Santa Monica Daily Press, December 12, 2006

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■ Michael McPhail, 26, was arrested in Spanaway, Wash., in October after his wife said she caught him having sex with the couple’s pit bull terrier.

(Washington’s new anti-bestiality law took effect in June, passed after the highly publicized 2005 death of a man in Enumclaw who allowed himself to be penetrated by a horse.)

■ Bryan Hathaway, 20, was arrested in Superior, Wis., in October and charged with molesting a deer carcass that he said had sexually aroused him when he saw it in a ditch. (Hathaway’s lawyer has raised the defense that the anti-bestiality law only applies to sex with live animals.)

TODAY IN HISTORY

SAN FRANCISCO — For the first time in a decade, the number of residents who left California for another state in 2005 exceeded newcomers who moved here, according to the newest figures from the state Department of Finance.

California recorded a domestic net loss of about 29,000 people last year — the first negative flow of residents since the mid-1990s. The biggest recent loss was in 1994, when the sputtering state economy helped California lose about 350,000 residents to the other 49 states.

The most common destinations for the newest crop of departing Californians were Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Washington and Oregon.

Anecdotal evidence suggests the high cost of housing was the primary reason people fled the nation’s most populous state, which has

SADDLE SOAR: Zazou Hoffman (foreground) aboard her horse, Eva, is the

SM CANYON — While most 14-yearolds are busy trying to find their way in high school, Zazou Hoffman is working each day towards becoming more comfortable inside the ring as she and her 1,600-pound horse “Eva” look to make names for themselves in the sport of show jumping.

From the looks of things, Hoffman has already. This January, the Santa Monica High School freshman will be the youngest of 12 riders invited to an exclusive training session in Wellington, Florida, with U.S. Show Jumping Chef d’Equipe George Morris — an icon in the sport, who at the age of 14 was the

See EXODUS, page 5

youngest of a dozen riders invited to an exclusive training session next month.

Hoffman, who began riding at age 3, cares after Eva in between competitions.

See SHOW JUMPER, page 6

The Senate confirmed Oscar Straus to be President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce and Labor; Straus became the first Jewish member of a presidential cabinet.

Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat Panay on China’s Yangtze River. (Japan apologized, and paid $2.2 million in reparations.)

A divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida’s contested election, transforming George W. Bush into the president-elect.

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INDEX Inside Scoop Timber trouble

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SM Parenting Play money

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Surf Report Water temperature: 61°

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Horoscopes Easy does it, Pisces

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MOVIETIMES The reel in

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Comics & Stuff And Soduku too!

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Classifieds Your place in the world

A snowball’s chance

Fabian Lewkowicz fabianl@smdp.com Children play in the snow on the Third Street Promenade. The real snow, which was still present on Monday, though receding quickly, was brought in as part of the Winterlit Fun Kids’ Weekend festivities in downtown.

CITYWIDE — While shoppers run frantically through the malls in search of that elusive perfect gift, opportunities to fill someone’s heart with joy abound — and without the price tag.

Dubbed the season of giving, residents and businesses are being encouraged to volunteer with local non-profits and others to help make the holidays brighter for those who are going through dark times.

“We are so blessed in our community. We have so much that that we should really embrace this opportunity to share what we have with those who are less fortunate,” said Monsignor Lloyd Torgerson, head See HELPING HANDS, page 9

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Fabian Lewkowicz fabianl@smdp.com Thousands of runners look to get an early lead on their competitors at Barnard Way during the start of the 29th Annual Santa Monica-Venice Christmas Run on Saturday. The event benefited the Harvest Home, a residential maternity home for homeless women.

Chopping block Tenants rue day their Jacarandas got jacked

BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer

CALIFORNIA AVENUE — Monday proved a beautiful day in Santa Monica following a rain-filled weekend. The sky was an endless blue and the temperatures steady at a comfortable mid- to upper-60 degrees. Even still, there was a dark hole casting a shadow on Judith Gottesman’s mood.

A row of 10-year-old Jacaranda trees — a source of shade, privacy, tranquility and even music for many of the tenants whose apartments faced the alley where the trees once stood — have been uprooted.

“It’s so depressing being home,” Gottesman, who works in advertising from her studio apartment, said on Monday. “I used to have a beautiful view. Now it’s stark and ugly.”

It’s a tree massacre that has left some residents of the two apartment buildings, 320 and 330 California Ave. — which were separated by the row of trees — outraged, feeling the owner not only left them in the dark about the Jacarandas’ removal, but did a great injustice to nature in a city that values it most.

“This seems to be anti-Santa Monica,” said Michael Taylor, who has lived in 320 California Ave. for two years.

The trees were cut down in late November with no notice to tenants. The Jacarandas were hazardous, said Charmont Apartments General Manager Beverly Michael, because they were splitting at the base and could possibly fall over and injure someone. The owner, Susan Connally, is currently working with a landscape company to

BLOCKED OUT: An alley off California Avenue

See CHOPPING BLOCK, page 7

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In the first step following the passage last month of a bond measure to repair school buildings, district officials and school board members will meet this afternoon for an informational session on forming an oversight committee.

The workshop, which will be held at 4 p.m. in the District Office on 16th Street, is intended to inform officials on all aspects of the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee, including its formation, purpose, duties and makeup. The formation of a committee is required under Proposition 39, a state measure that passed in 2000 authorizing bonds to repair, rehabilitate and construct school buildings if approved by 55 percent of voters in the municipality.

Last month, voters in the Santa MonicaMalibu Unified School District overwhelmingly approved the school bond, with 72 percent giving the thumbs up.

“It is to enlighten all of us about the conditions of the Prop. 39 regulations,” said Superintendent Dianne Talarico on Monday.

