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1,031,505 passengers boarded U.S. flights. Friday’s number of passengers was down from the 2,550,459 people who flew on U.S. flights on the same day last year, highlighting the stark contrast that the pandemic has caused. Still, the eye-opening total on Friday came days after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that “the safest way to celebrate Thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people you live with.” “People who do not currently live in your housing unit, such as See Travel, Page A7
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SUISUN VALLEY — The usual full parking lot with scurrying people to fill bins with olives was much more subdued this final community milling day of the season Sunday at Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company. “We are being extremely cautious this year,” said co-owner Ann Sievers. “Everyone is asked to stay in their car if you don’t have a mask on.” Anyone with a small number of olives can bring them on community milling day to Il Fiorello to have them milled into extra virgin olive oil. People were asked this year to make reservations ahead of time due to safety measures in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19. “With everything going on it is important to do this today, because this feels like part of a family,” Sievers said. “People need to feel that.” But it is safety first for their customers and employees. “No one is allowed inside the
visitors center,” Sievers said. “We have tables out back in our patio, which we have expanded.” Il Fiorello has added heaters along with a pellet stove for warmth and blankets that staff take back after each use to wash and sanitize. “This year hasn’t been a lot of
fun. We want people to feel they can come out here and have some fun for once,” Sievers said. Il Fiorello had 65 people drop off olives at the season’s first community milling day. Sievers said See Milling, Page A7
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As we adjust to the new normal this year . . . O bviously, the novel coronavirus pandemic has been devastating in many ways. The devastating loss of life, those who are sick, the lost jobs, etc. Today I wanted to look at ways things have changed – and maybe not always for the worse.
for way too long. I have always bristled at how when people sneeze they get a goodnatured, “God bless you.” But if that same person were to let rip some nuclear flatulence, they would be met with Tony Wade scorn – or worse. Have you ever seen a The last laugh slow-motion sneeze? It’s disgusting! It’s even more gross See-through masks when you could be blasting out What is the incentive for deadly droplets. That’s why for me to actually shave or brush years now instead of “God bless my teefers when ain’t nobody you” I have said “Ewwwwww!” gonna see my face because Y’all need to start of my mask? Well, it is high following suit. time someone developed the Transparent Mask™. It would offer all the safety benefits of regular masks and be comfortable plus show your pearly whites and close shaved chinny chin chin. I think the people who need to work on this are, ironically, razor scientists since they seemingly come out with a new and better one every three weeks.
Gesundheit One thing that an airborne virus can do is help erase cultural norms that have stood
Letter writing There is the high-tech way of dealing with the pandemic (internet video conferencing) and then there are the lowertech ones. I mean, it can get old sitting in a Zoom meeting wearing a button-down shirt, tie and jammies. An old-school and just-as-safe way to reach and touch loved ones is to break out a pen and some paper and construct, then mail, a letter to them. I know many of us are out of
practice when it comes to letter-writing. Calling someone “dear” may seem a little weird and deciding whether to end it with “sincerely,” “warm regards” or “please send money” can be difficult. I’m all in on this letter-writing thing myself and I am going super-old-school. I’m talking a papyrus scroll with a dodo feather quill pen.
Back away In a famous Seinfeld episode, Judge Reinhold played Elaine’s boyfriend who was a close talker – meaning someone who stands unusually close to others when speaking to them. There was a woman I knew who did this years ago and no matter how many nonverbal cues you gave her, she would not pick up what you were putting down. I sometimes wanted to scream, “Back up offa me!” Now coronavirus has created a built-in safety/comfort buffer from people who talk this close to you.
Virtual Thanksgiving I know that there are a lot
of people kvetching about not being able to spend Thanksgiving with their families for fear of catching or unintentionally spreading the virus. I don’t know if they have thought that through. I mean, while annual petty back-and-forth bickering with relatives who have a black belt in passive aggression can and does happen on Zoom, at least Atomic Knee Drops, Figure 4 Leg Locks and Tombstone Piledrivers can’t happen.
Virtual Christmas This one is a little trickier. For y’all that give real presents, well, I guess you can either mail them or order them online for your loved ones. This creates a real problem for the annual Wade Family Christmas, however. As many of you know, we are gag gift aficionados. Now you can get ready-made novelty items online and that is fine, but those kinds of things are like cheating. Better to find something at a thrift store or laying in the street somewhere that is hysterical. No, buying novelty gag gifts and then having to pay for ship-
Cyclist’s trek with new pal the cat’s meow The Washington Post When Dean Nicholson set off to bike from his home in Scotland to Thailand, he packed a tent, sleeping bag, stove, hammock and sound system for his music. A few months into his adventure, he had to make room for additional supplies, such as toys, a harness and a doll-size umbrella. But the new items weren’t for him. They were for his riding partner, a kitten he had rescued on his journey. While cycling through Bosnia in southeastern Europe, he noticed a tiny gray-and-white kitten running after him, meowing for him to stop. He hopped off his bike and fed her red pesto sauce from his food stash. He decided to take her to a vet in the nearest town to see if anyone had lost their pet. No one had, so he placed her in the basket attached to the front of his bike and pedaled toward the border of Montenegro. The kitten tried to escape, but not to run away: She just wanted a better seat. “She climbed up my arm and fell asleep on my shoulder behind my neck,” said Nicholson, who is 32 years old and previously worked as a welder in a fish factory. “That was the moment I thought, ‘She’s going to come around the world with me,’
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From left: Nala, a cat Dean Nicholson found while biking through Bosnia, watches hot air balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey; in Khíos, Greece, Nala and Nicholson are about to ride a ferry to Turkey; Nala stays in her basket at the train station in Baku, Turkey; Nala and Nicholson are in Saranda, Albania, during a 2019 stop on their long bike ride. because I fell in love with her instantly.” Since meeting in December 2018, the pair have visited more than 20 countries. Nala, whom Nicholson named after the lioness in “The Lion King,” even has a passport. While Nicholson pedals, Nala naps in the basket, on a bed of clothes and pillows, or hangs her paws over the side, causing strangers on the street to stare in wonder. “Having her opens up so many conversations with people,” he said. “It’s a talking point.” Nicholson and Nala spent their first winter together in Santorini, a Greek island. He found work as a kayak guide and discovered that Nala is a multisport kitty. “The first time she came kayaking, she ran and jumped on the boat and sat while I paddled,” he said. After Greece, they
biked through Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan and planned to cross into Iran. However, the tense political situation there, plus a law prohibiting cats in hotel rooms, forced them to turn back. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Nicholson parked his bike and they stayed in Hungary for 12 weeks. During their downtime, Nicholson finished his book about their escapades called “Nala’s World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride Around the Globe.” This fall they arrived in Austria, where Nicholson plans to stay until coronavirus travel restrictions are lifted. By spring, he hopes they can head to Russia and eventually Thailand. One of Nicholson’s main reasons for picking Thailand is that he really wants to drink from a coconut. Now he will have to order two.
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ping is out of the question. That could send the costs upward into the ones of dollars! I have a better idea that I am proposing right now to my brothers: I say we do a JPEG Gag Gift Virtual Wade Christmas. Instead of actually buying a crappy item we know each other doesn’t want and becomes just something else we have to store or toss after we are done laughing, I say we search Google for images of funny stuff, save it on our laptops and then screen share them on Zoom Dec. 25. You’re welcome!
Virtual New Year’s Eve Instead of being crammed into New York’s Time Square waiting for the ball to drop or at a party in the Bay Area or at a friend’s house waiting for 2020 to get the heck out of here already, because of Covid-19 I will be . . . well . . . where I always am at that time. At home. Asleep. Never mind. Reach Fairfield writer Tony Wade at toeknee weighed@gmail.com.
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DA forms task force to investigate deadly force by law enforcement investigation that cleared the officer of any wrongdoing, led to a protest at FAIRFIELD — District last week’s City Council Attorney Krishna Abrams meeting at which nine has announced the forma- people were arrested on tion of the Solano County misdemeanor allegations Major Crimes Task Force of disrupting that meeting. to investigate the “use “I am fully aware that of deadly force the Vallejo Police by law enforceDepartment and ment officers.” law enforcement “This initiain general have a tive has been a lot of work to do vision of mine for when it comes to many years now,” building trust and Abrams said in a relationships with statement that was our communities. released after her However, I believe formal announce- abrams that this task ment Nov. 12. force is a major The task force, milestone for the described in the communities and statement as one my department,” of the first of its Vallejo Police Chief kind in the state, Shawny Williams will immediately said as part of the engage after any District Attordeadly force inciney’s statement. dent. The district carli The task force attorney will have will “conduct final oversight over investigations to the findings. determine pres“Incidents ence or absence involving the use of criminal liabilof deadly force can ity on the part of be traumatic for all those involved everyone involved, in the incident. and especially The criminal for the families of investigation will those who have lost williams take precedence a loved one and to over the adminthe involved officers. With istrative investigation, this task force in place, which will be done by the every community member department where the of Solano County can have incident occurred,” the confidence that these statement said. serious investigations will The task force will be be conducted in a full, fair, comprised of a supervisindependent and impar- ing investigator from the tial manner,” Abrams said District Attorney’s Office, in the statement. as well as single detectives This task force will from the Vallejo, Vacavprovide a consistent ille and Fairfield police response to any officer’s departments, and one from use of deadly force, the the Solano County Sheriff’s statement said, “which Office. Additionally, three aims to treat the officer half-time investigators fairly and promote public from the Benicia, Dixon confidence in our criminal and Suisun City departjustice system.” ments will participate. Abrams has come “Our communities under a lot of criticism expect the very best of us. for her response to offi- I hope and many of my colcer-involved shootings in leagues hope that this task Vallejo. Family and friends force does go a long way of several of those individ- to further public trust,” uals killed have frequently Vacaville Chief John protested outside the Carli said. “That said, the county government center reason we are doing this, in downtown Fairfield isn’t for some reason that where Abrams’ office is is somehow trust was located on the fourth floor. ever eroded, but it’s everThe hiring of one of increasing that what we those Vallejo officers, need to do is to focus on Dustin Joseph, by the what it is that is going to Fairfield Police Depart- produce the best outcome ment, and a subsequent in any investigation.”
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Jehovah’s Witnesses continue global magazine campaign Daily Republic staff FAIRFIELD — Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide are distributing the issue of the Watchtower magazine titled “What Is God’s Kingdom?” throughout November. The answer to that question has captivated the attention of people from many different faiths for centuries. Jehovah’s Witnesses is distributing the magazine to the general public, business owners, local and national government officials as well as court officials. The campaign has proceeded using methods
in accordance with local health protocols. This may include distributing the magazine and making visits via electronic means. Many people pray for God’s kingdom to come. But they often wonder what that kingdom is, when it will come and what it will do. This magazine explains how the answers to these questions can readily be found in the Bible An electronic copy in more than 300 languages, including American Sign Language is available on the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses, jw.org. Look under Library, then Magazines.
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FAIRFIELD — Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz and their team plan to return to California in December to film episodes of the television series “American Pickers” – and they are looking for sites to visit. Cast and crew will employ safety measures to prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19, according to a press release to announce
the planned California filming sessions. “While we plan to be in California this December, we will continue to reschedule if conditions change for the worse,” Wolfe and Fritz said to the press release. “Regardless, we are excited to continue to reach the many collectors in the area to discuss their year’s of picking.” “American Pickers” is a documentary series that explores the world of antique “picking” on
history. The show follows Wolfe and Fritz as they hunt for America’s most valuable antiques. As they hit the backroads from coast to coast, Wolfe and Fritz are on a mission to recycle and rescue forgotten relics. Along the way, the Pickers want to meet characters with remarkable and exceptional items. The pair hope to give historically significant objects a new lease on life, while learning a thing or two about America’s past
along the way. Producers of the show are looking for leads to people’s hidden treasures. If you or someone you know has a large, private collection or accumulation of antiques that the show can spend the better part of the day looking through, send your name, phone number, location and description of the collection with photos to americanpickers @cineflix.com or call 855-OLD-RUST.
