Daily Republic: Monday, January 2, 2023

Storm pummels NorCal

Record rains breach levees, leaves tens of thousands without power

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LOS ANGELES — Record rains on New Year’s Eve breached three levees along the Cosumnes River near Sacramento and left tens of thousands of Californians without power Sunday.

Flash flooding along Highway 99 and other roads south of Sacramento submerged dozens of cars near Wilton, where the water poured over the levees. Search and rescue crews in boats and helicopters scrambled to pick up trapped motorists.

“I don’t want to use the term apocalyptic, but it’s ugly,” Sacramento County spokesman Matt Robinson said by phone from a stretch of Highway 99 that he described as a vast lake following the three levee overflows. “We have a lot of stuck cars.”

Downed power lines and trees crashing into homes created further trouble, said Capt. Parker Wilbourn of the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.

“It was an extremely busy night,” he said.

Electricity remained cut off midday Sunday for more than 35,000 customers, down from more than 100,000 who lost power overnight around Sacramento.

Sunny skies on Sunday offered a respite from the downpours, but another atmospheric river was barreling across the western Pacific and was set to drench California in the days ahead.

Northern California took the brunt of the weekend pounding. Oakland had its wettest day since 1970 on Saturday with 4.75 inches of rain. A mudslide east of Oakland blocked part of Highway 580. See Storm, Page A7

Women hold nearly half of elected city, county, school seats

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FAIRFIELD — There are 119 elected city, county and school district jobs in Solano County.

Women hold 58 of those – 48.7% – and control the majorities on nine of the 17 boards.

“Women power in the house,” newly elected Supervisor Wanda Williams said during a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony held Dec. 21. Napa County Superior Court Judge Monique Langhorne, a former Vallejo resident, administered the oath.

Of the 24 elected Superior Court judges in Solano County, 10 are women.

Williams called her election “monumental” and “historic” as the first elected woman of color,

and views it as an “opportunity to be an example” to women of color and to women in general.

The 2020 Solano County Census notes that women make up 49.8% of the county’s 451,716 residents.

While school boards and city clerk posts have long been havens

for women, there are now two elected women mayors, 12 city council members – with two female council majorities – and a three-member majority on the Solano County Board of Supervisors.

That is a first for the county board and for the Fairfield City Council,

which has only its second elected woman mayor in Catherine Moy.

“I said this before . . . I’m not saying it’s better, but it’s different . . . I’m looking forward to seeing what we do,” Moy said about having a female majority. She took her oath on Dec. 20.

“I think people are getting used to having women in these roles,” Moy added. “I hope it encourages others to step forward.”

Supervisor Monica Brown also believes women have different priorities than men, and hopes that means the new county majority will shift the board toward those priorities of family and other social issues.

However, Auditor-Con-

PHILADELPHIA – The honeybees looked perfectly healthy, buzzing about their boxy wooden hive on a warm autumn day in central Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Capaldi suspected otherwise.

Clad in a protective white suit and hat, the biologist reached out with a gloved hand to capture one of the insects in a small vial, then took it back to her Bucknell University laboratory to dissect its brain.

Her colleague David Rovnyak later placed a sample of the bee’s innards inside a large metal cylinder and pelted it with high-frequency radio waves – a type of scanning technology that revealed the amounts of certain tell-

tale chemicals within.

Their goal: to identify early warning signs that a bee is under stress, so that beekeepers can try to rescue a threatened hive before it’s too late.

Honeybees have been in decline for decades, causing headaches and higher costs for farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their apples, almonds and 130 other fruit, nut and vegetable crops. The issue made headlines in 2006 with the emergence of a mysterious new phenomenon called colony collapse disorder, but the broader downturn in bee health was underway well before that, and it continues to this day.

The causes include climate change, pesticides, and disease, said Capaldi,

who studies insect behavior and neuroscience at the liberal arts university in Lewisburg. In bad years, the combination of insults can wipe out more than half of a beekeeper’s colonies.

“Honeybees are suffering,” she said. “All of these factors have united together to create a stressful environment for honeybee colonies across the country.”

She and Rovnyak, a chemistry professor at Bucknell, realized five or six years ago that the problem might lend itself to an interdisciplinary solution. The pair joined forces with colleague Marie Pizzorno, an expert in viruses – as one factor in the insects’ decline is a virus that deforms their wings.

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A honeybee hovers at a flower.

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Wanda Williams takes the oath of office while being sworn in as Solano County Supervisor, Dec. 21, 2022. Karl

Catherine “Cat” Moy, center, takes the oath of office while being sworn in as mayor of Fairfield at the City Council chamber, Dec. 20, 2022.

Today is

Today is my 59th birthday! On my Facebook timeline I have posted my official birthday wishing guidelines as I do every year that govern exactly how to go about helping me celebrate the day I got a belly button. They include asking wellwishers posting a greeting to also Google up JPEGs or GIFs of things that I am into including but not limited to the Raiders, the Lakers, The Beatles, Scrabble, hard rock music, Bright Line Eating, old school funk, “Star Wars” or “Star Trek,” plantbased eating, geeky ’70s pop culture stuff (TV shows, music and movies etc.).

I don’t need anything, but there are some things I want. Here is a partial list:

Wade The last laugh

birthday! Here’s what I want . . .

I want smaller versions of those jumbo floating balloons they have in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade to be used in our Fairfield 4th of July parade. While having ones of popular cartoon characters like SpongeBob, Snoopy, Mickey Mouse and Miley Cyrus is cool, there could also be local ones like Mr. Jelly Belly and the Waving Chief Solano statue. It would have its own category in the parade competition and extra points would awarded for handlers of the balloons who successfully and easily navigate their creations under the downtown Fairfield sign limbo style.

add some much-needed humor along the way.

I want someone to explain to me how in the world I can possibly have dandruff on my eyebrows.

I want a local lawyer to represent me in my lawsuit against filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. You see, the maker of such films as “Pulp Fiction,” “Kill Bill” and “The Hateful Eight” popularized presenting his stories in non-linear style. My lawsuit contends that he stole that from me. For years now when I settle in to watch a movie at night I will fall asleep no matter how much I love the movie or want to see it. So what happens is I watch the beginning, wake up and watch the end and then rewind it and watch the middle to see what I missed. Tarantino shall pay.

I want more folks to watch “Stutz,” the Netflix documentary that actor Jonah Hill made about his therapist, Phil Stutz. It is raw, hard to watch in some parts and can be transformative. The concepts that he discusses and techniques he uses are similar to the inner work that we do in Bright Line Eating. People are always giving me and my wife compliments on our weight loss, and we appreciate that immensely, but what is of infinite more significance are the things that they can’t see. Confidence. Belonging. Connectedness. The willingness to work through pain to get to the growth on the other side. “Stutz” covers a lot of that ground in an unflinching way and even manages to

I want to know what in the world someone was thinking when they started making these Zuru Toy Mini Brands. They are miniature versions of classic toys from major manufacturers like Hasbro and others. I came across a package of them containing a tiny Dora the Explorer, a super ball and even one of those watercolor paint sets. Call me crazy, but I remember when these kinds of toys were the exact thing you didn’t want to give to kids because they were choking hazards. The only way these could be worse is if they were flavored. What’s next? FisherPrice chain saws?

I want a new drug. I want to know what love is, I want you to show me. I want you to want me, I need you to need me, I’d love you to love me, I’m begging you to beg me. I want candy. I want you back. I want to break free. I want to hold your hand. I want you (she’s so heavy). I want to take you higher. I want it it all.

I want one of those cool hydraulic stand-up desks that the librarians have at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in the back where the microfilm machines (that I frequent) are located. Everyone knows that sitting is the new smoking, so

it would be awesome to be able to do research and not shorten my life doing it. The cost for the table can come from the savings the library will make on power since they recently installed solar canopies. Some tall swivel chairs with cup holders would be cool too. Leather. Heated. Have I gone too far?

I wanted to include “I Want Your Sex” by George Michael in the list of “I want” song titles earlier, but it came across as too creepy.

I want football 101 classes for Raider fans who hate quarterback Derek Carr. I mean, I have heard so many say how he lost us games or that he has only one playoff appearance in his career. Uh, he doesn’t play defense. Neither do the rest of the Raiders, whose defensive ranking has never been higher than 20th in the league since Carr has been on the team. Does he have bad games? Absolutely. So did many quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame. But he ain’t the main problem. There are too many to list, but I well remember watching a string of horrible Raider quarterbacks whose faces all now morph together in my memory as one big mess of mediocrity. I really don’t even need to say anything, Carr’s numbers speak for themselves – the guy has busted nearly every Raiders quarterback record.

I want suggestions on spicing up me and my wife Beth’s weekly date night. Every Friday

(well, when she isn’t recovering from a hip replacement) we go to Winco in Vacaville. I know, I know, I am a hopeless romantic. So our usual groove is to hit the produce first, then the little section with soy products, fresh mushrooms and other delectables before getting our bulk items, some canned goods and then frozen stuff. Would it be too much excitement to just start with the bulk foods? I like to live on the wild side but don’t want to overdo it.

I want a mobile John Travolta “Boy in the Plastic Bubble” rig that I can use when going anywhere until flu season is over.

I want people to donate to my Facebook birthday fundraiser for the Armijo Band Boosters Inc. I was not a band geek in high school, but I know the scientifically proven benefits of music education and want to help facilitate that for some young folks. Anything you can donate is appreciated! Here is the link: https://bit.ly/BandFR. Thanks everyone and happy new year!

Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns: “The Last Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California” and “Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California.”

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It’s a sniffle, a tickle in the throat and a headache. Or a fever, congestion and fatigue.

Could it be Covid, the flu or RSV?

If you’re unvaccinated, over the age of 65 or have underlying health conditions, you shouldn’t wait to find out, said Dr. David Weber, associate chief medical officer at UNC Medical Center and medical director of UNC’s Department of Infection Prevention.

After Christmas and Hanukkah gatherings over the weekend, and as we’re gearing up for another party-all-night holiday weekend for New Year’s Eve, Weber wants to make one thing clear: Make sure you’re getting tested.

“We always see surges in these viruses after the holidays. We did after Thanksgiving, and we will in the days after Christmas and New Year’s,” Weber said in an interview. “We have therapies for Covid – the biggest risk

right now – and for the flu. Make sure you know which virus you have so you can get the right treatment.”

These therapies only work in a short window of time, and you don’t want to wait until that window’s expired.

Could I have Covid, the flu or RSV?

The only way to know for sure: Get tested.

Symptoms overlap for all three winter illnesses (and there’s so much of all three going around, this season is known as the “tripledemic”). It’s unfortunately even possible to have all three at once.

Testing can be an at-home antigen test or PCR test for Covid, or a 4-plex test – which tests for all three diseases at the same time – at your doctor’s office.

“It’s easy to say, ‘I’m not home, I’m just visiting and my doctor’s not here, I’ll do it when I get home,’” Weber said. “But if you wait a few days and wind up getting worse, you’re

already past the window for therapies to work.”

Covid, flu therapies

For the best results, Weber said, flu therapy should be taken within two days of onset symptoms, and therapy for Covid-19 should be started within five days. These treatments drastically decrease the need for hospitalization and the likelihood of death from the viruses.

Tamiflu (which treats influenza) and Paxlovid (which treats Covid) are pills that require a prescription from a doctor or pharmacist. Both are taken orally at home for five days. RSV doesn’t have an FDAapproved therapy yet.

“By the time you reach the age of 50, there’s a 50/50 chance you have an underlying disease that puts you at greater risk of hospitalization and death from these viruses,” Weber said. “Not to scare people, but to show how important it is to take the time to get tested and get treatment.”

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Congratulations to our NOVEMBER WINNER

It’s extra important to test after New Year’s gatherings, doctor says; here’s why

Take the Polar Plunge at Vallejo pool

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VALLEJO — The

Greater Vallejo Recreation District welcomes brave folks for a Polar Plunge at the Cunningham Aquatic Complex.

The Olympic-size pool will be a welcoming 81 degrees while the small training pool will be a toasty 84 degrees.

Activities include an afternoon full of swimming, free hot cocoa, fun music, friends and family.

Participants are encouraged to swim but can also watch from the pool deck and bleachers. Children younger than 7 years of age or under 48” tall must be accompanied by an adult (18+) in the water.

Each person attending must pre-register. The price is $5 per individual.

The pool is located at 801 Heartwood Ave.

For more information or questions, call the Aquatic Recreation Coordinator, Ryan Allen, at 707-648-4663.

