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to“MyKarenforthetodaythoughtmovedurday.forDennis,alongcommunityraisingFairannualSHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NETBENICIA—TheBeniciaPeddlershasbeenafundfixtureforthefor59years.KarenBascomb,withherhusbandcametothefairthefirsttimeSatTheyrecentlytoAntiochanditwouldbeaniceforthewholefamilygather.Theywaitedinshadebythechurcheveryonetoarrive.“Itisclosetous,”Bascombsaid.daughterishopingfindthingsforher apartment in Chico.” The event is a fun draiser for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. It helps to maintain the historic church along with other buildings on the property, which includes a rectory built in theThe1700s.first event in 1963 was called the Benicia Flea Market, a reference to the Paris Flea Market, and had 115 vendors from various parts of California and Nevada. About 4,000 vis itors descended on the town for one day. The Rev. Charles daily r epublic Staff wasnotandvictim,nouncedhospitalwasdescribedpressleastwhothereAvenuethereportsshortlyCountydeadlyinkilledpersonDRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NETVALLEJO—OnewasshotandearlySundayVallejo–thethirdshootinginSolanoinasmanydays.Policerespondedafter2:05a.m.toofashootingon2000blockofSolanoinVallejo.Officerswhoarrivedfoundonepersonhadbeenshotatonce,accordingtoarelease.Thevictim,onlyasamale,transportedtoalocalandwasprodead.Informationaboutthetoincludehisagecityofresidence,wasreleased.Hisnamewithheldpending family notification. The shooting remains under investigation.Thisis the third fatal shooting in Solano County since Friday and the second in Vallejo. A shooting early Friday left one person dead in Vallejo, policeThereport.shooting was reported shortly before 4:30 a.m. on the 1300 block of Arkansas Street. Officers who arrived there found one person who had been shot at least once. The victim was transported to a local hospital and was pronounced dead, police report. The shoot ing remains under investigation.Thename, gender, deadly
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‘I think that’s him,” Linda Privatte says as we creep down Monte Vista Avenue, looking in all the usual spots for her younger brother, James Mark Rippee, who has been living on the streets right around the Solano County Building here for 15 years now. It is Mark, kneeling beside the 7-Eleven, feeling around on the sidewalk for the debit card he keeps losing. One of the day labor ers waiting in the parking lot next door thinks that we must be from the county and comes over to offer his own assessment: “Are you doing an evaluation? He decided to be this way. He decided.”
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A lot of us tell ourselves that as we walk on by, annoyed and alarmed, not without reason, that the number of people yelling f-bombs into traffic as they push their carts around and around just keepsButgrowing.no,Mark did not decide to lose his sight, along with part of his frontal lobe, in a 1987 motorcy cle accident on his way back from a Father’s Day barbecue when he was 24. He did not decide to start hearing voices in the years that followed. He never chose to sleep in bushes instead of a bed after those voices convinced him to tear apart his garage apartment at Linda’s home; it’s just that the walls were talking to him, and he wanted to shut them up. He never set out to burn down two different trailers in her back yard, either, though he did start those fires. And his longstanding “decision” to refuse all psychiatric treatment has been a symptom of his schizophrenia, too. As a result of that disconnect, we aren’t failing only him, but thousands of unhoused individ uals across California. As is too often the case, his survival has depended on the stubborn heroism of his family, in particular his 65-year-old twin sisters. But his predicament shows that even with the strongest possible advocates, in a state willing to spend billions on this challenge, you can still be left to die on the streets. And most of all, what his story illustrates is why the “simple” solutions touted by politicians over the decades have so far solved nothing at all. Before Mark’s accident, he worked in construction and loved playing the guitar. More than any thing else, he looked forward to getting married and raising a family in his Northern California hometown, where the population is just under 100,000 and, as of a year ago, had just under 100 home lessForpeople.thefirst 20 years after the night a car swerved into his lane on an S-curve, forcing him off a country road into an abandoned grain harvester, his family was able to care for him. Even with in-home help, this was an all-con suming effort for seven people, Linda says. “It took Cathy” – that’s Catherine Rippee-Hanson, Linda’s twin – “me, Mom, my father when he was alive, a full-time county caregiver living with him,” plus Linda’s husband and later, Cath erine’sAfterson.the fires that Mark admit ted were no accident, Linda still let him stay with her, because how could she turn out her own brother, the baby of the four sib lings? “But different things kept happening, and I could tell that it was scaring my children and making them anxious.” Then he got his own place, and then SuSan Hiland
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Fairfield freelance humor col umnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns – “The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California” and “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California.”
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I held a book signing at the Vacaville Museum a couple of weeks ago and a gentleman named Grayson Hunley from Fairfield High School’s Class of 1971 had me sign his copy of my book, and he brought some thing for me to peruse. It was a copy of a program from the 1970 U.S. All American Karate Champion ships held at Vallejo Senior HighNowSchool.itwas a little ironic that I would be sitting in a museum and viewing what I considered to be a local artifact. While I was never personally into martial arts beyond watching Bruce Lee movies, I did recognize quite a few of the people in the program, and knew that it would be treasured by many locals. Kajukenbo was the focus and a brief history of the how it came to be included this: “Kenpo-Karate is a combination of two of the world’s most devastating self-defense forms. Kenpo means “Law of the Fist” and karate means “EmptyAccordingHands.”toWikipedia, in 1947, Adriano Emperado, Peter Young Yil Choo, Joseph Holck, Frank F. Ordonez and George “Clarence” Chuen Yoke Chang banded together as the Black Belt Society and developed what came to be called kajukenbo. The name kajukenbo is a combination of the various arts from which its style is derived: KA for karate, JU for judo and jujutsu, KEN for kenpo and BO for boxing. The discipline incorporates a blend of striking, kicking, throwing, takedowns, joint locks and weapon
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Japan news KYOTO, Japan — There is a prestigious temple in a popular tourist area of Kyoto City that transforms itself into a haunted temple in the summer. Ghosts and yokai supernatural beings are on display in the form of pictures and dolls. At the exhibition, you can see a doll of a female ghost dressed in white wearing an eerie smile. There are also beautiful but mysterious women depicted on bright red fusuma sliding doors, and a picture scroll that shows lifeless tools with arms, legs and faces parading on streets at night. Located in Higashiyama Ward, Kodaiji temple was built by Kita no Mandokoro (known as Nene) to pray for the soul of her husband Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a warlord who ruled Japan in the late 16th century. The temple delights visitors with its tran quil visualization of beautiful autumn leaves. “It was a mind-blowing experi ence,” said a 79-year-old woman from Tokyo, who visited the temple with her granddaughter.Theideafor such an exhibit came from the former head monk of the temple, Tensho Goto, 74. He came up with ideas to familiarize people with Buddhism and the temples, including the introduction of a robot statue of a Buddhist deity. He set his sights on attracting visitors to Kyoto during the summer months when tourist numbers are low, and about 20 years ago added ghosts and yokai. However, there is another reason for showing such spine-chilling exhibits. Higashiyama Ward is well-known for its many famous temples and shrines, as well as the scenery along the Kamo River. However, it has also been a burial ground since ancient times. About 800 meters southwest of Kodaiji is Rokudo no Tsuji – the intersection of the six realms. The intersection is believed to have been the entrance to Toribeno, one of the three major burial grounds in Kyoto, so people thought it was a border between this realm and the other. Kodaiji turned its attention to ghosts and yokai partly because Higashiyama is a place with close ties to the dead. The temple has also begun exhibiting ghost paintings. In 2006, on the 400th anni versary of the temple’s founding, Kodaiji produced a new yokai picture scroll, “Hyakki Yagyo Emaki” (Night parade of 100 demons), to go with the one that has been in the collection for generations, and held an exhibition. It was so successful that it became a regular summer event. As well as being scary, the depiction of yokai dwelling in old tools implies that we should treat things with care. Bud dhist teachings depicted in an image of hell and paradise tell us that our actions in life determine what happens after death. “Are you living your life to the fullest? I hope you will come to visit us, think about this while appreciating the ghosts, and experience Buddhism,” Goto said.
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The tournament kicked off with the national anthem followed by an invocation from John Mraz of the Fairfield Police Department (later a city councilman). Then Ramos gave a welcoming address and there were demonstrations, two-min ute competitions and trophies awarded. The three belt classifications were white, brown and black. Each contes tant had to be certified or registered at an established club or organization whose instruc tor held the rank of at least first-degree black belt. Officers and enlisted men of the Armed Forces could compete if they were certified by the command ing officer of the military branch they represented. Charles Gaylord, inventor of the Gaylord Method who would eventually reach the honorable rank of Great Grandmaster before his death in 2009, was the head referee. Other referees included Emil Bautista, a 1957 Armijo High School graduate who later become a Senior Grand Master and ran a dojo in Vallejo for 53 years, and Al Reyes, also later a Senior Grand Master who had genera tions of local students. Another referee was easily recognizable even to people not into martial arts: Chuck Norris. There are photos throughout the program and for kajukenbo aficionados it is probably a gold mine. However, even for people who are just local history buffs like yours truly who just happened to write a book about bygone restaurants, the vintage advertisements were cool to see as well. They included ones for Baskin-Robbins, Sham’s Pizza, the Acacia Club and Wonder World among others. I even learned something. I had no idea there was a Flaky Cream Do-Nuts in Vallejo as well as the one in OneFairfield.lastinteresting note about the program, they also had a Karate Queen. She was Miss Claudia Costello and was pictured holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a sparkly tiara. The caption, however, said that she had just earned her purple belt. So, queen or no, she evidently was not to be trifled with.
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JERUSALEM — At least eight people were injured, two of them seriously, in shooting inci dents near Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the Magen David Adom rescue service announced on Twitter early Sunday. The suspect, a Pal estinian, was arrested after turning himself in several hours fol lowing the attacks, according to police. Blaze at Egyptian church leaves 41 dead At least 41 people were killed and about a dozen others hurt when a fire broke out at a church in greater Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said. Firefighters and ambu lances were dispatched to Abo Sefein church in the Imbaba district of Giza on Sunday in response to a blaze the interior minis try said was traced to an electrical fault with an airconditioning unit. The health ministry said that 12 people were being treated in hospital for injuries. Tribune
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A Pennsylvania man arrested Saturday night for the murder of a woman is allegedly the same man who drove his car through a crowd raising money for fire victims earlier that night, killing one. Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, 24, has been charged with two counts of criminal homicide, Pennsylvania State Police confirmed early Sunday. One person was killed and 17 others were injured and transported to four different local hospitals. The man, later identified as Reyes, has been arrested for both incidents. Man crashes car into US Capitol barrier A man crashed his car into a barricade pro tecting the U.S. Capitol early Sunday and fired a handgun in the air several times before fatally shoot ingNobodyhimself.else was hurt, the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement. The man’s vehicle became engulfed in flames as he exited and started shoot ing, at which point officers attempted to approach the man when he shot himself, the police said. The man was later identified by police as Richard A. York III of Delaware. It is still not clear why York, 29, chose to drive to the Capitol area, police said. At least 8 injured in shootings in Jerusalem
Young Eagles fly again on Saturday Anyone 8 to 17 interested in taking a free airplane flight can have that experience on Saturday at the Nut TreeTheAirport.Young Eagles program, hosted by the Experimental Air craft Association EAA 1230 chapter, has local pilots who take those interested in aviation on flights on the third Satur day of each month. Flights begin at 7:30 a.m. A parent or guardian must be present. Go to the airport building behind the Lowe’s store. The airport is located at 301 County Airport Road in Vacaville.Theother program dates are Sept. 17, Oct. 15 and Nov. 19. For more informa tion, call Larry Smigla, president of the EAA 1230 chapter, at 707689-4848 or send an email to p51smigla@aol.com.
