing is that even sucky teams can eventually get good. I mean, for years the Saints were abysmal. Flash forward to Drew Brees with tears in his eyes holding his infant son wearing headphones after they won the Super Bowl. What the NFL sells their

Some US colleges cut tuition, ending relentless price spiral Tribune Content Agency

‘We just want this to be simple in a complicated year.’

Hold on to your mortar board: the cost of a U.S. college education has finally stopped going up. At least that’s the case at a small handful of liberal arts colleges that need to lure students in the middle of a pandemic. Oberlin College, in Ohio, has cut its tuition by $10,000 for all new students. Nearby Denison University is offering an even better deal for Ohio residents: a $100,000 scholarship over four years. And Davidson College, in North Carolina, has frozen its tuition for the first time in a quarter-century. The Covid-19 pandemic has upended college life – and college finances – for millions. Now, in a sign of what might lie ahead, it also has begun to check the relentless rise in prices that has strained family finances and pushed the nation’s combined student debt to over $1.7 trillion, as admission deans stare down fewer high school graduates. “The pendulum may be swinging a little bit toward the consumer side,” said Steve Frappier, director of college counseling at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta. “But that’ll also depend on the selectivity of the school and the financial health of the school.” This year has already been one of unrivaled chaos for admissions offices, with many devising workarounds for

— Gregory Sneed, vice president for enrollment management

students unable to visit campus in person and waiving standardized-test requirements. Freshman enrollment is down 13% this year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which called the decline “unprecedented.” It’s not yet clear whether large universities with robust endowments and high demand will follow suit. Princeton University in New Jersey cut tuition 10% for undergraduates for the current academic year because the pandemic significantly diminished the student experience. The Ivy League school, one of the richest U.S. universities, is expected to set the 2021-2022 price in April. The cost for tuition, fees, room and board this year at Oberlin, known for its music conservatory, is almost $76,000. The school had been considering the tuition break as a recruiting tool even before the pandemic, and decided that it should apply only to new students to limit the cost, said Manuel Carballo, dean of admissions and financial aid. In recent years, Oberlin has taken steps to make its application process easier,

including eliminating fees and allowing students to self-report standardized test scores, he said. Davidson’s president, Carol Quillen, said the freeze wasn’t devised as a strategy to retain students, but to offer certainty on cost during uncertain times. The initiative at Denison, about 100 miles south of Oberlin, helps make the school more marketable to Ohio residents and “provides some stability to our enrollment,” said Gregory Sneed, vice president for enrollment management. Denison, where the cost of tuition, room and board and fees is $70,400 this year, opted against making financial need a consideration for its $100,000 scholarship because applying for aid is already a complex process. “We just want this to be simple in a complicated year,” Sneed said. Some 1,200 students applied by the Dec. 1 deadline at Denison, which has a total undegraduate enrollment of about 2,300. Some schools are offering more help based on financial need. Grinnell College in Iowa announced last month that financialaid packages will include grants that don’t need to be repaid instead of loans. Still, the incentives at U.S. colleges are beginning to pile up as the universe of high school graduates is already shrinking in parts of the country, includ-

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ing some Midwest states, and is projected to decline nationwide in coming years. Schools are trying to ensure they have enough students for the next academic year, especially after the 2020 drop. “If you’re underenrolled and under-budget, those are pretty significant consequences,” said Mark Hatch, vice president for enrollment at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. “They’re fouryear consequences.

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fans (besides beer, gear, chips and overpriced tickets) is hope. The Raiders are like the Titanic going down. But unlike the movie or much less the actual tragedy, there is a sequel every year. Now, for years – even decades – it has been like Groundhog Day and every season the ship sunk and Jack froze to death. A time is coming, however, when the ship will still sink but Rose will figure out she can just skooch over a little bit and let Jack get on that floating chunk of wood so he doesn’t become a Jacksicle. Then one day, the ship won’t even sink. Hope. Near, far, wherever they are, I believe that the Raider heart does go on. Just please don’t tell anyone I ended a Raider column by paraphrasing Celine Dion. Reach Fairfield Raider fanalist – part fan, part journalist – Tony Wade at toekneeweighed@gmail.com.

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E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product for middle school and high school students.

CDC: Tobacco use among youth down, but still significant

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FAIRFIELD — Nearly 4.5 million middle and high school students use some kind of tobacco products, but that number is shrinking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported tobacco use was down 28% from 2019 to 2020. “The decline in tobacco product use over the past year is a win for public health,” CDC Director Robert R. Redfield said in a statement released with the report. “Yet, our work is far from done. Nearly 4.5 million U.S. youths still use tobacco products, putting a new generation at risk for nicotine addiction and other health risks.” The study found that “nearly 1 in 4 high school students (3.65 million) were current users of any tobacco product in 2020, down about 25% from about 1 in 3 (4.7 million) in 2019,” according to the CDC’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The study was conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “About 1 in 15 middle school students (800,000) were current users of any tobacco product in 2020,

down nearly 50% from about 1 in 8 (1.5 million) in 2019,” the study reported. In Solano County, a student survey based on use during the previous 30 days for seventh-, ninth- and 11th-graders shows declines of use at all age levels after a peak in 2009-10. The surveys were completed every other year. For seventh-graders, after a high of 7% in the peak year, the report shows 2% use in 2014, 1% use in 2016 and 1% in 2018, the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Prevention Programming Evaluation Report states. It was released in February 2019. That compares to statewide numbers of a peak year use at 5%, 5% in 2014, 3% in 2016 and 1% in 2018. For ninth-graders, after a high of 13%, the report shows 4% use in 2014, 2% use in 2016 and 1% use in 2018. That compares to statewide numbers of a peak year use at 9%, 7% in 2014, 5% in 2016 and 3% in 2018. For juniors in high school, after a high of 15%, the report shows 7% use in 2014, 4% use in 2016 and 2% use in 2018. That compares to statewide numbers of a peak year use at 13%, 12% in 2014, 9% in 2016 and 4% in 2018.

E-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product among both student groups. “Additionally, many youths used multiple tobacco products; among current tobacco product users, about 1 in 3 high school students (1.27 million) and about 2 in 5 middle school students (340,000) used two or more tobacco products in 2020,” the study reported. Other key findings highlighted by the CDC are: n Among high school students, current tobacco product use was highest for e-cigarettes (19.6%), followed by cigars (5%), cigarettes (4.6%), smokeless tobacco (3.1%), hookah (2.7%), heated tobacco products (1.4%) and pipe tobacco (0.7%). n Among middle school students, current tobacco product use was highest for e-cigarettes (4.7%), followed by cigarettes (1.6%), cigars (1.5%), hookah (1.3%), heated tobacco products (1.3%), smokeless tobacco (1.2%) and pipe tobacco (0.4%). n Among middle and high school students, any current tobacco product use was 16.7% among males and 15.8% among females. n Among middle and high school students combined, any current

tobacco product use was 17.8% among nonHispanic whites, 17.2% among Hispanics, 13.2% among non-Hispanic blacks, and 10.1% among non-Hispanic students of other races. n Among middle and high school students combined, any current tobacco product use was 25.5% among those identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual; 15.1% among those identifying as heterosexual; and 11.1% among those reporting “not sure” about their sexual identity. “These findings demonstrate success in reducing youth use of tobacco overall, while also revealing changes in use patterns that will inform policymakers,” FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn said in the CDC statement. “We remain very concerned about the overall tobacco use rates for young people, including the nearly 3.6 million youth who currently use e-cigarettes,” Hahn said in the statement. “FDA will continue to monitor the marketplace, expand our public education efforts, and use our regulatory authority to further ensure all tobacco products, and e-cigarettes in particular, are not marketed to, sold to or used by kids.”

Couple turns van into ‘mobile dining room’ to help support restaurants, bars Tribune Content Agency They talk about how they loved the tuna tartare at Cab’s Wine Bar Bistro in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. They talk about how Mexican and Vietnamese flavors fused at Mykha’s before the namesake chef retired. While these restaurants’ closings were not a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kim and Doug White fear their favorite restaurants will get added to the closed list. “We still lament them as though they were family members,” said Kim White. For many, dining out is at the heart of good times and memories. The suspension of indoor dining at restaurants and bars because of the coronavirus has stolen that joy from the Whites. It took away date nights, a way the Lombard couple communicates. “It’s Doug’s love language,” said Kim White. “From the very beginning, we love to go out to eat. It’s been the thing that we do.” Like many others, they sought ways to find happiness and some normalcy during an isolating time.

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Doug and Kim White of Lombard dine in their van outside of Kizuna Sushi in Glen Ellyn, Ill., Dec. 11. Their solution: turn their Ford Transit van into a mobile dining room. Since October, the two have been pulling into restaurant parking lots and eating their takeout at the table covered in a red-and-white checkered table cloth in the back of their van. To help support the restaurants, they’ve been posting their date nights on Facebook and Instagram, logging their favorite dishes. “Eating out for us is that little teeny tiny bit of normalcy,” said Kim White, who talked about being dealt another blow this year. On a Friday night in

June, Doug White thought he had a kidney stone and went to the hospital. With Covid-19 affecting hospital visitors’ policies, he was left to hear these words alone: “You have cancer.” “It just sucks the breath out of you,” said Kim White. After the diagnosis, the next step was chemotherapy. This, too, stole small delights. Doug White could no longer eat sushi with raw fish from one of his new favorite restaurants, Kizuna, which they discovered this summer on Roosevelt Road in Glen Ellyn. “Doug and I have

always said there’s a couple different types of meals,” Kim White said. “There’s a meal that will feed your body, and there’s a meal that will feed your soul. And if a meal can feed your body and your soul at the same time, that’s the best.” The couple, who’ve been married 26 years and have two adult children and five grandkids, met decades ago when he was her piano tuner. Five years later, when both were single parents of young children, they went to a concert and then to Reza’s restaurant in Andersonville. “Doug has a way of describing food that is so romantic,” Kim White said. But when indoor dining closed again in the fall, “It was just like some of that joy was just being taken away from us again,” Kim White said. “It was so sad.” Doug White used to work as a bartender at Palmer Place in LaGrange, so he knows how hard it is to stay above water, let alone during a national shutdown. He worried about See Couple, Page A7

FAIRFIELD — A $225,000 planning grant awarded to Santa Clara County for the development of a Bay Area regional agricultural plan lists Solano County. The effort also links to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Plan Bay Area 2050 as related to “protection of work lands.” The California Strategic Growth Council awarded the grant as part of $52 million in grants for planning projects, acquisition projects, easement acquisition projects, as well as the planning grants. “The proposed project builds on the SALC-funded Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Plan and aims to develop a framework for a regional Bay Area Agricultural Plan,” the council announcement states. “It will do this through two distinct, but related, tracks. One track will be focused on cross-jurisdictional coordination across five contiguous Bay Area counties (Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco) to explore a mechanism, such as a JPA, for preservation of agricultural lands across the region.” Solano, Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties are also mentioned in another part of the document. The Bay Area has lost 217,000 acres of agricultural land to sprawl development over the past 30 years, the council announcement states. Today, 200,000 acres of Bay

Area farm and ranchland are still at risk of development with 63,500 acres of that likely to be developed in the next 10 years. Including $57,550 in matching funds, the project budget rises to $282,550. Strategies for protecting the at-risk farmland – with a focus on prime soils and strategic parcel – includes sharing of best practices, expansion of the Priority Conservation Areas program and the potential development of a regional fund for farmland protection. Through the Plan Bay Area framework, “the project will also integrate farmworker housing policies and programs at the regional level and identify affordable housing needs in rural areas for the agricultural workforce, such as small-scale temporary housing solutions to support seasonal laborers and beginning farms under development,” the council stated. “The plan also proposes economic incentives for funding climate-smart agricultural practices and social investments such as assistance for immigrant farmers and succession planning. Economic co-benefits may include increases in direct farmgate revenues, reported annually through County Crop Reports and indirect and induced values, measured t hrough IMPLAN analysis.” IMPLAN is an economic modeling approach to mapping future challenges, opportunities and other data points for a specific sector or goal.

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A volunteer harvests persimmons at Charlotte’s Orchard in Vacaville, Oct. 21, 2017.