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VACAVILLE — The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing changes to the annual Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve meals program offered by the Vacaville Veterans. This year, no meals will be served at the Veterans Memorial Building, the veterans groups announced. Instead, all meals will either be delivered between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thanksgiving Day if pre-ordered, or curbside pickup will be available from 12:30 to 3 p.m. as long as food is available. The veterans groups involved are the American Legion Post 165 and the Auxiliary; American Veterans Post 1776; Disabled American Veterans Chapter 84; and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7244 and the Auxiliary. The veterans hall hours are from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday to make donations or to schedule deliveries or curbside pickup. “As usual, we will be accepting donations of turkeys, hams, rolls, desserts or money during those hours,” the announcement said. For more information, call 447-6354 or 4463582. For information or to make a donation online,
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Free flu shots available in Vallejo A free drive-up flu clinic will be available Monday. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Emmanuel Temple Apostolic Church, 900 Sixth St., Vallejo. Free clinics have been scheduled by the county in partnership with Sutter Health, Touro University California and Walgreens.
Food bank assists distribution campaign The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is teaming up with local churches to distribute food to people in need prior to Thanksgiving. Three such distributions are planned in Fairfield. They are: n 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday at City Church 242, 743 E. Tabor Ave.
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here was a rally Nov. 14 in Washington, D.C., named variously the Million MAGA March, or Stop the Steal, drawing maybe 20,000 avid Donald Trump supporters who came to protest voter fraud. Videos showed joyous participants. When the president drove by on the way to play golf, those close enough to see him through the limo window shrieked with ecstasy, reminding me of an early concert by The Beatles. No matter what facts are explained to them, when they hear from their president, they will believe. A supporter from South Carolina came to “demand the truth. I don’t understand how Jack Batson the country went to bed with Trump up by tons of votes on Election Night then days later Biden is called the winner. It doesn’t make any sense,” he said, reflecting the major widespread complaint expressed by most Trumpsters. Of course, the appearance of voter fraud is the exact objective of the president’s plan – ignore the “corrupt” results and have states with Republican legislatures send Republican electors to the Electoral College, as happened in the disputed 1876 election. Three major Midwestern swing states, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, fell in line with the president’s plan, purposefully restricting their mail-in vote counting to after Election Day so the president could claim victory on Election Night, which he did. As one Pennsylvania state senator said, “. . . our leaders . . . are coordinating with the Trump campaign, and so far Pennsylvania has done everything that the Trump campaign has asked them to do.” Later, after the mail-in ballots were counted, the president had clearly lost, but the reversal of fortune suggested fraud. A lone man near Freedom Plaza held a sign that said, “Trump is the fraud.” A protestor screamed, “Why didn’t your mother abort you? I hope you get AIDS!” Another protestor said, “We feel bad for you that you can’t see the truth.” “I feel the same way about you,” he replied. So there you have it – a preview of our future. Trump’s believers believe and many or most will still believe 10 and 20 years from now – the election was stolen. Even out of office, he will continue his monstrous lies and his followers, supported by the right-wing scream machine, will likely fight anything that a Democratic Party leader proposes. As Americans snarl endlessly at each other, Vladimir Putin will smile. Without firing a shot, he and his friend in the White House have split a great nation. It is difficult to face the fact that a president of the United States has lied about the election in a planned and calculated way in order to hold on to power like a dictator in a banana republic. But he has plotted allegations about election fraud before. He had a commission formed in 2017 to investigate alleged “missing ballots” that were to explain his embarrassing loss of the popular vote in 2016. This year, he called for poll watchers and instructed them, “When you go there, watch all the thieving and stealing and robbing they do.” Trump’s supporters will not listen to facts from normal sources. They will not hear that The New York Times called every state’s secretary of state and not even one could report any major fraud issues. They will not read the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s report, which concluded, “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, . . . changed votes, or was in any way compromised” . . . and that this election was the “most secure in American history.” They won’t even hear that old right-wing schemer Karl Rove say, “It would require a conspiracy on the scale of a James Bond movie,” to defraud a presidential election. The GOP’s top election attorney, Ben Ginsberg, said, “Proof of systematic fraud has become the Loch Ness Monster of the Republican Party – it doesn’t exist.” They won’t hear that. Former President George W. Bush wrote, “The American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair.” No, what they will hear is a modern King Lear, howling on the heath, “I won this election by a lot.” Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.
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he 2020 election camto assemble and vote in the paign is finished except State . . . expose them less to for U.S. senators in heats and ferments . . .” Georgia. An attempt may Another ramification arise to severely alter future driving the Founders was elections. To avoid that their studies confirmed that a attempt, I suggest Solano democracy has a limited life. County voters consider America is a republic and any ramifications. government official who calls The subject will be the America a democracy is ignoEarl Heal Electoral College method of rant of the Constitution or determining the presidential elecdeceiving his or her constituents. A tions as required by Article 2 of the more easily understood title is indiU.S. Constitution. rect democracy or representative As we know, Hillary Clinton democracy. The Founders guarded lost the 2016 presidential Electoral against their fear of democracy with College vote even though she won federalism, separation of powers, and the popular vote. The popular vote equality of large and small states. was Clinton 65.8 million and Donald Hillary Clinton provided a perfect Trump 63 million. The electoral vote example of the need for the Elecwas Clinton 227 and Trump 304. This toral College. She campaigned only was the fifth election in which the in densely populated states and overelectoral vote was inconsistent with looked the “flyover states.” With a the popular vote. popular vote controlling the outcome, Apparently, not everyone undera candidate could lose every vote in stands the logic of the Founders to 35 states and become president. establish the electoral system. A progressive argument is that The number of electors for each the Electoral College concept was state is the total of its members in the a concession to slaveholding states. U.S. House of Representatives and Federalist Paper No. 68 exposes that the U.S. Senate. With the exception of lie. “The mode of appointment of Maine and Nebraska, all electors vote electors . . . escaped without severe based on the majority vote of their censure . . . election of the President state, as winner take all. is well guarded.” The nation’s Founding Fathers The Constitution will never were concerned about “tyranny of be amended to remove the Electhe majority.” Federalist Paper No. toral College requirement as many 68 states, “the sense of the people states would voluntarily lose voting should operate in the choice of the strength. Because of that diffiperson to whom so important a trust culty, several states are attempting was to be confided,” (and should) to subvert the Electoral College by answer that trust by committing joining a National Popular Vote Inter“not to any pre-established body but state Compact that would direct by men chosen by the people for the their electors to vote according to the special purpose,” and “. . . electors . . . national popular vote. They believe
that when they increase strength to represent 270 electoral votes, their plan will effectively overrule the Electoral College. That seems doubtful for two reasons. Would not the voters of a state rebel if the vote for a candidate was reversed to match the national popular vote? Would not the Supreme Court overrule the Interstate Compact and direct the electors to vote in accordance with the state’s popular vote? The Interstate Compact has now been approved by Washington, D.C. and 15 states representing 196 electoral votes. Now, let’s assume the Supreme Court does not intervene. The favoring states, mostly high-density states, would work to maximize their popular vote count so as few as 10 states dictate the election of the president. This would be maximum “tyranny of the majority.” Now consider that the final vote is close and someone calls for a recount. When that happened in 2020, only Florida was requested to recount, which required 37 days and had Supreme Court involvement. With popular vote only, any recount will be required in 50 states. In 37 days? Can we explain this wisdom over ignorance of human nature to John Garamendi, Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris? Please try! Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and a member of The Right Stuff Committee of the Solano County Republican Party. Reach him at healearlniki@att.net.
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ecades of political conPower and Light Co., which flict over the fate of four serves huge swaths of several obsolete dams on the states in the Pacific NorthKlamath River reached west, in 1961. Pacific Power a turning point last week with and Light eventually changed a multiple-party, two-state its name to PacificCorp and “memorandum of understandin 2005 was acquired by biling” to remove them in hopes lionaire Buffett through of restoring salmon runs. his Berkshire Hathaway California Gov. Gavin Dan Walters investment company. Newsom, Oregon Gov. Kate Indian tribes who live Brown, heads of two Indian tribes along the river have long complained that depend on the river for susteabout the dams choking off salmon nance, and an executive of Warren runs, and their complaints finally Buffett’s PacificCorp that owns the began to register a couple of decades dams announced agreement on a ago as the dams’ federal licenses $450 million removal project. neared a 2006 expiration date. Once the Federal Energy RegPacificCorp said it would seek ulatory Commission approves, license renewals but that appeared ownership of the dams will pass from to be a political ploy, given the dams’ PacificCorp to the states and the age and relatively small output. It Klamath River Renewal Corporation was fairly obvious that threatening for demolition. renewal might persuade state and/ If everything goes according to the or federal officials to intervene with new plan, which replaces an earlier demolition money. agreement that didn’t pass federal Opposition from the tribes and muster, within a few years, the dams anti-dam environmental groups made will be gone and much-depleted runs removal of the dams a cause célèbre of salmon and other anadromous fish and, in effect, bolstered Pacificwill presumably prosper. Corp’s unspoken effort to shed four Getting rid of the Klamath River white elephants. Former Gov. Arnold dams, which today generate relatively Schwarzenegger, a close friend of small amounts of power for PacificBuffett, fostered efforts to settle Corp, is long overdue. the issue and offered a $250 million The dams were built many sweetener. The dams continued to decades ago by the California Oregon operate on year-to-year license extenPower Co. (COPCO), a local utility sions after 2006. founded in 1911 to supply residents Initially, removal was to cost and businesses in the southernmost $1 billion with a three-way financOregon counties and the northerning division. The federal government most California counties. would put up half of the money and PacificCorp and CaliforCOPCO merged with Pacific
nia’s state government would split the remainder. However, Congress balked, in large measure because of opposition from Republican members from California, so a revised plan emerged during Jerry Brown’s governorship – $450 million with California paying $250 million and PacificCorp $200 million – but it also stalled due to conflicts over ownership during the removal project. The final version announced last week maintains the cost number, but adds a $45 million contingency account to which Oregon will contribute, and settles the ownership issue. The dams should go because they serve no real purpose, devastate what were once one of the largest salmon fisheries on the West Coast and damage the native peoples who live along its banks. However, one must ask why California taxpayers should pay more than half the cost, a $250 million chunk of state water bonds whose repayment with interest will double the eventual bite. PacificCorp had virtually no chance of relicensing the dams, and would have been on the hook for their demolition. Instead, Buffett’s company and its customers in other states get a $250 million gift from California taxpayers. CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.
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Celebrate life, occasion with natural resources, not plastic Dear Annie: We all ways or consumed know plastics are pollutby wildlife. Like you, ing our oceans. I don’t I’m curious if readers have numbers, but the have additional suggestions or comments. proportion of balloons Dear Annie: I am amidst us is frightening. In my family, we a 23-year-old single released balloons to mom of three children. send love to a child lost I just had a newborn too young. Although Annie Lane son last month, and Dear Annie we did it before plastic my daughters are in statistics were the preschool and kindergarten. I live with my mom, norm, it still makes me cringe. my 18-year-old sister and my Please ask your readers to celebrate a life or occasion with 15-year-old brother. I do everynatural resources. Maybe your thing for my kids. Is it wrong for me to ask readers can even write to you for help getting them ready with some suggestions. — No or washing bottles or even More Balloons watching the baby every Dear Balloons: Thank you now and then? for your letter. While balloons I have mental health probare celebratory, you are correct lems, and my whole family that they can pose a risk to knows this, yet I get up every wildlife and the environment. two hours with the baby and The most responsible thing to still have to get up at 5 a.m. to do is to find a natural resource get everyone ready for school. for celebrations instead, such The purpose of my moving as flowers, candles or even in with my mom was to help planting a tree. If you do use me out because my husband balloons, make sure they are died. Annie, am I being entideflated and cut up and put tled, or is it OK to ask for into the trash so they don’t help? — Young Mommy end up in oceans or water-
Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19). One way to leave a party is to slip out without saying goodbye. It’s quick, but it only works well in a lively crowd. There’s something you want to get out of. You dread a long discussion. Wait for a diversion. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It would be easy to blame a new person for what the old person did. You’ll know you’re doing this because your reaction will be disproportionate to what caused it. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). If the meaning of life is to give life meaning, you’ll be most fulfilled by today’s experience. You take it all in, make sense of it and then assign significance accordingly. CANCER (June 22-July 22). In an effort to be strong, you might tell yourself that you don’t care (when you do) or that you’re fine with discomfort (that is heading toward unbearable). Get to a safe place where you can rectify your feelings. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). They say what’s not given freely is not worth having. On the other hand, some people are never going to give freely or fairly, so you have to extract your dues when you can instead of waiting for benevolent disbursement. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll find it hard to put a price on something, but you must, or you’re not going to be able to exchange it for what you need. Value is subjective, but you’ll
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by Holiday Mathis
Today’s birthday The solar journey will be marked by a snappy rhythm: actions repeated, habits established, checkpoints reached to bring your goals to hand. Your schedule and the people you see regularly form a supportive infrastructure to help you accomplish your purpose. In 2021, you will experience a mysterious and beautiful process and learn it intimately so that you may teach others. Aries and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 10, 33, 38 and 42.
find the sweet spot where a deal can be struck. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You don’t need to change anything about yourself today, though you may need to change who you’re sharing yourself with. The ones who get you will be curious, playful and delighted by your quirks. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). We constantly cast one another in roles according to what we each need in our lives. Play the role you were cast in if it suits you, but don’t believe for a minute it’s who you are. You’re the actor, not the part. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Focus and it’s yours. Get ahead of potential attention syphons. Think about what
might distract you, and then make contingency plans to prevent those outcomes. With disruptions to a minimum, you’re unstoppable. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You may say that you don’t want to get involved, but you can’t help but notice what the people you love are dealing with. Even so, resist the impulse to fix people’s problems for them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Presentation is important. Don’t leave it up to the fates. The power play is to give people something to focus on. Later, they’re going to talk. If you’re proactive, you’ll greatly influence what they talk about. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). A bit of soul searching will be in order, but it’s not a long, deep process. This is a quick check-in to see how the move you’re thinking about measures up to basic tenets, such as the Golden Rule. CELEBRITY PROFILES: The new chart-topping single from Miley Cyrus embodies the brave, adventurous spirit of Sagittarius with lyrics “I was born to run, I don’t belong to anyone.” Cyrus has her natal moon, Mercury and Pluto in the charismatic and mischievous sign of Scorpio. Mars in maternal Cancer is clear in the nurturing instinct she channels toward her siblings. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.