The committee will be charged with reviewing bond expenditures to ensure the funds are spent in a manner consistent with the purpose spelled out in Measure BB. Bonds from the measure can only be used to pay for construction and repairs related to school buildings, including removing asbestos and mold, bathroom repair and upgrading technology. The funds cannot be used for operating expenses such as teacher salaries.

Representatives from the Los Angeles County Office of Education will speak on the precautionary measures to take following an election in order to avoid violating a Prop. 39 regulation; the options that are available to the district under state law; and what is required in forming a Citizens Bond Oversight Committee.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2006

New wave of vehicles are part of the solution WHAT’S THE POINT?

BY DAVID PISARRA

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Selling that Christmas spirit Editor:

The whole reason for supporters of using “Merry Christmas,” rather than “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Holidays,” is retail, retail, retail.

In our society, “Merry Christmas” is mentally associated with Christmas presents. “Seasons” and “Holidays” are not ... therefore, the push to get “Christmas” back on our brains.

Flo Ginsburg Santa Monica

Carter’s view seems distorted Editor:

Jimmy Carter is fully aware of the historical facts in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, however, he chooses to support the Palestinians, based on his personal observations and feelings.

There are numerous distortions and inaccuracies in his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” One of the most egregious is his statement that Palestinians have long supported a two-state solution, while Israel opposed it.

The facts are that the Palestinians have rejected all peace plans. Had they accepted the peace plan(s) instead of terrorism they would have had their own state for the past 60 years.

Peace will only come when the Palestinians agree to accept the legitimate state of Israel. Until then, Israel has a right to defend itself from Palestinian terrorist attacks, including the building of the “wall” to stop the suicide bombers and occupation of the Golan Heights and the West Bank to provide a buffer zone against Arab attacks.

Fred Alexander Santa Monica

’Tis the season for new cars and new car shows.

Last week, I was at the L.A. Auto Show after six of us piled into a mini-van. As we toured the downtown area, parking lots kept changing their rates. I think that is a uniquely Los Angeles thing. The guys with the flags and the rate cards — at their feet are 10 more rate cards — keep decreasing the rates in $5 increments. As the event comes to a close, the prices drop.

The Auto Show has moved from its traditional January slot to early December so that the cars can be packed up and then shipped to Michigan for their Auto Show. This year, the slate of cars and manufacturers was impressive and there were some new designs that would make any young boy salivate.

As we walked past stylized new cars, the beautiful women hired to point out the unique design features of each would seductively describe leathers, horsepower, drive trains and the latest in stereophonic bliss. The plush carpeting of each of the luxury manufacturers would engulf my shoes and each new beauty would attract my car lust. The pampered feeling that one gets in the Lexus was given a run for its money by the BMW 7 series.

The buzzwords in this year’s car show were hybrid, fuel cell, intelligent and electric.

The hybrids were touted as the newest technology and people are going ga-ga over them. Though they are only a partial solution, the technology right now is really more about the appearance of being “green” than about finding a solution to the oil problem, because the gains in fuel economy created by a “hybrid” are nominal.

Fuel Cell technology is still a dream in a bottle at this time. The possibility of the hydrogen highway is clearly bringing attention to a new way of fueling cars, but it is not yet realistic. The stable price of gas has to be over $3 a gallon consistently for the hydrogen market to make sense, at this stage of its development.

The “intelligent” cars of the show are freaky. The levels of technology that are built

into a car, even a low-level car, are amazing.

We have cars that can automatically detect the distance to the car in front of you, and will ‘intelligently’ decrease your speed when you are using the cruise control. The new “self-parking” Lexus is astounding to watch.

Certainly, the manufacturers of the electric cars were making a huge new splash. It just got overwhelmed by the glitz, glamour and girls that were used by the mega-manufacturers to attract attention.

Luckily for them though, this past weekend Santa Monica held the Alternative Car and Energy Expo at the Barker Hangar. This was where you could meet the actual designers and hobbyists of electric and bio-diesel cars. You could test ride an electric scooter and see an electric car that looked like something Dr. Seuss built.

The differences were obvious from the get-go, between this auto show and the one last weekend at the Staples Center. In Santa Monica, there were no stylish women wearing earpieces and boom microphones, prancing on rotating stages in stilettos. This was a weekend event where you were likely to walk away with a whole new perspective on the future of the electric car.

I rode an electric scooter and was amazed at the power, the speed and the silence. It was so quiet, it was eerie ... and a lot of fun.

Many people think that electric is the wave of the future, and it may be. The problem with electric cars is that we are only transferring the place in which use fossil fuels and their accompanying pollution.

If we can find a way to generate lots of electricity in a clean manner, they can be a huge help in reducing the air pollution and the noise pollution we all experience. But that assumes that the new energy generation plants that are on the drawing boards these days have, and use, the needed pollution controls.

Without fixing the generating plants, all we are doing is moving the pollution. That is not a good thing because the need for electricity is growing astronomically, and as the appetite for electric cars grows, it will become even more necessary to have the generating plants cleaned up.

David Pisarra is a partner in the Santa Monica law firm of Pisarra & Grist. He can be reached at (310) 664-9969 or by e-mail at dpisarra@pisarra.com.

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Llamas’ time in sun has finally arrived

By The Associated Press

PASADENA — Llamas will join the Rose Parade for the first time in its 118-year history. On New Year’s Day, 18 of the animals and their owners will stroll down Colorado Boulevard.

Joan Selby, a member of the Llama Association of Southern California, sent the original application to the parade committee 15 years ago. She is not sure why it took so long for parade officials to let the llamas into the parade but suggested it might have been fear of the unknown.

“It could be that it just was not our time.

Back then, llamas weren’t very well known,” Selby said.

