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Posted on December 15, 2020 | 9:35 a.m. Source: Paula Bortolazzo Wesley John Bortolazzo On Dec. 6, 2020,  at the age of 64, Wesley John Bortolazzo passed away unexpectedly. He was born on Sept. 23, 1956 in Santa Barbara to C. John Bortolazzo (deceased) and Barbara (Smith) Bortolazzo. Wes attended Isla Vista and Foothill Elementary, La Colina Junior High and San Marcos High School, graduating with the Class of 1974. He was a hard-working, honest, industrious man beginning as a young teen with...

There has, for instance, been a marked rise in the number of younger people wishing to wave goodbye to city living and head to the country where, provided internet connectivity is robust, working from home can become a long-term reality. Then there’s an even larger number of middle-aged folks, aged 55 and above, who appear taken with the idea of ‘winding-down’ and doing perhaps 2-3 days’ work a week (from home), giving them time to start addressing a host of other ambitions. Many people...

Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games, McFarland 2020 Tigran Petrosian (born on 17 June 1929 in Tbilisi), Viktor Korchnoi (born on 23 March 1931 in Leningrad), Mikhail Tal (born on 9 November 1936 in Riga) and Boris Spassky (born on 30 January 1937 in Leningrad) are among the most important chess players of the 20th century. Three of them were world champions, while Viktor Korchnoi came close twice. The four were born between 1929 and 1937; they were rival...

Book World: Books from another era can act as an escape Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Dec. 16, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail The Collected Short Stories of Saki/The Young Visiters/Queen Lucia & Miss MappWordsworth Editions Ltd/Chatto & Windus/Vintage - handout Like many people, Ive spent much of the past four years suffering from mild but persistent depression, but the recent weeks of post-election chaos, shamefully incited by a spiteful crybaby and his toadies, have been almost more than I c...

Selling Mr. Basden on a Covid rewrite was easy. “I realized that there was a version of the story, which is about a California holiday not being taken because of coronavirus, that felt interesting to me,” Mr. Basden said. “I felt it had the potential to sum up the year for a lot of families in terms of what their experience has been, with all of the various disappointments along the way.” Whether Britons need a “cov-com,” as Mr. Allen dubbed the show, remains to be...

Dude, Wheres My Car? (2000). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment There were many vital questions posed in Dude, Wheres My Car?, the 2000 stoner comedy that established Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott as two of their generation’s most lovable doofuses. Why was the pair’s refrigerator stocked with a year’s supply of chocolate pudding? What exactly is a Continuum Transfunctioner? And why was the Chinese food lady so determined to upsell? The most pressing query, of course, was Dude,...

GELFAND’S WORLD--As of 4 PM today, December 14, 2020, it was over. The electoral votes were officially cast and Joe Biden received a majority. He only needed 270 to win.  It is ordinarily just a formality, but faithless electors have existed in small numbers in the past, so the process is carried out with due ceremony and seriousness. This time, the process was followed closely by reporters and television cameras because of the silliness surrounding all the Trump lawsuits.  This morning, it...

On Friday, all nine justices supported tossing out the Lone Star State’s efforts to overturn the election in four key swing states. The three nominated by Trump—Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch—were among the seven justices who said Texas didn’t have standing to bring the case in the first place. More generally, conservative, Federalist Society judges from coast to coast have in these past weeks resoundingly rejected Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, and the country’s elite, ...

DARLINGTON’s campaign to keep its famous Locomotion No. 1 in the town hit the nation’s televisions last night as it made a “very cool” cameo on Coronation Street. Eagle-eyed fans of the soap spotted the Keep the Loco poster the background of a scene in Roy Rolls café. The cafe was the latest business to display the eye-caching campaign poster. The character Roy Cropper, who runs the café, is a huge railway enthusiast so the poster was a fitting addition to the railway memorabi...

High-Caliber Work For some, the 12-minute cartoon show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, available now on HBO Max, is a cult classic. With its odd, surreal humor and unelaborate though quirky animation, the television show struck a chord with twenty-something-year-old viewers when it aired in the early 2000s. Featuring the three iconic characters—Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad—the show, which was part of the original Adult Swim cartoon block that first aired December 2000 and then again more per...