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Hospitalizations continue to rise Vallejo tops 5,000 cases Todd R. Hansen

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Jenifer Elchico carries a bike and skateboard during The Salvation Army Kroc Center food and toy distribution

event, Tuesday, in Suisun City. More than 600 families were expected to benefit from the event.

The Salvation Army brings

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to hundreds of Solano families

FAIRFIELD — More than 130 Solano County residents are hospitalized with the novel coronavirus, and the ICU capacity dropped from 15% Monday to 10% Tuesday.

Vallejo surpassed 5,000 cases (5,020) to push the county total to 16,568, an increase of 344 cases over Monday’s county Public Health update.

Matyas “As high as that number (344) is, I hope that is an indication of (the county) plateauing heading into Christmas,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said in a phone interview.

Solano County has been seeing daily case spikes of 400 and above.

Matyas is urging area residents to “take responsibility for protecting their families” by not attending gatherings, but if they do, to follow the safety protocols of wearing masks, social distancing and washing hands frequently.

“And stay at home if you are sick,” he said.

The number of hospitalizations is at a pandemichigh 132, and the seven-day positivity testing rate continues to hover around 20%. The Tuesday report put it at 19.4%.

The number of deaths attributed at least in part to Covid-19 held at 94, the county reported.

Matyas said the vaccinations of hospital staff members See Cases, Page A8

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SUISUN CITY — It took a village to bring a holiday meal and toys to Solano County families.

More than 600 families were expected to drive through the Kroc Center Tuesday morning to pick up food and gifts that were provided by those contributing via red kettles, the Angel Tree, in-kind donations and cash.

“Very, very challenging” is how Maj. Randy Hartt of The Salvation Army described the effort to bring a happy holiday season to those in need.

An increase in help requests began in March as Covid-19 struck, closing businesses and causing employees to lose their jobs.

Solano County was hit with a double whammy in August as the lightningcaused LNU Fire claimed 309 homes and two lives in the Vaca Mountains as it raged down the canyons toward Vacaville and Fairfield.

The fire line made its way down Mix Canyon Road to Pleasants Valley

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A family makes their way through the Southwest Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, Monday.

Travelers ignore dire warnings Cars line up during The Salvation Army Kroc Center food and toy distribution event, Tuesday, in Suisun City.

Road and destroyed more than 900 structures to the west and north of the two cities.

“Trying to find bell ringers, with new precautions, I wondered if we were going to be here,” Hartt said as he directed traffic Tuesday in the parking lot. “I wasn’t sure we were going to make it.”

The chambers of commerce in Fairfield-Suisun City and Vacaville pitched

in with many other organizations, Hartt said.

The Salvation Army has served more than 100,000 individuals since the novel coronavirus pandemic began, he said.

Cars began lining up about 7:45 a.m., Hartt said. The distribution, which encompassed Solano County, got underway at 9 a.m. and was expected to last until midafternoon.

“We’ll be doing this all day,” Hartt said as another car approached him.

A public address system atop a Salvation Army car offered Christmas tunes.

The entire paved area was used as recipients arrived via the parking lot off Pintail Drive where the school and library meet.

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Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Airports are seeing steady increases in travelers determined to spend Christmas with family and friends.

Coronavirus testing centers are seeing brisk business, including from some people who want to know whether they have the virus before attending holiday events.

And last-minute shoppers are still out looking for that perfect gift.

To the alarm of California health officials, Christmas is looking an awful lot like Thanksgiving, when where social gatherings put an already unprecedented surge of the coronavirus into overdrive. The Thanksgiving “superspreader” events helped fill hospitals with Covid-19 patients, forcing more restrictions on businesses and pushing the health care network to the brink.

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Trump signals he might not sign relief measure President demands changes Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump injected confusion into the outlook for Covid-19 relief on Tuesday night, demanding changes to the bipartisan legislation approved by Congress less than 24 hours earlier.

In a surprise video announce-

ment posted on his Twitter account, Trump called the bill a “disgrace” and said it was full of “wasteful and unnecessary” items. He demanded that lawmakers increase the stimulus checks due to go out to most Americans from the “ridiculously low” amount of $600 to $2,000 – or $4,000 for a couple.

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amend this bill,” Trump said.

“Send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a Covid relief package. And maybe that administration will be me, and we will get it done.”

The attack on Monday’s legislation, which included $900 billion in relief along with $1.4 trillion in government funding through next September, marked a sudden change after the administration had endorsed

frantic negotiations among congressional leaders to get a deal after months of stalemate.

If the president doesn’t sign the legislation by Dec. 28, government funding would lapse after midnight that day.

Stock futures dropped after Trump’s video message, with futures on the S&P 500 Index down 0.5% as of 10:29 a.m. in Tokyo Wednesday.

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had lauded the package, tweeting that it would provide “critical economic relief for American workers, families and businesses.”

Trump himself tweeted on Dec. 17, “Stimulus talks looking very good.”

Trump on Tuesday night didn’t specify whether he would veto the measure. The White House did not immediately

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Christmas treats bring back fond memories of family and said, “Merry Christmas.”

That was our only gift that Christmas, except for a box of food and a canned ham from some good people at church. hat’s your favorite ChristEven now after all these mas treat – one taste that years, one taste of a tangerine says to you, “Merry brings to mind my mother’s Christmas!” words as she fried up the ham Gingerbread? Eggnog? Sugar Sharon Randall (which my stepfather called – and cookies? I bet it’s not fruitcake. refused to eat – charity.)

Treats in my childhood were “Life,” she told me, “is a bank. simple. My mother made peach cobbler Sometimes you put into it. Other times and her mother made banana pudding. you take out. But you need to remember But my dad’s mother – a farm wife, who how hard it is to take, because one day, cooked three meals on a wood stove you will do the giving.” most every day of her life – made my Why do I prefer tangerines to ham? favorite dessert: Homemade biscuits left The ham was a gift from good people from breakfast, slathered with butter, who meant well. Their kindness was sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, a blessing. drizzled with cream and heated to But the tangerines were a gift from a bubbling. Oh my. man who would’ve given us the world, if Sorry. I tend to go on a bit when I’m talking about food. All those tastes speak he could, but had nothing else to offer.

Which gift would you prefer? I of love to me, but they don’t say “Christthought so. Me, too. mas.” For that, I need a tangerine.

My husband loves snickerdoodles. He The year my stepfather was out of work for six months with a broken ankle, also loves the chocolate crinkles his mother, rest her soul, used to make for he limped home Christmas Eve with a box of tangerines, slid it under the tree him for Christmas.

Editor's note: Sharon Randall is taking off this week for the holiday. This column is from 2016.

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I’ve tried both recipes with mixed success. But I’m better at snickers than at crinkles. As it turns out, my husband prefers snickers. Or so he says. So do I. Every Christmas, I used to bake a batch of snickerdoodles just for him.

I ate them, too, but mostly, they were f or him.

A few years ago, when I was recovering from a broken ankle, he decided to make the snickerdoodles himself.

He’s a great cook. We usually share cooking, except when I do something like break an ankle. I often prefer his cooking to mine, especially if I don’t have to clean up after him. For all his culinary expertise, his baking experience has been somewhat limited to microwaving a pizza. But he was not about to let that stop him from making snickerdoodles.

“Where do I start?” he asked, rolling up his sleeves.

“You’ll need a mixer,” I said.

He raised an eyebrow.

I pointed to the cupboard. “It’s got beaters and a power cord.”

He held up a stick of butter to ask, “How much is half a cup?”

“Half a cup,” I said.

“The labels are worn off these measuring spoons. How do you know which one’s a teaspoon?”

“I’m smart,” I said. “I just guess. Try the middle one.”

Then I watched, laughing through a cloud of flour dust, as a man who would give me the world, if he could, baked up a fine batch of snickerdoodles. I wish you could’ve tasted them.

The kitchen, of course, was a disaster.

No matter. Cookies are like companions.

Even the best ones can be a bit messy.

He did such a fine job I put him permanently in charge of baking snickerdoodles as Christmas gifts for our grandkids and their parents.

Maybe next year I’ll make chocolate crinkles. Or not.

From our kitchen to yours, here’s wishing you your favorite taste of Christmas, shared with your favorite someone, who will always clean up the mess.

Sharon Randall is the author of “The World and Then Some.” She can be reached at P.O. Box 922, Carmel Valley, CA 93924 or at www.sharonrandall.com.

Latinos, women to be focus of new museums The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The 5,500-page spending and relief bill that Congress passed Monday night includes the authorization of two Smithsonian museums — one focused on the American Latino, the other on American women — that pave the way for the world’s largest museum complex to become even more diverse.

The omnibus bill calls on the Smithsonian to begin the lengthy process of creating the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women’s History Museum by giving the quasi-federal institution permission to hire staff members, collect objects and present programs aimed at telling the stories unique to the groups.

The proposed museums would be the first new Smithsonian facilities since the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in 2016. Like that $540 million project, the new museums would be financed with 50 percent federal funding and 50 percent private donations. It took more than eight years from President George W. Bush’s signing of the bill creating NMAAHC for the Smithsonian and Congress to agree on its site near the Washington Monument and its building design; it was an additional four-plus years from groundbreaking on Feb. 22, 2012, to its star-studded opening Sept. 24, 2016.

Advocates have been pressing for a Latino museum since the Smith-

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The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the newest Smithsonian museum, opened in September 2016. sonian issued a report in 1994 critical of its treatment of American Hispanics. The push for the American Women’s History Museum dates to 2016, when a bipartisan congressional commission called for its establishment.

“For too long, women’s stories have been left out of the telling of our nation’s history, but with this vote, we begin to rectify that,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the primary sponsor of the House bill on the women’s history museum, said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Americans of all ages deserve to see and be inspired by the remarkable women who helped shape this nation. Seeing role models doing the thing to which we aspire can change the course of someone’s life. How fitting that we pass this bill as we mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment and in the year in which we elected our first woman vice president.”

Supporters of the Latino museum also reflected on the long journey.

“It’s one of those days

when you feel the presence of others who have been a part of a movement for so many years,” said Henry Muñoz III, who chaired the congressional commission studying a potential Latino museum. “Not just the people who believe there should be a national Latino museum, but the veterans, the artists, the scientists, all the people who have created a Latino imprint on this country. I’m very emotional, for myself and my community.”

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, founding director of NMAAHC, voiced his support for the projects at a Nov. 17 Senate Rules Committee hearing and again after the committee unanimously passed both museum bills on Dec. 3. “ C r e at i n g n ew museums is challenging, but, with appropriate funding, the Smithsonian has the skill and expertise to do it right. We can, and have, created museums that meet the needs of the nation and showcase the U.S. to the world,” Bunch said on Dec. 3.

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Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who has supported the Latino museum since he was a House member in

2003, said he looks forward to taking his granddaughters to the museum.

“We have overcome tremendous obstacles and unbelievable hurdles to get to this historic moment, but, as I’ve said before, Latinos are used to overcoming obstacles,” Menendez said.

“With this vote, Latinos and Latinas across our nation will finally have their stories, struggles and impact on our country validated by the United States Congress.”

The bill states it is the “intent of Congress” for the museums to be located on or near the National Mall. Sites to be con-

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Sites suggested for the Latino museum include those two plus the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, a historic structure next to the institution’s iconic administration building, known as the Castle, and an area on the southwestern edge of the Mall.

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Sites water storage project benefit report identifies Delta ecosystem Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — The final feasibility report for the long-awaited Sites Reservoir water storage project was sent Tuesday to Congress by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

The Sites Reservoir Project is a joint investigation between the Bureau of Reclamation and Sites Project Authority, authorized by Congress in 2003.

The $3.5 billion, 1.5 million-acre-foot reservoir and infrastructure, if completed, would provide water to agriculture, municipal and industrial uses, as well as to the Central Valley Project and environmental interests such as fish and refuges, according to information provided by the bureau.

Also listed as potential beneficiaries are Delta ecosystem enhancement, flood damage reduction

and recreation. “California is in dire need of additional storage, and projects like Sites Reservoir will provide operational flexibility and more reliable water delivery to benefit farms, communities, and the environment,� Commissioner Brenda Burman said in a statement announcing the report being sent to Congress. “The Sites Reservoir Project is an important opportunity for additional storage in Northern California.�

The reservoir would be created by pumping water from the Sacramento River to the location in the western foothills of Colusa County, near the town of Sites.

The North-of-the-Delta Off-stream Storage Investigation report “documents the potential costs and benefits of the Sites Reservoir Project,� the bureau

statement said. “Sites Reservoir will serve to greatly enhance the operational efficiency of our existing statewide water delivery system and significantly improve drought resiliency for our participating water agencies, (which) collectively represent over 24 million Californians and more than 500,000 acres of farmland from all parts of the state,� Sites Project Authority Vice Chairman Jeff Sutton, the general manager of the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority, said in the bureau statement.

The authority’s Final Draft Strategic Plan identifies three funding sources: water districts that receive water supply r el iabi lity benefits from the project; state Proposition 1 Water Storage Investment Program funds; and

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum Guild is offering a sweet start to the new year.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 1 for the opportunity to win a Dessert of the Month, with each dessert prepared by a Guild member.

The winner will be chosen Feb. 3.

The year of desserts will run through January 2022. It will be coordinated with

federal funding through the Water Infrastructure Investments for the Nation Act of 2016.

Other sources could also be tapped, the report states.

The project is currently in the second of five phases focused on feasibility and funding. The timeline for the phase is through January 2022.

By that point, the authority hopes to have all funding commitments, which includes a 75% local match for state funding.

The next step would be the Design, Permits, Agreements and Construction Financing phase, with a deadline of December 2023.

Phase 4 would be the construction of the reservoir and infrastructure, planned for 2023 through 2030, followed by the fifth phase, the start of operations in 2029.

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The matter had been continued from last week when technical difficulties did not allow members of the public to call into the meeting with comments.

Rich Seithel, the executive officer for the Solano Local Agency Formation Commission, said there were no comments from the public Monday.

The commission also approved the annexation of 5 acres at 3928 Sierra Vista Drive into the Rural North Vacaville Water District for water service.

The 1,905-acre specific plan is the latest area outside the sewer district boundaries to be eligible for sewer service. The Old Cordelia and the Suisun Valley Road/Rockville Road intersection areas receive out-of-district service as well.

The district, in a series of contentious hearings in February 2018, severed the Middle Green Valley Specific Plan area from a proposal that initially included the Rockville Corners area.

The Rockville piece received a great deal of public opposition.

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A ssembly woman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry,

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The project calls for up to 400 new homes and 100 accessory dwellings.

There are also plans for “agricultural tourism, local neighborhood retail, community facility uses, and (more than) 1,400 acres of protected agricultural and open space,� the LAFCO staff report states.

There are 55 existing homes, plus ag structures, in the proposal area. Each has on-site septic systems, and the owners have the option of staying with those systems or hooking up with the sewer district.

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Study: California jobless numbers earns No. 6 worst recovery rate Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — A WalletHub study released Friday shows California with the sixth worst November unemployment recovery rate.

To identify the states with the best recovery in unemployment, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on four metrics.

The change in the state’s unemployment rate was compared to November 2019. The study also compared not seasonally adjusted continued claims in November 2020 to November 2019.

Each state’s overall unemployment rate was also considered.

Between November 2019 and November 2020, there has been an almost 108% increase in unemployment in California.

The study showed more than 1.4 million were unemployed in November. The figure was 718,000 in November 2019.

A total of 839,986 Californians were out of work in January.

The study also shows a nearly 338% change in not seasonally adjusted continued claims from 1.2 million in November 2020 verses 291,706 in November 2019.

The study also included these questions and answers.

Over 9 million renters are behind on rent, according to the Census Bureau. What can we do to alleviate this problem?

“Renters should receive just as much support as homeowners during this pandemic, and the government should work to prevent people from becoming homeless,” said Jill Gonzalez, WalletHub analyst, in a press release.

“Through the end of December, there is a federal moratorium on evictions, which helps

renters continue to have housing security even if they cannot pay their rent. The moratorium is only a temporary solution, though, as it is set to expire soon unless extended and it doesn’t solve the base issue of people being behind on rent,” Gonzalez said in a press release. “Another stimulus check may help get some renters back on track, but the government should also ensure that renters are not hit with any penalties or late fees from the months during which they were behind on payments.”

Is there a big difference in the unemployment rate among various demographics?

“The unemployment rate does differ sharply among different demographics. The unemployment rate for white people is 5.7 percent, while it’s much higher, at 9.8 percent, for black people,” Gonzalez said in the press release.

