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2015 New Year’s Resolutions The Santa Monica Daily Press asked several civic leaders about their New Year’s Resolutions. Their answers are below.

What is your track record like with past resolutions?

Ask Hines.

MAYOR KEVIN MCKEOWN

What are your New Year’s resolutions (personal, professional or civic) for 2015?

Make sure everyone is engaged and heard as we shape our City’s future by hiring a new City Manager, adopting a new zoning code, and deciding the future of the airport.

What resolution do you hope most Santa Monican’s make this year?

Listen, contribute, and trust the process.

(personal, professional or civic) for 2015?

Personal: painting has become a bit of a hobby; I would like to explore that a little more in the coming year. Staying fit has always been a priority, but I would like to change my routine up and commit to sticking with it even when time and workload becomes a challenge.

Professional: the fire department has had a number of well-respected members

FIRE CHIEF SCOTT FERGUSON

What are your New Year’s resolutions

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Politics, shotgun marriage in government, war loom in 2015 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Tumultuous 2014 is not even in the books, and already the shape of 2015 looms. The New Year promises more war, when the plan was for less. It brings a new order in government, with an institutionally weakened president and strengthened opposition.

And it rings the bells for the 2016 presidential race, which colors everything in the center of power.

A look at what’s in store from Washington in 2015, from Associated Press writers who cover the White House, the Pentagon and politics: SEE PREVIEW PAGE 3

2014 provides plenty of eye candy for sports fans EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer

Some of them won the game, some of them saved the game and others made for some very impressive eye candy.

Odell Beckham Jr., James Rodriguez, Richard Sherman and Aaron Harrison were among those who put their distinctive stamp on sports in 2014 with shots, catches and plays that nearly broke the Internet and led off all the highlight shows.

A quick review of some of the best plays of the year:

LAST MEAL

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Callahan’s Diner closed on Dec. 31, 2014. Locals gathered for final plates of pancakes and eggs throughout the day to mark the departure of a neighborhood classic. A new restaurant is scheduled to occupy the space in the coming year.

ODELL’S OPUS: This one blew up almost within minutes of it happening. Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who regularly practices the one-handed grab, made the catch of the year against the Cowboys.

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Library Closed Santa Monica Public Library Branches All day All Library locations are closed New Year’s Day. No Beach Volleyball Annenberg Community Beach House 415 Pacific Coast Highway All Day. There will be no Beach Volleyball classes New Year’s Day.

January 2 Gallery display Annenberg Community Beach House 415 Pacific Coast Highway Opens at 9 a.m.

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No Yoga Class Annenberg Community Beach House 415 Pacific Coast Highway All day.

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Guest House Docent Tour Annenberg Community Beach House 415 Pacific Coast Highway 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Free, docent-led tours of the Marion Davies Guest House begin at 11 a.m., 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. No reservations needed.

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January 3 Brain Games Illusions Gallery Santa Monica Place 395 Santa Monica Blvd. 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

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Walking on the ceiling? That’s right, mind-trickery is a funny thing. National Geographic Channel is celebrating the new season of its hit series Brain Games by bringing to life an interactive illusions gallery where fans can experience mind-bending games and get an up-close look at how things are not always as they appear. Participants will have the chance to immerse themselves in four brain-hacking games and learn the “why” behind the “wow.” The event is free and open to the public.

Early Literacy Tablet Petting Zoo Montana Avenue Branch Library 1704 Montana Ave. 10 a.m.

Explore the AWE Early Literacy tablet’s over 70 educational games. Ages 2-8 accompanied by an adult.

Guest House Docent Tour Annenberg Community Beach House 415 Pacific Coast Highway 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Free, docent-led tours of the Marion Davies Guest House begin at 11 a.m., 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. No reservations needed.

Ocean Park Book Group Ocean Park Branch Library 2601 Main St. 11 a.m.

A Monthly Meeting of the Ocean Park Book Group. Meets the 1st Saturday of the Month. Open to All. No Registration Required. Discussion Title: “The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy with Autism” by Naoki Higashida.

Lego Club Fairview Branch Library 2101 Ocean Park Blvd. 3 p.m.

A monthly club for LEGO fans. Build with our library LEGOS. Ages 4 and up.

