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Feds’ win streak ended at Baca

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Despite their strong record, U.S. attorneys had a difficult task in tying ex-sheriff to jail scheme, experts say. By Joel Rubin and Victoria Kim

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MIGRANTS FROM Africa and Haiti cross the Rio Suchiate on the Guatemala-Mexico border on makeshift rafts.

NAVIGATING THE RIVER OF DREAMS The journey from Africa to the U.S. crosses a slow-moving river on Mexico’s southern border, a way station for those fleeing oppression By Patrick J. McDonnell

reporting from ciudad hidalgo, mexico

Crossing the border into Mexico

Part three of four parts rom across the Rio Suchiate comes a staccato patois, not Spanish, not quite French. Distant figures on the Guatemalan bank of the river begin to board a flotilla of wooden rafts, moored beneath a white cross tinting pink as dawn approaches. Soon, the wobbly fleet plunges into the murky water, the passengers perched unsteadily on planks lashed to inner tubes. The drivers dip long poles into the river bed for propulsion. “Africanos!” murmurs one of the bicycle rickshaw drivers on the Mexican side, waiting for the fresh arrivals from Guatemala to reach shore. The 60 or travelers — all black, mostly young men, but also several women and children — disembark and gather up their backpacks and bags. Three Somali women don the distinctive headdresses of their East African homeland. All make their way hastily up the slippery incline, passing trash heaps, scurrying rats and campfires warming coffee and tortillas. “We are from Congo,” explains Luc Hillegeon, 31, as he, his wife and infant son navigate the muddy path beneath the majestic ceiba trees. “We would like to go to the USA.”

Hundreds of migrants from outside Latin America pass through the Mexican city of Tapachula every month, all destined for the United States.

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Brown pardons dozens, offering a second chance The governor grants clemency to more than 100 felons, most of them convicted of drug crimes. By Melanie Mason, Jazmine Ulloa and Liam Dillon SACRAMENTO — A Santa Clarita real estate agent, an El Cajon lawyer, and a prison chaplain from Norwalk all had their criminal histories excused through pardons by Gov. Jerry Brown as part of an annual tradition of Christmastime clemency. Brown on Friday granted 112 pardons for convicted felons who had completed their sentences and shortened the existing sentence of a man involved in a gang-related shooting nearly 20 years ago.

For the dozens receiving pardons — the vast majority of which were for drug offenses — Brown’s action was both an early Christmas gift and an official end to a more troubled chapter of their lives. “He’s saying you can have a second chance and we’re not going to hold that against you,” said Dana Pope, a Santa Clarita real estate agent who was convicted in 1996 of possession of a controlled substance. “I was young. I was on drugs. That’s not who I am today.” As governor, Brown has shown a commitment to executive clemency that sets him apart from recent predecessors. Since 2011, Brown has granted 854 pardons and two commutations, according to the governor’s office. That far exceeds the total pardons by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who granted 15; Gov. Gray Davis, [See Pardons, A8]

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CAMERA systems have done little to prevent the thefts of packages from homes.

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‘Porch pirates’ capitalize on online shopping By Richard Winton They operate in the middle of the day, when many residents are at work and the delivery vans are making their rounds. They tend to follow FedEx, UPS and U.S. mail workers down streets, on the lookout for packages they can nab. Some even dress in uniforms to avoid suspicion. As Internet retailers

make big gains against shopping malls this holiday season, “porch pirates” have been out in force stealing their piece of the pie. Customers are increasingly using Amazon, eBay and other retailers to buy goods they used to buy in stores — especially around Christmas, when UPS delivers more than 30 million packages per day in the week before the holiday. The problem is that

many of those packages end up on unattended doorsteps, unlocked mailboxes and stoops. All this curbside commerce has created a new class of criminal dedicated to pilfering as many packages as possible. Police say that in an era of heightened security at stores and shopping centers, porch pirating has become one of the easiest forms of petty theft. [See Thefts, A10]

The team of federal prosecutors was on a roll. For nearly five years, the Public Corruption and Civil Rights section of the U.S. attorney’s office had been building and winning cases against a group from the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department accused of carrying out a plan to obstruct a federal investigation into allegations of inmate abuse at the county jails. The prosecutors worked their way up the chain of command. But when it went after its last and largest target — former Sheriff Lee Baca — the government’s run of wins came to an abrupt end this week. The mistrial declared Thursday after jurors deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of acquitting Baca of conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges affirmed what even prosecutors knew going in to the trial: Convicting Baca would be much harder than [See Prosecutors, A12]

Trump’s nuclear remarks rattle nerves By Tracy Wilkinson and Ralph Vartabedian WASHINGTON — Donald Trump shook up longstanding international security norms Friday by reportedly suggesting a renewed arms race, a day after he tweeted that the United States should “greatly strengthen and expand” its nuclear weapons capability. Trump’s meaning was sufficiently cryptic, perhaps deliberately so, that disarmament experts, foreign leaders and U.S. officials were left off balance — and unsure if he plans to upend U.S. policy on nuclear arms after he enters the White House in 28 days. Since his election, Trump has rocked the foreign policy establishment by praising Russian President Vladimir Putin, and by speaking to the president of Taiwan and questioning the “One China” policy that only recognizes Beijing. He also has challenged long-standing policy toward Israel, saying he will move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, a disputed city, and naming an ambassador who supports Israeli settlements likely to block any resumption of the peace process. But speaking recklessly about nuclear proliferation [See Nuclear, A5]

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Who wants what in Syria? OYSTER PERPETUAL

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How the conflict has several world powers jostling for influence By Laura King

WASHINGTON — Historians employ a striking term — the “Great Game” — to describe the fierce 19th century test of wills that took place in Afghanistan and across central Asia between tsarist Russia and then-colonial power Britain. With its overtones of guile and pitiless cynicism, the phrase is a relic of the past — but in some ways, it distills the harsh political realities surrounding the military and diplomatic jousting over Syria. Against a backdrop of ruined cities and biblical floods of refugees, the competing and overlapping interests of an array of outside actors have played out over nearly six years of grinding conflict in Syria. Alliances have shifted; rivalries have sharpened and eased; even highly predictable events contrive to surprise. The smoking rubble of east Aleppo, and the suffering of hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in war’s path, in no way resemble a game. But the fall of the northern city to Syrian government forces and their allies has opened a new chapter in a power struggle that extends far beyond the country’s borders. Here is a look at some of the countries that see themselves as having a stake in Syria’s war, how their actions have shaped the fighting to date, and how they might seek to influence the conflict.

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President Vladimir Putin’s year-old decision to intervene militarily in Syria tipped a largely deadlocked battle sharply in favor of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Devastating Russianled bombardment was a key factor in the fall of Aleppo, once Syria’s largest city and its commercial capital before the war. Analysts see Putin’s actions as part of a broader effort to expand Russian influence across the Middle East, paralleling aggressive moves elsewhere, including in Ukraine. Russia’s Mideast muscle-flexing carries risks of getting bogged down militarily in regional quagmires. But becoming a prime power broker in Syria fits in well with Putin’s strong desire to reassert great-power status, especially when his regional ambitions have encountered virtually no pushback from President-elect Donald Trump.

United States When it comes to Syria, the imminent Trump presidency represents a major unknown. His pre- and postelection comments on Syria have been confusing and sometimes contradictory. But the positions he has articulated appear to point to acceptance of Assad’s continued rule, the possible withdrawal of support from previously U.S.-aided rebel factions and a willingness — even eagerness — to partner with Russia in fighting the Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State. All those steps would be reversals of the Obama administration’s stance. Many critics consider Syria a major stain on the outgoing president’s legacy, as years of U.S. efforts to halt the bloodletting have been ineffectual. Underscoring a dearth of American influence in the Syria arena, Secretary of State John F. Kerry waged a fruitless battle to halt the indiscriminate bombardment of Aleppo, which he and some U.N. diplomats have called tantamount to a war crime. But the bombing didn’t stop until the last rebel-held parts of the city were about to fall.

Turkey

NATO ally Turkey has joined in the U.S.-led coalition confronting Islamic State. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made no secret of his anger at the West over issues including refugees and ongoing human-rights criticisms as he carries out a massive purge of political opponents in the wake of a coup attempt against him in July. Turkey shares the Obama administration’s desire to see Assad’s rule end. But that wish is overshadowed by a separate, overriding concern on Ankara’s part: preventing the establishment of a de facto Kurdish statelet on the Syrian side of Turkey’s border, something Erdogan fears would embolden his country’s own sizable eth-

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FIGHTERS in support of the Syrian government drive through an

Aleppo neighborhood past fleeing residents earlier this month.

nic Kurdish minority. Turkey has drawn closer to Russia in recent months, and even the assassination this week of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey by a gunman voicing anger over Aleppo did not appear to harm that rapprochement. The day after the murder of envoy Andrei Karlov in the Turkish capital, Turkey joined Russia and Iran in issuing the “Moscow Declaration” — a bid to broker and guarantee a Syrian peace accord.

Iran

Assad’s minority Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and Iran, the regional Shiite center of gravity, supports armed groups including Hezbollah, whose battle-hardened forces have fought alongside Syrian government troops since the war’s earliest days. Iranian-trained Shiite militias also played a substantial part in the battle for Aleppo, and the United Nations has accused some of them of taking part in atrocities. Iran has signaled its intent to join with Russia and Turkey in setting the terms of any Syrian peace accord, but Iran has its own worries about Trump. He has threatened to scrap the landmark nuclear accord between Iran and Western powers, which led to the easing of crippling sanctions. Despite Trump’s declared willingness to partner with more or less anyone in fighting Islamic State — which considers Shiites heretics — the president-elect could prove hostile to the notion of Tehran as a main player in any winding down of the Syrian war.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, together with Persian Gulf allies such as Qatar, has backed armed groups trying to topple Assad. But the kingdom has been preoccupied for nearly two years with a messy war in Yemen, leading a Sunni Arab coalition that has sought to crush Shiite-aligned Houthi rebels

who seized control of much of the poor but strategic country at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia, an important U.S. ally in the region, has signaled alarm over the prospect of a Russian- and Iranian-brokered Syria accord. Earlier this year, a former senior Saudi intelligence official, Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, told a forum at the Middle East Institute in Washington that any Trump deal-making in concert with Russia and Iran over Syria would be “the most disastrous step possible.” He urged Washington to turn instead to its long-standing allies in the region.

Other actors

Members of the European Union participate in the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State. But despite being been roiled by hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers, with Syrians making up the largest share of the arrivals, the bloc has wielded little real influence in efforts to end the fighting. Neighboring Lebanon and Jordan have absorbed huge numbers of Syrians fleeing the conflict; in tiny Lebanon, Syrians now make up about onefifth of the population. The destabilizing effect of the war and the wave of refugees have raised worries in Jordan, where U.S. ally King Abdullah faces a rise in radical Islamist movements. Israel has for the most part practiced a studied neutrality in the Syria conflict. Its army keeps a watchful eye on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, Israel’s doorstep, where some Syrian rebel factions in residence have ties to Al Qaeda. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged that Israel has struck Hezbollah targets inside Syria with the aim of preventing the group from obtaining advanced weapons. Israel has also provided medical care to Syria’s warwounded, rebels and civilians alike. laura.king@latimes.com

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Berlin suspect shot dead in Milan The Tunisian man was killed in an early morning shootout with Italian police. By Tom Kington and Erik Kirschbaum MILAN, Italy — Europe’s most wanted man was shot dead in Milan by a routine police patrol on Friday, four days after he allegedly drove a truck into a Christmas fair in Berlin, killing 12 and wounding dozens. Police said Anis Amri had traveled by train from Chambery, France, on Thursday night to Turin, Italy — tickets in his possession plotted the course — and then to Milan, where he was spotted acting suspicious by two police officers early Friday outside a train station in the suburb of Sesto San Giovanni. Asked for identity documents, the Tunisian reached into a backpack “without hesitation,” pulled out a .22caliber pistol and shot one of the officers in the shoulder, wounding him, said Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti. As Amri shouted “police bastards” in Italian, the second officer, Luca Scata, 29, a trainee, returned fire and shot Amri twice, hitting him in the chest. Witnesses said the policemen tried to keep the Tunisian alive but he died after about 10 minutes. “The person is without a shadow of a doubt Anis Amri, the suspect in the Berlin attack,” Minniti said. Amri was identified through his fingerprints after no identifying documents were found on him. “He had nothing written, no cellphone, just a small knife,” said Milan Police Chief Antonio De Iesu. “He was a ghost.” Minniti said he had spoken to the wounded officer, Cristian Movio, 36, in the hospital, and that he is expected to survive. “Thanks to people like him we can have a happier Christmas,” the minister

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ITALIAN POLICE and forensics experts stand by the body of suspected Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri.

Amri was spotted acting suspiciously by officers outside a train station in the suburb of Sesto San Giovanni.

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WALID AMRI , left, brother of 24-year-old Anis

Amri, holds a portrait of his brother in Tunisia.

said. Tributes poured into the Facebook page of Scata, the other officer, where he had written his motto: “Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision.” At his family home in Sicily, his father, Giuseppe Scata, called his son “a brave boy,” adding, “When we spoke to him on the telephone early this morning he still did not know that the

dead boy was the attacker.” In Berlin, German officials confirmed that Amri had been killed and said they were relieved that the man they had called “armed and dangerous” had been stopped. But they said their investigation would continue into who might have supported Amri and what networks he may have used to escape capture, flee from Germany and get to Italy —

crossing at least two international borders. “I feel a great sense of relief that this assassin will not cause any more harm,” German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin. “But the successful manhunt does not by any score mean that the investigation into what happened is over.” He said that police and prosecutors were working hard to find and detain any accomplices. “There is still a high level of threat to Germany,” De Maiziere added. German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged that Amri had slipped past police to escape even though he had long been under surveillance on suspicion he was plotting an attack. “The Amri case raises questions — questions that are not only tied to this crime but also to the time before, since he came to Germany in July 2015,” she said. “We will now intensively examine to what extent official procedures need to be

changed.” Conservative German politician Stephan Mayer said the case “held up a magnifying glass” to the shortcomings of Merkel’s migration policy, while Christian Lindner, head of the Free Democrats opposition party, said “catastrophic mistakes” had been made. Holger Muenche, the head of the BKA federal crime office, told reporters that more than100 investigators would continue working on the case through the holidays. According to authorities, the 24-year-old Amri had been on the run since Monday, when he hijacked a truck, drove it through the Christmas market and then killed the Polish man who had been driving the vehicle. Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack, although it is not clear whether Amri had any contact with the extremist group. “Identifying and neutralizing him after he had traveled in Europe means we

have a system that works,” Minniti said. Investigators will now want to know why Amri made for Sesto San Giovanni, which has a migrant Muslim population of about 5,000. “We have asked around in the community and no one here knew him,” said Boubakeur Gueddouda, the Algerian-born president of the Islamic center in Sesto San Giovanni. “I hope we are not punished for this — the important thing is that we are all united against terrorism,” he added. Amri spent four years in jails in Sicily for arson after he sailed from Tunisia in 2011, and officials have now admitted that he was likely radicalized during his spell in jail. On one occasion he reportedly threatened to decapitate a Christian inmate who refused to convert to Islam. Suspicions that Amri had extremist contacts in Italy who may have helped him reach Germany were reinforced after it emerged that he was stopped in Germany this year carrying fake Italian identity papers. Merkel praised the Italian police officers who stopped Amri and said it showed that authorities in Europe were able to work together efficiently. “Terrorism is a challenge for all of us,” she told reporters. “It’s a good feeling to see how determined and effectively that we were all able to stand up to it across Europe and beyond.” She warned that “the threat of terrorism will remain as it has for many years to come.” She pledged that the German government would continue to do all it can to protect its citizens. “Our democracy, our state based on the rule of law, our values and our humanity are diametrically opposed to the hate-filled world of terrorism. And that will always be stronger than terrorism,” she said. Special correspondents Kington reported from Rome and Kirschbaum from Berlin.

A bittersweet family reunion in Aleppo As evacuations conclude, a mother and son meet for the first time in four years. By Nabih Bulos ALEPPO, Syria — Mustafa Sello strode up to the soldiers loitering by the green buses near southern Aleppo’s Ramousseh crossing, where they waited to evacuate the last residents out of the city’s eastern districts. “Please, sir, do you know where I can find my mother? An officer told me she would be here,” Sello asked, his eyes filling with tears. It had been more than four years since he had last seen her, since the Syrian civil war engulfed this commercial capital 16 months after anti-government uprisings began in early 2011. Minutes later, a white van drove up. The door opened, and out stepped a frail woman dressed in a tattered purple velvet frock and olive cardigan. Sello’s mother, 80-year old Fatemah, had arrived. Seeing him, her face puckered in a spasm of emotion, and tears left tracks in the dirt caked in the wrinkles of her face. Sello too began to cry as he rushed to embrace her tiny frame. Theirs was not a unique story in this almost six-year crisis, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more. Its battle lines have left almost no family whole. In Aleppo those lines were physical. The clashes between rebels and troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad split the city in two. Fatemah and her two other sons stayed in the Sakhour district, where the

family house stood (“She had carried the stones to build it on her back,” said Sello). The neighborhood became part of the rebels’ bastion in eastern Aleppo. Sello, a government employee at the Ministry of Industry, had remained in the government-held half to the west. From there, he was able to stay in touch with his family by phone. But for years, that was as close as they got. This week, the divisions were erased as the government proclaimed that it had removed the last rebels from eastern Aleppo and was in control of the entire city, Syria’s largest. But even now, the aftershocks linger. In late November, with its cadres battered by a months-long siege, the opposition collapsed before an unrelenting onslaught by pro-government troops. Successive rebel neighborhoods fell, including Sakhour, with as many as 100,000 people escaping towards government-held areas, according to the Syrian pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. But thousands, wary of retribution or enlistment in government forces (army service is compulsory in Syria), fled deeper into those districts still in rebel hands. Fatemeh, unable to walk on her own, was carried from her house in Sakhour to the Sukkari neighborhood. The onslaught continued, and more of the enclave fell to government forces. Faced with certain defeat, the rebels surrendered, and negotiated their safe passage out of the city. Their exit, which finished Thursday after days of stalling and breakdowns, took most of the estimated 35,000 residents to Idlib province, where the opposition still holds sway.

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MUSTAFA SELLO remained in the government-held part of Aleppo while his

mother, Fatemah, stayed with his brothers. They were evacuated to Idlib province.

FATEMAH, 80, meets her 5-year-old grandson

Tyme for the first time in Sello’s apartment. But when a soldier boarded the bus leaving Sukkari and asked if anyone wanted to stay in government areas, Fatemah raised her hand. Once reunited with his mother, Mustafa took her to an apartment to see her

grandchildren, 8-year-old Hanin and her 5-year-old brother, Tyme. “It’s the first time she will ever see Tyme,” he said as he helped Fatemah up the four stories to his door. At the end, she could walk no more, and crawled up the final

steps on hands and knees. Hanin opened the door and hugged her grandmother, but Tyme seemed wary, reluctantly stepping into Fatemah’s waiting arms. “Why do you look like that?” he asked, running his finger down Fatemah’s dirtied nose. She hugged him, then started to wipe the grime from her hands with wet tissues. A pile of them grew by her side. “We slept in the street last night … on blankets and whatever mattresses they could find. I’m so tired,” she said. She spoke of how the fighters, loath to leave behind any spoils for their loyalist foes, had disposed of whatever they could not take with them. “They dumped bags of sugar and oil on the ground. Your brothers had new two motorcycles in the shop. They burned them as well,”

she said to Sello. Although she was happy to have left eastern Aleppo, the family’s reunion was bittersweet: Fatemah had come alone. Sello’s brothers had gone to Idlib. “I didn’t see them when I got off the bus. … I knew they were behind me, but I couldn’t see them,” she said. Even for families who had left the rebel enclave together, the relief they felt in leaving the siege in rebelheld Aleppo was often shortlived. Several women interviewed last week in Jibreen, an industrial town where thousands of the displaced from east Aleppo had been given temporary shelter, said their husbands underwent ID checks by government authorities. Those men of fighting age who had not finished their military service or had been listed as reservists were soon dispatched to training camps, leaving their families to return alone to what remained of their houses in eastern Aleppo, now under government control. And even for those whose families had remained intact as they escaped to Idlib, there were few entirely happy endings. “I’m happy because my daughter is getting treatment. … She was very sick inside Aleppo,” said one proopposition activist, who declined to give his name for reasons of privacy. He spoke on the phone Friday from the Atmeh refugee camp on the Turkish border, where he had taken his 2-month-old daughter Lareen to the hospital. “But,” he said, “if we had stayed besieged it would have been better than leaving our houses and being displaced from our land.” Bulos is a special correspondent.

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Iraq’s government urged citizens to stay put as fighting began, but many have died. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske GOGJALI, Iraq — Samar Hussein, 11, was just waking up one morning a few weeks ago when an explosion ripped through her house. Her parents and three other relatives were killed. She escaped with a broken right leg and wound up at a crowded hospital run by Islamic State, which controlled her neighborhood in east Mosul. Militants captured the city of 1.2 million in 2014, but since mid-October they have slowly been losing ground to Iraqi forces aided by a U.S.led coalition. Before the start of the offensive, the government airdropped leaflets and broadcast messages on television urging residents to shelter in place, because camps for displaced people were already crowded and leaders feared that Islamic State fighters would turn a mass exodus into a mass slaughter. Most residents heeded the advice and stayed. But they have paid a heavy price, with higher-than-expected numbers caught in the crossfire and targeted by militants. At least 332 civilians were killed in Mosul and the surrounding province last month, according to the United Nations. The U.N. has not released this month’s total, but the violence has been worsening. Nearly 700 civilians were wounded by snipers, mines and rockets the second week in December, a 30% increase from the previous week. This week, 15 civilians and eight police died, and 50 more people were wounded, in multiple suicide car attacks in the suburb of Gogjali. U.N. officials said about 40% of casualties have been civilians — far exceeding the 5 to 10% they had expected. Samar and her aunt, Mayada Habib, a 35-year-old high school physics teacher, were able to take a taxi to the outskirts of Mosul this week

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MAYADA HABIB, left, took her niece Samar Hussein, 11, to a hospital outside Mosul after an explosion killed Samar’s parents and broke

her leg. Unwilling to flee without the rest of their family, they planned to return to the city. “We wish we could get outof there,” Habib said. to have the girl’s cast replaced at a World Health Organization clinic. All around them were other trauma victims: a small boy shot in the elbow by a sniper, an older man who broke an ankle fleeing an airstrike, a young woman grazed by a bullet as she sat outside her house, Unwilling to flee without the rest of their family and worried that such a caravan would be vulnerable to attack, Samar and Habib planned to return to their home in east Mosul’s Nour neighborhood to wait out the military campaign. “We wish we could get out of there,” Habib said. “Islamic State is always targeting civilians.” She held little hope that the Iraqi army could save her family or her city, she said. “After the destruction

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and what we have suffered for years, what are they going to do?” Another patient, 22-yearold Shukr Mahmoud Salem, whose arm was shattered in a mortar attack, was delivered by Iraqi special forces. He had originally sought help at a crowded hospital controlled by the militants. But medication was scarce and civilians had to wait while doctors treated Islamic State fighters. With no place to go, "many civilians can't leave their houses," said Salem, who will not allow his daughters outside, even to visit neighbors across the street. There are roughly a halfdozen field clinics around Mosul treating injured soldiers and civilians, including three trauma stations that stabilize the worst cases before sending them by ambulance to Irbil, the nearest major city, 50 miles east. Emergency rooms there have treated 1,925 wounded civilians since the start of the offensive, said Ajyal Sultany, a WHO spokesman. Doctors said the wounded this week included a boy who was fleeing the

city with his family when they accidentally set off a bomb left behind by militants. Both of his parents died. He lost a hand. Aid groups and the government have been working to open more trauma hospitals and other facilities to handle the wounded being shuttled east from contested areas. Ambulances have been delayed by a gauntlet of security checkpoints, said Matthew Nowery, Iraq country director of Samaritan's Purse, a relief group based in Boone, N.C., that plans to open a 50-bed trauma hospital next week about eight miles east of Mosul. “Every minute is critical,” he said. “People are dying in the process.” The campaign to take back Mosul has stalled in recent weeks. As Iraqi forces became entrenched in the east, families remain trapped with Islamic State militants. Maj. Gen. Najim Jabouri, Iraqi army commander of the Mosul offensive, said there are no plans to evacuate the city. But some officials have questioned that

decision, arguing that it was difficult to order airstrikes, artillery and rocket attacks as militants hid among civilians. “The civilians right now are like prisoners under the terrorists,” said Brig. Gen. Tahsin Ibrahim, spokesman for Iraq's ministry of defense. During a visit with Iraqi military leaders east of Mosul this week, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said there was no easy answer to the dilemma. “Leaving all the people complicates operations,” he said. “Taking them all out risks getting them hurt.” When Islamic State fighters seized Mosul two years ago, some residents welcomed them. The city, Iraq’s second largest, is mostly Sunni, and there were widespread feelings of alienation from the Shiite-dominated federal government in the capital, Baghdad. Whether Prime Minister Haider Abadi is to eventually win trust in Mosul could hinge on whether advising residents not to evacuate proves to be the right deci-

sion. “Abadi made a promise that Mosul residents could stay in their homes, you don’t have to leave, we will rescue you,” said Patrick Martin, an Iraq analyst at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War. Some residents have decided they can no longer wait out the offensive. After his 8-year-old nephew was shot in the head and killed last week, Ahmed Bilal, a 29-year-old chicken vendor, fled Mosul’s eastern Intisar neighborhood with his family. Bilal and his relatives now live in a 21,000-person camp 20 miles east of the city. “Many families will die if they stay in their houses,” he said. Mahmoud Maltroud, a 55-year-old engineer who also fled to the camp, said two sisters are stuck in west Mosul. “I can’t imagine how they will get out,” he said. “Islamic State is everywhere, on every corner.” molly.hennessy-fiske @latimes.com

In Malta, a peaceful end to hijacked Libya flight After attackers order the plane diverted, they surrender without a fight. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Hijackers who claimed to be armed with grenades took control of a domestic flight in Libya on Friday, threatening to blow up the plane and forcing the pilot to land in Malta with 118 people aboard, officials said. The passengers and crew were eventually released and the hijackers surrendered peacefully, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said. The two hijackers identified themselves as supporters of deposed Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi, but it was not clear what their demands were, according to Magda Magri Naudi, mayor of the Maltese city of Lija. She said the passengers included 83 men, 28 women and a baby. It was not clear what their nationalities were, she said, or if any were injured. There were six crew members aboard, Muscat said. As the ordeal progressed, Naudi said, 25 female passengers were let off the plane, and later, the rest of the passengers, who were believed to include a member of the Libyan parliament.

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CREW MEMBERS help passengers off an Afriqiyah Airways aircraft after it

was hijacked and diverted to Malta. The hijackers’ demands were unclear. During a news conference in Valletta following the hostages’ release, Muscat said that when the hijackers agreed to surrender, they turned over their weapons, which included a hand grenade and a pistol. The two men, both Libyan nationals, were detained and interrogated, he said. He said a second pistol was found during a search of the plane. He said the plane’s passengers and crew were also being questioned. Muscat said the hijackers were initially told that in order to maintain contact with negotiators, they had to release all passengers, which

they did in stages. When the hijackers later demanded that two Maltese negotiators board the plane, authorities refused, Muscat said. The Airbus A320 aircraft operated by Afriqiyah Airways departed from Sebha on a domestic flight to Tripoli shortly after 10 a.m. local time but was diverted when the hijackers threatened the crew, according to Naudi. “They told them, ‘We have grenades, and we will explode the airplane if you don’t do what we say,’” she said. It wasn’t clear how the hijackers managed to get ac-

cess to the cockpit, but Naudi said the crew never was forced to relinquish the plane’s controls, unlike in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “The captain and the crew managed to land the aircraft themselves, and they did not hand it over to the hijackers, not like the hijackers so many years ago in America,” Naudi said. The plane landed at the Malta airport at 11:30 a.m., where it was immediately surrounded by security forces. molly.hennessy-fiske @latimes.com

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U.S. abstains from U.N. vote The move allows the Security Council to condemn Israeli settlement expansion. By Laura King and Joshua Mitnick WASHINGTON — In a dramatic departure from long-standing U.S. practice, the Obama administration on Friday stepped aside and allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a violation of international law. Traditionally, the United States has used its veto power to quash such resolutions. But this time, with Israel’s conservative government railing against the Obama administration and President-elect Donald Trump demanding an American veto, the U.S. abstained, and the resolution was approved 14-0. Although the resolution is largely in line with official American views on Jewish settlements, the move provoked an immediate firestorm. Some staunch congressional supporters of Israel suggested they would seek a halt to U.S. financial support for the world body or impose punitive measures against countries that backed the resolution. “I anticipate this vote will create a backlash in Congress against the United Nations,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement denouncing the administration’s move as “flat-out reckless.” Until now, successive U.S. administrations have argued that negotiations, rather than Security Council resolutions, are the correct way to address Israeli-Palestinian disputes over issues including the settlements. The episode marked a final burst of animosity between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. administration in President Obama’s waning weeks in office. Netanyahu’s office called the resolution “shameful” and a “gang-up” against Israel. “Israel looks forward to working with Presidentelect Trump and with all our friends in Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, to negate the harmful effects of this absurd resolution,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement. Palestinians were elated, though. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, in a tweet by his office, called the resolution “a victory for international law, a victory

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A PROTESTER stands in front of an Israeli settlement during clashes with Israeli security forces earlier this

month. The U.N. says construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem is a violation of international law.

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SAMANTHA POWER , center, U.S. ambassador to

the U.N., abstains from voting on the resolution. for civilized language and negotiation” and said it was a rejection of “extremist forces” in Israel. Secretary of State John F. Kerry portrayed the U.S. failure to quash the resolution as an American expression of support for a twostate solution that would “ensure Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.” “That future is now in jeopardy,” Kerry warned. The resolution, whose passage was greeted by a burst of applause in the council chamber, states that settlements built on Palestinian lands occupied by Israel since the 1967 Mideast war have “no legal validity.” It describes a halt to settlement activity as essential for a climate that would allow for the creation of a Palestinian state. A day of high-stakes diplomatic drama preceded the showdown vote. The council

was to have taken up the resolution on Thursday, but sponsor Egypt abruptly postponed action on the measure. It was then revived by four co-sponsors. Before the vote, the Israeli government and the Obama administration had traded unaccustomedly sharp words, and Israel took the highly unusual step of turning to Trump for support, even though he has not yet taken office. Trump — via Twitter, as is his practice — called on Obama to exercise the veto power the U.S. holds as a permanent member of the Security Council. The White House rebuffed Israeli accusations of colluding with the Palestinians and staging a “shameful” attack against Israel. Liberal American Jewish organizations welcomed the American abstention. The group J Street said the measure “reaffirms the need for a two-state solution and calls

for a halt to actions by both sides that serve to undermine the prospects for peace.” But other groups that generally offer unconditional support for Israel’s actions expressed dismay. The head of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, called the U.S. decision to abstain “disconcerting and unfortunate.” Israel and its backers were not mollified by language in the resolution that urged both sides to refrain from activities that could hurt peace prospects, including “acts of provocation, incitement and destruction.” That was meant as a rebuke to Palestinian leaders accused by Israel of condoning or encouraging attacks against Israelis, whether soldiers or civilians. In protecting Israel in past Security Council votes, the U.S. has defied world opinion, which runs strongly against the settlements. About 600,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as the capital of a future state. Trump has already signaled that he intends to scrap core American policy on Israel and the Palestinians. For two decades, both Democratic and Republican administrations have adhered to the goal of a “twostate solution,” with Israel and a Palestinian state existing side by side. The president-elect has pledged to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a step that would

set the U.S. at odds with Palestinians, and has picked a strident supporter of settlement activity, lawyer David Friedman, as the U.S. ambassador to Israel. The clash over the Security Council resolution caps nearly eight years of estrangement between Obama and Netanyahu, two leaders who came into office within months of each other and clashed repeatedly in public over Iran’s nuclear program and Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Israel’s building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem has been a constant bone of contention. While Obama has called settlements an obstacle to a two state-solution by making the creation of a Palestinian state more difficult, Netanyahu has vigorously rejected this argument. From the beginning of his tenure in 2009, Obama pressured Netanyahu to freeze settlement activity. After the collapse of U.S.mediated talks in 2014, Obama largely pulled back from Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Politicians in Israel’s right-wing government and settler leaders have welcomed Trump’s accession enthusiastically, with some even declaring an end to the era of the twostate state solution. laura.king@latimes.com Times staff writer King reported from Washington and special correspondent Mitnick from Tel Aviv. Times staff writer Tracy Wilkinson in Washington contributed to this report.

Nuclear remarks sound like threat [Nuclear from A1] poses high risks in an unstable world, especially if it signals a possible end to decades of efforts and accords aimed at reducing the size and number of nuclear weapons. On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to shrug off Trump’s tweet as “nothing new,” telling a news conference in Moscow that he would welcome a Trump invitation to visit the U.S. China appeared more concerned. A foreign ministry spokesman said Beijing was “closely watching” the incoming administration’s nuclear policies, adding that the “country with the largest nuclear arsenal should assume a special and prior responsibility on nuclear disarmament.” The numbers fluctuate, but Russia currently has about 400 more warheads, while the United States has 170 more delivery systems, according to the State Department Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. Under the New START Treaty, both countries will deploy no more than 1,550 strategic weapons by February 2018. Whatever his intention, Trump’s comments mark a severe shift in the tone and substance that Republican and Democratic presidents have used in the past when discussing nuclear weapons. “It is a significant departure from what we have heard in the past,” said Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weap-

ons expert at the Federation of American Scientists, a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce the spread and power of nuclear weapons. “None of them came out in this brazen way,” he added. “That means countries around the world are trying to figure out what is going on. Is it a madman or a new policy that they have to deal with? It creates uncertainty and suspicion both among allies and adversaries.” The flap began Thursday after Putin was reported telling a defense ministry meeting in Moscow that Russia needs “to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces.” Apparently in response, Trump tweeted that “the U.S. must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” The back-and-forth raised concerns that the two countries, which control 95% of the world’s nuclear weapons, might be resuming the arms race that defined much of the Cold War. On Friday, Trump acknowledged those fears in an off-camera conversation with the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” talk show, which he reportedly watches regularly. Mika Brzezinski, dressed in festive pajamas before a roaring fire, quoted Trump as saying: “Let it be an arms race because we will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin appeared to

shrug off Donald Trump’s nuclear remarks. She didn’t say if Trump meant it as a joke or a threat. But as has become common, Trump’s aides rushed out statements trying to clarify what he meant, or at least may have meant. In this case, they argued that Trump wasn’t calling for a new arms race, saying he wants to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal, a policy that President Obama has pursued. Those claims didn’t mollify disarmament experts in Washington. “The real consequence of an arms race would be that the sides would, at great expense, pile up lots more nuclear weapons … and gain nothing in terms of improved security,” said Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who now is a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank. Trump may have been

taking a page from President Reagan’s playbook: build up your weapons and then negotiate, said Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, a San Francisco-based organization that promotes nuclear nonproliferation. “But it’s a crude application,” Cirincione said. “Trump doesn’t have the skill or the knowledge of the advisors that Reagan had around him. He is breaking with decades of policy, being unnecessarily provocative and causing other leaders to question his competence and the value of his word.” In what appeared an effort to ease those concerns, Trump released a warm holiday greeting Friday afternoon that Putin had sent him. In it, the Russian leader said he hoped to “bring our level of collaboration on the international scene to a qualitatively new level.”

“A very nice letter from Vladimir Putin; his thoughts are so correct,” Trump in a statement. “I hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts, and we do not have to travel an alternate path.” By almost any reckoning, the U.S. has a qualitative advantage over potential adversaries with nuclear weapons that are more accurate, reliable, technically advanced and invulnerable to a first strike than any other nation. Keeping them current is another question, however. The Energy Department has estimated it must spend about $18 billion a year over the next 15 years to replace and upgrade aging warheads and bombs. Outside experts have said the cost could reach $1 trillion. The Defense Department has plans to build 450 new intercontinental ballistic missiles, replace the U.S. fleet of ballistic missile submarines and build a new fleet of strategic bombers. Building new nuclear weapons, as Trump seemed to suggest in his tweet, would tax the nation’s aging nuclear weapons complex. tracy.wilkinson @latimes.com ralph.vartabedian @latimes.com Wilkinson reported from Washington and Vartabedian from Los Angeles. Special correspondent Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow contributed to this report.

FOREIGN BRIEFING AUSTRALIA

Police say they foiled Christmas terror plot Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day attacks using explosives, knives and a gun in the heart of the country's second-largest city, officials said. The suspects were inspired by the Islamic State group and planned attacks on Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street train station, neighboring Federation Square, a fashionable bar and restaurant precinct, and St. Paul's Cathedral, an Anglican church, Victoria state Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said. He said they had been plotting the attack for three weeks. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said it was one of the most substantial plots that have been disrupted over the last several years. SOUTH KOREA

Protests through defector’s eyes A high-profile North Korean defector told South Korean lawmakers that the massive protests that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye still feel strange to him but he sees the demonstrations as the country's strength. Thae Yong Ho, the former North Korean deputy ambassador to London, said in a closed-door briefing to lawmakers that he was impressed with the South's democracy because its government continued to function despite the protests, according to the office of Lee Cheol Woo, one of the legislators who attended the event. Thae also saw as remarkable that powerful individuals linked to the scandal that brought down Park were grilled by lawmakers on live TV, Lee's office said. The briefing was also attended by Lee Byoung Ho, the director of South Korea's spy agency, the lawmaker's office said. South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament on Dec. 9 voted to impeach Park over the corruption scandal that saw millions of people protest in past weeks. SWITZERLAND

90 migrants feared lost at sea U.N. agencies says at least 90 people are missing and feared dead after two shipwrecks off Italy, raising the estimated death toll among migrants on the Mediterranean this year to at least 5,000 — a new record. Spokesman Joel Millman of the International Organization for Migration said Friday that 63 survivors from the capsizing of a rubber dinghy said there were originally between 120 and 140 people on board. An estimated 80 people survived another sinking of a rubber dinghy that came to light Thursday, and another 40 people were feared dead. He did not immediately have further details. Also at the U.N. in Geneva, spokesman William Spindler of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' office reported that about 100 people were believed to have died in the recent Mediterranean incidents. CONGO

20 are killed in ethnic violence Authorities in eastern Congo say at least 20 people have been killed and dozens of homes burned in an attack blamed on militia fighters. The violence took place in Bwalanda, according to Thomas d'Aquin Mwithi, president of civil society groups in North Kivu province. The bodies were discovered after an attack that is being blamed on the Nyatura militia. The victims were members of the Nande ethnic group. Intercommunal violence has risen in the last several months. —Times wire services

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MAKESHIFT RAFTS , made of planks and inner tubes, carry passengers across Rio Suchiate that separates Mexico from isthmus of Central America.

IBRAHIM ANYARS , right, of Ghana, at the Bangladeshi Restaurant in Tapachula. Along the journey Anyars’ brother drowned while crossing a river.

MIGRANTS WAIT to get an exit letter at the National Institute of Migration

in Tapachula. Mexico gives migrants 20 days to get to the U.S. border.

Photographs by

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THE CIRCUITOUS ROUTE the migrants take means paying thousands of dollars to coyotes, or people smugglers, to cross 10 countries, where overcrowded boats, snake-infested jungles, armed bandits and immigration agents await.

LONGING FOR ‘A PEACEFUL, NORMAL LIFE’ [Trek, from A1] Guatemalans and others now settled in cities from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., initially crossed into Mexico aboard those same inner tube rafts, fording the river that separates Mexico from the isthmus of Central America. The illegal flow of Central Americans has long been a concern for U.S. immigration authorities. A team of U.S. immigration officials is based in the Mexican city of Tapachula, a migrant hub 30 miles north of the river, helping Mexico beef up its southern border. But arrivals on that recent day weren’t Central Americans. The group of 50 or so were part of a striking increase in what Mexican officials refer to as extra-continentales, or non-Latin Americans, crossing into Mexico, all destined for the United States. An average of more than 1,500 such migrants a month — from Asia, Africa and Haiti—have been arriving in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, across the Rio Suchiate from Guatemala. Mexican officials say they have never seen such a surge of non-Latin Americans here. Most of the “extra-continentals” turn themselves in voluntarily to Mexican authorities, forming orderly queues each morning outside the federal immigration detention center in Tapachula. Mexico has adopted what officials call a “humanitarian” policy, granting most of the new arrivals a 20-day window to leave the country — enough time, in theory, to make it the United States.

d Tapachula, a bustling, sweltering city in the shadow of the Tacaná volcano, has all the usual amenities of a border town — flop houses, cellphone shops, minimarkets and scores of bars and travel agencies. Ibrahim Anyars, 32, a tall, slender native of Ghana, was sitting one recent afternoon at an outdoor table in a restaurant catering to

A CONVENIENCE store frequented by many of the migrants during their stay in Tapachula, a

bustling, sweltering city in the shadow of the Tacaná volcano.

Migrants from African countries

Entering Mexico

More than 2,600 people from African countries attempted to enter the U.S. through the southern border without proper documentation from October 2015 through August 2016.

The number of African, Asian and Haitian migrants granted permits allowing them to pass through Mexico en route to the United States. 14,471

Ghana Cameroon Somalia Eritrea Senegal Guinea Nigeria Ethiopia Gambia Togo

583 408 386 293 218 158 152

668

93 84

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1,279 ’14

3,263 ’15

’16

Note: 2016 numbers are from Jan. 1 through Oct. 4. Source: Mexico’s National Migration Institute

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the travelers. A tailor from the Ashanti region of Ghana, Anyars seemed disoriented. Like many other Africans, Anyars’ American sojourn had begun in Ecuador, where he had arrived by plane in January. He found work as a tailor and remained in Ecuador for almost six months, saving money for his trip north. In July, Anyars, his older brother and a group of other Ghanians set out for Colombia and the trip north to Panama, navigating the infamous stretch of rainforest known as the Darién Gap, an impenetrable and unforgiving wilderness zone. In July, while crossing a river, his brother, Rafik Ibrahim, 36, fell into the water. Mohammed Sani Idris, another young Ghanian traveling with Anyars that day, said that as the group combed the river in search of their missing comrade, a tropical rainstorm turned the water into a raging torrent, threatening to sweep everyone away. They finally had to abandon the search. Later, when cellphones regained signals, it was left to Anyars to call his family with the catastrophic news. Fighting back tears as he recalled that conversation, he said he told them: “There was nothing we could do.” His brother’s body washed up on shore several days later, found by some Senegalese migrants whom the Ghanians had met on the trip from Colombia to Panama. Anyars, Idris and his older brother, Muthana, wound up at a Catholic shelter outside Tapachula officially called the House of Jesus the Good Pastor, but widely known as the Casa de Los Mutilados, or House of the Mutilated. The facility long served as a rehabilitation center for Central Americans who lost limbs after hitching rides to the north on the infamous freight train known as La Bestia. In the courtyard of the shelter was a pair of paintings showing smiling amputees. All three Ghanians already had

20-day passes from the Mexican government and were planning to head to the U.S.-Mexico border in a day or two, as soon as they came up with the bus fare — about $72 each — to Tijuana. Idris and his brother said they hoped to reach Canada, though they knew no one there. The brothers said they had no alternative but to keep pressing on. They are homosexuals, and in Ghana, they said, life had become too dangerous to stay. “My whole community was trying to kill me,” said Muthana Idris, a muscular 22-year-old.

d Many of the migrants from Africa and Haiti find their way to “Mama Africa’s,” a budget hotel formally known as The Imperial. Its manager is Concepcion Gonzalez Ramirez, whom every one calls Mama Africa. Residents pay about $2.50 a night, often for a mattress in the lobby, which is inevitably filled with migrants chatting with relatives and friends back home on their cellphones or watching films. WiFi is free. “Before, I really didn’t know much about African people,” said Gonzalez, 57, a petite Mexican woman in glasses who fusses over every detail in the hotel. “But now I feel blessed to have known them,” she said. The feeling is reciprocal. “We all love Mama Africa,” said Herold Nossirel, 27, who appears to be Haitian, but says he is from Congo — a ruse that many Haitians use to avoid deportation. He speaks Spanish with a Portuguese accent, evidence of the two years he spent in Brazil, where many Haitians worked before the economy took a steep downturn. As he spoke, a group of four more migrants who appeared to be from Haiti arrived at the front door. They had missed their bus to the border and needed a place to stay. At first, Gonzalez looked at them with suspicion. The day be-

LONG-DISTANCE TRAVELERS from Africa and Haiti walk toward a charter bus that will to take them to the U.S.-Mexico border. Bus fare to Tijuana costs about $72.

fore, one in the group had left without paying his bill. She chided him. He apologized profusely. She let them find a place on the floor. “What can I do?” said Gonzalez. “We are all human beings.”

d The sign outside reads Comida Economica, cheap food, but the eatery is better known as the “Bangladeshi Restaurant.” Its manager, Mohammed Sadek Hussein, 27, left his homeland two years ago because of what he calls “political problems.” He arrived in South America, intending to join the migration north to the United States, but made it only as far as Tapachula, where he abandoned his dream. Instead, Sadek became an

entrepreneur in this polyglot way station, providing a crucial service to a burgeoning migrant population who, after all, must eat. For $2, Sadek offers a square meal of meat, rice and vegetables. At dinner time, a lively, multilingual clientele fills the house, exchanging gossip in sundry tongues and watching movies on their cellphones in Punjabi, Hindi, French and English. Taking a break from watching a Bollywood flick on his phone, Sadek surveyed the crowd. “I don’t mind Mexico,” he said. One of the patrons, Kamran Akram, 34, from Pakistan’s Punjab region, described the journey that had brought him here. It began when he had fled Pakistan after a dispute with his employer, taking a flight to Sao Paulo two years ago.

But life in Brazil was difficult — he had to beg friends for food. In early April, he decided to head for the United States, taking a network of buses to Colombia, crossing the Darién on foot and making his way across the five Central American nations migrants must cross to reach Mexico. His family had sold their house in Punjab to finance his travel, but in Nicaragua, he was robbed of his cash. “Can you imagine the shame?” he said. Unable to go home and unable to stay in Mexico, he planned to head for the U.S.-Mexican border, joining the multitudes of would-be Americans.

d At the Palafox Hotel across the street, where rooms start at $12

dollars a night, the patio is festooned with drying laundry. Some rooms are labeled with the homelands of the residents. A sign on the door of Aisha Abdul-Lahi’s room read: “Somalia.” Abdul-Lahi’s journey was even longer than most. She fled Mogadishu, after an arranged marriage at the age of 14 to a man more than 30 years her senior who she said was abusive, and made it to South Africa, where she worked as a domestic for two years to save money. In June, she flew to Brazil and embarked on an excursion that took her to the Colombian coast, where she caught a boat to the Panamanian border. She traveled with fellow Somalians and others who helped her along the way. Now, she was planning to leave the next day for the U.S.-Mexico border. A friend had lent her the $200 for the plane trip to Tijuana, a relative luxury, since most people take the more economical bus route, a three-day excursion. She seemed elated. “I hope to start a new life in the United States, a peaceful, normal life, and bring my family,” said Abdul-Lahi, 25, whose two sons, ages 6 and 8, were still in Somalia. “Once I am there, this will all have been worth it.” patrick.mcdonnell @latimes.com Cecilia Sanchez of The Times’ Mexico City bureau contributed to this report.

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[Pardons, from A1] who granted zero; and Gov. Pete Wilson, who granted 13. Other California governors enthusiastically embraced the power to grant clemency, including Republican Govs. George Deukmejian, Ronald Reagan and Earl Warren, who granted 325, 574 and 522 pardons, respectively. Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, the current governor’s father, issued 467. The twice-yearly list of pardons — Brown traditionally grants clemency around Christmas Eve and Easter — tends to be full of everyday Californians and former residents of the state whose brushes with the law are often years behind them. Applicants must obtain a certificate of rehabilitation from a court or directly petition the governor’s office. They must demonstrate that they are living productive and law-abiding lives. “Pardons are not granted unless they are earned,” notes the governor’s office. Using the power of clemency can be politically perilous. Schwarzenegger on his last day in office commuted the sentence of the son of his political ally, former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez. Esteban Nuñez was convicted for his role in the stabbing death of a college student. Last year, in a rare celebrity pardon, Brown granted clemency to Robert Downey Jr., the actor who notoriously served time for drugrelated convictions in the 1990s. Brown had inducted Downey Jr. into the California Hall of Fame several months prior to the pardon. This year, Downey Jr. and his wife, Susan, gave a combined $70,000 to Proposition 57, the successful ballot initiative backed by Brown that revamped state prison parole rules. Brown’s office had to withdraw a 2014 pardon after the Los Angeles Times found the man who was granted clemency had recently been disciplined by financial regulators.

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Pardons issued by Gov. Jerry Brown since 2011. Pardons issued by other California governors:

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Ronald Reagan

522

Earl Warren

467

Edmund G. “Pat” Brown

325

George Deukmejian

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Pete Wilson

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GOV. JERRY BROWN granted pardons Friday for 112 convicted felons who had completed their sentences.

Gray Davis On Friday, as this crop of pardons became official, pardoned felons reflected on their past lives. Patrick O’Neal was a selfdescribed “career heroin addict” for 20 years in San Francisco before a botched robbery landed him in jail. There, he took adult education classes just to pass the time and discovered a love of writing. He since has earned a master’s in fine arts, began teaching creative writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles and written a memoir about his addiction. “It saved my life, getting arrested,” he said. “I realized this is not where I wanted to

go.” Pope, now 48, is going on 20 years sober after battling drug addiction. She had her record expunged more than 10 years ago in order to get a real estate license, but she said she kept finding herself needing to disclose her background. The pardon “puts the old me to sleep. That’s not who I am anymore,” she said. “I have a family and productive life.” El Cajon attorney Thomas J. Dao, 35, said he is still embarrassed to remember he was sentenced for selling marijuana 15 years ago. But the six-week stint in jail he served also changed his life for the better: It spurred the then-20-year-old dropout to pursue his high school diploma, go to college and ap-

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ply to law school. “It was a catalyst for change,” he said. “I really wanted to help people that didn’t understand the [legal] process. I wanted to understand the process myself, and all of that happened because of the conviction.” For Norwalk resident Mark Maciel, Brown’s pardon capped a long road in transforming his life since he was sentenced in 1979 for assault with a deadly weapon. Since he left prison, the 56-year-old Maciel has worked as a chaplain and motivational speaker in prisons and other correctional facilities, including with the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department. Maciel serves as executive director of Prison Ministry of America, a nonprofit

that provides religious literature and spiritual counseling to the incarcerated. He said that Brown’s pardon held even more meaning for him because Brown was first governor when he was sent to prison 37 years ago. “This is the final achievement for me,” Maciel said. Brown also shortened, but not did not eliminate, the sentence of Louis Calderon, who was convicted of attempted murder, with an enhanced sentence for use of a firearm, for being an accomplice in a1999 gangrelated shooting in which a victim lost an eye. Calderon was sentenced to a total prison term of 32 years to life. Calderon has broken ties with his gang and has never been disciplined for a rule violation in his 18 years in

prison, Brown noted. Calderon has also earned multiple community college degrees and a paralegal certificate. “This is a very serious crime, but it is clear that Mr. Calderon has distinguished himself by his exemplary conduct in prison and his forthright and continuing separation from gang activities of any kind,” Brown wrote. He reduced Calderon’s sentence to a total of 22 years to life. melanie.mason @latimes.com Twitter: @melmason liam.dillon @latimes.com Twitter: @dillonliam jazmine.ulloa @latimes.com Twitter: @jazmineulloa

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Navigating business conflicts Trump’s firm backs out of some foreign deals, but ethics lawyers aren’t satisfied By Joseph Tanfani WASHINGTON — The Trump hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan, would be “among the finest in the world,” Donald Trump promised two years ago, another example of “our involvement in only the best global development projects.” But the dream of a worldclass Trump Baku died this month, with Trump saying he was backing out of the deal because of delays and blown deadlines caused by the developer, a 34-year-old with close family connections to the country’s government. The demise of Trump Baku is not an isolated decision. With his inauguration less than a month away, President-elect Trump’s company has pulled out of a few international business deals that might have created especially sticky conflicts and controversies for his administration. In addition to Azerbaijan, the company began to back out of a deal in another former Soviet republic, Georgia. It also canceled a hotel project in Rio de Janeiro that had been mentioned in a fraud investigation. And just days after the election, the Trump Organization shut down four companies formed this year seemingly in anticipation of a hotel deal in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Domestically, Trump’s companies this week agreed to a union contract at his hotel in Las Vegas and an organizing campaign at his new hotel in Washington, D.C. And his son Eric announced that he was suspending the activities of his charitable foundation after questions arose about whether donors might get favorable treatment by the new administration, a move first reported by the Washington Post. Alan Garten, chief counsel for the Trump Organization, said the international moves were “business decisions, based purely on the status of the projects,” not because the president-elect was scrambling to clean up potential conflicts before he takes office. Trump himself was not even involved, Garten said — only sons Donald Jr. and Eric, along with other company executives. “His focus is solely on filling out his Cabinet and turning the country around,” Garten said of the president-elect. Even with the recent cancellations, Trump’s family company still profits from

Aida Sultanova Associated Press

THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION backed out of a project for a hotel in Azerbaijan for business, not political reasons, a spokesman says.

deals all over the world — a golf course in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; two hotel towers in Turkey; a luxury condo tower in the Philippines; a resort complex in the Dominican Republic. Trump initially said he would announce his plan to resolve the potential conflicts between his business and his presidency this month, then pushed the date to next month. He has not provided any details and has blamed the controversy over his holdings on “the crooked media.” He has said he will turn over operations of his company to his children. But that alone would not necessarily resolve conflicts, experts say. Past presidents put their assets in blind trusts, outside their control; letting the children run the company would not meet the legal requirements for a blind trust, according to the Office of Government Ethics. “Unless the president divests himself completely from his business, even a seemingly innocuous thing can make a big difference,”

said Farok Contractor, a professor of international business at Rutgers University. For example, a move as common as a policy change that could raise the value of the U.S. dollar could hurt Trump’s bottom line on overseas projects if they’re tied to other currencies, he said. Several ethics lawyers have said Trump would need to sell his holdings to someone outside the family to avoid conflicts. “Just because the president isn’t legally prohibited from financial conflicts of interest, there’s going to be this cloud of doubt that follows every policy decision he makes,” said Jordan Libowitz, communications director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a group that has been highly critical of the president-elect. “People are going to ask, is he making this decision in the interest of the American people, or in the interests of one of his foreign companies?” Garten would not discuss any details of how Trump

plans to turn over control of his businesses, saying that would “all be coming out in the next few weeks.” The now-terminated Azerbaijan deal was one illustration of how Trump’s business dealings could complicate foreign policy for the new administration. The oildependent country has a reputation for cronyism and corruption, with a small group of elite families controlling a large share of the country’s economy. “I would say corruption is a whole system in Azerbaijan,” said Thomas de Waal, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who has written extensively about the country and its neighbors. “There is no rule of law as we know it in the U.S. or a European country,” he said. “Everything is done through personal connections. When you deal with business in Azerbaijan, you’re dealing with individuals, and you’re dealing with politically powerful individuals.” For the Trump International Hotel & Tower in

Baku, Trump made a deal with a company called Garant Holding, controlled by Anar Mammadov, a son of the country’s transportation minister. Mammadov has had a substantial profile in Washington, where he had a nonprofit called the Azerbaijan America Alliance. The organization now has a dead phone number and website. Mammadov and the group’s Washington lobbyist, James Fabiani, did not return requests for comment. Like most of his hotel deals, Trump did not develop the building but licensed his name. He entered the deal in 2014 and reported receiving $2.8 million in management fees for the hotel, housed in a gleaming 33story curved tower in Baku — even though the hotel never opened. De Waal said the the real estate market in Azerbaijan has been hammered by the drop in oil prices and devaluations of the country’s currency. Azerbaijan shares a border with Iran, and the company has lobbied vigorously for the interests of its state-

Law professor censured for blackface University of Oregon instructor decries school’s investigation of her racially loaded Halloween costume. By Rick Anderson SEATTLE — A University of Oregon law professor and former chairwoman of her department’s diversity committee violated university anti-racial-harassment policies by wearing blackface at her Halloween party, an investigation has found. The professor, Nancy Shurtz, a white woman, said she was portraying one of her favorite authors, a black man, and that she was unfamiliar with the term “blackface” at the time. Shurtz fought back Thursday, saying the university’s 29-page investigative report released this week was filled with errors and omissions in an attempt to “publicly shame” her. In a statement, she said she had hired an attorney and noted that the university is legally prohibited from disclosing personnel matters. An instructor at the Uni-

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she didn’t know the term “blackface” or the controversy surrounding it. versity of Oregon for 34 years, Shurtz entertained 25 guests, mostly law students and fellow instructors, at the Oct. 31 event in Eugene. She had announced the party in her classroom and said she would be dressed “as the title of a book.” The professor later said her costume was inspired by Damon Tweedy, an African American physician and author of a bestselling memoir about race and medicine, “Black Man in a White Coat.” Her costume included a white lab coat, stethoscope, black makeup on her face and hands, and a black Afrostyle wig — although

Tweedy is bald. None of the guests confronted Shurtz about the makeup at the time, although many were stunned by it, according to investigators. Some found the sight “surreal” and others avoided “rooms where Shurtz was, declining participation in a group photo, and generally feeling like they could not say anything because they were in Shurtz’s home,” investigators said in the report released Wednesday. After word spread, along with a viral photo of the costumed professor taken by an unidentified attendee, the incident sparked an uproar on campus, a public apology from Shurtz, embarrassing national headlines and some soul-searching by school officials. Students, educators and the public disagreed over whether the professor’s costume was a dumb mistake or offensive mockery. Some agreed Shurtz was trying to show her support for Tweedy, as she argued, but others thought she should be fired. An online petition urging her termination received about 1,200 signatures. According to the investigation, done by a Portland law firm, interviews with Halloween partygoers

“unanimously revealed that nobody told Shurtz during the event that her costume was inappropriate, that it was offensive, or that she should consider removing the black makeup. In addition, all those who were interviewed conveyed that Shurtz appeared to have worn the costume in earnest and that she did not seem to understand the ramifications of her costume.” In a statement, university Provost Scott Coltrane said Shurtz’s costume “forced our campus to face some very difficult truths about racism, ignorance, and the state of inclusivity on our campus. Her costume mimicked the historic stereotype of blackface, and caused offense to many who witnessed it.” Shurtz did not demonstrate “ill intent” in her choice of costume, Coltrane said, but her actions had a negative effect on the university’s learning environment and constituted harassment under the school’s anti-discrimination policies. Based on legal precedent, the law professor’s “discriminatory harassment” outweighed constitutional free-speech protections, he said. The university said it

would not release details of any disciplinary action taken against Shurtz, who has been on paid administrative leave and is now officially back at work but has no current assignments. The school’s “press release and uncorrected Report act as a supremely public retaliation against me for seeking, even if clumsily, to raise issues of insufficient diversity in American professions,” Shurtz said in her Thursday response. The report “ignored the anonymous grading process, the presence of many non-students as guests, and the deceptive emails that created a firestorm in the law school.” In her interview with university investigators, Shurtz said “she had absolutely no intention to offend or mock anyone,” according to the report, “and that she wished emphatically that someone had said something to her, particularly given that she was in her home and would have easily been able to wash the makeup off or remove her costume.” She also “stated that she did not know the term ‘blackface.’” Anderson is a special correspondent.

owned oil company and in hopes of swaying members of Congress to its side in a long-running territorial dispute with Armenia, another neighbor. But Garten said any potential issues on conflicts with U.S. policy are “not a basis to terminate the contract.” The Baku tower had been stalled for over a year, he said; he wouldn’t talk about how much money the company may be owed. The letter canceling the deal was sent Nov. 30. “It’s terminated — I mean, it’s over,” Garten said, saying there’s no continuing business dispute: “They don’t have to agree.” For now, the Trump name is still on the building, said Alex Raufoglu, an Azerbaijani journalist working in Washington. He said the cancellation would be seen as a message that Trump is creating some distance from the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev, who has cracked down on dissent and jailed opponents. The country had tried to play up the association with Trump by co-hosting a holiday party in Trump’s Washington hotel after the election. The Azerbaijani Embassy declined to comment on Trump or the hotel project. Garten said the company also has sent a default notice to the developers of another stalled Trump-branded project, in a Black Sea resort town in Georgia — also because, the Trump Organization says, the developers did not live up to the terms of the licensing deal. The developers, Silk Road Group, did not return requests for comment; after the election, it was quoted as saying it still hoped to complete the deal, even with Trump as president. The Trump family also has apparently shelved hopes of a luxury hotel in Saudi Arabia. In 2015, as the Trump Organization was scouting for hotel deals in the Middle East, it set up eight companies with names like THC Jeddah Hotel Advisor, apparently a reference to the Saudi Arabian city. Four were closed that year, and the other four were shut down a week after the election, according to Delaware corporate filings. “We looked at a deal and created entities in anticipation of a transaction, but there was never a transaction,” Garten said, adding that he did not know the details. Joseph.Tanfani @latimes.com Twitter: @JTanfani

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Thefts are a year-round problem

[Thefts, from A1] Cracking down on the bandits has proved difficult. Some police departments have resorted to elaborate stings in which they leave packages containing GPS trackers in hopes of luring would-be thieves. Residents have installed high-tech camera systems that capture the crimes on video, but the recordings have done little to prevent the thefts. Police departments don’t break out package thefts from overall crime numbers, but many officials say the problem is getting worse, especially around the holidays. One security services company estimated that 11 million people nationwide had a package stolen during the past year. The bandits can look almost casual as they make their rounds. A few weeks ago, a security camera captured a man wearing a yellow safety vest strolling up to a porch on Milan Avenue in South Pasadena. A huge box catches his eye. It contains an enormous trampoline destined for the family’s Christmas tree. The video shows him rolling the package down the brick steps. The box clangs as he struggles to get it into a car before driving away. “It is the season for package thieves. It is a crime of the holiday season,” South Pasadena police Det. Richard Lee said. “We get a lot of them caught on camera. But the setback of the houses means it’s often hard to see the license plates of the getaway car.” Earlier that day, another man wearing a yellow safety vest struck nearby on Marguerita Avenue in Alhambra. He, too, was captured on home video. Lee said the videos have helped with investigations — but usually only when the cameras are aimed properly. Recording the theft is one thing, but the main way police capture bad guys is by getting the license plate of the getaway car. So Lee urged residents to position their cameras so they have a good view of the street as

‘It notifies us the minute the package is lifted, and we can track it. It is very accurate. We have a team in place ready to swoop down on the suspects.’ —Brett Bourgeous

Arcadia police sergeant on using GPS-equipped bait packages to catch porch thieves

Los Angeles Times

ELVIS BABADJANIAN , 32, of Glendale was arrested this month in the theft of a package from a home in the

city. Porch thefts get more attention during the holidays, but they occur at other times as well.

well as the front porch. Not surprisingly, an entire industry of home security has popped up to combat frontporch thefts. Smart doorbells now send live video of visitors to your phone. Apps such as Doorman notify you when a package is delivered. A variety of frontporch lock boxes that bolt to the ground also are available. Amazon has even installed community lockers in some areas where customers can retrieve their goods. “The reality is, if you’re a delivery driver, you will try to do the best you can to conceal a package, but you’ve got so many deliveries to make,” Lee said. While the thefts get more attention during the holiday, they are a year-round problem. And some police departments have gotten creative in combating the crimes. On Dec. 4, a large package sat invitingly on the doorstep of a home on

Lyndon Way in Arcadia. Police say Joseph Kamal, 40, and Cristhyn Amador, 21, walked up, grabbed the package and took off. A short distance away, officers detained the pair. Inside the box was a GPS tracker, Arcadia police Sgt. Brett Bourgeous said. “It notifies us the minute the package is lifted, and we can track it. It is very accurate,” he said. “We have a team in place ready to swoop down on the suspects.” Investigators arrested Kamal and Amador on suspicion of grand theft and possession of a controlled substance. The sting was one of five the department has conducted this month. Bourgeous estimated stings have led to 120 arrests in the last year. The bait packages are deployed after investigators get reports of porch pirates working in a neighborhood. “It is a crime of opportunity,” he said. “These arrests mean our residents get

the packages intended for them in the holiday season.” Other cities such as Redlands and Rancho Cordova conduct similar stings. LAPD Capt. Paul Vernon said people can help reduce the risk of thefts, such as having packages delivered to an address where someone is regularly home during the day. When detectives capture theft suspects, they often find piles of pilfered packages inside their homes. That was the case with Elvis Babadjanian, 32, police said. On Dec. 6, a witness saw him walk up to a house in Glendale and grab a package, police said. The witness jotted down the car’s license plate, and Glendale detectives soon learned of another theft the day before in which the suspect had a similar description. A video shows a car passing the home before a man grabbed a parcel on the front porch, police said.