Critical incident training set at Wood

The city is hosting a critical incident training Wednesday at Will C. Wood High School.

Students, 14 or older, will serve as volunteer crisis actors.

“Residents and businesses in the area can anticipate seeing several police and fire vehicles and apparatus in the area representing the city of Vacaville and surrounding agencies,” the city said in a statement. “Each exercise is designed to prepare public safety personnel to respond to critical incidents that may occur on school campuses.”

The Vacaville School District, the Public Health Division of the Solano County Health

week

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and Human Services, Medic Ambulance, Kaiser Permanente and other agencies will participate in the exercise “to create training scenarios as realistic as possible,” the city said.

Included in this training will be an active shooter “mass casualty . . . incident to simulate a draw on area resources.”

Gov’t meetings on week’s calendar

The new year will be starting out with government business this week. Government meetings are open to the public with some in person and others online. Check the website for more information.

The meetings will include:

n Suisun-Solano Water Authority Board Executive Committee, 9 a.m. Monday, Suisun City Hall council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City. Info: http://ca-sid.civic plus.com/agendacenter.

n Suisun City Council, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.suisun.com/ government/city-council.

n Vacaville Parks and Recreation, 6 p.m. Wednesday, council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: www.ci.vacaville.ca.us/government/ city-commissions.

Rio Vista City Council meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, and the Solano County Planning Commission meeting, scheduled for Thursday, are both canceled.

Use these 5 expert tips to actually get healthy, stay healthy

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A new year means many are looking to improve their health by embracing a new lifestyle, but not all strategies for changing up your habits are created equal.

Fad diets and expensive fitness programs often become popular in January but are hard to keep up and can even pose risks to your health. Still, according to experts, some trends can actually help you get healthier.

And there are plenty of other long-term changes you can make in your life that won’t break the bank and will help you feel better in your daily life.

Here are some tips for creating a sustainable diet and fitness plan to get healthy in 2023:

Eat ‘real food’

Dr. Shami Hariharan, an integrative medicine doctor with Atrium Health in Charlotte, recommends to patients constructing a healthy diet around one of her favorite quotes from author Michael Pollan: “Eat real food, mostly plants, not too much.”

“Real food,” she explains, includes “whole foods, fruits, vegetables, legumes and other proteins.”

Within that framework, Hariharan

added, it’s important to find meals that still bring you “joy.”

“If we don’t like how we’re eating or it’s hard, then that affects maybe even how we process our nutrients,” she said.

Farmer’s markets are a great place to find healthy foods at a reasonable price, Hariharan notes, while also supporting local businesses.

Nonprofits such as The Bulb help bring healthy foods to food desserts around Charlotte at little to no cost, she added.

Avoid ‘extreme’ fad diets

While some fad diets may have “helpful components,” Hariharan said, most end up getting “skewed.”

“Keto, for example, is actually a very extreme diet where it puts our body into this whole different type of metabolism that it’s not used to,” she said. “The way that Keto has kind of gotten skewed over time is that people will end up eating a lot of saturated fat and animal products. Some of those things in moderation are just fine, but to that level are not.”

And while a fad diet may help you shed weight in the short term, they’re hard to maintain and

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Solano Land Trust offers hikes in January

SOLANO COUNTY — Solano Land Trust will be hosting a series of events each Saturday in January.

The events all require registration. Rain could cancel the hikes.

A nature hike is set for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 7, at King-Swett Ranches. Come explore the hills between Fairfield, Benicia and Vallejo. Solano Land Trust docents will share insights about the birds, butterflies and other wildlife that call King-Swett home. Space is limited for this strenuous hike.

Then on Jan. 8, a Bird of Prey Hike will occur from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lynch Canyon Open Space.

West County HawkWatch’s Larry Broderick will lead birders through one of the North Bay’s best viewing locations for overwintering hawks and falcons. Lynch Canyon provides these birds with more than 1,200 undeveloped acres where they can hunt and rest. Some feathered visitors come from as far away as the Arctic Circle. This guided hike will be between 4 to 6 miles and is $10 per person.

Parking is $6 per vehicle, which goes to support Solano County Parks.

On Jan. 14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., a nature hike is set for Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park. Come explore the hills between Suisun Valley and Green Valley and see sweeping views of Solano County and beyond. Scenic blue and live oaks, native wildflowers and fascinating geology make

this a truly unique hike. Moderately strenuous, 4 to 6 miles.

The next Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at Rush Ranch will be Get the Rush, which is a series of fun, free activities for the whole family, offered the third Saturday of each month. Guests can visit the blacksmith shop, pop-up shops, Access Adventure wagon rides and various exhibit tables. All ages and mobility levels are welcome. The Marsh Walk begins at 10:30 a.m. Park is open until sunset.

The final Saturday of the month, Jan. 28, from 9 a.m. to noon, at Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park will have opportunities for the trail crew volunteers to help in building some of the first trails and amenities at the park. Get a sneak peek of the park before it opens

Researchers test ‘holy grail’ tech that could end chemo for some cancer patients

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People with colorectal cancer, the fourth most common cancer in the U.S., are often prescribed unnecessary chemotherapy after their cancer is completely gone.

The hope is that some patients can be spared after clinical trials of hightechnology treatments end and are evaluated in a few years.

For decades, doctors have removed people’s colorectal tumors and decided whether their patients needed subsequent chemotherapy by considering several risk factors. This method was imprecise and sometimes people who didn’t

need chemotherapy got it anyway.

There is now a potential path forward. New genetic sequencing technology can detect previously undetectable levels of cancer from just a blood draw. If a patient doesn’t have any circulating cancer DNA, they may not need chemo post-surgery, suggested recent research from Australia.

“What we knew is that a lot of those patients were cured with surgery alone. We just didn’t have a way to know which ones had microscopic cancer left in the blood, who needed chemo and who did not,” said Dr. Mohamedtaki

to the public, meet people who care about land in Solano County, and be part of the legacy of this beautiful new park.

Also on Jan. 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at Lynch Canyon, there will be a nature hike. This hike will take visitors westward along Middle Valley Trail leading to Prairie Ridge.

Expect about a 5-mile hike at a moderate but even pace over uneven ground. There are steep climbs over several hills with the longest at Prairie Ridge. It’s worth it to see the view of the northern San Francisco Bay.

To register for these events go to https://solano landtrust.org.

Robert Moody

Robert Edwin Moody, passed away early on December 25, 2022, at his home in Suisun, California. He was 62 years old.

Robert was born in the city of Vallejo, California on July 11, 1960. He was the second child, and first son, of Virginia Wulff and Merle Moody

For over 43 years, Robert had a thriving career as a union electrician. He worked out of Local #180 and San Francisco

Local #6. He had recently retired from Rosendin Electric in July

He was a dedicated husband, father of two, a son, a brother, an uncle, and a friend to all.

Throughout the years, Robert has enjoyed: Sunday drives and adventures with his wife; BMX racing with his son Bradley; baseball and football with his son Dylan; watching Raiders games with family and friends; fishing; and taking his dog Bo to the dog park

Robert was preceded in death by his father, Merle Moody.

He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Lisa Moody; his two sons, Bradley Moody and Dylan Moody; his beloved dog Bo; his mother, Virginia Moody; his siblings, Deborah (John) Erickson of Clear Creek, Calif., Tracy (Lisa) Moody of Napa, Calif.; his cousin John B. Wulff of Paradise, Calif.; and a host of extended family and friends.

A memorial service will be held for Robert at 2:00 p.m. Saturday Januar y 7, 2023 at Grace Church, 3765 Solano Ave., Napa, Ca. Following the service, a celebration of life will be held at the clubhouse of Napa Valley Sun Communities, 1040 Orchard Ave., Napa, Ca.

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The Get the Rush open house returns to Rush Ranch in 2023.

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Hikers watch birds at Lynch Canyon Open Space, Nov. 12, 2016.

My 5-year-old grandson still wears Pull-Ups, gets teased about it

Dear Annie: My grandson, “Billie” is 5-years-old and still not potty trained. We have tried everything to get him to use the toilet – rewards, bribes, “gentle threats,” etc. We suspect he has encopresis – the repeated, involuntary passing of stool into the clothing. This can happen when impacted stool collects in the colon and rectum, while the more liquid stool involuntarily leaks out around the impacted stool.

In our grandson’s case, he has to wear a Pull-Up so that he doesn’t soil his clothing with the liquid stool. He rarely has a regular bowel movement. And because he’s wearing a Pull-Up, he also rarely pees in the toilet. We give him fiber gummies so that he’s not constipated and try to encourage him to eat good food and drink plenty of water. But he’s a 5-year-old boy, and he isn’t too interested in what’s good for him.

Of course, the other kids tease him about this. He knows he should be using the toilet and is ashamed of himself. He

says the problem is him, that there is something wrong with him. And of course, the more we try to help him, the more pressure is put on him.

Is there anyone out there who has faced this problem and can give me some advice? It breaks our hearts to see him so ashamed.

He’s a very sweet kid, and no child should feel bad about themselves. — Pooped Out and Sad in the South

Dear Pooped Out and Sad in the South: Before you suspect that your grandson has encopresis, I would seek the help of his pediatrician and get a firm diagnosis. The sooner you all seek the help of a trained professional pediatrician, the sooner you can get Billie treatment. You are correct that sometimes it’s not the behavior itself but the social pressure or self-consciousness that your grandson feels different from his peers. If he does seem really embarrassed about it, while it is probably purely physical, there is a slight possibility that it is psychological. If that is the case, then it is important to find a good

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

The world has changed since your great-grandmother was born, married and died in the same hometown. Your desire to see other places increases. Everything seems to nudge you toward purchasing tickets.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your signmate Jerry Seinfeld suggested, “There’s no such thing as ‘fun for the whole family.’” Your own fun is definitely doable though, so focus on pleasing No. 1, and avoid the futility of trying to please all.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Your clear intentions have power. You’ll decide what you want to feel and how you want people to feel around you, too. Don’t worry about how you’ll cultivate the emotion. Head toward your desired result and your feet find the path.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Oddly, indifference can be very attractive. Your elusive nonchalance inspires chase. The thing you don’t care about will seem to follow you from place to place, wanting your attention or approval.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When something works, don’t celebrate it until you figure out how and why it works. Look for the pattern. Your future success will depend on putting an effective sequence of actions on repeat.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). A memory can hold you back if you let it, so don’t let it. There’s another way to look at this – a more empower-

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

The year highlights your keen intellect and clarity of purpose.

You make important distinctions, excellent decisions and impressive leaps toward your loftier goals. More features include a renovation of property or of your routines and systems, a relationship that drives your plot in a fun way and excellent outcomes in education. Taurus and Cancer adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 9, 40, 11 and 15.

ing way. To believe something different about the past will give you greater resources for the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

You don’t need to pay anyone to make you more beautiful. People are as attractive as their hearts, which is why you get so much attention today. You have loved well, often and deeply, and it shows in the face.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It is with great contentment that you enjoy what you have. Avoid worrying or scheming about how to keep it forever. No one keeps anything forever. The moment is sweeter when you embrace its impermanence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Don’t be afraid to act in a way that is uncharacteristic of you. It’s impossible to build character without going

family therapist to get to the root of what is going on in Billie’s life that might be causing him stress.

Dear Annie: If you are invited to a wedding shower, should you always be invited to the wedding?

I was invited to a good friend’s shower for her daughter. I gave a generous gift. No wedding invitation ever came.

I’ve now found myself questioning this friendship in silence. No mention was ever made by either of us regarding what I consider a tacky insult.

What are your thoughts? — Questioning

Dear Questioning: My thoughts are with you. On the surface, it sure seems tacky, and it is certainly understandable that your feelings are hurt. That being said, maybe she just had a very small family wedding. Maybe it was the shower that was her big celebration. But until you find out the reason, you will remain hurt and angry. Communication with your friend will help clarify a great deal.

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

beyond what “you” would do, and personality is an everchanging construct.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). It’s difficult to answer people when you’re not sure what to say. This is the main reason for stalls in communication – not a lack of love, respect or results, just uncertainty about how to phrase it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). To get to know someone is its own kind of journey, as each person is a country and each relationship a quest. You never know what’s going to happen in the process of discovery. What starts out as curiosity could turn into love.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The difficult task you face is really only a series of easy steps. It’s a particularly long series, to be sure, but you’re a tenacious person. This is doable, if not inevitable. Keep going!