January 4 Eat Well Week Participating Restaurants Citywide

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PREVIEW FROM PAGE 1 THE NEW ORDER -AP Writer Jim Kuhnhenn

Voters gave the country a shotgun marriage in the November elections - Obama and a new Republican-controlled Congress.

It won’t always be pretty, but they will have to cohabitate. Dishes will be broken, voices will be raised, and they will occasionally look for reasons to make up.

It’s likely to start confrontationally. And each side will have to deal with its own internal fissures.

At the top of incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s list is legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project opposed by environmentalists that would send oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Republicans also want to try to reverse Obama’s executive actions on immigration and undo Obama’s health care law.

But as McConnell emphasizes, only one Democrat counts: the president. His veto pen, little used in his first six years, would become his weapon of choice.

Obama and Republicans also share some common ground.

Trade: The administration is working on one major trade deal with 11 Pacific Rim countries and another with Europe. Obama seeks authority to negotiate agreements that Congress must approve or reject but cannot change. Most Republicans support such a fast-track approach, but Democrats and their labor and environmental allies do not.

LISTINGS FROM PAGE 2 Santa Monica restaurants have a delicious solution for your New Year’s resolution! To celebrate California Restaurant Month, good taste meets healthy food each January during Santa Monica’s Eat Well Week. Santa Monica’s top restaurants will offer a delicious, healthy menu item specially crafted for Eat Well Week. Kick-off 2015 right and indulge guilt-free in Santa Monica Jan. 4-11.

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Obama has chided Democrats, urging them not to “fight the last war” on trade.

Roads, bridges, ports: Both sides would like to see infrastructure spending. But they can’t agree how to pay for it. Obama says a way might be found by reworking the tax system.

Tax overhaul: The U.S. has the highest corporate taxes in the industrialized world, though many corporations use tax breaks and other benefits to reduce or even eliminate their tax burden. Obama and Republicans say they want to make the system fairer and the U.S. more competitive.

Immigration: For all the anger over Obama’s solo actions, some Republicans still want to address what they call a broken immigration system. But both sides remain far apart, and Obama has said “temperatures need to cool a little bit.” An overhaul is a long shot.

THE ON-RAMP TO 2016 -AP Writer Ken Thomas

For the next presidential campaign, 2015 is the Big Sort.

Democrats have been fixated for months on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the party’s dominant candidate if she decides, as expected, to seek the White House again. Republicans enter the year with their most unpredictable presidential contest in a generation.

At this stage, the two names that matter the most are Bush and Clinton.

For Republicans, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has signaled that he may enter the GOP primary field. If he does, his name recognition and deep establishment ties he’s the brother and son of the last two Republican presidents - would make him a

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formidable candidate.

Bush’s decision could affect the calculations of others, among them Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a longtime Bush protege, and some of the Republican governors who’ve been gauging their support. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is another major GOP personality who could be affected by Bush’s moves.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has prepared for a 2016 campaign for months. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and governors John Kasich of Ohio, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Mike Pence of Indiana, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Snyder of Michigan are also in the potential mix. And still more.

If she enters the field, Clinton would bring four years at the State Department, nearly a decade in the Senate, eight years as first lady and a lifetime in politics. Not to mention the wiles of former President Bill Clinton and her 2008 presidential campaign experience.

Her candidacy, said Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter, would be “the restart of a conversation that was started almost eight years ago.”

How she addresses a populist streak running through the party could signal how she might run. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals, could complicate Clinton’s path by entering the field. So far, no Obama-like figure has emerged to do what he pulled off in 2008 - an upset of Clinton the favorite, then and again now.

Back in early January, Obama declared that America’s 13 years at war would end this month, with all U.S. troops out of Iraq and the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan over.

Twelve short months later, U.S. troops are again on the ground in Iraq, the counterterrorism fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan will continue, and U.S. forces are launching airstrikes against a new al-Qaida affiliate - the Islamic State group - in both Syria and Iraq. Now, Obama talks of a turning point, a time when large ground war deployments are over, even as he pledges action to keep past military gains from slipping away.

U.S. forces have trickled back into Iraq, following the launch of airstrikes in August against Islamic State militants. At first there were a few dozen, then a few hundred. Now, about 1,700. The president has authorized a total of 3,000.

Their mission is to train and advise Iraqi troops, not to engage an enemy on the ground, but they will be armed and prepared to protect themselves.

