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FAIRFIELD — The Mini Meow Rescue is a purr-fect fit for Alexis Taliferro. The 16-year-old even helped launch the nonprofit and serves as a junior board member. Her dream is to be a veterinarian. Taliferro is getting a myriad experience working with Mini Meow as well as other animals rescues, including Vacaville’s Funky Chicken. “Alexis is an amazing young lady,” wrote Funky Chicken’s Darcy Smith. “She started volunteering at the Funky Chicken Rescue the day we brought our animals home from being evacuated for the LNU Fire.” Taliferro, who drives, is schedule to volunteer once a week, but often ends up at the Funky Chicken two or three times weekly, Smith said. “She is so amazing,” Smith said. “She balances school, having her own rescue, a job and volunteering. Alexis is a joy to have around. She works hard and truly loves the animals and caring for them.” Taliferro met Mini Meow cofounder Barbara Steele when the pair worked with another kitten rescue. Steele began fostering with that rescue when when she lost her cat of 15 years, Miss Kitty, in 2017. “I just wanted another pet for me,” she said. “I was just going to foster until I found the right one.” Now, she fosters and helps others find the right kitten for their home. Her favorite kittens to raise are bottle babies. Her son helps socialize the kittens with the goal it will teach him to be a caring and compassionate person. Taliferro’s youthful enthusiasm was the reason she said yes to the teen when approached with the idea of a beginning a new rescue. “It’s a lot of work,” Steele said. “I needed the young heart to help me to be motivated. Alexis is a big part of what I do.” Steele handles most of the medical care and Taliferro is also learning. Each member of the Mini Meow board has found their niche

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Pelosi plans impeachment against Trump Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Citing President Donald Trump’s “assault on our democracy,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday for the first time that the House would move to impeach him in the wake of last week’s ransacking of the U.S. Capitol, unless Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet agree to remove him under the 25th Amendment. Pelosi’s plan, disclosed in a letter to colleagues, came as a second Republican senator called on Trump to resign over his incitement of the mob that attacked the seat of Congress on Wednesday, marking an intensifying push by Democrats to force Trump from power before his term ends at noon on Jan. 20. With administra-

tion officials showing little appetite to remove Trump by invoking the 25th Amendment and more than 210 Democrats already signed on to proposed articles of impeachment, Trump is likely to be impeached by the House for the second time, the first U.S. president to hold that distinction. He was impeached last year for pressuring Ukrainian government officials to investigate Biden but later acquitted by the Senate. “Next we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the floor,” Pelosi said, giving Pence 24 hours to respond. “In protecting our Constitution and our democracy, we will act with urgency, because this president represents an imminent threat to both.” See Pelosi, Page A8

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Alexis Taliferro, 16, is the co-founder of Mini Meow cat rescue. and performs duties accordingly, Steele said. “I consider us to be a familyfriendly rescue,” Steele said. Taliferro is currently fostering a litter in her bedroom. She feeds them, cleans them and plays with them to socialize the cats. And, they often sing her meow well into the evening. They are named after characters from the Netflix show “Stranger Things.” “I’ve always wanted to run my own animal rescue,” she said. “I love all animals.” She found it difficult to do volunteer work with some animal rescues because she was not 18. Taliferro said she understood insurance

rules were often the reason. Mini Meow places an emphasis on quality of care, Taliferro said. Some rescues take in too many kittens and are unable to provide equitable care for the felines, she said. Taliferro dreams of attending UC Davis. She is also hoping to find work in a veterinarian’s office. It was hard to say goodbye to the first litter she fostered. It’s become easier now as they move on to new homes, she said. “I always know more will come,” she said. Ironically, the Taliferro family does not have a pet cat. You can learn more at www. minimeowrescue.com.

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks, Thursday, during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Pelosi called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump a day after his supporters stormed the Capitol.

Powell splits State nearing 30K Covid deaths with GOP after attack Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — California on Sunday continued to see a dramatic surge in its number of Covid-19 deaths, with the state fast approaching another milestone: 30,000 fatalities. The pace of daily Covid-19 deaths has climbed dramatically since the most recent surge began in November. On Election Day, Nov. 3, California was recording about 40 deaths a day; by Thanksgiving, about 70 deaths a day, and by Christmas, about 220 deaths a day. By Saturday night, California was recording an average of 451 deaths a day for the last week, a record. It took roughly six months for California to record its 10,000th death, which was recorded on Aug. 6, and four more months to record its 20,000th death, which was logged on Dec. 8. California recorded its

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Clinicians re-position a Covid-19 patient into the supine position at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in Covid-19 patients at the hospital and across Southern California, Jan. 6, in Apple Valley. 29,877th death by Sunday afternoon, just about one month later, according to a preliminary survey of local health jurisdictions conducted by the Los Angeles Times. Five of the highest single-day death tallies for California have been recorded in the last week. The most recent single-day death record for California occurred on Friday, when 685 deaths

were recorded, breaking the previous record of 575 deaths tallied on New Year’s Eve. An additional 456 deaths were tallied statewide on Saturday, the sixth-highest single-day tally. California is recording an increasing number of daily coronavirus cases after a post-Christmas lull. From Dec. 16 to Dec. 22, the state was recording an

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average of 45,000 coronavirus cases a day, a record for the seven-day average; that stabilized to between 35,000 and 40,000 cases a day until Thursday. But the seven-day average rose to nearly 44,000 new coronavirus cases a day by Saturday, the fourth-highest such number of the pandemic. The post-Christmas surge in new coronavirus cases has been growing by the day. Los Angeles County’s average number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, Friday and Saturday was about 18,000 – significantly above the average of about 14,000 new cases a day over the last week. “This very clearly is the latest surge from the winter holidays and New Year’s – no question about it,” said Dr. Paul Simon, the L.A. County Department of Public Health’s chief science officer, on Friday. “It had gradually See Covid, Page A8

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Tribune Content Agency Colin Powell, a former Republican Secretary of State, says he no longer considers himself a member of the party. During an interview on Sunday about Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked Powell if he thinks Republicans who refused to condemn President Donald Trump realize they “encouraged, at least, POWELL this wildness to grow and grow.” “They did,” Powell said. “And that’s why I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican.” He said he’s “not a fellow of anything right now.” “I’m just a citizen who has voted Republican, voted Democrat through-

out my entire career and right now I’m just watching my country and not concerned with parties,” Powell told CNN. Extremist supporters of Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday following a rally during which Trump falsely told them the election had been “stolen.” T he v io lence, in which five people died, interrupted congressiona l hearings to verify the election of President-elect Joe Biden, which was completed later that night. Powell, 83, served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and national security adviser in the 1980s and 1990s. He served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.

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I am venting 95-year-old quiltmaker beat my anger today Covid, makes about 3K masks

vents of the has been the past week left oh-so-delicate, me feeling spongy soft 26thranked defense. incredibly angry. I Raiders quaram talkin’ Human terback Derek Torch “Flame Carr was a On!” red-hot bright spot in the angry. I have 2020 campaign as learned over my 57 years that Tony Wade he threw for more than 4,000 yards suppressing my The last laugh and completed anger is not an 67% of his passes. option if I am to keep a So what do many certain acceptable Raiders fans think the level of sanity. answer is to get over the So today, I vent. If you came here wanting some- no-playoffs hump? Get rid of Carr. thing funny, well, too bad. That’s like wondering Convulsed About Colwhy your plane with no orization: Every now and wings can’t fly and decidagain, I must have my ing to fix it by replacing “Three Stooges” fix. I the perfectly fine engine. need deep and soul-fulWrathful At One Hit filling belly laughs that Designation: I was going can only be elicited by the through my YouTube slapstick antics of Moe, Music recommended Larry and Curly or Moe, playlists and one of them Larry and Shemp (Curly Joe is an abomination and was named ’70s One-Hit Wonders. It included I will box anyone who songs like “Float On” by says differently). The Floaters, “Afternoon Anyway, I found an Delight” by the Starland episode on Comcast Vocal Band, “Hot Child in and to my never-ending horror, it was in color. the City” by Nick Gilder and more. Imagine my Now, this was a big thing in the 1980s. Some chuck- surprise when I saw Irish rock band Thin Lizzy’s lehead discovered a way tune “The Boys Are Back to digitally colorize old in Town” included! I was black and white films incensed, but had no one and shorts. Just because to express my disgust to you can do it, doesn’t at this egregious error so mean you should. I ran outside to the middle Miffed About Meaty of the street in front of Pudding: In February my house and screeched, of last year I decided to “Thin Lizzy are not become a whole-food, one-hit wonders!” plant-based eater and I My neighbors now love it and have never felt think I’m weird. better. I am tired of the Bitter About Burnt first thing people asking Up Musicians: I simply me about when they disrefuse to believe that in cover I no longer eat meat the now 37 years since is where I get my protein. we were first informed of Forget the fact that there the situation that no one are plenty of non-animal has been able to plausisources to get protein, bly explain why so many the fact that there is such Spinal Tap drummers an emphasis on it to the spontaneously combusted. exclusion of so many other Galled At Gag Gifts: necessary nutrients is My brother OT Wade simply a testament to the (whom we call Juer) and success of Atkins/other my sister-in-law Patty sent protein-based diets that my wife and I a Christmas exploded in popularity. card. It arrived Jan. 6. It’s But that ain’t what understandable because, I angered me last week. No, mean, they do live all the it was when I realized that way in Rio Vista. the spoken line in Pink The card was a handFloyd’s song “Another crafted one that was so Brick in the Wall Part special. Sorta. It said, 2” that goes “If you “Happy Christmas! don’t eat your meat, you Merry New Year and can’t have any pudding! all that good stuff!” and How can you have any they’d signed it. Well, they pudding if you don’t eat actually scratched out my your meat?!” doesn’t other brother Kelvin and apply to me anymore as I his main squeeze Cathi’s don’t eat either. name and wrote theirs. Raging About Fellow Yes, they sent me a Raider Fans: Um, my recycled Christmas card. Raiders finished 8-8 this Late. Or early depending season and are once on how you look at it. again watching the I was extremely angry playoffs instead of par. . . because I had not ticipating in them like thought to do it myself. lesser teams, including the hapless Santa Clara/ Reach Fairfield writer Arizona 49ers. Now, the Tony Wade at toeknee team’s weakness all year weighed@gmail.com.

Tribune Content Agency When the Covid-19 pandemic first struck Ohio, Miriam Looker’s top concern was keeping her children safe. It’s a feeling that doesn’t go away just because your children are grown, the mother of nine said. So when her youngest stepson, a family physician, said he couldn’t find face masks for his patients to wear during their appointments, the 95-year-old quiltmaker from Marysville, Ohio, knew she had to help. And, luckily, she knew how. She had the cotton fabric. She had a sewing machine. A Millersport manufacturer sold the elastic she needed for ear loops and there were plenty of instructions available online. “I thought, ‘Well, that’s something I can do, and it’s helpful.’ So I did it,” Looker said during a recent video call with The Dispatch. “When we’re in quarantine, what you can do is limited. So I might as well make masks.” About 3,000 masks later, Looker hasn’t stopped – not even after a bout with Covid-19 in November. And she’s proud to say her stepson hasn’t contracted the virus. In the spring, when reusable masks were hard to come by, Dr. Joe Linscott who has a practice in Marysville, distributed Looker’s masks to all his patients. Now Looker has made so many masks that they’re protecting people throughout the city. With the help of Walnut Crossing, the senior-living community where she lives, donations have helped schools, her church, hospice centers and fellow residents, among others. Looker has cut the fabric for all 3,000 masks and sewn about 1,700 of them. She tries to make 10 a day, with each one taking about 15 minutes, she said. She r ecr u ited friends to help, including 89-year-old Joann Shroyer, who says she sewed most of the other 1,300. When it comes to mask-making, Linscott, 57, compared Looker to Rosie the Riveter, the iconic character representing women who took on factory jobs during World War II. “She’s a big-time quilter, but she changed her whole assembly line to making masks for

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Miriam Looker, a 95-year-old quiltmaker and resident of Walnut Crossing senior living community in Marysville, Ohio, poses for a photo with some of the masks she has made, including the one she is wearing before heading to an ugly Christmas sweater party, Dec. 18, 2020. us,” Linscott said. “Early on, there were no masks. It was hard to get them. She stepped up. She gave us bags at a time, sometimes 200 a week.” When asked about the comparison, Looker leaned back in her chair and laughed. She wasn’t a riveter during World War II, but she did test parachutes at Wilbur Wright Field in Dayton at about 20 years old. “It kind of fits,” she

said, smiling. Looker said recent s t ud i e s s u g g e s ting homemade masks can curb the spread of Covid-19 are encouraging. “It’s kind of nice to know your efforts haven’t been in vain,” she said. “Maybe I did help somebody.” She’s no stranger to donating her work for a worthy cause. She normally spends hours each week sewing for Marysville First

Un ited Met hod ist Church’s quilting club. The church supplies the materials and donates the quilts to nursing homes, police, firefighters, veterans, the poor and sick – anybody who might enjoy one, she said. Walnut Crossing also has a quilt-making group that meets regularly. Now that people aren’t having as much difficulty finding them, Looker said her mask production is slowing down and she will likely resume quilting. She had to take a break, though, while recovering from Covid-19. “I spent a lot of time in my easy chair, with my eyes resting – some people call those naps,” Looker joked. “I’d sleep all morning, eat lunch, and sleep all afternoon and all night.” Though her energy level still isn’t 100%, Looker said she is feeling much better. On Dec. 18, she said she had signed up to get her Covid-19 vaccine whenever it becomes available to Walnut Crossing residents, because so much is still unknown about a person’s immunity after infection. “If my getting it helps someone else, even, it’s worth doing,” Looker said. “They’ve worked hard on it. Enough people examined it. I’m getting it right away.” Looker said she enjoys being an active member of the community at Walnut Crossing, where she has lived for just over two years.