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Actor, director and producer Dax Shepard is an influencer in his own right who seeks out bright minds and experts in numerous fields to interview in his podcast, “Armchair Expert.” Leading with his down-to-earth Capricorn energy, his honest, casual interview style is both disarming and intellectually vigorous, which might be why he lands esteemed guests such as Hillary Clinton and Bill Gates.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

OPEN UP THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION

There are deals on which you need to go back and forth between your hand and the dummy. Sometimes it’s easy; perhaps you are crossruffing. At other times, you must open the lines of communication before going about your business.

In today’s deal, North and South bid

Sudoku

Bridge

OPEN UP THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION

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, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

There are deals on which you need to go back and forth between your hand and the dummy. Sometimes it’s easy; perhaps you are crossruffing. At other times, you must open the lines of

by Phillip Alder

aggressively to reach six spades. After West leads the club 10, how should South plan the play?

The South hand was on the cusp between overcalling one spade and starting with a takeout double. North’s jump to four clubs was a splinter bid, showing the values for a raise to four spades with at most one club. This was music to South’s ears, so he used Blackwood before signing off in six spades.

Declarer has an automatic heart loser, so he must plan to ruff his three club losers in the dummy. However, if he tries to use two diamond honors as hand entries, he runs the risk of an adverse ruff. It is better to clear the pathways by leading a low heart from the dummy at trick two.

Now, however the defenders maneuver, South can check that the trumps aren’t 4-0 and organize not only the club ruffs but also returning to hand to draw the remaining adverse trumps. (If the trumps are 4-0, declarer will have to hope that the defender with four spades has at least two diamonds.)

As the splinter bid had excited South into using Blackwood, perhaps West should have led his singleton trump at trick one. Here, that lead – or either red suit – would have been lethal to the contract.

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Aerosmith singer Tyler reportedly accused of child sexual assault by ‘teen bride’ in lawsuit

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A woman once described by Steven Tyler as his “teen bride” filed a lawsuit against the Aerosmith frontman on Thursday, Rolling Stone reported.

Julia Holcomb sued Tyler in Los Angeles Superior Court and accused him of sexual assault, sexual battery and inflicting emotional distress dating to the 1970s, according to an article in the music magazine. Tyler is not named in the lawsuit, but it quotes from his own memoir, and Holcomb has previously spoken and written about her relationship with Tyler.

Holcomb has said she met Tyler in 1973 when she was just 16 years

old and he was 25. She said her parents signed away her guardianship to Tyler, allowing him to take her across state lines and continue a sexual and romantic relationship with her.

Tyler, now 74, wrote in his 2011 memoir that he “almost took a teen bride” and said, “Her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody.” He never referred to Holcomb by name, but she was also referenced in a 1976 Rolling Stone article.

Holcomb filed the lawsuit until California’s 2020 Child Victims Act, which created a threeyear window in which people who were sexually abused as children could sue their attackers.

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How will California deal with a big budget deficit?

While California has a surplus of critical issues demanding political attention –housing, homelessness and water to mention the most obvious – it faces a deficit of financial resources to deal with them.

Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon reveal a proposed budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year that begins July 1, and it’s likely to greatly differ from the 2022-23 version he and the Legislature adopted just six months ago.

The current budget reflected what Newsom said would be a massive surplus, thanks mostly to a flood of tax revenues from highincome Californians who were enjoying big gains on their investments.

Pegging the surplus at $97.5 billion, Newsom bragged that “no other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this.”

He and the Legislature enacted a $300plus billion budget that committed much of the supposed surplus to expanding an array of social and educational services, including what he said was achieving universal health care by extending coverage to all undocumented immigrants.

Just a few weeks later, however, Newsom began acknowledging that the surplus might not be as large as he had boasted. He vetoed a number of spending bills, citing indications that a recession might be on the horizon.

In November, the Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Patek, made the reversal of fortune official in his annual report on the state’s finances, saying the healthy surplus that Newsom projected is really a “$24 billion budget problem.”

“The budget problem is mainly attributable to lower revenue estimates, which are lower than budget act projections from 2021-22 through 2023-24 by $41 billion,” Patek said, stressing that the deficit would occur even if there’s no recession but would become worse if the economy does, indeed, “turn sour.”

Whether the nation is headed for recession is a much-debated question. The Federal Reserve System has hiked interest rates sharply in hopes of cooling off the economy and lowering a soaring inflation rate. While it hopes for a “soft landing,” some economists believe that it could become a fullblown recession.

California’s budget is particularly sensitive to larger economic currents because it is inordinately dependent on taxing incomes of a relative few wealthy Californians. Income taxes are three-quarters of the state’s general fund revenues and 1% of taxpayers generate nearly half of those taxes.

“Based on historical experience, should a recession occur soon, revenues could be $30 billion to $50 billion below our revenue outlook in the budget window,” Patek said. Because of the looming threat of recession, Patek urged the Legislature to adopt a very conservative approach to the 2023-24 budget, balancing it without relying on the state’s reserves.

It’s good advice, but will the Legislature heed it? Backpedaling is a hard sell in a Legislature dominated by left-leaning Democrats and allies in advocacy groups that had been elated by the budget’s provisions.

Initial indications are that legislators would prefer to continue the programmatic enhancements even if it means dipping into reserves or borrowing money to cover the deficit.

The Assembly Budget Committee said as much in a “budget blueprint” issued after Patek made his report. The document devotes much verbiage to self-congratulation about the current budget’s largesse and calls for protecting it by using the “state balance sheet to continue key investments.” That’s defined as shifting some spending to special funds and “borrowing from special funds, especially if revenue situation worsens.”

So where does Newsom stand between these two conflicting approaches? Will he adopt Paatek’s conservative advice or side with the Legislature, even if it means deficit spending and debt? We’ll know in about a week.

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Diplomacy without a stick

Diplomacy’s mission is to negotiate nations’ differing objectives. Its negotiating strength is primarily measured by a nation’s relative military strength and secondarily by its economic strength. Obviously, nations objectives vary – some for peace and some for aggression.

Earl Heal

When Adolf Hitler began his attempted conquest of World War II, he had built a superior military strength that other European nations feared. That enabled him to negotiate agreements he had no intention of following. England’s Neville Chamberlain negotiated “peace in our time” only months before Hitler began World War II. Hitler eventually lost because he underestimated America’s resolve and industrial strength to build an overwhelming military force.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt never negotiated until Germany and Japan acknowledged that they were militarily destroyed.

Roosevelt clearly spoke only of “unconditional surrender.”

The Korean War is an example of military weakness and ineffective diplomacy. While America had dissolved 90% of our military strength promptly after the World War II victory, Russia continued building its military and hence diplomatic strength to expand communist domination and influenced entry into the Korean War.

Initially, 90% of South Korea was lost to North Korea with Soviet support. However, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with United Nations members, built a force that in six months recovered South Korea and

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most of North Korea. United Nations diplomacy, however, became the controlling factor and prevented MacArthur from stopping China from entering 300,000 troops into the war and recapturing North Korea. UN weak diplomacy negotiated a cease-fire, but a divided Korea and conflict potential remain 70 years later.

Vietnam is the next example of diplomacy without military force preventing victory.

America, Korea and Australia entered sufficient military force to conquer the Viet Cong in South Vietnam by September 1968 to the point that Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnam commanding general, was “packing his bags” to enter the Paris Peace Talks. Pathetically, America never strategically attacked North Vietnam to prevent their capability to continue combat. Result: We negotiated, without military strength backing, a peace treaty that the North violated within two years and established communism in all of Vietnam that led to the additional death of several hundred thousand people.

Why did the Cold War with our former Soviet ally continue for 40 years? After the Soviet “Iron Curtain” expanded communism over many European and Asian states, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Dulles established the doctrine of “Fortress America” to retard the expansion of communism. Unfortunately, after Eisenhower, American diplomacy was revised to only match the opposing nations militarily with a doctrine of maintaining equal strength named Mutual Assured Destruction. That

doctrine continued the Cold War indefinitely. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan labeled MAD as suicidal and introduced a new diplomatic approach; We Win They Lose, and he developed military strength the Soviet Union could not match.

The Soviet Union collapsed. This enabled diplomacy, leading to freedom for former communistbloc nations.

Iraq’s Saddam Hussein judged America on its Vietnam failure and ridiculed concern that America could overcome Iraq and liberate Kuwait. He overlooked that a military veteran was America’s president and suffered total defeat in 100 hours of combat.

The military role in Afghanistan was diplomatically controlled for 20 years and produced America’s most embarrassing and expensive defeat as Americans tired of a neverending war. America and its NATO allies had the military strength for a quick victory over a nation smaller than Texas, but never applied it though a national poll measured 60% of Afghanis favored American presence. Thanks to our liberal failures, the Taliban is in control, wellarmed and oppressive, especially of all Afghani women now denied any education.

In this column we looked at the success and failure of diplomacy, with and without a big stick. Next week we will turn our attention to Ukraine. Will we ever learn history?

Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and member of The Right Stuff committee formerly of the Solano County Republican Central Committee. Reach him at heal earlniki2@gmail.com.

Mind the gap between West and the rest

When Ukrainian Presi dent Volodymyr Zel enskyy addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress just days before Christmas – his first trip abroad since Russia’s invasion 10 months ago – he described a triumph against the Kremlin in the “battle for the minds of the world.”

“Yet,” he added, “we have to do whatever it takes to ensure that countries of the Global South also gain such victory.”

Ferreira Marques

As the war drags on into 2023, the question of how to broaden the coalition of nations supporting Ukraine is not just necessary, it’s urgent. Success would increase Russian diplomatic and economic isolation. It could limit this humanitarian disaster and, by avoiding even deeper divisions and escalation, may even avert others, including around Taiwan, which China still claims as its territory.

President Joe Biden and Western allies can do far more – starting with ceasing to frame the fight as an existential clash between democracies and autocracies.

Most obviously, the rhetorical flourish automatically and unhelpfully pushes China and others into Russia’s camp. Emerging nations aren’t sold, and resist the dichotomy. It makes it easier to argue, as Indonesia’s defense minister has, that “your enemy is not necessarily my enemy.”

It’s not even particularly accurate. Yes, Russian President Vladimir Putin is a dictator and Ukraine a democracy (admittedly, an imperfect one). But Kyiv is not under attack from Russian forces primarily over its political system, nor is it being supported by the West because of it. Putin seeks to subjugate, even annihilate, a neighbor, and threatens global stability. This is about sovereignty, territorial integrity and the rule of law. Those are far better, concrete, concepts to build on.

Zelenskyy’s appearance was intended as an impassioned appeal to U.S. lawmakers, driving home the desperate need for continued

financial and military help. Pushing out Russian forces will certainly require copious amounts of Western hardware, training and cash – but it will happen much faster if Moscow, already under pressure from wide-ranging economic sanctions, struggles to sell enough oil and gas at adequate prices, and if fewer powerful emerging nations attempt to sit on the fence, as India, Indonesia and others have. We need more than Western liberal democracies if Putin is to be forced to call off what he started.

The trouble is that from the early hours of Feb. 24, Western leaders have repeatedly reached for the idea of a war of values. In a “good war” with a clear aggressor, David fighting Goliath, it’s easy to see why this image of democracy versus autocracy appeals. In the case of Biden, for whom this was a leitmotif even before the invasion, it serves to boost morale and to remind folks back home of domestic anti-democratic threats.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with his elevated sense of historical importance, certainly warmed to the Churchillian theme.

In much of the rest of the world, however, it’s a harder sell, and it smacks of Western hypocrisy.

It’s not that democracy is thriving. As things stand, most of the world’s population lives under a tyrant of one shade or another. According to the V-Dem Institute in Sweden and its 2022 Democracy Report, the levels of democracy enjoyed by the average citizen in 2021 were at 1989 levels, implying three decades of progress since the end of the Cold War have been reversed. Worse, while this year has brought hope for those fighting for democracy, progress is limited.

Iran’s rulers are still in charge, Putin has tightened his grip at home despite the debacle abroad, Chinese leader Xi Jinping isn’t about to be toppled even after the humbling start to his third term.

But Ukraine isn’t “Top Gun.” Calling this a struggle between

democracy and autocracy is at best simplistic. Yes, the traditional West has united against Russia, but what about the rest? Does India count as a democracy, and if so which side is it on? What about Hungary? Or Singapore, which has imposed sanctions on Russia? Are there perfect democracies and perfect autocracies? It prioritizes form over function, much as does Biden’s “Summit for Democracy,” held in December 2021 and due again in March 2023.

This is also not about fighting autocracies, it’s one autocrat – just as the Cold War was about one regime –one man and his imperialist illusions.