In Afghanistan, the number of U.S. troops has dropped to a bit more than 11,000 from about 38,500 in January. But the plans to go to 9,800 by the end of the year and limit forces to advising the Afghans and only fighting al-Qaida - not the Taliban - have changed.

About 1,000 additional U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan for a few months to fill in for other coalition forces, and the U.S. will continue to target Taliban insurgents who threaten either Afghans or Americans.

WAR WITHOUT END -AP Writer Lolita C. Baldor

AP Writer Cal Woodward contributed to this report.

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January 5 Yoga at the beach house Annenberg Community Beach House 415 Pacific Coast Highway 9 a.m.

All levels welcome. Drop in for $15/class or sign up for the 5 week session for $62, w/parking included. Mon 1/5-2/2

Homework Help Fairview Branch Library 2101 Ocean Park Blvd.

3:30 p.m.

Get help with your homework! This drop-in program offers a separate study area, basic supplies, and friendly volunteers to assist with homework questions. For students in grades 1-5 only.

Preschool story time Montana Avenue Branch Library 1704 Montana Ave. 11:15 a.m.

Story time series for 3-5 year olds. Jan. 5 - Feb. 9 (No stories January 19)

Study Zone @ Montana Montana Avenue Branch Library 1704 Montana Ave. 3:30 p.m.

Space for quiet study. Grades K - 12.

Children under 8 years must be accompanied by an adult.

Pajama Story Time Ocean Park Branch Library 2601 Main St. 6:30 p.m.

Grab your favorite stuffed animal and wear your pajamas for this evening story time for the whole family at the Ocean Park Branch Library.

Architectural Review Board Meeting City Hall 1685 Main St. 7 p.m.

The ARB generally meets on the first and third Mondays of each month unless there is a holiday. Meetings are held in the City Council Chambers at City Hall unless otherwise noted. Visit http://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD /Boards-Commissions/ArchitecturalReview-Board/ for more information.

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Re: Lori Emerson’s Letter (12/22/14) Editor: Installing separate water meters for each apartment unit to the tenant pays - “Bah Humbug.” My water as well as many others are included in our rent. Rents are high enough without forcing low-income renters to fork up more money but the landlord who has laundry rooms in the building can increase the amount you pay to do your washing as much as they want So stop complaining about Kevin McKeown affecting his pocket book. Sure glad you’re not on the council affecting my pocket book.

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Quarterback Eli Manning threw a high pass down the right sideline and Beckham freed himself after tangling feet and arms with defensive back Brandon Carr. Beckham reached his right hand behind his head, grabbed the ball and cradled it into his stomach while falling to his back in the front corner of the end zone, as the yellow flag flew for the pass-interference call against Carr. Through it all, Beckham’s left hand never touched the ball.

TIP AND TALK: Before The Rant, there was The Tip. Richard Sherman’s game-saving swataway from Michael Crabtree in the NFC championship game wrapped up Seattle’s trip to the Super Bowl and came only moments before his rant in a postgame interview with Erin Andrews that drew more attention that his play on the field. With the Seahawks protecting a six-point lead with 32 seconds left and the Niners on their 18, Sherman got his bearings, left his feet, arched his left hand up and not only swatted Colin Kaepernick’s pass away from Crabtree, but directed it to teammate Malcolm Smith, who is officially credited with the interception that sealed the game.

THREES, PLEASE: It only looked like a replay. In back-to-back games, Kentucky freshman Aaron Harrison spotted up from the behind the upper-left part of the 3-point arc and drained a shot to win the game. The first one sent Harrison, his twin brother Andrew and the rest of Kentucky’s fabulous freshmen to the Final Four. The second one provided the winning points against Wisconsin in the national semifinals. In the Sweet 16 game against Louisville, Harrison also made a key 3 from the left corner - the shot that gave Kentucky the lead for good with 39 seconds left in a 74-69 win. “He’s not afraid to miss,” said his coach, John Calipari, in explaining why he called the play for Harrison. And when the chips were down, Harrison didn’t.

THE BEAUTIFUL SHOT: The prettiest goal at the World Cup? No question, it was scored by Colombia’s James Rodriguez.

About midway through the first half of the

round-of-16 game against Uruguay, Rodriguez stood with his back to the goal a few steps outside the penalty area. He received the ball, chested it to himself, then, took three baby steps to turn 90 degrees before kicking the ball out of midair, left-footed, for a goal that grazed the underside of the crossbar. And then, as Jeremy Wilson of The Telegraph put it,“An initial moment of stunned silence soon gave way to audible gasps from both sets of supporters inside the Maracana.”

