Daily Republic: Monday, October 24, 2022

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California’s down-ballot races fierce, and costly

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More than $1 billion so far has been poured into California races –but with less than three weeks to go before voting ends, candidates for gov ernor and U.S. Senate haven’t aired a single general-election ad that touts their campaigns.

What’s soaking up all the money and atten tion is the Los Angeles mayoral race, along with sports-betting ballot measures and congres sional clashes that could determine the balance of power in Congress.

The Los Angeles television market is sat urated with ads about the ballot measures and the race between billionaire developer Rick Caruso and Rep. Karen Bass to lead the nation’s secondlargest city.

It is already the most expensive candidate

contest in city history, drawing $76 million in spending as of last month. Caruso has out spent Bass by a factor of 10, with nearly all of his spending coming out of his own pocket. Then the race was rocked by recordings of city leaders making racist comments.

“It’s definitely sucking all of the air out of the room, and that probably has the effect of freez ing everything in place,” said Democratic strate gist Paul Mitchell.

Mitchell said that the leaked conversation of Latino city and labor leaders – which included derogatory comments about a councilmem ber’s Black child as well as scheming to pre serve and expand Latino political power – could cut both ways.

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Cheney says Trump testimony wouldn’t be on live television

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WASHINGTON —

Donald Trump wouldn’t be permitted to appear live on television before the Jan. 6 committee, which has subpoenaed him to testify on his role in last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Liz Cheney said.

“He’s not going to turn this into a circus,”

Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and the com mittee’s vice chair, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “This is a far too serious set of issues.”

The committee issued the subpoena last week, also demanding exten sive records of the former president’s com munications during the

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Il Fiorello welcomes fall with milling day, Oktoberfest fun

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SUISUN VALLEY —

Olive oil lovers and novice growers alike helped to usher in fall Sunday at Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company during the annual Com munity Milling Day and Oktoberfest celebration.

Rex Barr of Vacaville brought in 1,352 pounds of olives that were close to a record for him. He said he has brought in tons of olives for milling over the past few years.

"This was about the same as the second year we did it," Barr said. "Each year is different because you have differ ent amounts of olives."

He lives on a hill with around 70 olive trees. Some are Italian olive trees.

He said he can tell

the difference between store-bought olive oil and the olive oil from Il Fiorello.

"There is a difference. Il Fiorello has got a more grassy taste with a little bite to it," he said.

Barr said he plans to bottle the milled oil and

sell it with the help of a bottling company in Suisun City.

"People love it as a gift but this is going to be too much for us to use ourselves or even for gifts," he said.

Anyone with a small number of olives can

bring the ripe olives from those trees to Il Fiorello on Community Milling Day to have them milled into extra virgin olive oil.

The olives from Com munity Milling Day are milled as one batch.

The percentage of olives each person contributes to the overall total rep resents the amount of olive oil each contributor gets to take home. The pulp and pits are reused for mulch at Il Fiorello, or sold to farmers to use as feed for animals, said Ann Sievers, coowner of Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company.

There is a per-pound price for milling but there is no minimum requirement. There is a small charge for the con tainers for the olive oil.

The end product will be

Biden reiterates he’s in good health

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden challenged voters to pick another Democrat if they have concerns about his age, while declaring himself healthy enough for a second term.

If a voter concludes “that I’m missing a beat then she should support some other Dem ocrat,” the president said in an interview segment with MSNBC’s

Jonathan Capehart that aired Sunday.

“Right now, knock on wood, I don’t want to jinx myself, I’m in good health – all of my, every thing physically about me is still function ing well. And mentally, too, so,” said Biden, who turns 80 on Nov. 20.

In a portion of the interview that aired Friday, Biden reiter ated that he intends to run again and would

wait until after the Nov. 8 midterm elec tion to decide. He said first lady Jill Biden sup ports him running for reelection in 2024, when he’ll turn 82.

While polls by CNN and the New York Times over the summer found a majority of Democrats would prefer a presiden tial candidate other than Biden in 2024, a Mar quette University Law School poll in September

found 52% of Democrats supporting a reelec tion campaign.

Biden has repeat edly said he believes he could beat former Pres ident Donald Trump in a rematch.

He told “60 Minutes” last month that he’ll make his decision about running again “within the time frame that makes sense after this next election cycle here, going into next year.”

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Ann Sievers, co-owner

Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company, pours

off by visitors for the annual

Community Milling Day and Oktobrfest celebration in Suisun Valley, Sunday.

A bin filled with olives sits ready for processing on Community Milling Day at Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company in Suisun Valley, Sunday. The day included and Oktoberfest celebration.

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Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., delivers remarks during a hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Oct. 13.

Bus-riding dog who took herself to park remembered as ‘Seattle icon’

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The most unusual passenger on Seattle public transit never rode the bus for long, just a few stops. She some times dozed during her short journeys, droop ing her head onto the laps of strangers who never seemed to mind.

Approach ing her stop, she banged on the door in anticipation.

And other riders loved her for it.

But Seat tle’s buses will no longer carry perhaps their most famous passen ger. Eclipse, the black Labbullmastiff mix who achieved fame by riding to the park alone, died Friday. She was 10.

Eclipse started getting attention in early 2015 when she slipped aboard her usual bus while her owner, Jeff Young, was finishing a cigarette, unaware she had proceeded without him, he said. Guided only by habit, she exited at the correct stop and was very much enjoying herself at the dog park when Young, relieved from his panic, found her. After that, Eclipse became a regular com muter, taking two to three solo trips to the dog park each week, looking out the window to make sure she didn’t miss her stop.

Stardom soon fol lowed. A local radio host noticed her get off the bus without an owner, which led to an on-air segment which, in turn, piqued the inter est of Seattle TV station KOMO. National media coverage followed, and the internet did the rest.

Seattle’s public trans portation system, King County Metro, quickly celebrated its newly famous pawed passen ger, making a highly

produced music video for the song “Bus Doggy Dog.” It closed with a tagline: “Get around like Eclipse. Plan your next trip.”

Young also leaned into his pet’s newfound fame, creating a publicfigure Facebook page for “Eclipse Seattle’s Bus Riding Dog” where he shared Eclipse updates with her follow ers, which on Monday num bered 122,000. In 2016, Young co-wrote a chil dren’s book titled “Dog on Board: The True Story of Eclipse, the Bus-Riding Dog.” And over the years, he and Eclipse acquired loads of swag – leashes, treats, harnesses.

“It just goes on and on and on,” Young said.

But stripped of the hoopla, their relationship at its core was that of a human and his dog – best friends, he said. Young got Eclipse when she was a 10-week-old puppy. He said they have spent all but three nights together in the nearly 11 years since.

Then on Wednesday, Young announced on Eclipse’s Facebook page that the vet had found cancerous tumors. He implored her fans to send “spare vibes” their way.

Two days later, he had bad news: Eclipse had died overnight in her sleep.

“She’s gone, and I miss her, and it really sucks,” he told The Washington Post.

King County Metro replied to Young’s announcement, offering condolences.

“Eclipse was a super sweet, world-famous, bus riding dog and true Seattle icon,” the agency wrote on Twitter. “You brought joy and happi ness to everyone and showed us all that good dogs belong on the bus.”

The right way to do some things

In a very memorable (and improvised) scene from the old sitcom “All in the Family,” Archie Bunker is talking to his son-in-law Michael Stivic, aka Meat head, and sees he is putting his socks and shoes on. Archie tells him he is doing it wrong.

Michael was putting on one sock and then one shoe, but Archie says the whole world puts on a sock then a sock, and then a shoe, then the other shoe. Michael replies he likes to take care of one foot at a time, which Archie thinks is the dumbest thing he has ever heard.

Archie says if the house was on fire then Michael’s feet will end up with only one shoe. Michael coun ters that if it was raining or snowing outside, at least he could hop on one shoe.

The takeaway is that they both felt like they were doing it correctly. So that is what I want to impart today – the right way to do several things. Now, of course, these are my right ways to do things because it’s my column. You are free to do the things I cover here differently.

You will be wrong, but you may do it.

By the way, the right way to experience the “All in the Family” episode I referenced is to actu ally watch it on YouTube instead of reading my characterization.

The right way to . . .

. . . root for the Los Angeles Lakers with their old, slow, team members who will soon get hurt and miss significant time this season, is to constantly remind yourself of the fact the Lakers have 17 NBA championships, tied for the most ever. Also, have one of those Men

in Black Flashy Things™ at the ready to erase memories of yet another lost season come next June.

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. . watch “The Wizard of Oz” is to make it more special by pretending it is not available on a stream ing platform or Blu-Ray and only on one night an entire year like it was back in the day. It is acceptable to laugh and sing along with the munch kins and Dorothy and her friends about following the Yellow Brick Road, to be afraid of the trees that throw their apples, to cringe at the shriveling feet of the witch under Dorothy’s house, and of course to shriek aloud at the flying monkeys. Crying when Dorothy is initially told to go home at the Emerald City is OK, but fellas may receive a brief Man Card Suspension (it is worth it). It is also correct to feel revul sion when the snow starts to fall as Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and Toto are going through the poppy field. As I just found out recently, the special effect for snow used back in 1939 was pure asbestos.

. . . read a book is to make sure the cover says “Growing Up in Fairfield, California” or “Lost Res taurants of Fairfield, California.” “Charlotte’s Web” is acceptable, too.

. . . answer that same question about where you get your protein from since you only eat plants is to first roll your eyes, exhale loudly and then say in a matter-of-fact way that is not too condescending, “The same place that the 10 biggest land animals do.”

. . . go to Walmart is to come in with an attitude of gratitude for them affording you so many oppor tunities to work on your patience. From half the store being put in locked cabinets and no associates

with a key in sight, to not being greeted when you enter but being expected to show your receipt (I never do) when you exit like every one is a thief, my patience muscles are now Hulk-like.

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. . get along with your neigh bors is to simply remember some of the common sense lessons from that 1986 Robert Fulghum best selling book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” and cooperate. For example, I have a deal with my neighbor about the trees he has around his house and near mine. I have no trees, but we worked it out so he gets the beauty of the trees, their fruit and the shade they provide and I get to rake up all their fallen leaves every autumn.

. . . handle all those slick and shiny political mailers that arrive in your mailbox every day is to be grateful! I have been able to not only practice, but perfect my origami techniques because they arrive so frequently. I graduated from simple cranes and butterflies and can now quickly whip up jel lyfish, velociraptors, baboons, tree sloths, meerkats, wildebeests, duckbilled platypuses and pufferfish. I have gotten so good that I moved on from animals completely and just started whipping up folded paper versions of things I think of, which is how I created one of the Waving Chief Solano Statue. The hardest part was recreating his naked buttocks. I shan’t tell you which political candidate’s mailer I used.

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 books “Growing Up In Fair field, California” and “Lost Restau rants of Fairfield, California.”

When military members are deployed, this nonprofit ensures their pet has a home

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NORFOLK, Va. — Thirteen months ago, Petty Officer 2nd Class Myesha Harris said goodbye to her little French bulldog as she pre pared to deploy on the USS Harry S. Truman.

When she returned to pick him up last Satur day from a foster home, the stocky pup with blondcolored fur ran to Harris, stood on his back legs and snuggled against her neck as she bent down to greet him.

“Nipsey, I missed you so much,” said Harris, 29. “Look at you; you’re so big.”

The 2-½-year-old pup gained a few pounds since she last saw him in person, but he was in good hands while she was away. Harris found the foster home for Nipsey through a nonprofit organization named Guardian Angels for Soldier’s Pets that con nects active-duty service members, wounded war riors and veterans with temporary homes for their pets.

Harris, a Califor nia native, doesn’t have family in Hampton Roads to rely on, so she inquired about options for boarding her dog while deployed through the Navy’s Fleet and Family Support Center.

Guardian Angels, based in Texas, encour ages service members and veterans not to give their animals away when deployed by providing an affordable long-term care option, said Marge Janiak, spokeswoman for the foster program.

“It’s a blessing for people like me that love their pets but also want someone to take care of them like they would,” said Harris, who works in the carrier’s helicop ter squadron.