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Agriculture Department is updating its procedures to obtain restricted use pesticide permits in 2021. “The change is part of a statewide directive initiated by the Department of Pesticide Regulation in November 2020, requiring growers and pest control advisers to identify alternatives to pesticides specifically classified as restricted use materials prior to applying for a permit,” according to a Significant Issues report released by the county administration. “This practice will assist Solano County agricultural biologists in evaluating potential adverse environmental impacts of restricted use pesticides, all while ensuring compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act regulations.” There are about 175 growers in the county who will be affected by this change. For more information, contact the department at 784-1310. Also as part of the Significant Issues Report, the administration noted that County Administrator Birgitta Corsello signed several contracts within her authority:

n A $69,168 contract with the Regents of the University of California, Davis, to provide staff development training for Employment and Eligibility employees through June 30, 2021. The funding source is Federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds. n A $60,000 revenue contract with Mendocino County to provide public health laboratory services to Mendocino County through June 30, 2021. The funding source is Mendocino County. n A $43,228 revenue contract with the state Department of Agriculture to provide winter detection and trapping of the Asian Citrus Psyllid through April 30, 2021. The funding source is the state Department of Agriculture. n A $32,700 contract with the California Mental Health Services Authority to serve as a primary suicide prevention hotline for Solano County residents through June 30, 2021. The funding source is a combination of Mental Health Service Act and Prevention and Early Intervention funds. n A $27,361 contract with Fairfield to provide the site and cleaning services for the Optum Covid-19 testing site from Nov. 17 to Dec. 30, 2020. The funding source was the federal CARES Act.

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FAIRFIELD — An update on the Covid-19 pandemic as it relates to schools and the rollout of vaccinations will be the topic of a virtual town hall scheduled Tuesday. Tony Thurmond, superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. Allison B r a s h e a r, dean of the University of C a l i for n ia , Davis School of Medicine, headline the meeting, which is dodd hosted by Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, and Solano County’s representative. The town hall is scheduled for 6 p.m. It will be streamed live over multiple channels and broadcast on KSVY Sonoma. Panelists will take live and submitted questions. Live audio will be presented at KSVY.org, with video streams at https:// sd03.senate.ca.gov; www. facebook.com/SenBillDodd; www.youtube.com/ user/SonomaTV/; and SonomaTV.org. The event also will be broadcast on KSVY 91.3 FM. Questions can be sent by email to townhall@ ksvy.org. To call in with questions, dial 933-9133.

New grief series begins this week NorthBay Bereavement Center has released the schedule for upcoming classes in the new year. “Journey Through Grief” is an eight-week series of classes focused on healing and learning about grief. The class meets online from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Each participant must have been bereaved or in mourning for three months before registering for the class. Each session is facilitated by a grief

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therapist and is offered free of charge to the people of Solano County. The class is limited to seven people. The 2021 schedule is: n Jan. 12 to March 2: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n March 30 to May 18: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n June 15 to Aug. 3: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n Aug. 31 to Oct. 19: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n Nov. 9 to Dec. 21: “Grief During the Holidays.” Due to Covid-19 safety mandates, all grief support groups are offered online until further notice. To reserve a place, call 646-3517.

Virtual workshop talks NorCal water A virtual workshop on water conveyance, with a focus on Northern California, takes place Tuesday. It is part of a series of workshops held by the California Water Commission and are “not associated with the pending proposal to improve conveyance through the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta,” the commission said in a statement. “The commission’s goal with these workshops is to learn from diverse voices across the state. Participants from the region are encouraged to share their perspective on conveyance infrastructure needs and priorities, effective partnerships, public benefits of conveyance, possible criteria to assess resilience, efforts in preparing for changing hydrology, and See Week, Page A4

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In her free time, Shay Rose practices aerial acrobatics, using a hoop and silks.

12-foot-wide dress creates a social distancing bubble Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — This wasn’t the first time Shay Rose went viral. But it was the biggest. In her 21 years, the social media star – Shay Rose is a pseudonym – has built a mammoth following on TikTok and Instagram with handmade whimsical costumes that re-create looks from Disney princesses to Lady Gaga. When the pandemic began, Rose moved from the UCLA dorms back in with her family in Orange County. As cases climbed in September, she wondered: “Wouldn’t it be nice to have your own social distancing bubble?” She had plenty of pink tulle on hand, and besides, wouldn’t it be fun to make a dress with a 6-foot radius? By the end of November, the finished project had racked up 3.9 million likes and 16.8 million views on the social media platform TikTok. It took two months and more than 350 feet of tulle but, as Rose speculated on Instagram, sometimes creating is rewarding. Other times, it can be exhausting. And sometimes it’s both. “Virality is really just what people want to see,” Rose told The Times. “For me, it’s making the stuff that I’m curious about

Shay Rose poses in the casual look she might wear to virtual classes or her internship. She divides her week between school days and workdays, fitting her crafting and sewing in between. and the stuff that I want to make. Usually people want to see it too.” Of course, she qualified, there’s a lot more to a viral secret sauce than that, including the behindthe-scenes technicalities, formatting and editing of content. Rose joins a wave of teens and 20-somethings who dedicate themselves to creating – content, clothes or both. “But in the end, it’s just like: If you make stuff that you’re curious about, there’s usually a niche for it,” Rose said. “Other people are curious about it too.” Luckily, she lives in sunny Orange County, because the dress was so enormous (12 feet in diameter with a 113-foot surface area) that she had to work on it outside. The

design breaks down into two pieces, the bodice and the base; the latter includes a PVC grid for the dress to sit on, complete with wheels. “There’s no way it can fit through a door, so it’s in no way ever going to be practical,” Rose said. “But my idea behind it was just that question of, ‘Oh, what if? Would this even work? What would it look like?’” The short answer: Yes. It would work, after countless attempts at making the base stable enough to stop caving in. And it would look like something out of a 2020 fairy tale, a billowing, bubblegum-pink gown with a mask to match. Rose documented the process from start to finish on her social media accounts. That translates

to two TikToks, three Instagram Reels, seven Instagram posts and no fewer than 72 Instagram Stories, carefully curated in a Highlight. The communication studies major is a digital native. While the debate over the Gen Z/millennial cusp rages on TikTok, Rose falls solidly into the first camp. She’s spending quarantine at home, where she balanced part of her last year of school with a six-month internship at TikTok, which she recently finished during finals week. In other words, she understands the ins and outs of the internet. “Whenever you know a platform and you love a platform,” she said, “it’s so easy to be passionate and love to go to work every day.” Her first cosplay was a happy accident: In eighth grade, she dressed as a character from the novel series “The Lunar Chronicles” to attend a book signing – without realizing that it was “cosplay,” or performance art through dressing as a character. In 2015, she re-created Anna’s coronation dress from “Frozen” using what she had around the house: her brother’s old curtains and gold Christmas ribbon. See Bubble, Page A4

Lessons from 2020, approaching the new year with optimism Tribune Content Agency 2020 was filled with unprecedented uncertainty for people around the globe, and many are eager to see what the new year brings. The Covid-19 pandemic, racial unrest and contemptuous political elections are some of the stresses that have affected people throughout the year. Dr. Craig Sawchuk, a Mayo Clinic psychologist, says it’s OK to acknowledge that life in 2020 has been filled with struggles and losses. “We’re all human. And we’re all struggling in our own ways.” Throughout the difficult year, many positive things happened including the development, authorization and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. “We’ve seen a lot of altruism. We’ve seen a lot of people doing really good things for their family, neighbors, colleagues and friends,” says Dr. Sawchuk. “We’ve also seen some tremendous

advances in technology and ways of doing things, whether it be health care or schooling, or work in new ways that we will carry with us into the future. When we actually do look into the future, we do have to acknowledge that this has been a tough time on us, and all of us in our community.”

Looking into 2021 with optimism “It’s important to have a positive outlook,” says Dr. Sawchuk. “The brain is naturally hard-wired to pay attention toward threat. That’s actually superadaptive for our brain to do, in that it helps with our survival mode. But what’s been happening over the course of 2020 has been one threat after another, after another, after another. We actually have to work harder to shift that focus. It’s not trying to ignore the fact that we’ve had a lot of struggles, and there’s a lot of things that we’re dealing with.

But trying to maintain an upbeat positive attitude is extremely important. You can be optimistic, and you can also be realistic at the same time.” Positive thinking also affects the mind and body. Health benefits that a pos-

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Mary Frances Wilson was born April 21, 1941, to the late Willie Lee Smith and Geneva Kerns Smith, in Greenville, South Carolina. Mary entered into rest on Dec. 19, 2020, at the age of 79. She graduated from Sterling High School. Shortly after she met the love of her life, Weir W. Wilson, whom she married in April 1963. They were blessed with two sons, Stanley and Duran. Weir was in the Air Force, which allowed them to live in several states, with extended stays in Turkey and Japan. Mary was an avid believer in education, undertaking various studies over the course of 20-plus years. She completed two degrees while maintaining a full-time job, raising two sons and supporting a military husband. She held various job titles before returning to Civil Service. While employed at Travis Air Force Base, she was promoted to supervisor of the Accounting Department. She would eventually retire as a Military Pay Technician of the 60th Comptroller Squadron on Jan. 5, 2012, after 37 years of Civil Service Duty. Mary was an avid sports enthusiast and enjoyed gardening, bowling and softball as some of her favorite pastimes. Mary never took her blessings from the Lord for granted. She regularly sang his praises at Mount Calvary Church in Suisun City, California, Prince of Peace

Bubble From Page A3 “It was basically like a puzzle . . . to figure out: ‘How do I make this thing work?’” her mom told The Times. (The mother did not want to be identified, an effort to help her daughter maintain a bit more anonymity on the internet.) “I kept telling her, ‘They have patterns. You could just buy a pattern; it’d be so easy.’ ‘No, Mom. No, Mom. This is not how I do it. I’m gonna figure it out myself.’ And she taught herself how to sew.” From there, Rose grew a following first on cosplay forums, then on Instagram dressing as everyone from Deku (“My Hero Academia”) and White Diamond (“Steven Universe”) to Disney princess Belle and 20th Century Fox’s Anastasia. “But I don’t consider my main account, @crescentshay, to be a cosplay account because there’s so much more to cosplay than just making a costume and putting it on,” Rose said. “It’s a really, really tightknit community.” She amassed a sizable following, mostly among the cosplay community she came up through. In August of last year, her main @crescentshay Instagram account had 41,500 followers. Then she joined TikTok last summer, and her first viral project – “Beauty and the Beast”-inspired shoes – took off “when TikTok was

Church in Dixon, California, and Harvest Church in Vacaville, California, before moving to Sacramento and enjoying the last five years fellowshipping at Harvest Church in Elk Grove, California. Surviving to cherish fond memories are her sons, Stanley Wilson (Yvette) and Duran Wilson (Ellen), Elk Grove, California; three grandsons, Gregory Ashe Wilson (Drew), Sterling Heights, Michigan, Andre Wilson, Elk Grove, California, and Christopher Wilson (Patty) Elk Grove, California; sister, Annie Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada; brothers, Sylvester Smith Greenville, South Carolina, David Smith (Dorothy), Piedmont, South Carolina, George Smith (JoAnne), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Richard Smith, Greenville, South Carolina, James Smith (Earlene), Columbia, South Carolina; along with a host of other relatives and dear friends. She is proceeded in death by her husband, Weir W. Wilson; father, Willie Lee Smith; mother, Geneva Kerns Smith; and brother, William Robert Smith. Viewing will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Jan. 13, 2021. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 14, 2021, both at Thompson Rose Chapel, 3601 5th Ave., Sacramento, California. Service will also be streamed on Facebook: Thompson Rose Chapel LLC 916.445.3038. Interment will be private at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery.

a baby,” Rose said. “It was before TikTok was cool.” Those “Disney shoes” feature tiny clay roses encased in clear heels. Inspired by the brand Irregular Choice, known for its ornate embellished heels, the project blew up in September 2019, reaching 1.5 million likes and 8.9 million views on TikTok. “I had been doing this whole crafting thing online for a while, but it had never really taken off in the mainstream,” Rose said. “And then all of a sudden, it wasn’t just me and my cosplay friends watching my stuff; it was everyone.” After the Disney shoes, her following more than doubled in a month. When she went viral on TikTok, she became the only cosplayer some users followed. They followed her expecting more mainstream design or crafting and were bewildered by her cosplay content. This sparked a “bit of a life crisis.” Between October 2019 and January 2020, she lost almost 10,000 followers. “There came this point where I was like, ‘OK, do I want to be a cosplayer? Or do I want to be more mainstream?’ ” Rose said. “Because I feel like with cosplay there’s a limit to how much you can show your art to people, because it is kind of a niche.” After reaching more than half a million followers on Instagram and 2.7 million on TikTok, Rose has separated her main from her “side” account (which still boasts

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Ringing in the new year may not automatically make the pain of 2020 go away, but there is hope that 2021 will bring new opportunities.

Year From Page A3 n Greater resistance to the common cold. n Better psychological and physical well-being. n Better cardiovascular health and reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease. n Better coping skills during hardships and times of stress. n Being optimistic doesn’t mean ignoring the negative. “It’s not completely just focusing in on the positive but trying to counterbalance the automatic bias toward the negative. And there are good things to be had out there. There are good things that we can expose

11,800 followers). There, she posts more personal updates: herself, her friends, her aerial acrobatics hobby and her cosplay looks. “That divide really helped me, because it’s hard to put yourself online,” Rose said. “And in this way, I have created a little bit of a separation between my art and myself. “You try your best not to care. But numbers hurt. And it’s weird when it doesn’t just feel like people don’t like your work but they don’t like you.” Rose leans perhaps the most heavily on the shoulder of her therapist. She “lucked out,” she said, by starting therapy about half a year before her first viral moment. In fact, she ducked out of this interview for a moment to reschedule an appointment. “Every week, I would talk to my therapist and be like, ‘This is going viral. And I feel really terrible,’ ” Rose said. “It’s cool to have someone that you trust, that’s levelheaded, to be like, ‘Why does this matter?’ And to ground you again.” Now, with a handful of viral creations under her belt, Rose has built up a support system: friends, family, co-workers and connections in the digital media industry. Her No.1 supporter? Her mom, who also photographs most of Rose’s projects. “I feel so much more comfortable doing the shoot with her, because behind the camera, she’s always like, ‘Go! You look beautiful!’ ” Rose said.

Week: Government meetings From Page A3 effective financing mechanisms,” the statement said. The workshop, set for 2:30 to 5 p.m., is co-hosted by the Northern California Water Association. To register, go to https:// zoom.us/meeting/register/ tJctcOispjgoGdZfwSHl8 tYudPmKjhnjiQow. For information on the workshop agenda and workbook, call 916834-3177 or send an email to cwc@cwc.ca.gov.