“The racial disparity is troubling, especially in the context of broader discussions of inequality that have taken place this year.”

“The unemployment rate can fluctuate a lot by age, too; it’s only 5.5% for those aged 45 to 54, but 10.5% for people aged 20 to 24. It makes sense that people who have been in the workforce longer would have more job stability, but we should be concerned about the difficult conditions faced by young people,” Gonzalez said in the press release.

Hawaii has experienced the biggest increase in unemployment because the number of unemployed people jumped by 242% from January 2020 to November, compared to the average increase of 45%.

To view the full report and the ranks of other states, visit: https://wallethub.com/ edu/states-unemployment-rates/74907/.

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Padilla becomes state’s 1st Latino US senator Replaces Kamala Harris Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — Alex Padilla, a Los Angeles Democrat who once developed software for satellites but later rose through local and state political office to become California secretary of state, was chosen Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve in the U. S. Senate – an appointment that tears down a barrier for Latinos that has stood as long as California’s statehood. a longPadilla, time Newsom ally, will become the first Latino to represent California in the Senate, succeeding another history-making politician, Sen. Kamala Harris. Harris, who was the second Black woman and first South Asian to serve in the Senate, in November became the first woman elected vice president of the United States.

“Through his tenacity, integrity, smarts and grit, California is gaining a tested fighter in their corner who will be a fierce ally in D.C., lifting up our state’s values and making sure we secure the critical resources to emerge stronger from this pandemic.

He will be a senator for all Californians,” Newsom said in a statement released Tuesday morning.

The son of Mexican immigrants who settled in the San Fernando Valley, Padilla’s rise to the upper echelon of state politics closely shadowed the steady, decadeslong ascension of Latino power and influence throughout California, from L.A.'s towering City Hall to the chandeliered chambers of the state Capitol.

At age 26, Padilla won a seat on the Los Angeles City Council during the

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Two units responded to the scene and assisted in extricating the driver of the passenger vehicle.

The ambulance crew and the driver of the passenger vehicle all denied injuries.

The ambulance was en route to a medical emergency in Suisun City with Suisun City Fire Department Engine 48 when the crash occurred, the Fire Department reports.

Engine 48 was already at the scene of a medical emergency involving a hypoglycemic patient with a head injury at the

time of the crash.

The Fire Department paramedic was able to administer lifesaving D-50 medication to the hypoglycemic patient as they treated the patient until an ambulance could arrive from Rio Vista.

The Fire Department thanked the City Council and the city manager for the recent investment to the department that allowed for hiring some paramedic staff so the department could become an ALS provider.

"Without this investment, our resident may have had a much worse outcome to his medical emergency," the Fire Department reports.

The department also reminded drivers to slow down on Highway 12 and to always keep a watchful eye for emergency vehicles.

LOS ANGELES — A state lawmaker who wrote the law allowing accusers of a UCLA gynecologist more time to sue is advising University of California regents to reject a proposed $73 million class-action settlement, saying it will curtail many of the alleged victims' rights.

The proposed settlement was reached last month by attorneys for the UC system and lawyers for seven women who said they were sexually battered by Dr. James Heaps while they were patients at UCLA. Heaps, 67, has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that he sexually abused seven patients.

More than 200 women have accused him in the civil litigation of sexual assault and sexual misconduct from 1983 to 2019, during his tenure at the UCLA student health center and UCLA Medical Center.

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State Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, in a letter to the UC Board of Regents on Dec. 15, said the settlement was "negotiated in secret without notice or input from the more than 200 women who have filed suit against UCLA." Wicks said the deal was designed to undermine the intent of Assembly Bill 3092: The legislation, which takes effect Jan. 1, will give survivors until the end of 2021 to file lawsuits. Wicks noted that the number of alleged victims could number 6,600.

Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, noted that "survivors gave heartwrenching testimony as they pleaded for the right to decide whether to confront their abuser."

"The proposed settlement," she said, "would undermine AB 3092 by dramatically shortening the amount of time a victim may file a case against UCLA and Dr. Heaps."

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Newsom has faced months of relentless lobbying and pressure from powerful constituencies within the Democratic Party, even from some of his closest advisers.

The selection of Padilla presented a new and intense political challenge for Newsom. A coalition of Black women strongly advocated for Harris’ Senate seat to be given to another voice for their community and urged the governor to prioritize that continuity above other factors.

“I know politics comes into play, but for me there was a greater kind of cause and calling,” L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell said. “I am disappointed that the governor didn’t see value in the opportunity that was presented to him to guarantee fair representation for Black women in the U.S. Senate.”

Mitchell is a member of a recently formed group known as Keep the Seat that had asked Newsom to appoint a Black woman.

In a letter sent to the governor earlier this month, they urged him to appoint either Rep. Karen Bass of Los Angeles or Rep.

Barbara Lee of Oakland as Harris’ successor.

Mitchell said Tuesday that while Padilla is a “wonderful statesman,” his work as California’s chief elections officer is vital and could have been reason enough to ask him to remain in Sacramento.

“There does not appear to be another state in the union that is poised to elect a Black woman to the U.S. Senate anytime soon,” she said.

Newsom said the responsibility was something he wouldn’t “wish even on my worst enemy” because his decision, no matter whom he appointed, was destined to raise the ire of those whose wishes were denied.

But choosing Padilla also provided Newsom an opportunity to salve some of those relationships – the governor must now fill Padilla’s vacancy as secretary of state.

Padilla’s appointment does not require confirmation by the California Legislature and his U.S. Senate seat will be up for grabs in the 2022 election.

That gives Padilla just two years to set up shop in Washington and launch what is expected to be a very competitive, multimillion-dollar Senate race.

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anti-immigrant tumult of the 1990s after California voters approved measures requiring “English-only” public schools and banning immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally from government assistance and services.

Padilla, who earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went on to become the city’s youngest council president, a state senator and California’s current two-term secretary of state.

“I am honored and humbled by the trust placed in me by Gov. Newsom, and I intend to work each and every day to honor that trust and deliver for all Californians,” Padilla said in a statement.

“From those struggling to make ends meet to the small businesses fighting to keep their doors open to the healthcare workers looking for relief, please know that I am going to the Senate to fight for you.”

Newsom’s announcement of Padilla’s appointment was made by news release and lacked the pomp and fanfare of the governor’s usual major actions, which are typically delivered in highly produced news conferences. That was driven largely by the fact that Newsom is currently in quarantine after having been exposed to a staff member who tested positive for the coronavirus.

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This settlement, Wicks noted, is similar to a classaction settlement in the sexual abuse case against the University of Southern California and its former gynecologist George Tyndall that offered as little as $2,500 in compensation. The average compensation was $11,000.

She said both settlements were negotiated by the same team of defense lawyers. In the USC settlement, a one-year statutory window provided by AB 1510, passed in 2019, was shortened to 120 days.

"Survivors of sexual abuse at UCLA who do not opt out of this class-action settlement," she added, "will lose their rights to question Dr. Heaps, UCLA administrators and staff under oath."

John Manly, a prominent sexual abuse attorney who represents 112 alleged victims of Heaps, said his clients wouldn't be part of the settlement, which was crafted by another law firm. Manly says the classaction deal denies victims their day in court and is a way institutions seek to quickly conclude a scandal without properly compensating the victims. "This is a move to avoid real accountability in a court of law," Manly said Monday.

"I expect the regents will hear from a lot of victims at their next meeting."

According to UCLA, Heaps treated about 5,000 patients for whom the institution has records and about 1,600 others for whom it does not have details. Heaps did not admit any wrongdoing.

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AG reaches settlement with Kern County sheriff, resolving 4-year civil rights probe Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Justice have resolved a four-year investigation of potential civil rights abuses with a settlement that implements modest reforms and places the sheriff’s office under oversight from an outside monitor, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday.

Becerra had overseen an investigation opened in 2016 by his predecessor, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, that probed civilian complaints of excessive force and other misconduct by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the Bakersfield Police Department. The investigation was civil – not criminal – in nature.

In a seven-page complaint filed Tuesday in Kern County Superior Court, Becerra’s deputies alleged that the sheriff’s office used excessive force on residents of Kern County, particularly with the use of its canines; carried out unreasonable stops, searches, arrests and seizures; and committed “legal violations” in using deadly force against people with mental disabilities.

“After a comprehensive investigation,” the complaint says, “the Attorney General’s Office concluded that because of defective or inadequate policies, practices, and procedures, (the Kern County Sheriff’s Office) has failed to uniformly and adequately enforce the law.”

Yet during a news conference with Sheriff Donny Youngblood and Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez, Becerra, who has been tapped by

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra defended the length of the probe, which spanned four years.

President-elect Joe Biden to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, struck a far more conciliatory tone.

He stressed the investigation’s “good outcome”: A 59-page settlement in which the sheriff’s office agreed to review its useof-force policies, change how it trains and deploys canines, lay out a plan to recruit deputies from diverse backgrounds, and improve how it accepts and investigates civilian complaints, among other reforms.

Youngblood pushed back on the state’s written allegations, emphasizing that the settlement makes no legal finding that his office had committed civil rights abuses.

“We do not believe – I do not believe – that the men and women of this department have ever violated constitutional rights,” he said. In the end, he added, “We could go to court and let a judge and jury decide whether we’d done anything right, wrong or indifferent – or we could go to the table with the Department of Justice.”

Youngblood said his

office has already implemented 70% of the settlement’s proposed reforms. The Kern County Board of Supervisors has allotted funding to equip every sheriff’s deputy with a body-worn camera, he said, as well as to hire 42 more sworn and professional personnel, some of whom will be tasked with monitoring body-worn camera video and and releasing it through public records requests.

“We’re not starting from square one,” Youngblood said.

Asked whether the state’s investigation uncovered evidence of civil rights violations, Becerra said that rather than taking the department’s allegations to a “fact-finder” in the courts, he was “trying to move the ball forward” with the agreed-on reforms.

Becerra defended the length of the probe, which spanned four years. He said its second prong, which is examining the Bakersfield Police Department, remains ongoing; he declined to discuss it.

“These things take time,” he said. “You need to make sure you’re

doing this right.”

Harris had opened the investigation weeks after a Bakersfield police officer killed a 73-year-old man, Francisco Serna.

At the time, the Bakersfield Police Department said the officer opened fire only after telling Serna to take his hand out of his pocket and stop walking toward the officer. Serna in fact did not have a weapon in his pocket, but a dark-colored crucifix.

California attorneys general have previously launched civil rights investigations into police departments in Maywood and Riverside.

In Maywood, a twoyear probe overseen by then-Attorney General Jerry Brown found that the small city in southeastern Los Angeles was patrolled by “rogue cops” who arrested people without probable cause, failed to investigate citizen complaints and routinely used excessive force, all without oversight from Maywood’s elected leaders.

Maywood reached an agreement with the state that required the city to raise its hiring standards.

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden nominated Miguel Cardona as secretary of the Department of Education. The schools chief in Connecticut pushed to reopen campuses during the coronavirus pandemic and emerged as a consensus choice for the federal post with the backing of teachers unions and Latino activists.

The president-elect’s choice of Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican descent, would place a third Latino in a prominent position on his Cabinet as the president-elect works to make good on his promise to have a leadership team that reflects the diversity of the country. He earlier nominated California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is Mexican American, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Cubanborn Alejandro Mayorkas was picked by Biden to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus had promoted Cardona’s candidacy for the job, and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials applauded the choice.

Cardona stands out in the education world for his ability to navigate its contentious politics defined by heated and sustained battles over resources, testing, privatization and – more recently – the expectations placed on public schools amid a pandemic.

He has earned the respect of teachers groups and centrist organizations

not always aligned with them. A product and longtime champion of public schools, Cardona’s life experience and career contrast sharply with that of current Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a billionaire detested by education unions who has spent her tenure pushing school privatization.

Cardona’s career mirrors that of many other Biden nominees, who trend centrist. His biography and approach to governing closely resemble those of Becerra.

Like Biden, both Cardona and Becerra came from a humble background with parents who they say instilled in them an appreciation for the dignity of work and the prospect of upward mobility. They excelled in their careers not by aligning with the most strident activists but often by listening patiently to all sides.

They distinguished themselves as coalition builders.

Cardona was born in a housing project in Meriden, Connecticut.

His grandfather was a tobacco farmer with a second-grade education who moved the family to Connecticut from Puerto Rico.

When Cardona entered elementary school, he spoke no English. But his later rise through the education system was dramatic.

During vocational school, Cardona attended college prep classes where he was often the only Latino in the room, he told the Connecticut Mirror in 2019. After college, he started teaching in his hometown and by 28 was the youngest school principal in the state.

Columns&Games A6 Wednesday, December 23, 2020 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Crossword

I’m afraid my long-distance relationship is with a con artist talks to me on the phone Dear Annie: I have when he is heading to or been talking with this from work, but never gentleman for almost when he’s at home. He four years; we’ve been tells me he loves me, in a long-distance but I’m not buying it. relationship online. He What do you think? — claims that he mailed me a large sum of Help Me money, and so he has Dear Help Me: I nothing now. But I have Annie Lane think that there’s a 99% not seen this box full of chance he’s married Dear Annie money that he supposand a 100% chance he’s edly sent. He keeps saying that not worth your time. End it ASAP. Breaking things off is it has to clear customs, and rarely easy, but I guarantee they need a large fee in order that you will not regret this in for it to go through. I don’t the long term. think that customs would be Dear Annie: The holidays demanding large sums of are here and gifts are arriving. money, and, anyway, it’s been Once again, we’re getting boxes months and months now. I told of chocolates, tins of mixed him if the box did not come within the 48 hours like he said nuts, gourmet cheeses, fancy cookies and pastries. My that he and I were through. I husband and I eat a healthy am afraid it is fraud. What is diet, get regular exercise and your take on this? — Losing are allergic to nuts and dairy.

My Lover We’ve explained to people that Dear Losing My Lover: I’m these foods make us extremely afraid you’re right. This is sick and can even be lifetextbook fraud. He’s trying to threatening but still the same play you for a fool. Don’t let gifts come year after year. him.

Their attitude seems to be: Dear Annie: I have been “Hey, it’s Christmas, for Pete’s seeing this guy, “Roy,” for a sake. Lighten up and just enjoy. year and a half. When we are A little won’t hurt you.” So, I together, all he wants to do is hook up. He comes to my house write a note, thanking them for thinking of us and wishing all the time, but he never invites me to his. I actually still them a happy holiday, and then donate everything to the local have no idea where he lives: I food bank and homeless shelter. know the vicinity, but no If you or your readers have specifics. He says he wants to suggestions on other ways to keep some parts of his life handle this, we would appreciprivate. And he only calls and

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Your body is designed to heal itself, and it will follow through with the potential of that design just as soon as you lift the stress off and let nature work.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You know what it’s like to go through the motions of life all the while gazing distractedly inward. That is why, when you recognize this in others, your heart extends; your empathy augments; and you offer love.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You recognize that you’ve been gifted an extraordinary bestowal. You’d like to enjoy it awhile before you get down to the business of giving thanks for it. And in fact, your delight is the best sort of gratitude.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Once upon a time, you gave a heart and then had to take it back, not because it was mistakenly given but because it was just time. Remembering this will help you with today’s judicious choice.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You like to go away long enough to miss what you have at home.

Such things haven’t been as possible, but that has only made your plans for the future more daring. Oh, the buzzy fantasy of wanderlust dreams!

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ate hearing them. — You Really Shouldn’t Have Dear You Really Shouldn’t Have: Sorry to disappoint, but I have no real advice here.

You’re already doing exactly what I’d suggest. As frustrating as these types of gifts might be for you and your husband, remember that there are many people who would be happy to receive any gifts at all.

Dear Annie: “Sincerely Confused” was concerned about the dogs that had attacked a couple of years ago.

As a result, he or she said they “probably haven’t walked more than 15 feet outside (their) yard.”

If walking helped clear this person’s mind, then it would be worthwhile for them to get in the car and go to a place where they feel safe to walk. That would definitely help, in conjunction with the therapy and the study. Walking is therapeutic, it should not be replaced, just supplemented. — Lynne, Avid Walker Dear Lynne: You are absolutely right. Walking regularly has all kinds of benefits, both mental and physical, including increased longevity and a reduced risk of arthritis.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday The months ahead feature wondrous crossovers between different parts of your life.

Aesthetic choices bring about mystical outcomes; spiritual habits physically heal and invigorate; material goals introduce new relationships, etc. When you lead with that special frequency all on your own, you win on multiple levels.