Government meetings on week’s calendar A few government meetings will be held this week. They are always open to the public with most in-person and online. Check the websites for moreTheinformation.meetings will include: n Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 1000 Webster St. city-council-meetings.government/city-council/www.fairfield.ca.gov/Info: n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. citycouncil.www.riovistacity.com/Info: n Vacaville Plan ning Commission, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Vacaville City Hall council chamber, 650 Merchant St., Vacaville. Info: www. ci.vacaville.ca.us. n Solano Irrigation District, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Lake Berryessa Room, 810 Vaca Valley Parkway, Vacaville. Info: org/AgendaCenter.sidwater.
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the WaShington poSt On July 31, a prom inent French physicist tweeted an image of what he said was a distant star captured by the new James Webb Space Telescope. Étienne Klein emphasized to his 91,000 followers “the level of detail” shown of Proxima Centauri, located 4.2 light-years from the sun, which appeared as a glowing red circle on a black background.Thephoto image, he later admitted, was actu ally a slice of chorizo. Klein apologized on Twitter for the prank and said it was a joke gone wrong, saying that no “object related to Spanish charcuterie exists anywhere else other than on Earth,” according to CNN. This is not the first time people have been duped by fake reports of out-of-this-world dis coveries. Perhaps the greatest of them all occurred in 1835. The Great Moon Hoax emerged from a series of newspaper articles describing newly dis covered life on the moon, including winged humanlike creatures and comportments“someingtheman,”Latinbyaaboutland.JournalfromtheSouthCapeatlenseswithanmoon,descriptionsstoriesningcourseonononinknownJohntheAndrewportedlyEurope.theinwhichinastoundedspeciesnever-before-seenoffloraandfauna.ReaderswerebythereportstheNewYorkSun,werereprintedmanynewspapersinUnitedStatesandThearticles,purwrittenbyDr.Grant,detaileddiscoveriesofSirHerschel,awidelyastronomerwhoreallifehadspeculatedthepossibilityoflifethemoon.TheSunransixarticlesthediscoveriesovertheofaweekbeginonAug.25,1835.Theincludedamazingoflifeontheasviewedthroughenormoustelescope“hydro-oxygen”builtbyHerschelanobservatoryontheofGoodHopeinAfrica.AccordingtotheSun,articleswerereprintedtheEdinburghofScienceinScotInthem,GrantwrotegoldentemplesandrubycoliseumbuiltVespertilio-Homo,anamemeaning“bat-whichwasgiventohumanoidspopulatthemoon.Healsoreportedhowoftheiramusewouldbutillwithourterres
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trial notions of decorum.” Apparently, these winged humans liked to share intimate moments in public – presumably of a sexualGrantnature.went on to describe other animals seen through the tele scope. They included a large bipedal beaver that carried its young in its arms, as well as herds of beasts similar to bison, goats “of a bluish lead color” and “a strange amphibious creature, of a sphericalReadersform.”were capti vated by the accounts, published under the heading “Great Astro nomical Discoveries, lately made by Sir John Herschel.” New Yorkers reportedly spoke of nothing but the lunar rev elations for days. Other newspapers were quick to jump on the story, reprinting the articles soon after they ran in the Sun. Publications as far west as Cincinnati and in London and Paris carried theAsaseries.Greene, editor of the New York Transcript, recalled in 1837 how everyone seemed caught up in the stories: “The credulity was general. All New York rang with the wonder ful discoveries of Sir John Herschell [sic] . . .
The American Red Cross needs more donors in August to prevent a blood shortage. All who give blood now through Aug. 31 will be automatically entered for a chance to win gas for a year, described in a press release as a $6,000 value. There will be three winners. Every one who comes to give blood in August will also receive a $10 e-gift card to a merchant of choice. The next blood drive will be at 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Green Valley Country Club, 35 Country Club Drive,DonorsFairfieldcan schedule an appointment to give using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, by (1-800-733-2767).callingRedCrossBlood.orgvisitingorby1-800-REDCROSS
There were, indeed, a few skeptics; but to venture to express a doubt of the genuineness of the great lunar dis coveries, was considered almost as heinous a sin as to question the truth of revelation.”Atfirst,people gener ally believed the reports. “In sober truth, if this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful,” former New York mayor Philip Hone wrote in his diary. Soon, though, as more fantastical accounts were released, some started to have their suspicions.Oneofthe first publica tions to voice its doubt was the Journal of Commerce, a biweekly magazine in New York that primar ily covered global trade news. Its editor wrote, “There is no doubt but the article was manufactured in this country, and that it belongs to the same school as Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels.” Slowly the truth began to emerge. On Aug. 31, James Gordon Bennett Sr., owner of the New York Herald, printed an article titled “The Astronomical Hoax Explained.” He presented evidence debunking the Sun’s stories, pointing out that the Edinburgh Journal of Science – the supposed source of the series – had ceased publi cation in 1833. And there was no Dr. Andrew Grant, nor did the fabulous telescope exist. Herschel, who was real, did build a telescope at his observatory in South Africa, but it could see only the stars – not life on other Bennettplanets.also identi fied the author of the unsigned articles: Richard Adams Locke, a New York Sun reporter. The Herald publisher proffered flimsy evidence of Locke’s involvement, but it appears he was on target. In 1840, Locke admitted he was the writer, although some historians speculate other authors helped craft the tall tale. For its part, the public seemed amused by the revelation, taking it as a good-natured joke. At the time, the profession of journalism was not wellestablished, and most people understood that newspapers were not always purveyors of accu rateOneinformation.ofthose who did object was Edgar Allan Poe, the author of many otherworldly stories of his own. He argued that the Sun’s series ripped off one of his stories pub lished a few months earlier. In “The Unpar alleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall,” which Poe also claimed was a true story, the hero visits the moon in a hot-air balloon. “The hoax was cir culated to an immense extent, was translated into various languages – was even made the subject of (quizzical) discussion in astronomical societies . . . and was, upon the whole, decidedly the greatest hit in the way of sensa tion – of merely popular sensation – ever made by any similar fiction either in America or in Europe,” Poe wrote later. An unsuspecting Her schel continued working at his observatory in South Africa. In the days before transatlantic cables, he was unaware of the hoax until late 1835, when an Ameri can businessman handed him one of the newspa pers. After reading it, he reportedly blurted out, “This is a most extraor dinary affair! Pray, what does it Thoughmean?” initially amused, Herschel soon tired of the publicity and incessant questions. An unsent letter he wrote in 1836 to a London mag azine – discovered in 2001 – reveals his feelings Benjamin Henry Day/Library of Congress A 1935 illustration in the New York Sun claimed to show animals on the moon, discovered by Sir John Herschel in his observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, and copied from sketches in the Edinburgh Journal of Science. See Hoax, Page A8
Marine Patrol finds Oakland man’s body RIO VISTA — The Solano County Marine Patrol on Sunday morning recovered the body of a 20-year-old Oakland man who drowned in the Sacra mento River. He was recovered about 9:40 a.m. Carlos Estevez had jumped off the dock at Sandy Beach County Park about 4 p.m. Wednesday and was swimming with family members when he began to struggle. “He was having dif ficulty and couldn’t get back to the dock and just went under,” sheriff’s Sgt. Rex Hawkins said in a phone interview. His body surfaced just south of Sandy Beach.
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Firefighters continue to battle wildfires Firefighters in Cali fornia’s northern forests continued contain ment Sunday over the massive and deadly McK inney Fire in Siskiyou County, but as temper atures headed higher, another large blaze was burning nearby. The Six Rivers Fire, burning more than 16,900 acres in Trinity and Humboldt counties, was just 15% contained Sunday, according to fireMeanwhile,officials. another blaze in Yosemite National Park, the Red Fire, started in the backcountry on Aug. 4 and was estimated at 250 acres Sunday morning, officials said. 1 dead after car plows into fundraiser
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If the incorrect lead is made, either defender may accept it, but not after consultation. Also, if the next defender plays a card, it condones the incorrect lead, making it legal. If declarer leads incorrectly from, say, his hand and is asked to lead from the board, he may select any card; he does not have to lead the same suit. Declarer cannot have a penalty card. It can help only the defenders if declarer inadvertently displays one or more of his Howcards.is this relevant to today’s deal, which occurred in London a few years ago? South is in three no-trump, and West leads the heart king. South won the first trick with his ace and immediately cashed his top diamonds. When they failed to split evenly, he led the club four and played dummy’s top clubs. When they broke 3-1, he was forced to win the fourth round of clubs in his hand with the 10. Declarer realized his only chance was to call for dummy’s club seven and hope East played a card. However, knowing that that was not cricket, as they say in England, South conceded down one. “Sorry, partner,” he said. “I should have paid closer attention to the club spots, unblocking my eight, nine and 10 under dummy’s honors. Then the seven doesn’t wither on the vine.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). When someone impresses you, you’ll let them know in subtle and not so subtle ways. They feel they’ve finally been seen. You feel you’re getting to know someone truly unique. Special connections get made. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It feels good to be helpful, and there will be no shortage of takers for your kind of assis tance. As you focus on the needs of others, you just may find that you’re creating a niche for yourself. Eventually, you’ll be known and paid for this.
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A reader from Las Vegas asks about the law when declarer leads from the wrong hand, which he notes is impossible in online play. First, if the dummy thinks his partner is about to make this mistake, he should speak up, saying, “You are on the board,” or, “You are in your hand.”
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Dear Annie: The “Mother Whose Heart Is Breaking” is abso lutely right to be worried about her son. Over my 30 years as a life coach, I have seen too many men leave their wives and children to find their true selves. Often in their 20s, they feel pressured by their girlfriends’ wishes to marry, biological clocks and their own insecurities and fears of being alone. There is the added pressure of “wasted years” and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) on possibly “the one.” When they are inevita bly miserable and regret not pursuing their own dreams of career, travel, education or plain wanderlust, everyone suffers tenfold. And for all those in this sit uation: If a sheer thought of engagement puts you in therapy, or makes you depressed or suicidal, you need to leave the relationship and break all ties. You need to take care of your mental health without the added pressure from your partner. The sooner you seek help from a quali fied professional, the quicker will be your road to recov ery. — Life Coach Dear Life Coach: Thank you for your perspective based on experience. You are so correct that your partner should not send you into therapy. Life is hard enough, and your partner should be a support for you in good times and bad – and not someone who makes your good times turn bad. Dear Annie: My husband and I solved our money dif ferences by creating a budget and reviewing it periodically. We listed our known expenses, income, and our future plans for expenses and savings. This allowed each of us to under stand our financial situation. Having a budget also stops one person from being the bad guy when the other wants to buy an unplanned item; you just refer to theThebudget.bestthing we included was a monthly allowance for each of us. We agreed that this money could be spent without negative comments from the spouse. This has saved us from having many fights. — Couple on a Budget Dear Budget: Fighting over finances is one of the biggest causes of marital strife. You and your husband are commu nicating openly and honestly about what is important, and it is why your system of a budget prevents future arguments about money. Your insight to include a monthly allowance –and no criticism of how it is spent – is priceless. Dear Annie: This is in regards to the lawn mainte nance man who now wants cash. If this fellow decides he wants cash, he is probably free lancing and is UNINSURED! In which case, if he were to have an accident (either to himself or her property), there could be major liability claims involved. Always get a certificate of insurance when you hire any type of contractor; if they’re too busy, ask for the name of their agent, and you can call your self to get one (I’ve done this). As an aside, check cancella tion fees probably aren’t worth the trouble of going through the process. — Always Be Insured Dear Insured: Having someone who is insured work on your house is always a good idea. Thank you for the reminder. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.