Paul Holman, president and chairman of the board of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, said he has been told llamas had not been allowed in the parade because horses fear them and react as if the llamas were predators.

But he did his research and found a solution. The llamas will be staged in a separate area and have a spot toward the beginning of the parade, far from the equestrian units.

California dreams dashed EXODUS, from page 1

more than 37 million residents.

The number of Californians who could comfortably pay the mortgage on an entrylevel home fell to 24 percent in the third quarter — down from 44 percent in 2003, according to the California Association of Realtors. The statewide median home price in the third quarter was $563,190.

Stephen Gallant moved to Michigan this summer after nearly three years in the posh Silicon Valley suburb of Los Gatos, trading a $2 million house for one in a Detroit suburb that was about half the cost and double the size.

“It was all about lifestyle,” said Gallant, former chief financial officer for Global Motorsport Group Inc. “If I’m going to spend $1 million on a house as opposed to $2 million, that opens up a lot of purchasing power, the ability to go out and do other things,” he said.

In previous decades, waves of departing Californians were primarily white. But the newest exodus includes unprecedented numbers of Hispanics, primarily MexicanAmericans.

The analysis by Hans Johnson, a demographer with the Public Policy Institute of California, found that about 320,000 more Hispanics left California than arrived from other states between 2000 and 2005.

Asians were the only ethnic group to have more people move into California than leave, according to Johnson.

The state gained nearly 33,000 Asians from elsewhere in the United States from 2000 to 2005 while losing 441,000 whites and 67,000 African-Americans.

In the past five years, the overall state population grew by 2.9 million people, including 1.2 million foreign immigrants, according to the California Department of Finance.

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With 2006 coming to a close, it’s not only time to establish goals for the coming year, but also to take stock of the year that was.

In Santa Monica, headlines ran the gamut from a smoking ban to the verdict in the Farmers’ Market crash trial, from a contentious election to the nationally renowned war protest “Arlington West.” Much like Time magazine’s annual selection of its “Person of the Year,” we are looking for that one individual, or group of individuals, who had the most profound impact on Santa Monica during the course of 2006.

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Who would you select as being Santa Monica’s person, or persons, of the year, having had the greatest impact on life in our city, for better or worse?

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Teen show jumper is aiming high SHOW JUMPER, from page 1

youngest rider ever to win an American Horse Shows Association championship “George Morris is such an inspirational man. He’s done so much for the horseback riding community and the show jumping world,” Hoffman said on Saturday, following a training session with Eva at a ring just north of Sunset Boulevard in the Santa Monica Canyon.

“I’m just really excited to have his input on how I’m, doing and his insights on where I can improve,” Hoffman added. “He’s like a legend. He’s like the godfather.”

During the training session the 12 young riders will take care of their own horses for the duration of the clinic with no help from grooms, trainers or parents. Each rider will be assigned a “mentor groom” who will assist them for the first day only. Other experts in their field will provide instruction during the five-day session.

“This is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Missy Clark a former show jumping champion and trainer who took Hoffman under her wing three years ago after the teen won a scholarship to serve as Clark’s apprentice.

“This is certainly a stepping stone,” Clark added. “The young kids that come along in this level and this league, they could potentially be riding for the U.S. equestrian team.”

In the sport of show jumping, a rider must navigate their horse through a series of sharp turns as they position themselves for a clean approach to obstacles as high as 7 feet tall. A rider must get their horse in perfect

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RAISING THE BAR: Zazou Hoffman, aboard her steed Eva, practices in Santa Monica Canyon over the weekend. The Samohi freshman has set her sights on a professional career in jumping.

stride to clear the barrier without striking it.

Riders are judged the time it took them to complete the course and the number of jumps completed.

Time faults are assessed for exceeding the time allowance. Jumping faults are incurred for knockdowns and blatant disobediences, such as refusals (when the horse stops before a fence or “runs out”).

Hoffman began riding when she was around 3 years old, but did not start jumping until she was about 10. Her mother,

Winter, had horses when she was growing up and wanted her children to experience the joys of riding. After taking a few lessons, Hoffman began to develop what he coaches say is a natural ability for show jumping.

“I’ve always kind of liked it,” Hoffman said. “I think it’s kind of nice to have a sport where it’s competitive, but a single person can do it. I don’t have to be part of a team.

It’s nice. I am just responsible for myself and my horse. Working with these horses is a real challenge, plus, I just really love horses.”

So much so that Hoffman saves money that other teens would spend shopping on paying for her entry fees into competitions and other expenses associated with owning one’s own horse.

Because the sport takes a bite out of one’s pocket book, Hoffman has had to rely on the help of others to remain active. Her talent has made that easier.

“She’s a beautiful rider,” Clark said. “She’s naturally talented and her sense of feel for the sport is very good. She’s a real talent.”

Many have recognized her potential and have asked her to ride their horses in competition. It was on one such occasion that a breeder from St. Louis gave Eva to Hoffman as a gift.

“They didn’t think she had much talent, but we’ve worked with her for the last few years and she’s really coming along,” Hoffman said of her horse, which she and her mother groom and transport themselves to save money.

“She’s really a nervous horse, but I’ve worked really hard to calm her, and help her stay at her maximum potential,” Hoffman said of Eva. “When she’s relaxed, she jumps better. She trusts me and I trust her.”

As if adjusting to high school wasn’t enough for Hoffman, she’s decided to make life a little more difficult by taking of weeks at a time to compete in horse jumping competitions in Indio, Cali. and on the east coast. So far this year, she’s missed roughly three weeks of school, but has managed to maintain straight As. See SHOW JUMPER, page 7

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Cutting corners to take on best SHOW JUMPER, from page 6

Hoffman said she also finds time to socialize with her friends.

