MOSHCHUN, Ukraine — In the humble backyard of a destroyed house, a 13-year-old chops firewood to get ready for winter. His mother, Tetiana Yarema, has been preparing for months as she remembers last winter’s Russian strikes on the energy infrastructure that plunged Ukraine into darkness.

Artem Yarema, 13, chops wood in front of his family’s house Oct. 10 in Moshchun, near Kyiv, Ukraine.

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“Those were dark days. I didn’t want anything. I just wanted to pack my things and go abroad,” said Yarema, 48, who says she ended up staying because of her son’s insistence.

For the Yarema family, like millions of other Ukrainians touched by Russia’s war on Ukraine, winter is an especially challenging time.

The mother and son live in trailers that were set up in their backyard after fighting in the early days of the war destroyed their house in Moshchun, a village about 15 miles northwest of Kyiv.

“I have a feeling that when the cold sets in, they’ll start bombing again,” the woman said, echoing the sentiments of many Ukrainians.

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This time, however, they say they are better prepared.

Sales of generators exploded toward the end of summer. Some, who can afford it, invested in solar panels. Others, like Yarema, have been buying candles, batteries, flashlights and portable lanterns and stocking up on compact gas canisters, making the most of discounted prices.

“It’s a bit challenging … but I already know what to do,” she said.

Last winter was declared the most challenging in the history of Ukraine’s energy system, with over 1,200 missiles and drones fired by Russians at power plants, according to Ukrainian state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo.

A man passes his destroyed house Oct. 10 in Moshchun, near Kyiv, Ukraine.

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The strikes impacted almost half of Ukraine’s energy capacity. People were forced to endure hours without electricity and water during the coldest months in what Ukrainian officials described as “energy terror.”

Millions of people across Ukraine had to learn to work, live and cover their basic needs without electricity.

After a lull of six months, Ukraine’s energy system sustained its first attack of the season on Sept. 21, resulting in damage to facilities in the central and western regions, Ukrenergo said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has committed to substantially enhancing air defense systems, which already have demonstrated greater effectiveness than the previous year.

“Everyone must play their part in defensive efforts to ensure that Russian aggression does not halt Ukraine this winter. Just as on the battlefield, in all areas, we must be resilient and strong,” Zelenskyy said in a recent address to the nation.

Yuriy Musienko, 45, works in a burned car garage near his mother’s house Oct. 10 in Moshchun, near Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal recently announced that the United States allocated $522 million for energy equipment and the protection of Ukraine’s infrastructure.

“We stand on the threshold of a difficult winter. Thanks to the assistance of our allies, we successfully weathered the last, which was the most challenging winter season in our history,” Shmyhal said.

Major retailer Epicenter said sales of generators increased 80% in August compared to the same time last year, and sales of portable charging stations increased by 25 times.

Yurii Musienko, 45, another resident of Moshchun, also plans to rely heavily on firewood, and has a wood-burning stove in his compact wooden trailer that has been provided to him for two years, and which sits next to his ruined home.

“I’ve already adapted,” he said with a smile. The gates of his home still bear the holes from exploded ammunition that serve as a reminder of when Russian forces tried to seize the Ukrainian capital.

“May no one ever have to endure such conditions,” said his mother, Valentyna Kiriian, who lives in a separate plastic trailer installed in the same courtyard.

She’s dressed in a hat and a coat, with multiple layers of clothing to stay warm. She notes that the cold has already set in, forcing her to sleep fully clothed, much like the previous winter.

Andriy Gorghinskyy, 49, stands in his house with autonomous heating, Oct. 10 in the village of Malyutyanka near Kyiv, Ukrain.

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During the power outages last winter, the mother and son relied on canned food. Occasionally, Valentyna would visit her neighbor, whose house remained intact and had a gas stove for boiling water.

“It’s difficult for me to talk about. It pains my soul, and my heart weeps,” she said.

Andrii Horchynskyi, 49. who lives in the village of Maliutianka about 15 miles southwest of Kyiv, invested over $30,000 in recent years to ensure his house is self-sufficient, and ramped up those efforts since Russia’s invasion.

Last year, he spent $12,000 to install solar panels to help power his spacious house, where other members of his extended family came to stay for the winter — eight of them surviving comfortably.

“We had a whole ant heap here,” Horchynskyi recalled.

He is convinced the Russians will try to damage Ukraine’s infrastructure for gas, which he thinks will become expensive or even unavailable. So, he has installed a boiler that burns pine pellets. He also stores water in his backyard.

“They will bombard even more this winter than the last,” Horchynskyi said.

Photos: Notable Deaths in 2023

Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing in the hit series “Friends,” died Oct. 28, 2023. He was 54. The Emmy-nominated actor was found dead of an apparent drowning at his Los Angeles home.

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Tina Turner

Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ’70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” died May 24, 2023, at 83. Few stars traveled so far — she was born Anna Mae Bullock in a segregated Tennessee hospital and spent her latter years on a 260,000 square foot estate on Lake Zurich — and overcame so much. Her trademarks included a growling contralto that might smolder or explode, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off. She sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammys, was voted along with Ike into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 (and on her own in 2021 ) and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.

AP file, 2009

Jimmy Buffett

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into a billion-dollar empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, died Sept. 1, 2023. He was 76. “Margaritaville,” released on Feb. 14, 1977, quickly took on a life of its own, becoming a state of mind for those ”wastin’ away,” an excuse for a life of low-key fun and escapism for those “growing older, but not up.” The song is the unhurried portrait of a loafer on his front porch, watching tourists sunbathe while a pot of shrimp is beginning to boil. The singer has a new tattoo, a likely hangover and regrets over a lost love. Somewhere, irritatingly, there is a misplaced salt shaker.

AP file, 2010

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died July 21, 2023. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday. The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.

AP file, 2006

Jim Brown

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, died May 18, 2023. He was 87. One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65. Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.” When he finished playing, Brown became a prominent leader in the Black power movement during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

AP file, 1965

Dick Butkus

Dick Butkus, a middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears whose speed and ferocity set the standards for the position in the modern era, died Oct. 5, 2023. He was 80. Butkus was a first-team All-Pro five times and made the Pro Bowl in eight of his nine seasons before a knee injury forced him to retire at 31. He was the quintessential Monster of the Midway and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility. Trading on his image as the toughest guy in the room, Butkus enjoyed a long second career as a sports broadcaster, an actor in movies and TV series, and a sought-after pitchman for products ranging from antifreeze to beer.

