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Local races by the numbers Election ‘08 final results

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DOWNTOWN Robert Kronovet went back to work, Chris Bley was in recovery mode, and Ted Winterer was just ecstatic that Barack Obama became the presidentelect.

Less than 24 hours after the election, the “nearly there” cluster of local candidates who narrowly missed out on captur-

ing that last open seat are looking to move on after a long campaign season that ended with the re-election of all the incumbents and another sweep for those backed by Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the city’s most powerful political party.

There will be minimal physical changes to the four elected boards as only two newcomers — Ben Allen for the Board of Education and Christopher Braun for the

Rent Control Board — were chosen by voters to serve for the next four years.

Both newly-elected officials were selected to serve on boards in which there was at least one seat uncontested by an incumbent.

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BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer

City Council: Bobby Shriver: 18,755 (18.24%) Richard Bloom: 16,024 (15.59%) Ken Genser: 15,179 (14.76%) Herb Katz: 13,646 (13.27%) Ted Winterer: 9,760 (9.49%) Susan Hartley: 7,578 (7.37%) Michael Kovac: 5,022 (4.88%) Jerry Rubin: 4,772 (4.64%) Linda Piera-Avila: 3,559 (3.46%) Herbert Silverstein: 2,639 (2.57%) John Blakely: 2,184 (2.12%) Linda Armstrong: 1,859 (1.81%) Jon Mann: 1,834 (1.78%) School Board: Ben Allen: 20,842 (27.77%) M. Leon-Vazquez: 20,059 (26.73%) Jose Escarce: 17,616 (23.47%) Chris Bley: 16,539 (22.04%) SMC Board of Trustees: Susan Aminoff: 19,495 (28.41%) Rob Rader: 18,937 (27.6%) M. Quinones-Perez: 18,195 (26.52%) Heidi Hoeck: 11,983 (17.47%)

DOWNTOWN It was a bad night for the anti urban development faction, but a good one for supporters of development at Santa Monica College.

More than 10 months after the trafficfatigued Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC) began circulating a petition for Measure T, the controversial, slow-growth initiative that caused divisions among long-time political allies failed on Tuesday.

Measure T, which proposed amending City Hall’s general plan to cap commercial development to 75,000 square feet a year, was defeated at the polls, garnering slightly more than 14,100 yes votes to nearly 18,000 nays.

The measure was one of three local initiatives that voters faced, including Measure AA, which authorizes a $295 million construction bond for Santa Monica College, and Measure SM, which modernizes the Utility Users Tax. Both Measures AA and SM passed.

Rent Control Board: Joel Koury: 18,045 (43.27%) Christopher Braun: 12,119 (29.06%) Robert Kronovet: 11,543 (27.68%)

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WORK IN PROGRESS: Voters approved Measure AA, which authorizes a $295 million construction bond for Santa Monica College. College officials say residents won’t be billed this year.

Measure R, the countywide sales tax initiative that would pay for transit-related projects under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, also passed. The measure raises the sales tax in the county from 8.25 to 8.75 percent and would pay for

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The election came after a long and bitter

Measure T: NO 17,978 (55.92%) YES 14,170 (44.08%) Measure SM: YES 15,926 (52.15%) NO 14,612 (47.85%) Measure AA: YES 23,865 (62.05%) NO 14,599 (37.95%) Measure R: YES 1,633,442 (67.41%) NO 789,601 (32.59%)

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GOING UP: Santa Monica Place is currently undergoing a major redevelopment that operators hope will attract upscale shoppers to town.

Luxury in store for Santa Monica Place

BY ELIZABETH KENIGSBERG Special to the Daily Press

DOWNTOWN Out of the rubble between Broadway and Colorado Avenue will come several high-end retail stores and specialty restaurants at Santa Monica Place, Macerich Co. announced Wednesday.

Macerich, which has worked on The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks and other retail centers, slated Kitson, Coach and Lacoste as some of the retailers it will bring to the Downtown mall that has been undergoing renovation since last spring.

“Santa Monica is a vibrant, stand-alone market that deserves this level of upscale retailing and fine dining to meet the needs of affluent local consumers as well as an impressive set of international visitors,” said Anne Singleton, the vice president of leasing for Macerich. “We are creating a shopping and dining environment that will take

its place alongside these established regional draws.”

The posting of the additional retailers trailed the September announcement of Bloomingdales and Nordstrom as the 550,000-square-foot complex’s two department stores. The mall is projected to reopen fall 2009.

XINO Restaurant & Lounge, which will offer modern Chinese cuisine, and Japanese restaurant Ozumo will be a part of the planned rooftop dining deck, and BCBG Max Azria, Joe’s Jeans and a True Religion denim shop have also been included in the retail lineup.

Shoppers along the Third Street Promenade and Macy’s, which has remained opened during the mall construction, said the luxury stores will likely be a welcomed addition to Santa Monica.

“They really needed to clean up Santa Monica Place,” resident Leslie Kaufman

said. “People who live near here like to go to a place where they’re comfortable and visit stores that have a certain level of class.”

Tourists, too, who play a key role in the city’s economy, often come to shop in Downtown and are an important part of the shopping demographic.

Peter Urie, who was on a business trip and has visited Santa Monica a few times, said luxury stores in the area market to both him and locals.

“This is kind of a high-end area, so I can see people wanting to have high-end stores,” said Urie, who was visiting from the U.K. “It’s still quite cheap to buy clothes here, and I shop in Santa Monica for its relaxed environment.”

That relaxed environment, however, was something Pacific Palisades resident Iris Kameny would like to keep.

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sold millions of dollars worth of Viagra over the Internet was convicted Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court for failing to report more than $4 million on his tax returns.

Roy Colina Alivio, who managed the online pharmacies Net Doctor and Male Clinic, which sold the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison with one year probation following his release and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine, according to court reports.