The foster organiza tion has about 10 to 15 pets being cared for across the country at any given time. Another dog is currently in a foster home in Wil

liamsburg, Janiak said.

A team of coordina tors screen pet owners and potential fosters before matching them up. Harris brought Nipsey to meet Deb Coon, a Vir ginia Beach resident and one of the organiza tion’s approved pet foster parents, before decid ing to leave him with her last September.

“She liked him, so I liked her, too,” Harris said.

The pet owner is usually responsible for all pet care-related expenses including food and vet visits. The foster contract is for the length of deploy ment, which can fluctuate.

The USS Harry S. Truman deployed in December and was sched uled to return in May. Its time at sea was extended due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Harris and around 5,000 other sailors finally returned to Norfolk on Sept. 12 after nine months.

Nipsey stayed with Coon, a former dog handler in the Navy, while Harris prepared for the ship’s departure, during her deployment and until she was settled back into her apartment in Chesapeake, a month after returning.

“They work with you if you need to be out longer,” Harris said. “I appre ciated that.”

Coon, 58, has a soft spot for dogs. She learned at an early age the importance of caring for them. Her mother worked as a vet erinarian technician and then owned a pet-sitting business in her home town in Ohio.

Coon served in the Navy for 24 years and is now working for a contractor. She owns a standard poodle named

Clancy and has fostered more than a handful of pups through various vol unteer programs.

Her experience with Nipsey was a success, she said. He made fast friends with Coon’s dog and had an easygoing demeanor.

Sitting in her backyard with Harris and Nipsey last Saturday afternoon, Coon started to tear up talking about her last days with the pooch.

“You’re such a good boy,” she said. “I’m going to miss you.”

Helping You... Help yourself

Tony Wade The last laugh

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After being apart for over a year, P.O. 2nd Class Myesha Harris and her 2.5-year-old male French bulldog Nipsey are reunited in Deb Coon’s backyard, Oct. 14.

‘She’s gone, and I miss her, and it really sucks.’

— Jeff Young

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FAIRFIELD — Young children are the focus Saturday as the seasonal Munchkin Masquer ade returns to the Jelly Belly Candy Company visitor center.

Festivities start at 9 a.m. and are scheduled to end at 11 a.m. Mr. Jelly Belly and Kelly the Clown will lead the Munchkin Masquerade. Costumes are encouraged. Treat bags will be available for the first 300 children.

Guests are invited to tour the factory while there. Free samples of Jelly Belly products are often available. Jelly Belly added a museum and related tour to its offer ings in 2022.

Jelly Belly is located at One Jelly Belly Lane, Fairfield. For more infor mation, visit https://www. jellybelly.com/.

Pumpkin Patch Festival continues at Railway Museum

SUISUN CITY — The Western Railway Muse um’s annual Pumpkin Patch Festival continues this weekend.

Special trains will carry passengers out to the pumpkin patch Saturday and Sunday. The museum opens at 10:30 a.m. with train departures begin ning at 11 a.m.

Pumpkins are available for purchase at the patch, as well as snacks, drinks and other homemade spe cialties. There are plenty of activities for the whole family like pumpkin chucking, a petting zoo, tractor rides, a hay fort, pony rides and more.

All proceeds benefit the Western Railway Museum (a nonprofit educational institution) and the Fair field-Suisun, Cordelia and Dixon Rotary clubs, whose members will provide lunch for the day as one of their fundraisers for the year.

Western Railway Museum’s Pumpkin Patch Festival admission is $8 to $23. Some activities may require an additional cost. The museum is located at 5848 Highway 12, Suisun City.

For more information and tickets, visit wrm. org or call 707-374-2978.

Company brings big scares to city to boost PAL program

FAIRFIELD —

What’s become a main stay attraction of the Halloween season in Fair field is open for business and ready to scare teens and adults alike.

“Terror on Texas Street,” operated by sKreamZ Haunted Attrac tions continues from 7 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through the end of the month at 2256 N. Texas St.

Proceeds benefit the Fairfield Police Activi ties League and its Career Cafe program.

Ticket prices start at $10 for students, military and EMS per sonnel. General tickets are $12 per person. No refunds or exchanges will be possible.

All participants will be required to sign a tour waiver and follow any Solano County Covid-19 health guide lines in place at the time of their visit. Parental guid ance is recommended for anyone 14 and younger.

Parents are advised not to bring children who are 10 or younger.

Each visit features enclosed spaces, special effects lighting, gore and horror effects that are designed to cause fright and nightmares.

Tickets will be avail able at the door or at skreamz.net. For more

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information, call 707330-8757 or visit the sKreamZ website.

Howl-O-Ween event returns to Andrews Park

VACAVILLE — The seventh annual HowlO-Ween Pet Parade and Costume Contest has been scheduled Saturday at Andrews Park.

The event, sponsored by the city Parks and Recreation Department, will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The park is located at 614 E. Monte Vista Ave.

Those who attend as well as participants are encouraged to dress up themselves and their dogs in costumes. Entry to the event is free. Costume contest participation costs $5 per entry.

Categories are Most Creative (dog only), Funniest Furball (dog only) and Dynamic Duo

(human/dog combo). Other activities include face-painting, bingo, a pupkin’ patch, photo opportunities and a drawing for prizes. The Solano County Sheriff’s Office will provide a K-9 demonstration.

Underdog Animal Rescue will offer dog adoptions.

All dogs brought to the park must be friendly, licensed, vaccinated and leashed.

For more informa tion, go to cityofvacaville. gov/events.

Benicia annual Halloween Costume Contest returns

BENICIA — Benicia’s Halloween tradition con tinues at 10 a.m. Saturday with the annual Hallow een Costume Contest and Sidewalk Stroll at City Park, located at First and Military streets.

Local merchants on First Street get into the spirit by offering candy and treats as children and families a they stroll First Street trick-or-treat ing. Children of all ages are welcome.

At noon on the First Street Green, located at First and East B streets, the public can enjoy

the Canine and Critter Costume Contest with prizes. Announcement of the winners of the Hal loween Costume Contest will follow.

CASA Solano schedules Haunted Mansion fundraiser

GREEN VALLEY —

CASA of Solano County will host what orga nizers describe as a spooktacular Halloween event this weekend.

Court Appointed Special Advocates will have a Haunted Mansion at 6 p.m. Saturday at Green Valley Country Club, 35 Country Club Drive in rural Fairfield.

This is a fundraiser to help support abused and neglected children in Solano County.

A haunting evening will include entertainment, dinner and an auction, all helping to provide advo cates and support for children in foster care.

Ticket informa tion can be found at casasolano.org.

Drug Take Back Day set Saturday in Fairfield, Dixon

FAIRFIELD — The Police Department will host a drive-thru Pre scription Drug Take Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot at City Hall, in front of the police station, at 1000 Webster St.

Medications must be in Ziploc-like bags or the original containers. Liquid, pills and patches will be accepted. No syringes, needles or other sharps will be accepted.

This Drug Take Back event is sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration “and pro vides the public with a safe, convenient and responsible way to dispose of expired, unused, unwanted and potentially

dangerous prescription drugs,” the city said in a statement.

No appointment is nec essary. The service is free and anonymous.

The Dixon Police Department is also taking part in the campaign. The Police Department is located at 201 W. A St. The department also has a drug take back bin avail able in the lobby during regular business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The Benicia Police Department provides a prescription drop box for the public to dispose of unwanted or expired prescription medication. It is located at the front entrance of the Police Department at 200 E. L St. and is available 24/7. The box is under surveillance at all times.

Learn more about the event at www.deatake back.com or by calling the Fairfield Police Depart ment’s Crime Prevention unit at 707-428-7789.

Highway 12 road work continues through Friday

SUISUN CITY — Caltrans crews will be working overnight through Friday on Highway 12 between Currie Road near Rio Vista and the Western Railroad Museum near Suisun City.

“Motorists should expect delays and are encouraged to plan an alternate route,” the state Department of Transpor tation said in a statement.

One-way traffic con trols will be in place during work hours, 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., Cal trans reported. The work includes filling pot holes, road paving, road striping and replacing channelizers.

For 24/7 traffic updates, visit 511.org or https:// twitter.com/511SFBay. For real-time information,

visit the Caltrans Quick Map at http://quickmap. dot.ca.gov.

Solano Land Trust schedules docent training

VACAVILLE — The Solano Land Trust will offer docent training from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at 198 Dobbins St., Suite A. This is an in-person training session. Members of the community are invited to train as volun teers to become docents. Participants will also be trained to lead guided tours throughout the year on protected properties.

To register for the training, go to solanolan dtrust.org/events.

Government meetings dot midweek calendar

Youngsters the focus of Munchkin Masquerade week

FAIRFIELD — A variety of government meetings this week will round out the month. All meetings are open to the public and some are online and in-person.

The meetings include: n Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, County Govern ment Center, 675 Texas St. Info: www.solanocounty. com/depts/bos/meetings/ videos.asp.

n Vacaville City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Hall, council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: ci.vacaville.ca.us.

n Suisun City Planning Commission, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.suisun. com/planning-commis sion.

n Fairfield-Suisun School District Governing Board, 6 p.m. Thursday, first floor boardroom at Central Office, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield. Info: https://go.boarddocs. com/ca/fsusd/Board.nsf/ Public.

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Book offers advice on what to say to people who are grieving

Dear Annie: I just read your comments to a person whose husband had Alzheim er’s and was upset by what people said to her. Earlier this year, I lost to Alzheimer’s the woman who was the center of my uni verse for 60 years. I can relate to the comments from the woman who wrote to you. But I chose to believe that everyone who comments about my loss is truly concerned about my welfare.

Some people just do not know what to say, and they may unintentionally say something that hurts. I would suggest, for those who want to ease the pain of a friend, to read the book “Don’t Sing Songs to a Heavy Heart: How to Relate to Those Who Are Suffering” by Kenneth Haugk. It helped me accept everyone’s comments as attempts to ease my pain. —

Still Miss Her

Dear Miss Her: Thank you for your letter, and I hope this book helps people find the right things to say.

I am truly sorry for your loss. I love your letter because it gives people the benefit of the doubt. So many times, we judge others harshly instead of seeing them as fundamentally good and trying their best.

Dear Annie: I’m writing in response to the letter written by “Self-Discipline,” who said that he believes he might be a sex addict.

A sudden jump in libido can be an indication of several health issues. If this person’s testosterone has risen precip itously, it is an indication that they need to see their health care provider and have their levels checked.

High levels of testoster one can cause aggravated levels of high blood pressure

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You’ve been fed a few false hoods along the way, perhaps not even worth calling out. You’ll chalk it up to people serving their own agendas without regard to the greater good. When it’s your turn, you’ll do better.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

The luck is not handed down or handed out. The luck is stum bled upon by seekers or by soldiers on the job. Keep after your project and don’t worry about good fortune; it will find you quite on its own.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

The thought may cross your mind that if you let one thing go – a token, a possession, an idea, a relationship – you’ll lose a part of yourself as well. You own what you own. Be confi dent in your ability to hold on to what you have.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

The cosmic backdrop is com plicated, and so are you.

Something felicitous is likely to form out from the unique chemistry of this day. You’ll magnetize a new friend.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

Like a blink, a thought can be involuntary or voluntary. The thoughts of the world will drift like clouds through the sky of your mind. Also, you can choose a thought and think it at will – a highly recommended and lucky choice today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

If you leave it up to the fates, they will fill in your agenda, no problem, with the call of duty at every hour and a responsi bility around every corner. The fates don’t do fun. You’ll have to take the reins; throw it into the

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

You’re enterprising and don’t need anyone else to point out where the opportunities lie. You have a sense of where the fun is and an even stronger sense for untapped opportunities and hidden resources. Discomfort is a necessary part of growth. The prickliness becomes less noticeable when a pursuit is extremely attractive. You move through it unthinkingly as the goal draws you ever-nearer.