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want to be Santa for Christmas. Plump my rump, whip me up a hoary head and white whiskers, bedeck my body in red and white and tickle my tummy for a hearty Ho Ho Ho! Give me the gift of gift giving. I know my first gift and I’d fly into it like down off a thistle. A recipe; Santa’s Recipe – and I’d give it away. Here is the skinny on portly St. Nicholas’ boundless joy. Over the past few millennia, Santa has honed his expertise as a culinary critic of how to prepare a bountiful buffet banquet of living. I have it direct from none other than Rudolph that the Merchant of Mirth knows the secret to put the sizzle in your stake in life. If you tune your hearts and Kevin P. Ryan minds just right, close you eyes and wish the most selfless ever Christmas wish, you’ll find yourself there. Of course, no iPods, cellphones, TVs, PCs, CDs or DVDs allowed. Their frequencies interfere with the recipe, as well as Rudolph’s nose. Mrs. Claus assures me that Santa’s kitchen is not one of those wham bam, conspicuous consumption scams that simply pack on the empty calories of pounds of mere possessions. As I learned from Dancer and Prancer, Santa knows who’s been sleeping and who’s awake through the Christmas song of their days. So, hark! – Take a load off your heart, gather up faithful friends who are dear to you and bring them near to you because here comes Santa’s recipe. Since every recipe needs a list, before we start be sure to check it twice. The ingredients are no farther than the cupboard of your heart and the only expertise needed is a pulse. Start with a pound of purpose. Have a reason and rationale to your life that does not start and end by looking in the mirror. Then, add a pinch of productivity. Just get your hands dirty and make something, anything, more than it was to start with. Dirty hands, clean minds. Stir in cream of creativity. Simmer, not dwell. Quite a concoction ya got brewing, eh? Sort of like life. The joyous jambalaya of life is always better than the sum of its parts. Next, lightly flour with forgiveness. Understand it, get it and give more than you receive. Pass giggle, move straight on to Ho Ho Ho, and add two to three heaping helpings of humor. Then caramelize the entire concoction with kindness. It’s best that way. Now, strain the sauce through a smile collector; biggest size they make. Close your eyes and savor the aroma, especially when the stink of suffering or boredom chills your nose. Of course, you have to have tunes. Make music with your eyes, your laughter, and your love. Now run around the kitchen twice. Wow the world with your energy. Toss a tomato, juggle a ju ju bee and assault the pits, be they cherry or life. Do it with flare and keep moving to your groove. If you get a scratch or two, singe a hair or burn your tongue, good for you! Every elf worth their weight in mistletoe knows there’s no fun cooking in life’s kitchen without bumps. Now then, head for a window of your heart and listen, listen carefully and you’ll hear it; children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile. So, are you now dreaming of a white Christmas and need to see snow here in sunny California? Not a problem. Disconnect the cable TV. Finally, turn up the heat of your heart in your life. There’s no need for frigid Jack Frost nipping at your soul. Keep cooking in the kitchen, and soon you, too, will be a jolly old elf, laughing, in spite of yourself. Dr. Kevin Ryan is a physician, professor, author, musician and retired U.S. Air Force colonel. He can be reached at ryan_k@comcast.net.

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Are white evangelicals really Christians? Part 1

everal weeks ago, as values,” meaning patriarchy. Donald Trump was Evangelicals also took to ramping up his attempted John Wayne beginning in the coup d’état, the popular late 1940s. Wayne soon became evangelical TV commentator America’s favorite cowboy/ Eric Metaxas cried in anguish, soldier hero and embodiment of “I’d be happy to die in this masculinity. Evangelicals fell fight. This fight is for everyfor him. thing. God is with us. Jesus is By the mid-1950s a mascuwith us in this fight for liberty.” Jack Batson line, nationalistic, patriotic God is with Trump and his version of Christianity was assault on democracy? Supported by developing. America was a Christian Christians? As a mainline Christian nation that had fought on God’s side in myself, I am confused. Democracy fits the recent war, and was engaged in in well with my Christian worldview. another epic struggle against godless, Yet white evangelical Christians are at ruthless communism in the Cold War. the heart of Trump’s fanatic “base” of And white evangelical Christians were support. How is this possible? ready to fight. I found the reason in “Jesus and The result was “Christian nationalJohn Wayne” by Kristin Kobes ism,” the idea that God was on our side DuMez. Let’s start at the beginning and He favored us. This was accompaand conclude in a second part nied by another central idea: the Bible Wednesday. taught that women were created for Modern evangelicals first appeared men, and that men had been given after World War II, Billy Graham in “dominion” over all creation. the lead. I liked Billy Graham. I was A smaller group of progressive just a kid but I liked his simple chalevangelicals insisted that God loved all lenge. Later I found that he was peoples, not preferring any, and that financially clean and personally women, created by God equally, should unassuming, signs of Christian be treated equally with men. Liberal humility. evangelicals would spar unsuccessBut Graham liked masculinity, a fully with the larger conservative characteristic that would grow to version. unhealthy size later. He didn’t like a The next strongman to thrill “sissy” Christianity. He claimed that conservative evangelicals was Sen. Jesus was a “star athlete . . . the most Barry Goldwater. Both John Wayne physically powerful man who ever and Ronald Reagan stumped for him lived.” in his failed presidential bid in 1964. He probably reflected the general society back then when he claimed that I’m sure Eric Metaxas was thrilled by Goldwater’s claim that, “Extremism “A nation is only as strong as her homes,” and that the father was “God’s in the defense of liberty is no vice.” Most Americans were shocked by representative . . . the protector and provider of the home.” This idea would Goldwater’s belligerence, but white grow and become known as “family evangelicals took a shine to it.

Billy Graham had tried to stay away from politics but by 1968 he couldn’t separate church from state any longer. “There’s no American that I admire more,” he gushed about Richard Nixon. Thus was born the alliance between the Republican Party and white conservative evangelicals. In the election of 1980 we see evangelical preference for masculine strength and Christian nationalism. Jimmy Carter was a born-again, moderate liberal evangelical who taught Sunday school but he had negotiated with communists, wore cardigan sweaters and had returned the Panama Canal. Ronald Reagan had not shown much religious conviction, but he wore cowboy boots and was ready to crusade against “godless communism.” Carter lost. Then came the evangelical women’s movement in response to “women’s liberation.” In “The Total Woman,” Marabel Morgan wrote that “the biblical remedy for marital conflict” was submission to the husband and becoming a “sizzling lover.” Ten million copies were sold. Elizabeth Elliot echoed her in “Let Me Be a Woman,” writing, “God gave men higher rank” in creation. Phyllis Schlafly, who had written an important book praising Barry Goldwater and warned of “creeping socialism,” weighed in that “men and women are different.” Her ceaseless efforts killed the Equal Rights Amendment dead in its tracks. Let’s conclude this nail-biter Wednesday. Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

State has own version of 21st century witch hunts

early 70 years ago, Arthur Thus, George Washington, the Miller wrote “The Crusingle most important figure in cible,” a play ostensibly the nation’s founding, and about the 17th century other giants of the era, such as Salem witchcraft trials, in Thomas Jefferson, would be which about 25 people, mostly condemned for women, were accused of conbeing slaveowners. sorting with the devil and California, not surprisingly, suffered horrible deaths. has been a fertile ground for There’s no doubt, however, culture, targeting such Dan Walters cancel that Miller’s play was an historic figures as priest allegorical denunciation of persecuting Junipero Serra and pioneer John Americans suspected of harboring Sutter for their sins against communist beliefs, particularly Native Americans. hearings by Wisconsin Sen. Joseph The cutting edge of cultural McCarthy. In fact, after writing the cancellation is found in San Francisco. play, Miller was convicted of contempt Just the other day, the city’s governing of Congress for refusing to identify Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 to others with whom he had attended condemn the 2015 naming of its public certain meetings. hospital for Facebook co-founder Mark The Salem trials and the McCarthy Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla hearings generated two enduring Chan, after the couple gave $75 million terms – witch hunt and McCarthyism – toward a new acute care and trauma to describe intolerance for those who center. don’t conform to current religious or Why? Basically, the city’s leaders political dogma. just don’t like Facebook. They could also describe the 21st The nonbinding resolution’s sponsor, century phenomenon, dubbed “cancel Supervisor Gordon Mar, said a hospital culture,” of erasing names of historic that serves the poor should not be or even current figures from public named for someone whose social places, if they have deviated from media corporation spreads misinforcontemporary ideology. mation and violates privacy. The earliest cancel culture targets Facebook is taking heat from those were low-hanging fruit – men who had on both ends of the political spectrum. rebelled against the nation and However, it’s ironic that San Francisinstigated a bloody civil war to mainco’s left-leaning city supervisors tain slavery, such as Confederate would single out Zuckerberg and Chan General Robert E. Lee. when they have been, if anything, Soon, however, the cancel culture supportive of leftish causes, such as movement expanded to those whose contributing $10-plus million to the sins could not, in the eyes of their campaign for Proposition 15, a ballot accusers, be offset by their virtues. measure that would have raised taxes

on commercial property. Even more inexplicable is an effort in San Francisco’s school system to strip names of ideological sinners from 44 schools. They include slaveowning presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez Balboa and – very oddly – U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose alleged sin is that as mayor she once replaced a Confederate flag in front of City Hall that had been vandalized. The most puzzling target is Abraham Lincoln, an historical hero for resisting the Southern states’ rebellion and issuing a proclamation to free their slaves. Despite those actions, Lincoln should be dishonored, the committee says, because he was insufficiently supportive of Native Americans in their struggles with white settlers. “Uprooting the problematic names and symbols that currently clutter buildings, streets, throughout the city is a worthy endeavor,” said Jeremiah Jeffries, a teacher who chairs the renaming committee. “Only good can come from the public being reflective and intentional about the power of our words, names and rhetoric within our public institutions.” “Uprooting” would seem to be the current term for witch hunting. CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.

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Overly familiar in-laws are ruining holidays for family the only time we all see Dear Annie: As each other together, at the holidays near in our family home. this unusual year, I’m The uncle and aunt seeking advice on how are not pleasant guests. to handle a situation They are very self-cenwe’ve been dealing with – poorly – the tered and politically past few years. opinionated to the point We’re a longof being rude. My kids time married couple Annie Lane are very respectful with grown children. and engage pleasantly, Dear Annie Because of job transletting the couple hold forth with their chatter. This fers, we have lived away from is awkward enough, but they our hometown and my large have also begun questionextended family for more than 25 years, so holidays have ing the young people on things always just been our “core” like their love lives, their plans family. We see other relatives for starting families and even on an annual trip back home how much money they earn! in the summer. They assume a closeness that My husband has only one they have not earned, simply sibling, a brother, to whom he because they are related. is not particularly close. The My husband does all the brother and his wife are childplanning and interacting with his brother. I have asked him less by choice and were never at ease visiting us and our chil- to make it clear that they are dren, claiming kids made them invited for one holiday or the other but not both. I have also uncomfortable. said that we can get together Well, as my “kids” became with them outside of the holiyoung adults, the childless couple started expressing more days when our time with our interest in visiting us, and we children (and now spouses/ have been happy to include grandkids) is not as precious. them. However, it has become He hesitates to cause any hurt assumed on their part that they feelings and just lets them are invited for every Thanksdictate the plan. I struggle with being giving and Christmas. Our children have started lives and “selfish” and wanting to savor our rare family time to ourcareers in different cities, and so now these major holidays are selves. Or should I be more

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Today’s birthday The emotional labor that fell to you will no longer be necessary. You’re free to be who you are doing what you love. You’ll speak up. The difference you make will empower and lift all. Invest in your experiments and projects and do not burden them with requirements to repay you. You’ll make a key discovery. Capricorn and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 28, 30 and 18.

at ease nor too worried about making a mistake. You’ll ride a nice tension between those states. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Realizing that you lost something is a step toward finding it. After all, those who are oblivious don’t think to start the search. No regret, no blaming, all that’s needed now is wide-open eyes. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll do some positive thinking about a situation, not just practically sorting out the plusses but impractically projecting a future in which they are maximized and glorified. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). When you consider all that had to happen for you to land here, your presence and

position in this glorious mix is nothing short of astounding. Revel a moment in the sublime wonder of this and be revitalized. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Be proud of where you’ve been and feel free to spin it. It’s your story, and you have every right to tell it, color it, arrange it, diminish it, sing it, act it or publish it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). To communicate well takes focus. You’re inclined to give all or nothing today. A large part of you doesn’t wish to communicate, except by quietly working on the things that matter to you, which says a lot. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ve now spent so long on the inside of a problem that you can’t seem to understand the larger context. Ask for feedback from someone you know to be successful in the arena. CELEBRITY PROFILES: With over a hundred acting credits in film and television Kiefer Sutherland embodies the ambition and work ethic of his natal Venus in Capricorn. The second-generation movie star has natal sun and Mercury in independent, worldly Sagittarius, indicating a passionate love of adventure, some of which is gleaming in the eyes of his portrayal of Clay Bryce of the television drama “The Fugitive.”