The Internal Revenue Service found that Alvilio neglected to file more than $1 million in sales receipts as income for Net Doctor on his 1999 business tax return, and more than $1.7 million went unreported the following year.

Alivio reported zero gross receipts from sales for either business, and did not include more than $1.4 million in sales receipts for Male Clinic’s business tax returns filed for 1999 and 2000, according to the IRS. Alivio’s net profits from Net Doctor and Male Clinic between 1999 and 2000 were well over $800,000, officials said. He was convicted earlier this year of six counts of filing false tax returns for both the online businesses and himself — not reporting about $230,000 on personal tax returns for those two years.

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Now the real work begins Notes from Election Day Ron Scott Smith

9 A.M. — I KNEW IT THE MINUTE I WALKED Throughout the course of the campaign season, the Daily Press received an overwhelming amount of “Letters to the Editor” that focused on local, state and national races, as well as our coverage of the candidates and our endorsements.

While we could not publish them all because of space constraints, we would like to thank all of our readers for taking the time to sit down and express themselves, sharing some of their most intimate thoughts with us and fellow readers. It was truly inspiring for us to see such participation on behalf of the community, especially at a time when many newspapers are struggling to pay the bills and provide readers with a quality product. It’s not easy, but the support from the community makes it worthwhile.

Just knowing that our readers are so engaged is uplifting.

That said, not all of the letters were flattering. Many bashed candidates, measures and the paper. It was expected given the fact that there were some contentious issues on the ballot this time around and a general sense amongst residents that Santa Monica is at a critical juncture where strong leadership is needed. There’s no question that this was a heated campaign season, the passion so palpable. And with that passion came extreme disappointment or bitterness. Friends can quickly become enemies. Organizations can dissolve or fracture in the aftermath.

That is our concern. We hope that those who have poured their hearts and souls into their campaigns can breathe a sigh of relief now that the election is over, refocus and put disagreements aside to concentrate on the tasks at hand. With the challenges Santa Monica faces, we do not have the luxury of waiting. There’s no time to sit back and enjoy or ruminate on what could have been done differently to ensure victory. There’s no need for any toldyou-so moments. We must put our differences of opinion behind us and work together to make Santa Monica better.

That doesn’t mean we should forget that many residents are not happy with the status quo. Elected officials and representatives of Santa Monica College and the school district must take heed and reach out to these residents to address their concerns. The Daily Press will be watching.

In the end we must remember that this is politics. It’s not personal. We all have Santa Monica’s best interests at heart, so let’s bury the hatchet and get back to work.

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out to my car early in the morning and encountered two very beautiful and very elderly Latinas, dressed to the nines, long formal dresses, fancy hats, full makeup — the whole shebang — and then the finishing touch, the “I Voted” sticker in red, white and blue stuck proudly to their lapels. This is a done deal is what I was thinking right about then. Buenos dias America.

10 a.m. — Done deal all right. I drive down to the polling place at Virginia Avenue Park but have to make a U-turn, vowing to come back later, because that line stretches all the way across the parking lot into the street — unheard of in these parts.

11 a.m. — Stop in for a cup of coffee at the UnUrban on Pico and there’s something in the air besides the aroma of the daily roast. Nobody says a word but it’s as if everybody’s winking at everybody or something.

1 p.m. — Back to Virginia Park and no, the line has not died down, but is actually longer. It feels like nothing so much as a sort of tailgate party over here, people festive, exuberant, anxious for the big game to start.

2 p.m. — Finally I am handed my ballot and make it to the voting booth where I will try to fight through “The Bradley Effect.”

That’s what they call what happened to African-American mayor Tom Bradley, who was way ahead in polling for the gubernatorial election in 1982 but then inexplicably lost when hordes of white guys who said they were voting for him did just the opposite in the privacy of the voting booth.

3 p.m. — Karl Rove, evil genius behind the Bush phenomenon, predicts on Fox News an Obama landslide, and Brit Hume’s face looks like it’s about to drop off his head.

4 p.m. — How about “The Reverse Bradley Effect?” That would be right wingers spouting their anti-Obama rhetoric until they step into the gravitas of the voting booth where reality sets in at the tip of their stylus, and they punch in Obama’s name not ever daring to tell a single soul. See, the polls are now closed in Indiana, always first to go red in these things, deep red, and exit polling shows the Democrat giving the Republican all he can handle. Unheard of.

5 p.m. —The polls close in my home state of Pennsylvania, the one they all said would be the key to the election, and before they can even get the county-by-county graphics on screen the anchormen on all the networks declare the state for Obama, and I’m thinking like the song says, “You’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania.”

6 p.m. — The crowd is growing at Chicago’s Grant Park for the presumptive Obama celebration, and this is the same Grant Park that was the staging area for the barbed-wire laced jeeps the cops would use to quell the riots in the streets at the 1968 Democratic Convention. You’ve come a long way baby. The scene is dripping with good will, peace, and love.

7 p.m. — That fancy color-coded electoral map they all use is turning from red to

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blue so fast it’s not even passing through purple. “Ohio, Oh why oh?” Words I wrote to start my post-tragic 2004 election column right here in this paper. You remember, that election where the presidency goes to John Kerry if Ohio comes in, but where there were so many voting irregularities that the whole bunch of them governing the state were soon thereafter booted out? Well, different year, different story. Ohio? Oh my oh. Brit Hume has just placed Ohio officially in the Obama column, barring unforeseen shenanigans. And they’re falling now one after the other in rapid splendor following the lead of Ohio who just couldn’t keep its

HOW ABOUT ‘THE REVERSE BRADLEY EFFECT?’ THAT WOULD BE RIGHT WINGERS SPOUTING THEIR ANTIOBAMA RHETORIC UNTIL THEY STEP INTO THE GRAVITAS OF THE VOTING BOOTH WHERE REALITY SETS IN AT THE TIP OF THEIR STYLUS, AND THEY PUNCH IN OBAMA’S NAME NOT EVER DARING TO TELL A SINGLE SOUL.