When investigators raided Babadjanian’s Glendale home, they said, they found piles of new merchandise and Amazon boxes. He was arrested. Los Angeles police said a security video captured Tagui Abrayan, 41, darting from a white Mercedes and calmly grabbing a parcel off a Studio City front porch in September. LAPD detectives said they found mail and packages in her home belonging to about 300 people across the San Fernando Valley, Malibu and the Westside, as well as a homemade mailbox key that could unlock apartment mailboxes. LAPD Assistant Chief Michel Moore said some victims tell only their shipper about missing packages and don’t call police. Without such reports, he said, it’s difficult to build any crime patterns. But other homeowners are confronting the porch pirates. When an Alhambra

resident pulled up into his driveway in May, the homeower said, he saw a woman calmly stealing his packages. “You know I live here,” he told the woman in a video that went viral. “If I were you, I’d put that down.” “Why?” she replied. “Because those are my stuff,” he said. “I live here.” “No, you don’t. My mom lives here,” she replied. He started to call police, and the woman dropped the packages and ran off. The video was replayed on local television. The woman, whom police identified as Rianna Medina, 20, eventually was arrested. A family in Lodi had a different idea for deterring package thieves. Amanda Torres and her fiance were angry and frustrated after having Amazon packages stolen from their doorstep. So they decided to fight back by leaving decoy boxes filled with dog feces. Their security camera footage showed the same man who had stolen packages from their home in the past walking onto their porch and grabbing the boxes that had a stinky surprise inside. Police are still looking for the thief, but Torres’ scheme made national news. richard.winton @latimes.com

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How to talk to To normalize or people who hate not to normalize Re “The bigots at the gate,” Opinion, Dec. 20 I agree with UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman that it’s desirable to have hate speech out in the open. Sequestration of hateful opinions does not stop their dissemination. Now that we have a more accurate idea of the extent of such views in this country, we can more clearly see the urgency of dealing with them in our schools and homes. We also have a unique opportunity to personally engage people by first listening to them and then expressing our opinions. This might not change minds, but it may open them to alternative views. Kathryn Kroger Pasadena :: Emrah Gurel Associated Press

A FAMILY who fled Idlib, Syria, crosses into Turkey, among the millions displaced by the Syrian war.

Why disengage? Re “Does Obama feel any shame at all?” Opinion, Dec. 20

bdulfattah Alkhaled wonders at the conclusion of his piece whether any acts of “barbarism” get under President Obama’s skin. I’m guessing the horrors of Aleppo, Syria, have gotten deep under Obama’s skin, as does the prospect of involvement that could eventually lead to the loss of American lives. Beginning with Korea, the United States has become quite involved in conflicts within other nations, and none have restored a democratic ruling body when our military has been seriously involved. The cost in lives and division within our society may be immeasurable. U.S. military interventions in the Islamic world have made everyone worse off every time. Alkhaled fails to mention whether he has taken up arms and fought in the streets of Aleppo against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces. Perhaps Obama made a mistake in publicly declaring support for the Syrian resistance years ago, a move that seems to anger the author as much as the lack of military support for the rebels. No one can say whether greater U.S. military involvement in Syria would have made things better for the people, nor can anyone predict that our lack of involvement will make Syria worse off over the long run.

Brian Miller, Echo Park

Alkhaled is bitterly angry that Obama and the United States did not intervene militarily to save Syrians who were slaughtered by the butcher of Damascus and his Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah co-conspirators. Despite millions of U.S. dollars spent training the so-called moderate opposition, hapless civilians were caught between Assad loyalists and the radical Islamists of the Nusra Front, Islamic State and others. This vile mixture is contained in the bottle of misery that is Syria and it has a clear stamp on its bottom: “Made in Syria.”

Looking across the Muslim world, one sees sectarian violence, brutal dictators and blood-thirsty radicals. Islamic leaders have had centuries to learn to accept the different varieties of their faith and the ethnic groups in their lands and have completely failed. So if Alkhalad is looking for those who should feel shame about the debacle in Syria, he could start by looking closer to home. Joel Jaffe Beverly Hills

tary force in the world, Alkhaled implies, it was the obligation of our president to commit those forces to a ground and air war in Syria . Yes, the human suffering in Syria has reached the level of genocide. The world has not seen photos like this since the Battle of Britain. Might Alkhaled point his finger of scorn at the Syrian military, which clearly does not have a problem bombing its own citizens? Is it just “following orders”? Is there a moral dimension to its behavior ? Might Alkhaled express scorn for Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel? That nation shares a

:: Since the United States has the most powerful mili-

border with Syria and, thanks to the United States, is a major military power. Does Netanyahu have any concern about the security of his neighbor’s citizens? Why didn’t he think it appropriate to intervene in Syria? Alkhaled, who has an envious position being a manager of a Syrian advocacy group, can be critical of decisions he does not like. But not being a head of state like Obama, he will never decide whether to take a nation to war and face the consequences of that decision . Frank Ferrone El Cajon

A much bigger threat to democracy are those who refuse to accept election results, who shut down free speech and who demand special rules based on race and gender. That’s the arrogant left, which runs many campuses. Gillman is so concern about democracies being “fragile” while he supports an academia that’s openly contemptuous of America’s system. Some professors hold low grades over the heads of students, publicly mocking any who dare to disagree with their radical agendas. University administrators tacitly approve such persecution, along with their phony alt-right paranoia and safe space idiocy. If anyone’s guilty of McCarthyism, it’s this extremist mindset that’s hijacked education and turned it into indoctrination. Pat Murphy Pacific Palisades :: Long before Presidentelect Donald Trump made hate speech presidential, we should have been extending invitations to all haters and granting them access to our every public venue. Just tell us your fears, we should have instructed. If only we’d heard it all, we could have treated the hate before it had metastasized. We would have made attempts to educate against it everywhere. The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn’t exist. Kevin T. Freeman Huntington Beach

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Bill Schmitendorf of Irvine doesn’t like the nearly full-page treatment given to Damigo: In Wednesday’s Times you had a front-page story about an alt-right person named Nathan Damigo. The article continued on Page A13 and covered nearly the whole page. You also say his following is fairly limited. It seems that you are

giving free publicity to this person, which could help him attract more followers. Shame on you. A minor extremist should not be given space in your paper. San Marcos resident Chet Chebegia wishes the piece had been featured less prominently: Since The Times printed this article on the front

page, it must think it is very relevant. But the article states that Damigo does not have a very large following. Perhaps The Times wants to warn readers about the dangers of extremism, but the article does seem to give this obviously disturbed Damigo more attention than he deserves. Being that he is a convicted felon, surely, this story would have been better placed inside the paper. I attended college in the 1960s and served my country upon graduation, but if this guy had appeared on a California campus then and spewed this “white” message, he would have been tarred and feathered, ridiculed and bounced off the campus. George Epstein of Los Angeles says the media need to be responsible in their reporting on the alt-right:

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Doyle McManus writes as if the opponents of Donald Trump like me question his legitimacy as presidentelect. Not so. I fully accept that an unfit con man has been voted in as president, and it strengthens my resolve to fight him. McManus suggests that Trump “normalize himself ” despite no evidence he can do so. People with eyes and ears know that this spoiled man of 70 is not going to change. He brags that he’s great the way he is, and he’s a big winner, so why change? McManus urges Trump to stop tweeting, tell the truth, listen to his advisors and honor his campaign promises on jobs and cheaper healthcare. I’m actually a bit jealous of McManus for the faith he has put in a pathological liar, but as for the rest of us, we tremble in fear because of the power vested in an amoral and unqualified man. We will oppose, denounce and resist Trump at every turn. I am afraid of my new president. He cannot be normalized. Laura Brown Pasadena :: McManus has put forth a valid strategy on holding Trump accountable, as we would with any normal president. Every quarter after Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20, The Times should publish a status report on his accomplishments as they relate to his campaign promises. One prime normalizing force will be Congress. Who actually believes that it will actually pass legislation covering tax reform, repealing and replacing Obamacare, financial reform, infrastructure upgrades and any of the other Trump promises that require congressional approval? This is a Congress that could not even pass a proper appropriations bill in 2016. Whether Trump likes it or not, he will be normalized. Sherman N. Mullin Oxnard

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“IDENTITY EVROPA” founder Nathan Damigo walks into a Cal State Stanislaus library on Nov. 21.

Having served as an editor for my college newspaper and subsequently written for other publications, I know of the “power of the press.” It is enormous. Lately, I have seen extensive material published in The Times about alt-right figurehead and white supremacist Richard Spencer, the founder of a racist “think tank” in Montana who rose to prominence during Trump’s campaign.

Before that, I had never heard of him. The media are making him a “star,” increasing the possibility that many borderline white nationalists will be attracted to him and ultimately join his “troops.” The power of the press should respected so racism is not encouraged. The Times and other media should have a sense of responsibility rather than just fill their pages.

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[Prosecutors, from A1] the others. In the end, the government failed to convince all but one juror that Baca had harbored malicious intent and played a direct role in the plot to interfere with federal authorities, an outcome that underscores the difficulty of trying to tie top public officials to corruption carried out by subordinates, interviews with jurors and legal experts showed. “It is always challenging to pursue cases such as these, where the government is seeking to hold criminally responsible a highly regarded public servant at the highest levels of law enforcement,” said Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor who led a commission on jail violence and who has closely followed the trial. “The prosecution of an iconic and respected figure such as Lee Baca was particularly challenging.” The government itself acknowledged the weaknesses underlying its case in court papers related to a deal that Baca and prosecutors struck earlier this year. In June, Assistant U.S. Atty. Brandon Fox, the lead prosecutor in the obstruction cases, filed a memo explaining why the judge should approve the deal. Under the terms of the agreement, Baca would plead guilty to a lesser charge of making a false statement to federal investigators in exchange for no more than six months in prison. The proposed time behind bars was significantly less than the sentences U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson had given to the defendants in the other obstruction cases, and Fox tried to convince Anderson that the comparatively light punishment was justified because the evidence against Baca was relatively weak. “While he was at the top of the organization, the evidence does not show that he was as involved ... as his subordinates were,” Fox wrote. Fox declined to be interviewed for this article.

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FORMER L.A. COUNTY Sheriff Lee Baca, center, leaves court Thursday after his obstruction trial ended

with jurors deadlocked. At center right is his wife, Carol, and at center left is his attorney Nathan Hochman.

In his memo, the veteran prosecutor went through the various aspects of the obstruction scheme, which included hiding from FBI agents an inmate who was working as their informant, witness tampering, and intimidating the lead agent in the case. For each, Fox wrote, “The investigation has revealed no evidence that defendant Baca was aware.” By contrast, prosecutors had managed to win a conviction against Baca’s top aide, then-Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, on a bounty of emails, phone records and other evidence that showed he had led the group that carried out the alleged scheme. Anderson ultimately rejected Baca’s plea deal, saying it was too lenient. With the judge indicating he would hand down a far stiffer sentence, Baca opted to take his chances with 12 of his peers.

At the trial, the government recast Baca in a much harsher light. In the absence of clear evidence of the former sheriff ’s direct involvement in the plan to thwart the investigation, Fox and his team were left to build a more circumstantial case that Baca had helped devise the plan and been kept in the loop by Tanaka. Their argument, said Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor, was essentially, “He must’ve intended it because he didn’t call it off.” Despite Fox’s claims to the jury that Baca was “the heartbeat” of the conspiracy and his portrayal of the former sheriff as a vindictive, territorial leader, it ultimately was a hard sell against a decorated veteran sheriff, Levenson added. “It was great rhetoric, but it’s hard to prove that when

Baca’s sort of on the edges,” she said. “He just is not as venal as other defendants.” Most of the sheriff ’s subordinates convicted of obstruction were still pursuing appeals when prosecutors began putting on their case against Baca, leaving the government with few witnesses willing to testify about their interactions with the sheriff during the six weeks in 2011 when the alleged plan played out. Fox chose not to call one possible witness, former Capt. William “Tom” Carey, who had already pleaded guilty to making false statements to the grand jury in the case. Instead, prosecutors relied on more peripheral witnesses, including a former L.A. Times reporter, who said Baca told him that he directed two sergeants to visit the home of the lead FBI agent on the civil rights investigation. The sergeants confronted her and falsely informed her they were obtaining a warrant for her ar-

rest. Prosecutors alleged the move was an attempt to intimidate the agent and get the FBI to back off. A former U.S. attorney, now a federal judge, recalled phone calls and meetings with Baca in which he said the then-sheriff was angry and seemed to be in the know about developments in the case. Two other deputies who had been convicted of playing a part in the conspiracy told jurors that while they had little to no contact with Baca, it was made clear to them the orders came all the way from the top. One said he watched a nervous supervisor walk into Baca’s office to notify him that deputies had mistakenly allowed FBI agents to meet with the inmate who was working as a federal informant. But jury foreman William Neal said in an interview with The Times after the mistrial that he and fellow jurors were unconvinced. The panel had begun de-

liberations split on Baca’s guilt, but over more than three days of talks, all but one of the jurors came to the consensus that prosecutors had failed to connect the retired sheriff to the actions in the case, Neal said. “That was one of the main points, at least for me and the majority of us, that there just wasn’t enough concrete evidence that had Baca ties to it,” he said. “That’s where reasonable doubt came into play.” The single holdout juror, though, seemed to feel adamant that it added up to prove Baca responsible, Neal said. “He agreed that a lot of the evidence was circumstantial, but as a collective whole, it showed that he was, in his mind, guilty. He didn’t feel like he could be moved from this stance,” he said. Another juror, who gave her name only as Sheri, said the holdout juror appeared “biased” from the start and not open to discussion. For her, looking through her own trial notes for Baca’s name made it clear that he didn’t know what was going on, she said. “Phone calls, emails, looking for specifics. Is he guilty or not? That’s what we kept on looking for,” she said. She said she went into the case thinking Baca, as the sheriff, would have been kept in the loop. But as she heard the evidence, it became apparent he was not, she said. As to the problems in the jails, she said, the prosecution did not make a convincing case that he was ignoring them. “I believe he knew that there were things happening in the jail that shouldn’t have. I definitely think he knew. But I think he was taking care of it,” she said. The U.S. attorney’s office must now decide whether to retry Baca on the charges. He also faces a possible separate trial on the charge he had previously agreed to plead guilty to — making false statements to federal authorities. joel.rubin@latimes.com victoria.kim@latimes.com

Ebola vaccine passes final round of tests The highly effective formula could get U.S. and European approval in 2017. associated press

GENEVA — Final test results confirm an experimental Ebola vaccine is highly effective, a major milestone that could help prevent the spread of outbreaks like the one that killed thousands in West Africa. Scientists have struggled to develop an Ebola vaccine over the years, and this is the first one proven to work. Efforts were ramped up after the infectious disease caused a major outbreak beginning in 2013 in Guinea and spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone. About11,300 people died. The World Health Organization, which acknowledged shortcomings in its response to the outbreak, led the study of the vaccine, which was developed by the Canadian government

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THE VACCINE prevented infection for all but 23 of

the 5,800 people who received it last year in Guinea. and is licensed to the U.S.based Merck & Co. Test results were published Thursday. Merck is expected to seek regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe next year. The experimental vaccine was given to about 5,800 people last year in Guinea as the virus was waning. All of them had contact with new Ebola patients, and got the vaccine right away or three

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weeks later. After a 10-day waiting period, no Ebola cases developed in those immediately vaccinated, while 23 cases turned up among those with delayed vaccinations. The Lancet paper published Thursday mostly crystallizes what was already largely known from interim results released last year. The vaccine proved so effective that the study was stopped midway so that everyone exposed to Ebola in Guinea could be immunized. “I really believe that now we have a tool which would allow [us] to control a new outbreak of Ebola of the Zaire strain,” said Dr. MariePaule Kieny, a WHO assistant director general and the study’s lead author. “It’s the first vaccine for which efficacy has been shown.” She noted that other Ebola vaccines are undergoing testing and that a vaccine is also needed to protect against a second strain, Sudan. The virus first turned up in Africa in 1976 and had caused periodic outbreaks, mostly in Central Africa, but never with results as deadly as the West Africa outbreak. Many previous vaccine attempts have failed.

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After a judge cleared Backpage operators in the first case, Harris accuses the trio of pimping, laundering. By Alene Tchekmedyian

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JOSE GOMEZ is among thousands of residents near a closed battery recycler in Vernon whose yards have been tested for lead con-

tamination. State regulators have cleaned no properties since June, arguing they cannot until an environmental review is completed.

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Delay leaves thousands of homes still with contaminated soil By Tony Barboza and Ben Poston The cleanup of thousands of lead-contaminated homes near a closed Vernon battery recycler has been at a standstill for months, with regulators arguing they cannot remove tainted soil from any properties until a yearlong environmental review is completed next summer. But legal experts, county health officials and community groups say there is nothing preventing the California Department of Toxic Substances Control from acting immediately to remove hazardous levels of lead posing the highest risk of poisoning around the former Exide Technologies plant. Testing by state regulators is finding elevated levels of lead in the soil at thousands of properties — more than authorities have money to clean. That is placing families

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SOIL tests showed toxic lead emissions from the now-closed

Exide Technologies plant spread over an area of 10,000 homes.

across half a dozen southeast L.A. County neighborhoods in an uneasy position: learning that their homes are fouled with the poisonous metal but not knowing where they will rank on the priority list — or whether their yards will be cleaned at all. That uncertainty is trying the patience of Michelle Del Rio, who was informed by regulators in June that her family’s home in East Los Angeles had lead readings up to four times higher than federal standards allow. She wants to know why the authorities can’t clean her yard now. “I’m stuck in this weird limbo where I may or may not get my soil cleaned,” Del Rio told officials at a public meeting this month. “Where does it end?” The inaction renews questions about the urgency with which authorities are moving to protect people’s health in what will be the larg[See Exide, B6]

Man who burned gas station clerk to death is hunted Attack rattles Shasta County, where the victim was well-liked. By Joseph Serna The assailant, concealed in yellow rain gear with a black hoodie and black gloves, appeared to say nothing before dousing David Wicks in a flammable liquid. Before Wicks — a 54-yearold gas station clerk working the evening shift in Burney, a small rural town in Shasta County — had time to act, he was set aflame Wednesday night. The person who ignited him then casually walked out, hopped on a black beach cruiser-style bicycle and rode west into the night. The entire encounter lasted no more than 20 seconds, authorities said. But the attack left Wicks, 54, so severely burned that the only information he could provide for the responding Shasta County

sheriff ’s deputies was an affirmative nod when asked if the attack was intentional. He died at a hospital soon after. Now authorities are asking for any tips that can lead to Wicks’ killer. Wicks, local media reported, was married and well-liked by his customers. “This guy was known in this very small community, he’s very nice,” Shasta County Sheriff ’s Lt. Troy Clegg said. Wicks worked at one of the gas stations that sheriff ’s deputies used to refuel their cruisers, Clegg said. “All the deputies knew him,” he said. Some customers made a point to visit his gas station instead of others when they’d be on the road. “I could’ve stopped by three or four other places, but I knew the manager, I knew him,” Mike Gulizia told the Redding Record Searchlight newspaper. “Kind of makes you sink a little, right before the holidays too.” The motive for the attack [See Attack, B8]

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COMEDIAN Tommy Chong, who owns a marijuana products business, opposes

the proposed legislation. He says the effort represents “antiquated thinking.”

Bill to ban pot billboards on state highways is unveiled By Patrick McGreevy SACRAMENTO — Comedian Tommy Chong’s image grinned from a freeway billboard near Sacramento in recent months, promoting the counterculture icon’s brand of marijuana to passing motorists. But now a campaign has begun to outlaw such ads from all state highways,

threatening to block entrepreneurs taking advantage of newly legalized recreational pot in California from hawking their wares to a captive audience stuck in traffic. Five state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would bar advertisements for marijuana products and services from all 265 state highways — 15,100 miles of roadway — in an effort to

prevent the marketing of pot to minors in the state. The measure, which is drawing opposition from Chong and others in the medical marijuana industry, would be a significant expansion of rules adopted under Proposition 64, the initiative approved in November by state voters that legalizes the sale of marijuana for recreational use in [See Ads, B5]

Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris announced new criminal charges Friday against the operators of classified ad website Backpage.com, accusing them of laundering earnings from escorts as well as pimping children and adult women on their websites. The charges come two weeks after a Sacramento judge threw out pimping charges against the same three men, ruling that websites such as Backpage.com — which Harris had condemned as the “world’s top online brothel” — are protected from lawsuits when they publish speech posted by other people. But in the new 40-count criminal complaint, Harris accused the operators of personally creating profiles for thousands of women, including minors, to increase revenue from the illegal sex trade. The profiles appeared on their two other websites, BigCity and EvilEmpire, which were used to draw Web traffic to Backpage’s prostitution business, the complaint said. The complaint listed 10 victims whose profiles were created without their knowledge. In one case, a woman contacted Backpage to remove her photograph from EvilEmpire, but was told by Backpage staff that the two companies were not affiliated and therefore her picture could not be removed, according to the complaint. Backpage Chief Executive Carl Ferrer, 55, along with the site’s former owners Michael Lacey, 68, and James Larkin, 67, are charged with more than two dozen counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to commit pimping. Ferrer is also charged with 12 counts of pimping, seven of which involve minors. Harris said the charges are based on new evidence. Lawyers for the men previously pointed to the federal Communications Decency Act, which frees online publishers from liability over user postings and has been repeatedly interpreted to trump state criminal laws. The men argued that Harris was well aware that they were protected because she signed a 2013 letter with other state attorneys general that unsuccessfully lobbied for an amendment to the law that would have allowed for state-level criminal prosecutions. On Friday, an attorney representing the men said the latest complaint is a “rehash” of the same charges that were thrown out. “Harris admitted in 2013 that her office cannot bring [See Backpage, B5]

Getting used to the ‘C’ word Doctors are reluctant to say the word “cancer” around their patients. This one is different. B2

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DOCTORS OPERATE on a patient at the Curie Institute in Paris, which specializes in treating cancer. Everyone in medical school gets training in delivering bad news,

but as physicians they tend to avoid mentioning cancer as a possibility, and sometimes find themselves talking around the word even after a diagnosis is made.

Trying to get comfortable with the word ‘cancer’

SHARA YURKIEWICZ

She had gone to the emergency department because she’d had difficulty taking a deep breath. It wasn’t quite pain that was affecting her breathing, she said. It was discomfort, a feeling that “something was there.” A CT scan of the chest showed clear lungs. But just underneath, within the tip of her liver, was a mass the size of a pingpong ball. We know what’s probably causing your symptoms, the hospital team explained to her as I widened my fingers to show her the size of the mass. But we’re not sure what the mass is. It could be a walled-off infection. It could be a collection of fluid. Or it could be “something else,” the attending physician said. I haven’t been a doctor for very long, but I’ve noticed that we tend to shy away from the word “cancer” when another diagnosis is just as likely. A swollen leg can be the result of an infection, a clot or “some other process.” Unrelenting back pain can be a symptom of a pulled muscle, a slipped disc or “something more serious.” The patient was not alarmed, and we continued to gather data. Over the next few days, her breathing improved on its own, and she wanted to go home. By this point, we had the results of an MRI, which were inconclusive. We wanted a biopsy. To get a sample of what’s inside your liver for a more definite answer, we said. Feeling fine, she reluctantly agreed to remain in the hospital. Still feeling fine, she went home after the procedure the next day. One week later, the results were back. The mass was cancer, and it had come from her colon. “That’s awful,” my senior resident said when I told her. “Someone has to tell her.” Someone should tell a lady who feels fine that she has cancer, one that had already become aggressive enough to spread. Once a cancer has metastasized, the prognosis is even worse. “I’m going to call her now,” I said, then waited for any possible objections. The resident nodded. “OK, good.” :: No one walks out of medical school without training on how to deliver bad news. We read papers giving step-by-step protocols on what to ask, what to say and how to respond. We practice difficult conversations with actors pretending to be patients and debrief afterward. We observe as clinicians have these conversations in in their offices, on the hospital floors and in the ICU. As I dialed my patient’s number, I looked at the bullet points I had jotted down. I planned to use a well-known protocol. Assess how much the patient knows about her condition and ask her how much she would like to know. Tell her. Be straightforward and direct. Express empathy

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How concerned about cancer does one have to be before burdening the patient with the dreaded word? and leave room for questions. If the patient is ready, discuss next steps. I knew I wouldn’t be able to answer much about treatment or prognosis, but I was glad that I could direct her to someone who could. The conversation went quickly. She remembered me. She remembered the biopsy, and she understood why she had it. She wanted to know the results. I paused. “You have a tumor in your liver,” I said. “The cells spread from your colon. It is called adenocarcinoma.” “OK,” she said, in a tone I couldn’t decipher. “The gastroenterologist knows and would like to see you as soon as possible,” I said. I gave her his phone number. “You can discuss the next steps with him.” “OK,” she repeated. “I’m so sorry,” I said. Was she crying? In shock? I broke the silence. “Do you have any questions?” “Yes,” she said. “Is it cancer?” :: By the end of medical school, I had gotten cocky when I watched my superiors talk to patients. I was full of critiques best formed by those on the sidelines. Why are you using terms that make the patient’s eyes glaze over? Why aren’t you giving the family enough time to ask questions? When taken off the sidelines and put into the game, somehow that arrogant former medical student managed to tell a patient she had cancer without using the word “cancer.” As I hung up the phone, I struggled to remember what had been said to the patient and what had

only been discussed behind her back. Certainly the team had spent a good deal of time debating: infection or cancer? We had presented the MRI results at a gathering of doctors from various specialties, asking a radiologist for tipoffs in either direction. We repeatedly asked our patient about other symptoms that could help point to the more likely diagnosis. I guess we had never explicitly told her why we were asking. How concerned about cancer does one have to be before burdening the patient with the dreaded word? A 1 in 10 chance that it is? One in 5? One in 2? Perhaps we had reached that threshold. But it’s exceedingly easy to limit the flow of information. How many times had I walked into a patient’s room, asked dozens of intimate questions, done an invasive physical exam, and then walked out without giving them more than vague reassurances? “Your infection is getting better.” “Your blood count is stable.” “Maybe you can eat today.” It’s understandable why this happens, why we take information before we give it. We need time to synthesize our findings, talk to other doctors, come up with a plan to tell the patient. And we do usually tell the patient. But sometimes it’s 6:30 in the morning while he’s half awake and getting his blood drawn. Other times it’s when her family is visiting and the children are climbing into her bed. Or maybe it’s when his meal tray has just arrived, breaking his 24-hour fast after a procedure. That phone conversation took place during the first month of my intern year. I’ve made a pact with

myself since then. Whenever I go into a patient’s room — no matter how trivial the reason — I will share a piece of information about her care. If I need to listen to her lungs for the fifth time, I’ll tell her if she sounds more or less congested since the last time I’ve listened. If I need the address of the pharmacy where he fills his prescriptions, I’ll tell him which medicines we’ve added to his regimen. Perhaps this contributes to information overload. But it reminds me that each encounter should go beyond gathering data. It’s also part of an ongoing conversation with the patient who is sharing that data with me. :: On the last day of my intern year, I sat at a computer screen looking at a number that was much too small. It was my new patient’s blood count, and it was about one-third the amount it should have been. But he wasn’t actively bleeding. His son had brought him into the emergency department because he had been too weak to get out of bed. The patient’s extreme weakness was not new. For months his son recognized something was wrong as his father slowly stopped spending time with family and friends, started sleeping more and eating less. He did not have a regular primary care doctor. His son had taken him to the emergency department once before, where he was found to be in severe kidney failure from dehydration. He had been admitted, treated and discharged. “They were very focused on his kidneys,” his son recalled. “Some-

thing else is wrong.” “You’re right,” I said. His eyes widened when I gave him the blood count and told him exactly how far it deviated from normal. “This number explains why your father is so weak.” I looked at the thin man in the bed. “What I can’t explain is what causing this number.” No. I could be more specific. I knew what I was worried about. But what were the odds? One in 10? One in two? “There are many reasons someone’s blood count can be low.” To have a low blood count, your body either has to not be making red blood cells, destroying them, or losing them through bleeding. Start with the low-hanging fruit. Start with something it isn’t. “For example, if someone drinks a lot of alcohol,” I said. “He doesn’t,” said the son. “Sometimes medications can cause it,” I said. “He’s only on a blood pressure pill,” said the son. I agreed this was an unlikely cause. Verbalize it. Verbalize your immediate thought when you saw that number on the screen, when you saw that thin man lying in bed. “It could be something else, something more serious,” I said. “I’m putting this out there, because you’re concerned and I’m concerned too.” Do not back away. “Sometimes cancer can do this.” The words seemed to hang in the air. To ease my own discomfort, I kept talking — probably too quickly — about the workup we would do, about the blood tests and the CT scans we would get. Then I shook the son’s hand and left him, still standing at his father’s bedside. Several hours later, a CT scan showed a mass in the man’s colon. I went up to his room. After spending 12 hours in the emergency department waiting for a bed, he was finally asleep. His son was gone. I thought about the urgency in the son’s voice. How he had spent months watching his father grow weaker. How he did not want to be brushed off. I looked down at the cellphone number I had scribbled on my paper. My end of the phone conversation was similar to the one I had with my patient nearly one year ago. I was direct. I expressed empathy. I talked about next steps. But the reception was starkly different. He wasn’t blindsided. “Do you have any questions?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “Can you wait for me to be there tomorrow before you tell my father?” Absolutely. Dr. Shara Yurkiewicz is completing her residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Stanford University. She is a former American Assn. for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Fellow at the Los Angeles Times.

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Pictographs of a dramatic past Drawings may depict Indian tribes fleeing the Spanish in 18th century San Diego. By J. Harry Jones SAN DIEGO — A “remarkable” pictograph site that could date back to the 1700s is hidden on the side of a large boulder in one of the most secluded places in San Diego County, Native American art experts say. Dozens of drawings cover the 26-foot-wide rock in the heart of a massive former land grant called Rancho Guejito in northeastern San Diego County. One drawing appears to be a conquistador raising a sword and wearing an armored chest plate. Beneath him, perhaps protected by a group of eagle feathers, is a stick figure that could represent a Native American who has been slain or is being threatened. “It’s an incredibly unusual design,” said Steve Freers, a Native American art expert who — along with former San Diego Museum of Man curator Ken Hedges — was hired earlier this year by Rancho Guejito’s owners to examine the pictographs. The ranch is the last undeveloped, privately owned Mexican land grant left in the United States. The pictographs are in an area of the property that’s an hour’s drive from the nearest paved road. The drawings originally were documented by an archaeologist in 1960, then largely forgotten. “It’s a site we had heard exists but haven’t had access to for all these years,” said Hedges, who also is an archaeologist. “It’s really exciting to see it.” Some of the drawings — representing three different styles and Native American cultures — suggest that the area may have been used as a haven for Indian tribes trying to escape the European invasion that began in 1769. The rancho’s chief operating officer, Hank Rupp, said the pictographs appear to capture a pivotal time in the region’s history.

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John Gibbins San Diego Union-Tribune

ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE cataloging dozens of drawings that cover a 26-foot-wide rock on Rancho Guejito

in northeastern San Diego County. The drawings were originally documented in 1960, then largely forgotten.

STEVE FREERS , a Native American art expert,

ONE OF the drawings seems to depict a Spanish

“I believe what you’re seeing here is a depiction of Native American unhappiness with the Spanish invasion at San Diego,” Rupp said. “The Spanish conquistadors … came with their church and attempted to foist it on the Native Americans.” A report prepared by Freers and Hedges said speculation that the figure could

dramatic display,” the report said, noting that the body started out as a stick figure but was broadened in the torso area, possibly to give the impression of armor. Both men have strongly recommended that further studies be done on the drawings to verify their origin. If the pictographs had been

says the pictographs on the privately owned land possess “an incredibly unusual design.”

be a Spanish soldier is “plausible.” They said the drawings could be analogous to Kumeyaay paintings in Baja California determined to have been painted about the same time the conquistadors would have been around. “The hand implement could be a sword raised in

soldier. More studies are planned with experts and Native American tribes to verify its origins. found on public land, state archaeologists would take control. But because the ranch is privately owned, further study would have to be done at the owner’s request. Rupp said more studies are planned, in consultation with experts and local Native American tribes. “We are cataloging nu-

merous archaeological sites on the ranch for the purpose of knowing where they are, determining what, if anything, needs to be done to preserve them, and to communicate with our Native American partners,” Rupp said. He said Rancho Guejito — which sits roughly between California 76 and 78 in Valley Center — works hard to keep out trespassers and others who might damage culturally significant areas. “We patrol the ranch with armed guards,” Rupp said. “We are going to do everything we can to protect Native American and California history.” The sprawling property has changed little over the last few centuries, since Spain’s King Charles III directed Gaspar de Portola in 1769 into what is present-day California. Accompanied by a group of Franciscans led by Junipero Serra, the plan was to establish missions along the coast from San Diego to Monterey Bay. One of the prime reasons for creating the mission system was to convert the region’s indigenous population to Christianity. An estimated 133,000 to more than 700,000 Native Americans — representing more than 100 tribes — were contacted by the Spanish over the next 50 years, according to historical records. Rupp said De Portola’s march up the coast, from 1769 to 1770, would have taken place about eight miles west of where the drawings were found on Rancho Guejito. The next step in documenting and studying the pictographs will be carbon dating, to determine when the art was created, Rupp said. Freers and Hedges also have recommended that experts assess the area and search for signs of a village. “Usually villages are associated with rock art within a quarter-mile,” Freers said. “This is too remarkable to be just a stop on a trail.” jharry.jones @sduniontribune.com Jones writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

A gesture of dignity for 193 Brother of homeless people who died double killer is arrested

An O.C. service pays tribute to those who may not have been recognized in life.

Timothy Wozniak is suspected of domestic violence. Daniel Wozniak murdered friends in 2010.

By Nuran Alteir One by one, 193 names were read as volunteers carried candles to the front of the chapel at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove. The interreligious memorial service Wednesday evening was intended to bring dignity to the people who had lived on the streets of Orange County — and perhaps died there too. Ultimately, the names that were called out outnumbered the candles. “These people who were homeless may have never had a service, may have never had their name recognized,” said Scott Larson, an event organizer and chairman of the county’s Commission to End Homelessness. Data from the Orange County coroner’s office show that homeless deaths have been rising. In 2013,118 homeless people died. In 2015, that number was 181. This year’s tally so far is 193. “We wanted to make sure that their lives were honored even in their death — that they matter,” said Gina Seriel, an event organizer and executive director of Our Father’s Table, a street outreach nonprofit. “There were several people, friends of ours, that were on that list that did pass away.” The name reading was followed by prayers from re-

By Hannah Fry

Nuran Alteir

CANDLES ARE lit during a memorial at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove to

mark the growing number of homeless people who are dying in Orange County.

ligious leaders, including Muzammil Siddiqi, religious director of the Islamic Society of Orange County; Rabbi Frank Stern, president of the Orange County Interfaith Network; Jasjit Singh, of the California Sikh Council; and the Rev. Nichelle Madrigal of international Buddhist community Shinnyo-en in Yorba Linda. The service, held on National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, was the first of its kind in Orange County, organizers said. Some of the 200 who attended the memorial were

people who had worked with the homeless. Others were part of the homeless community themselves — like Eileen Pheland, 51. She has spent the last six winters at the Fullerton Armory and said she felt compelled to go to the event because she’d had friends who died while living on the streets. “It’s a shame,” Pheland said. Prayers concluded with a poem by Cecile Mermelstein, 52, who for years didn’t have a particular place to call home. Now she’s living at

Founder’s House of Hope in Artesia. “Everyone deserves a home,” she said. Mermelstein said she was impressed by the turnout. “I think it’s good that they’re doing this because there are still people here on the streets, and they need help — especially at Christmas time when everybody thinks they have everything they need,” she said. “There are people who don’t have anything.” Alteir is a contributor to Times Community News.

A man who was sentenced last week to three years’ informal probation after he pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact in his younger brother's double-murder case was arrested Thursday on suspicion of domestic violence, Costa Mesa police said. Police said Timothy Wozniak, 42, punched a woman in the chest, grabbed her wrist and bit her forearm on Monday while the pair were in a car near South Coast Plaza. The two have a relationship, according to police, who would not elaborate. Wozniak, a Long Beach resident, drove the woman to a hotel in Irvine, where a security guard noticed she was distraught and called police, according to Costa Mesa police spokeswoman Roxi Fyad. When Irvine officers arrived, Wozniak was no longer there, Fyad said. He was arrested just after 3 a.m. Thursday when he returned to the hotel, police said. On Dec. 15, he pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact in the crimes of his brother Daniel Wozniak,

TIMOTHY WOZNIAK

of Long Beach was arrested Thursday.

32, a Costa Mesa resident who was convicted this year and sentenced to death for murdering Samuel Herr, 26, and Herr’s friend Juri “Julie” Kibuishi, 23, in 2010. Timothy Wozniak was charged after authorities learned that his brother had given him evidence, including the murder weapon, to hide or destroy. He previously had pleaded not guilty to the felony accessory charge, but changed his plea as part of a deal offered by prosecutors. In addition to probation, he was sentenced to 10 days in jail — time already served — and mandatory enrollment in an anger management program, according to Orange County Superior Court records. hannah.fry @latimes.com Twitter: @HannahFryTCN Fry writes for Times Community News.

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LOS ANGELES Seven cases of measles cited in county Officials don’t say where the contagious disease was reported but warn residents who aren’t immunized to get the vaccine. By Soumya Karlamangla Los Angeles County public health officials said this week that they’re investigating seven cases of measles, a contagious disease that in rare cases can lead to brain damage or death. “Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that spreads from person to person through coughing or sneezing,” said Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, the county’s interim health officer. Gunzenhauser recommended that people who aren’t immunized against measles get the vaccine, and that people who aren’t sure whether they’re vaccinated check with their doctors. Most people who haven’t gotten the shot or have never had measles will get it if they come into contact with the virus, officials said. Officials wouldn’t say where in the county the infected patients lived, other than that they weren’t in Pasadena or Long Beach, which report cases separately because they have their own health departments. Though anyone can contract measles, it’s particularly dangerous for young children. One in 10 infected kids get ear infections, which can result in permanent hearing loss, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For about 1 in 1,000 kids who get measles, their brain swells, which can leave them with an intellectual disability. One or 2 of every 1,000 kids infected will die from it, according to the CDC. Officials warned that the spread of the disease is particularly hard to prevent because infected persons can give it to someone else before they start showing symptoms, whichcan take three weeks to begin. The earliest ones are a runny nose, cough and a high fever. That’s followed by a rash on the face that spreads to the rest of the body. Officials said that people who think they might be infected should call their doctor before going into the office so the clinic can take preventative measures.

Rick Loomis Los Angeles Times

TELEVISION REPORTERS wait outside UCLA Medical Center, where “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was hospitalized on Friday.

She had a “cardiac episode” on a flight from London, and medical crews awaited her arrival at Los Angeles International Airport.

Carrie Fisher stricken on plane Actress-author has cardiac arrest during 11-hour flight to L.A. She’s hospitalized in critical condition. By Richard Winton and Joseph Serna “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was in critical condition Friday after having a “cardiac episode” during a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to airline and emergency officials. Fisher, 60, was taken to UCLA Medical Center by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics about noon, after her 11-hour flight touched down at Los Angeles International Airport. A source who was not authorized to discuss the incident said the actress was “in a lot of distress on the flight.” A statement released by United Airlines said that medical personnel met

Flight 935 from London on arrival after the crew reported a passenger was unresponsive. Just before arrival, a pilot told the control tower that passengers who were nurses were attending to an “unresponsive” passenger. “So they’re working on her right now,” the pilot said in a public recording of the conversation on liveatc.net. According to LAX police, officers responded to Terminal 7 around 12:15 p.m., for a call of a female passenger in cardiac arrest. On arrival, they found paramedics performing CPR on the victim, according to Officer Alicia Hernandez. Todd Fisher, Carrie’s brother, told the Associated Press that his sister had been stabilized at the hospital but did not provide further details. Fisher, who rose to stardom as Princess Leia, recently published an autobiography titled the “Princess Diarist,” her eighth book. She is the daughter of famous Hollywood couple

Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Carrie Fisher, who has written and spoken openly about her struggles in Hollywood, is considered Hollywood royalty. She took on her prickly relationship with her mother in the book-tomovie “Postcards From the Edge.” She’s also been outspoken about her mental health issues and the solution she found — electroshock therapy. News of Fisher’s condition sparked an outpouring of support and sympathy on social media. Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca, tweeted “thoughts and prayers for our friend and everyone’s favorite princess right now.” Actor Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, also took to Twitter: “as if 2016 couldn’t get any worse... sending all our love to @carrieffisher” Al Seib Los Angeles Times

CARRIE FISHER, who vaulted to fame as Princess

Leia, has written about mental health and Hollywood.

Guilty plea in 2014 Pasadena gun rampage John Izeal Smith faces 181 years to life in prison for killing a woman, her father and their neighbor.

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BURBANK police officers stand guard at Fourth and Harp streets in San

Fernando on Friday. Three people were shot near the intersection; one died.

One killed, two hurt in San Fernando shootings

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By Richard Winton and Joseph Serna San Fernando police were searching Friday for a gunman responsible for fatally shooting one person and critically wounding two others. The shootings occurred

about 2 p.m. near Fourth and Harp streets, a residential neighborhood between the 5 and 210 freeways, said Sgt. Irwin Rosenberg. A male victim was pronounced dead at the scene, Rosenberg said. Two other victims — described as a man and a woman — were taken to a hospital in critical condi-

tion. Police Chief Anthony Vairo told a KABCTV Channel 7 news reporter that it was not clear whether the shooting was gang-related but said “the victims were targeted.” Police cordoned off several blocks around the crime scene in the search for the gunman.

A 46-year-old man pleaded guilty to murdering three people and trying to kill a fourth in a 2014 shooting rampage in Pasadena, authorities said Thursday. John Izeal Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and one count each of seconddegree murder, attempted murder and assault with an assault weapon on a peace officer, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Prosecutors said that in July 2014, Smith got into a fight with Maria Aguiar, 59, grabbed an assault rifle and opened fire on her and her father, Luis Aguiar, killing both. Smith then turned to neighbors and killed a third person, Jose Hernandez Iribe, according to the dis-

Pasadena Police Department

SMITH fought with one

victim before killing her.

trict attorney’s office. Shortly afterward, Smith barricaded himself inside a home on the 1700 block of North Summit Avenue and called police. He shot at multiple people, including a Pasadena police officer. Nobody was injured. Smith later surrendered and was arrested. He faces a sentence of 181 years to life in state prison. sarah.parvini@latimes.com

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Harris pursues charges against ad site [Backpage, from B1] state-law charges against Backpage, and the Superior Court’s orders earlier this month confirmed this,” attorney James Grant said via email. “She cannot avoid First Amendment protections, federal law, or her obligations to follow the law, although her new complaint is a transparent effort to do exactly that.” Backpage has long been a target in the crusade against human trafficking. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported about 2,900 cases of suspected child sex trafficking via Backpage to law enforcement agencies in California since 2012, officials said. The company has contended that it is a host — not a publisher — of content generated by third parties, namely, consenting adults. In the latest case, the attorney general’s moneylaundering charges stem from alleged efforts to hide prostitution-related transactions. According to the complaint, the men created new companies and classified websites — including Ymas, Postfastr and Truckrjobs — to handle transactions for Backpage customers after credit card companies refused to process payments to the site because of its “overtly sexual content.” When American Express notified Backpage operators in 2015 that the company would soon stop processing Backpage transactions, Ferrer directed his employees to guide cardholders on how to purchase “credits” through Postfastr, which could later be used on Backpage. Over the next two months, American Express transactions from Backpage’s female escort section in California dropped from $48,289 to $31,786, while Postfastr.com credits purchased via American Express increased from $7,904 to $16,152, the complaint said. Between Aug. 1, 2013, and Oct. 31, 2016, Backpage operators received more than $45 million from transactions initially purchased through the website’s escort categories in California, the complaint said. In a statement, Harris said the three men preyed on and profited from vulnerable victims, including children. “My office will not turn a blind eye to this criminal behavior simply because the defendants are exploiting and pimping victims on the Internet rather than on a street corner,” she said. Founded in 2004, Backpage originated in the classified section in the back of alternative newspapers. It also lists apartments, cars and jobs. When operators were charged the first time, Backpage denied any wrongdoing and accused Harris of pursuing a politically motivated prosecution in her campaign for U.S. Senate. She was elected last month and is scheduled to be sworn in Jan. 3. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael G. Bowman ruled that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 protects websites such as Backpage.com from lawsuits when they publish speech posted by other people. He said the law “struck a balance in favor of free speech” in keeping Internet service providers protected from liability. At the time, Harris said she was “extremely disappointed” by the ruling. “To all those who have been victimized by pimps online and trafficked through Backpage.com, you are not alone and the fight for justice is not over,” she said. “We are exploring all legal options and will continue to advocate for all victims and to aggressively prosecute those who prey on and exploit the vulnerable.” alene.tchekmedyian @latimes.com

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Francine Orr Los Angeles Times

Light in the darkness Rain doesn’t deter visitors from walking through Descanso Gardens’ “Enchanted: Forest of Light,” a seasonal Instagram hit featuring largescale light displays, including three interactive ones, placed along a one-mile path through the La Cañada Flintridge gardens. The light show is closed Christmas Day but continues through Jan. 8.

Bill targets marijuana billboards [Ads, from B1] California. The initiative bans billboards for recreational pot products along the 4,315 miles of major state highways that cross state borders. The proposed new law would expand the billboard rules to also apply to the medical cannabis industry and to 10,000 more miles of state highways, and it closes a loophole that exempts unlicensed pot businesses from the law, according to Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), an author of the bill. “Without AB 64, this exception would eclipse the rule and our children would see cannabis ads across the state,” Bonta said. “We feel that all highways, and not just ones which cross state lines, are inappropriate venues for cannabis advertising, particularly as Proposition 64 required an adult audience for advertisements other than billboards.” Bonta was joined in introducing the legislation by Assemblymen Ken Cooley of Rancho Cordova, Reggie Jones-Sawyer of Los Angeles and Jim Wood of Healdsburg, all Democrats, and Republican Tom Lackey of Palmdale. Chong, a businessman who was part of the Cheech and Chong comedy team

known for stoner-themed movies including “Up in Smoke,” said the latest legislative effort represents “antiquated thinking” and fails to recognize the medicinal value of cannabis. “It’s totally not justified,” Chong said of the legislation. “It’s stupid. It shows you how ignorant they still are. It’s been proven that marijuana is not only harmless, but it’s good for you. So what are they protecting? Who are they protecting?” Chong said minors are going to see marijuana ads in other places, including magazines. The bill is the first attempt to merge the provisions of Proposition 64 on recreational marijuana with the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, which was approved by the Legislature in 2015 and regulates medical marijuana. The latter act provides that a new state bureau will begin issuing licenses for the growth, transportation and sale of marijuana by Jan. 1, 2018. The new bill would extend the highway billboard ban to also include marijuana-related firms that may not have to get required licenses, including the dispensary locator website Weedmaps, and events such as the Emerald Cup, an annual festival in Northern

‘We feel that all highways ... are inappropriate venues for cannabis advertising.’ —Assemblyman Rob Bonta, coauthor of legislation proposing a ban on pot billboards

California that includes music, educational panels and contests for the best pot strains. The measure would also close an existing loophole that allows pot billboards on more than 10,000 miles of state highways that start and end within the state, including stretches of Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica Boulevard, Venice Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles County and Beach Boulevard in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Cooley, who lives less than a mile from the Chong billboard, said the bill is needed to provide a uniform approach to marijuana businesses. It also would apply the billboard ban to recreational-use businesses even before licenses are issued. Activists who support

California’s 20-year-old medical marijuana law, including the group Americans for Safe Access, say the proposed new restrictions are too broad. The group doesn’t oppose reasonable restrictions on advertising, but doesn’t think medical pot should be lumped in with the same prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco ads, according to Michael Liszewski, the group’s director of government affairs. “Broadly banning advertisements such as billboards along highways seems to go beyond what is reasonable,” he said, adding “medicinal cannabis is a form of medical therapy and should not be regulated like alcohol or gambling.” He suggested a “more reasonable” approach would be to restrict the types of material in medical marijuana ads, such as banning the use of cartoon characters that might appeal to minors. The billboard featuring Chong was adjacent to the U.S. 50 freeway, where more than 120,000 motorists drove by it each day. The sign advertised the availability of Chong’s Choice brand marijuana products at the Horizon Collective, a nearby medical marijuana dispensary. The dispensary paid for the billboard but recently

took it down because of the expense, even though it brought in customers, according to Vincent Austin, a worker at the shop. He said the dispensary might want to advertise there again once the sale of recreational marijuana is allowed, likely in late 2017. The legislation is not warranted, he said. “I think that’s wrong,” Austin said. “These businesses are legal and [the state] said it’s legal. We should be able to advertise like anybody else if we want. Why would you want to limit us from being able to do that?” The concept of the bill is supported by Dennis Hathaway, president of the Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight, who said he has concerns about marijuana-related billboards he has seen popping up in Los Angeles. Hathaway fears the billboards will send a message to young people that using marijuana is fun without addressing the potential negative health issues involved. “A billboard is not like an ad on TV where the parents have parental control and can keep their kids from seeing it,” Hathaway said. “Children riding in a car will see the billboards.” patrick.mcgreevy @latimes.com Twitter: @mcgreevy99

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Lead readings exceed thresholds

[Exide, from B1] est cleanup of its kind undertaken in California, spanning 10,000 residential properties as well as day cares, schools and parks. Lead, a potent neurotoxin emitted from the Exide facility for decades, is most harmful to young children, who can ingest contaminated soil or dust. Even small amounts of lead can cause permanent learning and developmental deficiencies, lower IQs and behavioral problems. State regulators say they are moving as quickly as they can and would act sooner if conditions at a property warrant immediate cleanup. “We want to get the shovels in the ground; we want to get the cleanup moving,” toxic substances department Director Barbara Lee said in an interview. “Bear in mind we have a schedule in place to be undertaking cleanup this summer, so we’re talking about the difference of a few months at this point.” Adding to residents’ anxiety are new records from the toxic substances department that indicate hundreds of homes with high lead contamination levels still might not be cleaned after the state spends $176.6 million set aside by lawmakers for soil testing and remediation of properties near the plant. That pot of money will allow the state to remove lead from about 2,500 homes starting next summer, officials said, but sampling results disclosed in a state cleanup plan this month suggest that almost 3,000 properties could surpass the federal cleanup level once all the parcels are tested. Nearly 30% of homes tested through July exceed the federal health standard — 400 parts per million — that is considered hazardous in bare soil where children play, and more than 97% are above California’s more stringent cleanup standard of 80 ppm, the department found. County officials and community groups are particularly concerned that cleanup has been delayed for homes with lead levels above 1,000 ppm — the state’s threshold for hazardous waste. Soil sampling records obtained under the California Public Records Act show more than 200 residential properties tested through July had at least one lead reading above 1,000 ppm within 3 inches of the surface. And there are likely to be more; the department has released soil records on fewer than half of the 5,800 parcels sampled so far. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health says the highest-risk properties with lead levels exceeding1,000 ppm can and should be cleaned immediately. The environmental review “does not preclude government from taking immediate action to protect public health,” said Angelo Bellomo, a deputy director for the county health department. “These are physical conditions on a property that could dangerously expose children playing on the soil.” Experts on the California Environmental Quality Act, which requires analysis of projects, agreed that the de-

Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times

ADELA JIMENEZ , 38, had contaminants removed from the soil around her East L.A. home in February. But cleanup of thousands of

homes with lead contamination is at a standstill as testing shows more properties fouled by the toxin than authorities have money to clean.

Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times

A FIELD sampling team from the Los Angeles County health department tests

soil samples for lead concentration at a home in Commerce in February. partment could already be cleaning the worst-contaminated properties using one of several exemptions written into the law. Douglas Carstens, a Hermosa Beach-based environmental attorney with no involvement in the Exide case, disputed the department’s contention that no cleanups can proceed amid the environmental review, characterizing the approach as a “drastic, all or nothing” position that “sounds to me more like bureaucratic reluctance.” Using environmental review “as an excuse not to do anything,” said Carstens, “actually harms public health, and it’s a distortion and misuse of environmental law.” When the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown proposed spending $176.6 million for soil sampling and remediation earlier this year, it sought to exempt the entire cleanup from environmental review, arguing that forgoing

‘I don’t think there’s a judge in the state that would force DTSC to stop a cleanup when children’s health is in danger.’ — Richard Drury,

environmental attorney, on the chances an emergency cleanup would be overturned in court

the analysis would avoid another year of delay. The administration backed down after objections from community and environmental groups who wanted to ensure officials would study and minimize the impacts of such a largescale project and hold public meetings, among other transparency requirements.

