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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The final day of the Wings Over Solano air show and open house Sunday still had plenty of entertainment for visitors alongside the high-flying demonstrations. Visitors could meet with a century-old World War II veteran, Lewis A. Patteson, who flew up with his friend and pilot Taigh Ramey and son Lea Patteson from Stockton for the final day of the show in a restored PV-2D Harpoon. Technically, Patteson lost his pilot license a few years back and he flies with his instructor as a student pilot today. He used to have a private plane that was not an antique that he flew with his son across the country. He recalled those times as being a lot of fun. Ramey is a skilled craftsman, restoring Twin Beech aircraft, Patteson said. Between them, they like to fly to air shows and give people a taste of a vintage aircraft and talk history. The model of plane they flew in on Sunday is very similar to the one Patteson flew when he was in the Navy.

“Ours has more advanced technology, like better radar and navigation,” he said. Born in 1921, Patteson joined the Navy VB-135 as a pilot/navigator, trained in the PV-1 when he was around 22 years old and was sent to the Aleutians in March 1943. He has a very good memory for those years and loves talking about his time in the military. “I have amassed a collection of information,” he said. “People call me from all over asking questions.” Patteson also has logbooks from the war and lovingly shares that information with anyone who wants to talk about that time. He is more than happy to share what he can – or to find out the answer to a question. He said he hopes to connect with other World War II veterans who want to chat about the war. The air show had more than just planes flying. There was also plenty of food, vendors and veterans to talk with during the show. Leslie Yu is a volunteer at the Travis Aviation Museum. Yu served in the military at Travis Air Force Base for nine years as a technician with the 349th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. After retiring, he and

his family decided to stayed in Fairfield. Yu volunteers at the museum in his free time, helping to share the story of the base and military history. The museum has more than 65 interactive and static exhibits for visitors to explore along with more than 50 indoor exhibits that include six aircraft and a restored 1942 Seagrave fire truck. Outside are more displays, with 22 aircraft that include the B-29 “Miss America ‘62,” and the C-141 “Golden Bear.” The museum can only be accessed once past the security gates so visitors who are non-military who want to check it out during the open hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m Tuesday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays will need to stop by the visitors center and check in. Base personnel will then call the museum to have an escort take the visitors to the museum. Anyone with a military identification card just needs to show the ID at the security gate and then head over to the museum. Admission is free. The air show and open house wrapped with thousands enjoying a weekend of American heritage at the Travis Air Force Base.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The fatal shooting of 10 people at a grocery store in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo by a young white gunman is being investigated as a hate crime and an act of “racially motivated violent extremism,” federal officials said Sunday. Authorities said that the suspect, Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, New York, researched the demographics of the neighborhood around the Tops Friendly Markets store while looking for places with a high concentration of Black residents. Gendron drove

from about 200 miles away and arrived in Buffalo at least a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance, police said. livestreamed He the massacre with a helmet camera, shooting 11 Black people and two white people, police said. President Joe Biden on Sunday described the shootings as “a racially motivated act of white supremacy and violent extremism,” and said that while the Justice Department conducts its investigation, “we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the See Buffalo, Page A7

What we know about the victims of the Buffalo grocery store shooting The Washington Post A grandmother who volunteered every weekend at her church’s food pantry. An octogenarian who was a devoted caregiver to her husband of 68 years. A retired police officer and amateur inventor who tried to stop the shooter. These were some of the lives cut short in a blaze of hate-fueled violence in Buffalo on Saturday. The attack at a busy supermarket during which 10 people were killed and three were injured was an act of “pure evil,” said Eric County Sheriff John Garcia. Authorities have described the shooting as a hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism.

They are also exploring a possible domestic terrorism charge. Eleven of the 13 people shot were Black. According to police, the suspect, 18-yearold Payton Gendron, is believed to have published a lengthy online document riddled with racist, antisemitic and white supremacist beliefs. The text detailed plans for the attack, including the intent to target a predominantly Black neighborhood. Gendron has pleaded not guilty to a charge of firstdegree murder. The mass shooting is the latest in a painful litany of violence driven by hate and racism. They include attacks on a Black church in See Victims, Page A7

Finland formally seeking entry into NATO Tribune Content Agency LVIV, Ukraine — Leaders of Finland said Sunday that the Nordic nation plans to seek membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a move almost certain to escalate geopolitical tensions arising from the Russian war in Ukraine. At a joint news conference in the presidential palace in Helsinki, President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced the decision by Finland – which has long been a neutral country – to apply for entry into the U.S.led alliance. “This is a historic day,” Niinisto said. “A new era begins.” Finland shares a more than 800-mile border

with Russia, which views any expansion of the 30-member NATO bloc toward its territory as a grave security threat. Ukraine’s emergence as a Western ally that could potentially join NATO is cited by many experts as a major reason why President Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine. Sweden has already taken steps toward joining NATO. And a bid by Georgia – a former Soviet republic – is again on the table despite Moscow’s vociferous objections. NATO officials were meeting Sunday in Berlin to consider moves by Finland, Sweden and other nations to join the alliance. NATO was also contemplating additional aid to war-ravaged Ukraine. Denmark’s foreign

minister, Jeppe Kofod, dismissed suggestions that objections from Putin could hinder the alliance from accepting new members, The Associated Press reported. “Each and every European country has a fundamental right to choose their own security arrangement,” Kofod told reporters. “We see now a world where the enemy of democracy No. 1 is Putin and the thinking that he represents,” he said. The foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland were scheduled to meet with NATO representatives in Germany. Niinisto said that he told Putin during a phone call Saturday that the invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally changed “the security environment of

Finland,” and said his country will seek NATO membership “in the next few days.” The news has been welcomed by the U.S. and several NATO member states, but has angered Russia. The Kremlin said Saturday that Putin had warned Niinisto that the relationship between the neighbors could be “negatively affected” if Finland applies to join NATO. And in a sign of the economic power that Russia wields over much of Europe, on Saturday the Finnish power company Fingrid said that Russia cut off electricity supplies to the nation. A representative for the company said that Finland “can cope” and that the See NATO, Page A7

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Revisiting concert memories from back when I I got up, Carlos to the show. When was gone. I looked the Beastie Boys around and was took to the stage, shocked to see they, like me and him behind me Kelvin, were hamlaying on the Cow mered and they Palace floor. sucked. ThankI knelt next fully Run-DMC to him and his showed ’em Tony Wade eyes were rolled how to rock the The last laugh back in his head. house in a profesI saw that he was sional manner. breathing, which was The opener was Davy good because if he had D, who I now know was needed mouth-to-mouth an influential early East resuscitation he would Coast rapper, but back soon become part of the then I’d never heard dearly departed because of him. My impatience fueled by alcohol, I started there was no way that was happenin’. In my nearloud chants of “Beastie panicked mind’s eye I Boys!” and mocked him briefly saw his tombstone (uh, with profanity) so with the first four words much he cut his set short. to Def Lep’s “Rock of I need to send him an apology now that I’m quite Ages” (“gunter, gleiben, a bit older, a tad wiser and glauchen, globen”) etched on it. a whole lot more sober. But he’d just fainted. Broke at the Concert Barn: In 1983 I went to see He came to and we left the the world premiere of Dio, girls and slightly less belthe band featuring singer ligerent dude and found Ronnie James Dio who some seats. Sigh. had formerly been the Tokin’ at His Royal frontman for Rainbow and Badness’ Show: At Black Sabbath, at a place Prince’s Purple Rain called the Concert Barn in tour in 1984, me and my Antioch. I went with John buddy Ben Kusaka, who Anderson (rest in peace), were then veterans of who had introduced me to many hard rock/heavy Rainbow’s classic album, metal shows, did what we “Rainbow Rising.” It often did, fired up a joint. was a great show and the We should have read the closest I ever got to Dio in room first because it was the seven or so more times definitely not an Ozzy or I saw him solo or with Judas Priest show. There the reformed Sabbath were several mothers after that. with their teenage or even Now, I had been broke younger daughters sitting before, but that day I all around us and they all was flat busted. I mean, machine gun shot us the we had the tickets and stink eye so we sheepenough gas to get us to the ishly extinguished our show and back home, but smokeables. that was it. How broke? Fight Fire With Fire: On the way home, we In 1989 I had a dilemma. went over a bridge and I My car needed a new radididn’t have the 40 cents ator so it was not safe to to pay for the toll and had drive, but Metallica was to go inside and fill out a playing at the Cal Expo promise to pay it. Amphitheater in SacraLightheaded Leppard: mento. My friend Kenny I went to see Def Leppard and I loaded up jugs of on their 1983 “Pyromawater in my ’81 Monte Carlo and set off down nia” tour with my buddy Carlos (his name has been Interstate 80. When my idiot gauge light came on changed to protect the warning me the car was guilty) at the Cow Palace. running hot, I would pull After the openers – Uriah Heep, epic yawn – played, over and let the radiasome belligerent drunk tor chug long drinks of and stoned dude was belagua until the light went off and then I would drive lowing at me about how some more. I think I had he had seen AC/DC there to stop like six times, but and it changed his life or we made it and it was an something. I was trying incredible show. to ignore him, but then On the way home, we he introduced me and were reliving the concert Carlos to his sister and her friend. All of a sudden, and sharing stories and listening to music and he seemed much less forgot about the radiabelligerent. But right then Carlos tor. Near Dixon my car told me he wanted to caught on fire under the sit down. I vetoed that hood and we pulled off at because we had the two a gas station and extingirls who thought we were guished it and called cute and Def Leppard Kelvin to come pick us up. was about to come on and It was so stupid, but such no way was I gonna sit a great show. down. Then I knelt down Great America to tie my shoe and when Birthday: On Sept. 28,

had decided that a Joe Bonamassa show in San Francisco I attended a few years ago would be the last big concert I would attend, but like a smoker who needed just one more to be convinced to quit, I went to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra last year and it solidified that I am done. While I love live music, in my view, it is just not worth the hassle factors that come into play now like ticket price, parking, crowds, smoke . . . not to mention Covid 19. I’ll still check out local shows, but now I’ll just cling to memories of the dozens of concerts I have attended over the years. Here are several: They’re Not Gonna Take It: In 1985 I saw Twisted Sister, who were opening for Iron Maiden. I was never a fan of them, but wanted to see Maiden again. I got the stupid idea to pelt them with pocket change to express my dislike and figured it was worth a dollar. Before the show, I went to a concession booth and asked the clerk there for 20 nickels for my four quarters. Evidently, I wasn’t the only one who had thought of doing it because she snapped at me and said no and to use my quarters to throw at them. I decided not to and later was so happy I didn’t. As Twisted Sister played, suddenly the lead singer Dee Snider, stopped the band midsong and told security to pull a guy up in the front onto the stage. Everybody started applauding thinking he was to be honored or something, but Snider yelled in his face and cussed him out for throwing nickels at the band. He then had the guy thrown out while the crowd cheered. Yikes. Priest Pics: I saw Judas Priest on their Screaming for Vengeance tour in 1982 and got super close. I took amazing pictures with my little Kodak camera. The next day I took the film to the 50-minute photo developing place because I couldn’t wait to see them. Exactly three photos came out and they were all of the opening band Coney Hatch, who I had never heard of. Licensed to Ill and Raising Hell: I and my brother Kelvin went to see the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC at Sacramento’s Cal Expo in 1987. I loved the Beastie Boys’ huge album “Licensed to Ill” and Run-DMC’s epic “Raising Hell” and I was so looking forward

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Various concert tickets are shown on display. 1996, me and my wife Beth attended a Christian music day at Great America in Santa Clara. Audio Adrenaline, the OC Supertones and more played but the band that will always have a special place in my heart is Big Tent Revival. During their soundcheck, I talked to their guitarist/singer and he agreed to do something special. Near the end of the set, he remembered

and pointed out that it was Beth’s 30th birthday and led the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday” to her. Now, I realize that topping fainting friends, drunken rappers, broke barn shows and nickel dodging frontmen is a low bar, but that remains one of my favorite concert moments ever. Fairfield freelance humor columnist 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 book “Growing Up In Fairfield, California,” published in 2021 and the upcoming History Press book “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California,” which will be published on July 4. The Last Laugh will return next week.

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SUISUN CITY — Police are seeking information about a driver who hit and killed a pedestrian this weekend and fled from the scene. The incident happened shortly before 2:15 a.m. Saturday on westbound Highway 12 and Emperor Drive. Officers who arrived at the scene found a

pedestrian with what authorities describe in an update as major and who soon died as a result of those injuries. The name, age, gender and city of residence of the person who died were not released. Anyone with information about the driver, the vehicle or the incident is asked to call Suisun City Police Department investigators at 707-421-7373.

Mare Island Cemetery transfers from Vallejo to federal control In a dramatic Daily Republic Staff

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MARE ISLAND — Oversight of the Mare Island Naval Cemetery transferred this weekend from the city of Vallejo to the federal National Cemetery Administration. The transfer Saturday brings to a close a years-long campaign to take what several years ago a dilapidated military cemetery through physical rehabilitation to

former control by the agency that also oversees the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena and in whose district the cemetery rests, along with Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Creek and Solano County’s other representatives in Congress, were present along with officials from the city, the Naval Cemetery Administration and the 801st Engineer Construction Company, which

planned and executed the rehabilitation work at the cemetery. Mare Island’s cemetery is the oldest U.S. Navy cemetery on the West Coast. The first person buried was George Dowd, who died Feb. 11, 1856, aboard the USS Massachusetts. He was buried the next day. Among the approximately 900 sailors and Marines who served from the War of 1812 through World War I and buried

there is the daughter of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the national anthem; and six Russian sailors who were laid to rest near the middle of the cemetery during the Civil War era. Also present are the graves of three Medal of Honor recipients. The cemetery took its place in 1975 on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Mare Island Naval Ammunition Depot Historic District.