“When I’m home I get to hang out with friends a lot. We do normal teenage stuff, go to the movies, hang out on the (Third Street) Promenade,” Hoffman said. “I guess (competing and school work) is stressful but you have to just deal with it. I’ll be more concerned as I get further along in high school, probably my junior year with college applications, finals. I can take SATs anywhere, but mid-terms are a lot harder to make up.”

With the future looming, Hoffman said she has given some thought to what she will do for a career and riding professionally is high on her list of options.

“Making the Olympics is hard to say because it is so far away, but I hope to be a professional and make a business out of it,” Hoffman said. “I always say that I want to do anything that has to do with horses, perhaps a trainer or have my own ranch. Breeding horses has become a lot bigger in the U.S. recently. Europe has a big breeding program

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GROUNDED: Zazou Hoffman (left) and her mother Winter, who live in Santa Monica, save up in order to afford competition entry fees.

and we are trying to catch up, so I figure by the time I get to that point in my life it may be really big and be something I want to get in to.”

In the meantime, Hoffman has her sights set on performing well in January in preparation for the upcoming show jumping season. She admits she’s a little nervous being the youngest to study under Morris, but is excited about the opportunity presented.

“Without Missy, none of (this) would have been done,” Hoffman said of the exposure she’s received by training with Clark. “I would have been riding more just for fun.

But now it’s intense, but I like it.”

Tenants feeling exposed CHOPPING BLOCK, from page 3

replace the four Jacarandas within the next two weeks and has not decided on which tree species to plant.

The new trees will probably be tall enough to reach the second story of the buildings where Gottesman stood each day gazing at the Jacarandas out of her window.

As for the lack of notice, Michael said the owner decided to take down the trees as soon as she found out they were a problem and did not have enough time to notify the tenants.

“The building is going to be painted soon and they couldn’t get around the trees. They were diseased,” Michael said.

But in an age where communication is possible through the click of a button on a computer, it seems odd that the owner did not notify the tenants about the trees’ removal, Taylor said. The owner would tell tenants when the water would be shut off, but not when she’s removing trees.

A LACK OF PROTECTION

Though the Charmont Apartments building is a city historic landmark, the Jacaranda trees were not protected in the designation, leaving the owner with the right to remove the trees without a permit.

If the trees are on private property and are not protected as a historic landmark, the property owner has the right to remove them as they wish, said Roxanne Tanemori, a city associate planner who is the staff liaison to the Landmarks Commission.

The trees were the reason why Gottesman chose the Charmont Apartments. When Gottesman moved from Berkeley, where she

had sweeping views of the San Francisco Bay, the apartment hunt in Santa Monica was depressing, as any affordable apartment had uninspiring views of an alley or the neighboring apartment.

“We don’t want them to be unhappy. She has the tenants in mind in order to give them a nice place to live.”

BEVERLY MICHAEL GENERAL MANAGER, CHARMONT APARTMENTS

The row of trees where many birds lived prompted Gottesman, who lives in 330 California Ave., to visit the library and check out books so she could properly identify her feathery neighbors.

Now that the trees are gone, the birds no longer chirp and many neighbors whose windows faced the trees now shut the blinds because of the lack of privacy, Gottesman has observed.

But Michael said Connally does have her residents’ best interest at heart.

“We don’t want them to be unhappy,” Michael said. “She has the tenants in mind in order to give them a nice place to live.”

“For the tenants to be complaining, that’s not good.” melodyh@smdp.com

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Local 8

A newspaper with issues

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2006

Bond, school bond BB, from page 3

It was a banner day for Jesus

Fabian Lewkowicz fabianl@smdp.com Carolers from the Lighthouse Church sing Christmas songs as they parade down the Third Street Promenade on Sunday. Christmas carols are thought to trace back to the 13th Century, when they were sung primarily during harvest tide celebrations, in addition to Christmas.

Supervisors on Dec. 5.

Under Proposition 39, the committee must include at least seven members — one parent or guardian of a child in the district; one parent or guardian who has a child in the district and is a member of a parent-teacher organization; two community members; one member who is actively involved in a senior citizen group; one member who is a part of a taxpayers association; and one member who is a part of an organization that represents the local business community.

Talarico expects the appointments to be made at the board’s Jan. 18 meeting.

Though no action will be taken at the workshop today, the board is expected to officially open the application process at its Thursday meeting.

“There’s nothing meaty in terms of how we’ll spend the money,” School Board member Emily Bloomfield said of the workshop today.

Following the formation of a committee, the district will hold a community meeting at which time Talarico plans to speak about examining the needs of all schools in the district, recommend spending Measure BB money based on health and safety issues, and place an emphasis on equipping all classrooms with the technology to bring Santa Monica-Malibu into the “21st Century.”

If all goes well, some changes should be visible around the beginning of next school year, according to Bloomfield.

School board member Kelly McMahon Pye said she is excited about starting her term working on an issue that’s important to the community. melodyh@smdp.com

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City’s Web site is pointing volunteers in right direction HELPING HANDS, from page 1

pastor at St. Monica’s Parish.

For those looking to give more than just a gift this holiday season, City Hall has listed several agencies in need. The list is posted on the city’s Web site (www.santa-monica.org) and includes organizations like the St. Joseph Center, Step Up on Second and the Pico Youth & Family Center.

The spirit of giving that fills many this time of year is deeply rooted in religion, in particular, the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, Torgerson said.

In place of sweet-smelling frankincense, shiny gold and myrrh — the gifts supposedly given to baby Jesus by three wise men — modern-day shoppers lean more towards gifts of cashmere and iPods.

According to clergy members and social service workers, giving time can be just as valuable as anything with monetary value.