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thumb in the dike any longer. Here they come now, Virginia, New Mexico, Iowa, even North Carolina in the heart of Dixie, all red states turning blue or, as Jack Buck once said of a certain Kirk Gibson home run: “I don’t believe what I just saw with my own two eyes.”

8:08 p.m. — “NBC News is now able to declare Barack Obama as the next president of the United Sates.”

Joe the Plumber just got his roto rooted.

Sara the Hockey Mom just got body-checked right on back up north to Alaska. Rush the Limp Ball just got his wealth spread. And Barack the Organizer just got a whole lot bigger of a community to organize.

10 p.m. — The man speaks to the throngs and you know how that one goes. Let me steal his ending on this dia muy hermoso: God bless America.

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To be fair, a little Martha was probably lurking inside of me for quite some time before the baby was born. But my very own Everyday Living peaked — and hasn’t shown signs that it will budge an inch — the day I found out I was to reproduce.

Earlier this year my mom sent me the framed Disney prints — Tinker Bell, Mary Poppins, Snow White et al. — that hung in my room when I was a little girl so that I could hang them in my little girl’s room. First I decided to paint the frames the same color as inside the baby’s closet (which is a different, yet complimentary, color to the one on her bedroom walls). Then it was on to step two.

“Where should I hang them,” I asked my mom, an interior decorator. I faxed her a sketch of the room so she could offer insight into where the prints’ sentimentality and sweetness would be most appreciated by a newborn baby.

“I can’t tell without being in the room,” she said. “Wait until I come out there. We’ll hang them then.”

I panicked. “But I want the room to be all set before she’s born.”

“The baby probably won’t care that there’s nothing on the walls when she gets home from the hospital,” my mom said.

“However, if her empty walls do, in fact, affect her, I will gladly pay her therapy bills until which time she realizes that she inherited her crazy from you.”

“Everything has to be perfect when she gets here,” I cried. “I’ll know the difference if it’s not!”

She sighed and hung up the phone.

I bought a scrapbook before giving birth and promptly started making notes and collecting. Like the date I first felt her kick and what foods I craved. I saved every sonogram picture — all 60 of them — that was taken over nine months. I also had my husband take dozens of pictures of me pregnant so I could pick one perfect image to go in the scrapbook — one that said “doting motherto-be” and “don’t hate me because I’m beau-

tiful” concurrently. The only other catch was also having the photo make me look obviously pregnant and yet stunningly slim at the same time. My husband wisely said each shot made me look anorexic, which is clearly why I married him.

My dad was assigned the task of saving The New York Times from the day the baby was born so the front page could go in the scrapbook. After all, the baby just might want to know that the weekend she was born was also the opening ceremony of the Olympics as well as when John Edwards admitted to an extramarital affair. Nothing was off limits, really, if it benefited the scrapbook. Except for the Clearblue Easy stick that revealed the pregnancy in the first place. Some things just aren’t meant to be that sacred.

Last month we took the baby to pick out her first pumpkin. She wore her cutest (and only) pumpkin hat and my husband was once again under strict orders to take the perfect picture. It was essential that he capture the twinkle in her eye while at the same time ensuring there were plenty of pumpkins in the background so that the essence of the Halloween season would be tangible.

The only problem was that my daughter was unwilling to stay awake for her “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” moment.

Now I know how Martha Stewart must have felt when her daughter tied the knot in a gray flannel suit in a judge’s chambers and her reception afterwards included all of five people. Who knew a 2-and-a-half-monthold baby could also be so spiteful.

Then last week I decided to get a molding of the baby’s hand and footprints as a birthday present to my husband to memorialize her tinyness. The molding instructions suggested it would be easiest to do when the baby was sleeping. However, the stink eye the baby gave me during each of my five attempts to mush her hand and foot into the soft, non-toxic substance told me there was no easiest time to mush her hand and foot into anything.

Someday, though, hopefully she’ll understand the method to my madness. If not, at least my mom has offered to pay for the therapist. Maybe Martha’s daughter can recommend a good one.

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Switching the vinegar and ammonia in cole slaw. Serving cornish hens and finding them raw inside. Purchasing a chicken by accident.

If ever an ill-timed kitchen disaster is going to strike, it’s around Thanksgiving. But while cooking mishaps can be horrifying when they happen, they can turn into great memories.

Here are some Thanksgiving cooking disaster tales, edited from first-person accounts: NAME: Colleen Dougherty Bronstein, 55, artist, Yardley, Pa. HER DISASTER: I was making the cole slaw, which is a family recipe, and the cabbage and celery is chopped by hand, which takes around three hours. It’s quite an ordeal. It’s a recipe that was handed down from my father and his family. He was fanatical about chopping it.

When I finally finished, I reached into the cabinet for the vinegar, and poured in two capfuls. As soon as I put the cap back on, I realized something awful: I had switched the ammonia and the vinegar around in the kitchen cabinets for whatever reason. I now had ammonia in my cole slaw.

The question was, “Do I forget about the cole slaw?” but that would be like saying, “Let’s forget about the turkey.” So I sent my husband out for more cabbage and celery and started from scratch.

I now keep the ammonia out of the kitchen.

NAME: Judi Moran, 63, Newberg, Ore., retired elementary school teacher HER DISASTER: Early in my marriage, I entertained my in-laws for the first time on Thanksgiving: my mother-in-law and my husband’s aunt, along with subsidiary husbands and children.

Let me preface my account by saying these two women were Southern ladies who believed in putting on the “bird” and cooking for an entire army when folks came for holidays. I was a bit petrified at their expectations.

So, I decided to cook the turkey in a paper sack! It was a novel idea I’d read in a women’s magazine somewhere.

I can’t say whether this turkey cooking trick has worked for others. But in my case the meat turned out so tough, it wasn’t clear whether I was serving the turkey or the sack.