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THE WRONG LEAD FROM THE RIGHT HAND A reader from Las Vegas asks about the law when declarer leads from the wrong hand, which he notes is impossible in online play. First, if the dummy thinks his Bridge Lane Dear Annie
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Carey, Jonas Brothers, Metallica to headline Global Citizen Festival Tribune ConTenT AgenCy NEW YORK — This year’s Global Citizen festival has assem bled heavy hitters from the worlds of pop, R&B, country, Latin, rock, Afropop and heavyFormetal.its 10th anniversary, the human itarian-focused music event has two starstudded concerts happening on Sept. 24; one in its usual location of New York City’s Central Park and the other in Accra,MariahGhana.Carey, Metal lica, Jonas Brothers, Mickey Guyton, Rosalia and Maneskin will head line the New York City concert, which will be hosted by actress Pri yanka Chopra Jonas, a Global Citizen Ambas sador, organizers announced Thursday. For the international lineup taking place at the African country’s Black Star Square, Usher, H.E.R., SZA, Stormzy and TEMS will head line. The event will mark Accra’s 65th anniversary of independence and its 20th anniversary of the African union. The annual Global Citizen concert is geared to help raise awareness around famine, climate change and other ineq uities worldwide. This year, Global Citizen is specifically asking world leaders attend ing the United National General Assembly to invest $600 million to the future of women and girls worldwide, to close the annual $10 billion climate financing shortfall.
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State wants more ethanol, carbon capture; that would lock in pollution for decades Carolyn r affensperger and sheri deal-Tyne LOS ANGELES TIMES As California prepares to update its low carbon fuel standard – a policy aiming to reduce emissions from trans portation fuels – Indigenous groups and environmentalists across the Midwest are fighting one of its key provisions. The policy would incentivize ethanol production through technology that stores carbon underground not just in California, but anywhere in the U.S. Here in Iowa, where much of the nation’s corn is raised and corn-based ethanol is produced, we are facing a corporate stampede to build thou sands of miles of dangerous pipelines crisscrossing six Midwest states. This includes the development of under ground toxic waste disposal sites to store carbon under Midwest lands. California’s incentives wouldn’t deliver carbon reductions as promised. Instead, supplementing gasoline with ethanol would increase climate-damag ing greenhouse gas emissions, further pollute the water from Iowa to Loui siana, and divert needed funds away from real climate solutions in Califor nia and the Midwest. Ethanol producers say the sub stance generates less carbon than gasoline, but a study this year found that ethanol is 24% more carbonintensive than traditional fuel. The enormous rise in nitrogen fertilizer to raise corn for ethanol has increased emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that is 289 times as powerful as CO2. Adding carbon capture to ethanol production will only compound these problems. Fertilizers used in corn production, including for ethanol, also cause vast water pollution extending from drinking water in Iowa to the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Building ethanol infrastruc ture locks in ethanol and gasoline for decades, reducing incentives for investors or policymakers to shift towards more sustainable transporta tion. In Iowa, politicians are fighting every policy and law that might move the nation toward electric vehicles or public transportation. California’s low carbon fuel policy is making their obstruction of cleaner transportation that much easier. Carbon capture technology is aggra vating climate change in other ways as well. Drilling companies pump captured CO2 underground to help extract more oil, ultimately leading to more pollution. As the Los Angeles Times reported last month, “Eleven of 12 large-scale carbon storage facil ities in the United States use captured carbon dioxide for oil production.” Such technology will require thou sands of miles of CO2 pipelines across six states. Three pipeline projects are in the proposal stages in the Midwest. Sections of the proposed pipeline paths run adjacent to the existing Dakota Access pipeline, which prompted the huge Indigenous resistance at Stand ing Rock, FarmersN.D.are familiar with the damage of pipeline construction because of Dakota Access. Farmers have contended with soil compaction, drainage issues and a 60 to 90% reduc tion in crop yields along the pipeline’s route. Studies and media reports cor roborate these experiences. Carbon capture projects need per mission from landowners to build pipelines, but if farmers in Iowa refuse, developers are working with govern ment authorities to seize the land using eminent domain. Iowans’ opposition to the pipelines is fierce and includes county government officials, farmers, Indigenous organizers, scientists and environmental activists. CO2 pipelines also pose serious public health hazards. Rupture of a highly pressurized liquid CO2 pipe line results in an explosive release of a CO2 cloud that hugs the ground and displaces oxygen – potentially killing everything in its path and crippling internal combustion engines. This would mean that emergency respond ers using fossil-fuel vehicles couldn’t get to pipeline rupture victims. Mass casualties could overwhelm rural emergency health systems. In 2020, a CO2 pipeline in Satar tia, Miss., ruptured, sending 49 people to the hospital and leaving many with long-term health impacts including fatigue and lung problems. More than 250 people required evacuation. First responders needed self-contained breathing apparatuses to conduct their rescues. Residents’ cars ceased to run, and victims were found dazed or unconscious.Thehighly pressurized state of liquid CO2 in pipelines, along with its corrosive nature when in contact with water, increases the risk of leaks, fractures and ruptures. In response to the Satartia CO2 pipeline rupture, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a report in May warning about the potential for damage to pipelines caused by earth movement and climate change, such as increased rainfall and higher tempera tures. In Iowa, the pipelines are slated to be buried in farmland, where heavy farm machinery will drive over them, further increasing risks of ruptures. Ethanol produced from corn and using carbon capture is not a climate solution. It causes a new set of prob lems. California’s new fuel standard should not be enabling it.
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A rticle II of the U.S. Consti tution grants the president the power to make treaties and appoint ambassadors with the advice and consent of the Senate. The executive branch of government is tasked with the de jure role of official recognition of countries and the conducting of diplomacy. Nancy Pelosi, as speaker of the House of Representatives, has no de jure power to conduct diplo macy. One can argue she did just that with her visit in a U.S. government plane. China might see Pelosi’s visit as poking a tiger with a sharp stick. You don’t actually hurt it, but you piss it off. The United States does not have dip lomatic relations with Taiwan. “The United States has a longstand ing policy on China, which is guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three U.S.-China joint communiqués, and the Six Assurances. We oppose any uni lateral changes to the status quo from either side, we do not support Taiwan independence and we expect cross strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means. We continue to have an abiding interest in peace and stabil ity across the Taiwan Strait.” By provoking communist China with this unauthorized visit, Pelosi has given China an excuse to increase hostility with Taiwan and possi bly provoke military action. Pelosi wrote in The Washington Post, “We cannot standby as the CCP proceeds to threaten Taiwan – and Democ racy itself.” Does Pelosi think she can singlehandedly declare war with China or a military assault of Taiwan? Senor Cl. Tan Keflie of the Chinese Defense Minis try warned the U.S. “must not arrange for Pelosi to visit the Taiwan region . . . should the U.S. side insist on doing other wise the Chinese military will never sit idly by and will certainly take strong and resolute measures to thwart any interference by external forces as secessionist attempts for Taiwan inde pendence and firmly defends China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”President Biden noted that is was not a good idea for Pelosi to take the trip to Taiwan. He is the president of the United States of America who is supposed to be in charge of foreign relations and he took no action. Who is in charge of foreign relations? Evi dently Joe doesn’t understand that or can’t be Whatbothered.isBidengoing to do if China takes military action? Is he going to say that it is not likely a good idea to respond? What if China attacks our Pacific Fleet and sinks one or more of our aircraft carriers? What will the U.S. do if China bombs or invades Taiwan? Is Biden ready to go to war if China attacks Taiwan or us? Or is this a dark plan to provoke hostilities with China before the mid-term elections to ensure the Democratic Party stays in power? It appears to be a dangerous action to provoke our most potent enemy with an avowed policy of reunifying a land that they have always claimed was theirs and using force if necessary. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said, “Those who play with fire will perish by it.” The Pentagon is so concerned about possible Chinese military action that it plans to increase forces in the region. Has escalation begun? Former Ambassador to China exSenator Max Burdis said Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan makes President Biden look weak in front of China. The trip by Pelosi was edging the U.S. closer to recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation, which would be a disaster.“TheChinese government is very opposed to this. We are playing with fire when we get pretty close to the line and Pelosi is pushing us much, much closer to recognizing Taiwan as an independent country, and once we get there, we’re going to pay the price,” Burdis said. “He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.” Roger Oberbeck is a Navy veteran, electrical engineer, guided missile systems engineer, Navy nuclear engi neer, author and biotech validation engineer. He is a member of the Right Stuff Committee and can be reached at rogeroberbeck@yahoo.com.
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W hen California voters passed Proposition 13, the state’s iconic property tax limit, in 1978, it was merely the opening salvo of a decades-long political war over curbing the ability of state and local governments to impose taxes. The latest of many battles over tax limits occurred just two years ago, when voters rejected an effort to modify Proposi tion 13 by making it easier to raise taxes on commer cialAsproperty.officials fashioned new ways to raise revenues without violating Proposi tion’s 13’s strictures, anti-tax groups countered with new ballot measures to prohibit or limit them and were largely successful.Oneofthe more important post-Proposi tion 13 clashes was over Proposition 218 in 1996, which sought to limit the ability of local governments to levy non-property taxes without voter approval and limit fees to the actual cost of services, rather than provide general revenue. Its limits on fees were later tightened up by Proposition 26 in One2010.Proposition 218 section required that taxes for special purposes be approved by two-thirds voter majorities, but the state Supreme Court recently ruled that special taxes proposed by initiative, rather than by governments themselves, require only a simple majority vote. However, the rest of Proposition 218 remained intact and figures in two lawsuits, one decided last week by the state Supreme Court, that test the mea sure’sThepotency.Supreme Court case (Zolly vs. City of Oakland) involves franchises the city issued for the collection of trash and other materials. The suit alleges that Oakland collected unreasonably high franchise fees from waste haulers and the extra costs were passed on to consumers in the form of charges, thus violating Proposition 218 and Proposition 26 requirements that fees be strictly related to the cost of services. The city won at the trial level but an appellate court ruled that the franchise fees are subject to constitutional limits and the Supreme Court upheld the appellate ruling, thus jeopardizing the validity of Oakland’s trash franchises and bolstering Proposition 218’sTheimpact.second lawsuit involving Proposi tion 218 was filed this year against the City of Sacramento, alleging that an election to approve new fees for stormwater facilities was tainted because the city, in effect, stuffed the ballot box. The election was limited to property owners who would pay the fees, rather than ordinary voters, and the city cast more than 2,000 ballots in favor of the fees on behalf of city-owned parcels while, the lawsuit alleges, limiting the ability of those who owned multiple properties to do the same. “By casting votes on behalf of cityowned property in favor of a fee that will effectively be paid to the city, the city subverted Proposition 218’s goal of protect ing taxpayers by limiting the methods by which local governments exact revenue from taxpayers without their consent,” the lawsuit, filed by commercial property owner Dessins LLC, declares. The Sacramento case is not only another test of Proposition 218 but a new wrinkle in the recent phenomenon of local govern ments being more aggressive in promoting revenue and bond measures to voters. As chronicled in this space and other venues, local officials often hire political consultants to design full-fledged cam paigns for their measures under the guise of “information.” At one point, the Fair Political Practices Commission was starting to crack down on the deceptive and perhaps illegal practice of spending taxpayer money for political campaigns, but it continues. It was once said, allegedly by Benjamin Franklin, that nothing is certain but death and taxes. In California, it’s also certain that we will continue to battle over tax limits. CALmatters is a public interest journal ism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.
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The work begins each year in January. Applications for booths are sent to past attendees in February. They look for hand made, good quality, crafted items. The revenue is all generated in the fees for vendor tables, the vendors themselves then keep whatever money they get from selling“Thisitems.year, we sold out our spaces,” he said, “but we could always move people around to makeTheroom.”fair extended down First Street for six blocks and offered visitors everything from toys to furniture.