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FAIRFIELD — A record one in six residents in Solano and Contra Costa counties rely on the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano to help put food on their tables. That represents 250,000 people each month. The food bank is asking area residents for help by attending the Nourish Gala Drive-in to Fight Hunger at 7 p.m. Thursday at the West Wind Solano Drive-In, 1611 Solano Way, in Concord. It includes dinner and a double movie feature. Lesley Stiles, executive chef and owner of Roxx on Main in Martinez, will be the master of ceremonies. The Golden State Warriors’ official band – the Bay Blue Notes – will perform at the event. Special guest Blessing Mahati, the 2022 local Poetry Out Loud cham-

pion, also will offer some words of encouragement. To get tickets, go to https://one.bidpal.net/ nourish2022/ticketing.

Vaca museum offers jewelry class VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum will offer a jewelry-making class from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 213 Buck Ave. Wine and appetizers will be included. Class size is limited to 20 and will be taught by Francie Vicondoa. Her jewelry is available for purchase after the opening of the new Vacaville Museum Exhibit, “Under Where?” Whether a master jeweler or a DIY novice, visitors will create a bracelet they will be proud to wear or gift. Stop by the museum to register from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, or ring the doorbell

during office hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. For more information, including price, call the museum at 707-447-4513.

Solano government meetings dot week’s calendar FAIRFIELD — Various local government meetings will occur this week. They are all open to the public with some online and in-person. The meetings include: n Fairfield Suisun Sewer District Executive Committee, 4:30 p.m. Monday, 1010 Chadbourne

Road, executive conference room, Fairfield. Info: fssd.com. n Suisun City Council, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.suisun.com/ government/city-council. n Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 1000 Webster St. Info: www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/ city_council/. n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, One Main St. Info: www.riovistacity. com/city-council/. n Vacaville Planning Commission, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Hall council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: www.ci.vacaville.ca.us. n Vacaville City Council, 6 p.m. Wednesday special meeting, City Hall council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: ci.vacaville.ca.us.

Citizens rally in Benicia to support Roe. vs. Wade Tribune Content Agency With the firestorm from a stunning leaked Supreme Court opinion pointing to the overturning Roe vs. Wade still raging nationwide, protesters turned out in downtown Benicia Saturday at a “Bans off My Body, women’s reproductive rights” event. Following speeches by former Benicia Mayor Elizabeth Patterson, California State Assembly’s Lori Wilson, currentBeniciaMayorSteve Young and Solano County District Attorney candidate Sharon Henry, a few hundred citizens marched down First Street. Many held handmade signs like “Our Bodies, Our Rights” and “We Need to Talk about the Elephant in the Womb” and “Not Your Body, Not Your Business.” “This is an attack on not just women, but poor people,” Patterson told the crowd. “How dare they?” Wilson asked the crowd if they were ready to fight and march. “We will lead. We will be a national beacon for reproductive justice,”

Wilson told the crowd, to great applause. On May 2, Politico obtained a leaked initial draft majority opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito indicating that the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn Roe – a ruling expected by the end of June. A press release from Chief Justice John Roberts the following day confirmed the authenticity of the leaked document, but stated that the draft “does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.” A week later Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a Reproductive Health Package to expand access to vital services and welcome companies from anti-abortion and antiLGBTQ+ states. “California will not stand idly by as extremists roll back our basic constitutional rights; we’re going to fight like hell, making sure that all women —not just those in California —know that this state continues to recognize and protect their fundamental rights,” said

Newsom in a news release. “We’re expanding access to these critical services, welcoming businesses and their employees fleeing anti-abortion states, and reaffirming our commitment to continuing to work closely with the Legislature and reproductive rights stakeholders to further solidify California’s leadership on abortion rights.” The governor’s Reproductive Health Package includes $125 million to further bolster Calhealth care ifornia’s infrastructure, expand access to services for patients, and help prepare for the influx of people seeking reproductive health care from other states. Henry spoke to the crowd of having a difficult conversation over the phone last week with a woman wondering what she would do if things changed in California. “From my mouth to God’s ears it won’t change,” Henry said. Henry said she brought her son, who turned 15 on Saturday, to the event because she wanted

him to “witness the strength and power of the people in opposition to the highest court in this land who have the nerve to tell us what to do with our bodies.” Wilson told a personal story of when she faced the difficult choice of having a baby as a teenager. “I remember going in and the doctor saying “You are pregnant,” but I remembered the next words even more which were important – ‘You have options,’” Wilson said. “I felt heard and cared for and whatever I chose to do I knew that I was doing it for myself. This is your life and you get to choose what is best for you. And during this time I felt good and I felt I had time. “So later on I told the doctor that I had decided to keep my baby and they replied, ‘We are still here for you,’” Wilson continued. “I felt I was a better parent because it was my choice. At the end of the day, it’s about choice and it’s about freedom. Nobody has the right to take away our own agency.”

change, whales are now hanging around in San Francisco Bay

Tribune Content Agency Before 2016, guests on a popular whale watching tour had to sail far offshore for photos of whales. But these days, migration patterns of endangered humpbacks have altered so much that the boat stays almost entirely within the bay. “We’ve changed our tours completely,” said Kat Nazar of San Francisco Whale Tours. In decades past, humpback whales almost exclusively swam past the bay and stayed offshore during their annual migration from April to October. Now, a rising number are coming closer to the coast. Some venture into San Francisco Bay during peak season, and a few even stay in nearby waters year-round. The new behavior is attributed mostly to a boost in their population and warming ocean temperatures, and the changes have major implications for everyone from tourists to the shipping and crab industries. “In my lifetime it’s all changed,” said Bill Keener of the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, from a lookout point at the Marin Headlands recently, where he quickly spotted two humpbacks at the entrance to the Golden Gate. A cetacean field researcher, he has studied whales since the 1970s. “We would go out in the ocean, we’d look for whales. But there were no whales in the bay.” Humpbacks are smaller than blue and fin whales, which stay farther offshore, and bigger than gray whales,

which already migrate close to the coast. They’re recognized by their dark backs that look humped when they surface and their tendency to breach, or throw their bodies into the air to splash noisily on the water’s surface. The humpbacks’ overall change in behavior along the coast has been documented by surveys from ships, airplanes and the Farallon Islands and with new acoustic technology on buoys. All indicate that some humpback whales are here year-round and spending more time where cargo ships speed by and crab fishing boats drop their gear on long lines that can endanger them. In April, shipping companies agreed to new voluntary speed limits along the coast to protect endangered humpback – as well as fin and blue whales – from being struck and killed. When whales were observed in crab fishing zones, the commercial crab fishing season started well past its usual November launch. It also ended in March rather than June, after several humpback whales were reported entangled in fishing gear in Monterey Bay. “What has puzzled us is: why so many entanglements this year?” said John Calambokidis, research biologist at Cascadia Research Collective, who studies whales on the West Coast. One theory, he said: “Where humpback whales feed depends on where the prey is. And if that is in areas where the crab fishery is, there’s more See Whales, Page A8

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). The Latin phrase “amor fati” – “love of fate” – describes how you’re living. You’ll not only accept what comes but you’ll quickly find what’s beautiful and favorable about it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). In most cases, perfectionism isn’t realistic, necessary, useful or timely. You’ll opt for a relaxed approach and move steadily, easily and imperfectly forward. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Communicate casually and often today. The action is moved with conversations that seem to be about nothing and yet reveal everything. You’ll learn important news, intriguing facts and small but relevant details. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll benefit from adding new faces to your social swirl. A little competition for your attention can be a good thing. It keeps familiar people from taking you for granted. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Doodling is a form of meditation that could help you solve a problem today. Whether you believe you possess drawing talent is irrelevant to the helpfulness of what your brain reveals to you as you drag a pen across paper. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). When someone is asking for the truth, you will not let emotions

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This was five years ago. The one friend who I did keep, my “partner in crime,” so to speak, moved to a location that is two hours away from me, and he became rededicated to his children and new girlfriend. This has meant that I am less able to have him all to myself. I have no one else. Friday I’ll be reading my work at a local art walk. I’m not just seeing this as an opportunity to make some contacts. How do I, at 52, reach out to strangers and develop new friends? — Lonely Writer Dear Lonely Writer: I am sorry that you are feeling so alone. Congratulations on reading your work locally and putting yourself out there. Just that act alone should tell you that you are getting closer to making friends and meeting like-minded people. You could also join different groups in hobbies that interest you. If there are any charities that you are passionate about volunteering for, that is always a good way to meet like-minded people. But let your expectations go of having a ton of friends. Quality is always better than quantity in friendships, and if you continue to pursue your passions, you will no doubt meet people who will become your friends. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Today’s birthday The influence of one loving person will make a beautiful difference in your days. Someone who wants only your happiness can actually help by merely sharing experiences with you. You will expand an area of expertise, and your income grows along with the territory. A purchase will be part of your legacy.

get in the way of hearing or telling it. Often, people don’t ask. They have their reasons. You’ll be judicious with your communication. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). While it does feel safe and secure in an environment where everyone agrees with you, you’d rather be where you can grow. Disagreement is what helps you sharpen your skills and strengthen your case. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll learn the sum total of what’s possible -- the good, the bad and the ugly. Despite everything you learn, you will not be jaded. The power of love makes it possible. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Some questions feel like a hug. “How are you really?” “What can I help you

with?” Other questions feel like an invasion, and you’re justified in throwing up a polite defense and distancing yourself from the source. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). When you’re a superhero, a lot of the gig is hiding your identity until it’s time to shine. Blending in is the fun part. You’ll enjoy it even more, as you now sense the action sequence is around the bend. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Your mind is opening to new possibilities. Learning about the world helps you see that there is much more available to you than the choices most people around you are making. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Those who have power without a healthy sense of duty will ultimately be unseated from their position. Those who assume responsibility will eventually become more powerful. CELEBRITY PROFILES: Megan Fox stars in the new cerebral comedy “Big Gold Brick.” Fox is a Venus-ruled Taurus who had her eye on the acting life since watching the “The Wizard of Oz” as a child. Born under a Leo moon, her creativity is ever-expanding.

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Maybe you are experiencing deja vu because this is the same deal as in my last column. Then, South made four spades after the defense began with two rounds of hearts. Declarer carefully ruffed a heart at trick three and eventually took six spades, one heart, two diamonds and one club. East missed a difficult defense. Do you see it? Should South have raised one no-trump to three no-trump? Here, that works well. Despite the 4-0 spade break, North can still win nine tricks. If South’s long suit had been a minor, we would have bid three no-trump without thinking about it. Maybe we should do the same with an excellent major. East has four possible defenses after winning the first trick. (If he ducks trick one, declarer can play a second heart himself.) East can lead a card in each suit, but only one works. After any of the other three choices, South can elope with his trumps to win the 10 SOME DEFENSES ARE tricks listed above. However, one return disrupts the timing -- a low club. SUPER TOUGH Suppose declarer plays a spade to hand (getting the bad news), leads a Troy Aikman, who won the Super heart to the king, ruffs a heart and Bowl three times as the quarterback of gives up a club. East returns a trump the Dallas Cowboys, said, “I always play (or a diamond), and South lacks a every game in my mind before it dummy entry to elope with his third begins. A lot of times in a game, a play low trump. will happen, and it will feel like deja vu, like I’ve seen the play happen before in COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE my mind.”

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he Right Stuff column on April 27 identified that aggressor national leaders start wars when they conclude no other nation has sufficient deterrent power to prevent their intended conquest. Diplomacy for the aggressor is only a tool to deceive and delay until he concludes he will conquer. Today America is again a dupe, this time for Vladimir Putin. It is long known he desperately wants to restore some form of Russian power and influence over 15 former republics of the former Soviet Union. America’s abandonment of Afghanistan’s leaders who wanted to establish democracy undoubtedly accelerated Putin’s strategy. Putin had combat successes over Georgia and the Crimean portion of Ukraine at a minor cost of sanctions by Western states that were temporary and Earl Heal a small price in his mind. In accordance with the 1994 Budapest Memorandum developed by President Bill Clinton, we should have assisted Ukraine in deterring Russia from Crimea, but the Obama-Biden administration failed. That and other lack of deterrent forces by the current administration brought the Ukraine invasion. We are again finding that fighting a war is more costly than deterring it. Within three months after Joe Biden’s failures in Afghanistan, Putin began to openly apply pressure against Ukraine. Two months later Biden began threatening sanctions but executed none until after Russian troops had invaded Ukraine, even though it is widely acknowledged economic sanctions initially provide no effect for several months and marginal effect thereafter. Had the sanctions been applied immediately, there might have been some deterrence but once Putin committed the invasion, there was no way he would reverse course. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Biden’s late announcement of sanctions implementation was only partially true; contrary to his misleading announcement, some promised sanctions were waived or delayed. Perhaps the best decision ever made by the Biden administration was to not falsely accuse as untrue Fox News’ daily coverage of Russian atrocities. Public reaction and bipartisan congressional demands have forced Biden to provide weapons to Ukraine. Being late, we now have war instead of deterrence. What does the future hold? Will we maintain support to ensure Ukraine can win and maintain sovereignty or will we allow diplomats to negotiate a treaty for Russia to violate in the future, as did North Vietnam? It amazes me that educated people argue we have no interest in assisting Ukraine. Beyond the effect of losing Ukraine’s wealth of food and mineral supplies for European neighbors, why should America not support strengthening a nation fighting for sovereignty and liberty? Is it not important to maintain the trust or allies? Fox News’ Tucker Carlson normally has strong expressions for freedom, but he opposes investing the cost of freedom to assist Ukraine. Who does not know freedom is not free? Failure to restore Ukraine’s freedom will produce worldwide failure, e.g., Taiwan, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, etc. Taiwan will assuredly follow Ukraine. Does anyone not recognize the preparations China is completing to forcefully absorb Taiwan? Does America have an interest in maintaining Taiwan in the free world market? Ask manufacturers who cannot manufacture for lack of computer chips. We have halted Communist China from past invasions by positioning U.S. Navy warships near Taiwan, but do we now have the will or capability? The world has reason to doubt America’s will and capability. Deterrence is more easily accomplished because 100 miles of water separate Taiwan from China. Combat after China has a foothold on the island will be very difficult. China has built a stronger navy to invade Taiwan, which leaves America one strong deterrent. We must equip and train the Taiwanese to defend their shores from invasion with radar and missiles. That deterrent can make any attempted invasion too costly for China to consider. The Ukrainians have demonstrated that having a navy is not a requirement to sink enemy ships. Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and member of The Right Stuff committee formerly of the Solano County Republican Central Committee. Reach him at healearlniki@att.net.