AP file, 2019

Bob Barker

Bob Barker, the enduring, dapper game show host who became a household name over a half century of hosting “Truth or Consequences” and “The Price Is Right,” died Aug. 26, 2023. He was 99. Barker retired in June 2007, thanking his studio audience “for inviting me into your home for more than 50 years.” He started that marathon run in 1956 on “Truth or Consequences,” where he remained for 18 years. He began hosting a revived version of “The Price Is Right” on CBS in 1972. It would become TV’s longest-running game show. He was also an animal rights activist.

AP file, 2007

Dianne Feinstein

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat and champion of liberal causes who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, died Sept. 29, 2023. She was 90. Feinstein, the oldest sitting U.S. senator, was a passionate advocate for liberal priorities important to her state — including environmental protection, reproductive rights and gun control — but was also known as a pragmatic lawmaker who reached out to Republicans and sought middle ground.

AP file, 2011

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ’70s, died Feb. 15, 2023. She was 82. Welch’s breakthrough came in 1966’s campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,” despite having a grand total of three lines. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public.

AP file, 1982

Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the television show “Three’s Company” and who became an entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author, died Oct. 15, 2023. She was 76. Somers appeared in many television shows in the 1970s, including “The Rockford Files,” “Magnum Force” and “The Six Million Dollar Man,” but her most famous part came with “Three’s Company,” which aired on ABC from 1977 to 1984 — though her participation ended in 1981.

AP file, 2007

Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter dedicated to her father’s legacy, died Jan. 12, 2023. She was 54. Presley shared her father’s brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s.

AP file, 2012

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, died April 25, 2023. He was 96. With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer; many still know him for his signature hit “Banana Boat Song (Day-O),” and its call of “Day-O! Daaaaay-O.” But he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson’s decree that artists are “gatekeepers of truth.”

AP file, 2011

Sinéad O’Connor

Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s and was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music, died July 26, 2023, at age 56. Recognizable by her shaved head and with a multi-octave mezzo soprano of extraordinary emotional range, O’Connor began her career singing on the streets of Dublin and soon rose to international fame. She was a star from her 1987 debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” and became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a seething, shattering performance that topped charts from Europe to Australia and was heightened by a promotional video featuring the gray-eyed O’Connor in intense close-up.

AP file, 2014

David Crosby

David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, died Jan. 18, 2023, at age 81. While he only wrote a handful of widely known songs, the witty and ever opinionated Crosby was on the front lines of the cultural revolution of the ’60s and ’70s — whether triumphing with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young on stage at Woodstock, testifying on behalf of a hirsute generation in his anthem “Almost Cut My Hair” or mourning the assassination of Robert Kennedy in “Long Time Gone.”

AP file, 2017

Steve Harwell

Steve Harwell, the longtime frontman of the Grammy-nominated pop rock band Smash Mouth died Sept. 4, 2023. He was 56. Smash Mouth was known for hits including “All Star” and “Then The Morning Comes.”

AP file, 2008

Lance Reddick

Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” “Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, died March 17, 2023. He was 60. Reddick was often put in a suit or a crisp uniform during his career, playing tall, taciturn and elegant men of distinction. He was best known for his role as straight-laced Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO series “The Wire,” where his character was agonizingly trapped in the messy politics of the Baltimore police department.

AP file, 2013

Richard Belzer

Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” died Feb. 19, 2023. He was 78. For more than two decades and across 10 series — even including appearances on “30 Rock” and “Arrested Development” — Belzer played the wise-cracking, acerbic homicide detective prone to conspiracy theories. Belzer first played Munch on a 1993 episode of “Homicide” and last played him in 2016 on “Law & Order: SVU.”

AP file, 2013

Cindy Williams

Cindy Williams, who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 1980s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the beloved sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” died Jan. 25, 2023. She was 75. Williams played the straitlaced Shirley Feeney to Marshall’s more libertine Laverne DeFazio on the show about a pair of blue-collar roommates who toiled on the assembly line of a Milwaukee brewery in the 1950s and 1960s.

AP file, 2012

Paul Reubens

Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, died July 30, 2023, at age 70. Reubens died after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement.

AP file, 2009

Jerry Springer

Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died April 27, 2023, at age 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama. Known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favorite American guilty pleasure over its 27-year run, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey’s show.

AP file, 2010

Michael Gambon

Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, died Sept. 28, 2023. He was 82. No matter what role he took on in a career that lasted more than five decades, Gambon was always instantly recognizable by the deep and drawling tones of his voice. He was cast as the much-loved Dumbledore after the death of his predecessor, Richard Harris, in 2002.

AP file, 2011

Burt Young

Burt Young, the Oscar-nominated actor who played Paulie, the rough-hewn, mumbling-and-grumbling best friend, corner-man and brother-in-law to Sylvester Stallone in the “Rocky” franchise, died Oct. 8, 2023, at age 83. Young had roles in acclaimed films and television shows including “Chinatown,” “Once Upon a Time in America” and “The Sopranos.” But he was always best known for playing Paulie Pennino in six “Rocky” movies. The short, paunchy, balding Young was the sort of actor who always seemed to play middle-aged no matter his age.

AP file, 2006

Mark Margolis

Mark Margolis, who had a breakout role as a mobster in “Scarface” but became best known decades later for his indelible, fearsome portrayal of a vindictive former drug kingpin in TV’s “Breaking Bad,” died Aug. 3, 2023. He was 83. Margolis was nominated for an Emmy in 2012 for outstanding guest actor in “Breaking Bad” as Hector “Tio” Salamanca, the murderous elderly don who was unable to speak following a stroke. But this actor did not need dialogue; he communicated via facial expressions and the sometimes menacing use of a barhop bell taped to his wheelchair.

AP file, 2014

Jacklyn Zeman

Jacklyn Zeman, who became one of the most recognizable actors on daytime television during 45 years of playing nurse Bobbie Spencer on ABC’s “General Hospital,” died May 10, 2023. She was 70. Zeman joined “General Hospital” in 1977 as Barbara Jean, who went by Bobbie, and was the feisty younger sister of Anthony Geary’s Luke Spencer.

AP file, 2016

John Beasley

John Beasley, the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama “Everwood” and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, died May 30, 2023. He was 79. Beasley played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film “Rudy” and a retired preacher in 1997’s “The Apostle,” co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.

AP file, 2017

Michael Lerner

Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,” the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in “Harlem Nights” and an angry publishing executive in “Elf” died April 8, 2023. He was 81.

AP file, 2012

Tom Sizemore

Tom Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died March3, 2023, at age 61. Sizemore became a star with acclaimed appearances in “Natural Born Killers” and the cult-classic crime thriller “Heat.”