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NOW, THAT’S A BACKHAND: Pro tennis players are so athletic, the between-thelegs shots barely register anymore. But how about a backhand while sitting down?

Eugenie Bouchard pulled it off at a clay court tournament in Estoril, losing her footing and falling flat on her back, but still getting the next shot back after her opponent hit it right back to her. She scrambled to her feet and ended up winning the point.

BEST CATCH (MIKE TROUT EDITION): The AL MVP overran a screaming line drive to center field by Kendrys Morales.

No problem. He stopped. Jumped as high as he could, then reached behind his head for a one-handed, no-look grab.

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“BACK 1620 JAPAN AIR:” American snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg got points for degree of difficulty and originality, winning the first Olympic gold medal in slopestyle with a trick he had never tried before. On a sparkling day in the Russian Caucasus, he closed his run by helicoptering off the final jump of the course, grabbing his board and flexing it behind his back while spinning for 4_ revolutions. Stuck the landing. Then, in true snowboarder fashion, admitted he had never really, well, practiced the trick before.

“Never ever tried it in my life,” he said.

A LATE ENTRY: This, from Dec. 21: Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch started left, took a straight, diagonal line to his right, busted through two tacklers on the sideline, then outran the rest of the Cardinals defense to the end zone for a 79-yard touchdown. “One of the greatest plays I’ve ever seen, right there,” said NBC’s Cris Collinsworth. Lynch, no fan of the media, was asked a couple of times about the run. His stock answer: “Thank you for asking.”

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retire over the past couple years; my professional resolution is to help grow our new team as we strive to provide the best possible service to our community.

What is your track record like with past resolutions?

Track record: if I was honest with myself the answer would be that my resolutions have not stretched me too much; I have stuck to them fairly well but need to explore the fringes a bit more.

What resolution do you hope most Santa Monican’s make this year?

Santa Monica is an amazing place with a whole lot going on - my resolution for our citizens and guests is for increased safety on the bike paths, sidewalks, and busy streets.

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Personal - Surf more and worry less.

Professional - Fight to keep oil drilling out of Santa Monica Bay. This March, voters in Hermosa Beach will decide the fate of a dangerous and ill-advised proposal to begin slant drilling for oil underneath the Hermosa seafloor. There is no drilling in the Bay right now and we need to keep Big Oil out of our local waters.

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What resolution do you hope most Santa Monicans make this year?

As a native Santa Monican, I hope residents resolve to hold their elected leaders accountable for planning decisions made by city staff that are negatively affecting our quality of life. Development may bring in money to fill city coffers, but maddening gridlock, excessive density and cookie-cutter architecture are sapping our civic soul. It’s too heavy a price to pay.

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What are your New Year’s resolutions (personal, professional or civic) for 2015?

My personal and civic resolution is to get rid of my grass lawn and replace with a sustainable garden in 2015.

What is your track record like with past resolutions?

Generally good, except for my resolution to keep my desk clean. That’s a work in progress.

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On the first day of January or shortly thereafter people across the country will be making New Year’s resolutions to exercise more and get themselves into better shape.

But they’ll have a tough time matching Daren Wendell. The 33-year-old runner from Kalamazoo, Mich. will kick off 2015 by running a marathon a day for 100 days.

“I’ll be starting on New Year’s Day at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California and finish on April 10 at Times Square in New York City,” he said.

Wendell isn’t running 26 miles a day for 14 weeks to get in shape. He is doing it as a fundraising effort to raise donations for Lifewater International, a Christian non-profit organization that has provided clean drinking water, sanitation facilities and hygiene education to more than 1.5 million impoverished people in 50 countries.

Wendell is running specifically to raise money for a Lifewater project in the Borena region of southeastern Ethiopia, where 22 percent of children under 5 perish due to diseases caused by unsafe drinking water, a lack of sanitation facilities and poor hygiene.

“Running is spiritual experience for me,” Wendell said, adding that every fundraising mile he runs will help Lifewater build new drinking water and sanitation facilities and work with local groups to provide health and hygiene information, all of which will benefit more than 30,000 Ethiopians.