“For those who are Christian, the season is about following the master ... (Jesus) had a special love for those who had far less,” said Torgerson. “His care was for the poor, for those who are outcast. His care was for those who were separated or distanced, for those who had the least among us.

“We are doing the same.”

Churches, synagogues and mosques offer many opportunities for people to give their time and money, as do local non-profits that rely heavily on the holidays for donations to keep them funded throughout the year.

“This is the time when people are thinking of giving, so most of our food drives occur between Rosh Hashanah [early fall] and New Year’s Eve. That’s when we get the bulk,” said Genevieve Riutort, director of development for the Westside Food Bank in Santa Monica, which is looking for assistance with its Christmas Eve dinner at St. Augustine’s by the Sea. “We really need as much help as we can get because, during the holidays, families really struggle to make ends meet,” Riutort said.

“Many people don’t realize this, but many kids get three weeks out of school, and for those from low-income families, they don’t get the free breakfast and lunch they normally receive, so its hard for these families.

“We see a lot coming to look into our pantries because of that.”

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS

At Chrysalis, a non-profit that helps the down-and-out get back on their feet through job training programs, the organization is desperately in need of volunteers to help clients fill out job applications and create résumés. Volunteers are also needed to help wrap gifts for clients’ children and to serve meals during the organization’s annual holiday party.

At OPCC (Ocean Park Community Center), one of the city’s largest providers of services to the homeless, volunteers are needed for a wide variety of tasks, including preparing bags of groceries for those who have just found housing. People can donate food, toiletries and other items.

“Volunteer opportunities provide an opportunity for the volunteer to give of themselves, and also the recipients appreciate

the fact that another human being is taking the time to show them some interest,” said John Maceri, executive director of OPCC. “I think human contact is always important.”

GIVING DOESN’T HAVE TO HURT

Those who do not have the time to volunteer may choose to give donations, however, those giving from their wallets are advised to do so with caution, as fraud tends to escalate around the holidays as well.

Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are lost to deceptive individuals and organizations posing as legitimate charities who prey upon the giving nature of individuals and businesses.

“We don’t want Californians to be Scrooges, but we are urging them to use caution and common sense when responding to requests for donations.”

CHARLENE ZETTEL DIRECTOR OF CDCA

In Los Angeles alone, it is estimated that as much as $100 million is lost to unscrupulous solicitors each year, according to a report by the Los Angeles Police Commission.

Because it is difficult to discern between legitimate and phony solicitors, there are a few tips law enforcement believes people should know before opening their hearts and their wallets.

The most important thing to remember is to be an informed giver. Ask questions before you give and give only when you feel comfortable. Prepare a giving plan ahead of time so that you do not feel pressure to give to everyone who asks for a donation.

Remember, legitimate charities will not pressure or rush you to donate.

Donations should always be made by writing a check, according to law enforcement. For security and tax records, make donations by check and keep accurate account of all your spending so that you can guard against those that will try to trick you into believing you made a donations and then come to your home to pick up the cash.

In the end, don’t feel pressured to give.

Do your research and always keep a receipt.

“Sometimes charity solicitations can tug at your heart-strings,” said Charlene Zettel, Director of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. “We don’t want Californians to be Scrooges, but we are urging them to use caution and common sense when responding to requests for donations.” kevinh@smdp.com

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2006

Play money

BY NEALE S. GODFREY Special to the Daily Press

In some households, it’s considered impolite to talk about money. But the consequences of imprudent financial management can be very serious. Poor money skills can result in crippling debt and personal bankruptcy.

But are you prepared to discuss your own finances with your kids? “Too personal,” you think, or “That’s none of their business!”

Perhaps. Your children may not need to know that you once bounced seven checks in a single day, or that you were denied a mortgage four times before finally getting approved. However, there is some financial information you should share with older kids, and that’s the basics of your will.

Whether you reveal your annual income or your monthly rent or mortgage payment is up to you. But your youngsters need to be aware of how you’ve planned to provide for

Financial lessons are a part of growing up

your family if something happens to you and your spouse.

Many parents draw up wills when a child is born. If you did it with your first, remember to revise it with each additional child.

And if you haven’t done it, do it today.

A lawyer can draw up a basic will for about $500, or you can write your own with the help of software, books and Web sites.

Wills must be notarized to be considered legal documents.

Keep in mind that in the vast majority of families, the surviving relatives or guardians want to abide by the parents’ wishes, as long as those wishes are clearly spelled out. So, if you don’t have a will at the moment, write something down on paper immediately.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Breastfeeding Groups DEC. 12 – TREE DECORATING PROGRAM – 3:30 p.m.

TOYS for TOTS – The SM Fire Dept., in conjunction with the American Red Cross, is very active in the holiday “Spark of Life” program that collects and distributes toys for local social service agencies. Drop off an unwrapped toy at any SM Fire Station until Dec. 23. For more info call 310-458-8666.

La Leche League of LA/Mar Vista – meets the 1st Thursday of each month at 10:00 a.m. in the Community Room of the Westchester Municipal Bldg., 7166 W. Manchester Ave., corner of Lincoln and Manchester. Call 310-390-2529 for info.

The Pump Station, 2415 Wilshire Blvd., 310-998-1981 - drop-in, first class free, $10 fee thereafter.

Moms/babies 4-8 months, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE TOY DRIVE

FRIDAY

Help the Montana Branch Library trim their holiday tree. All ages welcome.

1704 Montana Ave., 310-829-7081

HOLIDAY GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

This citywide program, PAL, offers free educational, cultural and athletic activities for boys and girls ages 6 – 17 who are SM residents or attend SM school. Drop-off unwrapped toys for this age group at Bubba Gump’s on the pier until Dec. 13 or call 310-458-8988 for more info.