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A RECORD THAT CAN ONLY BE EQUALED I read about today’s deal in Simon Cocheme’s entertaining new book, “Bridge With a Twist” (Master Point Press). It occurred during the 2010 European Championships. It was played at 82 tables with 19 different contracts and 27 different results. What can each side make?
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From Page One for this second and final round she plans for about 40 to 45 people to come. “Some people will just pop in,” she said. The olives from community milling day are milled as one batch. The percentage of olives contributed is the overall total represents 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. The state-of-the-art mill was purchased in 2012 from a company in Italy. Il Fiorello gradually 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. Il Fiorello has not been just passively going about the year, rather they have made some changes and plan to continue to make them over the coming
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Brunch during the season’s final community milling day was quiet with just a few people to enjoy the expanded seating at Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company, Sunday. The patio area now has heaters, a pellet stove and blankets for anyone who wishes to sit outside. year. Il Fiorello has added a barn behind the milling equipment building, which they will use as a clean room to bottle and store olive oil. “I want to live out here,” Sievers joked. “I love the building so much.” Along with the expansion of space, they have plans for more patio space, a bocce court, in addition to a small greens area that could be used for weddings, picnics and all kinds of events. Liz McQueeney, owner of McQueeny Goat Ranch,
lives up the road from Il Fiorello and just started bringing her olives last year in conjunction with her neighbor. “I have four olive trees. They have grown and are finally producing enough olives to do this,” McQueeney said. “She puts her olives with mine.” McQueeney said she and her neighbor loved the olive oil from last year and have used most of it. “We are down to a little bit and my husband is carefully measuring it out,” McQueeney said.
So she was relieved to hear her olive oil would be ready later in the week. Hers was a small match this year of just 21 pounds, but will still make for a bottle of olive oil. Il Fiorello also offers a weekend prix fixe lunch each Friday through Sunday, by reservation only. The menu changes weekly. Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company is located at 2625 Mankas Corner Road in rural Fairfield. Call 864-1529 for more information or visit ilfiorello.com.
Hospitals brace for holiday Covid-19 Michigan: Certification may be delayed surge, fearing staff ‘Whether the Board of Canvassers certifies our results tomorrow or decides to take shortages, burnout From Page A1
Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Since the middle of October, doctors and nurses at Loma Linda University Medical Center had been warily watching news reports of a spike in Covid-19 patients in the Midwest. They knew that, sooner or later, their own hospital would be hard hit. They just didn’t know when. Last week, they found out. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 15 Covid-19 patients were admitted to Loma Linda, in what Dr. Michael Matus, chief of hospitalist medicine, described as “a huge rush of patients.” “We immediately filled one ward and half of another,” Matus said. “It immediately strained the nursing staff. And then the physicians. We try to keep the physicians seeing up to 16 patients. That day, it was up to 24 . . . . It was our biggest day in the last month.” A new surge of Covid-19 is battering Southern California, bearing down on exhausted health care workers, raising anxiety levels on hospital wards and stoking fears that there might not be enough staff and supplies for the difficult weeks ahead. The coming holidays only make the situation more dire. The recent rise in Covid-19 patients in the middle of the country has sapped the nation’s reserves of nurses and doctors, as well as masks, gloves and other protective equipment. Good news about vaccines offers hope for the future, but it’s the present that worries those who care for California’s sickest patients. For the week ended Thursday, the most recent statistics available, the number of hospitalized
Covid-19 patients rose 40% in Los Angeles County. In San Bernardino County, home to Loma Linda, the number jumped 45%; in Riverside County, it was up 34%. “We face one of the most dangerous moments in this pandemic,” Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, noted in a briefing Wednesday. An exhausted Matus needs no reminder. “Each mor ning, we review our overall resources and how to handle patients,” he said. “Staffing is problematic. No system is leaving trained physicians or nurses on standby. . . . There have been multiple days in the morning where the registry (of available nurses) is completely empty.” Although new therapies “are giving us a fighting shot in the majority of patients,” Matus said, it is difficult seeing “the stress in everybody’s eyes. (Patients) come to the hospital short of breath. They meet me fully masked. Everybody’s just petrified.” Dr. Anil Perumbeti, medical director for the intensive care unit at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, said the staff has taken pride in being able to work at a fast pace and high level throughout the pandemic. But there is a cost. “There’s definitely (been) two-week periods of time where nobody makes it out of the Covid ICU, no one gets better enough to be transferred out, there are multiple deaths, there are no success stories, no one gets better,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any amount of experience that makes that OK or makes you feel like you did the best you could.”
Canvassers participates in a very straightforward and perfunctory process,” John Pirich, a longtime elections attorney in Michigan, said in the groups’ press release. “Auditing the election is not within its scope of duties; the board is only responsible for reviewing the vote calculations and signing them. “This process has nothing to do with discretion or the board members’ political leanings.” If the board certifies the results, under state law, Michigan’s 16 electoral votes will go Biden, who won the state by 14 times the margin Trump won by four years ago. The Electoral College meets on Dec. 14. Many legal experts believe if the board doesn’t certify the results, the courts will order the results be certified. On Saturday, Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox and Republican Nat iona l Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel asked the state to conduct a “full, trans-
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parent audit” before certification, noting other states like Georgia “have taken discretionary steps” in determining their results. B ut S e c r et a r y of State Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s top elections official, has said an audit cannot be completed prior to the certification of results because “election officials do not have legal access to the documents needed to complete audits until the certification.” Still, Cox and McDaniel have argued it’s possible to investigate some claims made in the affidavits and unbalanced poll books in Wayne County while still complying with the Dec. 8 deadline for
certification. The states are required to certify by the “safe harbor” date or invite court or congressional intervention. Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, tweeted Sunday that the election process “MUST be free of intimidation and threats.” “Whether the Board of Canvassers certifies our results tomorrow or decides to take the full time allowed by law to perform their duties, it’s inappropriate for anyone to exert pressure on them,” Shirkey said. Chatfield, Shirkey and five other Michigan lawmakers traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Trump on Friday. Chatfield and Shirkey said they used their time with the nation’s leader
Vaccine: 1,870 deaths reported Friday From Page A1 a U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision to move forward. The U.S. reported 1,870 fatalities on Friday, in a week in which the death rate rapidly rose, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News. The daily average of deaths over the past week is now 1,440, compared with 1,177 the week
before. That’s the highest level since last spring, when the outbreak in New York and the northeast pushed fatalities to a daily peak of more than 2,600 in late April. As the virus rages on, hospitals are filling up across the country. Even in the best case scenario of a timely vaccine approval, state governments will struggle to get the rampaging virus under control. And they must do so amid a
chaotic transfer of pres- and Advisory Commitidential power and a lack tee on Immunization of clear policy guidance. Practices will issue recMaking matters more ommendations on which challenging is the lack of segments of the popuconfidence many Amer- lation should receive icans have in the safety the vaccine first, of a vaccine. Slaoui said on NBC. Only about half of With 24 hours of an adults say they would approval of a vaccine, get a Covid-19 vaccine if one were available, the jabs “will be moving according to a Septem- and located in the areas ber survey from the Pew where each state will have told us where Research Center. The U.S. Centers they want the vaccine for Disease Control doses,” he said.
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the full time allowed by law to perform their duties, it’s inappropriate for anyone to exert pressure on them.’
to push for additional federal relief to help the state cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. On Sunday, the House speaker said Trump didn’t ask lawmakers to interfere in the election certification process. “That just simply didn’t happen,” Chatfield said during the Fox News interview. “When the president calls, you take that meeting,” he said, calling it a “historic day.” Chatfield said Republicans want to look into “irregularities” and these “reports of fraud.” However, there’s been no evidence released yet that calls into question Biden’s 154,000vote victory in Michigan. “I don’t think transparency is too much to ask for,” he said. In an interview Tuesday, Shirkey said he doesn’t expect the results of the state’s presidential race to change. One of the four members of the Board of State Canvassers is Aaron Van Langevelde, an attorney who works for the Michigan House Republican Policy Office as a policy adviser and deputy legal counsel.
college students who are returning home from school for the holidays, should be considered part of different households,” the CDC said in an advisory last week ahead of the holiday. “In-person gatherings that bring together family members or friends from different households, including college students returning home, pose
varying levels of risk.” The CDC named airports – along with bus stations, gas stations, rest stops and other means of public transportation – as areas where people can be exposed to the virus. Although the number of passengers on U.S. flights declined slightly after Friday’s total, Saturday still saw 984,369 people board planes, according to the TSA. Last Thursday, the TSA recorded
907,332 air travelers. During the early weeks of the pandemic, the number of U.S. air travelers recorded by the TSA regularly hovered near or below 100,000 passengers. Those totals have increased considerably in the months since, despite the ongoing surges of coronavirus cases throughout the country. The U.S. has recorded more confirmed cases of
Covid-19 than any other country, with more than 12 million. It’s also suffered the most deaths of any country, with more than 255,000. “Travel can increase the chance of getting and spreading the virus that causes Covid-19,” the CDC wrote in its Thanksgiving advisory. “Staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others.”