In Solano County, a man whose clothing is covered with cigarette burns, who can’t keep housing and pushes around a cart full of rotten food is somehow seen as brainpeoplepeople,ofnitytreatmentprovidescannotstandardsimposestringent“Simplycondone,”havenotunderthatheawheneverbesistersexplainedSkipCountymanentstate,vatorshipstemporary1,459ofingcompromised.insufficientlyIn2019-20,accordtotheDepartmentHealthCareServices,peoplewereonLPSconserinthewholeand3,672onperones.Inanemail,SolanoSupervisorThompson’sofficetoMark’sthathecouldnotconservedbecausehe’sonevenbriefinvoluntaryhold,improvessomuchhemustbereleasedthelaw:“Thisisasituationthatweignored,northatwetheemailsaid.thelawrequiresstandardstoconservatorships–thatsofarwemeet.”“Laura’sLaw,”whichcourt-orderedinthecommuforasmallnumberseverelymentallyilldoesn’tapplytowithtraumaticinjuries.
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Solano County officials ‘do feel for him’ Solano County’s direc tor of Health and Social Services, Gerald Huber, tells me that though Mark “may not look like it, he does have the ability to make some decisions for himself,” and that has so far made it impossible for him to get the longterm residential treatment he needs. Which, Huber adds, wouldn’t be avail able anyway because even the prospect of funding something like that “is pretty bleak for small counties like tipleEvery“everyagain.quicklyhasButIpitalhim.says,Mark“Everybodyours.”knowsquitewell,”Huberand“wedofeelforIfIhearhe’sinahoslocally,that’swhenknowhe’sthesafest.”thenhegetswell,tobereleased,anddeclinesalloverAndevenworse,countyhasaMark.countyhasmulMarks.”VacavilleCityCouncil man Nolan Sullivan, who in his day job is director of Yolo County’s Health & Human Services Agency, tells me that “it’s hard when folks have a TBI that leads to a mental decline.” But no one can say for sure that Mark would not have developed schizo phrenia even if he hadn’t had that accident, right? True, Sullivan says. “But from what has been represented to me, Mark has declined service, and that makes it almost impossible to serve him. I’ve wracked my brain. There have been dozens, if not hundreds of attempts to help him.” Yet his sisters insist that he hasn’t had a proper psychiatric assessment in years, even when he was in the hospital. After they complained that he’d been arrested for nuisance crimes almost 100 times, police stopped doing that, but also stopped responding to reports of psychotic episodes, so that now, according to Linda and Catherine, he isn’t getting assessed for even a temporary psy chiatric hold, much less a conservatorship. ‘They say it helps keep the voices down’ What a surprise, then, when on another visit with Mark, I happen to arrive just as a psychiatric phy sician’s assistant for the county is giving him his first long-acting shot of Seroquel, an antipsychotic drug used to treat schizo phrenia. He screams for just a second as the phy sician’s assistant, Jaron West, does this, but Mark did agree to it, he says, because “they say it helps keep the voices down.” “We’ve been trying to help him for some time,” West tells me, “but the county doesn’t have any resources.”Hissisters are incred ulous that he was even briefly lucid enough to say “yes” to a shot. Mark doesn’t think it will help, because “the sounds come from outside the ears.” Still, he’s very interested in the other thing that I heard West tell him, which was, “I’ll talk to Officer Potter’’ –Sgt. Aaron Potter, who heads the Vacaville Police Department’s Community Response Unit – “about that housing lottery.” That’s a major incen tive, because as Mark sees it, “what I need instead of a bunch of blankets is rent to get into a place.” He does need that, and in fact is worse off than when last we met, because he’s recently been roughed up and rolled again, relieved even of his cane, and so is using a broken off broom handle to help himButnavigate.without a lot more than drive-by treatment, it’s hard to see how Mark could possibly get and keep housing. It isn’t that he doesn’t know about or believe in mental illness. At one point, he even suggests that he’s actually a little worried about his sisters on that front: Linda “and my sister Cathy have some kind of phobia; they always think they’re sick.” He just doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with him that wouldn’t be remedied by an apartment and the extermination of the extraterrestrials who are tormenting him. He describes his life as one perpetual “mind rape, just as bad as a woman getting brutally raped. I want privacy in the most intimate areas of myYet,brain.”likeall of us, Mark is also more than his problems, and he tells me several times that he still wants love: “I got desire, too. It has to have meaning. It can’t be just any girl.” As he walks away that day, toward the bus stop where he can sit but can’t board because the drivers have run him off so many times, his friend Jackie Burnside stops to tell me what a good friend he is. “I’m homeless, too,” she says, as the result of domestic violence and other experiences that inspired the hand-drawn tattoo on her arm: “Prop erty of Jackie Only.” Mark “gets mad some times and yells,” she says, “but he’s a good-hearted person. When I’m hungry, he buys me food. Don’t get on his bad side, but we’ve been there for each other,” often sleeping near See Blind, Page A8
Renée C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee/TNS Mark Rippee uses a broken broom stick as a cane as he navigates along Monte Vista Avenue in Vacaville, July 27. He has been hit by cars and police have been called to rescue him after he’s walked out into traffic.
age and city of residence of the victim were not released pending family notification, policeOnereport.oftwo men shot just before 3:30 p.m. Friday near the 500 block of Markham Avenue in Vacaville died several hours later at a hospi tal as a result of his injuries, authorities report. Officers who arrived in the area found the two men had been shot outside a nearby apartment building, police report. Both received medical aid at the scene and were transported to a nearby hos pital, one in critical condition. One of the injured men died as a result of his injuries, police reported at 8:15 p.m. The condition of the other injured man was not released other than to say he wasTheirstable.names, ages and cities of residence were notThesereleased.are the 12th and 13th reported homicides of the year in Vallejo. It’s the first deadly shooting this year in Vacaville and the city’s second violent death of the year. Anyone with information about the shooting in Vacav ille is asked to call Detective Jesse Outly at 707-449-5206. Anyone with information about the shootings Friday and Sunday in Vallejo is asked to call Detective Bradley A. Phillips at 707-648-4514 or Detective Brian W. Murphy at 707-648-5430.
front of everybody.” The many protec tors of her brother’s civil rights are adamant that he should get to choose whether to be treated for his severe mental illness, says his sister Catherine, in an interview later at her place, where she’s long been homebound by blood cancer. But as the result of his illness, he effectively “has no free will.” Linda finds it harder and harder to get out to see him. Because she’s lost sight in one eye and has no depth percep tion in the other, she has never been able to drive. And many of those who used to bring her to Mark have either moved away or dropped out of her life. “Some people who took me weren’t pre pared for what they were going to see.” Now, after not getting out here for a few weeks, Linda has lots of questions for her brother, like “what happened to your face?” and, “someone said you were asleep in the middle of theHe’sroad?”tooagitated to answer, at first motion ing as if reeling in a fish, and then as if punch ing a ghost. “I’m not a game, sir!” he yells at no one, and later explains that the voices are being broadcast from a military submarine. Using “mind warfare” that has turned “almost every single person in my life against me,” the guilty parties are, Mark believes, doing all kinds of experiments on homeless people. Linda has seen him in worse shape: “Some days he’s so depressed he doesn’t talk.” But she’s also seen him a lot better, and not that long ago. He was hit by a car in February 2021, and after refusing treatment for those injuries, he fell and broke his hip during a rainstorm. Even then, he refused medical treat ment for 25 more days. But during the long hos pitalization that finally followed, he was put on anti-psychotic drugs for the first time in his life, other than during 72-hour psychiatric holds years“Theearlier.8½months he was in there,” Linda says, “we were thinking this is it, they’re going to see that this is what he needs. Look at him, he’s clean, he’s healthy, he put on weight, we’re talking to himButnormal.”assoon as he was well enough, “they just brought him back in a van, took him out in front of here and dropped him off” in the parking lot of the county leavesBeforebuilding.hissisterhim,heasks her to bend down, hold both of his hands and help him “unplay” several years worth of the messages he’s been sent from the sub marine. “You’re saving my life right now, sis,” he tells her. If he isn’t ‘gravely disabled,’ who is? It makes no sense that a man as ill as Mark is still stumbling around on his own. So why is he? Teresa Pasquini, a Contra Costa County activist whose son is severely mentally ill, is well acquainted with both Mark’s situation and treat ment in California. And as she sees it, Mark has essentially been “locked out” by gaps that make it absurdly hard for some of those most in need of help to get it. In his case, that’s because as someone whose initial diagno sis was a traumatic brain injury, he supposedly doesn’t qualify for help for his severe mental illness on a medical basis. (Yes, though mental illness is a medical condition.) And in Solano County, he doesn’t qualify for a conservator ship based on his mental illness, either. Say what? There are two types of conservator ships in California. The probate conservatorship, which is what Britney Spears had, is more typ ically for someone with dementia, or some other incapacitating medical problem, who needs help taking care of himself. Those under probate con servatorships can’t be put in a locked facility against their will. Because Mark’s traumatic brain injury and blindness are considered his primary diagnoses, you’d think he’d qualify on that basis, but because he’s also severely men tally ill, he does not. An LPS conserva torship – named after Frank Lanterman, Nich olas Petris and Alan Short, the three lawmak ers whose 1967 bill ended most involuntary com mitment of the mentally ill – is for someone who is so severely mentally ill that he is either a danger to himself or others, or else is “gravely disabled.” People under this type of conservatorship can be forced into treatment. Yet though Mark is cer tainly a danger to himself, because he accidentally wanders into traffic on a regular basis, and is also what you and I would con sider “gravely disabled,” he somehow doesn’t qualify for that, either. That’s because each of California’s 58 coun ties interprets “gravely disabled” – incapable of taking care of one’s food, clothing and housing needs – a little differently.
Fair From Page One Deadly From Page One another and another, finally losing the last one the day he threatened to kill their mother with an ax, thinking she was an impostor who had come to hurt“Wehim.called the author ities, and he went out on the porch and started a fire,” Linda says. “He lost my mom as his care giver. He lost his housing voucher that day, and he got evicted. That’s the day he became homeless” back in 2007. Robbed on the streets of Vacaville This morning, the morning I first meet Mark, who is 59 now –“as mankind measures time,” he tells me – Linda has brought him another new sleeping bag, plus bacon, eggs, sausage and a thermos of coffee the way he likes it, with half a cup of sugar. But first, he must finish his morning routine. This involves swallow ing a huge mouthful of salt – “I need sodium” –and rubbing his face raw with a toothbrush. Then he pours a bottle of water over his head and his shirt, which is dotted with cigarette burns. Mark is not alone on the street, and his friend Teresa, who lives out here, too, shouts hello as we sit down in a shady spot to talk. Maybe to control what she can control, she’s sweeping the small strip of sidewalk in front of her with a Otherbroom.people Mark knows on this block beat and rob him on a regular basis, though, and when that happens, he says, he fights back as viciously as possible, because he wants to survive. Danger ous as his situation is, he believes that if he leaves this area right around the county building, he’ll lose the protection of the “force field” around it and will die. It’s beyond ironic, Linda says, that “he always comes right back to the county building –back to the people who won’t help him.” Or can’t. Over time, she’s decided that it isn’t really cruelty, or even indifference, that keeps them from doing so. “At first I was angry with the police, and then I figured out that they’re only following the laws, right? And then I was angry with the city, because my God, this is his hometown, where he has lived his whole life, and how can they go past him every day and not try to do some thing?” Now, she says, she believes that it’s laws that have to dyinghasn’the’s“Nothinggettingwill“rightallrefuseis,justMarkitiesMeanwhile,change.author“don’tevengotowhenwecall.Theysayweknowwhoheandhehastherighttoanyservices.”Hissistersworrymorethetimethatit’shistorefuse”thatkillhim.“We’reallolder,”Lindasays.ishappening,gettingworse,hestillbeentreated.He’soutonthestreetsin
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Davis got the fairThestarted.fair has grown more than could be imagined. Some years they have had visitors from Chicago, Texas and even Toronto. The number of vendors has grown, too. There were as many as 330 vendors one year, and more than 36,000 visitors have come for a single day, according to organizer Jeff Jarvis. “This year we have 310 vendors,” he said. He attributes the decline in vendors to Covid, which post poned the event for a year during theJarvispandemic. has managed to organize the event with volun teers from the church and community into a tightly working bunch of teams. They do everything from food to traffic control.