SANTA MONICA PLACE HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS DEC. 15 – 22, 4:00 p.m. – Chanukah Celebration Festival of Lights – The Chabad of SM celebrates with a traditional lighting of the Menorah at Center Court on Level 1.

Also Sat., Dec. 31 at 6:00 p.m.

SAT., DEC. 16, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – PET DAY with SANTA Calling all furry and friendly pets to SM Place for pictures with Santa, complimentary grooming and a run through an obstacle course. Space #189 near Macy’s on Level 1.

Classes

FRI. - SUN., DEC. 15 - 17 HOLIDAY CABARET at the SANTA MONICA PLAYHOUSE Dec. 15 & 16 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Enjoy this Fall Musical Theatre Project with holiday treats, audience participation and sing-alongs. $10, 1211 4th St., 310-394-9779, xt. 2., www.santamonicaplayhouse.com.

ALL ABOUT SANTA at the SANTA MONICA PLAYHOUSE Saturdays & Sundays at 12:30 & 3:00 p.m. thru Dec.17th , also Tues., Dec. 19 & Thurs., Dec. 21 at 2:00 p.m. $12.50 adults, $10.50 kids ages 12 & under. 394-9779 for reservations, www.santamonicaplayhouse.com, 1211 4th St. Enjoy this romantic- musical as it follows a newly appointed Santa as he tries to prove his worth to Father Claus, save the spirit of Christmas and find the nerve to win the heart of the future Mrs. Claus.

NOW THRU JAN. 1 - REINDEER ROMP at the LA ZOO Santa’s reindeer are in town for a special visit! Get your picture made with them, and make antlers and other holiday crafts. Free with general admission: $10 adults, $5 children. 5333 Zoo Dr., Griffith Park, LA, 323-644-4200.

NOW THRU JAN. 16 – OUTDOOR ICE SKATING at PERSHING SQUARE Take a trip downtown to enjoy this annual attraction. Skate under the sun and stars and enjoy free concerts on weekends and Wednesdays. Mon. – Thurs., noon – 9:00 p.m., Fri. – Sun., 10:00 a.m.- 10:00 p.m. $6 per session plus skate rentals. 532 S. Olive St., LA, 213-847-4970.

NOW THRU DEC. 29 – HOLIDAY LIGHT FESTIVAL at GRIFFITH PARK 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. daily. Enjoy this holiday tradition at you drive through or walk a mile-long stretch of lighted displays and seasonal messages. FREE! Crystal Springs Dr., Griffith Park, LA, 888-527-2757.

MOVIES FOR MOMS! 11:00 a.m., Loews Cineplex Broadway Theatre, 1441 3rd St. Promenade – for Moms and babies newborn – 1 year old. Doors open early for socializing and getting comfortable. Visit www.enjoytheshow.com/reelmoms for details.

Spanish Bilingual Stories – 11:20 a.m., ages 2 – 5, session thru Dec. 27.

PRESCHOOL TWILIGHT STORY TIME – 7:00 p.m.

Parents/children ages 3-5.

BARNES AND NOBLE, WESTSIDE PAVILION – 2 pm – ages 2-5 – 310-475-4144 BORDER’S, WESTWOOD – 11a.m. – 310-475-3444.

Storytelling and Library Programs

Classes

TUESDAY

MAIN LIBRARY – 601 Santa Monica Blvd. – 458-8621 Baby Time – 10:15 & 11:00 a.m., babies up to 2 years, next session jan. 9 – Feb. 13.

FAIRVIEW BRANCH LIBRARY – 2101 Ocean Park Blvd – 450-0443.

Toddler Story Time in Spanish – 10:00 a.m., ages 23.

BABY TIME – 11:00 a.m., babies to age 2, next session Jan. 2 – Feb. 6 TWILIGHT STORY TIME -7pm – an ongoing program for 3-5 year olds.

MONTANA AVENUE BRANCH LIBRARY – 1704 Montana Ave – 829-7081.

FAMILY STORY TIME – 7:00 p.m., all ages.

OCEAN PARK BRANCH LIBRARY – 2601 Main St. – 392-8304 STORY TIME FOR TWOS – 10:00 and 10:30 a.m., session thru Dec. 12.

TINY TUESDAY STORYTIME AT STORYOPOLIS For ages infant to 3. 11:00 a.m. 116 North Robertson, Plaza A, LA. 310-358-2500, www.storyopolis.com BARNES AND NOBLE AT THE GROVE Storytime for ages 2 – 6. 10:00 a.m. 189 Grove Drive, LA, 323-525-0270

Classes YWCA – A Place for Parents –Toddler & Me Class 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. – 12 to 36 months; Infant & Me Class – 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. and 1:30 – 2:30 p.m., 0 – 12 months; 2019 14th St. Call 452-3881for details and prices.

BREAKTHROUGH PARENTING CLASSES – 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

An advanced 10-week parent education course.

Continuous enrollment. For info call Jayne A. Major, Ph.D., Breakthrough Parenting Services, Inc., 310823-7846, jm@BPinAction.org.

Yoga & Exercise EXHALE CENTER FOR SACRED MOVEMENT, 245 S. Main St., Venice. Pre/Post Natal – 11:25 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. 450-7676, exhalespa.com. Single class $17, package of ten $135.

YOGA WORKS – 2215 Montana Ave, 310-393-5150; Pre/postnatal – 12:30 – 1:55 p.m., $15. Mommy and Me – 1:45 – 3:00 p.m.

MOMMY CARE – at the Dance Factory, 11606 San Vicente Blvd., Brentwood, 310-394-6711. Combined Pregnancy/Recovery Exercise Group – 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.. (babies welcome, includes baby massage and workout at the end) STROLLER STRIDES FITNESS CLASS – 9:30 a.m. Mon. – Fri., Palisades Park, call 800-795-6708 or visit www.strollerstrides.com for more info.