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Major, Champ Biden about to make the White House warm, furry again Tribune Content Agency Of the more than 500 million Americans who’ve ever lived, fewer than four dozen have ascended to the presidency. It’s hard to relate to a group that exclusive. But pets that dig up the Rose Garden, chew tassled loafers in the West Wing, and have accidents under the Resolute Desk are the great equalizer: There are more Americans who live with animal friends – around 66%, studies show – than those who don’t. “Pets humanize presidential figures who seem remote,” said Andrew Hager, historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum, formerly in Williamsburg, Va., now awaiting a new home. “Seeing the most powerful person in the free world romping on the floor with a dog looks so much more like you or I – a very different image than a person in a suit behind a podium.” When he moves into the White House in January, the already avuncular President-elect Joe Biden will morph into Romperin-Chief, cavorting with two German shepherds, 12-year-old Champ and nearly 3-year-old Major, who will become the first shelter animal to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Biden and his grandchildren picked out Major at the no-kill Delaware Humane Association in Wilmington in 2018. For the last four years, the White House has been a kibble-free zone. Although President Donald Trump has been accused of emitting racist-rousing dog whistles, he hasn’t owned an actual dog. “Donald was not a dog fan,” wrote the outgoing president’s first wife, Ivana, in her memoir, “Raising Trump.” “And Chappy (her poodle) had an equal dislike of Donald.” Trump is believed to be the only president other than James Polk (in office from 1845 to 1849) not to have a pet, Hager said, adding, “Even the impeached, sad,
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Then-Vice President Joe Biden’s dog, Champ, lays down during speeches during a Joining Forces service event at the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., May 10, 2012. racist, drunk Andrew Johnson fed flour to mice friends he kept.” In 2017, Trump reportedly said he was “embarrassed” by the cats, snake, and rabbit ( Marlon Bundo, subject of two children’s books) living with Vice President Mike Pence and his family. The Atlantic reported that the menagerie inspired Trump to label the Pences “low-class” and “yokels.” “Animals are so against the Trump Fifth Avenue brand,” said Hager, who credits Trump for being “self-aware enough” to realize it’s best he avoid bonding with all creatures, great and small. In February 2019, the famously germaphobic president said his getting a pet “feels a little phony.” For Biden, a longtime pet lover, it seems natural. Major was one of six puppies brought to the Delaware shelter after being exposed to “something toxic,” said Cory Topel, the facility’s marketing manager, who did not specify the substance. “We worked with a local veterinarian emergency center for life-giving medical care,” she said. That story was shared on social media, where Biden’s daughter, Ashley, read it and alerted the family. After Biden and the grandchildren made their
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choice, Biden ventured in “alone on a random Sunday, like anyone else,” to adopt the dog, Topel said. “He ended up staying an hour talking to everyone about dogs he had growing up.” Biden also spoke about Champ, purchased from a Pennsylvania breeder. Champ was a nickname Biden’s father had conferred on him growing up. Major could well be named after Biden’s late son, Beau, a major in the Delaware National Guard, Topel speculated. “We can’t wait to see photos of Major when he’s in the White House,” Topel said. The animal already starred in Instagram videos during the presidential campaign, assuring us that Biden had “no ruff days on the trail.” Drunkard and other pets The fascination Americans will have with the Biden dogs is easy to predict. We’ve long obsessed on animals close to our presidents. George Washington, who had a dog named Drunkard, hankered for better fox hounds to aid his hunts, so he crossed French fox hounds gifted to him by his Revolutionary War ally the Marquis de Lafayette and created the breed of American fox hounds we know today, Hager said. Abraham Lincoln enjoyed the first presiden-
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tial cats. John F. Kennedy kept one, but his severe allergies forced him to give the animal away. Bill Clinton owned the famous domestic short-hair Socks. Teddy Roosevelt, who collected maybe two dozen animals on the White House grounds, had a horse that someone helped ride an elevator up to the residence’s second floor. During World War I, Woodrow Wilson dispatched his gardening staff to the European battlefront and replaced them with a flock of sheep to trim the White House lawn. He also owned a ram that ate reporters’ cigar butts and became addicted to chewing tobacco. Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon, Rebecca, that tore women’s stockings; Herbert Hoover possessed two alligators. Though First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had a horror of animals in the
White House, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nevertheless pampered his Scottish terrier Fala, formally named Murray the Outlaw at Falahill. Nearly as famous as FDR himself, Fala slept in the president’s bed and could not be fed by anyone but him. A bronze sculpture of the Scottie – the only presidential pet honored with a statue – sits in the FDR Memorial in Washington. Lyndon Johnson kept a terrier mix named Yuki that his daughter found at a gas station. Richard Nixon clung to his poodle Vicky the night before he resigned. Barack Obama played often with his Portuguese water dogs, including Bo, known for making appearances on TV shows such as Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and Ellen. One can already imagine the future children’s books “written” by the Bidens’ barking duo in the tradition of past White House pet-authors and essayists such as Millie, Barbara Bush’s English springer spaniel. Beyond that, there will doubtless be endless Instagram pooch-posts and photo ops with German Chancellor Angela Merkel picking canine hair off her skirt. One would-be president, Mitt Romney, is a dog lover but drew the ire of pet owners everywhere after they learned he’d once strapped a dog carrier containing his Irish setter Seamus to the roof rack of his Chevrolet station wagon. Some have opined, semi-seriously, that Roofgate could have contributed to Romney’s loss to Obama. Seamus never
offered comment. Ultimately, dogs allow any human to seem more likable, said Mary Rautkis, social-work professor at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert on how pets make people healthier. “A person who owns dogs is connectable. Dogs give people social capital, and a trustworthiness.” Along with making presidents seem compassionate, playful, and understanding, pets can serve the very practical purpose of reducing stress, said Aubrey Fine, a Claremont, Calif., psychologist who has conducted 47 years of research on human-animal interactions. “When people turn to animals, cortisol levels reduce,” Fine said. “When you pet an animal, you just relax.” And, he said, the president-elect’s psyche will be further assuaged by animal lovers who’ll adore him for choosing a shelter animal. “Dogs in shelter are lives worth saving,” Fine said. “That’s a great commentary on Mr. Biden.” Though the presidentelect has overcome tragedy and travail to reach his lofty post, Topel of the Delaware Humane Association reminds us of the true star of this Wilmington-to- White House tale. “Major’s is a truly ragsto-riches story from the perspective of a shelter dog,” she said. “I hope this will inspire people to do shelter adoption.” Fine agreed: “Like shelter dogs, we all need a second chance. And for all of us, presidents or not, animals are good for our souls.”
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Steelers 10-0 after shutting down Jaguars, 27-3 Tribune Content Agency JACK SON V I L L E , Fla. — Used to be, the only thing that smelled worse than a Steelers performance in this northern Florida town were the paper mills. Well, the paper mills have been gone for a while. But the Steelers lackluster performances are not. The good news for the Steelers is the Jacksonville Jaguars were worse. Much worse. The Steelers scratched
out three touchdowns and a pair of Chris Boswell field goals against the AFC’s worst scoring defense but still managed a 27-3 victory against the Jaguars that ran their unbeaten record to a franchise-best 10-0. The defense held the Jaguars to a field goal on the opening possession of the game, and that was it. They held the Jaguars to 206 yards offense and pressured and befuddled Jaguars rookie quarterback Jake Luton into four
interceptions – two each by safeties Minkah Fitzpatrick and Terrell Edmunds. The Steelers running game at least showed some signs of life after Mike Tomlin promised a better effort. James Conner rushed for 89 yards on 13 carries, thanks to runs of 25 and 17 yards. The Jaguars had the worst scoring defense in the AFC, allowing an average of 30.1 points per game, but the Steelers offense struggled for most of the game with the
exception of two touchdown drives near the end of the first half. Their only touchdown in the second half came on a 20-yard pass from Ben Roethlisberger to tight end Eric Ebron with 6:40 remaining — a score that was set up by the second of Edmunds’ interceptions. Roethlisberger completed 32 of 46 passes for 267 yards and two touchdowns – the fourth time in the past five games he has attempted more
than 42 passes. He was intercepted once – on the final play of the first half – his first interception in four games. Receiver Diontae Johnson got most of the attention, catching 12 passes for 111 yards and being targeted 16 times. But rookie Chase Claypool had his eighth receiving touchdown of the season when he caught a 31-yard touchdown from Roethlisberger that gave the Steelers a 10-3 lead in the second quarter.
After an indifferent start that included Boswell’s first missed field goal of the season, the Steelers put together back-to-back scoring drives at the end of the first half to take a 17-3 halftime lead. They looked as though they might add another late score after an interception by Edmunds gave them the ball at their own 29 with 29 seconds remaining. The Steelers got as far See Steelers, Page B8
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the Las Vegas Raiders defends during the second half at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, Sunday.
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Forget any potential victory bus ride around Allegiant Stadium. The Chiefs earned a well-deserved rest on the plane ride home. The Chiefs and Raiders traded punches Sunday night while seeking the knockout blow in an AFC West heavyweight fight. In the end, it was the Chiefs who survived with a thrilling 35-31 win in one of the more entertaining games around the NFL for Week 11. The two teams traded early touchdowns and the Chiefs found themselves down 17-14 at the half before taking a 28-24 lead
in the fourth quarter. Las Vegas battled back and retook the lead when tight end Jason Witten hauled in a 1-yard touchdown pass from Derek Carr. Ch iefs qua r terback Patrick Mahomes, however, stepped on the field with less than two minutes remaining in the game and led the team on a game-winning drive. Mahomes finished the drive with a 22-yard touchdown pass to tight end Travis Kelce. The win ensured the Chiefs, now 9-1 on the season, kept pace with the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-0) in the chase for the No. 1 playoff seed in the AFC. The Chiefs also opened a three-game lead
over the Raiders (6-4) in the division. Here’s what we learned from Sunday night’s game. DEJA VU? The late-game drama produced good feelings for Kansas City, but if there’s a big takeaway from Sunday night, it’s the Raiders figured out the Chiefs’ defense this season. In two games, the Raiders have produced 854 total yards and 71 points. The Chiefs allowed seven explosive plays, which are defined as 20 yards or more, in the Week 5 loss to the Raiders, and apparently didn’t fully apply lessons learned early in the game. Las Vegas produced a 26-yard catch by tight end Darren Waller and a 29 -yard catch by wide receiver Nelson Agholor on their opening possession to set up a 2-yard touchdown run by Josh Jacobs.
Throughout the first half, the Raiders offense had their moments in the spotlight and scored on their first three possessions en route to a 17-14 halftime lead. The Chiefs’ inability to apply pressure on Carr had a lot to do with it, too, as he completed 13 of 16 passes for 163 yards and a touchdown with a 135.2 passer rating in the first half. Carr wasn’t sacked in the game and the Chiefs recorded just one quarterback hit. Any hope of halftime adjustments from Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo didn’t materialize in the third quarter. Wide receiver Hunter Renfrow came up with a 21-yard catch to set up a wide open tight end Darren Waller’s 3-yard touchdown catch. Waller proved a thorn in the Chiefs’ side throughout the game and he finished with seven catches for 88 yards and the score. Agholor also came up with another play for 20 yards in the fourth quarter on a third-and-5 play.
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Bogdan Bogdanovic’s days with the Kings might be numbered after three seasons in Sacramento. T h e A t l a n t a Hawks signed the 28-year-old restricted free agent to an offer sheet Sunday worth $72 million over four years, sources The Athletic. Marc Stein of the New York Times reported the deal includes a player option for the fourth year and a 15% trade kicker. The Kings will have 48 hours to match if they wish to retain Bogdanovic’s services. If they match, they would be locked into the terms set forth by the Hawks, would not be able to trade Bogdanovic without his consent for one year and could not trade him to Atlanta under any circumstances for one year. If they do not match the offer, they will lose one of their best players without compensation. B ogda nov ic, a
Tribune Content Agency Michael Brockers was asked last week what it has been like to face Tom Brady. Brockers groaned, then emitted a word that starts with S, as in Super Bowl, and has three more letters, which happens to be one for each game in which the Rams defensive end has stared across the line of scrimmage at the great quarterback. “He’s got the upper hand on us,” Brockers said. “I’ve faced him, I think, three times, and he’s 3-0 vs. the teams I was on. That’s the first thing that comes to mind.” Brady is unbeaten against the St. Louis and L.A. Rams in Brockers’ nine years. Brady 5-1 against the Rams overall, winning five in a row since a 2001 regular-season loss. The game that gets the goat of
many current Rams is the Super Bowl after the 2018 season, in which the GOAT didn’t play that well and he and the New England Patriots still won. Brady, 43, is a Tampa Bay Buccaneer now, but the challenge for the Rams (6-3) doesn’t look any easier as they face the Bucs (7-3) at Raymond James Stadium on Monday night. Coming off a convincing win over NFC West-leading Seattle and quarterback Russell Wilson, Rams defensive coordinator Brandon Staley calls Tampa Bay’s offense “the best collection of skill group players that we’ve faced.” Tampa Bay receivers Antonio Brown, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin and tight end Rob Gronkowski have all played in the Pro Bowl. Former USC running back Ronald Jones is a top-10 rusher. And Brady is Brady.
“He’s the greatest. Probably will go down as the greatest of all time,” said Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who must try to shut down at least one of Brady’s targets. “I think I can leave it at that.” In his five-game win streak against the Rams, Brady has thrown eight touchdown passes and one interception (by Cory Littleton in the Super Bowl). His one sack in the past three meetings also came in the Super Bowl (by John Franklin-Myers). “He’s not going to let you really get a clean hit on him,” said defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who said the Rams must still try to “make him uncomfortable” and get their hands up when Brady is throwing. Brockers said frustrating Brady must start with slowing down Jones and fellow running back Leonard Fournette and forcing the Bucs to pass.