AP file, 2013

Charles Kimbrough

Charles Kimbrough, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 86. Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom “Murphy Brown” between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. He reprised the role for three episodes in the 2018 reboot.

AP file, 2008

Willis Reed

Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died March 21, 2023. He was 80.

AP file, 1970

Brooks Robinson

Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, whose deft glovework and folksy manner made him one of the most beloved and accomplished athletes in Baltimore history, died Sept. 26, 2023. He was 86. Coming of age before the free agent era, Robinson spent his entire 23-year career with the Orioles. He almost single-handedly helped Baltimore defeat Cincinnati in the 1970 World Series and homered in Game 1 of the Orioles’ 1966 sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers for their first crown. Robinson participated in 18 All-Star Games, won 16 consecutive Gold Gloves and earned the 1964 AL Most Valuable Player award after batting .318 with 28 home runs and a league-leading 118 RBIs.

AP file, 2007

Tim McCarver

Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the country’s most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Feb. 16, 2023. He was 81.

AP file, 2003

Billy Packer

Billy Packer (left), an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Jan. 26, 2023. He was 82. Packer’s broadcasting career coincided with the growth of college basketball. He worked as analyst or color commentator on every Final Four from 1975 to 2008. He received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio and Sports Analyst in 1993. 

AP file, 2006

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died May 1, 2023. He was 84. One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

AP file, 2012

Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 78. Beck was among the rock-guitarist pantheon from the late ’60s that included Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. Beck won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice — once with the Yardbirds in 1992 and again as a solo artist in 2009.

AP file, 2010

Clarence Avant

Clarence Avant, the judicious manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as the “Black Godfather” of music and beyond, died Aug. 13, 2023. He was 92.

AP file, 2019

Bobby Caldwell

Bobby Caldwell, a soulful R&B singer and songwriter who had a major hit in 1978 with “What You Won’t Do for Love” and a voice and musical style adored by generations of his fellow artists, died March 14, 2023. He was 71. The smooth soul jam “What You Won’t Do for Love” went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 6 on what was then called the Hot Selling Soul Singles chart. It became a long-term standard and career-defining hit for Caldwell, who also wrote the song.

AP file, 2013

Gary Rossington

Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died March 5, 2023, at age 71. According to Rolling Stone, it was during a fateful Little League game, Ronnie Van Zant hit a line drive into the shoulder blades of opposing player Bob Burns and met his future bandmates. Rossington, Burns, Van Zant, and guitarist Allen Collins gathered that afternoon at Burns’ Jacksonville home to jam the Rolling Stone’s “Time Is on My Side.”

AP file, 2017

Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, died March 2, 2023. He was 89.

AP file, 2013

Angus Cloud

Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” died July 31, 2023. He was 25. Cloud hadn’t acted before he was cast in “Euphoria.” He was walking down the street in New York when casting scout Eléonore Hendricks noticed him. Cloud was resistant at first, suspecting a scam. Then casting director Jennifer Venditti met with him and series creator Sam Levinson eventually made him a co-star in the series alongside Zendaya for its first two seasons.

AP file, 2019

Michael Chiarello

Michael Chiarello, a chef known for his Italian-inspired Californian restaurants who won an Emmy Award for best host for “Easy Entertaining With Michael Chiarello” and appeared on Bravo’s “Top Chef” and “Top Chef Masters,” died Oct. 6, 2023. He was 61.

AP file, 2013

Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died. He was 89. A member of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” and peaked late in life with his win as best supporting actor for the surprise 2006 hit “Little Miss Sunshine.”

AP file, 2011

Julian Sands

Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and ’90s including “A Room With a View” and “Leaving Las Vegas,” was found dead on a Southern California mountain in June 2023, five months after he disappeared while hiking. He was 65. Sands, who was born, raised and began acting in England, worked constantly in film and television, amassing more than 150 credits in a 40-year career. During a 10-year span from 1985 to 1995, he played major roles in a series of acclaimed films.

AP file, 2019

Cynthia Weil

Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” “On Broadway,” “Walking in the Rain” and dozens of other hits, died June 1, 2023, at age 82.

AP file, 2010

Sheldon Harnick

Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Fiorello!” and “The Apple Tree,” died June 23, 2023. He was 99.

AP file, 2016

Barrett Strong

Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “War” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” died Jan. 29, 2023. He was 81. 

AP file, 2004

The Iron Sheik

The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport’s biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died June 7, 2023. He was 81. During his pro wrestling career, he donned curled boots and used the “Camel Clutch” as his finishing move during individual and tag team clashes in which he played the role of an anti-American heel for the WWF, which later became the WWE.

AP file, 2009

Treat Williams

Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series “Everwood” and the movie “Hair,” died June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont. He was 71. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role as hippie leader George Berger in the 1979 movie version of the hit musical “Hair.”

AP file, 2018

Bill Richardson

Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and an American ambassador to the United Nations who dedicated his post-political career to working to secure the release of Americans detained by foreign adversaries, died Sept. 2, 2023. He was 75.

AP file, 2021

Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, died June 16, 2023. He was 92.

AP file, 1973

Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, died June 8, 2023. He was 93.

AP file, 2015

Robert Blake

Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died March 9, 2023, at age 89. Blake, star of the 1970s TV show, “Baretta,” never recovered from the long ordeal which began with the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, outside a Studio City restaurant on May 4, 2001. The story of their strange marriage, the child it produced and its violent end was a Hollywood tragedy played out in court. Blake portrayed real-life murderer Perry Smith in the movie of Truman Capote’s true crime best seller “In Cold Blood.”

AP file, 1977

Ted Kaczynski

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died June 10, 2023. He was 81. Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died by suicide at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina.

AP file, 1996

Lloyd Morrisett

Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children’s education TV series “Sesame Street,” which uses empathy and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie Monster to charm and teach generations around the world, died Jan. 15, 2023. He was 93. 

AP file, 2019

Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” died March 8, 2023, at age 87. A recipient of two Golden Globe awards and nominee for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award, Topol long has ranked among Israel’s most decorated actors.

AP file, 2015

Len Goodman

Len Goodman, a long-serving judge on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Strictly Come Dancing” who helped revive interest in ballroom dancing on both sides of the Atlantic, died April 22, 2023. He was 78.