Host of meetings on week’s schedule A new year means a host of new meetings start-

ing this week. The various government meetings are open to the public and done via teleconference. They include: n Suisun-Solano Water Authority, 6 p.m. Monday, 701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City. Info: http:// ca-sid.civicplus.com. n Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, County Government Center, 675 Texas St. Info: www.co.solano.ca.us. n Travis School District Governing Board, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Travis Education Center, 2775 De Ronde Drive, Fairfield. Info: travisusd.org. n Rio Vista Planning Commission, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, City Hall council chamber, 1 Main St. Info: riovistacity.com. n Solano Transportation Authority Board, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Suisun City Hall, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.sta.ca.gov. n Solano County Board of Education, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Solano County Office of Education, 5100 Business Center Drive, Fairfield. Info: www.solanocoe.net. n Solano County Civil Service Commission, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: www.co.solano.ca.us. The Suisun City Planning Commission meeting is canceled.

ourselves to that can help to increase that sense of positive emotions in our life. It does take work, and sometimes it can be hard to find,” says Dr. Sawchuk. If you find yourself struggling, reaching out for help is an important step. “One of the dubious things about when we become more anxious, stressed or more depressed is that tendency to withdraw that tendency to pull back or even change in how we think, such as, ‘You know what, it’s never going to get any better’ or ‘Why even bother reaching out? I’m not going to get any help anyway,” says Dr. Sawchuk. “Always know that there is help to be had out there.” “Start off, whether it be with a close friend or family member

“Like, ‘Oh, my gosh, stunning! Do a twirl!’ It’s so funny because I edit through all the audio of the video she takes, and it’s all her just shouting encouragement.” Rose’s mother and father, who sometimes plays a supporting role in her work, approve of her side hustle. As a college senior, Rose’s last six

that you trust. If you’ve got a primary care provider, reach out to them, too. And they can help in terms of air traffic control to get you connected to those resources because that’s the No. 1 thing. There are treatments available that can be helpful.” Ringing in the new year may not automatically make the pain of 2020 go away, but there is hope that 2021 will bring new opportunities. “Try to stay as optimistic as you can and look forward in terms of being able to reach out for things that can be helpful. Trying to maintain an upbeat positive attitude is extremely important. You can be optimistic, and you can also be realistic at the same time,” says Dr. Sawchuk.

months of classes have gone virtual, so – like many others in her situation – she has moved back in with her family, which is part Iranian, part Chinese and part Lithuanian. Her parents also support her postgrad plan: to try out being a full-time content creator and artist, at least for a year. Rose knows herself, she said,

and knows she can hustle her way back into the corporate world if need be. “I’m a realist enough to the point where I don’t know if this is going to be a forever thing,” she said. “And I’m always keeping my options open to come back to a more stable job. But I know I’d regret it if I didn’t try it.”

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original track. Minaj and her agents did make multiple requests to license the song in summer 2018 â€“ even though she had already recorded her version â€œwithout the requested license,â€? the lawsuit alleged. Chapman repeatedly denied the requests, but Minaj provided a copy of â€œSorryâ€? to a popular DJ who later shared a link to the recording on Twitter, according to complaint. â€œShhhhhhh!!!! TONIGHT 7PM!!! I GOT SOMETHING!!!â€? Funkmaster Flex teased on social media hours before tweeting the link, the lawsuit states. The link would take users to a website that, until recently, included an embedded video player with the song â€œSorry,â€? Chapmanâ€™s lawyers said.

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Woman’s boyfriend said he used dating app just to make friends Dear Annie: About (She’s never met him in six months ago, my real life, but she’d seen boyfriend, “Jordan,” photos of us.) She sent relocated to another me a screenshot. I was state for work. We’ve shocked. I asked her to talked about my evenconnect with him on tually moving there, the app to see what he too, so we could be said. He messaged her together, but we’ve held back almost immedioff making firm plans. Annie Lane ately – but not because He says he needs more he recognized her as Dear Annie time to settle in to life a friend of mine. He there. He also says he wants thought she was just a random to be positive he sees himself woman, and he started chatat this job long term before I ting her up and asking what uproot my life, too. she was up to. He visited twice within the Devastated, I called him first month after moving, but immediately and asked for in the past five months, he’s an explanation. He said that visited only once. I went out he was just using the app to there once a couple of months make friends and that if it ago. We do talk on the phone made me uncomfortable, he or video chat every other would delete his account. I told day, which helps. him I thought that was a good The reason I’m writing idea. I’m wondering whether is this. A friend of mine was I’d be a fool to trust this man recently in Jordan’s town for again. — Fooled Once work. She is single and uses a Dear Fooled Once: You dating app that shows people know the saying, so I won’t within a few-mile radius. remind you of the rest. Don’t While she was on her trip, she give Jordan another chance was scrolling through proto break your trust. That files, when she came across dating app is not meant for Jordan and recognized him. making friends, and this man

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). While you shouldn’t be afraid to invest in yourself, do try the free options first. There are many excellent ones. Also, what has worked for your friends? It’s a good place to start and maybe as far as you need to go. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There are things you want to turn down and things you want to turn up. Unfortunately, one dial is handling it all. Focus on what to increase. One gesture starts it. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). If you’re not obsessed with the goal, it’s not quite good enough for you. When you’re hooked into a passion, the next three weeks are incredibly productive. CANCER (June 22-July 22). The PR guru insists that there’s no such thing as overexposure and that most people are hindered by obscurity. You could test the theory, as you’ve lots to show and tell people today. Go wild! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Fear is like that boiling pasta pot. If you wait, it will build; it will boil over; it will be a mess. Be decisive, and act fast. Knock down the heat before it becomes uncontrollable. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Normally you would trust your intuition, but what about when you have a slew of conflicting hunches? Gather all the information. Keep track. Don’t act. You can sort later. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

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is not meant for you. As soon as you accept that, you’ll be one step closer to finding someone who is. Dear Annie: My father recently passed away. He had friends and acquaintances whom I did not know. Many came to his wake and left Mass cards not from his church. The problem is that the majority did not put a return address on the card or envelope. I have no way of thanking these people now and feel bad about this. Please inform your readers that if they would like a thank-you for a kind gesture such as this, they should attach a return address label so the family of the deceased can know where to send it. — Grieving in Upstate NY Dear Grieving: I am so sorry for your loss. Your plea is duly noted, though it sounds as though your father’s friends simply wanted to honor him and cared little about the acknowledgment – a sign of what good company he kept. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday The sun returning to your natal place will either dissolve the obstacle in your path or give you the powerful mindset to transcend it. The world sees you surging with confidence, though to you, it feels like a supercharged sense of purpose. With clarity and directness, you’ll make things happen for yourself and loved ones. Libra and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 30, 21, 14 and 17.

Some chocolate is delicious not despite its bitter qualities but because of them. You can apply it to your relationship sector, which is made dear by sweetness and made interesting by sprinkles of past pain. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When it comes to friends, you’ll take quality over quantity any day. In fact, the better a friendship is, the more time you want to give it, which is too hard when there are dozens of people trying to get your attention. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Maybe you can’t balance your time so well today, considering how much work there is to be done. You can, however, get clear on your priorities. And at the end of the day, you’ll feel satisfied with how you spent it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). There’s healing, and then there’s acting like everything is fine and hoping that no one notices the pain. You’ve done it both ways before, which is why you can spot the difference in others and help wherever possible. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You don’t have the answers, but that’s not going to stop you from trying. It’s better to do something that might work than to do nothing. One of these times, you’ll crack the code. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your generosity will make change happen. It’s not just about money – it’s more the spirit you bring to the exchange. People will feel you join them, and together you’ll be more powerful than you are alone. CELEBRITY PROFILES: Mary J. Blige has a new wine collection, cosmically named Sun Goddess. With eight multi-platinum albums; nine Grammy awards; and nominations for Academy Awards, a SAG award, Golden Globes and more, Blige fits the Capricorn stereotype of accomplishment. For this sign, it’s natural to climb to the career pinnacle only to spot new mountains to scale, which keeps them striving for mastery in several areas. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

Bridge

by Phillip Alder

doubly difficult for both sides because it occurred during an online duplicate. After West leads a low diamond, how should South play in four spades when overtricks are not important? How would his line change if he hoped to collect an overtrick? In addition, how would the defenders play? North used the Jacoby Forcing Raise. South’s jump to game indicated a minimum opening without a short side suit (singleton or void). When overtricks are not an issue, declarer should win the first trick with dummy’s diamond ace and play a spade to his ace (to guard against a 4-0 split). He draws trumps, cashes his three hearts, discarding a club from hand, and concedes one diamond and two clubs. But when overtricks are valuable, it is certainly reasonable to take the diamond finesse at trick one. Here, though, it loses, and East will shift to a low club. After South also plays low, SOME PLAYS ARE TOO 99.99% of players would win with the club jack and cash the club ace. A few HARD TO FIND moments later, declarer will claim his Richard M. DeVos, who was a contract. businessman and owner of the Orlando The genius receiving a positive Magic basketball team, said, “Few mental push will win trick two with the things in the world are more powerful club ace and return the club jack. Then than a positive push. A smile. A word of East can win with his king and give optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ partner a club ruff to defeat the when things are tough.” contract. Some defenses are just too tough for (almost) everyone. This deal is COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

Sudoku

by Wayne Gould

Word Sleuth

Here’s how to work it:

WORD SLEUTH ANSWER

1/11/21

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 SOME ARE TOO at andPLAYS computer program HARD TO FIND www.sudoku.com

Richard M. DeVos, who was a businessman and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team, said, “Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’

Bridge

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Opinion

DAILY REPUBLIC — Monday, January 11, 2021 A7

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:

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ON THE LEFT

A boil grows in Washington

n Jan. 6, 2021, a date that will live in infamy, a huge boil under the skin of the American political order was lanced. It grew after 60 years of Republican extremism and 20 years of nonstop lies. The boil began in the election of 1964 when insurgent Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater insisted, “Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no crime!” The poison had been injected: extreme politics is no crime. A mountain of lies would follow. President Ronald Reagan, in his charming way, injected more poison. “Government is the problem,” he intoned. Then Newt Gingrich rose, spewing more extremism. He was the first to close down the government and call the opposition Democrats “traitors.” Extremism within the GOP grew Jack Batson as Republicans learned to “talk like Mitch.” No longer was there a “loyal opposition;” there were only people who loved or hated America. Patriotism became the last refuge of the scoundrel. George W. Bush became president. “Iraq was behind 9/11,” lied the president – and the lying didn’t stop there. On my bookshelf sits a book titled “935 Lies,” an account of the disinformation that flowed from the Bush administration. Lying became embedded in Republican rhetoric. Extremism? The invasion of Iraq. The boil grew. Two respected political observers wrote a book in 2004, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,” claiming, “The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” They clearly recognized the problem. A Black man was elected president in 2008. The GOP, anchored in the South, laboring under the shadow of its many Gingrichs, showed all its iron teeth, closing down the government and obstructing to every action it could for eight years. Moderates were “primaried out,” ensuring iron party discipline. No freedom of conscience for Republicans. They fell in line. The few holdouts were disparaged as “RINO’s.” By now, Fox News was in full throttle, getting rich by stoking hatred of all things Democratic and sewing fear and resentment into whites by lying that they were soon to be extinguished as a political force. Democrats were plotting against “real Americans” whose un-American tentacles could be detected everywhere if one just looked hard enough. Fox and its ilk would help you see the conspiracies night after night. Lying worked. Viewership skyrocketed. The boil grew. Enter Donald Trump, the master of the lie, the connoisseur of conspiracies, epitome of extremism, a smooth-talking, charismatic television entertainer. Lies became a daily diet for Americans. Fox and other outlets expanded and repeated them 24 hours per day for four years. Forty percent of Americans swallowed them. Dictators are made in the modern world by first getting elected, then making sure they’re re-elected, no matter how. That’s what Trump attempted Jan. 6. On that morning he incited the loyalists he had intentionally called to the capital, lying, “The election was stolen,” and “evil” people stole it. Rudy Giuliani told them this is “trial by combat.” The right-wing media and the Republican Party had sewn the wind for 60 years with extremism and 20 years of lies. The whirlwind finally came. Loyalists, believing that the election really had been stolen, stormed the Capitol. The underlying issue is disinformation – lies. Lies are the content of the boil. Count them. The Russia hoax. The Deep State. The innocence of Flynn and Stone. The impeachment hoax. Trump’s landslide election victories. The lying media. Rigged elections. Disappearing ballots. Democrats are socialists. These are pushed by Republican politicians but even more importantly, by a vast right-wing propaganda machine working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a “cancer of disinformation,” laments former CIA chief John Brennan. Those impassioned demonstrators and rioters won’t ever change their minds. One militiaman from Florida told a reporter, “This is not the end. Next time, we’re coming back with weapons.” The boil took a half-century to build. It’s been lanced, but it will take generations to drain. Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