YOMAMA YOGA – 1404 3rd St. Promenade, St. 201.

Parent & Me – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.; 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Yoga for parents with kids ages 6 wks – 6 years. Kids interact with each other and toys. $15 single class, $65 for five classes, $120 for ten classes. yogababyla.com

Breastfeeding Group THE PUMP STATION, 2415 Wilshire Blvd., 310-9981981 - drop-in, first class free, $10 fee thereafter.

Moms/babies 0-4 months, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY MOMS Club of SM South Playgroups – 4:30 p.m.- separate groups for children born in 2000 and 2001.

Call or email Alison at 450-0209 or riversalison@hotmail.com for more info. All moms welcome!

Storytelling and Library Programs THE TALKING STICK COFFEE LOUNGE – 1630 Ocean Park Blvd., 450-6052 10:30 a.m. Free story time for moms and kids ages 0-4 at this neighborhood coffee shop.

FAIRVIEW BRANCH LIBRARY – 2101 Ocean Park Blvd – 310-450-0443.

STORY TIME FOR TWOS – 9:30 a.m.

Preschool Story Time – 10:30 a.m.; ages 3-5.

Next session Jan. 3 – Feb. 7 for both.

MONTANA AVENUE BRANCH LIBRARY – 1704 Montana Ave – 310-829-7081.

BABY TIME - 10:15 & 11:15 a.m., ages 0-2, session thru Dec. 13 OCEAN PARK BRANCH LIBRARY – 2601 Main St. –3923804.

MOMS Club of SM South Playgroups 11:00 a.m. - playgroup for children born 10/04 – 5/05; 12:30 p.m. – playgroup for babies born since March 2006. Call or e-mail Alison at 450-0209 or riversalison@hotmail.com for more info.

Parent’s Night Out at Child’s Play, 2299 Westwood Blvd., 6:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Kids get a night of supervised fun with pizza, games and more while parents go out. Ages 3-10, $9 per hour, $7 siblings, 3 hour minimum. Reservations required, 470-4997. ww.childsplayonline.net

YWCA – A Place for Parents –Toddler & Me Class 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., 5 to 36 months; 2019 14th St. Call 452-3881for details and prices.

Yoga & Exercise YOMAMA YOGA – 1404 3rd St. Promenade, St. 201.

Parent & Me – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Yoga for parents with kids ages 6 wks – 6 years. Kids interact with each other and toys. $15 single class, $65 for five classes, $120 for ten classes.

PRENATAL YOGA – 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. $18 single class, $85 for five classes. yogababyla.com YOGA WORKS, 2215 Montana Ave, 310-393-5150 Pre/Postnatal – 12:30 – 2:00 p.m., $15 STROLLER STRIDES FITNESS CLASS – 9:30 a.m. Mon. – Fri., call 800-795-6708 or visit www.strollerstrides.com for more info.

Breastfeeding Group The Pump Station, 2415 Wilshire Blvd., 310-998-1981, drop-in, first class free, $10 fee thereafter.

Moms/babies 0-4 months, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Other Puppetolio – 1:00 p.m., 310-656-0483, 1255 2nd St., ages 3 & up, reservations suggested

THURSDAY MOMS Club of SM South Playgroup – 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. for children born 1/02 – 2/03; 3:30 p.m., for children born 3/03 – 12/03, Call or email Alison at 450-0209 or riversalison@hotmail.com for more info. All moms welcome!

Storytelling and Library Programs Main Library – 601 Santa Monica Blvd. – 458-8621 Story Time for Twos – 10:15 & 10:45 a.m., session thru Dec. 14.

Preschool Story Time – 11:20 a.m, ages 3 – 5, session thru Dec. 14.

Fairview Branch Library – 2101 Ocean Park Blvd – 310-450-0443.

La Hora Del Cuento – 7:00 p.m. Spanish stories, songs and rhymes for all ages.

Montana Avenue Branch Library – 1704 Montana Ave – 310-829-7081.

Story Time for Twos – 10:15 a.m., session thru Dec. 14.

Preschool Story Time – 11:15 a.m.; ages 3-5. Ongoing.

Ocean Park Branch Library – 2601 Main St. – 310392-3804.

12/21, 12/28 & 1/04 - Crafty Storytimes for the Holidays – 3:30 p.m. – Enjoy seasonal stories and make a craft to take home, Grades k- 2.

Baby Time – 9:20 & 10:20 a.m. Babies to 2 years.

Next session Dec. 28 – Feb. 1.

Babystyle, 1324 Montana Avenue, 434-9590 10:30 a.m. Free story time for moms and kids ages 0-4.

YWCA – A Place for Parents –Toddler & Me Class 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. – 12 – 36 mos.; Playtime/Parent Support - 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., 2019 14th St. Call 452-3881 for details and prices.

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Kid’s Yoga Circle Class at Exhale Spa – 3:30 p.m., for ages 5 – 11, 1422 2nd St., 260-2736 or yogaforkids@hotmail.com.

Yoga Works – 2215 Montana Ave, 310-393-5150; Pre/postnatal – 12:30 – 1:55 p.m., $15.

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Storytelling Barnes and Noble, 3rd St. Promenade – Kid’s Story Time – 10am, 310-260-9110 Barnes and Noble, Westside Pavilion – 10:30am – ages 2-5, 310-475-4144.

Children’s Book World, 10580 1/2 Pico Blvd, LA 10:30 a.m., every other Sat., 310-559-BOOK. Village Books, 1049 SwarthmoreAve, Pacific Palisades – 10:30 a.m., 454-4063.