Bridge

PARTNER IS AWAKE, BUT NEEDS STEERING Our friend A.N. Onymous said, “Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks and shut off the burglar alarm – it was gone.” We have an alarm-clock play in bridge. It isn’t to wake partner, because he isn’t asleep; it is to tell him that an

Sudoku

by Phillip Alder unusual play is needed to defeat the contract. Can you spot it in today’s deal? South is in four spades, and West guesses well to lead the heart king. In the auction, South’s three-diamond rebid was a help-suit game-try, indicating a six-loser hand that needed help in diamonds. North, with more than half of his points in diamonds, jumped to four spades. He did wonder about three no-trump, though. If he had bid that, presumably East would have led the heart jack, and the defenders would have taken the first five tricks. West led the heart king and continued with his second heart. East took that trick and cashed a third winner, on which West discarded the club three. At this point, East shifted to a club, despite partner’s discouraging discard. Declarer won, drew trumps and had 10 tricks: five spades, one diamond and four clubs. (Remember West’s discard at trick three.) Yes, West’s signal should have worked, but he had a better play. He should have sounded the alarm by pitching the diamond queen! This would have asked partner to do something unusual – and what is more abnormal than giving declarer a ruff-and-sluff? Notice that a fourth heart promotes a trump trick for West. COPYRIGHT: 2020, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips PARTNER IS AWAKE, and computer program at BUTwww.sudoku.com NEEDS STEERING

Our friend A.N. Onymous said, “Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks and shut off the burglar alarm – it was gone.”

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Obituary

Marguerite C. Kucala Stop the car! Marguerite C. Kucala passed at home with family by her side. Maggie, as she was known here in the states and Margie to all the Cunuck family. She was born in Meadow Lake Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. Her family moving to the Big City of Calgary, Alberta, when she was a child. Where she wrote in her diary she wanted to go to Hawaii and live in California when she grew up. After high school, her best friend Joyce and she decided to broaden their horizons and moved to Great Falls, Montana, United States, where on a blind date she met and fell in love with Al. Not sure Al knew what he was getting into. After marrying Al and moving to Tacoma, Washington, to start her family – Michelle, Steven, Michael – she soon realized Washington was too grey and rainy for her and urged my Dad for another assignment; it was off to Hawaii, adding Donelle to the clan. And as if the stars were aligned, the next assignment was sunny California. The Kucalas boarded the SS Matsonia and cruised to California. Stationed at Travis, they settled into Fairfield, California, for the long haul. Her dreams come true. Still not sure Dad knew what he had got into. Maggie and Al created all this, Michelle (Bruce), Steven (Lee Ann), Michael (Chris) and Donelle; John Gailey (Kathy) as well as many other friends that became family; seven grandchildren, Casey Fox, Joshua Kucala, Jason Fowler, Jared Kucala, Courtney Gomez, Clayton McFadden Kucala, Nicole Teasdale; and too many great-grandchildren to name. She is survived by her loving sister, Dorothy Lamont (Bill), Calgary, Alberta; brother, Dale Patterson (Denise), British Columbia, Canada; sister- in-law, Maryann Allen; brother-inlaw, Benedict Kucala; and a long list of nieces and nephews scattered all over Canada and the United States, but she loved all of them with her all. Being a military wife and mother of four is never boring, they jumped right into being active members of the community. Dad, President, and Maggie, Treasurer, of the local Little League and Maggie was Secretary of the Air Force Wives Club, where she met lifelong friends. They were active members of the Fraternal Member Eagles, the Elks, the Fairfield Moose Lodge and the Fairfield Moose RV Travel Campers Club. They traveled by sea, by plane and by RV and always returned with stories and new friends. Maggie loved life and lived it to its fullest, from charity fashion shows to winning the Not-So Newlywed Game. Dressing up or down for any occasion, Maggie always added a twist of humor to everything she did. She loved music and dancing, car rides and admiring the sheer beauty of Suisun Valley. She appreciated all those little things in life. A life well-lived. Maggie and Al Kucala will be united again Dec. 21, 2020, on their 68th Wedding Anniversary at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, in a private ceremony due to Covid restrictions. Family and Friends are asked to celebrate Maggie and raise a glass of your choosing on Monday Dec. 21, 2020, at 5:35 p.m., looking toward the Southwest sky. Music selection: Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” or Garth Brooks’ “The Dance.” We love you Mom, thanks for all years.

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Joe Schulman and Leslee Leong are owners of F. Suie One Co., founded in 1888 by Leslee’s grandfather.

Founded in 1888, this Asian antiques shop hopes to put 2020 in the past Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Time feels abstract at F. Suie One Co., one of the oldest Asian antique stores in the United States. A Cambodian 15th century wooden Buddha stands near kitschy 1960s Chinese alarm clocks with the face of Mao Zedong. A carved stone Rakshasa head from 9th century Indonesia stares into a room where a Chinese ceramic horseman from around 200 B.C. is on display. A 1930s rickshaw is parked near the front door on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. For owner Leslee Leong, whose immigrant grandfather established the business in 1888, it always seemed as if F. Suie One would, like its wares, withstand the test of time. “We had periods of great feast and periods of great famine,” Leong said her mother told her. “She said we just rode through them all. Sometimes the economy was good. Sometimes the economy went down. . . . We kept going.” But this is 2020. And in this pandemic year that has been especially cruel to small businesses, Leong, 75, is contemplating something that always seemed unimaginable: the end. “I try not to think about it,” added Joe Schulman, her 78-year-old husband. Even for a place as storied as F. Suie One – run by the family that author Lisa See (Leong’s cousin) chronicled in the 1995 bestselling memoir “On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family” – this year has been brutal. “It is somewhat astounding that a family-owned business is still operating anywhere after 132 years,” said Paul Little, chief executive of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. “That is a tribute to the dedication, hard work and ingenuity of the family, their expertise and the dedication to their customers.” This year, Leong gave the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens a collection of the family’s papers and photographs, as well as busi-

Couple From Page A3 his eating places. “Doug and I are cheerleaders at heart,” said Kim White, who runs a nature education business. “Whenever a new restaurant comes into town we try to get there like the first day, if not that first week, to try and go there and support them and welcome them into the community.” Being able to eat outside in the summer, with real plates and the carrying of voices, was a tonic. That’s why, when restaurants closed again, they sought another way back. One day, while out for a drive, Doug told Kim he wished they had a RV so they could just drive up to restaurants and eat in the parking lot. She assessed her van and thought it could probably be remodeled. She went to Menards

ness records and other materials from F. Suie One. “Chinese American history has been neglected for a very, very long time,” said Li Wei Yang, curator of Pacific Rim Collections at the Huntington. He said walking into F. Suie One is like “walking into living history, like a museum.” But these days, he said, it’s difficult to get people interested in Asian antiques. The trade is now dominated by big auction houses. “Small family stores like this, it’s harder for them to survive,” Yang said. “It would be a tremendous loss if F. Suie One were to close its doors someday.” Businesses all along famed Colorado Boulevard, part of Route 66, have closed in recent months. With coronavirus cases and deaths soaring in the midst of the holiday shopping season, nonessential retail stores throughout most of California are now limited to 20% of capacity, and health officials are pleading with a weary public to stay home. Little says he worries especially for locally owned businesses that are struggling to navigate ever-changing health restrictions and have used up what little local, state and federal assistance they received as the pandemic stretches into its ninth month. Distraught store owners call him about every week, asking: “What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to keep going?” Deemed nonessential early in the pandemic, F. Suie One closed for several weeks this spring before reopening by appointment only. A $10,000 disaster relief grant for struggling small businesses from the city of Pasadena helped purchase personal protective equipment and to build the first website for the 132-year-old company, which relied almost entirely on word-of-mouth and people who happened to walk by. “Our daughter said we were hopelessly outdated,” Leong noted. But the days without a sale stretched into weeks. Even after the store reopened to inperson shopping, customers have been few.

“Once the pandemic started, it was next to no business,” Schulman said. Still, buying antiques, Leong said, is addicting, and “collectors can only hold out for so long.” Customers started trickling back in around October, when, the couple said, people just seemed to be tired of staying at home. As they spoke with the front door open to improve ventilation, cars rushed by on Colorado Boulevard. Coronavirus numbers may be skyrocketing, Schulman said, but you’d never know it by looking outside. “This is a shutdown, right? When they originally shut down, there was like one car passing every three minutes,” he said. “Now, look at the traffic. It was just fatigue of staying home. Fatigue of not buying. We got some business.” But it is a fraction of what it once was. So, Leong and Schulman started putting more items up for auction. Some pieces that have been in the family for generations are now for sale. “It took us a hundred years to decide to sell this,” Leong said, motioning toward an enormous, intricately carved wooden bed from 19th century China. But it’s time, she said, “to be realistic” about the future. F. Suie One was started by Leong’s grandfather, Fong See, a Chinese immigrant who came to the U.S. at age 14 in 1871. Twelve years later, the U.S. passed the federal Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that barred Chinese immigration. In Sacramento, a young See made a name for himself by selling crotchless underwear made from Chinese silk to brothels. “He would have fancy underwear made for ladies,” Leong said, laughing. “Very fancy underwear,” she said, for “fancy white ladies.” See eventually hired Letticie “Ticie” Pruett as a saleswoman. Leong said her grandmother, a white woman, could talk to the female customers in a way that, “as a Chinese gentleman, he could not.” See and Pruett, who each had a

sharp mind for business, quickly fell in love. But interracial marriage was illegal in California. So, in 1897, they had a lawyer draw up a social contract between the two to formalize the union. Pruett encouraged her husband to expand the lingerie business and start selling antiques. They moved to a burgeoning Los Angeles and set up shop. They ran several branches throughout the Southland. Regular customers at F. Suie One, Leong said, included Frank Lloyd Wright, the famed interior designer Tony Duquette, and Hollywood filmmakers who used the store’s wares to build movie sets that looked like China. F. Suie One moved to its current location, a two-story building with green awnings on East Colorado Boulevard near Pasadena City College, in the early 1980s. The rooms are a warren of art, furniture and collectibles; a drafty warehouse in the back is stuffed floor to ceiling with things that don’t fit up front. Schulman, a writer and cinematographer who collected Asian art, first walked through the front door in 1994. Leong – then a single mother of two young children who was running the business alone – promptly pushed him out in the middle of the day. She had to close the store so she could pick up her daughter. Schulman came back. They hit it off. “I was looking to buy antiques . . .” he said. “. . . of which I was not one,” she teased. “He’s going to try and say I was an antique.” “I wouldn’t dare.” They married in 1999. After describing how they met, they high-fived. The septuagenarians realize they are getting older and that their children, who have their own successful careers, won’t be taking over the store, where a painting of See, a man who lived to see his 100th birthday, still hangs in the front room. “We don’t have any plans of retiring,” Schulman said. “We love to do this. But we won’t live forever.”

and bought a 4-foot table. Her husband had his heart set on a checkered tablecloth. After some sleuthing, she found one at Restaurant Depot. They hung lights, which they plug into the van converter. Mission BBQ in Downers Grove was their first mobile dining experience. The couple said they love how the restaurant supports veterans. They got takeout boxes and transferred the food to plates they brought from home and used their own silverware. Since then, van dining adventures have included Rosemary and Jeans Public House in Lombard, where they had bruschetta and butternut squash ravioli, and Vito & Nick’s Pizzeria on South Pulaski Road, where Doug White grew up going to church nearby and loves the “ultra thin cracker crust pie.” The restaurant workers have joined in on their fun. Waiters are eager to bring plates out to them, Kim White said, not

having served diners sometimes for months. Chefs enjoy revisiting food styling skills while plating. “They’re having just as much fun doing it as we are,” she said. Pam Geralds, chef and owner at Pinecone Cottage Tea House and Catering in Downers Grove, said the couple’s November visit was a great chance to use teapots that have been sitting dormant. The couple had afternoon tea in the van – these days most people pick up their boxes of tea. They were able to enjoy two pots of hot tea. “One of my girls went out there and actually poured the tea for them in their van,” Geralds said, “almost as if they were here in the restaurant. It was really sweet.” She said of the visit, “Those are the little things that happen during this pandemic that make life a little bit more worthwhile. We have to look for those little shining star moments, right?” Recently, Kim White stopped by Kizuna, telling the host they miss visiting, now that Doug

can’t have raw fish. The host got a menu, circling everything he could still eat. She brought the menu home to her husband. He said, “I can’t eat any of it.” She showed him the circles. They hope to remind people of the smells and the ambiance of dining out. They know takeout on a lap in front of the television isn’t the same experience. But, Kim White said, “It’s bringing these restaurants back into people’s minds, and they say, ‘Let’s go get that.’” Seeing how people have responded to the Facebook page she started to document their “Vanbassador” adventures has been heartening. Some people have sent money for their meals. Kim marvels that somehow out of multiple jobs they had – photographer, nature educator, travel coordinator – Covid-19 claimed them all. “You can get cynical, you can think that there’s so much bad in this world,” she said. “We have seen such an outpouring of good.”