A less divisive, less blackand-white approach won’t solve everything. Even a change of vocabulary won’t prompt Xi to drop Putin and embrace Biden, however irked he may be by the progress of the war at a time when domestic troubles have multiplied. But the “no-limits friendship” between Moscow and Beijing has been shown to have limits, and China can support an argument around territorial integrity, say – central to Beijing’s own foreign policy principles and domestic concerns – just as it will seek to avoid global economic crisis or a nuclear disaster.

The other problem is that the idea of a clash of democracies versus the rest is untenable, given the strategic balancing that will be required to defeat Putin – with Saudi Arabia, for one, or even U.S. engagement with Venezuela. Liberal democracies, after all, amount to a paltry 34 countries, some 13% of the world’s population.

There’s plenty more that can be done to widen support, not least investing in more effective diplomatic engagement and economic ties across Africa and Asia. But it’s clear that ensuring Ukraine’s survival and protecting global stability requires pragmatism. Not mission creep.

Clara Ferreira Marques is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and editorial board member covering foreign affairs and climate.

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Pa. family of Idaho murder suspect releases statement supporting him, offering sympathy to victims’ families

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. —

The Monroe County family of Idaho slayings suspect Bryan Kohberger released a statement through his attorney Sunday saying they support him and are cooperating with law enforcement “in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence.”

The statement from Kohberger’s parents, Michael and Marianne, and sister, Amanda, opens with an expression of sympathy for the families of the four University of Idaho students he is suspected of stabbing to death Nov. 13 in their offcampus house.

“There are no words that can adequately express the sadness we feel, and we pray each day for them. We will continue to let the legal process unfold and as a family we will love and support our son and brother,” they wrote.

“We have fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions. We respect privacy in this matter as our family and the families suffering loss can move forward through the legal process.”

Kohberger, 28, a Poconos native who attended Northampton

Community College and earned a master’s degree in criminal justice from DeSales University, was arrested at his parents’ Chestnuthill Township home Friday.

He was charged in Idaho with four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20.

The four were stabbed to death in their house in Moscow – a short drive across the state line from Washington State University, where Kohberger is a doctoral student in the department of criminal justice and criminology.

On Saturday, Kohberg-

er’s attorney, Monroe County Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar, said his client plans to waive his Tuesday extradition hearing and return to Idaho to face the charges.

A probable cause affidavit outlining the reasons authorities charged Kohberger will remain sealed until he is arraigned in Idaho.

Kohberger, who attended Pleasant Valley School District, has been described as an oddball and loner.

NBC News interviewed Jordan Serulneck, owner of Seven Sirens Brewery in Bethlehem, who said Kohberger used to come in to drink by himself and was flagged in the bar’s system as a patron who made

servers uncomfortable.

“Serulneck said Kohberger would ask the female staff or customers who they were at the brewery with, where they lived,” NBC reported. “He said if the women blew him off, “he would get upset with them a little bit,” noting that one time he called one of his staff members a b---- when she refused to answer his questions.”

Lawrence Rosenberg told The Morning Call that he knew Kohberger, and attended Monroe County Technical Institute with him for a few years before Kohberger left in 2014.

Rosenberg said Kohberger knows a lot of people in the Poconos area and would get together

with friends at Indian Mountain Lakes, the gated community of more than 3,000 homes where his parents live.

Nick Mcloughlin, 26, who said he was friends with Kohberger in high school and vocational school, told The Daily Beast he was surprised by the news of Kohberger’s arrest. He said Kohberger had been a “down to earth” member of his friend group who later turned “aggressive” and picked up boxing as a hobby.

“He always wanted to fight somebody, he was bullying people. We started cutting him off from our friend group because he was 100% a different person,” Mcloughlin said.

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In San Francisco, 5.46 inches of rain fell, making Saturday the city’s second wettest day in more than 170 years, the National Weather Service reported.

The 101 Freeway in South San Francisco was shut down for flooding just as New Year’s Eve revelers were heading out to celebrate, but reopened a few hours before midnight.

While California’s drought remains far from over, the wet weather that closed 2022 has enabled at least a few of the state’s major reservoirs to exceed their historical average water supply.

Water releases from the Folsom and Nimbus dams led state parks officials to warn of safety hazards on Lake Natoma as rapidly rising water levels create dangerously strong currents.

In Los Angeles, where heavy rain fell on New Year’s Eve, forecasters expect rain to return Monday afternoon or

evening, followed by a strong Pacific storm with heavy rain and strong winds late Wednesday and Thursday.

In the 48 hours before the rain stopped Sunday before dawn, 1.1 inches fell in downtown Los Angeles and 5.7 inches in the San Gabriel Mountains.

It was a relatively warm storm, so the snow level was mostly around 7,000 feet, with 3 inches falling at Mt. Baldy, said David Sweet, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

A weaker storm will drop up to an inch of rain in the L.A. area Monday night and Tuesday, he said, and then a much stronger one – another atmospheric river – is expected late Wednesday and Thursday.

“This is looking to be an extremely powerful system,” Sweet said.

Two to four inches of rain are expected at lower elevations, and three to six inches in the mountains below the snow line around 6,000 feet, he said.

The storm could also bring winds of 50 to 70 mph, with especially strong gusts north of Los Angeles.

surers are men.

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troller Phyllis Taynton, who is starting her second term in the elected post and worked in the office 29 years before that, said she has not observed a great difference in how men and women govern.

“I think everyone has a different style,” said Taynton, who succeeded a woman in the post. “I try to work with a person and get to know their style.”

Moreover, she said it is important that the best candidate be elected no matter the gender. That said, she does think it is good that the number of elected women is representative of the county population.

Women also hold majorities on the Suisun City Council, including Mayor Alma Hernandez, make up all seven members of the Solano County Board of Education – with the elected Superintendent of Schools Lisette EstrellaHenderson, too – and have majorities on the Solano Community College board, and the Benicia, Dixon, and River Delta school boards.

All six elected city clerks are women, but all six of the elected city trea-

Additionally, the Solano County district attorney is a woman, and a Suisun City woman, Lori Wilson, represents the 11th District in the state Assembly, which includes all of Solano County.

The state Legislature is 41% women, the highest percentage ever, and Kamala Harris is the first woman vice president.

And the discussion of women in positions of influence could expand to include the host of department heads, senior administrative positions and the top executives at Solano Community College and Touro University California, as well as the superintendents of four school districts: FairfieldSuisun, Travis, Vacaville and River Delta.

However, none of the city managers in the county is a woman, and while Birgitta Corsello just retired this past spring as the first and only woman to serve as county administrator, the top executive for the county is also a man.

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception,” the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

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They want to to identify chemical stress indicators that become elevated in a bee’s brain months before the insect displays any outward signs of decline.

The cylindrical device Rovnyak uses to detect these substances, called a spectrometer, would be impractical for any beekeeper or farmer. But once the researchers determine which chemicals are the best predictors of bee health, they want to develop a low-cost test that could be deployed in the real world.

Double the cost

Every spring, just as the apple blossoms are starting to bloom, a flatbed truck rolls up to Hollabaugh Bros. farm in the middle of the night, laden with 100 honeybee hives.

Workers set up the boxy containers across 150 acres that produce more than 50 varieties of apples, said Ellie Hollabaugh Vranich, assistant business manager of the farm in Biglerville, just north of Gettysburg.

“We try to get them spread out while it’s still dark, before the bees wake up,” she said.

A decade ago, the farm rented the hives for $50 apiece. A few years ago, the price rose to $60, and this past spring, it was $100, for a total of $10,000, she said.

Beekeepers have cited a variety of reasons for the increases, such as higher fuel costs and disruptions related to the Covid-19 pandemic. But every year, a major factor in higher costs is that many colonies don’t survive the winter, meaning beekeepers must scramble to raise new ones in time for the growing season.

“You can’t just manufacture a bee on a processing line in a factory,” Vranich said. “They have to be bred and given time to develop new hives.”

Experienced beekeepers such as Capaldi, the Bucknell scientist, can often tell when a hive is starting to fail simply by looking at it. Perhaps the insects haven’t amassed

long-term stores of honey, subsisting instead on liquid nectar. A lack of a brood is another warning sign.

But by that point, it might already be too late.

A year ago, Capaldi judged that her eight hives at Bucknell were under stress, likely because the fall asters and goldenrods had produced less nectar than usual. So throughout the winter, she supplemented the insects’ food with sugar.

Even so, just two of the hives survived.

Finding the culprits

The first sign of trouble for the insects came in the 1980s with the introduction of a parasitic mite from overseas, said Pizzorno, the Bucknell virologist.

Relative to the size of the honeybee, these parasites, called Varroa destructor, are enormous.

“It’d be like having a tick on your body that’s the size of a dinner plate,” she said.

Scientists later would discover that in addition to inflicting harm directly, the parasites also transmitted a virus to the honeybees that deforms their wings.

Researchers also have established that climate change affects the bees in a variety of ways, Capaldi said. Early warm spells or unusual rain patterns can cause flowers to bloom too early and disappear by the time the insects are looking for nectar.

“When the colony is growing, the flowers may not be available,” she said.

Certain pesticides and other practices of large-scale industrial agriculture also can add to the stress, she said. That includes the way the bees are deployed, trucked from farm to farm where they subsist on one crop for days at a time.

Increasingly throughout the 1990s, beekeepers reported that some of their colonies did not survive the winter. Then in 2006, beekeepers discovered that some colonies were dying in an unusual way. Instead of dying in or near the hive, bees were simply vanishing, apparently flying off to die elsewhere.

While beekeepers have reported fewer cases of this colony collapse disorder in recent years – in part because they have developed better management techniques – the causes remain somewhat unclear. Capaldi blames many of the same factors that are behind the bees’ overall decline that began in the late 1980s.

Telltale chemicals

The stout silver spectrometer at Bucknell contains a magnet more powerful than the ones used in MRI machines, said Rovnyak, the chemistry professor. To identify telltale metabolic chemicals in a bee brain, he places the tiny clump of material in a small receptacle at the center of the device, then hits it with

radio waves, causing the various substances to resonate in such a way that their relative amounts can be measured.

“Each molecule rings with a distinct set of patterns, like a chord,” he said.

In one study, he and the others found that an amino acid called proline was elevated in the brains of honeybees that were infected with the deformed-wing virus –well before they showed outward signs of disease.

The scientists have since identified other protein fragments that may be signs of stress – possibly because the insects are changing their eating habits in response to infection – but more work is needed.

Once the Bucknell researchers narrow down the best chemical predictors of a bee’s decline, they hope to develop a low-cost rapid test that beekeepers could use.

“If we could come up with something for a few bucks, that might be appealing,” Rovnyak said.

He likened the approach to certain blood tests for humans, such as those that can identify metabolic signs of Type 2 diabetes years before the onset of disease. Much like humans with pre-diabetes can ward off disease by changing their diet, beekeepers could do the same for the insects. Feeding them sugar, for instance, but starting earlier than Capaldi did last year with Bucknell’s colonies. Or deploying other tactics that have shown promise in limiting colony collapse disorder, such as treating for mites, relocating hives, or swapping in a different queen bee.

In the meantime, significant fractions of colonies keep failing every winter –30% one year, 40% or 50% the next, according to surveys by the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership. For now, breeders have kept up with the demand for new colonies. But at some point, maybe they won’t, Rovnyak said.

“It just seems to be getting more and more challenging every few years,” he said. “And there’s no sign this is stopping.”

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Jayne McDevitt reaches for a specimen from Professor Beth Capaldi while professors David Rovnyak and Marie Pizzorno review data.

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Bees at the entrance to a hive. Honeybees have been in decline for decades, causing headaches and higher costs for farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate crops. ()

there’s often “little to no evidence on the longterm effects.”

“What I see very consistently with fad diets, people gain it right back as soon as they’re not able to maintain this very strict regimen and may even gain weight back even more than they started with,” she said.

“And so that kind of up and down with our bodies can be not healthy on the inside as well.”

Consider ‘Dry January’

One New Year’s health trend that can be productive, Hariharan advises, is “Dry January,” abstaining from alcohol for the first month of the year.

“Alcohol is one of those things where there’s a very fine line between where it’s helpful and where it starts to become harmful and create inflammation or cause us to have weight gain or more seriously affect our detoxing organs,” she said. “And it

doesn’t take a whole lot for that to happen, especially when it’s small amounts over time.”

Dry January can then be an opportunity to “reflect on our drinking habits,” Hariharan explained.

“Taking those breaks can have an impact on health, not just the physical health of not consuming alcohol for a month, but also maybe getting a little perspective and redefining our relationship with” alcohol, she said.