Brown signed the legislation in April. But community groups critical of the pace of the project say they did not expect the department’s environmental review to halt cleanups of the most hazardous properties. “It was not contemplated that the DTSC would cross its arms and refuse to exercise its authority to take emergency action,” said Gladys Limón, a staff attorney for Communities for a Better Environment. Lee, director of the state toxics department, said the agency has looked into whether exemptions could be used on some properties, adding that they are not as straightforward as they sound and entail risk. Richard Drury, an Oakland-based environmental attorney who is not involved in the Exide case, said it is unlikely that the use of emergency exemptions to expedite cleanup of highly contaminated properties would

be successfully challenged in court. “You’ve got kids playing in toxic lead — one of the best-documented harmful chemicals out there,” Drury said. “I don’t think there’s a judge in the state that would force DTSC to stop a cleanup when children’s health is in danger.” The homes awaiting cleanup have lead concentrations as high as 45,600 ppm — more than 100 times the federal standard — according to the department’s recently released cleanup plan. Officials said that the highest reading was found more than 3 inches below the surface on a single residential property but that the property’s overall contamination level did not exceed the hazardous waste limit of 1,000 ppm. The toxics department has previously disclosed a handful of cases where it conducted special cleanups of homes when parents discovered high levels of lead in their children’s blood. In a March report on speeding up its efforts near Exide, regulators argued that they could not complete cleanups using existing exemptions in state environmental law because “the levels of lead contamination are not considered an emergency.” Lee said the state toxics department has not conducted emergency cleanups in the area and has no policy on what levels would trigger such actions. The department has the authority to respond quickly when there is an “imminent and substantial threat to the public,” but has not done so in communities near Exide, she said. Residents in the working-class neighborhoods around the plant are quick to contrast their situation to what happened recently in wealthier Porter Ranch, where a months-long gas leak triggered relocations and spurred Brown to de-

clare a state of emergency. Home remediation near Exide began in two small areas of Boyle Heights and Maywood in August 2014. A year later, regulators greatly expanded the cleanup zone after soil tests showed the plant’s lead emissions spread over an area of 10,000 homes. Most of the 236 properties cleaned so far have been in the initial areas identified over three years ago. Completed more recently were cleanups of 50 homes with lead levels above 1,000 ppm using state funds approved in 2015. No homes have been cleaned since June, officials said. Starting next summer, the state toxics department plans to clean at least 25 properties a week to complete 2,500 within two years, according to a report released this month. But the department is also studying a faster cleanup of 3,500 homes in the first year. Additional cleanup funds anticipated from a new $1 fee on lead-acid batteries signed by Brown could help eventually but will take time to accumulate after the law takes effect in April. The department plans to rank all properties near Exide using a formula that takes into account contamination levels, the presence of young children and other factors. According to its cleanup plan, each will be assigned a score indicating where it stands in line for cleanup “based on highest concentrations of lead and greatest potential risk.” Assemblyman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) said homes with the highest levels of lead, especially those with young children, should be cleaned immediately. He urged regulators “to find a legal way to do it when people’s health is in danger.” tony.barboza@latimes.com ben.poston@latimes.com

Man sought in O.C. fires, thefts Authorities believe the suspect is setting blazes, then stealing firefighters’ food cash. By Joseph Serna

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

AGA I N S T A W I N T E R S K Y George Jernigan feeds the birds in Long Beach as a storm approaches Friday afternoon. Rain in the Southland is expected to linger through Saturday before making way for a cool, sunny Christmas Day.

Police in Orange County are looking for an enterprising arsonist who is stealing firefighters’ food money, authorities said Friday. Police believe the man starts small blazes near fire stations and waits for the crew to respond. When the firehouse clears out, he runs inside and empties the cash box for food, police said. The man burglarized an Orange County Fire Authority station in the1600 block of East 4th Street in Santa Ana on Sunday, Santa Ana Police

Department Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. An Anaheim station was burgled earlier this week. Detectives are investigating whether the thief is connected to fires in Irvine and the Inland Empire as well, Bertagna said. Although fire stations in those cities have not had their chow funds stolen, the fires were set very nearby the stations. Investigators wonder whether the thief had planned to burgle the stations but balked for some reason. “Perplexing, isn’t it?” Bertagna said. “Is he listening to a scanner? Did he go through fire training or apply to be a firefighter and didn’t get in? These are all questions that our detectives are asking.” joseph.serna@latimes.com

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OBITUARIES RAYMOND LEROY H EACO C K, 192 8 – 2016

JPL engineer helped lead Voyager project By Deborah Netburn

aymond Leroy Heacock, an engineer who guided NASA’s Voyager mission through encounters with both Jupiter and Saturn, has died at his home in La Crescenta at the age of 88. Heacock, who died Tuesday, spent his entire career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, where he worked from 1953 until his retirement in 1990. He contributed to some of the most notable space probes during his career, including the Mariner missions to Mars, Venus and Mercury, and the Hubble Space Telescope. However, he is bestknown for his work on the ambitious Voyager mission, which explored the outer planets of the solar system as well as their moons and is still sending back data from the edge of the solar system today. “It was his crowning achievement, and it’s kept going longer than him,” said his son, Dave Heacock. Indeed, NASA expects the spacecraft to continue to send back information about interstellar space through 2020 and possibly beyond. Heacock was born in Santa Ana on Jan. 28, 1928. He was the oldest of nine children and attended a oneroom schoolhouse. He joined the Navy after finishing high school and went on to get a bachelor’s and master’s in engineering at Caltech. He started working at JPL immediately after graduation. In the 1950s, Heacock contributed to some of the earliest JPL projects, including the Sergeant Missile project and the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1. In the 1960s he was a co-investigator on the Ranger Imaging Science Team, which was responsible for obtaining the first

high-resolution images of the moon. Heacock was named spacecraft system manager for the Voyager project in 1970. In that capacity, he oversaw the design, development, test and launch operations of the twin spacecraft. His wife, Yvonne, whom he met at JPL in the early ’60s, said his work was his passion. “Most of the guys that worked on those projects, it was really their whole lives,” she said. “They worked for weeks and weeks without days off.” In 1977, Heacock brought his whole family to attend the launch of Voyager 1 at Cape Canaveral. Yvonne recalled that she and some of the other wives decided to throw a celebratory dance for the people working on the mission. They rented a warehouse and asked one of the engineers to help them hang decorations from the ceiling. “Then suddenly Raymond came in and said, ‘Get that guy off that ladder!’ ” she said. Her husband was worried that if the engineer fell and something happened to the spacecraft there would be no one else who could fix it. “He was really in a panic,” she said. The launch was successful, and Heacock continued his work with Voyager, ultimately serving as project manager of the mission from 1979-81. Thanks to his work on the mission, in 1979 he became the fifth American to receive the James Watt International Gold Medal for excellence in engineering. In 1981 he received NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal and the National Space Club’s Astronautics Engineer Award. Although he formally retired in 1990, he continued to work as a consultant for many more years. Heacock had five chil-

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‘YIFTER THE SHIFTER’

Miruts Yifter (191) won two gold medals at the 1980 Olympics and a bronze at the 1972 Games.

MIRUTS YIF TER

Ethiopian running icon inspired many Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Miruts Yifter, an Ethiopian running legend who inspired world-class athletes like Haile Gebrselassie, has died in Canada at age 72, his family and Ethiopian Athletics Federation officials said Friday. Known by the nickname “Yifter the Shifter,” he won two gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics at age 40 and a bronze at the 1972 Munich Games. “Miruts has been everything to me and my athletics career,” said an emotional Haile, the double Olympic 10,000-meter champion. “When I started running, I just wanted to be like him. He is the reason for who I’m now and for what I have achieved.” Miruts’ son, Biniam Miruts, said his father had been suffering from respiratory problems. Miruts Yifter was the

subject of much criticism during Ethiopia’s former military regime, especially for not winning gold medals at the Munich Games, and he was thrown into jail upon his return home. He was soon released but left Ethiopia in 2000 for Canada. Family members said he was never accorded the dignity and privileges he deserved in Ethiopia, and they called on all Ethiopians to give him a heroic welcome when his body arrives for burial in Addis Ababa next week. Miruts has seven children, most of whom live outside Ethiopia. Haile recalled listening to the radio as a little boy during Mirut’s victory in Moscow. “I used to doubt that he was a human being after all for achieving what he achieved back then,” he said Friday. “For me, he is the best-ever athlete Ethiopia ever had, after the great Abebe Bikila.”

dren and was a lifelong science fiction fan, but his wife said that for most of his life, his work took top priority. “He loved his job, and that was his life,” she said.

NASA

A PASSION FOR EXPLORATION Raymond Leroy Heacock, center, and his colleagues worked for “weeks and weeks without days off,” said wife Yvonne, whom he met at JPL in the 1960s.

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Aidikoff, Charles

February 22, 1915 - December 21, 2016

Charles Aidikoff, 101, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, December 21 at his home. For decades, there were few people in the motion picture industry who didn’t know Charlie and his Screening Room. He opened the first Charles Aidikoff Screening Room at 9255 Sunset Blvd. in 1966 and moved the business to Beverly Hills in 1990. In his lobby were countless photos of him with celebrities who were clients. On Sunday afternoons he would have screenings for his friends and never got tired of regaling them with stories of his years in the business. He was a was a master of the one liner, and loved doing his stand up at charity auctions where the lucky bidder (with 50 guests) would enjoy dinner and a screening. He was predeceased by his wife of 67 years, Evelyn, who died in September of 2014. He is survived by his sons Phil and Gregg, as well as grandchildren Jeffrey Aidikoff, Joshua Aidikoff and Zev Aidikoff. Service will be held at Mount Sinai Memorial Park on Monday, December 26 at 2 pm. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

Appel, Marshall Albert

March 15, 1926 - November 27, 2016

Granada Hills – Marshall Albert Appel, 90, died Sunday, November 27th 2016 at Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills, CA. He leaves his daughters Lauren Gayl and Danna Lee Appel-Coonen, his grandchildren Jenna Sari Coonen and Steven Abraham Lawrence Coonen, his nieces and nephews, and some very dear friends. Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Marshall was the third child and only son of Isadore and Fanny Apple. He was a decorated veteran of World War II, serving in the 9th Infantry Division from 1941-1945. He met his wife, Joyce Beverly Barron, in 1946 at a local record store where he worked. They were married in March of 1948 and remained married until her death in 2013. A graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mechanical Engineering, Marshall moved with his family to California in 1957 where he earned a Master’s degree from University of Southern California (USC) School of Engineering and worked as an Aerospace Engineer at Rocketdyne and NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). While working for NASA/JPL he filed multiple patents and was recognized for developing the rhenium coating for carbon thrust chambers, which gave rocket engines the ability to provide more thrust with less fuel. These same thrust chambers are now used in all commercial airline engines and space related vehicles. Marshall had a passion for collies and, with his wife Joyce, owned JoyMar Kennels. They raised several championship dogs and supplied most of the puppies and full grown collies seen on the classic television program Lassie. Marshall was known for his sense of humor, his good nature, his courtesy, and his determination. He went to the gym five days a week, was always learning, and continually demonstrated his love for his family. A memorial service will be held for Marshall on January 21st, 2017 at 2:00pm in Granada Hills. If you would like to attend, contact the following email address marshallappelmemorial@gmail.com for details.

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Ray, Burt M.

Rico AmARo, Javier

Spillane, nonie

Eric passed away suddenly on Sunday November 27, 2016. He was the beloved and cherished son of Rosamond and John Fredrickson. Eric will be sorely missed by his sisters Lisanne Evelyn (Peter) and Andrea Fredrickson (John Tench), his brother Lars Fredrickson (Julia), his nephews John and Joe Evelyn and Wyatt Fredrickson and his nieces Jessica Tench and Heidi Rose Fredrickson. Eric grew up in Scarborough, Ontario and later attended Sheridan College where he was introduced to , and excelled in the art of animation. He was hired by Fox Studios in Los Angeles and over the next 20 years he became on of their top animators, working on such celebrated shows as “Family Guy” and “American Dad”. Eric was also a very talented musician who enjoyed jamming on his guitar with friends. Cremation has taken place. An interment will follow in the spring at Hillside Cemetery, Lakefield, Ontario. Donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association in Eric’s Memory would be very much appreciated and may be made by contacting THE HENDREN FUNERAL HOMES, LAKEFIELD CHAPEL, 66 Queen Street, Lakefield at www. hendrenfuneralhome.com or by calling 705-652-3355.

Burt “Baby” Ray, a loving husband, father and friend, passed away on December 13, 2016 after a very courageous battle with cancer. Burt was born April 10, 1949 in Oakland, CA to Walter and Jeannette Ray. He worked many years in business equipment sales throughout Ca. for major corporations including Xerox, Digital and retiring from Canon Business Solutions in 2009 as District Sales Manager. Burt was a people person who gained admiration and respect from everyone who knew him. He made everyone laugh with his infectious personality and his spontaneous witty sense of humor. He was the life of the party. He was an avid golfer and enjoyed numerous jazz festivals and cruises. Burt will be sorely missed and remembered for his enduring devotion to his family and friends. Burt is survived by his loving wife, Cynthia; his children Rhonda Ray and Nakia Scarborough; his grandchildren Tyler Foreman, Keiran and Blythe Scarborough. A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Dec. 30 at the Westin LAX.

“Joquin” was born in San Jose de Llanetes, Zacatecas, México. His profession for many years was to distribute tortillas for the company Guerrero. His hobbies included watching his favorite soccer team América play and singing to the crowd. Javier was a very generous, caring person and always ensured that everyone was okay. He always put others before him. This characteristic made him very admirable, but it was his charisma that made him legendary in our family. He was the “Life of the Party”and will be deeply missed. He is survived by his parents, Isidro and Celia Rico, brothers: Luis and Hector and sisters: Maria Celia, Delia, Alma Rosa and Norma Rico, and many other family members. The services will be held December 28, 2016 at La Funeraria LatinoAmericana from 4pm-8pm at 3827 E. Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90023.

Aka Nora and Noreen, she was born and raised in Ballytarsna, County Tipperary, Ireland and died at her home in La Mirada. Nonie worked at Life Paint Company, Santa Fe Springs for almost Thirty (30) Happy Years until retiring in January 2013. Nonie married her childhood sweetheart, Harry on July 23, 1971 and shared a remarkable and wonderful life together as best friends until her last breath. She was preceded in death by her Parents Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Hassett and her younger Sister Patrica Keane and leaves behind her Husband Harry of 45 Years, Brothers Peter and Patrick Hassett, Sisters Mary Stapleton, Eileen Ringer, Breda Purchase, Freddie Shaughnessy and Sister-in-law Patrica Hassett, Bridie Cullen, Betty Fleming and brother-in-law Jimmy Spillane, Jim Keane, Noel Shaughnessy and many Nieces, Nephews, Cousins and Life and lifelong friends. An extraordinary Woman and cherished best friend who sought to influence for the better the lives of everyone she met. You brought joy and happiness with you everywhere you travelled and there are no words that can describe the heart break caused by your premature departure. You asked “how long will I love you? And it’s only fair that you know “Forever”is as far as I’ll go! The family would like to thank the Doctors, Nurses and Staff at Orange Coast Memorial Care Center and Compassionate Cancer Care Medical Group where she received her treatment and in particular to Dr. Peyman Salimi-Tari. Special thanks to our Family Doctor for his excellent care during the past Twenty Years, Dr. Frank Rubino and his Nursing Staff in Garden Grove Office. Neptune Society is handling Cremation Service. Celebration of Life and Burial Services are planned for April 2017, where her ashes will be buried in the Spillane Family Grave Plot in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Orange Coast Memorial Foundation, Cancel Institute. 11181 Brookhurst Street, Suite 4100, Fountain Valley, CA 92708, In Memory of Mrs. N.M. Spillane.

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HirscH, Darrelle L.

April 20, 1940 - December 21, 2016

Darrelle was the beloved wife of 54 years to Donald Hirsch; devoted mother to her daughters, Dana Hirsch Lipman (Nathaniel J. Lipman) and Dina Hirsch (Marc Shenkman); loving grandmother to Megan and Lulu Lipman, Zachary Kantor and Jake and Jordie Shenkman; caring sister to Arline Gluck (Henry Gluck) and Leslie Mayers. Darrelle graduated from U.S.C. After a few years as a teacher, she began to pursue her true passion - interior design - and became a member of the American Society of Interior Designers. Darrelle loved to paint and was an avid collector of antiques and other collectibles. She was also a longtime supporter of many charitable organizations, including Blue Ribbon, Robinson’s Gardens, United Hostesses and Women in the Arts. She will be remembered for her kindness, her creativity and her gentleness and will be dearly missed by all who knew her. Memorial Services will be held on Tuesday, December 27, 2016, at 11 am at Hillside Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the American Cancer Society or the American Diabetes Foundation.

Limbaugh, Eula Laster

October 6, 1937 - December 1, 2016

Eula Laster Limbaugh, age 79, a resident of Granada Hills, CA, died Thursday, December 1, 2016 at Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills, CA. She was born October 6, 1937 in Madrid Bend, KY, to Winford Wesley and Hazel Lee Adams Laster who preceded her in death. She married Lawrence M. Limbaugh on April 16, 1967. He preceded her in death on April 9, 1998. Also preceding her in death were two brothers, Alvin Cope and Randall Laster. Surviving is one daughter, Mona Lee Limbaugh of Granada Hills, CA. Graveside services were held December 14, 2016 in Sikeston, MO, at Memorial Park Cemetery.

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James Eugene Dobrott October 9, 1930 - November 23, 2016 James Eugene Dobrott, 86, passed away Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at his home on Lido Isle, Newport Beach, California, surrounded by his family. Jim, “Big Jim” as he was known to friends, was born in Los Angeles on October 9, 1930 to Herman G. Dobrott and Marie Ann Dobrott (Frawley). Jim grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from Saint Monica’s High School, 1948, Loyola University, 1952. It was in high school that Jim met the love of his life, Bette Mae Porter (d. 2011). They were married in Santa Monica in 1952 and built an amazing life together that lasted nearly 60 years. Jim was a talented athlete who enjoyed competition in club, high school and college sports. His passion for athletics continued with tennis and golf, as well as being an ardent sports fan; primarily Notre Dame football and any of his children or grandchildren’s pursuits. Jim pursued a successful career in real estate development and investment. After college he went to work at Shell Oil Company, then joined the Rinker Company as a partner in the development of gas stations and retail centers. After Harry Rinker sold his company to W.R. Grace, Jim served for many years as President of W.R. Grace Development Company, one of the largest shopping center developers in the western United States. Jim retired from W.R. Grace in 1985 to focus on his income property investments, primarily with his dear friends Chan Lefebvre, Sandy Hellman and Ted Moriarty (d. 2015), and to be a dedicated grandparent and travel the world with Bette. Jim was a long-time member of Santa Ana Golf Club and Lake Arrowhead Country Club, and enjoyed participating in his beloved Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish. Jim and Bette were generous philanthropists supporting the Catholic Church, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Loyola Marymount University and Hoag Hospital. Big Jim was larger than life in many ways. He was a warm, caring, charismatic, and generous man who amassed an incomparable group of friends and was a valued mentor to many. With a quick wit, gift for storytelling and easy manner, Jim drew people to him and brightened many lives. He managed a busy social calendar until the very end, hanging out with friends at the Lido Diner or a variety of his other favorite restaurants. Jim was preceded in death by his beloved wife Bette and son, Daniel (d.1978). He is survived by his sister Barbara (Robert) Stapleford, and his children: James Jr. (Ginette), Michael, John (Heidi) and Megan, his grandchildren: Jill (Matt), Marc (Terra), Daniel, John (Alyssa), Harrison, Michael (Hannah), Hannah, Taylor, Natalie, Brynne and Davis, and his great-grandchildren: Mason, Dylan, Ashley, Will, Finley, Jackson and Adeline. We will miss Jim in ways that cannot be expressed. He was truly one of a kind and will always be in our hearts. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., February 3, 2017 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, 1441 W. Balboa Blvd., Newport Beach and a celebration of Jim’s life will immediately follow at the Balboa Bay Club, 1221 Coast Highway, Newport Beach. All of Jim’s friends and family are welcome and aloha attire is encouraged. In lieu of flowers, donations may be directed in Jim’s memory to the Hoag Hospital Foundation.

July 23, 1950 - December 12, 2016

Upton, Jean Hamilton Lindsay

She was born on June 14,1925 in Albany, NY to John & Lillian Lindsay and passed into God’s eternal garden on December 17, 2016 at her home of 66 years in Santa Ana. She was valedictorian of Russell Sage College in Troy, NY & had a scholarship to continue her study of French at the Sorbonne in Paris, but was unable to attain that dream because of the onset ofWWII. She lived in NYC when she met George, the love of her life, in October 1947 on a blind date. After getting married there in January during the blizzard of ‘48 by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale they moved to California and settled not long afterwards in Santa Ana. Jean had a life long love of books and enjoyed gardening, boating & was always on the lookout for a great sale. She and George spent retirement traveling to many destinations, but especially enjoyed their month long stays in London and annual anniversary trips to Honolulu. She was involved in numberous volunteer activities, among them scouting, Ebell Club, Friends of SA Library, Carl Harvey School & was a longtime member of First Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana. She had a beautiful voice and we know she’s now singing her beloved old time hymns in God’s heavenly choir. She leaves behind her beloved husband of almost 69 years, George, as well as her three children Mark, Susan (Bruce Channing) & Gail (Bill Mock). She was also a beloved Bama to 6 grandchildren: Kelly (Ken), Ryan (Michele), Brett (Jessica), Kate (Michael), Erin (Geoff) & Brittany. She also leaves behind 4 great grandsons, with a great granddaughter (finally) on the way. Her viewing will be on Wednesday December 28 at Fairhavem Mortuary from 4-8pm, with the celebration of life service taking place there on Friday December 30 in Waverly Chapel at noon. She will be sorely missed by all who loved her & we find comfort that we’ll see her again in eternity.

Woo, Mary Tse

September 25, 1950 - December 19, 2016

Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Pun. Survived by her husband of 46 years Harry Tse, her children Sandi, Kenny & Tritia Woo, their spouses, Nick Gregor, Kathy Woo, and Desmond Chiu and grandchildren Kylie, Katelyn, Karalina, and Kristian Woo. Mary served on the Board of the West Los Angeles Youth Club and Crescent Bay Optimist for 34 years, with both organizations serving as scholarship organizations to the Asian youth basketball community.

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Today in Southern California

Today in North America

Unsettled in the East, West: A storm moving through southeastern Canada will bring rain, snow and ice to the Northeast, with rain extending southwestward into the Ohio River Valley. A developing system will continue to bring rain and snow to the interior West.

5-day forecasts

Pressure:

High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.

Today

L.A. Basin 59/43

Valleys 53/37

A passing shower Mostly sunny 59/44 Sunday Partly sunny 62/45 Monday Mostly sunny 67/48 Tuesday Wednesday Mostly sunny 70/50

Los Angeles Basin: Breezy to windy and chilly with clouds and sun and a stray shower. Clearing and cold tonight. Valleys/canyons: Clouds and some sun, windy and chilly; a shower. Clearing and cold tonight. Orange County: Clouds and

Air quality

Beaches 57/40

Some sun, a shower Mostly sunny 53/40 Partly sunny 57/43 Warmer 65/46 Mostly sunny 69/49

Partly sunny; breezy Mostly sunny 57/44 Partly sunny 61/45 Sunny 66/48 Mostly sunny 70/51

sun, windy and chilly; a shower. Turning partly cloudy and cold tonight. Ventura/Santa Barbara: Mixed clouds and sun, windy and chilly; a stray shower. Clear to partly cloudy and cold tonight. San Diego County: Clouds and limited sun, brisk and

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Moderate

Mountains 30/13

Snow showers, 1-3” Sunny 30/14 Partly sunny 34/18 Not as cold 44/22 Mostly sunny 47/24

chilly; a couple of showers. Becoming clear to partly cloudy and cold tonight. Local mountains: Windy and cold with snow showers; an additional 1-4 inches above 3,500 feet. Clearing and cold tonight. High desert: Gusty winds and cold; a mix of clouds

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New York 47/36 Chicago 37/30

Los Angeles 59/43

Las Vegas 50/36

Denver 47/29 Houston 78/66

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Miami 83/73

South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality

SANTA BARBARA CO.

Santa Clarita Hesperia 53/34 Santa Paula LOS ANGELES CO. 43/27 Ojai 58/36 Santa Simi Valley Barbara 54/35 Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO. Burbank Monrovia 54/35 60/37 53/36 Camarillo Ventura 56/39 47/35 60/36 59/42 Yucca Valley Pomona/ UCLA 43/29 Fairplex Oxnard San Bernardino LA Downtown Westlake Ontario 57/41 61/42 54/36 Woodland 51/35 59/43 Village 55/36 Hills Whittier Santa Barbara Co. 55/35 Chino 56/35 Height Period Direction Santa Monica Hills Riverside 56/34 RIVERSIDE CO. Fullerton 57/39 3-5’ 9 sec W 57/40 50/32 59/39 Torrance Santa Ana Ventura Co. 58/41 ORANGE CO. Palm Hemet Long Height Period Direction 58/40 Springs 50/32 Irvine Beach Newport 4-6’ 9 sec W 57/40 56/41 58/41 Beach Mission Viejo Los Angeles Co. 58/44 Temecula Height Period Direction 55/38 Laguna 52/32 4-6’ 7 sec W Beach San 56/41 Clemente Orange Co. Surf and sea 57/39 SAN DIEGO CO. Height Period Direction POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO Oceanside 3-5’ 7 sec W Inner waters: Small craft advisory. 58/36 Northwest winds 15-30 knots. San Diego Co. Combined seas building to 3-6 feet. Ramona Escondido Height Period Direction 52/34 55/38 Surf zone: Potential for rip currents will 3-5’ 8 sec WNW be moderate at all beaches; increasing Poway fog today with a high risk of dangerous 59/43 rip currents. Tides UV index L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. Minutes to burn for San Diego Today 6:01a 5.3 Hi 1:04p 0.5 Lo sensitive people Station Time Wind Waves Temp 58/47 Las Vegas, 60 Morro Bay Santa Barbara Ventura Zuma Beach Marina del Rey Hermosa Beach Cabrillo Beach Hunt’n. Beach Newport Beach Dana Point San Clemente Oceanside Solana Beach Mission Beach Avalon

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Anchorage 24/21

A morning shower Mostly sunny 56/43 Some sun 57/44 Mostly sunny 61/49 Mostly sunny 64/51

and sun. Clearing tonight. Low desert: Windy and chilly with a shower; partly sunny. Becoming clear and cold tonight. San Francisco Bay Area: Some sunshine, brisk and chilly. Clear to partly cloudy and cold tonight. Partly to mostly sunny Christmas. All

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Chilly with clouds and sun: Behind Friday night’s storm, a cold air mass will cover Southern California today. Gusty winds will likely put a real chill to the air for Christmas Eve day. Snow showers are likely in the mountains above 3,500 feet; watch for icy roads over the passes. The lowlands might see a shower, especially around the valleys. Christmas Day will be chilly but with sunshine much of the time.

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Los Angeles, 60 Phoenix, 45 San Francisco, 60

Friday Downtown readings Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura High/low 64/56 63/56 61/53 High/low a year ago 67/52 66/48 69/51 Normal high/low for date 67/47 67/44 66/44 Record high/date 86/1989 85/2014 89/1950 Record low/date 33/1905 32/1998 30/1998 Precipitation 24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) Trace Trace 0.01 Season total (since Oct. 1) 3.88 4.69 2.42 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 1.03 1.05 0.95 Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 3.25 3.00 3.98 Humidity (high/low) 89/67 96/74 82/68

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Sun and moon Today’s rise/set Los Angeles County Sun 6:56a/4:50p Moon 2:45a/2:02p

New Moon Dec. 28 First Quarter Jan. 5

Orange County Sun 6:55a/4:49p Moon 2:43a/2:01p

Full Moon Jan. 12

Ventura County Sun 7:01a/4:53p Moon 2:49a/2:06p

Last Quarter Jan. 19

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‘This doesn’t make sense’ [Attack, from B1] is unclear, Clegg said. The attacker didn’t steal anything, and it didn’t appear any words were exchanged before Wicks was doused and lit on fire. “This is a very disturbing case and it has affected the community a great deal,” Clegg said at a news conference. The attack took place at the Rocky Ledge Shell Station in Burney’s Johnson Park neighborhood about 7 p.m. According to investigators, the person walked in and started a “horrific chain of events.” Security camera footage shows the person entering the store, holding what appears to be a water bottle, approach Wicks as he’s behind the counter and splash him with an unknown flammable liquid, soaking Wicks and the area around him, authorities said. “As the suspect starts to back out, the victim David Wicks emerges from behind the counter area,” authorities said. “The suspect continues to spray fluid on the floor. The suspect then ignites the fluid causing a fire. The fire engulfs Wicks and the surrounding area.” The attacker walked di-

Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times

IN GOOD CHEER Patricia Williams, wearing Christmas hair gear and a broad smile, serves food at the Los Angeles Mission’s Christmas event Friday. Williams and other volunteers fed guests a menu that included roast beef, potatoes, other vegetables and dinner rolls.

rectly to Wicks and splashed him without looking around and did not take anything, Clegg said. “I mean, this doesn’t make sense,” he said of the

lack of apparent motive. “I can’t imagine somebody, knowing Dave, why would anybody do this?” said Wick’s co-worker Kris Cantrell, according to the

Record Searchlight. Wicks was found outside with severe burns over most of his body. A second clerk at the rear of the building didn’t see anything, Clegg

said. The attacker’s height was given as 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 9, but no other detailed description was available. The bicycle was later

found abandoned. joseph.serna @latimes.com Twitter: @JosephSerna

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Even people with employer-provided insurance could lose some benefits.

Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse will pay $12 billion over sales tied to financial crisis.

By Lisa Schencker One of the first things Tracy Trovato did — once she overcame the shock of learning her 42-year-old, marathon-training husband had leukemia — was look through their health insurance documents. She dug up one paper that said the plan would pay no more than $1 million for medical services in a lifetime. The Chicago woman and her husband, Carlo, called their insurance company in a panic. “Our first question was, ‘Can we take care of leukemia in a million dollars?’ ” Tracy Trovato said. The woman on the other end of the line reassured them, saying, “The president took care of that. We don’t have maximum caps anymore,” Trovato recalled. “Those were among the sweetest words,” said Trovato, whose health insurance is through her husband’s employer. But now that ban on lifetime limits, along with other health insurance protections, has been thrown into question with the election of Donald Trump, who’s promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. In recent weeks, much attention has focused on what repealing and replacing the law might mean for the nearly 20 million Americans who get health insurance through the law’s exchanges or Medicaid expansion. But Obamacare is far broader than that. Scrapping it also could change how health insurance works for the156 million Americans who have coverage through employers, as estimated by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In addition to banning lifetime coverage caps, the Affordable Care Act lets con[See Obamacare, C5]

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Old hangar for Spruce Goose is sold Japanese investors have bought the landmark in Playa Vista, now leased by Google, where mogul Howard Hughes built his famed aircraft in the 1940s. C3

Spin and Vibe are acquired The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group buys the music publications along with Stereogum in a bid to reach millennials. C2 Business Beat .......... C2 Travel Briefcase .... C2 Market Roundup ... C4

By Don Lee

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Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times

THE GRAND Sport is a 20th century coupe with 21st century elements, including an optional heads-

up display, USB ports, a button for adding or removing traction control and various driving modes.

Corvette Grand Sport a great mix of old, new On the outside, this 460-horsepower coupe is lovingly linked to decades of Corvette lines. Inside, there’s plenty of tech.

By Charles Fleming

hevrolet’s Corvette has been recognized for more than 60 years as one of the finest American sports cars ever built. Because it has consistently stuck to its roots, the Corvette inevitably feels like both an icon and a throwback — a mighty, meaty machine built for sucking fuel and burning rubber. Guess what? It’s still pretty boss. The 2017 Grand Sport version boasts a 6.2-liter V-8 engine that makes 460 horsepower and 465 poundfeet of torque, mated to a seven-speed manual transmission, and promises zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.6 seconds and a top speed of 181 mph. Like its predecessors, it’s still a front-engine, rearwheel-drive, two-seat sports car, long on performance and short on practicality. Chevrolet has added 21st

2017 Corvette Grand Sport Times’ take: A worthy successor to the GS crown Highs: A burly beast built for burning fuel and rubber Lows: See above Vehicle type: 2-door, 2-passenger sports car Base price: $66,445 Price as tested: $91,655

Powertrain: 6.2-liter V-8 gasoline engine Transmission: 7-speed manual Horsepower: 460 Torque: 465 pound-feet EPA fuel economy rating: 15 miles per gallon city / 25 mpg highway / 19 mpg combined

century elements to this 20th century coupe. Drive modes that make alterations in steering, throttle and shift points, and help manage the horsepower and torque, include touring, sport, track, economy and “weather.” There’s also a button for adding or removing traction control, which is to say tire spinning. Those, combined with Chevy’s magnetic ride control suspension system and the very usable manual transmission, make for a thrilling driving experience. In sport and track modes, the power is tractable, but not terrifying, as it is on the Corvettes that come with 650 horsepower, for example. This is a car you could drive to the track, and on the track, without having to make many adjustments. Other thoroughly modern touches include a “hill hold” feature that makes manual gear shifting a lot easier on a slope; optional heated and ventilated seats, [See Corvette, C6]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s agreement to settle longstanding cases against two major banks stemming from the financial crisis eased at least one potential conflict of interest facing Presidentelect Donald Trump, resolving a huge government claim against Deutsche Bank, which for years has been a major lender to Trump’s businesses. The two settlements announced Friday will involve multibillion-dollar payments from Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse for the sale of what authorities said were toxic mortgage-backed securities just before the housing bust and Great Recession. Swiss bank Credit Suisse said it would pay a penalty of $2.48 billion and an additional $2.8 billion in consumer relief. Deutsche Bank said it would pay a total of $7.2 billion, which is only about half of what the Justice Department had initially sought from Germany’s largest lender. The bank would pay a civil penalty of $3.1 billion and provide $4.1 billion in consumer relief, which it said would mainly be in the form of loan modifications and other aid to homeowners and borrowers to be made over five years. The deals are subject to the completion of final documents laying out the details of the settlements. Obama administration officials may have pushed to resolve the matter because of the uncertainty of what would happen if it was left for the incoming Trump administration to conclude. Government watchdog groups and ethics lawyers have warned that Trump’s long-standing ties to Deutsche Bank are a prime example of potential conflicts stemming from his refusal to divest his real estate holdings and other business interests. Deutsche Bank still faces other inquiries that could prove difficult for the new administration, including [See Banks, C4]

AIMING TO BE LOUD, CLEAR At 70, Northridge audio gear maker JBL can still throw around big sound. By Ronald D. White At least one participant at the upcoming presidential inauguration will care more about how clearly the speeches will be heard than about anything said that day. JBL speakers will be used at the swearing in of Donald Trump, just as they were at President Obama’s two inaugurations. JBL makes more than 3,000 other products that have been throwing sound at many of the world’s biggest musical, athletic, social and political events since 1946. “Our loudspeakers are

Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times

JBL HAS won a Grammy and an Oscar. Above, Bryan Bradley is senior vice pres-

ident of the business entertainment unit for JBL parent company Harman.

very nonpartisan,” quipped Mark R. Gander, JBL’s director of technology. “We were at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, too. If someone can’t hear, or it’s garbled, then we haven’t done our job.” For 70 years, JBL — named for founding engineer James B. Lansing — has survived ownership changes, recessions and vast shifts in personal technology. It’s won a Grammy, an Oscar and enough other awards, including dozens for technological achievement, to fill a long hallway at its 237,000square-foot Northridge headquarters. More change is in the works. In November, Samsung Electronics agreed to pay $8 billion for Harman Interna[See JBL, C4]

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BUSINESS BEAT Spin, Vibe and Stereogum sold Hollywood ReporterBillboard Group acquires the sites in a bid for millennials. By Agatha French The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group has acquired long-standing rock music publication Spin, hip-hop and R&B magazine Vibe and indie music blog Stereogum in a bid to reach a younger, digital-first audience. By buying a stable of publications that cater to specific types of music fans, the Los Angeles media company is making an aggressive

push to dominate online music journalism while expanding its reach beyond its traditional role in the entertainment trade press, according to industry experts. “In recent years, we set out to own the topic of music online, and the acquisition of these incredible music assets helps us do just that,” said Hollywood ReporterBillboard Media Group CoPresident John Amato in a news release. “By making these storied brands part of our family, the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group will be able to fully capture the value of millennials and music, and continue to strengthen its leadership position in this critical arena.”

The price of the deal has not been disclosed; neither company returned requests for comment. Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group said in a statement that the combined revenues will exceed $100 million a year, with two-thirds coming from digital and video. The move comes as legacy publications try to forge new futures online. Spin went fully digital in 2012, and the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard have shifted toward greater visual content under the leadership of Janice Min, president and chief creative officer. Both the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard have turned toward video in recent months, including content

designed specifically for Facebook Live. Spin, Vibe and Stereogum reach different types of music fans — an appealing proposition for advertisers targeting specific demographics. “In a landscape of fragmented audiences, the ability to define and speak to a niche is increasingly important,” Gabriel Kahn, professor of professional practice at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said in an email. The companies said the combined sites will attract 45 million unique visitors per month and 1 in 3 U.S. millennials — welcome traffic for the Hollywood Reporter and

Billboard, trade publications considered vital by those inside the music and entertainment industry but not necessarily casual fans. “Find me any millennial that reads the Hollywood Reporter or Billboard,” said Larry Miller, director of New York University’s music business program. In 2014, the private equity firm MC Partners took a controlling stake in SpinMedia Group. A SpinMedia spokeswoman told the Observer that Spin’s remaining entertainment assets — including Celebuzz, the Playlist and the Frisky — will also be spun off in separate sales. business@latimes.com

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NEW JETS will keep the atmosphere in the cabin more humid, reducing the dry eyes and parched throats suffered by passengers.

TRAVEL BRIEFCASE

Flights to get more comfortable

The cabin atmosphere in new jets will mimic a lower altitude and be more humid By Hugo Martin Air travel in the future should be a lot more comfortable for passengers despite economy airline seats that are getting more cramped. The newer jets that are coming online in the next few years will create a cabin atmosphere that mimics a lower altitude and keeps the air inside the cabin more humid than current planes. Passengers can experience the more comfortable conditions on some newer planes already in use, such as the Boeing 787. But fliers should notice the changes more often now that the airline industry is going through an airplane-buying spree while profits are high and demand for air travel continues to grow. “As planes come on board, people are going to find air travel much more comfortable,” said George Hobica, founder of the travel comparison site Airfarewatchdog.com. The reason for the improved conditions is directly related to the new composite materials used to build the plane frames. To reduce the stress on the traditional metal frame, airlines now pressurize the cabin to be closer to the pressure outside. When a plane is cruising at 36,000 feet above sea level, the atmosphere inside the cabin feels like its 8,000 feet above sea level. For passengers, that can cause shortness of breath and fatigue. But with new fuselages made of stronger, more flexible carbon-reinforced plastic composites, the plane can withstand more stress, allowing airlines to increase the inside pressure to a more comfortable atmosphere that feels like 6,000 feet above sea level. Also, the new frame material is more resistant to corrosion, which means that airlines can keep the atmosphere in the cabin more humid, reducing the dry eyes and parched throats suffered by passengers. Boeing officials say flying is also becoming more pleasant because many of the newer planes, including the 777X, will have larger windows and wider cabins. “Every day we are going to have more and more of these planes that offer this experience in service,” said Kent Craver, Boeing’s regional director for cabin experience and revenue analysis. “It’s something we have created that is important to the customers we serve.”

Airline, union fight over uniforms

Are the new uniforms for flight attendants and other crew members at American Airlines

Jerome Adamstein Los Angeles Times

SOME EXECUTIVES at American Airlines are so sure that new crew uniforms that

debuted in September are harmless that they have begun wearing them to work. safe to wear? About half a dozen American Airlines executives and middle managers are so sure the new uniforms that debuted in September are harmless that they have begun to wear the woolbased outfits to work. These are the same uniforms that generated about 2,200 complaints from employees, who said the clothing causes hives, wheezing, coughing and headaches. American Airlines declined to name all of the executives who are wearing the uniforms but did disclose that Hector Adler, vice president for flight services, had ordered a uniform and is expected to don it in the next week or so. Taylor Garland, a spokeswoman for the Assn. of Flight Attendants, fired back at the airline executives who are wearing the uniforms. The association represents members from 18 airlines. “It’s insulting. Instead of acknowledging legitimate concerns of their employees, American Airlines management is pulling a publicity stunt,” she said. Meanwhile, the union that represents American Airlines’ flight attendants, the Assn. of Professional Flight Attendants, filed a formal

grievance with the airline, saying the uniforms threaten the health of the flight attendants. In the grievance letter, the union demanded that the airline reimburse flight attendants for the cost of medical bills and give them time off to recover from any illnesses caused by the clothing. “Personal health is so integral and critical to our flight attendant workforce, who must be able to work in a healthy manner and environment,” union national President Robert Ross said in the grievance. “To do so, our members need proper and safe uniforms.” American Airlines said it has agreed to team up with Ross’ union to perform a chemical test on the uniforms — the fourth in a series of tests. American Airlines said the previous three tests have shown no unhealthful levels of harmful chemicals in the clothing. The new uniforms were made by Twin Hill, a subsidiary of Men’s Wearhouse. It is the same manufacturer that made the uniforms for Alaska Airlines employees, sparking similar complaints in 2012 about health problems related to the clothing. hugo.martin@latimes.com Twitter: @hugomartin

GM JOINT VENTURE IS FINED China orders the automaker to pay $29 million after price-fixing probe. associated press

General Motors Co.’s main joint venture in China was fined $29 million Friday on charges it suppressed competition by enforcing minimum sales prices for dealers, the latest in a string of penalties against foreign auto brands under the country’s anti-monopoly law. Chinese regulators have punished companies in industries including milk and medical devices under a 2008 anti-monopoly law in what appears to be an effort to force down consumer prices. Friday’s announcement followed public criticism by President-elect Donald Trump of Chinese trade practices, but there was no indication that the case was linked to that. GM had announced in August 2014 its joint venture, Shanghai GM, was under investigation by anti-monopoly regulators. The Shanghai Price Bureau said Shanghai GM, a joint venture with stateowned Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., improperly suppressed competition by enforcing minimum prices that dealers were allowed to charge for Cadillac, Chevrolet and Buick models. That “disrupted the normal order of market competition,” the statement said. Setting minimum retail prices is a common practice in many markets, but lawyers say Chinese regulators appear to regard it as an improper restraint on competition. The price bureau said the penalty was set at 4% of Shanghai GM’s annual sales, about $29 million. In a statement, GM said: “GM fully respects local laws and regulations wherever we operate. We will provide full support to our joint venture in China to ensure that all responsive and appropriate actions are taken with respect to this matter.” GM vies with Germany’s Volkswagen for the status of the top-selling vehicle brand in China. Sales of GM vehicles in China rose 7% in November over a year earlier to 371,740 units. Year-to-date sales rose 8.5% to 3.4 million. Audi, VW’s luxury unit, was fined $40.5 million, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ Chrysler brand received a smaller penalty in 2014 on similar charges of enforcing minimum sales prices. State media cited an official saying Daimler Benz’s Mercedes unit was guilty of violations, but no penalty was announced. Toyota Motor Corp. said its Lexus unit was under scrutiny, but no results have been announced. A dozen Japanese auto parts suppliers were fined earlier on price-fixing charges. The industry-wide investigation began in 2014 following complaints that foreign auto brands were abusing their control over supplies of spare parts to overcharge consumers. Foreign business groups welcomed passage of the 2008 law, which they said would help to clarify operating conditions in China’s state-dominated economy. Since then, they have complained about the secretive way investigations are conducted. They say companies are pressured into agreeing to penalties and to avoid disputing any finding of wrongdoing. In the biggest penalty so far, Qualcomm Inc. was fined $975 million in 2015 on charges it abused control over patents that are part of global industry standards for mobile phones to charge Chinese handset makers excessive licensing fees.

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State gets key ruling on tribal payday lenders The California Supreme Court says that a case against the firms can proceed. By James Rufus Koren A decade after California financial regulators first went after a pair of online payday lenders with ties to Native American tribes, the California Supreme Court on Thursday handed the state a victory, ruling that case against the lenders can proceed. At issue is whether the lenders, doing business through half a dozen different names including Ameriloan and OneClickCash, are immune from state lending laws because of their affiliation with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska. Tribes and tribal entities are not subject to state laws. The court ruled, though, that while the lenders were tribal entities in name, they had little connection to the tribes in practice. In a unanimous decision, the court found “scant evidence that either tribe actually controls, oversees, or significantly benefits from the underlying business operations of the online lenders.” Instead, the court said it appeared that the lenders were controlled by Scott Tucker, the owner of Kansas City-area firm AMG Services. AMG and Tucker are not defendants in the California case but have been

under federal scrutiny for years over payday lending businesses that regulators and prosecutors say used sham relationships with Native American tribes to flout state lending laws. Federal prosecutors in New York this year charged Tucker with criminal racketeering and violations of federal lending rules. Tucker has pleaded not guilty and a trial is schedule to begin next year. In October, a federal judge in Nevada ordered Tucker, AMG and related parties to pay $1.3 billion to consumers who paid high and improperly disclosed fees, the result of a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission. Payday lenders offer small loans, usually for just a few hundred dollars, and expect repayment once borrowers get their next paycheck. The loans often have annual interest rates topping 300%. California and other states have licensing requirements and rules that govern how big payday loans can be and how much interest and fees lenders can charge. Tribal lenders, or entities claiming an affiliation with Native American tribes, say those laws don’t apply to them, allowing them to make bigger and pricier loans. The California Department of Business Oversight first took action against the tribe-affiliated lenders in 2006 and sued them the following year, saying they were operating without licenses, making loans that were

larger than the state’s $300 limit and charging illegally high fees. Those allegations have yet to be addressed in court. Since the case was filed, the lenders argued they were outside of the state’s jurisdiction. Both the Los Angeles Superior Court and a state appellate court agreed, saying the state had no case. But the Department of Business Oversight continued to appeal the case, and Thursday’s ruling marks a longsought victory. Department Commissioner Jan Lynn Owen said the ruling “strengthens our ability to enforce laws prohibiting excessive fees and unlicensed activity by denying payday lenders’ ability to inappropriately use tribes’ sovereign immunity to avoid complying with state law.” Still, the state will now have to make its case in the lower court. Skip Durocher, an attorney for Miami Nation Enterprises, the entity that claims an affiliation with the Miami Tribe, said he will continue to argue that his client is a tribal entity. “This is a fight about tribal sovereignty,” Durocher said. “We’re confident that when the facts are laid out, we’ll prevail.” Attorneys for SFS Inc., the lender affiliated with the Santee Sioux Nation, did not returns calls for comment. Regardless of the outcome of the case at hand, the ruling could have a big impact on the involvement of Native American tribes in the online lending business.

The state Supreme Court ruling is just the latest action challenging the way that outside firms like Tucker’s have sought to work with tribal entities to get around state lending laws, including rules that cap interest rates. In August, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that Orange County lender CashCall used a sham relationship with a tribal entity to make loans that violated lending laws in 16 states. The judge in that case also argued that the tribal entity had too little involvement in the business for tribal sovereign immunity to apply. Donald Putterman, a San Francisco attorney who specializes in consumer lending and financial regulation, said recent rulings show that some lender-tribe relationships have been poorly structured in the past, giving tribal entities too little involvement — and too little skin in the game — to pass muster. But Putterman said he expects tribal lenders to use the recent rulings to make sure that their businesses are structured in ways that will allow them to continue to skirt state laws. The California Supreme Court ruling, he said, could be particularly helpful as it lays out clear criteria for determining whether a business affiliated with a tribe should be immune from state laws. “This kind of decision, it essentially provides a guideline for what will work in California,” he said.

Chinese paper criticizes trade advisor choice associated press

A Chinese state newspaper Friday accused a trade advisor picked by President-elect Donald Trump of “antiChina alarmism” and warned that both sides would suffer if commerce is disrupted. The China Daily editorial was more openly critical of economist Peter Navarro than China’s foreign ministry, which appealed Thursday for cooperation. Navarro, picked by Trump to run a new National Trade Council at the White House, has accused China of effectively waging economic war against the U.S. The UC Irvine professor also will be director of trade and industrial policy. “There is real cause for concern as the president-elect has named economist Peter Navarro, known for his antiChina alarmism, as his trade advisor,” said the China Daily, which is aimed at foreign readers. Trump’s transition team said the creation of the trade council “demonstrates the president-elect’s determination to make American manufacturing great again.” “That individuals such as Navarro who have a bias against China are being picked to work in leading positions in the next administration is no laughing matter,” said China Daily. “Any move to damage the win-win relationship will only result in a loss for both sides.” Trump has blamed China for the decline in American factory employment. U.S. manufacturers have cut 5 million jobs since 2000. Trump has threatened to raise import duties on Chinese imports to 45% and to label Beijing a “currency manipulator,” a status that can lead to trade penalties. Asked by reporters Thursday about Navarro’s appointment, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing has been observing the incoming U.S. administration’s transition and its policy direction. “As two major powers with broad mutual interests, cooperation is the only correct choice,” Hua said without naming Trump or Navarro.

Self-driving Uber cars go to Arizona

james.koren@latimes.com By Melissa Etehad

Al Seib Los Angeles Times

HOWARD HUGHES built his wooden Spruce Goose plane in this hangar, shown in 2010. Google, which now

occupies the property as a tenant, bought 12 acres directly north of the hangar for $120 million in 2014.

Historic Spruce Goose hangar is sold to Japanese investors By Roger Vincent Japanese investors have bought the landmark hangar in Playa Vista, now leased by Google, where mogul Howard Hughes built his Spruce Goose aircraft in the 1940s. Los Angeles developer Ratkovich Co. and its financial partner Penwood Real Estate Investment Management sold the four-building Hercules Campus West that includes the voluminous hangar and three smaller buildings, real estate services firm Holliday Fenoglio Fowler said. The identity of the buyer was not disclosed, but according to a Westside real estate expert familiar with the transaction but not authorized to speak about it publicly, Japanese corporate investor ASO Group paid more than $300 million for the property. The four buildings are fully leased to Google, whose parent company is Mountain View, Calif.-based tech giant Alphabet Inc. Google’s commitment to rent the buildings for the next 16 years made them a secure investment, according to marketing materials for the property sale. Hercules Campus West

Uber moved a fleet of self-driving vehicles to Arizona on Friday after California insisted it comply with local rules, a move that highlights the regulatory discrepancies governing this new technology between states. The California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the registration of 16 Uber cars Wednesday because Uber refused to apply for a permit for testing autonomous vehicles. Uber’s response: shipping the cars to a state where no such permits are required. It’s a tactic that could have consequences for California’s future as a hub for self-driving technology, some experts said. Though California allows companies to test self-driving vehicles on its roads, it has established strict regulatory barriers. For example, a company must gain approval from specific municipalities through which it plans to drive, according to Karl Brauer, executive publisher of Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book. Self-driving vehicles in Arizona, however, operate with the “same registration requirements as any other vehicle,” according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Such laws are a strategy to court high-tech companies — many of them based in California — and the people they employ. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who signed the executive order that gave self-driving vehicles the green light in his state, framed Uber’s move on economic and regulatory terms. “Arizona welcomes Uber self-driving cars with open arms and wide open roads. While California puts the brakes on innovation and change with more bureaucracy and more regulation, Arizona is paving the way for new technology and new businesses,” Ducey said. But industry experts, including Jon Garon, dean and professor of law at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law, say California’s track record proves its regulations are no impediment to innovation. California “has created a fairly complex but pro innovation statute that balances the needs to develop the technology with the need to ensure public safety,” Garon said. melissa.etehad@latimes.com

Holiday gas prices lowest in 8 years By James F. Peltz

HUGHES’ FAMED SPRUCE GOOSE had a 320-foot wingspan, weighed 200

tons and flew just once — for about one minute in 1947.

offered “a rare opportunity to replicate a 16-year Google bond that is not available in the market today,” the marketing memorandum said. The hangar will be the centerpiece of Google’s Southern California campus. Inside the cavernous seven-story-tall hangar, Google plans to build structures containing nearly 525,000 square feet in three stories and a mezzanine floor. Google bought 12 acres directly north of the hangar for $120 million in 2014 and

rents other buildings on the former Hughes campus that were not part of the recent sale. Google has the right to buy the Spruce Goose complex when its lease expires. Hughes set out during World War II to build a seaplane capable of carrying 750 soldiers nonstop from Honolulu to Tokyo. He couldn't use materials considered crucial to the war effort, such as aluminum. He decided to use wood and settled on birch, which made the popular

nickname “Spruce Goose” irksome to him. The plane, officially named Hercules, had a 320foot wingspan, weighed 200 tons and flew just once — for about one minute in 1947. Ratkovich and Penwood bought the 11-building, 28acre former Hughes campus for $32.4 million in 2010 and announced that they would spend an additional $50 million to turn it into offices for tenants in creative fields. roger.vincent@latimes.com Twitter: @rogervincent

A record 7.7 million Southern Californians will travel for the holidays starting this weekend, and those going by car will enjoy the lowest gasoline prices in eight years, the Automobile Club of Southern California reported. The average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area was $2.719 a gallon as of Thursday, a17-cent drop from a year earlier, the Auto Club said in its weekly fuel report. The average in Orange County was $2.712 a gallon Thursday, and the statewide average was $2.673 a gallon. Pump prices in the region are down nearly $2 a gallon from the all-time highs reached in October 2012, when refinery outages and heightened fears of lower supplies in California sent prices soaring. The record price in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area, $4.705 a gallon, was set Oct. 9, 2012, the Auto Club said. This year, however, “the 6.8 million Southland residents going by car to holiday destinations will be paying less to fill up than for any other Christmas-New Year’s holiday since 2008,” Auto Club spokesman Jeffrey Spring said in a statement. The nation’s financial crisis took hold in 2008. Every year since then, as the country recovered, there’s been an increase in the number of end-of-year travelers for the Dec. 23 to Jan. 2 period, the club said. Earlier this month, the Auto Club said the record 7.7 million Southern Californians expected to travel at least 50 miles from home for this year’s holidays is up 1.8% from a year ago. The most popular holiday destinations for Southern Californians are Las Vegas, San Diego and San Francisco, the club said. james.peltz@latimes.com

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[JBL, from C1] tional Industries Inc., JBL’s Connecticut-based parent company, to turbocharge its growth in the business of connecting things to the Internet, particularly cars. The South Korean company has said that Harman’s management and its companies, including JBL, will remain largely as they are, and Harman will be operated as a standalone subsidiary. Samsung Chief Executive Oh-Hyun Kwon spoke of his “deep respect” for Harman CEO Dinesh Paliwal, “his strong senior leadership team and Harman’s talented employees. After a few years of restructuring and shedding several hundred jobs as it moved out of highcost production facilities, Harman in fiscal 2016 posted a 6% increase in net income to $362 million and a 12% jump in sales to $6.9 billion — with a significant boost from JBL’s operations. “JBL is the crown jewel of the Harman companies,” said Jim Garrett, Harman’s director of marketing and project management for the luxury audio division, which includes JBL. “The advantage of our being here in California is that this is also the headquarters for our entertainment division, cinema, touring and retail.” At its factories in Mexico, China and Hungary, JBL manufactures headphones, wireless speakers, home theater systems and other consumer audio products. On the professional audio side of the business, JBL makes items such as sound systems for movie theaters and live performance arenas as well as equipment used in recording music or blasting it on a concert tour. “When you are in a recording studio, you are often listening to JBL recording monitors,” Garrett said. “When you go to a live venue like the Staples Center or to rock festivals like Coachella, the Emporium Festival, Rock in Rio, you are almost always listening to JBL. About 70% of movie theaters are using JBL.” JBL also makes so-called connected car products, such as its $400 Legend CP100 in-dash touch-screen receiver. Toyota is JBL’s biggest buyer of its automotive products. Five makes of Ferrari — including the $320,000 F12 Berlinetta — can come with JBL systems with 12 to 15 speakers.

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Visual during a training session this month at JBL’s headquarters in Northridge. JBL’s product line includes connected-car items.

ACOUSTIC ENGINEER Omid Khonsaripour, left, talks with David Glaubke,

director of public relations, in the headphone room at JBL. New technologies have helped the company keep pace, said Bryan Bradley, a Harman senior vice president. “When someone has an idea, a drawing on a comput-

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Wall Street traders sometimes root for year-end “Santa Claus rallies,” but on Friday, hardly a creature was stirring as stocks finished slightly higher on the quietest full day of trading in more than a year. Drugmakers and other healthcare firms did the best, while retailers continued to take small losses. Energy firms also slipped, and they took their first weekly loss since the beginning of November. But the Dow Jones industrial average rose for the seventh week in a row. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin fell after President-elect Donald Trump again tweeted that the company’s F-35 fighter jet costs too much. The stock is down almost 6% this month. “This is a negotiating tactic,” said Josh Sullivan, a Seaport Global analyst who covers aerospace and defense companies. “You’re seeing the negative portion of the negotiation in public where privately they may be more constructive.” Small-company stocks did far better, as the Russell 2000 climbed 8.85 points, or 0.6%, to 1,371.51. Lockheed Martin fell1.3% to $249.59 after Trump said on Twitter that Lockheed’s F-35 fighter jet costs too much and that he has asked Boeing to “price-out” a comparable F-18 jet. Trump has complained about the costs of the F-35, which brought in about 20% of Lockheed’s revenue last year. This month Trump also criticized Boeing for the cost of the next Air Force One. That jet is far less significant

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BRYAN BRADLEY of Harman’s business entertainment division, second from right, talks with members of Preservation Services Audio

for Boeing than the F-35 is for Lockheed, however, and Boeing shares were only briefly affected. Even if Trump periodically criticizes the companies in public, investors are still optimistic about their prospects under his administration. If he builds up the U.S. nuclear arsenal, as he proposed in a tweet Thursday, that would also involve more military spending. “Ultimately [Trump] ran on a strong defense spending platform,” Sullivan said. Defense stocks have done better than the overall market since the election. So far, investor optimism that Trump’s spending plans could boost economic growth is outweighing any concerns about his trade proposals, brash style and Twitter pronouncements. Drug firms made small gains Friday. Botox maker Allergan rose 2.6% to $199.08. Bristol-Myers Squibb rose 1.4% to $59.61. Health insurer Aetna rose 1% to $125.95. Cintas, a uniform rental company, slid 3.1% to $116.36 after its second-quarter profit disappointed. Benchmark U.S. crude rose 7 cents to $53.02 a barrel. Brent crude rose 11 cents to $55.16 a barrel. Natural gas rose12 cents, or 3.5%, to $3.66 per 1,000 cubic feet. Wholesale gasoline rose 2 cents to $1.63 a gallon and heating oil stood still at $2.48 a gallon. The dollar slid to 117.26 yen from 117.60 yen. The euro rose to $1.0452 from $1.0433. Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.54% from 2.55%. Gold rose $2.90 to $1,133.60 an ounce. Silver fell 11 cents to $15.76 an ounce. Copper fell 2 cents to $2.48 a pound.

er, we will use 3-D printing to see if it works. Instead of a process that used to take weeks, we can do it in hours.” JBL has moved its North American manufacturing

operation to Mexico from Northridge in the last several years. Today, the company’s San Fernando Valley facility, where about 300 people work, mainly handles de-

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+14.93

+0.07

+14.40

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+2.83

+0.13

+10.76

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5,462.69

+15.27

+0.28

+9.09

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1,673.55

+4.03

+0.24

+19.66

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1,371.51

+8.85

+0.65

+20.74

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2,998.33

-2.54

-0.08

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-0.09

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-0.28

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6 month change

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-0.04

+0.28

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+0.23

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2.03

-0.04

+0.77

+0.31

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2.54

-0.06

+0.79

+0.29

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3.12

-0.06

+0.56

+0.16

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0.33

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0.55

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4.17

4.02

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3.34

3.16

2.76

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4.78

4.56

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-3.40

+54.70

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-0.45

+1.34

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sign, engineering and lots and lots of testing. “When we say our speakers are power rated for 1,000 watts, we don’t mean that this is just how high it can go,” Bradley said. “We run our speakers through a 100hour power test. When we say 1,000 watts, we mean it has been able to run at that level for 100 hours straight.” Even with the best safety ear muffs, the noise in the test room is deafening. Hold your hand in front of a speaker during a test, and it feels as if a Santa Ana wind is blowing out of it. Touching the speaker could produce a nasty burn. “You can feel the heat because so much energy is being dispersed,” Gander said. Four $1-million echo-free chambers help the company refine its sounds. “They have zero reflective surfaces,” Gander said, “so you get a true measurement of the sound coming out of the speakers without any interference.” One room looks like

something in a typical home, for blind studies on whether JBL’s or a competitor’s speaker sounds better. A huge “arena testing room” allows technicians to monitor how a sound system like the one at Staples Center, Dodger Stadium or the Cal State Northridge Performing Arts Center will work. “We can virtually model and create on a computer and know what the end result is going to be,” Garrett said. “That’s instead of a bunch of guys sitting here with soldering irons and capacitors and resistors using that old trial and error approach.” One JBL conference room even houses a Lexus vehicle, which can be outfitted with microphones to measure acoustics. “With all of our products,” Bradley said, “we don’t just say to a customer, subjectively, that ‘this sounds good.’ We are able to prove it.” ron.white@latimes.com

U.S. settles with two banks, sues a third [Banks, from C1] allegations that it helped launder money for wealthy Russian clients. The Justice Department said Thursday that it was also suing another major lender, Barclays Bank, and two of its former company officials, accusing them of having engaged in a fraudulent scheme to sell billions of dollars in securities “supported by defective and misrepresented mortgage loans” from 2005 to 2007. Those were years when housing prices soared amid low interest rates and rapid sales to subprime buyers whose loans were packaged by banks as securities and sold to investors. Justice Department officials and many others believe that aggressive and misleading sales tactics contributed to the housing bubble and subsequent crash that precipitated the worst economic

downturn since the Great Depression. “Barclays jeopardized billions of dollars of wealth through practices that were plainly irresponsible and dishonest,” Atty. Gen. Loretta E. Lynch said in a statement. One of her top deputies, Bill Baer, added: “The widespread fraud that investment banks like Barclays committed in the packaging and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities injured tens of thousands of investors and significantly contributed to the financial crisis of 2008. Millions of homeowners were left with homes they could not afford, leaving entire neighborhoods devastated.” Barclays, which is based in Britain, rejected the claims and said it would seek dismissal of the case. don.lee@latimes.com

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Got milk? Twenty-five members of Congress say if it’s from soybeans, almond or rice, it should not be labeled as milk. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Mike Simpson (RIdaho), leading the charge against “fake milk,” signed a letter along with other Congress members asking the Food and Drug Administration to investigate and take action against manufacturers of “milk” that doesn’t come from cows. They want the FDA to re-

quire plant-based products to adopt a name other than milk, which they say is deceptive. “We strongly believe that the use of the term ‘milk’ by manufacturers of plantbased products is misleading to consumers, harmful to the dairy industry and a violation of milk’s standard of identity,” the letter says. Dairy farmers are struggling with “deep cuts in income” following a 40% drop in milk prices since 2014, the letters says. Meanwhile, the sale of plant-based products, often labeled as milk, has jumped in recent years.