Capricorn and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 11, 3, 33 and 14.

mix yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). If you want people to know what’s on your mind, you’ll send the signal, likely through action and not the inferior system known as words. When you don’t want people to know what you’re thinking, they won’t be able to read you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Loyalty is the quality you admire and uphold. There may be an opportunity to sac rifice a bit of it at the altar of humor and gossip, but you’ll be happier if you don’t. Ask your better angels to guide your tongue.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). “The warm, calm nest in which a bird sings recalls the songs, the charms, the pure threshold of my old home,” wrote the French poet Jean Caubere. You will be similarly

and cardiac stress. I definitely agree that this person needs to be communicating with their wife about what’s going on, but I’d like to add that when there are any extreme changes in our health, whether seemingly good or bad, they should be fol lowed up by a doctor’s visit. If they are good changes, then perhaps there is nothing wrong, but at the very least we can get a better baseline from our tests. And although this one seems like a good side effect, it could come with very extreme conse quences to health in other ways.

Thank you for listening. — A Concerned Biologist

Dear Concerned Biolo gist: Thank you for your wise feedback. Sudden changes in one’s physical body should be followed up with a doc tor’s appointment to see what is going on.

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

reminded of a childhood sense of home – how it was or how you wished it would be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You could turn a sympathetic ear, and such a compassionate reception would be welcome, although it brings but mild results. Nurturing and sympathy are soon forgotten. Inspire action instead. Bring about change.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You’re working on a problem even when you think you’re not. Unusual thoughts pop to mind, and your dreams take a highly creative turn, too. This will influence a rela tionship and where you take things next.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Remember when you had excellent financial timing? You bought low and watched the value increase, and then you took things to market at the perfect moment to make a profit. Get ready because another such moment is coming.

CELEBRITY PROFILES:

New releases starring Kevin Kline include a drama “The Diary,” written and directed by Jackie Chan, and the television series “Disclaimer.” Despite being an Oscar winner, Kline confesses, “I’ve never felt com pletely satisfied with what I’ve done. I tend to see things too critically.” Perhaps the deluge of emotional water sign energy in Kline’s natal chart has him too emotionally connected to the moment to witness his own greatness.

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THE QUEEN SHOOK HER HEAD UNHAPPILY

In 2003, Jean Chretien, then the Canadian Prime Minister, said, “We don’t blame the Queen anymore, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.”

On some bridge deals, how declarer handles a queen is the decisive factor –as in this deal from a Chicago game in Toronto.

How should South try to make four

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spades after West leads the club nine? North didn’t beat around the Rockies, immediately bidding what he thought his partner could make.

Declarer saw four potential losers: one heart, two diamonds and one club. However, given East’s opening bid, he wasn’t worried. After winning trick one with dummy’s club ace, South drew two rounds of trumps ending in the dummy. Then he took the heart finesse.

Unexpectedly, it lost. West led his second club; East won with the jack and exited with a heart. Now South had to find the diamond jack. Thinking East must have that card to get up to 12 points for his opening bid, declarer played a diamond to dummy’s king. East won with the ace and returned a diamond. South finessed his 10 and finished down one.

North was unsympathetic to his partner’s protestations about bad luck. “After drawing trumps, just lead back a club.”

“But East wins and switches to a heart. The finesse loses – ”

“What finesse? You don’t finesse. That queen is a royal red herring. You win with the ace, ruff your last club and exit in hearts. Whoever wins with the king must either lead a diamond, finding the jack for you, or concede a ruff-and-sluff, when you ruff on the board and sluff the diamond 10 from your hand.”

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What that ‘Black Adam’ end credits scene means for DC Universe

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In the trailer for “Black Adam,” Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s title character fights off all manner of obsta cles and in the end, after seemingly besting all opponents, says, “There’s no power on this planet that can stop me.”

That may be true. But he didn’t mention powers from other planets.

During the “Black Adam” end credits, Kryp ton’s very own Superman (played by Henry Cavill) makes a dra matic entrance: The Man of Steel descends after Black Adam is visited, via drone, by Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller. The pair’s confrontation with Black Adam is almost a good-cop/bad-cop sce nario, as Waller issues a not-so-veiled threat to

Black Adam not to leave his home country of Kahndaq, while Super man just wants to talk.

In the comics, Super man and Black Adam have fought mul tiple times, with varying results.

Johnson positioned Black Adam as more than a villain/antihero in someone else’s story when he pushed for the film to be a solo movie, with a separate origin from Zachary Levi’s Shazam. When he was approached a decade ago with the role, the Rock wasn’t yet the box office draw he has become, but with his world-conquer ing status and Cavill’s return shedding some light on the future of the Man of Steel, pro ducers seem to like teasing the possibility of a future clash.

Pickles Brian Crane

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Can California improve lives of Iowa’s hogs?

When politicians or the media use the term “pork,” they refer to spending taxpayers’ money on projects that benefit a par ticular person or interest group.

In California, however, the word has another connotation – a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with a 2018 ballot measure that imposes strict living condi tions for hogs whose bacon, hams, ribs and other cuts are to be sold in the state.

It may seem strange that such a law would make it all the way to the Supreme Court, but the National Pork Producers Council is press ing the issue, contending the measure violates a section of the U.S. Con stitution barring states from interfering with interstate commerce. Moreover, its outcome could have much wider effects, as the court’s members speculated during oral arguments this month.

If California can impose its own condi tions on how hogs are raised in other states, several justices mused, it could affect a wide variety of issues in which state policies differ – even abortion. And justices in both the court’s conservative majority and its liberal minority voiced concerns.

The ballot measure, Proposition 12, pro hibits California sales of pork products when the seller knows or should know the meat came from the offspring of sows that had been confined “in a cruel manner.” Among other things, the law requires sows to have at least 24 square feet of living space.

Timothy Bishop, an attorney for the pork producers and other agriculture groups, told the court “California wants to change farming methods everywhere” and there fore violates the Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, which gives the federal government the exclusive right to regu late interstate commerce. The farm groups have support on the issue from President Joe Biden’s White House.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan and others worried aloud if the California law is upheld, what she called “policy disputes” would proliferate and states would be “con stantly at each other’s throats,” passing laws in attempts to change the policies of rival states.

“A lot of policy disputes,” Kagan told Cal ifornia’s lawyer, Michael Mongan, “can be incorporated into laws like yours.” For example, she speculated, California could implement laws requiring products to be manufactured using union labor, while Texas could implement a law prohibiting the use of union labor.

“We live in a divided country,” Kagan said, in which the “balkanization” that con cerned drafters of the Constitution “is surely present.”

Conservative Justice Amy Barrett asked Mongan whether California could “pass a law that said we’re not going to buy any pork from companies that don’t require all their employees to be vaccinated or from cor porations that don’t fund gender-affirming surgeries.”

The court’s newest member, Ketanji Brown Jackson, sharply questioned Jeffrey Lamken, who represented the Humane Society of the United States, asking why Cal ifornia couldn’t address its concerns some other way, such as segregating Iowa’s pork or requiring it to be labeled as coming from conditions to which the state objects.

The pork case hit the Supreme Court at an opportune time because of the noisy feud between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and governors of Florida and Texas that’s not only been exchanges of words, but some efforts to pass conflicting laws on abortion, transgender rights and guns.

The tone of the justices’ questioning indicates they are not inclined to let Propo sition 12 stand, but it’s also possible they will avert a definitive ruling. Kagan suggested since the issue never had a lower court trial, the case could be bounced back down for such a trial

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how Cal ifornia’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.

T he Right Stuff on Oct. 10 reviewed the strength of the Con stitution that encour aged the amazing growth of America into a world power.

Other than the Bill of Rights and three amendments related to the slavery issue, no amend ments violated the human nature concepts in the Con stitution until 1913. For 150 years the Founders’ wisdom had produced the greatest growth in freedom and economy of any nation in history.

The 17th Amendment, passed in 1913, required senators to be elected by the people instead of appointment by their respective state legisla tures. It was promoted on the concept of improving voter rights that were already protected by the so-called peoples’ house. The amendment’s unintended consequence weakened the strength of state’s rights and weak ened the defense against “the emotion of the masses,” bringing America closer to being a democracy and impairing the republic.

French scholar Alexis de Toc queville predicted during America’s formation that “a democracy can only exist until the majority discov ers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.”

Far greater deviation from the clearly stated intent of the Found ers occurred in 1937 during the Great Depression. Mass unemployment was a new experience in the 1930s result ing from the stock market’s decline and the national economy’s collapse and the Industrial Revolution’s intro duction of concentrated employment.

Need for wage insurance was never

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said her party can main tain control of the House in the midterms. But for that to happen, Democrats would need to win a significant number of Republican-held seats in districts President Joe Biden carried in 2020. That’s highly unlikely.

Republicans currently hold 14 seats in districts Biden won. Winning back some of these is crucial to Democratic hopes, as they hold nine districts that Donald Trump won and are fight ing uphill battles to keep them. GOP mapmakers also drew five Demo crats into heavily GOP seats, depriving them of any realistic chance of reelec tion. (Democrats, by contrast, are only likely to pick up one GOP seat through similar gerrymandering shenanigans.)

Pelosi’s party thus needs to win at least as many Biden-GOP seats back as it loses in Trump-Democrat areas to have a prayer of holding its slim fiveseat majority.

Yet, Democrats have already effec tively conceded nearly half their potential targets to Republicans. The Democrats’ House Majority PAC and the Democratic Congressional Cam paign Committee aren’t even airing TV ads in six of those seats. Some of those should be great chances for Democratic wins, such as Califor

previously experienced, but the country was suffering on a biblical scale. Thirty states under constitutional author ity had already commenced welfare programs to address unemployment when President Franklin D. Roosevelt replaced the authorized state programs in 1935. He promoted through Congress a Social Security bill that violated Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution – implied powers, which authorizes powers only for “the forego ing (enumerated) powers and all other powers vested.”

This decision had no immediate impact on the economy because the law was initially actuarially sound. It later became unsustainable when Con gress, in response to the emotion of the masses, regularly increased entitle ments without adequately increasing tax receipts.

The long-term effect is that it opened the door to any public aid program a member of Congress could conceive. These federal social programs, controlled by the large, centralized government, though conceived with admirable desires, normally failed to consider human nature and invariably have unintended consequences – runaway costs, inef fectiveness and abuse or fraud. Each program had a well-intended objective but often an unintended consequence. Here are a few examples of trillions spent, and for what?

Look at the War on Poverty: 1966 of present. The 1966 poverty rate was 14.6% and has since varied between 11.3% and 15.1% until 2010, down to 10.5% in 2019 and up to 11.6% due

to Covid-19 in 2021. The program to date has spent $27 trillion despite lacking any improvement trend. An even greater unintended consequence cost is a destructive increase, 19651985, in illegitimate births and single parent families. What has been the cost in crime and wasted lives to fam ilies, cities, states and society of these fatherless children?

Look at Project Head Start: 1965 to present. This program’s objective was to end poverty by preparing chil dren from low-income families, ages 3-5, for elementary school. The first year enrolled 565,000 children into an eight-week federally funded summer program. Annual enrollment has exceeded 1 million children in recent years and employed 265,000 adult staff members with annual budgets of $10 billion. Several evaluations of student benefits reached similar con clusions, i.e., Head Start children had a slight benefit over their peers in ele mentary schools for the first year; thereafter, there was no observed advantage. After 45 years, Congress in 2012 ordered it first federal evalua tion; it confirmed the previous audits. No corrections were implemented and the taxpayer cost to date exceeds $180 billion. Are our elected represen tatives awake?

Next time: More dangerous pit falls from America morphing into a democracy from its originally intended republic.

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 heal earlniki2@gmail.com.

nia’s 27th District (formerly the 25th District), which Biden won by nearly 13 points. The fact that Democrats have essentially abandoned them speaks volumes.

Things don’t look much better for Democrats in the Republican-held seats they are contesting. The Cook Polit ical Report rates only two as slightly favoring Democrats: Illinois’s 13th District and Michigan’s 3rd. That latter district is the one where Dem ocrats spent big sums in the GOP primary to help a Trump-endorsed election denier beat moderate GOP Rep. Peter Meijer. The others are rated as toss-ups. That’s not good for Democrats, since one party usually wins the lion’s share of the toss-up races.

