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Project catalyst Sarah Nichols stands with some of the art tiles depicting some Mare Island and Vallejo history.

‘One step at a time’

Campaign to beautify century-old staircase nears fruition

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump badgered and berated Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a call Saturday, repeating falsehoods about his election defeat in Georgia – the latest example of the extraordinary pressure he’s exerted on state Republican officials ahead of critical runoffs for control of the U.S. Senate.

Raffensperger refused pressure from Trump to overturn the election results, telling him that the “data you have is wrong” as he pushed back on Trump’s sham theories of “stuffed ballot boxes” that the president said would reverse Joe Biden’s roughly 12,000vote victory in Georgia.

A recording of the roughly hourlong call was obtained on Sunday

by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was

confirmed by two people involved in the conversation. It was disclosed a day before Trump is set to stage a rally in northwest Georgia for U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

Throughout the call, Trump invoked debunked conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud and continued to urge Raffensperger to reverse the election outcome, repeating falsehoods about ballot boxes “stuffed with votes” and other sham narratives.

“We won this election in Georgia based on all of this. There’s nothing wrong with saying that, Brad. The people of Georgia are angry and these numbers are going to be repeated on Monday night,” he said, adding: “There’s nothing wrong with saying that you’ve recalculated.”

At one point in the See Trump, Page A8

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VALLEJO — “Our motto is: From blight to beauty: One step at a time,” said Sarah Nichols, the engine behind a 6-year-old effort to turn the blighted Capitol Street Stairs in downtown Vallejo into a tourist destination.

It was slow and treacherous going for the first few years, with hopes raised and dashed several times as city-related, usually expensive, roadblocks kept appearing.

The delays these prompted the artists originally selected to design the project to bow out. They were replaced by the second-place finishers, which turned out to be a blessing, workgroup member Doug Darling said.

But, some time ago, the obstructions essentially vanished and city officials got behind the project, adopting the effort as a capital improvement project and kicking in the $300,000 needed for staircase repairs.

Organizers are on the cusp of beginning the installation of the tiles that will turn the two-flight, outdoor concrete staircase into both a public art piece and a history lesson.

The once-majestic staircase that has connected Vallejo’s downtown to its Heritage District for more than 100 years – and the See Step, Page A8

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger makes remarks during a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta, Dec. 2, 2020.

Fatalities in US top 350K Refuting Trump, Fauci says deaths are ‘not fake’ Sarah Nichols shows off the first set of art tiles set for installation in the spring.

GOP infighting marks 1st day of new Congress Pelosi narrowly reelected speaker The Washington Post

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was elected speaker of the House, Sunday.

WASHINGTON — A new Congress convened Sunday with Republicans in open warfare as several GOP senators unleashed salvos against at least a dozen Republican colleagues who are planning to challenge the results of the presidential election this week.

The bitter split among Republicans, virtually unprecedented during the tenure of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., came as the traditionally celebratory moment unfolded instead against the backdrop of a pandemic that is killing thousands of Americans each day.

The conflict played out in public as See GOP, Page A8

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Covid-19 death toll surpassed 350,000 Sunday, President Trump claimed the country’s fatality count toll was “far exaggerated,” an assertion that was quickly refuted by the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert.

“The deaths are real deaths,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an ABC interview. “That’s not fake.”

Trump also suggested Sunday on Twitter that states, not the federal government, bore responsibility for a vaccine rollout lagging expectations. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti countered Trump’s assertion, saying states and municipalities had been denied crucial resources to move ahead more expeditiously.

“We have not been delivered what was promised at the national level,” Garcetti said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” The federal government, he

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. added, “can’t tell the local governments and state governments to do something and not give us aid.”

As a dreaded surge of post-holiday infections began to materialize in California and in other U.S. hotspots, public health experts warned that the first month of 2021 could be even worse than December, which was the pandemic’s deadliest month to date. “ T h er e ’s no running away from the See Deaths, Page A8

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Newspaper clippings from early 1900s reveal ... and steam transportation, trees and flowers Early Tourism are in great profuVisit Fairfield Calsion and it is near and ifornia (https://www. midway between the visitfairfieldca.com) best markets of the does a wonderful job state – San Francisco, of attracting tourists to Oakland, Bay cities Solano County’s seat, but and Sacramento. they were not the first “Fairfield is the Tony Wade to do so. This advertisecounty seat of one of the Back in the day ment from 1915 titled most productive coun“Fairfield Has Delivties in the state. Our population ered The Goods” went into is 1,000. Come and See Us.” detail about what visitors Who needs Jelly Belly? could expect.

Sumo in Fairfield “Yes, we were able to deliver The Majestic Hall in Fairthe following goods: cherries, field announced a big boxing apricots, peaches, pears, figs, event with 14 men and a Japgrapes, plums, prunes, apples, anese wrestling match berries, almonds and English July 31, 1915. walnuts also vegetables, grain, It was sponsored by the hay, cattle, sheep, goats, chickFireman’s Club and they were ens, geese, ducks, turkeys, milk, expecting a large crowd from eggs and butter.

Vallejo, Vacaville, Cement, “Also a new granite courtCordelia, Benicia and counties house, new jail, a new high adjacent to Fairfield. school, a grammar school, “All sports who enjoy the graded streets, four fruit manly art of self-defense should packing houses and sewer be there,” the ad read. and water systems. Portland Rebuttal to Sumo (and Cement Works is three and saloons) in Fairfield a half miles to the northeast, This is a verbatim ad in the two of the largest power lines same newspaper: in the state are here, the state Stop! Look! Listen!

The world is reveling in highway passes through the BLOOD AND FIRE main street, there is electric

1915

HATE AND DEATH Most Awful in the History of Man The Saloons in Fairfield are Attracting you Your Children are attending Prize Fights too The Lord still reigns and is calling you home Won’t you come Sunday Mornings at 11 a.m. and evening 6:30 and 7:30 M.E. Church, Fairfield

1916 Bad Tasting Lamb The following ad from Buzzini’s Meat Market in Suisun City featured a cartoon picture of a little girl with a lamb following her walking through a butcher shop with the butcher at the counter with a slab of meat, presumably lamb, on it.

It read: “Butcher lamb and Mary Had a Little Lamb – what will you have?

When the teacher turned him out we took him in Spring lamb and love are much the same You are sure to love our spring lamb.”

Now, perhaps they did offer up some tasty spring lamb, but

the image of butchers lurking outside the schoolhouse waiting for expelled lambs to slaughter seems to be in bad taste.

1919 What’s in a Name?

I have no idea how successful Fairfield proprietor Tom Mahomed’s new and second-hand Texas Street furniture store was, but c’mon, he couldn’t come up with a better name than Fairfield Junk Yard?

Want Opening of School Postponed Evidently, those old-school people who bemoan the evershorter summer vacations that children now have and who remember the fall semester of school always starting after Labor Day just weren’t old school enough. In 1919, the fall semester was due to kick off Aug. 18 and many wanted it postponed.

The reason was not so kids could play, but so they could work. World War I was over by that time, but many people who had before the war spent summer vacations working the fruit in the Suisun Valley had gotten other better-paying jobs.

That left the kids.

Stocking ‘Blessing Boxes’ a blessing to those helping ease hunger and add things.”

People also are copying the concept, painting castoff newspaper boxes, cabinets, even plastic bins, offering free food, toiletries and baby supplies.

Davis’ website includes a map of all locations for both the needy and those willing to share.

Tribune Content Agency COLUMBUS, Ohio — At least twice a day, Sarah Grim carries a bag of groceries from her front door to a structure resembling a large birdhouse or rabbit hutch in front of her home.

She’s re-stocking her pop-up food pantry, also known as a Blessing Box. “I go through my cupboards. My friends bring me stuff. I just like helping people,” she said.

Grim is one of dozens of central Ohioans who manage the small structures whose hinged doors provide nourishment to those in critical need.

For those who feel blessed to have a job, good health and food for their families, the projects are a way to return goodwill to those who may be unable to pay the rent, car repair bills or other deal with a financial crisis that propels them into a spiral of food insecurity.

At the same time, they leave operators fulfilled, especially during the holidays, when they also might carry a weight of responsibility, even guilt, when the panties become bare.

“A lot of people take around here,” said Grim, “more than they leave.

They don’t really have a lot to bring.”

Fully stocking her Blessing Box with high

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Sarah Grim places non-perishable foods and other necessities inside a blessing box, that she requested be placed outside of her home in Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 23, 2020. “If I had a million dollars, I could fill this box two maybe three times a day,” Grim said. “As long as they’re taking it, I’ll keep filling it,” she added with a smile. quality food requires more than $100, she estimates.

She recently sent out a request for help on social media: “This box is used all the time, at least 15-20 times a day. I fill it as much as I can. But my resources are running out.

If anyone would like to stop buy and bring some nonperishable food items it would mean so much to the people that need it.”

Within days, strangers were stopping by to fill it, Grim said.

“Hosts,” as box operators are called, shouldn’t feel a responsibility to keep them stocked, said Gretchen Davis, founder of the Carroll, Ohio-based Columbus Blessing Boxes Project, a 3-year-old non-

profit organization that supplies the boxes.

“No one expects one person to do this,” she said.

The increased demand stemming from the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn has been “more than anybody could ever see,” Davis said. Her installations have more than doubled from 35 at the beginning of March.

“What I tell my hosts is that we are not a food pantry. We are here to bridge the gap.”

It typically takes a few weeks for a neighborhood to learn about the boxes and how they work, Davis said. “And then the community just kind of takes over and people just come

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Some of the grammar school age children made $2.50 a day ($38 in 2021). It was argued that if the start of school was delayed by two weeks, not only could local farmers get their crops secured, students could buy their own school clothes as well – a win-win.

She Just Wasn’t That Into Him According to a filing in the February paper, William T. Ramberg filed for divorce against his wife Anna Ramberg alleging that she treated him in a cruel and inhuman manner.

He complained that she on many occasions refused to use his name, and instead went under the name of Anna Cook.

She repeatedly advised him of the good qualities of one Harry Cook whom she said treated her better than her husband.

He also complained that she accepted gifts from other men and had been in the habit of lying awake nights crying and bemoaning the absence of one Harry Cook.

And y’all thought Jerry Springer invented this stuff.

Reach Fairfield writer Tony Wade at toeknee weighed@gmail.com.

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DAILY REPUBLIC — Monday, January 4, 2021 A3

For psychics, a year like no other:

‘Everybody wants to know what’s coming’ The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The planets told her this was coming.

Not the pandemic exactly, or the economic crisis, or the staggering loss of life, but “something,” was forming, “something catastrophic,” and Dorothy Kadosh knew it. She is a psychic astrologer, a fixture at Eastern Market on Capitol Hill every weekend for the last four presidencies. Or she was, until that brewing catastrophe left Kadosh, like so many, isolating at home. No looking into her clients’ eyes. No chitchatting with her regulars. No chance to turn a passerby into a paying customer.

“Some people, they need to see the light that comes out of me before they believe,” says Kadosh.

“Many people say, ‘I was just walking down the other end and I saw this light, and I followed it.’”

Instead, the 75-year-old Silver Spring, Md., resident has been in the midst of what psychics across the country have been doing for the last nine months: hours and hours of phone calls with worried, woeful clients asking when, please when, is this all going to get better?

The question has never felt as urgent, with 2021 and its vaccines around the corner, but rising death counts, weeks of winter and seemingly endless uncertainty still ahead. When everything seems unpredictable, who better to call than the profession that promises to predict?

“Everybody wants to

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ABOVE: Dorothy Kadosh, 75, used to give psychic

readings at Eastern Market, but the pandemic has forced her business onto the phone.

RIGHT: Dorothy Kadosh uses astrological charts to

make predictions and tell her clients “what their magnifying glass is magnifying” for the new year.

know what’s coming up for the next year, and we are one of the only services that can provide that information,” said Tom Singer, co-owner of Sacred Circle, an Alexandria, Va., shop that offers psychic readings, crystals meant to provide health protection and sage for burning away

negative energy.