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6-foot-6 shooting guard, averaged a career-high 15.1 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 61 games for the Kings last season. He shot 44% from the field and 37.2% from 3-point range. Bogdanovic turned down a four-year, $51.4 million extension prior to the 2019-20 season, choosing instead to test the market as a restricted free agent. Under rules of the collective bargaining agreement, a restricted free agent can sign an offer sheet with any team, but the player’s original team can retain him by matching the terms of that offer. The terms of that deal, which must be for a minimum of two seasons, are provided to the player’s original team, which has two days to match the offer. If the team matches the offer, the player remains under contract with his original team under the principal terms of the offer sheet.
The Warriors have agreed to sign shooting guard Kent Bazemore to a one-year deal, a league source confirmed with The Chronicle. Bazemore, 31, began his NBA career with Golden State in 2012. He provides the team muchneeded wing depth. General manager Bob Myers already had planned to make adding another wing or two a priority, but that became even more important when Klay Thompson suffered a season-ending torn right Achilles tendon during a pickup game Wednesday in Los Angeles. A “3-and-D” wing, Bazemore is a career 35.1% 3-point shooter who can defend multiple positions, rebound at a high rate for his size and limit mistakes. After emerging as a key rotation player during a
five-year stint (2014-19) for the Hawks, he split last season between the Trail Blazers and Kings, averaging 10.3 points and shooting 38.4% from 3-point range in 25 games with Sacramento. According to the Athletic, Bazemore fielded several offers in free agency before picking Golden State. Though he figures to come off the bench for the Warriors this season as a backup to Kelly Oubre Jr. and Andrew Wiggins, Bazemore can start when necessary and, more important, provide reliable minutes in the playoffs. Part of Golden State’s interest him was rooted in the fact that it already knows what it’ll get from him. Undrafted out of Old Dominion in 2012, Bazemore spent 1½ seasons with the Warriors to open his career. Along the way, he became good friends with Stephen Curry.
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How big a turkey should I buy? That, other Thanksgiving FAQs answered The Washington Post
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t wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a heaping side of stress. What size turkey should I buy? Or is this the year to go with a turkey breast, or a roast chicken or duck instead? Who has the one copy of Grandma’s legendary stuffing? Why does this homemade pie crust keep falling apart? Why are the mashed potatoes gluey?! Every year it’s something new at your holiday gathering, but by now, we’ve just about heard them all. We field many of the same questions year after year, so if you’re wondering the same things as Thursday creeps closer, trust us, you’re not alone. Consider this guide your resource for the answers to your most pressing Thanksgiving questions. But above all: Don’t stress out! Know that you are perfectly capable of making a dynamite Thanksgiving meal, no matter the size of your gathering this year.
Brining helps poultry stay moist and tasty. (Kosher or self-basting birds should not be brined.) Some people choose to dry brine their turkey – rub it with salt, basically. In that situation, salt draws the meat’s juices to the surface of the bird. The juices then mix with the salt, forming a brine that is then reabsorbed by the meat. A few years ago, Bonnie S. Benwick tried both methods and decided she preferred a wet brine, which required less effort and resulted in more uniformly moist and seasoned meat. When you remove the turkey from the brine, make sure you pat it thoroughly dry to get crisp skin. But consider this: You can also achieve a moist, flavorful turkey without brining at all.
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How big should my turkey be? The Agriculture Department suggests one pound of turkey per person. We’ve previously suggested about 1 1⁄2 pounds for each diner to allow for leftovers. One of our staple resources in the Food section is the “Chef’s Book of Formulas, Yields & Sizes,” by Arno Schmidt. The book says a 22-pound turkey will yield 12 pounds of roasted meat, including scraps, which equates to 22 servings – lining up perfectly with USDA guidance. “Chef’s Book” also suggests you can stretch that 22-pound bird to 40 servings “on a buffet when served with other meats and salads.”
When to buy and how to store your turkey When you buy the bird depends on whether you’re going with fresh or frozen. A raw, fresh turkey should be stored for no longer than two days in the refrigerator. In theory, a frozen turkey can last indefinitely. But for the best quality, use it within a year.
Should I roast a turkey breast for my smaller gathering? Size-wise, a turkey breast is definitely a good fit for a small crowd, and with the right recipe, it can be a cinch to prepare. If there are just two of you for the meal, you’ll probably want to aim for something close to six pounds. Even then, you’ll have some extra for subsequent meals. To satisfy those who go for dark meat, consider getting a small whole turkey. You might have especially good luck with a local farmer.
It’s Thanksgiving Day and my turkey is frozen, help! Did you know you can put a frozen-solid bird in the oven, and in less than twice the time it would take to cook a fresh one, have a perfectly delicious roasted bird? It’s true! Roast turkey doesn’t get any simpler than this, so take heart, last-minute cooks. You’ll even be rewarded with lots of crisp skin and plenty of pan juices that will help season the meat after it has been sliced.
Should I make an extra turkey breast? What if I like dark meat better? Even dark-meat fans can appreciate the moist, tender yield of a bone-in turkey breast.
The key is in choosing your ideal cooking method: Check out our recipes for turkey breast done in a slow cooker; a foolproof lowand-slow roasting method; and turkey breast with a pear, hazelnut and fennel stuffing. And, yes, if you’re wondering, you can make a stellar turkey in a multicooker (i.e. Instant Pot), along with the rest of your meal, too.
What about turkey alternatives? So there’s no way your small gathering could put away a big ol’ turkey, or maybe turkey’s just not your thing but you still want a bird as your centerpiece. You might consider a duck breast or whole duck, which is smaller, with rich, gamey flavor. Or go the ultimate route for single- or small-serving poultry and cook Cornish hens.
How can I make gravy in advance? Easy: Roast extra turkey wings until deeply browned and crisped. Toss them into a pot of at least four cups of water or storebought broth with your favorite aromatics: celery, onion, fresh herbs, a bay leaf, whole black peppercorns. For a flavor boost, add 1/2 cup of dry red wine, Madeira or unsweetened apple cider. Cook, strain and discard the solids. Then melt eight tablespoons of unsalted butter in a separate saucepan and whisk in 1/2 cup of low-protein flour, like Wondra or pastry flour, to form a smooth roux; it needs to be cooked over medium heat for a few minutes to lose its floury taste. Whisk in your enriched stock and cook until thickened, which should take no more than 20 minutes. Season, cool, refrigerate or freeze. Once the bird comes out of the oven, you might want to whisk strained pan drippings into the reheated gravy, then season with salt and pepper.
How do I make a perfect pie crust? A few pointers: Keep things cool. Rotate the crust 90 degrees periodically as you’re rolling it. Make your crusts in advance. And if something does go wrong, roll with it. If pie crust stresses you out,
then don’t make it! Try apple crumb bars, pear tarte tatin made with purchased puff pastry dough, or pumpkin pie made with a (very easy) gingersnap crust.
How do I fit all of this stuff into my oven? If you’re a lifelong Tetris fan, this is going to be a blast. For the rest of us, it pays to have a plan. Start early, lean on the other appliances in your kitchen for some back up and keep an eye on that oven temperature.
What can I make ahead? Almost everything. Really. Cranberry sauce. Most cranberry relishes and sauces can be refrigerated for up to a week. Gravy. You can make your gravy (or most of it, minus the drippings) a few days early. Bread. Bake your bread or rolls a day or two in advance; wrap in foil and warm in the oven before serving. You can also bake several days in advance and freeze – just set your bread out to defrost at room temperature on Wednesday. Pies and other desserts. Most pies can be made two or more days in advance. Or make a cake or cookies. Turkey. If you’re brining, start brining the day before. Stuffing. Advance work depends on the recipe. Some stuffings can be made wholly in advance; others should be made up to the point of adding the liquid. Reheat or finish baking on Thursday. Sides. Shred radicchio and slice radishes for a slaw, or roast some squash for a hearty salad; blanch or steam green beans or Brussels sprouts. Think about elements that can be prepped or finished ahead of time, then do it!
How do I pack food to bring to Friendsgiving? If your celebration is done potluck-style, think about safety first and try to keep your gathering small and outdoors. It’s also important to effectively pack your dish to avoid spillage. This is a nice meal, though, so showing up with a few takeout containers’ worth of Brussels sprouts won’t cut it. Bring a
serving dish and serving utensils; if you’ve got something that needs to be reheated, tell your host so you can coordinate stove or oven space; you can usually pack the item right in its cooking dish for easy reheating. Turkey. To avoid spills, pour the pan drippings into a lidded container. Transport the turkey on its baking pan or sheet, tented with aluminum foil. There is no need to reheat the turkey (it might overcook the bird). Reheat the drippings on the stove for gravy or stuffing. Bring a carving board, carving tools and a serving platter. Mashed potatoes. Bring the mashed potatoes in a pot for reheating (you may need to add some extra milk); if your pot is pretty, serve them straight from there – the residual heat will help to keep the potatoes warm at the table. Gravy. Pack it in a Thermos or other insulated container. Cranberry sauce. A simple airtight container or zip-top bag will do, along with a serving container. Soup. Bring it in a pot to reheat on the stove, with a ladle for serving. Rolls or biscuits. Pack in a serving basket and cover with nice napkins or a towel. Sides. Many can be packed in airtight containers or zip-top bags tucked right into their serving containers; just check with the host about what you’ll reheat it in, if needed. Casseroles, dressings and the like can transition easily from oven to table. Pie. If you’re without a dedicated pie box, small shipping boxes make for useful and discardable pie containers. You might set the pie on a bed of crumbled tissue paper or newspaper for added cushion.
What should I do with leftovers? For some of us, this is really the best part of Thanksgiving. After you’ve sent home some of the extras with your friends and family, the options are endless. Make a Thanksgiving hash or stuffing waffles for Friday breakfast. Use your vegetables to fill tacos or sandwiches, or blend them into puree for soup. Turn bread into croutons or bread crumbs or strata.
Wines from classic to creative for any Thanksgiving celebration Dave McIntyre
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here are too many things to worry about when planning a Thanksgiving dinner you shouldn’t worry about the wine. Here are five bottles that should shine throughout the meal, whether you’re planning a traditional feast or, given this unprecedented year, something different. Gary Farrell Russian River Selection Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH Russian River Valley, Sonoma County, $45 Many winemakers feature single-vineyard wines and craft a blend out of the remaining barrels. Theresa Heredia does the reverse she considers her Russian River Selection pinot noir and
chardonnay as her top wines and uses the best barrels for them. She also harvests earlier than most, thereby clothing the Russian River Valley’s power in a sheath of elegance and freshness. The 2017 pinot noir is silky in texture and bursting with flavors of Rainier cherries, raspberries, wildflowers and baking spices. Alcohol by volume: 13.7 percent. Alvaro Palacios Camins del Priorat 2019 HHH Priorat, Spain, $26 Alvaro Palacios produces L’Ermita, one of the most famous wines of Priorat, and one of the most expensive, at about $1,000 a bottle on Wine-Searcher.com. So consider the Camins del Priorat a price-conscious taste of the region from one of Spain’s top winemakers. This blend, based on garnacha
(the Spanish name for grenache), is savory, rich, meaty and spicy with a lovely floral note that conjures the rose on the label. ABV: 14.1 percent. Lightwell Survey The Weird Ones Are Wolves 2017 HHH Shenandoah Valley, Va., $30 This is an unconventional blend from an unconventional winery. Lightwell Survey is the brainchild of D.C. sommelier and restaurateur Sebastian Zutant and Early Mountain Vineyards winemaker Ben Jordan, who aim to challenge our preconceptions of what wine should taste like. This delicious red is 90 percent cabernet franc, with more or less equal smidgens of syrah plus the white grapes petit manseng and riesling. The result is a lively wine that - dare I say it snarls? grabs your attention with bracing acidity and carries through with
smoky pepper and dark berry flavors. Rrrowr. ABV: 13.5 percent.
have had with her by now. ABV: 13 percent.
Narmada Winery MOM 2018 HHH Virginia, $21 Wine drinkers of a certain age (mine) might see the tall blue bottle and the dedication on the label “to all mothers” and think this is a cloying, slightly sweet but ultimately nondescript white a la Blue Nun. They would be wrong. This is a delightful blend of the hybrid grapes vidal blanc and chardonel, with a sploosh of chardonnay for extra body. Think peach blossom and tangerine zest, with pineapple and Asian pear. This wine excels with Middle Eastern and South Asian cuisines - savory, as opposed to hot, spices. If you dedicate a bottle to your mother, make sure you join her for a glass: It pairs well with that conversation you should
GREAT VALUE Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc + Viognier 2019 HHH California, $18 This wine is an old standby. Pine Ridge has been making it for years, and it is always delicious. While the price has crept up, the wine is often on sale for less. Chenin blanc is extremely food-friendly, making this a versatile pairing for a complex holiday menu. Viognier adds some jasmine and honeysuckle to the chenin’s apple and pear flavors. ABV: 12.5 percent. Availability information is based on distributor records. Prices are approximate. Check Winesearcher. com to verify availability, or ask a favorite wine store to order through a distributor.