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Obamacare repeal to have broad effect Hayne Palmour IV San Diego Union-Tribune

THE SAN ONOFRE nuclear plant was permanently closed in 2013. Consumer

advocates want a full probe into its shutdown and the utilities’ settlement.

Edison, SDG&E seek delay in talks over plant’s closure By Ivan Penn Two utilities want California regulators to delay talks about reopening a case involving the San Onofre nuclear plant until disputes are resolved with the manufacturer of the faulty equipment that led the facility to close. The nuclear plant was permanently closed in 2013, and a settlement with Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric left consumers on the hook for $3.3 billion in shutdown costs. But consumer advocates want a full investigation into what went wrong at the plant and how the settlement was reached. Meanwhile, the two utilities expect to reach agreement in early 2017 with Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which made the troubled steam generators that led to the plant’s permanent closure. An agreement could mean billions of dollars in benefits to ratepayers. The utilities are suing the Tokyo company for $7.6 billion over the generators. Half of any money the utilities collect from Mitsubishi will go to the benefit of their customers. Complying

with consumer advocates now — reopening the investigation and settlement before negotiations with Mitsubishi are complete — could harm the potential benefits to consumers, Edison said. Edison and SDG&E, which jointly own the closed nuclear operation, issued notices to consumer advocates Friday, informing them that the utilities would seek a delay in reopening the San Onofre investigation. On Dec. 13, an administrative law judge ordered Edison and SDG&E to begin discussions with consumer advocates about reopening the case by the end of January and to complete the process by April 28. “Southern California Edison believes it just makes sense to know the outcome of the [Mitsubishi] arbitration because half the proceeds would go to customers,” Ron Nichols, Edison’s president, said in a statement. “We believe the meet and confer process directed by the Dec. 13 ruling would likely be more productive for all involved if the outcome is known before the initial session.” Consumer advocates — led by San Diego lawyer Michael Aguirre, a former

city and assistant U.S. attorney — had asked the commission to reopen investigations into the shutdown of the nuclear plant. Aguirre said that any agreement the utilities reach with Mitsubishi can be taken into consideration, but that there’s no reason to delay the case any further. “Up till now, the biggest problem is that there hasn’t been a proper investigation for the responsibility Edison has in regard to the steam generators,” Aguirre said. “What we really need is to stop charging the ratepayers and start putting their interest first. The time for delay is over.” The request followed revelations that Edison officials engaged in wrongful talks with an official at the commission before the multibillion-dollar settlement. In particular, Michael Peevey, who was then commission president, and Stephen Pickett, who was Edison’s vice president for external relations, met during an energy industry junket in Warsaw, Poland. In December 2015, regulators fined Edison $16.7 million for failing to report the talks. ivan.penn@latimes.com

[Obamacare, from C1] sumers keep children on their plans until age 26; requires companies with at least 50 employees to offer coverage; and makes preventive care — such as health screenings, flu shots, breast-feeding supplies and contraception — free to those with insurance. Obamacare also bars insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions, though a shake-up of that requirement is more likely to affect those shopping for coverage outside of employer plans. Before Obamacare, a separate federal law generally prohibited plans offered by employers from withholding coverage because of preexisting conditions. Republicans aren’t expected to immediately repeal the entire Affordable Care Act. They don’t have enough votes in the Senate to stop a filibuster over a repeal bill. Instead, many observers expect they’ll pass a reconciliation bill, which would enable them to roll back some, but not all, of the law’s provisions while they work on a full replacement. Experts agree that some of Obamacare’s requirements are likely to stay and others are likely to go. The requirement that companies with at least 50 full-time employees provide healthcare coverage is probably on its way out, possibly in a reconciliation bill, said Robert Moffit, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Avik Roy, who served as a healthcare advisor to former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and founded the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, said that requirement has led to a lot of problems, such as firms limiting their full-time hiring so as not to hit the 50employee threshold. Many experts, however, don’t expect a huge number of employers to suddenly

drop their healthcare benefits in response. Many firms will “continue offering coverage to their employees because employees insist on it,” said Nicholas Bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan. Another Obamacare requirement — that parents be allowed to keep children on their plans until age 26 — has proved to be popular and is likely to survive, said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president for special initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Politicians haven’t spent much time discussing Obamacare’s free preventive services, which are likely to survive a reconciliation bill. But Levitt said he’d be surprised if whatever ultimately replaces Obamacare still includes that free access. “The general direction of GOP replacement plans is less regulation of insurance,” he noted. Levitt said he’d also be surprised if Obamacare’s ban on capping lifetime healthcare benefits continues. Roy said he could envision the federal government leaving the issue up to states if it chooses not to renew that requirement. Barring such limits means people don’t have to worry about their insurance coverage for serious medical issues. But Roy said it’s important to recognize that such a requirement, like many of the law’s other provisions, raises premiums for everyone. “There’s no such

thing as a free lunch,” Roy said. About 105 million Americans had plans with lifetime limits on their health benefits before the Affordable Care Act, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Trovato and her family were among that population. They’re grateful they didn’t have to worry about running into a lifetime limit. Tracy Trovato stopped keeping track of the cost of Carlo Trovato’s treatment — paid for by their insurer — once it hit about $425,000 a couple of years ago. The family feels fortunate that Carlo Trovato has been cancer-free for three years. But he isn’t in the clear. He has to get bone marrow biopsies every six months, and there’s a 15% to 20% chance of the cancer returning. Tracy Trovato worries that if the caps return, she, her husband and their two teenagers will be one more major medical issue or accident away from hitting a cap — from having to decide between forgoing healthcare and entering bankruptcy. She never thought about the cap until her husband got sick, and she suspects that many healthy Americans haven’t either. “To me, we are all a real half a second away from a real terrible medical thing that would just devastate us financially,” she said. lschencker @chicagotribune.com

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For Lakers, a road trip to be forgotten Shorthanded and tired, Lakers head home after another loss, 12th of month. ORLANDO 109 LAKERS 90 By Tania Ganguli

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SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE today when Jared Goff (16) and the Rams face San Francisco. The team

Goff quarterbacks is last in the NFL in offense; the 49ers, whom he grew up rooting for, rank last in defense.

WRETCHED AXIS

ORLANDO, Fla. — There was perhaps a lesson for the Lakers in what they saw on Friday night in their 109-90 loss to the Orlando Magic. Twice, the Lakers cut a Magic double-digit lead to manageable single digits. In the third quarter, the Lakers got as close as seven points. In the fourth quarter the Lakers got as close as six. But each time, the Lakers made a run, the Magic fought back to sustain their lead. The Magic did what the shorthanded and weary

Lakers could not in their prior two games. Against the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat, Los Angeles had 19-point leads in the first half of each game, but ultimately lost. “I told the guys there’s gonna be games like this in the NBA for everyone,” Lakers Coach Luke Walton said. “… Every team is gonna have games where they don’t really have it, which is why it’s more important to win the games where we do have it. Where we’re rolling like the Charlotte game or the Miami game. We chalk this one up to what it is, get off this road trip and try to get off this new losing streak.” The loss dropped the Lakers to 11-22, and 1-6 on their two-week road trip. They are 1-12 in December. The win improved the Magic’s record to 14-18. Magic guard Elfrid Payton finished with 25 points, one point shy of a career [See Lakers, D5]

A once-great rivalry renews at center of NFL losers’ world

By Gary Klein Rams players got a short history lesson this week when interim Coach John Fassel explained some of the narrative surrounding the Los Angeles franchise’s rivalry with the San Francisco 49ers. The Rams will wear a part of that tradition when they don throwback uniforms for Saturday’s game at the Coliseum. But there are few, if any, other earmarks of the days when the Rams and 49ers battled for supremacy in the NFC West. The Rams are 4-10 in their return to Los Angeles. The 49ers are 1-13. If nothing else, say this for the

matchup: It can’t get much worse. Statistically, anyway. The Rams, losers of nine of their last 10 games, sport the NFL’s worst offense, a designation they are on track to achieve for the second year in a row. The 49ers, losers of 13 consecutive games, arrive with the NFL’s worst defense. Their only victory was a 28-0 win over the Rams in the season opener. “It’s definitely not tough to forget,” Rams running back Todd Gurley said of the blowout. “It was definitely an embarrassing game. “Just one of those games nothing was going well. We’re definitely looking forward to” the rematch. Perhaps no one more than Rams

Even for also-rans, motivation is there SAM FARMER ON THE NFL

Can the Cincinnati Bengals be spoilers? Can the Pittsburgh Steelers be stealers? Can the San Diego Chargers maintain the status quo? As the NFL season enters the homestretch this holiday weekend, several teams are jockeying for playoff position while others are seeking comfort in consolation prizes. For the Bengals, who are eliminated from the playoff picture, there would be a measure of satisfaction in winning at Houston, where the Tex-

ans are looking to hold off the Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts to win the AFC South. Even though he’ll miss the playoffs for the first time in his six-year career and his team is playing only for pride, Bengals receiver A.J. Green is determined to return Saturday after being sidelined for more than a month because of a hamstring injury. “I’m not the type of guy to shut it down just to bail out on my team because we are not having the season we wanted to have,” Green told reporters. “That’s a cowardly move to me. If I’m healthy, I’m going to play. And I feel like I’m healthy enough to play this week.” [See Farmer, D8]

Must the show (bet) still go on? Low-risk, low-reward wager is a dinosaur in the days of exotics, but it survives. JOHN CHERWA ON HORSE RACING

Even the smartest people sometimes get their wisdom from strange places. Take Jon White, a horse racing encyclopedia who doubles as the morning-line oddsmaker at Santa Anita. He cites a 1975 television episode of the “The Odd Couple,” a show based on a Neil Simon play about a

sportswriter/gambler named Oscar and his lifelong friend and polar opposite, Felix. “Felix and Oscar go to the races,” White recalls. “And Oscar tells Felix he can make a show bet and his horse only has to finish in the top three.” “So Felix says, ‘You mean you can bet on a horse and he can lose the race and you can still win money? And you’ve been losing money all these years?’” Therein lies the magic and mystery of one of the most misunderstood wagers: the show bet. Lately, this low-risk, low-reward bet is in serious [See Bet, D7]

quarterback Jared Goff. The No. 1 pick in the draft grew up in Northern California and wears No. 16 in tribute to Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, who led the 49ers to four Super Bowl titles. On Sept. 12, Goff was inactive and on the sideline in street clothes for the Monday night opener at Levi’s Stadium. He said at the time that he would have plenty of opportunities to play against his hometown team. The first one is here. “Growing up a fan makes it a little bit significant, but it’s just another game to us,” he said this week. “One that we should go out there and play well and, hopefully, come away with a ‘W.’ [See Rams, D9]

K E Y GAM E S MINNESOTA (7-7) AT GREEN BAY (8-6)

Today at 10 a.m. Green Bay is currently hanging on to the final wild-card spot in the NFC. Minnesota would be eliminated from playoff contention with a loss.

BALTIMORE (8-6) AT PITTSBURGH (9-5) Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

The winner of this rivalry game will take over first place in the AFC North. Pittsburgh could clinch the division title with a victory.

DENVER (8-6) AT KANSAS CITY (10-4) Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

Kansas City can clinch a playoff spot with a victory. Denver probably will have to win this game to stay alive in the AFC wild-card race.

Kings lose for first time in overtime

Willie J. Allen Jr. Associated Press

MAGIC guard Elfrid Payton drives on Lakers center

Ivica Zubac. Payton finished with 25 points.

Clippers can’t get big D at the finish DALLAS 90 CLIPPERS 88 By Broderick Turner Playing without their two biggest stars could have easily left the Clippers shaken. They accepted their fate without complaint Friday night, but that wasn’t enough to get them a win. The Dallas Mavericks defeated them, 90-88, at Staples Center on Harrison Barnes’ 10-foot shot in the lane with 3.7 seconds to play. Winning became an even tougher task for the Clippers with Chris Paul on the sideline Friday after sustaining a strained left hamstring Thursday night against San Antonio. Blake Griffin, their lead-

USC stays unblemished

Jeff Carter scores two more goals, but trip ends with a loss when Esa Lindell scores for Dallas in extra session. D5

NO. 23 USC 94 WYOMING 92 (OT) By Pedro Moura

Is anyone bowled over? Old Dominion (Bahamas), Louisiana Tech (Armed Forces) and Troy (Dollar General) win. D3

Chargers keep options open They agree to a lease of a building and adjacent land in Costa Mesa, just in case they want to move to L.A. D7

ing scorer, was already out, having undergone surgery Tuesday on his right knee. He’s expected to miss three to six weeks. So it was up to the rest of the Clippers to keep moving ahead. But when Dallas’ Wesley Matthews made one of two free throws with 33.5 seconds to play, the Clippers found themselves tied, 8888. Then it was left to DeAndre Jordan to make good on his free-throw work when he was fouled with 27.4 seconds left. But the Clippers center, who is shooting 55% from the line this season, missed both free throws, leaving the score tied as Dallas called time with 27.1 seconds left. Barnes, the Mavericks’ leading scorer this season, [See Clippers, D4]

Shotgun Spratling Los Angeles Times

USC’S Jonah Mathews takes a shot in the first half

under pressure from Wyoming’s Justin James.

LAS VEGAS — As he dribbled the ball up the court in the final seconds of overtime in Friday night’s Las Vegas Classic final, USC point guard Jordan McLaughlin scanned the Wyoming defense and recognized that he wanted to take the last shot himself and eschew Coach Andy Enfield’s suggestion. “Coach was calling something,” McLaughlin said. “Something with a ball screen.” McLaughlin’s improvisation culminated in a twisting, game-winning layup, and the No. 23 Trojans sur[See USC, D3]

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Football becomes individual sport

Christian McCaffrey and Leonard Fournette declining to play in their respective bowl games is only the beginning, folks. NCAA fans still haven’t realized that they’re simply underwriting the minor league careers of soon-to-be multimillionaires who would play in empty stadiums and arenas if it meant a shot at the bigs. TV contracts, not loyal fans, are the only things that matter. Don’t believe me? Nobody’s going to watch the Rams, yet every player on that field is still being paid in full. Mike Kichaven Sherman Oaks :: Christian McCaffrey’s defection to the pros should be no surprise to college football followers. If a player has become a Saturday afternoon hero, it’s instinctive to want to be a Sunday afternoon hero and get paid handsomely for it. Kids raised in today’s American sports-mad culture know

full well that self comes before group loyalty and take every opportunity to realize their goals of becoming a success in a field that has less relative value to society than other substantive, traditional fields. In other words, getting millions playing a game and being the hero is a lot more fun than working to promote the social welfare and being taken for granted. Lawrence Kates Los Angeles :: Leonard Fournette’s recent decision to forgo his final bowl game is a letdown to his teammates, family and school, not to mention the public. This selfish act should be banned with a simple change — the university can require that any four-year player scholarship must be repaid in full when any healthy athlete voluntarily chooses not to participate in a bowl game. Of course, since they are ready to go pro, their future shiny

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The Rams’ coaching was so bad this year, three of the position groups were given the wrong job descriptions. The secondary thought they were supposed to open up gaping holes in the defense. The receivers took pride in batting down any ball thrown to them. And the offensive line held on to anything within reach. Lon Shapiro Chatsworth

The Rams losing a game isn’t front-page news. In fact, it’s not news at all. It’s a fact of life. Until the Rams start winning games, please put all news stories related to the Rams in its rightful place; the fine print on the last page of the sports section. Ryan Madden Huntington Beach ::

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Alabama is currently the No. 1 college football team in the country. Do people realize it is also the No. 1 team regarding the rehabbing of former USC football head coaches? Lane Kiffin worked on improving his personality. Nick Saban helped in that regard by stifling Kiffin for the most part with the media. A shrewd move from Coach Saban. By the way, has there ever been a more talked-about assistant coach in any sport than Lane Kiffin? Next up for Saban’s rehab facility is Steve Sarkisian. If Sark, the new Tide offensive coordinator, follows the current template, he will be a head coach again somewhere in a couple of years or so. Let’s just hope that the Alabama/ Saban rehab program doesn’t include any future USC coaches. Chris Sorce Fountain Valley

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So recently fired Rams coach Jeff Fisher says he’d like the chance to play against his former team. With their 4-10 record, I think everybody wants to play the Rams. Joe Kevany Mount Washington :: Is Jared Goff this generation’s Ryan Leaf? Norman Lieberman Seal Beach

Pro style

Tania Ganguli went a bit overboard in her praise of Brandon Ingram [“Dish Illusions,” Dec. 20]. He may be the same height as Magic Johnson, but that’s where the comparison ends. Ingram will not be taking the Lakers to the NBA championship in his rookie season. I want Ingram to succeed as a Laker, but he will never reach the level of excellence that Magic attained — and no one should expect him to. Charles Reilly Manhattan Beach ::

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A pro football owner who cares more about his money than his team winning. A GM and coach who are clueless about talent and a winning culture, and a halfempty stadium. It might as well be the Rams, but I’m actually talking about my San Francisco 49ers. Just wait, Los Angeles. In two years, you too can shell out $20,000 per seat for a PSL, not to mention $400 a ticket to sit on the 25-yard line, all so you can watch one of the worst teams in the NFL. And to think the Chargers, who are no better, are likely coming too. As Don Henley sings, “No thank you. I don’t think so. I think I’m smellin’ a rat.” Bob Kargenian Yorba Linda

So the same fans who last year thought that Steve Alford should be fired are now claiming he should be coach of the year. The answer is to recruit as many one-and-done players as possible. Just think how many championships Coach Wooden would have won if Lew Alcindor, Sidney Wicks or Bill Walton were one-and-done players. Our present fans would have flown “Fire Coach Wooden” banners above Pauley Pavilion. Richard Katz Los Angeles

Hoops renewal

With the up-and-down start to the Lakers’ season and the Clippers beginning to take on water, it’s awesome that Los Angelenos have a basketball team they can take pride in currently on display in Westwood. The second-ranked UCLA Bruins are a throwback to the John Wooden powerhouse teams of the 1960s and ’70s. Playmakers who play as a team on both offense and defense have brought the thrills back to Pauley Pavilion and college hoop fans everywhere are having a “Ball.” Gino Cirignano Playa del Rey

:: Ben Bolch’s piece on the UCLA-USC basketball games in 1971 brought back great memories. Later that year, a summer league for ex-college basketballers was organized and their games were played weekday evenings in the Cal State Los Angeles gym. I saw what were essentially the “alumni” teams from both schools’ 1970-71 rosters play each other twice that summer. The games were fastpaced and high-scoring, with each team winning once, as I recall. I also recall how uncomfortable the concrete seating was. As good as today’s players are, Wicks, Rowe, Bibby, Westphal, Layton, and Riley were true college Hall of Famers! Noel Johnson Glendale

Same old Lakers excuses. “Guys need to step up.” “Guys need to play with intensity.” No, guys need to be traded. The entire team to Scramento for DeMarcus Cousins. Then call up as many D League players as needed to fill the roster. What do you think, guys? Gary H. Miller Encino :: Congratulations to Shaquille O’Neal for being immortalized at Staples Center’s Star Plaza. But a statue for Elgin Baylor is long overdue. Captain Elg should have been the first Laker honored with a statue at Staples. He put the Lakers on the map when they came here from Minneapolis. Shame on the Lakers for forgetting him! Philip Blustein Beverly Hills :: The Los Angeles Times welcomes expressions of all views. Letters should be brief and become the property of The Times. They may be edited and republished in any format. Each must include a valid mailing address and telephone number. Pseudonyms will not be used. Mail: Sports Viewpoint Los Angeles Times 202 W. 1st St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Fax: (213) 237-4322 Email: sports@latimes.com

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Louisiana Tech senior quarterback Ryan Higgins was bawling like a baby even before Jonathan Barnes’ game-ending kick went through the uprights to win the Armed Forces Bowl. “As soon as [the holder] put the ball down, I felt like the kick was money,” Higgins said. “Each person that I hugged after that, it was just getting worse and worse. I just couldn’t be happier to send my class and this team out on a high note.” Higgins threw for 409 yards and four touchdowns, two each to Trent Taylor and Carlos Henderson, and Barnes’ 32-yard field goal broke the game’s fourth tie as the Bulldogs beat Navy 48-45 on Friday in Fort Worth. “Excellent win would be an understatement,” Coach Skip Holtz said. “If you want to be a kicker, you live for that,” Barnes said. “I’m lucky to be able to share it with a bunch of guys that are like my brothers.” The Bulldogs (9-5) drove for the winning score after Navy freshman quarterback Malcolm Perry ran 30 yards for a touchdown on his only play. Higgins was then four for four for 58 yards on the final drive. Navy (9-5), which was trying for its first consecutive 10-win seasons, instead ended with its third straight loss. The Midshipmen lost the American Athletic Conference title game before its first loss to Army since 2001. Old Dominion 24, Eastern Michigan 20: David Washington came to Old Dominion a year before the program started its transition to the Football Bowl Subdivision. Five years later, he led the Monarchs to a victory in their first bowl game. Washington threw three touchdowns passes, Ray Lawry ran for 133 yards and

The Times’ picks Each week, the Los Angeles Times’ contingent of college football experts — it’s how they refer to themselves — will make choices on a variety of games. Warning: If they could accurately predict results, they wouldn’t be reporters or editors. Their picks: Lindsey Thiry Mid. Tenn. Hawaii

David Wharton

Mike Hiserman

Ben Bolch

Zach Helfand

Mid. Tenn. Mid. Tenn. Mid. Tenn. 45-25 35-28 45-32

Hawaii 24-14

Mid. Tenn. 58-41

Miss. St. Miami O.

Miss. St. 42-28

Miss. St. 27-14

Miss. St. 40-28

Miss. St. 35-17

Miss. St. 51-28

Bos. Coll. Maryland

Bos. Coll. 28-26

Maryland 24-20

Maryland 21-20

Maryland 25-17

Bos. Coll. 21-20

N.C. State Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt N.C. State Vanderbilt N.C. State Vanderbilt 21-17 21-17 24-20 28-25 31-28

N. Texas Army

Army 24-20

Army 27-16

Army 31-21

Army 28-14

Army 24-17

Wake For. Temple

Temple 31-21

Temple 23-10

Temple 28-17

Wake For. 20-17

Temple 38-21

Minnesota Wash. St.

Wash. St. 38-28

Wash. St. 38-31

Wash. St. 35-32

Wash. St. 35-30

Baylor Boise St.

Boise St. 36-34

Boise St. 24-10

Boise St. 42-24

Boise St. 35-32

Baylor 41-40

Pittsburgh N’western

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh N’western Pittsburgh 37-31 30-24 38-34 28-24 36-28

Miami W. Virginia

Miami 28-26

W. Virginia 28-24

Miami 31-24

W. Virginia 27-24

Miami 34-28

Indiana Utah

Utah 24-21

Utah 24-20

Utah 27-23

Utah 30-17

Utah 27-24

Kansas St. Tex. A&M

Tex. A&M 42-21

Tex. A&M 20-17

Tex. A&M 38-24

Tex. A&M 31-24

Tex. A&M 21-17

S. Florida S. Carolina

S. Caro. 31-21

S. Florida 30-20

S. Florida 34-27

S. Caro. 20-12

S. Florida 24-13

Va. Tech Arkansas

Arkansas 26-24

Va. Tech 23-17

Va. Tech 24-20

Va. Tech 24-17

Va. Tech 34-27

Okla. St. Colorado

Colorado 28-24

Okla. St. 35-30

Colorado 27-24

Okla. St. 21-17

Colorado 27-20

TCU Georgia

TCU 48-42

Georgia 23-20

Georgia 27-17

TCU 32-24

Georgia 31021

Stanford 35-25

Stanford 31-28

Tennessee 30-24

Stanford N. Carolina 31-21 21-17

Tennessee Tennessee Nebraska 32-26 28-24 24-21

Nebraska Tennessee 24-21 35-31

N. Carolina Stanford Nebraska Tennessee S. Ala. Air Force

Air Force 41-38

Air Force 32-21

Air Force 38-20

Air Force 14-10

Air Force 38-28

Florida St. Michigan

Michigan 24-14

Michigan 24-16

Florida St. 25-24

Michigan 35-28

Michigan 24-16

Last week

5-5

6-4

7-3

100-49

101-48

97-52

92-57

97-52

PROGNOSTICATING RECORDS Season

the Monarchs beat the Eagles 24-20 in the Bahamas Bowl in Nassau. Old Dominion (10-3) didn’t play football for 69 years before restarting the program in 2009. The Monarchs started at the FCS level and made the transition to the FBS in 2013, where they play in Conference USA. “I know I haven’t been

here since the program started, but I’ve been here five years,” Washington said. “So it kind of feels like my baby. We just took it to a bowl game and won the bowl game so it’s just really special.” Eastern Michigan (7-6) lost in its first bowl appearance since 1987. The Eagles were led by Brogan Roback, who completed 26 of 46 pas-

ses for 300 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Roback threw for at least 300 yards in six of his final seven games. “We were moving the ball,” Roback said. “We just weren’t really finishing.” Old Dominion had a 10-0 halftime lead, but Eastern Michigan rallied to tie it at 17 late in the third quarter on Paul Fricano’s 24-yard field goal.

Troy 28, Ohio 23: Jordan Chunn had three short touchdown runs and the Trojans intercepted four passes in their victory over the Bobcats in the Dollar General Bowl in Mobile, Ala. The Trojans (10-3) finished off their first 10-win season since moving up to the FBS in 2001, thanks largely to a defense that came up with three big fourth-quarter stops. The first Sun Belt Conference team to crack the top 25, Troy forced 18 turnovers in its last five games. The Bobcats (8-6) settled for field goal attempts twice in the fourth quarter, making one, and got one more chance from their own 15 with 2:20 left and no timeouts. They managed one first down but Greg Windham couldn’t throw for another one under heavy pressure. Louie Zervos had made a 37-yard field goal with 4:01 left to cut Troy’s lead to 2823. They had first down from the 12 before a personal foul penalty against lineman Jake Pruehs. Chunn found little room to run except near the goal line against the nation’s sixth-ranked run defense. He had 56 yards on 20 carries. Deondre Douglas gained 113 yards on six catches. Ohio’s Jordan Reid had 12 catches for 162 yards. Troy’s fourth interception came courtesy of 315-pound defensive tackle Trevon Sanders. One play later, Chunn powered in for a touchdown and a 28-17 thirdquarter lead.

BOWL SCHEDULE BOWL

WHEN (PST), TV

FAVORITE

Hawaii: Middle Tennessee vs. Hawaii

Today, 5 p.m. ESPN

Middle Tenn. by 7

St. Petersburg: Mississippi St. vs. Miami (OH) Monday, 8 a.m., ESPN

Miss. State by 14

Quick Lane: Boston College vs. Maryland

Monday, 11:30 a.m., ESPN2 Maryland by 2

Independence: N.C. State vs. Vanderbilt

Monday, 2 p.m., ESPN2

N.C. State by 51⁄2

Heart of Dallas: Army vs. North Texas

Tuesday, 9 a.m., ESPN

Army by 11

Military: Wake Forest vs. Temple

Tuesday, 12:30 p.m., ESPN Temple by 111⁄2

Holiday: Minnesota vs. Washington State

Tuesday, 4 p.m., ESPN

Wash. State by 10

Cactus: Boise State vs. Baylor

Tuesday, 7:15 p.m., ESPN

Boise State by 7

Pinstripe: Northwestern vs. Pittsburgh

Wednesday, 11 a.m., ESPN Pittsburgh by 51⁄2

Russell Athletic: Miami vs. West Virginia

Wed., 2:30 p.m., ESPN

Miami by 21⁄2

Foster Farms: Indiana vs. Utah

Wed., 5:30 p.m., Ch. 11

Utah by 7

Texas: Kansas State vs. Texas A&M

Wednesday, 6 p.m., ESPN

Texas A&M by 21⁄2

Birmingham: South Florida vs. South Carolina

Thursday, 11 a.m., ESPN

S. Florida by 10

Belk: Virginia Tech vs. Arkansas

Thursday, 2:30 p.m., ESPN

Virginia Tech by 7

Alamo: Oklahoma State vs. Colorado

Thursday, 6 p.m., ESPN

Colorado by 3

Liberty: Georgia vs. Texas Christian

Friday, 9 a.m. ESPN

Sun: North Carolina vs. Stanford

Friday, 11 a.m., Ch. 2

Stanford by 3

Music City: Tennessee vs. Nebraska

Friday, 12:30 p.m., ESPN

Tennessee by 4

Arizona: Air Force vs. South Alabama

Friday, 2:30 p.m., TBA

Air Force by 131⁄2

Orange: Florida State vs. Michigan

Friday, 5 p.m., ESPN

Michigan by 7

Citrus: Louisiana State vs. Louisville

Dec. 31, 8 a.m., Ch. 7

LSU by 3

TaxSlayer: Kentucky vs. Georgia Tech

Dec. 31, 8 a.m., ESPN

Georgia Tech by 3

Peach: Alabama vs. Washington

Dec. 31, noon, ESPN

Alabama by 15

Fiesta: Clemson vs. Ohio State

Dec. 31, 4 p.m., ESPN

Ohio State by 3

Outback: Florida vs. Iowa

Jan. 2, 10 a.m., Ch. 7

Florida by 3

Cotton: Western Michigan vs. Wisconsin

Jan. 2, 10 a.m. ESPN

Wisconsin by 71⁄2

Rose: Penn State vs. USC

Jan. 2, 2 p.m., ESPN

USC by 61⁄2

Sugar: Oklahoma vs. Auburn

Jan. 2, 5:30 p.m., ESPN

Oklahoma by 3

College Football Championship

Jan. 9, 5:30 p.m., ESPN

Odds through Friday

Results Celebration: Grambling 10, N.C. Central 9

New Mexico: New Mexico 23, Tex. San An. 20

Las Vegas: San Diego State 34, Houston 10

Camellia: Appalachian State 31, Toledo 28

Cure: Arkansas State 31, Central Florida 13

New Orleans: So. Miss. 28, La. Lafayette 21

Miami Beach: Tulsa 55, Central Michigan 10

Boca Raton: We. Kentucky 51, Memphis 31

Poinsettia: Brigham Young 24, Wyoming 21

Potato: Idaho 61, Colorado St. 50

Bahamas: Old Dominion 24, E. Michigan 20

Armed Forces: Louisiana Tech 48, Navy 45

Dollar General: Troy 28, Ohio 23

TODAY’S BOWL GAME HAWAII: MIDDLE TENNESSEE (8-4) vs. HAWAII (6-7) at Honolulu, 5 p.m., ESPN — Someone counted the miles Hawaii traveled this season and came up with 47,000. That’s a long way to go to finish with a losing record. The Rainbow Warriors have home-field advantage as they try to even their ledger, but in I’Tavius Mathers Middle Tennessee has one of the most productive backs in college football. The transfer from Mississippi this season became only the seventh player in FBS history to accumulate 1,500 yards rushing and 500 yards receiving in a season. The Blue Raiders are hoping to have Brent Stockstill at quarterback. He passed for 2,801 yards and 27 touchdowns with five interceptions before suffering a broken right collarbone. Fortunately, he’s left-handed and has recovered enough to where he expects to play. The pick: Middle Tennessee, 45-32. — Mike Hiserman

McLaughlin hits winning shot [USC, from D1] vived the nonconference portion of their schedule unscathed. They should scale the Associated Press rankings further after they sneaked by Wyoming, 94-92, and hoisted McLaughlin onto their backs. He was named tournament MVP for his 22-point performance. The Trojans’ leading scorer this season, junior Elijah Stewart, was riddled by foul trouble in a 10-minute, three-point first half. He found more success in the second and finished with 10 points. But USC won because of McLaughlin and freshman guards Jonah Mathews and De’Anthony Melton, who scored 26 and 16 points, each season-highs. Mathews had six steals, more than Wyoming’s entire roster. The Cowboys took an early nine-point lead. After Enfield called a timeout, sophomore forward Chimezie Metu dunked, and McLaughlin drew a foul. When Nick Rakocevic made a onehanded tip-in, the Trojans’ rally was on. Mathews drilled two three-pointers bookended by back-to-back Melton dunks. USC led, 2218, and the Cowboys called timeout. It had its intended effect. USC slowed, and the score stayed close. The Trojans took a 50-44 lead into halftime, then fell behind to begin the second half. A McLaughlin three-pointer pushed them back ahead. So it went, back and forth, never far from a tie. Enfield asked for time after a Justin James three-pointer, but James soon drilled another for a six-point lead. The fourth-year coach later became enraged when a violation was not called when

USC next Wednesday at Oregon State, 8 p.m., Pac-12 Networks — The Beavers have lost nine of their last 11 games, making for an easier start to Pac-12 play for the Trojans. Wyoming was forced into the backcourt to recover a blocked three-pointer. “Tom, that was two points,” Enfield told official Tom O’Neill. They nearly decided the game. Down a point with five minutes left, the Trojans stole the ball and then chased down the court. A Stewart tip-in put USC back ahead. Wyoming responded, and, soon, so did the Trojans. They were up one when Mathews intercepted a pass and made a breakaway layup. It was tied, 82-82, with 100 seconds to play, when Metu fouled out of the game. Stewart penetrated the lane and found the net. Wyoming turned the ball over. McLaughlin missed a jumper, but Melton rebounded it, and Stewart went to the free-throw line. He made one and missed one. Wyoming turned the ball over again, but Melton missed the front end of a one-and-one, and the Cowboys’ Hayden Dalton nailed a three-pointer with two seconds remaining to force overtime, 85-85. The teams traded baskets, and the score was tied going into the final minute, when McLaughlin took over. Wyoming nearly won it outright with a buzzer-beating three-pointer that rimmed out. “It was a long game,” Mc-

Laughlin said. “It was a hard-fought game.” The Trojans (13-0) hope to have Bennie Boatwright back at some point during Pac-12 play, but their undefeated performance beforehand should give them wiggle room. They also hope to rise in the rankings. “I don’t really count being in the 20s as being ranked,” Stewart said Thursday after the Trojans’ victory over Missouri State. “That’s kind of just like filler spots. Until we can get into those teens, then we can start talking about something.” pedro.moura@latimes.com Twitter: @pedromoura

USC 94, WYOMING 92, OT WYOMING

.....................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Herndon............35 2-4 0-0 2-3 0 1 4 Naughton ..........16 2-4 4-6 5-10 0 2 8 Adams..............23 1-9 6-6 0-3 3 3 8 Lieberman.........22 2-7 0-0 0-2 1 1 5 McManamen......41 8-17 1-2 0-3 5 4 23 Dalton ..............37 6-12 4-4 5-18 6 1 18 James...............34 7-15 6-6 3-5 2 2 23 Aka Gorski.........12 1-5 0-0 1-5 0 2 3 Marshall .............3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Moemeka............2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Totals 29-73 21-24 16-50 17 17 92 Shooting: Field goals, 39.7%; free throws, 87.5% Three-point goals: 13-38 (McManamen 6-14, James 3-4, Dalton 2-5, Aka Gorski 1-5, Lieberman 1-6, Adams 0-2, Herndon 0-2). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 17 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Dalton 2, Adams, Herndon). Turnovers: 17 (Dalton 4, Aka Gorski 3, James 3, Adams 2, Lieberman 2, McManamen 2, Naughton). Steals: 4 (Dalton, Herndon, James, Lieberman). Technical Fouls: None.

USC

.....................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Metu ................27 5-7 1-2 2-7 2 5 11 Aaron ...............18 0-8 0-2 1-1 0 2 0 McLaughlin........43 9-22 3-3 2-7 5 1 22 Melton..............39 6-12 3-4 2-8 2 3 16 Stewart .............30 4-10 1-3 2-4 1 4 10 Mathews ...........39 9-17 3-4 2-5 2 3 26 Rakocevic..........22 2-2 0-0 2-5 4 3 4 Buggs.................4 1-1 1-1 0-1 0 1 3 Henderson ..........3 0-2 2-2 0-2 0 0 2 Totals 36-81 14-21 13-40 16 22 94 Shooting: Field goals, 44.4%; free throws, 66.7% Three-point goals: 8-23 (Mathews 5-8, Melton 1-1, Stewart 1-4, McLaughlin 1-5, Aaron 0-5). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 9 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Melton, Metu, Rakocevic, Stewart). Turnovers: 9 (Metu 4, Mathews 2, Melton 2, Rakocevic). Steals: 12 (Mathews 6, McLaughlin 2, Melton, Metu, Rakocevic, Stewart). Technical Fouls: None. Wyoming 44 41 7— 92 USC 50 35 9— 94 A—NA.

TOP 25 ROUNDUP

No signs of rust as No. 14 Wisconsin gets 53-point win associated press

David Becker Associated Press

USC GUARD Jordan McLaughlin takes a shot during the first half against

Wyoming. McLaughlin made the winning layup in the final seconds of overtime.

Reserve D’Mitrik Trice scored 14 points and Vitto Brown added 11 and eight rebounds as No. 14 Wisconsin breezed past Florida A&M 90-37 on Friday night in

Madison, Wis. The game came after an eight-day layoff for the Badgers (11-2) as they finished final exams. But they showed few signs of rust. Florida A&M dropped to 2-11. No. 11 West Virginia 92,

Northern Kentucky 61: Tarik Phillip scored16 points and the No. 11 Mountaineers (11-1) pulled away from the Norse (9-4) in Morgantown, W.Va. The Mountaineers shot 52% from the field and have won seven straight games.

L AT I M ES . C O M / SP O RTS

NBA CLIPPERS REPORT

STANDINGS Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be determined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. Division standing no longer has any bearing on the rankings. The top eight teams in each conference make the playoffs, and the topseeded team would play the eighth-seeded team, the seventh team would play the second, etc. Head-to-head competition is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by conference record. (Western Conference divisions: S-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S-Southeast).

WESTERN CONFERENCE Team 1. Golden State 2. San Antonio 3. CLIPPERS 3. Houston 5. Memphis 6. Oklahoma City 7. Utah 8. Sacramento

W 27 24 22 22 20 18 18 13

L 4 6 9 9 12 12 13 17

PCT GB .871 .800 21⁄2 .710 5 .710 5 .625 71⁄2 .600 81⁄2 .581 9 .433 131⁄2

L10 9-1 8-2 6-4 8-2 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4

Rk. P1 S1 P2 S2 S3 N1 N2 P3

9. Portland 10. Denver 11. New Orleans 12. LAKERS 13. Minnesota 14. Dallas 14. Phoenix

13 12 11 11 9 9 9

19 18 21 22 20 21 21

.406 .400 .344 .333 .310 .300 .300

1 1 3 31⁄2 31⁄2 4 4

1-9 5-5 4-6 1-9 4-6 5-5 3-7

N3 N4 S4 P4 N5 S5 P5

EASTERN CONFERENCE Team 1. Cleveland 2. Toronto 3. Boston 3. Charlotte 5. New York 6. Atlanta 6. Milwaukee 8. Indiana

W 22 21 17 17 16 15 14 15

L 6 8 13 13 13 15 14 16

PCT .786 .724 .567 .567 .552 .500 .500 .484

GB L10 9-1 11⁄2 8-2 6 5-5 6 6-4 61⁄2 6-4 8 5-5 8 4-6 81⁄2 5-5

Rk. C1 A1 A2 S1 A3 S2 C2 C3

9. Chicago 10. Washington 11. Detroit 11. Orlando 13. Miami 14. Brooklyn 14. Philadelphia

14 13 14 14 10 7 7

15 16 18 18 21 22 22

.483 .448 .438 .438 .323 .241 .241

1 11⁄2 11⁄2 5 7 7

3-7 6-4 3-7 4-6 3-7 2-8 3-7

C4 S3 C5 S4 S5 A5 A4

Hamstring issue sidelines Paul By Broderick Turner Chris Paul didn’t play Friday night against the Dallas Mavericks because of a strained left hamstring suffered during the Clippers’ victory over San Antonio on Thursday night at Staples Center. Coach Doc Rivers said that Paul might play Christmas night against the Lakers at Staples Center, a Lakers designated home game. “They gave us a sense that it wasn’t a severe strain,” Rivers said. “He could possibly play Sunday, but he may not. We’ll see.” Rivers said Jasen Powell, the Clippers’ director of medical services and head athletic trainer, will make the decision on when Paul is healthy enough to play. “That’s something I never get involved in,” Rivers said. “They’ll tell me when he can play and JP [Powell] has been great with that. That’s one thing I never get involved in because coaches want to win every game and

want to play their guys so it’s good for a coach to not get too involved in that stuff.” With Paul not playing and Blake Griffin out while he recovers from arthroscopic right knee surgery, it would be easy for the Clippers to feel down. But Rivers doesn’t accept that. “You just don’t. There’s no reason to,” he said. “You just keep going. We’ve got a lot of guys. We got a lot of guys that can play. My saying is we pay them all. We don’t just pay one or two.” Rivers started Paul Pierce in place of Griffin for the second straight game, and Raymond Felton at point guard in place of Paul.

Ratified, gratified Paul, president of the NBA Players’ Assn., was excited after players voted Friday to ratify the new collective bargaining agreement. “We got it done,” he said. “We had 97% of the votes for doing it. It’s a good thing.”

broderick.turner@latimes.com Twitter: @BA_Turner

TODAY’S GAMES No games scheduled.

SUNDAY’S GAMES Favorite Line Underdog at New York PK Boston at Cleveland OFF Golden State at San Antonio 71⁄2 Chicago at Oklahoma City 41⁄2 Minnesota at LAKERS OFF CLIPPERS

Time 9 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 2 p.m 5 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

BOX SCORES Hornets 103, Bulls 91

Cavaliers 119, Nets 99

Thunder 117, Celtics 112

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Gibson ..........29 4-10 2-2 1-3 0 1 10 Lopez............32 3-8 0-0 4-9 1 4 6 Butler............39 11-19 2-2 0-4 4 2 26 Rondo...........32 3-10 0-0 2-9 10 1 7 Wade ............26 5-16 2-2 1-7 2 2 12 McDermott.....33 5-12 2-2 0-4 1 3 15 Mirotic ..........19 5-16 0-0 5-10 0 2 11 Felicio ...........13 0-2 0-2 4-6 0 4 0 Grant ............12 2-3 0-0 0-0 2 1 4 Totals 38-96 8-10 17-52 20 20 91 Shooting: Field goals, 39.6%; free throws, 80.0% Three-point goals: 7-22 (McDermott 3-7, Butler 2-4, Rondo 1-3, Mirotic 1-7, Wade 0-1). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 9 (14 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Gibson 2, Lopez 2, Butler, Mirotic). Turnovers: 9 (Rondo 5, Butler 2, McDermott, Wade). Steals: 5 (Rondo 2, Wade 2, Mirotic). Technical Fouls: Gibson, 10:57 fourth

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Hamilton .......18 3-8 2-2 1-6 0 2 8 Lopez............22 7-11 0-0 1-3 1 2 16 Bogdanovic....19 0-5 0-0 0-2 1 3 0 Kilpatrick .......20 4-10 2-2 0-5 4 2 12 Lin................24 5-10 0-0 0-2 6 1 10 LeVert ...........23 2-7 3-4 1-7 2 1 9 Hollis-Jffrsn ....23 3-6 2-2 0-3 1 3 8 Dinwiddie ......21 6-7 0-1 1-3 3 2 13 Harris............16 0-4 0-0 0-3 0 2 0 Scola ............14 3-5 1-1 2-5 1 1 8 Bennett .........14 4-8 3-4 1-2 1 2 11 Foye..............13 0-2 2-2 0-1 1 0 2 McCullough......7 1-2 0-0 0-2 1 1 2 Totals 38-85 15-18 7-44 22 22 99 Shooting: Field goals, 44.7%; free throws, 83.3% Three-point goals: 8-30 (Lopez 2-3, Kilpatrick 2-5, LeVert 2-5, Dinwiddie 1-1, Scola 1-1, Foye 0-1, Hollis-Jefferson 0-1, McCullough 0-1, Bennett 0-2, Bogdanovic 0-2, Lin 0-2, Hamilton 0-3, Harris 0-3). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 19 (22 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Lopez 2, Bennett, Foye, Hamilton, Harris, LeVert). Turnovers: 19 (Lin 5, Lopez 3, Bogdanovic 2, Foye 2, Hamilton 2, Hollis-Jefferson 2, Harris, Kilpatrick, LeVert). Steals: 6 (Kilpatrick 2, Dinwiddie, HollisJefferson, LeVert, Lin). Technical Fouls: None.

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Sabonis.........24 8-11 0-0 0-1 1 1 20 Adams ..........29 4-6 0-2 3-11 3 0 8 Morrow..........12 1-5 0-0 0-0 0 1 2 Roberson.......37 2-4 1-6 0-5 4 4 5 Westbrook......34 13-25 14-16 1-11 11 1 45 Grant ............29 1-4 2-2 0-2 1 4 4 Kanter...........23 8-13 4-6 4-6 2 3 20 Christon ........20 2-5 0-0 0-2 0 3 4 Lauvergne......12 0-3 3-4 0-4 3 1 3 Singler ............7 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 Abrines ...........6 1-2 0-0 2-2 1 1 3 Totals 41-80 24-36 10-44 27 21 117 Shooting: Field goals, 51.2%; free throws, 66.7% Three-point goals: 11-26 (Westbrook 5-7, Sabonis 4-6, Abrines 1-1, Singler 1-2, Lauvergne 0-1, Roberson 0-1, Grant 0-2, Christon 0-3, Morrow 0-3). Team Rebounds: 11. Team Turnovers: 13 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Grant 3, Roberson 2, Adams). Turnovers: 13 (Westbrook 4, Roberson 3, Grant 2, Adams, Kanter, Lauvergne, Sabonis). Steals: 5 (Westbrook 3, Grant, Sabonis). Technical Fouls: None.

CHICAGO

CHARLOTTE

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Kidd-Gilchrist .32 5-9 2-3 2-9 2 0 12 Williams ........23 3-7 2-2 0-2 1 1 9 Zeller ............32 5-9 3-4 5-7 4 1 13 Batum...........39 7-15 5-6 2-11 10 0 20 Walker...........32 6-16 6-6 2-5 4 0 20 Kaminsky.......24 5-14 2-2 1-5 1 1 13 Lamb ............16 2-6 3-3 0-3 0 1 7 Hibbert..........15 2-2 0-0 0-5 0 3 4 Sessions........15 2-5 1-2 0-1 3 0 5 Belinelli...........6 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Totals 37-84 24-28 12-48 25 8 103 Shooting: Field goals, 44.0%; free throws, 85.7% Three-point goals: 5-18 (Walker 2-3, Williams 1-3, Kaminsky 1-4, Batum 1-5, Sessions 0-1, Lamb 0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 10 (8 PTS). Blocked Shots: 13 (Hibbert 4, Kidd-Gilchrist 4, Zeller 2, Batum, Kaminsky, Williams). Turnovers: 10 (Batum 2, Hibbert 2, Sessions 2, Williams 2, Walker, Zeller). Steals: 6 (Williams 2, Batum, Kidd-Gilchrist, Walker, Zeller). Technical Fouls: None. Chicago 26 14 27 24— 91 Charlotte 22 26 27 28— 103 A—19,249. T—2:08. O—Courtney Kirkland, Nick Buchert, Aaron Smith.

Bucks 123, Wizards 96 WASHINGTON

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Morris ...........26 5-10 3-4 0-2 0 3 14 Porter............25 7-9 0-0 2-5 0 3 18 Gortat ...........26 4-8 0-0 1-6 3 3 8 Beal .............30 3-10 3-3 1-2 6 2 10 Wall ..............31 8-18 2-2 0-3 10 0 18 McClellan ......22 1-5 4-4 0-2 2 2 6 Burke............16 2-5 2-2 0-0 1 1 6 Oubre ...........13 2-4 0-0 0-3 0 1 5 Smith............11 1-1 1-1 0-1 0 3 3 Ochefu ..........10 3-4 0-2 0-2 0 2 6 Thornton..........9 0-3 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Satoransky.......8 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 2 Nicholson ........7 0-1 0-0 1-3 1 1 0 Totals 37-79 15-18 5-30 24 21 96 Shooting: Field goals, 46.8%; free throws, 83.3% Three-point goals: 7-24 (Porter 4-5, Morris 1-2, Oubre 1-3, Beal 1-5, Burke 0-1, Nicholson 0-1, Thornton 0-1, McClellan 0-3, Wall 0-3). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 14 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Beal, Smith). Turnovers: 14 (Beal 3, Wall 3, Burke 2, Satoransky 2, Smith 2, Gortat, Morris). Steals: 2 (Oubre, Wall). Technical Fouls: None.

MILWAUKEE

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Antetknmpo ...32 12-19 15-17 1-8 6 1 39 Henson .........19 1-4 3-4 2-3 1 1 5 Parker ...........31 9-15 2-2 4-8 3 1 21 Snell.............26 5-8 0-0 0-3 2 1 11 Dellvdva ........21 2-6 0-0 0-0 4 2 5 Brogdon ........29 7-7 0-0 0-3 7 4 17 Teletovic ........23 0-9 0-0 0-2 0 2 0 Monroe .........20 5-7 2-2 1-11 4 1 12 Terry .............17 2-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 6 Maker .............7 2-2 0-0 0-2 0 2 5 Novak .............3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Plumlee...........3 0-0 2-2 0-0 1 1 2 Totals 45-80 24-27 8-41 29 16 123 Shooting: Field goals, 56.3%; free throws, 88.9% Three-point goals: 9-25 (Brogdon 3-3, Terry 2-2, Maker 1-1, Parker 1-3, Dellavedova 1-4, Snell 1-4, Antetokounmpo 0-1, Novak 0-1, Teletovic 0-6). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 11 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Parker 2, Antetokounmpo, Monroe, Snell, Teletovic). Turnovers: 11 (Brogdon 3, Monroe 2, Antetokounmpo, Dellavedova, Henson, Maker, Parker, Plumlee). Steals: 8 (Antetokounmpo 2, Brogdon 2, Parker 2, Henson, Monroe). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 6:55 third Washington 29 29 20 18— 96 Milwaukee 37 36 27 23— 123

RESULTS

Celtics can’t stop Westbrook (45-11-11) OKLAHOMA CITY 117 BOSTON 112 Russell Westbrook had his 14th triple-double of the season and his third straight 40-point game, scoring 45 points with 11 assists and 11 rebounds Friday night to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 117-112 victory over the Boston Celtics. Westbrook scored 18 points in the fourth quarter at Boston, including eight straight during a 10-0 run that turned a104-100 deficit into a six-point lead. at Cleveland 119, Brooklyn 99: LeBron James scored19 points, Kevin Love added 14 points and 15 rebounds, and the Cavaliers made it nine wins in 10 games. Golden State 119, at Detroit 113: Kevin Durant scored 32 points despite playing in foul trouble, lifting the Warriors to their seventh straight win heading into Sunday’s showdown at Cleveland. at Charlotte 103, Chicago 91: The Hornets’ Nic Batum had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for his first triple-double of the season and seventh of his career. at Milwaukee 123, Washington 96: Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a career-high 39 points and heard “MVP” chants from fans. at Memphis 115, Houston 109: The Grizzlies ended a three-game home losing streak as Mike Conley scored 24 points. at New Orleans 91, Miami 87: Anthony Davis had 28 points, a career-high 22 rebounds and four blocked shots, and the Pelicans overcame a 14-point deficit. Sacramento 109, at Minnesota 105: DeMarcus Cousins scored 21 of his 32 points in the second half. Atlanta 109, at Denver 108: Paul Millsap’s two free throws with six seconds to play capped a 9-0 run. Toronto 104, at Utah 98: Kyle Lowry took advantage of a depleted Jazz guard corps by scoring a season-high 36 points, 19 in the fourth quarter. at Phoenix 123, Philadelphia 116: Eric Bledsoe scored 16 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter and had 11 assists as the Suns ended a four-game losing streak. San Antonio 110, at Portland 90: Kawhi Leonard scored 33 points and the Spurs cruised on the road, despite resting Pau Gasol and Tony Parker. at Orlando 109, Lakers 90 Dallas 90, at Clippers 88 — associated press

BROOKLYN

CLEVELAND

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T James ...........27 7-16 5-6 1-5 6 0 19 Love..............25 4-14 4-4 1-15 0 0 14 Thompson......25 7-8 2-2 6-11 1 1 16 Irving ............26 5-11 2-2 1-5 10 1 13 Liggins ..........16 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 4 3 Frye ..............22 5-9 1-1 0-6 2 1 12 Dunleavy .......21 6-9 0-0 2-4 1 4 14 Shumpert ......18 3-9 0-0 0-3 1 1 7 McRae ..........16 1-5 3-4 0-0 2 1 5 Jones ............15 0-4 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Felder ...........15 4-7 3-4 0-1 3 4 11 Jefferson..........8 2-4 1-1 0-0 1 2 5 Totals 45-99 21-24 11-51 28 20 119 Shooting: Field goals, 45.5%; free throws, 87.5% Three-point goals: 8-35 (Dunleavy 2-4, Love 2-7, Liggins 1-2, Irving 1-3, Frye 1-5, Shumpert 1-5, Jefferson 0-1, McRae 0-1, Felder 0-2, Jones 0-2, James 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 11 (19 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Felder, Love, McRae, Thompson). Turnovers: 11 (Dunleavy 2, Thompson 2, Felder, Frye, Irving, James, Liggins, Love, Shumpert). Steals: 12 (Irving 6, James 3, Felder, Liggins, Thompson). Technical Fouls: None. Brooklyn 15 25 17 42— 99 Cleveland 29 37 32 21— 119 A—20,562. T—2:07. O—Karl Lane, Jacyn Goble, Zach Zarba.

Pelicans 91, Heat 87 DALLAS FORWARD Dirk Nowitzki battles Clippers

guard Austin Rivers for the ball during the first half.

Barnes’ shot wins it for Mavericks

[Clippers, from D1] made the Clippers pay by making his shot over Luc Mbah a Moute for the last of his team-high 24 points. “I thought Luc did a good job on him,” Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said. “He scored two tough shots on Luc. I’ll take those shots all night, every day.” With no timeouts left, the Clippers gave the ball to guard Austin Rivers. But he had the ball tipped away by Seth Curry as he dribbled across midcourt, and the Clippers were unable to get off a shot before the final horn. It’s not Doc Rivers’ style to whine about what he doesn’t have. He is always about the next-man-up, and when he has a deep and talented roster, Rivers knows his bench can rescue the Clippers in most circumstances. One of those players, sixth man Jamal Crawford, had 26 points. Another, Jordan, did what he does best,collecting 17 rebounds and two blocked shots to go with seven points. But Rivers was unhappy about two things the Clippers didn’t do — take care of the ball and protect the defensive glass. They turned the ball over 20 times and gave up 14 offensive rebounds. “What killed us was the turnovers and the offensive rebounds,” the coach said. “When one team [Dallas] takes 87 shots and you take 74, that’s 13 more field goal [attempts] than you, you’re probably going to lose the game. And even in that, we still had a chance to win the game.” Raymond Felton started in place of Paul and had eight points. Paul Pierce started for the third straight

game in place of Griffin and scored only three. The Mavericks are a team that’s in a bad way these days. When they met the Clippers on Nov. 23 in Dallas, they were beaten by 24 points. It hasn’t gotten much better for the Mavericks since that night. They entered this game tied for the worst record in the Western Conference, and despite the win came out still sharing it with Phoenix at 9-21.

broderick.turner@latimes.com Twitter:@BA_Turner

MAVERICKS 90, CLIPPERS 88

MIAMI

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T McRoberts .....15 1-3 0-0 0-2 2 1 3 Winslow.........37 6-16 0-0 0-7 3 1 12 Whiteside ......35 4-10 2-6 7-18 2 3 10 Dragic ...........33 10-17 1-3 0-4 5 1 23 Richardson ....32 2-8 2-2 0-1 3 4 7 T.Johnson.......29 5-13 0-0 0-3 1 4 11 J.Johnson.......22 4-12 2-2 2-10 2 2 11 Babbitt..........12 2-4 0-0 1-1 0 1 5 Reed.............12 0-1 0-0 1-8 0 3 0 D.Williams .......8 2-3 0-0 0-5 1 0 5 Totals 36-87 7-13 11-59 19 20 87 Shooting: Field goals, 41.4%; free throws, 53.8% Three-point goals: 8-19 (Dragic 2-4, Babbitt 1-1, J.Johnson 1-2, T.Johnson 1-2, McRoberts 1-2, D.Williams 1-2, Richardson 1-4, Winslow 0-2). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 13 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Whiteside 2, J.Johnson, Reed). Turnovers: 13 (Dragic 3, J.Johnson 2, McRoberts 2, Richardson 2, D.Williams, Reed, Whiteside, Winslow). Steals: 4 (Babbitt, McRoberts, Richardson, T.Johnson). Technical Fouls: None.