“People call to ask about the new year, but I’ve never been in a pandemic before either,” said Charley Thompson, who owns Psychic Shop D.C. in Dupont Circle. “This is all new to me.”

“We are going to be in this a while, you under-

20 words we learned to use that helped define 2020 K elsey Bradshaw

Austin American-Statesman

The past year has been a hellish, eye-opening yet sometimes inspiring one for Central Texans and everyone else around the world. (Aren’t you so happy it’s over?)

So much happened that defined 2020, including a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 Americans, a reckoning of racism and police brutality, and a historic election.

As we close the year for good, here are 20 words or phrases we learned to use in 2020:

Animal Crossing A highly addictive video game that has been around for years, was taken up by many as a quarantine activity. You can go fishing and invite other players to your yard, like it used to be in the before-times.

Coronavirus This may be the most significant word we learned this year. The common cold and some familiar flus, we learned, are coronaviruses. But this new virus became known as the coronavirus. And the word turned out to be

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It’s perfectly safe to hang out with friends in “Animal Crossing: New Horizons.” synonymous with grief as we watched our loved ones suffer and sometimes die.

It meant not being able to hug our friends and family.

It meant people losing their jobs. As we look forward to 2021, we hope vaccines will help end the pandemic and turn the virus into just a coronavirus.

Defund the police After the death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minnesota who on Memorial Day suffocated when his neck was pinned under the knee of a white police officer for almost nine minutes, protests and rallies against racism and police violence broke out across the nation. The rallying cry of many pro-

testers revolved around “defunding the police,” which proponents say isn’t about erasing police budgets but redirecting police spending to tackle the roots of crime, like mental health care and education. In August, Austin’s City Council voted to remove $150 million from Austin police’s budget.

Doomscrolling Coined by Quartz reporter Karen Ho, doomscrolling is when you endlessly browse social media feeds. It’s like bingewatching TV, but instead of enjoying a show, you spend hours devouring bad news.

It happens when you wake See Words, Page A7

THE WEEK AHEAD

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FAIRFIELD — A trio of government meetings will start out the first week of the new year. They are both via teleconference. n Solano County Board of Supervisors,

9 a.m. Tuesday, first-floor chamber, County Government Center, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: www.solano county.com. n Vacaville Planning Commission, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Vacaville City Hall council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info:

www.ci.vacaville.ca.us. n Vacaville Parks and Recreation Commission, 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Online. Info: www. ci.vacaville.ca.us.

The Rio Vista City Council meeting is canceled.

stand,” said Kadosh, who moved her Eastern Market business entirely into phone and virtual readings. “This is the oil spill cleanup of planet Earth.

People think they can do whatever they want and guess what? Mother Nature will let you know.”

Vague musings like these are what keep psychic-skeptics skeptical, but keep Kadosh’s devotees coming back, paying $25 for a 10-minute reading, or her “covid special,” $40 for 20 minutes.

She believes she inherited her abilities from her mother, a healer who “did the type of thing Jesus did,” such as closing Kadosh’s wounds minutes after a Rehoboth Beach shark shredded her legs when she was 11.

Now Kadosh carries on her craft, and after decades of studying astrology and science and religious texts, claims she is 97% accurate, unlike others in her profession.

“Ninety-eight percent of them are not real or are

just a gypsy trying to make money,” she declared.

Her table once attracted a steady stream of stressed-out D.C. types, cash-plump tourists and people whom she described as “not human.”

“You probably didn’t even realize we have extraterrestrials walking around now did you?” she asked.

“It takes me years, sometimes, to get people out of their darkness, but only I can do it for them, because their therapist cannot get them out of there.”

Now she spends hours on the phone with them, sometimes multiple sessions per day. And though restrictions have lifted and outdoor vendors have returned to Eastern Market, Kadosh hasn’t.

“I’m older now, and I don’t feel like I can fly through the air anymore,” she said. The price of that safety isn’t something she wants to discuss. The first stimulus check was helpful, she said. But she wouldn’t turn to any other kind of assistance programs.

“I’m a metaphysician,” she said, “If I need help, I call for help from above, not from around me ... not from the government, and not from Donald Trump.”

But her phone has kept ringing, and so she has been able to keep dispensing her wisdom, from the ephemeral to the evidencebased: “Speak to your spirit guides, guardians, ancestors and angels,” she says. “Even my guardians said wear a mask.”

In Dupont Circle, Thompson felt just how See Psychics, Page A7

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On the left

Whither the American Experiment?

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t’s a new year! This requires an evaluation of our recent past, when big and historic things have developed, and a forecast of what might come in the new year.

First, let’s remember that the two political parties have been in gridlock for at least 12 years, and if both seats in Georgia don’t fall to the Democrats tomorrow, gridlock might well persist for many more. This is significant because the U.S. has urgent problems that need fixing. If the Democrats win those seats, solutions can be attempted.

But if gridlock continues, a newly visible far right will claim that liberal democracy doesn’t work and the historic “American Experiment” might well collapse.

Second, we’ve learned – shock! – that a whole lot of Americans on the political right Jack Batson have already given up on democracy. There was evidence of that before Trump, but now, and especially in the past month, tens of millions of Americans have supported an overturn of a presidential election.

Third, and perhaps in response to such reactionary realities, a far left has arisen that is vocal and demands immediate and significant change. Altogether, these new developments might be making the two-party system obsolete.

So, adding to the anger between the two parties, we must recognize that both parties are also at war within themselves. We now have four fairly well defined political persuasions.

On the far left, we have what Europeans call “democratic socialists.” They believe in high taxes, especially on great wealth, to fund basic social programs such as universal health care, paid family leave, universal preschool, reasonably priced higher education, family planning, radical carbon reduction, and so on. Think Medicare for All, The Green New Deal, Bernie, AOC and “the squad.”

Then corresponding to Christian Democrats in Europe, is the mainline Democratic Party personified by Barak Obama and Joe Biden. It believes in all the above, but slowly and moderately instituted. They’re far more willing to compromise than their leftist friends.

Then we move to the right. The Republican Party is made up of a few center-right individuals who are open to compromise as long as they get a strong defense, low taxes and programs that retain some personal responsibility. They are comparable to traditional liberal parties in Europe, or Conservatives in the UK. The war within the conservative circles has been so ruthless that this faction is small. Think Mitt Romney and John Kasich and recall how isolated they are within Republican ranks.

Then on the far right we have what’s been developing for decades now – an angry, barnburning, anti-modern and anti-democratic party that is – and let’s not mince words – plainly proto-fascist. It is supported by troubling rhetoric and armed militias. They cheered Donald Trump on at almost every anti-democratic turn for four years. This wing of the Republican Party should be compared to Orban in Hungary or Erdogan in Turkey. It is encouraged daily by a wide range of sophisticated rightest media outlets.

Many will say, “What about all those liberals rioting and looting in the streets this summer?”

Good question.

We had an unfortunate confluence of an election year with killings of Blacks by cops.

Most protestors expressed their anger in peaceful demonstrations, but too often they were joined by looters and “boogaloo boys,” young, mostly right-wing white males who want to engage in revolutionary violence.

Donald Trump persistently declared that the trouble was caused by “antifa” on the left, but antifa is a small problem even according to the FBI. And we must honestly admit, the Democratic Party was largely silent and “squishy” on law and order. They paid the price in the down-ballot election results in November.

Hopefully, the Democrats learned a lesson.

Whither America? As I see it, our fate rests with tomorrow’s election outcome in Georgia.

Will the center-left of Joe Biden be able to do what FDR did in the 1930s, that is, prove to all that a democratic government can solve problems? Or will gridlock continue and the far right grow powerful enough to end the “American Experiment” in democratic self-government?

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

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The right stuff

Why is Earth’s climate changing?

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ast week’s The Right obviously another significant Stuff column summarized factor with two causative The Paris Climate Agreefactors. The El Niño Southern ment with general arguOscillation (ENSO) is a ments for and against. Let recurring climate pattern us now look at historic facts involving changes in the related to climate change. temperature of waters in the Archaeological history central and eastern tropical confirms that Earth has Pacific Ocean. This affects forever cycled between warm atmospheric pressure at sea Earl Heal and cold periods. Current level, lower- and upper-level causative factors have been primarwinds, and tropical rainfall across ily identified by Climatologist Cliff the Pacific basin. El Niño (warm Harris and Meteorologist Randy phase) and La Niña (cold phase) Mann as solar radiation changes, typically occur each three to seven sea temperature changes and years and last nine to 12 months. La volcano eruptions. Supportive and Niña and extremely low solar activity consistent data from numerous reversed the current warming trend sources is known for millions of with global cooling and record years studied. We will only review snowfalls for 2007-2008. The second the past 4,000 years. change factor is underwater volcanos Earth experienced four cold ages and thermal vents, which are known that averaged 450 years in length and to create warming of ocean areas, three warm ages that averaged which produces weather effects.

650 years. Recent world temperaVolcanos have a long history of tures have averaged 57 degrees and suppressing Earth’s temperatures. is the baseline for differentiation.

The “Little Ice Age” commenced in The cold ages were associated with the early 14th Century with 24 major volcano eruptions. Earth eruptions from 1335 to 1360 and entered the current warm age continued with many more throughabout 1850. out the Age. The sun has occasional periods of Earth commenced its current eruptions, called storms, of varying length and occurrence. I spent nearly warm cycle in 1850. Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupted in 1991 and three years flying high-altitude temporarily interrupted the rising missions near the North Pole to temperature cycle. As solar storms gather data of its varying radiations.

To emphasize the unpredictability of decrease while volcano activity increases, world temperatures have the storms, we kept an aircrew on rapidly declined. Many will rememalert 24/7, but we never launched in ber our skies darkened and the time to measure the opening phase. average world temperature Obviously, an extended period of decreased from 58.78o degrees to solar storms or lack of storms is a 56.8o degrees. Temperatures for major factor in climate change.

Sea temperature change is 2019 recovered to 58.71 degrees,

resuming the warming trend.

Industrial activity including fossil employment for energy have increased the atmospheric CO2 level during the 20th Century and in 2014 reached one-third above long-term levels. CO2 has a long retention life in the atmosphere and is suspected to be a factor in the current cycle that commenced in 1850. Fossil fuels did not exist during previous warm ages but are blamed for the current cycle. The atmospheric content of carbon dioxide has been between 200 and 300 parts per million for 800,000 years. More recent data: 1750, 275 ppm; 1900, 300 ppm; 1958, 358 ppm; and 2015, 400 ppm.

Fifty years ago, we were presented opinions of “scientists” that Earth was entering an ice age. More recently they promised the reverse.

The latter promise is true since by historic climate cycle data we are 170 years into a forecast 600-year warm cycle.

Global warming zealots warn that warming will destroy this civilization. Why? The first proof was a chart of data that identified rising CO2 levels. That chart, called ”The Hockey Stick” because of its data lines shape, soon became controversial. What other proof has been offered? None. We are only told CO2 is the cause. Is CO2 the primary heat cycle cause? Explain.

Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and a member of The Right Stuff Committee of the Solano County Republican Party. Reach him at healearlniki@att.net.

cALmatters Commentary

California’s population may be in decline A cliché about California that California actually saw a for decades was that the population loss in the year weather was always sunny that ended July 1 of about and mild during Pasadena’s 69,000 residents, which Rose Bowl Parade on New translates into just a 5.7% Year’s Day, and snowbound gain since the 2010 census, television viewers in other much lower than the states were thus enticed to nation as a whole. migrate westward.

California’s demographers The cliché had a kernel of don’t agree. A few days Dan Walters fact. California did experiearlier, the state Department ence very strong population growth of Finance released its own numbers during the latter years of the 20th for the year ending July 1, showing a century due to post-World War II gain of 21,200. flows of people from other states and In a state as large as California, a later from other nations. The domes47,800-person differential is tiny. tic and foreign migrants tended to be However, over the past decade, ever young, so their impact was magnified since the 2010 census, the gap by increases in births. between the two agencies’ calculations has become fairly wide.