The morning Linda next sees Mark, he’s still asleep on the sidewalk and for many minutes too groggy to talk. One homeless man walking by taunts him –show these ladies your Super Bowl rings why don’t you – and another asks Linda why she can’t take Mark home with her. On this day, Mark urinates into a cup right in front of us, and never does come around enough to answer her questions about the Seroquel, which most likely won’t kick in for weeks. He is able to explain walking onto the freeway, though: He and a friend had been out looking for an apartment, and after that friend disappeared, he somehow got turned around and walked into harm’s way: “I was trying to get us off the street!” But then suddenly he’s chan neling the voices he’s hearing, shouting, “Mark, goddamn you!” and “I turned the controls over to James Mark Rippee!” He is the voices, and how scary would that be? As we walk away, Linda is crying a little. She always feels guilty leaving him, she says, because “it makes me feel like I’m as bad as our U.S. mental healthThatsystem.”isn’ttrue, but this is: “Our family is his mental health system.’’ Until laws change, it’s the only one he’s got.
Renée C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee/TNS Mark Rippee rests on the side of a bus stop after urinating outside in Vacaville, Aug. 1. “I would like to see my brother receive treatment for the no fault brain disease that he has. I would like to see him have safe housing. He just needs someone to care for him,” said his sister Linda Privatte.
The story was told with a minuteness of detail and dexterous use of technical phrases that not only imposed upon the ordi nary reader, but deceived and puzzled men of science to an astonishing degree.” As Klein later wrote on Twitter about his Spanish sausage prank, “Let’s learn to be wary of the arguments from positions of authority as much as the spontaneous elo quence of certain images.”
at the time: “I feel confident that you will oblige me therefore by inserting this my disclaimer in your widely circulated and well conducted paper, not because I have the small est fear that any person possessing the first ele ments of optical Science (to say nothing of Common Sense) could for a moment be misled into believing such extravagancies, but because I consider the precedent a bad one that the absurdity of a story should ensure its freedom from contradiction when universally repeated in so many quarters and in such a variety of forms.”
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So yes, Hopper is a big sup porter of the CARE Court idea, despite enormous pushback. Critics argue that forcing people into treatment would be counterproductive, a horrible civil rights violation and, what’s more, under-funded. (That last objection reminds me of the old Woody Allen joke about two friends complaining about the meals at a Catskills resort. “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” says one, to which the other replies, “I know, and such small portions.”) No one thinks such courts would constitute any kind of cure-all. But as Vacaville’s Nolan Sullivan says, it would at least open up “some new path ways” for helping in situations where right now, “localities are powerless” to intervene. More treatment would have to be made available, too, it’s true. Because right now, Pas quini asks, “where do you place somebody who is blind, has a traumatic brain injury and the symptoms of schizophrenia? That’s the million-dollar ques tion. You can’t find a bed for a person with schizophrenia, let alone all those other things.” Sullivan says that’s because providers have no choice but to play a numbers game: “For every Mark, you’ve got 100 people in opioid addiction, so how do you triage?” But there is at least a corner of hope that long-acting monthly injections, if Mark contin ues to accept them, could calm the voices that torment him enough to make other interven tionsKatepossible.Grammy, the Behav ioral Health County,AdministratorServicesforSolanosaysthatasmall home less outreach team that’s been operating for several years is, as of April of this year, working with a mobile crisis team. It’s part of a pilot program that’s shown a lot of promise else where in the state. That’s the team that gave Mark his first“I’mshot.ecstatic with what I’m seeing,” from the new mobile crisis teams, says Catherine Moy, a city councilwoman in Fairfield, Solano’s county seat, where she ran a shelter for many years. “We piloted that program here,” starting about two years ago, “and one gentle man who had lived on the streets for years,” and became violent on a regular basis, has now been on medication for seven months, “and he no longer has that situa tion. It takes a long time, and it’s expensive, but I’ve seen it work, and we owe it to them.” It’s also expensive to go on as we have been, watching peopleGrammydie. acknowledges that staffing for mobile crisis teams is an issue, here and every where. But persistence in offering services makes a differ ence, which is why some people who’ve long said no to ser vices are agreeing to work with theseEventeams.ifthose teams expand, laws and attitudes will have to change, too, if we’re really going to reach those hardest to treat. The definition of “gravely disabled” should certainly be expanded to take account of anosognosia, a condition associated with schizophre nia, Alzheimer’s disease and other medical prob lems, which prevents people from understanding that they needAndtreatment.stateSen. Henry Stern’s important bill guaranteeing a right to treatment for unhoused and severely mentally ill Cali fornians ought to be paired with the CARE Court bill, because what does mandated treatment mean if none is available?
northeast of Vacaville, in Sacramento, we have many such severely ill people, too, of course. Elizabeth Kaino Hopper, of Carmichael, has a 33-year-old daughter who has been homeless on and off since her mental illness swamped her ability to agree to treatment. Those still capable of agreeing to treatment are the ones writing to the ACLU, she says, while “people whose ill nesses are harder to treat are the voices we don’t hear.” Since April of this year, though, her daughter has been much better, because since her arrest for assault with a deadly weapon – “trying to protect herself on the street” – she’s been living on the third floor of the Sacramento County Jail. Three months earlier, a clin ical social worker had assessed her daughter and found her “gravely disabled.” But when Sacramento County dispatched a fire truck – yes, a fire truck –and sheriff’s deputy to transport her, those officers said, “No, she knows her name, knows what day it is, has a box to live in and a dumpster to live out of –that’s food and housing” so she was not considered gravely dis abled after all. As a result, Hopper was reduced to hoping that her daughter would commit a crime that hurt no one and yet was serious enough to “win the golden ticket to get to the jail,” where she’d finally be treated, monitored and often reassessed, none of which was happen ing otherwise.
CARE Court could open treatment options People like Mark are the reason that Gov. Gavin Newsom and others are pushing so hard for the CARE Courts that would temporarily mandate treat ment for those too sick to know they need Thirty-fourhelp.miles
‘Our family is his mental health system’ After Mark got that first shot of Seroquel, his sisters were briefly ebullient. But then, only two days later, they got a bunch of calls reporting that he was walking on a freeway ramp straight into traffic. Mary Borchers, who was driving on I-80 toward Vacav ille that day, tells me, “I saw a big rig slam on his brakes” on the exit, “and then I saw Mark, and holy crap, someone’s going to fricking run into him!” She called 911, was told that several others had already reported the same thing, and that California Highway Patrol officers were on their way. By the time she was able to circle back around to see if he was OK, he was with law enforcement who then “left him to fend for himself once again.”
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Locke never apologized for what later became known as the Great Moon Hoax, although he admitted in an 1840 letter published in the New World newspaper that it was meant as satire. Three years later, Locke tried to pull off another hoax in the New Era, a New York newspaper. He wrote that he had discovered a long-lost letter of Scottish explorer Mungo Park, who had dis appeared in West Africa in 1805. Nobody was buying his story this time, though. Locke eventually gave up journalism and worked for the Customs Service in New York. When he died in 1871, the New York Sun reported in his“Mr.obituary:Lockewas the author of the ‘Moon Hoax,’ the most successful scientific joke ever published . . .
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Tribune ConTenT AgenCy TAMPA, Fla. — Before ending his retire ment and returning to the Bucs, Tom Brady knew he had to make better use of his timeouts. At 45, the needs of his growing family – wife Gisele and three chil dren, Jack (14), Benjamin (12) and Vivian (9) ––haveHisincreased.business empire now includes a cloth ing line (BRADY), production company, the TB12 healthy and fitness company with trainer Alex Guerrero and the NFT company, Auto graph. In the offseason, he produced and starred in a film, 80 for Brady. For a guy who has always beaten the clock, the hours and minutes that make up Brady’s day have become a pre ciousBradycommodity.has been excused from training camp until sometime after the Bucs’ preseason game at Tennessee on Aug. 20. That announcement came Thursday from coach Todd Bowles when Brady was excused from his third practice in a week for what the Bucs have termed “per sonal“He’sreasons.”going to deal with some personal things,” Bowles said. “This is something we talked about before train ing camp started. We allotted this time because he wanted to get in and get chemistry with the
MINNEAPOLIS — When Dan Watson and Zak Fellman were 12 years old, they would go into the woods and find straight pieces of wood. They would shave them into bats using pocket knives for home run derbies with tennis balls. Fast forward 25 years, and the lifelong friends came together to form Pillbox Bat Co., a custom sports memorabilia shop out of Winona, Minn., that pays homage to baseball’s history with bats, base balls and other fan-driven products. Pillbox is on the verge of breakout success after securing Major League Baseball licensing deals over the past 18 months. The company last month Some of the art bats hang on the wall along with a picture of Hall of Famer Tony Oliva, in the office at Pillbox Bat Company in Winona, Minnesota, Thursday.See Baseball, Page B8 See Oakland, Page B8 See Brady, Page B8
The WAshingTon PosT One of swimming’s oldest records toppled Saturday courtesy of one of its youngest stars, as 17-year-old Roma nian swimmer David Popovici bested César Cielo’s 13-year-old 100meter men’s freestyle mark at the European Aquatics Championship in Rome. Popovici’s time of 46.86 eclipsed the former event record by 0.05 seconds, and he beat Saturday’s second-fast est competitor, Kristóf Milák, by 0.61. “It felt great, and it’s very special to break this record which was set here in 2009 by César Cielo,” Popovici said via the Associated Press. Though announcers declared Popovici the odds-on favorite entering Saturday’s final, his win hardly appeared inev itable at the halfway mark of the race, as he trailed France’s Maxime Grousset with 50 meters remaining. Popovici ulti mately pulled ahead with a second-half surge, mea sured at a 24.12 split. Cielo, the previ ous anyahisships2022ameterjuniorJune,ci’scome“justdeclaringperformancecomplimentedrecord-holder,Popovici’sonTwitter,thatPopoviciisgettingstarted.”FewswimmershaveclosetoPopoviimpressive2022.Inhesettheworldrecordforthe200-freestyle,notching1:43.21timeattheworldchampioninBudapest.And100-meterrecordishalf-secondfasterthanotherswimmer’s time this Popoviciyear.will have a chance to improve on his world junior record in the 200-meter freestyle final Monday afternoon after finishing with the event’s fastest time in Sun day’sThroughsemifinal. Sunday’s races, Popovici’s victory stands as Romania’s lone medal, while Italy holds a commanding lead over the rest of its European counterparts with 25 total medals. The European Aquatic Championship concludes Wednesday.
Romanian swimmer, 17, breaks 100-meter men’s freestyle record
The Giants’ best, maybe last, chance at a post season push is off to a goodWithstart.a sweep of the Pirates, completed Sunday afternoon with a walk-off 8-7 win, the Giants did exactly what it will take over their final 48 games to close the gap for the final National League wild card Thairospot. Estrada ended the back-andforth marathon with a walk-off blast to left field, only made possible after Mike Yastrzem ski legged out a potential double play ground ball the previous batter. Evan Longoria nearly played the goat, airmail ing a throw to first base that allowed Pittsburgh to take a 7-6 lead in the top of the ninth, but ulti mately played a critical role in the win, singling to lead off the bottom of theSanninth.Francisco still trails San Diego by 6.5 games, with the Brewers in between them, but has a chance to make up more ground over the next nine games, all of which come against opponents that share something in common with the team the Giants just easily dis patched: a losing record. Behind a solid start from Alex Wood, the red-hot wood of LaMonte Wade Jr. and some late theatrics, that is a des ignation that, for now, no longer applies to the Giants, who improved to .500 again with their three straight wins over the Pirates.