AP file, 2007

Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach, the singularly gifted and popular composer who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of “Walk on By,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and dozens of other hits, died Feb. 8, 2023. The Grammy, Oscar and Tony-winning composer was 94. Over the past 70 years, only Lennon-McCartney, Carole King and a handful of others rivaled his genius for instantly catchy songs that remained performed, played and hummed long after they were written. He had a run of top 10 hits from the 1950s into the 21st century, and his music was heard everywhere from movie soundtracks and radios to home stereo systems and iPods, whether “Alfie” and “I Say a Little Prayer” or “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” and “This Guy’s in Love with You.”

AP file, 1979

Stella Stevens

Stella Stevens, a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry Lewis’s affection in “The Nutty Professor,” died Feb. 17, 2023. She was 84. She was a prolific actor in television and film up through the 1990s, officially retiring in 2010.

AP file, 1968

Barry Humphries

Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, died April 22, 2023. He was 89.

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Annie Wersching

Actor Annie Wersching, best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series “24″ and providing the voice for Tess in the video game “The Last of Us,” died Jan. 29, 2023. She was 45. Her first credit was in “Star Trek: Enterprise,” and she would go on to have recurring roles in the seventh and eighth seasons of “24,” “Bosch,” “The Vampire Diaries,” Marvel’s “Runaways,” “The Rookie” and, most recently, the second season of “Star Trek: Picard” as the Borg Queen. 

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Dave Hollis

Dave Hollis, who left his post as a Disney executive to help his wife run a successful lifestyle empire, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 47. Hollis worked for Disney for 17 years and had been head of distribution for the company for seven years when he left in 2018 to join his wife’s venture. The parents of four moved from Los Angeles to the Austin area, collaborated on livestreams, podcasts and organized life-affirming conferences. In their podcast, “Rise Together,” they focused on marriage.

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Christine King Farris

Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died June 29, 2023. She was 95. For decades after her brother’s assassination in 1968, Farris worked along with his widow, Coretta Scott King, to preserve and promote his legacy. But unlike her high-profile sister-in-law, Farris’ activism — and grief — was often behind the scenes.

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David Jude Jolicoeur

David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 54. De La Soul’s debut studio album “3 Feet High and Rising,” produced by Prince Paul, was released in 1989 by Tommy Boy Records and praised for being a more light-hearted and positive counterpart to more charged rap offerings. De La Soul signaled the beginning of alternative hip-hop. 

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Robbie Knievel

Robbie Knievel, an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father — including at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 1989 and a Grand Canyon chasm a decade later — died Jan. 13, 2023. He was 60.

AP file, 2000

Gina Lollobrigida

Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one of her movies, died Jan. 16, 2023. She was 95. Besides “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman” in 1955, career highlights included Golden Globe-winner “Come September,” with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;” “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.”

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Lynette Hardaway (“Diamond”)

Lynette Hardaway, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk, died Jan. 9, 2023. She was 51. Hardaway (pictured at left), known by the moniker “Diamond,” carved out a unique role as a Black woman who loudly backed Trump and right-wing policies.

AP file, 2018

Adam Rich

Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as “America’s little brother” on “Eight is Enough,” died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 54. Rich had a limited acting career after starring at age 8 as Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight children, on the ABC hit dramedy that ran from from 1977 to 1981.

AP file, 2002

Bobby Hull

Hall of Fame forward Bobby Hull, who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final, has died. Hull was 84. The two-time MVP was one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history, leading the league in goals seven times. Nicknamed “The Golden Jet” for his speed and blond hair, he posted 13 consecutive seasons with 30 goals or more from 1959-72.

AP file, 2019

Charles White

Charles White, the Southern California tailback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1979, died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 64. A two-time All-American and Los Angeles native, White won a national title in 1978 before claiming the Heisman in the following season, when he captained the Trojans and led the nation in yards rushing.

AP file, 1979

Ron Cephas Jones

Ron Cephas Jones, a veteran stage actor who won two Emmy Awards for his role as a long-lost father who finds redemption on the NBC television drama series “This Is Us,” died Aug. 19, 2023, at age 66.

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Mohamed Al Fayed

Mohamed Al Fayed, the flamboyant Egypt-born businessman whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, died Aug. 30, 2023. He was 94. Al Fayed, the longtime owner of Harrods department store and the Fulham Football Club, was devastated by the death of son Dodi Fayed in the car crash in Paris with Diana 26 years ago. He spent years mourning the loss and fighting the British establishment he blamed for their deaths.

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Jerry Richardson

Jerry Richardson, the Carolina Panthers founder and for years one of the NFL’s most influential owners until a scandal forced him to sell the team, died March 1, 2023. He was 86.

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Sister André

Lucile Randon, a French nun known as Sister André and believed to be the world’s oldest person, died Jan. 17, 2023, at age 118. She was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904. She was also one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19.

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Tatjana Patitz

Tatjana Patitz, one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” music video, died at age 56.

AP file, 2006

Russell Banks

Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter,” died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 82.

AP file, 2004

Cardinal George Pell

Cardinal George Pell, a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia on child sex abuse charges before his convictions were overturned, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 81.

AP file, 2018

Ken Block

Ken Block, a motorsports icon known for his stunt driving and for co-founding the action sports apparel brand DC Shoes, died Jan. 2, 2023, in a snowmobiling accident near his home in Utah. Block rose to fame as a rally car driver and in 2005 was awarded Rally America’s Rookie of the Year honors.

AP file, 2013

Walter Cunningham

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Jan. 3, 2023. He was 90. Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live television broadcasts as they orbited Earth, paving the way for the moon landing less than a year later.

AP file, 2014

Anton Walkes

Professional soccer player Anton Walkes died Jan. 18, 2023, from injuries he sustained in a boat crash off the coast of Miami. He was 25. Walkes began his career with English Premier League club Tottenham and also played for Portsmouth before signing with Atlanta United in MLS. He joined Charlotte for the club’s debut MLS season in 2022.

AP file, 2017

Pat Schroeder

Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died March 13, 2023. She was 82. Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government. She was elected to Congress in Colorado in 1972 and won easy reelection 11 times from her safe district in Denver.

AP file, 1999

Seymour Stein

Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, died April 2, 2023, at age 80. Stein helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005.

AP file, 2005

Klaus Teuber

Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, died April 1, 2023. He was 70. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal tiles, has sold tens of millions of copies and is available in more than 40 languages.

AP file, 1995

Ginnie Newhart

Ginnie Newhart, who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his “Newhart” series, died April 23, 2023. She was 82.

AP file, 1985

Vida Blue

Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A’s to three straight World Series titles before his career was derailed by drug problems, died May 6, 2023. He was 73.

AP file, 1976

Martin Amis

British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, died May 20, 2023. He was 73. Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his good friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie. Among his best-known works were “Money,” a satire about consumerism in London, “The Information” and “London Fields,” along with his 2000 memoir, “Experience.”