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Study past if you would divine future

was inaugurated. have had time now to reflect on the recent elecFrankly, I wondered why tion and have noted some a free and knowledgeable interesting things. people would foolishly We Solano County Repubchoose proven second-rate licans ran 41 candidates hacks like Biden and Kamala countywide and elected 15. Harris over four years of Locally we got good coverage economic expansion, for our races with little rebuilding our military, propaganda. However, where Jim McCully redressing egregious trade President Donald Trump and, agreement inequities, and by extension, all Republican candiincredible peace deals between dates were concerned, Republicans Israel and five Arab nations which were portrayed negatively by the Biden, and all the DSPPP, said was so-called mainstream media. impossible to do. Both are dubious: My fellow columnist, Jack Batson, Biden a questionable “straw man” blames Trump for everything. propped up by virtually everyone According to Jack, Trump is running when not hiding; Harris, the most a coup d’état against now legally “progressive” voter in the U.S. designated President-elect Joe Senate kept silent and hidden, too. Biden. Why? Because Trump won’t Now, I know. Do I believe election accept an obviously flawed process. fraud occurred? Yes. How much we Well, neither will many millions of don’t know. Thanks to our judiciary others. Apparently, Trump doesn’t we may never know. Yet, something enjoy the legal rights Democrat more sinister occurred with commuSocialist Progressive Peoples Party nications media propaganda or (DSPPP) Vice President Al Gore what Joseph Pulitzer called “yellow enjoyed when questioning the journalism.” 2000 election results. Vital decisions were made from As far as coup d’états go, I believe deliberate deception. Our forefathers that the DSPPP and the mainstream knew freedom of religion, speech media have been engaged in one and a free unfettered media at large since Election Day 2016. were critical, indeed paramount, to a I have listed many reasons free republic. The First Amendment Trump should have been re-elected; to the U.S. Constitution enshrined I won’t reiterate them. However, I this. Right now, we have a politicized will defy anyone to prove we are less fettered mainstream media engaged well off after four years of doing in “yellow journalism” to ensure the everything the previous Obama/ DSPPP political victory. This is far Biden administration said couldn’t from fair and is devastatingly be done economically, militarily and dangerous to our republic. in foreign affairs. No more Russia The Media Research Center collusion lies as the DSPPP and its polled 1,750 people in Arizona, allies in the mainstream media have Pennsylvania, North Carolina, been spouting that nonsense merrily Georgia, Nevada, Michigan and destroying lives. careers and Wisconsin: the media-labeled reputations since before Trump “battleground.” Polling occurred

between Nov. 9-18 with “an accuracy rate plus or minus 2.34% at a 95% statistical confidence.” The results were: 82% of those polled were unaware of at least one of the following eight important issues: n Joe Biden’s sexual assault allegations by a female staffer (35.4%). n Hunter Biden’s Communists Chinese scandals (45.1%). n Complete energy independence for America (50.5%). n Middle East peace deals signed (43.5%). n Negative reporting of Trump’s Covid-19 Operation Warp Speed initiative to develop vaccines (36.1%). n Huge jump in economic growth pre-Covid-19 (34.4%). n Highest growth in minority employment rates in history. n Harris’ far-left voting records, behaviors, and scandals (25.3%). Result: Out of the polled group, “6% of Biden voters said they would have voted for Trump knowing this.” That translates to a 200,000-plus vote victory in the battleground states. Election changed. Instead, we have an angry, divided nation with sad and awful results no sane citizen wants as witnessed Jan. 6 on Capitol Hill. Solution: An 1877-style election commission as proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz. Stop the madness now. Proverbs: 11:29 reads, “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.” Jim McCully is a member of the Solano County Republican Central Committee, Vacaville resident and former Northwest Regional vice chairman of the California State Republican Party.

CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

Budget spends windfall on pandemic victims

Newsom clearly wants to hile California’s overall economy shine the media spotlight on is still being bathis relief proposals, rolling tered by the them out prior to Friday’s Covid-19 recession and formal presentation, which unemployment remains raises a perhaps cynical high, its tax revenues have question: Does his plea for shown amazing resiliency. fast action reflect their The recession’s impact has importance, or his concerns fallen largely on lowerabout a recall movement that Dan Walters income Californians while seems to be gathering steam? those on upper rungs of the socioThe recession’s economic economic ladder, whose taxable impacts – especially on restaurants, incomes are the most important barbershops and other small source of state revenues, have businesses forced to close their continued to prosper. doors – have clearly given impetus to Thus the $54 billion budget the Republican-sponsored recall deficit that Gov. Gavin Newsom movement, which has two months to projected last summer as the collect enough signatures to place economy tanked never appeared and the issue before voters. suddenly, there’s a windfall of Even if one assumes Newson’s unanticipated revenues that Newsom proposals are expressions of genuine wants to spend on helping the concern, not motivated by personal pandemic’s economic victims – politics, his proposed budget is a low-income families and small curious mixture of billions of dollars businesses, especially – recover. in additional spending and worries “We are investing, in our energy that another budget crisis is looming and our focus, to deal with the on the horizon. disproportionate impacts of this Newsom boasts of having pandemic,” Newsom said Friday as he introduced a $227.2 billion budget $34 billion in “budget resiliency,” mostly in the form of reserves. His for the fiscal year that will begin budget also warns, “budget resilJuly 1. Newsom wants the Legislature to iency will be critical to protect programs in the future, as expendijump-start pandemic relief with a tures are projected to grow faster $5 billion “immediate action than revenues, with a structural package.” It would, for low-income deficit of $7.6 billion projected for families, double the $600 payments 2022-23 that is forecast to grow to in the most recent federal aid over $11 billion by 2024-25.” legislation, and provide direct aid to Much of the budget is on autopilot small businesses that Newsom with built-in increases, particularly ordered to be closed to battle the spread of infection. He also proposes the largest single portion, K-12 extending a moratorium on evictions education, and those increases, of recession-strapped renters. coupled with very slow projected

revenue growth, create the structural deficit. Revenues from the state’s three major tax sources – personal income, sales and corporate income – are projected to grow by an average 1.9% a year through middecade while spending increases now in law will far exceed that rate. Newsom cited the long-term income/outgo squeeze when a reporter asked him about his longstanding pledge to bring universal single-payer health care to Californians, which would cost tens of billions of dollars. He said he stands by that goal but in the next breath once again insisted that he won’t entertain new taxes on the wealthy being championed by some of his fellow Democrats, implying fear that they would drive away high-income Californians whose taxes are so vital. Recently, Elon Musk was crowned as the world’s richest man due to soaring stock values of Tesla, his electric car company. His coronation came just a few weeks after he moved to Texas, which has no income tax, with a farewell blast at California’s treatment of entrepreneurs. An utter dependence on the wealthy underscores the yin and yang of budget politics in a very blue state. 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.

A8 Monday, January 11, 2021 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Apple, Amazon Shooting leaves at least 3 dead remove Parler Tribune Content Agency

Bloomberg News Apple Inc. and Amazon. com Inc. are removing Parler from their services, part of a growing backlash after the social media network was among those used to organize Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol. Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while Amazon’s cloud unit decided to stop hosting the social media company starting Sunday night. They joined Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which removed the app from its Google Play store on Friday, saying that it created an “ongoing and urgent public safety threat.” Parler, which is popular with extremist groups seeking an alternative to more mainstream social media sites, has come under fire since the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. The move by the tech companies will leave Parler ending the weekend without easy access to virtually all of the world’s smartphone users, and scrambling to find a new company to host its services. Apple’s decision came a day after the Cupertino, California-based technology giant threatened to remove the app, telling Parler developers Friday they had 24 hours to provide Apple with a plan for moderating and filtering the service. A letter provided by Apple to Parler indicates that the social media company did offer to make changes in order to remain on the App Store. Parler told Apple that it “has been taking this content very seriously for weeks,” that it would implement a moderation plan “for the time being” and that it

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The Parler Social Media App, where many supporters of President Donald Trump have turned to express their opinions regarding the election, choosing to move away from Facebook and Twitter, where they feel censored. would implement a temporary task force, according to the letter. Apple rejected those efforts as a solution in its explanation for removing the app. “We have continued to find direct threats of violence and calls to incite lawless action,” Apple wrote to Parler on Saturday, adding that the measures were “inadequate to address the proliferation of dangerous and objectionable content on your app.” Also on Saturday, Amazon Web Services wrote to Parler about its decision to suspend its AWS account, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg. The largest cloud computing provider said it had informed the social media company of 98 instances of posts inciting violence in recent weeks, and that Parler’s plans to moderate its content were insufficient. “We cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others,” according to the letter, signed by AWS’s Trust & Safety Team and addressed to Parler Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff.

Covid: ICUs tested From Page One started earlier in the week, but (definitely) here in the last day or two.” A preliminary, incomplete survey of local health jurisdictions in L.A. County found at least 14,000 new coronavirus cases reported Sunday, and at least 160 deaths. The daily tallies for Sundays are generally lower due to reporting delays over the weekend. L .A. County is now averaging about 211 Covid-19 deaths a day, a record. That’s a far more accelerated pace than the number from Christmas, when L.A. County was averaging about 80 deaths a day, and Thanksgiving, when about 30 deaths a day were recorded. There continues to be ongoing pressure on California’s overloaded intensive care unit system. According to data released Sunday, the number of Covid-19 patients in the state’s ICUs climbed to a record Saturday – to 4,863. That’s about triple the number from Thanksgiving. As of S at u r day, there were about 22,000 Covid-19 patients in California’s hospitals. That number has remained relatively flat for the last week. Officials expect the number of hospitalizations to start worsening this week, as people who were infected over Christmas

start to become ill. What’s still not fully known is how bad the post-holiday surge will be in the hospitals. L.A. C o u n t y ’s Covid-19 hospitalizations have been stable in recent days, hovering between 7,900 and 8,100 overall hospitalizations, including about 1,700 in the ICU. The ICUs in L.A. County are effectively out of available space. There are typically only about 2,000 staffed ICU beds in the county, and as of last week, about 400 were occupied by non-Covid patients. In recent days, available ICU beds in the county fell to zero or one in each of the following regions: central L.A., the Westside, southeast L.A. County, the San Gabriel Valley and the Antelope Valley. The South Bay-and-Long Beach region had as few as three available ICU beds in recent days, and the San Fernando Valley as few as six. Though California’s existing pandemic surge is dire, the state has one of the lower cumulative numbers of Covid-19 deaths on a per capita basis, ranking 38th among the 50 states, probably a result of the early imposition of the stay-at-home order in the spring and summertime closures of certain high-risk businesses. New Jersey’s cumulative Covid-19 death rate is triple that of California’s; Arizona’s is double; and Florida’s is 1.5 times larger.

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CHICAGO — A man suspected of killing at least three people and wounding four more “just randomly” targeted a girl of 15, an 81-year-old woman and people of different ages in between before he was killed during a shootout with Evanston police, officials said. The man shot dead by Evanston police was identified by Chicago police Superintendent David Brown as 32-yearold Jason Nightengale, who was a suspect in three fatal shootings on Chicago’s South Side earlier in the day. In a series of secondslong videos posted to his personal Facebook page from Friday night on, a man displays wads of cash and alcohol in a vehicle while speaking unintelligibly to the camera. In one video, he can be heard saying, “I’m going to blow up the whole community.” About 10:30 a.m. Sunday it appeared Facebook disabled the man’s page after many of the videos had been shared and commented on dozens of times. Addressing reporters late Saturday, Brown explained without surveillance imaging or “a crystal ball,” police remained one step behind the shooter as he moved from the South Side to Evanston, shooting people at random along the way. There was no way to connect the shootings to one another in real-time as officers responded to each shooting scene, he said. At one point, they believe the gunman backtracked from the fourth Chicago shooting location to the third, where he shot at police officers who were investigating the man’s earlier crime, Brown said. A police source said a marked squad car was shot at least twice and a citizen’s vehicle also was

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Police investigate a shooting scene at the corner of Asbury and Howard, on the Chicago-Evanston border, Jan. 9. hit, but Brown said no officers were injured and none returned fire. The Chicago shooting rampage began at 1:50 p.m. in the 5300 block of South East End Avenue in the East Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side, when police believe Nightengale entered a garage and shot a man in the head as he sat in a vehicle, Brown told reporters. The man who died was a 30-year-old University of Chicago student, according to the school, which shared the “deeply painful news.” “It is with great sadness that we inform our community that a current student of the University was shot and killed this evening in a parking garage of the Regents Park apartment complex at 5035 S. East End Avenue,” read an emailed statement from the school. “The University was notified at approximately 5:10 p.m. today that a student had been discovered in a car with a gunshot wound.” A police source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the student was a resident of China who had been studying at the school.

None of the victims had been identified by the medical examiner’s office as of Sunday morning and Chicago police said they did not have additional information or updated conditions of those who were shot. Next, just after 2 p.m., police believe Nightengale traveled to the 4900 block of South East End Avenue, where he entered an apartment building “just randomly” and began firing shots, Brown said. He shot a security guard, 46, who was sitting at the desk, in the chest, and she later died at the University of Chicago Medical Center. A 77-year-old woman, who was getting her mail, was shot in the right side of her head and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. About 2:45 p.m., Nightengale then entered the back door of a building in the 5500 block of South East End Avenue and took the elevator to the 19th floor, Brown said. He got off the elevator and saw a man he knew because a relative of Nightengale used to live in the building. Nightengale demanded

the keys to the man’s vehicle but did not shoot him. “He pushes that man inside and steals his red Toyota, so it’s a carjacking victim but not a shooting victim,” Brown said. Nightengale then took the red Toyota and drove away, Brown said. After the carjacking, Nightengale entered a convenience store and announced a robbery at 3 p.m. in the 9300 block of South Halsted Street in the Brainerd neighborhood, Brown said. He then shot a 20-year-old man in the head. “Just a random victim,” Brown said. The 20-year-old man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition and later pronounced dead, Brown said. An 81-year-old woman in the convenience store was also shot in the back and the neck, and she was also taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition. At 4 p.m. in the 10300 block of South Halsted Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood, a 15-year-old girl was shot in the head while she was being driven by her mother, Brown said.