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Democrats are real extremists on abortion

emocrats are salivata clear answer to a quesing over the chance to tion, it’s usually because you portray Republicans as don’t want the public to know antiabortion extremwhat it is. ists in the wake of the anticIt might seem strange that ipated overruling of Roe v. Democrats are contorting Wade. But their unwillingthemselves into pretzels to ness to accept limits on lateavoid saying they oppose lateterm abortions shows they term abortions. But it makes are the real extremists. sense considering Henry Olsen complete Third-trimester abortions that about half of Democrats are incredibly unpopular among most believe in no abortion restrictions Americans. The most recent Econoat all. That total rises to 60% among mist-YouGov poll, for example, found liberal Democrats, according to the that only 25% of all Americans, and most recent ABC News-Post poll, and 21% of independents, agree that abor- is surely even higher among the abortion should “always be legal” with tion rights activists in the party who “no restrictions.” Yet Senate Majorare most passionate about the issue. ity Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Democratic candidates and scheduled a vote last week on a bill officeholders, therefore, must tread that would effectively make aborcarefully if they want to make the tion legal without restrictions for the purported extremism of Republiduration of a woman's pregnancy. cans an issue. If Democrats express Even though he knew the legislasupport for their base’s view, they tion was doomed to fail because of the give Republicans a potent issue to use Senate filibuster, Schumer pushed his against them. If they express support entire caucus to support the highly for the view backed by most Ameriunpopular proposal, for which oppocans and almost all swing voters, they nents will be able to tar them. anger that base. Hence the abortion Schumer isn’t alone among Demo- shuffle played out before audicrats in making themselves politically ences every day. vulnerable. That’s just not going to fly, espeRep. Tim Ryan, the Democratic cially in critical races. Republicans nominee for Ohio’s Senate seat, will force this question at every dodged a direct question from Fox opportunity and throw every vote in News host Bret Baier on whether favor of the Senate bill this week in Ryan would support any restriction Democrats’ faces. The more a Demon abortion by saying he would leave ocrat tries to waffle, the more foolish it up to the woman and her doctor. they will look. It’s pretty clear to most White House press secretary Jen Americans that a child who can live Psaki similarly swerved when Fox outside of a mother’s body shouldn’t News reporter Peter Doocy asked be killed. The fact that too many about President Joe Biden’s position. Democrats can’t say that without She repeatedly refused to commit fear of getting ambushed by the left Biden to supporting any limit on abor- speaks volumes about today’s Demotion, instead referring Doocy to the cratic Party. president’s prior statements without It’s not just me, a conservative offering any specifics. Republican, who sees this. Matthew In politics, if you’re avoiding Yglesias, a prominent progressive

writer and abortion rights supporter, recently said as much in his newsletter. He notes more than 90% of all abortions are performed in the first trimester and that Democrats could preserve access for the vast majority of women who want abortions if they sacrificed the extreme views that so many Americans abhor. That Democrats are preparing to utterly ignore this counsel is instructive. They are pushing no-limit abortion policy either because they are afraid of their base or because they believe in it. Either way, that’s not the leadership Americans want. This is the same dilemma that sunk Democrat Stephen A. Douglas’ chance to become president in the 1860 election. Douglas tried to finesse the explosive slavery issue by arguing people in each territory should be able to decide whether to permit slavery. He was caught between Northern popular opinion, which thought slavery was wrong, and Southern opinion, which favored it. Douglas tried to placate Southerners by saying he didn’t care whether slavery was voted up or down and to satiate Northerners by saying he would vote to admit a new state with a constitution banning the odious practice. Instead, his dodge lost the North and the South and helped elect Abraham Lincoln. Republicans this fall should be as persistent as Lincoln in forcing their foes to choose on abortion between the American majority and the Democratic base. If they do, they should be the political winners, against all expectations, on the abortion debate. Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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France offers Putin way out; if he’d take it

Moskva, its Black Sea flaget’s put the best face possible on French whispers ship, is cowering out of range that the United States is of Ukrainian missiles, thus too aggressive toward ending any realistic prospect Russia. Let’s avoid the easy of an amphibious assault on (and tempting) jokes about the port of Odessa. a Gallic flair for surrender. Those are a few of the tactiLikewise with any observacal failures. tion that it’s easy – perhaps a At a strategic level, Russia bit decadent – to take a modDavid Von Drehle is faring even worse. Major erate view concerning Russia Chinese tech firms are reportfrom behind a barrier of Eastern edly shying away from sales to European democracies that find Russia, signaling that Beijing won’t Moscow’s ravaging of their neighbe bailing out its errant ally. Finland bor Ukraine to be an immediate and has asked to join NATO, with Sweden urgent threat to their own safety. likely to follow – adding further Let’s assume France is trying to strength to the alliance the Russian play good cop to U.S. Defense Secdictator had hoped to shatter. And retary Lloyd Austin’s bad cop in a Putin’s Victory Day display of muscle joint effort to bring Vladimir Putin’s was a dud amid reports of Russian brutal war to the earliest possible soldiers refusing to join the fight. conclusion. In that case, how might a Enter the good cop. good-cop, bad-cop scenario play out? In a speech shortly after Putin’s Austin took the hard line in Victory Day fizzle, French President remarks to reporters April 25. He Emmanuel Macron offered an olive was in Poland with Secretary of branch to Moscow while gently, and State Antony Blinken after the two obliquely, scolding Austin. “We must, men visited Kyiv to demonstrate together, never cede to the temptaU.S. support for Ukrainian indetion of humiliation, nor to a spirit of pendence. With Russia reeling and revenge,” Macron said, adding: “We regrouping after the failure of its Feb- are not at war with Russia. We are ruary invasion, Austin called on the working in Europe for the preservaWest to further sap Putin’s strength. tion of the sovereignty and territorial “We want to see Russia weakened to integrity of Ukraine, and for the the degree that it can’t do the kinds return of peace on our continent.” of things that it has done in invadThe point of a good-cop, bad-cop ing Ukraine,” he said as the United routine is to give a bad guy an illuStates’ top diplomat looked on in sion of control, a sense he is choosing apparent agreement. his destiny. The bad cop drives home Since that time, Russia has indeed the hopelessness of the miscreant’s become weaker. Although its indissituation. Then the good cop says: criminate bombing of Ukraine Let me help you keep your dignity. continues, the Russian air force has You don’t have to deal with the tough given up any pretense of achieving guy over there. You can choose to air superiority. The army has pulled deal with me. back from Kharkiv and is struggling Make no mistake, however: The to protect its supply lines to Izyum. good cop is still on the side of the The navy, after the sinking of the cops. France has supplied self-pro-

pelled artillery and thousands of shells to help arm the Ukrainians. It promises to send more. France has condemned the Russian invasion at the United Nations, has joined the stiff sanctions that are choking Russia’s economy and has sent forensic experts to help collect evidence of Russian war crimes. The alliance remains strong. The good cop is offering Putin a way out. A graceful exit. The problem is Putin’s bloody-minded recalcitrance. He can’t bring himself to admit he has blundered on an epic scale, at the cost of many thousands of lives, many ruined cities and the future of Russia as a global power. The curse of totalitarian governments is they kill people for telling the truth; do that enough times, and you end up with a nation of liars. Putin was lied to about the readiness of his military, lied to about the strength of the Ukrainian government and lied to about the weakness of the West. Now he is lying to himself about having viable alternatives other than surrender. Whether to weaken Russia further is not principally a question for the United States. It’s a question for Vladimir Putin. Every day he continues to fight in Ukraine, he weakens Russia. Putin would be wise to accept the French invitation to negotiate the terms of his capitulation. Unfortunately, there’s no evidence remaining he is capable of wisdom. David Von Drehle writes a twiceweekly column for The Washington Post. He was previously an editorat-large for Time Magazine, and is the author of four books, including “Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year” and “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.”

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NATO From Page A1 power grid would not be interrupted. Meanwhile, the British Defense Ministry said Sunday that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region has stalled. In its latest daily assessment, Britain said that Russia’s advance in the Donbas – where Putin redirected troops last month after a failed assault in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital – “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule.” Despite “small scale initial advances,” the Defense Ministry said, “Russia has failed to achieve substantial territorial gains over the past month whilst sustaining considerably high levels of attrition.” Russia has suffered losses of about one-third of the ground combat troops committed when it invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the British report said. Moscow is “unlikely to dramatically accelerate its rate of advance over the next 30 days,” the Defense Ministry concluded. Official Russian accounts have painted a picture of steady advances in the Donbas region, where pro-Russia separatist forces have controlled territory since 2014. This year’s war has seen Moscow largely gain control of the port city of Mariupol, which is part of the Donbas, while seizing other towns in the region. Ukrainian officials say their forces are counterattacking in the east but concede that a long-term battle is likely. “The situation in Donbas remains very difficult,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an overnight address. “Russian troops are still trying to show at least some victory. On the 80th day of the full-scale invasion, it looks especially insane.” Ukrainian forces do appear to have forced Russian troops to retreat from the vicinity of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine. The city – Ukraine’s second-most populous, after Kyiv – has faced relentless bombardment since the war began. Much of Kharkiv’s pre-war population of more than 1 million has fled the city. But Ukrainian officials say they are pushing Russian

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forces away from the city. On Sunday, air-raid sirens rang through the pre-dawn darkness in the western region of Lviv, which has been largely insulated from the conflict – though Russian missiles have periodically hit targets in the area, which is close to the Polish border. The border zone is a key conduit for supplies and military equipment entering Ukraine. Four Russian missiles hit “a military infrastructure facility” early Sunday in the town of Yavoriv, near the Polish border, an official statement from the Lviv regional government said. There were no victims, authorities said, but the target was “completely destroyed.” Authorities provided no details on what kind of military facility was hit. The missiles were likely fired from the Black Sea, possibly by submarines, Ukrainian officials said. Amid the grim war news, many Ukrainians on Sunday were celebrating a cultural victory – a trophy for a Ukrainian band in the popular Eurovision song contest. Zelenskyy pledged that his country would endeavor to host the European competition one day in “Ukrainian Mariupol” – referring to the embattled port city now largely under Russian control. The widespread destruction in Mariupol – along with the displacement of most of the more than 400,000 people who once lived there – has become emblematic of the devastation that the war has brought. “Our courage impresses the world, our music conquers Europe!” an exuberant Zelenskyy said in an Instagram post following the Eurovision victory Saturday of Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra for its song “Stefania.” The song – a fusion of of rap and traditional folk in a tribute to the mother of the band’s frontman, Oleh Psiuk – has become a kind of anthem for many Ukrainians. Psiuk made an emotional on-stage appeal on behalf of Ukrainian fighters trapped in a besieged steel plant in Mariupol, and the band’s victory was widely seen as a reflection of European support for Ukraine. “We will do our utmost to one day host the participants and visitors of Eurovision in Ukrainian Mariupol,” Zelenskyy said. “Free, peaceful and rebuilt!”

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From Page A1 soul of America.” The shooting, the latest act of violence in a country rocked by gun violence and a recent surge in hate crimes, has left Buffalo residents rattled and grief-stricken. Tops is like “the community store” for the neighborhood, said JeanPaul Minani, who lives a few blocks away. He said people who live nearby had loved ones killed Saturday. “This is a small city, and I never thought this kind of thing would happen here,” said Minani, 23, who emigrated from Tanzania to the U.S. as a child. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph

Victims From Page A1 Charleston in 2015; a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018; and a Walmart in El Paso in 2019. Domestic terrorism incidents have soared nationwide in recent years, a Post investigation found, driven chiefly by whitesupremacy, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists. In Buffalo and beyond, family members of the victims were grappling with a loss that was both sudden and incomprehensibly cruel - mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters targeted for the color of their skin, gone in a hail of bullets at their neighborhood grocery store. Here’s what we know about those killed:

Pearl Young, 77 For years, Young spent every Saturday morning the same way: volunteering at a food pantry run by her church. She helped prepare and hand out boxes of food from the Good Samaritan Church of God in Christ at an outpost in a Buffalo park, according to her son Damon Young. She relished interacting with her community and viewed volunteering as part of her religious duty. “My mom just felt that she needed to give back to people,” said Damon Young, 48. Born in Fayette, Ala., Pearl Young spent much of her life in Buffalo, where she was a “strict but loving” mother to Damon and his older brother and sister. She was “full of joy,” her son said - “she just loved life and she loved the church.” She loved children, too, and was a proud grandmother to eight. At 77-years-old, she was still working as a high school substitute teacher. She and her son had a shared fondness for ambrosia salad, which they’d prepare and eat together, though she “couldn’t go as hard as me later in life” after becoming diabetic. And she was a longtime fan of the soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” When he picked her up for errands or outings, Damon Young said, “she would always tell me, ‘Wait until ‘The Young and the Restless’ goes off. Pick me up after that.’” The day of the shooting, Pearl Young went out to breakfast and asked to be dropped off at Tops Friendly Markets afterward to shop. Damon was planning on picking her up, and the two had been communicating back and forth. Then she stopped responding and his phone began buzzing with news alerts about the chaos unfolding at the store. “She wasn’t answering, wasn’t calling back,” Young said. “They said it was some people wounded as well, so I was

Gramaglia told ABC News on Sunday that Gendron arrived in Buffalo “at least the day before” the shooting “to scope out the area, to do a little reconnaissance work on the area before he carried out his just evil, sickening act.” Police said the gunman shot four people in the parking lot, three of whom died. Then he moved into the store and began stalking shoppers in the aisles. A security guard fired multiple shots, but the bullets did not penetrate the shooter’s body armor, the police said. The guard was one of those killed, authorities said. About 20 people saw the livestream launched by the gunman on the broadcasting app Twitch, law enforcement said. One viewer immediately alerted the police. Twitch

said in a statement that it ended Gendron’s transmission “less than two minutes after the violence started.” Gendron was charged with murder in the first degree. He pleaded not guilty in a courtroom arraignment Saturday evening. Police had been aware of Gendron because he had previously threatened a shooting at his high school, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. New York State Police said troopers were called to Susquehanna High School in Conklin last June after receiving a report that a 17-year-old had made threatening statements. Police said the student was taken into custody under a state mental health law and taken to a hospital for an evaluation.