AP file, 2012

Doyle Brunson

Doyle Brunson, one of the most influential poker players of all time and a two-time world champion, died May 14, 2023. He was 89. Brunson, called the Godfather of Poker and also known as “Texas Dolly,” won 10 World Series of Poker tournaments — second only to Phil Hellmuth’s 16. He also captured world championships in 1976 and 1977 and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988.

AP file, 2011

Hodding Carter III

Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, died May 11, 2023. He was 88.

AP file, 2003

Ray Stevenson

Ray Stevenson, who played the villainous British governor in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor” films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,” died May 21, 2023. He was 58. He made his film debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.” In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur” as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone.” Though “Punisher” was not the best-reviewed film, he’d get another taste of Marvel in the first three “Thor” films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the “Divergent” trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and “The Transporter: Refueled.”

AP file, 2017

Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, died June 5, 2023, at age 83.

AP file, 1981

Tori Bowie

U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died May 2, 2023, from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4×100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.

AP file, 2017

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died June 12, 2023. He was 86. A onetime cruise ship crooner, Berlusconi used his television networks and immense wealth to launch his long political career, inspiring both loyalty and loathing.

AP file, 2021

John Goodenough

John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers, and pacemakers to electric cars, died June 25, 2023, at age 100.

AP file, 2019

Coco Lee

Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly successful career in Asia, has died by suicide July 5, 2023. She was 48. She was the first Chinese singer to break into the American market, and her English song “Do You Want My Love” charted at #4 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Breakouts chart in December 1999.

If you or someone you know exhibits warning signs of suicide, call 1-800-273-TALK, text 741741 or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

AP file, 2005

Jane Birkin

Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, died July 16, 2023, at age 76. The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their songs notably included the steamy “Je t’aime moi non plus” (“I Love You, Me Neither”). Birkin’s ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlaced with his gruff baritone in the 1969 duet that helped make her famous and was forbidden in Italy after being denounced in the Vatican newspaper.

AP file, 2021

Michael McGrath

Michael McGrath, a Broadway character actor who shined in zany, feel-good musicals and won a Tony Award for “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” died Sept. 14, 2023. He was 65. McGrath was in over a dozen Broadway shows including “Plaza Suite,” “She Loves Me,” “Tootsie” and “Spamalot” as well as on television as the sidekick to Martin Short on “The Martin Short Show.”

AP file, 2012

Fernando Botero

Renowned Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose depictions of people and objects in plump, exaggerated forms became emblems of Colombian art around the world, died Sept. 15, 2023. He was 91.

AP file, 2013

David McCallum

Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” in the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the popular “NCIS” 40 years later, died Sept. 25, 2023. He was 90. McCallum’s work with “U.N.C.L.E.” brought him two Emmy nominations, and he got a third as an educator struggling with alcoholism in a 1969 Hallmark Hall of Fame drama called “Teacher, Teacher.” McCallum returned to television in 2003 in another series with an agency known by its initials — CBS’ “NCIS.”

AP file, 1975

Tim Wakefield

Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse-busting World Series title the following year, died Oct. 1, 2023. He was 57.

AP file, 2009

Louise Glück

Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, died Oct. 13, 2023, at age 80.

AP file, 2016

Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie, the strong-willed, Oscar-nominated actor who performed in acclaimed roles despite at one point abandoning acting altogether in search of a “more meaningful” life, died Oct. 14, 2023. She was 91. Laurie arrived in Hollywood in 1949 as Rosetta Jacobs and was quickly given a string of starring roles with Ronald Reagan, Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis, among others. She went on to receive Academy Award nominations for three distinct films: The 1961 poolroom drama “The Hustler”; the film version of Stephen King’s horror classic “Carrie,” in 1976; and the romantic drama “Children of a Lesser God,” in 1986. She also appeared in several acclaimed roles on television and the stage, including in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” in the 1990s as the villainous Catherine Martell.

AP file, 2009

Bob Knight

Bob Knight, the brilliant and combustible coach who won three NCAA titles at Indiana and for years was the scowling face of college basketball died Nov. 1, 2023. He was 83.

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Frank Borman

Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing seven months later, died Nov. 7, 2023. He was 95. 

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Maryanne Trump Barry

Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal judge and former president Donald Trump’s oldest sister, died Nov. 13, 2023, at age 86 at her home in New York.

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Ken Squier

Ken Squier, a longtime NASCAR announcer, died Nov. 15, 2023, in Waterbury, Vermont, at the age of 88, according to the management of the local WDEV radio, which he owned. 

AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File

George Brown

George Brown, drummer and co-founder of Kool & The Gang, died Nov. 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, after a battle with cancer. He was 74.

In photo: Robert “Kool” Bell, from left, Ronald “Khalis” Bell, Dennis “DT” Thomas and George Brown attend a ceremony honoring Kool & The Gang with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame on Oct. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles.

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Willie Hernandez

Three-time All-Star relief pitcher Willie Hernández, who won the 1984 Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards as part of the World Series champion Detroit Tigers, died Nov. 20, 2023. He was 69.

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Jean Knight

Jean Knight, a New Orleans-born soul singer known for her 1971 hit “Mr. Big Stuff,” died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, at age 80 from natural causes, family representative Mona Giamanco said.

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Surglich Man will tug so hard on his new Pyzel Ghost and so totally fascinate.

It’s almost Christmas, and you can’t even decide what to give yourself.

Probably a new surfboard.

Surglich Man is totally in the Christmas spirit this year! He just got a can of Williams-Sonoma peppermint rind from his aunt. It even has his name right on the lid! Surlinie You have to admit, it is really delicious. This morning he ordered a mint mocha from Pannikin.

So seasonal!

Surglich You rummage around in your garage and decide to hang a couple of lights on the Sprinter. It would be so festive! Surglich It’s easy to imagine: hanging out in the parking lot, getting ready to surf while its Christmas lights are twinkling. Everyone would be super jealous!

But first, Surglich Man has important surfboards to do. Priorities! He absolutely has to remove the wax from his favorite red fish. He saw something on the internet about how the wax comes off super easily when he uses flour.

Surlinie You like it really simple. He also loves clean wax the most. Showing up on the beach with dirty wax is such a crazy move.

There’s only one problem. Without looking, Surglich Man knows that he definitely has no flour in his kitchen. He left the sourdough starter with his ex in San Clemente. No more baking bread for him! He’s totally over it.

Surglich You rummage around in your toolbox, find your paint scraper and get to work.