NEW ORLEANS

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Cunningham...33 2-8 0-0 1-7 2 4 5 Davis ............36 10-17 6-9 7-22 1 3 28 Ajinca ...........21 2-5 1-2 2-5 0 0 5 Hield.............17 1-8 0-0 0-3 2 0 3 Holiday..........26 9-17 3-5 0-2 6 3 22 Galloway........29 4-11 0-0 0-1 0 4 11 Moore ...........25 2-6 0-1 0-3 1 2 5 Hill ...............24 1-6 0-0 1-2 0 2 3 Evans............14 1-7 4-4 0-5 5 2 7 Frazier.............9 1-4 0-0 0-2 0 0 2 Totals 33-89 14-21 11-52 17 20 91 Shooting: Field goals, 37.1%; free throws, 66.7% Three-point goals: 11-28 (Galloway 3-7, Davis 2-3, Evans 1-2, Holiday 1-2, Moore 1-2, Cunningham 1-3, Hill 1-3, Hield 1-4, Frazier 0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 9 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 9 (Davis 4, Ajinca 2, Cunningham 2, Moore). Turnovers: 9 (Davis 3, Hill 2, Evans, Galloway, Holiday, Moore). Steals: 8 (Holiday 2, Davis, Evans, Galloway, Hield, Hill, Moore). Technical Fouls: None. Miami 28 21 19 19— 87 New Orleans 25 19 20 27— 91 A—16,322. T—1:35. O—Curtis Blair, Scott Foster, Kevin Scott.

Warriors 119, Pistons 113 GOLDEN STATE

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Durant ..........31 13-18 3-4 0-8 3 5 32 Green............37 1-7 3-4 0-10 12 4 5 Pachulia ........18 2-2 3-3 3-7 0 1 7 Curry ............35 7-16 6-6 0-3 7 1 25 Thompson......37 6-14 2-2 0-3 2 0 17 Iguodala........26 1-2 0-0 1-3 2 1 2 Livingston ......15 2-5 0-0 0-1 2 2 4 Clark.............15 2-2 2-2 0-2 1 1 6 West .............14 3-4 0-0 0-1 5 3 6 McGee ............8 6-7 3-3 0-3 0 3 15 Totals 43-77 22-24 4-41 34 21 119 Shooting: Field goals, 55.8%; free throws, 91.7% Three-point goals: 11-27 (Curry 5-10, Durant 3-4, Thompson 3-8, Green 0-5). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 22 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Green, McGee). Turnovers: 22 (Curry 5, Durant 4, Green 4, Thompson 3, Iguodala 2, Pachulia 2, Clark, McGee). Steals: 9 (Curry 3, Green 2, Livingston 2, Pachulia, Thompson). Technical Fouls: None.

DETROIT

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Leuer ............33 4-7 0-0 1-7 2 3 8 Morris ...........20 1-7 0-0 0-3 3 4 2 Drummond ....31 6-7 3-9 0-9 2 4 15 Cldwll-Pope....40 9-18 3-4 1-1 2 3 25 Jackson.........30 7-17 3-4 0-3 6 2 17 Harris............32 8-14 6-6 0-7 0 3 26 Smith............17 4-7 0-1 0-1 3 1 9 Baynes..........17 3-4 0-0 2-2 1 1 6 Johnson.........16 1-4 2-4 1-3 2 1 5 Totals 43-85 17-28 5-36 21 22 113 Shooting: Field goals, 50.6%; free throws, 60.7% Three-point goals: 10-29 (Harris 4-6, CaldwellPope 4-12, Smith 1-1, Johnson 1-2, Leuer 0-1, Morris 0-3, Jackson 0-4). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 13 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Drummond 2, Caldwell-Pope). Turnovers: 13 (Jackson 5, Drummond 3, Smith 2, Caldwell-Pope, Harris, Johnson). Steals: 12 (Johnson 3, Morris 3, Caldwell-Pope 2, Drummond, Jackson, Leuer, Smith). Technical Fouls: coach Stan Van Gundy, 5:00 first. Oklahoma City 25 33 30 29— 117 Boston 28 26 25 33— 112 O—James Capers, Tony Brown, Ben Taylor.

......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Barnes ..............38 11-19 2-3 2-6 1 1 24 Fnny-Smth .........29 0-8 0-0 2-6 0 2 0 Nowitzki ............14 7-12 1-1 2-4 0 2 17 Matthews ..........39 6-16 3-6 0-6 2 3 16 Williams ............34 5-16 0-0 0-5 9 2 12 Curry ................24 1-4 0-0 1-1 7 0 3 Mejri.................21 1-1 3-5 5-8 1 0 5 Powell ...............17 2-3 0-0 2-4 0 0 4 Harris................11 2-4 0-0 0-1 1 2 4 J.Anderson...........7 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 2 5 Totals 37-87 9-15 14-42 21 14 90 Shooting: Field goals, 42.5%; free throws, 60.0% Three-point goals: 7-29 (Nowitzki 2-3, Williams 2-5, J.Anderson 1-2, Curry 1-2, Matthews 1-8, Harris 0-1, Barnes 0-2, Finney-Smith 0-6). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 12 (6 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Barnes, Harris, Matthews, Mejri). Turnovers: 12 (Williams 4, Barnes 3, Harris 2, Mejri, Nowitzki, Powell). Steals: 13 (Curry 3, Matthews 3, Powell 3, Finney-Smith 2, Barnes, Williams). Technical Fouls: None.

CLIPPERS

......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T MbahaMte .........37 2-5 1-1 1-6 3 3 5 Pierce ...............10 1-2 0-0 0-3 0 1 3 Jordan...............33 3-7 1-4 3-17 0 3 7 Felton ...............34 3-11 1-1 0-4 2 2 8 Redick ..............30 4-10 1-2 0-3 3 3 11 Crawford............29 10-16 3-3 0-1 6 0 26 Rivers ...............28 6-13 0-0 0-0 3 3 16 Speights............14 4-7 0-0 1-4 0 1 10 A.Anderson..........8 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Bass...................7 1-2 0-0 1-3 0 0 2 W.Johnson ...........4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 34-74 7-11 6-41 17 16 88 Shooting: Field goals, 45.9%; free throws, 63.6% Three-point goals: 13-29 (Rivers 4-6, Crawford 3-5, Speights 2-3, Redick 2-7, Pierce 1-2, Felton 1-3, A.Anderson 0-1, Mbah a Moute 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 20 (20 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Jordan 2, Mbah a Moute 2). Turnovers: 20 (Redick 5, Crawford 4, Jordan 4, Rivers 3, Felton 2, A.Anderson, Pierce). Steals: 9 (Mbah a Moute 3, Rivers 2, Felton, Jordan, Speights, W.Johnson). Technical Fouls: Jordan, 2:54 second. Dallas 21 29 18 22— 90 CLIPPERS 24 27 21 16— 88 A—19,060. T—2:15. O—Derrick Stafford, Pat Fraher, Mitchell Ervin.

Kings 109, Timberwolves 105 SACRAMENTO

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Barnes ..........31 4-6 0-0 0-5 5 2 10 Cousins.........36 13-24 3-5 2-7 7 3 32 Koufos ..........21 6-8 0-0 2-4 0 3 12 Collison.........20 1-5 0-0 0-1 6 2 3 McLemore......15 2-4 2-3 0-3 0 2 7 Tolliver...........30 6-9 0-0 0-3 0 3 17 Lawson..........27 5-11 3-4 0-3 4 1 15 Temple ..........25 3-6 2-2 2-6 4 3 9 Afflalo ...........22 1-4 0-0 0-0 1 2 2 Cley-Stein........7 1-3 0-0 0-2 0 2 2 Totals 42-80 10-14 6-34 27 23 109 Shooting: Field goals, 52.5%; free throws, 71.4% Three-point goals: 15-29 (Tolliver 5-7, Cousins 3-6, Lawson 2-3, Barnes 2-4, Collison 1-2, McLemore 1-3, Temple 1-3, Afflalo 0-1). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 11 (6 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Cousins 2, Cauley-Stein). Turnovers: 11 (Cousins 5, Barnes 3, Cauley-Stein, Lawson, Temple). Steals: 7 (Cousins 4, Lawson 2, Koufos). Technical Fouls: None.

MINNESOTA

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Towns............37 7-15 5-6 5-13 5 1 20 Wiggins .........39 6-19 3-4 0-0 1 1 15 Dieng............42 3-5 0-0 3-10 1 5 6 LaVine ..........39 13-21 7-7 0-6 2 5 40 Rubio............33 4-10 2-2 2-6 8 4 13 Muhammad ...17 1-1 3-4 0-1 0 2 6 Dunn ............14 1-4 1-3 1-3 1 2 3 Bjelica ..........10 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 0 2 Aldrich ............4 0-1 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 Totals 36-79 21-26 12-42 18 21 105 Shooting: Field goals, 45.6%; free throws, 80.8% Three-point goals: 12-32 (LaVine 7-12, Rubio 3-6, Muhammad 1-1, Towns 1-5, Bjelica 0-1, Dunn 0-1, Wiggins 0-6). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 12 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Dieng 2, Dunn, Wiggins). Turnovers: 12 (Rubio 3, Dunn 2, LaVine 2, Wiggins 2, Dieng, Muhammad, Towns). Steals: 5 (Rubio 3, Dieng, LaVine). Technical Fouls: coach Tom Thibodeau, 9:41 first. Sacramento 25 26 27 31— 109 Minnesota 26 29 30 20— 105 A—13,288. T—2:15. O—Ken Mauer, Marat Kogut, Tyler Ford.

Suns 123, 76ers 116 PHILADELPHIA

DALLAS

Raptors 104, Jazz 98 TORONTO

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Carroll...........23 1-6 0-0 0-4 0 2 2 Siakam ...........5 0-1 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 Valanciunas ...16 5-5 4-6 0-7 0 4 14 DeRozan........37 10-24 4-6 1-6 1 3 24 Lowry............33 15-20 2-3 0-4 4 2 36 Patterson.......33 1-2 0-0 2-4 1 0 3 Nogueira .......31 4-5 0-0 2-6 1 2 9 Ross .............20 4-7 0-0 0-1 1 1 10 Joseph ..........19 2-8 0-0 0-1 3 1 4 Powell ...........19 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 3 2 Totals 43-81 10-15 5-36 11 19 104 Shooting: Field goals, 53.1%; free throws, 66.7% Three-point goals: 8-21 (Lowry 4-8, Ross 2-4, Nogueira 1-1, Patterson 1-2, DeRozan 0-1, Joseph 0-1, Powell 0-1, Carroll 0-3). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 10 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Nogueira, Patterson, Powell). Turnovers: 10 (Lowry 4, Carroll 2, DeRozan 2, Nogueira, Patterson). Steals: 12 (DeRozan 4, Carroll 2, Lowry 2, Nogueira 2, Joseph, Valanciunas). Technical Fouls: None.

UTAH

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Hayward ........37 8-16 6-7 1-1 4 2 23 Diaw .............12 1-3 0-0 1-4 1 0 2 Gobert ..........35 5-7 3-3 3-15 1 1 13 Hood ............13 1-6 0-0 0-0 1 0 2 Mack ............33 7-13 1-2 1-4 5 1 17 Lyles.............30 6-13 3-4 1-7 1 1 19 Ingles............28 2-6 3-3 0-2 7 4 9 Neto .............17 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 3 0 Johnson.........16 3-7 0-0 0-0 0 0 7 Favors ...........15 2-8 2-2 2-7 0 4 6 Totals 35-79 18-21 9-41 20 16 98 Shooting: Field goals, 44.3%; free throws, 85.7% Three-point goals: 10-27 (Lyles 4-6, Ingles 2-4, Mack 2-6, Johnson 1-2, Hayward 1-5, Hood 0-4). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 16 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Favors, Hayward). Turnovers: 16 (Diaw 3, Hayward 3, Mack 3, Ingles 2, Favors, Gobert, Hood, Lyles, Neto). Steals: 7 (Ingles 4, Gobert, Hayward, Mack). Technical Fouls: None. Toronto 28 28 16 32— 104 Utah 29 22 23 24— 98 O—Brent Barnaky, Brian Forte, Derek Richardson.

BOSTON

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Crowder.........31 1-6 1-1 1-4 1 5 3 Johnson.........25 6-10 4-5 3-6 5 3 17 Horford..........32 8-17 4-4 1-6 4 4 23 Bradley .........35 6-16 3-6 2-6 1 3 16 Thomas .........34 12-22 8-9 0-2 10 3 34 Smart ...........24 3-10 0-0 1-3 4 4 7 Jerebko .........15 1-2 0-0 0-6 0 2 2 Olynyk...........13 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 2 0 Brown ...........12 2-5 1-1 2-3 0 2 5 Rozier .............8 1-2 0-0 0-2 2 0 3 Zeller ..............6 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 2 Totals 41-93 21-26 10-39 28 29 112 Shooting: Field goals, 44.1%; free throws, 80.8% Three-point goals: 9-28 (Horford 3-6, Thomas 2-8, Rozier 1-1, Johnson 1-2, Smart 1-2, Bradley 1-5, Olynyk 0-1, Crowder 0-3). Team Rebounds: 14. Team Turnovers: 12 (10 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Horford, Smart). Turnovers: 12 (Thomas 5, Smart 3, Horford 2, Bradley, Jerebko). Steals: 8 (Crowder 2, Horford 2, Johnson 2, Smart, Thomas). Technical Fouls: None. Oklahoma City 25 33 30 29— 117 Boston 28 26 25 33— 112 A—18,624. T—2:19. O—Steven Anderson, Leroy Richardson, Matt Boland.

Grizzlies 115, Rockets 109 HOUSTON

O—Gediminas Petraitis, Sean Corbin, Leon Wood.

Jae C. Hong Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Covington ......33 6-11 3-3 1-2 4 6 16 Embiid ..........28 8-15 10-11 0-7 1 3 27 Okafor...........20 3-4 0-0 1-4 1 5 6 Henderson .....25 5-10 0-0 0-1 3 0 11 Rodriguez ......25 8-12 1-1 1-2 7 2 21 Saric.............27 3-9 0-0 2-4 0 3 8 Ilyasova .........25 5-11 1-1 2-3 3 4 14 Thompson......22 2-3 0-0 0-2 1 4 4 McConnell .....22 1-6 2-2 1-2 2 2 5 Noel .............10 1-1 2-4 0-1 1 2 4 Totals 42-82 19-22 8-28 23 31 116 Shooting: Field goals, 51.2%; free throws, 86.4% Three-point goals: 13-30 (Rodriguez 4-8, Ilyasova 3-5, Saric 2-4, McConnell 1-1, Henderson 1-2, Embiid 1-3, Covington 1-6, Thompson 0-1). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 20 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Embiid 2, Covington, Ilyasova, Noel, Okafor). Turnovers: 20 (Ilyasova 5, Covington 4, Embiid 3, Rodriguez 3, Saric 2, McConnell, Noel, Okafor). Steals: 7 (Noel 3, Saric 2, Covington, McConnell). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 9:49 first

PHOENIX

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Chriss .............7 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 5 3 Tucker ...........35 5-7 2-2 1-5 0 2 15 Chandler .......33 5-9 5-8 3-12 1 4 15 Bledsoe.........36 7-12 8-11 1-2 11 2 24 Booker ..........38 8-18 3-3 0-6 6 3 23 Warren ..........31 7-16 3-6 4-6 2 1 19 Len...............17 3-4 2-2 1-6 2 5 8 Knight ...........14 4-7 4-5 1-3 1 0 12 Dudley ..........13 2-4 0-0 0-1 1 2 4 Barbosa ........12 0-0 0-0 1-1 1 0 0 Totals 42-79 27-37 12-43 25 24 123 Shooting: Field goals, 53.2%; free throws, 73.0% Three-point goals: 12-26 (Booker 4-9, Tucker 3-4, Bledsoe 2-5, Warren 2-5, Chriss 1-2, Dudley 0-1). Team Rebounds: 14. Team Turnovers: 20 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Bledsoe 3, Barbosa, Len). Turnovers: 20 (Bledsoe 4, Booker 4, Knight 3, Len 3, Dudley 2, Barbosa, Chandler, Chriss, Warren). Steals: 8 (Tucker 5, Booker 2, Warren). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 11:47 first Philadelphia 31 35 19 31— 116 Phoenix 24 29 28 42— 123 O—Mark Ayotte, Haywoode Workman, Bill Kennedy.

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Anderson.......35 10-18 3-3 1-7 0 4 31 Ariza .............35 2-5 0-0 0-4 3 1 6 Harrell...........27 7-11 2-2 2-8 1 4 16 Beverley ........33 4-11 2-2 2-6 1 3 13 Harden..........36 6-13 2-3 1-7 17 5 16 Gordon..........31 6-19 1-1 0-2 4 1 17 Hilario ...........18 1-3 2-2 2-5 1 2 4 Dekker ..........16 2-6 0-0 1-1 0 2 5 Brewer ............4 0-3 1-2 1-1 0 0 1 Totals 38-89 13-15 10-41 27 22 109 Shooting: Field goals, 42.7%; free throws, 86.7% Three-point goals: 20-52 (Anderson 8-14, Gordon 4-16, Beverley 3-9, Ariza 2-4, Harden 2-6, Dekker 1-3). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: 14 (23 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Anderson 2, Gordon). Turnovers: 14 (Harden 9, Anderson 2, Ariza, Gordon, Hilario). Steals: 5 (Beverley 2, Ariza, Gordon, Harden). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 8:25 second

MEMPHIS

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Green............26 1-3 4-4 3-5 0 4 7 Parsons .........14 2-7 0-0 0-3 2 1 4 Gasol............34 5-14 6-6 1-5 4 3 16 Allen.............28 3-5 2-4 2-4 2 1 9 Conley...........28 9-17 3-4 0-3 5 1 24 Carter ...........21 5-8 0-0 0-4 0 1 14 J.Ennis ..........20 5-7 0-0 0-1 0 0 13 Randolph.......19 8-11 0-0 1-5 4 1 16 Harrison ........19 1-6 3-4 0-2 6 2 5 Martin...........14 1-2 0-0 1-4 0 2 2 Daniels ...........9 1-1 2-3 0-1 0 0 5 Totals 41-81 20-25 8-37 23 16 115 Shooting: Field goals, 50.6%; free throws, 80.0% Three-point goals: 13-25 (Carter 4-6, J.Ennis 3-5, Conley 3-6, Allen 1-1, Daniels 1-1, Green 1-1, Gasol 0-1, Parsons 0-1, Harrison 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 10 (23 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Gasol 2, Allen). Turnovers: 10 (Gasol 3, Harrison 2, J.Ennis 2, Randolph 2, Allen). Steals: 9 (Allen 2, Martin 2, Conley, Daniels, Gasol, Parsons, Randolph). Technical Fouls: None. Houston 31 18 26 34— 109 Memphis 25 29 23 38— 115 A—17,454. T—2:17. O—Dan Crawford, C.J. Washington, Ron Garretson.

Hawks 109, Nuggets 108 ATLANTA

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Bazemore ......31 2-9 1-2 0-2 4 3 5 Humphries .....22 4-10 2-2 3-8 2 4 10 Millsap..........37 5-15 8-10 1-8 3 4 20 Sefolosha ......29 4-8 2-2 2-4 3 1 12 Schroder .......36 9-19 7-7 0-6 5 2 27 Delaney.........29 3-8 0-0 1-2 3 3 7 Muscala ........21 5-7 2-3 0-3 2 5 13 Bembry .........19 4-6 1-1 2-4 1 2 9 Scott.............11 1-4 3-4 1-4 3 1 5 Prince .............1 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 0 1 Totals 37-86 27-33 10-41 26 25 109 Shooting: Field goals, 43.0%; free throws, 81.8% Three-point goals: 8-25 (Sefolosha 2-3, Schroder 2-4, Millsap 2-5, Delaney 1-3, Muscala 1-3, Bembry 0-1, Humphries 0-1, Bazemore 0-2, Scott 0-3). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 8 (11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Humphries, Millsap, Muscala, Sefolosha). Turnovers: 8 (Schroder 3, Bazemore 2, Delaney, Humphries, Millsap). Steals: 10 (Sefolosha 4, Bazemore 2, Bembry, Millsap, Schroder, Scott). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 2:55 third

DENVER

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Chandler .......27 9-17 0-3 1-11 2 5 19 Gallinari ........32 5-10 9-10 2-11 2 3 21 Jokic .............19 3-4 1-2 1-7 6 6 8 Harris............29 5-12 2-3 2-2 4 1 12 Mudiay..........27 3-8 10-10 0-3 5 1 17 Barton...........34 4-9 3-5 0-4 5 3 12 Faried ...........20 2-5 0-0 0-4 1 2 4 Nelson ..........20 3-6 1-2 1-1 2 2 8 Murray ..........17 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 2 2 Arthur ...........10 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 4 5 Hernngmz ........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 37-78 26-35 7-45 27 29 108 Shooting: Field goals, 47.4%; free throws, 74.3% Three-point goals: 8-25 (Gallinari 2-4, Jokic 1-1, Arthur 1-2, Barton 1-3, Mudiay 1-3, Nelson 1-3, Chandler 1-4, Murray 0-2, Harris 0-3). Team Rebounds: 13. Team Turnovers: 15 (21 PTS). Blocked Shots: 7 (Jokic 3, Barton, Faried, Gallinari, Harris). Turnovers: 15 (Jokic 5, Gallinari 3, Arthur 2, Mudiay 2, Faried, Murray, Nelson). Steals: 3 (Chandler, Harris, Nelson). Technical Fouls: coach Michael Malone, 00:43 fourth. Atlanta 29 22 31 27— 109 Denver 29 26 27 26— 108 A—13,823. T—2:24. O—Eric Lewis, Justin Van Duyne, Derrick Collins.

Spurs 110, Trail Blazers 90 SAN ANTONIO

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Aldridge.........36 7-18 4-4 6-14 6 0 18 K.Leonard ......31 9-15 10-10 0-3 2 2 33 Dedmon ........27 2-4 2-2 2-7 0 3 6 Green............30 2-7 0-0 0-0 0 3 5 Murray ..........19 4-8 0-0 1-3 1 1 9 Mills .............28 7-9 4-5 0-3 5 2 23 Lee...............20 2-6 0-0 3-9 2 3 4 Simmons.......18 5-8 0-0 1-4 3 2 10 Anderson.......16 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 1 2 Bertans ...........6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Forbes ............2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Laprovittola......2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 39-78 20-21 13-45 19 17 110 Shooting: Field goals, 50.0%; free throws, 95.2% Three-point goals: 12-20 (K.Leonard 5-7, Mills 5-7, Murray 1-1, Green 1-3, Laprovittola 0-1, Simmons 0-1). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 12 (10 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Dedmon 2, Green). Turnovers: 12 (Mills 3, Murray 3, Green 2, K.Leonard 2, Anderson, Laprovittola). Steals: 9 (Aldridge 3, Mills 2, Green, K.Leonard, Laprovittola, Murray). Technical Fouls: coach Gregg Popovich, 3:01 first.

PORTLAND

..................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Aminu ...........28 2-6 0-0 2-2 2 0 6 Harkless ........34 4-8 0-4 1-2 1 4 8 Plumlee.........14 4-6 1-2 1-5 1 2 9 Lillard ...........37 7-19 1-2 0-5 10 3 16 McCollum ......29 5-16 3-4 3-6 3 2 16 Crabbe..........30 4-7 0-0 0-1 2 2 10 M.Leonard .....27 6-11 0-0 1-5 0 2 16 Vonleh...........17 1-3 3-4 1-4 0 1 5 Connaughton ...7 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Davis ..............6 2-2 0-0 1-2 1 2 4 Quarterman .....2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 Layman ...........2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 35-79 8-16 10-33 21 19 90 Shooting: Field goals, 44.3%; free throws, 50.0% Three-point goals: 12-30 (M.Leonard 4-7, McCollum 3-8, Crabbe 2-3, Aminu 2-5, Lillard 1-5, Harkless 0-2). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 15 (18 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Harkless, M.Leonard). Turnovers: 15 (Aminu 3, McCollum 3, Crabbe 2, Lillard 2, Harkless, M.Leonard, Plumlee, Quarterman, Vonleh). Steals: 8 (McCollum 2, Crabbe, Harkless, Lillard, Plumlee, Quarterman, Vonleh). Technical Fouls: None. San Antonio 27 30 30 23— 110 Portland 27 18 27 18— 90 A—19,393. T—2:09. O—Rodney Mott, Tre Maddox, Josh Tiven.

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Kings suffer first overtime loss

STANDINGS WESTERN CONFERENCE

Pacific San Jose Edmonton DUCKS KINGS Calgary Vancouver Arizona Central Chicago Minnesota St. Louis Nashville Dallas Winnipeg Colorado

DALLAS 3 KINGS 2 (OT) associated press

DALLAS — Jamie Benn has 276 career assists and an Art Ross Trophy, which goes to the NHL leader in points each year. Dallas’ captain showed why on Friday night, slipping a pass to Esa Lindell for a goal 1:07 into overtime that gave the Stars a 3-2 victory over the Kings. “I was thinking shoot almost the whole way down the ice,” said Benn, who led the NHL in scoring during the 2014-15 season. “It was kind of hard not to pass it to him there. He worked so hard to get up the ice and he made a good play in the D zone. You know, he was wide open.” Lindell, a rookie defenseman, skated in with Benn two-on-one on Kings goalie Jeff Zatkoff. Benn eased a pass from the right side to Lindell at the left faceoff circle for his third goal this season. “Saw they were changing one guy and saw the opportunity to get two-on-one,” Lindell said. “That was pretty easy to put in from that pass.” Zatkoff couldn’t stop the odd-man rush during threeon-three play in overtime. “It comes down to rushes, and Benn made a great pass,” he said. The Kings lost for the first time in overtime this season after six wins. Dallas is 2-7.

W 21 18 17 17 18 14 11 W 22 21 18 15 14 16 12

L 12 12 12 13 16 18 18 L 9 8 12 13 14 17 20

OL 1 6 6 4 2 3 5 OL 5 4 5 5 7 3 1

Pts 43 42 40 38 38 31 27 Pts 49 46 41 35 35 35 25

GF 87 105 96 87 94 86 75 GF 102 102 98 94 89 95 67

EASTERN CONFERENCE

GA 75 97 99 84 103 109 108 GA 86 66 103 94 106 105 106

Note: Overtime or shootout losses are worth one point.

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W 23 22 23 20 20 15 13 13 W 21 20 18 17 15 14 15 12

L 5 8 12 8 12 11 14 14 L 9 11 14 15 14 12 15 13

OL 4 5 1 4 4 7 7 6 OL 4 3 4 3 6 7 4 8

Pts 50 49 47 44 44 37 33 32 Pts 46 43 40 37 36 35 34 32

GF 110 121 119 87 110 88 80 90 GF 104 88 85 100 85 97 83 71

GA 65 100 89 69 108 90 102 102 GA 76 89 87 98 97 95 96 91

RESULTS

LM Otero Associated Press

KINGS center Nick Shore is knocked to the ice by Jason Spezza of the Stars in

Dallas. The Kings are near the end of nine consecutive games on the road.

“Really, [overtime] hasn’t been working the way we’ve been trying it, so we talked about some different pairs,” Stars Coach Lindy Ruff said. “We’ve got to change direction with the way we’re going. Tonight it worked.” Jeff Carter scored both Kings goals on rebounds. He connected on the power play in the first period and tied the game 2-2 at 10:51 of the third. Tyler Seguin and Radek Faksa scored the first two goals for Dallas. Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen made 29 saves. Zatkoff had 28. Dallas finished a fivegame homestand 3-1-1. The

Kings are 3-2-2 in a stretch of nine straight road games. Carter’s first goal followed an apparent Kings goal that was disallowed and a short-handed breakaway by Benn that ended with a shot wide of the net. The first shot that went past Lehtonen was called no goal because the Kings’ Tanner Pearson was in the paint and impeded the goalie. At 3:05, 54 seconds into a power play, Carter scored on the rebound of a shot by Pearson. Seguin tied it at 1 just 43 seconds into the second period. John Klingberg crossed the blue line on the right and sent the puck to Jason Spezza in the slot. He pas-

sed to Seguin in the left faceoff circle, and he sent a wrist shot past Zatkoff. Lehtonen stopped all 16 Kings shots in the second period.

STARS 3, KINGS 2 (OT) KINGS ..............................1 Dallas ..............................0

0 1

1 1

0 — 2 1 — 3

FIRST PERIOD: 1. KINGS, Carter 18 (Pearson), 3:05 (pp). Penalties—Klingberg, DAL, (high sticking), 2:11. SECOND PERIOD: 2. Dal., Seguin 11 (Spezza, Klingberg), 0:43. Penalties—Dowd, KINGS, (high sticking), 1:35. Nemeth, DAL, (tripping), 11:24. THIRD PERIOD: 3. Dal., Faksa 5 (Ritchie, Mckenzie), 3:30. 4. KINGS, Carter 19 (Forbort, Setoguchi), 10:51. Penalties—Kopitar, KINGS, (hooking), 5:02. Ritchie, DAL, (high sticking), 5:10. Kopitar, KINGS, (holding), 11:07. OVERTIME: 5. Dal., Lindell 3 (Korpikoski, Benn), 1:07. Penalties—None. SHOTS ON GOAL: KINGS 10-16-5—31. Dal. 11-11-72—31. Power-play Conversions—KINGS 1 of 3. Dal. 0 of 3. GOALIES: KINGS, Zatkoff 2-5-1 (31 shots-28 saves). Dal., Lehtonen 7-10-3 (31-29). Att—18,156 (18,532). T—2:32.

AT DALLAS 3 KINGS 2 (OT) AT COLUMBUS 2 MONTREAL 1 AT NY ISLANDERS 5 BUFFALO 1 AT WASHINGTON 4 TAMPA BAY 0 DETROIT 4 AT FLORIDA 1 (SO) AT CAROLINA 3 BOSTON 2 (OT) MINNESOTA 7 AT NY RANGERS 4 AT PITTSBURGH 4 NEW JERSEY 1 COLORADO 2 AT CHICAGO 1 (OT) TORONTO 4 AT ARIZONA 1 AT CALGARY 4 VANCOUVER 1 AT SAN JOSE 3 EDMONTON 2 (OT)

Esa Lindell, a rookie defenseman, scores his third goal of the season 1 minute 7 seconds into overtime. Sergei Bobrovsky stops 36 shots in helping the NHL’s best team to its 12th consecutive victory. Thomas Greiss makes 28 saves and Ryan Strome has a goal and an assist for the Islanders. John Carlson scores two goals and Braden Holtby stops 23 shots for his third shutout of the season. Thomas Vanek and Frans Nielsen score in the shootout and the Red Wings get their record back to .500. The Hurricanes are unbeaten in their last 10 home games after Teuvo Teravainen scores 3:01 into overtime. Chris Coyle has a goal and three assists in helping the Wild to their franchise-record 10th consecutive victory. Sidney Crosby scores his NHL-leading 24th goal for the defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins. Nathan MacKinnon scores 25 seconds into overtime, ending the Avalanche’s five-game losing streak. On the bright side for the Coyotes, captain Shane Doan scores his 400th goal in his 1,500th game. Defenseman Mark Giordano scores two goals less than 10 minutes apart in the second period. Kevin Labanc lifts the division-leading Sharks, scoring his second goal of the game 3:24 into overtime.

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LAKERS REPORT

Magic coach a Jackson disciple By Tania Ganguli ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Magic Coach Frank Vogel has this in common with Lakers Coach Luke Walton: They’ve both taken aspects of Phil Jackson’s coaching style into their own. It’s part of why Vogel wanted Brian Shaw, now the Lakers’ associate head coach, on his staff when he coached the Indiana Pacers. Shaw played for Jackson with the Lakers and also was part of Jackson’s staff after he retired as a player. “It was almost a daily,” Vogel said of when he sought Shaw’s counsel. “ ‘How did Phil do it? How did Phil do this? How did Phil do that?’ ” Sometimes when Vogel wasn’t sure whether to rest a player, he sought Jackson’s philosophy. Or if he needed help on how to run shootaround the day before games. Or any one of the dozens of decisions head coaches make every day. More than anything, learning about Jackson’s demeanor gave Vogel evidence that his own could work. “I think there’s a lot of coaches that can be highstrung and I’m not highstrung,” Vogel said. “The fact that Phil wasn’t highstrung. There’s a lot of talk about his Zen and all that stuff, but calm mental adjustment, I think there’s great value in. I like to think my personality is more that way than the raging, yell-ateverybody type of coach. I drew confidence that that type of approach works.”

Randle a dad

Julius Randle was not able to return for the final game of the Lakers’ long De-

cember trip. His fiancee, Kendra Shaw, gave birth to the couple’s first child Friday. The boy, Kyden Randle, weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces and measured 21 inches long. “I’ve been texting with him since last night, checking in,” Walton said of Randle before Friday’s game. “He said he’ll be watching from home, wishing he was with us. But he’s got some family priorities. We’re all thrilled for him and we’ll see him back in L.A.” Shaw was due next week, but Randle was on baby watch throughout the Lakers’ 12-day, seven-game trip. After his team flew from Cleveland to Charlotte, N.C., for what would be three days in the city, he flew home to Los Angeles. He spent Sunday and Monday with Shaw before taking a red-eye flight back to Charlotte in time for the Lakers’ game Tuesday against the Hornets.

Injury update

Although he did not play, Lakers reserve point guard Jose Calderon (strained right hamstring) went through a pregame warmup at the Amway Center in Orlando. Calderon told Walton he is close to being able to return. ... The Lakers were without Larry Nance Jr., who suffered a bone bruise in his knee against the Hornets on Tuesday. Nance had an MRI exam on Wednesday in Miami, but it was inconclusive because of the swelling in his knee. He will have an MRI on Sunday with the hope the swelling will have subsided enough for a proper diagnosis. ... Backup center Tarik Black also missed Friday’s game with an ankle sprain. tania.ganguli@latimes.com

Willie J. Allen Jr. Associated Press

MAGIC guard D.J. Augustin drives past D’Angelo Russell, right, and Timofey Mozgov of the Lakers. For the

Lakers, the 19-point loss at Orlando was typical of a road trip that saw them go 1-6.

Lakers lose again on the road [Lakers, from D1] high, and nine assists. Payton did so a night after Heat forward Justise Winslow had a career high in points against the Lakers.

MAGIC 109, LAKERS 90 LAKERS

......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Deng ................30 3-8 4-4 1-10 3 2 11 Ingram ..............23 3-9 3-3 1-3 2 4 9 Young ...............27 2-7 0-2 1-3 0 0 5 Mozgov..............24 1-7 2-2 2-7 0 1 4 Russell..............30 6-15 2-2 1-2 3 4 15 Clarkson............27 7-14 0-0 1-5 2 1 18 Williams ............21 3-11 6-7 0-2 1 0 13 Robinson...........19 3-5 1-2 5-11 1 1 7 Zubac ...............17 2-7 2-2 1-2 1 1 6 Huertas .............16 1-4 0-0 0-2 3 0 2 World Peace.........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 31-87 20-24 13-47 16 14 90 Shooting: Field goals, 35.6%; free throws, 83.3% Three-point goals: 8-23 (Clarkson 4-8, Deng 1-2, Williams 1-3, Young 1-3, Russell 1-4, Huertas 0-1, Ingram 0-2). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 16 (21 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Young 2, Deng, Huertas, Robinson, Russell). Turnovers: 16 (Clarkson 5, Russell 3, Deng 2, Huertas 2, Ingram, Mozgov, Robinson, Zubac). Steals: 8 (Huertas 2, Russell 2, Williams 2, Young 2).

ORLANDO

Reinhold Matay Associated Press

MAGIC Coach Frank Vogel said one trait he admired

about Phil Jackson as a coach was his calmness.

......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Gordon..............23 3-10 2-2 2-7 0 1 9 Ibaka ................29 8-15 2-3 3-11 2 3 19 Biyombo............28 4-8 0-3 1-9 1 1 8 Augustin............18 4-5 0-0 1-2 4 3 11 Meeks...............26 3-11 2-2 0-5 1 2 9 Payton...............29 11-16 0-0 0-3 9 2 25 Vucevic .............25 5-11 1-2 0-7 3 3 11 Watson..............22 5-7 0-0 0-1 4 1 11 Green ...............20 2-3 1-2 0-0 1 2 6 Rudez .................7 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Wilcox.................2 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Zmmrmn .............2 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Hezonja...............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 45-89 8-14 7-47 25 20 109 Shooting: Field goals, 50.6%; free throws, 57.1% Three-point goals: 11-27 (Augustin 3-4, Payton 3-6, Gordon 1-2, Green 1-2, Watson 1-2, Ibaka 1-4, Meeks 1-6, Wilcox 0-1). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 14 (19 PTS). Blocked Shots: 11 (Ibaka 5, Biyombo 3, Gordon, Payton, Vucevic). Turnovers: 14 (Augustin 4, Green 4, Vucevic 2, Gordon, Ibaka, Rudez, Watson). Steals: 10 (Ibaka 2, Meeks 2, Gordon, Payton, Rudez, Vucevic, Watson, Zimmerman). LAKERS 14 26 29 21— 90 Orlando 30 27 29 23— 109 A—18,846. T—2:12. O— Smith, Nansel, Brothers.

Just like the Miami Heat the night before, the Magic shot better than 50%. They also outscored the Lakers in the paint, on second-chance points and on fast-break points. Orlando’s largest lead of the game was 25 and they dominated from start to finish. They opened the game 10-0, holding the shorthanded Lakers scoreless until a Nick Young three-pointer more than five minutes into the game. “They’re one of the biggest teams in the NBA, so we were kind of fighting an uphill battle all game,” Walton said. “The lineups that we could get out there with the injuries we have and just I think being at the end of our road trip, the tanks were nearly empty.” The Lakers were shorthanded once again, especially when it game to size. On Friday night they lacked power forward Julius Randle, who was home in Los Angeles for the birth of his son. They also lacked forward Larry Nance Jr. (left knee injury) and center Tarik Black (sprained right ankle). “The injuries killed us,” Lakers forward Metta World Peace said. “We’re young but we were good enough to win when everybody was healthy. Then we got D-Lo

[D’Angelo Russell] hurt, Nance, Black, Jose. Julius was out I think one game. It was an unfortunate trip. Such bad timing for us. We would have seized on these opportunities if we were at full strength.” The Lakers haven’t been fully healthy for any game in December, having started the month without their starting backcourt. After so many days on the road, the Lakers schedule won’t get easier in Los Angeles. They’ll face the Clippers

(22-8) on Christmas, then the Utah Jazz and Toronto Raptors in the following week. They hope, though, that being home helps. “We’ve been on the road for about two weeks,” Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson said. “To be able to get home, play at home for a couple games, get back into a rhythm. Hopefully get our guys back, Julius will be back, so we’ll be all right.” tania.ganguli@latimes.com Twitter: @taniaganguli

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Players approve NBA labor agreement staff and wire reports

The votes are in, and labor peace in the NBA is virtually assured for several years. The National Basketball Players Assn. has completed its process of voting to approve the terms of the next collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players, which was tentatively agreed upon last week. All that’s left to do now is for the sides to sign the deal, which will happen once the writing of the actual document is completed. Members of the NBA’s Board of Governors voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the deal, and players got their vote done subsequently. The approvals were announced in a simple, short statement Friday night, essentially ending a process that was blissful compared to the rancor-filled mess that surrounded the last round of labor negotiations — ones where a lockout wound up threatening an entire season — five years ago. “The parties voted based on a term sheet that outline the key deal points,” the league and the union said in that statement. “Once the NBA and NBPA finish drafting and execute the complete agreement, specific details will be released.” The seven-year deal will go into effect July 1. Either side may opt out after six years. “It’s funny: I don’t feel old by any means, but I’ve been through sort of two of these, this the second one I’ve really been involved in,” union President Chris Paul of the Clippers said after the deal was struck last week. “I can remember how ugly it got back in 2011. I was a little younger then, didn’t fully understand all the things that were taking place. This was different, like a partnership.” Cleveland Cavaliers starting guard J.R. Smith could be sidelined until the end of the regular season following surgery to repair what the team called a “complex fracture” of his right thumb. Smith’s injury will have a major rip-

ple effect on the Cavaliers, who have dealt with numerous injuries over the last two seasons. Smith hurt his thumb late in the first half Tuesday night at Milwaukee when he swiped at the ball. The 13-year veteran, who signed a fouryear, $57-million contract in October, attended Wednesday’s game and sat on the bench in street clothes with his thumb immobilized in a large soft wrap, a sign that the injury was more significant than originally believed. Smith will need 12 to 14 weeks of recovery time, which means he may not be back until early April. The Cavaliers play their final game of the regular season on April 12 and will likely begin defense of their title three days later in the playoffs. Although Smith was averaging just 8.6 points on 34% shooting, he’s one of the team’s best perimeter threats and wing defenders.

IOC opens new cases against 28 Russian athletes By David Wharton

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Angels sign Revere as backup outfielder The Angels on Friday signed Ben Revere to a one-year contract to be their top reserve across the outfield. The deal is worth $4 million, plus incentives that could be worth more than $2 million. General Manager Billy Eppler has said all off-season he desired a fourth outfielder, and he now has one. November acquisition Cameron Maybin and Kole Calhoun will flank Mike Trout, and Revere will back them all up; he’s played every outfield position. Revere is known to have excellent range but a subpar arm. The 28-year-old Atlanta native has been a steady contact hitter for most of his career, but 2016 was his worst season. He hit just .217, logged a .260 on-base percentage, and slugged .300. Over seven seasons, he has hit .285, with a .320 OBP and .342 slugging mark. Though he is left-handed, he hits pitchers from either

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CHRIS PAUL of the Clippers, president of the players union,

said players and the league worked together “like a partnership.” side equally. To create space for him on their 40-man roster, the Angels designated for assignment first baseman Ji-Man Choi. — Pedro Moura Third baseman Justin Turner and the Dodgers finalized their $64-million, four-year contract. The Miami Marlins finalized their $16-million, two-year contract with right-hander Brad Ziegler, their latest move in an attempt to emulate recent playoff teams by building a strong bullpen. Madison Keys says she will miss the Australian Open after having wrist surgery. The 21-year-old American, ranked No. 8 in the world, said in a statement on Twitter that she had arthroscopic surgery on her left wrist three days after the seasonending WTA Finals in October.

Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon made a tearful public apology Friday, more than two years after punching a woman and breaking bones in her face. As Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops looked on, Mixon spoke at a news conference Friday in Norman, Okla., more than two years after he assaulted Amelia Molitor and broke her jaw and cheekbone. Mixon said he wanted to address the issue earlier, but his legal team advised him not to. “I’m here to apologize to Miss Molitor,” he said. “I apologize to Coach Stoops, I apologize to President [David] Boren, the AD [Joe Castiglione], my teammates. And most of all, my family. I let a lot of people down.” Mixon was suspended for a year after the incident. Though Molitor shoved and slapped him first, Mixon said hitting a woman is unacceptable, even if provoked.

The ongoing Russian doping scandal — with the country’s officials, coaches and athletes accused of systemic cheating — could take a while to clean up. On Friday, the International Olympic Committee announced that it has opened disciplinary cases against 28 athletes whose urine samples were allegedly manipulated in a testing lab during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The cases were triggered by the most recent report from Richard McLaren, an independent investigator commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. “The IOC will go beyond the findings of the [McLaren] Report by reanalyzing all the samples of all the Russian athletes who participated in the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 as well as all those who participated in the Olympic Games London 2012,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. Twenty-seven Russians already have been sanctioned following retests on samples from London and the 2008 Beijing Summer Games. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied allegations of state-sponsored cheating and has blamed whistle-blowers for fabricating evidence. With several of their athletes caught up in the latest investigation, Russian cross-country skiing officials have decided not to host the 2017 World Cup finals, asking that the event be moved elsewhere while they work to repair their credibility within the sport, the International Ski Federation said. david.wharton@latimes.com

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AP TOP 25 No. 11 West Virginia 92, Northern Kentucky 61 No. 14 Wisconsin 90, Florida A&M 37 No. 23 USC 94, Wyoming 92, OT WEST Cornell 78, SE Missouri 62 Missouri St. 69, DePaul 58 Pacific 102, Pacific Union 54 San Diego St. 82, Tulsa 63 Stephen F. Austin 67, Southern Miss. 64 Troy 83, Chicago St. 65 Utah at Hawaii, late Utah Valley 72, Montana Tech 47 EAST Auburn 70, Connecticut 67, OT Boston College 79, Providence 67 Holy Cross 68, Marist 59 Loyola (Md.) 69, Mass.-Lowell 60 Seton Hall 72, Rutgers 61 St. Peter's 65, St. Francis Brooklyn 58 West Virginia 92, N. Kentucky 61 SOUTH Radford 82, Grace (Ind.) 58 Texas St. 69, Tulane 66, OT UMBC 62, James Madison 61 MIDWEST Dayton 92, VMI 56 Michigan-Dearborn 64, Adrian 62 Minnesota 82, Arkansas St. 75 Oakland 86, Georgia 79 SOUTHWEST Harvard 57, Houston 56 Oral Roberts 87, Richmond 72 Women EAST George Washington 74, Loyola (Md.) 64 MIDWEST SIU-Edwardsville 92, Illinois St. 80

NFL INJURY REPORT

ARIZONA at SEATTLE—Cardinals: OUT: CB Marcus Cooper (back, calf), T D.J. Humphries (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: WR John Brown (illness), CB Brandon Williams (back). Seahawks: OUT: RB C.J. Prosise (shoulder). ATLANTA at CAROLINA—Falcons: OUT: DT De'Vondre Campbell (concussion), TE Austin Hooper (knee). Panthers: OUT: DE Ryan Delaire (knee). INDIANAPOLIS at OAKLAND—Colts: OUT: LB Chris Carter (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: CB Rashaan Melvin (knee), T Joe Reitz (back). Raiders: OUT: LB Shilique Calhoun (knee), S Karl Joseph (toe), DT Stacy McGee (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: WR Amari Cooper (shoulder), WR Michael Crabtree (finger), G Kelechi Osemele (ankle), LB Perry Riley (hamstring), LB Malcolm Smith (hamstring), DT Dan Williams (foot). MIAMI at BUFFALO—Dolphins: OUT: QB Ryan Tannehill (knee). DOUBTFUL: LB Jelani Jenkins (knee, hand), CB Byron Maxwell (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: S Isa Abdul-Quddus (ankle), LB Kiko Alonso (hamstring, hand), T Jermon Bushrod (shoulder), CB Bobby McCain (knee, hand), DE Mario Williams (ankle). Bills: OUT: LB Lerentee McCray (concussion). DOUBTFUL: T Cordy Glenn (back). QUESTIONABLE: LB Preston Brown (foot), TE Charles Clay (knee), RB Jerome Felton (foot), G John Miller (hip), WR Sammy Watkins (foot), DT Kyle Williams (back), DT Jerel Worthy (shoulder). MINNESOTA at GREEN BAY—Vikings: OUT: G Brandon Fusco (concussion), RB Zach Line (concussion), RB Adrian Peterson (knee, groin), WR Laquon Treadwell (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: WR Stefon Diggs (hip), S Harrison Smith (ankle). Packers: OUT: LB Jayrone Elliott (hand), RB James Starks (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: WR Randall Cobb (ankle), LB Nick Perry (hand), CB Damarious Randall (shoulder), C J.C. Tretter (knee). N.Y. JETS at NEW ENGLAND—Jets: OUT: LB Lorenzo Mauldin (ankle), DT Steve McLendon (hamstring). DOUBTFUL: RB Matt Forte (knee, shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: WR Brandon Marshall (shoulder, back), RB Khiry Robinson (lower leg), DE Muhammad Wilkerson (ankle). Patriots: OUT: WR Danny Amendola (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: TE Martellus Bennett (ankle, shoulder), QB Tom Brady (thigh), LB Dont'a Hightower (knee), S Jordan Richards (knee), WR Matt Slater (foot). SAN DIEGO at CLEVELAND—Chargers: OUT: RB Melvin Gordon (hip, knee). DOUBTFUL: CB Craig Mager (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: WR Jeremy Butler (ankle), T King Dunlap (knee), G Orlando Franklin (illness). Browns: QUESTIONABLE: LB Dominique Alexander (abdomen, groin), TE Randall Telfer (ankle, knee). TAMPA BAY at NEW ORLEANS—Buccaneers: OUT: T Gosder Cherilus (groin, ankle), T Demar Dotson (concussion), DE William Gholston (elbow). QUESTIONABLE: DT Gerald McCoy (foot). Saints: OUT: CB Delvin Breaux (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: LB Dannell Ellerbe (foot), RB John Kuhn (hip), LB Craig Robertson (shoulder), C Max Unger (foot). TENNESSEE at JACKSONVILLE—Titans: OUT: CB Jason McCourty (chest). QUESTIONABLE: LB Sean Spence (ankle). Jaguars: OUT: WR Arrelious Benn (concussion), DT Jordan Hill (calf), WR Allen Hurns (hamstring), LB Sean Porter (hamstring), RB Denard Robinson (ankle), WR Neal Sterling (concussion). WASHINGTON at CHICAGO—Redskins: OUT: S Su'a Cravens (upper arm), CB Quinton Dunbar (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: DE Chris Baker (ankle), LB Will Compton (knee), LB Terence Garvin (illness), LB Ryan Kerrigan (elbow), QB Colt McCoy (illness), TE Jordan Reed (shoulder), LB Martrell Spaight (shoulder). Bears: OUT: DT Eddie Goldman (ankle), G Eric Kush (concussion). QUESTIONABLE: CB Bryce Callahan (knee), RB Ka'Deem Carey (shoulder), QB David Fales (right thumb), CB Cre'von LeBlanc (knee), DE Cornelius Washington (back), LB Willie Young (knee). CINCINNATI at HOUSTON—Bengals: OUT: G Clint Boling (shoulder), LB Vontaze Burfict (knee, concussion), TE Tyler Eifert (back), TE Tyler Kroft (knee, ankle). QUESTIONABLE: WR A.J. Green (hamstring), RB Jeremy Hill (knee), DE Michael Johnson (shoulder). Texans: QUESTIONABLE: CB Johnathan Joseph (ribs), RB Lamar Miller (ankle).

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D ON ’ T L O OK NOW . .. Maybe AC Milan’s Gabriel Paletta would have produced a better effort if his eyes had been open during the Italian Super Cup against Juventus in Doha, Qatar. Milan won the championship in a shootout, with Mario Pasalic delivering the winning penalty kick.

ARMED FORCES BOWL

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Louisiana Tech 48, Navy 45

Friday’s results DOLLAR GENERAL BOWL

Troy 28, Ohio 23

Ohio.............................7 10 3 3—23 Troy ............................14 7 7 0—28 First Quarter TRY—Chunn 1 run (Kay kick), 13:34 OHI—White 44 pass from Windham (Zervos kick), 8:19 TRY—Chunn 3 run (Kay kick), 1:14 Second Quarter OHI—FG Zervos 33, 13:20 TRY—Thompson 11 pass from Silvers (Kay kick), 4:52 OHI—Reid 5 pass from Windham (Zervos kick), :59 Third Quarter TRY—Chunn 4 run (Kay kick), 5:47 OHI—FG Zervos 47, 3:28 Fourth Quarter OHI—FG Zervos 37, 4:01 TEAM STATISTICS................OHI First downs ..........................23 Rushes-yards...................30-78 Passing .............................315 Comp-Att-Int ................23-47-4 Return Yards ........................84 Punts-Avg. .....................2-32.5 Fumbles-Lost ......................2-1 Penalties-Yards ..................5-33 Time of Possession...........30:40

TRY 17 31-82 235 24-41-2 29 7-38.57 1-0 6-90 29:20

Individual Leaders RUSHING: Ohio, Windham 10-24, D.Brown 823, Hardy 5-21, Se.Smith 1-5, Irons 4-5, White 1-3, (Team) 1-(minus 3). Troy, Chunn 20-56, B.Smith 2-27, Jos.Anderson 3-6, Silvers 3-5, (Team) 3-(minus 12). PASSING: Ohio, Windham 23-47-4-315. Troy, Silvers 24-41-2-235. RECEIVING: Ohio, Reid 12-162, White 4-64, Ball 3-31, Se.Smith 2-28, Irons 1-21, Hardy 1-9. Troy, Thompson 8-83, Douglas 6-113, Letton 312, S.Davis 2-11, McCormick 2-11, B.Smith 1-4, Chunn 1-3, Jos.Anderson 1-(minus 2). MISSED FIELD GOALS—Ohio, Zervos 46. Troy, Kay 20.

Louisiana Tech .............17 14 0 17—48 Navy ............................7 17 7 14—45 First Quarter LT—R.Higgins 1 run (Barnes kick), 13:35 LT—FG Barnes 22, 9:48 NAV—Abey 3 run (Moehring kick), 4:04 LT—T.Taylor 19 pass from R.Higgins (Barnes kick), :18 Second Quarter NAV—Bonner 64 pass from Abey (Moehring kick), 14:49 NAV—Abey 2 run (Moehring kick), 11:17 LT—Henderson 3 pass from R.Higgins (Barnes kick), 7:15 NAV—FG Moehring 40, 2:02 LT—T.Taylor 51 pass from R.Higgins (Barnes kick), :35 Third Quarter NAV—High 24 run (Moehring kick), 7:53 Fourth Quarter LT—B.Scott 12 run (Barnes kick), 13:10 NAV—High 9 run (Moehring kick), 9:05 LT—Henderson 4 pass from R.Higgins (Barnes kick), 4:12 NAV—Perry 30 run (Moehring kick), 3:46 LT—FG Barnes 32, :00 TEAM STATISTICS..................LT NAV First downs ..........................31 25 Rushes-yards...................33-88 49-300 Passing .............................409 159 Comp-Att-Int ................29-40-0 7-12-0 Return Yards.......................177 186 Punts-Avg. .....................2-31.5 3-47.33 Fumbles-Lost ......................2-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards ..................4-50 6-70 Time of Possession...........31:31 28:29 Individual Leaders RUSHING: Louisiana Tech, Craft 17-63, B.Scott 7-33, (Team) 1-(minus 1), R.Higgins 8(minus 7). Navy, Abey 25-114, Romine 3-47, High 7-46, Perry 1-30, Bonner 4-22, Cass Jr. 619. PASSING: Louisiana Tech, R.Higgins 29-40-0409. Navy, Abey 7-12-0-159. RECEIVING: Louisiana Tech, T.Taylor 12-233, Henderson 10-129, C.Smith 4-34, A.Smith 1-7, Bonnette 1-5, Craft 1-1. Navy, Bonner 2-79, Tillman 2-16.

BAHAMAS BOWL

Old Dominion 24, E. Michigan 20

E. Michigan ...................0 0 17 Old Dominion ................3 7 7 First Quarter ODU—FG B.Davis 34, 7:43

3—20 7—24

Second Quarter ODU—Pascal 47 pass from Washington (B.Davis kick), 7:59 Third Quarter EMC—Bailey 5 pass from Roback (Fricano kick), 12:04 ODU—Fulgham 31 pass from Washington (B.Davis kick), 9:50 EMC—Niupalau 5 pass from Roback (Fricano kick), 7:25 EMC—FG Fricano 24, :12 Fourth Quarter ODU—Duhart 5 pass from Washington (B.Davis kick), 13:02 EMC—FG Fricano 19, 9:08 Attendance—13,422. TEAM STATOSTOCS ............EMC ODU First downs ..........................28 20 Rushes-yards.................38-170 39-206 Passing .............................300 188 Comp-Att-Int ................26-47-1 11-20-1 Return Yards ........................89 78 Punts-Avg. ...................3-31.66 4-39.5 Fumbles-Lost ......................1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards ..................3-15 5-65 Time of Possession...........32:30 27:30 Individual Leaders RUSHING: E. Michigan, Banham 13-63, Turner 8-48, Eriksen 9-30, Roback 6-28, Daugherty 1-5, Holder 1-(minus 4). Old Dominion, Lawry 23-133, J.Cox 10-47, Pascal 3-25, Washington 2-2, (Team) 1-(minus 1). PASSING: E. Michigan, Roback 26-46-1-300, (Team) 0-1-0-0. Old Dominion, Washington 1120-1-188. RECEIVING: E. Michigan, Aristilde 7-80, Daugherty 6-72, Bailey 5-69, Niupalau 4-31, Banham 2-18, Browning 1-24, Turner 1-6. Old Dominion, Duhart 3-45, Pascal 2-53, Vaughn 246, Lawry 2-14, Fulgham 1-31, Harper 1-(minus 1).

FIGHT SCHEDULE Dec. 30 At Tokyo, Naoya Inoue vs. Kohei Kono, 12, for Inoue's WBO junior-bantamweight title; Akira Yaegashi vs. Wittawas Basapean, 12, for Yaegashi's IBF junior-flyweight title; Ryota Murata vs. Bruno Sandoval, 10, middleweights. Dec. 31 At Kyoto, Japan, Jonathan Guzman vs. Yukinori Oguni, 12, for Guzman's IBF super-bantamweight title; Kazuto Ioka vs. Yutthana Kaensa, 12, for Ioka's WBA World flyweight title. At Tokyo, Jezreel Corrales vs. Takashi Uchiyama, 12, for Corrales' WBA Super World super-featherweight title; Ryoichi Taguchi vs. Carlos Canizales, 12, for Taguchi's WBA World light-flyweight title. Jan. 13 At Hialeah (Fla.) Park Racing & Casino (Spike), Erislandy Lara vs. Yuri Foreman, 12, for Lara's WBA Super World-IBO junior-middleweight titles; Anthony Dirrell vs. Norbert Nemesapati, 10, super-middleweights. Jan. 14 At Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (SHO), James DeGale vs. Badou Jack, 12, for Jack's WBC World super-middleweight title and DeGale's IBF World super-middleweight title; Jose Pedraza vs. Gervonta Davis, 12, juniorlightweights; Ievgen Khytrov vs. Immanuwel Aleem, 10, middleweights.

THIS DAY IN SPORTS 1950—Cleveland's Otto Graham throws four touchdown passes despite icy footing in Municipal Stadium, and Lou Groza kicks a 16-yard field goal with 28 seconds left to give the Browns a 30-28 victory over the Los Angeles Rams and the NFL title in their first year in the league. 1961—George Blanda's 35-yard touchdown pass to Billy Cannon gives the Houston Oilers a 10-3 victory over the San Diego Chargers for their second AFL title. 2006—Atlanta's Michael Vick becomes the first NFL quarterback to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Needing only 10 yards to reach the mark, he gains 17 on his first carry on the Falcons' opening possession. Morten Andersen's 539th career field goal, a 40-yarder, gives the 46-year-old Falcons kicker the NFL record, passing Gary Anderson for the career mark.

ODDS

NFL Today Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog at RAMS 5 (39) San Francisco Washington 3 (47) at CHICAGO at BUFFALO 41⁄2 (42) Miami at N ORLEANS 31⁄2 (511⁄2) Tampa Bay Atlanta 3 (511⁄2) at CAROLINA at GREEN BAY 7 (43) Minnesota at N ENGLAND 17 (44) NY Jets Tennessee 41⁄2 (431⁄2) at J’VILLE San Diego 4 (431⁄2) at CLEVELAND at OAKLAND 31⁄2 (54) Indianapolis at SEATTLE 71⁄2 (43) Arizona at HOUSTON 1 (42) Cincinnati Sunday Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog at PITTSBURGH 6 (44) Baltimore at KC 3 (37) Denver Monday Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog at DALLAS 6 (44) Detroit Updated odds are available at Pregame.com

MLB CALENDAR Jan. 13—Salary arbitration figures exchanged. Jan. 18—BBWAA Hall of Fame voting announced. Feb. 1-21—Salary arbitration hearings, St. Petersburg, Fla. Feb. 2-3—Owners meetings, Palm Beach, Fla. Feb. 17—Voluntary reporting date for pitchers, catchers and injured players. Feb. 22—Voluntary reporting date for other team's other players. Feb. 28—Mandatory reporting date. March 6-22—World Baseball Classic. March 15—Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days. March 29—Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2016 salary. April 2—Opening day. Active rosters reduced to 25 players.