During the 1980s alone, the The Census Bureau says that on combined effects of a strong July 1, California had 39.37 million economy, a tidal wave of mostly people while the Department of foreign immigration and a baby Finance pegged it at 39.78 million, a boom added 6 million souls to California. difference of about 400,000. During Population growth slowed markthe previous decade, their annual edly during the 1990s, thanks largely estimates had differed by as much as to out-migration after Southern a million and the 2010 census settled California’s aerospace/defense the issue, largely in favor of the industry collapsed, then dropped to a Census Bureau. relative trickle. It was as if someone The 2020 census will settle it flipped a switch as California entered again, but no matter how you slice it, the 21st century.

California’s 170 years of strong Births are declining, deaths are population growth have ended and increasing (and not just because of we may have joined other states in Covid-19), we lose more people to the Northeast and upper Midwest other states than we gain, and foreign whose populations have declined. immigration is scant.

California gained just one congressional seat after the 2000 census, New Census Bureau estimates, saw no gain after the 2010 census for released in late December, reveal

the first time and is now poised to lose at least one seat and perhaps even two.

There’s much more to California’s demographic flip than congressional seats, however.

For one thing, a stagnant or declining population means we have a state that’s tilting generationally, with the elderly making up a rapidly growing cohort. That, in turn, means a smaller number of potential workers, a declining number of children and thus declining student enrollments. It also means fewer customers for retail businesses and, potentially, less pressure to build more housing, fewer cars on the road and other economic impacts.

All of these effects obviously will have policy and political ramifications. Not only will California have to adjust to having fewer members of Congress, for example, but within the state we will see shifts of political representation, largely from coastal communities which are seeing little or no growth to inland regions that are still growing, albeit slowly. That shift will become more clear when legislative and congressional districts are redrawn this year by the state’s redistricting commission.

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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Husband’s son should respect your wish to stay safe from Covid working full time, but Dear Annie: My I’m confident that he’s husband and I are in taking every possible our early 60s and have precaution. I’m retired been married for eight and only go out when it’s years. I have four adult absolutely necessary. children and 11 grandWhat can we do, children, while he has Annie? Having them one son and two grandvisit is very risky for sons. My children are scattered across Annie Lane me, but refusing to see them will probathe country, while his Dear Annie son lives in the same bly cause a rift between small town as us. my husband and his son. I feel Yesterday, “Derek” texted like it’s a no-win scenario. Any my husband to ask about our advice would be much appreplans for Christmas so he ciated. — Between a Rock and his family could decide and a Hard Place whether to stop by on ChristDear Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Though Christmas Eve or the afternoon of Christmas Day. mas has come and gone, the The problem is that we don’t desire to see family and friends want them to stop by at all. We remains. And you are correct love them, but they’re in total that having COPD makes you denial about Covid-19. They more vulnerable, and your refuse to wear masks and even husband should take every brag on social media about measure to protect you. He is “outsmarting” the efforts of taking precautions at work, store personnel to enforce mask but now he has to take it a step mandates. They have had large further and explain to his son family gatherings all year (25+ about your condition and vulpeople in a small house). We nerability. You are high risk, haven’t attended any of these and his son must respect that. events, but we haven’t critiThe vaccine is here, and, most likely, this will be the cized them either. Nobody has only holiday season that you contracted the virus (so far) will not be able to see family. from participating in the gatherings, which, sadly, reinforces But the most important thing their assertions that the virus is is keeping everyone safe and healthy. The rift that saying being taken too seriously. no will cause is only tempoMy husband and I are relatively healthy but I have COPD, rary, and hopefully, with some proper and loving communiwhich makes me especially vulnerable. My husband is still cation, you can all have a good

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ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Everywhere you go people are asking for feedback – robots, too. Corporations, social media posts, people around you, it’s like your opinion is a precious commodity. Yes, and your attention and time are even more so.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Everything adds to your momentum, even the things that seem to thwart it. Whatever comes up, you’ll handle it like a boss, take the necessary recovery time, and then get into the action of accelerating your intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

The risk worth taking won’t involve the lottery or any other kind of game. The gamble to double down on is an investment in you -- your education, your dreams or even your whims.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Look for the answer to the trick. The flash pot is redirecting your attention, so what is it they don’t want you to look at? What matters is the intention behind the magic. Can you see that, too?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your goal is to create a pleasant social flow and an environment of comfort and familiarity.

You deliver better work from that sort of atmosphere and so

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laugh about it next Christmas.

If Derek is adamant about visiting, and your husband thinks it’s OK, then maybe they could do a drive-by in the car to say “hi.” Best of luck to you.

Dear Annie: Thank you for publishing stories about families willing and working to maintain civil relationships after divorce. I was a family law attorney, and then a judge, and then a mediator for over 30 years.

And I am sorry that my husband’s ex spends so much energy saying mean things about me, all the while having a “butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth” demeanor.

Sometimes, even those of us with the most experience are plagued with those who won’t change. And she has inculcated her children with like attitudes. — Family Law Attorney Dear Family Law: Thank you for your letter. Saying mean things about a children’s father or mother during a divorce is one of the most destructive things you can do for your children. Learning to take responsibility and be generous will make the difference in the long run. And in the meantime, biting one’s tongue might be the best move.

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

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Today’s birthday From where you currently sit on this whimsical path, you couldn’t possibly guess the wonders ahead. Moneymaking opportunities come in new forms. February and June sparkle with social excitement and new relationships.

Summer swirls around a singular goal and the dream team to make it happen.

Virgo and Libra adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 33, 12, 4, 18 and 39.

will the others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

When what you do serves a purpose, that’s a viable contribution. When what you do changes someone, that’s an art.

You’re happy with the former, though you’ll strive for the latter until it’s done.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You’re adhering to a pattern set long ago because it’s what has always been expected. But this sequence isn’t as fulfilling as you want it to be. You’ll dare to set different expectations, and the others’ will change soon after.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You’ve a charming way of

letting the other person know that you’re engaged in their sharing. For this reason, people will seek your company. They want your reaction and will ask for it time and again.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Don’t let the jittery rhythm of the day stop you from forward movement. You’ll find yourself doing a highly original dance – a dance you couldn’t have found without this unusual beat.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You’ll adjust your thinking in regard to a hobby.

It’s becoming more like work.

You approach it like a professional. Whether you’re getting paid for it is beside the point. Your attitude changes your game.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Your attraction to someone is based in an attraction to the “you” that emerges when you’re around this person. Seize this shiny opportunity to play a different role, one that’s focused on your common interests.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

You embrace the process of creation in service to improvement. Creativity thrives in the same sort of environment that nurtures children – acceptance, support and a set of lovingly, consistently enforced rules.

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Sudoku

by Phillip Alder ship bidding and signaling methods, and occasionally throw up instructive points. This week, let’s look at deals in which I was involved.

What do you think of the bidding?

How would you play in three no-trump after West leads a fourth-highest club seven: heart five, club queen, ace?

South really ought to pass over three diamonds. Even though partner has a textbook preempt, game is theoretically impossible. At BBO, though, eight out of 13 Souths did shoot out three no-trump, four passed, and one jumped to five diamonds.

Seven of those in three no-trump took their eight winners and conceded down one.

The last player – guess who! – decided that it was worth the risk of extra undertricks to hope for a misdefense. I led the diamond king and, when West followed suit, I overtook with dummy’s ace. Then I played a low spade.

Luckily, I had an opponent who is a signed-up member of the second hand low club. He let me sneak a spade to my king and nine tricks in all.

Afterward, I wondered if I should have risked a 4-0 diamond break by first playing my low diamond to dummy’s jack, to avoid advertising my king. But when declarer seems to be trying to sneak a ninth trick, don’t let him. Here, if East had won the first spade, I could have gone down four!

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Toilet paper shortage As people prepared to stay home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in March, it seems we misunderstood what staying home actually meant and decided to scoop up all the toilet paper. Grocery store aisles once full of toilet paper, bleach wipes and hand sanitizer were bare as people stocked up. Stores soon limited how much toilet paper a person could buy and supplies eventually got back to normal.

up and just before bed.

Doomscrolling became especially relevant in 2020 as we often found ourselves with nothing to do other than to scroll.

Finger condom/ finger cot Voting during a pandemic meant standing in spaced out lines and taking a spot of hand sanitizer with your ballot at the booths. But the real novelty, other than historically massive voter turnout for the presidential election, was the one-fingered rubber glove to use on touch screens to allay fears of catching the coronavirus.

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Flatten the curve As the coronavirus pandemic intensified in Central Texas and across the U.S. in March, officials and health experts called for residents to stay home and help “flatten the curve” depicted in graphs showing an increase in coronavirus cases. Flattening the curve means taking action to alter the upward trend. Health experts urged people to mask up, social distance and practice good hygiene to flatten the rise in new cases and new hospitalizations.

Furlough Americans faced record unemployment this year during the pandemic. Many businesses, including the nation’s airlines and many restaurants, introduced worker furloughs for the first time. For some, furloughs become a cruel imitation of joblessness: Workers remain employed but they aren’t allowed to work or earn any pay. Furloughs can be short, like a week, or can last for months.

Less-lethal Less-lethal is a phrase used by police to describe weapons or munitions like bean bag rounds, tear gas, stun guns and other devices considered not as deadly as firearms. Often used by police during summer protests across the country and in Austin, the weapons were at the center of multiple excessive force lawsuits filed against police.

Karen You know those videos of a woman screaming at grocery store workers after being told she has to put on a mask or leave the store? That is a Karen. A Karen, in its most common use, is often applied to a white woman weaponizing her privilege against a person of color. In May,

Psychics From Page A3 deeply her services were needed when her business was first shuttered. Clients and strangers kept calling to ask if she sold tarot cards so they could do their own readings at home.

“An A for effort,” Thompson, 45, said. “But when I was trying to cut my own hair, that didn’t make me a stylist.”

This summer, she stocked her shop with masks, hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes and reopened for in-person visits for those who made appointments. A plexiglass shield now sits between her and her clients - but it has an opening at the bottom, so that she can still take their hands into hers and read their palms.

“It feels weird to say this, but their questions have been the same, before and during the pandemic.

People want to know about their jobs, their financial situation, their families and

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Christian Cooper, a Black birder, was in Central Park in New York City and asked a white woman, Amy Cooper, to put a leash on her dog. Amy Cooper can be seen in a viral video calling the police and telling them an African American man was threatening her. Many considered Amy Cooper to be a Karen.

Murder hornets When we thought the year couldn’t get any crazier, murder hornets, a giant Asian species of hornet, arrived. Murder hornets are an invasive species that kill honeybees and can be deadly to humans. They showed up in May.

PPE This is probably the most important acronym of the year! Personal protective equipment includes all the gear health care workers, first responders and other essential employees donned to stay safe from the coronavirus.

This includes face masks, gloves and face shields.

tion Day, many became self-appointed “poll watchers” and stood outside polling places.

Quarantine Originally, it referred to the 40 days that ships thought to be carrying disease in 17th-century Italy were required to be isolated. For Americans now, the coronavirus pandemic turned 40 days of isolation into 280 days and counting of waiting for the pandemic to end. It means social distancing, less nonessential shopping trips and wearing face masks.

Remote/virtual We did it all virtually and remotely this year. Learning remotely, working remotely, going to the doctor remotely, partying with friends remotely and seeing loved ones for the holidays remotely all became part of the norm.

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So much baking, really so much, occurred at the start of the pandemic. If you have social media, it was likely you’d see a freshly baked sourdough bread or banana bread in March and April as Central Texans turned to the kitchen to keep themselves occupied in between daily walks.

their love lives,” she said.

Lately, she’s had good news to share with them.

“I do feel,” she says, “like we are coming to a closure of all this insanity.”

It’s not so much that the planets are telling her so.

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is shifting. But when she looks out her window onto downtown Washington, there’s something letting her predict, for certain, that change is on its way.

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Social distance Do you remember hugging your friends?

To help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Austinites were urged to keep 6 feet of distance between them and others.