FiveThirtyEight’s analysis of these toss-up seats shows this in spades. Biden carried the Republican-held New York’s 22nd District by more than seven points. Yet polls show the Republican in the race, Brandon Wil liams, is ahead. FiveThirtyEight currently puts his chances of holding the seat at 69%. Similarly, Republican Rep. Don Bacon holds an Omahabased seat that Biden won by eight points, yet FiveThirtyEight gives him an 89% chance of returning to Con gress. The analysis shows Democrats are currently favorites in only three

of the nine Biden-GOP toss-ups, well short of where they need to be to hold the House.

This starkly shows the strong head winds Democrats face across the board. These seats have one of two characteristics: high numbers of white suburban or Hispanic voters. Polls show Democrats have been rapidly losing ground among both demographics. One main reason for this – especially in suburban areas – is inflation. It’s hard to convince mod erates who see their financial status deteriorating almost daily to give your party another chance.

That said, even parties that are wiped out in wave elections typi cally manage to win a couple of seats back. Republicans lost 40 House seats overall in 2018, for example, but they took two Democratic-held districts in Minnesota that Trump won in 2016. That is a small consolation for the overall losses they endured.

Pelosi is putting on a brave face when talking about her party’s chances in public. But she must be worried about her party’s poor showing so far in these races. Unless this unex pectedly turns around in the next two weeks, the House Democrats’ goose is cooked.

Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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Fairfield-Suisun schools provide anti-bullying workshops for students

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FAIRFIELD — Fifthand sixth-graders across the Fairfield-Suisun School District are receiv ing formal training that coincides with National Anti-Bullying Month.

The training is designed to help the fifth- and sixth-grad ers reflect on class and school culture.

It is part of the dis trict’s ongoing efforts “to implement a culture of kindness and respect and works to maintain spaces where students feel safe and welcome,” according to a press release from the school district.

The training workshop is a six-part series that is being delivered over a six-week period to each classroom. The presenter is Joe Ushishiba, a retired Fairfield police officer and school resource officer. Topics covered include how to build a caring com munity where everyone feels safe and respected, what to do if we see someone doing something wrong, self-care/reducing stress and nervousness, defining bullying and bullying behavior, and

cyberbullying.

“The goal of these workshops is to create a caring community where everyone feels safe and respected,” Ushishiba said in the press release.

“Children cannot learn effectively in an envi ronment where they feel unsafe.”

Fairfield-Suisun School District staff meet with parents, students and community members each year to discuss the strengths and areas that need improvement for the district and schools.

Participants in recent meetings have identified the need to do more

to address bullying and cyberbullying behav ior, according to the press release.

In addition to this year’s anti-bullying pre sentations, the district will continue to use STOPit Solutions, an anonymous reporting system where students and parents can report bullying incidents. The reports are sent directly to their site administrators for investi gation and action.

For more infor mation about school district’s bully preven tion resources, visit https://www.fsusd.org/ Page/17843.

Fairfield-Suisun 8th-graders find inspiration at career fair

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FAIRFIELD — More than 1,000 eighth-grade students from schools across Fairfield-Suisun School District took part in the “Inspire: Dreams Start Now!” career fair hosted by the dis trict in partnership with The Salvation Army Kroc Center and Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce.

This year’s career fair is the first time the previously annual event has occurred since October 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Inspire: Dreams Start Now!” is a career initiative designed to moti vate children to find their passion and pursue their occupational dreams within their own community. Repre sentatives from more than 20 local agencies and businesses took part in the event. These organizations put together hands-on activities and presentations to provide students with the ability to explore career interests and make con tacts within local businesses. These connections could lead to future men toring, apprenticeships, internships and employment.

“Inspire is such an important event because it activates the thought process in our youth about what they might want to pursue professionally in their adult lives,” Jared Neumayr, president and CEO of Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce, said in a press release. “Our local business community provides this engaging experience in which kids can

participate and shows them what a real job might look like. This event helps students to determine what would be a fit based on their own passions and interests.”

The career fair is designed to provide invaluable career education to partici pating students, according to the press release. Career education is an impor tant step in the pathway of a successful career. It helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to choose and pursue a career and can get students excited about their future.

Contact Lindsey Michels at lindseymi@fsusd.org if you or your orga nization would like to participate in next year’s “Inspire: Dreams Start Now!”

Hurricane forecasters monitor system in Atlantic

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Forecasters con tinue to monitor a system in the Atlantic that is expected to quickly move west toward warmer waters into early this week, the National Hurri cane Center said Sunday.

The system, which formed Friday, has low odds of developing. It was producing showers and thunderstorms, the hurri cane center said Sunday.

As of Sunday morning, it had a 10% chance of forming in the next 48 hours and a 20% chance

of forming in the next five days, the hurricane center said.

The system is located well east of Bermuda will move west-northwestward between 15 and 20 mph, the hurricane center said.

The new system came 10 days after Tropi cal Storm Karl formed and became the 11th named storm of the 2022 hurricane season. So far, there have been six tropical storms, two hur ricanes and two major hurricanes – Fiona and Ian, both of which formed in September.

Hurricane Ian was the deadliest hurricane to pass through Florida since 1935. The death toll as of last week is 112 people.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin istration predicts a total of 14 to 20 named storms and six to 10 hurricanes this season. Three to five hurricanes will be major hurricanes, meaning at least a Category 3, the agency’s August pre diction said.

The next named storm to form would be Lisa.

Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.

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Grand theft, 3000 block of HILLSIDE COURT 7:41 a.m.

Grand theft, 1300 block of SHELBY DRIVE 7:58 a.m.

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Commercial burglary, 3200 block of HARTFORD AVENUE 8:26 a.m.

Vehicle theft, 1300 block of FLINT WAY 8:49 a.m.

Vehicle burglary, 600 block of PARKER ROAD 10:01 a.m.

Vehicle theft, 900 block of EMPIRE STREET 10:06 a.m.

Grand theft, 1700 block of SAN DIEGO STREET 10:58 a.m.

Vehicle theft, 900 block of EMPIRE STREET 11:20 a.m.

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Forgery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET 12:47 p.m.

Vehicle burglary, 1700 block of VERMONT STREET 3:14 p.m.

Fight with a weapon, 3300 block of CHERRY HILLS COURT 3:18 p.m.

Vehicle burglary, 4500 block of CENTRAL WAY 3:27 p.m.

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Hit-and-run with injury, 1800 block of KIDDER AVENUE 9 p.m.

Trespassing, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE 9:07 p.m.

Drunken driver, 1600 block of PARK LANE 9:17 p.m.

Reckless driver, GOLD HILL ROAD 9:45 p.m.

Drunken driver, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 9:57 p.m.

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Pelosi: No regrets about Democrats Covid aid package

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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she doesn’t regret pandemic aid passed by Democrats to boost the U.S. economy and advised her party’s midterm candidates to focus on the Biden administration’s efforts to curb inflation.

Pelosi’s messag ing before control of both houses of Con gress is up for grabs on Nov. 8 amounted to a rejection of Republi can arguments that the American Rescue Plan has fueled the fastest U.S. inflation in 40 years. She was asked on Sunday whether she regretted measures under the plan, such as stimulus checks mailed to qualifying Americans in 2021.

“No, absolutely not, because that was nec

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election fight. Trump issued a 14-page response that didn’t say whether he’d comply. The New York Times reported that he has told aides that he favors testifying but only if it appeared on live television.

Cheney quashed that, saying Trump’s testimony would “be done with a level of rigor and seri ousness that it deserves,” possibly over “multi ple days.” The subpoena directs Trump to provide documents by Nov. 4.

A Monmouth Univer sity poll released last week concluded that most Americans favor forcing Trump to testify before the House committee, and they want the ques tioning to be conducted in

essary for people to survive,” Pelosi said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“The point is that when you reduce unemploy ment, it’s inflationary. That is a fact.”

In a letter to fellow Democratic lawmakers on Saturday, she urged her party to focus campaign ing on “kitchen table” issues and steps to reduce inflation, which is cutting into Americans’ purchas ing power ahead of the midterm elections.

Pelosi said House Democrats should tell voters what they have already done to ease the burden of inflation and what they’ll do if they return to power in the next Congress.

“The fight is not about inflation, it’s about the cost of living,” she said on Sunday.

public view.

The subpoena faces challenges both practi cal and legal, specifically largely untested ques tions about immunity for presidents in and out of office. More immedi ately, the committee’s work expires at the end of the congressional term and Republicans have said they won’t extend its mandate if they regain control of the House in the midterm elec tions on Nov. 8.

“If we were in a nation where our politics were operating the way they should, the investigation would proceed no matter what,” Cheney said. “I think that the Republi cans have made very clear that they’re not interested in getting to the bottom of what happened or holding people to account.”

Boris Johnson pulls out of UK race

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LONDON — Boris Johnson pulled out of the contest to lead the U.K.’s ruling Conserva tive Party, leaving Rishi Sunak on the brink of becoming the next prime minister.

Johnson, who left office last month after a series of scandals rocked his pre miership, said returning to No. 10 Downing Street “would simply not be the right thing to do” because of the chances it would divide the party.

“You can’t govern effectively unless you

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have a united party in Parliament,” Johnson wrote in a statement on Sunday. “The best thing I can do is not allow my nomination to go forward.”

The decision leaves Sunak facing House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt in the contest, with the former chan cellor of the exchequer having the public support of key Tory members of Parliament. Mordaunt is staying in the race, a person familiar with the matter said after Johnson’s exit.

Whoever wins will face the task of trying

to bring unity to a party that has been through months of upheaval and bruising public infight ing. Conservative support has fallen well behind the Labour opposition in polls as a brutal cost-of-liv ing squeeze and soaring inflation darkens the eco nomic outlook.

The pound extended gains after Johnson said he wouldn’t stand, ral lying as much as 1.0% to $1.1401 in early Asia trading on expecta tions that a potential Sunak premiership would be better quali fied at trying to fix the nation’s finances.

Prime Minister Liz Truss’ decision to step down triggered the contest, following weeks of turmoil with investors dumping the pound and U.K. government bonds. Her economic plan, including a big boost in borrowing to pay for tax cuts, rattled markets and turned voter sen timent further against the Tories.

The possibility that Johnson could return to office after leaving less than two months ago was the latest twist in the upheaval of British politics since the vote over Brexit.

other councilmembers, along with the recording, could point to the need for elected officials who are not part of the city’s establishment and favor Caruso, a first-time can didate who has campaigned on his outsider status.

But it could also benefit Bass, who has long worked to forge rela tionships between Black and Latino residents in South Los Angeles.

Bass is leaving Congress, cre ating one of several open House seats. Her district will remain in Democratic hands, but there are several competitive races in South ern California and the Central Valley that could impact President Joe Biden’s ability to pursue his legislative priorities.

If Democrats outperform expec tations, “it’s the battle for control of the House,” said Raphael J. Sonen shein, executive director of the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L.A.

Of the 52 California con gressional races that voters will decide in the midterm elections, 10 are in play.

“The Democrats have to do pretty well in these races to have a shot at holding the House,” Sonenshein said. “That’s more interesting to people than anything on the statewide ballot.”

Ballots landed last week in the mailboxes of California’s nearly 22 million voters. The dead line to register to vote in the Nov. 8 election is Monday. Early voting centers begin opening on Oct. 29.

Every statewide seat is on the ballot, but these contests have been eclipsed by the down-ballot races.

Abortion rights, gas prices, inflation, public safety and home lessness are dominating the discourse in congressional contests.

Of the 10 races in play, the most competitive are in districts rep resented by Republicans Mike Garcia of Santa Clarita and David Valadao of Hanford, and an open seat in the Central Valley created by the decennial redrawing of con gressional maps following the U.S. census.

Garcia and Valadao were drawn into districts viewed by Democrats as among their top pick-up oppor tunities in the nation.

Democrats have a 17.5-point registration edge over the GOP in the district represented by Valadao, one of 10 congress members who voted to impeach former President Trump. Rudy Salas, the son of a farmworker who

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is a moderate Democratic state assemblyman, is running against Valadao. Both highlight their history of bucking their parties as proof of their independence as well as their efforts on behalf of farming communities, while accusing each other of misrepresenting their leg islative records.

The Central Valley district is highly competitive because its voters are not strictly ideologi cal and are more concerned about economic issues, agriculture and water rather than social issues, according to polling.