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Shroud of fog descends on Solano for 3rd straight day Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — A dense fog advisory issued by the National Weather Service that’s in place from 2 a.m. to noon Monday covers parts of Solano County, to include Fairfield and Suisun City. It’s the third consecutive day of dense fog across much of the region. Visibility is expected to be limited to a quarter of a mile or less, the National Weather Service reports. The advisory covers the southern Sacramento

Valley, the Carquinez Strait and the Delta region, and northern San Joaquin Valley counties. Drivers are warned to be alert for sudden changes in visibility. They are also advised to slow down, use their vehicle’s headlights and leave plenty of distance ahead of their vehicles. Sacramento and Stockton are also listed as areas expected to be affected by dense fog. A similar advisory was in place from 2 to 10 a.m. Saturday and again from 2 a.m. to noon Sunday.

Trump: Brush off From Page One also been markedly deferential to Russian President Vladimir Putin, appearing to accept the autocratic leader’s word over that of U.S. intelligence agencies. In a series of tweets Saturday, Trump downplayed the cyber-intrusions, saying it “is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality” and “everything is well under control.” He also suggested China might be a culprit and continued his assault on the integrity of the nation’s election system by baselessly suggesting hackers might have targeted voting machines. The president’s assertions came just a day after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo declared in a radio interview that “we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.” Trump’s comments were sharply criticized by Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. “When the president of the United States either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out the adversary,” Warner said, “he is not making our country safer.” Warner, who has been briefed by intelligence officials on the hack, said the intrusion was “extraordinarily serious” and added “all indications point to Russia” as the perpetrator. Cybersecurity experts said the highly sophisticated attack on U.S. computer networks was part of a broader cyberespionage campaign that included finding weaknesses in products and software purchased by government agencies and corporations, and infiltrating them. The break-in was so invasive, they said, that it was expected it would take weeks, if not months, to determine its scope, and far longer to expel the attackers. “This was not a drive-by shooting on the information highway – this was a sniper round from somebody a mile away from your house,” said Kevin Mandia, CEO of the cybersecurity firm FireEye, whose company was the first to discover the breach. Mandia, interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” called the methodology “utterly clandestine.” Experts and government officials have determined that hackers last year sneaked into the networks of the Austin-based company SolarWinds and dropped malware into a software update that was sent to

more than 17,000 customers across the globe. Once government agencies and companies downloaded the update, the malware allowed the hackers to gain access to those systems, and to begin exploiting those backdoors nine months ago. Even some GOP Trump allies who have studiously refrained from criticizing Trump for failing to point a finger at Russia urged a robust U.S. response. “We need to have a forceful, effective, punishing response so people pay a price for this – think twice about doing it again,” said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., on “Fox News Sunday.” Barrasso, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said the United States had seemingly been “blindsided” by the hack. Mixed messaging about the cyberattack from Trump and his senior aides is troubling, said Biden’s incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain. “What we’ve heard is one message from the secretary of State, a different message from the White House,” Klain said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” The U.S. position on the hack, he said, “should be coming in a clear and unambiguous voice.” Biden, once in office, is “going to take steps as president to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to launch these kinds of attacks on our country,” Klain said. But how to respond to the cyberattack is a matter of increasing debate. Romney, interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union,” called for retaliation “of like magnitude or greater.” But the recently fired chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, Christopher Krebs, counseled caution. “I’d be very careful with escalating this,” said Krebs, also interviewed on CNN. Krebs, who was dismissed by Trump for failing to back up the president’s unfounded claims of widespread election fraud, said “we need a conversation among like-minded countries” as to what constitutes acceptable kinds of cyber-espionage. Other experts said the U.S. would have a difficult time justifying retaliation for a hack that was clearly related to espionage, not destruction. They noted the U.S. government routinely sneaked into other countries’ cyber networks to pilfer information. “This is business as usual,” said Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity expert.

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Winter weather leads to 2nd air pollution alert of season Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued the winter season’s second air pollution alert Sunday for Monday. Burning wood, manufactured fire logs or any other solid fuel is prohibited both inside and outside when such an alert is in place.

Smoke from increased wood burning is expected to cause air quality to be unhealthy due to cold overnight temperatures and light winds, the air district reports. A high-pressure system in place over Northern California will act like a lid, trapping smoke at ground level. Offshore winds may also allow air pollution from the Central Valley

Travel: Precautions From Page One other travel conditions. Adding to the usual highway risks – California in 2019 was 14th for accidents and first for speeding – California’s hospital capacity is down. And in addition to the Covid-19 risk, QuoteWizard reports, “California has the 16th fewest vaccinated adults, causing more concern for the seasonal flu.” The travel forecast by AAA is in line with Thanksgiving trends. AAA expected up to 50 million people would

travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, a 10% drop from 2019. “While final Thanksgiving travel numbers are not yet available, AAA expects the drop to be closer to 15 to 20%,” AAA reported. For those who are traveling, it is advised they learn what Covid-19 and other restrictions exist in their destination areas. Checking weather conditions is also encouraged. Of the total number of travelers anticipated, 81.11 million will be traveling by automobile, 2.89 million by air and

to drift into the Bay Area, air district officials said in issuing a Spare the Air alert. There are also prohibitions on excessive smoke and burning garbage and other harmful materials like junk mail, plastic, wood pallets and more in fireplaces and wood stoves, the air district reports. People who are concerned about wood

smoke pollution may call 1-877-4NO-BURN or visit www.baaqmd.govto file a complaint or to get more information. The restrictions cover the greater Bay Area region to include western Solano County: Fairfield and Travis Air Force Base, Suisun City, Vallejo, Benicia and the adjacent unincorporated areas.

Know before you go • Plan ahead. Check with state and local officials along your route and at your destination to learn about local guidance and any restrictions that may be in place. • Adhere to pre and post trip protocols. The CDC recommends taking a Covid-19 test one to three days before travel and another three to five days after your trip. Travelers should also reduce nonessential activities for seven days after their trip. • Follow public health guidance. Consistent use of face masks combined with physical distancing and regular hand-washing are strongly recommended to lower one’s Covid-19 risk. Be sure to pack face masks, disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer and a thermometer to help protect and monitor your health while away from home. • Verify before you go. Call ahead and ask about hotel safety precautions and procedures. If renting a vehicle, ask about their vehicle disinfection and sanitization process.

487,000 by other means. In C alifor nia, 8.75 million residents

are expected to be on the roads, 575,693 in the air and 57,088 by other means.

Moderna: Shipments likely this week From Page One Shipments of the vaccine are expected to arrive in California early this week, officials said. “While California is in some of the darkest days of our Covid-19 surge, with too many families grieving lost loved ones, there is light as more vaccines are approved for distribution,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. California has already received shipments of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which were earmarked for workers at acute-care hospitals and residents of long-term care facilities. The vaccine isn’t expected to be available to members of the general public until spring or summer. Experts say that’s not soon enough to avert catastrophe at the region’s hospitals, which have been struggling as they fill up with Covid-19 patients. There were 16,843 Covid-19 patients in California hospitals Saturday, with 3,614 of them in intensive care, according to data released by the state Sunday. That was a huge increase from two months before, when there were 2,291 such patients, 657 of them in intensive care. The availability of intensive care unit beds in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley remained at zero Sunday, according to the state. Los Angeles County

hospitals were treating the largest share of patients: 5,709, with 1,175 of them in intensive care. Patient volume is expected only to increase, as new cases of the coronavirus are growing more quickly than at any other point during the pandemic and often take two to three weeks to result in hospitalization. L.A. County public health officials announced Sunday that the county had surpassed 600,000 total cases of the virus, a troubling development given that it was only eight days after the county had reached 500,000 cases. By compar ison, L.A. County surpassed 200,000 reported cases of the virus Aug. 6. It was 80 days later that the county recorded its 300,000th case Oct. 25. As the transmission rate began to climb, L.A. County reported its 400,000th case 36 days later, on Nov. 30. Just 11 days later, the county topped 500,000 cases. UCL A infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Tim Brewer said the exponential increase means that L.A. County is on a dangerous path. “I have yet to see any clear signals that things are slowing down, and I’m very concerned about the next two months,” he said. He worries that any precautions people are taking now will loosen in late December as people long to be around people for Christmas and New

Year’s, adding another surge to the current one. Already, UCLA Health is scheduling multiple infectious disease doctors to be on call at any given time, due to the unprecedented numbers of Covid-19 patients needing hospitalization, he said. The biggest issue is that hospitals may quickly run out of providers who can administer ICU-level care and will be forced to draft doctors from other specialties. “I haven’t done ICU medicine since I was a resident – you don’t want me adjusting your ventilator,” he said. “That’s the challenge, actually – it isn’t so much space, it’s staff. It’s the physicians, the nurses, the respiratory therapists, all of the trained people to do that highly specific work that you can’t just pull out of a hat.” New cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all surging more ferociously than they were in the summer, which was previously the high-water mark for the pandemic in Southern California. The increases mirror a trend seen nationwide, which poses an added challenge when it comes to calling in staffing assistance, said Dr. Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. “During the first phase of the ramp-up of cases in the L.A. County area, the virus was not simul-

taneously out of control everywhere and so people could be summoned from other counties or out of state,” Spellberg said. “When the entire United States is in crisis, where are you going to find people?” Health care professionals are bracing for the likelihood that things will get worse before they get better. A doctor at an L.A. County public hospital said that the number of Covid-19 patients is “increasing exponentially without an end in sight.” Many parts of the hospital are being converted to Covid-19 wards, and ICU teams are being staffed up with workers from other departments that are temporarily halting their services. The doctor said it seems as though they will be stretched so thin that by early January they will have to begin rationing care. “We’re going to be New York with bodies piling up. Wouldn’t be surprised if L.A. rings in the new year as the Covid capital of the world,” said the physician, who requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak to the media. “I don’t know how many ways to explain to people to isolate and stay home short of bringing a camera to the ICU and ED [Emergency Department] to show them the mess of what we’re experiencing.”

Stimulus: Unemployment compensation From Page One a deal that has Republican leaders’ backing. According to senators, the package would allow 11 additional weeks of compensation for jobless Americans, and also add $300 a week to what they receive through their state unemployment program. That is half of the $600 a week they received from March through April under the CARES Act. It also extends for 11 weeks an unemployment benefits program for contract and gig workers, which is set to expire at the end of the year. The package would also provide a one-time direct

payment of up to $600 for Americans making less that $75,000, half the maximum $1,200 distributed in the spring. Like the CARES Act payout, the amount of the payment would gradually diminish based on income, starting with those who earned more than $75,000 in the 2019 tax year. Those who earned more than $99,000 would receive nothing. Children are eligible for $600. Adult dependents would not qualify, but unlike in the spring, mixed legal status families would be eligible. It also includes $330 billion for another round of Paycheck Protection Program loans for

small businesses, though a smaller pool of businesses would qualify than under the previous initiative. The deal also contains money for vaccine production and distribution, food assistance, rent payments, child care and schools. For eight months, members of Congress have talked about the need for another economic aid package to help struggling Americans. They have pointed fingers at the opposing party as the reason it wasn’t possible but failed to move legislation as unemployment rates rose and millions of Americans got sick and hundreds of thousands have died. The acrimony led some

lawmakers to declare in mid-November that there was little chance Congress could pass another package. Negotiations on the aid package resumed in earnest earlier in the week. The package does not provide new money for state and local governments, but it gives them an extra year to spend their share of the $150 billion provided in the CARES Act. Most issues had been resolved by Friday, but negotiations dragged into the weekend as senators argued over whether Congress should rein in the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending powers.