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Tribune ConTenT AgenCy Two weeks after Cole Irvin’s sharp pitching led to the Astros being swept in a series for the first time since last September, the Ameri can League leaders and right-hander Cristian Javier flipped the script on the A’s this weekend in Houston.Irvin struggled Sunday as the Astros beat the last-place A’s 6-3 for the three-game seriesJaviersweep.(6-8) allowed only one hit and walked three batters while strik ing out six in six innings of work en route to the A’s eighth con secutive loss. Irvin (6-10) has been one of the best pitchers in the MLB since July, posting a 1.88 ERA enter ing Sunday’s game. But the Astros were able to get to him early, with Alex Bregman smacking a two-run homer to left field in the first that put Houston up early. In the next inning, the Astros continued to do damage. Irvin gave up back-to-back singles to Chas McCormick and Christian Vazquez before José Altuve hit a two-run double to give Houston a 4-0Irvinlead.settled in as the game went on, retir ing nine of 11 batters over the third, fourth and fifth innings. The Astros added another run to the board in the sixth inning after Chris tian Vazquez hit a single to left field that sent Kyle TuckerIrvin,home.who’d allowed three or fewer runs in each of his last seven starts, finished with eight hits and one walks while recording only one strikeout in six innings. The Astros’ five earned runs were the most Irvin allowed in more than six weeks. The A’s have now given up five or more runs in eight games this month and 11 since the All-StarOakland’sbreak. offense struggled to get any thing going, which has been the case this entire series. They failed to
After taking over for Wood to start the seventh, John Brebbia faced four batters and retired none of them. He walked the leadoff man, No. 9 hitting catcher Jason Delay, and allowed a single before serving up the longest ball hit at Oracle Park this season to former San Francisco outfield pros pect Bryan itor’saway,homerReynolds’Reynolds.three-runlanded442feetclearingthevisbullpenincenter
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Brian Peterson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS photos Zak Fellman, middle, holds the first bat that he carved as a kid, and his crew at Pillbox Bat Company, from left, Sarah Roberts, Carrie Frederich, Kyle Wright and Laura Sutton in Winona, Minnesota, Thursday.
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Pickle pizza, with Canadian bacon and dill, delivers big flavor
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n Improving dough flavor “It is vital to age your dough for 1 to 2 days. I make mine in a bread machine, then split it and age them in the fridge. Three days is too long in my opinion,” whatchamacallit thingamajig says. “Un-aged dough is okay but does not have the flavor of aged dough.”
Active time: 30 minutes | Total time: 40 minutes, plus 30 minutes to preheat oven 2-4 servings (makes one 12-inch pie) Storage: Leftover pizza can be refrig erated for up to 4 days. The mornay sauce can be refrigerated for up to 2 days or frozen for up to 2 weeks. If frozen, defrost in the refriger ator; then whisk or stir it until smooth. No need to reheat, if using it for pizza. If using as a topping for other food, reheat in a heavybottomed pot over low heat, stir ring occasionally, until just warm. For the sauce: 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 1 2 cup whole milk 1 large garlic clove, minced or finely grated 1 4 teaspoon fine salt 1 4 teaspoon ground white pepper 1 large egg yolk 2 teaspoons finely grated parmesan cheese For the pizza: All-purpose flour, for dusting 1⁄2 pound store-bought pizza dough (see NOTES) Vegetable or olive oil, for brushing the dough 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill fronds, divided, plus more as needed 6 slices (1 3 4 ounces) thinly cut Canadian bacon or boiled ham, optional 1 1⁄4 cups (4 ounces) coarsely grated plusmozzarellapart-skimcheese,moreasneeded 1 1⁄2 large dill pickles (about 1 1 2 ounces), thinly sliced, plus more as needed (see NOTES) At least 30 minutes before you are ready to bake, place a pizza stone or inverted large, rimmed baking sheet on a rack in the upper third of the oven; preheat to 475Makedegrees.thesauce: In a heavy-bot tomed saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Stir in the flour until smooth and cook, stir ring constantly, until it bubbles and froths – do not let it brown –about 1 minute. Add the milk, whisking constantly, until it boils, about 2 minutes. Reduce the heat to low and stir in the garlic, salt and pepper. Cook, whisking constantly, until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and cool for about 2 minutes. Add the egg yolk, whisking fast to avoid curdling, then whisk in the cheese. (You should have about 1⁄2 cup.) Dust your work surface lightly with the flour and set a large piece of parchment paper nearby. Using a rolling pin, roll the pizza dough into a 12-inch circle or square. Gently slide the parchment under the shaped dough. Spread an even, thin layer of the sauce on the crust, leaving about 1 2 inch of from the edge bare. (You will likely use a gener ous 1⁄4 cup, so reserve the rest for another use (see headnote). Brush the edges of the crust with the oil. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of the dill over the sauce, then arrange the Canadian bacon or ham, if using, on top. Evenly top with the mozza rella going all the way to the edge of the crust. Scatter the pickle slices around the pie and sprinkle generously with the remaining dill. Slide the pizza with the parch ment onto a pizza peel or rimless baking sheet, then transfer it to the heated pizza stone or sheet pan. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the cheese is bubbly and slightly browned and the crust is slightly browned on the edges. Remove the pizza from the oven and slide it, still on the parch ment paper, onto a cutting board. Sprinkle with more fresh dill, if desired, let sit for about 2 minutes and serve. NOTES: We preferred this pie with a thin crust, but if you want to mimic Quad City’s dough, make the crust included in the related recipe and use 1 pound rather than a 1⁄2 pound of dough. You’ll need to increase the baking time to 13 to 15 minutes. We found store-bought sliced pickles too thick for this use, so we bought whole dill pickles and sliced them to about 1⁄8 -inch thickness. Nutrition information per serving (2 slices), based on 4 | Cal ories: 303; Total Fat: 13 g; Satu rated Fat: 6 g; Cholesterol: 78 mg; Sodium: 1207 mg; Carbohydrates: 33 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugar: 4 g; Protein: 15 g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutri tionist’s advice. Pizza recipe from recipes editor Ann Maloney. Mornay sauce adapted from “A French Chef Cooks at Home” by Jacques Pépin (Touch stone, 1980). Scott Suchman/The Washington Post Buy whole dill pickles and slice them to about 1⁄8 -inch thickness to make this thin-crust pickle pizza.
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n How to shape dough Golden slumbers offers a cre ative shaping method. “Dirt cheap Ikea Blanda Blank bowl, either the 11-inch or 14-inch one, turned upside down and floured. Lay the dough disk onto the top.” Gently stretch the dough so that the edges get pushed downward. Leave it thicker on the outer edge of the dough if you want a more sub stantial crust around the rim. “When it’s the size I want, I turn over the bowl onto a parch ment-covered peel and apply the toppings.” n Cheaper alternative to a stone or steel. DivineMsS has never bothered with a stone. “I have six unglazed quarry tiles that I’ve been using in place of a pizza stone since about 1999. They cost $0.60 each, and that $3.60 has been quite the bargain!” n Another way to skip the stone. “On those days when I don’t feel like preheating the pizza stone, I bake the pizza on a baking sheet, moving the pizza out of the pan a few minutes early and placing it directly onto an oven rack to crisp up,” Peggy Mac says. “Turns out perfect every time.” n Go light on the toppings “Do not overload your pizza,” Art95 says. “Restraint is the better part of valor.”
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n Using parchment. “I use a piece of parchment paper to roll the dough, then it’s easy to transfer to the peel (which is dusted with semo lina), and the parchment also helps it slide onto the pizza steel,” says FringeheadSanDiego. “The parchment paper gets pretty brown and crispy at 500 degrees, but it doesn’t catch fire. We even use the browned parchment paper to place between leftover slices, once the pizza has cooled off.”
n What to coat your peel with. “A mix of the coarser sem olina and all-purpose flour on the peel leaves a less ‘gritty’ crust on the finished product,” says James B. Ellsworth III. “The all-purpose flour lessens the stickiness and the semolina helps the sliding action.” n No soggy crusts, plus a make-ahead option. “Par-fry the crust in a pan with a little olive oil to get the base partially cooked,” Enjoy the Kitchen rec ommends. “This way you never get a soggy crust. And you can freeze the bases for ready-todeploy crusts.”
n Wisdom for grillers. Grills can get even hotter than your oven, making them great for pizza. “When using a gas grill, ensure you got it cleaned,” A lot of good though wisely advises. “You do not want the gunk on the walls and burners.” n Change your mind-set. I had to laugh at this one: “A pizza that sticks to the peel is called a calzone,” Ginger-Bear says. Been there, done that. Tom McCorkle/The Washington Post Let dough age for 1 to 2 day to improve its flavor. the Washington Post P ickles on pizza? You’ve probably seen this topping popping up on pies all around the country. We were inspired to create our own after tasting the “Kinda Big Dill” pie from Quad City Pizza in Minnesota. The mornay sauce was adapted from Jacques Pépin’s recipe in “A French Chef Cooks at Home.” We reduced the yield of the sauce (and added a bit of garlic), but you may still have some leftover. Use it to make another pizza or to dress vegetables, or top eggs, chicken or fish. Also, it freezes beautifully.Wepreferred this pie with a thin crust, but if you want to mimic Quad City’s dough, make the one included in this recipe, Quad CitiesStyle Pizza. For thicker crust, use 1 pound rather than a 1 2 pound of dough. You’ll need to increase the baking time, to 13 to 15 minutes. Also, we found store-bought sliced pickles too thick for this use, so we bought whole dill pickles and sliced them to about 1⁄8 -inch thickness. Make the pizza vegetarian or add thinly sliced Canadian bacon or ham. To save time and effort, use store-bought dough and substitute storebought alfredo sauce for the mornay.
A few months ago, I answered some of the most common questions readers have about homemade pizza. As the comments under that piece filled with great tips and insights from home cooks, I realized many of you are just as passionate about pizza as I am. Here are some of my favorites you shared. (Tips have been lightly edited for clarity, grammar and length.)
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visual incoherence – but it works. The death is taken seriously, and director Paul Greengrass doesn’t make it go downTheeasily.death in “The Gray Man” doesn’t matter. The audi ence isn’t supposed to relate to the characters, beyond the kidnapped-girl routine. Sam Adams wrote a really good Slate piece titled “The Netflix Aesthetic,” in which he called the Russo’s business-focused content “far from the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it might be one of the least.”
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There are certain plays a defender can make that appear crazy. However, they work because the declarer, who cannot see all of the cards, will never believe the defender would be so irrational. Bridge Here’s how to work it:
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DECLARER’S MIRRORS WERE DECIDEDLY DUSTY There are certain plays a defender can make that appear crazy. However, they work because the declarer, who cannot see all of the cards, will never believe the defender would be so irrational.Onespecies was immortalized by Frederick Turner in his article, “The Grosvenor Gambit,” in the June 1973 issue of The Bridge World magazine. For example, suppose the declarer is in seven spades. You hold a pleasing Q-J-x of spades. Dummy, on your left, has the K-10-x of spades. Declarer wins your opening lead in his hand and plays a low trump. You table your low trump; you don’t split your honors! Will declarer finesse dummy’s 10? Of course not. Afterward, though, he will spend several deals recovering from the shock. How could you have given him a chance to land an “impossible” grand slam?Another possibility is in today’s deal. South opened with a questionable two clubs. North’s two no-trump showed a balanced 8 points or more. Then, when North raised to four spades and did not control-bid a side-suit ace, South should have passed. West led off with his two top diamonds, South ruffing the second. Declarer took the next three tricks with the spade ace, the heart king and the heart ace. Then he ruffed the heart eight with dummy’s spade nine. East discarded a Convincedclub!that West had the spade queen, declarer confidently led the trump five to his king. He couldn’t believe his eyes when West discarded a heart.The normal result had been obtained by abnormal means.