This meant standing 6 feet apart in grocery and pharmacy lines. Friend hangouts turned into picnics with people spread out. Instead of hanging out inside, many Austinites took to their yards to

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keep their distance with friends and family.

Tiger King As we all sat at home in the first days of quarantine in the spring, we learned about Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin and tigers.

Lots of tigers. A Netflix documentary called “Tiger King” told the tale of a man named Joe Exotic, who ran a tiger zoo and was accused of hiring someone to kill Baskin,

For many white-collar employees, the concept of “working from home” on a quasi-permanent basis was new in March as many government and business offices, and most of the nation’s smaller employers, shut down to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. WFH meant having your cat instead of your boss interrupting you at your desk. It meant negotiating with barking dogs and loud children instead of an obnoxious co-worker.

Yes, days tended to blur together while WFH, but it’s been nine months since we started” and some of us don’t want to go back.

Zoom Trying to remember life before Zoom video chats is like trying to get through rush hour on Interstate 35 in a good mood. You can’t! As businesses and schools sent people home because of the coronavirus, Zoom became the go-to service to hold virtual meetings and classes.

Birthdays, happy hours, weddings and funerals were often held over Zoom in 2020. Alerting someone that they were on mute was commonplace and became the virtual equivalent of telling someone their fly was open.

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Trump From Page One rambling conversation, the president said that “I just want to find 11,780 votes” – the gap between him and Biden, who became the first Democrat to flip the state since 1992.

“It’s pretty clear that we won. We won pretty substantially. And you even see it by rally size,” Trump said, later accusing one of Raffensperger’s attorneys of being a “Never Trumper.”

“There’s just no way.

Look, there’s no way.

There’s no way.”

Close to the end of the conversation, Raffensperger interjected that Trump was falling victim to false conspiracy theories he’s seen on Twitter.

“Mr. President, the problem you have with social media is that people can say anything.”

“No, this isn’t social media. This is Trump media,” the president responded. “You should want to have an accurate election and you’re a Republican.”

“We believe we do have an accurate election,” Raffensperger replied.

“No you don’t. No. No you don’t. You don’t have it – not even close.”

Among the people on the call were Raffensperger, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several aides and attorneys. At one point, Meadows urged Georgia officials “in the spirit of cooperation and compromise” to find a path forward that doesn’t involve the court system.

“The state is in turmoil over this. I know you would like to get to the bottom of it,” Trump said, chastising Raffensperger for a recent TV appearance where he said there’s no systemic

Deaths From Page One numbers,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Separately, on NBC’s “Meet the Press, Fauci said: “It could and likely will get worse in the next couple of weeks, or at least maintain this very terribly high level of infections that we’re seeing.”

“We’re going to see the epidemic probably peak at some point this month,” concurred Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Trump who was interviewed on “Face the Nation.”

The United States has by far the world’s highest number of confirmed infections, more than 20 million, along with the highest number of reported deaths, which exceeded the bleak threshold of 350,000 early Sunday, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.

California accounts for more than 2 million infections and 26,500 deaths, with Southern California as an epicenter.

“We’re seeing a person every six seconds contract Covid-19 here in Los Angeles County,” Garcetti said. The mayor attributed the surge to population density and spread within households. He warned that people with underlying conditions accounted for a still-high but falling share of fatalities, suggesting that the risk

election fraud.

“People should be happy to have an accurate count, instead of an election where there’s turmoil. There’s turmoil in Georgia and other places – you’re not the only one. We have other states I believe will be flipping to us very shortly.”

State and federal elections officials have said there’s no evidence of widespread irregularities in Georgia and other battleground states, and courts at every level have dismissed challenges from Trump’s campaign and its allies seeking to overturn Georgia’s close election.

The president has feuded with Raffensperger and other Republicans for weeks, blaming them for his narrow election defeat in Georgia. The call came shortly before he was set to headline a Monday rally for Loeffler and Perdue ahead of Tuesday’s runoffs for control of the U.S. Senate.

Republicans worry that Trump’s ceaseless attacks on Raffensperger, Gov. Brian Kemp and other state GOP figures has undermined the party’s unity and is sending conflicting messages to the president’s loyalists before pivotal elections against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

Trump lashed out in particular at Stacey Abrams, the Democratic former gubernatorial candidate who he said “outsmarted you at every step” with a consent decree in March that addresses accusations about a lack of statewide standards for judging signatures on absentee ballot envelopes.

“You’ve taken a state that’s a Republican state and you’ve made it almost impossible for a Republican to win because of cheating – because they cheated like nobody’s ever cheated before,” Trump said. to the general population was growing.

“My message to everybody,” Garcetti said, “is that this is not only going to come for somebody that you love – this is going to possibly come for you.”

In the weeks since the election, Trump has rarely mentioned the coronavirus, except in the context of his grievances about how the public health crisis is depicted in official reports and news stories.

On Sunday, the president again complained on Twitter about his government’s “ridiculous method of determination” for counting fatalities.

Trump’s surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, however, told CNN’s “State of the Union” that “from a health perspective, I have no reason to doubt those numbers.”

Adams, who had projected 20 million U.S. vaccinations by the end of last month, acknowledged that the vaccine rollout had not gone as quickly as hoped, with only about 4 million taking place.

But he expressed optimism that the pace would soon quicken.

“The good news is that we are seeing it quickly ramp up,” he said, “thanks to our state partners.”

Fauci, who will be serving in the Biden administration, agreed that “we’re not where we want to be” in the speed on vaccinations but said on NBC that that could be turned around this month.

“We’ve got to do much better,” he said.

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Step From Page One area around it – had longago gone to seed; partially hidden by hazardous trees and other foliage and suffering from storm drain damage, it had become “a wholly, unwholesome, unsavory environment,” Nichols said.

That has already changed, after several volunteer cleanups, but what the area looks like today will pale in comparison to what it will look like when the stairs’ risers are transformed “into a beautiful mosaic mural representing Vallejo’s and Mare Island’s 170-plus year history,” she said.

The stairs’ 52 10-footwide risers will be covered with custom-made art tiles created by artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher, who designed and created the tiles for San Francisco’s famous 16th Avenue Steps.

“The 16th Avenue Steps are San Francisco’s second-most visited free tourist attraction, behind Lombard Street,” said workgroup member and event planner Robin Gross.

The Capital Stairs’ art tiles are completed and being stored in a Mare Island warehouse.

They are scheduled to be installed this spring, once the city finishes the last necessary repairs to the stairs themselves, said Mike Brigandi, who leads the project, working with Vallejo’s Public Works Department.

The tiles, which were created mostly from old photos found in the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum and in private collections, were paid for in part by $24,000 from the city’s Cycle 2 Participatory Budget Arts, Beautification and Com-

GOP From Page One dissenting senators said they only wanted to “get the facts out” and critics said they were sabotaging democracy. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., called the challenge “a very, very, bad idea,” adding: “I’m concerned about the division in America – that’s the biggest issue – but obviously this is not healthy for the Republican Party, either.”

It was the starkest illustration of the conflict that could engulf the Republican Party in the post-Trump era as factions prepare to battle over whether the party will continue down the unorthodox, scorched-earth path forged by President Donald Trump or return to a more traditional brand of conservative politics. The back-and-forth came two days before a pair of special elections in Georgia that will determine whether the GOP retains control of the Senate.

Sunday’s clash was triggered by the plans of 12 senators to challenge as many as six states’ electoral vote tallies at Wednesday’s joint session of Congress, a usually routine procedure that this year is shaping up as the final opportunity of Trump loyalists to insist, without evidence, that President-elect Joe Biden’s win was somehow illegitimate.

In the House, a similar split developed: Several dozen GOP members have signaled that they will question the results, prompting a top Republican leader to call the idea “an exceptionally dangerous precedent.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as speaker Sunday, was among those noting that the challenge was almost certain to fail. But she

munity Development Grant. The rest – another $60,000-plus – has come from the generosity of Vallejo residents and other donors, organizers said.

“Without the community’s support, none of this could have happened,” Nichols said.

Gross, who has been part of the working group that formed shortly after Nichols got the effort rolling, said she is impressed by the tiles.

“The tiles are beautiful. They will contribute to the fabric of our diverse community,” she said.

“This community really wants this and has put their money where their mouth is.”

A case in point is the Vallejo Executive Lions Club, which has taken care of the stairs since 1976 and is a large contributor – in funds and volunteer hours – to the effort, Nichols said.

The idea is to tell the story of the city and its diversity while also making the whole area safer and more aesthetically pleasing, group members said.

“The first 24 steps focus on Mare Island and the Carquinez Strait, and the second flight – Steps 27 through 52, are about Vallejo, including landmarks and lost historical landmarks” including many, like the old Carnegie Library, that were destroyed as part of an urban renewal effort in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Nichols said.

There’s a tile depicting the Boys from Boston from World War II, who mostly stayed and raised families here, and the Episcopal Church that burned to the ground in the 1970s because of a Fire Department salary dispute, along with at least two Mare Island-built ships and a slew of other historical images, she said.

All that history will be made to look almost like it’s floating downstream along the river that encompasses the entire structure.

When the tiles have all been installed, Nichols said the group plans to create a drought-tolerant, honeybee and butterfly-attracting, fragrant landscapearoundthestairs.

“Then, we’ll be looking for volunteers to bring garden cuttings and to help plant,” she said. “It feels better than good. I’m so grateful for the support from the community.”

“It’s fun to see positive things like this come to fruition, and I’m just happy that we’ve been a part of it,” said Ken Mullen, the group’s liaison to the Vallejo Community Arts Foundation, which is its nonprofit fiscal sponsor.

The group still needs to raise some money for the final installation and

to help with that has been showing the tiles in the Mare Island warehouse in which they are stored.

This can still be done, but by appointment only until the second flight of stair tiles are unveiled before installation around Valentine’s Day, they said.

There are several ways to donate, including on a GoFundMe site and the group’s Facebook page.

Stair risers are also available for sponsorships of $1,000 each in exchange for you or your organization’s name being included on a plaque at the bottom of the stairs. Seven risers are still available.

Two benches, which will display the donor’s name, are also still available for $5,000 each.

To make an appointment to see the tiles, or to make a donation, visit the group’s Facebook page at Vallejo Capitol Stairs Project.

said lawmakers have a responsibility to counter the dissenters’ claims.

“Our choice is not to use the forum to debate the presidency of Donald Trump,” she wrote in a letter to colleagues.

“While there is no doubt as to the outcome of the Biden-Harris presidency, our further success is to convince more of the American people to trust in our democratic system.”

While the chances of derailing Biden’s victory are virtually nonexistent – doing so would require the Democraticcontrolled House, for instance, to reject electoral votes for Biden – the event provides a stage for Republican lawmakers seeking to court Trump loyalists, who may be influential in the GOP for years to come, by proclaiming their fealty to the president.

The conflict began Saturday evening, when a group of 11 Republican senators announced that they would join Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in challenging the electoral tally of one or more states, making it clear that the revolt would not be a minor affair but would involve more than one-fifth of Senate Republicans.

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said in a statement that the effort “directly undermines” Americans’ right to choose their leaders, and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called it an “egregious ploy.”

Hawley shot back that Toomey and others were engaging in “shameless personal attacks.”

The contention spread through the party on Sunday as lawmakers returned to the Capitol for the swearing-in. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., among the challengers, argued that the effort was no different from Democratic objections to the 1969 and 2005 counts. In those instances, however, the losing candidate had long since conceded, and the dissent was marginal.

“Our democracy is

strong enough to handle conversations about electoral integrity issues,” Lankford said.

Should the challenges be rejected Wednesday, Lankford said he would “absolutely” accept Biden as the rightful president.

“Our goal is obviously to try to get the facts out, more than to be able to vote against the electors,” he added.

Lankford and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., a former House member who was sworn in Sunday as a senator, said they were signing on to the challenge as a response to concerns from constituents worried about electoral improprieties.

“I think the people of Kansas feel disenfranchised,” Marshall said. “They want us to follow through on the many irregularities that they saw in this particular election.”