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Warriors: 21 predictions for 2020-21 season Wes Goldberg Mercury News

SAN FRANCISCO — Before taking any of what you’re about to read too seriously, remember: This is supposed to be fun. The NBA season is about to tip off and, in these uncertain times, allow me to find levity with some crazy (and not-so-crazy) predictions to celebrate the return of Warriors basketball. Here are 21 predictions for the 2020-21 season. 1. There are no fireworks when Kevin Durant and the Warriors meet: Durant

makes his Nets debut in the season opener against the Warriors on Dec. 22 in Brooklyn. On Feb. 13, Durant returns to the Bay Area to play at Chase Center. There will be plenty of hoopla from fans and media, but the sense here is that both parties are still exhausted from the drama of 2019 and won’t create a ruckus. A dap between Durant and Draymond Green. A hug with Steph Curry. Tip. 2. Draymond’s first blow-up occurs within the first two weeks of the season: Ten of the Warriors’ first 14 games are against teams who made the playoffs

last season, many of them in the West. Green, who recently said anything less than a championship is a failure, tends to get frustrated early in the season. 3. Kelly Oubre Jr., not Andrew Wiggins, is Golden State’s second-leading scorer through the first half of the season: Wiggins may have the skillset to run the second-unit offense and is of more importance to the Warriors long-term, but Oubre has the mindset. He’s aggressive and is playing in a contract year. It may not always be pretty, but Oubre will average more points than Wiggins.

4. Somehow, Mychal Mulder makes the second-most 3-pointers on the team: The Warriors still don’t know where Mulder falls in the rotation, but right now it seems he’s behind Kent Bazemore, Brad Wanamaker, Damion Lee and Jordan Poole on the depth chart. Still, there will be nights when the Warriors are clanking every 3-pointer they take and Steve Kerr will need to mix things up. When he looks down the bench in a pinch, Mulder is the mosttrusted 3-point shooter outside of Curry. See Warriors, Page B8

56 games, exclusive intra-division play on NHL schedule Los Angeles Times The Kings and Ducks will compete with Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, San Jose, St. Louis and Vegas in the NHL’s West division, one of four new divisions created for the purpose of minimizing travel and health risks and making it possible to play the 2020-21 season. As announced on Sunday, the 56-game schedule will start on Jan. 13, end on May 8 and feature play exclusively within each team’s division. Under this plan, the Stanley Cup playoffs will end by midJuly, and the league will return to is traditional calendar of an October start in the 2021-22 season. In identically worded news releases, the NHL and NHL Players’ Assn. acknowledged they would have to be flexible to respond to changes in health regulations and conditions related to the Covid-19 pandemic. “It is the current plan to play games in the home arenas of participating teams while understanding that most arenas will not, at least in the initial part of the season, be open to fans,” the statement said. “However, depending on prevailing conditions both in local markets and across North America, the League will be prepared to play games in one or more ‘neutral site’ venues per division should it become necessary.” The seven teams based in Canada are grouped together and will play one another, a decision forced on the league because of restrictions that have closed the U.S.-Canada border. The San Jose Sharks reportedly are considering opening their training camp and playing games in Arizona because of health regulations in Santa Clara County. Those restrictions have led the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers to leave the Bay Area and establish a base in Arizona. Training camps for the seven teams that missed the playoffs – among them the Kings and Ducks – will open on Dec. 31. Camp will open Jan. 3 for the remaining 24 teams. “This has been a day we have been eagerly waiting for since March, so needless to say we are excited about our return,” said Bob Murray, Ducks executive vice president and general manager. “We are well-prepared, healthy and ready to take a major step forward this year. While we will miss our fans and the atmosphere at Honda Center, we know they will be watching. We look forward to seeing our supporters again in person as soon as deemed safe by health officials.” The North division will have seven teams, while the See NHL, Page B8

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Dallas Cowboys defensive end Dorance Armstrong knocks the ball out of the hands of San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Richie

James as Dallas Cowboys strong safety Darian Thompson closes in during a punt return in the first quarter Sunday in Arlington, Texas.

Niners can’t get handle on turnovers in loss to the Cowboys

Tribune Content Agency DALLAS — Coming off a disastrous loss to Washington last week, the focus for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday was limiting turnovers. But nothing changed Sunday against the host Dallas Cowboys. Coach Kyle Shanahan’s team turned the ball over four times, leading to 24 Cowboys points, in a 41-33 defeat. It dropped San Francisco to 5-9 and the team was from playoff contention. The 49ers turned the ball over 22 times in their last eight

games and have multiple giveaways in eight straight contests for the first time since 2008. “I really wanted the guys to come out and play good football,” Shanahan said. “And I think offensively, defensively and special teams, guys did a lot of good things. (But) when you have four turnovers, it doesn’t matter what you do.” The 49ers are now 0-3 since being forced to uproot their operation and move their practices and home games to Glendale, Arizona. The team left the Bay Area on Dec. 2 after Santa Clara County ramped

up Covid-19 restrictions by banning contact sports. Players and coaches haven’t used the move as an excuse. But there’s a clear difference in the way the team has played compared to their win over the Rams on Nov. 29. The 49ers looked like a team invigorated by its recent bye that had an unlikely playoff run in mind when they traveled to L.A. and beat the division leaders, 23-20. The 49ers started in a 14-0 rut in the first quarter with the Cowboys putting together two touchdown drives off turnovers of just 22 and 24 yards.

The first was a fumble from Richie James during a punt return. The second was DeMarcus Lawrence hitting 49ers quarterback Nick Mullens as he threw, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Aldon Smith. The 49ers responded to the two-score deficit in the first quarter with a touchdown drive capped by Jordan Reed’s fourth touchdown of the year, and cut the lead to 3 in the second quarter with Brandon Aiyuk’s seventh touchdown of his impressive rookie camSee Niners, Page B8

Playoff committe reveals college matchups Alabama vs. Notre Dame in Rose Bowl, Clemson vs. Ohio State in Sugar Bowl Los Angeles Times

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Notre Dame’s 34-10 loss to Clemson on Saturday in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game put the Fighting Irish in a vulnerable position entering Sunday’s College Football Playoff field announcement. But the CFP selection committee stuck with the Irish as the fourth team in the bracket, leaving Texas A&M on the outside looking in. The CFP matchups are locked in: No. 1 Alabama-No. 4 Notre Dame in the semifinal that would have been played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena but will now be at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and No. 2 Clemson-No. 3 Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Notre Dame (10-1) was simply too appealing of a draw to ignore for a made-for-TV event like the CFP. The Irish also have a solid resume with two top-15 wins (Clemson without star quarterback Trevor Lawrence and North Carolina in dominating fashion).

Texas A&M went 8-1 in the mighty Southeastern Conference, but its only good win came against Florida, which now has three losses. The Aggies were blown out 52-24 at Alabama early in the season, and it was never likely the committee would want to stage a rematch of that game. They’re “two teams that have really similar resumes, played similar schedules,” said CFP selection committee chair Gary Barta, the athletic director at Iowa. “Coming into this weekend, Notre Dame was undefeated; they had beaten the No. 2 team now in Clemson and on the road against the No. 13 team in North Carolina, and Texas A&M’s top win was against a very good Florida team, so very similar resumes. But in the end, the committee felt that Notre Dame had earned its way there based on the complete analysis of the resume, and that probably came down to having an additional win against a ranked team.”

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FAIR F IELD — There’s news of the world and then there’s “News of the World.” The former you get each day. The latter is the new Tom Hanks’ movie due in theaters Christmas Day. The film centers on a Civil War veteran who agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle, against her will. Their journey of hundreds of miles puts them in grave danger as they search for a place that either can call home. It’s rated PG-13. Gal Gadot returns as Wonder Woman in “Wonder Woman 1984,” in which she faces two all-new foes: Max Lord and The Cheetah. It’s not rated and can be viewed on HBO Max. “One Night in Miami” is a drama about Feb. 25, 1964, the night Cassius Clay became the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion in a shocking defeat over Sonny Liston. Because of Jim Crowera segregation laws, the champ must spend the night at the Hampton House Motel in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood celebrating with three of his friends: activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and football star Jim Brown. It’s rated R. No lie: “Pinocchio” also arrives on the big screen Christmas Day. The movie is set in Italy and stars Academy Award-winning actor Roberto Benigni as Geppetto, the old woodcarver whose puppet creation magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Pinocchio goes from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits through a wonderful world full of imaginative creatures. It’s rated PG-13. “Promising Young Woman” centers on a young woman with a promising future until a tragic event abruptly derails her future. Now she is a medical school drop-out, living at home

with her worried parents and working at a coffee shop. It seems like she is at a standstill, except for the double life she leads at night. It’s rated R. Disney+ welcomes “Soul,” a Pixar film about a middle-school band teacher whose true passion is playing jazz. Just when he thinks his dream might be in reach, a single, unexpected step sends him to a fantastical place where he’s is forced to think again about what it truly means to have soul. Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey are among the voices in the animated film. It’s rated PG. “Sylvie’s Love,” on Amazon Prime, is set in 1957 and tells the story of a saxophonist who spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but wellknown bandleader as a member of a jazz quartet. He takes a job at a record store owned by Sylvie’s dad. The two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each. Years pass, her career as a TV producer blossoms, while he has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of jazz. It’s not rated. “The Truff le Hunters” is a documentary set in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, where a handful of men in their 70s and 80s hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle – which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation. They’re guided by a secret culture and training passed down through generations, as well as by the noses of their cherished and expertly trained dogs. The demand for white truffles increases year after year, even as the supply decreases. These aging men may just hold something much more valuable than even this prized delicacy: the secret to a rich and meaningful life. It’s not rated. Check streaming services to see what they are offering.

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inter is here. It may have taken a long time to come in George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, but when it hits, all you want to do is curl up in bed and lock the doors against the snow zombies. Winter has long fascinated writers. In C.S. Lewis’s classic “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” the four Pevensie children must save Narnia from the evil White Witch and her eternal winter. In H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” an expedition to Antarctica discovers an alien city under the ice, with predictable results. You may be tempted to hibernate through the end of 2020 and beyond, but we’ve got a whole slew of books set in cold locations to keep you awake. Lavie: Let me throw the first snowball here: I’m going with Tove Jannson’s “Moominland Midwinter” (translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton), one of the true greats and my favorite moomin book. Moomintroll wakes up alone from hibernation to find the world transformed, and everyone he knows is gone or sleeping (apart from Little My, who’ll never miss the fun). If you don’t cry over “The Squirrel With the Marvelous Tail,” you’re a monster. I reread it a few weeks ago and it’s just as wonderful as ever. Two important texts that continue to exert an influence today are Hans Christian Andersen’s 1844 fairytale “The Snow Queen” and John W. Campbell Jr.’s 1938 novella “Who Goes There?” From the first, we get the classic science fiction novel “The Snow Queen” (1980) by Joan D. Vinge, a complicated tale set on a planet alternating between a long

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summer and a long winter, and introducing a brilliant early sort of mind-linked internet among its many marvels. And more recently there’s Thai author Benjanun Sriduangkaew’s “Winterglass” (2017), which lyrically recasts the snow queen story in a science fiction-fantasy context. Campbell’s novella, of course, is better known as “The Thing,” which most people know from the classic John Carpenter movie. A story told from the point of view of the monster, “The Things” by Peter Watts, went viral in 2010 and was nominated for multiple awards. Adam Roberts’s “The Thing Itself” uses the base story to launch an ambitious exploration of – of all things! – Kantian philosophy, not to mention the Fermi Paradox. It’s quite an achievement. Silvia: “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” by Danish author Peter Hoeg is an odd, cross-genre book that somewhat reminds me of “The Thing.” A thriller with an evil corporation at its center, it suddenly becomes a science fiction novel at the end, complete with a meteorite hidden in the ice. “Split Tooth” by Tanya Tagaq is also a cross-genre tale. Part memoir, part Inuit folklore, it’s been called “magic realism,” and that’s probably not an accurate label either, but it’s as close as one can get to a traditional name for this narrative of a girl growing up in Nunavut. Its descriptions of the land and the natural world are enchanting. For science fiction, try “Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice, the tale of an Anishinaabe community facing an apocalyptic disaster and the outsiders who intrude and endanger the isolated enclave. A few months ago, a news report of a couple from Quebec fleeing Covid-19 for a small

town in the Yukon made this an oddly prescient story. For some spooky reads, I recommend “Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories” edited by Aviaq Johnston. “Taaqtumi” is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark,” and these tales, set in the Canadian Arctic, certainly head to dark places. It’s a rare treat to see so many Indigenous writers collected in one volume, and the book comes from a small press, always a nice thing to support. My other horror recommendation is “Let the Right One In,” the vampire novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Set in Stockholm in the 1980s, it builds a grim city that feels alive and chilling and is a great read for people looking for vampires that are more gross than romantic. Lavie: I love “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” with all my heart. One book to look forward to is Polish author Jacek Dukaj’s “Ice,” considered a classic of Polish science fiction and forthcoming in an English translation. It’s an alternate history where World War I never happened, Poland is still under Russian rule, and a mysterious alien Ice and its life-forms are slowly overtaking Europe. And finally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t recommend something by Russian author Ekaterina Sedia, including her classic “The Secret History of Moscow” and short story collection “Moscow but Dreaming.” She’s a wonderful writer – and her books are perfect for a chilly night’s read. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of “Mexican Gothic,” Gods of Jade and Shadow” and “Signal to Noise.” Lavie Tidhar is the author of several novels, including “The Violent Century,” “A Man Lies Dreaming,” “Central Station” and, most recently, “By Force Alone.”