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FAIR F IELD — Streaming services appear to be one of your best friends this holiday season. As Solano County, along with many other counties in the state, was sent to last week to the most-restrictive purple tier in the state’s Covid-19 monitoring system, theaters are closed once again. A 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew is also in effect through Dec. 21. So, get the hot chocolate mugs out, pop some popcorn, cuddle up in blankets and get ready to watch. “Hillbilly Elegy” arrives Tuesday on Netflix. The story centers on a former Marine and Yale law student on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home in Ohio he’s tried to forget. He must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother, who is struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother, the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, he comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey. Ron Howard directs. Amy Adams and Glenn Close star. Jackie Chen and Arnold Schwarzenegger pair up for “Iron Mask.” The two face off against each other in battle. Rutger Hauer is featured in one of his final performances. You can catch it on Google Play. It’s rated PG-13. “Notes for My Son” is a Netflix drama about a woman who learns she has a terminal disease. She decides to face her fate the only way she knows how: with emotion and a sarcastic humor that defines her. She spends most of her time writing a book for her 4-year-old son, with the idea that his mother’s image will stay with him forever. It’s not rated. Kristen Stewar t stars in Hulu’s “Happiest Season.” She plays a woman who is meeting her girlfriend’s family for the first time and is planning to propose. However, she has not told her family she is gay. “Stardust” documents the life of David Bowie before he became one of
the most iconic artists in the history of music. Find it on Netflix. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn star in “The Christmas Chronicles 2” on Netflix. It’s been two years since siblings Kate and Teddy Pierce saved Christmas, and a lot has changed. She runs away and meets a mysterious, magical troublemaker who threatens to destroy the North Pole and end Christmas for good. It’s not rated. “Croods: A New Age” has the family facing something that will shake their pack to its core and make them reconsider everything they hold true: another family. The movie is slated for theatrical release. It’s rated PG. Amazon Prime offers “Uncle Frank.” Set in 1973, it centers on a teen who leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank is a revered literature professor. She soon discovers he’s gay and lives with a partner, an arrangement that he has kept secret for years. It’s rated R. “Superintelligence,” from HBO Max, stars Melissa McCarthy in the story of a woman with an ordinary life who starts getting snarky backtalk from her TV, phone and microwave. She thinks she’s being punked. Rather, the world’s first superintelligence has selected her for observation, taking over her life . . . with a bigger, more ominous plan to take over everything. It’s rated PG. “Black Beauty,” on Disney+, is a modernday reimagining of the timeless classic. Black Beauty, a wild horse born free in the American West, is rounded up and taken away from her family. There she meets a spirited teenage girl. The two forge an unbreakable bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures of her life. It’s not rated. “Princess of the Row” is the tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA’s skid row. The Amazon Prime release is rated TV-14.
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This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be a little different.
What the Thanksgiving Day parade will look like amid pandemic way ensembles – will also adhere to social distancing protocols while performing. Included in this year’s star-studded Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade lineup are Dolly Parton, Tori Kelly, Sofia Carson, Sebastian Yatra, Pentatonix, Patti LaBelle, Noah Cyrus, Leslie Odom Jr., Lauren Alaina, Keke Palmer, Karol G, Jordin Sparks, Jimmie Allen, Ella Mai, CNCO, Camille Schrier, Brett Young, Bebe Rexha, Ally Brooke and the New York City Ballet company. Santa Claus will also make an appearance outside 34th Street’s flagship Macy’s store.
Tribune Content Agency Broadway is back! Well, sort of. Organizers of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade have revealed that the Broadway ensembles of “Hamilton,” “Jagged Little Pill,” “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” and “Mean Girls” will perform during this year’s event as theaters across the country remain closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Theatrical performances have long been a staple of the annual New York City celebration, which will operate differently this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Similarly to Pasadena’s New Year’s Day Rose Parade, the 2020 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been converted into a telecast that Americans will be able to watch from their homes. “Why not showcase New York at a time when a lot of people have missed being able to participate and watch these types of performances and cultural displays?” said the executive producer of the parade, Susan Tercero, in a recent interview with The New York Times. Here’s everything you need to know about this month’s madefor-TV presentation, airing from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in all time zones Thursday on NBC.
It’s going to be smaller – much smaller In order to ensure the safety of the talent and crew, the volume of this year’s parade participants has been reduced by about 75%. Additionally, all participants must be at least 18 years old, and “general participants” have been limited to people residing in the New York tri-state area. Instead of the typical
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Santa Claus waves during the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving parade in New York City, Nov. 28, 2019. Santa will be making an appearance this year. 2.5-mile parade route through the streets of New York City, the festivities will be filmed exclusively in and around Midtown Manhattan’s Herald Square. The preceding balloon inflation ceremony, which usually takes place the Wednesday before Thanksgiving outside Manhattan’s Museum of Natural History, has also been canceled to avoid drawing crowds.
Performers will be masked and socially distanced Because they will be sharing the same physical space – as opposed to the patchwork Zoom approaches of other pandemic productions – all participants will be asked to wear face coverings and other personal protective equipment, when necessary, during performances shot in installments over a two-day period. Groups – such as the Broad-
Marching bands have been swapped Sets from professional marching bands, as well as other local musical groups, will take over this year for the traditional high school and college marching bands, which have been invited to join next year’s parade instead. The 2020 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature performances from the West Point band, the FDNY Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, the Band of the City of New York Police Department and the Lesbianand Gay Big Apple Corps Marching Band.
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Yes, there will be floats Despite the balloon-inflation getting canceled, parade floats and balloons will still play a key role in the holiday event, thanks to new technology designed to operate them without the help of the 80-100 handlers usually necessary to bring them to life. A mong this year’s giant flying attractions are Pikachu from “ Pokemon,” Smokey Bear, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Nutcracker and, of course, Charlie Brown’s loyal pup, Snoopy.
STILL A BACHELOR AFTER ALL THESE DEALS In 1994, David Bird published a book entitled “Bachelor Bridge” (Master Point Press). Now, with the assistance of Simon Cocheme, the bidding has been brought up to date, the text honed and extra deals added. The book’s hero is Jack, who is looking for a bridge-playing girlfriend.
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by Phillip Alder In the 26 chapters, Jack has no trouble meeting women, but he is much less successful at finding a girlfriend. It takes the whole alphabet! In this deal from Chapter 20, Jack was East, casting an admiring eye over declarer Sharon. North’s raise to two hearts was debatable, but she had not heard of the Support Double. If she had passed, East would have raised to two spades, South would have made a card-showing double, and then North could have supported hearts. Against four hearts, West led the spade ace, and Jack played the queen, promising his namesake. After a spade to the jack, East switched to the club jack. Sharon won with dummy’s ace and played a heart to her jack. When that held, what did declarer do next? While you are deciding, note that five diamonds by North can be made with a heart-club squeeze against East. To keep the contract under control if trumps were 4-2, Sharon led her heart two at trick five. East took his trump trick, but a third spade would have been ruffed on the board. When he continued with a second club, declarer won with her king, drew trumps and ran the diamonds. If you would like to know why Sharon didn’t become Jack’s girlfriend, you will have to read the book. COPYRIGHT: 2020, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE
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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, or box. Solution, tips STILLcolumn A BACHELOR and computer program at AFTER ALL THESE DEALS www.sudoku.com
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Passengers make their way to the rideshare location at LAX as Uber and Lyft drivers held a moving rally as part of a statewide day of action to demand that both ride-hailing
companies follow California law and grant drivers “basic employee rights” and to “denounce the corporations’ efforts to avoid their responsibilities to workers.”
How Uber, Lyft persuaded California to vote their way Tribune Content Agency Six weeks before election day, Proposition 22 was in trouble. Just 39% of likely voters surveyed in a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll said they would side with Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig economy companies by voting yes on a California ballot measure that would override state law requiring them to treat workers as employees. A big chunk of voters, 25%, was still undecided. On Nov. 3, Proposition 22 cruised to an easy victory with 58% of the vote, insulating gig economy companies from future regulatory threats and creating a legal framework to undergird their business model. How they turned the campaign in their favor is of great significance; in recent days, executives have already said they hope to replicate the process across the country. Facing an uphill battle, Uber, Lyft and other gig economy companies set a spending record, pouring more than $200 million into the ballot initiative. They saturated TV and digital ad space. They bombarded gig workers and customers alike with in-app notifications and emails suggesting that drivers wanted to remain independent contractors and that a yes vote would be best for them. The strategy seems to have worked, with the companies finding support across most of the state. Yet the map of voter support is as decisive as it is confounding. Within Los Angeles, Proposition 22 was voted down in several liberal-leaning precincts but found widespread support in neighborhoods with large Black and Latino communities and majority white suburban areas alike. It breaks with oft-seen voting trends by uniting workingclass South Los Angeles with the wealthy and conservative Beverly Hills. Across the state, Proposition 22 found its strongest support in agricultural or rural counties far from the app companies’ biggest markets, such as Shasta and Glenn, which both passed the measure with 70% of the vote. It won Orange and San Diego counties with well over 60%, compared with 55% in Los Angeles. The measure faced its opposition in parts of the Bay Area, where Uber and Lyft are headquartered, with five of
the nine counties in the region voting against it, and along the Northern California coast. Securing yes votes on ballot measures is notoriously difficult, because undecided or confused voters typically default to a no vote. “It was surprising,” said Greg Ferenstein, research director at the nonprofit Tech4America and a former tech journalist. “I did not think it was going to pass because generally there’s a pretty big backlash against the tech industry, and a lot vote no on propositions, regardless of what it is.” Uber and Lyft threatened to leave California or raise prices and cut jobs if the measure was voted down. Ferenstein said voters may have supported the measure because they feared the unpredictable consequences its failure would bring to companies, customers and drivers. Mark DiCamillo, a veteran pollster at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies who conducted the main preelection polls, said that while voters who are undecided tend to break to the no side, this measure presented a unique quandary. A yes vote would maintain workers’ current status as independent contractors, while providing a few extra benefits such as a healthcare subsidy and minimum wage, depending on hours driven. A no vote would alter drivers’ employment status, which companies said would force them to restructure their businesses. “For Prop. 22, keeping the status quo in this particular instance was actually a yes vote, and that, in my judgment, made a big difference,” DiCamillo said. “Voters weren’t of the mind to make big changes with app-based drivers, and the yes vote got the majority of people who were withholding judgment until the end.” The yes campaign’s historic cash flow played a role in that. With $204 million, its war chest dwarfed that of the opposition by more than 12 to 1, making Proposition 22 the most expensive ballot initiative in U.S.history. “It was impossible not to get exposed to their ads,” DiCamillo said. “The volume of advertising on the yes side was so great it actually worked to the detriment of some other ballot measures trying to communicate in the late stage to voters, because a big chunk of messaging was being dominated by the
yes campaign.” Preelection polling showed there was no pronounced partisan divide between voters. And there was no clear indication that the union households polled opposed the measure, DiCamillo noted. Labor unions including Service Employees International Union, United Food & Commercial Workers and the Teamsters led the unsuccessful campaign against Proposition 22, raising about $16 million. “Only 51% of union households said they would vote no. I was surprised by that. It showed that the rank and file wasn’t following the lead of their leaders,” DiCamillo said. Uber and Lyft referred questions regarding their strategy on Proposition 22 to the yes campaign. An eight-page report provided by the Yes on 22 campaign on the measure’s success offers some clues as to how it cut through the din of a pandemic and presidential election to persuade voters. The report attributed the win to the campaign’s emphasis on providing freedom and flexibility to drivers, and its “great lengths to make driver voices the focus and face” in messaging. More than 120,000 drivers signed up to support the campaign, the report said, and numerous paid ads featured “driver voices providing a simple and easy-to-understand description of what the initiative would do.” The report also credited assembling a “transcendent coalition” that “reflected the driver base, who predominantly represent communities of color,” touting endorsements from the state’s chapter of the NAACP, as well as California’s Hispanic, Black and Asian American chambers of commerce. Opponents objected to the campaign’s claim that Proposition 22 would advance racial equity, saying it would stifle wages and highlighting the fact that a public affairs firm run by California NAACP’s president was paid $85,000 by the yes campaign. A Times examination of precinct-level data in Los Angeles County shows the companies’ argument held sway in its dense core, finding support in lower income areas including plurality-Black neighborhoods such as Inglewood and Compton, and majority-Latino East Los Angeles. It also won suburbs in the San Fernando Valley, affluent communities such as La