Garcia is facing off for the third time against former Assembly woman Christy Smith in northern Los Angeles County. He empha sizes his Navy fighter pilot background and blames Dem ocrats for high gas prices and inflation, while Smith paints Garcia as an extremist who is out of touch with the district on issues such as abortion.

The one-time GOP stronghold of law enforcement and aerospace workers had been trending less conservative in recent years as it has become more diverse and younger. After redistricting, Democrats have a 12.5-percentagepoint voter registration advantage over Republicans.

A Super PAC linked to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco cancelled $435,000 in television ads in Los Angeles between Oct. 18-24, first reported by Politico last week. That includes advertising in the GarciaSmith race, though the committee still plans to spend $2.2 million to support Smith in the final weeks of the election. GOP outside groups have nearly $3 million in ads booked in this race through Nov. 8, according to AdImpact, a firm that tracks political advertising.

The independent Democratic

committee’s decision to pull ads as voters ponder ballots could be prompted by internal polling that shows weakness in a race that should be competitive, political experts say. The money could be better spent on other contests.

Another theory is that Los Ange les-area voters are so overwhelmed by the covert recording of three Los Angeles City Council members and a powerful labor leader making offensive remarks that they’re not paying attention to the election, and that the funds would be better saved for ads closer to Election Day.

Los Angeles County voters will also decide the Sheriff’s race, where incumbent Alex Villan ueva is competing against former Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna. Villanueva has come under criticism for his handling of misconduct allegations, gang-like cliques of sheriff’s deputies and other scandals.

The sheer number of Demo cratic voters in California means outcomes of statewide contests for governor, U.S. Senate, Attorney General and other top posts are a foregone conclusion. Democrats have a 23-point voter registra tion edge over Republicans as of September – 47% of the state’s reg istered voters are Democrats, 24% are Republicans. Another 23% have no party preference.

Sen. Alex Padilla and Gov. Gavin Newsom are so confident of victory that they are not stumping for themselves.

Newsom’s primary focus is a ballot measure to codify abortion rights in the state Consti tution, while Padilla plans to help Democratic candidates appeal to Latino voters in California, Arizona and Nevada.

As of his last quarterly filing, Newsom had raised more than $20 million for his reelection.

From

ready in about two weeks for pickup. It's shared among those who con tributed olives for the day's milling.

Mark Sievers, coowner of Il Fiorello, said that by 10 a.m. they had 10 large bins full of olives just waiting to be processed.

"It was a slow start today," he said. "But everyone seemed to want to come all at once."

Sievers said he enjoys the day because every one who comes by seems to be happy.

"They just seem to really enjoy the day," he said.

The state-of-the-art mill was purchased in 2012 from a company in Italy. Il Fiorello gradu

ally upgraded from older mill equipment until the company grew so much it needed a bigger mill for processing.

The mill processes the olives through a mixing and centrifuge process that separates the pits and skins from the oil.

The pits are crushed and can be used in a variety of ways.

When the olives are too watery or too dry, it will affect how much oil will be taken out of the fruit.

Thirty-four people arrived in the early morning to drop off olives. More were expected before the end of the day.

"Last year we had 8 tons of olives," Mark Sievers said.

Of course, the October Milling Day would not be complete without the annual Oktoberfest celebration.

Thirty people signed up this year to come in for a sit-down meal complete with bratwurst and sauer kraut along with German potato salad, house-made buns, beer ketchup, cor nichons pickles and soft homemade pretzels that came with house-made lavender mustard. For dessert, there was Black

Forest Cake, also home made, along with gelato. Il Fiorello also offered olive oil tasting and breakfast burritos for those who stopped in.

The next Commu nity Milling Day will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 20. For more information, call 707-864-1529.

Susan Hiland/Daily Republic Community Milling Day at Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company in Suisun Valley included an Oktoberfest luncheon, which featured brats and German potato salad homemade pretzels with lavender mustard, Sunday.

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An election worker unloads ballots at the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters satellite office at Fairplex in Pomona, Sept. 15.

Phillies finish Padres for World Series berth

By Scott lauBer

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

PHILADELPHIA —

As Bryce Harper stepped to the plate in the eighth inning Sunday, a runner on base and the Phil lies trailing by one run, Rhys Hoskins stood in the dugout and swayed, arms behind his back, occasion ally bobbing up and down on his tiptoes, a 240-pound mass of nervous energy.

All around Citizens Bank Park, everyone did some variation of the

same. The Phillies were one swing away from pos sibly winning the pennant, one strike from likely having to fly across the country for another game Monday night.

Talk about tension.

For a month, Harper has been impervious to tension. Pressure? Let somebody else worry about that. He has been the best hitter on the planet for the last three weeks, a man possessed with not allowing the Phil lies to lose.

Kings’ coach reflects on his time with the Warriors

By M adeline K enney BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO —

Former Warriors assis tant coach Mike Brown made his return to Chase Center Sunday as the first-year head coach of the Sacra mento Kings.

Before tip-off, War riors coach Steve Kerr presented Brown with his 2022 championship ring. He also delivered one to former player development coach Leandro Barbosa, who followed Brown up I-80 to Sacramento this summer as an assistant coach.

“Both guys are really special to me so I’m thrilled we’re able to do this,” Kerr said. “They both played such a big role in our organiza tion’s success.”

Brown and the Kings fell to the Warriors 130-125. Steph Curry led the Warriors with 33 points. De’Aron Fox had 26 for the Kings.

Returning to Chase Center as an oppo nent rather than being

part of the home team was a weird experience for Brown, who had no clue where the visiting coaches’ offices were.

But Brown, who served the last six years on the Warriors’ bench before moving to Sacra mento this summer, felt right at home once he entered the building and found a chocolate chip cookie and a strawberry banana smoothie with his name on them, cour tesy of Warriors chef Bert Ortiz Jr.

“This right here is what I live for,” a giddy Brown said before unwrapping the cookie and taking a bite. “The wins were great, but this right here by Chef Bert, fantastic.”

Brown’s new situa tion in Sacramento is a lot different than the one Kerr inherited when he took over the Warriors in 2014. Golden State had more veterans and had already punched its tickets to back-toback postseasons by the time Kerr arrived.

Reimer, Sharks net shutout in win over Flyers

By curtiS PaShelK a BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

Erik Karlsson and Steven Lorentz both scored and James Reimer finished with 31 saves for his first shutout of the season as the San Jose Sharks completed their weeklong road trip with a 3-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday at Wells Fargo Center.

Karlsson and Lorentz’s even-strength goals came 8:55 apart in the second period and Reimer had 17 saves in the third to help seal the victory, as the Sharks went 2-2-0 on their fourgame road trip.

The Sharks begin a six-game homestand Tuesday against the Vegas Golden Knights. They also have games next week against Toronto on Thursday and the Tampa Bay

Lightning on Saturday.

Karlsson’s goal at the 9:34 mark of the second period came just over two minutes after the Sharks’ success fully challenged a Flyers goal that would have given them a 1-0 lead. After review, it was determined that Phila delphia’s Scott Laughton had preceded the puck into the offensive zone and was offside prior to what would have been a Joel Farabee goal.

On Karlsson’s goal, he took a pass from Tomas Hertl and wired a shot past Flyers goalie Felix Sandstrom for a 1-0 Sharks lead. Karls son now has three goals and six points on the season, and with six points, is in a fiveway tie for second place in scoring among all defensemen. Buf falo’s Rasmus Dahlin has eight points in five games.

Was there any doubt he would deliver again?

So, Harper fouled off three consecutive pitches from San Diego Padres relief ace Robert Suarez. He laid off a two-strike changeup. And then he unloaded, bashing a 98.9 mph sinker into the left-field seats for a goahead two-run homer that led to a 4-3 victory and 45,485 fans losing their collective mind.

The Phillies are going to the World Series.

Really.

Go ahead and pinch yourself.

After winning 87 games in the regular season and claiming the sixth and final playoff berth in the National League, the Phillies swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the best-of-three wild-card round, blitzed the 101-win Atlanta Braves in the bestof-five divisional round, and ousted the upstart San Diego Padres, four games to one, in the best-of-seven NL Championship Series.

They did it through a

steady rain that muddied the field in the late innings. They overcame three wild pitches in the seventh inning by reliever Seranthony Domînguez, who threw three wild pitches all season long. They leaned on ace Zack Wheeler and got another two-run homer from scorching-hot Hoskins. They asked starter Ranger Suárez to close out the game when David Robert son was unable to get the last two outs.

But when it mattered

most, the Phillies turned to their $330 million man. And he didn’t disappoint. Harper never disappoints.

In 11 playoff games, Harper is batting .419 (18-for-43). He has five home runs and 11 RBIs.

The homer that slayed the Padres was his 18th hit and 11th extra-base hit, both Phillies postseason records. He has a 10-game hitting streak, tied with

49ers humbled at home by Chiefs in 44-23 blowout loss

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SANTA CLARA — Franchise royalty was in attendance, a new offensive weapon was on the field, and the 49ers emerged in the fourth quarter willing to chal lenge the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.

That comeback did not last long. The 49ers bowed out 44-23 in their increasingly humble home.

Their offense, even with new comer Christian McCaffrey forced into action, paled in comparison to the Chiefs, especially when it counted most, the fourth quarter, in a painful reminder of their Super Bowl LIV collapse three seasons ago.

The Chiefs (5-2) scored touch downs on 7-of-9 possessions before

a merciful punt and then kneel ing to expire the clock after intercepting Brock Purdy, Garop polo’s late-game sub.

The 49ers (3-4) needed serious firepower to keep pace with that, and as general manager John Lynch prefaced Friday, this team’s ills would not be solved by merely Thursday’s trade for Chris tian McCaffrey, who flashed in his 49ers’ debut, just three days after his trade from the Caro lina Panthers.

No, this loss was not as painful as the Super Bowl catastrophe, but it was reminiscent in many ways, probably because Mahomes shred ded what had been a highly touted 49ers’ defense.

The 49ers teased at a come back, only to fall to 0-27 under

coach Kyle Shanahan when trail ing by at least four points to start a fourth quarter.

Hope emerged, however, when George Kittle’s 15-yard, thirddown touchdown catch cut the 49ers’ lead to 28-23 with 14:16 to go. Nick Bosa followed up with a sack of Patrick Mahomes to open the Chiefs’ ensuing series. The 49ers’ Faithful awaited more good news.

Nothing like a Mahomes fourthquarter bomb to ruin a 49ers’ feel-good moment in the fourth quarter of a game. A 57-yard shot to Marquez Valdes-Scant ling took care of that Sunday, though not on the bewilder ment scale of Mahomes’ 44-yard completion to Tyreek Hill on third-and-15 that sparked their

Larson dominates NASCAR race at Homestead-Miami Speedway

By a lex Zietlow THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER

On Sunday, Kyle Larson made it look like it was 2021 again.

The No. 5 car ran in the front pretty much all Sunday afternoon, hugging the HomesteadMiami Speedway wall like no one else could. The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion earned two stage wins – both of which didn’t require any real sweat as he was ahead of the rest of the field by six seconds – and then, 100 laps later, he took a ceremonious trip to Victory Lane.

“Definitely the best run we’ve had all year

long,” Larson told NBC after retrieving the checkered flag after the race. “We’ve been capable of it. I feel like

many weekends we just haven’t quite been able to put it all together.”

But he was able to put everything together

Sunday – thanks in part to what he called an “amazing race car.”

“We get to race for an owner’s title in Phoenix in a couple weeks,” Larson said. “I know I can’t win the champion ship, but it means more to me to win it as a team, so we’re gonna go to Phoenix and try to get another championship.”

Sunday marked Lar son’s third victory and 17th Top 10 finish in 2022. It also marked his first victory at HomesteadMiami Speedway.

A Stage 3 restart almost changed every thing. Ryan Blaney spun

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San Francisco 49ers’ Kerry Hyder Jr. (92) pressures

Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes (15) as he passes

the ball in the second quarter of their NFL game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Sunday.

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Kyle Larson celebrates his win in the Dixie Vodka 400, at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Sunday.