He brushed off the near-unanimous finding of courts and state officials, including Republicans, that the election was fair. “I don’t think that the courts have heard all the facts,” Marshall said. “And I think that my responsibility is to fulfill my duty to the Constitution, the oath that we just took.”

But many Republicans appeared distraught that the move would put party members on record as fighting the clear outcome of a democratic election.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said lawmakers had “a solemn responsibility to accept these Electoral College votes that have been certified” by state officials. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., added, that “the overwhelming weight of the evidence is that Joe Biden defeated my candidate, Donald Trump, and I have to live with it.”

The rare open conflict was an embarrassing spectacle for McConnell, who has for weeks urged Republicans to refrain from disputing the electoral tally. McCo-

nnell fears it will force his members into a politically difficult choice of either defying Trump or rejecting the electorate’s verdict.

While that is not expected to create an immediate problem for McConnell’s authority – he was reelected GOP leader by acclamation in November – it demonstrates that Trump’s departure from the White House will not diminish the intraparty tensions that made the past four years a high-wire act for many Republicans.

McConnell himself declined on Sunday to address the dissension in his ranks. “We’ll be dealing with all of that on Wednesday,” he said.

Democrats warned that the dissenters’ actions could damage the country for years to come.

Senate M inority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Republicans are “hurting themselves and hurting the democracy . . . to try to please somebody who has no fidelity to elections or even the truth.”

On Sunday, Pelosi became the second lawmaker in the past 34 years to win a fourth term as speaker, claiming 216 votes to the 209 that Republicans cast for their leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Five moderate Democrats either voted “present” or supported another Democrat.

Pelosi’s vote total fell below the usual 218-vote threshold for a House majority in part because three lawmakers missed the vote because of illness, including two who recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Two House members voted even though they were still technically in quarantine, using a special, newly constructed alcove in the House gallery sealed off by plexiglass. Republicans accused Democrats of bending the quarantine rules to boost Pelosi’s vote total, but the change did not alter the outcome.

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Curry’s 62-point career night lifts W’s over Blazers The Mercury News Stephen Curry scored 62 points to lead the Warriors to a 137-122 win over the Portland Trail Blazers and set a new career high Sunday night at Chase Center.

This was a muchneeded victory for the Warriors (3-3), who lost to the Trail Blazers (3-3) by 25 points in the first of this two-game series on Friday.

Curry set the tone early with 31 points in the first half and helped push the

Warriors’ lead to 20 in the third quarter.

On a night when Curry’s free-throw streak ended with 80-straight makes, he set this career high not merely with 3-pointers (8 for 16 from beyond the arc) – as might be expected from one of the NBA’s alltime 3-point shooters – but with dazzling dribble moves, nifty layups and going 18-for-19 at the free-throw line.

Curry’s spectacular night set a building high, taking ownership

of the record from Portland’s Damian Lillard (39 points on Nov. 4, 2019), who finished Sunday with 32 points and four assists and helped lead a late comeback effort.

Lillard’s back-toback 3-pointers midway through the fourth quarter cut the Warriors’ 20-point lead to single digits, but Curry answered with a 3-pointer of his own to keep the Trail Blazers at a comfortable distance. His leaning pull-up jumper from 27 feet out with

42 seconds remaining put the finishing touch on his career game.

Draymond Green, playing in his second game this season after missing the first four with a foot injury, did not score until 2:14 to go, but finished with one point, eight assists and three rebounds in 28 minutes and helped make plays on offense and anchored the defense.

Overall, it was the strongest performance of the season from Golden State.

Curry and Green were sup-

ported by James Wiseman (12 points, 11 rebounds), Kelly Oubre Jr. (17 points, five rebounds, two steals) and Andrew Wiggins (21 points, seven rebounds, two assists).

Defensively, the Warriors held Portland to 41.2% shooting overall, 31% from 3-point range and recorded seven blocks on the night.

They will try to carry this effort over to Monday, when they play the Sacramento Kings at 7 p.m. at Chase Center.

Steph Curry set the tone early with 31 points in the first half and helped push the Warriors’ lead to 20 in the third quarter.

SEAHAWKS 26, 49ERS 23

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Los Angeles Rams quarterback John Wolford throws a pass against the Arizona Cardinals defense in the first

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The Rams went on to win 18-7.

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pass by Chris Streveler and ran 84 yards for a touchdown and a lead that was never threatened.

It marked the third time this season that Hill scored on a turnover. He returned a fumble for a touchdown against the San Francisco 49ers on Nov. 29 and returned an interception for a touchdown against the Cardinals on Dec. 6.

Matt Gay kicked three field goals for the Rams.

Wolford completed 22 of 38 passes for 231 yards, with an interception. He also rushed for a team-best 56 yards in six carries.

Rookie running back Cam Akers rushed for 34 yards in 21 carries.

Wolford gets it done for Rams in playoff-clinching victory INGLEWOOD — After a one-year absence, the Los Angeles Rams are back in the playoffs.

The Rams secured a postseason berth for the third time in four seasons under coach Sean McVay with an 18-7 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday at SoFi Stadium.

The Rams (10-6) will be seeded sixth in the NFC and play the third-seeded Seattle Seahawks in a wild-card game in Seattle.

The Rams defeated the Seahawks, 23-16, on Nov. 15 at SoFi Stadium. They lost to the Seahawks, 20-9, on Dec. 16 at Lumen Field.

Rams quarterback

John Wolford, starting Sunday in place of injured Jared Goff, had his first NFL pass intercepted, but rebounded to make several plays for a Rams offense that did not score a touchdown for the second game in a row and was carried again by the defense.

Cornerback Troy Hill returned an interception for a touchdown and the defense recorded a safety, which turned out to be more than enough against a Cardinals team that was without quarterback Kyler Murray for most of the game because of an ankle injury.

With the Rams trailing, 7-5, late in the first half, Hill intercepted a

Murray was injured on the first series and replaced by Streveler.

Murray returned in the fourth quarter and led a drive that ended when Nick Scott blocked a field goal. Murray completed eight of 11 passes for 87 yards.

The Rams made the playoffs in each of McVay’s first two seasons and made a run to the Super Bowl in 2018. But they finished 9-7 last season and were left out of the postseason.

The Rams went into Sunday’s game unsure of their fate after blowing opportunities to clinch a playoff berth by losing to the New York Jets and the Seahawks.

found TylerLockett against cornerback Ahkello For the second Witherspoon.

That straight year, the 49ers ruined the 49ers’ bid to blew a 10-point, fourth- repeat last season’s Week quarter lead to end 17, goal-line heroics that their season. beat Seattle and secured Sunday’s closing act the NFC’s No. 1 seed. paled in comparison to C.J. Beathard fumbled the pageantry and pain on a sack 10 seconds after of last season’s Super that Seahawks’ touchBowl loss, however. down to spoil his bid The 49ers capped at a second straight this 6-10, injury- winning start as the marred season with a 49ers’ No. 3 quar26-23 loss to NFC West terback this season. champion Seattle at The Seahawks conState Farm Stadium in verted that turnover Glendale, Ariz., where into a touchdown ( Alex the 49ers relocated a Collins 8-yard run) to month ago because of complete a 20-point, Santa Clara County’s fourth-quarter swing.

Covid-19 regulations.

Jeff Wilson’s 3-yard A 10-point, fourth- touchdown catch with quarter lead wasn’t 23 seconds remainenough to hold off ing gave the 49ers’ the No. 3-seeded a dash of hope until Seahawks (12-4), just like the Seahawks recova 10-point, fourth-quar- ered an ensuing onside ter lead wasn’t enough kick. Wilson earlier to down the Kansas City scored on a 7-yard run Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV. to put the 49ers ahead Seattle pulled ahead 16-6 with 14:22 remainwith 2:20 remain- ing, all of which tied ing, when Russell a nice bow on his Wilson’s fourth-andgoal touchdown pass See 49ers, Page B7

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Sharks’ Mario Ferraro is earning rave reviews, and maybe a larger role Tribune Content Agency Mario Ferraro has no doubt caught the eye of the San Jose Sharks’ coaching staff so far in training camp – so much so that Bob Boughner said the second-year defenseman might be ready for a bigger role with the team at the start of the season if he keeps improving.

Boughner said Ferraro was the Sharks’ best defenseman during the team’s controlled scrimmage Sunday at the Ice Den in Scottsdale, Ariz., and would, as of now, have no problem putting him on one of San Jose’s top two defense pairs for its Jan. 14 season opener against the Arizona Coyotes. Ferraro was mainly on the Sharks’ third defense pair as a rookie last season.

“There’s major strides in his maturity and I think his confi-

dence,” Boughner said. “I wouldn’t be surprised, opening night puck drop, that he’s not sitting in our top four if he keeps progressing in camp like he is.”

Right now, the Sharks’ top two defense pairs are presumed to be Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Erik K a rlsson , a nd R ad i m Simek and Brent Burns. Like Vlasic and Simek, Ferraro is a left shot defenseman, but is also comfortable playing on the right side.

Boughner was later asked if that means he’s looking for more from some guys in his presumed top four defense group. Not necessarily, he said.

“I’m not saying anybody’s off.

I’m just saying that you can tell Mario, he’s one of those guys that catches your eye every shift doing something.” Boughner said. “His

energy and his intensity, those are the things you notice.”

Regardless, Ferraro’s continued improvement in the eyes of the coaching staff is nice insurance policy for the Sharks should anything happen to one of their more seasoned blueliners, especially since Brenden Dillon re-signed with the Washington Capitals and the candidates for the sixth and seventh defensemen jobs are largely inexperienced.

Ferraro was the Sharks’ top rookie last season. With a seemingly endless reservoir of energy, he was able to win an NHL job out of training camp. In 61 games, her averaged close to 16 minutes of ice time per night – sixth most among all Sharks defensemen.

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Derek Carr hit Darren Waller with a two-point conversion with 24 seconds to play Sunday to allow the Raiders to escape the 2020 season with an 8-8 record and a 32-31 win over the host Denver Broncos.

The play followed a 1-yard run by Josh Jacobs on fourth-andgoal, capping a 77-yard, seven-play drive.

Denver quarterback Drew Lock threw a 92-yard touchdown pass to Jerry Jeudy with 6:29 to play after the Raiders had recovered from their own mistakes to tie the game 24-24.

The Raiders scored on a 33-yard field goal

by Daniel Carlson, touchdown passes of 28 and 26 yards from Derek Carr to Darren Waller and Bryan

Edwards and runs of 28-yards and 1 yard by Jacobs.

Denver had field goals of 22, 37 and 26 yards

by Brandon McManus, a 1-yard pass from Lock to Tony Fumagalli, a 12-yard run by Melvin Gordon and the 92-yard strike to Jeudy.

The Raiders end the season at .500, improving by one game over their 2019 record. The Broncos finish 5-11.

Carr f i n i shed 24 of 38 for 371 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions, Jacobs rushed for 89 yards on 15 attempts and two scores and Waller had nine catches for 119 yards, a touchdown and the game-winning two-point conversion.

Denver’s Lock was 25 of 41 for 339 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.

See Raiders, Page B7

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here are a number of reasons alcohol is off-limits for some people when cooking or baking, such as an allergy or an inability to use it when preparing food for children or those who might be in recovery. Maybe it’s not in your pantry, now that we’re shopping less often, or even your budget.

Regardless of the rationale, know that your recipe will likely taste fine without the alcohol.

Just don’t count on it cooking it off in instances where you can’t serve it to someone. According to a chart of nutrient retention from the USDA, baked or simmered goods can retain as much as 40% of the alcohol after 15 minutes, with the amounts decreasing as time goes on, down to 5% after 2 1⁄2 hours. Even setting alcohol on fire gets rid of a mere 25% of it.

When deciding whether to omit or find an alternative to alcohol, the first thing to ask yourself is what purpose is it serving, says David Joachim, who wrote “The Food Substitutions Bible.” That purpose will likely fall into one of two categories: flavor or function.

The good news is that in almost all recipes that call for alcohol, the purpose is to add flavor.