Canada Flintridge, and rare Los Angeles precincts where President Trump was victorious in Beverly Hills and Santa Clarita. A band of wealthy or increasingly affluent liberal-leaning neighborhoods stretching from Santa Monica and Venice, across to Los Feliz, Highland Park and South Pasadena mounted the strongest opposition, decisively voting down the measure. Lane Kasselman, the former head of communications at Uber and a co-founder of crisis communications firm Greenbrier, which has worked with Lyft, said the split reflects a divide between those who are wealthy enough to use gig services and those who are or have been gig workers. The former would never work for gig services themselves but want workers to have the same rights they do, he said, while the latter “absolutely do not want the restrictions that come with employment.” Others said it’s not that simple. While the yes campaign argues its promises of certain benefits and current levels of scheduling flexibility resonated with voters, opponents said the campaign benefited from a deceptive framing. Preliminary results from a Capitol Weekly survey of 23,500 voters who returned ballots by mail found that 40% of those who voted yes on Proposition 22 said their vote was ensuring drivers get a livable wage. While the opposition campaign said it was pushing for greater benefits and protections for workers, the yes campaign took the air out of that argument by countering that it was providing “historic” new benefits – even though the suite of new benefits was objectively weaker than those provided to employees by state law, said Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data, who conducted the survey. “The yes side co-opted the best message of the no side,” Mitchell said. Nicole Moore, an organizer of L.A.-based driver group Rideshare Drivers United and opponent of the measure, said people have congratulated her on the passage of the measure and her work fighting for drivers at least three times over the last week, only for her to have to clarify her side lost. “The yes campaign showed videos of single moms saying she wouldn’t be able to figure out how to make extra money for
her family, so vote yes on Prop. 22. But in reality, she would have less in the bank under Prop. 22 than under basic labor law,” Moore said. When Moore organized driver protests and car caravans by Los Angeles International Airport and the palatial homes of Uber founders in Beverly Hills, she heard support for pay and benefits. But it didn’t materialize in the voting booth. “It’s hard because if you polled people and asked, ‘Do you think drivers get paid enough,’ people would say no, and if you asked, ‘Do they deserve basic minimum wage in California,’ most people would say yes. But that’s not how the question was posed,” she said. As Uber and Lyft indicate plans to take their model national, opponents are looking for answers in progressiveSan Francisco, which roundly rebuked the measure with 60% voting no. The measure was seen by San Francisco voters as a referendum on the companies behind it, said Jason McDaniel, an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State. “The tech companies supporting Prop. 22 are quite politically unpopular here,” McDaniel said. “Many voters consider them responsible for many of the problems facing the city.” It found support in neighborhoods associated with tech industry workers, such as the Marina and SOMA, but was defeated in the Mission District, the city’s Latino core, which has seen rampant gentrification fueled by tech industry wealth. While the industry has reshaped the city, its workforce does not dominate the electorate, McDaniel said. Carlos Ramos, a longtime driver for Lyft, pointed to the labor group Gig Workers Rising and outspoken support for the no campaign from representatives such as Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D- San Jose) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D- Fremont), as well as from members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. “As we take stock of the wins and losses, we’re going to see why it was effective in the Bay Area and not as much in other places,” said Ramos, who organizes for Gig Workers Rising. “There’s a lot to unpack and we’re going to do our best to focus on getting this information out.”
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Section 00 1100 - NOTICE TO BIDDERS ARTICLE 1. GENERAL Section 1.01 Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Vacaville Unified School District of Solano County, hereinafter referred to as "District," will receive sealed Proposals for: Bid Package # 20-08: 621 Orchard Avenue – New Modular Classrooms Notice is hereby given that the Project is a public works project within the requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, and that each Bidder and all Subcontractors are required to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 at the time of bidding. Failure of the Bidder or a listed Subcontractor to be registered at the time of bidding shall render the Bid non-responsive and unavailable for award. Notice is hereby given that the Project is subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 20111.6 as a project funded under the Leroy F. 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If the bidder will not perform the mechanical, electrical and/or plumbing (MEP) work itself, then a prequalified MEP subcontractor must be listed on the subcontractor listing form, including specifically identifying mechanical, electrical and/or plumbing in the “portion” of work. Proposals are due: BID INFORMATION Location: Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Steven McGuckin, Capital Program Management, Inc. - (916) 833-6371 Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 Time: No later than 2:00 PM At this time such proposals will be opened and publicly read. Contractor License Classification Required: Class B Section 1.02 Mandatory Pre bid conference will be held at: MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE Location: 621 South Orchard Avenue – South Parking Lot Contact: District Representative: Steven McGuckin, Capital Program Management, Inc. - (916) 833-6371 Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Time: 2:00PM Attendance for duration of meeting is mandatory and each prime contract bidder (referred to as “Bidder” or “Bidders”) shall be required to certify, as part of its Proposal Form, that it attended the entirety of the Pre-Bid conference. Failure to include the certification will render the bid non-responsive. Failure to attend the mandatory, PreBid conference waives the right to submit a bid. For all Pre-Bid visits (other than the Pre-bid conference), Bidder must make an appointment with the District Representative prior to visiting the Site. Section 1.03 Overall coordination of the Project will be the responsibility of the District Representative. All inquiries regarding the bid are to be directed to District Representative, Steven McGuckin, StevenM@capitalpm.com. Section 1.04 Contracts for construction will be direct prime contracts with the District. All Project procedures and documents are designed to facilitate delivery of the Project through prime construction contracts. The District's forms shall be used for all documents. Bidders shall read and review the Bidding Documents carefully, and shall familiarize themselves thoroughly with all requirements. Section 1.05 Each bid proposal shall conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents. The bid documents may be obtained at bidder’s expense from Signature Reprographics, (916) 454-0800 or electronically at https:/signaturerepro.com. Section 1.06 No bid will be considered unless it is accompanied by Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Bid Bond from a surety authorized to do business in California for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Combined Base Bid Amount, including additive Alternate Bids, made payable to the District. The above-mentioned check or bid bond shall be given as a guarantee that the Bidder shall, if selected by the District, execute the Contracts, in conformance with the Contract Documents. For more information, refer to Section 00 2000, Article 1, Section 1.06. Section 1.07 Bids shall not expire for a period of 90 days after the date set for the bid opening. Within ten (10) days after notification of the District’s Notice of Intent to Award the Contracts, the successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Labor and Material Bond and a Faithful Performance Bond for each Contract. For further information, refer to Sections 00 6113.13 and 00 6113.16. Section 1.08 The District is an equal opportunity employer. Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7, Section 7.10. The District encourages the participation of DVBE businesses. Refer to Special Provisions Section 00 8000. The District has set an overall goal for this Project that Bidders obtain a minimum of 3% of their bid amount in participation by certified Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (“DVBE”). The participation may be through work or supply of materials. If a Bidder is unable to obtain the full 3% participation by one or more DVBEs, then the bid may be found responsive only if it establishes “good faith efforts” to meet the goal. The requirements for good faith efforts are set forth in Special Provisions Section 00 8000, Article 4 and the attachments thereto. Section 1.09 The successful Bidder shall be required to pay its workers on this Project a sum not less than the general prevailing rate (applicable at time of bid advertisement date) of per diem wages and not less than the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work for work of a similar character in the locality in which the Project is performed, as provided under California Labor Code Sections 1726-1861. Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages are on file at the Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687, and shall be made available to any interested party upon request. They may also be obtained on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/DPreWageDetermination.htm Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7. The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. Section 1.10 The governing board of the District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any irregularity in any proposals received. Section 1.11 At the request and expense of the successful Bidder, eligible securities shall be accepted in lieu of retention payments to insure performance under the Contract, pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300. Refer to Exhibit H and General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 12, Section 12.05. Said securities shall be deposited prior to the submission of the successful Bidder’s first progress payment application. Section 1.12 The successful Bidder shall have at least one supervising technician on call in the event that the existing fire alarm, security clocks, intercom, telephone and data systems are damaged during the course of construction or the Contract requires relocation of existing devices. The supervising technician is required to be on Site during all aspects of repair, modifications and testing. For fire alarm modifications and repairs the supervising technician is required to have at a minimum NICET LEVEL 2 Certification or equal. The District may consider optional Underwriters Laboratories Certification, factory training or contractor demonstrated equal experience/training with prior approval. The supervising technician must also have a minimum 5 years installation experience. DR# 00043381 Published: November 23, 30, 2020
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Woman saves 200-year-old elm destined for chopping block Tribune Content Agency MINNEAPOLIS — A 200-year-old American elm tree stood condemned, finally succumbing, it seemed, to the disease that has killed off hundreds of thousands of other elms in Minnesota. The tree, one of the few old elms left in the Twin Cities, towered over a small channel of Minneapolis’ Lake of the Isles long before Minnesota was a state. Somehow it survived untreated as Dutch elm disease spread over the last 50 years from neighborhood to neighborhood. Its trunk, wide enough to walk through, bent into an oval as it grew and squeezed between a sidewalk and two-lane road built around it. But, at last, foresters found Dutch elm disease – a fatal fungal infection spread by beetles – in the tree this fall. They planned to cut it down Oct. 1. Then Kyla Wahlstrom stepped in. Wahlstrom, who’s lived in the neighborhood for 42 years, saw the spraypainted red stripe around the trunk – the telltale marking of a tree destined to be cut down – while walking her 11-monthold retriever. She had lost some of her own trees to the disease, but none that were this tall, this old or this remarkable. With a circumference of 16 feet, Wahlstrom estimated the elm was likely between 195 and 225 years old. “Think of all the things it’s seen and lived through,” Wahlstrom said. “All the hard winters and droughts. It was here when Minnesota was just a territory.” Wahlstrom, a retired professor at the Univer-
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Kyla Wahlstrom led the fight to save the giant elm tree she has admired while on walks in her Minneapolis neighborhood. sity of Minnesota, said she learned long ago not to take things at face value. If the tree was to be cut down, she wanted to know exactly why there was no other option. She talked to the city foresters who found the disease, then to several other professionals and experts. She learned that while the disease is a certain death sentence when it makes it to a tree’s roots or main trunk, the tree can survive if the infection is only within its branches. Wahlstrom had the tree retested. Sure enough, the
disease had not yet spread to the trunk. Support grew in the neighborhood to save it. Xandra Coe, who lives right next to the elm, offered to pay for regular pesticide treatments that will keep beetles and disease from coming back. City foresters approved the treatment plan and agreed to prune the infected branches. They sprayed over the red stripe with black, unmarking it. The tree that has already survived so much will continue to live. That’s hopeful news to Ben Held and Ryan
Murphy, researchers at the U who are working to breed elms resistant to the disease. They noted that the old ones that have fought off or survived Dutch elm disease this long are particularly important to keep around. “It’s pretty rare to find the large old ones,” Murphy said. “Those are the ones that are giving us the biggest benefits.” Held and Murphy work with the U’s Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center to try to find out why some elms have proved to be more resistance to the disease.
The hope is that by breeding them together over generations they’ll be able to create strands of elm that can survive as long as the one Wahlstrom saved. What made Dutch elm disease so devastating is how popular elms have always been. They grow fast and tall, are extremely durable and open up into large canopies providing great shade and fall colors. By the 1970s, when the disease made it to St. Paul, about 95% of the trees some cities planted in boulevards and rights of way were elm trees. In early 1970s, the seven-county
metro area lost tens of thousands of elms a year. The peak of the spread was 1977, when the metro lost more than 190,000 elms. The entire state has lost an estimated 140 million trees to the disease. Fortunately, elms grow fast enough that they have never been at risk of extinction. They still make up about 5% of the canopy on many boulevards in the state, Murphy said. But the vast majority of those have grown up in the last few decades. Survivor elms that were around before the disease made it to Minnesota are few and far between, which is what makes them so valuable to researchers, Held said. “The natural population appears to have that varying level of resistance,” he said. Neighbor Coe said the benefits of keeping old trees alive far outweigh the cost of the treatment, which can run a few hundred dollars a year depending on the size of the tree. She said she hopes more neighborhoods might keep an eye out for any old trees in public rights of way that could be saved with treatments. Wahlstrom is happy to see neighborhood kids taking measuring tape and calculating the ages of other trees throughout the channel. And she hopes the tree that was here long before anyone alive was around will remain long after she’s gone. She keeps her favorite motto on her refrigerator – words that she tries to live by. It says, “Act as though what I do makes a difference.” “That’s what I tried to do,” she said.