A preliminary investigation found that Gendron had repeatedly visited white supremacist websites and pages that shared race-based conspiracy theories, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. He had also researched the 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which an avowed white supremacist shot and killed 51 people; and the 2011 attacks in Norway carried out by a rightwing extremist who killed 77 people. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Buffalo native, said Sunday that tech executives need to be “held accountable, and assure all of us that they’re taking every step humanly possible” to monitor the spread of hate speech online.

kind of hoping for that.” At a school where authorities shared updates with families, he learned his mom had been fatally shot. He said he just wanted to get out of there and cried on his way to his sister’s house. He spent Sunday talking to detectives and family and trying to sort out funeral plans. It felt surreal. His mom should have been headed to work on Monday. She was just telling him about a bonus she was close to getting as the end of the school year approached, joking, “yeah, I’ll be rich.” He was up until 3 a.m. crying and sifting through his memories. “My mom was good,” Damon Young said. “She was a good person, man. She was.” - Brittany Shammas

Katherine Massey was so tight with her siblings, they even shared a street. On Saturday, Massey asked her brother Warren to drop her off at Tops to do some shopping, asking her to return in 45 minutes. “I came back and they were putting out the tape,” Warren Massey told The Post on Sunday. “I knew she was gone when she didn’t call us.” Choking back tears, Barbara Massey described Kat, the oldest of five children, as “the glue” of a very close family. She was a wellknown community figure who did everything from dress up in costume at the local public school to assist in local elections. “She was the most wonderful person in the world. She’d cut grass in the local park, do the trees, give kids on the street toys. That was my sister, anyone she could help,” said Barbara Massey. Nearby, relatives passed around cellphones, trying to reach officials who could tell them where Kat’s body was. Massey and her family grew up on Cherry Street in Buffalo, she said. Barbara and Warren lived there their whole lives; Kat had moved back about 13 years ago when their parents passed away. Until yesterday, three of the five were still living. She renovated the house and spruced up the neighborhood. “She loved the triangle. That’s her pet. She did the flowers,” she said. “Her biggest thing were the schools.” Barbara broke down as she described her sister renting a costume as “Ms. Broccoli” - “for children to learn to eat right.” Massey wrote sometimes for the Buffalo Challenger, the local newspaper. Her sister said she wrote about schools, drugs and a topic she was concerned about: guns. - Michelle Boorstein

energy source some day,” Salter wrote on his LinkedIn profile. That “newly discovered energy source” was hydrogen-electrolysis, a process that splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Salter was inspired to undertake that project amid a 2011 spike in gas prices, he said in an interview. After scouting the Internet for alternative energy sources, he ran across hydrogen-electrolysis - a pique in interest that eventually turned into a company called AWS Hydrogen Technologies and three working prototypes, he said. In a YouTube video posted in 2015, Salter - tinkering on his 2010 Ford F-150 Pickup Truck - demonstrated how the system worked. In a few years, he predicted, scientists and engineers would find that cars could run on water. For his family members, the loss of the self-described “jack of all trades a master of none” was unimaginable. “I don’t think anybody could ever anticipate something like this happening,” Salter’s cousin Adam Bennefield told the Daily Beast. “I don’t think anybody can. Everybody’s hurt right now, everybody’s upset.” María Luisa Paúl

Ruth Whitfield, 86 Whitfield was a “blessing for all those who knew her,” said her son, retired Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell W. Whitfield. The 86-year-old mother had spent the day taking care of her husband at the nursing home where he resides. On the way home, she stopped at Tops Friendly Markets, where she was killed. “You hear about gun violence. You hear about a lot of these things all the time,” her son, Garnell Whitfield, told The Washington Post. “And unfortunately, it’s a little different when it impacts you personally.” Whitfield was described as the rock for the Whitfield family, devoting her life to taking her of her four children and husband. “She could have probably done a number of other things with her life and with her talents, but she chose to use them on us,” her son said. “I’m very thankful for the example she set for us of how to love each other unconditionally and how to sacrifice our own desires, our own opportunities, for someone that we care about.” For the past eight years, Ruth Whitfield’s days had been spent taking care of her husband of 68 years after he was placed on a longterm care facility. She would constantly cut his hair, iron his clothes, dress him and shave him. “There’s very few days that she did not spend time with him attending to him,” her son said. “She was he was his angel. Now her family is grappling with the loss of a person who “exemplified unconditional love,” he added. “We have to rally as a family around my father, and make sure that he’s well cared for,” he said. “Something she would be proud of us for. So we’ve got a big task ahead of us.” - María Luisa Paúl

Katherine ‘Kat’ Massey, 72

Aaron Salter Described by Buffalo Police Chief Joseph Gramaglia as “a hero in our eyes,” Salter was the security guard on duty when the gunman began his deadly barrage inside the supermarket. Gramaglia said Salter, a retired Buffalo police officer, tried taking down the suspect and fired at him multiple times but the bullet’s struck the 18-year-old’s bulletproof vest. “I’m pretty sure he saved some lives today,” Salter’s son, Aaron Salter III, told the Daily Beast. “He’s a hero.” Apart from having a three-decades-long career in law enforcement, Salter - who described himself as a “jack of all trades a master of none” in his LinkedIn profile - was working on a project to build cars with engines that ran on clean energy. “I would like to realize my dream of getting cars to run off of water using my newly discovered

Roberta Drury, 32 Roberta Drury, 32, was a helper. The youngest of four siblings, she moved from Syracuse to Buffalo in 2010 to assist her oldest brother and help care for his children as he underwent treatment for leukemia. “She dropped everything to move out there and play house aunt,” said their sister, Amanda Drury, 34. “She was really proud of being able to step in for the family.” Roberta stayed on as her brother’s home aide and business partner; together they had been rehabilitating an old bar he had bought, the Dalmatia. “The two of them decided to jump in and try to revive it,” Amanda said, adding that postpandemic business was just beginning to pick up. The extended family is close: every summer, their mother rents a house in Wildwood, N.J. “We all spend a week together and Robbie’s always been right there, making lunch, keeping her eye on the little ones,” Amanda said, adding that plans were already in place for the gathering this July. “It’s going to be tough.” As an African American child adopted at 18 months into a suburban White family, Roberta was no stranger to racism, her sister said. But in their family, she said, “Race never mattered. So this is just ugly on a level that as a family we can barely wrap our heads around.” Tara Bahrampour

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A mallard waddles along a slough near Grizzly Island Road in Suisun City, March 10, 2022.

California drought could mean ‘devastation across the board’ for fowl on Pacific Flyway Tribune Content Agency California’s worsening drought is spreading misery among Sacramento Valley farmers, their workers and a host of businesses that revolve around Valley agriculture. Then there’s the potential environmental disaster. Rice fields provide critical food and habitat for millions of geese, mallards, wood ducks and other migratory waterfowl that traverse what is known as the Pacific Flyway. Shorebirds such as Western sandpipers and long-billed curlews also find temporary homes in rice fields. With California having lost 95% of its historic wetland habitat since the Gold Rush, “rice has become an important surrogate,” said Mike Lynes, public policy director for Audubon California.

Whales From Page A3 potential for overlap and entanglement.” Humpback whales migrate from breeding grounds in Central America (the endangered population) and Mexico (the threatened population) to feed in California’s hugely productive ocean environment, and then continue on to feed in British Columbia or Alaska. Since a worldwide moratorium on whaling in 1985, following one in the U.S. in 1971, the humpback population on the West Coast has increased steadily. It’s gone up tenfold since Calambokidis began studying them in the late 1980s, from 500 to close to 5,000. That increase dropped the Mexico population’s status from endangered to threatened in 2016, and overall it means there are more mouths to feed. “With that increase, we’ve seen humpback whales utilizing certain areas that they weren’t utilizing as much when their population was lower,” Calambokidis said. Some of the whales seen during unusual times of year have been smaller animals, and Calambokidis and others theorize that they are most likely juveniles that aren’t ready to find a partner. When the other whales go back to Mexico and Central America to breed and give birth, they stay behind like sixth-graders avoiding a school dance. Another major cause given to changes in humpback whale behavior is climate change. Part of the reason California waters are so enticing to marine life is the upwelling that brings cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface and creating a

This year, though, there will be a lot less rice for the waterfowl. Economists and others believe at least half of the normal rice acreage will go fallow, leaving at least 250,000 acres of Valley land empty. This year’s meager crop “is going to leave birds without a whole lot of places to go,” Lynes said. “It makes conservation of these species even more difficult.” Making matters worse, major wildlife refuges in the Valley are facing significant water shortages as well, he said. The problem will hit home in late fall, after the rice has been harvested and the migratory season begins. Ordinarily the birds would feast on rice that’s been left in the fields. “It’s amazing the amount of food and habitat the rice industry does

provide,” said Mark Hennelly, vice president for advocacy with the California Waterfowl Association. “Having a healthy rice crop is critical.” With fewer fields being planted, it’s likely that the fowl will cram themselves into a smaller footprint, creating potential health problems. “If you have avian cholera or another disease, it can really spread quickly and kill thousands of birds,” he said. On Don Bransford’s rice farm in the Colusa County community of Williams, the influx of geese every year creates a stunning sight. With his fields idled this year, he too worries about the danger facing the birds. “The rice fields are a living environment,” said Bransford, who’s idled all 1,800 acres of his rice fields. “This is devastation across the board.”

food web that attracts marine mammals, leatherback sea turtles and sea birds from thousands of miles away, said Danielle Lipski, lead marine ecologist at the Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries. During marine heat waves, however, there is less food all around. In 2016, the tail end of a major heat wave in the Pacific Ocean, there wasn’t much krill to be found. But humpbacks also eat anchovies, which may have swum closer to shore than usual because of the warming water, and the whales followed, Keener said. The water has since cooled off, but once they got into the habit, it stuck, he said. Whales were observed in the bay every season that followed, though they weren’t as common in 2020 and 2021, and are active so far this year. (There had been a few previous whale sightings in the bay, such as Humphrey the Whale in 1985 and 1990, but those whales were lost, not seeking food, Keener said.) A San Francisco native, Keener said he thinks another reason whales are returning to the bay is that it’s gotten much cleaner in recent decades. “I remember going across the Bay Bridge when I was a kid in the ‘50s, and it’d stink like a cesspool,” he said, “because there was untreated sewage and industrial discharge going into the bay.” Keener and other researchers keep track of individual whales by sharing photos of their flukes, which have unique markings. Cascadia Research, in collaboration with Happywhale. com, has a database of around 7,000 whales on the West Coast. A few years ago Keener

took photos of a humpback whale in the bay, later nicknamed Halo, and then recognized her when she came back the following year with a calf. They sent the photos to researchers in Mexico, who had seen the same mother-andbaby pair earlier. The fishing industry has done a lot to avoid whale entanglements, from updating gear to volunteering to postpone the opening of the season to avoid entanglements. But some fishermen say that there are plenty of humpback whales around, and the restrictions to fishing seasons have had a major impact on their business. The federal government, the public and most fishermen “don’t like to see entanglements,” said Calambokidis. “What can we do to reduce that, even though it doesn’t appear to be threatening the population at the moment?” Yet Keener and Lipski stress that the population still needs strong protections, even while humpbacks in other parts of the world are no longer on the endangered species list. “An endangered species is in danger of going extinct. So it’s not really out of the woods and is still vulnerable to a lot of threats,” Lipski said. Whaling, of course, used to be the biggest threat. The last whaling station in the U.S. was in the bay at Richmond. Before it closed in 1972, humpback whales were turned into oil and dog food there. “You could imagine with that being one of the final whaling stations, they would have had the biggest, most recent impact on those humpback whales that used to like to feed in the Bay Area,” said Calambokidis. “Now, as the humpback whale population recovers, it’s expanding back into these areas.”