TRANSACTIONS

BASEBALL ANGELS—Designated infielder Ji-Man Choi for assignment; agreed to terms with outfielder Ben Revere on a one-year contract. DODGERS—Agreed to terms with third baseman Justin Turner on a four-year contract. Atlanta—Agreed to terms with outfielder Ender Inciarte on a five-year contract. Detroit—Designated pitcher Angel Nesbitt for assignment; agreed to terms with catcher Alex Avila on a one-year contract. Miami—Designated pitcher Elvis Araujo for assignment; agreed to terms with pitcher Brad Ziegler on a two-year contract. Oakland—Agreed to terms with pitcher Norge Ruiz on a minor league contract. Tampa Bay—Agreed to terms with outfielder Shane Peterson, second baseman Ryan Brett, catcher Michael McKendry, pitcher Diego Moreno and pitchers Justin Marks and Dana Eveland on minor league contracts. Texas—Claimed pitcher Brady Dragmire off waivers from Pittsburgh, pitcher Tyrell Jenkins off waivers from Cincinnati and pitcher David Rollins off waivers from the Chicago Cubs. FOOTBALL Arizona—Put safety Tyrann Mathieu on injured reserve; signed safety Trevon Hartfield from the practice squad. Chicago—Put defensive lineman Eddie Goldman on injured reserve; signed offensive lineman Cornelius Edison; activated linebacker Jerrell Freeman from the exempt/commissioner permission list. Cleveland—Waived-injured kicker Patrick Murray; signed defensive back Trae Elston to the practice squad. Detroit—Waived defensive end Corey Lemonier. Minnesota—Put cornerback Mackensie Alexander on injured reserve; signed running back C.J. Ham. New England—Signed defensive lineman Woodrow Hamilton to the practice squad. Oakland—Put linebacker Shilique Calhoun on injured reserve; activated defensive lineman Mario Edwards Jr. from injured reserve. San Francisco—Put wide receiver Torrey Smith on injured reserve; signed linebacker Wynton McManis from the practice squad. Washington—Waived linebacker Nick Moody; signed linebacker Lynden Trail from the practice squad.

L AT I ME S . CO M / S P O RT S

Chargers agree to lease in Costa Mesa

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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson will not play Saturday at Green Bay because of knee and groin injuries. The Vikings ruled Peterson out Friday. He came back last weekend for his first game in three months, playing 12 snaps in his return from surgery for a torn meniscus in his right knee. He rushed for 22 yards in six carries as the Vikings lost to Indianapolis, 34-6, and were eliminated from playoff contention. If Peterson, 31, is unable to play in the season finale against Chicago, there is a chance he will have played his last game as a Viking. He is due to make $18 million next season and would probably have to take a significant pay cut to remain in Minnesota. He is also coming off another injury, which could hurt his value in the free-agent market.

Vikings’ plane slides off runway The plane carrying the Vikings to the game at Green Bay slid off a runway and became stuck in grass, leaving players waiting for hours to get off the aircraft. A team spokesman said there were no injuries after the landing shortly after 5 p.m. Friday at Appleton (Wis.) International Airport, about 30 miles

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south of Green Bay. The Vikings’ Twitter account reported shortly after 7 p.m. that “while taxiing after a safe landing, the team plane slid off the runway and became stuck.”

Bowles hospitalized New York Jets Coach Todd Bowles was hospitalized with what the team said was an “undisclosed illness,” and he did not travel for the game at New England today. In a statement posted on their website, the Jets said Bowles was in stable condition, but it was uncertain if he would join the team in time for the game. He would need to be cleared by doctors before he could coach in the game. The team said the 53-year-old Bowles fell ill early Friday afternoon and was taken to the hospital. If Bowles is unavailable, assistant head coach Mike Caldwell would coach the team.

Three key Broncos out Denver’s narrow path to the playoffs grew even more precarious when its leading tackler and top two tight ends were ruled out for Sunday night’s game at Kansas City. The Broncos (8-6) will be without safety T.J. Ward, who has a team-high 87 tackles, and tight ends A.J. Derby and Virgil Green. All three sustained concussions against New England last week.

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A WEEK after returning from a three-month absence, Vikings

running back Adrian Peterson is sidelined by knee, groin issues.

Etc. Pittsburgh wide receiver Sammie Coates and tight end Ladarius Green were listed as doubtful for Sunday’s game against Baltimore, likely depriving quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of two key targets in a game that could decide the AFC North title. Coates has a hamstring issue and Green has been in concussion protocol all week. . . . The NFL fined Seattle defensive end Michael Bennett and linebacker Cassius Marsh $12,154 each for unsportsmanlike-conduct infractions in the Seahawks’ Dec. 15 game against the Rams. Cleveland defensive tackle Danny Shelton was fined $36,464 for roughing Buffalo quarterback Tyrod Taylor last week, and Indianapolis’ Dar-

ius Butler and Miami’s Isa AbdulQuddus drew $24,309 fines for unnecessary roughness against Minnesota and the New York Jets, respectively. ... Arizona placed defensive back Tyrann Mathieu on injured reserve because of a shoulder injury, the third time the versatile 2015 All-Pro defensive back has finished the year on the injury list in his four seasons. He’s never played a full NFL season. . . . Oakland activated defensive lineman Mario Edwards Jr. from injured reserve for Saturday’s game against Indianapolis and placed linebacker Shilique Calhoun on injured reserve. Edwards has not played all season after suffering a hip injury in the preseason opener but returned to practice earlier this month.

The San Diego Chargers have agreed to lease a building and an adjacent parcel of land in Costa Mesa in case they decide to join the Rams and become the second NFL team in Los Angeles, documents obtained by The Times show. Chargers President and Chief Executive Dean Spanos has said that he has not made a decision about leaving San Diego and will not do so until after his team’s Jan. 1 finale. As part of the NFL agreement that allowed the Rams to return to Los Angeles from St. Louis, the Chargers were given a one-year option to join them as a tenant at a stadium in Inglewood that is scheduled to open in 2019. That option expires Jan. 15 and transfers to the Oakland Raiders if the Chargers choose to stay in San Diego. The Chargers have agreed to a lease with the owners of Building C of the Hive, located at 3333 S. Susan Street, as well as an adjacent 3.2-acre parcel. The building and land would serve as the initial location of the team’s headquarters and training facility. The lease can be terminated if the Chargers do not relocate. Should the Chargers decide to move, club officials would evaluate other possible sites in the Southland for permanent headquarters and training facilities. sam.farmer.@latimes.com

Bridge jumpers, minus pools just part of the show [Bet, from D1] need of a makeover. If it were at a family gathering, it would be the crazy uncle or the hideous Christmas sweater your grandma made for you to wear. “With today’s mind-set to hit the lottery, the show wager is really something of a dinosaur,” White said. At Santa Anita last year, only 4.5% of the total handle was bet to show. Compare that to 6.7% for place and 21.0% for win. Single race exotics (exactas, trifectas, etc.) account for 40.1% of the wagers and multi-race bets (doubles, pick-three, etc.) are good for 27.7%.

Marketing the bet

Santa Anita, which opens its signature winterspring meeting Monday, is banking on at least modest interest in show betting to help bring new fans to the sport. It’s a game called “ShowVivor.” It has been around a couple of years but Santa Anita has made revisions. It’s free on the track website and offers $5,000 in prize money, sliced in many different forms, such as longest show streak, number of wins and places and largest payoff. “From a marketing standpoint, you have to go to the website every day,” said Nate Newby, Santa Anita’s vice president of marketing. “[The contest] is a perfect combination, because it sounds easy picking one show horse every day. But it’s also tougher than you think. … It’s almost like a show plunge. If that horse loses, a lot of people get eliminated.” The track hopes show bets are really gateway wagers. “We’ve seen it with our Wagering Ambassadors [staffers who help new bettors],” Newby said. “They recommend show bets for the first couple of days and then people come back and say, ‘I want to make more money.’ “For some, the transformation can only take a few hours, because some go from show bets to trifecta bets on their first day.”

The good old days

There are a couple of reasons for the decline of show wagering over the years, mostly tied to the health of the racing business. “What killed show wagering are the short fields, five-horse races,” said Brad McKinzie, vice president and general manager of the Los Alamitos Racing Assn. “Today a show bet can pay $2.10 or $2.20. In the days with full fields, you could bet a horse that was first or second favorite and get $3.20.” A fun game for novices is the show parlay, where you take all the money you won on one race and just keep adding it to wagers you make in each subsequent race. “The example I use is my

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HEAVY FAVORITE SONGBIRD cruises in the Summertime Oaks at Santa Anita under jockey Mike Smith

in June. Songbird ran four times at Santa Anita this year, producing minus pools each time. mom,” McKinzie said. “She would come here with some friends and they would do a show parlay. They would each throw in 10 bucks and would bet the favorite to show. By the last race they would have 400 or 500 bucks because they were doubling their money a lot. Now they get $2.20 and there is no return. “With short fields I don’t even know why people bet show wagering.” Another reason for the decline is the size of the betting menu. White happened to have a 1977 Santa Anita program. “The entire betting menu was win, place and show,” White said. “One $2 double on the first and second race and a $5 exacta on three races. That was it. It’s like night and day compared to today.” White pointed out that the minimum bet in 1977 was $2 and today there are 10cent superfectas and other micro-wagers. “The wagering competition has certainly cost show wagering its popularity,” he said.

Beating the system

Adding to the intrigue of this wager is the polarity of the bets. People seem to bet either $2 or $10,000 to show. There’s not much of a middle market. The theory behind an excessively large wager is that most tracks are required to return no less than 5% on any bet. So if there is too much money placed on one horse, the track can actually lose money by virtue of the mandatory 5%

Low on show The percentage of total wagering by each individual bet during 2016 at Santa Anita: WAGER Win Exacta Trifecta Pick 4 Superfecta Place Pick 3 Pick 5 Show Daily double Pick 6 Hi-Five

PERCENTAGE 21.0 17.9 12.6 10.2 8.9 6.7 5.5 4.6 4.5 4.0 3.4 0.7

Source: California Horse Racing Board

payout. Last week at Los Alamitos, the track did not have show or place wagering in the race won by California Chrome. In the win pool, 88% of all bets were on Chrome, creating a minus pool of just short of $60,000. The term for people making these large bets are bridge jumpers. “If we had show wagering on this race, there would be so many bridge jumpers there wouldn’t be any room left on the bridge,” McKinzie said. If you lose one race by having the favorite run out of the money, you have to win the next 20 races to break even. “I don’t understand it myself, why someone would risk a lot of money to win very little money,” said Bob Mieszerski, who has been a

handicapper for 38 years, including at The Times and at the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. There are three tracks that are considered the holy trinity of bridge jumping: Charles Town and Mountaineer in West Virginia and Prairie Meadows in Iowa. Their minimum payout is 10%, or $2.20. Jay Kornegay, vice president of race and sports operations at the Westgate Las Vegas, limits large show wagers at those tracks because in many instances the property that takes the bet is responsible for paying it. “If it’s a VIP, we’ll let them bet a couple thousand dollars,” Kornegay said. “If it’s someone that comes in three to five days a week, we might limit them to $1,000 or $500 or less. Others we make not take the bet at all.” Kornegay has had a front-row seat for the deterioration of parimutuel wagering. “When I entered the gaming industry in the late ’80s, we were doing 70% of our business in the race book and 30% on sports,” he said. “Now it’s been a complete flip-flop with 70% now on sports and 30% on racing.”

Beating the beaters

The riskiness of bridge jumping has created a group of people whose goal is to beat them. About eight years ago, Stuart Slagle had an idea to put together a communications network to let bettors know when there are show

plunges or potential minus pools. But the objective was the opposite. It was hoping the favorite ran out of the money producing big payoffs. Slagle, now the racing secretary at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, is now more of an absentee landlord on the site to avoid any conflicts with his job. “There’s an old saw that it’s better to use small money to make big money than use big money to make small money,” Slagle said. “It’s more impressive when someone uses $200 to win a Pick 6 as opposed to spending $10,000 to make $200.” Bob Ike, a handicapper in Southern California for more than 30 years, is one of those that tries to beat the beaters. “It’s such a dumb bet for people to be making,” Ike said of the plungers. “I get a thrill when I take them on, be the contrarian, and then get a lot of pleasure when they run out.” Ike said he will bet about $100 on those races and generally loses no more than 20% or 30%. But when they hit … “I’ve gotten back as much as $2,000 on that investment,” Ike said, citing when heavy favorite Shared Belief ran out of the money in Charles Town.

Looking out for the bettors While it’s naive to think the track looks out for the bettors first, there is one person who has continually resisted the idea of eliminat-

ing show wagering to save the track money. Joe Morris, senior vice president for West Coast operations of the Stronach Group, is essentially the general manager of Santa Anita and Golden Gate. The spectacular 3-yearold filly Songbird ran four times at Santa Anita this year and each time produced a minus pool. Even when there was a five-horse field in the Summertime Oaks, Morris declined to kill the show pool. However, when Songbird spent part of the summer in New York at Saratoga, the track suspended show wagering in both races with fields of seven and five. “Songbird is the draw,” Morris said. “And then to take the big draw and tell newcomers they can’t make a bet on her is not a good decision. … We’re in the wagering business, so it should be difficult to a make a decision to not take a wager.” The exposure the tracks feel is greatly overstated. Santa Anita, for example, is only responsible for paying out what is bet on track and other Southern California satellite operations. In addition, there is a split with the Thoroughbred Owners of California. And let’s not forget about the 15% takeout the track gets on top of every show bet made. “When you look at the 15% of our wagers that are actually made on track, there is a lot of ways to spread the money out,” Morris said.

Staying with it

Everyone agrees that the show bet is not going anywhere. It might not bring a lot of value, but it’s also not hurting anything either. “I think they should always keep it,” Mieszerski said. “I have no problems with it, even though I’ve never participated in it. And that goes back to when there were no exactas. It’s a good thing for people who are novices. It’s a way to cash tickets.” McKinzie also wants to keep it around. “The only reason to do away with it is if you thought the money was going into another pool,” McKinzie said. “But I don’t think that’s the case.” Veteran patrons, used to the days without exotics, were known for the call, “five across,” betting five dollars to win, place and show. It’s also true that the show bet doesn’t bring a lot more safety than a win bet. “When a favorite gets beat, it doesn’t mean they have to finish second or third,” White said. “Yes, California Chrome won by 12 lengths, but in horse racing anything can happen. There is usually one way to win a race and 1,000 ways to lose to race.” And even more ways to lose a bet. john.cherwa@latimes.com Twitter: @jcherwa

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NFL WEEK 16 10 A.M. TODAY, CH. 11

MINNESOTA at GREEN BAY A Vikings loss ends their playoff hopes.

1 P.M. TODAY, CH. 2

INDIANAPOLIS at OAKLAND Colts have yet to win two in a row this season.

1:15 P.M. TODAY, CH. 11

SAN FRANCISCO at RAMS 49ers’ 13-game losing skid is longest in their history.

1:30 P.M. SUNDAY, NFL

5:15 TONIGHT, CH. 4

BALTIMORE at PITTSBURGH These teams have won 10 of 14 AFC North titles.

CINCINNATI at HOUSTON Texans QB Tom Savage will make his first start.

TODAY, 10 A.M.: SD at CLE; MIA at BUF; TEN at JAC; NYJ at NE; AT at CAR; WAS at CHI.

TODAY, 1:15 P.M.: TB at NO; ARI at SEA.

5:30 P.M. SUNDAY, CH. 4

DENVER at KANSAS CITY Chiefs offense: No second-half TD in last three.

MON, 5:30 P.M.: DET at DAL.

FROM A TO Z

Compiled by MATT WILHALME

Baltimore: With two games left, Joe Flacco needs 390 yards passing to break Vinny Testaverde’s single-season club record of 4,177 yards, set in 1996.

Arizona: David Johnson leads the NFL with 1,938 yards from scrimmage and 17 touchdowns. Receiver J.J. Nelson has four touchdowns in his last three games.

Buffalo: Tyrod Taylor is 14-4 when he passes 29 times or fewer, 1-9 when he doesn’t. He’s also 2-13 when trailing by four points or more at any time during a game.

Atlanta: Quarterback Matt Ryan has passed for 17 touchdowns with three interceptions in his last seven road games. He leads the NFL with a passer rating of 114.8.

Cincinnati: A.J. Green is set to make his return to action, at the Houston Texans, less than five weeks after the wide receiver suffered a torn right hamstring.

Carolina: Greg Olsen needs eight yards receiving to become the first tight end with three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. He has 71 catches with three TDs.

Cleveland: Left tackle Joe Thomas was voted to his 10th straight Pro Bowl this week. He has started 158 consecutive games and never missed a snap (9,791 in a row).

Chicago: Jordan Howard is second among rookies with 1,059 yards rushing. Receiver Alshon Jeffery had 89 yards and a touchdown in his return from a suspension.

Denver: The Broncos, winners against Detroit in 1999 and Tennessee in 2004, are 2-0 on Christmas. But the slumping Broncos have lost three of four.

Dallas: Ezekiel Elliott needs 258 yards in his final two games to break Eric Dickerson’s rookie rushing record of 1,808. He leads the league with 1,551 yards rushing.

Houston: Cornerback Johnathan Joseph intercepted passes in his last two games against the Bengals. Safety Quintin Demps leads the team with four picks. Indianapolis: Frank Gore needs 109 yards rushing to reach 1,000 for the ninth time and become the first Colt to reach the milestone since Joseph Addai in 2007. Jacksonville: Interim Coach Doug Marrone will lead the Jaguars against the Titans this week, following the firing of Gus Bradley after last week’s loss to the Texans. Kansas City: Chiefs rookie receiver Tyreek Hill scored touchdowns by rushing and receiving and on a kickoff return in a 30-27 victory over the Broncos last month. Miami: Miami has won eight of nine after a 1-4 start and can clinch its first playoff berth since 2008 with a win over Buffalo and a Denver loss on Sunday. New England: Back LeGarrette Blount has scored a club-record and NFL-leading 15 rushing touchdowns. End Trey Flowers has three games with two or more sacks. N.Y. Jets: Brandon Marshall had 182 yards receiving and three touchdown catches in his last two games against the Patriots. He’s scored three times this season. Oakland: Linebacker Bruce Irvin has five sacks over the last five games. Safety Reggie Nelson had his fourth interception of the season last week. Pittsburgh: Antonio Brown leads the AFC in receptions with 96 and is two touchdown catches shy of tying Hall of Famer Lynn Swann for third in team history with 51. San Diego: The Chargers, losers of three in a row and five of their last seven games, have played in 12 games that were decided by eight points or fewer. Tennessee: DeMarco Murray has run for 1,224 yards, the second-best output of his career. The Titans rank third in the NFL in rushing at 144.7 yards a game.

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RUNNING BACK Kenneth Dixon and the Baltimore Ravens got the better of safety Robert Golden and the

Pittsburgh Steelers last month at Baltimore. The Ravens’ victory was their fourth in a row over the Steelers.

Spoilers waiting to pounce [Farmer, from D1] Similarly, the eliminated Jacksonville Jaguars (versus the Titans) and Chicago Bears (versus the Washington Redskins) want to be wet blankets for teams that still have a pulse. Minnesota is barely alive, but the Vikings could be a big headache for the rival Green Bay Packers by winning at Lambeau Field on Saturday, seeing as Aaron Rodgers and Co. are just hanging on as the NFC’s projected sixth-seeded team. “We’re out here to play football, we’re out here to have fun,” Vikings guard Alex Boone told reporters this week. “And if anything, we’re out here to ruin everybody else’s season.” Pittsburgh, meanwhile,

is hoping to hang on to its narrow lead in the AFC North and heist the hopes of division rival Baltimore. In the earlier of the two Christmas Day games — the other pits the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City — the Steelers will look to reverse a recent trend. The Ravens have won four in a row against the Steelers, six of the last seven meetings and nine of 12 since 2010. In what used to be the NFL’s most competitive rivalry, Ravens-Steelers has been hopelessly lopsided of late. Even last season, when they finished 5-11, the Ravens swept the Steelers. “Is it a rivalry if you’ve dropped a few like that?”

HOW THEY STAND West

NATIONAL CONFERENCE W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div.

y-Seattle

9 4 1 .679 298 235 5-4-1 4-0-0 2-1-1

Arizona

5 8 1 .393 340 325 4-5-1 1-3-0 2-1-1

RAMS

4 10 0 .286 197 328 3-7-0 1-3-0 2-2-0

San Francisco

1 13 0 .071 264 434 1-9-0 0-4-0 1-3-0

North

W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div.

Detroit

9 5 0 .643 301 285 7-3-0 2-2-0 3-2-0

Green Bay

8 6 0 .571 363 339 6-4-0 2-2-0 3-1-0

Minnesota

7 7 0 .500 264 259 4-6-0 3-1-0 1-3-0

Chicago

3 11 0 .214 248 320 3-7-0 0-4-0 2-3-0

South

W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div.

Atlanta

9 5 0 .643 469 358 7-3-0 2-2-0 3-1-0

Tampa Bay

8 6 0 .571 313 322 6-4-0 2-2-0 3-1-0

New Orleans

6 8 0 .429 406 392 5-5-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

Carolina

6 8 0 .429 337 352 5-5-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

East

W L T Pct. PF PA NFC AFC Div.

y-Dallas

12 2 0 .857 366 258 8-2-0 4-0-0 3-2-0

N.Y. Giants

10 5 0 .667 291 274 7-4-0 3-1-0 3-2-0

Washington

7 6 1 .536 345 343 5-5-0 2-1-1 3-2-0

Philadelphia

6 9 0 .400 340 318 4-7-0 2-2-0 1-4-0

West

AMERICAN CONFERENCE W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

Steelers guard Ramon Foster asked in an interview with the Pittsburgh PostGazette. “To win this one is big, it has a lot of implications in it. They’re going to come in here with their heads high, they’re going to come in wanting to spoil our Christmas Day at home.” Pittsburgh would clinch a division title and at least a first-round home game with a victory. A loss could keep the Steelers out of the playoffs. Baltimore would win the division by sweeping its final two games, including its finale at Cincinnati. The Chargers want to maintain the status quo in that they don’t want to be the first team to lose to the Cleveland Browns. The

Philadelphia: The Eagles are 4-1 when Lane Johnson starts. The right tackle returned from a 10-game suspension Thursday in a victory over the Giants.

During the Rams-Seahawks game, there was a questionable placement by the line judge that was challenged by Seattle Coach Pete Carroll. Both ball placement and line judge were on the opposite side of the official first-down chains. As a result, they had to carry the chain across the field for a measurement. Why aren’t there two sets of first-down chains on the field? The games are long enough as it is. Jim Singh La Mesa, Calif.

2 12 0 .143 260 359 1-9-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

East

W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

y-New England

12 2 0 .857 365 233 9-1-0 3-1-0 3-1-0

10 4 0 .714 319 274 7-3-0 3-1-0 4-0-0

Denver San Diego

8 6 0 .571 299 258 5-5-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 5 9 0 .357 366 366 4-6-0 1-3-0 1-4-0

North

W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

Pittsburgh

9 5 0 .643 341 276 7-3-0 2-2-0 3-1-0

Baltimore

8 6 0 .571 306 263 7-3-0 1-3-0 4-0-0

Cincinnati

5 8 1 .393 288 293 4-6-0 1-2-1 2-3-0

Cleveland

0 14 0 .000 220 408 0-10-0 0-4-0 0-5-0

South

W L T Pct. PF PA AFC NFC Div.

Houston

8 6 0 .571 250 294 6-4-0 2-2-0 5-0-0

Tennessee

8 6 0 .571 340 323 5-5-0 3-1-0 1-3-0

Indianapolis

Miami

9 5 0 .643 315 314 6-4-0 3-1-0 3-1-0

Buffalo

7 7 0 .500 358 314 4-6-0 3-1-0 1-3-0

N.Y. Jets

4 10 0 .286 242 358 3-7-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division

New Orleans: Rookie safety Von Bell had 16 tackles and a forced fumble in the Saints’ last two games. Tim Hightower ran for two touchdowns last week.

Have a question about the NFL? Ask Times NFL writer Sam Farmer, and he will answer as many as he can online and in the Sunday editions of the newspaper throughout the season. Email questions to: sam.farmer@latimes.com

7 7 0 .500 362 339 4-6-0 3-1-0 2-3-0

Kansas City

Minnesota: Receiver Stefon Diggs caught nine passes for a career-high 182 yards and a touchdown in a September victory against the Packers.

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Jacksonville

11 3 0 .786 377 336 8-2-0 3-1-0 3-2-0

Green Bay: Ty Montgomery ran for 162 yards against the Bears last week, the most by a Packer since Samkon Gado ran for 171 against Detroit in 2005.

N.Y. Giants: The Giants’ 24-19 loss to the Eagles on Thursday gave the NFC East title to the Dallas Cowboys, but New York still owns the NFC’s top wild-card spot.

Farmer: For readers who don’t know, there are seven people on a chain crew. Four work on the same side of the field as the head linesman, who oversees them, then they all switch to the other side after halftime. There’s a threeperson auxiliary crew on the other sideline, but the official measurements are never made by that trio. The main reason that the official measurement is kept on only one side of the field is it would be too difficult to consistently synchronize both sides.

x-Oakland

Browns are two losses away from joining the 2008 Detroit Lions as the only teams to finish 0-16. San Diego at Cleveland is one of two games this weekend in which both teams have been eliminated from playoff contention. The other is the San Francisco 49ers against the Rams at the Coliseum. “I have respect for the Browns team and those players,” Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers told reporters. “You watch the tape, and they could easily be sitting at 5-9 like we are.” It’s hard to make the playoffs in the NFL, and even harder to find pity.

Detroit: Detroit has held its last eight opponents to 20 points or fewer, the club’s longest singleseason streak since 1961 and the longest active streak in the NFL.

Many years ago, I had surgery for a left inguinal hernia, I know what that is. What is a “sports” hernia? Ken Kell Orange

sam.farmer@latimes.com Twitter: @LATimesfarmer

RAMS: The Rams are last in points per game at 14.1 and yards per game at 278.8. They’ve failed to score more than 10 points in eight of 14 games and have lost five in a row. Al Bello Getty Images

THE OFFICIAL chains to

measure first downs are stationed on only one side of field. Farmer: Dr. Neal ElAttrache, Rams team physician, explains the difference: “A typical hernia is a weakness in the lower abdominal fascia, which is a firm sheet of fibrous tissue at the bottom of the abdominal muscles. That allows the intestines to bulge through, or sometimes enter the narrow canals leading out of the abdomen. A sports hernia is an injury, microtears in the interwoven fascia that connects the abdominal muscles to the pelvis, but also blends with the fascia that connects the groin muscles to the pelvis.” Got all that? In short, ElAttrache said, a sports hernia “doesn’t let intestines or abdominal contents go through it, but leads to pain if the patient tenses his abdominal muscles, or forcefully rotates his torso.”

San Francisco: Rookie John Theus made his NFL debut at left tackle last week. At Georgia, Theus opened holes for Rams running back Todd Gurley. Seattle: Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson needs 15 passing attempts and 25 completions to set single-season career highs in each category. Tampa Bay: The Buccaneers hope to reach nine wins for the first time since 2010. Cameron Brate is tied for the NFL lead among tight ends with seven TD catches. Washington: Tight end Jordan Reed, with 243 receptions in four seasons, needs two to pass Don Warren for third all time among Redskins tight ends.

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HOW THEY MATCH UP Rams pass offense vs. 49ers pass defense: Rookie quarterback Jared Goff, cleared from concussion protocol after being leveled against the Seattle Seahawks, has shown flashes but has yet to perform consistently from start to finish. He has completed 54.7% of his passes, four for touchdowns, with five interceptions. Kenny Britt is 13 yards short of 1,000 yards receiving. This might be a game where rookie receiver Pharoh Cooper gets more opportunities. The 49ers have given up 248.6 yards passing per game, which ranks 18th among 32 teams in the NFL. End DeForest Buckner and linebacker Ahmad Brooks have five sacks apiece. EDGE: Rams. Rams run offense vs. 49ers run defense: If ever there was a game for Rams running back Todd Gurley to flirt with a 100-yard performance, this is it. The 49ers rank last in the NFL in rushing defense, giving up a whopping 176.3 yards a game. Gurley has run for 778 yards and five touchdowns, averaging 3.2 yards a carry. He rushed for 47 yards in 17 carries in the season opener against the 49ers. Receiver Tavon Austin is the Rams’ second-leading rusher with 131 yards. The offensive line has gone through several permutations the last few games. It could change again in an effort to finally spring Gurley and protect Goff. EDGE: Rams. 49ers pass offense vs. Rams pass defense: The last time the Rams played the 49ers, Blaine Gabbert was the 49ers’ quarterback. He completed 22 of 35 passes for 170 yards and a touchdown in a 28-0 victory. He has been supplanted by Colin Kaepernick, who has struggled with accuracy (55.5%) in the NFL’s worst passing offense but has passed for 13 touchdowns, with only three interceptions. The Rams rank ninth in passing defense, giving up 229.9 yards a game. Tackle Aaron Donald has seven sacks. The secondary could be fortified if cornerback E.J. Gaines returns from injury. EDGE: Rams.

DEPTH CHART

As of Friday

Projected starting lineups and first backups for the Rams-49ers matchup (starters in bold): RAMS OFFENSE

49ERS DEFENSE

49ERS OFFENSE

RAMS DEFENSE

11 Tavon Austin 83 Brian Quick

27 Keith Reaser 38 JaCorey Shepherd

82 Torrey Smith 13 Aaron Burbridge

33 E.J. Gaines 32 Troy Hill

84 T. Hemingway

29 Jaquiski Tartt 47 Marcus Cromartie

17 Jeremy Kerley 14 Chris Harper

26 Mark Barron 58 Cory Littleton

76 Rodger Saffold 73 Greg Robinson

59 Aaron Lynch 58 Eli Harold

74 Joe Staley 78 John Theus

97 Eugene Sims 50 Morgan Fox

68 Jamon Brown 76 Rodger Saffold

93 Chris Jones 92 Quinton Dial

68 Zane Beadles

90 Michael Brockers 92 Cam Thomas

57 Michael Wilhoite

66 Marcus Martin 56 Alex Balducci

31 Maurice Alexander 38 Cody Davis

16 Jared Goff 14 Sean Mannion

90 Glenn Dorsey 64 Mike Purcell

MLB

52 Alec Ogletree 54 Bryce Hager

30 Todd Gurley 39 Malcolm Brown

99 DeForest Buckner 98 Ronald Blair

28 Carlos Hyde 32 DuJuan Harris

25 T.J. McDonald 27 Isaiah Johnson

64 Andrew Donnal 69 Cody Wichmann

51 Gerald Hodges 45 Carl Bradford

88 Garrett Celek 85 Je’Ron Hamm

99 Aaron Donald 91 Dominique Easley

65 Josh Garnett 61 Andrew Tiller

95 William Hayes 93 Ethan Westbrooks

61 Tim Barnes 65 Demetrius Rhaney

7 Colin Kaepernick 2 Blaine Gabbert

79 Rob Havenstein

55 Ahmad Brooks 95 Tank Carradine

88 Lance Kendricks 89 Tyler Higbee

41 Antoine Bethea 40 Vinnie Sunseri

77 Trent Brown

20 Lamarcus Joyner 35 Mike Jordan

18 Kenny Britt 10 Pharoh Cooper

26 Tramaine Brock 36 Dontae Johnson

81 Rod Streater 15 DeAndre Smelter

22 Trumaine Johnson 24 Blake Countess

RAMS WHO MUST DELIVER

WATCH OUT FOR ...

Offensive lineman Rodger Saffold. With tackles Greg Robinson and Rob Havenstein struggling and center Tim Barnes often under duress, the Rams need Saffold to step up and take charge of the line. He started when Robinson was benched against New Orleans and seems like he would be the most dependable option as Jared Goff ’s blindside protector.

Quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The last time the Rams played the 49ers, in the season opener, eyes were on Kaepernick only when he took a knee during the national anthem. (That’s also the last time San Francisco won a game.) He supplanted Blaine Gabbert as the starter five games later and has had only one pass intercepted in his last six games. Kaepernick might not be playing the way he did under former coach Jim Harbaugh, but he remains a threat.

Defensive end Eugene Sims. The Rams put end Robert Quinn on injured reserve before last week’s game against the Seahawks. With Quinn out, opponents can scheme against nearlyimpossible-to-stop tackle Aaron Donald. Sims needs

Saffold

Sims

to give the 49ers something to be concerned about. Receiver Kenny Britt. The eighth-year pro, on the verge of a 1,000-yard season, was disappointed that he was not voted to the Pro Bowl and said he would use that as motivation next season. With his contract up at the end of the season, he needs to play with that purpose and be sure-handed against the 49ers.

Defensive end DeForest Buckner. He is only a rookie, but the 6-foot-7 Buckner has proven to be a durable pass rusher. The seventh

Gary Klein’s pick: The Rams have lost nine of 10 but are favored against a 49ers team that under firstyear Coach Chip Kelly has not won since defeating the Rams in the opener three months ago. This will be the second game for the Rams under interim Coach John Fassel, who replaced the fired Jeff Fisher. Goff is making his sixth start — his third at home — and is aiming for better results than what he experienced last month in his debut against the Miami Dolphins and again two weeks ago in a rout by the Atlanta Falcons. So now, it’s the Rams with the NFL’s worst offense against the 49ers with the NFL’s worst defense. Rams 24, 49ers 14

Sept. 12 (0-1) at San Francisco ....28 RAMS...........................0 The 49ers remain on track for the No. 2 pick in the draft after a 41-13 loss to Atlanta dropped them to 1-13, their 13 losses in a row a franchise worst. Sept. 18 (1-1) RAMS ..........................9 Seattle .........................3 The Seahawks wrapped up the NFC West championship with victory over the Rams. Now, if they could only fix that offensive line. Sept. 25 (2-1) RAMS ........................37 at Tampa Bay .........32 Linebacker Kwon Alexander, who had a pick-six against the Rams, made 21 tackles in a 26-20 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Oct. 2 (3-1) RAMS..........................17 at Arizona..................13 Quarterback Carson Palmer celebrates his 37th birthday next week but says he expects to be back next season for the Cardinals. Oct. 9 (3-2) Buffalo .......................30 RAMS .........................19

Kaepernick

Buckner

pick in the draft would no doubt like to leave his mark on the No. 1 pick, Rams quarterback Jared Goff. Receiver Jeremy Kerley. The 49ers have the worst passing offense in the NFL so there doesn’t seem to be much reason for concern for the Rams. But if Coach Chip Kelly decides to change things up, he could turn to Kerley, who has 53 catches, three for touchdowns.

Nothing like a win over the Browns to relieve the pressure on Coach Rex Ryan. Bills play Miami this week with a healthy LeSean McCoy. Oct. 16 (3-3) at Detroit...................31 RAMS.........................28 Lions have a one-game lead in NFC North heading into Monday game at Dallas. Division could come down to finale against Green Bay. Oct. 23, London (3-4) Giants ..........................17 RAMS ..........................10 Cause for concern: Former Rams corner Janoris Jenkins suffered back injury last week and did not play in Thursday night loss against Eagles. Nov. 6 (3-5) Carolina......................13 at RAMS .....................10 Panthers have rematch with Atlanta. The last time they played, Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan passed for more than 500 yards. Nov. 13 (4-5) RAMS ...........................9 at N.Y. Jets ..................6

49ers run offense vs. Rams run defense: The 49ers have plenty of problems, but running the ball has not been one. They rank fourth in the NFL, averaging 134.8 yards a game. Carlos Hyde has rushed for 950 yards and six touchdowns, averaging 4.7 yards a carry. Hyde rushed for 88 yards in 23 carries against the Rams in the opener. Two weeks ago, Hyde ran for 193 yards against the New York Jets. The Rams have given up 107.6 yards rushing per game, which ranks 19th in the NFL. Middle linebacker Alec Ogletree has a teambest 124 tackles. EDGE: 49ers. Special teams: Rams punter Johnny Hekker this week was voted into the Pro Bowl for the third time. He averages a league-best 47.9 yards per punt. The next kick Hekker puts inside the 20 will be his 47th, an NFL record. Greg Zuerlein was a question mark coming into the season but has converted 17 of 20 field-goal attempts. Austin averages 9.3 yards per punt return. Rookies Mike Thomas and Cooper both average 20 yards on kickoff returns. Phil Dawson has made 18 of 21 field-goal attempts for the 49ers. Bradley Pinion averages 44 yards per punt. EDGE: Rams.

SCHEDULE With Gary Klein comments. The Rams were off on Week 8 (Sunday, Oct. 30):

Bryce Petty will start at quarterback for the 4-10 Jets, who travel to play the 12-2 Patriots without Coach Todd Bowles (undisclosed illness). Nov. 20 (4-6) Miami..........................14 at RAMS ....................10 Jay Ajayi rushed for 214 yards the last time the Dolphins played the Bills. Can he do something similar at Buffalo today? Nov. 27 (4-7) at New Orleans.......49 RAMS .........................21 The Saints play host to Tampa Bay a week after New Orleans running back Mark Ingram yelled at Coach Sean Payton.

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

RAMS QUARTERBACK Jared Goff (16) took a beating nine days ago at Seattle, absorbing four sacks, includ-

ing this one in the third quarter, plus a hit late in the game that landed him in the NFL concussion protocol.

Both desperate for a ‘W’ [Rams, from D1] “If we do what we should do, we should get a ‘W.’ ” The Rams have not won any of Goff ’s five starts. They came close in his debut against Miami at the Coliseum, but fell apart in the final six minutes. Two weeks ago against Atlanta, they were booed throughout a 42-14 loss that turned out to be Jeff Fisher’s final game as the Rams’ coach. Last week at Seattle, the Rams lost 24-3 and Goff ended up in concussion protocol after he was hit by cornerback Richard Sherman while scrambling toward the end zone. Goff was cleared late this week and said he has learned his lesson about self-preservation.

Now he faces a 49ers team decimated by injuries. Seventeen players are on injured reserve, and seven landed there after the 49ers fell to 1-12. “It’s going to be a little bit of a challenge in their personnel because they do have so many guys injured,” Goff said. “So it’s going to be a little bit different. “Going out there, we’re not really sure exactly who is going to be rotating in and whatnot because they have some new guys.” It might not make much of a difference for the 49ers. They are giving up 424.9 yards and 31 points a game. Then again, the Rams average only 278.8 yards and a lowly 14.1 points a game. They have scored only five touchdowns in five games at the Coliseum

this season. After the loss at Seattle, several Rams players said they would remain motivated for pride and job security. Whoever is hired as the new coach will no doubt evaluate how players responded to adversity. The Rams, who play the Arizona Cardinals at the Coliseum in next week’s finale, have two more opportunities. “A lot of guys know what they need to do,” Gurley said. “We know a lot of guys are playing for jobs. “We just want to go out there and not lay down, and just try to get these wins for sure.” gary.klein@latimes.com Twitter: @LATimesklein

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The 10 children in ‘The King and I’ cast balance their jobs in the spotlight with school, play — and sugar cookies for the holiday By Jessica Gelt The child actors in the touring production of “The King and I” are about to consume way too much sugar. They bounce like pinballs shouting, “Cocoa, cocoa, cocoa!” beside a buffet table decorated with crepe paper and Christmas lights, and stocked with sugar cookies and paper cups brimming with frosting and sprinkles. It’s just past noon in a windowless room in the labyrinthine basement of the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, which serves as both their school and their place of employment. At the moment, their school is celebrating its holiday party. In the evening, the kids will appear onstage in director Bartlett Sher’s lavish threehour revival of the classic

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Rodgers & Hammerstein musical starring Laura Michelle Kelly and Jose Llana. The 10 children range in age from 7 to 14 and are under six-month contracts to tour with the show through such cities as Boston, Seattle and Pittsburgh. The experience is considered significant enough that their parents are willing to accompany them on the journey, uprooting their lives and daily routines. The majority of the kids are making their national tour debuts, though a few, like Graham Montgomery, a precocious golden-haired 13year-old, have other professional credits to their name. Montgomery was cast as Young Charlie in the musical “Kinky Boots” on Broadway. In “The King and I,” [See Child actors, E5]

‘Star Wars’ mellow fellow on cello Dermot Mulroney’s role in ‘Rogue One’: playing strings on the movie soundtrack.

Best picture Circle of trust “La La Land” “Moonlight” “Manchester by the Sea” “Fences” “Hell or High Water” “Silence” “Arrival” Prime contenders “Lion” “Loving” “Hacksaw Ridge” “Jackie” “Hidden Figures” Analysis: The glad-handing has ended, all the questions have been answered at the nightly Q&As and, sources tell me, the ocean called — [See Gold Standard, E3]

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By Tim Greiving When audiences see “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” they’ll encounter actor Dermot Mulroney — just not on screen. He’s playing cello on the soundtrack. Mulroney met “Rogue One” composer Michael Giacchino in 2005 at the premiere for the romcom “The Family Stone,” which Mulroney starred in and Giacchino scored. The actor told Giacchino that he played the cello and challenged Giacchino to hire him for a movie scoring session. “I was like, ‘Can you really read music? Because there’s no rehearsals. You just have to play it,’ ” Giacchino recalled. “He goes, ‘No, I can do that, I can do that!’ I was like, ‘All right, well, then why don’t you sit in with our cello section on ‘Mission Impossible’?” Mulroney did just that on [See Mulroney, E2]

Golden Globes voters have spritzed Tom Ford’s perfume. SAG Awards balloters have been playing “Captain Fantastic.” (And maybe the Brown Dirt Cowboy too, if they know their classic-era Elton John.) What does it all mean for the Academy Awards? Time for another edition of Oscar Watch, as we puzzle through the latest news and developments leading up to the academy revealing its nominees on Jan. 24.

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regularly soaked up concerts featuring the symphony’s musical director, Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. “I think we must have been told to practice, or encouraged — but I don’t have any memory of being made to practice,” Mulroney said. “By the time I was a teenager, and I was really good, I remember wanting to practice, because it was something I excelled at.” Mulroney won solo competitions as a teenager, often with Édouard Lalo’s cello concerto. As a student at Northwestern University, he performed in a college orchestra all four years and continued with private lessons while also acting in plays. He was on the precipice of a life in classical music but chose to step back. “At 14,” Mulroney remembered, “Loran Stephenson said, ‘You need to decide now if you want to go to Eastman or Juilliard or any of the top conservatories. You can do it, but you need to start not practicing the half-hour or the hour — you need four hours of practice to get up.’ That scared me off, because I wanted to goof around with my friends after school.” He put the cello down after college, where he majored in film with an eye toward becoming a cinematographer. “The truth is,” he said, “I thought both of those ideas were dead-end roads. I thought it was a stupid career path, because there’s no chance in hell that I would either be a professional musician or an actor.” Time, of course, has proved otherwise. Mulroney has had starring roles in film and TV since his breakout in the 1988 western “Young

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Guns” — roles ranging from the object of Julia Roberts’ desire in 1997’s “My Best Friend’s Wedding” to the man of the (haunted) house in last year’s “Insidious: Chapter 3.” At times, he’s brought his cello into the frame, as in the 1991 film “Samantha.” In his recent guest spots on Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” Mulroney introduced his musician character by playing the prelude to the Lalo concerto. “I go to my garage,” he said, “and I still have my box of cello music from my high school years. And there it is: my copy, with my high school handwriting on it, that I haven’t looked at in 35 years. Many of the players on the show are finger-synching to somebody else’s recording ... but I’m really proud to play to my own prerecord.” He got back into music in the mid-’90s as a member of the band Low & Sweet Orchestra, and he now plays and sings in the band Cranky George. The work for Giacchino is invisible. Mulroney sits in the back of the cello section as the 11th chair and just tries to keep up with the master artists around him. But he loves it. “Obviously, I knew about orchestras, I knew how to play in one, I knew about scoring orchestras,” he said. “But then when I started doing it, it really became a different perspective for me and such a source of pride — but pride related to the fact that I’m included in an exclusive group of musicians ... really just towering talent. I’m more of a journeyman player.” calendar@latimes.com

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What early nods mean for Oscars [Gold Standard, from E1] it’s running out of shrimp. All of which is to say: The parties and promotional events are over, and academy members are preparing to tuck in for the holidays with their DVD screeners. A few questions to ponder: 1) “Hidden Figures,” as expected, scored big with actors. (And the Obamas at a White House screening.) Will it continue to show strength, appealing to other guilds, on the way to an underdog run to a best picture Oscar nomination? 2) Can “Jackie” catch on with anyone outside of critics? As one academy member complained to me after watching the movie: “If I wanted to listen to someone planning a funeral for two hours, I’d spend the holidays with my Aunt Edna.” And 3) Is there any hope left for “Loving”? Jeff Nichols’ moving love story put up a goose egg at the SAG Awards but did manage nominations for its two leads — Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton — with the Globes. It didn’t land a best picture drama nod, though, and the film hasn’t caught on commercially. It’s not too late for Focus Features to remind Oscar voters of the movie’s merits and some members’ initial admiration of it. But I can’t escape the sagging feeling that this powerful movie will wind up overlooked.

Lead actress Circle of trust Emma Stone, “La La Land” Natalie Portman, “Jackie” Prime contenders Annette Bening, “20th Century Women” Ruth Negga, “Loving” Isabelle Huppert, “Elle” Amy Adams, “Arrival” Taraji P. Henson, “Hidden Figures” Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins” Analysis: I have not written a word about Streep this season. How is that possible? I’ve listed her every week among the prime contenders, never really believing that, with so many other worthy women, she’d actually land yet another nomination. That kind of (wishful?) thinking went out the window when Streep earned both Golden Globes and SAG Awards nods for “Florence,” playing a real-life New York socialite whose inability to sing didn’t stop her from trying. The Globes nom was expected, as the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. has 10 spots for its acting categories and “Florence,” rightfully, landed in the less competitive comedy/musical category. But SAG too? Geez. That has me wondering if Streep is about to add to her Oscar nomination record, even if, yes, SAG voters might love her even more than the academy. Can I admit that I’m conflicted? Streep’s work in “Florence” ranks among her best — very funny, deeply sad, always fearless. And yet handing her a 20th Oscar nomination would still feel like a profound failure of imagination. Sure, Streep’s “Florence” performance is more deserving than her recent, scenery-chewing turns in “Into the Woods” or “August: Osage County” or even “The Iron Lady,” for which she won her third Oscar. But more deserving than the never-nominated Huppert or the beautifully understated Negga? Absolutely not. (And just in case you didn’t catch it the first time, let me repeat: Isabelle Huppert has zero Oscar nominations. Time to rectify that, voters.)

Fantastic”? Plenty of people, it turns out. Or, more specifically, at least a couple dozen of the 85 active Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. members and some of the 2,500 people voting for SAG Awards nominations. Mortensen scored nods from both groups, and the film itself — an anarchistic family saga with Mortensen playing a demanding dad — earned a SAG ensemble mention. In retrospect, it makes sense, even if moviegoers didn’t really take to “Captain Fantastic” when it came out in Jul. Mortensen’s inflexible patriarch in the movie is an atheist who celebrates the birth of Noam Chomsky, not Jesus. In other words: He’s just like every other godless sinner living and working in Hollywood. Someone has to balance out Garfield’s devout Desmond Doss, right?

sation this year for his knowing turn as Streep’s husband in “Florence Foster Jenkins.” With Globes and SAG nods, it’s looking likely that we might see him at next year’s Oscars.

Director Circle of trust Damien Chazelle, “La La Land” Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight” Martin Scorsese, “Silence” Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”

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VOTERS have been singing Meryl Streep’s praises for “Florence Foster Jenkins.”

Supporting actress Circle of trust Viola Davis, “Fences” Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea” Naomie Harris, “Moonlight” Nicole Kidman, “Lion” Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures” Prime contenders Janelle Monáe, “Hidden Figures” Greta Gerwig, “20th Century Women” Analysis: Spencer’s SAG and Golden Globes noms have me ready to sign off on this category. She and the scene-stealing Monáe are equally good in the earnest “Hidden Figures,” but the Oscar-winning Spencer possesses stronger name recognition and goodwill among academy members. Gerwig should be more of a factor, but the late-breaking “20th Century Women” seems to be struggling to find its way to the top of voters’ screener stack. Maybe there’s still time for a late-season run.

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“JACKIE” by Pablo Larraín is a likely Oscar contender, as is Natalie Portman.

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Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight” Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water” Lucas Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea” Dev Patel, “Lion”

“Nocturnal Animals” Issey Ogata, “Silence” Mykelti Williamson, “Fences” André Holland, “Moonlight” Simon Helberg, “Florence Foster Jenkins”

Prime contenders Hugh Grant, “Florence Foster Jenkins” Michael Shannon,

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no one has been writing stories lamenting that fact or calling it a gross oversight on the part of the academy. That’s because Grant’s (seemingly) effortless charm isn’t the kind of acting that the academy rewards. If Cary Grant couldn’t win an Oscar, what chance does Hugh Grant have? But he’s in the conver-

Prime contenders Denis Villeneuve, “Arrival” Pablo Larraín, “Jackie” Denzel Washington, “Fences” Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge” David Mackenzie, “Hell or High Water” Analysis: Washington’s adaptation of August Wilson’s play “Fences” won key raves this weekend from the New York Times’ A.O. Scott and the Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgenstern, with Scott praising Washington’s decision to resist “the temptation to force a lot of unnecessary cinema on the play.” But if, as Scott notes, confinement is an implied theme in “Fences,” the material’s inherent restrictions could end up hurting Washington’s chances with directors’ branch voters. The majority of the reviews note the primacy and poetry of Wilson’s words. However, as my colleague Kenneth Turan notes in his review, Washington’s “reverence for the play and its language,” in part, hamstrings its “attempts at making the work fully come alive on screen.” Due respect will be given to “Fences” in the picture, screenplay and, of course, acting categories. But the restraint Washington shows behind the camera will likely cost him a nomination, even if, in the views of some, it results in a better film. glenn.whipp @latimes.com Twitter: @glennwhipp

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Protecting good trolls from the bad

Guillermo del Toro’s streamlined ‘Trollhunters’ on Netflix is full of brio.

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Guillermo del Toro, the horror art-movie director, has created a cartoon series, “Trollhunters,” based on the 2015 young adult novel of the same name he wrote with Daniel Kraus (“The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch”). Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the show premiered Friday on Netflix (home also to the DreamWorks series “Voltron: Legendary Defender”). It’s more streamlined and less explicitly gruesome than the book, and at the same time busier — more of a TV series. The setting has moved from San Bernardino to the fictional everytown of Arcadia. Characters have been invented, lost or altered. Jokes have been punched up; the action, of which there is much, has the visceral advantage of being staged rather than described. Our hero is Jim (voiced by the late Anton Yelchin), a human teenager. Neither the least nor the most tortured kid in his class, he cooks for his busy doctor mother — it’s a single-parent situation, as it so often is — moons over classmate Claire (Lexi Medrano) and distractedly dreams of a more

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exciting life than the one he’s got, with no particular sense of what that might be. Jim has a comical best friend, Tobias (Charlie Saxton), who, in a trope that goes back to Sancho Panza and the Hardy Boys’ chum Chet, is fat; but the television version does him the favor at least of changing his nickname from Tub to Tobes. (There are still cracks about food, though.) Late for school one morning, cutting across a concrete riverbed of the sort featured in countless movie car chases, Jim is psychically

called to by a magic amulet (James Purefoy), buried in a pile of rocks. “Huh,” he says, picking it up. “Looks like an amulet.” It is the Amulet of Merlin, we will learn, which is both a source of power and a target on Jim’s back, and the rocks are the sun-frozen remains of the last Trollhunter. The amulet has chosen him to be the next one, charged with protecting good trolls from the bad ones, as well as from “goblins, gruesomes and an occasional rogue gnome.” So explains six-eyed, four-armed Blinky (Kelsey

Grammer), one of the good ones, who has his own large sidekick, a videotape-eating overgrown sweetheart named AAARRRGGHH!!! (Fred Tatasciore). Blinky will be Jim’s guide in his new after-school job, keeping trolldom safe from harm, mainly embodied in a mountain of bad news named Bular (Ron Perlman), who has killed several of his predecessors. “I don’t want to die,” says Jim. (This is not the excitement he was looking for.) “Goodness gracious,” Blinky laughs. “Who does?”

The human characters sport the rubbery look common to computer animation — Jim has the physique and physics of Woody from “Toy Story,” basically — but the monsters, who come in a variety of shapes, sizes and configurations of limbs and features, seem paradoxically more real. And this may be Kelsey Grammer’s best role since “Frasier,” I state without irony or insult. There is nothing particularly novel here. There are bikes and bullies; untrustworthy adults and trusty adults too trusting of the un-

trustworthy ones; ancient spells and sacred responsibilities; a busy world veiled from our own. There is the juxtaposition of the suburban and the uncanny. There is the fate of the world placed on characters not nearly out of high school. If you can’t think of at least half a dozen films or books or TV shows that fit this description, you have not spent much time at the movies or in front of a television, or reading young adult novels in, oh, the last 30 years. It matters little. Alongside Del Toro, the writing credits include Marc Guggenheim, who developed “Arrow” for the CW, and Dan and Kevin Hageman (“The Lego Movie”), who are all executive producers. They have made their series with brio and wit, as much majesty as the budget will allow, and enough suspense and mystery to make one invest in subsequent episodes as they arrive. robert.lloyd@latimes.com Twitter: @LATimesTV Lloyd

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and just die laughing together.” Kelly is making a guest appearance at the party. Her effect on the children is similar to that of sugar. The kids eat her up, basking in the glow of her attention and clamoring to frost cookies for her. “These children handle so much and take it all in stride. So you have to be careful to remember that they’re just children,” Kelly says after performing a particularly dramatic reading of the book “Santa’s Sleigh Is on Its Way to California.” “Who wants to read a story?” she asked before opening the book and settling on a chair beside a small Christmas tree. The children piled themselves around her on a rug and bench. “Are the older ones really ready for this book?” This question is a joke since the book is definitely too young for the teens in the group. Such are the perils of a “one-room schoolhouse,” as tutor and child wrangler Leah Osborn-Schulte describes the situation. On the upside, though, says tutor and studio teacher Jessica Phelps, the children receive personalized educations that often put them ahead of their peers when they return to their regular schools. Indeed, when the party is over, the children dutifully sit down at the tables that serve as their desks and immediately get to work. Their lessons are crafted by the teachers based on the curriculum requirements provided by their schools as dictated by the states they hail from. The four eldest children work on computers, while the others use pencil and paper. Phelps and OsbornSchulte roam from child to child, answering questions, explaining formulas and making sure everyone is on task. “A ratio is just like a fraction. What’s 18 divided by 9? And what’s 9 divided by 9? So 2 over 1,” Phelps explains to one student using a white board before moving on.

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OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 2:35, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 MOANA (PG) 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 1:45, 4:40, 7:30 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:55, 10:20 SING (PG) 11:45, 1:40, 4:20, 7 SING 3D (PG) REALD 3D 11, 9:40 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 12:50, 2:25, 3:55, 5:35, 7:10, 10:15 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:15, 8:45

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE XD 12:45, 4, 7:15

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 9:30, 10:30

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 11:05, 2:20, 4:45, 5:35, 8, 11:15

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX REALD 3D 10:15, 1:30, 8:50

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE XD 9:40, 1, 7:40

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 4:20 P.M.

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 12:45 P.M.

JACKIE (R)

(10:00) 12:20, 2:40, 5:05,

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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE XD

FENCES (PG-13)

PASSENGERS (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 11, 1:50, 7:30

PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX REALD 3D 4:40 P.M. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 10:30, 1:55, 5:10, 8:30

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) RESERVE 11:45, 2:25, 5, 7:45 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) RESERVE 9:45, 12:10, 3, 5:30, 8 LA LA LAND (PG-13) RESERVE 9:30, 11:05, 12:40, 2:15, 3:45, 5:25, 7, 8:35 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) RESERVE 10:05, 1:15

MOANA (PG) RESERVE 9:35, 10:55, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 FENCES (PG-13) RESERVE 5, 8:15 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 1:35, 3:10, 4:25, 8:40 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 10:45, 7:15 PASSENGERS (PG-13) RESERVE 9:30, 11, 1:50, 5:55, 7:30 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 12:25, 4:40 SING (PG) RESERVE 10:10, 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 SING 3D (PG) RESERVE REALD 3D 11:35, 2:30, 5:15, 7:55 WHY HIM? (R) RESERVE 10, 12:50, 4, 7:05 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 12:20, 1:55, 2:40, 3:30, 5:10, 6:50, 8:30

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 11:20, 5:45, 9

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10:15, 4:45, 8

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 1:25 P.M.

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) RESERVE 5:15, 8:25 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) RESERVE 5:15, 8:25 LA LA LAND (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 1:55, 3:25, 5:05, 6:40, 8:15 LA LA LAND (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 1:55, 3:25, 5:05, 6:40, 8:15 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) RESERVE 10:50, 2:05 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) RESERVE 10:50, 2:05 MOANA (PG) RESERVE 10:10, 12:55, 3:55, 7 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 10:40, 4:35, 7:30 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 10:40, 4:35, 7:30 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:35 P.M. ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 1:35 P.M. PASSENGERS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:55, 4:55, 7:45 PASSENGERS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:55, 4:55, 7:45 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:45 P.M. PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 1:45 P.M. SING (PG) RESERVE 10:20, 4:10, 7:15 SING 3D (PG) RESERVE REALD 3D 1:10 P.M. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 11:30, 12:30, 6:50 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 11:30, 12:30, 6:50 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 3:45 P.M. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 3:45 P.M.

3:10

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 8:50 P.M. DANGAL (NR) 9:30, 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:50

SING (PG) RESERVE XD 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE XD 1, 4:30, 7:45

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10 A.M.

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) RESERVE 11:25, 2, 4:35 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) RESERVE 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 LA LA LAND (PG-13) RESERVE 7:05 P.M. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) RESERVE 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 MOANA (PG) RESERVE 10:55, 1:35, 4:15 LION (PG-13) RESERVE 7:10 P.M. ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 11:05, 4:25, 7:20 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:45 P.M. PASSENGERS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:40, 4:10, 7 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:25 P.M. SING (PG) RESERVE 11:30, 4:40, 7:15 SING 3D (PG) RESERVE 2:05 P.M. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 10:35, 1:40, 3:45, 4:45, 7:50

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 12:40, 6:50 JACKIE (R) RESERVE 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 9:40, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 DOCTOR STRANGE (PG-13) 10:30, 1:20, 11:20 ARRIVAL (PG-13) 11:15, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 10:20, 1:25, 4:30, 7:35 MOANA (PG) 10:20, 11:45, 1:10, 2:35, 4, 5:25, 8:15, 11 LION (PG-13) 7, 10:15 FENCES (PG-13) 5, 8:10, 10:40 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 12:35, 2:05, 6:15, 7:45 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:15, 4:55, 10:35 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 9:35, 1:50, 3:20, 7:30, 9 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:55, 4:40, 10:20 SING (PG) RESERVE 11, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10 SING (PG) 5:50 P.M. SING 3D (PG) REALD 3D 9:35, 12:20, 3:05, 8:35, 11:15 WHY HIM? (R) 11:50, 2:35, 5:20, 8:10, 10:55 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 11:05, 2:20, 4:45, 5:35, 8, 11:15 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 6:25, 9:40 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:15, 1:30 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 11:55,

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE XD

10, 4:30, 7:45

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE

XD 1:15, 10:55

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 10:55, 1:40 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 10:05, 1:20, 4:35, 7:50, 10:55 MOANA (PG) 10:30, 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 LION (PG-13) 10:10, 1:10, 4:25, 7:40, 10:50 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 10:45, 4:40, 10:25 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:35, 7:30 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 10:15, 4, 10 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1, 7 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 11:05, 2:20, 5:35, 8:50 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 12:10, 3:25

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE XD 1:40, 4:50, 8

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10:30 A.M.