Suddenly his phone buzzes. So uncomfortable! He was just about to get into a groove. Absolutely the worst timing. Surlinie You think he might as well be watching it now that he’s completely distracted.

Hey Trento

Trey here, hope you are fine. It’s been a minute

Some of the boys and I go to the surf ranch ..

I heard you really like surfing now. Do you wish to join? I have an extra seat.

It would be cool to catch up. I’m working on a new startup. Maybe you like it.

No pressure!

Surf ranch! Surglich You feel so light-headed right now. Could he actually go to the surf ranch? OMG.

Surglich You want to sell all of your favorite boards or something super essential in order to go to the surf ranch. Well maybe not the fish. He really likes his red fish. But definitely other things!

Surglich You could be totally exhausted. Introduce yourself! He feels dizzy again. The Surglich man sits down on the floor of his garage right there. OMG.

Of course there is a fly in champagne. Or rain on his wedding day. What ever. Metaphors, so confusing. Surglich You can never hold it straight. Words are so complicated. Surfboards make a lot more sense.

The thing is, Trey isn’t exactly Surigible Man’s favorite. It’s like a total blast from the past. And not in a good, nostalgic sense.

Before Surglich Man moved to San Clemente, before he moved to Cardiff, he lived in San Francisco. He had moved there after college to work for Google as a junior engineer. He would do so many great things!

After spending three years rearranging the same four lines of code, Surigible Man was completely over it, so he took the chance to join a startup. There he met Trey, the VP of Marketing and Sales.

Surglich Man worked at Elevate for a long time! and didn’t even notice his five roommates in the apartment he shared on Outer Sunset. Sometimes he just spent the night in the office. It was easier and the couches were comfortable.

At the time, Surglich Man was so committed to the success of his business. That was his big chance! Surglich One would totally win capitalism. He had stock options and everything!

Surglich Man winces at the memory. How could he be so naive!

One day the CEO of Elevate! Surglich Man and his colleagues called into the conference room. It turned out that Sur therefore Man was actually not going to win capitalism. The startup had failed to secure its Series F funding and ran out of money.

On the flip side, the whole thing helped Sur proud Man find his true calling. Surglich Man had his last paycheck in his pocket and was riding his electric scooter to Sloat. There he saw surfers putting on and taking off neoprene, waxing boards, and doing other surfing things.

Surglich One felt something. Indent. He wanted to be one of those surfers talking in the parking lot. Surglich You wanted to be part of it. He stood on the dunes and watched them paddle out.

Then Surglich Man went home and opened the work laptop that he had not yet returned. Where in California could he find the best and most consistent surf?

Surglich You would surf so much now. All he needed was some new surfboards and an apartment. It’s good that he never had time to spend any of his Elevate salary! Maybe he could get advice between surf sessions or something.

These days, Surglich Man doesn’t even want to remember all of those bad start-up memories. Life is so much better now! Surfing is so much better than capitalism.

To be honest, Surglich Man never really liked Trey. They weren’t enemies or anything, but the whole tech world is full of counterfeiters. Surfing is so real.

But Trey can pull Surlass Man through the sealed gates of Shangri La. Surglich You can only pretend to be friends for one day. Plus he’s pretty sure he surfs a lot better than any of those tech brothers. He just has to like, really try not to roll his eyes when Trey introduces his amazing new start-up.

And maybe Surglich Man could get some good clips at the Surf Ranch. So many barrels! He wanted to start a vlog and document his great surfing trip. Surf Ranch could be the perfect opening episode. He could be totally famous on the internet!

Yesterday when he was in the surf shop, Surphia Man saw a Pyzel Ghost and he almost bought it. Surglich Man has been thinking lately that he should get on the engines. They’re so powerful and precise and such. Now he has the perfect excuse!

Surglich Man loves his red fish, but Surf Ranch is a perfectly powerful wave, so he is going to need a board that is up to the task. And if John John Florence likes it, it has to be that good!

Surglich You pick up your phone and send a text message to your fake friend Trey.

omg yes i would be so excited!
Thanks for the invitation!!!
when are you leaving?

Trey responds super fast, like he’s been waiting to hear from Surigible Man. Surglich has to admit that he feels super flattered.

Next week! It will likely be cold so bring a warm wetsuit. I’ll send details when I’m back at my desk. Look forward to you!

OMG. Surglich Man goes to the Surf Ranch! He can’t even believe it!

Surglich Man puts his Christmas lights aside. There is no time for this nonsense. He has important surfing things to do! He has to go to the surf shop immediately and buy a new surfboard.

Surglich You need new fins. And a traction pad. He’s not even sure what to buy. Does JJF not have a signature traction pad? Surglich is sure that he can find out. Surfing is his thing. He totally understands.

Surlinie You can definitely choose the right fins and the right traction pad. He is an expert!

Surglich Man takes notes on his cell phone and adds a new wetsuit to his list. He heard that December could get cold in Lemoore. He doesn’t want to be too cold to throw himself in the barrel!

That would be like the worst nightmare, right up there with all the other bad nightmares like coming to school naked or getting lost on the way to the beach. But totally worse.

Surglich You don’t want to look stupid in front of your fake friend Trey and the other bros!

Surglich You read that there was a whole supply chain thing and wetsuits on a boat or whatever. Don’t these people understand that Surglich Man has super good surfing at the Surf Ranch? Amateurs.

With wild exuberance, Surphia Man jumps into the sprinter. He has to go to the surf shop. He’s so busy right now!

Surglich Man goes to the Surf Ranch! He can’t even wait. Surglich Man will pull so hard on his new Pyzel Ghost and so totally into the barrel. He gets dizzy just thinking about it. Surglich You can hardly believe your luck!

It’s the best Christmas present ever!

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ALPINE COUNTY (CBS SF / AP) – Firefighters south of Lake Tahoe faced another busy day of heat and extreme fire behavior along the state line as they battled the still-growing Tamarack Fire on Friday.

The Tamarack Fire south of Lake Tahoe grew approximately 7,000 acres on Thursday to 58,417 acres on Friday morning. The fire burned more than 78 square miles of wood and head-high chaparral in the national forest area. It broke out on July 4th and was one of nearly two dozen fires triggered by lightning strikes.

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Although containment increased along the Carson River Road Corridor and parts of Diamond Valley Road, authorities said the crews on the east side of Highway 395 near Holbrook Junction continued to struggle.

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It was estimated that a point fire in the area has grown to 2,500 acres and established itself on the ridge northwest of Topaz Ranch Estates, a parish in Douglas County, Nevada.

