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Crime logs Fairfield Friday, Nov. 26 6:03 a.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:01 a.m. — Forgery, 100 block of HAWTHORN DRIVE 9:41 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1700 block of FILLMORE STREET 11:42 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 12:26 p.m. — Forgery, 700 block of MARSH PLACE 12:32 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 1:17 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, LAKEVIEW CIRCLE 2:01 p.m. — Battery, 600 block of GALLERY COURT 3:03 p.m. — Shots fired, 3900 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 3:10 p.m. — Trespassing, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 3:13 p.m. — Vandalism, 2000 block of CLAY BANK ROAD 4:14 p.m. — Forgery, 1700 block of FAWN GLEN CIRCLE 4:39 p.m. — Vandalism, CLAY BANK ROAD 5:35 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, CLAY STREET 5:35 p.m. — Battery, 800 block of OHIO STREET 7:18 p.m. — Hit-and-run with
Family From Page One Miguel Silva stepped away from construction for this family hobby, which is the source of their income. The family videos range from the Dalgona game in Netflix’s “Squid Game” to the banana challenge, testing their bravery and stomachs. Here, each person takes a turn dipping a banana into a different type of food, such as jam or onion dip, before taking a bite. A recent YouTube entry shows Mary and Izzy plotting a 3 a.m. swim in the hot tub, sneaking past their parents and Christmas decorations. Once inside, they enjoy some Taco Bell food. They also blow up inflatables to hold their drinks. Switch over to TikTok and Izzy is holding a dress and string of pearls. Her father sits on the couch behind her. She tosses the dress and dad is now wearing it. Miguel Silva said he has as much fun doing the videos as his children. In one of them, Izzy makes her dad bald. “I enjoy it and I get to spend time with my kids,” he said. The family gets many comments on their videos – from around the globe. Some they can translate. “We get a lot of fan mails saying we brighten their day,” Suzanne Silva said. “People will say they felt sad then watched our videos and it made their day better.” They were not an overnight phenom. “I think we made videos for a year before anyone watched them,” Suzanne Silva said. “Our goal was to have 100,000 followers. That became 1 million and then 5 million.” Filming is a constant. The Silvas may do four videos a day then take a few days off. There are times they film daily. They are impromptu, not scripted. “More of a surprise,” Miguel Silva said.
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Suisun City Friday, Nov. 26 9:48 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 800 block of CACKLING COURT 5:57 p.m. — Vandalism, 900 block of LONGSPUR DRIVE 8:48 p.m. — Assault, 800 block of SUNSET AVENUE 11:39 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, MAIN STREET/SPRING STREET
Izzy added the family to Tiktok about two years ago. “We have a lot more videos on YouTube,” she said. The TikTok report found several highlights, including: n Family trends: Trends that started with a single video and blossomed into a standout movement have brought families together and inspired so many others to spread the love (and laughter) through memes and sounds. n Popular creative effects: TikTok’s creative effects, like Vintage Camcorder and Disco, have given families limitless space for creativity, from parents and their kids doing the ultimate throwback to demonstrating why Hispanic birthday parties are always more fun. n Rising hashtags: Find support when mom life gets tough on #Moms ofTikTok, get sound advice from a village of 1 billion on #Paren tingHack, or discover new ways to annoy your partner through #Couple Prank – there’s something for every family on TikTok. n Breakthrough videos: Whether it’s laughing at relatable family experiences or sharing heart-melting moments of life, these videos have resonated and brought so much joy to the billion people on TikTok who have viewed, liked and shared them. n Brand partnerships: TikTok provides brands with an authentic way to connect with potential customers and, this year, the platform seen many brands successfully partner with creators like @Team2Moms and @ TwoTrends who helped brands create a buzz and reach new audiences. The Silvas have partnered with Netflix, Elmer’s Glue and Walmart, to name a few. Slime plays a major role in many of their videos, so ties with Nickelodeon could also benefit. The family enjoys watching videos online from other families.