Find a safe, enjoyable exercise regimen

Like with diet, Hariharan noted, it’s important to find a fitness routine you actually enjoy so that you’ll stick with it throughout the year and beyond.

“There’s so many great resources out there, online and in-person, so finding something we enjoy is good. And we don’t need to shoot for the moon every time,” she said.

Setting specific and attainable goals will help you get where you want,

Hariharan added.

“For example, if I say, ‘I’m going to exercise more in 2023’ versus ‘I’m going to walk for 20 minutes on my lunch break on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for all of January,’ I’m much more likely to do the second thing than I am the first,” she said.

And if you have “chronic medical problems” – such as heart disease, joint pain or arthritis – Hariharan recommends reaching out to your doctor for help crafting an exercise plan that’s both “safe and beneficial.”

Manage your stress levels

Our health is affected not just by what we eat and how much we exercise but also by our mindset, Hariharan said. So, she advises, it’s important to find a “meaningful outlet” for dealing with stress.

“I believe that stress, even low levels of chronic stress, is probably one of the most prevalent diseases in our society,” she said.

That outlet can take

many forms depending on what works best for you, she added.

“People get intimidated,” she said. “They think, ‘I can’t do, like, meditation.’ Or they think about somebody sitting quietly for 30 minutes, and that sounds like torture. It doesn’t need to be something like that. It can be a breathing practice, it can be prayer, it can be sitting outside in nature and can be listening to meaningful music.”

As little as five minutes a day “of some mindful type of practice” can “create measurable changes in the mind and the body,” according to Hariharan.

“For example, if I was to lift weights for five minutes every day for a month, I would notice that I could maybe pick something up more easily or do other things about my day with more ease. It’s the same with mindbody practices,” she said. “If we do that for five minutes today, we don’t just feel better for those five minutes. The benefits start to kind of diffuse out into the rest of our day, and the benefits grow.”

Tejani, medical oncologist and director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology program at the AdventHealth Cancer Institute and the AdventHealth Research Institute.

In 2019, 10,496 Floridians were diagnosed with colorectal cancer according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number has likely been bolstered by people who delayed colonoscopies during the pandemic.

Many end up getting chemo, which uses powerful chemicals to kill cancer cells and costs thousands of dollars even with insurance. Out-of-pocket costs for the uninsured can reach six figures. Normal, healthy cells are often killed by the treatment, too, and though they can bounce back, their absence causes symptoms like nausea and vomiting, hair loss, exhaustion, and fever.

Infertility, lung disease, other cancers, heart problems, hearing loss, nerve damage, memory issues or early menopause can all pop up years after the treatment ends, according to Mayo Clinic.

Tejani is leading the AdventHealth site of two National Cancer Institute clinical trials of this sequencing technology, named SIGNATERA, developed by the DNAtesting company Natera.

One clinical trial involves patients with stage III colon cancer, which is when the disease has spread to surrounding tissue or lymph nodes.

These patients are traditionally prescribed chemotherapy after surgery, even though around 50% of stage III colon cancer patients are cured by surgery alone, some estimates say.

The study will randomly give or withhold chemotherapy to stage III patients who have tested negative for circulating

tumor DNA, then track their outcomes long term, Tejani said. It began in March 2022 and will conclude around March 2030. Tejani’s AdventHealth site is currently enrolling participants.

Another clinical trial of stage IIA colon cancer patients has been going on since 2019 and aims to finish up in 2027.

Some researchers have reservations, however.

In a study of Canadian medical professionals released in May, they called this technology’s potential applications a “holy grail” for detecting hereditary cancers. But they also worried about the impact of false-negative tests.

These could motivate patients to delay regular screenings, one anonymous medical professional said.

Several practitioners, whose identities were removed, said in the survey they were also concerned about how a patient’s mental health could be affected if they did receive a positive result.

“If you have nothing that you can do beyond what you’re already doing you’re just going to have an anxious patient,” wrote an anonymous practitioner.

To critics, Tejani points to another study AdventHealth is involved in which will track the blood test’s impact on patients’ quality of life, conducted by the company that created it. It has a 2025 end date.

In the future, Tejani hopes this test can also be used to screen for signs of colon cancer in those who haven’t yet been diagnosed, and for it to extend beyond colon cancer to improve care for other cancers, such as gynecologic or pancreatic cancers.

“I think there’ll be a day where all of us will be tested, and we’ll be able to see whether we’re predisposed in our life to have any particular cancer,” Tejani said. “I, unfortunately, meet people who already have it and try to help them live as long as possible.”

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Ohio State could have won; Georgia did win

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They trailed by 14 points in each half. They led for 105 of the game’s 3,600 seconds. They were all but beaten … and then, yet again, they weren’t. A calendar year ruled by Georgia ticked into history with the Bulldogs unbeaten in 2022, and it’ll be a while before anyone beats them in 2023.

Nothing against TCU, but the national championship game was staged here. Ohio State, the only team that could have felled Georgia, came as close as a team can get without sealing the deal. And that’s the thing: Under Kirby Smart, the Bulldogs have cast aside decades of near-misses. They’ve forgotten how to lose. They seal every deal.

With a chance to win at the end, the Buckeyes’ Noah Ruggles missed badly. A classic College Football Playoff semifinal ended with Ohio State scoring 41 points on Georgia’s mighty defense. It wasn’t enough. The Bulldogs won the fourth quarter 18-3, the game 42-41. They’re bound for the final in L.A., bound for a second consecutive national title.

Said Smart: “Our

guys are extremely resilient.”

Ohio State will complain forever about a Georgia fourth-down failure that, after replay review, became a vital conversion. Them’s the breaks. It’s a game of inches and all that. All the inches, and the flawed swing of Ruggles’ foot, fell the Bulldogs’ way. That can happen with a serial winner. Ask UGA fans about the officiating in the January 2018 loss to Alabama.

The heartbreak of that night in this same MercedesBenz Stadium seems to belong to another century. Coming off a 14-1 season, the Bulldogs are poised to go 15-0. They’ve beaten Michigan. They’ve beaten Alabama. They’ve beaten Ohio State. Anyone else want to try?

TCU, an upset winner over Michigan, will give it a go. Georgia, however, isn’t Michigan. Georgia is now a cut above the rest. It gained 533 yards against the Buckeyes. On the Bulldogs’ final two possessions (not counting a kneel-down), Ohio State didn’t come close to stopping the team that never wears

Late-game heroics lead 49ers to 37-34 OT win

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LAS VEGAS — Back and forth they went, slugging it out like prize fighters in a pay-perview bout on the nearby Vegas Strip.

The 49ers and the Raiders traded points, delivered hits, and made big-time plays in this, an epic first meeting of these former Bay Area neighbors since the Raiders fled in 2020 across the state line.

Robbie Gould’s 23-yard field goal sent the 49ers home with a 37-34 overtime win, but only after Nick Bosa’s pass rush and Tashaun Gipson’s ensuing interception return set up that final-round knockout.

“The Raiders answered so many times,” coach Kyle Shanahan said, “but we ended up doing it last.”

The victory will reverberate into the playoffs, as the NFC West champion 49ers (12-4) moved into the NFC’s No. 2 seed, with a chance to even claim the No. 1 spot. That seeding will depend on next weekend’s regular-season finale: A tenth straight

win (at home against the Arizona Cardinals) and a third straight Philadelphia Eagles (13-3) loss (at home against the New York Giants) would secure the top seed.

The 49ers leapfrogged the Minnesota Vikings (12-4) into the No. 2 spot by virtue of a tiebreaker in NFC games; the 49ers are 9-2 in those, and the Vikings fell to 7-4 in them with Sunday’s 41-17 loss at Green Bay.

“Being able to tell the team that right now we have the 2-seed and can take care of business, that fires the guys up,” Shanahan said. ” Our playoffs started a long time ago is the way we look at it, and we’re going to keep it going.”

As epic a shootout as it was at Allegiant Stadium, it took a monumental play from the 49ers’ defense to finish things. That came when Bosa, a favorite to win the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year, drove left tackle Kolton Miller into the pocket and into quarterback Jarrett Stidham as he threw a

Playing with Pelé is still a ‘dream come true’ for Rigby

PHILADELPHIA — Bob Rigby boarded two flights and a hydrofoil boat, traveling 30 hours to meet the New York Cosmos in Sweden as their last-minute goalkeeper for a 1975 world tour. He grew up in Delaware County, was a substitute teacher while playing at Veterans Stadium for the Atoms, and was now standing behind Pelé in the tunnel of a European soccer stadium.

“I remember looking out at the field, looking right over his head, his head steaming because it was really cold on a fall night over there, and I just remember, ‘Holy mackerel,’ ” Rigby said Thursday, hours after Pelé died in Brazil at 82. “The awe. It was just surreal. The vividness of that memory hasn’t changed at all.”

Rigby played the four-country tour with the Cosmos, winning over Pelé that first game after stopping more than 20 shots as the Cosmos were overmatched against powerful Malmö FF. Pelé immediately told ownership that the Cosmos needed Rigby and then took the kid from Ridley Park

out on the town. That, Rigby said, was the biggest honor.

“I couldn’t speak to him since he spoke Portuguese but he came up and took me with him,” Rigby said. “I’m the knucklehead from Delaware County. What the heck. We’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Pelé, who won three World Cups with Brazil, was already a global icon when he joined the Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in 1975, where he would play the final three years of his career. The crowds followed the team everywhere, from 20,000 fans who flocked The Vet despite Pelé not playing that night for the visiting Cosmos to the 40,000 who swarmed an evening training session in Haiti as the Cosmos finished their ’75 tour.

Rigby, who starred at Ridley High and East Stroudsburg before being selected by the Atoms with the first pick in the 1973 NASL draft, was in the middle of it all. When the Cosmos landed in PortAu-Prince, they traveled on a dirt road to their hotel as crowds of 40 to 50 people deep filled the entire 25-mile route.

“Every place, there would

be 50,000 people at the airport,” Rigby said. “The kings and queens. That was my first exposure to that. That’s just the way it was.”

Rigby, the first soccer player on the cover of Sports Illustrated, caught himself being a fan. The 1975 World Tour took the Cosmos to Italy to play against A.S. Roma in front of 70,000 fans at Olympic Stadium in Rome. Rigby needed to capture the moment.

“I asked him for a photo right before the game and then I realized, ‘Oh my god. What did I do,’ ” Rigby said. “But he pulled me right in. That’s the kind of guy he was.

“He was very gracious. It wasn’t just the soccer player or what he represented, he was a phenomenal man, human being. I played with all of them. All the top players in the world from that era were over here. But just him, the man, and how gracious and humble he was, that was never tarnished.”

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pass, which fluttered into the arms of Gipson for an interception.

That set up Gould’s 23-yard game-winner, his sweet redemption after pushing a 42-yard fieldgoal attempt wide right to invite overtime.

It was the 49ers’ tightest game of the year, and it saw rookie Brock Purdy win his fourth straight start at quarterback, though he nearly met his match in Jarrett Stidham, who excelled in his first career start after the Raiders’ mid-week benching of Derek Carr.

Purdy finished 22-of-35 for 284 yards with two touchdowns (on their first two drives) and an interception. Stidham was 23-of-34 for 365 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions.

“What Brock’s doing is real,” Shanahan said. “When makes mistakes, understands why and learns from them.”

The fourth quarter finished with a flurry of points, plays and, alas, Gould’s miss. To wit:

Jordan Mason’s

14-yard touchdown run with 2:17 remaining put the 49ers in front 34-27, and it came a play after Christian McCaffrey caught a Purdy pass and smashed a defender, rumbling for 34 yards. That play came shortly after a 23-yard catch by Brandon Aiyuk.

Josh Jacobs’ 1-yard touchdown run with 1:11 remaining tied things again, and it came a play after Fred Warner’s passinterference penalty in the end zone, which came shortly after Davante Adams’ 45-yard, acrobatic catch at the 19-yard line. Not since their last two defeats – back-to-back games against Atlanta and Kansas City – had the 49ers’ defense looked so vulnerable, and flaws were taken advantage of early on by Stidham, who connected best with, of course, Davante Adams(seven catches, 153 yards).

The 49ers didn’t come away without some lumps. Guard Aaron Banks (knee, ankle) and linebacker Dre

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Brazilian football player Pele shakes hands with a child, Sept. 12, 1976, as he arrives at Orly airport, with his New-York Cosmos team, to attend a friendly match against Paris SaintGermain, on Sept. 15, 1976.