Another 1,369 people were evacuated mainly from the Hwy 395 corridor, bringing the total number of people evacuated from the Tamarack Fire to 2,439.

Firefighters on the ground and in airplanes will face exceptionally difficult weather and fuel conditions on Friday. Temperatures were forecast at 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

The fire departments assume that the weather will continue to be hot, dry and unstable. The minimum humidity is 15-20% and on Friday afternoons and evenings, southwest winds of 10-15 miles per hour with gusts of up to 40 miles per hour are forecast along the ridges.

Terrain winds were expected for most of the day, with the exception of increasing northwest winds in the late afternoon and evening. Additionally, there is a chance that thunderstorms will return over the weekend and likely by early next week.

A Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue fire team shared a terrifying clip late Thursday that showed a truck nearly overwhelmed by a fast-moving point fire.

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* MUST SEE * Up close as the crew of a Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue brush engine escape the fire on either side of a wilderness dirt road triggered by a fast moving point fire while assisting a fire operation on the #TamarakFire . #TMFR #Wildfire # FireSeaaon2021 pic.twitter.com/gb2I5C4m23

– Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue (@TMFPD) July 23, 2021

The clip shows the truck surrounded on all sides by towering flames as it travels on a dirt road in the wilderness. Fortunately, the crew was able to get to safety.

Clips of crews in harrowing situations caused by the Tamarack and other forest fires are posted more frequently on social media as the fire season worsens. On Thursday, the UC Davis fire chief shared a similar video from inside the cab of a fire truck, which he described as “heartbreaking.”

UC Davis chief fire officer Nathan Trauernicht also shared a daytime clip Thursday that gave viewers an idea of ​​the extent of the Tamarack fire, with the flames and smoke visible on a nearby hill above a threatened barn in the Foreground on the east side of the fire loomed.

Daily video from @ucdavisfire Brush 34 of the Yolo County’s strike team as they entered a housing estate yesterday to protect homes from the #TamarakFire. This is the “O” section on the east side of the fire. @ucdavis #ucdavis pic.twitter.com/Af4IxLxCTp

– Nathan Trauernicht (@FireChiefT) July 22, 2021

A total of 1,353 firefighters are currently deployed at Tamarack Fire. The Alpine County fire destroyed at least 10 buildings.

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ALPINE COUNTY (CBS SF / AP) – Firefighters south of Lake Tahoe faced another busy day of heat and extreme fire behavior along the state line as they battled the still-growing Tamarack Fire on Friday.

The Tamarack Fire south of Lake Tahoe grew approximately 7,000 acres on Thursday to 58,417 acres on Friday morning. The fire burned more than 78 square miles of wood and head-high chaparral in the national forest area. It broke out on July 4th and was one of nearly two dozen fires triggered by lightning strikes.

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Although containment increased along the Carson River Road Corridor and parts of Diamond Valley Road, authorities said the crews on the east side of Highway 395 near Holbrook Junction continued to struggle.

ALSO READ: “Cardiac Breastfeeding” clip from inside the UC Davis Firetruck Cab shows the intensity of the fire from Tamarack

It was estimated that a point fire in the area has grown to 2,500 acres and established itself on the ridge northwest of Topaz Ranch Estates, a parish in Douglas County, Nevada.

Another 1,369 people were evacuated mainly from the Hwy 395 corridor, bringing the total number of people evacuated from the Tamarack Fire to 2,439.

Firefighters on the ground and in airplanes will face exceptionally difficult weather and fuel conditions on Friday. Temperatures were forecast at 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

The fire departments assume that the weather will continue to be hot, dry and unstable. The minimum humidity is 15-20% and on Friday afternoons and evenings, southwest winds of 10-15 miles per hour with gusts of up to 40 miles per hour are forecast along the ridges.

Terrain winds were expected for most of the day, with the exception of increasing northwest winds in the late afternoon and evening. Additionally, there is a chance that thunderstorms will return over the weekend and likely by early next week.

A Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue fire team shared a terrifying clip late Thursday that showed a truck nearly overwhelmed by a fast-moving point fire.

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* MUST SEE * Up close as the crew of a Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue brush engine escape the fire on either side of a wilderness dirt road triggered by a fast moving point fire while assisting a fire operation on the #TamarakFire . #TMFR #Wildfire # FireSeaaon2021 pic.twitter.com/gb2I5C4m23

– Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue (@TMFPD) July 23, 2021

The clip shows the truck surrounded on all sides by towering flames as it travels on a dirt road in the wilderness. Fortunately, the crew was able to get to safety.

Clips of crews in harrowing situations caused by the Tamarack and other forest fires are posted more frequently on social media as the fire season worsens. On Thursday, the UC Davis fire chief shared a similar video from inside the cab of a fire truck, which he described as “heartbreaking.”

UC Davis chief fire officer Nathan Trauernicht also shared a daytime clip Thursday that gave viewers an idea of ​​the extent of the Tamarack fire, with the flames and smoke visible on a nearby hill above a threatened barn in the Foreground on the east side of the fire loomed.

Daily video from @ucdavisfire Brush 34 of the Yolo County’s strike team as they entered a housing estate yesterday to protect homes from the #TamarakFire. This is the “O” section on the east side of the fire. @ucdavis #ucdavis pic.twitter.com/Af4IxLxCTp

– Nathan Trauernicht (@FireChiefT) July 22, 2021

A total of 1,353 firefighters are currently deployed at Tamarack Fire. The Alpine County fire destroyed at least 10 buildings.

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Editor’s Note, Dec. 4, 2020 at 3:20 p.m .: Officials in five Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley decided on Friday to issue the stay-at-home order effective December 6. All of the interviews in this article took place before the announcement and was written in speculation about when the order would be placed.

The Bay Area restaurant and bar industry, like many others, has struggled with the pandemic over the past year, but the announcement of a possible stay-at-home order on Thursday predicts more dark days.

California Governor Gavin Newsom introduced the framework for a regional stay-at-home order, with the state’s regions having to implement shutdown rules once ICU capacity drops below 15%. With the new shutdown, restaurants will again have to dine outdoors and only offer take-away. Bars, meanwhile, will be forced to close as part of the order process (although it is currently unclear if this includes bars that have worked with grocery vendors).

To be clear, the transition back to take-out is not (yet) happening. However, according to state projections, the Bay Area could potentially fall under California’s home stay ordinance by mid-December if COVID-19 numbers continue to rise. As of Thursday evening, the California Department of Health announced The Chronicle that the available intensive care capacity in the Bay Area region is 25.4%. That percentage doesn’t take into account, however, that we most likely didn’t see the predicted increase in Thanksgiving cases.