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its decision on the Mississippi case in June, overturns Roe v. Wade. That has led experts to predict that California would become a popular abortion destination if other states were to ban them. Lisa Matsubara, general counsel and vice president of policy at Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said it is very possible that the conservative-leaning court voids Roe v. Wade. The court allowed Texas to effectively ban abortions once cardiac activity is detectable, usually around six weeks, while it considers the law’s constitutionality. Matsubara said that even if the court upholds Roe v. Wade this summer, some states plan to implement laws that mirror Texas’ law, which deputizes citizens to file lawsuits against people or places offering abortions after that six-week mark. By putting citizens rather than law enforcement in charge of reporting abortions, the law takes enforcement of the six-week ban out of the hands of the state. The threat of a lawsuit might dissuade anyone aiding someone in seeking an abortion from doing so. Arkansas, Florida and South Dakota are among some of the states where Republican officials have suggested they might try to mimic the law. Many of the states considering stricter abortion laws already restrict access to contraception and to gender-affirming health care for LGBTQ individuals, Matsubara said.
Salton From Page One they came from and what may become of them if trends continue.” For Lyons’ research team, filling blanks in existing data is an obsession, and it could have significant implications at a time when the air practically crackles with a volatile mix of environmental danger and economic opportunities promised by ongoing efforts to tap immense reserves of lithium, a key ingredient of rechargeable batteries. Few dispute the need for swift action at the 343-square-mile lake straddling Imperial and Riverside counties, about 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Clouds of salty, alkaline toxic dust containing heavy metals, agricultural chemicals and powdery-fine particulates linked to asthma, respiratory diseases and cancer are rolling off newly exposed playa, threatening the health of thousands of nearby residents. Delays and costs are mounting for many projects that were designed to be showcases of restoration and dust mitigation. Scientists say it’s because the projects were developed without consideration for heat waves, severe droughts and water cutbacks due to climate change, or for the constantly evolving underlying geology at the hyper-saline landlocked
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From Page One The omicron strain has spread rapidly in southern Africa and reached as far as Europe and Australia. “Inevitably it will be” in the U.S., Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “The ques-
“I do think that it is imperative that policymakers in California really start thinking about what California needs to do to prepare for some of that increased need, including for those who are going to be traveling to California for care. I think it’s really important that we put the infrastructure in place now,” Matsubara said in an interview with The Sacramento Bee. Without Roe v. Wade, 26 states are likely to ban abortion to some extent, the Guttmacher Institute predicts. Twenty-one have some already restrictions ready to go: 12 of those states have “trigger bans” that would bar abortion immediately if the court overturns Roe v. Wade.
People already drive to California from out of state to have abortions. But if the court lets states ban abortion entirely, California could see an almost 3,000% increase in people driving to the state to get one, according to an analysis published by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research and policy organization that supports abortion access. Most of those travelers would be from Arizona, the institute predicted. Nevada and Washington would also see an increase in people driving to obtain abortions if the court allows states to ban them, but not to the same extent, per the same analysis. California could see a 12% increase in travelers seeking an abortion if the court allows states to bar abortions after
20 weeks of pregnancy and a 13% increase for a 15-week ban, according to the institute. Matsubara said that California already is working to improve abortion access to California residents in underserved and rural communities while embracing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s declaration that the state a “reproductive is freedom state.” One of those measures includes trying to adjust to the need for distributing pregnancy-ending medication through telemedicine, a need highlighted by the pandemic. “We want to make sure that we have the capacity to serve not just people who are traveling from out of state but make sure that we have the capacity to serve Californians who need care too,” Matsubara said. recently Newsom signed laws to heighten privacy around abortions by requiring information on those and similar procedures to be sent to a patient exclusively, rather than to additional members on a health plan, such as to guardians of minors. Another law penalizes individuals who post personal information about other people who work for or go to reproductive health centers. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and other similar organizations created the California Future of Abortion Council advisory group to advise the state and serve as a model for others on anticipating and addressing challenges to reproductive and sexual health care. The group is expected to release some findings next month.