My husband, in an initial taste test, nixed the bird and volunteered to run out to KFC for buckets of a different breed of fowl.

NAME: Jack Mott, 27, media sales, Chicago HIS DISASTER: My roommate and I decided to stay in Chicago to save money on traveling and try to make our first Thanksgiving dinner. My roommate was on stuffing, yams, and mashed potatoes. I had the turkey.

We wanted to get the smallest turkey we could find, and I was happy to discover an 8lb. bird while my roommate gathered up the rest of the ingredients for the holiday feast and $50 worth of booze.

When it came time to cook, I peeled off the turkey’s wrapper, took out the innards, stuffed and salted the bird before putting it in the oven. A good hour and a half had gone by, when my roommate started to clean and prep for the other fixings.

That’s when he noticed that nowhere on

the “turkey” wrapper did it say “turkey.” Upon further inspection I found a delightful recipe for Perdue Chicken Salad on the back of the wrapper. As it turns out, I had bought an 8-lb chicken, stuffed it, and cooked it for nearly two hours.

My roommate, livid, made me go out to the nearest store to find a de-thawed turkey. I came back with a 25 pound turkey for two people. I removed the stuffing, put it in the turkey, and cooked it.

We now had a lot of meat.

That’s when our landlord, a single mother of two, knocked on our door to deliver a holiday gift. We invited her and her visiting parents to share the feast.

NAME: Hope N. Kirsch, 53, attorney, Scottsdale, Ariz.

HER DISASTER: I had invited all kinds of friends to Thanksgiving dinner at my house in Montville, N.J. I thought how nice it would be for everyone to have their own hen. That’s nicer and classier than a bird.

The hens looked great on the outside.

But when everyone cut into it — at the same time it seemed — it was raw.

I guess because the oven was small; I had shoved the 12 hens in there. The guests were telling me that it would take another six hours for the hens to cook. I threw them away and we ate the side dishes. My sister now does the cooking.

NAME: Kelly Hayes-Raitt, 47, of Santa Monica, Calif., political activist, writer HER DISASTER: I was in my early 20s, going to one of those “orphan potlucks,” and I foolishly offered to bring the mashed potatoes. Naturally, I waited too late to get started.

In my rush after peeling 10 pounds of potatoes, I naively turned on the garbage disposal, immediately exploding 10 pounds of potato peels all over the kitchen.

I didn’t have time to clean it up, and, being inexperienced and unknowledgeable about the potato’s true nature, I waited until the next day to clean.

By then, the peels had hardened; I literally had to scrape the dead, shriveled, peeling skins from the ceiling and walls — and repaint!

Of course, being that it was Thanksgiving weekend, I got to live with the overflowing, clogged sink until the following Monday.

The next year, I volunteered to do the turkey, and I now leave the skins on when I make mashed potatoes.

NAME: Susan Daffron, 43, publisher, Sandpoint, Idaho HER DISASTER: My husband and I are vegan and every year we make a stuffing and potato casserole for Thanksgiving. The first year we moved up here to the wilds of Northern Idaho, we were invited to our neighbors for a holiday pot luck dinner.

That winter of 1996 was the worst one in at least a decade. By the end of November we already had about 5 feet of snow on the ground and as usual, on Thanksgiving Day, it was snowing. Our casserole was in the electric oven baking when the power went out.

We took the half-baked casserole up to the neighbor’s house and they reheated it on their wood stove. We all sat around in candlelight and ate slightly weird food all the folks in the neighborhood had managed to cobble together. The snow kept falling and falling and the electricity was out for 4 days.

The first thing we did after the holiday weekend was buy a back-up generator.

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A so-so restaurant LITERATI IS A CORNER RESTAURANT

with semi-outdoor seating and an adjacent take-out/coffee house. The main feature here is healthy, organic food. I was told that the owners also own a number of International Pancake Houses, but this location is something close to their hearts. The ambiance is pleasant, open, light, and well decorated.

WHERE: 12081 Wilshire Blvd.

Telephone: (310) 479-3400.

WHEN: Lunch M-F 11:30 a.m. — 2:30 p.m. Dinner M-Th 6 p.m. — 10 p.m., Fri-Sat 5:30 p.m. — 11 p.m.

Brunch on Sunday.

BEST DISHES: The rotisserie chicken is the most popular. The pork chops ($28) and hamburgers ($16) are very good.

I’ve heard that there is a wonderful steamed artichoke but it wasn’t on the menu when I was last there.

There are seven attractive salads at

lunch between $13 and $16.

BEST FEATURE: The specials of the day are often fresh from the market. And the desserts are particularly good. Prices are reasonable, but expect to spend $30-plus at dinner.

When there are specials they can sometimes be wonderful, like Sautéed wild mushrooms, tenderloin of wild boar. One doesn’t see that often.

WORST FEATURE: In a very competitive restaurant environment it’s hard to see why one would go back very often.

The food is certainly good, but on the regular menu there is nothing that is not available in a number of restaurants.

For some, the claim of organic food is a draw. I go there when I have a meeting nearby.

WHAT TO DRINK: The drink list is the same as those you find at many

restaurants, and the wine list has the usual suspects on it. There’s a full bar.

BOTTOM LINE: This is not for the “gourmand” nor the fast-food aficionado looking for good value.

It’s somewhere in-between.

You can certainly get a good hamburger or a good salad here for lunch, and the dinner menu is perfectly adequate. But on the weekend the brunch menu is pretty limited.

The sandwiches on the take-out side are a good choice.

MERV HECHT, the food and wine critic for the Santa Monica Daily Press, is a wine buyer and consultant to a number of national and international food and wine companies. He can be reached at mervynhecht@yahoo.com

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Boxed cakes can be healthy and even taste homemade

BY JIM ROMANOFF For The Associated Press

During the holidays it’s nice to have baked goods on hand for guests. Even nicer would be finding time to make them.