Pelosi: GOP officials call for resignation From Page One Also Sunday, a second Senate Republican called on Trump to “resign and go away.” “The best way for our country,” Republican Sen. Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania said, “is for the president to resign and go away as soon as possible.” In interviews on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CNN’s “State of the Union,” he became the second GOP senator, after Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to tell the president that it was time to go. But with Trump’s term ending in nine days, Toomey and several other Republicans argued that if the House impeached the president, a Senate trial would not occur until after Trump had already left office and was a private citizen. Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said all 100 senators would have to consent to fast-tracking a trial or any business of substance before Inauguration Day, an unlikely prospect. Although Toomey agreed that the president’s actions were impeachable, he demurred when asked whether he would vote to convict the president in the Senate. “I don’t know, as a practical matter, that it is actually even possible to do an impeachment in the number, in the handful, of days that are left,” the senator said on CNN. D emo crat s say impeachment is still vital because it signals that Trump’s behavior is unacceptable, and could also result in barring him from running for office again, as he has hinted he might. In response to complaints that pursuing impeachment would dis-

tract the new Congress and the nation from coping with the pandemic and supporting President-elect Biden’s agenda, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn of South Carolina raised the possibility of delaying the Senate trial for up to several months. He said that even if the House impeached Trump this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., could refrain from immediately sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial. That would allow Biden to deal with crucial early business, such as securing confirmation for key Cabinet nominees and taking steps to rein in the coronavirus that is killing Americans at a record pace. Last week, the number of daily deaths from COVID-19 touched 4,000 for the first time, pushing the national toll to nearly 375,000. “Let’s give Presidentelect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running,” Clyburn said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Four days after the Capitol was broken into and ransacked, many lawmakers still seemed to struggle for words to describe an event unprecedented in modern American history. The violence – which left five dead, including a Capitol police officer – forced lawmakers to flee and temporarily delayed their formal counting and announcement of electoral votes in Biden’s victory, as required by the Constitution. With redoubled focus on securing Biden’s inauguration, senior Democrats called on law enforcement to address the continuing threat posed by Trump partisans. Incoming Senate

Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday he had urged FBI Director Christopher Wray a day earlier to “relentlessly pursue” the Capitol attackers, some 100 of whom have been arrested and charged. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., appearing Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” urged authorities to “flood the zone around the Capitol with federal resources” for Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Although the president has yet to publicly express any remorse over Wednesday’s mob attack, his most ardent defenders, including Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., pivoted swiftly to grievances over the permanent termination of Trump’s personal account on Twitter, his favorite social media platform. “Republicans have no way to communicate,” Nunes complained on a nationally televised cable program, Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., suggested – as some other senators did after Trump’s first impeachment last year – that the president had learned his lesson. “My personal view is that the president touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again,” said Blunt, interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” He said Trump should serve out the remainder of his term. Democrats disagreed. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the chair of the Democratic caucus, said Trump’s remaining days in power represented peril for the country. “Every second, every minute, every hour that Donald Trump remains in office presents a danger to the American people,” Jeffries said on “Meet the Press.” Trump, he

said, “may be in the Twitter penalty box, but he still has access to the nuclear codes.” Many Democrats have characterized the Capitol attack as a logical culmination of Trump’s years of hateful rhetoric, demonizing opponents and undermining democratic principles. But although some longtime Trump loyalists broke with him over the violent episode, many insisted at the same time that it was a departure from the overall trajectory of his presidency. “Wednesday was a fundamental threat to the United States,” former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who resigned his position as a special envoy to Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the Capitol attack, said on NBC. But he defended Trump’s previous record, as did Toomey. “Policy differences are different. Stylized, stylistic differences are different. Things you don’t like about a person’s personality are different than what happened on Wednesday,” Mulvaney said. A few elected Republicans, including Maryland’s Gov. Larry Hogan, faulted both Trump and the members of Congress who backed his falsehood that the election was stolen. “There is no question in my mind that he was responsible for inciting this riotous mob,” Hogan, interviewed on CNN, said of Trump. He also said he was “embarrassed and ashamed” of lawmakers who voted to contest the election results even after the attack, though he declined to call explicitly for their expulsion. “I think history will decide how they’re remembered,” he said.

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Warriors win despite Curry’s struggles

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Tribune Content Agency In a game when Stephen Curry had his worst shooting performance of his career, his supporting cast stepped up and the Warriors defeated the Toronto Raptors, 106-105, Sunday night at Chase Center. Curry, who entered the night as the NBA’s secondleading scorer, was the target of an aggressive Raptors defense that chased, battered and bloodied the two-time MVP. He finished with just 11 points on 2-of-16 shooting (1-of-10 from 3-point range), while Damion Lee’s free throws with 4.3 seconds remaining clinched the win for the Warriors (6-4). Hounded by guard Fred VanVleet, an assortment of long defenders and a boxand-1 defense, Curry made his first shot of the game but then missed his next 13 field goal attempts until making a key 3-pointer late in the fourth quarter. All of the attention being paid to Curry created opportunities for his teammates, as six others scored in double digits. Andrew Wiggins finished with 17 points and four assists, Eric Paschall (15 points) and Lee (13 points) contributed off the bench and Draymond Green recorded 10 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds. Brad Wanamaker’s 2-pointer gave the Warriors a 16-point lead midway through the second quarter. But the Raptors (2-7) made a run in the second half and Kyle Lowry scored 16 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter as the Raptors battled back and took a four-point lead with 2:58 remaining. That’s when Curry made his first shot since the opening period — a 3-pointer to narrow the new deficit to one. Curry helped set up a potential gamewinning opportunity when he helped defend forward Pascal Siakam on the Raptors’ second-to-last possession, forcing Siakam into a tough shot blocked by Kent Bazemore. With 7.7 seconds left, Lee inbounded the ball to Curry who, after getting swarmed by Toronto’s defense, passed back to Lee. Lee rose for a 3-point attempt and was fouled before the shot, putting him on the line for the game-winning free throws. Siakam’s go-ahead mid-range jumper rimmed out. For a Warriors team that had previously lost every game this season in which Curry failed to score 30 points, this win serves as an important touch point and proves they can win games when their top player is limited by a defense that sells out to stop him. Next, the Warriors will wrap up this seven-game w against the Pacers on Tuesday.

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Cleveland Browns strong safety Karl Joseph scores the Browns first touchdown on a bad snap against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Sunday,

at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Browns defeated the Steelers, 48-37.

Browns defeat Steelers, win 1st playoff game since 1995 Tribune Content Agency PI T TSBU RGH — Browns coach Kevin Stefanski had plenty to cheer about from his basement. In one fell swoop, the Browns overcame adversity created by their Covid-19 crisis and exorcised countless demons who have haunted them in Pittsburgh. With Stefanski home because he tested positive for the virus last week, the Browns used a record-setting first quarter to vault themselves to a 48-37 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night in an AFC wild-card playoff game at Heinz Field, where attendance was limited to family and friends of the home team due to pandemic-related restrictions. The Browns won their

first playoff game since Jan. 1, 1995. In other words, it’s the franchise’s first postseason victory since its rebirth as an expansion team in 1999. With the dominant showing on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” the Browns snapped an eight-game road losing streak in the playoffs. They triumphed on the road in the postseason for the first time since Dec. 28, 1969, when they defeated the Dallas Cowboys 38-14. The Browns also earned their first playoff win over the Steelers. Cleveland had been 0-2 all time against Pittsburgh in the postseason. The Browns snapped a 17-game losing streak in Pittsburgh, triumphing there for the first time since Oct. 5, 2003. See Browns, Page B8

Chicago Bears lose 21-9 to New Orleans Saints Tribune Content Agency As the Chicago Bears season ended with a 21-9 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the question lingers: What next? A Bears team that finished the regular season 8-8 and got into the playoffs as the NFC’s No. 7 seed because of an Arizona Cardinals loss looked overmatched against the second-seeded Saints. Now Bears Chairman George McCaskey must decide how to proceed with a franchise that has two playoff berths in the last three years but lost the games in different styles of disappointment. On Sunday, a Bears offense

that had a December resurgence against some of the worst defenses in the NFL was held to 239 yards – 99 of them coming on the last meaningless touchdown drive – and didn’t find the end zone until the final play of the game against a Saints defense that ranks among the top five in the league in several categories. In potentially his last start in a Bears uniform, quarterback Mitch Trubisky completed 19 of 29 passes for 199 yards and a 19-yard touchdown to Jimmy Graham as time expired. Trubisky is set to become a free agent this offseason. The Bears converted 1 of See Saints, Page B8

Ravens rally past Titans for playoff win Tribune Content Agency It didn’t look like anyone expected it to, but the Ravens got a playoff win. With the NFL’s two best rushing offenses kept under wraps in Nashville, the fifthseeded Ravens relied on their defense and Lamar Jackson’s playmaking to hold off the fourth-seeded Tennessee Titans, 20-13, in the wild-card round and earn their first playoff victory since 2014. Cornerback Marcus Peters’ interception with under two minutes remaining ended the AFC South champions’ hopes of a game-tying drive and capped a dominant

day for the Ravens defense. Titans running back Derrick Henry, the NFL’s leading rusher, was held to 40 yards on 18 carries (2.2 per carry). After a strong start, quarterback Ryan Tannehill finished 18-for-26 for 165 yards, a touchdown and the crucial interception. Quarterback Lamar Jackson overcame a slow start and a surprisingly stingy Titans defense to finish 17-for-24 for 179 yards. He added 16 carries for 136 yards, including a game-changing 48-yard score in the first half. Overall, the Ravens finished with 35 carries for 236 yards (6.7 per carry), though their running back room combined

for just 81 yards. The win silenced Jackson’s most vocal critics, who’d pointed to his 0-2 record as a starter in the postseason, both times as a favorite. The Ravens also got a small measure of revenge against Tennessee, which ended their Super Bowl dreams last season before adding to their misery with a Week 11 overtime win in Baltimore. “We finished,” Jackson said in a postgame interview. “We finally finished.” The Ravens didn’t lead until the third quarter, after their easiest drive all game. See Ravens, Page B8

Despite all the hurdles, CFP title game has arrived Tribune Content Agency There was a point in August where having a season appeared to be greatly at risk, let alone reaching the College Football Playoff national championship game. Despite several conferences like the Big Ten and PAC-12 originally deciding to cancel their fall seasons before reconsidering and starting in October while others began in September, and countless Carmen Mandato/Getty Images/TNS file postponements and cancellaHead coach Nick Saban of the Alabama Crimson Tide raises the Leishman tions due to Covid-19 along the Trophy after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 31-14 in the 2021 way, college football made it to College Football Playoff Semifinal Game, Jan. 1, in Arlington, Texas. its final game.

No. 1 Alabama (12-0) takes on No. 3 Ohio State (7-0) in the College Football Playoff title game in an 8:15 p.m. kickoff on Monday night in Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. “I know this has been a challenging year for all teams in college football,” said Alabama coach Nick Saban, who returns to the site where he coached the Miami Dolphins in 2005 and 2006 as he looks to win his seventh college championship, and sixth with the Crimson Tide, “I think there’s a lot of folks out there that we need to thank for making the season be what it is. I think it’s been helpful to the

players and the opportunity that they have to compete and play, create value for themselves, as well as a lot of fans who have great interest in college football.” For the Buckeyes, they were in the thick of the question marks surrounding the season. Between the delayed start in the Big Ten and cancellations over coronavirus concerns, they only played five regular-season games. The conference had to tweak a minimum-gamesplayed rule it made for the 2020 season just to get them into the Big Ten title game. See Title, Page B8

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Follow this formula to make velvety soup in your Instant Pot

using any vegetables you have on hand

ne of the big misconceptions of our year of pandemic cooking has been the idea that those of us working from home would have more time and flexibility to babysit our sourdough, our braises, our soups and stews. On the weekends, maybe – but only for those of us without young children underfoot. During the week, in Joe Yonan between Zoom Weeknight vege- meetings? tarian Sure, I can preheat my oven or put a pot on to simmer, but that’s about the extent of any advantage. Perhaps the biggest change has been at lunchtime. I rarely, if ever, cooked for desk lunches. When I was on top of my meal planning, I might earmark leftovers to take to work, but more often than not, the question I asked by about noon every weekday was: Where am I getting takeout? I wasn’t alone: More people purchased lunch out of the house than any other meal in 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We won’t know how 2020 fared in this survey for another couple of years, but it seems obvious that one of the biggest changes in home cooking has revolved around lunch. Now that I’m cooking lunch or eating leftovers almost seven days a week, I’ve been looking for strategies to help me pull something together for my husband and me that’s quick, satisfying, plus relatively light and healthy. In the summer and much of the fall, it was big salads from our backyard garden. Then as the greens started to fade, I looked to my Instant Pot and started making soups at least a couple times a week. In my lunch rush, I’ve rarely made time for an actual recipe. Instead, I turn to whatever raw vegetable I have around, which this time of year includes cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, carrots, beets, winter squash and potatoes (white and sweet). My add-ins varied at first, but I soon settled on a formula, using coconut milk and water, plus a little lime juice, garlic, onion and ginger. About 20 minutes later (10 minutes for the pot to come to pressure and another 10 to cook), I blend

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Any Vegetable Instant Pot Soup is ready in about 20 minutes. the contents into a rich, aromatic puree and start scouring for garnishes. As I’ve written before, even when pureed soups are as full of flavor as these, they need generous garnishes or they get tiresome to eat. So I chop up leftover roasted vegetables (or meat for my husband) and pile on herbs, nuts, maybe some canned or precooked beans, a drizzle of more coconut milk or yogurt. If I have a baguette getting stale, I saw off chunks into irregular croutons. Or if I’m thinking ahead, I use some of the base vegetable – grating some raw carrot or beet before putting the rest in the pot for the soup, for instance, or thinly slicing carrot tops or beet greens. I roast the seeds I pull out of a butternut or acorn squash, turning them crispy and browned in about the time it takes the soup to cook. My Instant Pot soup strategy – which I hope might become yours, too – lets me cook fairly mindlessly, as the formula is so easy to remember, while the varying vegetables and garnishes keep the soups interesting. Plus, I make enough to bank one or two meals for the fridge or freezer. At lunch, with the clock counting down and work tasks mounting during my break, a

quick path to a hot bowl of soup, whether it’s left over or not, is a blessing. Any Vegetable Instant Pot Soup Active time: 10 minutes | Total time: 30 minutes 4-6 servings; makes 7 to 8 cups Think of this as your flexible soup-season template: In about a half-hour of mostly hands-off time, you have a bright, velvety pureed soup using most any firm vegetable (or combination) you can think of, along with coconut milk for a touch of richness. While the Instant Pot is doing its thing, you can put together a quick garnish. This recipe was tested using a 6-quart Instant Pot; the volume and amount of liquid are enough for it to work in an 8-quart model, but you’ll want to halve it for a 3-quart model. Storage Notes: The soup can be refrigerated for up to 1 week and frozen for up to 6 months. Thaw and reheat gently on the stove top. 2 pounds vegetable or combination of vegetables of your choice (see NOTE) 1 (13-ounce) can coconut milk 1 1⁄2 cups water 1 ⁄2 medium yellow onion, chopped (about 5 ounces; 1 cup) 4 garlic cloves, smashed 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, plus more to taste 2-inch piece ginger, peeled and chopped

1 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus more to taste Freshly ground black pepper (for serving) About 1 1⁄2 to 2 cups assorted garnishes of your choice (see NOTE) In an Instant Pot combine the vegetables, coconut milk, water, onion, garlic, lime juice, ginger and salt. Close the lid. Make sure the steam valve is sealed. Select PRESSURE (HIGH) and set to 10 minutes. (It takes about 10 minutes for the appliance to come to pressure before cooking begins.) Release the pressure manually by moving the pressure-release handle to “Venting,” covering your hand with a towel or hot pad. Never put your hands or face near the vent when it’s releasing steam. Use an immersion (stick) blender to puree the soup until smooth. (Alternately, you can puree the soup in batches in a blender: To prevent splatters, be careful to not fill it more than halfway, remove the center ring from the lid, and hold a kitchen towel over the lid as you blend.) Reheat if needed by returning the soup to the Instant Pot and heating on SAUTE. Taste, and add more salt and/or lime juice if needed. Divide the soup among serving bowls, add about 1⁄3 cup garnishes of your choice to each bowl, grind black pepper on top and serve hot. NOTE: Here are some possibilities for vegetables and garnishes that work well with them:

Double Celery 1 1⁄2 pounds celery root, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks 8 ounces (5 to 6 ribs) celery, cut into 1-inch chunks Garnish: Chopped celery and leaves, toasted baguette croutons Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts 1 1⁄4 pound head broccoli, trimmed and cut into 1-inch chunks (stem cut into 1⁄4 -inch slices) 12 ounces Brussels sprouts Garnish: Shredded Brussels sprouts and whole leaves; roasted chickpeas Beet and Carrot 1 1⁄4 pounds beets, scrubbed but not peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch chunks 12 ounces carrots, scrubbed but not peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch chunks Garnish: Thinly sliced beet greens plus any whole small leaves; finely chopped carrots; drizzle of coconut milk Winter Squash 2 pounds acorn, butternut or other winter squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 1-inch chunks Garnish: Pumpkin seeds, cilantro or parsley, chopped roasted red pepper Nutrition: Ingredients are too variable for a meaningful analysis.