Democrats are blowing their opportunity to show voters how they’re taking on inflation – and their fumbling is tuning out the voters they desperately need to win: Latinos. “Democrats,” Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation told me, “had better get their act together.” There’s an enthusiasm gap among Latino voters in California, as 63% say they will “certainly vote” this year, according to a survey of Latino voters in the state released last week by the foundation. “That’s OK,” Martinez Garcel said. “But typically that number is much higher.” It was about 10 points higher at this point in the midterms four years ago, said Matt Barreto, a longtime pollster of the Latino community whose BSP Research firm conducted the survey. In 2018, their power – fueled by outrage at then-President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration and racist comments – helped Democrats flip four GOP-held House seats in California and maintain their hold on every statewide office and a supermajority in the Legislature. But Trump won’t be on the ballot this year. Democrats can’t blame Trump anymore or use him to get people to vote. Now, Democrats not only dominate California, but control Congress and the White House. It’s on them. And

when it comes to what they’re doing to address the No. 1 issue for Latinos – inflation and the costofliving–theirmessage isn’t getting through. The poll found that 90% of the respondents agreed with this statement: “The cost of living for my family is going up faster than what my wages and income can keep up.” Even more foreboding, Martinez Garcel found, was that only 35% felt that life would get better, 47% were unsure it would and 17% thought it would get worse. “In other times of inflation, there’s always been this sense of optimism,” she said. “But even that feels like it’s dwindling.” A similar enthusiasm gap story is unfolding in two Central Valley congressional districts, according to a survey that the left-leaning Courage California released this week. In the redrawn 21st Congressional District, where longtime incumbent Democrat Rep. Jim Costa is running for the first time, only 45% of Latino voters say they were “absolutely certain” they would vote, compared with 51% of Black voters, 58% of Asian American voters and 69% of white voters, according to the survey. The Courage California poll also found that the economy was the No. 1 issue for those surveyed. “I’m worried that (Democrats) are not

paying enough attention to these congressional districts,” Irene Kao, the executive director at Courage California, told me. “What I’m really concerned about that is Democrats are going to pay attention to this too late, and by the time they do pay attention, it’s going to be through a lens that’s not particularly relevant or that doesn’t resonate with voters.” The enthusiasm gap could hurt Democratic chances’ to flip two GOPheld House seats in Orange County, one in the Central Valley and another in Los Angeles County where Latinos hold a major share of the electorate. Roughly 70% of Latinos typically vote for Democrats, Barreto said – and their migration away from a Republican Party they felt to be unwelcoming is what has kept Democrats in power in California for nearly two decades. The last time Republicans won any statewide office was 2006. “It’s what put Democrats in power in the early 2000s and kept them there,” Barreto told me. “And so, as the Latino vote grows, more and more, it becomes increasingly critical.” (There was little evidence in the polls that Latinos are leaving Democrats and supporting Republicans. Only 34% had a favorable opinion of the California Republican Party and 57% thought their future was better because Trump was out of office.)

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Monday, May 16, 2022 SECTION B Paul Farmer . Sports Editor . 427.6926

After 13 years in NBA, Curry graduates from Davidson Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO — Steph Curry has a mantle full of trophies earned through his Warriors career. He can add a college diploma to his collection. Thirteen years after leaving Davidson College for the NBA, Curry will graduate with the class of 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Curry won’t be at his alma mater’s graduation ceremony this weekend to walk the stage and get his diploma – he has the Western Conference finals to prepare for – but the North Car-

olina college invited him to get his diploma in person when basketball duties are paused. In a statement, Davidson said Curry re-enrolled this spring, needing to complete one semester to graduate. Curry, 34, did his classwork remotely with two members of the Davidson faculty working nearby Stanford University and University of California, Santa Cruz. The two-time MVP left Davidson and entered the NBA Draft in 2009, where the Warriors selected him seventh overall in the first round. Curry came to Golden State after a stunning March Madness run

in his sophomore season in which he led the Wildcats under coach Bob McKillop to an Elite 8 appearance. For his scoring second-half flurries that led to unlikely victories, Curry was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Midwest Region of the Tournament. His junior season, Curry averaged 28.3 points per game and was the NCAA scoring leader. Curry hesitated to opt out of his senior year because he wanted to earn his degree. The NBA pulled him away, but a tenacious Curry finished what he started.

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry does and interview during a playoff game at Chase Center in San Francisco, Saturday, May 7, 2022.

A’s have no answer for Ohtani, lineup lacks punch in loss to Los Angeles Tribune Content Agency

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) gestures 3-points after teammate Klay Thompson (11) scores a 3-point basket in the fourth quarter of Game 6 of a

second-round NBA basketball playoff series at Chase Center in San Francisco, Friday, May 13. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 110-96.

Warriors are old, grouchy and here to put the NBA’s young guns in their place Dieter Kurtenbach

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ANALYSIS

SAN FRANCISCO — These NBA playoffs have been about the next generation. LeBron James, 37, is at home, tweeting through his boredom. Kevin Durant, 33, was swept in the first round. (He always finds time for social media.) James Harden’s hard living on and off the court has zapped him of his superpowers at 32 and played a huge role in the Sixers’ second-round playoff exit. This has become the spring of the young guns: 23-year-old Luka Doncic, 24-year-old Jason Tatum,

25-year-old Devin Booker and the well-established Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is just 27. So what on earth are the Warriors still doing hanging around? The Warriors might have a couple of young, exciting players, but as we saw in Golden State’s effort to close out the young, exciting Grizzlies (led by 22-yearold Ja Morant), there’s nothing new about this winning machine. Grizzlies wing Dillon Brooks, 26, didn’t have any problem coming out and calling the Warriors what they are.

“They’re getting old,” he said after being sent home. Getting? Buddy, this team is there. Klay Thompson has had major surgeries on both legs and wants to spend all his time on his boat. That’s some serious old-man energy. Draymond Green’s hair has a lot more salt alongside the pepper and his podcasts are longer than his stints on the court these days. Green already has a job lined up for retirement. That’s good life planning – a trademark of the old. Steph Curry is still an

assassin, but he’s grown out of the babyface. He’s getting so old that one of his side projects is rebooting the classic 1970s sitcom Good Times. That’s the oldest thing I’ve ever heard. Imagine explaining “Buffalo Butt” to 22-year-old Jordan Poole. Even the young(er) players on the Warriors – the guys in their primes – are old. Andrew Wiggins, 27, has a gray hair in his beard that’s been driving me crazy since the start of the postseason, and no one in the history of basketball is better at conserving their energy. Kevon Looney, See Warriors, Page B8

Giants implode in primetime vs. St. Louis Tribune Content Agency ST. LOUIS — Grunt. Thwack. Grunt. Thwack. Grunt. Thwack. Carlos Rodón tried to blow first-pitch fastballs by Paul Goldschmidt, then Albert Pujols. He switched it up against Yadier Molina, trying to sneak a slider past for strike one. On each of them, the Cardinals hitters did something nobody had done against Rodón in his dominant stretch of six starts to begin this season: put a first-pitch offering in play for a base hit. The Cardinals provided a number of firsts for Rodón, none of them positive, in a 15-6 loss that quickly got out of hand and ended with future Hall-of-Famer Albert Pujols pitching to the Giants and left fielder Luis González pitching for the Giants. Eight runs? Check. Ten hits? Check. Rodón had a national television audience for his worst start as a Giant and one of the worst of his

career. The eight runs tied a career high — done three times, last as a member of the White Sox in 2019 — and exceeded the total he had surrendered through his first six starts this season. The 10 hits were also a season-high; he hadn’t allowed more than three before his six-hit, 12-strikeout performance in his last start against Colorado. And Rodón failed to complete four innings for the first time since last September, when he was dealing with shoulder fatigue. Those are the ugly totals, but most significant might be the three first-pitch hits, which Rodón had allowed none of in those first six starts, when he limited opponents to 1.80 ERA and vied for the MLB strikeout lead. The Cardinals knew Rodón could miss bats with the best of them, so up and down their lineup, they hacked at the first hittable pitch they saw from Rodón. Clearly, it was a winning strategy. Evident of their approach,

Rodón threw only 70 pitches before manager Gabe Kapler came out with the hook with two outs in the fourth inning. Uncharacteristically, he generated swings and misses on only seven of them (and only two with his wipeout slider). Rodón struggled to put anything past the Cardinals, who fouled off 18 of his strongest offerings. The first-pitch fastball Rodón gave Goldschmidt in the first inning landed in the third deck of Busch Stadium, just above the Big Mac Land sign in left field. Pujols popped a double in front of a diving LaMonte Wade Jr. in right field. And Molina drove in him and Juan Yepez – who singled on the second pitch he saw from Rodón – with a first-pitch single laced up the middle. Nolan Arenado tacked on two more in the fourth – including the eighth and final of Rodón’s earned runs – with another shot to left field, See Giants, Page B8

When Starling Marte and Mark Canha departed in free agency and corner infielders Matt Chapman and Matt Olson were traded this spring, A’s fans knew the team’s offense was in trouble. Could they have guessed it would be this bad? An A’s team that entered Sunday’s series finale against the Angels batting a major leagueworst .201 managed to regress as it mustered just five hits in a 4-1 loss at the Coliseum. Oakland’s (15-22) abysmal offensive capabilities were on display throughout a four-game series as three of the six runs the A’s scored against the Angels came on one swing, a stunning, walk-off three-run homer from rookie Luis Barrera in Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader that carried the club to its only win of the weekend. A day after becoming the third Japanese-born player to reach 100 homers in the major leagues, Shohei Ohtani belted No. 101. His eighth homer this season was a 425foot drive deep into the right-field stands off a first-inning sinker from A’s

right-hander Frankie Montas. Mike Trout, who singled ahead of Ohtani, scored. Patrick Sandoval pitched into the sixth inning and got back on track after a pair of rocky outings to help the Angels (24-13) move 11 games above .500 for the first time since July 28, 2015. Sandoval (2-1) allowed one run and four hits, lowering his ERA to 1.91. The lefthander overcame a season-high four walks and pitched out of jams in the first three innings when the A’s stranded four runners in scoring position. When Ohtani was intentionally walked in the third two batters after Taylor Ward’s leadoff triple, the crowd at the Coliseum – many of them wearing Ohtani jerseys and other Angels gear – booed loudly. The A’s lone run of the day came in the third inning when catcher Sean Murphy, one of four members of Sunday’s starting lineup with an average under .200, hit a RBI groundout that scored Jed Lowrie. Montas (2-4) was sharp after the first. He had a season-high 12 strikeouts in six innings and allowed four hits and two runs See A’s, Page B8

Kerr returns to W’s after testing positive for Covid last week Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Kerr returned to coach the Warriors Sunday after he tested positive for the coronavirus last week. Kerr cleared the NBA’s health and safety protocols this weekend after he missed the Warriors’ last three games due to Covid-19. During that span, Golden State went 2-1 with Mike Brown at the helm and advanced to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in three years. Kerr, who is fully vaccinated, described his symptoms as “mild,” adding that he felt

congested. He said he started to develop symptoms hours before Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals series last week, which prompted him to get tested. Kerr started wearing a mask before Game 3 on May 7 and continued to sport one during media availability and at practice over the course of the following days. His voice sounded hoarse over the last couple of days. Brown, who was named the next head coach of the Sacramento Kings last week, is 13-1 in the postseason while filling in for Kerr.

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Channel your inner Julia Child with these recipes that are actually achievable Sharyn Jackson STAR TRIBUNE

s the HBO Max series winds down, take a page from the chef’s playbook and start mastering the art of French cooking. “Julia,” the HBO Max series chronicling Julia Child’s trajectory from cookbook author to unexpected television star and national icon, ended Thursday. (The streaming service has yet to announce whether there will be a second season.) And what better way to celebrate the series than with a meal designed by “The French Chef” herself? Child’s vast canon of recipes is known for its deference to French tradition, fearless approaches to various animals and their parts, and the liberal use of butter. What they’re not known for? Ease. Sure, a French omelet takes less than 30 seconds to make. And countless attempts to perfect the flip-and-roll movement that defines it. “Learning to make a good omelet is entirely a matter of practice,” Child writes in her seminal “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” “Do one after another for groups of people every chance you get for several days, and even be willing to throw some away. You should soon develop the art.” Some of her most famous recipes are the titles of episodes in the series that stars Sarah Lancashire as the lilt-voiced Child: coq au vin, beef Bourguignon, crêpes Suzette – those dishes that, in “Mastering,” send you all over the book looking for secondary recipes just to get all the ingredients ready. Or that involve setting something aflame. But Child gave us so much more than that. She made French cooking approachable, even if it took time and work to get there. As “Julia” winds down, take on the challenge of a Child recipe or two to honor the grande dame of French home cooking. Bon appétit! n n n CHICKEN WATERZOOI Serves 4 to 6. Note: This Flemish dish is traditionally made with fish, but Child liked to swap in a whole cut-up chicken, which poaches in a delicate broth. It’s a quick meal; the most time-consuming part is julienning all the vegetables. The creamy soup is loaded with spring vegetables, deepened with vermouth and made luxurious with the addition of six — yes, six — egg yolks. Writing in the New York Times in 1987, Child credited the recipe to her teacher Max Bugnard, who had a restaurant in Brussels before World War II, and served the dish with eel and white fish in that rich broth. “A divine ambrosia indeed,” Child wrote, “and in those halcyon days nobody gave a thought to six egg yolks, large dollops of heavy cream and lashings of butter.” She called this “one of my favorite recipes.” Serve with noodles or dumplings, or crusty French bread to sop up that broth. From the New York Times. 2 large carrots 2 medium onions 2 tender ribs of celery 2 medium-sized leeks, white and tender green parts only 1/2 teaspoon dried tarragon Salt and freshly ground white pepper, to taste

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Julia Child’s Chicken Waterzooi is a quick meal that she called “one of my favorite recipes.” 2 1/2 pounds cut-up frying chicken, legs or thighs or breasts (with bone), or a mixture of these 1 1/2 cups dry white French vermouth 1 1/2 to 2 cups chicken broth 1/2 cup heavy cream 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch 6 egg yolks 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley

gnocchi or just good French bread.