If Year 3 of pandemic home streaming hasn’t lowered our standards for what constitutes a decent action movie, then I can’t wait for Year 4. Netflix titles as ostensi bly varied as “The Gray Man,” “Red Notice” and the new release “Day Shift” waste zero time on establishing who’s who and what’s what. There’s an algorithmic reason for that. Before changing its viewing measurement to total number of minutes streamed, Netflix counted a “view” of a film as at least two minutes of that film. This is why certain high-buck Netflix movies give you two choices: life-or-death, imme diately, or characters you give a rip“Prey”about.manages both. It establishes its Great Plains setting, its point on the histori cal timeline, and its threats and some particulars regarding the Comanche Nation warriors. Out of the tribe emerges Naru, the only one who can take on the Predator. The widescreen land scapes create both tension and release, beauty and imminent violence, vividly. In a Variety interview Trachtenberg said: “I’ve worked in a lot of television where we’re always boxed in the format we have to work in. That was not the case here.” You can tell. His movie feels fresh and expansive. Even on a laptop screen, it concentrates your attention in a way “The Gray Man” or “Red Notice” or “Day Shift” does not.
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Word SleuthDaily Cryptoquotes Michael PhilliPs CHICAGO TRIBUNE Y ou know what the Netflix movies “The Gray Man,” “Red Notice” and the forthcoming Jamie Foxx vampire hunter splurch “Day Shift” accomplish? They make “Prey” over on Hulu look even better by comparison. I saw all four in a mara thon stream-a-thon at home the other day, interrupted by the usual interruptions and the occasional deployment of the pause button in order to, oh, you know: trip to the fridge, trip to the bathroom, trip to the alley when the garbage needed taking out. I watched these four action movies the way most of us stream most things: in a state of Sierrasecretlycredits,minutes,handedrememberwiththey’reatRussotorsGraybombforandwrote,as“Prey”NativeVincentAkwesasneQuotedwithwhichisversions.guageshot(Amberche“Predator”SchwarzeneggervisitorwilesCanada,inCenturypremiere“Prey”Hulu’sfailuremeasureshumanrhythmandfilmmakerstor”violenttheprequelmovie,samewerearesemi-distraction.Here’swhatIlearned.ManyNetflixactionmoviesmadeforthatstate.Theymade,possibly,inthatstateofsemi-distraction.Andagenuinelyexcitingsuchasthe“Predator”“Prey,”cansoaraboveothersnotbecauseit’sless(itisn’t;it’sa“Predamovie),butbecausethetaketheirtimeleanintomattersofpace,andtheoccasionalemotion.Everystreamingplatformsuccessandhidesdifferently.Buttakingnumbersatfacevalue,isitsmost-watchedtodate.The20thStudiosproject,set1713andfilmedinAlberta,imaginesaduelofbetweentheinterstellarintroducedintheArnoldheadbanger(1987)andComanNationtribeswomanNaruMidthunder).DirectorDanTrachtenberg“Prey”inbothEnglish-lanandComanche-languageThepremise,whichinspired,andtheexecution,ishighlyeffective,workallkindsofaudiences.inaLooper.comstory,MohawkeditorSchilling,founderofViewpoint,respondedtoalltheway.“Foronce,aNativeman,”Schilling“Icouldactuallyrelaxenjoyafilmwithoutwaitingtheculturallyinappropriatetodrop.”Nosuchconcernswith“TheMan.”Brothers-direcAnthonyRussoandJosephareanglingforashottheJamesBondrealm,yetblithelyunconcernedmakingamovieyouanhourafteryou’veNetflixthe115viewingnotincludingendtheywantfromyou.RyanGosling’slethalbutvulnerableassassinSix(”007wastaken,”he jokes, or “jokes”) plays spy-vs.spy with a rogue sociopathic assassin (Chris Evans) out to eliminate him. Prague, Vienna, London, Croatia: Some of the budget, reportedly $200 million, is on the screen. And yet money can’t buy an experience. Even the protagonist looks bored. “Need anything?” someone asks Sierra Six on an air strip somewhere in the middle of nowhere. “Just a nap,” Gosling replies. No amount of torture sequences, lowedcontent,”interviewrecentdescribedwhiledoesn’ttoHere’sRussowelcome“Silvercally,smackdownsbone-crunchingscored,ironitothesoaringlyupbeatBird”―notevenEvans’zest–canmaketheBros.jointhangtogether.thepunchline,toaddthemovies’own:Thecraftmatter.It’lllikelybeabefore“TheGrayMan,”byJoeRussoinaHollywoodReporteras“business-focuseddropsoutofthehalNetflixTop10.Latelastyear“RedNotice,”anevenlarger-scaledNetflixtitle(costingnearly$300million,accordingtoitsdirector),operatedonthesameformula:Bigstars(DwayneJohnson,RyanReynolds,GalGadot)andpoorlymotivatedglobe-trottingactionbeatseditedformaximumkineticblurwithoutthethrilloftrueactioncinema.“RedNotice”maybeafteramerryheistpicturevibe,butlike“TheGrayMan,”itfeelslikeit’stryingtoout-BondeventhemostbombasticrecentBondfilms.AndIlikemostoftherecentBondfilms.Theweakestofthose,“QuantumofSolace,”provedthatshorterdidn’tmakeitbetter,andfranticcuttingstrategieshaveawayofslowingdownanactionsequence,notspeedingitup.Watch“JurassicWorld:Dominion”formoreevidence.Ifyoumust.ThenrewatchtheTangierfightscenefrom“TheBourneUltimatum,”featuringMattDamonandJoeyAnsah.Itsextraordinarilyfastcuttingbrakesrightattheedgeof
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A keyboard professionalsfor What it’s called: Astro Slide 5G What’s different about it: It has a huge (by phone standards) physical keyboard How much it costs: About $900 With just 11 full-time employees, London-based Planet Computers can’t build or sell its devices as fast as Samsung can. Thanks to a com munity of supporters, though, the company has successfully built three mobile devices, the latest of which is a funky smart phone/laptop mash-up called the Astro Slide 5G. The main draw is a spacious physical keyboard hidden under the screen – it’s a bit cramped compared to a laptop’s key board, but the keys themselves aren’t that much smaller. That, according to Planet CEO Dr. Janko Mrsic-Flogel, makes it ideal for taking lengthy notes and sending detailed emails on the run. So, what’s it like to use? The keyboard takes a little getting used to because of its unusual layout, derived from a defunct, fan-favorite PDA brand in the U.K. Once I wrapped my head around it, though, I found myself typing at nearly fullThespeed.Astro Slide runs on Google’s Android operating system, and when the device is closed, it acts just like a regular – if seriously chunky –smartphone. What caught me by surprise is how natural it felt to use as a pseudo-laptop sitting on a table; you can open a taskbar of sorts by hitting a button on the keyboard, and scroll through webpages using arrow keys. It even handles Excel spreadsheets quite well, though I probably wouldn’t try mucking with any super-complex ones. As pleasant as the Astro Slide can be, though, it’s still far fromMyperfect.review unit came with a slightly janky space bar that wouldn’t work if I tapped it from the right – being righthanded, that meant some of my notes looked like I was breathlessly dictating likenothehadn’tworth,earlythespacebardoesntwork,”“Thiskeyboardisactuallywaitthem.anoneread.(Forwhatit’sMrsic-Flogelsaidheseenthisissuebefore.)Whenthekeyboardworkswayit’ssupposedto,there’sportablenote-takerquiteit.ButIwouldn’trecom
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mend this for everyone – unless you write novella-length emails, that is. More than just a light show? What it’s called: Nothing Phone (1) What’s different about it: Clever lighting system for notifi cations, some controls for other connected devices you own How much it costs: About $480 Like the Astro Slide, the new Nothing Phone (1) is also the product of a start-up, but it’s so polished that it hardly ever feels like one. The catch? You can’t buy one in the United States yet, though the company does plan to bring its twist on smartphone design here “in the future.” So, what’s all the fuss about? It’s partially because it the Phone (1) is remarkably com petent for the price. But this phone’s defining feature – for now – is its look. Its back half is festooned with around 900 white LEDs (light emitting diodes), forming what Nothing calls its “Glyph” lighting system. Those lights will flash in certain ways when ever specific contact calls, when you invoke Google’s AI Assis tant, or plug it in to charge. It’s a neat idea, but usually they come off like a party trick for a phone designed with style at the forefront. Still, it’s not hard to imagine how they could become more useful – imagine setting a specific light pattern for when your boss Slacks you. More interesting is Nothing’s plan to integrate controls for third-party gadgets directly into its software. A recent software update added an experimen tal tool for turning on a Tesla’s A/C and unlocking its doors, no additional app required. Who knows? Maybe Nothing’s first US-bound phone will pack even more clever tricks. The reliable option If you’re not in the mood to wait and would rather just buy a reliable phone for around the same price, Google’s $449 Pixel 6a is probably the way to go. What it lacks in striking design, it makes up for with great per formance, some interesting AI features, and a price tag that won’t make you groan. Chris Velazco/The Washington Post The Astro Slide 5G isn’t perfect, but its surprisingly big keyboard could make it ideal for busy note-takers. Nothing’s Phone (1) doubles as a mobile light show when you receive calls.
Chris VelazCo THE WASHINGTON POST S amsung unveiled a pair of new smartphones on Wednesday – the clam shell-inspired Galaxy Z Flip 4 and another phone-tablet hybrid called the Galaxy Z Fold 4 – in another bid to push foldable devices into the mainstream.Sofar,the South Korean smartphone maker seems to be inching toward that goal. About 7 million foldable smartphones were shipped in 2021, according to data from market research firm IDC, up from 1.9 million in 2020. That might not seem like a massive shift when you consider well over a billion traditional smartphones were shipped in 2021, but it suggests that some people out there want devices that do more than the usual. Good thing Samsung isn’t the only company rethink ing the ways our phones should look and work. It can be hard keeping up with a constant crush of new devices, especially when some fascinating options fly well under the radar. To help, we’ve put together a quick guide on what phone makers are trying to do differently, and how well they’ve managed to pull it off.
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Further into the fold What it’s called: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 What’s different about it: It’s a more polished kind of tablet/ phone hybrid How much it costs: $1,799 to start In the three years since its grand experiment began, Sam sung’s foldable phones have gone from public punchline to competent companions. At first, that shift required big changes to design and construction. Now, with the new Z Fold 4, the company seems more comfort able with subtle refinements. It weighs a little less than the model it replaces, and its external screen – the one you’re meant to use when the device is closed – is a bit wider than before. We haven’t gotten to try out Samsung’s latest devices yet, but with any luck, those few millimeters make the Fold feel a little less cumbersome to use in its smartphone form. But remember: this phone transforms into a tablet. When open, Samsung says the inter nal 7.6-inch screen is also more durable than in previous years. Considering how often you’re likely to unfold, prod at, and refold that screen over the phone’s life, that’s a very welcomeBeyondupgrade.that,though, we’re left with the same upgrades that wind up in every annual refresh of a smartphone. The processor – in this case, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 from Qualcomm – should give this device a little more horse power than this year’s Galaxy S22 phones. And while earlier versions of the Fold had cameras that were mostly just OK for the price, Samsung went with an improved 50-mega pixel sensor to help the Z Fold 4’s main camera capture more detail in photos and video. I’ve used a version of this device for about two years now, and the novelty of having a big screen that (mostly) disap pears when I don’t need it hasn’t worn off yet. Still, that price is plain unreasonable for many; at $999, Samsung’s smaller Galaxy Z Flip 4 is still the more prac tical choice. It uses the same upgraded brain as its sibling, packs a slightly improved camera system compared to last year, and – most importantly – a larger battery.