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Kroger employee Tony Orsini loads groceries into the back of a customer’s van, Dec. 8, at the Kroger Marketplace in Dublin, Ohio.

As workers reap little benefit

Food retailers see ‘eye-popping profits’ Tribune Content Agency Profits soared an average of 39% in the first half of the year at supermarket chains and other food retailers thanks to the pandemic, although frontline workers reaped little or no benefit, a new report shows. At Cincinnati-based The Kroger Company, profits for the first two quarters were up a staggering 90%, according to the report from the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.based think tank. “We find that while top retail companies’ profits have soared during the pandemic, pay for their frontline workers – in most cases – has not,” the report said. The report, released Nov. 20, revealed inequalities between retail workers’ pay and company profits during the pandemic. Profits earned at top retailers were described as “eye-popping,” even as most quickly ended so-called “hero pay” that was offered at the beginning of the pandemic in the form of bonuses or temporary bumps in pay for workers. Among the retailers cited in the report: n Kroger saw its net earnings for the first two quarters jump to more than $2.031 billion compared to $1.069 billion in the same period of 2019. Third quarter profits, which were reported last week, were not included in the Brooking Institute report. When those are included, the company’s net earnings of $2.662 billion are up just short of 100% for the first three quarters compared to 2019. n Walmart profit was $15.6 billion for the first 3 quarters compared to $10.7 billion for the same period for 2019, a 45% increase. n Amazon, which owns Whole Foods, saw a $17.4 billion profit for the first three quarters, up $6 billion from the same period last year. That amounted to a 53% increase. n Costco’s profit was $2.2 billion for the first two quarters of 2020, an increase of $244 million from 2019 or 11%. The study looked at profits at 13 publicly traded retail companies out of the top 20, including several grocery stores and retailers, such as Costco, Target and Amazon, that also sell groceries. The report also looked at how workers were compensated before and after the coronavirus pandemic began in March. “Amazon and Walmart could have quadrupled the hazard pay they gave their frontline workers and still earned more

profit than the previous year,” said Molly Kinder, one of the report’s authors. In an email statement to the Free Press, Rachael Lighty, an Amazon spokesperson, called the Brookings study “flawed” and said it doesn’t “provide an accurate picture of wages, benefits and career opportunities that exist for employees at Amazon.“ Overall, the report revealed, retail companies cited in the analysis earned, on average, an extra $16.9 billion in profit in the first quarters of this year compared to last year, as grocery stores and their workers became a lifeline for people during the initial lockdown. Despite record-breaking profits at stores, many grocery workers saw hazard pay – typically an extra $2 per hour at the onset – taken away and replaced in some instances with bonuses, sometimes in gift card form. Kroger was listed under the report’s “laggards” category. Under the company name was “from hero pay to zero pay.” At the time of the report, it had been 181 days since Kroger workers received hazard pay. Kristal Howard, a Kroger spokesperson, said the company has invested more than $1 billion since March to reward its associates and safety measures to protect them and customers. In September and November, frontline associates received a $100 store credit and 1,000 fuel points. Howard added that Kroger continues provide benefits like paid emergency leave and financial support to associates facing hardships due to Covid-19 through its $15 million Helping Hands fund. “Our most urgent priority throughout this pandemic has been to provide a safe environment for our associates and customers while meeting our societal obligation to provide open stores, e-commerce solutions and an efficiently operating supply chain so that our communities have access to fresh, affordable food and essentials,” Howard said. The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents more than 1.3 million food and retail workers, has been pressing employers to reinstate hazard pay for its members as Covid-19 cases resurge across the country after a drop off during the summer. Grocery workers, both union and nonunion, are also demanding mask mandates, free Covid-testing, paid sick time for those sick or exposed and more.

“A mer ica’s essent ia l workers are facing a holiday season of unparalleled danger as Covid-19 cases explode across the country,” Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International, said in a Nov. 25 nationwide press call. “With more than 1 million new Covid-19 cases in the past week, and deaths spiking to unprecedented levels, we are entering what could be the deadliest phase of this pandemic for millions of America’s essential frontline workers.” The UFCW said among its members impacted by Covid-19, there have been 350 frontline worker deaths, including 109 grocery workers. More than 17,400 grocery workers have been infected or exposed to the virus, the UFCW said. Perrone said unless action is taken, “. . . many more essential workers will become sick and more, tragically, will die.” Walmart, whose profits were up 45%, gave full-time workers a $300 bonus in April, June and August, the report showed. Delia Garcia, a Walmart spokeswoman, said in an email that the retail giant has given out more than $1.1 billion in special cash bonuses this year and awarded more than $1.3 billion in quarterly bonuses. The company also offers a Covid-19 emergency leave for full- and part-time associates. Amazon called its $15 an hour national minimum wage “industry-leading” and says its spent more than $2.5 billion globally on special bonuses and incentives this year. On Thanksgiving Day, Amazon announced a special bonus, totaling more than $500 million ,for frontline U.S. operations employees, according to a press release. Those employed by the company from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31 will receive a $300 bonus for full-time employees and $150 for parttime employees. “More than two years ago we increased our starting wage to at least $15 per hour, more in some places, which is nearly twice the Federal minimum wage,” Lighty, the Amazon spokesperson, said. “Since then, we have urged other retailers to do the same and have actively lobbied for a federal minimum wage increase which has been unchanged since 2009.” “Unlike many of those cited in the study, Amazon offers full-time jobs with benefits starting on the first day of employment,” she said. Still, the study found, front-

line grocery and retail workers, considered essential during the pandemic, saw companies do away with hazard pay and other bonuses. “In more than a dozen interviews, frontline retail workers shared with us a strong desire for receiving hazard pay while putting their lives on the line every shift,” the report said. “They preferred hourly pay increases of several dollars an hour (like overtime or holiday hours) rather than occasional bonuses, which fail to compensate workers for each additional hour worked, are less predictable, and are less generous in most cases,” The study cited and ranked companies based on: n Starting pay or the average hourly pay for a cashier. n Covid-19 compensation generosity based on hours, bonuses and permanent wage increases from March 13-November 19. n Company profit and days since last hazard pay and worker compensation in relation to company financial performance. From the start, workers, and some of the unions that represent them, were very vocal about risking their lives amid a deadly pandemic while working in an industry where wages are often low. “With a dark winter looming, millions of frontline essential retail workers face grave risks to their health, often for very low wages and without the hazard pay they were earning at the start of the pandemic,” the report said. The report also analyzed company stock buyback programs where companies repurchase its own shares, often driving up the company stock price. “Some suspended the stock buybacks and at the same time that’s when they offered hazard pay,” Kinder said. But some reinstated stock buybacks, the report said, including Walmart reporting $500 million in new share repurchases for the third quarter, the report said. Once Kroger ended its “hero pay” in May, it reported $211 million in stock buybacks in the second quarter and announced a new $1 billion stock buyback program in September, sending stock prices up, according to the report. “Workers are putting their lives on the line and there’s no excuse to not pay frontline workers more,” said Kinder. “These are the companies that have the financial resources but also the moral imperative to

raise wages.” Retailers in the study that didn’t sell groceries included Home Depot, Best Buy, CVS and others. Some companies did do better than others. Best Buy, Target and Home Depot were considered leaders who permanently increased wages. “These three companies provided the most Covid-19 compensation to workers through temporary pay increases, bonuses, and permanent wage increases,” the report found. Of the 13 companies studied, worker pay, on average was increased just $1.11 per hour since the beginning of the pandemic. While that represents a 10% increase, it’s on wages, the report said, “ . . . often too low to meet a family’s basic needs.” John Cakmakci, of Local 951 based in Grand Rapids, Mich., said of all the employees and companies the local has labor contracts with, he is most disappointed in Kroger. Local 951 represents nearly 30,000 workers, mainly at Meijer, but also at Kroger, as well as the JBS meat processing plant in Plainwell. When it came to extra worker appreciation or hero’s pay, Cakmakci said, Kroger was the last one to come to the table with an offer of temporary pay increases for its workers. Kroger was also the first to stop offering the extra pay, he said. “It’s baloney,” Cakmakci said by phone. “It’s absolutely a money grab. Bar none, Kroger is the worst. It’s like getting water from rock. I can’t believe you guys are making the money you’re making and acting like you are losing money.” Cakmakci said Kroger gave employees a bonus of a $100 Kroger gift card several weeks ago. They also got 1,000 gas points, which is equal to $1 off a gallon for up to 35 gallons for a one-time use. Privately owned Meijer, though not included in the study, is more generous to its employees, according to Cakmakci. Though the Grand Rapidsbased retailer also eliminated its additional hourly pay, it gave other bonuses. Meijer employees, he said, received mPerks gift cards of $100 on Labor Day, $250 in November and are expected to receive $250 in December. In between, Meijer employees also received free rotisserie chicken with sides several times. “At least it’s something,” Cakmakci said.

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Beef short ribs Christmas dinner, prepared and styled by Shannon Kinsella, in the test kitchen, Nov. 24.

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Few dishes beat beef short ribs for festivity, reheatability JeanMarie Brownson

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ur family always goes big for the holidays. We bake more than 30 kinds of cookies, roast beef and turkey; embrace vegetables and fruity side dishes made by guests; and stock up on wine and spirits. This holiday season, I dreamed of seating 20 guests in our new home. I pictured four tables full of food and friends. While the pandemic safety precautions mean those tables will go unused, my kitchen will not. I will cook with pleasure for loved ones – wearing a mask and washing hands frequently. Then, I’ll package my expressions of love in small containers to deliver safely to front doors. We can all reheat our holiday meals and eat together on FaceTime. Successful reheating of all these dishes factors into my menu planning. Few entrees beat beef for festivity. A roast proves difficult to turn into small meals; steaks don’t reheat well. Instead, I’ll braise beef short ribs. These meaty cuts sport full flavors that actually improve when made in advance. Plated individually, beef short ribs feel as festive as restaurant fare. The recipe that follows coats the ribs in bold, dark brown sugar, salt and fresh pepper before browning. A slow oven-braise in red wine flavored with balsamic vinegar and earthy Worcestershire renders the ribs tender. Thick slices of carrot and parsnip add sweetness and absorb a bit of the richness. I encourage you to order the ribs in advance from your local butcher or meat counter. Six English-cut, bone-in, beef short ribs, each 2 to 3 inches thick, weigh about 5 pounds and serve six guests. Alternatively, you can use the 1 ½-inch to 2-inch thick Flanken-style short ribs; plan on two per person for a main course. (The Korean-style short ribs, typically ¼ to ½ inch thick are not suited here.) Other options include 4-inch boneless chunks of beef chuck or a whole 3 ½- to 4-pound bone-in beef chuck roast. A whole beef brisket works as well, but requires a tad more time in the oven. To accompany the beef, stir up a batch of instant polenta. Other side dishes

can be simple, such as roasted Brussels sprouts or steamed green beans. The short ribs can be made three days or so in advance and refrigerated. They also freeze well, but allow at least one day to thaw in the refrigerator. For serving, reheat the ribs in a hot oven separately from the pan juices and vegetables. The dry heat will add a bit of crustiness to the beef while you thicken the pan juices. Beef back ribs, also known as prime rib bones, prove another excellent make-ahead beef entree. These large ribs are in good supply due to the popularity of boneless rib roasts and rib-eye steaks. They are also likely to be about half the price of short ribs. They taste every bit as good and beefy as those cuts, albeit richer. Since beef back ribs are super rich I plan on one rib per person, with a couple of extra for heartier eaters. I like to roast these ribs to render some of the fat. Truth be told, I then roll steamed vegetables or roasted potatoes in the beef fat. Oh well, it’s the holidays. It’s a pandemic. No judgment here. I serve these bronzed beauties with a pile of sweet and sour red cabbage to cut the richness. I save the pan juices (which are mostly rendered beef fat) to make the most decadent oven-roasted potatoes ever. Fresh herbs help moderate their richness. Whichever beef entree you choose, start the meat with a hearty salad of romaine and radicchio tossed with a vinegary dressing. Crusty sourdough bread welcomes the pan juices. These entrees deserve full-bodied red wine or dry sparkling wine. Offer tart sorbet, such as lemon or blood orange, along with crisp cookies for dessert. Happy 2020 holidays. Stay safe so we can sit at the table together someday soon. BROWN SUGAR- AND BALSAMICBRAISED BEEF SHORT RIBS Prep: 30 minutes Cook: 2 hours Reheat: 20 minutes Makes: 6 servings 3 medium-large carrots, trimmed, peeled (use multicolored carrots if you have them), about 1 pound 2 or 3 medium parsnips (or more carrots), trimmed,