Directions Trim and wash the vegetables and cut them into julienne matchsticks 1 3/4 inches long and 1/8 inch wide. (This should come to about 5 cups in all.) Toss them in a large mixing bowl with the tarragon and a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Pat the chicken pieces dry and set aside. Using a casserole large enough to hold the chicken and the vegetables comfortably, layer in the following order: one-third of the vegetables, half of the chicken, half of the remaining vegetables, the rest of the chicken and the remaining vegetables. Pour in the vermouth and enough chicken broth to barely cover the chicken. (Up to this point, the recipe may be prepared several hours in advance. Cover and refrigerate.) When ready to cook, bring to a simmer, covered, and cook slowly 25 to 30 minutes, or until the chicken pieces are tender and, when pierced, the juices run clear. Strain out the cooking liquid, degrease it and adjust the seasonings. Blend the cream and cornstarch in a small mixing bowl. Whisk the egg yolks in a large bowl and stir in the cream mixture. Slowly whisk in the hot cooking liquid. Pour the sauce over the chicken. Set over medium-low heat, swirling the casserole gently, until the sauce is warmed and thickens slightly, but do not bring to a simmer or the egg yolks will curdle. To serve, ladle the chicken, vegetables and sauce into large warm soup bowls and sprinkle each serving with parsley. Serve with boiled potatoes, noodles,

REINE DE SABA (QUEEN OF SHEBA) CAKE Serves 8. Note: In the first episode of “Julia,” Child makes this cake to butter up the public television producers who would decide the fate of her idea for a television show. (It worked.) The power of this chocolate and almond cake was clear to Child; she once wrote that it was the first French cake she ever tried. She preferred the cake slightly undercooked in the center, which gives it a “special creamy quality.” The recipe is easy and versatile — top with a buttercream frosting, whipped cream or nothing at all. From “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” For the cake: 4 ounces semisweet baking chocolate 2 tablespoons coffee (or 2 tablespoons rum) 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened 2/3 cup sugar, plus 1 tablespoon, divided 3 eggs, separated Pinch salt 1/3 cup almond flour (or finely ground blanched almonds) 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 1/2 cup cake flour 1/4 cup slices almonds, for garnish, optional For the icing: 2 ounces semisweet baking chocolate 2 tablespoons coffee (or 2 tbsp. rum) 5 to 6 tablespoons unsalted butter Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and set oven rack in center position. Butter and flour an 8-inch round cake pan. To prepare the cake: Set the chocolate and coffee or rum in a small pan, cover and place (off heat) in a larger pan of almost simmering water; let melt while you proceed with the recipe.

Cream the butter and 2/3 cup sugar together for several minutes until a pale yellow, fluffy mixture forms. Beat in the egg yolks until well blended. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites and salt until soft peaks are formed; sprinkle in 1 tablespoon sugar and beat until stiff peaks are formed. With a rubber spatula, blend the melted chocolate into the butter and sugar mixture, then stir in the almond flour (or ground almonds) and almond extract. Immediately stir in 1/4 of the beaten egg whites to lighten the batter. Delicately fold in a third of the remaining egg whites and, when partially blended, sift in a third of the flour and continue folding. Alternate rapidly with more egg whites and more flour until all egg whites and flour are incorporated. Turn the batter into the cake pan, pushing the batter up to its rim with a rubber spatula. Bake for about 25 minutes. Cake is done when it has puffed, and 2 1/2 to 3 inches around the circumference are set so that a needle plunged into that area comes out clean; the center should move slightly if the pan is shaken, and a needle comes out oily. Allow cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edge of the pan, and reverse cake on the rack. Allow it to cool for an hour or two; it must be thoroughly cold if it is to be iced. To prepare the icing: Place the chocolate and coffee or rum in the small pan, cover, and set in a larger pan of almost simmering water. Remove pans from heat and let chocolate melt for 5 minutes or so, until perfectly smooth. Lift chocolate pan out of the hot water, and beat in the butter a tablespoon at a time. If the icing is too runny, set the bowl of chocolate into an ice bath and beat until the chocolate mixture has cooled to spreading consistency. To serve, spread the icing over cake with a spatula or knife, and press a design of almonds over the icing, if desired.

Blistered green beans are the star of this spiced lamb stir-fry Ellie Krieger

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his quick skillet dinner is inspired by the dry-sautéed string beans with pork that’s been my go-to whenever I order in from my neighborhood Chinese restaurant. The vegetable is so lip-smackingly good cooked that way - blistered and lightly charred but still crisp-tender - I cannot resist it. It turns out, the technique is also so easy that, since first trying it myself when testing this recipe, it has officially become my new favorite way to cook green beans. Just put a little oil in a skillet, get it nice and hot, then sear the green beans, tossing now and then, until they take on that alluring texture and color. Besides the searing technique, what also intrigues me about that particular Chinese dish is how it uses a small amount of meat as a flavoring agent rather than as a main feature. From a nutritional point of view, this is one way to include animal protein in your life healthfully, while tipping the overall balance toward more plant-based foods. For this recipe, I used those dry-saute and meat-asaccent techniques for a saucy, savory dish with flavors that lean toward North Africa and the Middle East. Once the green beans are cooked, they’re removed from the skillet and ground lamb is added to brown with shallot (or onion) and garlic. Then a can of tomatoes goes in, followed by a sprinkle of earthy cumin and coriander and a warming hint of cinnamon. Once that cooks down a bit, the blistered green beans are added back to the skillet and coated with the richly flavorful, meaty sauce. Served on a bed of nutty bulgur or brown rice, with a fresh sprinkle of mint leaves, it’s a fast and tasty weeknight meal that’s globally influenced and healthfully balanced.

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Blistered Green Beans With Lamb and Aromatic Spices. n n n BLISTERED GREEN BEANS WITH LAMB AND AROMATIC SPICES 40 minutes 4 servings In this quick and tasty skillet dinner, green beans are “dry-sauteed” until they are blistered and lightly charred but still crisp-tender. They are then tossed with a savory mixture of ground lamb and tomatoes spiced with onion, garlic, cumin, coriander and a warming hint of cinnamon. Served on a bed of nutty bulgur or brown rice, with a fresh sprinkle of mint leaves, it’s a weeknight meal that is globally influenced and healthfully balanced. Storage Notes: Refrigerate leftovers for up to 4 days. INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 pound green beans, trimmed 1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon fine salt, divided 8 ounces ground lamb

1/4 cup finely diced shallot or onion 3 cloves garlic, minced or finely grated One (14-ounce) can no-salt-added diced tomatoes, with juices 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 cups cooked bulgur or brown rice, for serving 2 tablespoons small or torn large mint leaves DIRECTIONS In a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the green beans, season with 1/8 teaspoon of salt, and cook, tossing occasionally, until the beans are firmtender and charred and blistered in spots, 6 to 7 minutes. Transfer the green beans to a bowl. Add the lamb and shallot or onion to the skillet, reduce the heat to medium and cook, stirring and breaking up the meat with a spoon, until no longer pink, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, until aromatic, an additional 30 seconds. Add the tomatoes, cumin, red pepper flakes, coriander, the remaining 1/4 teaspoon of salt, the black pepper and cinnamon. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the liquid is reduced and the ingredients have melded, about 3 minutes. Return the green beans to the pan and toss to combine, then remove from the heat. To serve, divide the bulgur or rice among four plates, top with the lamb and green bean mixture, and garnish with the mint leaves. Nutrition information per serving (1 heaping cup of the green bean/lamb mixture and 1/2 cup bulgur) | Calories: 337; Total Fat: 17 g; Saturated Fat: 6 g; Cholesterol: 41 mg; Sodium: 287 mg; Carbohydrates: 33 g; Dietary Fiber: 9 g; Sugar: 8 g; Protein: 16 g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice. From cookbook author and registered nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

DAILY REPUBLIC — Monday, May 16, 2022 B3

Internet service on U.S. airlines is about to get a lot better Bloomberg

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Fuel prices at a gas station in Seattle, March 9.

The U.S. can’t make enough fuel and there’s no fix in sight Bloomberg From record gasoline prices to higher airfares to fears of diesel rationing ahead, America’s runaway energy market is disquieting both U.S. travelers and the wider economy. But the chief driver isn’t high crude prices or even the rebound in demand: It’s simply too few refineries turning oil into usable fuels. More than 1 million barrels a day of the country’s oil refining capacity – or about 5% overall – has shut since the beginning of the pandemic. Elsewhere in the world, capacity has shrunk by 2.13 million additional barrels a day, energy consultancy Turner, Mason & Co. estimates. And with no plans to bring new U.S. plants online, even though refiners are reaping record profits, the supply squeeze is only going to get worse. “We are on the razor’s edge,” said John Auers, executive vice president at Turner, Mason & Co. in Dallas. “We’re ripe for a potential supply crisis.” The dearth of refining capacity has dire implications for both U.S. consumers and global markets. At home, retail gasoline prices continue hitting new records, exacerbating some of the worst inflation American households have ever seen. Meanwhile, the East Coast is on the brink of a diesel shortage that risks crippling already strained supply chains that have disrupted the flow of everything from grocery staples to construction supplies in the last two years. The factors fueling the refining shortage won’t surprise anyone: With demand for gasoline and jet fuel practically vanishing during the height of the pandemic, companies closed some of their least profitable crude-processing plants permanently. Some of those plants had been affected by fires, explosions and hurricanes and were just too expensive to fix, especially because an eventual transition toward cleaner energy makes their long-term business model unprofitable and makes

them less likely to attract buyers. By the end of 2023, as much as 1.69 million barrels of U.S. capacity is targeted for closure compared to 2019 levels, according to Turner, Mason & Co. At the same time American refining shrinks, the war in Ukraine has made the global divergence between supply and demand even more acute. With major producer Russia essentially cut off from global markets, the U.S. is now supplying more of the world’s fuel with an evershrinking fleet of plants. Europe has been seeking alternatives to Russian diesel since the war began, while fuel demand in Latin America, the largest buyer of U.S. refined products, is strong and growing. Meanwhile, the U.S. is itself gearing up for a spike in consumption this summer. That’s setting up refiners to reap record profits this year. Valero Energy Corp. is seen generating the most cash from operations since its stock started trading in 1997, while top refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp. is expected to post its highest margins in a decade. The two companies are the second and 10th best performers, respectively, in the S&P 500 index this year as of Friday morning. In other kinds of markets, a surge of demand and shortage of supply would trigger more investment, especially with such swelling cash hordes. But the longer-term transition away from fossil fuels dims the outlook for demand, making companies unwilling to put up the billions of dollars needed to build new plants. Even resurrecting idled plants can be prohibitively costly at a time when construction and labor costs in the U.S. are booming. With California unveiling this week a roadmap to slash oil use by 91% from 2022 levels by 2045 and other places moving to limit fossil-fuel use in the decades ahead, refining companies and their investors can see the writing on the wall. “Nothing about the current

environment is promoting investments in fossil fuels,” said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Fernando Valle. “It’s a 15 to 20 year payback on most of these investments.” Phillips 66, for example, would have to spend more than $1 billion to restart its Alliance refinery in Louisiana that was shut after damage from Hurricane Ida, Bloomberg Intelligence estimates. LyondellBasell Industries has opted to shut its Houston Refinery no later than the end of 2023 over cost concerns related to keeping the 104-year-old facility running. A portion of shuttered plants are now being converted into smaller renewable-diesel facilities, including Phillips 66’s refinery in Rodeo, California, which was confirmed this week. As for selling those assets to someone who could ramp up production, no one’s buying - even as industry players are sitting on massive piles of cash. “We feel we’ve got higher returns, better uses for the capital to employ than buying a refinery that’s on the market at this point in time,” Valero Chief Executive Officer Joe Gorder said in a conference call with analysts in late April. To be sure, there could be some small-scale relief ahead. U.S. refiners ran at 90% last week, and that percentage will increase as seasonal maintenance wraps up this month. Some units can then even run 10% or 20% beyond their nameplate capacity to maximize production in the short term. But that’s a rate that can’t be sustained without risking damage. A few refineries are also focusing on debottlenecking or even adding new units inside existing facilities to boost capacity, though it’s a drop in the bucket volumewise compared to the total already lost – and it won’t come until 2023 or 2024. In short, “too much refining capacity was closed during the pandemic,” Bloomberg Intelligence’s Valle said. “Diesel shortages and the price surge are likely here to stay.”

Apple suppliers, top China chipmaker succumb to Covid-19 lockdowns Bloomberg China’s biggest chipmaker and a major iPhone supplier cut their outlooks for the second quarter, joining a growing list of manufacturers warning about the fallout from lockdowns aimed at containing the country’s worst Covid outbreak in two years. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. estimates a month-long lockdown in Shanghai could spur component shortages and logistics tangles and erase roughly 5% of its output in the second quarter. And Pegatron Corp. slashed its outlook

for notebook shipments to a decline of between 5% and 10% from the first three months-- versus previous guidance for a rise of 25% to 30%. “We are trying our best to mitigate the impact on product delivery,” SMIC Chairman Gao Yonggang told analysts on a call Friday morning. “We are still assessing the actual impact as many suppliers restart their operation.” China’s Covid Zero strategy, which relies on a playbook of closed borders, quarantines, lockdowns and mass testing, is up-ending

its giant manufacturing sector even as the rest of the world lives with Covid and opens up. The impact has been particularly keen in the eastern region around Shanghai, which is struggling to contain an outbreak. Hua Hong Semiconductor Ltd., another Shanghai-based chipmaker, also warned of potential impact from lockdowns and logistic disruptions on Thursday. But the pain for manufacturers could deepen if lockdowns persist, or if global macroeconomic uncertainty undermines demand for electronics. While factories have

been given special allowances to reopen under strict guidelines and systems, snarls in the supply chain -- from a shortage of delivery drivers to a lack of materials – continue to disrupt local operators and global giants including Tesla and Sony. Apple predicted that supply constraints in China would cost $4 billion to $8 billion in revenue during the current quarter. And despite a decline in virus cases, the lockdown is intensifying as officials chase the elusive goal of wiping out Covid in the community.