Phillies,

5 tips for cooking juicy pork chops quickly

A Aron HutcHerson THE WASHINGTON POST

Agood pork chop is a thing of beauty. When handled properly – with a nicely caramelized crust encasing moist, flavorful meat –it can give even your favorite cut of steak a run for its money. But anyone who has eaten this cut of meat often has likely encoun tered at least one tough, dry chop, compelling them to try to choke it down anyway to save face or avoid food waste.

The oven is one avenue for avoiding dried-out pork chops, but that can take more time than I am willing to devote on a weeknight. When I’m hungry, cooking pork chops on the stove can get them onto my plate in minutes, but without the right care these weeknight warriors can easily turn into shoe leather.

For fast, moist and juicy pork chops on the stove, here’s what you need to know.

1. Choose the right pork chop cut

Cooking great pork chops starts at the grocery store. They come in a variety of cuts and thicknesses, but the best choice for searing in a skillet is bonein, thick cut chops. The bone slows down the cooking process ever so slightly, which can be a lifesaver for lean cuts of meat. My personal favorite cut has the curved bone on one side. These can be labeled rib or center cut chops, but porterhouse or loin chops, which have a T-shaped bone, also work for quickcooking meals. (Sirloin chops require braising.)

In terms of thickness, I find one inch to be the sweet spot. “Thin cuts easily dry out, because by the time you get the outside sufficiently seared, the meat inside is overdone,” my colleague Becky Krystal wrote, and they are better reserved for frying. “Thick cuts can be hard to get an even cook on, because you may overcook the outside before the inside can even finish.” So unless you’re confident in your cookery, save the extra-thick, double-cut pork chops for the pros.

2. Brining pork chops is not necessary

In a quest to find “the abso lute best way to make juicy pork chops,” food writer Ella Quittner wrote in Food52 that a wet brine “produced the juiciest chop, by a landslide” in a com parison against dry-brined and un-brined meat. However, when it came to a caramelized exte rior, the wet-brined chops “had the worst, because moisture is the enemy of crispiness.”

I find brining to be completely unnecessary – and I’m not alone.

“Not only is brining unneces sary for making tender pork chops, it can also introduce a lot more water to your meat, which will not improve its texture,” Joe Sevier wrote in Epicurious. Plus, brining adds to the prep time that I don’t have when I want to eat dinner imminently, so I say skip it. If you must brine, be sure to thoroughly pat the chops dry with a towel before searing them in the pan.

3. Rest the meat on the counter before cooking

Removing the pork

chops from the refrigerator 30 minutes before cooking leads to a more even cook. Admit tedly, it wasn’t very noticeable in the 1-inch-thick chops that I experimented with, but I posit it makes a larger difference for thicker chops.

A more distinct difference is that letting the meat sit a room temperature before searing reduces the overall cook time by a few of minutes. So when it’s time to prepare a meal, simply take the pork chops out of the fridge first before starting on your other dishes. Once those are well underway, you’ll have knocked the chill off the meat and you’ll get more even results.

4. Fat is key to keeping pork chops moist

The leanness of pork chops is what makes this cut a week night favorite, but it also means they can easily become tough and dry. The solution? Basting them with fat, such as butter. Add in aromatics while basting for more flavor – similar to how you might cook a steak – and then you have the added bonus of browned butter and crispy garlic and/or herbs to serve with the meat. (Yum!)

5. Don’t overcook the pork chops – and let them rest

Perhaps the most impor tant tip is not to overcook your pork chops. Growing up, I was

taught that pork must be well done to be safe to consume, but the USDA has since lowered the recommended safe cooking temperature from 160 degrees to 145 degrees with a three-min ute rest, meaning that you can enjoy a medium pork chop just as you might a medium steak. (I prefer taking pork chops out of the pan at 135 degrees before resting, loosely tented with foil, for 5 minutes where the temper ature should rise to 145 degrees, which is considered mediumrare.) If you don’t have one already, now would be the time to invest in an instant-read ther mometer, and before you know it you’ll be enjoying juicy, tender pork chops in no time.

BUTTER-BASTED PORK CHOPS

Active time: 15 minutes | Total time: 20 minutes

2 to 4 servings

Though pork chops can be fast and flavorful, they can also easily dry out.

More time-consuming dual cooking methods or brining can lead to juicy results, but there’s an easier shortcut to moist, delicious pork chops: butter.

The leanness of pork chops is what makes this cut a quick-cooking, week night warrior, but it also means they can quickly get dry and tough.

Basting the chops with fat helps negate this. Add in aromatics while basting for more flavor – similar to how you might cook a steak – and then you have the added bonus of browned butter and crispy garlic or herbs to serve with the meat. The other key is to not overcook the

chops. Contrary to what you may have learned years ago, it is per fectly safe to eat pork that isn’t well done. An instant-read thermometer is great for determining the precise temperature, but you can also go by feel of the meat with enough prac tice. (Reducing the heat once you get a nice sear on one side also lowers the risk of overcooking the meat – and burning the butter.)

Following the steps below will lead you to pork chop success, and once you’ve nailed down the technique, feel free to make this recipe your own by switching up the seasonings.

Storage Notes: Refrigerate left overs for up to 3 days.

Two (12-ounce) center-cut, bone-in pork chops, about 1-inch-thick ½ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper ¼ teaspoon fine salt 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or another neutral oil 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Crushed garlic cloves, fresh thyme sprigs, fresh rosemary sprigs and/ or fresh sage sprigs

Remove the pork chops from the refrigerator and transfer to the counter for 30 minutes (optional, see NOTE). Pat the meat dry with a clean dish towel or paper towel, and sprinkle all over with the garlic powder, pepper and salt.

In a 10 – or 12-inch stainless steel or cast-iron skillet over mediumhigh heat, heat the oil until shim mering. And the pork chops and cook, pressing with tongs occasion ally to ensure they have good

contact with the skillet, until nicely browned, 3 to 4 minutes.

Reduce the heat to medium and, using tongs, stand the chops on their side in the pan, fat side down, to render some of the fat, about 1 minute. Lay the chops down on the uncooked side; add the butter, crushed garlic cloves, fresh thyme sprigs, fresh rosemary sprigs and/ or fresh sage sprigs; and cook, regu larly tilting the skillet and using a large spoon to baste the chops with the butter, until the meat has an internal temperature of about 135 degrees, 4 to 8 minutes (see NOTE). Transfer the pork chops to a cutting board, serving platter or individual plates, cover loosely with foil and let rest for 5 minutes. (During this time, the internal tem perature of the meat should rise to 145 degrees, which is considered medium-rare.) Serve hot with the butter and the aromatics from the skillet poured over the top, if desired.

NOTE: Letting the pork chops rest at room temperature before cooking reduces the overall cooking time by a few minutes and ensures a slightly more even cook.

Nutrition information per serving (½ pork chop), based on 4 | Calories: 300; Total Fat: 16 g; Satu rated Fat: 6 g; Cholesterol: 133 mg; Sodium: 247 mg; Carbohydrates: 1 g; Dietary Fiber: 0 g; Sugar: 0 g; Protein: 38 g

This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not sub stitute for a dietitian’s or nutrition ist’s advice.

Recipe from Washington Post staff writer Aaron Hutcherson.

Haute (dog) cuisine: SF restaurant offers $75 tasting menu for canines

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A new fine-dining res taurant in San Francisco has gone to the dogs.

While some eateries may welcome customers’ furry companions during a sit-down meal, Dogue – which opened Sept. 25 in the Mission Dis trict – serves only canines.

Owner and head chef Rahmi Massarweh said Dogue may be the first

restaurant in the country to serve a tasting menu exclusively for dogs. It offers meticulously crafted pastries from its in-house “pawtisserie” and Frenchinspired courses made with locally sourced, organic ingredients.

“What we do doesn’t generally exist,” Massar weh told The Times. “My approach is as if it were a human restaurant. It’s as if you have come into my

restaurant, and the star guest is your dog.”

During the week, Dogue serves Parisian pastries and “doggucci nos” that start at $4.95.

A $75 three-course meal – which is seasonal and rotates frequently –is served only for Sunday walk-ins. Massarweh said pet owners can choose from a variety of dishes to serve their faithful com panions, such as organic

beef chuck steak with fer mented carrots and beets or green-lipped mussels with fermented carrots and wheatgrass.

Massarweh prepares and presents every dish – even the ones he cooks nightly for his dogs: Grizzly, Luna, Achilles and Sir Wellington.

Burned out from working in the restau rant industry for nearly a dozen years, Massarweh

stepped out of the kitchen in 2015 to open a doggy daycare center with his wife. He continued pre paring fresh-cooked food for his dogs daily and eventually began prepping the same portions into weekly doggy bags for his private daycare clients.

He said he asked his veterinarian for help in refining the dishes to ensure they’re complete, balanced and contain dog-

safe ingredients.

Jason Villacampa said he learned about Dogue after seeing a photo of one of the elaborate pastries on his Instagram feed. He brought his corgis, Captain and Tony, to the restau rant’s grand opening, he said, where the pups dined on chicken and chaga mushroom soup, a chickenskin waffle with charcoal flan and grass-fed steak tartare with microgreens.

Scott Suchman/The Washington Post photos

Use tongs to stand the chops on their side in the pan, fat side down, to render some of the fat.

Use a large spoon to baste the chops with the butter, until the meat has an internal temperature of about 135 degrees.

BUTTER-BASTED PORK CHOPS

The case of the vanishing deposit

Woman defrauded in catfishing check scam that reveals vulnerability of bank accounts

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Only when it was too late did Christine Settings gaard see the red flags festooning her online boyfriend.

He communicated by text messages and phone calls, never by video. He always had an excuse for why he couldn’t meet in person. And when he was supposedly called away to a remote job site, he said he couldn’t access his bank, which led to an urgent request.

He asked Settingsgaard, 37, a single mother of three who lives in Barrington, Illinois, to deposit an $85,000 check into her bank account and then wire $82,000 to his sister in Utah. When she was done, he said, he would give her a big surprise.

“Trust me, you’ll love it!!!” he wrote.

Settingsgaard got a sur prise, all right. The man she thought was Mark, an architec tural engineer from Greece, was a catfisher. His entire persona was fake, and so was the check he used to trap her in an old but durable scam.

The swindle takes advan tage of a vulnerability in America’s banking system, which sometimes makes funds from deposited checks avail able before they’re confirmed as genuine. Banks essentially advance the money to their cus tomers, but when checks turn out to be fraudulent, customers must repay what they’ve spent.

Thousands of Americans are fleeced for millions of dollars each year through various per mutations of the scam. Steve Baker, a former official in the Federal Trade Commission and investigator for the Better Busi ness Bureau, has found that job seekers, business owners and even attorneys have been stung.

But it’s the lovelorn who account for the most heart-rend ing cases. Baker said some end up taking their own lives when they learn they’ve been duped.

“There’s a lot of emotional trauma,” he said. “If you think you could tell this is a scam, you couldn’t. These are professional, organized, worldwide criminal gangs that engage in this.”

In more than 200 screen shots shared with the Tribune, Settingsgaard showed how the man spent weeks setting her up, showering her with com pliments, spinning elaborate plans for their future and court ing her with a poem he said he wrote (it was, in fact, lifted from the internet).

Barrington police are inves tigating, but Settingsgaard said her scammer, like many check fraud specialists, appears to be based overseas. Experts say such crooks are tough to catch.

“It’s a perfect storm in some ways,” said Kristofor Healey, a former international fraud investigator with the Depart ment of Homeland Security.

“There’s not really any concern that they’ll get arrested. It’s low risk, high return and they’ve gotten very adept with that.”

A convincing story

The deception began, as many deceptions do, on a dating app.

Settingsgaard came across Mark’s profile on Hinge, which showed a chestnut-haired, 30-something man with a five o’clock shadow and a disarm ing smile. She sent him a “like,” which he quickly reciprocated, and the match was made.

Hinge doesn’t perform back ground checks, relying on content moderators and auto mated review tools to search for fraud, though the company says it’s developing a face veri fication tool that will compare a selfie taken in the app to the per son’s profile photos.