Taurus and Leo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 39, 33, 27 and 1.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Conversation can flow freely at times, but the important communication shouldn’t be left to chance. Give forethought to the important parts and how you’d like to structure it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

The dog doesn’t wish it was a cat. The cat does not wish it was a bird. The animals embrace their unique creaturehood, and so will you today, by doing something that only you could do.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

When asked, you’ll give your angle on things, though you’re

also aware that many times, people ask questions not because they want answers but because they want to give their own opinion on the matter.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). It feels good to be praised, but what feels better is to be engaged, challenged and chosen. You’re top tier as a playmate, and someone just keeps picking you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). An experience may be dreamy once, and the next time, it’s not the same at all, owing to any one of a dozen variables... which is why it always helps to temper expectations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Your next opportunity is coming from an unexpected place. They have to hear about you first, though, so don’t be afraid to talk about what you’re up to.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Once, you were angry about how you’d been wronged. But, wishing to grow, you didn’t rest in the bitterness. You kept going until the scene got so comically small in your rearview that you could not help but laugh at it.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

Bridge

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defenders defeat four hearts?

After one no-trump and a transfer bid, Yang Lixin (West) threw in a dangerous overcall, given that his partner could not open the bidding, North’s strength was unknown, and he rated to be on lead. North doubled, showing values, and if South had passed, he probably would have collected 300 for down two. But South understandably went for game in the nine-card heart fit.

The defenders needed to take two spades and two diamonds. Yang did well to lead a trump, not a club away from his queen. Declarer won with dummy’s king, played a trump to his ace and led a low diamond toward the king. How did Yang plan the defense?

Declarer had 15-17 points, dummy held 9, and West had 15. That left at most one jack for East. The spade jack wouldn’t help, but the diamond jack was a potential entry for a spade shift through declarer’s king. West played his A SIMILAR PLAY diamond queen. When South won with dummy’s king, East had his entry card.

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Jerry Li from Beijing, might remind COPYRIGHT: 2020, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE you of yesterday’s. How did the

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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.

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The Chinese Premier League is one of the toughest events, with several top players from around the world competing. This year, though, it moved online with no nonresidents.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump’s video message by saying she welcomed his call for $2,000 checks for most Americans.

“Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks.

At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 – Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent.

Let’s do it!” she tweeted.

The House adjourned after approving the bill, with a Dec. 28 return date.

The Senate is next scheduled to convene for regular business on Dec. 29.

If Trump vetoes or declines to sign the measure, it would suspend benefits from the previous Covid relief bill that expire at the end of the month, including a moratorium on evictions and extended unemployment insurance – all of which were addressed in the giant package approved Monday night.

Trump said the stimulus bill had “taken forever” to come together and blamed Democrats of having “cruelly blocked” aid to improve their chances of winning the 2020 election.

Soon after his tweet, one of his close allies in Congress, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, renewed his support of the measure.

“The #Covid19 package, while imperfect, will save jobs and lives. The sooner the bill becomes law – the better,” Graham tweeted.

Trump’s rant about the package came after he took a mostly hands-off approach to negotiations with Congress for months.

He declined to engage directly with Pelosi, nor did he convene bipartisan congressional leaders

in White House meetings to get a deal.

Still, Trump had indicated privately during the negotiations that he was unhappy with some of the provisions. The president had been working on a statement calling for $2,000 stimulus checks, but White House chief of staff Mark Meadows raised objections to releasing it amid the fragile talks, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Trump also sent conflicting signals about how big a package he wanted.

He at one point pulled his team from talks with Democrats, then demanded a bigger bill than Pelosi herself had favored.

With regard to direct payments, a member of his own party, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, personally blocked bipartisan attempts to approve $1,200 checks instead of the $600 that ended up in the bill – citing concerns about the fiscal deficit.

Senior Senate GOP members in recent days touted that they kept the relief effort below $1 trillion, instead of the $2 trillion and more sought

by Democrats, only now to be undercut but a lameduck president.

“It really is a disgrace,” Trump said of the bill passed Monday, saying that not enough money was given for small businesses, especially restaurants, while money went to aid other countries including Cambodia and Egypt.

Foreign aid was included as part of the omnibus package of regular spending bills, however, and generally is enacted every year.

In addition to the $600 checks, the relief package includes hundreds of billions of dollars for small businesses and supplemental unemployment benefits for those who lost their job during the pandemic.

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Justin Brown carries boxes of food during The Salvation Army Kroc Center food and toy distribution event, Tuesday, in Suisun City.

Joy: For families From Page One M ack Most acho directed the traffic. His goal was to keep the cars flowing so traffic on Pintail wouldn’t be blocked.

One motorist even presented him with a gift – a small boxed Italian Panettone bread.

The cars flowed toward the library where volunteers and staff checked them in, even sharing masks for those who didn’t have them.

Those collecting only food were sent in one direction. Those getting food and toys headed the other way, picking up food then driving around the building to get toys.

“We are trying to bring it in as tight as we can,” Hartt said.

The food boxes included a ham, turkey or roast, depending on the size of the family. Nonperishable items, providing between three or four days of food, were included as well as Jelly Belly jelly beans.

The Salvation Army continues to offer emergency food distribution in Fairfield and Vallejo.

“I have tears of joy,” said recipient Lorry Berry as she waited. “I am so grateful to The Salvation Army.”

A 20-year military veteran, Richard Powell, lives on a fixed income and was happy to be getting a holiday meal.

“It means hope,” he said.

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Some bicyclists wear masks as protection from the novel coronavirus, Monday, in Fairfield.

Cases: Vallejo reports 101 new cases From Page One continue, and with a new maker’s vaccine scheduled to be released, that effort will expand.

Walgreens and CVS Pharmacy are expected to begin vaccinations in skilled nursing facilities in the second week of the new year. That will allow the county to target other facilities.

Vallejo’s total includes 101 new cases reported Tuesday. Fairfield added 107 to reach 4,803, while Vacaville added 90 cases to take its count to 3,822.

Suisun City (1,162) added 21 cases; Dixon (1,111) added 12 cases; Benicia (452) added nine cases; Rio Vista (137) added four cases; and the unincorporated area of the county had an adjusted

total of 61 cases.

Active cases dropped by five to 2,183, while the number of residents who have been tested is up to 157,724, the county reported.

The testing total is an increase of 1,228.

Most people who have Covid-19 experience only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and

those with underlying health problems, experience more severe illness such as pneumonia and at times, death.

The vast majority of people recover. The World Health Organization reports people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

Travelers: Still want holiday traditions From Page One But even the most dire public health warnings seemed to have failed to sink in. And in some cases, they are no match for the basic human need to spend time with loved ones, maintain family traditions and turn to others for support during challenging times.

Officials have already said that hospitals will likely have to make difficult decisions in the coming weeks about which patients will get the critical care that could mean the difference between life and death. The further spread of Covid-19 during Christmas gatherings would only prolong the crisis, officials said.

“We really can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of Thanksgiving. . . . Another spike in cases from the winter holidays will be disastrous for our hospital system, and ultimately will mean many more people simply won’t be with us in 2021,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday.

“Our hospitals are already over capacity, and the high quality medical care we’re accustomed to in L.A. County is beginning to be compromised as our front-line healthcare workers are beyond stretched to the limit.”

But that message was not resonating at airports.

“Almost no one has caught Covid on a plane,” said Andrew Connors, who stood in a security line at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday morning with his daughter, Meikah.

All around them, the terminal buzzed as masked passengers queued up for security patdowns, airport employees wiped surfaces with fervor and roller bags rumbled across the floor.

Connors said Meikah, 11, was preparing to travel alone to Marysville, Ohio, to spend Christmas with her mother. Although he was initially reluctant to put his daughter on a plane, he said he felt reassured after reading about onboard safety protocols and air-filtration methods.

“We’re probably going to make a snowman when I get there,” she said.

She joins more than 3 million passengers who have passed through U.S. airport security check-

points in the last three days, according to data from the Transportation Security Administration.

The agency reported just over 1 million people each day – on Friday, Saturday and Sunday – compared with 501,000 nationwide passengers on a single day two weeks ago. Prior to Friday, the last time the agency passed the 1 million mark in 2020 was Nov. 29, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The burgeoning influx of travelers is likely to increase as Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve draw closer.

“Over the last few days, those numbers have started to grow, much like we saw ahead of Thanksgiving,” said LAX spokesman Heath Montgomery, who noted that the airport is expecting an average of 920 flights a day through Jan. 4, up from 846 daily flights around the Thanksgiving holiday. The overall numbers are still down substantially from last year, however.

Some at LAX knew the risks.

“My grandma is getting old, and she has some health problems, so we wanted to see her,” said Diego Cee, a 21-yearold Pasadena resident preparing for a flight to Mexico City.

Wearing a face mask and shield, Cee said he was extremely nervous about his journey. He plans to quarantine for a “few days” after he arrives before visiting his grandmother, he said.

Ahmad Atif-Rea and his 12-year-old son, Iyad, said they were traveling from their home in Santa Barbara to Park City, Utah, where they were looking forward to hitting the ski slopes. The family skis every December, Atif-Rea said, and they didn’t want to miss out on the tradition this year.

“We’ll be careful, of course,” he added. “We don’t want to get sick.”

T he discon nect between the warnings of health officials and the reaction of those who decide to travel and enjoy holiday gatherings sometimes seems difficult to bridge.

For every cold statistic there is an equally justification. human From canceled weddings to deferred graduations to birthdays celebrated alone, 2020 has been a

uniquely challenging year, and many say they long for a taste of normalcy and comfort. Many are anxious and feel alone. Others have suffered financial losses. In times like these, it feels natural to connect with loved ones for support.

Those are difficult impulses to ignore, some passengers said, even as conditions in hospitals deteriorate in terrifying ways and the Covid-19 death toll spikes.

L.A. County has repor ted nearly 15,000 new coronavirus cases every day over the last week, nearly eight times the comparable figure from six weeks ago. L.A. County has also reported an average of 84 Covid-19 deaths a day over the last week – six times the comparable number from six weeks ago.

ICU occupancy effectively maxed out last week, and as of 9 a.m.

Sunday, a point-in-time survey found that there were only 30 available ICU beds in this county of 10 million people. A tally last week found 69.

L.A. County Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghaly said emergency depar tments are slammed across the county. Over the weekend, one hospital struggled to care for both a high number of Covid-19 patients and a large family with critical injuries after they were struck by a suspected drunk driver, Ghaly said.

“We’ve all seen images of people out and about.

Lots of people in parks.

Images of busy shopping centers and retail centers.

And we are very worried about what this could mean in the days and weeks to come,” Ghaly said. “If you’re still out there shopping for your loved ones for this holiday season, or you’re planning a holiday get-together, then you are missing the gravity of the situation that is affecting hospitals across Los Angeles County and California and this nation.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he is frustrated by people not following pleas to stay at home, wear masks and avoid gatherings.

“If you gather for the holidays, our hospitals will be overrun,” he said. “This is not a good sign. And it’s a recipe

for a Christmas and New Year’s surge . .

“This is a warning for you. This is about your family. This is about your loved ones. This is about your plans,” Garcetti said.

“Your choices will save lives, or they will lead to more deaths.”

Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, the University of California, San Francisco chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics, said L.A. County’s numbers “are looking really quite scary right now.”

“We are clearly in that period of exponential growth. Things are just going up so fast that it is really hard to get them back under control,” Bibbins-Domingo said.

Unfortunately, “we keep doing the things that we want to do. It’s Christmastime; going out shopping; being with the people we were with last month. But this month, it’s riskier,” she said. “And I think when you look at the hospitalizations, the capacity in L.A., it’s a dangerous combination, especially heading into a time when people just want to be doing those things even more. So, it’s dangerous.”

At Union Station on Monday, Jim Price, 71, sat on a bench outside as he waited for his son’s train to arrive from Phoenix.

They would spend “an hour or two together” at the station before his son continued on to his final destination in Seattle.

Price, who lives in San Clemente, said that he had some cardiovascular issues but that he wasn’t worried about the visit from a health perspective.

“We’re taking all the right precautions, and we’re outdoors,” he said.

“I know things are out of the ordinary with the spike, but I want to see my son.”

At the coronavirus testing kiosk near the station’s entrance, about a dozen people waited in line to swab their mouths and pass the sample to a healthcare worker through a secure submission box.

Kaley Mahoney, 31, was getting tested so she could spend Christmas with her friends.

“I am concerned, but I’ve been isolated so I feel OK,” said Mahoney, a food delivery driver. “It gets worse when you listen to the news.”

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DAILY REPUBLIC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wednesday, December 23, 2020â&#x20AC;&#x192; A9

GOP has outside spending advantage in Georgia runoffs Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Outside groups in both parties have been flooding Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airwaves with millions of dollars of ads in the Senate runoffs, with Republican groups spending more than twice as much as their Democratic counterparts.

Both parties have descended on the Peach State for the two Jan. 5 contests that will determine control of the Senate. Should former congressional staffer and documentary filmmaker Jon Ossoff unseat GOP Sen. David Perdue and pastor Raphael Warnock defeat appointed GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, Democrats will control the chamber with Kamala Harris, as vice president, casting tie-breaking votes.

Outside groups have spent more than $196 million on the Georgia runoffs since the Nov. 3 election, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission as of late Monday afternoon. Of that outside spending, $133 million has been spent to help the two Republicans.

Outside groups aligned with Democrats have spent $63 million.

That money comes from some very wealthy donors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including Loefflerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband â&#x20AC;&#x201C; writing multimillion-dollar checks. It also comes from labor unions, donors with more pedestrian incomes, and from hidden sources because some of the groups that disclose their donors report getting money from other groups that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

The candidates are also spending their own money, and must file reports by midnight Christmas Eve showing their contributions and spending. On Friday, the ad tracking firm AdImpact reported that ad spending in both runoffs has surpassed $450 million, with much of that coming from the candidates themselves. The two Democrats have spent a combined $159 million on ads, compared to the two Republicansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; $91 million.

Fund has also spent to support Perdue and Loeffler, after spending to help other Senate Republicans this cycle. The group is backed mainly by wealthy Illinois businessman Ken Griffin, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Georgia United Victory, a new super PAC launched in October, has spent $4.5 million since Nov. 3.

The group is mainly funded by Loefflerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. The group initially launched attack ads against Rep. Doug Collins, LoefJason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS file flerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief GOP rival in the open Georgia Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler listen to Vice primary, but since Election Day, it President Mike Pence deliver remarks at a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defend the Majority Rallyâ&#x20AC;? has been spending in both races. in Canton, Georgia, in support of their campaigns, Nov. 20 Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good news for Democrats being outspent by GOP outside groups, since candidates pay lower TV ad rates. But the outside spending disparity is still a concern to some Democrats, with just two weeks to go until the election.

So who have been the outside players in the Georgia runoffs?

Below is a roundup of the two dozen outside groups that have each spent $1 million or more since Nov. 3.

Big spenders Senate Leadership Fund: The super PAC, aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has so far spent the most of any single group in the runoffs, dropping $32.1 million. Most of that money, $30 million, has been spent opposing Ossoff, mainly on TV ads.

American Crossroads: The GOP super PAC is a close second to SLF, spending $30.6 million on both runoffs so far, mainly on television ads attacking Warnock.

Peachtree PAC: SLF is also connected to Peachtree PAC, a new super PAC that popped up for the Georgia runoffs. The new group has so far spent a com-

bined $15.7 million against both Warnock and Ossoff.

Georgia Honor: This group is affiliated with Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer.

Georgia Honor is focused just on the special election, and has spent $15.8 million so far. All of its funding has come from SMP. The Georgia Way: This group is also affiliated with SMP but is focused on Perdueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reelection. The Georgia Way has spent $12.2 million opposing Perdue, also mainly on TV ads..

Other GOP groups Aside from the big spenders, 10 other GOP groups have spent $1 million or more on the Georgia runoffs. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of Senate Republicans, leads the pack. It has spent nearly $8 million so far, mainly on ads attacking the two Democrats.

Americans for Prosperity Action, a super PAC tied to the Koch network, has spent $7.1 million so far, mainly on an extensive field program and digital ads.

The National Victory Action

Group challenges eligibility of 364,000 Georgia voters Tribune Content Agency ATLANTA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Texasbased organization is working with Georgia Republ ic a n Pa r t y members to challenge the eligibility of more than 364,000 Georgia voters who might have moved, an attempt to disqualify their ballots in the U.S. Senate runoffs.

The effort questions votersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; residency and leaves decisions over whose ballots should count to county election boards.

The election watchdog group True the Vote targeted voters whose names showed up on U.S. Postal Service lists showing their addresses had changed.