Let these chocolate dessert cups be sweet start to new year

ike the start of muffin-sized a new year, silicone baking chocolate cups and a small, dessert cups clean paint brush. waiting to be filled With these tools are brimming at hand, you then with possibilities. melt the chocolate Here, that potenin a double boiler. tial is realized in a I use a shortcut sumptuous and Ellie Krieger tempering method healthful treat, Nourish where most of the loaded with chocolate is melted cannoli-style ricotta initially, but some is held cream and fresh raspber- back and stirred in to melt ries. Accented with mint once the bowl is off the leaves and showered with heat. This helps bring the confectioners’ sugar, it’s a temperature of the chocdessert that has the olate down gradually and sparkle and elegance to yields a better-quality match a glass of bubbly final product. and set just the right Then, in what feels like mood for watching a relaxed arts-and-crafts the ball drop. project, you fill the siliDepending on what cone cups about a third you are up for, preof the way with melted paring them can be a chocolate, and use the total breeze. You could paintbrush to spread it purchase premade chocevenly to the top of the olate cups, or for a cup. Once the cups chill relatively easy project in the refrigerator for a in the kitchen, you could half-hour, you pop them make your own. out of the liners. It’s not hard to do, but a couple To go the DIY route, may crack in the process, you’ll need a set of mini-

so I suggest making a few extra to account for that. The rest of the recipe is effortless: You make the ricotta cream by beating the cheese until smooth, sweeten it lightly with confectioners’ sugar and brighten it with a touch of lemon zest. Then, dollop the cream into the cups, top with the raspberries, add a mint leaf to each, and shower them all with confectioner’s sugar. The result is a beautiful dessert, which is just as I hope the year ahead will be - sweet, healthy and filled with good things. Chocolate Cups With Ricotta Cream and Raspberries Active time: 1 hour | Total time: 1 hour 45 minutes 8 servings; makes 16 cups Brimming with cannoli-style ricotta cream and fresh raspberries, garnished with mint and showered with confectioner’s sugar, these elegant chocolate cups are a sumptuous and healthful treat.

They can be ready effortlessly if you buy chocolate cups, or you can embrace the easy arts-and-crafts-like project of making the cups yourself. To do so, you’ll need a set of mini-muffin-size silicone baking cups and a small, clean paint brush. Make Ahead: The chocolate cups may be made, then filled with ricotta and topped with raspberries, up to 1 day in advance; store tightly covered in the refrigerator. 6 ounces (170 grams) dark chocolate (60 to 70%), chopped (may substitute sixteen (1⁄2 -ounce) chocolate dessert cups, see headnote) 2 ⁄3 cup (150 grams) whole milk ricotta cheese 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar, plus more for garnish 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest 6 ounces fresh raspberries 16 small fresh mint leaves If making the chocolate cups, melt three-quarters of the chocolate (about

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Chocolate Cups With Ricotta Cream and Raspberries. 4 1⁄2 ounces/130 grams) in a bowl set over a pot with about 2 inches of barely simmering water (make sure the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the water). Transfer to a towel-lined counter (this helps the bowl to stay put), add the remaining chocolate, and stir until completely melted. Fill a silicone baking cup about a third of the way with the chocolate, then, using the paint brush, spread the chocolate to the top of each cup, layering the sides as thickly as

possible. Repeat with the remaining chocolate and silicone cups. Place the filled cups onto a large, rimmed baking sheet and refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes. Carefully pop the chocolate cups out of the liners. In a small bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the ricotta cheese until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Stir in the sugar and the lemon zest. Using a small spoon, fill each chocolate cup with about 2 teaspoons of the ricotta mixture. (Alternately, you can transfer the mixture to a piping bag fitted with a narrow tip and pipe the mixture into the cups.) Top each cup with 2 to 3 raspberries. Garnish with a mint leaf and sprinkle with additional confectioners’ sugar right before serving. Nutrition: Calories: 158; Total Fat: 12 g; Saturated Fat: 7 g; Cholesterol: 10 mg; Sodium: 16 mg; Carbohydrates: 15 g; Dietary Fiber: 4 g; Sugar: 9 g; Protein: 5 g. Recipe from dietitian and food columnist Ellie Krieger.

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Volunteers at the New City Church food pantry in Peachtree City distribute dry goods, fresh vegetables and frozen meats to waiting cars outside the food pantry, Dec. 16, 2020.

Troubling measurement of pandemic economy:

Food pantry lines Tribune Content Agency ATLANTA — Henry Mitchell, a single dad with a teenage son, got in a long line recently to do something he said he had never done in his 59 years of living: seek a handout of food. He had a heartbreaking amount of company. His hours as a customer service agent at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport have been cut 25% as the pandemic deflated travel demand. When you make $11.60 an hour after years on the job, every paid hour is precious. His $900 in savings dwindled to $25. A friend lent him $30 to help pay his phone bill. So Mitchell, who shares a onebedroom apartment in suburban East Point, Ga., with his son, a high school senior who works at a pizza joint, pulled his 12-yearold Dodge into line when he saw a food giveaway at a local recreation center. “It felt kind of weird. But it was very exhilarating that somebody out there cares,” Mitchell said. In communities throughout metro Atlanta, virtually every day of the week, new people are lining up by the hundreds to get free food. The numbers continue to stun food pantry organizers. The stock market has set new highs. The personal finances of many Americans are at least as good as they were before the pandemic. But 10 months since the coronavirus spread locally, cars in food pantry drive-thru pick-up lanes – a measure taken to encourage social distancing – are spilling onto nearby streets and raising logistical challenges. It’s not unusual to wait more than an hour for bags and boxes of provisions. At many sites, the lines are growing, not shrinking. From September through November alone, the Atlanta Community Food Bank distributed more than 16,000 tons of food, nearly 70% higher than the period a year ago. The organization supplies more than 700 nonprofit agencies in 29 counties. Beefed-up donations from individuals and businesses and boosts in government programs have helped food pantries keep up with the surge in demand. Low-wage, hourly workers have been hit particularly hard by job cuts and reduced wages during the pandemic, with the pain for them lasting longer. Many had little in the way of savings to get them through the hard times. A previous round of federal stimulus aid helped early on. But pantry directors had braced for the area’s financial pain to worsen as special federal unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions were slated to expire in December. A new stimulus package that

Volunteering at the food bank, Mark Jeffreys, left, distributes dry goods, fresh vegetables and frozen meats to Jenny Allison, right, at New City Church in Peachtree City, Dec. 16, 2020. cleared Congress Dec. 21 offered a last-minute reprieve. Food groups and pantry recipients said they were deeply grateful. The new benefits weren’t expected to last long, though. The just-approved $600-perperson stimulus checks and $300 weekly extra unemployment benefits are half what they were in the first Covid-19 relief package from March; efforts by President Trump and congressional Democrats to boost the new checks to $2,000 a person weren’t immediately successful and the eviction moratorium was extended a single month. The approved additions will make a “big difference” in helping families, said Kyle Waide, the Atlanta Community Food Bank’s chief executive officer. But the economy isn’t likely to recover soon, he said, and the nonprofit is preparing for elevated levels of food insecurity after the latest round of assistance runs out. In northern Gwinnett County, Ga., a food pantry at Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church served an average of 180 families a week last year. By December it was averaging more than 600, and there are plans to erect a new building to create more space for the operation. “This year we have an overwhelming need for efficiency,” said pantry director Ryan Jones. Before the pandemic, it would have been impossible for metro Atlanta workers to foresee what lay ahead, said Jones, whose day job is banker. “There’s no rhyme or reason to it. You would have no way of knowing that you would be in the industry that was decimated.” Georgia probably won’t reach pre-pandemic job levels until at least late 2022, and some industries may take far

longer, according to University of Georgia economist Jeff Humphreys, who produces annual forecasts. Among those lining up at area food pantries in the weeks before Christmas were retail and restaurant workers, custodians and former hotel staff, construction workers, forklift operators, medical assistants, child care workers and teaching assistants, a man who owned a dental products lab who had yet to see business rebound, truck drivers, airline workers and hair stylists. Some pantries have seen more families with kids and more people who have taken in extended family members or friends who lost jobs. One pantry reported seeing more Venezuelans. Another, more Vietnamese. A group called Solidarity Sandy Springs launched during the pandemic and has so far served thousands of people, particularly Latino immigrants. It now occupies a former Publix grocery. Various food providers have seen an increase in senior citizens. The pantry program at Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, Ga., brought food to a precinct of the Gwinnett County Police Department after hearing that officers were getting fewer side gigs, such as directing traffic outside Sunday services. Some people who visit pantries were regulars before the pandemic. Others say they are coming more often now – ripple effects from the pandemic reducing their pay or boosting expenses as they helped others or fed kids spending more time at home than at school. Tonita Shumake, a 57-year-old restaurant cashier from Newnan, Ga., is taking home about $100 less a week as business slowed. She said the last time she sought free food before the pandemic was

more than a decade ago, around the Great Recession. Others say the experience is new for them. Beth Jeffreys, the program manager for New City Church’s food distributions in Peachtree City and Fairburn, Ga., recalled a woman in her 60s who recently sought food. The woman arrived in a nice car and was dressed in business attire. “She busted out crying: ‘I’ve never had to do this in my life.’ She said she had lost her job.” Most people interviewed in food lines said they hadn’t been going hungry. But they said receiving the aid helped improve their chances of being able to pay for housing, utilities and other necessities. Still, Jeffreys said in recent months she’s seen signs that some people have empty stomachs, like kids who grab at food boxes as soon as they are loaded into the car. “It’s sad,” she said. As at many pantries run by churches, volunteers offer to pray with people, if they want, as they wait for food. At the East Point pantry, run by the city and other groups, volunteers loaded boxes of sweet potatoes, apples, pears, sausage, fish, chips, crackers and more. Zura Lopez drove up with her mom in the back seat. The 25-year-old said her six-day a week schedule as a hairstylist had been cut by half or more. Her father and brother were landing fewer hours on construction jobs. Her mom said she was “scared” about them falling behind on rent. Forty-three-year-old Diana Castillo lost her job transporting non-emergency patients early in the pandemic and her husband’s work hours were cut back. He’s also driving for Uber and Lyft

now, but it hasn’t made up for the lost pay. Her unemployment benefits ran out three months ago and she said her search for a new job hasn’t gone well. “Am I going to lose my car? Lose my house? I don’t know,” she said. “What am I going to do? It’s not looking good.” On a recent Saturday, Salvation Army Pastor Minkee Kim trotted across the parking lot at his Lawrenceville, Ga., center, trying to direct a line of vehicles longer than he anticipated for a monthly food pickup advertised in local Korean-language media outlets. Police showed up after someone complained about traffic backing up on the street and around a nearby corner. “Way too many people are coming,” Kim said. Two hundred food boxes were prepared in advance, but he had to turn people away long before the event was scheduled to end. Kim speculated that, months into the pandemic, people have spent all their savings. At the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry, donations are up. That’s allowed the organization to dole out about 100,000 pounds of food a month, more than three times its pre-pandemic levels, executive director Tom Balog said. At Marietta-based MUST Ministries, chief executive Dwight “Ike” Reighard said even before the end of the year the organization had assisted 151,000 people, more than four times above usual. The nonprofit has “had to become a lot more aggressive in going out and searching for food to make sure we’re keeping our pantries filled,” he said. After 21 years at Delta Air Lines, Yasmin Espanol said she faced the likelihood of reduced hours, an uncertain job assignment and a potential furlough. So she opted for an early retirement package that gave her 21 weeks of severance. But the 51-year-old former reservations worker from Loganville said she’s had trouble finding another job to support her and her retired husband, who faces health issues. In the meantime, she’s drawn down three-fourths of her 401(k) retirement savings. And she used up her severance from Delta to cover living expenses and pay off a car loan. She recently went to a food pantry at Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, though she felt guilty for doing so. “I don’t want to go hungry next week,” she said. A new round of $600-per-person stimulus dollars from the government should cover one monthly mortgage payment for her and her husband. After that, she said, she needs a job, any job. “Hopefully, everything will get better for the new year for us all.”