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Raiders: Mahomes throws for 348 yards From Page B1 Defensive penalties also haunted the Chiefs in the fourth quarter, as defensive tackle Chris Jones was flagged for being offsides and cornerback Bashaud Breeland drew a pass interference infraction in the end zone on the same drive. Ultimately, the Chiefs won. But they can’t feel good about the overall defensive effort. CHIEFS OFFENSE DOES ITS PART While the defense had issues, the Chiefs offense didn’t have troubles keeping pace with the Raiders and produced an eye-popping 36 first downs on the game while averaging 6.3 yards per play. Mahomes completed 34 of 45 passes for 348 yards and two touchdowns with an interception, just his second of the season. Both of his picks this season have come against
the Raiders. Mahomes extended his streak of games with a touchdown to 20, which is the longest active streak in the NFL. Tight end Travis Kelce continued to feast on the Raiders, producing eight catches for 127 yards. Kelce closes out the two-game annual series against Las Vegas with 16 catches for 235 yards and two touchdowns. Wide receiver Tyreek Hill was plenty involved in the passing attack, totaling 11 catches for 102 yards and a touchdown. Hill now has a teamhigh 10 receiving touchdowns on the season. CLYDE PLOWS THROUGH VEGAS Rookie running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire made up for producing 40 yards rushing in the Week 5 matchup against the Raiders. Edwards-Helaire gashed the Raiders with 69 yards and two
touchdowns on 14 carries, averaging 4.9 yards per carry. The Raiders didn’t have an answer for the Chiefs’ rusher, who showed power on his first touchdown run, which came from 3 yards out. Edwards-Helaire took the handoff and appeared to be stopped a yard short of the goal line, but he kept his legs moving and bounced off the contact before powering through at least two more attempted tackles for the score. Le’Veon Bell also got into the action with a 6-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, marking his first trip in the end zone in a Chiefs uniform. Bell finished the game with 25 yards rushing and the score on seven carries.
vated Saturday. Sammy Watkins’ hamstring and calf injury might have forced the Chiefs’ hand to activate Hardman for depth purposes, but Hardman’s absence from practice meant he didn’t have the opportunity to absorb the game plan. Hardman didn’t step on the field until the fourth quarter when Byron Pringle, who started the game alongside Tyreek Hill and Demarcus Robinson, suffered an ankle injury. But his ability to be included in the game scheme was affected by the missed time. Hardman, though, came up big late in the fourth quarter with a 15-yard catch, which helped extend the Chiefs’ game-winning drive.
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Offer: Kings have decision to make From Page B1 If the team declines to match the offer, the player is under contract with the new team. There was some short-lived excitement in Sacramento on Saturday night when NBC Sports California reported the Indiana Pacers were showing interest in Bogdanovic. That led to speculation the Pacers might be willing to include Myles Turner in a sign-and-trade deal, but a well-placed league source told The Sacramento Bee the Pacers “aren’t engaged in this,” flatly rejecting the idea of Turner being involved in such a deal. The Kings reportedly agreed to a sign-and-trade deal last Monday that would have sent Bogdanovic and Justin James to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Donte DiVincenzo, Ersan Ilyasova and D.J. Wilson, but
The Kings extended a $10.7 million qualifying offer to Bogdanovic on Thursday. that deal collapsed over the course of the week. A source told The Sacramento Bee “there is no deal” when the trade was first reported Monday and reiterated “there was never a deal” as the trade unraveled Wednesday, noting Bogdanovic could not be offered a new contract until free agency began Friday. The NBA is now investigating whether that failed deal violated the league’s tampering rules. The Kings extended a $10.7 million qualifying offer to Bogdanovic on Thursday, ensuring they would have the right of first refusal as he entered
restricted free agency. The Kings hoped to get something in return in a sign-and-trade, but the Hawks were one of the few teams in the NBA with enough salary cap space to meet Bogdanovic’s demands without shedding salary. K ings g e n er a l manager Monte McNair might choose to match the offer from Atlanta, but Sacramento’s roster is getting expensive. The Kings already have nearly $97 million allocated for the 2020-21 season with only nine players under contract. Buddy Hield will earn $24.4 million in the first year of his new deal, Harrison Barnes will earn $22.2 million and backup point guard Cory Joseph is owed $12.6 million. Signing Bogdanovic for an estimated $18 million would push the team’s payroll to $115, well over the $109.1 million salary
cap, and that doesn’t account for rookie Tyrese Haliburton. The Kings can exceed the salary cap to sign Bogdanovic because they hold his Bird Rights, but that’s a hefty price to pay for a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 14 years, the longest active postseason drought in the NBA. The Kings on Friday signed De’Aaron Fox to a maximum five-year, $163 million extension that could be worth up to the $195.6 super max with incentives. He will reportedly earn $28.1 million in the first year of that deal in 2021-22. The Kings will owe Fox, Hield, Barnes, Joseph, Marvin Bagley III and Justin James a total of $96.5 million. With Bogdanovic that figure would increase to about $114.5 million. The salary cap will be between $112.4 million and $120 million, depending on league revenue.
Steelers: Made things tough for Luton From Page B1 as the Jaguars 24, thanks to a 23-yard pass interference penalty against cornerback Chris Claybrooks, but Roethlisberger was intercepted in the end zone by safety Daniel Thomas as time expired. It was Roethlisberger’s
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first interception in four games. He didn’t misfire on the previous two scoring drives, however, completing 8 of 9 passes for 95 yards, including the touchdown to Claypool. The Jaguars came right back and moved to the Steelers 11, but Luton’s pass was tipped
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Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m. Temperature High/Low.............................67°/32° Average high .......................... 62.0° Average low............................ 42.7° A year ago...........................72°/38° Barometric pressure............29.85 Humidity...................................44%
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at the line by nose tackle Tyson Alualu, a No. 1 draft choice of the Jaguars, and intercepted and returned 37 yards by Fitzpatrick. Roethlisberger then connected for 20 yards on third-and-10 to Johnson, who made a nice diving catch; and then
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for 23 yards again to Johnson, who this time made a bobbling catch at the Jaguars 1. Benny Snell scored one play later to make it 17-3. The Steelers failed to sack Luton in the first half, but he completed just 7 of 19 passes for 87 yards.
Monday’s TV sports Baseball KBO •Doosan Bears vs. NC Dinos, ESPN2, 1:25 a.m. Football NFL •L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay, ESPN, 5:15 p.m. Soccer •Super Lig, Galatasaray vs. Kayserispor, BEIN, 8:25 a.m. •Premier League, Burnley vs. Crystal Palace, NBCSN, 9 a.m. •Premier League, Wolves vs. Southampton, NBCSN, 11:30 p.m. •La Liga, Athletic Bilbao vs. Real Betis, BEIN, 11:50 a.m.
Tuesday’s TV sports Baseball KBO •Doosan Bears vs. NC Dinos, ESPN2, 1:25 a.m. •Doosan Bears vs. NC Dinos, ESPN2, 1:25 a.m. (Wednesday) Soccer •Ligue 1, Stade Brestois vs. Saint-Etienne, BEIN, 8 a.m. •Ligue 1, Angers vs. Olympique Lyonnais, BEIN, 10 a.m. •UEFA Champions League, group stage, The Golazo Show, CBSSN, 11:54 a.m. •La Liga, Cadiz vs. Real Sociedad, BEIN, noon •Copa Libertadores, L.D.U. de Quito vs. Santos, BEIN, 2:05 p.m. •MLS Playoffs, first round, Toronto vs. TBD, FS1, 3 p.m. •Copa Libertadores, Racing vs. Flamengo, BEIN, 4:20 p.m. •MLS Playoffs, first round, Philadelphia vs. New England, ESPN, 5 p.m. •CONCACAF League, round of 16, Herediano vs. Real Esteli, FS2, 5 p.m. •CONCACAF League, round of 16, Alajuelense vs. San Francisco, FS2, 7 p.m. •MLS Playoffs, first round, Seattle vs. LAFC, ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Scoreboard FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 7 3 0 .700 272 265 6 4 0 .600 264 202 4 6 0 .400 209 238 0 10 0 .000 149 302 North W L T Pct. PF PA Pittsburgh 10 0 0 1.000 298 174 Cleveland 7 3 0 .700 238 261 Baltimore 6 4 0 .600 268 195 Cincinnati 2 7 1 .250 213 270 South W L T Pct. PF PA Indianapolis 7 3 0 .700 276 208 Tennessee 7 3 0 .700 279 259 Houston 3 7 0 .300 227 272 Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 202 298 West W L T Pct. PF PA Kansas City 9 1 0 .900 321 214 Las Vegas 6 4 0 .600 286 276 Denver 4 6 0 .400 206 267 L.A. Chargers 3 7 0 .300 260 273 National Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Philadelphia 3 6 1 .350 220 254 N.Y. Giants 3 7 0 .300 195 236 Dallas 3 7 0 .300 235 318 Washington 3 7 0 .300 200 227 North W L T Pct. PF PA Green Bay 7 3 0 .700 308 258 Chicago 5 5 0 .500 191 209 Minnesota 4 6 0 .400 264 278 Detroit 4 6 0 .400 227 287 South W L T Pct. PF PA New Orleans 8 2 0 .800 295 222 Tampa Bay 7 3 0 .700 296 226 Carolina 4 7 0 .364 253 272 Atlanta 3 7 0 .300 252 275 West W L T Pct. PF PA Seattle 7 3 0 .700 318 287 L.A. Rams 6 3 0 .667 216 168 Arizona 6 4 0 .600 287 238 SAN FRAN 4 6 0 .444 238 234 Thursday’s Game Seattle 28, Arizona 21 Sunday’s Games Washington 20, Cincinnati 9 New Orleans 24, Atlanta 9 Pittsburgh 27, Jacksonville 3 Indianapolis 34, Green Bay 31, OT Houston 27, New England 20 Cleveland 22, Philadelphia 17 Carolina 20, Detroit 0 Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets
Tennessee 30, Baltimore 24, OT L.A. Chargers 34, N.Y. Jets 28 Denver 20, Miami 13 Dallas 31, Minnesota 28 Kansas City 35, Las Vegas 31 Monday’s Game L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay, 5:15 p.m. Byes — SAN FRANCISCO, N.Y. Giants, Chicago, Buffalo Thursday, Nov. 26 Houston at Detroit, 9:30 a.m. Washington at Dallas, 1:30 p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29 SAN FRANCISCO at L.A. Rams, 1:05 p.m. Miami at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. Arizona at New England, 10 a.m. Carolina at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Cleveland at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. L.A. Chargers at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Las Vegas at Atlanta, 10 a.m. New Orleans at Denver, 1:05 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 1:25 p.m. Chicago at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30 Seattle at Philadelphia, 5:15 p.m. Byes — None Thursday, Dec. 3 Dallas at Baltimore, 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6 Cleveland at Tennessee, 10 a.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. Las Vegas at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. Jacksonville at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Cincinnati at Miami, 10 a.m. Indianapolis at Houston, 10 a.m. Detroit at Chicago, 10 a.m. New Orleans at Atlanta, 10 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 1:05 p.m. L.A. Rams at Arizona, 1:05 p.m. New England at L.A. Chargers, 1:25 p.m. Philadelphia at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. Denver at Kansas City, 5:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7 Buffalo at SAN FRANCISCO, 5:15 p.m. Byes — Tampa Bay, Carolina Thursday, Dec. 10 New England at L.A. Rams, 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 Washington at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:25 p.m. Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. Arizona at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m. Kansas City at Miami, 10 a.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. Green Bay at Detroit, 10 a.m. Dallas at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. Houston at Chicago, 10 a.m. Denver at Carolina, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Seattle, 1:05 p.m. Indianapolis at Las Vegas, 1:05 p.m. New Orleans at Philadelphia, 1:25 p.m. Atlanta at L.A. Chargers, 1:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 5:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14 Baltimore at Cleveland, 5:15 p.m.
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