The organization enlisted Republicans in dozens of counties to file voter challenges with their local election boards.

The effort has gained traction in one county so far, questioning 4,000 voters in Muscogee County who will be forced to use provisional ballots if they show up at the polls. Similar objections to voters are pending in counties across the state. Some have been been rejected by election boards in Athens-Clarke, Cobb and Gwinnett counties.

Requiring voters to use provisional ballots would prevent their ballots from being counted until election officials verify

residency. The burden of proof is on the challenger, but voters might be asked to provide information that shows their votes are valid.

Voting rights groups say True the Vote is trying to disenfranchise voters, using inexact and unverified change-of-address lists to cancel ballots in a major election that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the oldest tricks in the voter suppression playbook,â&#x20AC;? said Sean Young, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. He called it an example of â&#x20AC;&#x153;voter caging,â&#x20AC;? the practice of using mail lists to seek large cancellations of registrations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsurprising that political operatives would pull this out in the middle of a contentious election,â&#x20AC;?

Young said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no shortage of conspiracy theories in this election. Mass voter challenges attempt to make those conspiracies real and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in the process.â&#x20AC;?

Federal law prohibits systematic voter removals within 90 days of an election. But registrations of voters can be canceled on a case-by-case basis if county election boards decide a voter is ineligible.

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A unique provision of state law allows voters to challenge the eligibility of voters in their counties. Only Georgians are allowed to vote in the runoffs between Republican U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone across the country is raising their eyebrows about election integrity,â&#x20AC;? Engelbrecht said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was no effort to do anything other than get good accurate voter lists in place for the coming election.â&#x20AC;?

But using change-ofaddress lists isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a reliable way to cull voter registration lists without additional information, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a policy institute at New York University.

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Aside from the groups affiliated with Senate Majority PAC, nine other groups have spent more than $1 million so far to help the Democrats in Georgia, where the party has not won a Senate race in two decades. AB PAC, which is tied to American Bridge, a liberal group focused on opposition research, has spent $4.8 million on ads attacking the two GOP senators.

Black PAC, which works to boost Black voter turnout, has spent $4.1 million on behalf of both Warnock and Ossoff, with canvassing efforts, digital ads and direct mail. VoteVets, a liberal group focused on veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; issues, has spent $1.8 million on digital and TV ads. New South Super PAC, which is affiliated with the grassroots group the New Georgia Project, has spent $1.2 million on the runoffs, mainly on canvassing. Mijente PAC, a Latinx grassroots group, has spent $1.1 million on canvassing, digital and radio ads.

Labor unions have also been engaged in the runoffs, with four groups tied to unions spending $1 million or more on the races, also mainly on voter turnout efforts.

Trump questions loyalty of Pence Tribune Content Agency President Donald Trump is reportedly questioning the loyalty of Vice President Mike Pence as the commander in chief pushes ever more extreme measures to overturn his election loss.

After another round of White House meetings with right-wing allies, Trump is focused on the vice presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largely ceremonial role of presiding over a Jan. 6 session of Congress to seal the results of the vote, Axios reported Tuesday, citing White House aides. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trump (views) Pence performing his constitutional duty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and validating the election result â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as the ultimate betrayal,â&#x20AC;? Axios reported.

The president mentioned a Dec. 8 television ad from the #NeverTrump Lincoln Project that predicted Pence would eventually dump Trump and seal President-elect Joe Bidenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win.

The ad, which Axios reported has rattled Trump, said the conservative veep is â&#x20AC;&#x153;running away from you Donald.

And on January 6, @ VP will preside over the vote proving @joebiden beat you.â&#x20AC;?

Trump is also fed up with White House counsel Pat Cipollone and chief of staff Mark Meadows, whom he views as less than 100% committed to his dead-end fight to overturn the election, according to reports.

A10 Wednesday, December 23, 2020 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Death, disaster, triumph: 2020 rocked health care Tribune Content Agency It’s not enough to say 2020 was the worst year in memory. For the health care industry, it’s been the cruelest year, too.

Over 300,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, including over 1,400 health workers who reportedly caught the disease on the job. Even for professionals trained to deal with illness and loss, the burden has been difficult to bear.

“They experienced levels of death and disease that are very hard to tolerate,” said Alan Weil, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, a leading peerreviewed journal on health, health care and policy.

Beyond the sheer volume of Covid-19 cases, some workers faced equipment shortages, putting them at further risk. And many have been frustrated by public resistance to wearing masks and avoiding large gatherings.

It’s almost as if many didn’t realize – or wouldn’t accept – that the coronavirus posed a lethal threat with consequences for the community and health care providers.

“If your daily job is healing people, watching them do things that are harmful is painful in its own way,” Weil said.

“The psychic toll has been very heavy.”

There’s also been a financial toll. Last spring, health spending dropped sharply after the government temporarily shut down much of the economy, including elective surgery. While patient volumes have improved, health spending in the three months ended in

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A patient is rushed to the ICU to be intubated and be placed on a ventilator inside Providence Saint John’s Health Center, Dec. 15, in Santa Monica.

September increased just 1.3% compared with last year, according to the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.

Through the first nine months of 2020, health service revenue declined 2.4%. That compares with a 5% gain for all of 2019.

The trend in employment is similar. Health care had been adding jobs for years before the pandemic hit. In November, there were 439,000 fewer health workers than a year ago, a decline of 2.7%.

Yet the pandemic also has a flipside. It’s led to major breakthroughs, including new treatments and new ways of collaborating and coordinating on care delivery. Telemedicine took off and, perhaps most striking, effective vaccines against Covid-19 were developed in record time.

The creativity in the medical community has been astonishing, Weil said. “And you can’t help but be proud if you’re in the healing profession,” he added.

Stephen Love, CEO

of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, has worked in health care for 46 years, and he called 2020 “the toughest year I’ve ever seen.”

While the pandemic has spread death and destruction, he believes health workers and others in the community have risen to the moment.

They pulled together and made personal sacrifices to protect residents and fight the virus.

“To me, that’s a real triumph,” Love said.

The arrival of vaccines at local hospitals triggered a childhood memory from the 1950s. When Love was 7, his parents took him to the fire station, where he stood in line for a polio vaccine delivered in a sugar cube.

“It was a light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.

The pandemic is expected to continue raging for several months, and much of the U.S. population may not be vaccinated until mid-2021 or beyond. He said it’s still vital to wear masks, keep your distance and

wash your hands.

“I just hope people don’t let their guard down,” Love said.

He’s been saying that since the early days of Covid, as have other leaders in medicine and government. Yet the public response has often been disappointing, a failure that’s hard to accept.

“We missed an opportunity to come together as a country and start to have a better sense of our collective good,” said Dr. Christopher Crow, CEO and co-founder of Catalyst Health Network, which has about 1,000 independent physicians.

“Why is wearing a mask harder than wearing a seatbelt – or going outside to smoke or not driving drunk?” Crow said. “If this pandemic couldn’t provide a collective healing of our nation, what’s it going to take?”

Britt Berrett, a longtime hospital executive who teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas, said it’s too early to conclude that resistance to masks and distancing are responsible for the higher death rates in the U.S. Many residents have underlying conditions, including obesity and diabetes, and he wants to see how those factors affected outcomes.

He also expected a backlash to mandates and public health suggestions.

When he led local hospitals in Dallas, he said, he had to fire some nurses because they wouldn’t get flu shots, which were required as a condition of employment.

“It doesn’t surprise me that Americans are noncompliant,” said Berrett, who grew up in Canada.

“We can’t even get people

to eat right.”

Crow called 2020 the worst year ever for health care, but he also cited major progress on several fronts. Telemedicine was widely adopted and more people see the value of investing in primary care, in part because the pandemic exacerbated inequality in health care and society.

People of color and lower-income families have suffered more deaths and hospitalizations from Covid-19, along with more job cuts.

“We woke up to how much the status quo is not serving us,” Crow said.

“The crime would be to not learn and improve upon

things we’re only able to learn in a crisis.”

One area begging for improvement: the collection and sharing of crucial data. During the pandemic, much of that work fell to private operators, and Weil said he had to search for key information from news organizations and universities.

“We think of that as a basic public health function, and it wasn’t happening,” Weil said.

There will be a public health reckoning, which is always the case after such a crisis. But he said the problem wasn’t the lack of a public health infrastructure; it was the failure to rely on it.

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NFL Power Rankings: Chiefs tighten grip on No. 1, Jets make untimely move up B2 Wednesday, December 23, 2020 SECTION B Paul Farmer . Sports Editor . 427.6926

NETS 125, WARRIORS 99

W’s show how far they are from contention in opener Tribune Content Agency The Warriors, like all NBA teams, entered opening night Tuesday with plenty of optimism.

Head coach Steve Kerr preached the importance of posting a top-10 defense and leading the league in pace, even though such goals might have seemed a bit unrealistic for a roster riddled with question marks.

In its 125-99 loss to

Kevin Durant and the Nets at Barclays Center, Golden State was forced to grapple with a sobering truth: No amount of positivity will change the fact that the Warriors are far from contention. Less than 1½ years after Durant left a dynastic franchise in the Bay Area to team up with close friend Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn, Golden State is difficult to recognize compared to the dazzling, selfless group that Durant helped lead to

two NBA titles.

With Klay Thompson (torn right Achilles tendon) out for the season and Draymond Green (muscle strain in right foot) sidelined for the night, the Warriors looked overmatched in all facets as they let an 18-point halftime deficit balloon to a 38-point hole midway through the fourth quarter.

At the start of that fourth, with a win already well out of reach, Stephen

Curry took a seat on the bench and threw a towel over his head.

His blank facial expression as he watched the rest of the shellacking was all one needed to understand what had unfolded.

In a nationally televised matchup trumpeted as Durant’s first regularseason game back from the torn Achilles tendon he suffered in Game 5 of the 2019 Finals with the Warriors, the Nets show-

cased the depth, offensive firepower and stingy defense synonymous with title contenders.

Their dominance only underscored Golden State’s deficiencies. As the Nets zipped the ball around the court, befuddled Warriors defenders and capitalized on open looks, Golden State struggled to find any semblance of rhythm on either end. Even Curry, whose brilliance seemed one of the few guaran-

tees for the Warriors this season, failed to channel his usual dynamism as he shot 7-for-21 from the field (2-for-10 from 3-point range).

His top sidekick with Thompson out, Andrew Wiggins, labored on both sides of the ball as he posted a plus-minus of minus-28 in 31 minutes.

Kelly Oubre Jr. – the fiery wing brought in See Warriors, Page B10

5 predictions for 2020-21 Sacramento Kings season Richard Ivanowski THE SACRAMENTO BEE

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback C.J. Beathard looks to pass against the Los Angeles Rams Oct. 21, 2018,

at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Beathard will start Saturday against Arizona.

Beathard to start with Mullens facing surgery More 49ers QB chaos as Garoppolo will practice Cam Inman

THE MERCURY NEWS

Major news hit the 49ers’ quarterback unit Tuesday, two days after the defending NFC champions were eliminated from playoff contention. n Nick Mullens, who went 2-6 as a fill-in starter this season, is facing Tommy John surgery to repair an elbow injury he sustained in Sunday’s loss at Dallas. n Jimmy Garoppolo is cleared to resume practicing but coach Kyle Shanahan does not plan to play him the remaining

two games. n C.J. Beathard will start Saturday against the host Arizona Cardinals, two years after his last start came against them at State Farm Stadium. n Josh Johnson, a veteran safeguard on the practice squad, went on the NFL’s Covid-19 reserve list Monday. n Beathard’s backup Saturday will likely be a quarterback the 49ers sign off another team’s practice squad. n Running back Jerick McKinnon and fullback Kyle Juszczyk are options

as emergency quarterbacks.

GAROPPOLO STATUS Garoppolo has been sidelined since Nov. 1, when a high ankle sprain forced him out of the 49ers’ loss at Seattle. Taking part in Tuesday’s walk-through practice does not mean he’ll play again this season.

“That’s only if the doctors tell me if it’s 100 percent safe. I’d be very surprised if that happens,” Shanahan said. “It’ll be fun for him to throw the ball around (Wednesday). We’ll be very safe with him.”

Garoppolo’s same right ankle was injured in the 49ers’ Week 2 win over the New York Jets, and it kept Garoppolo out the next two games, plus it forced him to sit at halftime of a Week 5 return against the Miami

Dolphins. He’s officially 3-3 as a starter this season with 1,096 yards, seven touchdowns and five interceptions.

MULLENS’ ELBOW Mullens went 2-6 as a starter in place of Garoppolo this season. He’s committed 16 turnovers this season, including five in the past two losses that knocked the 49ers out of the playoff race.

The 49ers medical staff feared Mullens’ sustained ligament damage last game, and they’ll wait until swelling subsides before “most likely” going through with reconstructive surgery that could keep him out a year. Mullens is a restricted free agent.

Mullens injured his elbow and

See 49ers, Page B10

Carr tries to make himself available, Mariota stands at ready for Raiders Tribune Content Agency The first time Derek Carr talked with Jon Gruden after the latter was named head coach in 2018 included the following request: “You have to be available.”

Carr’s response, as he recounted Tuesday during a video conference, came in two words: “Yes sir.”

So it comes as no surprise that Carr, who left last week’s 30-27 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Chargers with a significant groin strain, is working toward starting Saturday night when the Raiders (7-7) host the Miami Dolphins (9-5) at Allegiant Stadium.

Carr, with no media present, took practice snaps along with Marcus

Mariota, who played well in the loss to the Chargers. If Carr can’t play, Mariota will start his first game since Oct. 13 of last season for the Tennessee Titans.

The actual decision will come from Gruden and the Raiders medical staff, who must take into account Carr’s ability to throw the ball accurately, escape trouble if necessary and protect himself from further injury.

“He’s one of the premiere competitors in this league,” Gruden said. “We emphasize the word finish, and he wants to finish the job. We’re going to be smart. We’ve got a training staff here, we listen to our players. We’ll do what we think is right for Derek. I do admire his

toughness and his will to compete.”

In reality, Carr was available well before Gruden came back in 2018. He missed exactly two games in five seasons – one with a broken fibula in the 2016 season finale and one with three fractures in his back in 2017. He’s played with a broken pinkie on his throwing hand. Carr made every start in 2018 under Gruden despite being sacked 51 times and has started 46 straight games with Gruden as head coach.

Carr’s durability record is unassailable. Which makes one wonder whether Carr would shade his answers on how he’s actually feeling in order to get back on the field See Raiders, Page B10

Another Sacramento Kings season is about to tip off Wednesday night.

With each new year, hope springs eternal.

Anything is possible while your record sits at 0-0. But hope can also set us up for disappointment. Should we be expecting something truly different this year?

Probably not. The Kings won’t be the worst team in the Western Conference, but they also won’t make the playoffs.

Sacramento has finished between 9th and 14th in the West for a decade straight. The smart bet is that they stay in that familiar range.

But that’s no surprise. And it’s no fun to read about, either. So let’s move past the mediocre and boring big picture and get into some specific predictions for the 2020-21 season. It’s time to get bold and call some shots.

KINGS WILL COMFORTABLY HIT THE OVER For most betting sites, Sacramento’s win total has been set around 27.5 wins. That puts them 14th in the West and 25th overall. The Oklahoma City Thunder are alone at the bottom with a stunningly low projection of 21 wins. The Minnesota Timberwolves, the San Antonio Spurs and the Memphis Grizzlies are expected to be slightly better than Sacramento, but not by much.

While I don’t expect the Kings to be in the playoff race, I do think this line is too low. One thing I know for certain is that the Kings never tank, even when they should. The players want to win and coach Luke Walton, whose job may depend on a few late-season victories, will do everything he can to make that happen. I’m comfortable projecting this team for at least 30 wins.

As the season winds down, a lot of teams will capitulate. The league does its best to stop blatant tanking, but every year we see what are essentially G-League lineups in regular season NBA games. The Kings may not have star power, but they do have solid veteran depth.

They couldn’t even tank properly if they wanted to.

JOSEPH WILL BE TRADED

BY THE DEADLINE Speaking of veterans, something tells me that shedding a few will be a primary goal for the franchise this year.

They don’t have enough minutes available to develop players like a young team should. De’Aaron Fox, Marvin Bagley, and Tyrese Haliburton will get major roles,

ANALYSIS but that might be it until some moves are made.

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Cory Joseph stands out above the rest as a trade priority.

Fox is the team’s best player, and like Jospeh, he’s a point guard.