Wendell also hopes to generate increased awareness of Lifewater, which has ongoing water, sanitation and hygiene education projects in Uganda, Bangladesh, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo and other impoverished regions throughout the world.

“I invite people to run with me,” Wendell said.

His route, which is posted on www.rundarenrun.com, begins Jan. 1 at Santa Monica Pier and goes across the high desert through Flagstaff, Ariz., following old Route 66, before heading northeast toward New York City.

While Wendell is likely to encounter snow and subfreezing temperatures, he said he is used to running in snow and inclement weather, having spent much of his life in the Upper Midwest.

Wendell co-founded an organization called Active Water six years ago, which raises funds for water projects. His company recently partnered with Lifewater and Wendell now oversees Lifewater’s fundraising division.

For more information about Wendell’s run across America and about Lifewater, visit their respective websites at www.RunDarenRun.com and www.Lifewater.org.

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love. And the boy, of course, thinks of him as a saint. Very very gooey.

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This is a documentary about Edward Snowden and the efforts he made in order to make the world aware of the clandestine intelligence and surveillance activities of the United States government.

His motives appear to be sincere and he comes off as a determined patriot. But although he identifies himself as “neither traitor nor hero; I’m an American”, many of his countrymen think of him as a traitor.

The film follows him from his initial contacts with journalist Glenn Greenwald, filmmaker Laura Poitras, and the man from The Guardian newspaper, Ewen MacAskill.

He rendezvous with them in a hotel room in Hong Kong, but instead of discussing the “juicy tidbits” and shocking revelations contained in the documents, he describes in mind-numbing detail the technological machinations that enabled him to secure them. And the camera remains with him in the hotel room as he waits for his colleagues to fly back and forth across the world and get his message out.

The rest of his story, the 39 days of waiting in the Moscow airport for the Russian government to approve his request for asylum and the events that followed, is told mostly in voice-over. But at the end, through the kitchen window of his Moscow apartment you catch a glimpse of his long-time girlfriend, who joined him in exile. It’s the only personal shot that gives you a sense of Snowden as a real human being.

“Citizenfour” is an interesting story told blandly and with little drama. Which is probably the way a story as significant as this one should be told. But it makes for a helluva dreary movie.

ST. VINCENT

“St. Vincent” isn’t really a terrible movie.

After all, how bad could a movie be that has Bill Murray in it?

This one, however, has all the “Bill Murray shticks” we’ve seen a thousand times, and the story is a predictable rehash of “lonely boy being mentored by an irascible, irresponsible, retired reprobate” who is hired to “babysit” him by his harassed, newly divorced mother, Melissa McCarthy.

There are the requisite scenes of drinking, sex, and visits to the race track before Murray abandons his shabby lifestyle and becomes a mensch that even a mother could

Nobody is indifferent to Stephen Sondheim. You either love him or you hate him. In his new sci-fi fantasy fairy tale, “Into the Woods”, everybody sings his songs except the audience. There’s not one that you can remember the tune to, let alone the words.

For my part, his only memorable song is “Send in the Clowns” from “A Little Night Music”.

In “Into the Woods” he and James Levine make a mishmash of the tales of the brothers Grimm. They were grim when they were originally published in 1812 and made even grimmer by the Sondheim-Levine musical on Broadway in 1986. Lapine wrote the screenplay for the film that opened this Christmas and transmogrified it in accordance with directives from Disney, the studio that produced it.

Disney objected to the implied sexual relationships between Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford) and the Wolf (Johnny Depp) and Cinderella’s Prince (Chris Pine) and the Baker’s Wife (Emily Blunt). The studio also didn’t like the excessive violence and the grisly deaths of so many of the principals. But many of them died anyway, even though they were played by actors who deserved better.

Among the cast were Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, Christine Baranski as Cinderella’s stepmother, James Corden as the Baker, MacKenzie Mauzy as Rapunzel, Billy Magnussen as Rapunzel’s Prince, Daniel Huttlestone as Jack (of Beanstalk fame), and Tracey Ullman as his mother.

And whirring around stirring the plot was The Witch, an over-the-top Meryl Streep.

The various stories intertwined in the woods, which were creepy, and revolved around The Witch, who was prone to offering curses and making inexplicable demands.

Besides the fact that the film was more than two hours long, it disintegrated into a dark morality play in the second half, punishing everyone for their perceived wicked actions or intentions. Not a fairy tale at all.