But Mark’s story didn’t raise any alarms with Settingsgaard: He said he was a widower from Greece working in the U.S., and that he had a 5-yearold daughter named Hailey who was living with his sister, Kelsey, in Utah.

Their conversations soon moved off the app to texts, Face book messages and phone calls. Mark had a hard-to-place accent Settingsgaard thought sounded European, along with a caring and solicitous manner.

“He was just very kind,” Set tingsgaard said. “He actually asked questions and wanted to get to know me. I love working in my garden, and he took a general interest in it and was like, ‘Hey, I love those peonies you’ve got.’ With the amount of time and effort this person put into it, I thought there’s no way this can be fake.”

About six weeks into their virtual relationship, Mark asked for help getting money to his sister to pay for his daughter’s care. Settingsgaard said she used PayPal to send the sister $500, which Mark repaid.

Then came the big one. Mark said he had received $85,000 for a job in Houston and wanted to send that to Kelsey, too. But he couldn’t get to his bank, he said, and fretted that an earlier trans action had the IRS snooping into his account.

His solution was to mail Set tingsgaard a check, telling her to deposit it in her bank account and then wire the money to his sister. Ever the gentleman, he told her to keep $3,000, though Settingsgaard was uneasy with the arrangement.

“I’m tired and don’t under stand and feel like I’m about to get arrested for money launder ing or something,” she wrote.

“No babe lol,” he responded.

“No money laundering, you won’t be arrested, I promise.”

The check, adorned with watermarks and a hologram, looked official, though Settings gaard failed to notice it had been issued, inexplicably, by a church in Mesa, Arizona.

Following Mark’s instruc tions, she deposited the check into her bank account through an ATM instead of speaking to a teller. The next day, she said, she checked her account, saw the deposit reflected in her balance and wired the money.

The con was underway.

The weak spot

In the 1980s, Congress was awash in complaints that banks were taking too long to verify deposits, causing customers to bounce checks and rack up billions of dollars in penal ties. Lawmakers responded by passing the Expedited Funds Availability Act.

The law put a deadline on when banks must make deposited money available to customers – it now stands at five days for nonlocal checks –despite industry complaints that some checks couldn’t be authen ticated that quickly.

That’s still the case today, even though checks are turned into electronic images and pro cessed over computer lines instead of through the mail.

Aaron Klein, a Brookings Insti tution scholar and a former Treasury Department official, said numerous factors can stretch out the timeline.

“It depends on the bank, it depends on the size of the check, it depends on how much money is in the account,” he said.

And unlike debit card trans actions, which are entirely automated, checks can still face human discernment. Cory Calkins, a security consultant for Central Christian Church in Mesa, said someone at its bank was suspicious of the check issued to Settingsgaard and called the church.

“It was obviously a forgery and a fraud,” Calkins said. “We don’t write $85,000 checks.”

The bank rejected the check, but Settingsgaard had already wired the money to Kelsey’s account. She learned it hadn’t been funded only when her bank alerted her four days after the wire transfer that her account balance was a nega tive $84,334.

Settingsgaard sent a pan icked message to Mark, who feigned ignorance. He contin ued to string her along with excuses and promises until she finally got a bizarre message from his Facebook account.

“This is Fiorani, E6 repre sentative of the state Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the message said. “We hate to break this to you, Mrs. Settingsgaard, but none of the info of this person is real . . . The perpetra

tor manages in stealing People’s info, opening bank accounts in their names and using their identity for laundering acts.”

The Facebook account went dark and the fog finally lifted. It was obvious “Fiorani” was a phony, just as Mark had been before him. Settingsgaard was left with a broken heart and a big debt.

“I have no money,” she told the Tribune last month. “If it weren’t for my friends and my neighbors, I couldn’t pay my mortgage. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. And it’s the saddest for my kids because they just see me crying all the time.”

Tough to catch

Barrington police would not release their report on Settings gaard’s case, saying it was still under investigation, but Healey said local investigators face dif ficulties following money trails that can cross state lines and international boundaries.

“That path gets cold very quickly for a local detec tive,” he said.

Settingsgaard said her cat fisher appears to be based in Nigeria: Aside from the fake check, the man also persuaded her to give him access to her cellphone account, saying he wanted to pay her monthly bill, and made expensive calls origi nating from the country (he also bought himself five iPhones).

After crooks disappear with the money in a check fraud scheme, the customer who made the deposit is held responsible for the loss. A Penn sylvania law firm, taken for almost $200,000 after wiring funds from a bogus check to someone posing as a client, argued in court this year that its bank should have verified the transaction, but a judge ruled the bank hadn’t violated its deposit agreement.

It could have been worse: Morgan McCord, a New York attorney who teaches legal col leagues about check scams, said he knows of a case in which a lawyer was defrauded out of $10 million.

“That was his clients’ money and now he’s indebted to the bank,” he said. “There’s some real world consequences when people fall for these scams.”

Many customers cannot pay and the bank must eat the loss.

The industry lost $1.3 billion to check fraud in 2018, the latest year on record.

Still, there’s no push for sys temic changes to prevent the scam. One industry official said 99% of checks turn out to be good, and that there is inevita ble tension between combating fraud and ensuring that custom ers can get their money quickly.

And overall, the cost of check fraud is merely a blip in the big picture: American banks made $279 billion in profits last year, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Lauren Saunders, associate director of the National Con sumer Law Center, said banks do “a pretty abysmal job” edu cating customers about how checking accounts work. In the absence of industry or reg ulatory changes, she said, customers must rely on them selves to avoid getting burned.

“You need to be very precise with your bank and say, ‘Has the check settled?’ ” she said. “Not ‘Are the funds available?’ but ‘Has the check actually settled?’ If it’s an unusual check, I would definitely wait at least a week, and maybe two. And cer tainly anybody who asks you to deposit a check and then send the money on, that’s a red flag of a scam.”

A happy-ish ending

Settingsgaard sparred with her bank for weeks about the debt, and said it took more than $5,000 from her accounts to pay it down. But after the Tribune made inquiries, the bank sent her an email offering to forgive the $82,000, return her money and remove any negative credit reporting. A spokesperson for the bank declined to comment.

That brought a rare happy ending to a check fraud case, at least as far as Settingsgaard’s money is concerned. Her psyche is a different matter.

“The detective told me people don’t go into a bank with a gun and rob them anymore,” she said. “They don’t steal phones off a shelf because it’s just way too easy to get caught. This is how people are steal ing. It’s embarrassing, but it’s not like this was this guy’s first time – he was way too good. So if he did this to me, I can only imagine he’s doing it to some body else right now.”

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Christine Settingsgaard sits in her yard in Barrington, Ill., Sept. 14.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ heralds the return of a pop-music mastermind

Mikael Wood LOS ANGELES TIMES

Taylor Swift’s pin-sharp new album, “Midnights,” closes with a song in which the pop superstar patiently explains to someone – perhaps many millions of someones –that their intimate relationship wasn’t a product of kismet but of design.

“I laid the groundwork,” she sings over a blippy elec tronic groove, her voice edging slightly ahead of the beat, “and then just like clockwork the dominoes cascaded in a line.”

The tune is called “Master mind,” which is what Swift calls herself in the chorus, neatly rhyming the word with “now you’re mine.” And plenty of its characteristic detail can make you think she’s describing a romance. But “Mastermind” is also about Swift’s one-of-a-kind career – about the delibera tion and the ingenuity of the moves that took the 32-year-old from being a teenage country phenom to being one of the two or three biggest acts in all of music.

“No one wanted to play with me as a little kid,” she sings near the end of “Mastermind,” which might be the saddest and funniest line on an LP teeming with both kinds, “so I’ve been scheming like a criminal ever since to make them love me and make it seem effortless.”

(Take a second to savor the intricate rhythm of those words before you’ve even heard them set to music.)

Pondering the delights and the anxieties of her own celeb rity has been a hallmark of Swift’s work for years – or at least it was until 2020, when she set aside much of the auto biographical life-of-a-pop-star stuff for the ostensibly fictional character-driven narratives of her twin pandemic albums, “Folklore” and “Evermore.”

Full of songs about smalltown grifters and awkward high-school kids and unhap pily married people – even a murderer – those projects also radically recast her sound, veering away from the synthedup productions that sent her up the Hot 100 toward a rootsy, mostly acoustic vibe she formu lated with Aaron Dessner of the indie-rock band the National.

Swift suggested that the iso lation of the pandemic had set her imagination free; cer tainly, the music’s smaller scale reflected the demands of remote collaboration. Yet “Midnights,” her 10th studio full-length, returns to an earlier Swift mode in both sonic and lyrical terms: This 13-track set, which she produced with her longtime creative partner Jack Antonoff, feels like it picks up right where 2014’s “1989” and 2017’s “Reputation” left off, with slick, beat-heavy arrangements that seem dimly aware of hip-hop’s exis

tence and with lyrics peppered with juicy allusions to Swift’s various high-profile feuds and love affairs. (“Lover,” from 2019, plays even more now than it did then like a transi tional effort between phases of Swift’s career.)

It’s easy in a sense to understand why she took this approach, given that she spent 2021 rerecording her albums “Fearless” and “Red” as part of a plan to create new ver sions of the LPs she lost partial control of when her old record label changed hands. As metic ulous a diarist as pop has ever known, Swift has clearly been thinking – thinking more than usual – about her journey and about her younger selves; “Nothing New,” one of many freshly recorded outtakes she included on “Red (Taylor’s Version),” captures a woman in her 30s confronting her 20-something suspicions about how her chosen industry would treat her as she aged out of ingenue-hood.

“Midnights” opens with the steamy, R&B-adjacent “Lav ender Haze,” in which Swift laments the scrutiny she’s under as a famous person dating another famous person (in her case, the English actor Joe Alwyn); the song –co-written by and featuring background vocals from the actress Zoë Kravitz – seeks a safe space removed from a realm where her loose talk threatens to “go viral,” as she puts it. In “Anti-Hero,” over Antonoff’s buzzing synths and booming ‘80s-rock drums, she weighs the public’s harshest opinions of her, copping to a “covert narcissism” and admit ting that sometimes she feels like “a monster on the hill . . . slowly lurching toward your favorite city.”

The vicious and shimmering “Karma” seemingly takes aim

at the powerful music executive Scooter Braun, who engi neered the label purchase that spawned Swift’s rerecording enterprise: “Spiderboy, king of thieves / Weave your little webs of opacity,” she sings – heed the conspicuous “S” and “B” in “Spiderboy” – before describ ing what she views as her cosmic advantage with a series of vivid metaphors: “Karma is my boyfriend/ Karma is a god/ Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend.” The breeze in her hair on the weekend! Good night, Spiderboy.

Swift’s storytelling impulse isn’t dead on “Midnights,” which she’s said grew out of her bent toward wee-hours con templation. “Midnight Rain,” a slow and woozy number with pitch-shifted vocals, narrates a tale of a guy and a girl with differing life goals, neither of whom appear to be Swift or Alwyn; ditto “Maroon,” in which the guy and girl get drunk off her roommate’s “cheap-ass screw-top rosé.” Then there’s the pulpy, Billie Eilish-ish “Vigilante S–,” about a woman who helps a betrayed wife get revenge on her dirtbag husband.

Yet the songwriting and the vocal performances here are so strong – she’s playing with cadence and emphasizing the grain of her voice like never before – that eventually you stop caring what’s drawn directly from Swift’s real life and what’s not. It’s just a pleasure to get lost in tunes like “Labyrinth,” in which the singer explores her fear of falling in love again, and “Snow on the Beach,” a gor geous duet with Lana Del Rey with some of the album’s most affecting imagery: “My smile is like I won a contest,” Swift sings in regards to a surprising new fling, and that’s all you need

Bridge

YOU CONCEDE ONE TO COLLECT ONE

I don’t think the state does enough for artists and writers generally in the way of subsidy and tax relief and so on. I mean, as an artist and a writer, I have to be surrounded by beautiful things and beautiful people. And beautiful people cost money.

No, I didn’t write that – it was the English humorist and playwright Alan

by Phillip Alder

Bennett. However, I do agree with the first sentence!