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FAIRFIELD — This week’s new movies kick off on HBO Max with “Locked Down.” The film centers on a couple who is contemplating separation, then find themselves at home under a mandatory lockdown. It’s a challenge, but copious amounts of wine and some poetry seem to unite the couple. Anne Hathaway and Ben Kingsley are featured. It’s rated PG-13. It arrives Thursday. “Acasa, My Home” is a documentary set in the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta and tells the story of a family sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish barehanded and following the rhythm of the seasons. When this area is transformed into a public national park, they are forced to leave behind their unconventional life and move to the city, where fishing rods are replaced by smartphones and idle afternoons are now spent in classrooms. The nine children and their parents struggle to find a way to keep their family united in the concrete jungle. It’s not rated. “Don’t Tell a Soul” is a thriller with Rainn Wilson as a security guard who gives chase when two teen brothers steal money to help their ailing mother. He gets trapped in a well and works to strike a deal with the siblings in exchange for his freedom. It’s rated R. “Love Sarah,” a romantic comedy, is the story of a teen determined to fulfill her late mother’s dream of opening a bakery in Notting Hill. She enlists the help of her mother’s best friend and her eccentric, estranged grandmother as they work together to overcome grief, doubts and differences. It’s not rated. “MLK/FBI” is a documentary that examines

newly discovered and declassified files about the FBI’s surveillance of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s not rated. “Outside the Wire,” set in the future, centers on a drone pilot who is sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer, tasked to locate a doomsday device before the insurgents do. It’s not rated. “Some Kind of Heaven,” a documentary that centers on The Villages, America’s largest retirement community in Central Florida. The film looks at the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents – and one interloper – who are unable to find happiness within the community. It’s not rated. “The Marksman” stars Liam Neeson as an Arizona rancher who wants to be left alone as he fends off eviction notices and tries to make a living on an isolated stretch of borderland. Things change when he sees an 11-yearold migrant fleeing with his mother from drug cartel assassins led by a ruthless man. Before the mother dies in a shootout, she begs the rancher to take her son to safety to her family in Chicago. He obliges in the western. Katheryn Winnick is also featured. It’s rated PG-13. “Wrath of Men” stars Scott Eastwood and Post Malone in the story of an armored truck heist involving a mysterious worker at a cash truck company that moves hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. It’s rated R. Check with streaming services and cable channels to see what movies are being offered.

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Law struggles with the nice before going dark in ‘The Nest’ Tribune Content Agency “The Nest” isn’t a thriller. Unless you’re its protagonist. “It’s a drama about a family,” says star Jude Law. “At its heart, it’s a love story. It’s sort of a parable of our times: Even though it’s set 30 years ago, it kind of sets up where we are and why we are where we are now. I think it looks really in a very interesting way at the burden of being the Man of the House in the old sense of the word and how that, at times, has affected judgment in the behavior of men. “There’s also this dramatic Gothic, almost thriller sense to it; an impending sense that something bad is going to happen, which I know [writerdirector Sean Durkin] was keen to sustain throughout. It’s like you’re going into something horrifying.” The film doesn’t play as a thriller in the narrative sense, but in the emotional sense of inexorable doom from Rory’s perspective (“It’s the inner journey,” agrees Law). Set in the ’80s, mostly in and around London, the film concerns a family of four (Rory’s wife, Allison, is played by Carrie Coon) relocating from America to Rory’s native England as the stock trader and financier pursues business opportunities with his old firm. Rory moves his clan into a massive manor house in the country, anticipating thunderous success that will either arrive and justify it all, or not materialize and their fortunes will crumble. The domestic drama is powered by the pressure constantly building on Rory to deliver, as he hides the truth of his desperation from his loving but increasingly frustrated wife. “I loved what I felt a real, honest study of a family without the drama of, say, a death or an affair or a divorce. It was almost like this was a pattern. I wondered, has this happened before? Is their behavior the very thing

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that keeps them together in a weird way?” says Law of reading the script by Durkin. “I was particularly taken with Rory, although when I first read it, I found him highly unlikable. So the two of us worked quite hard to make him a little more seductive. It was important to me that Allison, his wife, wasn’t seen to be foolish to be with this guy. You didn’t see his full colors straightaway. You had to wait for the layers to peel away before you understood what his motives were.” And what were those motives? Despite being set in the era that birthed the mantra “Greed is good,” Rory isn’t exactly rapacious. But it’s true, says Law, that how he appears to others is far more important to him than how he really is doing, inside. “It was this sort of X-ray of him that fascinated me so much because on the one hand, you couldn’t accuse him of doing the wrong thing by his family. He wants them to go to the best schools, he wants them to live in this beautiful house, he wants a horse for his wife; He wants, he wants, he wants all these things. “But all of that is surface. It’s all external, it’s objects, right? It’s belongings. And he’s broken in many ways because what he doesn’t realize is that it’s all gotta start from within.” Law references a scene in which Rory visits his mother and we learn about some of the fuel feeding his fire: “That tiny little moment where you understand that he’s come from a place – or something happened in his past that just left him feeling unloved, unrewarded. He lost touch, ultimately, with who he is and so he’s trying to re-create it. He’s trying to build it. Part of that was going to America and gaining success, or as he says, ‘I had a million pounds in the bank once. I thought it was going to keep coming and it just stopped.’

“You know, it’s terribly sad. To him, that was the pinnacle. That was when he thought he was Rory O’Hara, the great financial whiz kid. And, in fact, it was just a moment.” The setting is significant – beyond mirroring parts of Durkin’s biography – especially in the context of what Rory believes he must do. “For a father, in that slightly archaic, old sense of the word, wanting to be the provider, wanting to bring home the bacon, this challenge of wanting what’s better, what’s best, what’s bigger for my family . . . I pictured always that Rory came from very, very little and the kind of background where to be over-ambitious is to be ‘above your station,’ as they say in the U.K., and ‘too big for your boots.’ “So to put him in that time, when he sees all this possibility, and he also sees the fur coats and the watches and the phones and the right shoes and all of that stuff being seen as a reflection of success; it puts him in this dilemma.” There was, however, the problem of making Rory sympathetic – at least to the guy playing him. “I sat with Sean and . . . I mentioned that, ‘Is the point that you hate this guy?’,” Law says, chuckling. “And Sean was like, “No! No, no no no!’ “And weirdly enough, that was a real moment for me because I suddenly pictured Robert Redford playing him. I was like, ‘Oh, he’s gotta be dashing and quite lovable.’ And then you realize slowly, ‘Holy crap, this guy’s got major issues!’ “That suddenly became the challenge and also became the aim. I thought, ‘OK, how do I start out by seeming to be someone absolutely with their wits about them and something special and attractive, and slowly reveal this kind of vacuum in a way?’

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East hand and the start to the auction. What should East do? South opened with a weak two-bid. West’s first double was for takeout, his second the same and promising extra strength. Here, if East bids three no-trump (which looks better than four hearts), he would have gone plus at least 600 for the vulnerable game. But if he had passed and defended against three spades doubled, he would have been a happy camper – how happy? At a few tables, East corrected to four hearts. When the dummy appeared, life looked all right – until declarer learned about the 5-0 trump split! But I think the key guideline is: With a balanced hand, defend; with an unbalanced hand, declare. West would start off with three top clubs, East playing high-low to show his doubleton, then discarding the diamond six. West will continue with the high club nine, and East will overruff the dummy. After the diamond WHO SHOULD ace and another diamond to West’s king, a third diamond will give East has DECLARE; WHO second trump trick. With the spade ace SHOULD DEFEND? still to come, that is down four, plus Last month, at Bridge Base Online, 800 nonvulnerable. So, although occasionally you will there were two deals that had the same decision for one of the players: to pass leave in partner’s takeout double with a balanced hand and the contract will a takeout double at the three-level, make, in the long run you will be well turning it into a penalty double, or to ahead of the game. bid higher with a balanced hand. Here is the first. Look only at the COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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Last month, at Bridge Base Online, there were two deals that had the same decision for one of the players: to pass a takeout double at the three-level,

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF LIENED PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held on or after 11:15 AM on January 26th, 2021. The property is stored at Storage Star of Fairfield, 301 Lopes Road CA 94534. The items to be sold are generally described as follows: Eileen Novoa 5x10 – Suitcases, Dishes, Clothing, 9 boxes Marcus Bailey 14x5 – Furniture, Pictures, Stroller, 10+ totes Roy Capilitan 10x20 – Shelf, Mirror, Trash Veronica Espino 10x20 – Toys, Furniture, Paintings Demetrius Wiley 6x5 – Clothing, Computer, 7 boxes Christina Lane 10x6 – Bedding, Clothing, Bike, Tools, Suitcases, 25+ boxes Ifeoma Onyejekwe 10x6 – Suitcases, Toys, Pans, Stools, Office Supplies, 10+ boxes Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase in cash only. All purchased items sold as is where is and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. This notice is given in accordance with the provisions of Section 21700 et seq of the Business & Professions Code of the State of California. Nor Cal Storage Auctions, Inc., (916)604-9695, Bond #7900390179 DR# 00044183 Published: January 11, 18, 2021 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF LIENED PROPERTY Notice is herby given that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held on or after 11:15 AM on January 26th, 2021. The property is stored at Storage Star in Vacaville at 170 Bella Vista Rd. CA 95687. The items to be sold are generally described as follows: Brenda Veal 10x20 -BBQ, Sports/Hobby Equipment, Safe, Bikes, Bedding, 4+ Totes Abigale Diviak 10x15 – BBQ, Collectables, Radio, Bedroom Furniture, Bookcase Angela Cargill 10x10 – Bedroom Furniture, Sofa, Dresser, Entertainment center, lamps Maribel Fox 10x15- Toys, Arm Chair, Sofa, Box Spring, Computer, Printer, Air Conditioner Otis Dunbar 5x5 – Tools/Toolbox, 15+ Boxes, Table Michael Musick 10x15 – Power Tools, Collectables, Mattress/Box Spring, TV, Computer, Monitor, Storage Cabinets, Musical Instruments Harry Clark 5x14 – Collectables, Speaker, Restaurant Equipment, Chairs Kenneth Scott Gamble 5x5 – Speakers, Pans, Bathroom Toiletries, 4+ Totes Devin Hamilton 5x5 - Auto parts, Suitcases, Clothing/Shoes Edward Varni 5x5 – Shelves, Stereo, Speakers, Mattress, Bed Frame, 8+ Boxes Joseph Bertinoia 10x15 – Mattress, clothing, Dog/Cat Carrier, Guitar Tamara Bine 10x10 – Shelves, Flat Screen, End Table, Artwork, 20+ Boxes Camilo Rios 10x10 – Hand Truck, Suitcases, Sofa, Baby Furniture, Bedding/Headboard, Paintings, 25+ Boxes Brett Gabel 10x20 – Sports Equipment, Shelves, Toys, End Table, Vase, Lamps, Mattress, Frame, Desk, File Cabinet, Safe, 10+ Boxes Harry Clark 6x10 – Television, chairs, 30+ Boxes Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase in cash only. All Purchased items sold as is where is and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. This notice is given in accordance with the provisions of Section 21700 et seq of the Business & Professions Code of the State of California. Nor Cal Storage Auctions, Inc., (916)604-9695, Bond #7900390179 DR# 00044206 Published: January 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: VANESSA BROUSSARD CASE NUMBER FCS055803 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Vanessa Broussard filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Vanessa Broussard Proposed Name: a. Vanessa Torres Marquez THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: FEB. 24, 2021; Time: 8:30 am Dept.: 12 ;Rm.: 2 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Date: DEC 29, 2020 /s/ Christine A. Carringer Judge of the Superior Court FILED: JAN 4 2021 DR# 00044212 Published: Jan. 11, 18, 25, Feb. 1, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS THE VALLEY COTTAGE INN LOCATED AT: 2425 Morrison Lane Fairfield Mailing Address: 2421 Morrison Lane Fairfield (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Jill K. Strickland 2421 Morrison Lane Fairfield 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 09/07/2019. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jill K Strickland IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION December 29, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: DEC 30, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002268 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044185 Published: Jan. 11, 18, 25, Feb. 1, 2021

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS 1. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the City of Fairfield will receive bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation and services necessary for the construction and completion of: POTABLE WATER RESERVOIR CLEANING AND INSPECTION PROJECT 2021 General Work Description: The Various Potable Water Cleaning and Inspection Project generally consists of, but is not limited to, interior cleaning of City of Fairfield above ground steel reservoirs, treatment plant facilities, and high lift pump station sump. The work also includes removing and disposing of any debris, sediment, or sludge, performing interior inspection and documentation of all surfaces (roof, walls, floor, hatches, man ways, etc.) and appurtenances (piping, support columns, ladder, cathodic protection, monitoring equipment, etc.), providing written repair recommendations for distressed areas (if any), minor spot repairs, de-cholrination and filtration of cleaning discharge, installation of flow meter on discharge, de-chlorination sampling, maintain reservoir quality (disinfection) at all times, and other items of work called for in the plans, specified in the Special Provisions, and as directed by the City Engineer. The City of Fairfield above ground steel water reservoirs identified for this project are: Goldridge, Mangels, Martin Hill, Rancho Solano 4, and Rolling Hills. At the Waterman Treatment Plant, the area identified for this project is the high lift pump station sump. At the Northbay Regional Water Treatment Plant (NBR) are the NBR Treated Water Pump Station (TWPS), NBR Chloramine Contact Basin, and NBR Settled Conduit. All structures will be at or near full capacity while the contract work is being performed. 2. Each bid must be in accordance with the provisions of the contract documents now on file with the City Engineer, City of Fairfield, Fairfield, California, which contract documents are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof. OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: Copies of the contract documents, specifications and drawings may be obtained by logging onto http://www.fairfieldplanroom.com or by calling BPX Printing at 707-745-3593. These items may obtain a set price of $25.00, plus shipping, and is non-refundable. 3. Bid Guaranty and Bonding Requirements are as follows: (a) a bid guarantee in the amount of 10% of the bid price must be submitted with bid proposal, (b) the successful bidder shall furnish a payment bond and a performance bond in the amount of 100% of total bid price. 4. Proof of compliance with insurance requirements (including certificates of insurance and additional insured endorsements) shall be provided by the successful contractor. Coverage shall be for the following amounts: (a) Commercial General Liability $1,000,000 each occurrence, $2,000,000 each aggregate, (b) Automobile Liability $1,000,000 each occurrence, and (c) Worker’s Compensation/Employer’s Liability $1,000,000 each occurrence. 5. For information concerning the proposed work, contact: Phil Layoso, Assistant Engineer City of Fairfield, Public Works Department 1000 Webster Street Fairfield, CA 94533 (707)428-7505 6. The Contractor shall perform with his/her own organization, work of a value amounting to not less than fifty (50) percent of the remainder obtained by subtracting from the total original value the sum of any items that may be designated as “Specialty Items” in the Special Provisions. 7. Pursuant to the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, Assembly Bill, at least 50% of the waste generated from this construction project, as measured by weight, shall be recycled. Whomever is responsible for collecting and transporting waste stored and/or transported in containers, as defined in Chapter 9 of the Fairfield Municipal Code (section 9.030 “Defined Terms and Phrases”), shall become authorized to do so by entering into a Collection Agreement approved by the City of Fairfield. The collectors and/or haulers of all other waste generated by this project shall not require authorization, but the recycling requirements will still apply and will be monitored for compliance by the City. 8. Bids will be received until 2:00 PM on February 2, 2021 at the office of the City Engineer, 3rd floor City Hall, 1000 Webster Street, at which time bids will be opened. No phones are available at the City offices for use by the bidders. The wall clock at the Public Works Counter will be the final determination of the time. 9. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all public counters at City Hall are closed to walk-in traffic. Bids to be received in person shall be by appointment only. Please call (707) 428-7485 to schedule an appointment. Bidders are encouraged to mail in their bids. Bid can be mailed to the address below: If bidders have a tracking number to mail their bids, please send the tracking number to CIP@fairfield.ca.gov with subject line: Potable Water Reservoir Cleaning and Inspection Project 2021. Public Works staff shall indicate on the sealed bid the time and date of bid receipt to validate the bid was appropriately received. Bids received after the time and date specified in the Notice to Contractors shall be rejected as invalid. It is solely the bidder’s responsibility to ensure that bids are received prior to the specified time. Bidders who wish to participate in a live bid opening, on Tuesday February 2, 2021 at 2:15 PM, hosted via Zoom can find the link to the zoom conference on the City’s website listed below. https://www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/depts/public_works_/ccp/current_capital_projects.asp As near as possible to the noticed time and date for the bid opening, the Zoom conference will begin, and the bid opening will proceed. At the conclusion of the bid opening, the apparent low bidder, the apparent low bidders listed sub-contractors and the anticipated City Council Award of Contract date will be announced. Within 24 hours, the results of the bid opening shall be posted to the City of Fairfield website. 10. All public works projects are subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the State of California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)). Furthermore, no contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. 11. The tentative schedule for this Project is as follows: Date Event January 11, 2021 – February 2, 2021 Bid Acceptance Period January 26, 2021; 2:00 PM Deadline for Bid Questions February 2, 2021; 2:00PM Bid Opening February 9, 2021 Anticipated Award of a Construction Contract March 1, 2021 Anticipated Notice to Proceed CITY OF FAIRFIELD Ryan N. Panganiban City Engineer/Assistant Director of Public Works Date: January 11, 2021 DR# 00044207 Published: January 11, 18, 2021