Children would find it grim, not Grimm.

All these films are currently playing in theaters around Los Angeles.

CYNTHIA CITRON has worked as a journalist, public relations director, documentary screenwriter and theater reviewer. She may be reached at ccitron66@gmail.com

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Storm brings snow to Southern California ASSOCIATED PRESS PASADENA A blustery winter storm dropped snow on very low elevations across inland Southern California early Wednesday after stranding dozens of motorists on mountain highways.

Snow fell on areas as low as 1,000 feet, with accumulations east and southeast of Los Angeles in communities such as Temecula, Murrieta, Wildomar and Temescal Valley, the National Weather Service said.

Many residents of the suburbs north of San Diego have seen snow before but only on wintertime trips to the mountains to go skiing or sledding - not at their front door.

In Temecula, people snapped photos of the snow-covered lawn outside City Hall and kids threw snowballs.

City Manager Aaron Adams said his 12and 14-year-old daughters were sledding down the hill outside his home on bodyboards usually reserved for the beach or pool. He said he’s never seen as much snow half a foot in some places - in the two decades he’s lived there.

“You’d think you woke up in Tahoe or something,” Adams said. “Our Old Town looks like a ski town, it looks like something out of Colorado.”

The storm also packed strong gusts that toppled trees throughout California. A tree fell into a home early Wednesday in Redding, killing a woman and injuring a child and a man. It’s the third death from falling trees since Tuesday.

Two people died when a tree toppled onto a car and another on a home in separate incidents as winds topped 60 mph in the Paradise ridge area of Butte County in the northern Sierra foothills, the Oroville Mercury-Register reported.

Farther south, the storm stranded vehicles on roads in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles.

By early Wednesday, firefighters had rescued 136 people that got stuck in about a foot of snow along Highway 138 near Crestline, San Bernardino County fire spokeswoman Tracey Martinez said. Some vehicles could drive away after snowplows cleared the snow, while others left their cars and walked to shelter or their homes, Martinez said.

Near Mount Baldy, snow stranded 50 other people who needed rescue.

The powder closed Interstate 15 at Temecula and State Route 74 - a key link

between Riverside and Orange counties, the California Highway Patrol said.

In the aftermath of the storm, temperatures were expected to remain near or below freezing early New Year’s Day for the thousands of people who camp overnight or gather early to watch the Rose Parade in Pasadena.

The storm had dropped down through California on Tuesday, triggering widespread freeze watches and wind warnings.

Los Angeles County public health authorities issued a cold-weather alert for several areas, including the San Gabriel Valley, where Pasadena is located, and city officials urged paradegoers to come ready with layers of clothing and foot- and handwarmers.

“Be ready and know that it’s going to be very cold here,” Fire Chief Bertral Washington told a news conference. “We just want them to be prepared, and we want to make sure that they’re going to be safe and warm when they do camp out.”

The flower-decorated floats, marching bands and equestrian units of the 126th Rose Parade will begin moving 5 1/2 miles through Pasadena at 8 a.m. Jan. 1, but many people will have held sidewalk positions since noon Wednesday, when it becomes legal to do so.

Cold is not unheard of during Rose Parades, but the enduring image from the traditional event is of clear skies and the backdrop of the rugged, sun-splashed San Gabriel Mountains rising behind Pasadena.

For the homeless, more than 1,500 beds were available at 21 shelters across the city and county of Los Angeles under a program activated at the beginning of the month.

“They’re all at capacity,” said Brenda Threatt, shelter system manager for Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. “They are all able to put up additional beds and not turn anyone away. So that’s been the upside.”

The cold was also a growing concern for California’s agricultural interests.

“Were getting pretty nervous about it, to be quite honest with you,” said Joel Nelsen, president of California Citrus Mutual.

Freezing temperatures could affect mandarin orange, navel orange and lemon crops, he said.

Nelsen said 75 percent of this year’s crop is still on the trees and yet to be harvested.

“There’s a lot of vulnerability for the industry here,” he said.

Last year, the industry produced crops worth a total of $2.4 billion, Nelson said.

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2 dead, 1 missing after winds hit California island Two people are dead and a third is missing after storm winds broke boats loose from moorings at Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast.

Los Angeles County fire Chief Daryl Osby said one of the dead is a harbor patrol officer and the other is an unidentified citizen.