One solution is store-bought baked goods, but these often are loaded with excess fat, trans-fats and preservatives.

Plus, they lack the personal touch that can make friends and family feel special.

Doctoring prepared cake mixes is an alternative that can yield great results that have much of the homemade feel you get with from-scratch baking. But you do need to be vigilant about reading labels.

Like store-bought baked good, many mixes are loaded with preservatives and artificial ingredients, as well as partially hydrogenated oils.

Check the labels to be sure you’re getting ingredients you feel good about.

Many larger grocers and natural foods stores offer a wide variety of healthy, whole grain cake and cookie mixes.

Even wheat- and nut-free versions are becoming more common.

Once you’ve found a mix you like, it’s easy to add your own flourishes. For example, this cranberry-mandarin orange upside-down gingerbread cake starts life as a boxed mix, but you’d never know it by the results.

It calls for a boxed whole-wheat gingerbread mix such as the kind made by Hodgson Mill.

Mixes of this type are almost always

Cranberry-mandarin orange upside-down gingerbread Start to finish: 45 minutes (10 minutes active) Servings: 14 1 tablespoon butter 1 1/2 cups skim milk 1 egg 2 tablespoons applesauce 15-ounce package whole-wheat gingerbread mix (such as Hodgson Mill’s Whole Wheat Gingerbread Mix) 11-ounce can mandarin orange segments, in light syrup, drained 1 1/4 cups whole-berry cranberry sauce Heat the oven to 350 F. Place the butter in a 9-by-9-inch baking dish. Place the dish in the oven until the butter melts, about 2 minutes. Tilt the pan to coat bottom with the melted butter. Set aside.

In a large bowl, use the milk, egg and applesauce to prepare the gingerbread mix according to package directions (substituting the applesauce for the butter). Set aside.

Arrange the mandarin orange segments in an even layer over the bottom of the buttered baking dish. Spoon the cranberry sauce over the oranges, making sure to fill in any empty spaces. Pour the batter over the oranges and sauce.

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean.

Cool on a rack for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the baking dish to release the sides of the cake. Invert the cake onto a serving platter. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 312 calories; 20 calories from fat; 2 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 37 mg cholesterol; 65 g carbohydrate; 6 g protein; 5 g fiber; 516 mg sodium.

free of trans fats and are a good source of healthy fiber.

Gingerbread cake is perfect for pleasing those who haven’t warmed to whole-wheat baked goods. The intense flavors of molasses and spices mask the earthy flavors that can come with whole-wheat flour.

Convenient, canned whole-berry cranberry sauce and mandarin orange segments make an attractive topping for this upside-down cake. If you pre-

fer, you could substitute sauteed apples or pears for the oranges.

The recipe lowers the fat by substituting applesauce for the butter that normally is called for by the mix.

Alternatively, you also can use canola oil instead of the butter, which will reduce the saturated fat.

Of course, if you have a favorite recipe for gingerbread cake batter — and have the time — this recipe will work just as well with that.

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Maos Kitchen 1512 Pacific Ave. Piccolo Ristorante 5 Dudley Ave. Primitivo Wine Bistro 1025 Abbot Kinney Blvd.

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Siam Best Restaurant 2533 Lincoln Blvd.

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Carmine's II Caffe 10463 Santa Monica Blvd.

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School Board, Rent Control Board races tight until the end FROM ELECTION PAGE 1 about the City Council race,” Winterer, an Ocean Park activist who was running for the first time, said. “All along I didn’t have expectations to finish higher than fifth.”

Only four out of a pool of 14 candidates were elected to the council.

The election brought out more than 32,000 voters in Santa Monica where the registration is approximately 58,367.

Official turnout figures aren’t expected to be released by the Los Angeles County Clerk until Friday.

Patricia Hoffman, the co-chair of SMRR, said there was some nervousness early on when the returns showed that Kronovet had a lead over SMRR-pick Braun for the Rent Control Board and Bley over Jose Escarce, who was recommended by the SMRR Steering Committee, for school board.

“We feel like our candidates are the people who are best able to protect the interests of residents of Santa Monica,” Hoffman said.

The council will remain the same for the next two years as Mayor Herb Katz, Mayor Pro Tem Richard Bloom, and Councilmembers Ken Genser and Bobby Shriver were all re-elected for another term. Winterer, who serves on the Recreation and Parks Commission, and Susan Hartley, an attorney who served on the Airport Commission, came in fifth and sixth, respectively.

While Winterer was able to tally more than 9,700 votes, he was more than 3,800 votes shy of Katz, an architect who came in fourth place.

First-time candidate Michael Kovac came in seventh place with more than 5,000 votes and was followed by long-time resident Jerry Rubin, who made a bigger name for himself earlier this year in his battle to save ficus trees in Downtown.

Just like in his first bid for the council four years ago, Shriver was once again the top vote getter, grabbing more than 18,700.

But that number is substantially down from the more than 23,000 he captured four years ago in a much larger race that included 16 candidates.

While incumbents traditionally have the advantage when running for re-election, Shriver said he was still nervous on Election Day. “I guess that means the voters think the current council is doing a good job,” he said of the final vote tally.

Shriver added that the re-election will give him another four years to work on the homeless housing project at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus and fulfill the clean beaches initiative that was passed by voters two years ago.

Two of the closest races came in the Rent Control Board and the Board of Education, which has faced scrutiny over the past two years with respect to special education and the resignations of former CFO Winston Braham and Superintendent Dianne Talarico.

As the results started pouring in after the polls closed at 8 p.m., it appeared as though Bley, a private school teacher who

I GUESS THAT MEANS THE VOTERS THINK THE CURRENT COUNCIL IS DOING A GOOD JOB.” Councilmember Bobby Shriver graduated from Santa Monica High School, might be able to pull an upset and unseat Escarce, the board vice president. By the time all 72 precincts from Malibu and Santa Monica had reported, Bley ended up finishing behind Escarce by a little more than 1,000 votes.