peeled, about 12 ounces 1 large leek, trimmed, halved lengthwise, well rinsed 6 English-cut, bone-in beef short ribs, or 10 to 12 pieces (each 2 inches thick) Flanken-style short ribs, total 5 pounds ¼ cup packed dark brown sugar 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon coarsely ground fresh black pepper 2 to 3 tablespoons oil for highheat cooking, such as expeller-pressed canola oil 6 shallots, peeled, thinly sliced 5 or 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 cup dry red wine 4 sprigs fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried 2 bay leaves 1 sprig fresh rosemary or ¼ teaspoon dried 2 cups beef broth or chicken or veal stock 3 tablespoons each: Worcestershire sauce, balsamic vinegar 3 tablespoons flour dissolved in about ¼ cup water Black pepper polenta, see recipe, optional Thinly sliced green onions or chives, for garnish Cut carrots and parsnips on the diagonal into ½-inch-wide slices. Slice white and tender green portions of leek crosswise into ½-inchwide slices. Pat the short ribs dry; place in a large shallow pan. Mix brown sugar, salt and pepper in a bowl. Coat ribs on all sides with the mixture. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Heat a large Dutch oven over medium heat until hot. Add the oil and then the short ribs in a single, uncrowded layer. (You may have to work in batches.) Brown the short ribs, turning, until golden on all sides, about 10 minutes per batch. Transfer to a plate when ribs are brown. Working in the same pot, add the leek and shallots. Cook, stirring, to soften slightly, about 2 minutes. Add garlic; cook, 1 minute. Stir in wine; heat to a boil while scraping up browned bits from bottom of pan. Stir in carrots, parsnips, thyme, bay leaves and rosemary. Add the broth, Worcestershire and balsamic. Nestle the short ribs back in the Dutch oven, fatty side up. Cover the pot with a piece of parchment paper or foil and then cover with the lid. Bake, turning meat occasionally, until nearly tender when pierced with a fork, about 1 ½ hours. Uncover and continue baking until meat is completely fork-tender and liquids have reduced, about 30 minutes. Cool on counter, about 1 hour. Remove ribs carefully with tongs to a food storage container.

Remove vegetables from pan juices and store in separate containers. Refrigerate all, tightly covered, up to 3 days. To serve, heat oven to 375 degrees on convection or 400 degrees on conventional. Put short ribs on a baking sheet and bake until heated through and nicely glazed, about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, scrape off and discard the congealed fat from the pan juices. Put the juices and vegetables into a large saucepan and set over medium heat. When hot, stir in the flour-water mixture and cook until juices boil and thicken, about 5 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings with salt and pepper. Spoon a piece of the hot crisped polenta onto a serving plate. Top with a spoonful of the vegetables and pan juices. Top with a hot short rib and more sauce. Garnish with green onions and serve. Nutrition information per serving: 477 calories, 23 g fat, 8 g saturated fat, 91 mg cholesterol, 34 g carbohydrates, 17 g sugar, 33 g protein, 1,080 mg sodium, 4 g fiber BLACK PEPPER POLENTA Prep: 5 minutes Cook: 10 minutes Reheat: 10 minutes Makes: 6 servings 1 cup instant polenta cornmeal (such as the Colavita brand) 1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper ½ teaspoon salt Butter or short rib pan juices, optional Expeller-pressed canola oil, safflower or sunflower oil Heat 4 cups water to a boil over high heat in a deep-sided, 2-quart saucepan. Add pepper and salt. Reduce heat to medium. Using a whisk to keep things moving, slowly pour in the polenta. Continue whisking to be sure there are no lumps. Change to a flat-sided wooden spoon; continue to cook and stir over medium-low heat, 5 minutes. The polenta will thicken and bubble and start to pull away from the bottom of the pan. Be careful as spatters are very hot. Remove from heat. If desired, stir in a tablespoon or 2 of butter or short rib pan juices. Immediately spoon into a 13-by-9-inch baking dish and spread to 1-inch thickness. Cool. Refrigerate covered up to 3 days. To serve, flip the polenta out of the container onto a cutting board. Cut into 6 pieces. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Film with a little oil and add the polenta pieces in an uncrowded layer. Cook until golden and crispy, about 2 minutes, flip and crisp the other side. Serve hot. Nutrition information per serving: 88 calories, 0 g fat, 0 g

saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 18 g carbohydrates, 0 g sugar, 2 g protein, 194 mg sodium, 1 g fiber GLAZED AND ROASTED BEEF BACK RIBS Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 1 ¼ hours Reheat: 10 minutes Makes: 4 to 6 servings Roast potatoes in the beef fat or roll steamed green beans or broccoli spears around in the pan juices. You won’t be sorry. 2 tablespoons sweet paprika, preferably imported Hungarian 1 tablespoon each: sea salt, dark brown sugar 2 teaspoons dry mustard powder ½ teaspoon each: ground ginger, cumin, black pepper ¼ teaspoon each: ground allspice, cayenne 5 pounds beef back ribs (aka prime rib bones), about 8 pieces 2 pounds small red and yellow potatoes, halved Salt to taste 3 tablespoons pure cane syrup, pure maple syrup or honey Watercress or chopped fresh parsley, cilantro, green onion tops Mix the salt, sugar and spices in a small dish. Pat the ribs dry; place them on a baking sheet. Rub them all over with the spice mixture. Refrigerate loosely covered at least 1 hour or overnight. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Place ribs on a shallow metal baking pan. Roast until deeply bronzed and tender, 60 to 70 minutes. Remove from the oven. Transfer with tongs to a food storage container. Cool, then refrigerate covered up to 3 days. Add the potatoes to the pan juices; turn to coat them well. Sprinkle with salt. Bake, stirring once or twice, until fork tender, about 20 minutes. Refrigerate covered up to 3 days. To serve, let the ribs come to room temperature on a broiler pan. Heat the broiler. Broil ribs 6 to 8 inches from heat source, until heated through, about 2 minutes per side. Drizzle each rib with about 1 teaspoon of the syrup and broil until glistening, 2 minutes. Turn ribs, glaze again and broil 1 minute. Meanwhile, put potatoes into a microwave-safe dish. Microwave on high, stirring once or twice, until hot, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle ribs and potatoes with watercress or herbs. Nutrition information per serving (for 6 servings): 414 calories, 18 g fat, 7 g saturated fat, 72 mg cholesterol, 38 g carbohydrates, 11 g sugar, 26 g protein, 1,252 mg sodium, 4 g fiber

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On January 6, 2021 at 10:30 AM, At the Santa Clara Street entrance to the City Hall, 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on July 12, 2006 as Instrument No. 200600087476, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Solano County, California, executed by GEORGE I. MAKER III AND DAROLYN M. MAKER, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor(s), in favor of NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 636 ASBURY LANE, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $414,296.93 (Estimated). However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property. Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call Hudson & Marshall at 800.441.9401 for information regarding the Trustee's Sale or visit the Internet Web site address www.hudsonandmarshall.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA08000129-20-1. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Notice to Tenant NOTICE TO TENANT FOR FORECLOSURES AFTER JANUARY 1, 2021 You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 702-659-7766, or visit this internet website www.insourcelogic.com, using the file number assigned to this case CA08000129-20-1 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Date: 12/1/2020 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA08000129-20-1 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone:949-252-8300 TDD: 866-660-4288 Tina Godoy, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.hudsonandmarshall.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Hudson & Marshall at 800.441.9401 Trustee Corps may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose.Order Number 73306, Pub Dates: 12/07/2020, 12/14/2020, 12/21/2020, DAILY REPUBLIC DR# 00043647 Published: December 7, 14, 21, 2020

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Traveling through pandemic in company of dogs Walter Nicklin

Special to The Washington Post

he very first dog that I could properly call “my own” (when I was a preteen), I named “Scout.” His name says it all, encapsulating the impulse that led me to a lifetime of travel, both in the United States and around the world. This ever-curious beagle and I would explore the planet together, with his inquisitive nose always leading the way. But first Scout and I would have to make short exploratory expeditions in and around our neighborhood. Wherever Scout pointed the way, I followed. He always lived up to his name, as we discovered places even my parents didn’t know existed. There were, for example, groundhog holes hidden in the tall grass of our next-door neighbor’s yard. Also I remember an underground stream uncovered only because Scout’s floppy, fine-textured ears picked up the soft sound of moving water. During the pandemic, dogs can help us see the world differently. In this Time of Corona, when you’re not supposed to leave your house, much less travel to exotic locations, dogs help bring the outside world inside. By retaining a hint of wildness that the modern world has long buried, dogs – these domesticated wolves – represent a source of forgotten knowledge. The kind of knowledge you might absorb by observing jackals on an African safari or coyotes while camping in a national park. And you don’t even have to pay to travel away from home for

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Walter Nicklin’s beagle mix, Angel, leads the way during a cross-country skiing expedition. the experience. Dogs can also help us interact with other humans, even if their faces are hidden behind masks. That was the role happily assumed by the dog my classmate and I adopted when I spent a year studying in Vienna. “Der Hund” we called him, and his affable presence served as a bilingual tour guide facilitating our interactions with natives. The language of dogs is universal. In pre-pandemic times, the typical sidewalk parade of assorted furry creatures – led by their human companions clutching plastic bags of doggy poop – could seem a blur, hardly worth noticing. But once you start paying newfound attention, each dog can assume the air of an exotic crea-

ture spotted traveling to a foreign land. What are all the different breeds of dogs, you may wonder now more than ever, that you encounter on daily walks outside your home? It’s a fun game to play during the pandemic, not unlike birdwatching. As there are field guides to bird identification, there are plenty of illustrated encyclopedias and online resources to help recognize the different breeds and learn their fascinating histories. “Excuse me, is that a Brussels griffon?” The human on the other end of the leash, like a proud parent, will be happy that you ask. This small terrier-like dog was originally bred to be kept in stables to eliminate rodents, you may be told

while standing six feet away. It’s a small dog, usually no more than 12 pounds, with a coat typically black or tan. And soon you’ll learn this individual dog’s name. Maybe it’s Pierre. Or Jacques, Thatcher, Sandy, Kenzy, River, Trixie, Buckley, Sandy, Maggie, Ivy, Brinley. Those are just some of the dogs whose names I have come to know during my twice-daily walks in the neighborhood. I recognize them more easily than the masked neighbors holding the leashes, whose names I always seem to forget. Dogs can also provide a convenient excuse to get outside – a ticket to much-needed escape from sheltering-at-home isolation. During the tight lockdowns in some parts of Europe, dog owners have been especially privileged – giving them a pass to leave their homes without fear of governmental censure. In the United States, a colleague reports that only because she was looking for some place to walk her dog did she discover the Railsto-Trails Conservancy, whereby old railroad lines and other public spaces “are reimagined to create safe ways for everyone to walk, bike and be active outdoors.” So on your next walk with your dog to escape the Covid-imposed confines of your house, let the dog lead you – instead of the other way around. While seeing-eye dogs are bred and trained for visually impaired people, all dogs – if you let them – are in effect travel guides allowing us to see the world anew. The most familiar neighborhood can then become the equivalent of a faraway

vacation, since the most rewarding sojourns, no matter how short, are all about exploration and discovery. You never really noticed the beauty of that magnolia tree around the corner from your house – until your dog insists on stopping and lingering to sniff and sniff the urinous scents left by other dogs. It’s the canine version of reading the morning newspaper, as my grandmother used to say. And when you get home, you find yourself searching on the internet to learn all you can about the polished leaves of a magnolia, as if it were a first-time travel destination – a tree you had formerly taken for granted. The dogs in my life have always enriched my travel experiences. Take, for example, our mongrel Mitty, whose fondness for chasing sticks was obsessive. When hiking in the woods, searching among the countless other sticks littering the forest floor, she never cheated and would always drop at your foot the very stick that you had thrown as far as you could. She could discriminate among the twigs and branches of chestnut oak, tulip poplar, white pine, and so forth, as I could not. But like a wise and patient travel guide, she awakened my curiosity about the wonders of trees and the types and textures of their wood. Thanks to Mitty, I began to fancy myself an amateur forester or dendrologist. Another rescue dog, a beagle/terrier mix, helped soothe the ache after Mitty died. My two daughters, study-

ing high school physics at the time, christened her “Quark.” She would disappear for hours to follow scents of unknown creatures. In trying to find and follow her, I had to rely on my eyes (not nose), and so became conversant in scats and tracks – an outdoor traveler’s road map. Scientists estimate that the canine sense of smell is more than 10,000 times greater than our own, giving them the ability to pick up scents as far as 12 miles away. “If you make the analogy to vision, what you and I can see at a third of a mile, a dog could see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well,” in the words of James Walker, former director of the Sensory Research Institute at Florida State University. Dogs become extensions of ourselves, with their acute hearing and especially keen noses expanding our field of perception from the visual world to the odoriferous. Talk about travel! Arguably the urtext of travel narratives is Homer’s “Odyssey.” When the protagonist finally arrives home after 20 years at war and sea, the only creature who recognizes him is his dog, Argos. The by-now old and frail dog wags his tail to greet his master for whom he had patiently waited, and then promptly dies. In a much more recent narrative, “The Hidden Life of Dogs,” the author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas chronicles the travels of the Siberian husky Misha roaming around large swaths of Massachusetts. “Misha was Odysseus,” she writes, “and Cambridge was the wine-dark sea.”