Haliburton is the team’s best rookie, and he’s more than capable of running the second unit. After Kyle Guy put up performances of 14 and 20 points in the preseason, it may be time to give the second-year man a place in the rotation.

And look, Joseph is good.

He’s certainly much better than Guy is today. But he’s a 29-year-old defensive specialist.

His value to an established playoff team is much higher than it is for the rebuilding Kings.

Considering his contract is only partially guaranteed next year, he should be desirable to many teams before the trade deadline.

BJELICA WILL FALL OUT OF THE ROTATION Kings fans love Nemanja Bjelica. He’s funny, he’s laid back, and he’s an absolutely elite outside shooter. He has already given Kings fans a number of moments they will never forget.

Game-winners, hilarious profanity, a body type that feels achievable if we really tried – Bjelica is a crowd-pleaser.

However, he’s the oldest player on the team and his defensive ability is just about gone. He got picked on in the bubble last year and looked even slower in preseason. And while he is another solid candidate for a trade, I fear his defense could unravel to the point where competitive teams won’t want him. If you can’t defend, you can’t play postseason minutes.

Bagley is a lock to take the starting job at power forward (as long as he stays healthy) and Harrison Barnes will need to play up a position more as he gets older. Robert Woodard and DaQuan Jeffries also deserve a chance to absorb some of Bjelica’s minutes, whether he is traded or simply phased out.

HALIBURTON WILL GET ALL-ROOKIE HONORS Believe it or not, last season was the first time in five years that the Kings did not have a player selected to an NBA All-Rookie team. Bagley made the first team in 2018-19, Bogdan Bogdanovic made the second team in 2017-18, Hield was a first-teamer in 2016-17 and Willie Cauley-Stein just barely made the cut in 2015-16.

The competition is steep this year, despite a weak top of the class. There won’t be many superstars from this draft, but there will be a lot of solid players worthy of the All-Rookie team.

Bagley, Hield and Cauley-Stein were top-six picks and Bogdanovic came over from Europe as a polished pro.

See Kings, Page B2

B2 Wednesday, December 23, 2020 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Sports

NFL POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 16

Chiefs tighten grip on No. 1, Jets make untimely move up from last Mark Maske

THE WASHINGTON POST

Each week during the NFL season, The Post’s Mark Maske ranks the 32 teams. This week, the Jets no longer are No. 32, although it was tempting to leave them there since their first victory of the season likely will cost them the No. 1 overall choice in the NFL draft and the opportunity to select Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence. But no, let the Jets savor their moment now. There is plenty of anguish still to come.

They move all the way up to No. 31 and the Jaguars, happily in this case, fall to 32nd. The Chiefs strengthened their grip on the top spot with their triumph at New Orleans. The Steelers and Rams drop after their stunning losses.

1. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (13-1) Last week’s rank: 1 Securing the No. 1 seed in the AFC seems all but certain now, with the difficult road game in New Orleans out of the way. The Chiefs have only the Falcons and Chargers left on the regular season schedule and will do whatever is needed to remain ahead of the Steelers and Bills. They’ll be fortunate if rookie RB Clyde EdwardsHelaire avoided a serious injury Sunday.

2. GREEN BAY PACKERS (11-3) Last week’s rank: 2 The second-half offensive performance in Saturday night’s win over the Panthers was pretty dreadful, as Aaron Rodgers said. But the Packers are on the cusp of wrapping up the NFC’s top seed, which will be significant if the weather ends up being a factor in a late-January matchup at Lambeau Field with the Saints or Buccaneers.

3. BUFFALO BILLS (11-3) Last week’s rank: 3 The Bills wrapped up their first AFC East title since 1995 with Saturday’s dominant victory in Denver.

QB Josh Allen continued to thrive, and WRs Stefon Diggs and Cole Beasley each topped 100 receiving yards. The Bills moved up to the No. 2 seed in the AFC with the Steelers’ loss.

They’ve played far better lately than the Steelers, and they’re not far from the Chiefs’ level.

4. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS (10-4) Last week’s rank: 4 QB Drew Brees completed fewer than half his passes in his return to the lineup Sunday. Even so, the Saints managed to remain competitive with the Chiefs. Things might have been different if they’d fallen on that fumble for a TD at the end of the first half.

The Saints have all but surrendered the NFC’s No. 1 seed to the Packers.

It’s difficult to like their chances if they have to play the NFC title game on the road in Green Bay. 5. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS (10-4) Last week’s rank: 7 The Colts held on to beat the Texans, and their duel with the Titans for the AFC South title comes down to the final two weeks of the regular season. Sunday’s game at Pittsburgh will be very interesting.

6. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS (9-5) Last week’s rank: 8 Tom Brady engineered a big comeback to beat the Falcons. Sound familiar? This wasn’t of Super Bowl LI importance, obviously. But it was significant for the Buccaneers as they

try to remain in the mix of legitimate NFC contenders. The game-winning TD catch made by WR Antonio Brown provides some justification for the decision to sign him.

7. TENNESSEE TITANS (10-4) Last week’s rank: 9 Bulldozing RB Derrick Henry knocked another poor defensive back to the ground with a stiff-arm maneuver, and the Titans won in predictably stress-free fashion against the Lions.

The AFC is loaded with very good teams, and the Titans are right there with most of them.

8. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS (10-4) Last week’s rank: 10 The Seahawks weren’t all that great against Washington on Sunday at FedEx Field. But at least they won.

That’s more than the Rams and Steelers could say.

9. PITTSBURGH STEELERS (11-3) Last week’s rank: 5 The 1972 Dolphins never had anything to worry about, as it has turned out. The Steelers’ season has completely unraveled with three straight losses since the 11-0 start.

They’ve fallen to the No. 3 seed in the AFC, and even the division title isn’t certain any longer. They’ve clinched a playoff spot but how in the world are they going to escape the opening round?

10. BALTIMORE RAVENS (9-5) Last week’s rank: 11 The Ravens overwhelmed the Jaguars on Sunday, as expected, and they’ve totaled 87 points in their past two games. They’re getting things cranked up on offense and, finally, are resembling last season’s team.

But they’re still on the outside of the playoff picture looking in, at least for now.

11. CLEVELAND BROWNS (10-4) Last week’s rank: 12 QB Baker Mayfield was efficient Sunday night in the Meadowlands, and the Browns have their first 10-victory season since 2007. Suddenly, they’re only a game out of first place. They could be a dangerous bad-weather team in the AFC playoffs because of the way they can run the ball.

12. MIAMI DOLPHINS (9-5) Last week’s rank: 13 The win over the Patriots kept the Dolphins ahead of the Ravens for the final wild-card spot in the AFC. There’s probably no margin for error, given the Ravens’ remaining schedule. But with games left against the Raiders and a Bills team that already has clinched the AFC East, the Dolphins just might get it done.

13. ARIZONA CARDINALS (8-6) Last week’s rank: 14 QB Kyler Murray and the Arizona offense were back to looking next to unstoppable in the triumph Sunday over the Eagles. That was encouraging to see after weeks of wondering whether Murray’s shoulder injury would be the undoing of a promising season.

14. LOS ANGELES RAMS (9-5) Last week’s rank: 6 The shock of the Jets actually winning a game and probably squandering their chance to draft Trevor Lawrence overshadowed a truly awful loss by the Rams. Coach Sean McVay called it “embarrassing” and “humbling” and talked about being “sick to your stomach.” Even that was too kind. It was positively revolting for a team that fancied itself a Super Bowl contender.

15. CHICAGO BEARS (7-7) Last week’s rank: 16 The Bears are hanging around the NFC wild-card race with two

straight wins after the six-game losing skid. QB Mitchell Trubisky has been playing better. The Jaguars are up next on the schedule, and then there’s a Week 17 matchup with the Packers. It remains to be seen if Green Bay will have anything at stake in that game.

16. WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM (6-8) Last week’s rank: 15 Everyone can dial back the talk about what a tough playoff opponent Washington might be if it manages to reach the postseason. This will be a .500 team, at best. And while the defense is formidable, the offense remains limited. Dwayne Haskins simply isn’t ready to win a meaningful game, as he was asked to do Sunday while filling in at QB for Alex Smith.

17. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS (5-9) Last week’s rank: 23 Justin Herbert was the third QB drafted but he has managed to stay healthier than Joe Burrow and has outplayed Tua Tagovailoa. He continues to dazzle on a weekly basis and, for a change, the Chargers turned his exploits into a victory in an OT thriller Thursday night in Vegas.

18. DALLAS COWBOYS (5-9) Last week’s rank: 24 The Cowboys managed to beat the 49ers with RB Ezekiel Elliott on the game-day inactive list and have two straight wins to move within a game of the division lead. Owner Jerry Jones said in a radio interview it was “ridiculous” to suggest he would fire Coach Mike McCarthy after one season. So things are looking up ever so slightly for the Cowboys. But that’s being measured against a ridiculously lowered standard.

19. DENVER BRONCOS (5-9) Last week’s rank: 17 There have been times Drew Lock has looked like the solution to the Broncos’ QB issues. But that has not been the case consistently, and it remains an open question whether the franchise can trust it has its QB of the future already in the fold. It will be an interesting offseason decision for top football executive John Elway.

20. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS (7-7) Last week’s rank: 18 Marcus Mariota was excellent in his Raiders debut Thursday night while filling in for the injured Derek Carr. But the loss to the Chargers was damaging, and the Raiders’ progress has stalled in Year 3 of Jon Gruden’s return to coaching.

21. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (6-8) Last week’s rank: 19 Can the NFL playoffs even be conducted without the Patriots in them?

It’s almost unthinkable that they’ve been eliminated from postseason contention. From Tom Brady’s departure to the other losses in free agency to the player opt-outs to the in-season issues with the coronavirus and injuries, the odds were against these Patriots all along. But even a few weeks ago, it seemed as if Coach Bill Belichick still might find a way to pull things together. Not this time.

22. NEW YORK GIANTS (5-9) Last week’s rank: 20 What is with the NFC East head coaches and their ill-conceived fake field goals and punts this season?

First there was the Cowboys’ Mike McCarthy on Thanksgiving Day and then there was the Giants’ Joe Judge on Sunday night. Judge said he wanted to coach aggressively and called the failed fake field goal a good play. But if it’s such a sound play, how do you end up with your punter throwing a pass to your center against triple coverage?

23. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (4-9-1)

Last week’s rank: 21 The Eagles lost Sunday in Arizona but it sure seemed like they found an answer at QB. Jalen Hurts was terrific in his second start since the benching of Carson Wentz. If Hurts plays well for two more games, it might be time to move on from Wentz in the offseason because the current situation seems untenable.

24. MINNESOTA VIKINGS (6-8) Last week’s rank: 22 Rookie WR Justin Jefferson yelled a profanity at QB Kirk Cousins after an errant throw, and the Vikings lost what amounted to a playoff elimination game against the Bears. That qualifies as a very bad day.

25. DETROIT LIONS (5-9) Last week’s rank: 25 QB Matthew Stafford’s grittiness and dedication to keep playing through the injuries is admirable. But interim coach Darrell Bevell made the right decision to sit Stafford down, for Stafford’s own good and protection, late in the lopsided loss to the Titans and should consider extending that merciful approach through season’s end.

26. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (5-9) Last week’s rank: 26 The 49ers are playing out the string, and their stay in Arizona was extended through the end of the season when the coronavirus-related restrictions in Santa Clara County were kept in place through early January. This relentlessly harsh season cannot conclude soon enough for the Niners.

27. CAROLINA PANTHERS (4-10) Last week’s rank: 27 The 3-2 start has given way to a 1-8 downward spiral. That makes it an ugly first season for Coach Matt Rhule and QB Teddy Bridgewater.

Monday’s firing of Marty Hurney as GM gives Washington a candidate who has worked closely with Ron Rivera if Rivera chooses to add to the team’s front office. If it happens, Hurney would come to the team he once covered as a newspaper beat writer.

28. HOUSTON TEXANS (4-10) Last week’s rank: 28 Deshaun Watson played well. The Texans lost. Sunday’s near-miss defeat in Indianapolis pretty much encapsulated the season.

29. CINCINNATI BENGALS (3-10-1) Last week’s rank: 30 The Bengals get to move up a spot after the triumph Monday night over the Steelers. But, really, that shocking outcome was far more about how ineptly the Steelers played than about anything the Bengals did.

30. ATLANTA FALCONS (4-10) Last week’s rank: 29 Falcons 24, Buccaneers 7 on Sunday wasn’t quite as bad as Falcons 28, Patriots 3 on Feb. 5, 2017. But it was still pretty bad for a come-from-ahead loss. No Falcons’ lead is ever safe, it seems, and particularly when Tom Brady is on the other side of the field.

31. NEW YORK JETS (1-13) Last week’s rank: 32 That was the true definition of a Jets-ian victory. They will go 1-15 this season instead of 0-16. And Trevor Lawrence, it certainly appears, will end up in Jacksonville.

32. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS (1-13) Last week’s rank: 31 When is a day that includes your 13th straight loss a good day? When it ends with you being in position to have the No. 1 pick in an NFL draft expected to include Trevor Lawrence.

Kings: May be making flurry of trades From Page B1 Haliburton was picked 12th and has a steeper climb to earn his spot.

Despite his draft position, I see Haliburton as a lock for the second team, a favorite for the first team, and legitimate candidate for Rookie of the Year. He showed that he is NBA-ready in the preseason and there is no doubt that he will get a huge opportunity. The only question is if his success will show up enough in the numbers, which is usually where voters tend to look first.

HIELD WILL BE AN UNLIKELY ALL-STAR OK, time for a longshot. I can’t say these predictions are bold unless I include something truly unlikely. No one thinks of Hield as

With Bogdanovic in Atlanta, Hield’s share of the offense is going to get larger. an All-Star candidate, but I could see him shock the world this year.

Hield averaged 20.7 points in his third season and seemed to have more potential to uncover. After a down year, I think he bounces back and shows just that.

With Bogdanovic in Atlanta, Hield’s share of the offense is going to get larger. He should go back to starting every game.

Walton says he is committed to a

higher pace and has also shown more awareness of Hield’s specific skill set. Walton knows Buddy deserves a neon green light, and I think he gives it to him all year.

Hield will average 25 points per game. A few more 3-point attempts each night and a return to his elite efficiency of years past should get him there. Unfortunately, the West is still crazy deep with superstar guards. But players that score that much always seem to find their way to accolades, so I think Hield can get it done.

WHAT ELSE TO WATCH FOR After that doozie, I’m going to call it a day for the official predictions.

But other things to keep an eye on this season include a potential flurry of trades. While I think Joseph and Bjelica are the leading candidates to finish the season on a different

team, very few players on the roster are untouchable.

Fox’s shooting progression is another thing to monitor closely. His 3-point percentage dropped from 37.1% in 2018-19 to 29.2% last season. In the preseason, he shot a mere 14.8%. It’s not time to panic, but this is a troubling sign for Sacramento’s franchise player. After giving him a maximum contract, the Kings desperately need Fox to shoot over 30% from deep.

Finally, I’m convinced that another young player will emerge from the bottom of the rotation, I’m just not sure who it will be yet. Guy is the fan favorite after his game-winner in the preseason. Justin James showed nice flashes last year. Woodard and Jahmi’us Ramsey were steals in the second round. Watch them all closely this season, because their opportunities will come.

CALENDAR Wednesday’s TV sports Note: Some events may be canceled or moved to different times and/or stations because of Covid-19 considerations

Basketball College men •Xavier at Creighton, FS1, noon •UCLA at Oregon, ESPN2, noon •Rutgers at Ohio State, BIG TEN, 1:30 p.m.

•Northwestern St. at Washington St., PAC12, 2 p.m.

•Georgetown at Seton Hall, FS1, 2 p.m.

•South Carolina Upstate at Tennessee, SEC, 2 p.m.

•Providence at Butler, CBSSN, 3 p.m.

•Illinois at Penn State, BIG TEN, 3:30 p.m.

•Villanova at Marquette, FS1, 4 p.m.

•Weber State vs. BYU, BYUTV, 4 p.m.

•Georgia Tech at UAB, CBSSN, 5 p.m.

•Northwestern at Indiana, BIG TEN, 5:30 p.m.

•New Mexico at Boise State, CBSSN, 7 p.m.

College women •Nebraska at Purdue, BIG TEN, 11 a.m.

•Syracuse at Boston College, ESPNU, 1 p.m.

NBA •Milwaukee at Boston, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

•Sacramento at Denver, NBCSCA, 6 p.m.

•Dallas at Phoenix, ESPN, 7:30 p.m.

Football College •R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, Louisiana Tech vs.