“Generally, it’s not the alcohol” itself that’s important, Joachim says. One of the major exceptions would be if you planned to, say, set fire to your bananas Foster. Otherwise, take solace that “all alcoholic beverages are primarily water,” Joachim says, meaning you can just focus on how to duplicate the flavor and acidity it delivers.

Joachim notes that alcohol can “improve the flavor perception” by bonding with other ingredients, such as in a marinade with oil where it can attach to both the water and fat molecules. Still, in savory cooking, the alcoholic beverage or extract is primarily a medium for carrying flavor, and that can often be accomplished by using nonalcoholic ingredients, too. Here’s how.

Wine Don’t overthink things: “This is a liquid made from fermented grapes,” Joachim says, adding that acidity is one of the main features of wine, which has a pH of 3 to 4. Tomato juice has a similar pH. So does coffee, which is an especially good stand-in for a pinot. If subbing in one of those ingredients for red wine, add a small amount of honey or sugar to bring in the restrained sweetness you might

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Your recipe will likely taste fine without the alcohol. “Generally, it’s not the alcohol” itself that’s important, author David Joachim said. have gotten with wine.

In a sauce, soup or braise, beef broth can replace red wine.

Joachim recommends adding a little vinegar and sugar here as well. Consider chicken broth as a lighter sub for white wine, again with some vinegar and sugar added. For smaller amounts, such as when deglazing a pan, a splash of vinegar – red wine, if that’s acceptable, or cider – is a possibility.

Grape juice naturally comes to mind as the alcohol-free alternative to wine but even unsweetened varieties skew sweet. If you want to try that approach, cut it with water, adding some tartness via vinegar or citrus juice. Now is also the time to consider the ever-expanding world of nonalcoholic wines. (The Washington Post’s wine columnist, Dave McIntyre, called Welch’s Sparkling Rosé Grape Juice Cocktail “tasty and refreshing.”)

Beer Nonalcoholic beer is a simple swap. It’s not the only option, however. In a stew or soup, feel free to replace the beer with chicken stock. If a very small amount of alcohol is acceptable, a few dashes of Angostura bitters can work back in the slight bitterness you’d otherwise get in the beer, Joachim says. If that’s

not doable, go ahead and throw some orange rind in your soup or braise. Here is where you want to include the white pith, according to Joachim, because that’s where the bitter flavor resides.

In situations where the carbonation of the beer is serving a functional purpose, such as in a beer-battered recipe, you can use sparkling water instead. In the right context, a sweetened soda or ginger beer might work, though you may want to balance it out with something bitter like orange rind.

Hard cider This popular beverage great for sipping and cooking offers both apple flavor and carbonation.

If you can find a dry nonalcoholic cider, go ahead and use that. Some of the bottled brands lean sweet, though some hard cider makers also are bottling their own alcohol-free versions. Unsweetened apple cider is another option.

Cider vinegar will help bring in the more savory edge you’d get from hard cider, but if you use it, Joachim suggests mixing it with cider or unsweetened juice, because it will be too tart for a one-to-one swap.

Extracts Traditional extracts are typically alcohol-based. Several companies, including Heilala

and Frontier, offer alcohol-free vanilla extracts and flavorings.

Frontier’s line also includes other flavors, such as almond, lemon and peppermint. Another option: flavor or candy oils. These are super-concentrated, so a little goes a long way. Whereas you may be used to thinking about extracts in terms of teaspoons, oils need to be used by the drop.

Joachim also encourages cooks to think about getting as close to the original source ingredient as possible. No vanilla extract? A vanilla bean can do the trick, too, if it’s within your financial means (you can get double the use out of it by burying your spent pod in sugar to be used in a subsequent bake).

Lemon and orange extracts are easily replaced with citrus zest, packed with the aromatic essential oils. Rub the zest into the sugar in your recipe first to bring out its potential. Ditto mint leaves. Crushed peppermint candies can flavor the liquid in a recipe, too. Vanilla beans or almonds can be steeped in heated milk or cream for another flavor infusion option.

Be OK with thinking outside the box. Consider what different flavors might get you to a similar place. Cardamom, for example, can be a decent – or even more interesting! – stand-in for vanilla extract. They both share a warm, enticing floral aroma.

Liquor and liqueurs Flavored liqueurs often make their way into baked goods.

Here’s another spot where you can replicate the original flavor.

Coffee-flavored liqueurs can be replaced with espresso powder dissolved in water, or plain brewed coffee; ditto chocolate liqueur and cocoa powder. No orange liqueur? Orange juice to the rescue. Joachim says bourbon flavors are primarily caramel and vanilla, so you can instead caramelize some sugar and mix that with water. Or pivot to a nonalcoholic vanilla extract or flavor, which also works for almond flavors when a recipe calls for something like amaretto. Keep in mind that extracts and flavor oils will be more concentrated, so you’ll want to cut back the amount when swapping for liqueur.

Some pie crust recipes call for vodka. The premise is that the vodka will provide moisture to make the dough easier to work with without adding as much water, which contributes to the formation of gluten – and potentially toughness – when combined with the proteins in the flour. If vodka is a no-go, simply substitute more ice water, taking care not to overwork the dough. (Or go with a recipe that only uses water.)

Alcohol-free spirits also are on the rise, with brands such as Seedlip offering alternatives to standbys such as gin.

These 10 trends were distractions we needed in 2020 The Washington Post This year, many of us spent a lot more time in our kitchens than we could have imagined, turning out multiple meals a day and sometimes getting bored with our own rinse-andrepeat repertoires. We were also cut off from our usual communities and seeking connections. And it turns out that bored cooks plus isolation is a recipe for . . . lots and lots of food trends, which bloomed on our screens this year like a thousand flowers.

Each of the everybody’s-making-it dishes that popped up this year spoke to our hungers – for sustenance, maybe, for comfort, for inspiration, or just for novelty. Even if we didn’t join in for all of them, just watching was a good distraction.

Here are 10 things that fed us – or at least populated our social media feeds – in 2020.

Dalgona coffee Many of us have given up regular visits to our

favorite barista, and so dalgona coffee, a South Korean drink in which instant coffee, sugar and milk are whipped into a foamy blend, was a (supersweet) stand-in for our coffee-shop fix.

suring about having rows of gleaming jars of food you’ve harvested and “put up” for the long winter.

That might be a #cottagecore fantasy for most of us, but enough people bought into it this year that retailers sold out of jars and lids.

Cloud bread This airy, meringuelike concoction, made from egg whites, cornstarch, and sugar, became a TikTok darling this summer. It’s relatively tasteless, but its popularity probably can be chalked up to its ease of preparation – and that weirdly satisfying moment when people tear into them on camera.

Charcuterie chalets Move over, gingerbread. This year, we fashioned abodes shingled with salami, sided with breadsticks and decorated with almonds. Maybe it’s because many of us have been housebound this year that we created odes to our too-familiar surroundings in a meaty medium?

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Sourdough baking, like bingeing “Tiger King,” was a very early-pandemic vibe, fueled by yeast shortages and an excess of time at home.

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Sourdough baking, like bingeing Tiger King, was a very early-pandemic vibe, fueled by yeast shortages and an excess of time at home. People nurtured their starters as if they were particularly needy children, traded recipes for their castoff dough, and photographed the pillowy interiors and artfully slashed crusts like proud parents.

T hese seasoned, crunchy strips of root vegetable became one of the few non-carby breakout food stars of the pandemic after vegan chef Tabitha Brown’s TikTok recipe got 3.6 million views. Bonus trend points: They’re crisped in an air fryer, the pandemic cook’s favorite kitchen appliance.

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Our dreams of self-sufficiency were further fed by the craze for turning kitchen scraps into crops – even if only on a very small scale. Beyond offering a boost to a salad (or just a way to entertain a cooped-up kid), those little green sprouts might have been the glimmer of hope we needed.

Fancy focaccia Dough became the canvas for legions of newly minted flatbread artists, who took to the trend of studding loafs with baked-in designs for edible masterpieces (van Gogh never had it so good).

Floral motifs were the most popular, with herbs

and vegetables forming intricate blooms.

Pancake cereal Tiny pancakes piled in a bowl and drenched in syrup sounds like a breakfast that only Buddy the Elf would love. But plenty of TikTokers joined in, apparently wooed by the combination of cuteness (miniature foods are a whole genre online) and the perennial popularity of cereal, and the platform dubbed the mash-up its top food trend of 2020.

Frog bread Edible, lumpy amphibians with googly eyes were the antidote to the precise and lovely ethos of the #breadart trend that we didn’t know we needed. Bakers delighted in their imperfect creations, sharing photos of their goofy, cartoonish bakes – along with some badly needed joy.

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Refraction AI in Ann Arbor has developed an autonomous delivery robot. The first generation Rev1 sits at a red light on a mission, Jan. 15, 2020, to deliver sandwiches.

Butler on wheels, robot cutting salad:

Covid-19 sped automation Tribune Content Agency For decades, the attitude of unions and their advocates to increased automation could be summed up in one word: no.

They feared that every time a machine was slipped into the workflow, a laborer lost a job.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a small but significant shift in that calculation. Because human contact spreads the disease, some machines are now viewed not exclusively as the workers’ enemy but also as their protector. That has accelerated the use of robots this year in a way no one expects to stop, even after the virus is conquered.

“If you keep me six feet away from the other worker and you have a robot in between, it’s now safe,” said Richard Freeman, a professor of economics at Harvard University, who studies labor. “And the robot companies are selling that as a solution and the unions aren’t going to say, ‘No, you should have the workers standing next to each other so they get sick.’ ” The result is the spread of windshield-mounted toll detectors, automated floor cleaners at factories, salad-chopping machines in grocery stores, mechanical butlers at hotels and electronic receipts for road pavers. What remains less clear is where the men and women who used to do some of those jobs will work.

The impact of technology on employment has been a topic of anxiety and study for generations with mixed results. Cars didn’t kill trains, television didn’t end radio. When banks installed ATMs, they hired more people, not fewer, because the variety of their services grew.

But machines have eliminated many jobs, and the current wave will prove to be no exception, especially with public health a top concern.

“When we come out of this crisis and labor is cheap again, firms will not necessarily roll back these inventions,” David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said at a September webinar of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. “These are kind of one-way transitions.”

That’s what worries union leaders.

“In the auto industry, we see Covid-19 accelerating transformation toward digitization,” said Georg Leutert, who heads the automotive and aerospace industries at Geneva-based

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A dog-like robot leads a tour of dignitaries last month at the unveiling of a $50 million robotics lab at the University of Texas in Austin, a joint effort with the Army Futures Command.

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While the transition is unavoidable, workers are nervous and need help with up-skilling and re-skilling, he said.

Mark Lauritsen of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union in North America said that in order to avoid the kind of disruption in the meat industry caused by the virus, automation will clearly continue but warned, “If automation is unbridled it’s going to be a threat.”

With office workers at home communicating via remote tools, a knock-on effect is also being felt: bus drivers, sandwich stall owners and janitors are in trouble as their jobs, which support in-office work, diminish. Jobs in administrative support, which includes roles in office buildings, are down about 700,000 since last year, according to November data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In addition, the stock market, already biased toward technology companies, has driven investors away from labor-intensive industries in the pandemic.

New automation also seems to be affecting retail jobs. There are 500,000 fewer of them than last November, according to the BLS. Transportation and warehousing are about 100,000 jobs below year-ago levels. Meanwhile, retail sales are at their highest level on record, mostly driven by e-commerce, which often employs more automation than than brick-and-mortar stores do.

The World Economic Forum reported in October that 43% of businesses surveyed are set to reduce their workforce due to technology integration while 34% plan to expand their workforce for the same reason. By 2025, the time spent on current tasks at work by humans and machines will be equal.

Some argue that turning over repetitive jobs to robots will free up workers to take on new roles in what is now a booming industry – elderly care. There is an urgent need for more workers to look after the “oldest old,” Manoj Pradhan, founder of Talking Heads Macroeconomics, and Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics professor, argue in their book “The Great Demographic Reversal.”