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Experts: Workout routines at home can be effective with minimal cost, little creativity Tribune Content Agency COLUMBUS, Ohio – Like many Americans, Donna Reda struggled with maintaining a workout routine last spring when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down fitness centers. “I had all kinds of little exercises on my iPad, and I would just look at them and turn it off and walk away,” said the Upper Arlington, Ohio, resident. “It was easier to sit in a chair or read a book or eat something than to go stand and exercise for an hour.” The solution turned out to be one door away. Her neighbor, Olga Stavridis, had been undergoing physical therapy. When Stavridis found out the therapist also was a personal trainer, she and Reda decided to hire her. For the past several months, Caitlin Kennelly, personal training manager for Columbus Fitness Consultants, has come to Reda’s garage twice a week at 7 a.m. There, Kennelly puts Reda, Stavridis and Stavridis’ daughter Maria through an hourlong rotation of exercises. The neighbors pooled the equipment they had: 5-, 8- and 10-pound dumbbells, an exercise ball, resistance bands and yoga mats, as well as a 25-pound weight that Kennelly brings. They do squats, lunges, crunches, step-ups on the stair between the garage and house, and whatever else Kennelly dreams up. “I’ll admit to sometimes using four-letter words,” Reda said. “I’ve never been pushed like she has pushed us. “But at the same time, it has been wonderful. I

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Olga Stavridis, 53, left, and her daughter Maria Stavridis, 21, right, work out with personal trainer Caitlin Kennelly can’t even tell you what a godsend it is to my mental health. I said to her, `If I didn’t have this to look forward to, I don’t know what I’d do.’ ” Hiring a personal trainer may not be for everyone, but experts say most people can maintain an adequate workout routine at home with minimal cost. And that’s good news as the pandemic has surged in recent months. Even if gyms have reopened, many people may not be comfortable returning. Dr. Craig Pulliam, fitness team leader at the OhioHealth McConnell Heart Health Center, said about a third of the center’s members have not

returned to the gym. Dr. Brian Rue, a primary care sports medicine doctor in the Mount Carmel Health System, said he would not recommend working out in a gym at this point. “There are so many variables, with air filtration systems, with other people not wearing masks properly, and of course, you’re touching a lot of different surfaces,” Rue said. “In general, the safer thing to do is work out at home.” So what does one need for an effective home workout? Pulliam said the first priority is finding the right space in your house that you dedicate to fitness. Next, he said, is deciding

in the garage of next-door neighboor Donna Reda’s Upper Arlington, Ohio, home. what type of workout you would enjoy (strengthening versus cardio, for instance) and will therefore be more likely to stick with. As for equipment, Kennelly, Pulliam and Rue all said resistance bands may be the best investment one can make. “They’re the most versatile thing you can purchase,” Pulliam said. “You can anchor them to many things, and they replicate the robust cable systems we have in the gym.” Rue said, “Their uses are limitless, you can work out pretty much any muscle in the body using them.” To make sure one is using proper form during these exercises, Rue also

suggested having a mirror in the workout space. A variety of lightweight dumbbells, such as the ones Reda and her neighbors use, also are useful, they said. But people have been finding it difficult to find those in stores during the pandemic, so the good news is there are household equivalents. Kennelly said a large can of soup can weigh up to three pounds. A full gallon milk jug weighs about eight pounds, she said. Rue suggested paint cans or milk jugs, “or you can use a chair as an elevated surface and do tricep dips. You can use the things around you

pretty well, and really, you can do a lot with your own body weight.” As for cardio, of course there are treadmills and rowing machines and stair-climbers. But again, your home may provide some of what you need, particularly when bad weather keeps you from going for a jog or bike ride. “I like to do stairs,” Kennelly said. “I’ve done this thing at home where I go to the basement and then take two stairs at a time from the basement to the second floor and jog back down again. I’ll give myself 30 seconds to rest and then do it again.” The only drawback, she said, is “it drives my dog crazy.” The American College of Sports Medicine recommends 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week. Pulliam said he recommends not doing strength-training on consecutive days. Rue said he describes moderate exercise as an activity that someone can do, “while talking in mostly complete sentences, but not singing.” Rue said any amount of exercise is helpful though. He did not want to discourage anyone from working out for 10 or 15 minutes a day if that’s all the time they have. For Reda, her 120 minutes a week with Kennelly have been plenty. She has enjoyed it enough that she’s not sure she will ever return to her gym. “I haven’t addressed that yet, we’ll see what happens when this (pandemic) is all settled down,” she said. “I’ll keep Caitlin as long as I can.”

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Title: Alabama takes on Ohio State From Page B1 Handling Northwestern there and then upsetting No. 2 Clemson on Jan. 1, Ohio State finds itself playing for its first championship since 2014. “It just kind of emphasizes the point of just how chaotic this past three, four, five months have been,” said OSU coach Ryan Day. “Some days you woke up, you didn’t know which direction you were going in.” But don’t expect the Buckeyes to be satisfied with merely reaching the final game. “No one ever talks about getting to the national championship. They talk about winning the

national championship,” said Day, as his Ohio State team is an 8-point underdog. “Ultimately, this is the final goal. That’s what all the focus is on right now. . . . You take the next couple weeks and reflect on the season. Now is not the time for that. Now, it’s all about playing in this game, playing well, because that’s what matters.” It’s a matchup of two of the most prolific offenses in college football. The Crimson Tide – with Heisman Trophy-winning wide receiver DeVonta Smith and topfive Heisman finishers in quarterback Mac Jones and running back Najee Harris – have averaged 48.2 points per game and 535 yards of total offense

going into Monday. Jones has completed 77 percent of passes for 4,036 yards, 36 touchdowns and four interceptions. Smith, who will be going up against OSU cornerback Shaun Wade, caught 105 passes for 1,641 yards and 20 touchdowns. Harris has 1,387 rushing yards and 24 touchdowns. Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields played through a shot to the ribs in the semifinal victory over Clemson that had him visibly hobbled and still threw for 385 yards and six touchdowns. He has insisted this past week that he’ll “be good” for Monday, as Day has similarly stated. Buckeyes running back Trey Sermon is having

an Ezekiel Elliott-esque postseason with shades of the now-Dallas Cowboys back’s eye-popping performances last time OSU won it all, topping Alabama and Oregon in the first CFP to conclude the 2014 season. Sermon went for 331 yards and two touchdowns in the Big Ten Championship against Northwestern with 193 rushing yards and another score against Clemson. The last time college football’s national championship was played in Miami, Alabama topped Notre Dame, 42-14, to conclude the 2012 season. Monday’s title game comes within a calendar year of Hard Rock Stadium also hosting the last Super Bowl in early February.

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Basketball College men •Connecticut at DePaul, FS1, 3 p.m. •Colorado at Utah, PAC12, 3 p.m. •Loyola-Chicago at Drake, CBSSN, 4 p.m. •Boise State at Wyoming, CBSSN, 6 p.m. NBA •New Orleans at Dallas, NBATV, 5:30 p.m. •Indiana at Sacramento, NBCSCA, 7 p.m. (Vacaville only) Football College Playoffs •Championship Game, Alabama vs. Ohio State, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, SEC, 5 p.m. Gymnastics College women •Iowa at Penn State, BIG TEN, 5 p.m. Soccer

Ravens: Able to bottle up Titans’ Henry From Page B1 A 10-play, 77-yard march to open the second half ended with running back J.K. Dobbins (nine carries for 43 yards) barreling in from 4 yards out and a 17-10 lead. The Ravens – and the Titans – kept the scoring to a minimum after that. After Tennessee was stymied in the red zone to end the third quarter, a rarity for any oppos-

ing defense, Titans kicker Stephen Gostkowski hit a 25-yarder. The Ravens didn’t get close to the goal line again, but it didn’t matter. They got the help they needed. After kicker Justin Tucker missed from 52 yards, their defense held, forcing Tennessee to punt at the Ravens’ 40. The Ravens had opened the game with their best imitation of last season’s playoff loss. On their first

drive, they gained 5 yards and punted. On their second drive, Jackson missed wide receiver Miles Boykin badly on a deep shot, and cornerback Malcolm Butler came up with the Titans’ fourth interception in their past nine quarters against the Ravens. By that point, the defense looked out of it, too. Even with Henry bottled up, the Ravens’ back end was struggling.

Tannehill found Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J. Brown (six catches for 83 yards) for 28 yards, then 14 yards, then a 10-yard score, all in one drive, all against Pro Bowl cornerback Marlon Humphrey. Wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown finished with seven catches on nine targets for 109 yards, both game highs, while tight end Mark Andrews added four catches for 41 yards.

Saints: Brees threw for 2 touchdowns From Page B1 10 third downs, their first conversion coming on the final drive. The Bears defense was playing without starting inside linebacker Roquan Smith and cornerbacks Jaylon Johnson and Buster Skrine. In place of Smith, the unit started Manti Te’o, who had been on the practice squad all season.

The Bears held the Saints to seven first-half points and got a first-half takeaway on Tashuan Gipson’s forced fumble and John Jenkins’ recovery. The Saints broke through in the second half to score two touchdowns, though quarterback Drew Brees was stopped short of the goal line on a fourthand-1 leap with 2:19 to play. Brees completed 28 of

39 passes for 265 yards with two touchdowns, and running back Alvin Kamara had 23 carries for 99 yards and a score. The Bears were troubled by penalties all game long and finished with nine for 50 yards. That included tight end Cole Kmet getting flagged for a debatable unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the Bears’ only scoring

drive after he threw the ball to the official. Wide receiver Anthony Miller was ejected for shoving Saints defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson, the same player Bears wide receiver Javon Wims punched in the teams’ first meeting this season. The Saints advance to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next weekend in New Orleans.

Browns: To face Kansas City Chiefs From Page B1 And now the Browns (12-5) will advance to face the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round at 3:05 p.m. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs (14-2) had a wild-card bye because they earned the AFC’s top seed. They will host Cleveland because the sixth-seeded Browns are conference’s lowest remaining seed. The seventh-seeded Indianapolis Colts lost 27-24 to the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. Linebacker Sione Takitaki intercepted a pass thrown by Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger with 3:16 left in the fourth quarter to essentially seal the Browns’ victory. Roethlisberger threw four interceptions in the game, and his starting record against the Browns dropped to 23-3-1. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is now 22-6-1 in the series.

In qu a r ter back Baker Mayfield’s NFL playoff debut, he went 21-of-34 passing for 263 yards and three touchdowns without an interception. He posted a passer rating of 115.2. The Browns improved to 9-36-1, including 1-1 in the playoffs, against the Steelers in the expansion era. The Browns defeated the Steelers 24-22 in last week’s regular-season finale in Cleveland to end what had been the NFL’s longest active playoff drought at 17 seasons. But the Steelers had wrapped up the AFC North title a week earlier and rested Roethlisberger and some of their other star players in Week 17. The Steelers won the first meeting of the season between the two teams in a 38-7 blowout Oct. 18 in Pittsburgh. Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster gave the Browns bulletin-board material on Wednesday, when he told Pittsburgh

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reporters via Zoom, “I think they’re still the same Browns team I play every year. ... The Browns is the Browns.” Asked Friday whether the Browns still needed to prove they’re not the same team they have been in the past, game captain and All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett said, “We’ll have to prove it when we see them on Sunday.” Then on Sunday afternoon, Mayfield revealed he took note of Smith-Schuster’s comment by posting a hype video on Instagram with the caption, “Browns is the Browns.” Appearing in their first playoff game in 18 years, the Browns got off to the best start imaginable and set an NFL playoff record by scoring 28 points in the first quarter. The also tied a team record for the most points in a half of a playoff game. The Oakland Raiders scored 28 points in the opening quarter of a

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