Fast, reliable Wi-Fi on a plane is as unlikely as sitting in a row with an empty seat. But the era of lost connectivity while airborne may be ending. A spate of new inflight connection deals in recent weeks, including the first aircraft contracts signed by SpaceX’s Starlink satellite unit, aim to make high-speed Wi-Fi less glitch-free over the next three years on most domestic flights operated by major U.S. carriers. The latest in-flight deal came Wednesday when Southwest Airlines said it would add a second Wi-Fi provider, Viasat Inc., for faster speeds on more than 400 new Boeing 737 Max aircraft. Airlines are racing to offer improved connection speeds and reliability as post-pandemic competition for travelers has stepped up, particularly for high-revenue premium passengers. With expanded satellite bandwidth, the airlines’ goal is to replicate the same internet experience in-flight that people have come to expect on the ground. It’s no longer an amenity just for corporate road warriors, Don Buchman, vice president of commercial mobility at California-based Viasat, said in an interview. “You need to have it – it’s kind of like serving water and coffee,” he said. Elon Musk’s Starlink became the first of several planned low-Earth orbit satellite systems to enter the aviation market last month. Hawaiian Holdings and Dallas-based JSX said they’ll offer SpaceX’s Wi-Fi product to passengers for free, though neither carrier has a definitive date for availability. Hawaiian Holdings said April 25 it plans to equip three aircraft types with Starlink, with the first planned in 2023. Other satellite-based Wi-Fi providers in the rapidly evolving space include Anuvu Inc., which provides service from its own and other satellites; Intelsat, which acquired Gogo Inc.’s commercial airline business two years ago; and OneWeb Ltd., a startup partially owned by the U.K. government that’s working on a service for aircraft. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has pitched its Starlink Wi-Fi internet product to four of the largest U.S. airlines, without success to date. It faces questions about reliability and price competitiveness, according to people familiar with the issue. Delta Air Lines said it has tested the new SpaceX service, according to a spokesman, but hasn’t publicly commented on any plans to offer it. American Airlines and Southwest also have had discussions with Musk’s company, according to people familiar with the process at each carrier. American declined to comment, while Southwest said it’s “keeping an eye on” new technology, including systems like Starlink. A SpaceX spokesman and a Starlink sales executive did not respond to messages seeking comment. The first jets likely to be fitted with Starlink’s service will be Hawaiian’s Airbus A321neos flying to the U.S. West Coast, said Avi Maniss, a senior vice president at the airline who helped to evaluate various

options before the company chose Starlink. Hawaiian avoided Wi-Fi in its fleet for many years because satellite coverage in the Pacific had been spotty, but has high hopes for the new service offered by SpaceX. “We are at one of those junctures in the industry where there’s new technology where it’s worth carriers looking at,” Maniss said. Airlines are weighing the costs and benefits of newer and smaller satellite constellations such as those operated by OneWeb and Starlink versus traditional and larger satellites in higher geostationary orbits like those of ViaSat, Intelsat and Eutelsat. Alaska Airlines has talked with SpaceX about Starlink but last month opted for Intelsat service for more than 100 new Boeing 737 Max aircraft, adding to the Intelsat/Gogo 2Ku system currently available on more than 150 jets. “For a new entrant into this market, there are certain table stakes that are required for support,” said David Scotland, product manager for inflight entertainment and connectivity at Seattlebased Alaska. “Everything that they’re doing is very impressive, there’s no denying that, and the speed at which they work is very impressive,” he said of Starlink, noting that Alaska is continuing to exchange information with SpaceX officials. Viasat is by far the largest provider, with an estimated 3,300 aircraft under contract, according to William Blair. The satellite telecommunications giant has service contracts for broadband capacity with Delta, American, United Airlines, Southwest and JetBlue Airways Corp. “ViaSat is now the main Wi-Fi provider for all the ‘Big Four’ airlines in the United States,” Louie DiPalma, a William Blair analyst, said in a note Wednesday. “While we expect that SpaceX will win new contracts, ViaSat has now locked up the most valuable global fleets.” A planned trio of new Viasat-3 satellites, with the first launching in late summer, will provide global coverage and lead to more widebody jet deals, according to Buchman. That could unlock the Holy Grail of Wi-Fi for the jet set: Fast, reliable and affordable service globally. Delta plans to have 530 of its mainline aircraft with the Viasat system by year’s end. Viasat has also won new business from startup Breeze Airways, established by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, which will install that company’s service on its new Airbus A220 aircraft. Southwest’s new Viasat deal complements existing internet service across its 737 fleet, priced at $8 per flight, which Anuvu has provided since early 2010. Formerly known as Global Eagle Entertainment before emerging from bankruptcy in 2021, Denver-based Anuvu plans to transition from its current patchwork of geostationary satellites to a new $5 billion low-Earth orbit constellation from Canadian satellite operator Telesat Corp., called Telesat Lightspeed, with worldwide coverage. That network of 188 satellites is expected to begin commercial service in 2026, three years later than planned.

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OS ANGELES — Here's a partial list of the purchases Jerrod Carmichael made over the course of the pandemic: A keyboard. A subscription to Duolingo. A chess set. Video games for the PlayStation 4. Later, after it was released, a console and video games for the PlayStation 5. And a virtual reality gaming system. "All of these lasted about a week," he said over lunch at Santa Monica's Proper Hotel. "Just think sixth-grader hobby and attention span. At some point I go, 'Hey, am I going to be the greatest of all time at this? Then I'm good bro.' I play ["Grand Theft Auto"] because at evading the cops with five stars, I think I could realistically be a top contender." The comedian, who wrapped the third and final season of his beloved NBC sitcom "The Carmichael Show" in 2017, split his time in lockdown between his home in New York, hotels in Santa Monica, various family members' houses in North Carolina and the L.A. home Bo Burnham shares with his girlfriend, "Hustlers" director Lorene Scafaria. "Bo's my best friend," said Carmichael. "In the past couple years, I've lived with Bo and Lorene probably almost like half of [the time]. I talk to Bo every day, multiple times. It's a very true friendship." In fact, Burnham directed Carmichael's critically lauded HBO special "Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel," which was released in late April. In it, the comedian comes out as gay and reveals that his name isn't actually Jerrod at all but the amalgamation of his grandfathers' names that the special is named after. (For the record, those names are Robert and Nathaniel.) Just before the pandemic, Carmichael had completed filming his directorial debut – the 2021 Sundance selection "On the Count of Three," a dark comedy about suicide in which he co-stars opposite "Girls" alum Christopher Abbott and Tiffany Haddish. That project is now playing in theaters nationwide. "[We filmed] in the Before Times, but I did reshoots in the During Time — the biblical transition period that is March 2020 until, I guess, a couple of months ago," he said. "I wonder when they knew to start A.D. They were mourning or whatever and someone was like, 'Is anybody keeping count?'" The L.A. Times caught up with Carmichael to discuss the current climate of comedy, coming out before a crowd of strangers and making a movie

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Christopher Abbott, left, as Kevin and Jerrod Carmichael as Val in “On the Count of Three.” about suicide that balances gallows humor with emotional truth. Q: "On the Count of Three" is a dark comedy about the serious subjects of depression and suicide. What made you choose it for your directorial debut? A: It felt true to where I was at that time. We had a decision to make; me, Ari [Katcher] and Ryan [Welch], the writers. Like, "Alright, what's the first film?" We had done television together and were trying to figure that out. Tonally, emotionally, it just felt right. It felt accurate. And so this was a story that they had written that I really connected with and fell in love with. Q: How did you connect to the story? A: After the fact, it's funny to talk about it with distance and reflect on it. I think my answer then would have been different than what it is now. Because now I see that period of my life as ... sometimes hard. I had reached my limit, I had kind of maxed out on my potential, I feel. And not as related to money or anything, just my way of being. I was closeted, just going through other personal things. I didn't feel like I belonged in the environment that I was in. And I know probably the big question would be, "Was I suicidal?" And I wasn't. I wasn't, thankfully. I've been with friends who've gone through that, and I've been with them in these moments that they let me into. I'm speaking cautiously about even the writers and their own personal inspiration for the material. But there was this kind of nagging sense of hopelessness that I was dealing with that the script just felt like, "Yeah, this is Val." I actually named the character after my sister who dealt with depression. Q: Did she see it? What was her reaction? A: She liked it. Her daughter's in it. Her daughter plays my daughter at the end. Spoiler alert [laughs]. Q: What made Chris Abbott the right choice to play opposite you? A: Well, a few things. He

connected with the script, which was the most important thing. But also we connected as friends during that time, and I'm thankful for that because I think he's this incredibly talented actor. He'll kill me if he reads this, but it was like him or Shia [LaBeouf]. Someone that could have this rage. I refer to [Abbott's character] Kevin in the movie as "suburban Joker." Like I can see this guy coming from the Valley and he's of this era and it comes out in his music and certain little sparks in his lifestyle. He dyes his hair and he's, like, searching. And Chris, I think, connected with that. And having him there, both as an actor and as a friend, was good because he really ... not to sound too tender, but he held me in moments just as an actor and as a performer. He was there and very generous. I can't imagine it being anyone else. He's very funny in the film, he makes me laugh a lot. Q: Did you work with mental health professionals considering the film's sensitive nature? A: Yeah the writers did, especially. They consulted with psychiatrists and that was important to get right. To take mental health seriously and to take suicide and depression seriously and the treatment for depression and suicid[al ideation] seriously and not have it be flippant. These aren't rash decisions, it's taking it seriously. So often you really only hear about it from the survival side of it. Very few things, I think, live in that moment. Q: Do you feel like it's a hard time to be a comedian right now? A: No. Q: Really? A: Yeah, it's an exciting time. It's a profitable time. People are touring, people are doing great. Q: What are your thoughts, though, on the safety of performing stand-up right now in light of the Oscars slap and the recent Chappelle attack? A: I think a lot of people are making the decision to perform their anger, which is dangerous and unfortunate. Because, to me, that's no different than the assassinations of the '60s.

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LET THE OPPONENTS AID YOUR CAUSE There are certain suit combinations that you would prefer not to have to play yourself. In these cases, try to force an opponent to lead the suit for you. West opens with a low diamond against four spades. How should South try to get the defenders to find the heart queen for him?

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by Phillip Alder East began with a textbook preemptive opening. South wanted to take a stronger action than a simple jump to four spades, but as North was a passed hand, South decided to hope that there wasn’t a slam in their cards. West understandably let the adverse vulnerability dissuade him from sacrificing. However, five diamonds doubled would have cost only 200 points. Against this declarer, though, West was right to pass over four spades. South ruffed the diamond lead, drew trumps, cashed the heart ace and ran the heart jack. The finesse lost to the queen, and East defended perfectly, switching to the club jack. He knew to lead high when needing three tricks from the suit (and low when requiring only two winners). East-West took one heart and three clubs. Declarer played poorly. True, West was more likely than East to have the heart queen, but South didn’t need to guess. After ruffing the first diamond lead, declarer should have played a spade to the dummy, ruffed a diamond, returned to dummy with another spade and ruffed the diamond jack. Now South would have cast adrift with a club. The defenders take three tricks in the suit, but what then? After a heart lead, the guess evaporates. After a minor-suit lead, declarer ruffs in the dummy and sluffs his heart loser. In both cases, South collects his 10th trick. COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, or box. Solution, tips LET column THE OPPONENTS and computer program at AID www.sudoku.com YOUR CAUSE There are certain suit combinations that you would prefer not to have to play yourself. In these cases, try to force an opponent to lead the suit for you.

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LOCATED AT 600 Kentucky Street #517, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 600 Kentucky Street #517, Fairfield CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Presidio LLC MT Fairfield, 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/18/2022. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Bryan Hill IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION April 17, 2027. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: April 18, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000688 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054931 Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022

LOCATED AT 600 Kentucky Street #517, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 600 Kentucky Street #517, Fairfield CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Dunnhill Enterprises LLC DE Fairfield, 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/18/2022. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Bryan Hill IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION April 17, 2027. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: April 18, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000687 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054929 Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: PAIGE DANIELLE WHITE CASE NUMBER: FCS057986 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Paige Danielle White filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Paige Danielle White Proposed Name: a. Paige Danielle Greek THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: JUNE 10, 2022; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 4 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 Hall of Justice A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Fairfield Daily Republic Please file proof of publication at least 4 business days before hearing; ok to appear via zoom; zoom invite will be sent to email on file - you can use local form 9008. Date: APR 15, 2022 /s/ E. Bradley Nelson Judge of the Superior Court FILED: APR 29, 2022 DR#00054925 Published: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022

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APN: 0037-322-070 TS No: CA07000861-21-1 TO No: 210873211-CA-VOI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE (The above statement is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(1). The Summary will be provided to Trustor(s) and/or vested owner(s) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(2).) YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED April 23, 2013. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On June 8, 2022 at 09:30 AM, at Santa Clara Street entrance to the City Hall, 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on April 30, 2013 as Instrument No. 201300043097, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Solano County, California, executed by CHRIS D FORTIN, A SINGLE MAN, as Trustor(s), in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, as nominee for MORTGAGE CAPITAL ASSOCIATES, INC. as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 369 SILK OAK DR, SUISUN CITY, CA 94585-3820 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $179,955.09 (Estimated). However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property. Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call In Source Logic at 702659-7766 for information regarding the Trustee's Sale or visit the Internet Website address listed below for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA07000861-21-1. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Notice to Tenant NOTICE TO TENANT FOR FORECLOSURES AFTER JANUARY 1, 2021 You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 702-659-7766, or visit this internet website www.insourcelogic.com, using the file number assigned to this case CA07000861-21-1 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Date: May 2, 2022 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA0700086121-1 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949-252-8300 TDD: 866-660 4288 By: Loan Quema, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.insourcelogic.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: In Source Logic AT 702-659-7766 Order Number 82145, Pub Dates: 5/9/2022, 5/16/2022, 5/23/2022, DAILY REPUBLIC DR#00054894 Published: May 9, 16, 23, 2022

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROBERT FRANCIS MCNAMEE Case Number: P051417 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Robert Francis McNamee A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Wanda Nordstrom in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Wanda Nordstrom be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JUNE 14, 2022 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: Scott A. Lewis, Esq. 500 Main Street Vacaville, CA 95688 707-451-4502 DR#00055041 Published: May 13, 16, 20, 2022