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B8 5-day forecast for Fairfield-Suisun CityWeatherSun and Moon MoonriseSunriseSunset 10:26 p.m. Moonset New First Qtr. Full Aug. 27 Aug. 5 Aug. 11 Source: U.S. Naval Observatory WednesdayTuesdayToday FridayThursdayTonight99 Hot 10364|65 99|63 95|63 94|60 Hot Hot Sunny ClearSunny Rio 100Vista | 102Davis64 |65 102Dixon |66 102Vacaville |70 94Benicia |62Concord99 | Walnut63 Creek 98|62 82Oakland |61 San Francisco 78|60San Mateo 84|59 Palo Alto 86|61 San Jose 90|62 Vallejo88 |61 Richmond82 |60 92Napa |60 Santa Rosa 92|60 Fairfield/Suisun City 99|64 forecastRegional Shown is today’s tonight’stoday’sTemperaturesweather.arehighsandlows. CALENDAR Monday’s TV Sports Baseball • MLB, Oakland at Texas, NBCSCA, 5 p.m. • MLB, Arizona at San Francisco, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m. Basketball • European Tour, ESPN2, 11 a.m. softball • Little League World Series, ESPN, 1 p.m. • Little League World Series, ESPN, 4 p.m. Tuesday’s TV Sports Baseball • MLB, Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, TBS, 4 p.m. • MLB, Oakland at Texas, NBCSCA, 5 p.m. • MLB, Arizona at San Francisco, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m. BASEBALL Saturday’s Games Houston 8, OAKLAND 0 SAN FRANCISCO 2, Pittsburgh 0 Atlanta 5, Miami 2, first game Atlanta 6, Miami 2, second game Toronto 2, Cleveland 1 Tampa Bay 8, Baltimore 2 Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 2 Washington 4 , San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 13, Kansas City 3 N.Y. Mets 1, Philadelphia 0 Chicago White Sox 6, Detroit 4 Texas 7, Seattle 4 N.Y. Yankees 3, Boston 2 Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 2 Arizona 6, Colorado 0 L.A. Angels 5, Minnesota 3 Sunday’s Games Houston 6, OAKLAND 3 SAN FRANCISCO 8, Pittsburgh 7 San Diego 6, Washington 0 Cleveland 7, Toronto, 2 Atlanta 3, Miami, 1 Tampa Bay 4, Baltimore 1 Cincinnati 8, Chicago Cubs 5 Mets 6, Philadelphia 0 Kansas City 4, L.A. Dodgers 0 Chicago White Sox 5, Detroit 3 St. Louis 6, Milwaukee 6 Texas 5, Seattle 3 Arizona 7, Colorado 4 L.A. Angels 4, Minnesota 2 Boston 3, N.Y. Yankees 0 Monday’s Games OAKLAND at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Arizona at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 12:10 p.m., first game Detroit at Cleveland, 4 p.m., second game Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 3:40 p.m. San Diego at Miami, 3:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Kansas City at Minnesota, 4:20 p.m. Houston at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Seattle at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m. Tuesday’s Games OAKLAND at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Arizona at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. San Diego at Miami, 3:40 p.m. Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 3:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Boston at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Kansas City at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m. Colorado at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m. Houston at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Seattle at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m.
Watson started calling MLB officials and mapping out market ing. Fellman, the artist between the two, got to work designing products. For the first few years, Pillbox made a name through its custom work: bats designed for cor porate gifts, novelty baseballs. Tiny bats with shark decals, nicknamed “Baby Shark Bats,” became a hot seller in 2018 and 2019 when people couldn’t get enough of the eponymous chil dren’sDespitesong. its small size – Pillbox employs seven full-time people and one part-time worker – the shop garnered attention from the Minnesota Twins in 2019 as the club’s Bomba Squad shattered the MLB record for most home runs by a team in a regular season.
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oakland From Page B1 rolled out its first major project under the con tract: a series of hardwood pennants for 30 teams. “I am unbelievably grateful for the position that we’re in and the rela tionships that we have with the organizations . . .,” Watson said. “It’s truly incredible.”Theduo, who played Little League together, ini tially went separate ways as adults. Watson joined the military and worked in online sales. Fellman, with another partner, started Sanborn Canoe Co., which is well-known for its line of artistic paddles. In 2015, Fellman got the idea to work on bats, just like they did as children.“It’sas easy to make a paddle as it is baseball bats,” Fellman said. It took less than a minute for Watson to agree to partner with his oldAtfriend.first, the two figured the project could make them a little extra coffee money, maybe enough for a nice dinner here and there. After they came up with a name – Pillbox was the nickname of a lessthan-desirable ballpark the St. Paul Saints used in 1903 – they quickly decided to take a shot at becoming the next big thing in sports memorabilia.
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Injury watch Ramón Laureano exited the game with an apparent injury in the bottom of the fourth inning and was replaced by Stephen Piscotty. Laureano stayed in the game after slipping on the warning track while going after a foul ball in the first inning. The game was also paused in the sixth inning when Kemp had an injury scare after he attempted a diving catch. Kemp ultimately stayed in the game. Up next The A’s will stay in Texas for a fourgame series against the Rangers before heading back to Oakland at the end of the Right-handerweek. James Kaprielian (3-6, 4.38) is slated to pitch for Oakland in the series opener Monday. It’s unclear who will start the series on the mound for the Rangers as of Sunday afternoon.
To mark the occasion, Twins officials ordered custom bats for each player with their names, numbers and other inter esting“Theystats.have an incred ible aesthetic,” Chris Iles, the Twins senior director of brand experience and marketing, said of Pillbox. “Their products are beau tiful. They look cool. It’s a blend of kind of old-school sensibility meets newschoolFromdesign.”there, the Twins offered support as Pillbox secured rights to make products for the MLB Hall of Fame, MLB Players and Negro League base ball. Twins President Dave St. Peter wrote a letter of recommendation for Pillbox after he met with Watson at a Target Field event, and the Twins sought more products from the company for various events. The MLB deal, as well as the new line of hardwood pennants, goes through a process Pillbox built for custom jobs. Workers had to figure out how to meet the individu alizedCaserequests.inpoint: The Utah Jazz of the NBA were among the first teams to request hard wood“Wepennants.dosomething we didn’t think we could do and then it works,” Watson said. “And then we develop a whole product line around it.” Pillbox has plans to expand, though Fellman admits the company still is perfecting the process to mass produce its pen nants. The first wave of pennants has gone to online sports retailer Fanatics, and employees are waiting to see whether the products take off, as pennants aren’t usually made of “We’rewood.obviously opti mistic,” Watson said. “Q4 is going to be really interesting, because we already have our initial orders with Fanatics and a bunch of other major baseball teams, and have some really interesting conversations with other retailers going.” That could include product lines for other pro sports. And while Lou isville Slugger has the exclusive rights to make game bats, Pillbox would like to expand into that market as well. “We’ll see what happens,” Fellman said with a smile. Page B1 Brian Peterson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS photos Kyle Wright sands the finishing touches on a bat in the pillbox Bat Company workshop in Winona, Minnesota, thursday. some of the art bats hang on the wall at the pillbox office in Winona, Minnesota, thursday. guys and go through two weeks of training camp. Knowing he wasn’t going to play the first two games, he didn’t want to take away reps from Blaine (Gabbert) and Kyle (Trask), as well as (Ryan Griffin), as far as going into these next two games. It’s something that he needs to handle. We trustNotehim.” that Bowles said Brady’s hiatus had been scheduled before trainingHere’scamp.what we know. The scheduled absence has nothing to do with Brady’s or his family members’Brady’shealth. mother, Galynn, is a cancer survi vor. His father, Tom Sr., fought a scary battle with Covid-19 last year that led to his hospitalization. Both are fine. So let’s look at the facts: Brady retired Feb. 1. He stayed away for 40 days until announc ing on March 13 he would return for a 23rd NFLDuringseason. that time, Brady and his family examined what it would take for him to return to the Bucs and the NFL. Clearly, his life is increasingly complicated. Here’s what he said when he spoke at the Bucs’ mandatory mini camp in June. “It’s very challeng ing when you’re 43 or 44 because there are a lot of other things that are pressing and a lot of other things that are really important in your life, like your kids and your wife and different rela tionships,” Brady said. “Things have always taken a back seat to foot ball. That’s just how it has gone for me. “I have a very tricky, complex life in different aspects and I’m just trying to navigate it the best way I Takingcan.”time off during training camp is the course Brady charted. Most of the offense is installed in the first few weeks of camp and the rapport is built with new players such as Julio Jones, Russell Gage and Kyle Rudolph. Since Brady wasn’t going to play in preseason games against the Dolphins and Titans, he decided to carve out some time for his personal life. The Glazer family, which owns the Bucs, would have had to have been consulted. Of course, there has been very little they wouldn’t grantBucsBrady.coaches and teammates also are sup portive of Brady’s plan. If you want to play Monday morning quarter back, the Bucs could have done a better job getting ahead of this story. Sep arate announcements in consecutive weeks that Brady had been excused for personal reasons only heightened speculation. But Brady is just as committed to the Bucs for 2022 as he was the two previous seasons. When he returns, he will have up to three full weeks to prepare for the Dallas Cowboys. After 23 seasons, Brady has saved up a few timeouts.
Giants From Page B1 cash in on several oppor tunities, leaving a runner stranded in each of the first four innings, and narrowly avoided the shutout thanks to Nick Allen’s home run in the eighth, a solo shot to center field. Oakland hadn’t scored a run since Friday night and went scoreless for 18 straight innings before Allen’s homer. The A’s tried to rally in the ninth, with Elvis Andrus and Stephen Vogts leading off the inning with back-to-back hits. Andrus scored off a grounder by Jonah Bride and rookie Cal Steven son was sent home with a single by Tony Kemp. But it was a little too late for Oakland. The A’s, now 41-74 on the season and losers of 11 of the last 13, are on pace to reach triple-digit losses this season for the first time since 1979.
field, and completed the Giants’ collapse after racing out to a 5-0 lead. Pittsburgh’s shoddy defense, however, allowed the Giants to pull even in the bottom half. After Wilmer Flores led off the bottom of the seventh with a single, he was able to score from second when second baseman Kevin Newman and shortstop Oneil Cruz allowed a popup from Brandon Crawford to land between them in shallow center field. Wood struck out a sea son-high nine batters while tossing six solid but was hurt again trying to navigate the Pirates’ lineup for a third time. Entering Sunday, opposing hitters had a .921 OPS against Wood facing him for a third time in a game, nearly 300 points higher than the marks for his first (.624) and second (.635) times through the order. After blanking the Pirates for four innings, Wood allowed their first three runs once the lineup flipped over for a third time in the fifth. Once again, it was Reyn olds doing the damage against the organization that traded him away (for Andrew McCutchen before the 2018 season) as a 22-year-old prospect, with a two-run double. Wade gave the Giants a 4-0 lead in the second inning when he sent a low changeup over the 391′ sign in center field. The three-run homer came after Tommy La Stella doubled home Brandon Crawford and was Wade’s fourth long ball in the past sevenFloresgames.doubled home Joc Pederson to make it 5-0 in the fourth for his team-leading 58th RBI, one away from matching a career-high. Pederson and Crawford, two of the slowest runners in the majors, both scored all the way from first base, something only five teams had done fewer times than the Giants this season entering Sunday. Pederson reached base after getting hit by a pitch in his hand and was replaced the follow ing inning on defense by Austin Slater. The Giants later announced that Pederson had suffered a right-hand contu sion (bruise).
“I think all entrepre neurs can relate,” Watson said. “We’re going to take this thing to the moon, and there’s no other option.”