Allen, a Samohi graduate and soon-tobe lawyer, held a steady first-place lead throughout the night, ultimately capturing approximately 20,842 votes, just 783 more than second-place candidate and incumbent Maria Leon-Vazquez.

“Voters in both Santa Monica and Malibu delivered a very strong message to the incumbents in yesterday’s election that they want change and they want improvements and they know the status quo is not good enough,” Bley said.

Escarce, who said he was pleased to be re-elected, had compiled a to-do list for the next four years, including hiring a new superintendent, reforming the troubled special education program, and moving the construction projects under Measure BB forward.

The soon-to-be three-time school board member said that being an incumbent was a real advantage in the race, but added that Allen, a newcomer, was given a boost through the number of endorsements he received.

“It was really a wonderful race and I’m really happy I won, but it was very close,” Escarce said.

The closest race came in the Rent Control Board where Braun narrowly beat Kronovet by 576 votes. Joel Koury, who currently serves on the board, came in first with more than 18,000 — or 43 percent — of the vote.

“There are a lot of voters looking for Kronovet to represent their interests in a fair and equitable (manner),” Kronovet said.

The one race that wasn’t much of a contest was the Santa Monica College Board of Trustees where the three incumbents each captured at least 26 percent of the vote.

Heidi Hoeck was the lone challenger in the race, coming in fourth place and more than 6,200 votes shy.

With the close races, some of the challengers said they are considering another run in a few years.

“When you come this close, you rarely ever decide this is the only time,” Bley said. melodyh@smdp.com

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Mall developers working to bring price options to mall FROM MALL PAGE 3 “I liked how casual it was,” Kameny said.

“It’s probably because of my age and that I am retired, but I like loungewear and I’m not that interested in high-end fashion.”

Some residents voiced concerns at community meetings held before the remodel that the revamped mall will simply become an extension of the promenade and will not bring retail diversity to the city.

Doug Roscoe, the senior manager of property management for Santa Monica Place, said plans are in the works to bring stores that cater to a variety of price ranges, but final leases have not yet been signed.

“We took all the comments from the community to heart,” Roscoe said. “We are

very actively working on a broad range of retail price points to really appear at Santa Monica Place.”

Experts, such as Rob York, an independent real-estate development consultant, said the luxury retail stores Macerich has signed will expand the city’s shopping demographic and potentially reel in shoppers who generally go to Beverly Hills and Melrose to shop, while still catering to Santa Monica’s interests.

“Expanding the retail options in Santa Monica is a good thing,” York said. “We certainly have an upscale demographic, and the overall goal is to serve to the interests of the community.” news@smdp.com

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College measure wins big in polls FROM MEASURES PAGE 1 campaign that at times pitted friends and neighbors on opposite sides of Measure T, causing some to part ways with organizations in which they had been affiliated for years.

More than 55 percent of voters ended up going against Measure T. “I think that this shows that Santa Monica voters are well informed and do their homework and got to the bottom of this,” said Terry O’Day, one of the co-chairs of Save Our City, which formed in opposition to Measure T. “They went and looked for the facts and the facts said that this doesn’t affect traffic.”

Money was one of the key issues throughout the Measure T campaign with the supporters arguing that the opposition campaign was being run by developers, including names such as Macerich, which owns Santa Monica Place, and the Trammell Crow Company, which is proposing to replace apartments on Ocean Avenue with condominiums. Housing projects would’ve been exempt under Measure T. “We ran a strong and deep grassroots campaign based on truth and the merits of the initiative to slow future growth and traffic in Santa Monica,” Diana Gordon, the cochair of SMCLC, said. “Unfortunately we were outspent 10-1 on mailings that were blatantly deceptive and misleading and we lacked some money to counter them.”

Gordon pointed out that there were more than 14,000 residents who are strongly opposed to the level of development Santa Monica is currently experiencing and want City Hall to take a different approach when approving projects.

“It may take another election cycle but we will get there,” she said.

The results of Measure T came as good news to the Chamber of Commerce whose board voted to oppose it earlier this year.

“We were surprised at how much opposition there really was to it,” Laurel Rosen, the president of the chamber, said. “But we were pleased that enough people educated themselves to find out that it was not a well-formulated measure.”

O’Day said that he hopes more focus can now be paid to finishing the Land Use and Circulation Element which guides development in the city for the next 20 years.

“My hope is we can fully embrace the process that the city has had underway for years in updating the Land Use and Circulation Element,” said O’Day, who also chairs the Planning Commission.

Kevin McKeown, one of two councilmembers along with Bobby Shriver who came out in support of Measure T, warned that residents will be shocked at the amount of pending development in the pipeline.

“Let’s not forget almost half of Santa Monica, despite dire warnings from developers, voted to slow down the commercial growth in our city,” McKeown said.

IT MAY TAKE ANOTHER ELECTION CYCLE BUT WE WILL GET THERE.” Diana Gordon Co-chair, Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City

Among the organizations that were clearly divided on the issue of Measure T was Santa Monicans for Renters’ Right, which was unable to take a position on the initiative during its convention this past summer.

There were key rent control advocates on both sides of the issue.

Patricia Hoffman, the SMRR co-chair, said that she is confident the organization will be able to move forward as one.

“I think that there are going to be some arguments that need to be had,” she said.

“That’s one of the things about having an ongoing organization is you really do get a chance to fight out the issues without devastating the organization.”

Another measure that received quite a bit of resistance from the community, particularly in the Sunset Park neighborhood, was the college bond, though it did end up passing with 62 percent of the vote.

Measure AA, which would fund capital projects at SMC that are designed to improve teaching in the areas of science, nursing, math and technology, was opposed by the Friends of Sunset Park and the Bond Fatigue Committee against Measure AA, which was run by SMC employee Phil Hendricks.