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An Ohio State player sits dejected after Georgia beat Ohio State in a CFP semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Saturday. Georgia won, 42-41.

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Feed your soul with a warming bowl of bacon, kale, bean soup

A nn M Aloney THE WASHINGTON POST

I’m a soup convert. I work with a band of soup lovers.

When I first arrived at The Washington Post in 2019, my colleagues would extol the virtues of a well-made bowl, and I’d smile and nod as I suppressed a shrug.

I’m not sure where my lack of enthusiasm for soup began. Maybe it was the lingering memory of the canned chicken noodle soup I ate as a child when I was sick with a cold. Maybe I was turned off after the cabbage soup diet craze that I embraced in the 1980s.

What I do know is that it has taken me too long to realize what I’ve been missing.

As I’ve tested and tasted soups at home and in the Food Lab, I’ve been enlightened and convinced. I remember dipping a spoon into the Restorative Chicken and Rice Soup that Olga Massov said was inspired by a recipe in “Elizabeth Street Cafe” by Tom Moorman and Larry McGuire. I swear it made me feel younger.

When Kristen Hartke wrote about soup master Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette and we published his Monastic Garlic Soup, I slurped it up with enthusiasm. (I have long been a garlic fiend, and this simple dish was right up my alley.)

What did we do with the food delivery gift certificate that friends gave us when we got Covid-19? We ordered heaping containers of pho, which we ate over several days as we recuperated.

I had planned to write about my newfound appreciation for soup and my intention to embrace it more enthusiastically in the new year even before I read Damon Young’s moving perspective piece “Soup is so much more than food.”

He wrote: “Think about how you must consume it. It is not a food, like a slice of pizza, a taco or a sandwich, that you can eat on the run. If you attempt to run while also attempting to eat it, you will experience both the loss of soup and the gain of welldeserved shame. You need to sit with soup and take your time. If the soup is hot, you need to cool it before you place it into your mouth, and we mostly do this by blowing gently on to it until it is ready. It demands that you savor it, and it asks that you care for yourself while taking care of it.”

So here I was thinking that it was about the taste, the nourishment and the hydration, but

Young makes a much more lovely and thoughtful point: Soup requires a pause in the action, giving us a chance to sit and spoon.

On top of that, once you embrace these brothy bowls, you’ll discover that many recipes are blueprints: You can creatively soup up all kinds of herbs, proteins and starches.

This simple, rustic, hearty recipe from “Pipers Farm: The Sustainable Meat Cookbook” is a great example of that. You can make it as described here,

or try substituting chorizo or another favorite sausage or plant-based protein for the bacon. Switch the chicken broth to vegetable broth. Try it with collards or your favorite greens rather than the kale. Don’t have cannellini? Add butter beans or chickpeas.

Just do me one favor. After you ladle it into a bowl, hit that pause button for just a second. Then dip that spoon in while collecting your thoughts, reading a book, or chatting with family or friends. Let the

soup do its thing.

BACON, KALE AND BEAN SOUP 45 minutes 4 servings

Think of this simple, rustic, hearty soup from Piper Farm’s “The Sustainable Meat Cookbook” as a blueprint. Make it as described here, or try substituting chorizo or a preferred sausage for the bacon, your favorite greens for the kale, and butter beans or chickpeas for the cannellini.

Storage Notes: Refrigerate for up to 4 days.

8 ounces thick-cut bacon, cut into 2-inch pieces 2 small yellow or white onions (10 ounces total), finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced or finely grated 4 cups no-salt-added chicken broth, plus more as needed 1 3 cup tomato puree 1 teaspoon smoked paprika

2 bay leaves

One (15-ounce) can no-saltadded cannellini beans, rinsed and drained 3 ½ ounces baby kale, roughly chopped (see NOTE)

Fine salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Extra-virgin olive oil, for serving Warmed sourdough bread, for serving In a large pot over medium-high

heat, cook the bacon until crisp, about 5 minutes. Drain all but about 2 tablespoons of the fat from the pot. Reduce the heat to medium, add the onions and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions are softened and translucent, about 5 minutes.

Add the chicken broth, tomato puree and paprika. Reduce the heat to medium-low and bring to a gentle simmer. Add the bay leaves and simmer for about 20 minutes. Add the cannellini beans and simmer for 5 more minutes. Add the kale and simmer until it has wilted and softened to your liking. Taste the soup, and season with salt and pepper, as desired.

Ladle the soup into bowls, drizzle with olive oil and serve with sourdough on the side.

NOTE: If you use lacinato (also known as Tuscan kale, dinosaur kale or cavolo nero) remove and discard the thick stems, coarsely chop the leaves and cook the greens until they reach the desired tenderness.

Nutrition per serving (1 ½ cups) based on 4 | 419 calories, 24 g protein, 28 g carbohydrates, 24 g fat, 7 g saturated fat, 55 mg cholesterol, 1,026 mg sodium, 7 g dietary fiber, 6 g sugar

Classic brown butter turns the great into the sublime

We’re accustomed to the conventional wisdom in cooking that color equals flavor, and brown butter is no exception.

While good butter – especially something cultured and highfat – can be great as is, taking a few extra minutes to brown it can turn it into something truly sublime, ideal for cooking and baking.

“If brown butter weren’t classic in savory cuisine and traditional in some pastries, it would be easy to think of it as a trick to make us pay attention to an everyday ingredient,” cookbook author Dorie Greenspan says in “Baking Chez Moi.” “It’s a fine line between brown butter and burned butter, but stay on the right side of that line and you get the aroma of nuts and the flavor of caramel.”

In France, brown butter is known as “beurre noisette.” Noisette is the French word for hazelnuts, which brown butter resembles in color and even flavor. Here’s what else you need to know about this staple that is ideal for both sweet and savory dishes.

What is brown butter?

Butter is a matrix of fat, water, proteins and sugars. To

coax another layer of flavor out of it, you must first drive off the water. After that, as the mixture continues to heat up, the proteins and sugars start to interact with each other to form new flavors and aromas. This is the browning reaction known as Maillard. Once the little flakes of milk solids you can see in the melted fat have darkened, you officially have brown butter.

How to make brown butter

Making brown butter is as simple as, well, browning the butter.

If your recipe calls for more than 1 stick of butter, you can move to a larger skillet. Just make sure its interior is light and not dark so that you can better monitor the color of the milk solids as they brown.

Stella Parks likes working with a stainless steel saucier, which she says has the right mix of light color and heft to ensure the milk solids don’t scorch.

Regardless of what you use, pay attention and be ready to adjust on the fly. “Most brown butter mishaps are related to scorching, which is generally a sign the butter is cooking too fast over heat that’s too strong, and/or is in a pot that’s too large,” she says.

“If that describes your experience, try reducing the heat and

using a heavier pot. Conversely, if your gripe with brown butter is that it always takes much longer than the time listed in a recipe, make sure you’ve got the right pot for the job and feel free to bump up the heat.”

Other tips for success

Browning butter is not hard but requires some vigilance. Use your eyes, ears and nose. The bubbling and crackling (“it will sound like an audience of people politely clapping their hands,” Joanne Chang and Christie Matheson write in “Flour”) followed by silence means the

water has been cooked off and it’s time to pay even closer attention as the solids brown. In other words, don’t walk away!

When transferring brown butter to a bowl, be sure to use a flexible spatula to scrape out every last bit, as the solids that adhere to the pan are where all the flavor lives. Cook’s Illustrated offers another way to ensure nothing is lost: stirring and scraping constantly once the sputtering stops and browning begins.

Also, don’t bother trying to brown salted butter, Cook’s Illustrated advises. In their testing, the magazine found that salted

butter had no flavor advantage over unsalted. It also foams more, making it harder to monitor the color and keep the milk solids from burning.

If you’re using butter that has been frozen, let it thaw completely to avoid burning, Rose Levy Beranbaum says in “The Baking Bible.”

How to use brown butter

Using brown butter as a sauce is a great way to dip your toe into making it and appreciating its flavors. Spoon it over meat, vegetables or seafood, spiking with your choice of herbs or citrus juice.

Baking really lets brown butter shine, where its toasty, nutty flavors pair especially well with caramel, warming spices, vanilla and, of course, nuts. Feel free to start simple, such as using brown butter to amp up your favorite marshmallow and rice cereal treats. Brown butter is easily swapped in for any recipe that calls for melted butter or oil. For recipes that call for creaming or beating butter, you can combine the browned butter with more softened butter, or let it cool in an ice bath until it’s the same consistency as softened butter so you can then use a mixer to aerate it.

Adapted from “Pipers Farm: The Sustainable Meat Cookbook” by Abby Allen and Rachel Lovell (Hachette Book Group, 2022).

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This bacon, kale and bean soup recipe is simple, rustic and hearty.

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Brown butter can be used in sweet or savory ways.

It’s easy to substitute other greens, proteins and beans for the baby kale, bacon and cannellini called for here.

These historic works coming free from copyright

WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG?

It’s well understood that Sherlock Holmes dispatched his great nemesis, Professor Moriarty, to his death in the 1893 story “The Final Problem,” but not until New Year’s Day did the fictional detective shed the shackles that have bound him to an even longerlived nemesis: the complexities of copyright law.

On Sunday, the last of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle enters the public domain. The expiration of the copyright on the last stories published by Conan Doyle, in the 1927 volume “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,” writes the final chapter to a long-lasting battle over the publication rights to Holmes and Dr. Watson waged by the Conan Doyle estate.

“They’re out of copyright arguments,” says Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University. Every year at about this time, Jenkins produces a list of creative works, classic and merely popular, that enter the public domain in the U.S. on New Year’s Day.

This year’s roster covers works published in 1927 and therefore subject to final copyright expiration as of 2023.

As usual, it’s a treasure trove. Among the literary works are Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse,” Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” William Faulkner’s second novel, “Mosquitos” (his first, “Soldier’s Pay,” entered the public domain in 2022) and “The Tower Treasure,” the first Hardy Boys mystery by the pseudonymous Franklin W. Dixon.

Among the 1927 films entering the public domain are the silent classics “Metropolis,” “Wings” (the winner of the first best-picture Academy Award), “The Lodger” (Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller), and “The Jazz Singer,” the Al Jolson talkie that effectively put silent films out of business. Also on the list is an early Laurel and Hardy classic, “The Battle of the Century,” featuring the pie fight that made pie fights a movie staple.

Musical compositions (sheet music and lyrics only) include “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream,” Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” and Duke Ellington’s “Black and Tan Fantasy.”

With the expiration of their copyrights, these works become “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” Jenkins says.

The dribbling of classic works into the public domain every year on Jan. 1 may be

gratifying, but it also serves to underscore the stupidity and cupidity of our convoluted copyright system.

Calculating the duration of copyright protection can be a complicated process, depending not only on when works were created and published, but when their creators died, whether they formally registered for copyright and renewed it, and the format of the works.

Musical compositions copyrighted in 1927 move into the public domain in 2023, but not recordings of the songs made later. Silent films from 1927 are coming out of copyright, but not necessarily title cards or accompanying music added later.

Frequent congressional changes in copyright rules and duration are mostly responsible for the confusion. The argument for extending copyright terms has always been that the extensions give creators or their heirs that much more time to collect income and therefore incentive to keep their creative juices flowing, and who could object to that?

As Jenkins and other copyright experts point out, however, only a minuscule fraction of published creative works generate income for more than a few short years.

The impetus for extending copyright duration comes almost entirely from corporate enterprises intent on squeezing the maximum income from creative franchises.

In 1998, the Walt Disney Co. pushed for enactment of the Copyright Term Extension Act, the 1998 federal law known as the Sonny Bono Act after its chief promoter in Congress. The act set copyright duration at the author’s life plus 70 years, or 95 years after publication for works done for hire.

But it’s vanishingly unlikely that a posthumous 95-year term would be an incentive to any living artist or writer. It was, however, a bounty for Disney, which at the time was facing the expiration of rights to the earliest films featuring Mickey Mouse and the looming cutoff of the royalty spigot.

Thanks to the extension, the rights to the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Steamboat Willie,” won’t expire until Jan. 1, 2024 – assuming Congress doesn’t extend copyright duration again.

Whether the rules as they stand today serve the public interest is open to question. Consider the stringent control exercised by the estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. –mostly his children – over his speeches and writings such as

the “I Have a Dream” speech he delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963.

As copyright expert Arlen v. Langvardt traced the copyright status of the speech in 2015, on the day it was delivered, the speech was eligible for copyright protection through 2019 (a 28-year term plus a 28-year renewal if applied for by the owner). Congress subsequently extended the duration of copyright to the life of the creator plus 70 years.