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 10:40, 11:55, 1:25, 2:40, 5:15, 8:05 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 11:55, 2:35, 5, 7:25 LA LA LAND (PG-13) 9:20, 10:45, 12:20, 3:15, 6:15 LA LA LAND (PG-13) RESERVE 1:50, 4:45, 7:45 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 9:50, 1, 4:15, 7:20 DOCTOR STRANGE (PG-13) 9:10 A.M. FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 8:10 P.M. MOANA (PG) 10:20, 1:20, 4:10, 7 FENCES (PG-13) RESERVE 5, 8:15 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 11 A.M. ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 12, 2:45, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:15 A.M. ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 1:45 P.M. PASSENGERS (PG-13) 9:10 A.M. PASSENGERS (PG-13) RESERVE 12:05, 2:50, 4:30, 5:35, 8:20 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:20 A.M. SING (PG) 9:45, 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 8:25 SING (PG) RESERVE 12:25, 3:05, 5:45 SING 3D (PG) REALD 3D 9:10 A.M. SING 3D (PG) RESERVE REALD 3D 11:45, 2:25, 5:25 WHY HIM? (R) 11:35 A.M. WHY HIM? (R) RESERVE 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 9:10, 10, 11 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 12:15, 1:10, 2:10, 3:20, 4:20, 5:20, 6:25, 7:30, 8:30

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:30 A.M. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 12:45, 4, 7:10

JACKIE (R) 9:15 A.M. JACKIE (R) RESERVE 11:45, 2:20, 5:05, 7:35

ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 5:10 P.M. ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE

D-BOX REALD 3D 8 P.M. ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 10:30, 5 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX REALD 3D 1:45, 8:45

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 10:50, 1:05, 1:50, 4:40, 6:55, 7:30 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 11:40, 2:30, 5:20, 8:20 ALMOST CHRISTMAS (PG-13) RESERVE 11:20, 11:20, 2:15, 2:15 MOANA (PG) 10:35, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35 FENCES (PG-13) 5, 8:30 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 10:10, 1:10, 7:10 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 5:10 P.M. ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 4:10 P.M. ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 8 P.M. PASSENGERS (PG-13) 11:10, 2, 8:10 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 4:50 P.M. SING (PG) 9:40, 3:40, 6:30 SING 3D (PG) REALD 3D 12:40, 9:10 WHY HIM? (R) 9:50, 12:50, 3:50, 7 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 5 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 11:30, 12:15, 2:45, 5:50, 6:45, 9 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 1:45, 8:45 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 3:30 P.M. MOONLIGHT (R) 10:15, 4:05 BAD SANTA 2 (R) 10:05, 12:30

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) RESERVE 9:10, 11:50, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) RESERVE 7:10 P.M. MOANA (PG) RESERVE 9:50, 1, 3:50, 7 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) RESERVE 10:40, 4:40 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:40, 7:30 PASSENGERS (PG-13) RESERVE 8:40, 5 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 11:20, 2:10, 7:50 SING (PG) RESERVE 8:30, 9:40, 12:30, 3:10, 4:30 SING 3D (PG) RESERVE 11:10, 1:50, 7:20 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) RESERVE 9, 10:10, 12:20, 3:40, 7 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:30, 4:50, 8

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By Frank Stewart Unlucky Louie told me he had last-minute shopping and gift-wrapping to do. “I already told you what an inept gift-wrapper I am,” Louie sighed. “If you can’t wrap gifts well,” I advised, “at least make it look like the presents put up a good fight.” Louie put up a good fight as declarer at today’s grand slam. West led a diamond, and Louie saw 12 tricks: six trumps, three spades, a diamond and two clubs. He carefully played a low diamond from dummy, deferring a discard on the ace, and ruffed in his hand. He drew trumps and took the A-K of clubs. When West’s queen fell — Louie was entitled to some good luck on Christ-

KENKEN Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6 puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.

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HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis Aries (March 21-April 19): Your instinct to interpret the world for your dear ones is admirable and necessary in the case of the young and the old. Taurus (April 20-May 20): Be patient. Change will happen in a good time frame even if it doesn’t happen in your time frame. Gemini (May 21-June 21): Don’t pass up the chance to see new environments. Beauty will inspire you and keep you producing and creating into the new year. Cancer (June 22-July 22): Just do it the way you want to, and let the universe correct you if necessary. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): This is a lucky day for social fun. The energy will center around you long enough for you to get your fill. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mistakes will be corrected or compensated for, so don’t be

too quick to judge today’s imperfect contenders. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Relationships are healing around you, and this will make for a nicer experience for you, too, even if you’re not directly involved in the healing process. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You can’t predict the outcome, and that’s where the lessons are. Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Bringing people together in love and comfort is where the real sweet stuff of life comes in. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll be in a situation that seems to have no rules. It’s the perfect chance for you to set a standard for others. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll pull off some amazing feats this weekend by putting diligent work behind the talents you naturally possess. Then you’ll turn around and give most of credit to others, because

you’re gracious. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): A friend’s gesture prompts an emotional reaction that surprises both of you. You forget sometimes just how deeply you feel things. Your emotional flexibility is a wonderful gift. Today’s birthday (Dec. 24): Not all that’s asked of you this year is fair, but life doesn’t have to be fair to be wonderful. You’ll meet the demands and show your superhuman emotional strength. Fantastic news comes in January; there’s a windfall in June. Family ties will help you in a big way if you’re willing to take the help. Taurus and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 45, 39, 22 and 16. Holiday Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment. Previous forecasts are at latimes.com/horoscope.

mas Eve — he claimed. If the queen of clubs doesn’t fall, Louie discards his jack on the ace of diamonds and ruffs a club. A 3-3 break would give him a 13th trick. He would also succeed with a 3-3 spade break or a squeeze. I wish my readers a holiday season of peace and joy. Question: You hold: ♠ J 9 8 3 ♥ 9 5 ♦ K Q J 9 3 ♣ Q 2. Your partner opens one heart, you respond one spade, he bids two clubs and you return to two hearts. Partner then bids two spades. What do you say? Answer: Partner has a good hand and remains interested in game, though your two-heart preference suggested at most nine points. Since you have a maximum for your bidding with the unbid suit well

stopped, bid 3NT. North dealer N-S vulnerable NORTH ♠Q54 ♥K7 ♦A642 ♣AK64 WEST EAST ♠J983 ♠ 10 6 ♥95 ♥ 10 8 3 ♦KQJ93 ♦ 10 8 7 5 ♣Q2 ♣ 10 9 8 5 SOUTH ♠AK72 ♥AQJ642 ♦ None ♣J73 NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 1 NT Pass 3♥ Pass 3 NT Pass 4♠ Pass 5♣ Pass 5♠ Pass 7♥ All Pass Opening lead — ♦ K 2016, Tribune Media Services

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His responses are hurtful Dear Amy: My boyfriend and I have been together for almost 10 years. I am 28, and he is 26. I never really pushed the idea of getting married or having kids. Lately, though, it’s all I can think about. When I ask him things like, “When do you think we will get married?” he does things like roll his eyes and says things like, “Pretty soon, I guess, since women are never satisfied with anything.” When he says these kinds of things it really hurts and makes me think I’m just not good enough. I’ve always been patient about this subject because of our age difference, but it’s starting to bother me. I don’t want him to feel obligated to marry me, but I don’t want to waste any more time not knowing if we are in the same place. It’s hard for me to talk to him about my feelings. Am I being unreasonable? Should I just wait it out? Should we see a couples’ counselor? Should we break up? We don’t have children, and we don’t have a joint bank account. I’m just so confused. — Waiting Dear Waiting: I now have a question for you: Why are you so interested in forming

a permanent relationship with someone who doesn’t seem to respect you? You have been with this man for 10 years, which means you’ve been with him for almost half of your life. I gather this is possibly your first-ever relationship. It is completely normal for you to want to be married and formalize your family at your age and stage in life. Plus, in life, you get to want what you want. Don’t apologize for it. Don’t let your guy gaslight you into believing that you are being unreasonable. Breaking up would be your straightest path to getting what you deserve: a relationship with someone who loves, respects and wants to build a future with you. Dear Amy: When my son was preparing to propose to his then-wife, he asked if there were any “family jewels.” As it turns out, there was a diamond that had been chosen with the help of my grandfather, who had been in the jewelry business, and given to my mother by my father. My parents later divorced so my mother generously offered this diamond to my son.

My son’s marriage lasted for four years. The bride has remarried. My son would like her to return the ring but knows it is legally hers. Is there any etiquette for a situation such as this when there is a sentimental attachment? — In the Family Dear Family: State laws govern whether engagement and wedding rings are marital property (jointly owned by the couple) or separate property (owned solely by the recipient). I can’t speak to the “etiquette” surrounding this situation, but I can say that your daughter-in-law should offer to return the diamond to your son. Assuming there are no children from the marriage for her to eventually pass this ring to, at this point, your son should simply ask her if she would return this sentimental stone. If she refuses, he could offer to buy it from her. If he is unable to gain possession, I think he might feel better if he looked at its romantic track record: So far, this diamond is 0-2. Send questions for Amy Dickinson to askamy@ amydickinson.com.

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DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham

ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn

MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson

BLISS By Harry Bliss

BALLARD STREET By Jerry Van Amerongen

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ACROSS 1 It’s commonly read by waiters 8 Place to meet 15 1992 Mamet play 16 Cork holder 17 Enterprise enterprise 18 They’re usually kept 19 1976 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year awardee 20 E major scale note 22 Hawthorne cover image 23 Quiet 24 Ben, to Jerry 27 Truce emblem source 29 John Paul’s successor 31 Movie 32 Pollutant banned by Cong. in 1979 34 Sights from la mer 35 Subjects of family disputes 38 Erupted 40 Call to a line 41 __-Man 43 Singer Lovato 44 Renée Fleming et al. 46 Great extent 50 Fed. assistance program 51 Conniving, with “in” 53 Durango demonstrative 54 __ camera 55 Shares, with “out” 56 Where to hear a lot of talk 59 Rayed flowers 61 Bond choice 62 Charlie McCarthy feature 63 Significant supply 64 Sounded like a flute duet? DOWN 1 One facing charges? 2 Two-part British academic exam 3 Noted 2013 resignee 4 Opera originally titled “Violetta” 5 “Doing that right now!” 6 Where there may be no room 7 Typographical symbol 8 Modern, in a way

9 Font choice 10 1852 literary villain 11 Turn preceder, in Texas Hold ’em 12 Popular store opening? 13 Periodo de tiempo 14 NFL stats 21 Small distance 23 Higher than you might have hoped 24 Phone accessory banned at Disney parks 25 “That’s __ haven’t heard” 26 Cartoon award eponym 28 Sinusitis-treating MD 30 1993 “Ethan Frome” star 33 It can get you in 35 Extreme pair 36 Paquete de __: cerveza purchase 37 Iceberg topper 39 One of Donald’s pair 42 Pen 45 Tried to make it home 47 Hip-hop group at Live Aid’s 1985 Philadelphia concert

48 Holt’s detective partner in ’80s TV 49 Mouthed off at 52 Minneapolis suburb 54 Execrate 55 Revealing garb 56 Chicago-based professional org. 57 Warp, e.g. 58 Board game spots with nine sqs. between them 60 Moviefone owner ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

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Doonesbury is on vacation. This is a reprint.

DILBERT By Scott Adams

LA CUCARACHA By Lalo Alcaraz

BABY BLUES By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

CANDORVILLE By Darrin Bell

CRANKSHAFT By Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers

HALF FULL By Maria Scrivan

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE By Stephan Pastis

NON SEQUITUR By Wiley

LIO By Mark Tatulli

JUMP START By Robb Armstrong

9 CHICKWEED LANE By Brooke McEldowney

BLONDIE By Dean Young & John Marshall

GET FUZZY By Darby Conley

ZITS By Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

BIZARRO By Dan Piraro

TUNDRA By Chad Carpenter

DRABBLE By Kevin Fagan

PRICKLY CITY By Scott Stantis

MUTTS By Patrick McDonnell

FRAZZ By Jef Mallett

PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz

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BRIAN DUNSMOOR sits in the Old Man Bar inside Hatchet Hall, a Southern-tinged restaurant that’s good with vegetables — taste the miracle of buttered cabbage.

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The morning after my last meal at Hatchet Hall, I cooked steak hash with the remnants of the big rib-eye. I seared the soft, gingerbread-scented chunks of winter squash in a bit of olive oil. I let the slices of grilled sweet onion, zapped with garlic and anchovy, come to room temperature. And almost as an afterthought, I reheated most of an order of buttered cabbage, mostly to free up a bit of room in the refrigerator. Hatchet Hall is one of the most formidable leftover producers this side of a kebab parlor, at least if you are powerless against vegetables — it is hard to leave the restaurant without an armload of cardboard boxes. The squash and the hash were pretty spectacular — lovely marbling and a glaze of chimichurri gave a nice edge to the smoky richness of the steak. But it was that homely bowl of cabbage, pretty much ignored the evening before, that became a source of awe. How could lightly cooked greens develop such complex sweetness? How did a tiny scattering of cumin seeds produce such a penetrating topnote? Did the cooks among us really need to sauté our cabbage with quite that much butter — the amount of butter involved was truly formidable — or was the secret Hatchet Hall’s peak-season farmers market produce? The cabbage was gone. I snuck into the kitchen and scraped the last of the cabbage-flavored butter from the bottom of the takeout carton. Hatchet Hall is the neo-neoSouthern restaurant of chef Brian Dunsmoor, a sprawling former cof-

Hatchet Hall Brian Dunsmoor’s Culver City restaurant knows its vegetables — and its bourbon.

A CHOP STEAK , fried oysters, mustard frill and horseradish

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Snacks $4-$11; small plates $11-$29; vegetables $8; large-format meat $26-$99; desserts $11. DETAILS

5:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Sun.-Wed., 5:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. Thurs.Sat.; Old Man Bar, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. nightly. Credit cards accepted. Full bar. Valet parking.

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Chop steak with fried oysters, Brussels sprouts with pecan vinaigrette, buttered cabbage, braised greens with country ham, mushroom-crusted pork chop, cookie plate.

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feeshop tricked out with dark woods and masculine wallpaper, flanked by a big patio on one end and a tavern called the Old Man Bar on the other. It has shaken the renovated-coffeeshop vibe of the gastropub Waterloo & City when it had the space a couple of years ago — a first-rate bourbon selection will do that to a restaurant — but it is still pretty informal; a boozy party in process. If you are openminded, you will be steered to a tiny-production pét-nat or another natural wine that you have never seen before and probably will never see again. The roster of old fashioneds at the Old Man Bar is bigger than the entire menu at some bars, and Hatchet Hall is progressive enough to include a whiskey flight as an option on its list of cocktails. You are here to have a good time. Dunsmoor’s brand of American cooking has been a fixture in Los Angeles since his Venice pop-up with Kris Tominaga a few years ago. The two went on to open the Hart & the Hunter in the Melrose Avenue Palihotel and cook for a bit at Ladies’ Gunboat Society before Dunsmoor opened here at the end of last year. A Dunsmoor restaurant can be counted on to have excellent Southern breads — the hot rolls here, topped with sesame-like benne seeds, are crisp and light; the cheesy skillet cornbread is as dense and caloric as deep-dish pizza. Country ham is likely to show up here not just as a snack to nibble with drinks but in a vinaigrette or a mess of greens. There are shrimp heads here, dredged in flour and fried crisp, and blackened curls of octopus tentacle with grilled radicchio and a lump of lemony mayonnaise. Chop steak comes as a beef tartare topped with fried oysters — I could swear I’ve seen a recipe from James

Beard or somebody, although I can’t track it down at the moment — and it is both delicious and uniquely American. The braised mushrooms on fluffy spoonbread, kind of a Southern corn soufflé, would pass muster at any Charleston dinner party. The restaurant has leaned more toward its grill in the year since it opened, and even Dunsmoor has hinted that he wants to move away from shared plates toward what sounds less like Nouveau Boardinghouse than an ambitious modern steakhouse menu. (The kitchen shows much more finesse now than it did a month after its opening.) And the center of meals at Hatchet Hall may well be its big slabs of animal — that big bone-in rib-eye perhaps, or maybe a pork chop with mushrooms and lard smoked in the big wood grill; a sautéed veal chop in a Madeiralaced chanterelle cream with fried sweetbreads; or a lovely roasted whole game hen served with soft garlic on grilled country bread. But the whole point of the place does seem to be its vegetables — a chiffonade of Brussels sprout leaves tossed with pecans and slivers of Asian pear; new potatoes roasted with beef fat; tiny white beans with escarole and chunks of smoked sausage; and roasted pumpkin with roasted pumpkin seeds and bits of blue cheese. You too are going to order that transformative bowl of buttered cabbage. You too are going to lose track of it among the many dishes on your table. And you too may belatedly discover its glory, hiding in its box behind a leftover lamb shank the next morning. I kind of envy you that moment. jonathan.gold@latimes.com

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Go wild with fennel What’s in season: Known for its bright, licorice-like notes, fennel is normally in season during the cold months, from late winter through early spring. Fennel is a versatile vegetable; the bulb and stems can be enjoyed raw or cooked. And the tender greenery can be used as a last-minute addition to a recipe for flavor, or used as a garnish. Wild fennel, which can be found growing throughout Southern California, is perfect for harvesting seeds and pollen. What to cook: Shave raw fennel bulbs or stems to lend crunch and assertive flavor to salads and slaws. Or braise the vegetable, gently muting the flavor as it cooks to sweet tenderness, alongside potatoes and other cold-weather vegetables. Chop up the delicate greens and use as you would fresh herbs in dips or soups, or sprinkle over a dish as a colorful garnish. Toast the seeds before using to bring out their depth of flavor, then grind and add to vegetable sides, fish or meat dishes, breads and other baked goods, to lend gentle licorice notes.

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BY AMY SCATTERGOOD >>> As he throws flour across the counter in a sudden sideways dust storm, Marcus Samuelsson talks about his new cookbook, about the Harlem restaurant it chronicles and about the wider project that they both articulate. As he works the butter into the biscuit dough and stirs the contents of a sauté pan — a mash-up of chicken skin and dried shrimp, lemongrass and oyster sauce and ginger — he keeps talking. “Food is coding. It’s class; it’s tribal,” says Samuelsson as he works the stoves of the Los Angeles Times Test Kitchen. The chef was born in Ethiopia, grew up in Sweden with his adoptive family and now lives and works in New York City. “Art, music, fashion, food: All of it is coding, and food is the least clear.” Listening to him, you feel that he’s trying to work his mission statement along with the shards of butter into the biscuits themselves, as if the conversation and the food have become parts of the same thing. Which, in his latest cookbook, “The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem,” they have. What Samuelsson wants to do is more than open a restaurant, cook some food, write a cookbook: He wants to celebrate a neighborhood. And by doing so, “to hope,” as Hilton Als writes in his foreword to the book, “and to effect change.” Samuelsson wants to cook for you, but his ambitions extend considerably beyond the plate — or maybe it’s that what’s on that plate is a lot more than food. You’ve probably heard of Samuelsson already: his rise to culinary fame at the New York restaurant Aquavit in his early 20s, his appearances on food television, his cooking for President Obama, his cookbooks and memoir, and his remarkable journey from Ethiopia to Sweden and now to Harlem, where he’s lived for almost a dozen years. Harlem is the locus for Red Rooster, the restaurant Samuelsson opened there in fall 2010, and for the book he’s written about the restaurant, its neighborhood and people. And it’s what he’s talking about now, as he’s cooking. “I waited six years before I wrote the book for a reason,” Samuelsson says, stirring the pan in which he’s making bird funk, a hugely fragrant and deeply addictive sauce that will go onto the brown butter biscuits that are now in the oven. The restaurant had to come first, he says, then the food and the stories. “Food is a gateway,” the chef says, now sautéing chicken livers in another pan. “We know fried

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“I LOVE high-low cooking,” says Marcus Samuelsson, whose

book, “The Red Rooster Cookbook,” is about his Harlem spot. chicken and gumbo and shrimp and grits, but whose food is it, who does it belong to? It’s our food. It’s American food.” Samuelsson is making something he calls chicken liver butter, an insanely rich and velvety thing — imagine foie gras buttercream. “Think about chicken liver, about the coding between the foie gras that comes from Europe and the chicken liver that’s more rooted in Southern or poverty cooking. People love foie gras but might not

like chicken liver: It’s a class thing. But it’s delicious. We can celebrate it.” Samuelsson dips a biscuit into the bowl of the Cuisinart and beckons those around him to eat. He hasn’t stopped talking. “We have the luxury to make this with butter,” he says, scooping another biscuit. “It explains the journey of both luxury and poverty.” That journey is Samuelsson’s own, of course, from Ethiopian refugee to Swedish culinary student to one of the most lauded chefs in America.

It’s also traced in his cooking: through the classical French technique, and through the flavors of Africa and of Scandinavia that are woven around recipes for shoebox ham and Obama’s short ribs and fried yardbird, the restaurant’s signature dish. “I love high-low cooking,” says Samuelsson, the kitchen now saturated with the intense aromas of bird and butter and spice. “You need sour, you need attitude, you need something that talks back. I use a lot of Nina Simone in my cooking.” Music plays a huge role in Samuelsson’s book: in playlists for chapters, in the stories of the Harlem community that populate the book along with the recipes, in the chef ’s own narrative (it is John Legend, talking shop at the restaurant, who provides some pivotal recipe advice), and in his actual restaurant, where bands routinely come to play. The funk of the recipe is also, of course, musical. “Music is probably the easiest way of understanding a culture; it becomes the universal language,” says Samuelsson. “Without the music, I can’t explain this neighborhood. Without the art, I can’t do it justice. Without the service and hospitality, it wouldn’t be as delicious.” Samuelsson brushes flour from his shirt as he talks — he’s wearing a Red Rooster button-down over a Tshirt with Prince’s face and the word “vegan,” an American flag baseball cap is his contemporary toque — and wipes the last traces of brown butter from the pan with another biscuit. “Play the music, cook the food. Bring your own funk into it. Think about who you are.” amy.scattergood@latimes.com

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1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Cut 1 ⁄2 cup (1 stick) of butter into small pieces and freeze. 2. Cut up the remaining butter and place in a small skillet over medium heat. When the butter melts, start swirling it in the pan. The butter will sputter while the water cooks out, and the solids will separate. Keep cooking and swirling until the solids have sunk to the bottom and browned and the butter smells nutty, about 5 minutes. Keep a constant eye on the butter so it doesn’t burn. Pour the butter out into a small bowl, making sure you’ve got all the browned bits. 3. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Remove the butter from the freezer and work it into the dry ingredients using your fingers until it resembles very coarse oatmeal with some larger bits of butter. Stir 2 teaspoons of the browned butter into 3⁄4 cup of the buttermilk, add it to the dry ingredients and stir the dough with your hand, kneading it a little. Add more buttermilk if you need it to make a cohesive dough that leaves the bowl clean. 4. Dump the dough out onto a floured surface and pat it into an even disk with smooth edges. Roll out to a thickness of 1⁄4-inch. Cut the biscuits with a 2-inch cutter and set them, barely touching, on a rimmed baking sheet. Gather up the scraps, form another even disk, and repeat. Brush the biscuits with some more of the browned butter and bake until risen and nicely browned on the top and bottom (lift one to check), 20 to 25 minutes. Note: Adapted from a recipe in “The Red Rooster Cookbook” by Marcus Samuelsson.

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2 tablespoons olive oil 1 red bell pepper, diced 1 Anaheim chile, seeded and chopped 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 pounds ripe tomatoes, peeled and finely chopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper ½ teaspoon semi-hot red pepper 1. Heat the oil in a widebottomed saucepan over medium heat. Add the bell pepper and chile and cook over medium-low heat until softened, about 10 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook about 1/2 minute, stirring frequently. 2. Add the tomatoes and a pinch of salt and cook, covered, for 5 minutes. Uncover and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender and the sauce has thickened, 15 to 20 minutes. Taste for salt, and season to taste with black and red pepper. This makes a generous pint of sauce. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature. BULGUR MEATBALLS WITH TOMATO PEPPER SAUCE

Prepared tomato pepper sauce 2 cups (11 ounces) fine bulgur wheat (bulgur No. 1) 1 cup finely chopped onion 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 3 ⁄4 teaspoon salt, or to taste 1 ⁄4 teaspoon black pepper, or to taste 1 ⁄2 teaspoon semi-hot red pepper, such as Maras pepper or Aleppo pepper, or to taste 1 ⁄4 teaspoon allspice, or to taste 1 ⁄2 pound lean or extra-lean ground beef About 2½ cups plus 1

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tablespoon water, divided About 3/4 cup olive oil, for sautéing 1 teaspoon semi-hot red pepper flakes such as Turkish Maras pepper or Aleppo pepper, for finishing Italian parsley in small sprigs, for serving 1. In a food processor, combine the bulgur, onion, garlic, salt, black pepper, red pepper and allspice and process briefly to blend. Add the ground meat in 4 portions and process briefly to mix. Add 2 cups water in 4 additions, processing to blend after each addition. Scrape down mixture. Add 6 tablespoons water, 2 tablespoons at a time, and process after each addition. The mixture should be sticky. Process the mixture until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. 2. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and knead until it is very smooth, adding the last 3 tablespoons water. Check that the mixture is evenly moistened. This makes about 1 quart mix. 3. Make a test meatball: Take about 1 teaspoon of the mixture and roll it into a ball. Fry the meatball in a small skillet heated with a thin layer of oil until the meatball is cooked through, about 2 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasoning if desired, then test again until the flavors are right. 4. Moisten your hands and roll the mixture into small meatballs, using a rounded teaspoon of mixture for each one. Set them on a plate. 5. Prepare a steamer (make sure the boiling water doesn’t touch the steamer top). Add 1/3 of the bulgur meatballs, or enough to make one layer, to the steamer top. (They expand a little while steaming.) Cover and steam over medium heat for 18 to 20 minutes or until they are cooked through. Refrigerate the rest of the mixture until all the meatballs are steamed. 6. Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat until hot. Add about 1/4 of the bulgur meatballs and sauté until lightly browned, about 3 minutes per side; shake the pan to turn the meatballs over, or use a slotted spoon. Just before removing them from the pan, add 1/4 teaspoon pepper flakes and sauté for a few seconds. Transfer the meatballs to a plate. Wipe the pan if necessary, add more oil and repeat until all the meatballs are cooked. 7. Serve the meatballs on a platter garnished with parsley sprigs. Serve the sauce separately. Note: From Faye and Yakir Levy.

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Try fried Turkish-style tidbits for Hanukkah BY FAYE LEVY AND YAKIR LEVY >>> Indulging in fried foods is traditional during the eight days of Hanukkah, which begins this year on the evening of Dec. 24 and concludes on Jan. 1. ¶ That’s because the customs of the Festival of Lights commemorate the miracle of the oil, said to have taken place in Jerusalem in the second century BC; the story goes that one day’s worth of ritually pure oil for rekindling the Holy Temple’s eternal light lasted for eight days. Since olive oil was the oil available in ancient Israel, some use it during the holiday for frying and for lighting menorahs. For our Hanukkah menus, we prepare fried appetizers using ingredients from the lands of the Bible. From bulgur wheat, a staple in the eastern Mediterranean for millenniums, we make fried mini bulgur meatballs like those we tasted at the Bulgur Festival in Turkey’s gastronomic capital, Gaziantep, near Syria. These meatballs, which are flavored with semi-hot red pepper, onion and garlic, are cooked by a special technique — first they’re steamed, then sautéed in olive oil. The bulgur contributes a delicate crunch to these bite-size treats. In southeastern Turkey, people make a variety of such meatballs, from egg-sized to some as tiny as garbanzo beans. Gaziantep culinary expert Filiz Hösükoglu told us that the minuscule balls are made only on special occasions, when mothers want to reward their children for being good.

YOGURT DILL GARLIC SAUCE

⁄4 cup plain yogurt 2 teaspoons chopped fresh dill, plus a little extra for garnish ½ teaspoon finely minced garlic Semi-hot pepper flakes such as Turkish Maras pepper or Aleppo pepper optional, for garnish

4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled (about 3/4 cup) 1 clove garlic, chopped ⁄3 cup finely chopped green onion, from about 4 onions 1 ⁄3 cup chopped fresh dill, plus dill sprigs for garnish, separated Freshly ground black pepper Pinch of cayenne pepper, more to taste 2 eggs

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latkes, which are popular throughout Turkey. In Israel, people whose families emigrated from Turkey, Syria or Greece make these pancakes dairy-free if they plan to eat them at a kosher meal that includes meat. Just in case someone might miss potato latkes at a Hanukkah celebration, you can serve them together with the zucchini latkes. The yogurt-dill-garlic topping is delicious with both kinds of pancakes. With Hanukkah beginning on Christmas Eve this year and with many families celebrating both holidays that night, these appetizers can do double duty. After all, the Christmas story took place in the same land as the Hanukkah story, and everyone there feasted on Middle Eastern foods.

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Potato latkes were not on the menu in ancient Israel, as spuds were not known in the Old World. People might have made latkes from lentils, the star ingredient in Esau’s famous pottage in Genesis. Our hearty Turkish lentil latkes gain a pleasing crust from bulgur and are easier to make than potato latkes because you don’t need to shred potatoes. We serve them with a creamy topping — yogurt sauce with chard and garlic. Dairy foods were central to the diet of the Land of Milk and Honey, and we use cheese in two Hanukkah appetizers. One is cheese cigars, also called cheese rolls or cheese boreks. This favorite Turkish mezze item, which is made of crisp pastry with cheese filling, makes a fun finger food for the holiday. You need only four ingredients to prepare them — filo dough, feta cheese, fresh dill and oil for frying. Feta cheese also flavors our zucchini

Zucchini latkes with feta and dill

In a bowl, whisk together the yogurt, dill and garlic. Season to taste with salt if desired (keep in mind that the feta in the latkes will provide seasoning). This makes about ¾ cup sauce. Garnish, if desired, with pepper flakes.

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BULGUR WHEAT is the star of these bite-size Turkish-style meatballs. Dip them in tomato pepper sauce.

½ cup flour Olive oil, for frying 1. Coarsely grate the zucchini. You should have a generous 4 cups. Place the zucchini in a strainer and toss with the salt. Set aside for about 10 minutes, then squeeze out the excess liquid. Set aside. 2. In a large bowl, mash the feta with a fork until it is

finely crumbled. Add the zucchini, garlic, green onions and dill and mix well. Season with the black and cayenne peppers. Add the egg and stir to incorporate, then the flour. 3. Heat a thin film of oil in a large skillet over medium heat until hot. Drop a very small amount of the latke batter into the oil and fry; this will be your test so you can check to see if additional seasoning is needed before frying up the latkes. 4. For each latke, drop 1 heaping tablespoon of batter into the pan. Flatten the latkes slightly using the back of a spoon. Fry the latkes until they start to brown on one side, about 2½ minutes. Carefully flip the latkes over using 2 spatulas. Reduce the heat to medium-low and continue to fry until the latkes are set and lightly browned. Transfer the latkes to a paper towel-lined plate to drain. 5. Repeat until all the latkes are fried, adding additional frying oil as needed. 6. Serve the latkes hot, garnished with dill sprigs and served with the sauce. Note: From Faye and Yakir Levy.

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10 sheets borek dough (thick filo dough) or regular filo dough 1 cup finely crumbled feta cheese ½ cup chopped dill Freshly ground black pepper to taste Olive or vegetable oil, for frying 1. If the dough sheets are frozen, thaw them in the refrigerator 8 hours or overnight, or according to package instructions. Set the dough sheets aside to come to room temperature in their package; this takes about 2 hours. 2. To make the filling, mash and crumble the feta cheese with a fork in a bowl until it is finely crumbled. Add the dill and pepper and mix well. 3. Prepare a small bowl of water to moisten the dough. Unroll the dough sheets onto a cutting board. With a sharp knife, cut the stack of dough sheets in half crosswise, to get sheets that are about 8 inches wide. Immediately cover the sheets with plastic wrap, then with a slightly damp towel. Work with only 1 piece at a time, keeping the remaining sheets covered so they do not dry out. 4. To make a cigar, remove one piece of borek from the pile to a work surface, the shorter side of the rectangle facing you (“vertical” orien-

tation). Spoon 1 tablespoon filling in a thin strip about 1 inch from the bottom edge, leaving about 1 inch clear on each end. Fold the bottom edge of dough over the filling, press so the filling is fairly tightly enclosed, and roll the dough over the filling again. Fold the two long sides of the filo, to your left and right, inward slightly over the filling, and press gently on these folds. Roll the pastry up fairly tightly in a finger shape. Before you finish rolling, dip your finger in water and moisten the end to stick the dough together. Press to adhere. 5. Set the pastry cigar on a plate. Cover with plastic wrap. Shape more cigars with the remaining dough and filling. 6. Heat a thin film of oil in a deep skillet. It should be hot enough so it sizzles when you dip the end of a pastry cigar in it. Fry 4 or 5 cigars at time over medium heat until golden, about 1 minute on each side. Remove to paper towels. Serve hot or warm. Note: From Faye and Yakir Levy. These pastries are made with borek dough, a thick filo dough. It’s available in Middle Eastern markets. If you can’t find it, you can use regular filo dough. Another good option is yufka dough cut in triangles, which is available at Turkish and some Armenian markets.

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What Beverly’s having

BY JENN HARRIS >>> Southern biscuits lashed with maple butter, pillows of fried pizza dough covered in a blanket of prosciutto, and vegan lasagna layered with cashew cream cheese — this is the new 90210 dining scene. Of course, Beverly Hills is still Beverly Hills, where tourists come to people watch along Rodeo Drive and where most of the notable restaurants are located inside swanky hotels. Although eating in this city hasn’t changed drastically — you can still find a restaurant willing to overcharge you for a chopped salad — there has been a notable shift, no more evident than in a crop of newcomers that have opened in the last year or so. Here’s a look at eight new and notable restaurants in the Beverly Hills area.

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MILLE-FEUILLE is a favorite at Avec Nous inside the Viceroy L’Ermitage.

THE NEW RESTAURANT at the Montage has a wide-ranging menu.

Avec Nous

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This French restaurant at the Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, which replaced Livello about a year ago, was made for the power lunch. Stop by sometime in the middle of the day midweek and you’ll find well-dressed women with perfectly coiffed hair chatting loudly into their cellphones while they nibble at their avocado toasts. The dinner crowd is a little more focused on the food. Chef Olivier Quignon has an impressive selection of charcuterie and a grilled Hudson Valley foie gras with local citrus. He’s also paying attention to the city’s vegetable craze with a whole roasted cauliflower with vadouvan curry. For dessert, there’s a beautiful mille-feuille and a Sugarfina candy cart. Price range: $8 to $34. Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, 9291 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, (310) 860-8660, avecnous.com.

Geoffrey Zakarian, that well-dressed chef with the glasses who appears on all those Food Network shows, has opened a restaurant at the Montage, which replaced Scott Conant’s Scarpetta this year. As a hotel restaurant, Georgie has a little bit of something for everyone. There’s a classically prepared Dover sole with potatoes and chanterelle mushrooms for the early dinner crowd; shrimp dumplings with smoked chicken broth for the cool kids at a business meeting; and a dry-aged Creekstone farms New York steak for that couple in the corner celebrating an anniversary. Save room for the cookie plate. Price range: $11 to $59. 225 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, (310) 860-7970, www.georgierestaurant .com.

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THE PARISIAN beignet is a savory version with smoked ham and Gruyère.

COBB WRAP at Matthew Kenney NM, inside the Neiman Marcus store.

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Angelenos aren’t necessarily as health-obsessed as our friends across the country may like to believe. You can now find New Orleans-style beignets just as easily as kale salads on Santa Monica Boulevard. And that beignet comes with a side of sticky salted caramel for dipping. At Beverly Hills Beignet, which opened earlier this year, you can order the classic beignets with powdered sugar, or you can opt for something a little less traditional: graham cracker sugar, tart sugar or cinnamon sugar coating. And the savory beignets are stuffed with Nueske bacon; roasted artichoke with harissa aioli; or smoked ham and Gruyère. Price range: $7.95 to $9.95. 9527 S. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 278-8164, www.beverlyhillsbeignet.net.

It’s easy to work up an appetite when you’re browsing designer clothing. So after you’ve finished spending the equivalent of a month’s rent on a pair of shoes at the Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills, you can slide into the department store’s new restaurant, Matthew Kenney NM, for a sensible bite to eat. This is the latest restaurant from the plant-based chef, who also has a restaurant in Venice. Located on the third floor of the department store, the restaurant occupies a small nook surrounded by shoppers and racks of clothing. Dig into a vegan lasagna with cashew ricotta or a cauliflower and sprouted chickpea hummus bowl — your healthful meal surrounded by high fashion. Price range: $6 to $18. 9700 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 550-5900, matthewkenneycuisine.com.

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CHEF Scott Howard serves playful dishes at Citizen, including tai snapper.

THE PIZZA BIANCA comes with baby artichokes and winter black truffle.

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With its macramé wall, buttermilk biscuits and elaborate cocktails by Josh Goldman — one of this city’s wizards behind the bar — Citizen is a restaurant you might expect to find on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Instead, it’s in the middle of Beverly Hills, and its patio offers a view of the Montage hotel across the street. This is where chef Scott Howard is making playful small plates you’re not likely to find anywhere else in the ZIP Code. His biscuits are the flaky, buttery kind you can pull apart; the soba noodles are served with kimchi and a tamari vinaigrette; and Goldman’s cocktails involve seasonal house-made cordials and bitters. Price range: $8 to $41. 184 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, (310) 402-5885, citizenbev erlyhills.com.

Those familiar with this new Italian restaurant may remember the building in its former life as a hair salon. Diners on a recent trip were overheard arguing over where the hair dryers used to be. Then their truffle pizza arrived, and they forgot all about the dryers. The space was transformed into a sprawling two-level Italian restaurant by the Toscana Restaurant Group. Nerano is best experienced in two parts: Start with a cocktail in the BG Lounge upstairs, and maybe a plate of crisp baby artichokes, before heading to your table downstairs for dinner. Executive chef Michele Lisi, who is from Puglia, Italy, makes all of his own pasta, including the delicately rolled garganelli. Price range: $11 to $65. 9960 S. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 405-0155, www.neranobh.com.

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CUT RESTAURANT has spawned Cut Lounge, above, at the Beverly Wilshire.

SWEET RICOTTA and berries top a montanara dish at Vinoteca.

Cut Lounge

Vinoteca

The former Sidebar at the Beverly Wilshire hotel is now Cut Lounge. It’s Cut restaurant’s younger, edgier, moodier sibling, located just steps from the entrance to Wolfgang Puck’s celebrated steakhouse. This is where you will find some of the best bar bites (if you can call them that) in the city: dry aged USDA Prime New York sirloin skewers with harrisa aioli; crispy kataifi-wrapped prawns with garlic-chili ponzu and shaved bonito. And you’ll want to try a barrel-aged Sazerac or a cocktail called the Samurai Sword — what’s not to like about Hibiki “Harmony” whiskey, ginger and honey? There are plans to add a Negroni cart next year. And you can still order from the regular Cut menu, you’ll just be eating your 20-ounce bone-in New York sirloin in a darker room and on comfy lounge furniture you can sink into when that inevitable food coma hits. Price range: $8 to $29. Beverly Wilshire, 9500 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 276-8500, www.wolf gangpuck.com.

If you’ve tried montanara, you’ll wonder why every Italian restaurant in the city isn’t making it. These golden pillows of fried pizza dough are the star at Vinoteca, the new wine bar that has taken over part of Culina restaurant at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills. These little doughnuts are savory and sweet — one version is used to cradle lobster, another comes with sweet ricotta and a berry compote. It’s the Italian version of street food, served at a fancy hotel. Your new weeknight date plan: Order a few montanara and a tasting flight of Italian wine, then discuss anything but politics with your significant other. There’s nothing like fried pizza dough and a couple fingers of Lagrein to make the world seem right again. Price range: $6 to $15. 300 S. Doheny Drive, Los Angeles, (310) 860-4000, www.culinarestaurant.com. jenn.harris@latimes.com

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RACHEL VICTOR , center, leads a Zumba-style fitness session that she’s tailored to Orthodox Jewish women, who get in a vigorous workout while in a discreet setting.

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Observant and jubilant dance BY NATALIE SHURE >>> Religious law and mainstream fitness classes don’t always mix. So Rachel Victor decided to create her own work-

out. ¶ Her cross-cardio dance sessions cater exclusively to fellow Orthodox Jewish women, giving observant students a safe spot to sweat. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy: Victor’s hour-long routines unfold with lightning speed, leaving newbies tripping to catch up. The Zumba-inspired choreography incorporates steps, jumps, twists and kicks. The twice-weekly class tests coordination as much as stamina, but the community support and pounding pop beats make it easier to power through. Aura The class meets at a secondfloor dance studio in the PicoRobertson neighborhood. Most attendees seem to know each other, but are welcoming to newcomers. Some don modest head scarves or long sleeves and skirts from their daily lives, but others opt for more mainstream workout gear in this private setting. Students range from younger teens to perhaps mid-50s, and more experienced dancers who know the steps from previous weeks volunteer to form a front row that might otherwise intimidate beginners. Victor weaves between rows during longer sequences for demos.

Effort Victor adds new bits to an existing sequence each week, so regulars are rewarded for their persistence. Mastering the steps makes it easier to pack in the full range of movement, which means it’s harder to break a sweat early

on. As a particularly lousy dancer, I had to concentrate hard to follow along, but the vibe was too positive to feel self-conscious. There was a range of abilities in the class, encouraging each woman to do whatever she could.

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By day, Victor also works as a “bat mitzvah motivator,” who is hired by parents to get the dance floor started. One suspects she must be great at it — she’s a bundle of energy, and every student I chatted with after class gushed about how much they enjoy dancing with her. The dance moves are set to secular pop and hip-hop, but Victor tries to stick with less vulgar selections.

Cost

$13 for a drop-in class, $10 per class with a monthly commitment. Visit rachelvictor.com for details. health@latimes.com

FITNESS

Looking in on Hollywood’s hot new gym

BY ALENE DAWSON >>> Hollywood is getting fitter. ¶ Equinox recently opened its 84th gym. It’s within the Camden, a new multi-use complex near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, highlighting the neighborhood’s tony transformation. The 40,000-square-foot loft space is sleek and artistic with exposed concrete, marble, a streak of vibrant red furnishings coursing through the lobby and hand-painted murals by California-based artist Brendan Monroe. ¶ The Hollywood layout is designed with street-view windows that let lookie-loos spy on your bench presses and — take note, shy bathing-suit wearers — backstrokes. ¶ As we prepare for 2017, here are five other reasons to check out the luxury space. It should give you some inspiration for what you do and don’t want in a gym as you get a jump on those New Year’s resolutions:

It’s curated for this side of town

Exercise sweet spot

“We intentionally tried to make the Hollywood location a little edgier” and design fitness programs aimed at the industry crowd, said Equinox Chief Executive Harvey Spevak. Examples: Dance fitness classes 5-6-7-Broadway!,Cardio Hip Hop Funk and Classical Ballet could draw interest in a neighborhood busy with dance studios.

Where’s your favorite place — gym or not — to work up a sweat in and around L.A.? Tell us what’s special about it at health@latimes.com and it may be included in an upcoming Saturday section.

It’s full-service

It all starts with an Equifit Assessment that includes a body composition test to determine the ratio between body fat and lean mass. “Our brand is deeply rooted in science,” said Amy Dixon, Equinox’s group fitness manager. Though it may not have the diversity of ClassPass (hello, trapeze and trampoline lessons!), Equinox Hollywood has a pool, four fitness studios — including spots for indoor cycling and Pilates — as well as barre, kickboxing, yoga, precision running, high intensity interval training and more. Cardio exercise equipment includes the popular Woodway Curve treadmills, as well as ellipticals and bikes that allow you to charge your phone, watch TV, connect to the Internet — or virtu-

the ArcLight is far less expensive but charges $3 for parking (with validation). It all comes at a price. The cost: $180 a month plus an initiation fee. Private training starts at about $1,200 for 12 sessions. Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times

KATIE BOYLES, left, and Leah Barris, center, exercise in an Equinox class in Hollywood.

ally trek across Yosemite National Park.

Amenities galore

Eucalyptus-scented towels, Kiehl’s shower products, a steam room, a full-service spa, smoothies and health-food mini-market Earthbar … it’s all designed to lure you into coming often and staying

longer. “When I first started in fitness people questioned if going to the gym was a fad,” says Spevak. “Now today it’s, ‘I want to be active six-to-seven days a week,’ ‘I want to eat a certain way,’ ‘It’s reflected in what I’m wearing,’ ‘It’s reflected in how technology is playing a role’ — it’s what we’ve always been preaching, it’s a high-performance lifestyle.”

Free 2½ hour parking

You know those crazy photos of L.A. parking signs that would be even funnier if those confusing ticket-bait signs didn’t actually exist? Parking in this part of Hollywood is no joke. The 24 Hour Fitness located near Equinox next to

The ’hood

When you’re finished sweating (and showering), there are plenty of places to eat, drink, shop or hang out, including restaurants Paley and Sugarfish by Sushi Nozawa, Trader Joe’s, the ArcLight and Hollywood & Highland.

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For those hangover blues

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BY KAVITA DASWANI >>> That morning-after feeling is the curse of the holiday season. In addition to the tried-and-tested rules of social drinking — pace yourself with a glass of water between cocktails, don’t drink on an empty stomach — here are a few products that will help mitigate that dreaded hangover:

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Sip super water Dehydration from the ethanol in alcohol is what causes the nausea and headaches associated with a typical hangover. Liquid IV’s Hydration Multiplier is a lemon-flavored potassium, sodium and glucose powder that is added to water, making it at least twice as hydrating as plain water. In addition to warding off the effects of over-indulging, the product is used by athletes, and also to combat the effects of jet lag and to eliminate fatigue. Priced at $2.99 a packet, which makes 16 ounces. Available at select Whole Foods Markets, GNC and Bed Bath & Beyond. Info: drink.liquid-iv.com

A drink before you drink

The idea behind the Never Too Hungover Boost is to take it before heading to that party. Ingredients like potassium, electrolytes, milk thistle, vitamin B-12 and green tea and caffeine extracts process the toxins inherent in alcohol. According to the company, a 3.4-ounce serving is enough to fend off the effect of seven drinks.

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Optimism’s a lifesaver? died within two years after the optimism question had been posed in their analysis. That left them with about roughly 70,000 Having an optimistic outlook on life could participant responses. Those were split into help you live longer, according to a new study. four groups based on their optimism score. Researchers at Harvard University found The makeup of the groups did not differ that among a group of 70,000 female nurses, much in terms of socioeconomic status, the the 25% who were most optimistic had a 31% authors noted. However, more optimistic reduced risk of mortality while they were be- women tended to have more education and ing tracked compared with the 25% who reported more physical activity. To determine cause of death among rewere least optimistic. spondents who died between 2006 and 2012, In the case of this study, the authors dethe research team confine optimism as the besulted state vital records lief that good things will and the National Death happen in the future. Index. They were eventu“Optimists don’t alally able to ascertain ways present as cheerful, cause of death for 98% of but they have the general deceased survey reexpectation on the inside spondents. that things will be better,” Statistical analyses said study leader Eric revealed significant assoKim, a research fellow at ciations between increasHarvard’s T.H. Chan ing level of optimism and School of Public Health decreasing risks of morin Boston. tality. Previous studies have Kim said it is unlikely shown a similar correlathat simply thinking postion between optimism itive thoughts about the and a reduced risk of dyFangXiaNuo Getty Images future is behind the effect ing from cardiovascular he observed. Instead, he disease. However, this A STUDY suggests that pospointed to past studies work was one of the first itive people may live longer. that have shown optito show that optimism is also associated with reduced risk of death mistic people make more healthful lifestyle from infection, respiratory disease and can- choices. “People who are more optimistic genercer, the authors said. The new research was published this ally get better sleep, exercise more, and have week in the American Journal of Epidemiol- healthier coping habits to reduce stress,” he said. “These could be some of the pathways ogy. But don’t go tell a bedridden friend to that optimism is working through.” The good news is that optimism can be start thinking happy thoughts just yet. “We don’t want to see victim-blaming,” taught. Twin studies suggest that having an Kim said, referencing the idea that someone optimistic point of view is inherited 25% of who has a disease could get rid of it if they the time, but Kim said there is also evidence that it can be learned. just did something differently. For example, gratitude journals and “There are so many variables when it comes to what makes us sick,” he said. “This keeping a list of the times you have been kind to others have both been shown to make is just one of them.” The findings were based on data from the small increases in optimism. Bigger gains will require more work, howNurses’ Health Study, a long-term observational study of female nurses that began in ever. For example, practicing mindfulness meditation on a regular basis has been 1976. shown to improve optimism, as have various In 2004, study participants received a survey that included a six-question measure of types of cognitive behavioral therapy, Kim said. optimism. Respondents were asked the deAnd finally, if you are a pessimist and gree to which they agreed with statements proud of it, that’s fine too. including, “In uncertain times, I usually ex“These optimism exercises are one of pect the best,” and, “If something can go many things in a healthy lifestyle toolkit,” he wrong for me, it will.” To ensure participants’ answers did not said. “If it’s something you want to pursue, represent a recent change in optimism due the research suggests it could be helpful.” to an underlying health issue, the authors did not include the responses of people who deborah.netburn@latimes.com By Deborah Netburn

Oxigen

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CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER for 50 or so at the Glendale home of Jamie and Polly Anderson is an annual event for friends and family that’s grown through the years.

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BY BONNIE MCCARTHY >>> Imagine a cross between “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the dinnerware department at Bloomingdale’s and you get an idea of the heart and holiday spirit behind Jamie and Polly Anderson’s annual Christmas Day dinner. “It’s loud and it’s lively,” said family friend Sparky Jamison of the yuletide extravaganza that includes dinner for 50 (give or take) and represents a gathering that has been growing for almost a decade. It all began with a remodel of their historic 1928 Glendale home. “We enlarged the kitchen and had a long living room,” Jamie Anderson recalled. Plenty of space and a generous supply of good china inspired the Andersons to host Christmas dinner and invite family and close friends, and the tradition snowballed. Although not an event organizer or decorator by trade, Anderson said he enjoys the planning and preparation, which begin in November — before Thanksgiving. “I try to have the basic Christmas decorations and the tree up over Thanksgiving weekend, so I can focus on making sure everything else is in order,” said Anderson, who designs new tabletop décor themes each year. “We want to make people feel like they are at something really, really special.” According to friends who haven’t missed a single ho-ho-hoholiday dinner: mission accomplished. “My girls love this dinner,” said Nancy Norris, a family friend. “It’s wonderful because we don’t have family in this state anymore.… We wouldn’t miss it for the world.” “It’s a very generous gift that they give,” added Jamison, “we’re not just balancing plates on our laps … it’s beautifully done, but it’s also very warm and festive.” Making the magic happen requires all elves and gear on deck. The family pulls extra tables and chairs from storage and gets out the good china and crystal. “Back when we got married, we got a lot of nice stuff for the wedding,” Anderson said. Combined with her grandma’s Franciscan china, 25 place settings of Bernardaud Christmas-themed china (scored on sale) and an investment in Christofle wine and champagne glasses (sadly, no sale), the party is on and the tables are set. “You gotta use the good stuff,” Anderson said, “if somebody breaks something, no big deal.” But he added, “We ask the kids not to clink glasses.” The feast, served buffet-style from the kitchen, is a group effort, and everyone contributes. Shared stories and children have both grown over the years, and although seating is not assigned, a “kids” table remains. Even if those kids have since graduated from college and now hold real jobs. The table of young adults who have known one another from childhood relish the chance to reconnect. “There’s one young man who kind of convenes the group,” said Jamison, “and they’ll talk

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about something they were proud of in the last year and something that is an intention for the coming year — and after each person talks, they toast.” For many, however, the best part comes after dessert has been cleared. “Jamie sits down at the piano and plays Christmas carols and we all sing,” Jamison said. “That’s when the evening mellows out,” agreed Anderson, “we have lots of singers in the group … so there’s a lot of beautiful singing, harmonizing and solos.” One year, the Christmas crew attempted caroling, but no one answered their door. Humbuggery aside, Jamison said words that come to mind when asked to describe the evening are: family that you make, love and laughter. “There’s a lot of laughter — it’s about laughter and joy.” home@latimes.com

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CHRIS ERSKINE I’ve been writing now for 40 years, not long. But my goal remains simple: to write something half as good as John Lennon’s worst song. Seriously, sometimes I wish he were worse. Sometimes I wish he hadn’t set the bar quite so high. As you may know, I like bars and music and games of chance. I also like Christmas because you never know what you’re going to get. Could be an epic season, big and bawdy. Could be a tiny interlude, candlelit and serene. Yet, in a world brimming with change and disappointment, we can always count on Christmas, a holiday so significant Tchaikovsky set it to music. What’s so great about it? Well, how about the simple sound of an acoustic guitar in a crowded church? The clunk of an oven door. Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens … bright copper kettles…. Charles M. Schulz once said of it, “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” So there’s that. I once parked a car for a freakedout shopper in a crazy Hastings Ranch lot. To be honest, she rammed the curb so many times I was afraid she might eventually mow us all down. My ultimate goal, every Christmas, is not to wind up as B-roll on CNN. Years ago, when the kids were quite small, we decided to dress up a little Charlie Brown tree for a beloved elderly neighbor and surprise her with it. “You want how much for this scrawny thing?” I asked the tree lot attendant. “Forty.” “Dollars?” “Forty bucks,” he insisted. “It’s a twig,” I said. “It’s half a %#@*&% pencil.” “Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad,” scolded my lovely and patient older daughter. All my life, I’ve been drawn to misfits and malcontents; that’s why I had four kids. As I may have mentioned, our hospital has a no-returns policy on babies; they won’t even allow exchanges. Doesn’t matter — a day, a decade — you can’t return them,

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which is a lousy way to run a hospital, if you ask me. On that day, in the tree lot, I looked down at my then-10-year-old daughter — obviously defective, obviously not even my own flesh and blood, for she didn’t think that 40 bucks was that bad a price for a piece of kindling wood. As every dad knows, $40 is a Christmas ham; $40 is a big bottle of Jack. “Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad,” she said. “OK, you want it on the roof?” the tree attendant asked as he carried it to the car. “No, just put it in the glove box,” I said. If you’re a father, and the holidays give you the yips and inadvertent twitches, a heightened sense that you’re not in control in any way, just laugh at the whole bloody blob of it … the excesses, the expectations, the specials that don’t seem so special at all. This year, for instance, Starbucks offered a special fruitcake frappuccino, perhaps the worst idea since the sitar. Or nuclear weapons. Or even “Bad Santa 2.” Consider the fruitcake fraps. They look pre-digested. They look like a cup of moldy socks. Conveniently, little pieces of fruit kept blocking the straw, so you couldn’t actually drink it. So laugh. The holidays are here, so laugh. Plug in a Chevy Chase movie. Call an

old pal. Buy your bartender a pair of silly lighted antlers. Laugh. Because Schulz was right, Christmas is merely doing a little something extra for someone. To that end, the little guy and I are burning homemade cookies together right now. Trust me, someone in the house will eat them. Look, it’s been a long, brutal December here in Los Angeles. Daily highs have rarely broken 70, and all the women are wearing multiple scarves, as you would a neck brace, and doubling up on designer sweaters to ward off the cruel chill. Forecasters blame a polar vortex. I blame Nordstrom. Obviously, it is a full-on state of emergency here, and I’m not sure how much more of this the townsfolk can take. Certainly, Santa won’t come within 300 miles of a place like this, nor should any of us. So, if Santa’s a no-show, you might pick up some of the slack. Do that little extra something. Give a humble tree. Or a tray of homemade cookies. How about a bowl of overseasoned meatballs (is there a more succulent holiday sight?). For, in a world chronically short of kindness and charity, at least we’ll always have the holidays, at least we’ll always have meatballs. And doorbells and sleigh bells … and schnitzel with noodles. Merry Christmas. chris.erskine@latimes.com Twitter: @erskinetimes

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y family moved to California from the Philippines in 1977 and made Los Angeles our home. I was 19. I studied nursing, met my husband and had two children. Then, after 22 years of marriage, the problems we had could no longer be ignored. We divorced. One night, long after that breakup, I dreamed of my first boyfriend. It was decades earlier, when I was 17 and he was 20. When I awoke from that dream, I found myself crying, thinking of him, day and night. It seemed like I had penetrated a memory tucked away in my brain. It felt like it was just yesterday. And just like that, I realized: I’m still in love with him. One of the memories that surfaced was a deeply rooted, painful incident that occurred between my mother and me. It was the very incident that led to my separation from my boyfriend, without ever having the chance to say goodbye. You have to remember, this was in the “olden days,” and stern rules were prevalent among Filipino families. Children learned to obscure their true emotions for fear of punishment. My mother had found out that I had a boyfriend, and she disciplined me severely, physically and emotionally. I was punished for falling in love. Our entire clan and neighborhood witnessed the turmoil in our household after my secret love was discovered. The harsh words and physical beatings were almost unbearable. I wanted to rebel against the societal norms that said I was far too young to date, especially without my mother’s permission and supervision. But I knew it would lead to my destruction and more pain. I did the only thing I could do. I numbed myself, lost my soul and my dignity. I lost myself. Later, after I studied psychology as part of my nursing, I learned more about what I had done to survive that ordeal: I had found a way to force myself to forget the painful incident and suppress it in

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the back of my mind forever ... thinking it would stay there forever. But that dream told me otherwise. After that dream, I felt a desperate need to find him and to apologize, to explain. Thanks to Facebook and Google — technology I could never have imaged when I was a teenager — I found him.

I discovered that after we broke up, he had graduated from seminary school and was planning to join the priesthood before changing course. He was still living in the Philippines. I tracked down a number and reached out to him by text, but there was no response. Finally, I sent him an old pocketbook I had kept, which he would have remembered from our time together in 1974, along with my

favorite high school literature novel, “Wuthering Heights.” It is a story, of course, of a deep love that is carried to the grave. He responded and said that he doesn’t hold grudges any longer. I was so relieved but not satisfied. We continued to communicate on and off, but he became a man of limited words, unlike me. I tediously wrote him prayers, love notes and greetings for every occasion

that came around. I kept trying to revise my thoughts so I could penetrate his heart. Last Christmas came and I sent him a wish across the miles: “I give you my heart and soul, because I realized that after all these years, I still belong to you.” I also wrote to him about what happened with my mother, which I had never told him before. He was shocked. He said, “I should’ve been there. I’m sorry it was all because of me. Now, I understand everything.” He told me, “I love you very very much forever.” It was the greatest gift of Christmas … my absolution. Earlier this year, as my mother was dying, I worked up the courage to tell her that I had found my old boyfriend. I apologized, and I explained that we still love each other very much. My mother uttered, “I’m sorry.” My eyes were pouring tears with joy and sadness. That was my redemption of myself, my soul and my dignity. I went home to text him what transpired and he said, “If our memories were good, why would you cry? What we have enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we loved deeply becomes part of us. The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” He told me he has lived a lonely life and that love had finally found him after all these years. He recently sent me the lyrics to the song, I want to know what love is, I want you to show me I want to feel what love is, I know you can show me That caused my heart to sink with sadness. It was a powerful revelation. But what had I done to us? There was nothing else I could offer but the love I deprived him of four decades earlier. He wished me a “happy ruby anniversary.” But he’s on the other side of the world. We still write each other but nothing has been said about a reunion. The author is a nurse living in Chino Hills with her son and daughter. L.A Affairs chronicles love in and around Los Angeles. If you have comments, or a true story to tell, email us at LAAffairs@latimes.com.