The incident occurred late Tuesday night in Avalon Harbor, where three power boats are now aground along the waterfront.

The National Weather Service says winds up to 40 mph hit the harbor.

Three Northern California deaths have also been linked to the storm. Falling trees killed two people in the town of Paradise on Tuesday and another person was killed by a tree early Wednesday in Redding.

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‘The Interview’ expands video-on-demand access Sony Pictures Entertainment says it is expanding the digital availability of “The Interview” to top cable, satellite and telecom services, beginning Wednesday and increasing through the weekend.

Starting Thursday, the movie will also be available on PlayStation Network.

In a statement, Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Michael Lynton thanked the new partners and specified that the studio had always sought the widest possible distribution for the R-rated comedy about an assassination attempt on the leader of North Korea.

The film will also expand to 580 independent theaters by Jan. 2.

Major theater chains cancelled their showings of the film amid threats against theaters.

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Police officers drove into the line of fire last weekend in a tough area of Los Angeles where gang members were shooting at rivals in another car, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Authorities were initially concerned that the two officers were ambushed late Sunday in South Los Angeles, just days after two New York City officers were killed in their patrol car.

However, an investigation determined that the LAPD patrol car arrived at the scene as two gang members were shooting at a car as it drove away, prosecutors said.

No one was injured after one of the unidentified officers returned fire. One person was arrested at the location and another person remained at large.

The district attorney’s office said in a statement that 18-year-old Christopher Taylor, a reputed gang member, and has been charged with two counts each of assault on a peace officer with a semi-automatic firearm and shooting into an occupied vehicle, and one count of assault with a semi-automatic firearm.

Police retrieved a rifle and a pistol at the scene.

Taylor was expected to be arraigned on Friday and prosecutors said they’ll ask for bail to be set at $2 million.

If convicted, Taylor could face life in prison. It was unclear if he had an attorney.

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INVITE FRIENDS OVER TONIGHT, PISCES ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

★★★★ You’ll wake up feeling thankful. Those

★★★★ You may want to open up to a change.

in your inner circle might express their feelings, though one person could be closing down.

Don’t worry -- your optimism will draw this person out. Listen carefully to what he or she has to say. Tonight: Follow your imagination.

A loved one could be extremely touchy and willful. You can’t seem to avoid confrontation anymore. Revisit a goal you thought you had fulfilled but actually haven’t. Relax at home.

Tonight: Make a call to a friend at a distance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

★★★ Now that the pace is slowing down, you

★★★★ You’ll deal with a situation differently from how you have in the past. You are able to communicate your bottom line much more easily now. Know that you can’t control someone who might decide to be angry and vocal. Go out for a while. Tonight: Be a duo.

might want to consider everything that has happened over the past few weeks. You finally will be able to evaluate the cost of the holidays.

Tonight: Reach out to a special person.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ You could be in a situation where you feel overwhelmed by everything that is happening around you. A partner could be less than happy about dealing with a personal matter. Tonight: Ask questions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You might find that several people around you are pushing for more time with you, as you seem to have been somewhat of a recluse lately. You’ll have had a lot to consider.

Tonight: Consider your options.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You could be stressed out about what is going on around you. You tend to get so into the holidays that you have difficulty saying goodbye to that time of year. Curl up and take a much-needed nap. Tonight: Allow yourself the freedom of doing nothing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ You have so much to do that you can’t seem to squeeze in enough time to suit your group of friends. You know your priorities; there is nothing wrong with honoring them.

Trust your decisions, and don’t feel as if you need to explain. Tonight: Get some exercise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★★ You might have more fun today than

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

you have had during most of the holiday season. You will want to have a long-overdue discussion with a loved one that the hectic pace of the past weeks has prevented. Don’t be surprised to hear some anger. Tonight: In the here and now.

★★★★ You might want to kick back and do some hard thinking about your choices, yet someone seeking a good time could walk in through your front door. You’ll be able to make all the difference in this person’s day. Go with spontaneity. Tonight: And the party continues.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

★★★★ You suddenly might start thinking

★★★ You might feel a sense of obligation to

about everything you still haven’t done, which could add to the pressure of the moment. Stay calm; otherwise, you easily could get into a tongue-lashing with an associate. Enjoy some downtime. Tonight: Pace yourself.

make certain decisions and take some time putting order back into your life. You could find yourself feeling angry for no reason. Be sensitive to what a friend offers or suggests as a solution. Tonight: Invite friends over.