There have been numerous beautiful bridge plays through the years. Many of these – like today’s – are simple in essence. If you find the critical defensive play here without peeking at declarer’s hand, you can justifiably feel pleased with yourself.

Sitting West, you lead the heart king against four spades. Declarer wins with dummy’s ace, plays a spade to his ace and returns a low spade, your partner following with the two and 10. You cash the heart queen and jack, everyone following suit. What would you lead now? There is a natural inclination to cash the club ace to defeat the game, but that is wrong!

Count South’s tricks. He has five spades, one heart and at most two diamonds. That’s only eight. You must make sure he doesn’t win four diamond tricks or two club tricks. So, you can afford to concede one club trick. The correct defense is to lead a low club at trick six. Whatever the lie of the cards, you must defeat the game.

Note finally that conceding a ruff-and-sluff is fatal with this layout. Declarer discards a diamond from the dummy and ruffs in hand. Then one diamond ruff in the dummy establishes the jack.

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Female exorcist faces off with a familiar demon who is not fighting fair

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Showing in local theaters this week will be “Prey for the Devil,” a tale of terror for a young nun who feels called to become an exor cist and “Call Jane,” a film about a mother who seeks to terminate a pregnancy for health reasons in 1968.

Opening nationwide are:

“Prey for the Devil,” in which Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) feels called to be an exorcist in response to the global rise in demonic posses sions. In the traditional male-dominated Catho lic Church, she finds a place at an exorcism school. Her first case is a battle for the soul of a young girl, who she believes is possessed by the same demon that tor tured her own mother. What she doesn’t realize is this possession is not what it seems. The film is rated PG-13.

“Call Jane,” a film set in 1968 Chicago, in which a suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. When Joy’s pregnancy leads to a life-threatening heart condition, she must nav igate an all-male medical establishment unwilling to terminate her preg nancy in order to save her life. Her journey for a solution leads her to Virginia (Sigourney Weaver), an indepen dent visionary fiercely committed to women’s health, and Gwen (Wunmi Mosaku), an activist who dreams of a day when all women will have access to abortion, regardless of their ability to pay. Inspired by the work they are doing, Joy

decides to join them, putting everything she loves in peril. The film is rated R.

Opening in limited release are:

“Armageddon Time,” a film written, directed and produced by James Gray, who created the movie inspired by his childhood upbringing in Queens, New York, during the 1980s. The film is rated R.

“A Chance Encoun ter,” a film about an aspiring poet and a folk musician who cross paths in the scenic, coastal town of Taormina, Sicily. Their instant chemistry sparks collaboration, leading to an unexpected, weeklong writers retreat at a beau tiful villa in the Sicilian countryside. As they immerse themselves in the local culture, they challenge each other to express their thorniest secrets, growing closer all the while. The film is not rated.

“Till,” which is based on the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-yearold son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. The film is rated PG-13.

For information on Edwards Cinemas in Fairfield, visit www.reg movies.com/theatres/ regal-edwards-fair field-imax. For Vacaville showtimes, visit www. brendentheatres.com. For Vallejo showtimes, check www.cinemark. com/theatres/ca-vallejo. More information about upcoming films is avail able at www.movie insider.com.

to conjure the precise picture in your head.

She paints another indelible picture in “Mastermind,” referring to herself as “the wind in our free-flowing sails” just after she offers a bit of context for why she’s

been so thoroughgoing in her interactions with her boyfriend (or her audi ence). “All the wisest women had to do it this way ‘cause we were born to be the pawn in every lover’s game,” she sings. Then she takes a breath and adds: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Only Swift could make a self-help slogan sound like a fairy tale.

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Monday’s TV sports Baseball

MLB Playoffs, ALCS, Houston vs. N.Y. Yankees, TBS, TBD, if necessary Football

• NFL, Chicago vs. New England, ESPN, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

• College, East Lake Cup, GOLF, Noon.

Soccer

EPL, West Ham vs. Bournemouth, USA, Noon.

Tuesday’s TV sports Baseball

• MLB Playoffs, ALCS, N.Y. Yankees at Houston, TBD, If necessary Basketball

NBA, Dallas vs. New Orleans, TNT, 4:30 p.m.

NBA, Golden State vs. Phoenix, TNT, 7 p.m.

Golf

• College, East Lake Cup, GOLF, Noon.

Hockey

NHL, Colorado vs. N.Y. Rangers, ESPN, 5 p.m.

NHL, Vegas vs. San Jose, ESPN, 7:30 p.m.

49ers

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Super Bowl comeback.

Mecole Hardman fol lowed with his third touchdown of the day for a 35-23 lead.

Things only got worse for the 49ers: a sack of Jimmy Garoppolo in the end zone for a safety, then Mahomes’ third touchdown pass of the day.

All this unfolded with Joe Montana serving as honorary captain, with Jerry Rice among other Super Bowl winners in the house, with ex-coach Jim Harbaugh part of the 2012 anniversary cele bration, and with Bryant Young receiving his Pro Football Hall of Fame ring at halftime.

The 49ers settled for field goals in a shootout against the touchdownscoring Chiefs, who entered as the NFL’s highest-scoring team.

McCaffrey, who had no official prac tice time upon his trade, still was deployed for over 20 snaps. He had 38 rushing yards (eight carries) and 24 receiving yards (two catches) entering the final minutes. And, with 3:38 remaining, Garoppolo was pulled for Purdy’s first mean ingful snaps.

Garoppolo finished 25-of-37 for 303 yards with two touchdown passes and one goalline interception that ruined a great scoring opportunity.

Mahomes’ comple tion line was much more productive: 25-of34, 423 yards, three touchdowns, and an opening-drive intercep tion by Talanoa Hufanga.

The 49ers’ defense offered little resistance, even with Bosa back from a 1 1/2-game absence and cornerback Charvarius Ward in the lineup, as both returned from groin injuries.

Mahomes was not hit until midway through the third quarter, and even on that hit by Kevin Givens, Mahomes still completed an 18-yard throw to Travis Kelce (six catches, 98 yards).

To sum up Shana han’s postgame press conference: Garoppo lo’s interception was a “real big mistake,” Jauan Jennings’ made a “really stupid penalty” on the sec ond-half kickoff return, the Chiefs’ offense had a “lot of space,” and McCaffrey made an “impressive” debut.

Shanahan called it “unacceptable” that the 49ers’ defense yielded a 34-yard, catch-andrun screen to Jerick McKinnon, who faked a block on Bosa. That set up the Chiefs’ fourth touchdown: Mahomes’ 4-yard touchdown strike to Justin Watsoncapped a 75-yard drive, and it was preceded by McKinnon was to be that multi-faceted back when the 49ers signed him in 2018, only to have a knee injury derail his three-year tenure. McCaffrey could emerge as that weapon if the 49ers’ offense bonds quicker than it’s shown through seven games.

Kansas City totaled 529 yards to the 49ers’ 444. Both teams stacked up penalties in addi tion to yards: The 49ers had 10 for 80 yards, the Chiefs eight for 84.

The 49ers knew they’d have to rally, by virtue of a 14-13 halftime deficit, but they quickly fell behind 21-13 only 1 1/2 minutes into the second half on a 16-yard touchdown run by Clyde Edwards-Helaire. That score capitalized on a 48-yard kickoff return by Isiah Pacheco and an ensuing 15-yard penalty on Jauan Jennings.

Robbie Gould’s third field goal of the day, a 49-yarder, pulled the 49ers within 21-16.

Scoreboard

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Phillies

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Lenny Dykstra in 1993 for the club record.

For weeks, Harper has walked around the club house before games and told teammates, “We ain’t losing tonight.” Then, he wills them to win. It’s uncanny. By now, it’s also entirely predictable.

“He lives for this,” said rookie shortstop Bryson Stott, who grew up around Harper in Las Vegas and has known him since he was a teenage phenom on the cover of Sports Illus trated. “Any time you have a superstar that has missed out on the postsea son a few years in a row, they just want to get back and want to be on that big stage. He’s stepping up to the big stage for us, and to kind of follow his lead is huge.”

Everything lined up for a pennant-clinching party in South Philly. Wheeler took the mound on regular rest. Domínguez and José

Brown

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Meanwhile, Brown has a younger team who has aspirations to end an NBA record 16-year playoff drought.

Kerr believes an ener getic and likable coach like Brown is the type of guy a rebuilding team like the Kings want to help move the organiza tion forward.

“He’s got a bigger job in terms of laying the foundation but I think he’s the perfect guy for

Alvarado were ready in the bullpen after not pitch ing in Game 4.

The weather even seemed to cooperate, with the rain lightening enough for an on-time start.

Wheeler dazzled, as usual and especially in this postseason. He uncorked the fastest pitch of his career, a 99.5 mph heater to Jurickson Profar in the first inning, and cracked 99 mph five times, including three consecutive pitches to Manny Machado.

But it was never going

that job,” Kerr said. “He’s so knowledgeable on both sides of the ball. His energy is infections and . . . that joy and love for the game, player will feel that.”

As for the Warriors, Kerr promoted from within to fill the void left by Brown’s departure.

Player development coach Jama Mahlalela moved to the front of the bench, and assistant coach Kenny Atkinson took over the team’s defensive coor dinator duties. He’ll be aided by assistant coach Chris DeMarco, who helped Brown last season.

“Everybody takes on

to be as easy as sending out the ace and hoping the Padres roll over. Besides, San Diego had its best pitcher on the mound, too, and Yu Darvish was up to the challenge of another duel with Wheeler.

It was a rematch of Game 1, when Wheeler blanked the Padres for seven innings and Darvish gave up little more than a pair of solo home runs to Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber. And for a while, Game 5 appeared to follow a similar script.

As Wheeler mowed

slightly different roles,” Kerr said. “We have a lot of continuity with the staff.”

Kerr and Brown have a lot of mutual admira tion and respect for one another. Kerr called they were the “perfect pair” in leading the Warriors to three NBA titles together.

“He sort of covered up for my weaknesses and complemented me really well,” Kerr said. “I just loved being around him.”

The feeling was mutual. Brown fondly looks back at his time in the Bay. He gives Kerr a lot of credit for making him a better coach, not only

Phoenix

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down the first 10 Padres batters, Hoskins opened a lead in the third inning by jumping on a getme-over 3-0 cutter from Darvish and rocketing it into the left-field seats for his third two-run homer in two games. It marked only the second time in his career that he homered on a 3-0 pitch. Rather than spiking his bat, as he unforgettably did after a homer in the divisional series against Atlanta, Hoskins helicop tered it as he screamed into the dugout.

But Darvish allowed only two more hits before being lifted in the seventh inning. The Phillies put only four more runners on base against him, none advancing beyond second. After the 10-run outburst in Game 4, the offense fell mostly silent.

The Padres tied it in the seventh inning on an RBI double by Josh Bell, then pushed across two runs on wild pitches. The planes were revving up for return trips to California.

But then Harper stepped to the plate.

from a schematic stand point but also in terms of building a winning team culture and prepar ing for games.

As for his rela tionship with Kerr moving forward?

“Hopefully it’s one where I’m kicking his ass all the time,” Brown said with a laugh. “I don’t think that will be the case right now.

“I feel like I’m 100% a better coach because of that man,” Brown continued. “He’s just remarkable and I owe him a lot. We’ll obviously con tinue to be friends.”

Regional forecast

as he exited pit road on Lap 212 out of 267, and after the field cycled out of pit road and settled for a restart after the yellow, Larson found himself in fourth. He eventually got pushed down to fifth when the race went green again — but his consis tent speed brought him back to second, nothing proving able to derail Larson’s dominance.

The nail in the pro verbial coffin came during the race’s final caution: Larson was

running second, behind Martin Truex Jr., when Truex appeared to have missed his pit stall and braked and then was subsequently bumped by Larson on pit road.

The dangerous situ ation proved harmless to everyone besides Truex – who was sub sequently buried in the field and couldn’t salvage a Top 5 finish.

“I was just going behind him,” Larson said. “He had a hard left and was hard on the brakes at the same time, and I ran right in the back of him. So I don’t know, my team said he was late turning into his stall, but I don’t know.”

David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Bryce Harper hits a two-run homer to put the Phillies up 4-3 in the eighth inning against the Padres Sunday at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.