But Marcus Casey, an economist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says that while some high-skilled workers will be retrained, many low-skilled ones – like toll collectors – won’t, exacerbating inequality.

One case in point: The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission cut 500 jobs after installing an electronic tolling system in March.

Some companies are preparing for more pandemics, meaning more automation and fewer employees. Lucid Motors, an electric-vehicle startup backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, has built a 999,000-squarefoot electric vehicle factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, where it

hopes to start production on a $160,000 EV next year.

“After this pandemic, the next pandemic will show up,” said Peter Hochholdinger, Lucid’s vice president of manufacturing.

“We have to put more effort in automation in general assembly.”

In mining, Swedish suppliers Hexagon and Epiroc say interest in automation has suddenly jumped.

Caterpillar Inc. Chief Executive Jim Umpleby said recently that older equipment will probably be replaced by more digital trucks and autonomous technologies will reduce close proximity among workers.

Juan Cariamo, chairman of CNP, a public-private group that helps test mining technologies in Chile, said the virus is accelerating long-term changes by forcing companies to relocate employees off-site.

“The pandemic has imposed a sense of urgency,” Cariamo said in an interview. “Projects that were already in the pipeline are being sped up.”

In Chile, requests have grown for permits to pilot a wide range of technologies from tire pressure sensors to mining waste reprocessing and autonomous vehicles. Chile’s mining regulator signed an agreement with CNP in October to streamline the permit process.

BHP Group, the world’s biggest miner, has an $800 million program to add 500 autonomous trucks in iron ore and coal mines in Australia and is considering

adopting driverless trucks at copper mines in Chile.

Chile’s mining industry employed 201,000 people in September, down 15% from last year and the lowest in at least a decade, according to the country’s Mining Council.

Meanwhile, production has risen slightly and the council has lowered by 12% its projection for the number of mining jobs needed over the next decade.

Recession is a common time for investment in automation because borrowing is cheaper and companies that cut jobs – even if due to automation – can attribute the reductions to the economy and avoid negative publicity, said Ethan Pollack, policy director at The Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative.

The pandemic only adds to the motives, he said.

Currently, Chile, the U.S. and Mexico spend the least on active labor market policies – which are intended to improve job readiness and expand employment – among all countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That isn’t likely to change quickly because health concerns are coming first.

“Politicians are still not paying attention,” Pollack said.

“We’re going to be paying the cost for decades if we don’t act now.”

Tax laws also favor automation. U.S. tax on capital – which includes robots and machinery – is about 5%, whereas the tax on labor is about 25%, according to a study from MIT economists.

President-elect Joe Biden acknowledges the threat of job loss but hasn’t mentioned additional funding or changes to the tax code. He has said his administration will ensure that employers give all affected employees advance notice of technology changes and automation in the workplace, put their employees at the front of the line for new jobs and offer paid skills training.

Casey, the University of Illinois economist, says the more people without work, the greater the risk of social unrest.

“Many of these people are prime-age males who have virtually nothing to do and our social policy directs money away from that cohort by and large,” Casey said. Policy makers are “underestimating the political problem and the social problem that’s going to emerge when we go into a world in which there’s just not enough work to go around.

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FAIR F IELD — Welcome to 2021’s new movies.

There will a sense of deja vu as many movie theaters remain shuttered due to Covid-19.

Netflix will offer “Pieces of a Woman,” starting Thursday.

The story centers on a couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change when a home birth ends in tragedy.

Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for the motherto-be who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with her husband and her mother as well as midwife (Molly Parker), whom she must face in court.

Arriving on home screens Friday are: “Average Joe,” an action/fantasy film about when Lord Menace returns from the dead to terrorize San Antonio.

The old gang must reassemble to fight evil once more. Unfortunately, since their last adventure, the gang has become complacent. It’s not rated.

“Herself,” about a woman who escapes her abusive partner with her two young children.

Finding a home to call their own seems impossible. She draws inspiration from one of her daughter’s bedtime stories and hits upon the idea of selfbuilding an affordable home. Challenges lie ahead from her possessive ex and bureaucrats.

It’s rated R. “Redemption Day,” which features Andy Garcia and centers on a newly returned home, decorated U.S. Marine Corps captain whose wife is kidnapped by a terrorist group while working in Morocco. He is forced back into action to save the woman he loves.

It’s rated R. “Stars Fell on Alabama,” a romantic comedy centered on a successful Hollywood agent returning to Alabama for the first time in 15 years for his high school reunion.

When he learns he’s the only one of his friends

who isn’t married with children, he convinces his client, a starlet, to pretend to be his girlfriend. It’s rated PG-13.

“Stuck Apart,” a dark comedy about a man going through an existential crisis after longing for his youth.

He’s not happy with his work nor his private life, which is also hijacked by his sister and her family who have been living with him. His relationship with his girlfriend is also not in the best place.

When he least expects it, there’s a chance to rescue himself from the black hole he’s trapped in.

He comes to realize this turns him into a pathological liar – to a point where there’s no turning back.

It’s not rated.

“The Reason I Jump,” based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida.

It blends Higashida’s revelatory insights into autism, written when he was 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people.

It’s not rated.

“Zombie Bro,” which centers on a normal 10-year-old girl living with a not-so-normal family. Her older brother is a zombie. When she catches her brother biting someone, she doesn’t know what to do.

But when people around her start turning into zombies, desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s not rated.

“If Not Now, When?” is the story of four friends who met in high school and are bonded by an event. They are suddenly forced back together when one of them suffers a crisis. It’s not rated.

“The Dissident,” which centers on journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance in Istanbul. His fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to murder and expose a global cover-up.

It’s rated PG-13.

Check streaming services to see what movies are available.

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Calvin and Hobbes comic by Bill Watterson.

Watterson, others reflect on 1995, the year that comics changed forever The Washington Post Bill Watterson reflects today and marvels at the perch that syndicated strips once held, back when the comics page was part of the nation’s daily cultural conversation.

“The reach and impact of newspaper comic strips,” Watterson says by email, “is almost impossible to fathom now.”

Watterson created “Calvin and Hobbes” for a decade, when the strip was syndicated to 2,000-plus newspapers. When his comic ended its run a quarter-century ago this week – on Dec. 31, 1995 – the departure capped a seismic year of farewells by superstar strips: Gary Larson had retired “The Far Side” that January, and Berkeley Breathed had ended his Sunday-only “Bloom County” spinoff, “Outland,” that March.

“This was three Hall of Famers walking away in their prime,” says Andrew Farago, curator of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. “I don’t think anything like that had happened before, or has happened since, in comics.”

All three features had been a daily morning must-read for multitudes – exactly a century after Richard Outcault’s “Hogan’s Alley,” featuring the Yellow Kid, first helped spur the rise of Sunday color comics as big audience draws.

“A cartoonist could talk to tens of millions of people, from all walks of life, every single day, year after year,” Watterson says. “Newspaper comics were about as democratic an art as you can get. The mass media had its faults, but I do miss the way it created a shared cultural experience.”

Other stellar strips continued to attract many readers after 1995, and Watterson notes that in the early 2000s, Richard

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Bloom Count y painting by Berkeley Breathed.

Thompson’s “Cul de Sac” proved that the launch of great new comics was still possible. But that, he says, was during the era when “the Internet came and blew apart the newspaper ecosystem.”

“A lot of the technological change has been exciting, but it’s really changed how creative works are valued,” says Watterson, noting that if cartoon art can be digitized, “it’s probably out there, free for the taking.

The old business model doesn’t work anymore. It’s hard to compete against instantaneous, plentiful and free.”

Hilary Price, whose syndicated strip “Rhymes With Orange” launched in the summer of 1995, says journalism’s digital transition has affected comics’ visibility for the worse.

“For readers who get their news on a screen, online newspapers bury their comics deep in their websites, if they carry them at all,” Price says. “Sunday funnies don’t ‘wrap’ the Sunday e-editions. So as more people migrate to the screen, the comics are further divorced from the news-reading experience.”

Breathed, who this month cel-

ebrated the 40th anniversary of “Bloom County’s” launch, says he has adjusted to the industry’s technological evolution.

He revived “Bloom County” in 2015, after ending the Pulitzer Prize-winning strip in 1989.

Today, he values his “immediate relationship” with his online readers – a smaller but more connected audience than in the ‘90s. “I knew nothing of, or from, my readers for decades.

Now, we’re family,” Breathed says. “Not a family of 70 million anymore, but closer. We hug digitally – far more rewarding.”

The key to adapting to the new ecosystem, he says, is to keep your eyes and insights facing forward: “It’s like divorce and resenting finding your assets halved overnight: The mental Zen trick for survival is pretending that the other half never existed.”

Although the 20th-century primacy of the mass-media newspaper comic strip has faded, Watterson is optimistic about the next generation.

“That makes me feel old, but comics are an incredibly versatile, adaptable art,” he says.

“They’re such a natural and effective way to communicate ideas that I don’t doubt that new artists will find new ways to find new audiences.

“I have to remind myself that this Internet landscape is completely normal to the kids coming up, and their motivations and solutions will not be what mine were,” he notes. “The world moves on.”

Breathed, whose Hollywood credits include adapting his book “A Wish for Wings That Work,” compares the print comic strip with the movie multiplex, believing both are in permanent repose.

“Neither movies nor comic art are disappearing, though,” he says. “That’s the punchline.”

Bridge

by Phillip Alder

West leads the heart five. What should declarer do?

In the auction, South undervalued his hand. The Kaplan-Rubens evaluation method rates his hand at 23.85 points. South should have opened two clubs and rebid two no-trump. However, then a Stayman sequence would have warned West not to lead a heart. If he had chosen a diamond, careful defense would have beaten the contract.

Against two no-trump, though, West went with fourth-highest from his longest and strongest.

Declarer applied the Rule of Eleven.

Five from 11 is six. So there were six hearts higher than the five in the North, East and South hands combined. Since declarer could see five of them, he knew East had only one.

Could that be the king?

If so, West had started with a heart suit headed by the J-10-9-5 and would have led the jack. So, West had to have CLUES ARE THERE the heart king. South called for dummy’s queen.

FOR THE FINDING When that held, declarer played a Actress Jessica Alba said, “My club to his queen and West’s king. West theory is that if you look confident, you should have led another heart, but he can pull off anything – even if you have shifted to a spade. Declarer cashed his no clue what you’re doing.” black-suit winners and heart ace before A bridge player who has no clue giving East the lead in spades and what he is doing doesn’t look for the scoring the diamond king at trick 13. clues that would help him to find the Plus 180 was a 90% board. winning declarer-play or defense. In COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE today’s deal, South is in two no-trump.

Sudoku

by Wayne Gould

Word Sleuth

Here’s how to work it:

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Bridge

WORD SLEUTH ANSWER

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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 CLUES ARE THERE and computer program at FORwww.sudoku.com THE FINDING

Actress Jessica Alba said, “My theory is that if you look confident, you can pull off anything – even if you have no clue what you’re doing.”

A bridge player who has no clue

Difficulty level: Silver Yesterday’s solution:

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LEONCIA JOYA PILA Case Number: P050516

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CARLA R. McLOUGHLIN Case Number: P050540

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Leonicia Joya Pila, Leonica Pila, Leonicia J. Pila A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Reynaldo J. Pila, Jr. in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Reynaldo J. Pila, Jr. 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.

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Carla R. McLoughlin A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Ashley McLoughlin in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Ashley McLoughlin 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. 22, 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.

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Attorney for petitioner: Julie Fiedler (SBN: 224855) Horizon Elder Law & Estate Planning 2333 San Ramon Valley Blvd. Suite 145 San Ramon, CA 94583 (925) 244-1185 DR# 00043903 Published: January 1, 4, 8, 2021

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: FEB. 1, 2021 TIME: 8:30 a.m.; DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Ave. 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.