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JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: ★★★★★Dynamic ★★ So-So ★★★★ Positive ★ Difficult ★★★ Average

This year you add wisdom and wit to your communication style. You might not even be conscious of how much your style is transforming, but others’ responses will indicate a difference. Your focus will be less on long-term goals and more on your daily life. If you are single, an unusual person walks into your life. You will need to decide what type of bond you want. If you are attached, the two of you enjoy developing a daily routine together. Passions often run high, and you’ll perfect the art of kissing and making up. GEMINI can be scattered.

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D A I LY P O L I C E L O G The Santa Monica Police Department responded to 316 calls for service on Dec. 30.

BELOW IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE CALLS CHOSEN BY THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF. Trespassing on the 1300 block of the 3rd St. Promenade at 5:23 a.m.

Trespassing on the 1400 block of 2nd St. at 5:50 a.m.

Vandalism on the 1600 block of Dewey St. at 6:56 a.m.

Traffic accident on the 300 block of Olympic Dr. at 7:07 a.m.

Identity theft on the 300 block of Olympic Dr. at 7:13 a.m.

Grand theft at Ocean and Santa Monica Blvd. at 9:17 a.m.

Panhandling on the 2600 block of Lincoln Blvd. at 9:40 a.m.

Bike theft on the 1500 block of 2nd St. at 10:09 a.m.

Traffic accident at Lincoln and Colorado at 10:28 a.m.

Vandalism on the 1400 block of 4th St. at 11:01 a.m.

Petty theft on the 2600 block of Lincoln Blvd. at 11:10 a.m.

Petty theft on the 300 block of Colorado Ave. at 11:18 a.m.

Petty theft on the 1000 block of 16th St. at 11:35 a.m.

Grand theft auto on the 1400 block of 23rd St. at 11:59 a.m.

Fraud on the 2000 block of Santa Monica Blvd. at 12 p.m.

Counterfeit money on the 2800 block o Ocean Park Blvd. at 12:05 p.m.

Traffic accident at 2nd and Arizona at 1:42 p.m.

Assault on the 300 block of Santa Monica Place at 1:42 p.m.

Panhandling on the 1900 block of Lincoln Blvd. at 1:50 p.m.

Domestic violence at Lincoln and Kensington at 2:06 p.m.

Trespassing on the 1500 block of Stanford St. at 2:24 p.m.

Auto burglary on the 1300 block of 4th St. at 4:29 p.m.

Hit and run on the 1500 block of 2nd St. at 4:45 p.m.

Vandalism on the 500 block of Colorado Ave. at 4:52 p.m.

Petty theft on the 1000 block of Ocean Ave. at 5:05 p.m.

Traffic accident on the 1300 block of 5th St. at 5:07 p.m.

Petty theft on the 1200 block of 2nd St. at 5:39 p.m.

Grand theft on the 1900 block of Wilshire Blvd. at 6:02 p.m.

Burglary on the 2100 block of 4th St. at 6:06 p.m.

Harassing phone calls on the 1400 block of 6th St. at 7:23 p.m.

Petty theft on the 2000 block of Santa Monica Blvd. at 8:14 p.m.

■ “Ethical” fur designer Pamela Paquin debuted the first of her anticipated line of roadkill furs recently -- raccoon neck muffs (“I can literally take two raccoons and put them butt to butt (so they) clasp neck to neck”) that will sell for around $1,000. Raccoons yield “luscious” fur, she said, but her favorite pelt is otter. The Massachusetts woman leaves her card with various New England road crews (“Hi, my name is Pamela. Will you call me when you have roadkill?”) and does business under the name Petite Mort (“little death” in French, but also, she said, a euphemism for a woman’s post-orgasm sensations).

■ Some students at Harvard, Columbia and Georgetown law schools demanded in December that professors postpone final exams because those lawyers-intraining were too traumatized by the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City, which cost them sleep and made them despair of the legal system’s lack of integrity. (Critics cited

by Bloomberg Business Week suggested that lawyers who cannot function at a high level in the face of injustice might fare poorly in the profession.)

TODAY IN HISTORY – The Manchester Ship Canal, is officially opened to traffic.

– New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.

– Spanish rule ends in Cuba.

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