SMC President Dr. Chui Tsang said that the college administration will work with neighbors in moving forward with the project.

“We have continued to respond to the concerns of that community when the parking issue came up … and when the transportation issue came up we worked with them,” Tsang said. “We will continue to work with them as we move along.”

The bond will cost homeowners about $7.34 a month and renters $1.12 a month.

Tsang said that residents will not be billed for a few years.

Measure SM also received some opposition during its campaign. The measure updates the telecommunications portion of the Utility Users Tax to charge a fee on currently untaxed services such as T-1 Internet service. Opponents said that the measure would leave the door open for City Hall to begin taxing the Internet when the federal moratorium is lifted in several years.

The measure narrowly passed with 52 percent of the vote. melodyh@smdp.com

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Millions of votes yet to be counted

BY AMY TAXIN Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES A record number of voters and last-minute flood of absentee ballots left millions of votes to be counted Wednesday and several California races too close to call.

Election officials worked through the night and morning to finish counting roughly 10.4 million ballots cast by voters at the polls or in early mail-in voting.

But California officials will spend the next month poring over several million absentee and provisional ballots — which could hold the key to a tight race over a state proposition to revamp redistricting procedures and for a Northern California congressional seat.

Election experts say between 2.6 million and 3 million remain to be tallied among absentee ballots that arrived too late to count, were dropped at polling places or provisional ballots handed out to voters whose status could not immediately be verified.

“If we did succeed in even just keeping pace with 2004 turnout levels, we added half a million voters to the process this election — and the counties felt that,” said Kim Alexander, president of the nonprofit California Voter Foundation.

A surge in voter registration the last two months pushed California’s voter rolls to a new peak of 17.3 million and led officials to add poll workers and order more ballots.

Many election officials predicted turnout would cross 80 percent in their counties due

to voter excitement over the hotly contested race between Democrat Barack Obama, who will be the country’s first black president, and Republican rival John McCain.

The state reported 76 percent voter turnout in 2004.

California often has roughly 20 percent of votes left to be counted after election night largely because of the popularity of mail-in ballots, said Steve Weir, Contra Costa County registrar.

More than 40 percent of California’s registered voters requested absentee ballots for this election — but many chose to drop them off at poll sites on Tuesday.

“People like the opportunity to work it out at home on the kitchen table but they don’t trust the mail to send it back,” said Dean Logan, Los Angeles County’s registrar.

Those ballots have yet to be counted because officials must verify voters’ signatures.

California officials will also count hundreds of thousands of provisional ballots, many submitted by voters who were not on rosters at their polling places Tuesday or who went to the wrong polling places. These ballots must also be verified before they can be counted.

At midday Wednesday, the races over state proposition 11, which would change how legislative districts are drawn, and for the 4th congressional district, were still too close to call.

So were a number of local races for school district and public offices across the state.

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Ridley-Thomas won 61 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election for the 2nd District seat being vacated by Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke.

Ridley-Thomas was elected in Senate District 26 two years ago and has been chairman of the California Legislative Black Caucus since January.

He previously served two terms in the state Assembly, was a longtime member of the Los Angeles City Council, and was executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles Parks, in his second term on the council, spent nearly four decades in the Police Department. He was named chief in 1997 as city leaders sought a reformer, but resigned in 2002 after losing the support of thenMayor James Hahn for reappointment to a second term.

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Former NBA star pledges change as Sacramento mayor

BY JUDY LIN Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO After scoring a double-digit victory in Sacramento’s mayoral race, former NBA star Kevin Johnson faces a long list of challenges that include a growing budget shortfall, rising unemployment and a longstalled arena project.

Johnson, who defeated incumbent Heather Fargo with a campaign of change, spent the first day after the election waving to morning commuters, meeting with city council members and talking to the city

manager about how to deal with his hometown’s projected $58 million deficit.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Johnson said he looked forward to working with everyone — even those who didn’t support him.

Sacramento has a weak-mayor governing structure that gives the mayor one vote on the city council.

“We need to focus on the big picture, which is making Sacramento a destination city,” Johnson said. “Any differences we can set aside. It’s important that we come together.”

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ALAMEDA The Oakland Raiders’ decision to waive DeAngelo Hall just eight games after signing him to a $70 million contract brought surprised reactions from his teammates who now wonder even more about the future of the franchise.

“I’ve never been in a situation where you cut one of the best players,” said safety Gibril Wilson, another of the team’s offseason acquisitions. “That’s strange to me. It’s almost like we’re throwing in the towel.”

The Raiders waived Hall on Wednesday, bringing a disappointing end to a short tenure in Oakland. The Raiders sent a second-round draft pick in 2008 and a fifthrounder next season to Atlanta in March to acquire Hall, who immediately was given a seven-year contract.

Hall was supposed to form one of the top cornerback duos in the league with Nnamdi Asomugha, but struggled from the start of the season as he adjusted to the Raiders’ man-to-man defense.

Hall had shown signs of improvement in recent weeks, but was let go anyway following a 24-0 loss to the Falcons that dropped Oakland to 2-6 on the season.

“I’m obviously disappointed,” Asomugha said. “I don’t agree with what happened. I don’t agree with what’s going on. But I am just a player so I can’t speak on it. I don’t make the decisions. All I can do is play but I don’t agree with what happened at all.”

The move to cut Hall follows other changes made by coach Tom Cable since taking over from Lane Kiffin on an interim basis after four games. Michael Huff, the No. 7 overall pick in 2006, lost his starting safety job and is now a third-stringer. Ronald Curry, the team’s leading receiver the past two years, has been relegated to special teams play.

Asomugha said the recent moves have led to some players being tentative on the field, afraid that they could be next to lose their starting job or spot on the team.

“There’s been some things that have been going on, some shakeups, that I haven’t agreed with,” Asomugha said. “Like I said, I’m not allowed to speak on it because we’re just supposed to shut up and play. But you ask me if I agree with it? I don’t agree with it.”