Georgia Southern, ESPN, noon •Montgomery Bowl, Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic, ESPN, 4 p.m.

Motorsports •Drone Racing League, NBCSN, 4 p.m.

Soccer •La Liga, Getafe vs. Celta de Vigo, BEIN, 8:20 a.m.

•Serie A, Hellas Verona vs. Inter Milan, ESPN2, 9:25 a.m.

•La Liga, Real Madrid vs. Granada, BEIN, 10:35 a.m.

•La Liga, Real Betis vs. Cadiz, BEIN, 12:50 p.m.

•Copa Libertadores, Boca vs. Racing, BEIN, 4:20 p.m.

•Copa do Brasil, semifinals, first leg, Gremio vs. Sao Paulo, FS2, 4:30 p.m.

•Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain vs. Strasbourg, BEIN, 6:30 p.m. (taped)

Thursday’s TV sports Football College •New Mexico Bowl, Hawaii vs. Houston, ESPN, 12:30 p.m.

•2020 Heisman Trophy Finalists Reveal Show, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

Scoreboard FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 11 3 0 .786 407 340 9 5 0 .643 352 257 6 8 0 .429 289 301 1 13 0 .071 206 413 North

W L T Pct. PF PA x-Pittsburgh 11 3 0 .786 366 264 Cleveland 10 4 0 .714 368 374 Baltimore 9 5 0 .643 403 287 Cincinnati 3 10 1 .250 271 355 South

W L T Pct. PF PA Tennessee 10 4 0 .714 436 361 Indianapolis 10 4 0 .714 399 320 Houston 4 10 0 .286 315 386 Jacksonville 1 13 0 .071 275 423 West

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Kansas City 13 1 0 .929 435 310 Las Vegas 7 7 0 .500 377 421 Denver 5 9 0 .357 276 395 L.A. Chargers 5 9 0 .357 327 389 National Conference East

W L T Pct. PF PA Washington 6 8 0 .429 302 295 Dallas 5 9 0 .357 339 433 N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 .357 244 311 Philadelphia 4 9 1 .321 303 361 North

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Green Bay 11 3 0 .786 434 339 Chicago 7 7 0 .500 315 318 Minnesota 6 8 0 .429 360 388 Detroit 5 9 0 .357 335 435 South

W L T Pct. PF PA x-New Orleans 10 4 0 .714 397 297 Tampa Bay 9 5 0 .643 401 321 Atlanta 4 10 0 .286 355 353 Carolina 4 10 0 .286 323 356 West

W L T Pct. PF PA x-Seattle 10 4 0 .714 413 339 L.A. Rams 9 5 0 .643 345 269 Arizona 8 6 0 .571 391 329 SAN FRAN 5 9 0 .357 333 352 x-clinched playoff berth z-clinched division title Thursday’s Game L.A. Chargers 30, Las Vegas 27, OT Saturday’s Games Buffalo 48, Denver 19 Green Bay 24, Carolina 16 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 Monday’s Game Cincinnati 27, Pittsburgh 17 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.

Sunday, Dec. 27 Carolina at Washington, 10 a.m.

Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at Kansas City, 10 a.m.

Chicago at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Seattle, 1:05 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Chargers, 1:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 1:25 p.m.

Tennessee at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 28 Buffalo at New England, 5:15 p.m.

xz-Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets

Sunday, Jan. 3 Seattle at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:25 p.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at New England, 10 a.m.

L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 10 a.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 10 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 10 a.m.

New Orleans at Carolina, 10 a.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

Arizona at L.A. Rams, 1:25 p.m.

Las Vegas at Denver, 1:25 p.m.

END REGULAR SEASON

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Brooklyn 1 0 1.000 — Boston 0 0 .000 ½ New York 0 0 .000 ½ Philadelphia 0 0 .000 ½ Toronto 0 0 .000 ½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 0 0 .000 — Cleveland 0 0 .000 — Detroit 0 0 .000 — Indiana 0 0 .000 — Milwaukee 0 0 .000 — Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 0 0 .000 — Charlotte 0 0 .000 — Miami 0 0 .000 — Orlando 0 0 .000 — Washington 0 0 .000 — WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Denver 0 0 .000 — Minnesota 0 0 .000 — Oklahoma City 0 0 .000 — Portland 0 0 .000 — Utah 0 0 .000 — Pacific Division

W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 1 0 1.000 — Phoenix 0 0 .000 ½ SACRAMENTO 0 0 .000 ½ GOLDEN STATE 0 1 .000 1 L.A. Lakers 0 1 .000 1 Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Dallas 0 0 .000 — Houston 0 0 .000 — Memphis 0 0 .000 — New Orleans 0 0 .000 — San Antonio 0 0 .000 — Tuesday’s Games Brooklyn 125, GOLDEN STATE 99 L.A. Clippers 116, L.A. Lakers 109 Wednesday’s Games SACRAMENTO at Denver, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

New York at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Miami at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 4:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games No games scheduled Friday, Dec. 25 GOLDEN STATE at Milwaukee, 11:30 a.m.

New Orleans at Miami, 9 a.m.

Brooklyn at Boston, 2 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

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DAILY REPUBLIC — Wednesday, December 23, 2020 B3

This week’s question:

Do you plan on hosting or attending a holiday event?

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The other side

Here’s my 2020 Christmas list

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anta, we’re living through the ultimate dumpster fire of a year and we’re going to need a Herculean effort from you this season to put smiles on our faces. So I’m going to unveil a Christmas list that’s long and thorough.

I mean, yeah, I’d like a new iPhone 12 Pro, a new iPad, a new tonneau cover for my truck, a 9 mm and perhaps another bottle or two of Uncle Nearest Whiskey. But I don’t want to focus just on myself this 2020 Christmas. I want to ask for things for all of us.

Can we have more “Mandolorian” episodes, no more Limu Emu commercials, and just ban all cable news?

Santa, please bring something nice for all of Kelvin Wade those people who pay for streaming video services like HBOMax, Netflix, Hulu, Prime and others and let the rest of us mooch off of them. They’re the real MVPs. For sports fans, please bring the Las Vegas Raiders a defense. It doesn’t have to be an elite Bears ’85 defense. An NFL quality defense would be nice. And while you’re at it, please rummage around in that bag and find backbones to give to 49er fans along with dictionaries so they can look up the word “faithful” and won’t have to hide while their team stinks.

How about sending everyone new masks modeled after the Batman villain Bane’s?

I’m talking about a strap that not only goes around the ears but goes up from the bridge of the nose over the head. It’s for those people who have trouble keeping their beaks covered.

And I know the rush is over but if you want to leave some family packs of toilet paper, I’ll take it.

Look, Santa, I’m trying to not be political but can you consider replacing the paychecks of our Congress and current administration with $600 checks?

How about using some Christmas magic to bring us new products we’d all love: phone batteries that last a month, cars that run on water, zero-calorie pizza, the ability to program our dreams and finally, the ability to compress eight hours of sleep into one hour, thus lengthening everyone’s life span.

I’d love it if you could bring me a special remote that checks email, texts, checks Facebook, does the dishes and laundry, mutes my dogs and mutes my girlfriend.

And after that last suggestion, you’re probably going to need to bring me a girlfriend.

My brother Tony has lost more than 160 pounds. Can you bring me one of his magic scales? Yeah, I know he does Bright Line Eating, but I still think there’s a magic scale involved. Hook a brother up.

Can you rid the world of horrible holiday foods? Collect all the Peeps, Candy Corn and fruitcakes and burn them. I know, taking things isn’t really your jam, but perhaps you could convince the Grinch to do it.

Santa, I know your season kicks off with Black Friday, but can you rename that day?

Every Black Friday I go out expecting to get some kind of African-American discount and I get laughed out of the store.

Might I suggest in lieu of lumps of coal for the naughty list people, you supply them with magical calendars so while the rest of us start 2021 on Jan. 1, it will be Dec. 32, 2020, for the naughty.

What I’d like to give people is thanks for mask-wearing and social distancing. I’d want to offer my best to the health care professionals who’ve worked long hours caring for their fellow Americans. I want to open my heart and wallet for the needy and hungry this holiday season.

Of course, Santa, what we really want are things no one can deliver: An instant end to the Covid-19 pandemic, cures for mankind’s illnesses, hate evicted from the human heart, our pets to live lives three times as long as they do, and phone calls with our loved ones who have passed on.

But we’ll settle for this fustercluck of a year to end and a year of promise to dawn.

Merry Christmas. Peace on Earth.

Kelvin Wade, a former Fairfield resident, is the author of “Morsels” Vols. I and II and lives in Sacramento. Email him at kelvinjwade@outlook.com.

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Are white evangelicals really Christians? Part 2

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et’s continue my underWar and conflict, wrote two standing of white, conprofessors from Calvin College, servative evangelical came from human sinfulness; Christianity – well “it cannot be the case that described by the book, “Jesus being a warrior is essential to and John Wayne,” by being a man.” Their book sales Kristin DuMez. were disappointing.

Evangelicalism by the 1980s As DuMez writes, “Patriarhad become overtly political chal authority became a with Jerry Falwell and his Jack Batson non-negotiable requirement of Moral Majority, declaring, “Get the orthodox Christian faith.” saved, get baptized, get registered.”

Now let’s fast forward to Hillary Falwell encouraged a fighting faith, Clinton in 2016. She was a woman, out saying we are “fighting a holy war” of her place. She supported same-sex and that the church was an “army marriage. She supported women’s equipped for battle.” “Jesus was a man reproductive rights and argued that it with muscles; Christ was a he-man,” took a village, not a Christian family, he avowed. to raise a child.

Evangelical men by the 1990s were These were all the things that white reacting badly to the woman’s moveevangelicals loathed. America needed ment and working spouses. A rash of someone to fight for “biblical (Old books emerged to rectify what was Testament) values.” seen as unbiblical trends. One group Enter Donald Trump. A writer in introduced the idea of “complementar- the Baptist News declared that Trump ianism,” that God made men for was a “John Wayne stand-in.” Both headship and wives should be submiswere coarse, shameless womanizers, sive. The Southern Baptist Convention but no matter. Robert Jefress, an adopted that position. A whole cultural influential pastor from Dallas, gushed men’s movement began. that he wanted “the meanest, toughest, John Eldredge wrote “Wild at son-of-a-you-know-what” as president.

Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Masculine strength. For more than Man’s Soul.” He depicted God as a 50 years American conservative warrior god, and that men were made evangelical Christians had idealized in His image. Selling four million males as tough John Wayne-type copies, “Eldredge’s formula would characters who protect their families frame evangelical explorations of and the nation. For them, Donald masculinity for years to come,” Trump fit the bill.

DuMez writes.

What do I think?

Douglas Wilson wrote “Future Men For people who grew up in the days Raising Boys to Fight Back,” encourof the heroic Western movie or in the aging boys to learn to fistfight and that glow of victory in World War II and the a “theology of fist-fighting” should Cold War, America had been indisbe developed. pensable, fighting “evildoers,” Nazis or communists. For them, Christian A few liberal evangelicals resisted.

nationalism, the nation favored by God, made sense. Trump’s MAGA fits that bill.

But times change. After Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, much of the world no longer sees us as the good guy. Polls show we are widely feared as a rogue. As for family structure, the idealized days of the post-war American family have changed irrevocably for a dozen reasons. Both the husband’s and wife’s position have widened. There is no chance of going back.

Today, perhaps a large number of families still have naturally strong male leadership and wives who aren’t bothered by that structure. It’s traditional, not morally wrong or sinful. But many men are not fighters and many women insist on a wider role. Some women are genuinely uninterested in having children. To all these, the imposition of the ideal evangelical family would represent pure oppression.

Finally, a mainline Christian should question the basic premise of a tough, fighting Jesus, one who encourages – at the extreme – fist-fighting rather than turning the cheek or returning good for evil, clear directives from the real Jesus. The real Jesus was particularly open to treating women equally, considering his time and culture.

I view white conservative Christianity as a heresy, as simply a variety of secular conservatism covered with a Christian veneer. As such it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a threat to America.

This book proves it to me.

Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

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No federal bailout for California budget

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alifornia’s fiscal squeeze taxes, coupled with the spendtightened up Sunday ing cuts made in June, are when congressioproducing a one-time nal leaders reached $26 billion windfall for the agreement on a $900 billion state, according to Gabe Petek, Covid-19 relief package that the Legislature’s budget did not include direct aid to analyst. However, with ecostate and local governments. nomic recovery slowing due to It means that Gov. Gavin new pandemic shutdowns, Newsom faces fewer choices in Dan Walters administration officials see a fashioning a 2021-22 fiscal year somewhat lower windfall. budget that he must propose to Whatever its size, the windfall legislators by Jan. 10 and that Califorpotentially offsets the lack of a new nia cities struggling with budget federal bailout, but also creates its deficits won’t be getting help from own dilemma.

Washington.

Should the extra money be socked For the past six months, ever since away to guard against projected the state passed its current budget, deficits in the future or be spent on Newsom and legislative leaders have education, health care and safety net been crossing their fingers that a services that were cut in vain hopes of second relief package from Washingmore federal aid? ton would offset the contingent Advocates for those services, spending cuts and off-budget borrowincluding legislative leaders, tend ing they used to make it balance toward a spend-it-now approach, but on paper. were they to prevail and the projected The hoped-for but elusive number deficits became reality, the political was $14 billion. However, Newsom, et onus would fall on Newsom. al, have since gotten some good news An unspoken, but very real, aspect from California taxpayers. Administo the situation is that many liberal tration forecasts that revenues would groups and allied Democratic legislaplummet into the abyss as pandemictors want the state to raise taxes on spawned recession struck the state corporations and/or the wealthiest proved to be too pessimistic.

Californians not only to fill current All-important income taxes have holes but to permanently increase held up unexpectedly well because spending on education, health care, affluent Californians, who provide the homelessness and social services. bulk of income taxes, have largely Tax increase advocates contend that maintained their income streams by the pandemic has widened California’s shifting to home work while their stock already immense gaps of wealth and market holdings have soared in value. income that should be narrowed by Steadier-than-expected income spending more on programs to assist

those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.

Newsom is caught in the middle of the great tax debate. He supported Proposition 15, the unsuccessful effort to raise taxes on commercial property, but in doing so, threw cold water on calls for new taxes on income or wealth.

Newsom clearly fears that the threat of such levies would drive the wealthy, who supply most of the state’s revenues, to flee the state. That fear was underscored this month when Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla, declared that he was personally moving to Texas, which has no income tax, and increasing Tesla’s presence in that state.

Newsom’s 2021-22 budget will probably take a middle-of-the-road course – spending some but not all of the windfall, setting aside demands for new taxes and once again hoping that when Joe Biden becomes president, an aid package for state and local governments will be fashioned.

“Those fiscal pressures are still going to be there next month, when a new Congress and a new administration take office,” H.D. Palmer, the spokesman for Newsom’s budget office, said after the aid package was announced Sunday.

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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Musicians pick favorite films about the blues Tribune Content Agency For many, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” could shoot straight to the top of the (short) list of favorite films about the blues. We asked some St. Louis blues artists about their favorites.

Little Dylan, blues performer “Bessie,” 2015 HBO biopic starring Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith – “I thought they were really consistent with ‘Bessie.’ I really appreciated that movie in every aspect. The acting was really good, and the character development Queen Latifah went through, it showed.”

Marquise Knox, blues performer “The Life of Riley,” 2014 documentary about B.B. King – “We’ve heard so much about the blues being this and being that and about the guys being great and all of this, but we never get the chance to see them as ourselves.

B.B. had a point in there that I wouldn’t have put in there, but it made me wanna be real with myself. He said, ‘I’m a womanizer’ and shows pics of women and what went down in his life.

That was humbling. It was the first time a bluesman expressed himself in a way that didn’t make himself sound flashy.

And he talked about his mother, who died young.

She had diabetes. I’m paraphrasing, but he talked about how it killed her and pointed back to himself and said now it’s killing her baby.”

Ms. Hy-C, blues performer “Cadillac Records,” 2008 biopic starring Adrian Brody as record executive Leonard Chess (with Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Gabrielle Union, Beyoncé) – “I like it because it was able to take me back in the days before my time. It was telling a real-life story of how the music industry used to be.

That’s what I got out of it.

I enjoyed the singing and the chance to see the pros and cons of how the business is. I could relate to that a little bit.”

Jeremy Segel-Moss, blues performer, St. Louis Blues Society president “Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll,” 1987 documentary filmed at Chuck Berry’s 60th birthday celebration

at the Fox Theatre – “My favorite documentary is ‘Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll.’ I can watch Johnnie Johnson play all day long. It’s a true St. Louis story. I’d watch that multiple times.”