But that was for works published in 1978 or later. For pre-1978 works, such as the speech, the old terms applied, except the renewal rights were extended by 19 years. Another Congressional act afforded those works yet a further 20 years of protection.

The copyright on “I Have A Dream,” therefore, won’t expire until 2058, or nearly a century after King delivered it to a massive crowd at the Lincoln Memorial and untold more viewers on television. (Federal courts have ruled that the public delivery of the speech didn’t invalidate its rights to copyright, which King himself exercised.)

In the meantime, the King family has ridden herd on numerous usages of their forebear’s speeches and writings. As I’ve reported before, filmmaker Ava DuVernay put rewritten and paraphrased lines into the mouth of the actor portraying King in her film “Selma,” which depicted his role in the 1965 protests in support of the Voting Rights Act.

DuVernay didn’t use King’s actual words because the film rights had been sold to Steven Spielberg for a still-unproduced project. Moreover, she said, acquiring the rights from the King family would have involved giving them a voice in how King was portrayed, constraining her own artistic choices.

The murkiness of copyright law was a factor in the Conan Doyle estate’s long fight with creative artists wishing to put Holmes and Watson into new works. The estate maintained in lawsuits that it retained the rights to the characters as long as any of Conan Doyle’s novels or stories remained under copyright.

Thanks to the efforts of Leslie S. Klinger, a Westwood lawyer and leading authority on all things Sherlockian, that argument was thrown out of court. But the possibility of a successful infringement challenge remained a background threat.

“The Conan Doyle estate is trying to protect its money,” Klinger told me in 2014, following an important ruling against the estate. “They like to say this

is about quality control, and they’ve kept some real crap off the market. But there’s so much crap out there that it’s a little late to be worrying about quality control.”

Anyway, now that the last Holmes stories written by Conan Doyle are losing their legal shield, the characters of Holmes and Watson will indisputably belong to the public.

In some cases, extending copyright protection works against the survival of creative works. That’s most evident in the case of silent films.

Once talkies came to dominate film-making – starting in 1927 with “The Jazz Singer” (which will enter the public domain on Jan. 1) – Hollywood studios all but abandoned their silent film archives.

“The studios – wrongly as it turns out – thought that silent films had no enduring commercial or cultural value,” Jenkins says. “Our silent film heritage, all these reels and canisters, were melted down and destroyed for their silver content, or thrown out or just left to decay, and the nitrate base of these films is prone to deterioration or even spontaneous combustion.” By the estimate of the Library of Congress, some 75% of American silent films are presumed to be lost forever.

One might think that the prospect of profiting from copyrighted silents might have prompted studios and other rights holders to take better care of them, but the opposite happened, in part because many of the works had no identifiable rights holders.

All that was known about them was that someone might hold the copyright. That is enough to discourage film archives and preservationists from working with them, for fear of being accused of infringement.

“Works already on the edge of disintegration, which in all likelihood have no objecting copyright holders, are nevertheless simply too risky for most archival facilities to restore, or even display,” Jenkins’ center observed in a 2005 submission to the Copyright Office. Some archives even imposed rules that only works known to be in the public domain could be made available for viewing or restoration.

The center proposed that the Copyright Office establish guidelines for good-faith searches for copyright owners, a public registry for posting intended new uses to give putative rights holders fair notice along with immunity for restorers or exhibitors if no one comes forward after a decent interval. Nothing ever came of those recommendations, however.

A handful of notable silents have been the focus of global detective work to piece together original copies – holy grails to film historians. One is “Metropolis,” of which copies of the original full-length cut were found in archives in Argentina and New Zealand in 2008 and 2010.

Paramount Pictures conducted a global hard target search for cuts of “Wings,” which it produced in 1927, until finding a digitally restorable copy in its own vaults in time for the film’s 85th anniversary and the studio’s own centennial. But as the Motion Picture Academy’s first best-picture awardee, “Wings” was long a collector’s dream.

Then there’s the pie fight from “Battle of the Century,” another long-mourned treasure pieced together largely thanks to a discovery by amateur film collector Jon Mirsalis, who was astonished to find the pie-fight sequence in a film archive he had purchased.

The film was added in 2020 to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, which called it “a stark illustration of the detective work [and luck] required to locate and preserve films from the silent era.” It can be viewed today on YouTube; I challenge anyone, no matter how grumbly or peevish, to watch it without laughing out loud.

Copyright laws tend to favor commercial interests because most people are unaware of how copyrights affect their own rights to intellectual property.

“The general public’s interest in copyright legislation is diffuse; a grass-roots revolt of copyright users seems unlikely,” copyright expert Jessica Litman wrote in 1994.

That may be changing. Digital technologies that weren’t available to the average individual in 1994 now place the making of perfect copies of literary and artistic works within the reach of anyone with a computer. In fact, copies that could arguably infringe on someone’s copyright are produced all the time as the result of merely downloading an ebook from the web or reading it online.

As I reported recently, the transition from physical books to ebooks, along with other digital capabilities, have raised the stakes for publishers seeking to protect their and their authors’ intellectual property interests. It may also bring copyright issues into the home. The battle over copyrights won’t be going away any time soon.

Michael Hiltzik is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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ABOVE: Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., where he gave his “I Have A Dream” speech.

LEFT: Freed from copyright shackles at last: Colin Blakely as Dr. Watson, left, and Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes in Billy Wilder’s film “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.”

Why Letitia Wright had to be persuaded she was ready for the Black Panther’s claws

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Ryan Coogler’s 2018 “Black Panther,” starring Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa, collected $1.3 billion and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first best picture Oscar nomination. It was a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Two years later, the 43-year-old Boseman died unexpectedly of colon cancer. When the smoke cleared and the tears dried, Marvel decided not to recast T’Challa, that Boseman’s take on the role was too indelible, too beloved.

Enter Shuri.

Guyanese-British actress Letitia Wright had made a splash as T’Challa’s brilliant sister with the spicy attitude (perhaps the smartest character in the MCU) in three films. In the comics, Shuri eventually shared the Panther mantle – ironically, due to T’Challa’s serious illness –so the notion of her ascension wasn’t entirely alien. It just wasn’t supposed to happen yet.

“It was something that we always kind of touched on a little bit,” says Wright by phone. “I knew eventually Ryan’s plan was to possibly have Shuri being Black Panther alongside her brother and seeing the ways in which the sibling dynamic can really be explored onscreen.”

Turns out the person she casually calls her brother is Boseman, rather then T’Challa.

“I met Chad in 2016 when I was doing screen tests. I remember feeling in my belief system and my faith that if this was meant to happen, this man will be my brother. I remember walking in and connecting with him in a way that was really profound and I’d never had with someone I’d just met. So from that day onward, it was a real beautiful connection as siblings, really. If he was in London, he would text me and be like, ‘Hey,

Little Sister, I need to lay eyes on you. Let’s go grab something to eat.’

“Yeah, that’s literally my brother. Processing his passing is something [the ‘Panther’ cast and crew are] still struggling with. It’s surreal for us to even be having this conversation about him not being here.”

When Coogler laid out for her how she would become the center of the franchise in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” instead of it being something a 20-something actor could celebrate, “It was bitter because it wasn’t in the way I expected.” And then there was the responsibility of replacing a phenomenon.

She credits the support of the cast and crew – especially of Coogler and co-star Danai Gurira – with making that transition possible.

“Danai has an immense amount of strength. She’s been encouraging me for a very long time. She was one of the first people I spoke to when Chad passed, telling me that everything’s going to be OK.” And as for becoming Wakanda’s protector, Wright says Gurira told her, “’I believe in you. I believe that Chad believes in you and that you can do it.’

“When I had my accident on set,” says Wright of the motorcycle tumble she took while filming, “she was always on the phone praying for me, speaking powerful, encouraging words and scriptures over me.”

Wright was no stranger to the responsibilities of carrying a project, but this one came with the extra challenge of “beating the impostor syndrome that I felt while doing it. Ryan had to beat that out of me very quickly with positive words: ‘There’s no one else that fits this right now. Trust the process, trust that this

is meant for you.’ “

So when was she sure she really could do the job? There was one scene with her ally M’Baku (Winston Duke) exploring why Shuri should become the Panther that provided Wright clarity, and one other . . . during reshoots.

“It was a scene between myself and Namor [Tenoch Huerta] that we were fleshing out a little bit more, the ways in which Shuri’s confidence rose to the occasion: ‘I belong to one of the most powerful nations in the world . . . so we should settle this in a peaceful manner.’

“It shows her growth and the way she was reflecting on the way her brother did everything, the way he carried himself. Watching and observing my brother and the way he carried his role as T’Challa – I [realized] I have what it takes as an artist, as an actress, to go to places people probably didn’t think I could with this character.”

She laughs when it’s pointed out this happened after principal photography had been completed.

“I mean, yeah yeah yeah. Hey man, it took me a while!

“I feel like I’m on a transformative journey and I’m happy I got to represent Shuri, to be a vessel for Shuri to process some pain, because that helped me as well. And I feel like I’m growing as a woman as well; I’m definitely tapping into that level of maturity I need for the next section of my life, really. So all in, it’s been a beautiful experience and I am much stronger.”

Bridge

by Phillip Alder

sufficient winners to get home. Usually, though, if the declarer finds the right path, he will win the race. The art is in spotting the shortcut.

How should South plan the play in four spades after West leads the club queen?

North’s response of two no-trump was the Jacoby Forcing Raise. South’s rebid of four spades showed a minimum opening bid with no side-suit singleton or void.

The thoughtless declarer wins the first trick and immediately plays a trump. However, West wins and perseveres with another club. Now the contract dies, the defenders collecting a trick in each suit.

The careful declarer sees the third-round club loser and sets out immediately to eliminate it. He notices that he can discard a club from the dummy on his third heart. He also spots the shortage of hand entries.

THE CLOCK ON THE ROCK

Francis Bacon wrote, “Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” Many declarers don’t escape the “shipwreck of time.” Contracts are like a race. The defenders are trying to establish enough tricks to defeat the contract before the declarer can cash

Sudoku

Carefully, he wins trick one with dummy’s club ace. Then he leads the heart king, the honor from the shorter side first.

When East plays a second club, South wins in hand and discards dummy’s club loser on his third heart. Only now is it safe to play a trump.

In essence, a simple deal, but the analysis must be done before playing a card from the dummy at trick one.

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by Wayne Gould

THE CLOCK ON THE ROCK

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Letitia Wright stars in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

Scares start the new new year in

FAIRFIELD — A doll seems to come to life with a dark heart and evil intent with this frightening M3GAN, which starts off the new year at the movies.

Also in theaters locally is a new western with Nicolas Cage, who fights alongside his daughter to fight against outlaws.

Opening nationwide are:

“M3GAN,” a terrifying film about a robotics engineer at a toy company who builds a doll that looks real and soon starts acting very life like. The film is rated PG-13.

“The Old Way,” in which Nicolas Cage stars in his first-ever Western as Colton Briggs, a coldblooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw and his gang put Colton and his family in peril, Colton is forced to take up arms with an unlikely partner, his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). The film is rated R.

Opening in limited release are:

“Alcarras,” in which the Solé family spends every summer picking peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop could be their last, as they face eviction. The film

is not rated.

“Imani,” a mystery about a woman who thinks she was in a car accident, spends her time recovering from amnesia, only to learn that she actually is a highly sought-after Army Special Ops lieutenant who holds a secret that would blow the lid on a widespread government conspiracy. The film is not rated.

“ Last Resort,” in which a former special forces soldier becomes a one-man-army when his wife and daughter are taken hostage during a bank robbery. As he brutally neutralizes the gang of thieves, the lives of millions hang in the balance when a highly lethal toxin is stolen from the vault. The film is rated R.

For information on Edwards Cinemas in Fairfield, visit www. regmovies.com/ theatres/regal-edwardsfairfield-imax. For Vacaville showtimes, visit www.brendentheatres.com. For Vallejo showtimes, check www. cinemark.com/theatres/ ca-vallejo. More information about upcoming films is available at www. movieinsider.com.

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T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach might not be on the air after amid news of their romance, but they’re certainly not staying under the radar either.

The “GMA3″ coanchors “spent the holidays together and are spending all of their time together right now,” a source told People Thursday.

The two have had a busy holiday week thus far though, with Holmes, 45, having filed for divorce from lawyer Marilee Fiebig on Wednesday and Robach, 49, reactivating her Ins-

tagram Friday.