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THIRD AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LYNNE YATES-CARTER Case Number: P050308 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Lynne Yates-Carter A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Carlo Teresi in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Carlo Teresi be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

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

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Sports

Scoreboard FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 13 3 0 .813 501 375 10 6 0 .625 404 338 7 9 0 .438 326 353 2 14 0 .125 243 457 North

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Pittsburgh 12 4 0 .750 416 312 xy-Baltimore 11 5 0 .688 468 303 xy-Cleveland 11 5 0 .688 408 419 Cincinnati 4 11 1 .281 311 424 South

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Tennessee 11 5 0 .688 491 439 xy-Indianapolis 11 5 0 .688 451 362 Houston 4 12 0 .250 384 464 Jacksonville 1 15 0 .063 306 492 West

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Kansas City 14 2 0 .875 473 362 Las Vegas 8 8 0 .500 434 478 L.A. Chargers 7 9 0 .438 384 426 Denver 5 11 0 .313 323 446 National Conference East

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Washington 7 9 0 .438 335 329 N.Y. Giants 6 10 0 .375 280 357 Dallas 6 10 0 .375 395 473 Philadelphia 4 11 1 .281 334 418

xz-Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets

North

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Green Bay 13 3 0 .813 509 369 xy-Chicago 8 8 0 .500 372 370 Minnesota 7 9 0 .438 430 475 Detroit 5 11 0 .313 377 519 South

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-New Orleans 12 4 0 .750 482 337 xy-Tampa Bay 11 5 0 .688 492 355 Carolina 5 11 0 .313 350 402 Atlanta 4 12 0 .250 396 414 West

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Seattle 12 4 0 .750 459 371 xy-L.A. Rams 10 6 0 .625 372 296 Arizona 8 8 0 .500 410 367 SAN FRAN 6 10 0 .375 376 390 x-clinched playoff berth y-clinched wild card z-clinched division title Sunday’s Games Seattle 26, SAN FRANCISCO 23 Tampa Bay 44, Atlanta 27 N.Y. Giants 23, Dallas 19 New England 28, N.Y. Jets 14 Minnesota 37, Detroit 35 Cleveland 24, Pittsburgh 22 Baltimore 38, Cincinnati 3 Buffalo 56, Miami 26 L.A. Rams 18, Arizona 7 Las Vegas 32, Denver 31 Indianapolis 28, Jacksonville 14 Tennessee 41, Houston 38 L.A. Chargers 38, Kansas City 21 Green Bay 35, Chicago 16 New Orleans 33, Carolina 7 Washington 20, Philadelphia 14 END REGULAR SEASON

NFL Playoffs

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 4 2 .667 — Portland 3 3 .500 1 Oklahoma City 2 3 .400 1½ Minnesota 2 4 .333 2 Denver 2 4 .333 2 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Phoenix 5 2 .714 — L.A. Clippers 5 2 .714 — L.A. Lakers 5 2 .714 — SACRAMENTO 3 3 .500 1½ GOLDEN STATE 3 3 .500 1½ Southwest Division

W L Pct GB New Orleans 4 2 .667 ­— Houston 2 2 .500 1 San Antonio 2 4 .333 2 Memphis 2 4 .333 2 Dallas 2 4 .333 2 Sunday’s Games GOLDEN STATE 137, Portland 122 Boston 122, Detroit 120 Washington 123, Brooklyn 122 L.A. Lakers 108, Memphis 94 Denver 124, Minnesota 109 Utah 130, San Antonio 109 Chicago 118, Dallas 108 L.A. Clippers 112, Phoenix 107 Monday’s Games SACRAMENTO at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Charlotte at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

New York at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Boston vs. Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

Dallas at Houston, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Indiana at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Utah at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Denver, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Portland, 7:30 p.m.

Wildcard Round Saturday, Jan. 9 Indianapolis at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Seattle, 1:40 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 5:15 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 9 Baltimore at Tennessee, 10 a.m.

Chicago at New Orleans, 1:40 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 5:15 p.m.

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Philadelphia 5 1 .833 — Boston 4 3 .571 1½ New York 3 3 .400 2 Brooklyn 3 4 .429 2½ Toronto 1 4 .200 3½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Indiana 4 2 .667 — Cleveland 4 2 .667 — Milwaukee 3 3 .500 1 Chicago 2 5 .286 2½ Detroit 1 5 .167 3 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Orlando 4 2 .667 — Atlanta 4 2 .667 — Miami 2 3 .400 1½ Charlotte 2 4 .333 2 Washington 2 5 .286 2½

49ers: Played without 2 top receivers could have been greater, but Beathard missed a breakout season. Wilson wide open Kittle in the end was the 49ers’ leader zone on second down prior in rushing yards (600) to a third-down sack. and touchdowns (seven Kittle finished with rushing, three receiving). 7 catches for 68 yards, T h e S e a h aw k s giving him 41 recepanswered by pulling tions for 566 yards (two within 16-13 on Tyler touchdown) in a season Lockett’s third-and-goal marred by a knee injury touchdown catch from in the season opener a scrambling Russell and a Nov. 1 foot fracWilson, with 10:54 left. ture at Seattle.

Tight end George The 49ers pulled even Kittle helped put the at 6 after Vizcaino’s field 49ers ahead for the first goals from 36 and 47 yards. time when his 41-yard, Gould went on the NFL’s one-handed catch set Covid-19 reserve list up Tristan Vizcaino’s third Wednesday, the same day field goal of the day (and the 49ers reworked his of Vizcaino’s career as he contract and guaranteed filled in for Robbie Gould). him $7.5 million to kick That 9-6 lead midway the next two seasons.

The 49ers allowed through the third quarter From Page B1

play (45-yard catch on a first-half field-goal drive) and Bourne came through with conversion catches (11-yarder on fourth-and-3 late in the third quarter).

But now, the 49ers are missing the playoffs for the third time in four seasons under Kyle Shanahan. Their only postseason trip: last year, after going 13-3 before claiming the NFC Championship and then letting a fourthquarter lead slip away in Super Bowl LIV. The Seahawks entered Sunday already with their fifth NFC West title in 11 years under coach Pete Carroll.

the NFL’s second-fewest red zone touchdowns entering Week 17, and they forced Seattle to settle for field goals of 36 and 30 yards in the first half for a 6-0 deficit.

While the 49ers’ top wide receivers, Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel, were inactive with injuries, the Seahawks saw franchise single-season records set by their top duo of D.K. Metcalf (yards) and Lockett (receptions); both milestones came on the same secondquarter drive.

The 49ers’ nextbest receivers, Richie James and Kendrick Bourne, started and contributed as expected.

James produced a big

Raiders: Waller sets receptions record From Page B1 Gaffes in the secondary have been prevalent throughout the season, and the finale was no different. This time, it was allowing Jeudy to get loose for a 92-yard touchdown pass form lock on a third-and-10 play.

The Raiders recovered from their spate of turnovers to tie the game 24-24 on a 28-yard run by Jacobs, capping a 90-yard, nine-play drive with

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Carr had a 25-yard completion to Edwards and three completions to Waller, who eclipsed Tim Brown’s single-season receiving record with his 105th catch.

Henry Ruggs III lost a fumble on a reverse on a crushing hit by Michael Ojemudia – giving the Raiders two turnovers in three snaps – to set up Gordon’s 12-yard touchdown run with 14:54 to play. Lock threw

Almanac

Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m.

Temperature High/Low.............................61°/45° Average high .......................... 58.3° Average low............................ 38.3° A year ago............................ NA/NA Barometric pressure............30.18 Humidity...................................84%

Air Quality Index 33 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0″ Good Moderate Unhealthy Unhealthy Very sensitive unhealthy Month-to-date....................... 0.03″ Normal Jan. rainfall .............. 4.77″ Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date...................... 3.87″ Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81″ UV Index This date last year...................... NA 2 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Good Moderate

High

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Tonight Partly cloudy, then areas of fog

37

Tuesday Areas of fog, then mostly sunny

58|37

Wednesday 40% chance of rain before 10 a.m.

57|40 Thursday Mostly sunny

59|38 Friday Chance of early rain, partly sunny

58|37

Lake Berryessa

Elevation Storage in acre feet (a.f.)

418.00 1,159,685

to Jerry Jeudy for the twopoint conversion and a 24-17 Denver lead.

The Broncos closed the Raiders’ margin on their first possession of the second half on McManus’ 37-yard field goal to make it 17-13. The attempt was set up by a questionable 27-yard pass i nt er fer enc e penalty against Nevin L awson, who was covering DaeSean Hamilton along the sideline.

Following a Carr inter-

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Monday’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 •Presbyterian at North Carolina-Ashville, ESPNU, 2 p.m.

•Loyola-Chicago at Bradley, CBSSN, 4 p.m.

•Howard at Norfolk State, ESPNU, 4 p.m.

•Maryland at Indiana, BIG TEN, 5 p.m.

•Colorado State at San Diego State, FS1, 6 p.m.

•Jackson State at Alabama State, ESPNU, 6 p.m.

•West Virginia at Oklahoma State, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

College women •Indiana at Maryland, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

•South Carolina at Alabama, SEC, 4 p.m.

•Penn State at Ohio State, BIG TEN, 4 p.m.

NBA •Dallas at Houston, NBATV, 5 p.m.

•Sacramento at Golden State, NBCSBA, NBCSCA, 7 p.m.

Soccer •Super Lig, Kasımpaşa Spor Kulubu vs. Fenerbahce, BEIN, 7:55 a.m.

•Premier League, Southampton vs. Liverpool, NBCSN, 11 a.m.

•La Liga, Valencia vs. Cadiz, BEIN, 11:50 a.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Basketball College men •Nebraska at Purdue, BIG TEN, 4 p.m.

•SEC teams TBA, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

•Big 12 teams TBA, ESPNU, 4 p.m.

•Villanova at DePaul, FS1, 4 p.m.

•Davidson at Duquesne, CBSSN, 4 p.m.

•Vanderbilt at Kentucky, SEC, 4 p.m.

•North Carolina State at Clemson, ACC, 4 p.m.

•North Carolina at Miami, ESPN, 5 p.m.

•Missouri at Mississippi State, SEC, 6 p.m.

•Rutgers at Michigan State, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

•Connecticut at Marquette, FS1, 6 p.m.

•Memphis at Central Florida, ESPNU, 6 p.m.

•Kansas at TCU, ESPN, 7 p.m.

College women •North Carolina at Louisville, ACC, 11:30 a.m.

NBA •L.A. Lakers at Memphis, NBATV, 5 p.m.

•Chicago at Portland, NBATV, 7:30 p.m.

Soccer •Super Lig, Konyaspor vs. Galatasaray, BEIN, 7:55 a.m.

•La Liga, Athletic Bilbao vs. Elche, BEIN, noon •Copa Libertadores, River Plate vs. Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, BEIN, 4:20 p.m.

•Super Lig, Besiktas vs. Rizespor, BEIN, 7:55 a.m.

(Wednesday)

Sharks: Training From Page B1 B ough ner s a id Ferraro, who had 11 points last season, looks more confident than he did at the 2019 camp.

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Shown is today’s weather.

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Sunrise..............................7:25 a.m.

Sunset...............................5:02 p.m.

Moonrise....................... 11:05 p.m.

Moonset............11:46 a.m. (Tues.)

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ception which glanced off the hands of Waller and in to the hands of Justin Simmons, Denver got a 20-yard pass on a back shoulder fade from Lock to Noah Fant, setting up a 27-yard field goal to make it 17-16 with 3:07 let in the third quarter.

The Raiders took a 17-10 lead at halftime with some complementary football the likes of which were seen far too infrequently through 15 games.

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National forecast

High

(feet) Low

4:54 a.m.

3:43 p.m.

5:36 a.m.

4:57 p.m.

5.16 5.02 5.39 4.47

(feet)

10:09 a.m. 2.47 10:20 p.m. 0.11 11:24 a.m. 2.07 11:10 p.m. 0.67

Suisun High Today 8:50 a.m.

5:47 p.m.

Tuesday 7:28 a.m.

7:02 p.m.

(feet) Low

4.43 4.71 4.60 4.19

(feet)

12:23 a.m. -0.24 12:52 p.m. 1.52 1:03 a.m. -0.04 2:04 p.m. 1.28

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