Jeremiah Johnson, blues performer “Crossroads,” 1986 drama inspired by Robert Johnson (starring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jamie Gertz, Steve Vai); “The Blues Brothers,” 1980 comedy (starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin) — “Basically, when ‘Crossroads’ came out, I was learning to play guitar at the time. It really influenced me to play blues music. It had phenomenal blues players in it. Also, the original ‘The Blues Brothers’ made me feel really happy and positive about the blues in general and introduced me to a lot of people I didn’t know. As the movie progresses, my father would say ‘that’s so-andso, that’s so-and-so,’ and I can remember thinking ‘that’s incredible.’”

Roland Johnson, blues performer “Crossroads,” 1986 – “It was a good time. I enjoyed it, especially the transfer of the guitars, the battle they had going on over who was the baddest.”

Alonzo Townsend, Townsendx3 Agency founder, son of Henry Townsend “Hellhounds on My Trail,” 2000 documentary about Robert Johnson – “It not only had my dad in it, but it’s a who’s who of legacy musicians from the Delta, telling their stories. Hollywood movies haven’t done a good job telling what the blues is and what it represents.”

‘Big Mike’ Aguirre, blues performer “Wattstax,” 1973 documentary about Stax Records’ Watts Summer Festival – “Between performances by all of the prominent artists on my favorite American label at the time and the social and historical content of the event and production itself, not to mention seeing the seamless interaction between the performers onstage and the audience, this is No. 1 in my book.

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Netflix series unwraps stories behind holiday movie classics

DAILY REPUBLIC — Wednesday, December 23, 2020 B5

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ooking back on it now, it is hard to believe that anyone thought having Will Ferrell play the world's biggest, sweetest elf was anything but a stroke of candy-coated genius.

Or that anyone but Danny Elfman could provide the singular singing voice for Jack Skellington in "The Nightmare Before Christmas." Or that "Elf" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" were not destined to become modern holiday movie classics.

But Scrooge has always lived large and loud in Hollywood, and one of the joys of Netflix's "The Holiday Movies That Made Us" documentary series is watching the grumps, doubters and penny-pinchers lose battle after battle to the kinds of misfits, newbies and outsiders who make movie magic happen.

Like Netflix's "The Movies That Made Us," this holiday spinoff from producer Brian Volk-Weiss tells the backstage stories of how beloved movies got made. Speaking of Scrooge, the debut "season" of the holiday version consists of just two episodes, one on the making of "Elf" and the other on Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." But there are enough movie-geek nuggets in each 44-minute installment to remind you that stocking stuffers count as gifts, too.

If you are the kind of person who lives for casting trivia (Chris Farley as Buddy the Elf?), executive-suite blunders (Disney originally turned down Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" pitch?), and box office miracles (the low-budget, underdog "Elf" was a No. 1 hit by its second week!), this is the series for you. Through interviews with screenwriters, producers, directors and other behind-the-scenes VIPs – but not bigger-name players like Burton, Ferrell or "Elf" director Jon Favreau – each episode follows the film's path from the initial creative spark all the way to its big-screen debut and beyond. That path is rarely smooth, but it is almost always interesting.

Take "Elf." As explained by Phe Caplan, the series' relentlessly chipper narrator, "Elf" is a tale of "humble, innocent beginnings that, through perseverance, grew into one of the most surprising Christmas classics of all time!" She isn't wrong. The beginnings of "Elf" were, indeed, humble and innocent. Also potentially troublesome on the legal front.

But more on that later.

The 2003 film got its start in the head of David Berenbaum, a Jewish kid from Philadelphia who loved Christmas and really, really loved Christmas

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Lock, right, Shock, left, and Barrel return triumphantly to Halloweentown with “Sandy Claws” in order that Jack Skellington can take his place in Touchstone Pictures animated film, “Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas.”

If you are not the kind of movies. After moving to Los Angeles to pursue a screenwrit- person who wants a front-row ing career, Berenbaum worked seat to script-revision dramas, in a lingerie factory and studio meddlings and egobinge-watched Christmas related dust-ups, skip "The movies to make Southern Holiday Movies That Made Us" California's 75-degree Decemand go directly to the movies bers feel more Christmas-y. themselves. You don't have to One of his favorites was know that the majority of "Elf" 1964's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed was filmed in an abandoned Reindeer," the stop-motion mental institution to know that animated classic narrated by the movie is insanely funny.

Burl Ives. And as Berenbaum And in the case of "The imagined what "Rudolph the Nightmare Before Christmas," Red-Nosed Reindeer" would be the things you might want to like if the outsider of the story know about the film are not the was not an odd-duck reindeer things the docu-series wants to but a human man who grew spend much time telling you. up in Santa's workshop, "Elf" Like the original "Movies was born.

That Made Us," this holiday Well, that's when the script version is fast and quippy, with was born, anyway. As told by the narrator interrupting the the film's merry band of totally interviewees and the interviewees interrupting one another in inexperienced players (firsta way that aims for madcap but timer Berenbaum, producers is often just maddening. That Jon Berg and Todd Komarnicki, executive producer clown-car energy suits "Elf" Cale Boyter), the journey of and its cast of happy rookies "Elf" was quite the bumpy just fine, but the beauty of sleigh ride.

1993's "The Nightmare Before In a tale that will sound Christmas" is in the painstaking artistry. It is in Elfman's familiar to even the most wickedly sharp ditties, Burton's amateur showbiz scholar, bad cheerfully macabre vision, and ideas abounded. All of the studios passed on the script. No the elegant stop-motion one thought having some doofy animation directed by Henry Selick, none of which are "Saturday Night Live" comedian play an oversize elf was a particularly well-served by the series' overcaffeinated good idea. And at one unfortusensibilities. nate point, someone suggested For a much more rewarding that instead of being employed as one of Santa's helpers, the look into the heart of the artist, character ultimately played by check out the second season of Zooey Deschanel should be a Netflix's "Song Exploder," in streetwalker. which host and creator Hrishikesh Hirway guides With some help from Vince musicians through the meticuVaughn, Team "Elf" persuaded Favreau to direct, and all of the lous, surprising and deeply illuminating process of pieces eventually danced into explaining how they created place. But not before Ferrell got on co-star James Caan's last one song. The new four-episode season – which debuted earlier nerve, legal issues with the this week – features songs by "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" production company Dua Lipa, Nine Inch Nails, the Killers and Natalia Lafourcade. got very complicated, and the It's not seasonal, but it's a surprise success of Ferrell's real gift.

R-rated frat comedy "Old "The Holiday Movies That School" almost ruined the Made Us" and "Song Exploder" humble and innocent "Elf" for good. are streaming on Netflix.

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Every other declarer hoped to find clubs 3-3 and went down one.

At this table, South was Zhu Chenyu, a member of the Chinese under-26 team. He analyzed the auction. East rated not to have a singleton for his three-no-trump rebid.

Also, missing so many high-card points, a seven-card heart suit was likely. Zhu felt that East’s hand distribution was 2=7=2=2.

After ruffing the second heart, Zhu drew one round of trumps, then ducked a diamond. East returned his second diamond, taken by declarer. Now South cashed his club ace, and East failed to sacrifice his queen. Declarer cashed the spade king and now should have stuck to his guns by leading a low club from his hand, which would have endplayed East. He would have been forced to lead a heart, conceding a ruff-and-sluff, on which declarer would have discarded his club loser. It also would have made life hard for West if he had the club queen-10. He would have had to put up his queen to swallow East’s jack, a crocodile coup.

South actually played a trump to dummy, giving East a second chance to disown the club queen. When he threw a heart, South led a club and ducked when East played the queen.

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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 HE SHOULD HAVE READ and computer program at YESTERDAY’S COLUMN www.sudoku.com

This is another deal from the Chinese Premier League. What happened in four spades doubled after West started with two rounds of hearts?

Difficulty level: Bronze Yesterday’s solution:

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CITY OF RIO VISTA PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED ORDINANCE SUMMARY The City Council of the City of Rio Vista will consider adopting Ordinance 014-2020 at its Regular Meeting on January 19, 2021, at 6:00 p.m., in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1 Main Street, Rio Vista, CA. In summary, the proposed Ordinance is as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RIO VISTA APPROVING A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF RIO VISTA AND GR8 PARTNERS LLC Please contact City Manager Rob Hickey at rhickey@ci.rio-vista.ca.us or by calling 707374-6510 for further information or questions.

DR# 00043849 Published: December 23, 2020

Submitted for publication by Jose Jasso, City Clerk December 16, 2020

SUMMARY OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 28 OF THE SOLANO COUNTY CODE TO REVISE AND UPDATE LAND USE REGULATIONS FOR DWELLINGS, INCLUDING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND JUNIOR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS At its regular meeting on December 15, 2020, the Solano County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance to amend Chapter 28 of the Solano County Code to revise and update land use regulations for dwellings, including accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units Supervisors Brown, Spering, Thomson, Vasquez and Chair Hannigan voted yes.

The ordinance revises the definitions for accessory dwelling units (ADUs), amended the development and architectural standards for dwelling units, ADUs, and secondary units (Sec. 28.72.10, 28.41.30, 28.51, 28.52.30. and 28.72.30) temporary dwellings (Sec. 28.72.20), amended the neighborhood compatibility waiver process (Sec. 28.108).

The ordinance will take effect thirty (30) days later.

Dated: December 17, 2020 Bernadette S. Curry Solano County Counsel DR# 00043890 Published: December 23, 2020

SUMMONS (CITATION JUDICIAL) CITY OF RIO VISTA PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED ORDINANCE SUMMARY

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AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

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The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Superior Court of Solano County 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): James J. Falcone. (SBN 131235) Law Office of James J. Falcone 300 Capitol Mall, Suite 1800 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 442-4204 Date (Fecha): JUL 22 2019 /s/ Clerk, by J. Sapp-Chun, Deputy (Adjunto) DR# 00043796 Published: Dec. 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 13, 2021

The City Council of the City of Rio Vista will consider adopting Ordinance 013-2020 at its Regular Meeting on January 19, 2021, at 6:00 p.m., in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1 Main Street, Rio Vista, CA. In summary, the proposed Ordinance is as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RIO VISTA APPROVING A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF RIO VISTA AND RIO VISTA MANUFACTURING, INC Please contact City Manager Rob Hickey at rhickey@ci.rio-vista.ca.us or by calling 707374-6510 for further information or questions.

DR# 00043848 Published: December 23, 2020

Submitted for publication by Jose Jasso, City Clerk December 16, 2020

NOTICE TO QUALIFIED FIRMS REQUEST FOR STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ #21-003) RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSULTANT SERVICES POOL SOLANO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FAIRFIELD, CA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Solano Community College District of Solano County, California, hereinafter referred to as the “District”, will receive up to, but no later than January 22nd, 2021 at 2:00 P.M., a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) from qualified Professional Services firms for Renewable Energy Services for the Solano Community College District. The purpose of the request is to solicit firms to participate within a prequalified pool for the District’s Capital Improvement Program.

Firms are required to submit an electronic copy of their completed Statement of Qualification (SOQ) in writing, via email (PDF format). Email subject line to read “RFQ #21-003 SOLANO COMMUNITY COLLEGE – RENEWABLE ENERGY SERVICES”. Email completed SOQs to Noe Ramos at noe.ramos@solano.edu A non-mandatory virtual pre-submittal conference will be held on January 6th, 2021 at 1:30 PM, via Microsoft Teams (web based). All interested parties must send a request to participate to Noe Ramos at noe.ramos@solano.edu Refer to the District website http://www.solano.edu/measureq/vendor.php for SOQ documents and requirements. All questions should be directed to Noe Ramos at noe.ramos@solano.edu.

DR# 00041029 Published: December 23, 2020 DEPARTMENT OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Planning Services Division NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Planning Commission ______________________________________________________________________ NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Planning Commission will hold a PUBLIC HEARING to consider Minor Use permit application MU-20-11 (Archibald) for a Vacation Rental - Unhosted located at 4367 Edinburg Court, 1.8 miles northwest of the City of Fairfield in the Rural Residential (RR-2.5) zoning district, APN 0147-182-120.

The hearing will be held on January 7, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors’ Chambers, County Administration Center, 1st Floor, 675 Texas Street, Fairfield, California. Interested persons may call the number below and be heard.

Due to COVID-19 and to protect County staff and members of the public, access to the Board Chambers will not be allowed. This precaution is being taken pursuant to the authority conferred by Governor Newsom’s Executive Order N-29-20. All or some of the commissioners may attend the meeting telephonically and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

The County of Solano does not discriminate against persons with disabilities. If you wish to participate in this meeting and you will require assistance in order to do so, please call Jamielynne Harrison at 707-784-6765 at least 24 hours in advance of the event to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

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Email/Mail: If you wish to address this item by written comment, please submit comments in writing to the Resource Management by U.S. Mail or by email. Written comments must be received no later than 8:00 a.m. on the day of the meeting. The email address for the clerk is: jbharrison@solanocounty.com. The mailing address is Resource Management, Planning Commission, 675 Texas Street, Suite 5500, Fairfield, CA 94533. Copies of comments received will be provided to the Commissioners and will become a part of the official record but will not be read aloud at the meeting.

Phone: To submit comments verbally from your phone, you may do so by dialing: 1-415-6550001 and using Access Code 177 318 0273 on your phone. No attendee ID number is required. Once entered in the meeting, you will be able to hear the meeting and will be called upon to speak during the public speaking period.

If you challenge the proposed consideration in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Board of Supervisors at, or prior to, the public hearing.

DR# 00043839 Published: December 23, 2020

LOCATED AT: 162 Rainer Circle, Vacaville, CA, 95687 Mailing Address: 162 Rainer Circle, Vacaville, CA, 95687 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Carlos Carrillo 162 Rainer Circle, Vacaville, 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Carlos Carrillo IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 2, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 03, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002154 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043656 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS DAMN FIRE PIT, PRINCESS-MAYA MAGIC HAIR PRODUCTS, KINGS & QUEENS ROYAL ENTERPRISE LOCATED AT: 661 Gree Tree Circle, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 661 Gree Tree Circle, Fairfield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) PrincessMaya Fields 661 Green Tree Circle Fairfield, 94534 2) King-Nas-Zayah La'Blue 661 Green Tree Circle Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Princess-Maya Fields IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 17, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 18, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002074 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043779 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CARLOS CASTRO Case Number: P050520 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Carlos Castro; Carlos Cisneros Castro and Carlos C. Castro A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Eladio Castro in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Eladio Castro be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JAN. 25, 2021 TIME: 8:30 a.m.; DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue FAIRFIELD, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statues and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: M. Kendall Hillman (SBN: 125135) Hillman, Lucas & Canning, P.C. 2420 Martin Road, Suite 300 Fairfield, CA 94534 (707) 427-7377 DR# 00043793 Published: December 16, 20, 23, 2020

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS RT'S MOBILE FLEET & FORK LIFT SERVICES

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS BIRDIE'S NATURALS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS GW FINANCIAL SERVICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS TURNED TREASURES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS AJ'S AUTO

LOCATED AT: 5089 Ellis Godfrey Dr. Fairfield, CA. 94533 Mailing Address: 5089 Ellis Godfrey Dr. Fairfield, CA. 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Charity Byrd 5089 Ellis Godfrey Dr Fairfield 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Charity Byrd IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 1, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 02, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002147 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043652 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020

LOCATED AT: 212 Couch ST. #B Vallejo, CA, 94590 Solano Mailing Address: 1474 University Ave., Suite 224, Berkeley, CA, 94702 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Goodwin Products & Services LLC CA, San Francisco, 94105 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/Jason Goodwin IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 2, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 03, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002153 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043658 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020

LOCATED AT: 90 Calle Jalisco, Vacaville, CA. 95687 Solano Mailing Address: 90 Calle Jalisco, Vacaville, CA. 95687 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Vann Dyke 90 Callie Jalisco Vacavillle, 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Vann R. Dyke IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 16, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 17, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002238 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043892 Published: Dec. 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 13, 2021

LOCATED AT: 451 Ryder Street Unit K, Vallejo 94590 Solano Mailing Address: (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Allen J. Lee 100 Yorkshire Court Apt D Vallejo, 94591 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Allen Lee IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 09, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 10, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002195 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043774 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MIMOSCREATIONS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MOORE AND SONS JUNK REMOVAL

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS QUICK TAGS AND REGISTRATION SERVICES

LOCATED AT: 484 Lupine Circle Vacaville CA 95687 Solano Mailing Address: 484 Lupine Circle Vacaville CA 95687 Solano (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Michelle Molina 484 Lupine Circle Vacaville 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Michelle Molina IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 9, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 10, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002199 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043778 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021

LOCATED AT: 934 Sheridan Street, Vallejo, CA, 94590 Mailing Address: 934 Sheridan Street, Vallejo, CA, 94590 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Daniel Eugene Moore II 934 Sheridan Street, Vallejo, 94590 2) Daniel Eugene Moore 3030 Garvin Ave., Richmond 94804 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Daniel E. Moore II IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 3, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 04, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002159 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043657 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS PEACE OF MIND AUTO PARTS & SERVICES LOCATED AT: 601 Lexington Dr., Vallejo, CA, 94591 Solano Mailing Address: 601 Lexington Dr., Vallejo, CA, 94591 Solano (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Garry Peace Sr. 601 Lexington Dr., Vallejo, CA, 94591 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Garry Peace Sr. IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 10, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 11, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002213 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043786 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021

LOCATED AT: 3270 Sonoma Blvd Ste B, Vallejo CA 94590 Solano Mailing Address: 3270 Sonoma Blvd Ste B, Vallejo CA 94590 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Pineapple Express LLC CA THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Ashleyrene Kainoa IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 29, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 30, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002125 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043634 Published: December 23, 30, 2020, January 6, 13, 2021

LOCATED AT: 1441 Granada St, Vallejo CA 94591 Solano Mailing Address: 1441 Granada St, Vallejo CA 94591 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Randy Tsutsui 1441 Granada St Vallejo, 94591 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Randy Tsutsui IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 2, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 03, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002157 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043776 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS REGALADO LOCATED AT: 736 Meadowhawk Dr., Vacaville CA 95687 Solano Mailing Address: PO Box 1326, Forestville, CA, 95436 Solano (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Amor Deleon 736 Meadowhawk Dr.,Vacaville 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/09/2020.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Amor Deleon IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 10, 2025.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 11, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002209 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043785 Published: Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2020, Jan. 6, 2021

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Rich countries scoop up Covid-19 vaccines Los Angeles Times MEXICO CITY — The race to vaccinate the world against a once-in-a-century pandemic has begun in an all-too-familiar way: Every country for itself.