Holmes and Robach, whose chemistry raised eyebrows amongst colleagues well before cozy pictures of them surfaced late last month, “are in love” and “are fully in a relationship,” said the insider. “They are not hiding anything at all because they have no reason to.”

That mindset seems to be in contrast with Robach and Holmes going dark on Instagram in the wake of the initial photos, and her estranged husband, “Melrose Place” star Andrew Shue all but scrubbing her photos from his own account.

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Monday’s TV sports

Basketball College Men

Army vs. Lafayette, NBCSCA, 4 p.m.

NBA Atlanta vs. Golden State, NBCSCA (Fairfield and Suisun CIty), 7 p.m.

Football College

ReliaQuest Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Illinois, ESPN2, 9 a.m.

Citrus Bowl: LSU vs. Purdue, 7, 10, 10 a.m.

Cotton Bowl: Tulane vs. USC, ESPN, 10 a.m.

Rose Bowl: Penn State vs. Utah, ESPN, 2 p.m.

NFL Buffalo vs. Cincinnati, 7, 10, ESPN, ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.

Hockey NHL Pittsburgh vs. Boston from Fenway Park, TNT, 11 a.m. soccer EpL

Brentford vs. Liverpool, USA, 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports

Basketball College Men

Mississippi State vs. Tennessee, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

LSU vs. Kentucky, ESPN, 5 p.m.

Kansas vs. Texas Tech, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

NBA Sacramento vs. Utah, NBCSCA (Vacaville and Rio Vista), 6 p.m.

Football High school

All-America Game, ESPN, 2 p.m. Hockey

NHL Dallas vs. L.A. Kings, ESPN, 7 p.m. soccer EpL Arsenal vs. Newcastle, USA, 11:45 a.m.

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built. One goal stood in left field with the other on the first-base line, the 18-yard box made up of grass and infield dirt with the pitcher’s mound in play.

Pelé debuted for the Cosmos in June 1975 in a game played in Downing Stadium, a run-down facility built in 1936 on Randall’s Island in the East River. The field conditions were terrible so the Cosmos painted the spotty grass green to fool the national TV audience.

Report: NFLPA files grievance regarding playing conditions

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49ers

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Greenlaw (back) did not return from their injuries; MRI exams Monday will reveal how serious the injuries are, and Banks is suspected of having a sprained medial collateral ligament.

But the 49ers were able to rally from a 10-point second-half deficit like four other Raiders’ foes had done this season.

The 49ers reclaimed the lead with 6:44 to go, on a 24-yard field goal by Gould. It wasn’t the goahead touchdown they wanted, nor tried to get when Purdy threw a thirdand-4 pass to George Kittle that nearly got intercepted.

The 49ers got in Gould’s range on the first play of that drive, with a 42-yard catch-and-run screen by Ray-Ray McCloud to the Raiders’ 23-yard line.

The Raiders responded with their own field goal: a 57-yard shot by Daniel Carlson to make it a 27-27 tie with 4:08 to go, just after Nick Bosa drilled Stidham on a third-down incompletion that was nearly intercepted. On the second snap of the fourth

Georgia

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down, the team that only wears others down.

It took Georgia one play – a 76-yard pass from Stetson Bennett to an unguarded Arian Smith, whose defender had fallen – to score the touchdown that gave it a chance. It took five more Bennett completions, in five tries, for him to find Adonai Mitchell in the end zone for the tying touchdown at 0:54.

Jack Podlesny’s PAT put Georgia ahead forever.

Working without receiver Marvin Harrison, who’d been dazed on an end-zone hit that

“It was greener than Christmas green,” Rigby said. “He came in after the game and thought something was wrong because he had all this green crap over his legs. He didn’t know if it was fungus or something. He grew up playing in sandlots and alleys in Brazil but he never ran into what he ran into that day.”

Rigby and Pelé played together in the summer of 1976 for Team America in the Bicentennial Cup, which pitted a team of Americans and foreign stars who played in the NASL against the national teams of England, Italy, and Brazil. They played

quarter, rookie Drake Jackson intercepted a pass deflected by fellow linemen Kerry Hyder Jr., and the 49ers converted that takeaway into a game-tying 43-yard field goal by Robbie Gould with 12:34 remaining.

The 49ers had pulled within 24-21 in the third quarter thanks to a great, four-play sequence: 1.) Jauan Jennings’ 18-yard catch; 2.) Ty Davis-Price’s second-effort, 5-yard run; 3.) Brandon Aiyuk’s 16-yard, end-around run; 4.) Christian McCaffrey14-yard touchdown run, putting him over 100 rushing yards for the game on his 15th carry.

On the 49ers’ next series, the crowd was chanting “Pur-dy! Pur-dy” after his 28-yard completion to Jennings at midfield. And then . . . Purdy missed an open Kittle and had the highly lofted ball got intercepted by Amik Robertson at the Vegas 18. It was Purdy’s third interception in five games.

Adams’ second touchdown catch put the 49ers in a stunning, 24-14 hole. On Adams’ 60-yard score, Stidham rolled left and unloaded the pass just before he took a vicious hit from Hufanga, who had abandoned Adams

the Pac-12 officiating deemed targeting before replay disagreed, Heisman Trophy finalist C.J. Stroud ran 27 yards to the Georgia 30 with 24 seconds left. The Buckeyes were close enough to try a field goal, but the next three plays – a rush that lost a yard, then two completions – pushed them back. Ruggles was left with a 50-yard try. His kick mightn’t have been good from 30.

For Georgia, Bennett looking toward Mitchell keeps on keeping on. That pairing put UGA ahead against Alabama in the final moments of last January’s final. This time it sent the Bulldogs back for an encore performance. Say what you might – by now, we’ve said every-

three games in eight nights at JFK Stadium, Seattle’s Kingdome, and Washington’s RFK Stadium.

Pelé refused to play against his native Brazil, so he sat on the bench that night in Seattle alongside Rigby, who started the other two games in the tournament. They watched Team America’s Tommy Smith – the tough former Liverpool star – square off against Rivellino, the menacing Brazilian star with a handlebar mustache.

“These guys never played on AstroTurf,” Rigby said of the Brazil squad. “Tommy Smith lined him up and Rivellino nutmegged him, Tommy

The game was the coldest home game in Panthers history. Several Lions players commented on the conditions, with quarterback Jared Goff saying the

in coverage.

The 49ers’ top-ranked defense allowed the Raiders into the red zone on all four drives before halftime, and Adams’ 4-yard touchdown catch over Charvarius Ward gave the hosts a 17-14 lead with 10 seconds left in the half.

The 49ers trailed at halftime for the first time in seven games, and the fifth time all season. The previous four times came in consecutive games against the Falcons, the Chiefs, the Rams, and the Chargers, with the 49ers rallying to beat those latter two foes.

Stidham came out on fire in his first career start following nine-year veteran Derek Carr’s midweek benching. Stidham completed 11-of-14 passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns in the first half, and he was just as crafty with his legs (five carries, 31 yards).

Only 4:29 remained until halftime when the 49ers’ defense best lived up to its top billing, producing a fourth-and-1 stop at the 2-yard line and preserving a 14-10 lead. Right after Dre Greenlaw ended a Stidham scramble at the 2-yard line, T.Y. McGill and Charles Omenihu stopped Josh Jacobs for no gain, and all seemed

thing – about Bennett, but he is the beating heart of Georgia. His will could move mountains.

Said Bennett: “The more you do it, the more confidence you have.”

For a team that has known few anxious moments over the past 51 weeks, Georgia ran across one early on New Year’s Eve. Not five minutes into the second quarter, the Bulldogs faced their biggest deficit of the season – 14 points in arrears, their 25-yearold quarterback having made one grievous error, soon to make another.

With open terrain in front of him, a scrambling Bennett instead drifted past the line of scrimmage and delivered a pass, which is against the

completely missed him and ripped half of his thigh. I just remember Pelé was almost wetting himself laughing. I knew Smitty and I said, ‘Oh man. This is not going to end well.’ He came up and went at him again and Rivellino nutmegged him the other way.

“It was different than a lot of teams because players of that status were on the team but they weren’t available and present and part of things as Pelé always was.”

Rigby played 13 games for the Cosmos in 1976 before suffering a serious injury halfway through the season when an opposing player ran

turf felt like cement.

“I thought the field conditions were below NFL-level standard, specifically pregame,” Goff said.

In his tweet, Schefter

right again with the NFL’s No. 1 defense.

It took 20 minutes for the 49ers to seize the lead, and it came with some collateral damage, as they lost left guard Aaron Banks to a right-inee injury on their second possession. That go-ahead drive, however, ended with Purdy’s second touchdown pass of the game, this time beating a three-man pass rush to roll left and find George Kittle with a 2-yard scoring strike. The 49ers held the ball 7 minutes for that 13-play, 75-yard drive, which was ignited by backto-back pass-interference penalties, as well as key plays from McCaffrey and Kyle Juszczyk.

The Raiders were the first team all season to score against the 49ers on their first two drives, and they nearly scored touchdowns on both of them. Stidham’s 24-yard touchdown pass to Darren Waller gave the Raiders a 7-0 lead, and, on their next drive, they opted not to go for it on fourth-and-goal from the 1, instead settling for a 20-yard field goal and a 10-7 lead. Adams keyed the Raiders’ second scoring drive, first finding space for a 27-yard catch, and later drawing a passinterference penalty on

rules. The penalty carried a loss of down, leaving Georgia with secondand-14 on a possession following a Bennett interception. The Bulldogs weren’t in trouble just yet – 40 minutes remained – but they needed something from this drive.

They got a touchdown. Forever undaunted, Bennett threw deep for Smith on second-and-14. The 47-yard gain led, one snap later, to a Kendall Milton touchdown. Georgia then forced an Ohio State three-andout. Three plays later, Bennett rolled left to score. The Bulldogs overrode a 14-point lead in four minutes, 49 seconds. They would lead before the half was done.

through him as he leaped for a ball. The goalkeeper was sold after the season to Los Angeles, ending his 10-month run protecting Pelé’s net.

Rigby had been texting for most of the month with Bobby Smith, a defender who grew up in Trenton and was acquired by the Cosmos from the Atoms on the same day. The two friends reminisced about Pelé, the icon they shared a field with, after it was reported that his health was declining.

Smith texted Rigby Thursday afternoon that Pelé died. He lost his last hero, Rigby said.

“I don’t feel any differ-

said, “The NFLPA complained before the game and said the field conditions in the extreme cold, only worsened as the game progressed.”

Charvarius Ward at the 49ers’ 5-yard line.

The 49ers matched the Raiders’ opening touchdown drive thanks to Purdy’s 2-yard scoring strike to Brandon Aiyuk. McCaffrey was a catalyst for that tying drive, opening with an 11-yard run, then bursting free for 37 yards to the 1-yard line, with both runs going through a cavern between right tackle Mike McGlinchey and right guard Spencer Burford.

It was stunning how quickly the 49ers staked the Raiders to a 7-0 lead, only 3 minutes, 20 seconds into the game via a sixplay, 70-yard touchdown drive. Stidham, taking over after nine-year starter Derek Carr’s mid-week benching, opened with a 20-yard completion to tight end Foster Moreau. That series ended with another Stidham pass to another open tight end, Darren Waller, for a 24-yard scoring strike and 7-0 lead. Stidham avoided a potential Nick Bosa sack (and left tackle Kolton Miller avoided with a holding penalty), then found Waller on the right side past safety Talanaoa Hufanga’s blown coverage.

Then they’d fall back behind. Stroud was great – 348 yards passing, four touchdowns – but the Buckeyes could never draw more than two scores ahead. The Bulldogs didn’t score in the third quarter, but they stayed close enough for Bennett to win it, which he did. He threw for 398 yards and three touchdowns. Do not bet against Stetson Fleming Bennett IV.

You can bet against the Bulldogs if you like –they were only five-point favorites by kickoff Saturday – but do not bet on them to lose outright. Because they won’t. Because they don’t. They just win, baby. They just win.

ently and perhaps more so now than when I was that starstruck kid trying to pinch myself, ‘Like you have to be kidding me?’

It was literally a dream come true and it still is,” Rigby said. “Those are the things that over time, you can’t take away. A lot of it, you can have it. But that, to be able to never have that diminished, reduced, or tarnished, is priceless.

“Honest to god, I feel so fortunate and I never lost that kid-like awe. I don’t feel any different about it today.”

Shown

DETROIT — Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the NFL Players’ Association has filed a grievance

against the Carolina Panthers and the NFL regarding the playing conditions in last Saturday’s Lions-Panthers matchup in Carolina on Christmas Eve.