Sports

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Niners: No turnovers for Cowboys From Page 1 paign. It was a jet sweep “pass” from 2 yards out on a fourth-and-goal. San Francisco hit halftime down 17-14 despite outgaining the Dallas offense 170-34, and winning in rushing yards, 84-28, with Ezekiel Elliott missing his first career game due to injury. But Mullens on Sunday tossed two interceptions in fourth quarter after getting stripped for a fumble in the first half. The final score was dressed up by an on-side kick returned for a touchdown by Cowboys rookie CeeDee Lamb and receiver Kendrick

Bourne coming down with a Hail Mary touchdown as time expired. The Cowboys didn’t turn the ball over once, yet the 49ers still had a chance to win the game. They were down, 27-24, before Mullens threw his second interception of the fourth quarter, which led to Pollard’s 40-yard touchdown run that made it a 10-point game. Mullens exited the game late after his elbow was hit on a pass that dropped incomplete. He was taken out for C.J. Beathard, who completed 5 of 7 passes for 100 yards in garbage time, including the long pass to Bourne as the clock ran out. Mullens

NFL scores Sunday’s Games Dallas 41, SAN FRANCISCO 33 Seattle 20, Washington 15 Chicago 33, Minnesota 27 Miami 22, New England 12 Baltimore 40, Jacksonville 14 Tampa Bay 31, Atlanta 27 Tennessee 46, Detroit 25 Indianapolis 27, Houston 20 Arizona 33, Philadelphia 26 N.Y. Jets 23, L.A. Rams 20 Kansas City 32, New Orleans 29 Cleveland 20, N.Y. Giants 6 Today’s Game Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 25 Minnesota at New Orleans, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 26 SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 1:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Detroit, 10 a.m. Miami at Las Vegas, 5:15 p.m.

finished with 219 yards on 21-of-36 completions. Mullens’ status for Saturday’s game in Arizona, a road game against the Cardinals, appears to be

in doubt, whether Shanahan wants to bench Mullens or not. “I was throwing the football and they hit my hand and jammed my elbow a little bit,” Mullens said. “So I figured it was best for the team for somebody who could throw the football to get in the game.” The 49ers have two NFC West games left against the Cardinals and Seahawks which will carry little meaning (beyond draft position). San Francisco has been grappling with the idea of bringing back tight end George Kittle after fracturing the cuboid bone in his foot in early November.

Warriors: Wiseman Rookie of the Year From Page 1 5. The Warriors win 39 games: Las Vegas has their win total at 36.5. I’m taking the over. 6. James Wiseman wins Rookie of the Year: Early bets are on Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball, but Ball’s efficiency numbers will make some voters balk while Wiseman, in a simple rim-running role, should fill the box score and shoot a higher percentage. 7. Curry makes more than 300 3-pointers despite the shortened season: He needs to make a little more than four per game in the 72-game season. It would be fourth time in his career he eclipses the 300 mark. (But he doesn’t lead the league in made 3-pointers. That’s Buddy Hield.) 8. Curry leads the league in steals: He averaged 2.3 per game in the preseason and the Warriors will encourage him more than ever to reach. 9. Related, the Warriors lead the league in steals: Between Curry, Oubre, Wiggins and Green in the starting unit and Kent Bazemore and Brad Wanamaker coming off the bench, the Warriors will always have multiple players on the floor who have made a career of getting deflections. 10. Curry signs the full three-year, $155.7 million extension: Talks are ongoing and Curry has all but said he could be willing to take less to help Golden State build around him. Unfortunately, his

cap hold will always be too much to create any real flexibility. He takes the money. 11. Bradley Beal does not get traded: Washington ends up in the playoff mix in the East and decides to keep the core together, taking a potential trade target off the table for the Warriors. 12. But James Harden does. 13. Take Eric Paschall’s stats from his rookie season, and halve them: Quietly, Paschall struggled in his two preseason games. The playing time won’t be there this season like it was his rookie year, and if the 3-point shot doesn’t come around it could be difficult to find time. 14. The Warriors use the disabled player exception on a center: If Al Horford or LaMarcus Aldridge are bought out by their current teams, both would be great stop-gap options that can defend the paint, space the floor and allow Wiseman to develop slowly. 15. At least one more Warriors player tests positive for the coronavirus during the season: With teams traveling, it will be hard for the NBA to enforce its rules. This is not a bold prediction. Chances are every team will deal with a positive test at some point. The Warriors have already had two with Green and Wiseman. 16. The Warriors trade Wiggins or Oubre in a win-now move: GM Bob Myers proved last year he’s not afraid to reshape a roster mid-season. Sure,

the Warriors have much more at stake this season and will probably be competing for a playoff spot, but Wiggins and Oubre may be too redundant. Trading one (Wiggins and his longterm salary or Oubre, who they may not be able to re-sign) could help elevate the other while filling a need – either shooting, defense or both – that could help them in the postseason. 17. The Warriors pick up Jordan Poole’s rookie option: Poole has put in enough work behind the scenes to earn it. Plus, with Lee, Wanamaker, Mulder and Oubre coming off the books next summer, they’ll need the cheap depth. 18. Stephen Curry finishes third in MVP voting: Curry was supposed to be in the MVP race last season, but a broken hand prematurely ended his run. But let’s be honest, the campaign didn’t get off to a great start as the Warriors face-planted into an ugly 1-2 before Aron Baynes accidentally crushed Curry in October. Similar to last season, Curry will be without Klay Thompson (out for the season with a torn Achilles) and will seek support from a young, new-look supporting cast. That’s not stopping me from predicting a do-over, and he’s got a better chance this time around. Last year’s winner, Giannis Antetokoumpo, won’t go for three straight MVPs. The shine has worn off and, even though this is a regular-season award, those who vote

(the media) want to see Antetokoumpo deliver in the playoffs. Ditto for Kawhi Leonard. The Lakers’ stars could split Los Angeles-based votes. No one likes James Harden anymore, and it’s too early to predict an MVP-caliber bounceback by Kevin Durant. That leaves Damian Lillard, Luka Doncic and Curry. I stop short of predicting Curry winning his third MVP because Lillard’s Trail Blazers and Doncic’s Mavericks had strong offseason that should propel each to better records than the Warriors. My money is on Lillard, because of his experience and mediawide appreciation. But Curry playing at an MVP-level is what Golden State needs. 19. The Warriors win the play-in tournament: The NBA approved a one-time playoff play-in tournament this season, which will take place after the regular season and include the teams with the seventh-best through the 10th-best records in each conference. Golden State will finish the season with the seventh-best record and beat the eighth-place Suns to earn the No. 7 seed in the West. 20. Western conference playoff picture: Lakers, Clippers, Nuggets, Jazz, Trail Blazers, Mavericks, Warriors and . . . the Suns (who beat the Pelicans in the second round of the play-in tournament for the final playoff spot). 21. NBA Finals: Lakers over Nets in six.

calendar Basketball College men •Wofford at Texas A&M, SEC, 10 a.m. •San Diego at Arizona, PAC12, 2 p.m. •Saint Joseph’s at Tennessee, SEC, 3 p.m. •Prairie View A&M at Washington State, PAC12, 4 p.m. •Southern Illinois at Butler, FS1, 4:30 p.m. •Tulsa at Memphis, ESPN2, 5 p.m. •Mississippi Valley State at Mississippi State, SEC, 5 p.m. •Texas Southern at BYU, BYUTV, 6 p.m. •Murray State at Austin Peay, ESPNU, 6 p.m. •Cal State Bakersfield vs. Stanford, PAC12, P12BA, 6 p.m. •New Mexico at Boise State, FS1, 6:30 p.m. College women •Central Florida at Georgia Tech, ACC, 11 a.m. •Stanford at UCLA, PAC12, P12BA, noon •California at USC, P12BA, 2 p.m. Football College •Myrtle Beach Bowl, Appalachian State vs. North Texas, ESPN, 11:30 a.m. NFL •Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, ESPN, 5:15 p.m. Soccer •Premier League, Burnley at Wolves, NBCSN, 9 a.m. •Premier League, Chelsea at West Ham, NBCSN, 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Basketball College men •Maine at Boston College, ACC, 9 a.m. •William and Mary at Virginia, ACC, 11 a.m. •Appalachian State at Auburn, SEC, noon •Abilene Christian at Arkansas, SEC, 2 p.m. •Seattle at California, PAC12, P12BA, 2 p.m. •Notre Dame at Syracuse, ACC, 4 p.m. •La Salle at Maryland, BIG TEN, 4 p.m. •Nebraska at Wisconsin, FS1, 4 p.m. •Texas Tech at Oklahoma, ESPN2, 4 p.m. •Bradley at Missouri, SEC, 4 p.m. •Tennessee Tech at Western Kentucky, ESPNU, 4 p.m. •Montana at Arizona, PAC12, 4 p.m. OR Portland State at Oregon State, PAC12, 5 p.m. •San Diego State at Saint Mary’s, CBSSN, 6 p.m. •North Dakota State at TCU, ESPNU, 6 p.m. •West Virginia at Kansas, ESPN2, 6 p.m. •North Carolina at North Carolina State, ACC, 6 p.m. •Purdue at Iowa, BIG TEN, 6 p.m. •Utah at Arizona State, PAC12, 6 p.m. •Colorado vs. Grand Canyon, PAC12, 8 p.m. College women •DePaul at Creighton, FS1, 6 p.m. NBA •Golden State at Brooklyn, TNT, 4 p.m. •L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, TNT, 7 p.m. Football College •Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Tulane vs. Nevada, ESPN, 12:30 p.m. •Boca Raton Bowl, Central Florida vs. BYU, ESPN, 4 p.m. Soccer •La Liga, Valencia vs. Sevilla, BEIN, 8:20 p.m. •La Liga, Real Sociedad vs. Atlético Madrid, BEIN, 10:35 a.m. •La Liga, Real Valladolid vs. Barcelona, BEIN, 12:50 p.m. •Super Lig, Galatasaray vs. Goztepe, BEIN, 3 p.m. (taped) •La Liga, Villarreal vs. Athletic Bilbao, BEIN, 5 p.m. (taped) •CONCACAF Champions League, final, FS2, 7 p.m. •La Liga, Getafe vs. Celta de Vigo, BEIN, 8:20 a.m. (Wednesday)

NHL: Top 4 teams in each division will qualify for the playoffs From Page 1 West, Central and East will each have eight teams. The teams in the East, Central and West will play each other eight times. Teams in the North will play each other nine or 10 times. The top four teams in each division will qualify for the playoffs, with the No. 1 seed facing No. 4, and No. 2 facing No. 3, in

each division. The four teams that advance to the semifinals will be seeded by their point totals. The traditional four-round, best-of-seven format will return, meaning there won’t be a repeat of the experiment the league tried last season when it expanded the playoff field to 24 and instituted a bestof-three play-in round and non-elimination seeding

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League back on the ice.” Said Fehr: “The Players are pleased to have finalized agreements for the upcoming season, which will be unique but also very exciting for the fans

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