Rich nations have gobbled up nearly all the global supply of the two leading Covid-19 vaccines through the end of 2021, leaving many middleincome countries to turn to unproven drugs developed

by China and Russia while poorer states face long waits for their first doses.

“Richer countries will be able to vaccinate . . . their whole populations before vulnerable groups in many developing countries get covered,” said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

As a result, the pandemic may continue to kill people across much of the world for years, delay a global economic recovery and eventually resurge even in nations that manage to control it in coming months through vaccination.

Experts say the inequities are the predictable result of a global health system in which money often counts more than the public good – and where vaccines are costly commercial products developed and patented by a handful of huge drug companies.

The gap in access has sparked calls for emergency measures that would allow poorer countries to manufacture and import generic versions of Covid-19 vaccines.

In October, India and South Africa asked the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property protections for those

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A health worker collects a swab sample from a shopper for the Covid-19 coronavirus testing at a makeshift testing booth at a market area in New Delhi, Saturday. drugs, just as it did for some medications used to treat HIV – a move credited with saving millions of lives in Africa.

Humanitarian groups that support the plan – which they have dubbed “the people’s vaccine” – warn that without it, 9 out of 10 people in dozens of poor countries will miss out on Covid-19 vaccinations next year.

“If we do nothing it’s going to be well into late 2022 or early 2023 before even half of the lowincome countries are vaccinated,” said Niko Lusiani, a senior advisor with Oxfam America, the global health charity.

The proposal is opposed by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom – wealthy WTO members that helped finance vaccine development and argue that such innovation would be impossible without patent protection.

The U.S. government provided the vast majority of funding for development of the vaccine made

by Moderna. It also struck

purchase agreements – known as advance market commitments – with the drugmaker and with Pfizer while their vaccines were still being tested.

Those deals reduced risk for the companies and allowed the U.S. to secure 300 million shots.

As the only vaccines currently authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, they are now being given to frontline health workers across the country.

In all, the U.S. government has confirmed deals to buy 1.1 billion doses of a half-dozen vaccines in various stages of development, according to the Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University. The United States is expected to end up with far more doses than what is needed to vaccinate every American.

Other wealthy countries have bought an additional 2.9 billion doses in bilateral deals with drugmakers.

Although there has never been such global demand for the same few drugs at the same time,

Afghan president orders probe into journalist’s killing Tribune Content Agency Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has ordered authorities to investigate the shooting death of a prominent Afghan journalist – the fifth reporter to be killed in less than two months as the government and the Taliban push ahead with peace talks to end the country’s 19 year conflict.

Ghani described the murder as an “attack on freedom of speech and a crime against humanity,” his office said in an emailed statement late Monday.

U.S. Charge d’Affaires Ross Wilson tweeted from Kabul that the “targeted killing” of journalists and “attempts to silence Afghanistan’s courageous reporters must end.”

The slain journalist, Rahmatullah Nikzad, worked as a contributor to Associated Press and Al-Jazeera and was shot in Ghazni province by unknown armed men on Dec. 21 in front of his home, according to Ahmad Khan Seerat, a spokesman for the provincial government.

“Rahmatullah Nikzad’s crucial work documenting the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has been brought to a tragic end by this brutal killing,” said Aliya Iftikhar, a senior Asia researcher for the Committee to Protect Journalists on its website. “The recent spate of killings of journalists in Afghanistan is unacceptable and the Afghan government must redouble efforts to ensure justice and safety for members of the media.”

Nikzad had received threats from the unknown sources over the years, the CPJ noted, citing Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, the director of the Afghan press freedom organization NAI. Khalvatgar added the Taliban were upset with the reporter’s work with international outlets and his role in the local journalists’ union in Ghazni.

The United Nations has noted a dramatic surge in violence by the Taliban since peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgent group began in Doha on Sept. 12. Other militants

have launched assaults on Kabul University and other educational centers, killing dozens of students.

The Taliban denied any link to Nikzad’s death, saying in emailed statement he was a “committed journalist” and describing his killing as a “national loss.”

That authorities do not know who is behind the killings is severely impacting journalists — especially those working in remote areas who face serious security issues, said Ahmad Quraishi, the head of Afghanistan Journalists Center. “The journalists carry out their jobs under an environment of fear and desperation now.”

A radio journalist, Elyas Dayee, who was working for the U.S. governmentfunded RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan, was killed by a bomb attached to his car in the southern Helmand province last month, while two news anchors for local media outlets, Malala Maiwand and Rafi Seddiqi, were also killed in Kabul and Nangarhar province.

UN rights monitor asks Trump to pardon Assange Tribune Content Agency GENEVA — A senior U.N. human rights expert urged US President Donald Trump on Tuesday to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Nils Melzer, who monitors torture and other forms of inhuman treatment around the world, issued an open letter to Trump ahead of a British court ruling on Jan. 4 that will determine whether Assange will be extradited from Britain to the

United States.

Assange, an Australian national, has been held in the Belmarsh high security prison in London. He could face up to 175 years in prison in the U.S., on charges of publishing classified material on U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which exposed war crimes by U.S. soldiers.

“In pardoning Mr. Assange, Mr. President, you would send a clear message of justice, truth and humanity to the Amer-

ican people and to the world,” Melzer wrote.

“You would rehabilitate a courageous man who has suffered injustice, persecution and humiliation for more than a decade, simply for telling the truth,” he added.

Assange’s health has seriously deteriorated behind bars in Britain, “to the point where his life is now in danger,” said Melzer, a Swiss human rights scholar and former Red Cross official.

pandemic nationalism is an old phenomenon.

A decade ago, during the swine flu outbreak that killed more than a quarter of a million people worldwide, the United States and other wealthy countries snatched up nearly all the available vaccine. They agreed to share a limited amount with poorer countries only after ensuring they had enough to meet their own needs.

For the poorest nations, the best chance to obtain significant quantities of vaccine in 2021 rests with an initiative called Covax.

Launched by the World Health Organization and several nonprofits, it aims to promote equitable distribution of vaccines by negotiating favorable pricing with drug companies and giving all countries – rich or poor – equal access.

Nearly every country in the world – with the notable exception of the United States – signed on, in many cases simply as an insurance policy in case bilateral deals with drugmakers fall short.

The poorest nations, though, are depending on aid from wealthier members, which have so far contributed $2.4 billion to the cause. Covax officials say they need to raise an additional $4.6 billion.

“While it is great that Covax may be able to access these vaccine doses, it will depend on whether the corporations agree to the right price and donors give them enough money to pay for it,” Lusiani said.

As of last week, according to the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, no country in sub-Saharan Africa had reached a deal to purchase vaccines on its own.

Even if it is fully funded, Covax aims to inoculate only up to 20% of people in each country by the end of 2021. In some countries with severe outbreaks, that could prove woefully inadequate.

Making matters worse, some rich participants have undermined the initiative by cutting additional side deals with drug companies, reducing the amount of vaccine available for Covax, the center found.

Last week officials from France and Canada – which has secured enough vaccine to inoculate each citizen five times – said they were developing a mechanism to allow nations to share surplus vaccine with other countries, but gave no time frame for when that could begin.

“We would absolutely be donating any excess capacity, but we will be taking it one day at a time,” said Karina Gould, Canada’s minister of international development.

Experts say that hoa rding vaccines could ultimately harm rich countries.

A Rand Corp. study

found that if only wealthy and vaccine-producing nations had access to the injections, the world economy would lose $292 billion in value compared with a scenario in which all countries had access.

“Even if Americans are immune to the virus, they will not be immune to economic losses of other economies being unable to get started again,” Moon said. “We’ve seen the limits to appealing to ethics and solidarity in this moment. We have to frame this not as development aid — this is an investment in getting the global economy moving again.”

There is another danger in not wiping out the virus worldwide as quickly as possible. It is unclear how long the vaccines offer protection from Covid-19, so even countries that achieve herd immunity next year – by inoculating at least 70% of their populations – eventually could be vulnerable to outbreaks again if the virus is allowed to simmer in poor countries.

Latin America and the Caribbean, home to 8.4% of the global population but accounting for 30% of Covid-19 deaths, offer a striking example of that threat.

Relatively well-off countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Chile have earmarked billions of dollars for vaccine purchases, scrambling to cut bilateral deals with manufacturers.

Yet they share borders or close economic links with poorer nations – including Bolivia, El Salvador and Nicaragua – that will have to wait for free vaccines from Covax.

“We all know that viruses don’t respect nat iona l borders,” Lusiani said.

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lost sensation in it during the waning minutes of Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 41-33 loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was throwing the football, they hit my hand and I jammed my elbow a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Mullens said afterward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I figured it was best for the team for somebody who could throw the football to get in the game.â&#x20AC;?

BEATHARDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RETURN Once Beathard replaced Mullen on Sunday, he engineered a field-goal drive and then finished the game with a Hail Mary touchdown pass to Kendrick Bourne.

Beathardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return to the starting role comes a year after his youngest brother, Clayton, was fatally stabbed in a fight outside a Nashville bar, on the early morning of Dec. 21, 2019. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already been a year since our world was

rocked,â&#x20AC;? C.J. Beathard said in an Instagram post Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Losing a brother and a best friend is not easy, nor will it ever be, and not a day goes by that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about Clay and his laugh. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a daily battle even a year later.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavy on his heart and will be the rest of his life,â&#x20AC;? Shanahan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very religious and is close with God and close with his family and is dealing with it that way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a huge challenge for him. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get an opportunity this week,â&#x20AC;? added Shanahan, noting that Mullens had outperformed Beathard on the field in games, in training camp and in practice but that not by a sizable margin.

Beathard is the only quarterback drafted by the 49ers (third round, 2017) under Shanahan and general manager John Lynch.

He is just 1-9 as a starter (1-4 in 2017, 0-5 in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;18). He has produced points in 5-of-8 drives this season when summoned in relief, excluding a one-play cameo at New Orleans.

quarterbacks, roles theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve rehearsed after Friday practices with quarterbacks coach Shayne Day. McKinnon was an option quarterback in college at Georgia Southern and had overtaken Juszczyk for the emergency-QB role earlier this season, Shanahan said last month.

Juszczyk joked that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to go in for a play if Beathard needs to tie his shoes, but otherwise noted heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prepared for a larger role, if needed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know this offense in and out, if I need to hand this ball off a few times and throw simple passes, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready to do it,â&#x20AC;? said Juszczyk, who was named Monday to his fifth straight Pro Bowl.

Johnson and White joined three other teammates who went on the Covid-19 list last week, those being guard Colton McKivitz, tight end Charlie Woerner and running back Austin Walter.

BACKUP OPTIONS Veteran Josh Johnson was signed to the practice squad last month for precisely this emergency duty. But he got placed on the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Covid-19 reserve list Tuesday with wide receiver Kevin White, who has spent all season on the practice squad but got called up for sparse action in three early-season games.

The NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Covid-19 protocol limits the availability to bring in a free agent off the street with less than a week before a game, so the 49ers likely will sign a quarterback off another teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practice squad. If that fails, they will turn to Jerick McKinnon or Kyle Juszczyk as emergency

Warriors: KD scores 22 vs. former team From Page B1 to help replace Thompson â&#x20AC;&#x201C; wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much better, finishing 3-for-14 from the field and missing all six of his 3-point tries.

After weeks talking about his belief that the Warriors could go from the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth-worst defense to a top-10 one, Kerr was forced to watch his team blow rotation after rotation. The Nets faced minimal resistance as they rode Irving (26 points on 16 shots), Durant (22 points) and Caris LeVert (20 points).

On the night, Brooklyn shot 45.7% from the field (42.9% from 3-point range).

Just as troubling was

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the Warriorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inability to use their speed to their advantage. With a roster loaded with transition maestros, Kerr knows that Golden State must thrive on fast breaks to be a threat this season. But on Tuesday, the Warriors couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the necessary stops to get out in transition, looking lost at times as the Nets did exactly what Golden State had wanted to accomplish.

Brooklyn outscored the Warriors 28-12 on fast breaks. Along the way, the Nets showed Golden State how legitimate depth can complement a loaded starting unit. A Brooklyn bench stocked with

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players whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be starters on other teams outscored the Warriorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bench 54-35.

Brad Wanamaker and Kent Bazemore, both of whom were signed in free agency to help stabilize Golden Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second unit, largely disappeared as they totaled five combined points on 1-for-4 shooting.

Perhaps the biggest reason for optimism Tuesday was the performance of center James Wiseman, who, in his first NBA game and first outing at any level in 13 months, flashed the speed and athleticism that compelled the Warriors to take him with the No. 2 pick in last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s draft.

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19 points on 7-for-13 shooting, six rebounds and two steals. The Warriors hope that the addition of Green, who could return as soon as Christmas Day in Milwaukee, will only unlock more of Wisemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supreme gifts.

But Wiseman is only one player, and the Warriors need to iron out a slew of kinks to become a factor in the West and exorcize the memory of last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leagueworst record. Kerr, for his part, will continue to preach optimism.

After all, what else is he supposed to do? Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence left him with only so many options.

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where discretion might be the better option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can always trust me,â&#x20AC;? Carr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the best part of my game is my mind and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still working. I think the coaches and our trainers will make the right decision. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been completely honest with them the whole time, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen it first hand. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in here every day weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been allowed to to get treatment, and I want everybody watching me so they know exactly how I feel. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see how it goes. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to me, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to do everything I can to be on that field.â&#x20AC;?

In describing the injury that led to his departure against the Chargers, Carr compared it to the way he felt when he broke his leg on Christmas Eve in 2016 with the Raiders headed to the playoffs.

After a three-andout and a field goal drive

last week, Carr felt the Raiders were on the verge of something big offensively. His groin injury happened when Carr was rolling to his right on third-and-goal from the 2, hoping for a path to the end zone.

Instead, he pulled up in pain for a 2-yard loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing I could do,â&#x20AC;?

Carr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to sprint to the end zone, and it just went. I had to sit there and watch.

My heart was ripped out of my chest.â&#x20AC;?

By the time Carr came back on the field, he was no longer in uniform. He was part assistant coach, part cheerleader, giving all the support he could as Gruden changed his offensive game plan on the fly to suit Mariotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skills as a passer-runner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything he did throughout the game on the sideline, keeping everybody engaged, says a lot about who he is,â&#x20AC;?

Mariota said afterward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is Derekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team.â&#x20AC;?

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