Just a week ago, interim coach Cable said that Hall was back to resembling the player he was in Atlanta, when he made it to two Pro Bowls. But in his last game, he was beaten for a 37-yard touchdown pass to Michael Jenkins on the opening drive of a 24-0 loss to his former Falcons team.

After a meeting with Cable, owner Al Davis and defensive coordinator Rob Ryan on Tuesday, the decision was made to get rid of Hall.

“When you look at the consistency and the play and those sorts of things, it was just the decision we felt was right for this football team,” Cable said. “We did not want to stay where we’re at. Felt like that was very important that we don’t do that, that we move forward and that was the decision that was made.”

Chris Johnson, who had mostly been the fourth cornerback this season, has moved ahead of Stanford Routt and will start on Sunday against Carolina. Routt will remain the nickel cornerback.

Cable said he hopes the move sends the message that no one’s job is safe, but he went out of his way to say that receiver Javon Walker won’t be the next high-priced acquisition to go. Walker, who signed a $55 million contract in the offseason, has only 13 catches at the midpoint of the season.

“Javon has really brought his game to a whole new level the last few weeks, whether it’s on the practice field or in the games,” Cable said. “Javon Walker is in no way not going to be a part of this football team. I don’t know about all the money stuff, or high priced, or this or that. I just know what I’m trying to do to make this team better.”

With most teams choosing to avoid throwing Asomugha on the other side of the field, Hall became a frequent target of opposing offenses, starting with a poor performance against Denver in the opening week.

In his eight games in Oakland, Hall was beaten 40 times for 552 yards on 66 passes thrown his way, according to data compiled

by STATS LLC. He gave up more yards than any defender this season and was tied for third worst in catches allowed.

“When you’re losing there’s a lot of finger pointing,” Asomugha said. “I don’t think he’s the one scapegoat. There’s fingers pointed everywhere. I don’t think it’s just him. He was kind of singled out in regards of let’s cut someone.”

Hall said earlier this season it took him time to get used to Oakland’s man-to-man style of defense after being able to freelance frequently while playing zone with the Falcons. He had 17 interceptions in his four seasons in Atlanta, making the Pro Bowl in 2005 and ‘06. He had three interceptions this year, but frequently got beaten on big plays.

Hall got about $8 million of his contract for playing in eight games. But by releasing him now, the Raiders can use some of the money they planned to give Hall to try to keep Asomugha.

Oakland placed the franchise tag on Asomugha this year and would like to sign him to a long-term deal in the offseason.

Asomugha would not comment on questions about whether this latest move would reduce his desire to want to return to Oakland.

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★★★★ The tendency to overdo it emerges once more, making anything possible. You could easily make a mistake taking an undue risk. Your creativity emerges, helping you dodge a problem you might have created!

Tonight: Fun and games.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★ You might want to see someone who puts you on a pedestal. Listen to the pros and cons of a suggested change and understand what would make a difference. Your ability to compromise might be tested by others. Think positively. Tonight: A must appearance.

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Are they workable? Think positively and read between the lines. Your imagination could lead you down a new path. You will see a difference if you take a risk. Misplaced nervous energy could be problematic. Tonight: Try a different type of activity, game or restaurant.

★★★★ Keep conversations moving. You might feel like you have done everything you can to facilitate understanding. Let others run the show; you participate. Recognize the difference. Tonight: Visit with others.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Continue to deal with those in your life individually. Many compliments head in your direction. You might feel good, but recognize someone close to you might feel threatened. Be caring with this person. Tonight: Deal directly.

★★★ You push others, whether you intend to or not. You might want to pull back and think rather than be spontaneous. You don’t want to run over allies and friends. Be careful, and you will be happier ultimately. Tonight: Homeward bound.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ Your taste for wealth and security could be in direct conflict with the reality of your life.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Listen to others, though you might want to rethink a decision because of an internal reaction. Honor your priorities, but stay on top of what is happening. You suddenly become more energized. Tonight: Allow someone to change.

★★★★ Investigate an alternative more carefully. What is going on could surprise you, especially concerning a boss or someone you put on a pedestal. A change might be necessary, whether you are ready to or not. Tonight: A must appearance.

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★★★ You might not be able to see the whole story. Your perception is quite different from many. A debate could open a door that you might want to take a glimpse through. Tonight: Get as much rest as possible.

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You enter a dynamic year in which you learn to use events and your energy differently. Learning how to mobilize and use high stress will be key. Home and family values star in your year, even more so than in the past. Your thinking and time allotment could change to reflect newfound demands. You could expand your home base or move. If you are single, you will meet people with ease. Do be careful not to nest too quickly, which will be your instinct. In hindsight, you will be selling yourself short. If you are attached, focus on your inner core of people. If you share more domestic concerns and interests with someone, the bond will grow. AQUARIUS reads you cold.

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■ In September, scientists at Emory University's primate research center reported that chimps seem to remember other chimps through "whole body" integration. That is, seeing part of another chimp causes them to envision the entire body. The researchers came to this conclusion because chimps shown photos of an acquaintance-chimp's butt could, more often than random chance would predict, identify the face that went with it.

■ Unlike their American counterparts, debt collectors in Spain are legally allowed to humiliate deadbeats in front of relatives and neighbors, and are thus quite successful, according to an October Wall Street Journal dispatch from Madrid. One collector's employees make flamboyant house calls in "top hat and tails" and another's are dressed as Franciscan friars, and yet another collector sends bagpipe players to announce the debt to the entire neighborhood.

One debtor hurriedly paid off his daughter's wedding tab when the collector found the ceremony's guest list and began billing each attendee for his or her "share" of the debt.

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3 HOUSES for rent close to Santa Monica College. 3BD/1BA $3,200, 1BD/1BA $1,800, 3BD/1BA $3,200. Ready to move in. Parking no problem. New Paint and appliances. Call (714)450-0224

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