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FE LIX

ALL NEW 2017 CAMARO CAMAR

215

2017 SPARK LS Only /MO. + TAX FOR 39 MONTHS

9,999

4 AT THIS PRICE

1 AT THIS PRICE (F18486)

(F18702, F18704 F18704, F18717 F18717, F18724) Which includes $250 Base Rebate, and $500 Competitive Lease Cash for a total of $750 in qualifying rebates. $3,500 customer cash. 10K miles per year. $0.25 per mile over. Aftermarket accessories not included in these payments. New vehicle color are for display purposes only. Program subject to change and availability. See dealer for details.

189

(F18691) Which includes $900 Base Rebate, $750 Select Market Cash, and $1,500 Competitive Lease Cash for a total of $3,150 in qualifying rebates. $2,900 customer cash. 10K miles per year. $0.25 per mile over. Aftermarket accessories not included in these payments. New vehicle color are for display purposes only. Program subject to change and availability. See dealer for details.

139

/MO. + TAX FOR 39 MONTHS

1 AT THIS PRICE

2016 SUBURBAN LS

Discount off $14,975 MSRP includes $1,981 Dealer Discount, and $2,995 Chevy Bonus Tag. Aftermarket accessories not included in this price. New vehicle color are for display purposes only. Program subject to change and availability. See dealer for details.

2017 MALIBU LS

2017 TRAVERSE LS

+ TAX

/MO. + TAX FOR 39 MONTHS MON

1 AT THIS PRICE

(F18687) Which includes $500 Competitive Lease Cash, for up to $500 in qualifying Rebate. $3,750 customer cash. 10K miles per year. $0.25 per mile over. Aftermarket accessories not included in these payments. New vehicle color are for display purposes only. Program subject to change and availability. See dealer for details.

2016 TAHOE LS

FINANCING

FOR UP TO

36 MONTHS New vehicle color are for display purposes only.

2017 CRUZE LS

2017 EQUINOX LS

129

/MO. + TAX FOR 39 MONTHS MON

1 AT THIS PRICE

(F18145) Which includes $1,700 Base Cash, $750 Select Market Cash Bonus, $1,500 Competitive Lease Rebate, for a total of $3,950 in qualifying rebates. $2,500 customer cash. 10K miles per year. $0.25 per mile over. Aftermarket accessories not included in these payments. New vehicle color are for display purposes only. Program subject to change and availability. See dealer for details.

2016 TRAX LS

/MO. + TAX FOR 39 MONTHS

(F18533)

Which includes $225 Base Rebate, and $500 Competitive Lease Rebate for a total of $725 in qualifying rebates. $3,750 customer cash. 10K miles per year. $0.25 per mile over. Aftermarket accessories not included in these payments. New vehicle color are for display purposes only. Program subject to change and availability. See dealer for details.

2017 IMPALA LS Only /MO. + TAX FOR 39 MONTHS

1 AT THIS PRICE (F18645)

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19,988

+ TAX

1 AT THIS PRICE (F18913)

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2016 BMW SD

Orig MSRP………….$50,645 Lease for WELL + Tax Per sportpkg., driverassistancepkg., technologypkg., cold EQUIPPED Month weatherpkg., premiumpkg., sportautotrans,LEDheadlights (B2863/T80799) previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease (B2863/T8 $277+tax,permonth,24monthclosedendleaseon approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total dueatleasesigning$4,995.Nosecuritydeposit.25 cents per mile over 10,000 miles per year.

228i

2016 BMW Conv

277

Orig MSRP............. MSRP .............$48,645 $48,645 Lease for WELL + Tax Per sportpkg., lightingpkg., technologypkg., driverassistance EQUIPPED Month pkg., premiumpkg., sportautotrans,heatedfrontseats (B2964/711016)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease (B2964/7 $297 + tax per month. 24 month closed end lease on approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total due at lease signing $4,995. No Security Deposit. 25centspermile chargedover10,000milesperyear.

328xi

2016 BMW GT

297

Orig MSRP.............. MSRP ..............$52,845 $52,845 Lease for WELL + Tax Per sportpkg., driverassistancepkg., premiumpkg., lightingpkg., EQUIPPED Month technologypkg., cold weatherpkg., sportautotrans.&more! (B2900/501652)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease $337+taxpermonth.36monthclosedendleaseon approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total dueatleasesigning$4,995.NoSecurityDeposit.25 cents per mile charged over 10,000 miles per year.

2016 BMW xDrive3.5i

337

Orig MSRP.............. MSRP ..............$57,595 $57,595 Lease for WELL + Tax Per msport,premiumpkg,driverassistancepkg,harmankardon EQUIPPED Month sound,20”mwheels,navigation,heatedseats,panoroof (S363905/S16693)previousloaner 1 at this lease $427+tax,permonth,36monthclosedendleaseon approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total due atlease signing$4,888.Nosecuritydeposit. 25 cents per mile over 10,000 miles per year.

2016 BMW

550ia

427

Orig MSRP............. MSRP ............. $75,345 Lease for WELL + Tax Per msport, driverassistancepkg., driverassistanceplus,cold weatherpkg., executive EQUIPPED Month pkg., 19”alloy,comfort access,sport auto trans,harmonkardonsound (B2925/963020)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease $567 + tax, per month, 36 month closed end lease on approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total due at lease signing $4,995. No security deposit.25centspermileover10,000milesperyear.

567

328i

2016 BMW Sedan

Orig MSRP.............. MSRP ..............$49,145 $49,145 Lease for WELL + Tax Per sport pkg., lighting pkg., technology pkg., driver EQUIPPED Month assistance pkg., premium pkg., heated front seats (B2895/T84477)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease (B2895/T8 $287+tax,permonth,24monthclosedendleaseon approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total due at lease signing $4,995. No security deposit. 25 cents per mile over 10,000 miles per year.

2016 BMW

287

340ia

Orig MSRP............. MSRP ............. $53,345 Lease for WELL + Tax Per sportpkg/luxurypkg,driverassistancepkg,sportautotrans, EQUIPPED Month anti-theftalarm,harmankardonsound,moonroof, ledheadlights (B2892/T91083)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease $337 + tax per month. 36 month closed end lease on approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total due at lease signing $4,995. No Security Deposit. 25 cents per mile charged over 10,000 miles per year.

M235

2016 BMW Convertible

337

Orig MSRP.............. MSRP ..............$57,470 $57,470 Lease for WELL + Tax Per cold weatherpkg,driverassistancepkg,driverassistanceplus,technology EQUIPPED Month pkg,comfortaccesssystem,sportauto transmission,harmankardonsound (B2930/394508)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease $367 + tax, per month, 36 month closed end lease on approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total due at lease signing $4,995. No security deposit. 25 cents per mile over 10,000 miles per year.

428

2016 BMW Convertible

367

Orig MSRP.............. MSRP ..............$61,070 $61,070 Lease for WELL + Tax Per sportpkg., driverassistancepkg., lightingpkg., technologypkg., EQUIPPED Month premiumpkg., sportautotrans,heatedfrontseats,18”alloy (B2978/A28761)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease $437 + tax, per month, 36 month closed end lease on approvedcreditthruBMWFinancialServices.Totaldue at lease signing $4,995. No security deposit. 25 cents per mile over 10,000 miles per year.

2016 BMW xDrive3.5

437

Orig MSRP.............. MSRP ..............$75,170 $75,170 Lease for WELL + Tax Per luxuryline,driverassistancepkg., driverassistancepkg., cold weather EQUIPPED Month pkg., lightingpkg., premiumpkg., 3rdrowseat, 20”alloy,navigation (B2962/S86739)previousexecutivedemo 1 at this lease $597 + tax, per month, 36 month closed end lease on approved credit thru BMW Financial Services. Total due at lease signing $4,995. No security deposit.25centspermileover10,000milesperyear.

597

1139 W. Main Street • Alhambra

626-570-8444 or 888-300-3091 All advertised prices exclude government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document processing charge, any electronic filing charge, and any emission testing charge. Based on credit approval to be in the financial services. Financing available thru BMW Financial Services. Subject to prior sale on approved credit. Ad expires 12/25/16.

LAA4665844-1

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WSCE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2016

0% for 72 Months

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2016 CHEVY CORVETTE Stingray Coupe MSRP....................................................................... $75,211 HOOMAN DISCOUNT..............................................$7,288 DECEMBER STAND ALONE BONUS CASH ......$9,024

NET COST

16,312

TOTAL SAVINGS

58,899

1 AT THIS OFFER (16Z0014/107951)

2017 CHEVY Volt LT $

7,360

TOTAL SAVINGS

145

NOW AVAILABLE

PER MO. O. +TAX

10 AT THIS OFFER

36 months closed end lease on approved above average 730 score credit. MSRP $37,325. $3,500 cash or trade equity down to start plus tax & license. + $4,610 GM Rebate + $2,250 Select Market Cash + $500 Lease loyalty Rebate. Lessee responsible for mileage over 10,000 miles per year at $0.25 per excess mile. No security deposit.

2017 CHEVY Cruze H/B LT $ 4,796

2016 CHEVY Trax LTZ AWD $ 8,626

MSRP....................................................$22,795 HOOMAN DISCOUNT .......................... $3,796 REBATE...................................................$1,000

MSRP.................................................... $27,625 HOOMAN CHEVY DISCOUNT..............$3,101 SALE PRICE ........................................$24,524 BONUS TAG REBATE .......................... $5,525

TOTAL SAVINGS

17999 ,

10 AT THIS OFFER

PER MO. +TAX

24 months closed end lease on approved credit. MSRP $22,795. $2,550 cash or trade equity down to start plus tax & license. + $1,225 GM Rebate + $500 Lease loyalty Rebate. Lessee responsible for mileage over 10,000 miles per year at $0.25 per excess mile. No security deposit.

2017 CHEVY Malibu LS $ 5,101

18 999 199 ,

18 999 189 ,

PER MO. +TAX

1 AT THIS OFFER 17Z0570/164461

35 months. $500 Competitive Lease Rebate. Lessee responsible for mileage over 10,000 miles per year at $0.25 per excess mile. On above average credit approved thru GMAC.

1 AT THIS OFFER 16Z1430/754105

NET COST

19,599

5 AT THIS OFFER

2017 CHEVY Equinox $ 6,211

MSRP................................................... $33,260 260 HOOMAN CHEVY DISCOUNT..............$5,011 ,011 SALES PRICE..................................... $28,249 249 GM REBATE............................................$1,250 50

MSRP.................................................... $36,210 210 HOOMAN CHEVY DISCOUNT............ $4,461 ,461 SALES PRICE.......................................$31,749 749 GM REBATE............................................ $1,750 ,750

TOTAL SAVINGS

26,999 $229

PER MO. +TAX

1 AT THIS OFFER 17Z0640/217460

24 months closed end lease on approved credit with MSRP $33,260. $995 down to start plus tax & license. + $1,650 GM Rebate + $2,000 Lease Loyalty Rebate. Lessee responsible for mileage over 10,000 miles per year at $0.25 per excess mile. No security deposit.

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9,492

TOTAL SAVINGS

2017 CHEVY Traverse LS $ 6,261

NET COST

PER MO. +TAX

24 months closed end lease on approved credit with MSRP $27,625. $1,900 down to start plus tax & license. + $2,350 GM Rebate + $500 Bonus Tag Rebate. Lessee responsible for mileage over 10,000 miles per year at $0.25 per excess mile. No security deposit.

MSRP .................................................. $29,091 T .......... $3,680 HOOMAN CHEVY DISCOUNT ............ $25,411 SALE PRICE ....................................... BONUS TAG REBATE ......................... .............. $5,812

MSRP.................................................... $24,100 HOOMAN CHEVY DISCOUNT............ $4,601 SALES PRICE......................................$19,499 FACTORY REBATE ..................................$500

2016 CHEVY Camaro 1LT

TOTAL SAVINGS

NET COST

29,999 $189

PER MO. +TAX

1 AT THIS OFFER 17Z0202/119175

24 months closed end lease on approved credit with MSRP $36,210. $1,180 down to start plus tax & license. + $2,450 GM Rebate. + $1,500 Competitive Lease Rebate. Lessee responsible for mileage over 10,000 miles per year at $0.25 per excess mile. No security deposit.

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LAA4669981-1

NET COST

TOTAL SAVINGS

*Consumer Cash not available with special finance or lease offers. Take delivery by 12/26/16. Tax, title, license, dealer fees and optional equipment extra. OAC. Other restrictions may apply. See Dealer for details. All advertised prices exclude government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document preparation charge and emission testing charge. Must be 18 years or older and have a valid driver’s license. All financing based on lender approval on approved credit. See dealer for restrictions. Images may not reflect actual vehicles. Ad expires close of business 12/26/16.

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Mercedes-Benz of Encino

Have we lost our Mind?

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LEASE A Mercedes-Benz TODAY

2017 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250

LEASE FOR Per month + Tax/Lic.

2017 Mercedes-Benz GLA 250

243

LEASE FOR Per month + Tax/Lic.

1 To Choose (HN455766)

36 months | MSRP $38,215

$243.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $34,375.00,Down $3,488.00,amount due at signing $4,492.04.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expires Dec 31,2016

$276.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $38,215.00,Down $3,488.00,amount due at signing $4,550.00.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expires Dec 31,2016

2017 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300

276

479

1 To Choose (HF189923)

378

1 To Choose (HJ013748)

36 months | MSRP $53,075

$479.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease.On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $41,905.00,Down $2,899.00,amount due at signing $4,173.00.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expired Dec 31,2016

$378.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $53,075.00,Down $4,401.00,amount due at signing $5,738.00.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expires Dec 31,2016

2015 Mercedes-Benz

C 350 Coupe

C 400

25 Miles

Executive Demo

2013 MBZ C250C

426

1 To Choose (HA293387)

36 months | MSRP $103,025

$986.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $103,025.00,Down $7,178.00,amount due at signing $9,706.00.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expires Dec 31,2016

$426.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $57,705.00,Down $5,747.00,amount due at signing $7,284.00.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expires Dec 31,2016

2015 Mercedes-Benz

35 Miles

10 Miles

E 400

30 Miles

Executive Demo

Original MSRP $62,595

Original MSRP $53,185

Vin#FU028291 Pre-Owned

5 To Choose Pre-Owned

986

LEASE FOR Per month + Tax/Lic.

1 To Choose (HA879075)

38,920 $42,281 $45,710

Original MSRP $54,670

2017 Mercedes-Benz S 500 Ve

36 months | MSRP $57,705

Vin#FG389176 Pre-Owned

$286.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $41,145.00,Down $5,004.00,amount due at signing $6,231.00.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expires Dec 31,2016

LUXURY MODELS for LESS

2015 Mercedes-Benz

286

1 To Choose (HU198644)

2017 Mercedes-Benz GLE 350

LEASE FOR Per month + Tax/Lic.

36 months | MSRP $41,145

$199.00 per month plus taxes and license fees for 36 month lease On approved credit.Lease through MBF.MSRP $41,925.00,Down $6,180.00,amount due at signing $7,371.00.$750 acquisition fee.10k miles per year with $0.25 excess mileage per mile.Expires Dec 31,2016

1 To Choose (HA144919)

36 months | MSRP $41,905

199

2017 Mercedes-Benz C 300

LEASE FOR Per month + Tax/Lic.

36 months | MSRP $41,925

2017 Mercedes-Benz E 300

LEASE FOR Per month + Tax/Lic.

1 To Choose (HJ330004)

36 months | MSRP $34,375

LEASE FOR Per month + Tax/Lic.

2017 Mercedes-Benz B 250E

SL 63 AMG

®™

2015 Mercedes-Benz

SL 65 AMG®™

Executive Demo

128,710

Original MSRP $165,570 Vin#GF041779 Pre-Owned

30 Miles

189,650

Original MSRP $224,665 Vin#FF034588 Pre-Owned

Certiﬁed Pre-Owned – by – Mercedes-Benz 2014 MBZ E350W

CPO, ALUMINUM TRIM, MEDIA INTERFACE, SPOILER, 18” AMG’S (67145C/DG047076)

19,988

CPO W/UNLIMITED MILEAGE WARRANTY, PREM PKG, CAM, KYLSS GO (67195C/EA844086)

2015 MBZ GLK350W4

28,988

4 MATIC, SUPERNICE (67485C/FG37357)

29,988

CPO, PREM PKG, ILLUMINATED STAR, REAR CAM, RUN BRDS, KYLSS (67281C/FA497013)

29,988

1225 MILES, LIKE NEW, LOADED, MUST SEE (67631T/EN148807)

29,988

4 MATIC, MUST SEE (67463C/FA484850)

2015 MBZ C350C

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$4,795,000 9274 WARBLER WY, LOS ANGELES $4,750,000 $4,795,000 1380 DAVIES DR, BEVERLY HILLS 130 GRANVILLE AVE, LOS ANGELES $6,795,000 1658 SAN YSIDRO DR, BEVERLY HILLS 180 degree view, 5Bd+5.5Ba home w/ ample theater room. Newlyconstructed,breathtakingmodern5Bd+5.5Bamasterpiece. EastCoast6Bd+6.5BaTraditionalw/saltwaterpool/spa&firepit. Rare Opportunity! 4Bd/3.5Ba Contemporary with views. Candace Lazan 310.497.8890 Roger Perry 310.600.1553 424.239.8725 Adi Livyatan 818.919.4060 Jordana Leigh

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By Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale Don’t call it a rerun. Celebrated television producer Norman Lear and his wife, Lyn, have relisted their estate in Brentwood for $39.95 million, or about $15 million less than the original listing. The property originally came on the market last year at $55 million, but with additional acreage and a three-bedroom house that is not included with the new offering. Crowning an eight-plus-acre knoll, the Lears’ longtime home includes his home office and an often-used screening room. An entry hall, a two-story library, seven bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and four powder rooms also lie within approximately 14,000 square feet of living space. There are also a pair of guesthouses, office facilities, security offices, a tennis court and a gym. A large covered patio opens to a swimming pool and spa. The garage can accommodate up to 35 cars. Views take in the cityscape, mountains and ocean. The property previously changed hands in 1988 for $6.5 million, records show. The 94-year-old Lear won multiple Emmy Awards for the groundbreaking sitcom “All in the Family” and has scores of credits, including “The Jeffersons,” “One Day at a Time” and “Good Times.” Jade Mills and Valerie Fitzgerald of Coldwell Banker Previews International and Drew Fenton of Hilton & Hyland, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, are the co-listing agents.

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TV GROUNDBREAKER Norman Lear’s Brentwood estate went on the market a year ago for $55 million, but with more property.

End to her scene in Hollywood Hills Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler of “The Sopranos” fame has closed the book on her home in Hollywood Hills West, selling the twostory for $2.025 million, or $25,000 shy of her asking price. The contemporary house, built

LEAR’S 14,000-SQUARE-FOOT house is reached by a gated

drive that ends at a motor court. The garage can hold 35 cars.

THE PRODUCER’S longtime home is on an 8-plus-acre knoll and has office facilities as well as a screening room.

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to the original series, recently sold a house in Hollywood Hills West for $20.2 million.

New off-season destination As their wedding day approaches, it appears Kate Upton and Justin Verlander have settled on a marital home — at least, during the off-season. The modelactress and professional baseball player recently paid $5.25 million for an estate behind gates in Beverly Crest. With the purchase, Upton and Verlander join an ownership chain that reads like a who’s who of stars. Among past residents is saxophonist Kenny G, who sold the house in 1998 to tennis great Pete

Sampras for $2.5 million. Movie producer Jon Peters, actress Kate Jackson of “Charlie’s Angels” fame and television producer-director William Asher (“Bewitched,” “I love Lucy”) are other former owners. The estate, built in 1976, centers on a remodeled traditional-style home with five bedrooms and six bathrooms. The living space of 5,706 square feet features vaulted and beamed ceilings, hardwood floors and a great room with a fireplace. An updated kitchen opens to a family room with a wet bar. Outdoors, a sunken tennis court built for Sampras sits below the main house. The estate also includes a swimming pool, lawns, mature trees and a guesthouse. Judy Feder of Hilton & Hyland, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, and Steve

Frankel of Coldwell Banker shared the listing. Susan Smith, also of Hilton & Hyland, represented the buyers. Upton, 24, is known for her appearances on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The film comedies “Tower Heist” (2011) and “The Other Woman” (2014) are among her acting credits. Verlander, 33, won the American League Cy Young award in 2011. A six-time all-star, he has 173 wins across a dozen seasons with the Detroit Tigers.

‘Rosie’ outlook on Eastern Seaboard Comedian-actress Rosie O’Donnell has put her waterfront home in West Palm Beach on the

market at $6.05 million. The one-acre estate includes a water-facing swimming pool, two loggias, an outdoor kitchen and a boat dock with a lift off the 178 feet of frontage. Some 5,700 square feet of living space features a second-story catwalk overlooking the great room, a large kitchen island, a dedicated massage area off the master bedroom, five other bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms. There’s also a guesthouse. Built in 1957, the two-story house has been extensively remodeled. O’Donnell, 54, bought the property in 2015 for $4.975 million, public records show. Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Florida 1st is the listing agent. neal.leitereg@latimes.com Twitter: @NJLeitereg

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Talk about coming full circle. The row house used to portray the front of the Tanner family residence in “Full House” sold to the creator of that series, Jeff Franklin, for about $4 million. His plans for the San Francisco home include using it for filming — the interiors will be restored to their sitcom vintage and preserved for fans. But the Victorian has a larger place in San Francisco housing history than the family-oriented late-’80s sitcom. The three-story Italianate home was built in 1883 by Charles Lewis Hinkel, who was part of a prominent family of area home builders that constructed hundreds of such homes in the city. The interiors, which were not used on the show, include an updated eat-in kitchen, three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 2,985 square feet of living space. The property previously sold in 2006 for $1.85 million. Edward Deleski of Vanguard Properties was the listing agent. Cindy Ambuehl of the Agency represented the buyer. Franklin, who went on to work on “Fuller House,” Netflix’s sequel

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THE FAMILY-OWNED Larchmont Village Wine, Spirits & Cheese is on a street that’s dense and offers plenty to get to on foot.

mont is seeing a wave of mansionization in the western end of the district. On the eastern end, it’s apartment buildings and condos that dominate. The continuing popularity of the neighborhood shows that Angelenos want to live close to Larchmont Boulevard now more than ever, because people do walk in L.A. — as long as there’s something worth walking to.

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Main Street, U.S.A.: A great example of the lasting appeal of L.A.’s streetcar-oriented shopping districts, Larchmont Boulevard is dense, walkable and has good coffee and ice cream, trendy bou-

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Los Angeles has always been a refuge for Midwesterners flocking west in search of better weather and better jobs, and although the influx continues to this day, the flood of Chicagoans and Clevelanders was at its peak in the first half of the 1900s. That’s when Julius LaBonte, recent transplant from the Midwest, bought a home in one of the well-to-do subdivisions south of Paramount Studios and decided that what this newly established neighborhood needed was a good, old-fashioned Main Street. So inspired, he set out to create a neighborhood shopping and business district that would serve as the heart of newly built Windsor Square, a tract of homes that formed the nucleus of the belt of mansions that would stretch from Koreatown to the Miracle Mile. Soon after he assembled the necessary land on Larchmont Boulevard, a thriving district boasting an array of banks, a grocery store, a bookstore and a movie theater appeared, and the city soon connected this new Main Street to the trolley system via an extension of the 6th Street line toward Melrose Avenue. On the north end of Larchmont Boulevard, a more modest neighborhood (less than half a mile square) consisting of bungalows and apartment buildings — and conveniently close to the studios — developed, taking the name of the boulevard that defined its western border. It wasn’t where the moguls lived: They were all south of Beverly Boulevard or north of Sunset Boulevard. This was the neighborhood for the costumers, stagehands, payroll accountants and continuity supervisors. Today those more modest homes can go for well north of $1 million, if they still exist at all. Like many close-in neighborhoods of smaller homes, Larch-

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Population: 8,268 Diversity: Asian: 29% Black: 4% Hispanic: 35% White: 31% Other: 2% Rent vs. own: 76% / 24% Median income: $55,848

Median age: 38 Education: Less than high school: 16% High school graduate: 14% Some college: 22% Bachelor’s degree: 35% Master’s or higher: 13%

Drive times (without traffic): To LAX: 26 minutes To Staples Center: 16 minutes

Wining and dining: The formerly dowdy stretch of Melrose Avenue east of Vine Street has developed into a destination for food and drinks. Try Kali for contemporary American or Pour Vous, a Parsian cocktail lounge.

Neighborhood challenge

Here come the McMansions: The trend of modern boxes built out to property lines and towering over their neighbors has spurred the city to look for ways to reduce the number of tear-downs.

Serge Tran, a real estate agent with Keller Williams Larchmont, said home buyers gravitate to the neighborhood for its central location, easy access to the 101 and the 10 freeways, and for the friendly small-town vibe that is most readily seen at the weekly farmers market on Sundays. “It’s not a tourist attraction like the Hollywood one,” he said, “but one where neighbors go to as part of their weekly routine.” Larchmont also boasts a “great diversity of housing stock,” with options from entry-level condos to large homes. Although some of the single-family homes are expensive, prices tend to go down the farther east you go, particularly east of Van Ness, he said.

Market snapshot In October, the median sale price for single-family homes in the 90004 ZIP Code, based on 14 sales, was $1.48 million, according to CoreLogic.

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KALI IS ONE OF the spots that has made the stretch of Mel-

rose Avenue east of Vine a destination for food and drink.

Within the boundaries of Larchmont are Van Ness Avenue Elementary and Frances Blend Special Education Center, which scored 848 and 869, respectively, out of 1,000 in the 2013 Academic Performance Index. Nearby schools include Harvard Elementary, with a score of 829, and Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle, which scored 764. Helen Bernstein High scored 634. hotproperty@latimes.com

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A LARCHMONT-AREA home, custom-designed by an architect for his family, is listed at $3.25 million. But the neighborhood is also flush with apartments.

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A courtyard dining area and an outdoor fire pit invite outdoor entertaining at this two-bedroom in the Sun City Shadow Hills community.

Built in 1977, this brick-lined ranch house sits on threequarters of an acre of fenced and gated grounds.

This four-bedroom, built in 1954, features a side covered patio and a large backyard filled with mature citrus trees.

Address: 81710 Avenida Parito, Indio, 92203

Address: 22234 Rosary Ave., Nuevo, 92567

Address: 3962 Bel Air St., Riverside, 92503

Listed for: $295,000 for three bedrooms, two bathrooms in 1,854 square feet (0.7-acre lot)

Listed for: $294,900 for four bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms in 1,184 square feet (6,098-square-foot lot)

Features: Living room with brick fireplace; breakfast bar; new paint/carpeting

Features: New carpet/flooring; remodeled powder room; living room with fireplace

About the area: In the 92203 ZIP Code, based on 66 sales, the median for single-family homes in October was $329,000, up 15.4% year over year, according to CoreLogic.

About the area: In the 92567 ZIP Code, based on six sales, the median sales price for single-family homes in October was $330,000, an 14.3% increase year over year, according to CoreLogic.

About the area: In the 92503 ZIP Code, based on 77 sales, the median sales price for single-family homes in October was $387,000, up 13.8% year over year, according to CoreLogic.

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This two-bedroom in a 55-and-over community was recently remodeled and features an open floor plan and a contemporary kitchen.

This updated three-bedroom centers on a renovated kitchen with oak cabinetry and granite countertops.

This three-bedroom, built in 2006, sits within the Garden Gate community and has a living room with a fireplace.

Address: 80236 Royal Dornoch Drive, Indio, 92201

Address: 31381 Park Blvd., Nuevo, 92567

Address: 9784 Edenbrook Drive, Riverside, 92503

Listed for: $299,900 for three bedrooms, two bathrooms in 1,577 square feet (0.34-acre lot)

Listed for: $299,950 for three bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms in 1,440 square feet (2,178-square-foot lot)

Features: Covered patio; park-like landscaping; finished garage

Features: Covered porch; ceramic tile floors; laundry room

About the area: In the 92567 ZIP Code, based on six sales, the median sales price for single-family homes in October was $330,000, a 14.3% increase year over year, according to CoreLogic.

About the area: In the 92503 ZIP Code, based on 77 sales, the median for single-family homes in October was $387,000, up 13.8% year over year, according to CoreLogic. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Neal J. Leitereg

Listed for: $299,000 for two bedrooms, two bathrooms in 1,488 square feet (5,227-square-foot lot) Features: Covered patio; center-island kitchen; master suite with walk-in closet

Listed for: $289,000 for two bedrooms, two bathrooms in 1,707 square feet (5,663-square-foot lot) Features: New flooring; modern bathrooms; stainless steel appliances About the area: In the 92201 ZIP Code, based on 51 sales, the median for single-family homes in October was $265,000, up 10.2% year over year, according to CoreLogic.

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SOLD | BRENTWOOD

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314 N. Elm Dr

Beverly Hills

$3,599,000 Light, bright, & spacious 2sty Contemp Med. 4 en suite bdrms + fam rm. Fab kitch. Hi clngs. X-deep yard.

Beverly Hills

321 S. Canon Dr

JUST SOLD!

BY APPT ONLY Bel Air

13377 Java Dr

214 Ashdale Pl

Beverly Hills

$9,395,000 Explosive city vus! Cstm blt 2009 3-lvl 6BD Medit. Walled & gated. Theatre. R=37 T53 '37 IE4'5'=7 BAQ#-57 $VAOLKO#5M7

216 S. Canon Dr

$4,795,000 Ultra-cstm 6 year nu 3sty Arch Modern by The Albert Group. Near 5,600 sq ft. 6BD 7.5BA + ‘great’ rm. Rooftop patio.

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220 N. Doheny Dr

$2,295,000 Spacious updated 2sty Contemp Spanish charmer. 4BD 4.5BA. Lower level bonus rm/ba. Granite kitch. Best value!

$3,249,000 Redone 2sty Trad. 2BD suites + den up. Big mstr + gst suite down. Sunlit rms. Wd <'#QT'K1MG L'#7 DVXL' 4/1V# '3Q457 BAQ#-57

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Beverly Hills

10590 Wilshire Blvd Unit 201

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1120 Angelo Dr

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$649,000 2BD 2BA garden-lvl west-facing unit. Updated kitch/bas. Balcony. Lg liv rm w/fp. Washer/dryer. Full srvc w/valet/pl/spa.

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510 N. Palm Dr

$25,000/mo Grand newer gated 2sty Contemp Med. 6BD 6.5BA. Sep den & lg fam rm. Fab 1K? CEXMG7 BAQ#-5Q((@Q-K'H/A5QA5?1#7

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232 S. Maple Dr

$6,995/mo Immac updated 1sty contemp Med. 3BD 2.5BA + outdr gst suite. Sunlit rms. Wd <'#7 R'5##= ='L7 NVHK /-K1 AESQLE1E1H #-5MK7

“The hardest working man in real estate”

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Best Wishes for a Joyous Holiday Season to All!

Celebrating 30 years in our Westside market!

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$17,000/mo Updated 2sty English charmer. "91O#7 W31 '17 QYKN CHVH0K '17 U'30H\N kitch. Fab mstr. Big yrd w/lawns/patio/pl.

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624 N. Maple Dr

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618 N. Rodeo Dr

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$16,800/mo Charming 2sty 4BD + bonus rm/ba Trad. Fab new kitch! Sep fam rm + den. Huge mstr w/sit rm/fp. Pl & lush grnds.

611 N. Walden Dr

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124 N. Elm Dr

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$12,500/mo Restored 1931 1sty 4BD + den + lanai Crtyrd Spanish hacienda. Fab .'HKH03C \HCN#7 &O ='#T2N31#7 U'3## >'O7

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Best Wishes for a Joyous Holiday Season to All!

Celebrating 30 years in our Westside market!

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Experience the most fabulous Christmas ever in this magical estate. There are chimneys for Santa and amazing grounds to land his sleigh. A Norman Rockwell setting for the perfect traditional holiday. Tennis court and studio.

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The excitement in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes will melt your heart when they see this large brand new Beach- style home. Imagine a joyful holiday with open rooms for a relaxed celebration. 5BR+ theatre, wine cellar, pool, in gated cul de sac.

WINTER WONDERLAND BRENTWOOD

$23,500/MO GOOD WILL TO MEN ENCINO

Ponder the joys of spending the holidays in a luxurious retreat in gorgeous g rounds with romantic ter race and starlit pool. A glamorous home with 3BR + Mds + 2BR Guest house. Gorgeous kitchen and major entertainment spaces.

$3,150,000

Deck the Halls of this exquisite brand new home with holly and mistletoe while the children are snug gled in their beds. Sip eg gnog and enjoy holiday c o nve r s a t i o n i n t h e g r an d p u b l i c r o o m s w i t h t h e b i g s t o n e f i r e p l a c e s.

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A l l i s c a l m a n d b r i g h t i n t h i s ch i c s o p h i s t i c a t e d c o n t e m p o r a r y h o m e If you have been good all year, you could be rewarded with this char ming i n a p r i va t e wo o d e d s e t t i n g. H o s t f a m i l y a n d f r i e n d s i n t h i s s i m p l e , Colcord home. Drink sher r y at the living room fire place, then feast on o p e n f l o o r p l a n we l c o m i n g a l l t o e x p e r i e n c e a g l o r i o u s h a p p y h o l i d ay. r o a s t b e e f a n d Yo r k s h i r e p u d d i n g w h i l e ch i l d r e n o p e n t h e i r p r e s e n t s.

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$8,850,000 FEAST OF LIGHTS BRENTWOOD PARK

$6,495,000

Be merry with martinis and mistletoe in the dazzling entertainment rooms Enjoy candlelight dinners, with a fine wine and a tasty roast g oose with of this stunning John Wolff reg ency. Guests will be fascinated with the g ood friends in a beautiful East Coast style home. Holiday excitement Old Hol ly wo od ambi ence and t he glamorous ter race and t enn is c o ur t. g e n e r a t e s r e m i n i s c e n c e s a n d l ive l y c o nve r s a t i o n o f p a s t c e l e b r a t i o n s.

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TAKE A CHANCE WITH ANYONE ELSE ?

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By Neal J. Leitereg Polished concrete floors and exposed ductwork lend an industrial air to this sleek three-bedroom in the Marina Peninsula area. Designed for entertaining, the contemporary home features a 24-foot kitchen island, walls of floor-to-ceiling windows and a sunken living room with a fireplace. Rear-facing balconies and a rooftop lounge take in a view of the canal.

The details

Location: 4411 Roma Court, Marina del Rey, 90292 Asking price: $4.995 million Year built: 1985 House size: 3,861 square feet, three bedrooms, three bathrooms

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DESIGNED FOR entertaining, the 3,861-square-foot home has a sunken living room; the kitchen has a 24-foot-long island.

Lot size: 4,508 square feet Features: Polished concrete/ European oak floors; vaulted ceilings; floor-to-ceiling windows; 24-foot kitchen island; smart home management system; master suite with gas fireplace; attached balcony; rooftop deck; canal views About the area: In October, the median price for single-family homes in the 90292 was $2.885 million based on two sales, according to CoreLogic. That was a 33.3% increase in price year over year. Agents: Kerry Ann Sullivan, (310) 907-6517, Halton Pardee + Partners To submit a candidate for Home of the Week, send high-res photos via Dropbox.com, photographer permission and a description of the house to homeoftheweek@latimes.com.

REAR-FACING balconies and a rooftop lounge offer canal views.

Inside are vaulted ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows.

WITHIN THE 1985 homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3,861 square feet are three bedrooms

and three bathrooms. The asking price is $4.995 million.

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TANIA FERRIS

310-713-8234 TaniaFerris68@aol.com CalBRE#00664167

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BEVERLY HILLS | 1235 Tower Road | 6 Bedrooms | 7 Baths | $55,000 per month Dena Luciano 310.600.3848

BEVERLY HILLS P.O. | 1426 Harridge Drive | 7 Bedrooms | 11 Baths | $9,950,000 Josh & Matthew Altman 310.819.3250

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BEVERLY HILLS P.O. | 9720 Moorgate Road | 5 Bedrooms | 5 Baths | $2,395,000 Marshall Peck 310.497.3279

BRENTWOOD | 13151 Rivers Road | 7 Bedrooms | 10 Baths | $18,995,000 Dena Luciano 310.600.3848

ELLIMAN.COM/CALIFORNIA 150 EL CAMINO DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90212. 310.595.3888. Â© 2016 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PROPERTY INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

LOS FELIZ | 2255 Verde Oak Drive | 3 Bedrooms | 3 Baths | $4,295,000 Juliette Hohnen 323.422.7147

SILVER LAKE | 2958 Waverly Road | 3 Bedrooms | 3 Baths | $6,500 per month Juliette Hohnen 323.422.7147

SUNSET STRIP | 1733 Doheny Drive | 4 Bedrooms | 4 Baths | $6,350,000 Dena Luciano 310.600.3848

VENICE | 453 Sherman Canal | 3 Bedrooms | 4 Baths | $35,000 per month Juliette Hohnen 323.422.7147

WEST HOLLYWOOD | 1221 N Kings Road #208 | 1 Bedrooms | 1.5 Baths | $539,000 Tracy Tutor Maltas 310.722.2267

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Juliette Hohnen & Associates specializes in off-market listings like this Wallace Neff. JULIETTEHOHNEN.COM

620 McNell Road | Ojai $7,495,0 0 0 | 5 BEDROOM S | 5 BATHROOMS

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MY FAVORITE ROOM

Glam goes to work in the city That glitz doesn’t create itself, you know. Some of it is produced here. By Kavita Daswani

How often can you be found here? At least four or five days a week.

What are some of your favorite furniture pieces? I love the Z Gallerie white desk in the corner. The chairs are covered in banana leaf print, inspired by the Beverly Hills Hotel, which is one of

my favorite places. And of course the huge tri-fold, mirror which is next to a rack of my stage costumes. Did you splurge on the design? I wanted to keep things reasonable. We got pieces from Wayfair, Anthropologie and Lamps Plus. But I also love Murano glass chan-

deliers and anything from Kartell. Were you very involved with the design process? I helped redo our house in Pasadena, but that was a very different process. We took it down and restored it to its former glory. For this, Roxy and I went back and forth. Once you’ve done it, you know what you like.

What look were you going for? I wanted it to be characterdriven, lots of pinks and reds, a little outrageous even, a place where my friends could get together, glam up and have fun. My record label is called Pretty Mess, and that’s my signature. hotproperty@latimes.com

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Sometimes I’m here at 5 a.m. to meet my glam squad and am ready by 7 for the film crew.

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What do you mostly do here? We film some of “Housewives” and have a lot of production meetings around that and a new album coming out next year.

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ERIKA JAYNE uses a Hollywood apartment — more convenient than her Pasadena home — for meetings and “Housewives” filming.

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Why is this your favorite room? I was running my entertainment business out of my house, and even though it’s large, I had just so much stuff. It also became a Los Angeles traffic time issue. I needed a place where everything was central, where I could have my meetings in town, come here, shower and be out again.

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There’s plenty of room at Erika Jayne’s Pasadena house — 17,000 square feet, including a chapel — but the reality star needed another space to house her costumes and to “get glam” for parties and appearances. So last summer the singersongwriter, who stars on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” leased a 1,600-square-foot apartment in Hollywood. She brought on interior designer Roxy Sowlaty to transform it from a “brown, oatmeal and really depressing space” into a Hollywood Regency-inspired city retreat. “My philosophy is glitz, glamour, love, fantasy, escape, and I wanted there to be a lot of that in this room,” said Jayne, 47.

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457 ROCKINGHAM AVENUE

SUNSET STRIP | $18,850,000 5 BEDROOMS | 13,820 SQ. FT. | 15,303 SQ. FT. LOT

BRENTWOOD PARK | $15,995,000 7 BEDROOMS | 12,003 SQ. FT. | 28,623 SQ. FT. LOT

MAURICIO UMANSKY | FARRAH ALDJUFRIE EDUARDO UMANSKY 424.230.3701

MAURICIO UMANSKY | ROUJA KOLEVA 424.230.3701

SANTIAGO ARANA | MAURICIO UMANSK Y 424.231.2399

900 W. OLYMPIC BLVD. #51A

1307 SIERRA ALTA WAY

BEVERLY PARK | $30,000,000 10 BEDROOMS | 20,612 SQ. FT. | 5.36 ACRE LOT

1112 TOWER ROAD

1535 UMEO ROAD

9551 CHEROKEE LANE

DOWNTOWN L.A. | $12,000,000 3 BEDROOMS | 6,590 SQ. FT.

BEVERLY HILLS | $9,500,000 6 BEDROOMS | 6,333 SQ. FT. | 18,749 SQ. FT. LOT

PACIFIC PALISADES | $8,498,000 OR $39,000/MO 6 BEDROOMS | 8,640 SQ. FT. | 25,142 SQ. FT. LOT

BEVERLY HILLS POST OFFICE | $7,995,000 5 BEDROOMS | 6,517 SQ. FT. | 20,846 SQ. FT. LOT

MAURICIO UMANSKY | ANSEL KIM 424.230.3701

DAVID SOLOMON | ANNA SOLOMON 424.400.5905

PAUL LESTER | AILEEN COMORA MICHAEL PEREZ 310.488.5962

647 S. JUNE STREET

1924 SUNSET PLAZA DRIVE

SUN 1PM - 4PM

7930 VULCAN DRIVE

3114 ELVIDO DRIVE

HOLLYWOOD HILLS | $6,995,000 6 BEDROOMS | 6,038 SQ. FT. | 25,982 SQ. FT. LOT

BRENTWOOD | $6,875,000 5 BEDROOMS | 20,916 SQ. FT. LOT

HANCOCK PARK | $6,350,000 5 BEDROOMS | 6,468 SQ. FT. | 22,278 SQ. FT. LOT

SUNSET STRIP | $5,825,000 4 BEDROOMS | 4,630 SQ. FT. | 19,076 SQ. FT. LOT

STACY GOTTULA 424.253.7523

PAUL LESTER | AILEEN COMORA MICHAEL PEREZ | MEGAN SOLOWAY 310.488.5962

MICHAEL MORABITO 424.672.4111

AILEEN COMORA | PAUL LESTER MICHAEL PEREZ 310.488.5962

8400 GRAND VIEW DRIVE

3020 LAKERIDGE DRIVE

2955 PASSMORE DRIVE

1460 DONHILL DRIVE

SUNSET STRIP | $5,795,000 3 BEDROOMS | 11,287 SQ. FT. LOT

HOLLWOOD HILLS | PRICE UPON REQUEST 3.71 ACRE LOT

HOLLYWOOD HILLS | $5,495,000 5 BEDROOMS | 1.54 ACRE LOT

BEVERLY HILLS POST OFFICE | $4,395,000 3 BEDROOMS | 2,637 SQ. FT. | 20,012 SQ. FT. LOT

MAX NELSON | DANIEL STEVENSON DAMIAN NELSON 424.238.2482

MICHAEL MORABITO | JAMES HARRIS DAVID PARNES 424.672.4111

AILEEN COMORA | PAUL LESTER 310.488.5962

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1445 EL BOSQUE COURT

SANTA MONICA | $3,988,000 3 BEDROOMS | 2,902 SQ. FT.

WINDSOR SQUARE | $3,650,000 5 BEDROOMS | 3,765 SQ. FT. | 8,255 SQ. FT. LOT

SANTA MONICA | $3,299,000 4 BEDROOMS | 3,486 SQ. FT. | 6,427 SQ. FT. LOT

PACIFIC PALISADES HIGHLANDS | $2,599,000 2.35 ACRE LOT

DAVID SOLOMON | ANNA SOLOMON 424.400.5905

JOHN MCCANN 424.231.2396

DAVID KELMENSON 310.863.3030

SANTIAGO ARANA | JEFFREY SANDORF 310.926.9808

BRENTWOOD | $2,595,000 4 BEDROOMS | 2,717 SQ. FT. | 7,126 SQ. FT. LOT

CHEVIOT HILLS | $2,595,000 4 BEDROOMS | 2,769 SQ. FT. | 6,824 SQ. FT. LOT

5721 TELLEFSON ROAD

CULVER CREST | $1,950,000 4 BEDROOMS | 2,183 SQ. FT. | 10,215 SQ. FT. LOT

944 BLUEGRASS LANE

DAVID KELMENSON 310.863.3030

JONATHAN RUIZ 424.230.3714

MICHAEL MORABITO | DAVID PARNES JAMES HARRIS 424.672.4111

SANTIAGO ARANA | JEFFREY SANDORF 310.926.9808

10363 CHEVIOT DRIVE

BRENTWOOD | $1,899,000 22,446 SQ. FT. LOT

SAT 1PM - 4PM AND TUE 11AM - 2PM

2220 AVENUE OF THE STARS #2602

11738 KIOWA AVENUE #PH3 BRENTWOOD | $1,299,000 3 BEDROOMS | 2,020 SQ. FT.

71049 EARLY TIMES ROAD

RANCHO MIRAGE | $1,215,000 3 BEDROOMS | 2,270 SQ. FT. | 23,958 SQ. FT. LOT

1220 ORANGE GROVE AVENUE #3

MAX NELSON | DANIEL STEVENSON DA MIAN NELSON 424.238.2482

SANTIAGO ARANA 310.926.9808

DANI BEHR | MIKE PATAKAS MARIA PATAKAS 424.230.3706

MAX NELSON | DANIEL STEVENSON DA MIAN NELSON 424.238.2482

CENTURY CITY | $1,895,000 2 BEDROOMS

WEST HOLLYWOOD | $1,099,000 2 BEDROOMS | 1,925 SQ. FT.

5323 GOODLAND AVENUE

321 N. OAKHURST DRIVE #201 BEVERLY HILLS | $735,000 2 BEDROOMS | 1,564 SQ. FT.

4177 KESTER AVENUE

SHERMAN OAKS | $17,500/MO 4 BEDROOMS | 4,527 SQ. FT. | 21,071 SQ. FT. LOT

11715 BELLAGIO ROAD #304

MICHELLE SCHWARTZ 424.230.3716

BLAIR CHANG | JOEY BRAUER 310.560.7320

CRAIG KNIZEK 424.230.3718

MARCI KAYS 424.216.5471

VALLEY VILLAGE | $929,000 3 BEDROOMS | 1,658 SQ. FT. | 6,571 SQ. FT. LOT

BEL AIR | $4,700/MO 2 BEDROOMS | 1,200 SQ. FT.

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*By dollar volume in 2014, Scotsman Guide, April 2015. ©2015 Cohen Financial Group, a division of CS Financial Inc. All Rights Reserved. CS Financial, Inc. is a real estate broker licensed by the CA Bureau of Real Estate, lic# 01257559, NMLS# 31162.

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Charming Lake Hollywood Estates Home Own your own Lake Hollywood Estate pool home located with an up close and clear view of the “Hollywood” sign. Recent upgrades include Brazilian hardwood floors, Maid’s Quarters with Sauna in bathroom, Newer Interior and Exterior Paint, Recessed Lighting, Jacuzzi Tubs, Walk In closets and much more! This is a great opportunity for a developer or a move in ready family to call home. The large lot wraps around three streets offering complete privacy and grand curb appeal. The large backyard features a swimming pool with separate yard area to entertain. Do not miss this opportunity to own this glamorous piece of “Hollywood.”

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Happy Holidays! Shadow Hill Way I Beverly Hills www.1270ShadowHillWay.com Co-listed with Scott Strassner Offered at $29,500,000

Loma Vista Drive I Beverly Hills www.VillaUnico.com Offered at $28,800,000

1423 Schuyler Road I Beverly Hills Offered at $4,900,000

Cardigan Place I Beverly Hills www.9838CardiganPl.com Offered at $4,675,000

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JOE@JOEBABAJIAN.COM CALBRE LIC #00813384

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ENDING 12/31/16

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Open TUESDAY - SATURDAY Closed Dec. 24th & 25th

OPEN MONDAY DEC. 26th

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10am-6pm

NEW

Atwater Village INSIDE (323) 912-9288

Oxnard INSIDE (805) 278-9555

Bakersﬁeld INSIDE (661) 587-0675

Pasadena (626) 356-3359

Brea (714) 984-2700

Pasadena INSIDE (626) 351-9516

Burbank (818) 391-2800

Rancho Mirage (760) 770-6400

Burbank INSIDE (818) 845-5121

Riverside INSIDE (951) 352-6022

Carlsbad (760) 827-2200 NEW

NEW

San Diego (Miramar Rd.) (858) 684-3660

NEW

Escondido (760) 740-7099

(Formerly Rancho Bernardo)

Fullerton INSIDE (714) 871-3281 Goleta (805) 562-1540

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on Bosch 800 Series Wall Oven and Cooktop Bundles. See store for complete details.

Stainless Steel Convection Gas Range

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Sherman Oaks INSIDE (818) 501-0933

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Irvine (949) 623-2500

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Lakewood INSIDE (562) 529-6500

West Hollywood INSIDE (323) 883-0219

Mission Valley INSIDE (619) 574-1076

West L.A. INSIDE (310) 268-9190

Mission Viejo INSIDE (949) 367-0729 Oceanside INSIDE (760) 439-3210

Self Clean

Tustin INSIDE (714) 734-4832

Huntington Beach (714) 889-1460

NEW

Convection

Torrance (310) 784-6100

Hawthorne INSIDE (310) 644-9312

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2,59998

629

Thousand Oaks (805) 214-2600 NEW

$899.99 Before Savings — $270 in Instant Savings

San Juan Capistrano (949) 234-5700

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• 1.7 Cu. Ft. Capacity • 1,000 Watt Sensor Cooking FGMV175QF

30%

San Dimas (909) 592-0223

NEW

After Savings

Stainless Steel Over-the-Range Microwave

SAVE

San Bernardino INSIDE (909) 885-4049

Chatsworth (818) 407-6760

Corona (951) 271-5600

Financing

OFF

MAJOR APPLIANCE AND KITCHEN & BATH FIXTURE

FREE Delivery

On Major Appliances and Kitchen & Bath Fixtures $479 & Up. When You 4 Use Our Store Credit Card.

29999

San Diego (Morena Blvd.) (619) 681-4800

Costa Mesa INSIDE (714) 434-0132

MONTH

- Factory Sealed - Open Box - Discontinued - Floor Models

$323.99 Before Savings — $24 in Instant Savings

Cerritos (Relocated) (562) 809-7959

Chula Vista INSIDE NEW (619) 420-1187

EXPERT Staff,

UP TO

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LIMITED TIME

Non-commissioned

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UP TO

Woodland Hills (818) 737-2900 NEW

Ontario (909) 919-7540

Woodland Hills INSIDE (818) 713-1007

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$539.99 Before Savings — $140 in Instant Savings

399

99 After

Savings

$719.99 Before Savings — $90 in Instant Savings

629

$899.99 Before Savings — $150 in Instant Savings

99 After

749

Savings

99 After

Savings

$1,349.99 Before Savings — $150 in Instant Savings

1,19999

Stainless Steel Hidden Control Dishwasher

Stainless Steel Front Control Dishwasher

Stainless Steel Hidden Control Dishwasher

• SmudgeProof Stainless Steel • 52 dBA FGID2466QF

• Stainless Steel Interior • 46 dBA KDFE104DSS

• WaterWall™ Cleaning Technology • 44 dBA DW80J7550US

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EACH

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After Savings

1 - Clearance Offer - “Up to 50% OFF” (Minimum markdown is 5%) is on Clearance Items (Factory Sealed, Open Box, Discontinued, and Floor Models). Selection varies by store. Excludes Sub-Zero and Wolf. See store for details. 2 - Up to 30% Off Major Appliance and Kitchen & Bath Fixture Top Deals (Minimum markdown is 15%) - Markdowns are taken off our already low factory direct prices on Frigidaire, Electrolux and more. “Offer” cannot be combined with any other offers, any Advertised Special Offers, Prior Purchases, Manager Specials or Special Orders. Excludes Small Appliances, Hoods, Accessories, Clearance Items, Jenn-Air, Viking, Sub-Zero, Wolf, Thermador, U-Line, DCS, Miele, Fisher and Paykel, Bertazzoni, Dacor, Dornbracht, In-SinkErator, Grohe, Kohler, Lynx, Asko, Bosch, Best, Cornu Fe, LG, Samsung, and GE Brands. Maytag, Whirlpool, KitchenAid, and Amana brands limited to 10% off. Vendor sponsored promotions may still apply. See store for complete details.

$3,059.99 Before Savings — $660 in Instant Savings

2,39999

After Savings

28.5 Cu. Ft. 3 Door French Door Refrigerator

22.2 Cu. Ft. Side by Side Refrigerator • Smudge-Resistant Stainless Steel • SpillSafe Glass Shelves FGHC2331PF

32%

• LG Smart Cooling • Slim SpacePlus Ice System LFXS29766S

SAVE

25%

WELCOME

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Door-in-Door

Counter Depth

Food ShowCase $539.99 Each Before Savings — $90 Each in Instant Savings

44999

EACH

After Savings

$989.99 Each Before Savings — $340 Each in Instant Savings

64999

EACH

$1,249.99 Each Before Savings — $400 Each in Instant Savings

84999

EACH

After Savings

Top Load High Efﬁciency Pair

• 4.3 Cu. Ft. 12-Cycle High-Efﬁciency Steam Washer - WTW5000DW • 7.0 Cu. Ft. 13-Cycle Electric Dryer - WED5000DW Gas slightly higher.

Front Load High Efﬁciency Pair

• Activewash 5.0 Cu. Ft. 12-Cycle Washer - WA50K8600AV/AA • 7.4 Cu. Ft. 12-Cycle Steam Electric Dryer - DV50K8600EV Gas slightly higher.

• AddWash 5.0 Cu. Ft. 14-Cycle Steam Washer - WF50K7500AV • 7.5 Cu. Ft. 14-Cycle Steam Electric Dryer - DV50K7500EV Gas slightly higher.

3 - Manufacturer Rebates - Example: Save up to $8,346 on Thermador products when you buy a 60” Pro Grand Range and Refrigerator. Eligible promo packages vary; minimum savings $1,299. See rebate form instore for complete details and qualifying products .

Counter Depth

$3,332.99 Before Savings — $833 in Instant Savings

2,49999

After Savings

Black Stainless Showcase 27.8 Cu. Ft. 4-Door French Door Refrigerator

$2,879.99 Before Savings — $380 in Instant Savings

2,49999

After Savings

Stainless Steel 22.2 Cu. Ft. Counter-Depth French Door Refrigerator

• Metal Cooling FlexZone Drawer • Twin Cooling Plus RF28JBEDBSG

• Keurig Brewing System Built-in • Humidity Controlled Drawer PYE22PSKSS

Decorative

4 - 18 Month Financing - Offer valid 9/28/16-1/4/17. Subject to credit approval. Terms and conditions apply. See store for details.

Kitchen and Bath

Fixtures

5 - Free Delivery - Offer applies to standard delivery ($69.99) on appliance purchases $399 and up and kitchen & bath ﬁxtures $1,000 and up, and to limited metro delivery area. Additional parts extensive labor, haul-away of current appliance and installation charges are extra. 6 - Samsung 4 Piece Package - $1,221.99 Refrigerator + $179.99 Microwave + $719.99 Gas Range + $539.99 Dishwasher = $2,661.96 – $222 Refrigerator Savings – $10 Microwave Savings – $270 Gas Range Savings – $90 Dishwasher Savings – $207 Package Savings = $1,862.96. (Price reﬂects the “Save an Additional 10%”)

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24%

28%

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Valid 12/22/16 - 12/28/16

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$401 Before Savings — $102 in Instant Savings

299

After Savings

$620 Before Savings — $153 in Instant Savings

467

After Savings

Adair Comfort Height One-Piece Elongated Toilet

SanSouci Touchless Comfort Height One Piece Toilet

• Cachet Quiet Close Seat Included • Single Flush Gravity KO3946-0

• Reveal Quite Close Seat Included • Touchless Flushing Technology KO4000-0

$279 Before Savings — $80 in Instant Savings

199

After Savings

Vivian Widespread Lavatory Faucet with Lever Handles • Durable Brass Construction • Ceramic Disk Valve Cartridge TOTL220DD1-CP

$633 Before Savings — $186 in Instant Savings

447

After Savings

BLANCOCULINA Semi Pro Pull Down Kitchen Faucet • Flexible Steel Spring Spout • Dual Spray Feature BO441405

And MORE!

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757

After Savings

Cerana 33” Fireclay Apron Front Sink • Apron Front Reversible Design • Center Drain Location BO441695

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Non-commissioned

EXPERT Staff, Here to Help.

OFF Clearance Items

LIMITED TIME

MONTH

Financing

- Factory Sealed - Open Box - Discontinued - Floor Models

On Major Appliances and Kitchen & Bath Fixtures $479 & Up. When You 4 Use Our Store Credit Card.

UP TO

OFF

MAJOR APPLIANCE AND KITCHEN & BATH FIXTURE

TOP DEALS

FREE Delivery

With All Major Appliance Purchases Totaling $399 & Up and Kitchen & Bath Fixtures $1,000 & Up.

HURRY! ENDS 12/31/16 See store for complete details. COMPLIMENTS OF JENN-AIR BRAND AND INSTALLATION ON US

RECEIVE UP TO

4,300

Instantly and by mail with the purchase of select Jenn-Air Brand Appliances

ENDING 12/31/16 See store for complete details.

DELICIOUS POSSIBLITIES, SWEET REWARDS PROMOTION

RECEIVE UP TO

3,798

in free appliances with a qualifying purchase.

ENDING 12/31/16 See store for complete details.

RECEIVE UP TO

1,600

MasterCard PrePaid Card Back from KitchenAid. Via mail when you purchase select KitchenAid Appliances.

ENDING 12/31/16 See rebate form in-store or go to kitchenaid.rewardpromo.com for complete details.

YOU COOK, WE CLEAN EVENT Get a

Professional Dishwasher

FREE

with the purchase of a Viking Professional Range. Up to $1,579 value See store for complete details.

GRAND KITCHEN SAVINGS $9,630 Before Savings — $875 Instant Savings

8,755

After Savings 8

3 Series Stainless Steel Built-in Kitchen Package

30” Stainless Steel Gas Cooktop - RVGC33015BSS (Reg. $1,409) 30” Stainless Steel Single Oven - RVSOE330SS (Reg. $2,909) Stainless Steel Dishwasher - RVDW103SS (Reg. $1,089) Stainless Steel French Door Refrigerator - RVRF336SS (Reg. $3,469) Stainless Steel Over-the-Range Microwave - RVMH330SS (Reg. $754)

Purchase a full-size

SUB-ZERO

and receive

1,000

Mail-in Visa Card

OR points towards WOLF GOURMET products

See store for complete details.

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