Almost two-thirds of Americans think the court should uphold the precedent, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted this month. About three-quarters of respondents said that the decision about an abortion should be between a person and their doctor, rather than regulated by state laws. Californians are more supportive of abortion access than the general population: 77% of adults in California do not want Roe v. Wade overturned, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll conducted in July. Central Valley respondents offered the least support in California. Most people there still overwhelmingly support upholding Roe v. Wade, but 26% of respondents said they backed overturning it. But more people are against some measures set by the legal precedent than those polls show, said John Gerardi, the executive director of Fresno-nonprofit Right to Life of Central California. He noted that many people do not generally support third-trimester abortions, which are allowed under California law if the pregnant person’s health or life is at risk, without clearly narrowing what “health” means. “If Roe is overturned decisively, I think there will be happiness among the conservative community, but unfortunately, kind of a mostly theoretical happiness that positive things will be happening in places other than here,” he said of Valley residents.
lake at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault, where shifting tectonic plates bring molten material and hot geothermal brine closer to Earth’s surface. Now, large corporations investing in proposals to suck lithium out of the brine produced by local geothermal operations have revived hopes of jobs and revenue from land leases, with lithium recovery projects potentially supporting internships, education programs and environmental restoration projects for years to come. The big question during a recent meeting sponsored by the Lithium Valley Commission, a group of lawmakers and community leaders organized to help guide decisions that could affect low-income communities surrounding the Salton Sea, was this: What’s in it for us? “The lithium rush at the Salton Sea cannot be stopped,” said Frank Ruiz, Audubon California’s program director for the lake and a member of the lithium commission. Communities surrounding the Salton Sea, he said, “see that as a victory – a ticket to a better life.” “If done correctly,” he said, “it will elevate the region by creating jobs, benefit the state and the nation by making geothermal energy more affordable, and lay the groundwork for negotiations aimed at ensuring that some of the royalties from lithium production and related land leases are
used to support dust reduction and environmental restoration projects.” Jonathan Weisgall, a spokesman for Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which was recently awarded a $6-million California Energy Commission grant for a demonstration project at a geothermal facility in the nearby community of Calipatria, agreed, but stopped short of guarantees. “My passion is workforce development and economic opportunities in the clean energy sector,” Weisgall said. “We don’t want to bring in a workforce from outside Imperial County if we don’t have to.” The Salton Sea was created in 1905 when the Colorado River broke through a silt-laden canal and roared unimpeded for two years into a basin near Brawley then known as the Salton Sink. Fishermen flocked to its barnacle-covered shores to catch corvina, croaker and sargo. Birds flocked to its wetlands, turning it into one of the most important stops along the Pacific Flyway for species including 90% of the migration’s white pelicans. But the Salton Sea is a non-draining body of water – which is what makes it technically a sea and not a lake – with no ability to cleanse itself. Trapped in its waters are salt and seleniumladen agricultural runoff as well as heavy metals deposited over the last 116 years, authorities say. Some scientists believed that 2018 would
be the start of a profound environmental, public health and economic disaster for California. The change was predicted in 2003 when the state Legislature promised to slow the shrinking of the lake as part of a successful effort to persuade the Imperial Irrigation District to sell some of its water to San Diego. Under the agreement, the district stopped sending fresh water into the lake on Dec. 31, 2017. With relatively little water flowing in, the salinity level continues to rise. It is now at about 68 parts per thousand, authorities say. That’s nearly twice as high as the salinity of the Pacific Ocean, which is about 35 parts per thousand. The Salton’s high salinity has made it inhospitable to tilapia, a primary food source for migrating birds; the fish has all but stopped reproducing. Visiting bird populations are a small fraction of what they once were. The only fish in the Salton Sea today are inch-long desert pupfish and hybrid tilapia. Scientists say even these will survive only near the mouths of rivers and canals once the salinity level reaches 70 parts per thousand, which is expected within the next few years. A study by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation concluded that doing nothing to keep the Salton Sea viable could end up requiring nearly $10 billion in mitigation projects.
tion is, will we be prepared for it?” The U.S. has yet to stand up a national, comprehensive effort to sequence Covid-19 cases to help detect new variants. Instead, federal officials have largely relied on piecemeal state operations and other private labs to track variants. South Africa, on the other hand, is considered to have advanced
genomic sequencing capability. Omicron’s “molecular characteristics that would strongly suggest that it would be more transmissible,” Fauci said. For now, “we don’t know yet what the level of severity will be” nor how easily the variant evades existing vaccines, he said. South African officials say early cases suggest symptoms from omicron
infections have been mild. A new, targeted vaccine against omicron will take “at least three months or so to come into being,” Collins said. He said it’s “a great time” for Americans to get booster shots or initial vaccinations. “Omicron is one more reason to do this,” Collins said.
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