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APN: 0162-022-110 TS No.: 21-00868CA TSG Order No.: 210843144-CA-VOI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED NOVEMBER 23, 2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Affinia Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded December 13, 2005 as 200500191841 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Solano County, California, executed by: JEFF D. PROTTEAU, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY, as Trustor, will be sold AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER for cash (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said deed of trust in the property situated in said county and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced deed of trust. Sale Date: June 2, 2022 Sale Time: 9:30 AM Sale Location: At the Santa Clara Street entrance to the City Hall, 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 2989 ORCHID STREET, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $45,143.18 (Estimated). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, (916) 939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this internet website, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 21-00868CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (916) 939-0772, or visit this internet website www.nationwideposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case 21-00868CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www.nationwideposting.com or Call: (916) 9390772. Dated: April 20, 2022 By: Samantha Snyder Foreclosure Associate Affinia Default Services, LLC 301 E. 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Scoreboard HOCKEY NHL Playoffs First round Monday, May 2 Carolina 5, Boston 1 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 0 St. Louis 4, Minnesota 0 Los Angeles 4, Edmonton 3 Tuesday, May 3 Pitt. 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, 3 OT, Washington 4, Florida 2 Colorado 7, Nashville 2 Calgary 1, Dallas 0 Wednesday, May 4 Carolina 5, Boston 2 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 3 Minnesota 6, St. Louis 2 Edmonton 6, Los Angeles 0 Thursday, May 5 N.Y. Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 2 Florida 5, Washington 1 Colorado 2, Nashville 1, Dallas 2, Calgary 0 Friday, May 6 Boston 4, Carolina 2 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 2 Minnesota 5, St. Louis 1 Edmonton 8, Los Angeles 2 Saturday, May 7 Washington 6, Florida 1 Colorado 7, Nashville 3 Pittsburgh 7, N.Y. Rangers 4 Dallas 4, Calgary 2 Sunday, May 8 Boston 5, Carolina 2 St. Louis 5, Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 3 Los Angeles 4, Edmonton 0 Monday, May 9 Florida 3, Washington 2, OT Pittsburgh 7, N.Y. Rangers 2 Colorado 5, Nashville 3, Colorado wins 4-0 Calgary 4, Dallas 1 Tuesday, May 10

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Carolina 5, Boston 1 Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 3 St. Louis 5, Minnesota 2 Los Angeles 5, Edmonton 4, OT Wednesday, May 11 N.Y. Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 3 Florida 5, Washington 3 Calgary 3, Dallas 1 Thursday’s Games Boston 5, Carolina 2 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3, OT St. Louis 5, Minnesota 1, St. Louis wins 4-2 Edmonton 4, Los Angeles 2, tied 3-3 Friday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 3, tied 3-3 Florida 4, Washington 3, OT, Florida wins 4-2 Dallas 4, Calgary 2, tied 3-3 Saturday’s Games Carolina 3, Boston 2, Carolina wins 4-3 Tampa Bay 2, Toronto 1, Tampa Bay wins 4-3 Edmonton 2, Los Angeles 0, Edmonton wins Sunday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Rangers win Dallas at Calgary, (n)

BASKETBALL NBA Playoffs Conference semifinals Sunday, May 1 GOLDEN STATE 117, Memphis 116 Milwaukee 101, Boston 89 Monday, May 2 Miami 106, Philadelphia 92 Phoenix 121, Dallas 114 Tuesday, May 3 Memphis 106, GOLDEN STATE 101 Boston 109, Milwaukee 86 Wednesday, May 4 Miami 119, Philadelphia 103 Phoenix 129, Dallas 109

Friday, May 6 Philadelphia 99, Miami 79 Dallas 103, Phoenix 94 Saturday, May 7 GOLDEN STATE 142, Memphis 112 Milwaukee 103, Boston 101 Sunday, May 8 Dallas 111, Phoenix 101 Philadelphia 116, Miami 108 Monday, May 9 GOLDEN STATE 101, Memphis 98 Boston l16, Milwaukee 108 Tuesday, May 10 Miami 120, Philadelphia 85 Phoenix 110, Dallas 80 Wednesday, May 11 Memphis 134, GOLDEN STATE, 95 Milwaukee 110, Boston 107 Thursday’s Games Miami 99, Philadelphia 90, Miami wins 4-2 Dallas 113, Phoenix 86, tied 3-3 Friday’s Games GOLDEN STATE 110, Memphis, Golden State wins 4-2 Boston 108, Milwaukee 95, tied 3-3 Boston at Milwaukee, 4:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Boston 109, Milwaukee 81, Boston wins 4-3 Dallas 123, Phoenix 90, Dallas wins 4-3

Conference finals Tuesday’s Game Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Game Dallas at Golden State, 6 p.m. Thursday, May 19 Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 20 Dallas at Golden State, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21 Miami at Boston , 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 22 Golden State at Dallas, 6 p.m. Monday, May 23 Miami at Boston , 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24 Golden State at Dallas, 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 25 Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m., if necessary Thursday, May 26 Dallas at Golden State, 6 p.m., if necessary Friday, May 27 Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m., if necessary Saturday, May 28 Golden State at Dallas, 6 p.m., if necessary Sunday, May 29 Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m., if necessary Monday, May 30 Dallas at Golden State, 6 p.m., if necessary

BASEBALL Sunday’s Games L.A. Angels 4, OAKLAND 1 St. Louis 15, SAN FRANCISCO 6 San Diego 7, Atlanta 3 Houston 8, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 1, Cincinnati 0 Detroit 5, Baltimore 1 Seattle 8, N.Y. Mets 7 Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 0 Milwaukee 7, Miami 3 Minnesota 3, Cleveland 1 N.Y. Yankees 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Texas 7, Boston 1 Kansas City 8, Colorado 7 Chicago Cubs 3, Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers 5, Philadelphia 4 Monday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Minnesota at OAKLAND, 6:40 p.m. Detroit at Tampa Bay, 3:40 p.m. Washington at Miami, 3:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Houston at Boston, 4:10 p.m. St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 4:40 p.m. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 4:40 p.m. L.A. Angels at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Minnesota at OAKLAND, 6:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, first game, 11:10 a.m. Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, second game, 4:10 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, first game, 12:10 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, second game, 7:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m. Detroit at Tampa Bay, 3:40 p.m. Washington at Miami, 3:40 p.m. San Diego at Philadelphia, 3:45 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Houston at Boston, 4:10 p.m. St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 4:40 p.m. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 4:40 p.m. L.A. Angels at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

CALENDAR Monday’s TV sports Baseball MLB •Houston at Boston OR St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, MLB, 4 p.m. •San Francisco Giants at Colorado, NBCSBA, 5:30 p.m. •Minnesota at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m. •Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, MLB, 8 p.m., joined in progress Hockey NHL Playoffs conference semifinals •Teams TBA, ESPN, 4 p.m. •Teams TBA, ESPN, 6:30 p.m. Soccer Super Lig •Galatasaray vs. Adana Demirspor, BEIN, 8:55 a.m. Premier League •Newcastle vs. Arsenal, USA, 11 a.m. Tennis •Courtside Live, ATP Lyon, WTA Strasbourg, WTA Rabat, early rounds; Roland Garros qualifying, Round 1, TENNIS, 1 and 3 a.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Baseball College •Kansas State at Virginia Tech, ACC, 4 p.m. •Florida State at Florida, SEC, 4 p.m. MLB •Houston at Boston, TBS, 4 p.m. •San Francisco Giants at Colorado, NBCSBA, 5:30 p.m. •Minnesota at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m. •Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, Game 2, MLB, 7 p.m. Basketball NBA •Draft Lottery, ESPN, 5 p.m. •Conference finals, Boston at Miami, Game 1, ESPN, 5:40 p.m. WNBA •Atlanta at Indiana, FACEBOOK, 4 p.m. •Washington at Dallas, CBSSN, 5 p.m. •Phoenix at Las Vegas, CBSSN, 7 p.m. Hockey NHL Playoffs conference semifinals •Teams TBA, TNT, 4 p.m. •Teams TBA, TNT, 6:30 p.m. Soccer Copa Libertadores •Bragantino vs. Estudiantes, BEIN, 2:05 p.m. •Flamengo vs. Club Universidad Catolica, BEIN, 4:20 p.m. •Penarol vs. Cerro Porteno, BEIN, 6:30 p.m. (taped)

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The Oakland Athletics sit in the dugout as they watch the final out of their game against the Los Angeles Angels

A’s From Page B1 but remains winless since April 18. ROUGH DAY BEHIND THE DISH Plate umpire Marty Foster left the game after getting hit in the facemask a second time. Foster was hit in the sixth inning by

Giants From Page B1 coming on the second pitch he saw from Zack Littell, who relieved Rodón and allowed another homer, to Molina, the next inning. No active players in MLB have hit more homers against San Francisco than the two Giant-killers in the middle of St. Louis’ lineup. Arenado’s was the 33rd of his career; Goldschmidt his 28th. The Giants limited the duo to eight hits in 33 at-bats (.242) and only a lone RBI between them during their four-game series in San Francisco. On Sunday, they com-

a foul ball from Kevin Smith and collapsed to the ground before being helped to his feet by A’s assistant athletic trainer Brian Schulman. Foster remained in the game, but in the top of the seventh Oakland reliever Zach Jackson threw a low pitch that bounced up and hit Foster again. Second base umpire Scott Barry replaced Foster

behind the plate. NOTABLE –The A’s were credited with three sacrifice bunts, an example of first-year Oakland manager Mark Kotsay’s small-ball philosophy. It’s the first time the A’s have done that in one game since 2013. –Second baseman Tony Kemp stayed in the game after getting hit in the ribs by a pitch from Sandoval leading off the

first. . . . 3B Sheldon Neuse was rested for the first time this season. Neuse had started the previous 33 games. –LHP Kyle Logue (1-1, 1.35) faces the Twins for the second time in two weeks in the opener of a three-game series Monday. Logue has allowed two earned runs in 12 innings since being recalled from the minors on May 6.

bined to drive in five of the Cardinals’ 13 runs with four hits — two home runs — in seven at-bats. The Cardinals’ 15 runs were the most allowed by San Francisco since a 15-3 loss to the A’s in August 2020, the only other time of the Kapler era that Giants pitchers surrendered that many runs. It made for an emphatic way to lose the season series to the Cardinals, whom they have not had a .500 record against since the 2014 season. Adding insult to, well, you know, Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright held the Giants hitless for four innings, until Luis González slapped a firstpitch cutter to left field for a single. González, who

pitched in college at New Mexico, also earned the honor of the first position player to appear on the mound for the Giants this season, after the deficit widened to 14-2 in the seventh inning. Joc Pederson got the Giants on the board – their first runs in 15 innings – with a two-run homer in the sixth. Pederson had been 1-for-30 at the plate since being sidelined with a mild groin strain and hadn’t homered since April 25. Before the game, Kapler reiterated his belief in Pederson amid the slump, and just a few hours later looked prescient. “He’s here because he rakes,” Kapler said. “Every time I look at him,

I think, ‘You rake.’ You know how to manage an at-bat and at any given time you could go off and hit three doubles and a home run in a twogame stretch.” After scoring 49 runs over their six-game win streak, the Giants had managed just two in their past two games, before Pujols entered in the ninth inning. They’ll try to get back on track in the hitter’s haven of Coors Field, with the first of three games to close out this trip on Monday, with lefthander Alex Wood on the mound against Rockies right-hander Antonio Senzatela, who they tagged for five runs in a 9-2 win last week.

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Tennis •Courtside Live, ATP Lyon, WTA Strasbourg, WTA Rabat, early rounds; Roland Garros qualifying, Round 1, TENNIS, 1 and 3 a.m. •Courtside Live, ATP Lyon, WTA Strasbourg, WTA Rabat, early rounds; Roland Garros qualifying, Round 2, TENNIS, 1 and 3 a.m. (Wednesday)

Warriors From Page B1 26, plays a definitive old man game that looks like it was taken out of your local church league. I’ve known Looney since the day after he was drafted in 2015. I’m still convinced he’s actually 15 years older than me (and I’m the oldest 33-year-old in this media game). Knowing this team, it was no surprise to hear the Warriors channeling their Roger Murtaugh after Friday night’s Game 6 win over Memphis. And while no one is too old for winning, unnecessary games, chasing around younger players, four-and-ahalf-hour plane rides? They’re over that. “I did not want to get back on a plane,” Green said. “It was less about playing Memphis and more about getting on a four-and-a-half-hour flight. I just didn’t want to get on. . . Brutal.” Thompson echoed the sentiment: “It’s a long flight to Memphis. We spent a lot of time at the Hyatt.” Curry called the Warriors’ four-day break over the weekend “pretty special.” He said he plans on kicking his feet up and watching both Game 7 on Sunday. I bet he falls asleep in the chair. “At our age, we’ll take all the rest we can get,” Thompson said. Are these guys in their 30s or 60s? The Warriors might not be calling this playoff run their last hurrah,

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but this core doesn’t sound like a group that has another multi-year run in them. And that’s ok. It’s not like they’re not already basketball immortals. Thompson was downright sentimental after Friday’s game: “I love playing basketball at the highest level. Our careers – we are not singers, we are not actors. We can’t do this until our elder years. So while we’re doing it, you just have to appreciate every single night because it goes really fast.” Yes, these Warriors are anything but the fresh, brash group that took the league by storm. No, along with Phoenix’s Chris Paul, they’re the last bastion of the old guard. But the Warriors are holding it down a lot better than Paul, who has fallen apart in Phoenix’s series with the Mavericks. Credit good luck, excellent conditioning, or that go-to – veteran catch-all savvy – but the Warriors are in good shape heading into the Western Conference Finals. There might be some serious miles on the beat-up pickup truck that is the Warriors – a decade together for the core three, plus five Finals runs will run up that odometer. But this postseason, it’s exactly what’s been needed. Winning in the NBA playoffs is a dirty job, after all. It’s something these kids just wouldn’t understand, but the Warriors would be more than happy to teach them.