Since outdoor dining began a few months ago, restaurants and bars have barely passed by. When asked how eating and sitting outside helped through the pandemic, Laurie Thomas, restaurateur and executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, called it “critical”.

“We wouldn’t be open if we couldn’t – my two restaurants and many people wouldn’t be either,” Thomas told SFGATE. “It doesn’t make you any money, it just puts you in the situation where you have the chance to break even. And that’s why this next shelter-in-place order, if and when it comes into play for our bay Area County Region, will be devastating. “

For the catering trade in particular, the prospect of being closed in December is particularly great. Thomas said the month is usually a boon for restaurants as people go out to dinner for the holidays, but that even without the expected income from corporate parties, for example, December should boost business.

“This level of uncertainty is incredibly difficult for anyone who will be affected,” said Thomas. “It won’t affect our friends in the software world other than they won’t be able to eat out. So it’ll disturb people who want to make reservations and go out, but it won’t be devastating.” Just as it will be for our industry, where people lose their paychecks in a year-end vacation situation where their families and children are counting on them to feed them. Usually this is a time when people do some banking and have the money to buy gifts for their children, put food on the table, and pay rent on January 2nd. There is a lot of stress in our industry right now and as owners we are used to caring for employees. I am like our family. “

For bars, however, it’s a slightly different story. Ben Bleiman, founder of the San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance, said December month can usually be slow for bars, but an industry shutdown would devastate an already injured group.

“I think we were hit really hard,” said Bleiman. “I think our industry, like many others, is absolutely devastated. The outdoors [seating] saved some bars from the nasty destruction and if we have to switch off it will be really, really bad.

Bleiman estimated that eating and sitting outside were “extremely effective” for 90% of San Francisco bars. “They don’t make money, they lose money – but they lose money more slowly because they can dine outside,” he said. However, selling take-away bars will have little impact on which bars are needed to cover costs such as rent.

“To-go sales are nothing, they don’t help. They hardly help,” said Bleiman. “Very, very few companies survived or even approached a profit by just going to-go. In fact, I think it was probably better for most bars not even to offer that, most of them. A. Couple am Had the edge [to-go] dialed in, but it didn’t make sense to most. The to-go business is therefore not a comparable alternative to eating outdoors. Eating outdoors saved many of them. “

The Old Devil Moon’s patio was a lifesaver for the bar, but owner Chris Cohen acknowledged that outdoor space wasn’t feasible for everyone in San Francisco.

Courtesy Old Devil Moon

Chris Cohen, a partner at Old Devil Moon bar in San Francisco, tried to investigate the “silver lining” of the possible closings during the bars’ traditional slow December period, but so far he has noticed that most have been fighting over the past month of colder weather. Cohen said he and his two bar partners worked “with no personal income” for most of the year and that while their bar made take-out cocktails out of necessity, it just didn’t help in the long run.

“At Old Devil Moon, we were literally one of the first in town to start making batch take-away cocktails when it was first announced as allowed,” Cohen said. “We did this spin right away because we knew there was just no other option. But I’ll say the to-go business isn’t that good. It’s not sustainable for regular bars and restaurants. … It’s something that helped us meet our highest costs in the early stages of COVID, but being able to dine al fresco has been enormous. We’ve hit maybe a third of what we normally would in terms of Would have been money. “

Doug Dalton, owner of Future Bars Group, agreed that takeaway wasn’t very helpful for business. The list of bars, which include Bourbon and Branch and Zombie Village, has largely remained closed during the pandemic. Only Devil’s Acre and Lark have reopened with parklets, and their liquor stores Cask are selling bottles for pickup.

“To-go isn’t even feasible for us other than Cask,” said Dalton. “Cask makes it good to take away, but for the bars themselves we didn’t find it feasible to have a to-go offer. If the parklets were closed, that would close.” [our] Bars.”

With the shutdown looming and the timing and length of time uncertain, Thomas said it is possible that many restaurants are considering the option of foregoing takeaway and instead choosing to “sleep” and temporarily close to Save costs.

“The Gavin thing [Newsom] said today that coincides with what I’m worried about is these three week stoppages that could be extended, “said Thomas.” There is no guarantee it will be three weeks. This isn’t our first rodeo here; We know what is happening. Most people are likely to make decisions, if God forbid we go into that 15% category in mid-December, then people like me and other restaurateurs will likely hibernate for December because they have no choice and then probably in January too . “

Thomas has advocated all kinds of business facilitation, including more futile Paycheck Protection Program loans and grant-based grants, but most of the restaurateurs and bar owners that SFGATE approached expressed frustration that there was little or no further government relief is imminent.

“We’re working our asses off for free just to get the lowest income we need to pay the bills,” Cohen said. “While I am certainly not against measures like Newsom’s – I think these things are necessary – it is frustrating to feel left behind as an entire industry. For example, property taxes are still due December and they give that Give people a tiny break of a thousand dollars that have to be paid for later anyway. Things like that are actually going to put people out of business, so there’s a lot more level to do in the state. “

There has also been a lot of frustration among those who have not properly adhered to the wearing of masks. John Konstin Jr., co-owner of John’s Grill, tries to stay positive but admitted that there is some frustration with these disregarding mask rules.

“There’s no easy way to look at it or express it, you know,” said Konstin. “But we did it once and it looks like we’re back here. We just have to keep being optimistic, positive and looking at things in a very entrepreneurial mindset that once we’re done with the Having to start planning It’s exhausting, all the start and stop, but if the world or California were just wearing a mask or taking it more seriously, we just wouldn’t have to deal with it – but unfortunately that’s not the case. “

It seems to be a matter of when, and not when, the new shelter-in-place regulation in the Bay Area will be enacted, and the next steps for restaurants and bars have become a personal move that the precarious position harmonizes every single company. For his part, Konstin is working to ensure that John’s Grill survives.

“The fact that we’re doing it all again eight months later is frustrating,” said Konstin. “And it has nothing to do with politicians, it has nothing to do with their plans or what they put into effect. It has to do with us as people, as a community, that we all have to take it seriously. And then that is it . ” is a serious threat to our economy, to our health, to everything. It was crazy, but in terms of [us]John’s Grill has gone through two pandemics in a lifetime. We have been there since 1908. And so we made it through the Spanish flu, and we have plans to hold out and pan and make it through COVID-19. “

SFGATE news editor Amy Graff and reporter Eric Ting contributed to this report.

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