826LA, 685 Venice Blvd, 2nd Floor, Venice – 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., ages 3-6, RSVP to info @825LA.com or 310-314-8418. (826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write).

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Classes YWCA – Toddler & Me - 9:45 – 10:45 a.m.; Parent Enrichment once per month , 11:00 a.m. – noon, call Barbara Olinger at 452-3881 for rates and dates.

Yoga & Exercise Santa Monica Yoga – Pre- & Post-Natal Yoga, Saturdays – 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

1640 Ocean Park Blvd, 396-4040, www.santamonicayoga.com Mommy Care – at the Dance Factory, 11606 San Vicente Blvd., Brentwood, 310-394-6711. Combined Pregnancy/Recovery Exercise Group – 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.(babies welcome, includes baby massage and workout at the end) Stroller Strides Fitness Class – 9:00 a.m., Palisades Park, call 800-795-6708 or visit www.strollerstrides.com for more info.

YoMama Yoga – 1404 3rd St. Promenade, St. 201.

Parent & Me – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Yoga for parents with kids ages 6 wks – 6 years. Kids interact with each other and toys. $15 single class, $65 for five classes, $120 for ten classes.

Prenatal Yoga – 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. $18 single class, $85 for five classes. yogababyla.com

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Bush strategizing Iraq President looks to re-energize administration by altering the course of an unpopular war

BY BEN FELLER Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — President Bush is piling up strategy sessions on Iraq, aiming to reverse the course of the war and energize his final two years in office.

On Monday, Bush was meeting with senior State Department officials to review diplomatic and political options. Later, in the Oval Office, he was asking historians and former generals for their views.

Still promising to prevail in Iraq, the president plans to unveil a new strategy to a disillusioned public by Christmas.

Administration officials are weighing options, including a short-term buildup of troops and a revamped approach to dealing with Iraq’s warring factions.

Whatever the choice, Bush is out to show he isn’t acting alone. He is seeking advice at home and abroad.

On Tuesday, Bush will meet via video conference with senior military commanders and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and then host Iraqi Vice President Tariq alHashemi in the Oval Office. On Wednesday, he meets with officials at the Pentagon.

Last week, Bush met with Shiite political leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, plus lawmakers from the armed services, intelligence and foreign relations committees.

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The urgency and the pressure are rising.

Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the incoming No. 2 GOP leader, said Sunday: “The president this week is going to be meeting with any and everybody he can talk to.”

“He knows that the circumstances are not what we wanted them to be, and that you’ve got to do some different things,” Lott said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Americans’ dissatisfaction with Bush’s handling of Iraq is at an all-time high of 71 percent in the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll.

Heading toward the new year, Bush is awaiting reports from the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council.

He has already received the highly anticipated findings of the Iraq Study Group, headed by Republican James A. Baker III and Democrat Lee Hamilton. The group called the situation in Iraq “grave and deteriorating” and urged a broad new direction.

Bush has been cool to the panel’s key proposals, including direct engagement of Iran and Syria as part of a new diplomatic initiative. The panel also called for withdrawing most U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 2008 and shifting the U.S. mission to one of training and advising.

On Sunday, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani harshly criticized the bipartisan report. He called it “very dangerous,” saying it would undermine Iraq’s sovereignty because it could allow thousands of officials from Saddam Hussein’s ousted party to return to their jobs.

Complicating matters is the study group’s assertion that its ideas are interdependent.

Picking and choosing ideas from all the ongoing reviews, however, may be precisely what the administration does.

A world away: Discovery races toward shared space station

BY MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After receiving a clean bill of health, space shuttle Discovery early Monday raced toward a rendezvous with the international space station, ready to deliver a new crew member and a 2-ton addition to the space lab.

U.S. astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams was to get a first look at her home for the next six months after Discovery docks at the space station, which is slated for Monday afternoon. She will replace German astronaut Thomas Reiter of the European Space Agency.

“I think we’re off to a really good start,” Discovery commander Mark Polansky told Mission Control Sunday night as his crew wrapped up a meticulous inspection of the shuttle, looking for any possible damage from liftoff. “Really looking forward to some real exciting days ahead.”

Discovery will get another inspection about an hour before docking, when Polansky manually steers the shuttle’s nose up and slowly flips the spacecraft over so the space station’s crew can photograph its belly for damage. The safety procedure was implemented after the Columbia accident in 2003.

The space shuttle’s heat shield looks to be in good health so far, NASA managers said Sunday night, although it will be at least two days before engineers can rule out any possible damage from the program’s first night launch in four years.

As expected, small pieces of foam debris and ice fell off Discovery’s external fuel tank during Saturday night’s launch, but they didn’t appear to strike the shuttle.

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Researchers remain divided on the existence of Moses

BY RICHARD N. OSTLING Associated Press Writer

No figure in Jewish annals compares with Moses.

He “changed the course of human history all by himself,” Rabbi Norman J. Cohen writes enthusiastically in “Moses and the Journey to Leadership,” one of those inspirational books built around biblical personalities.

“He is the founder of the nation, a revolutionary, a lawgiver, a priest, a judge, a politician, a teacher, a prophet, a comforter, and a guide _ all rolled up into one. He is the paradigm for all subsequent leaders, for all of us.”

But a Cohen colleague at Reform Judaism’s New York City seminary, Rabbi S. David Sperling, isn’t certain that Moses even existed or, if he did, whether the Bible provides much reliable information about him.

Sperling contends that if traditional accounts of the origins of Judaism had not recorded a founder, “analogy would have required postulating him; and that is probably what happened” when ancients wrote the Bible.

That’s one of the more important assertions in the newly issued second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (Macmillan Reference, 22 volumes, $1,995). Of the monumental work’s 21,000-plus articles, 2,600 are brand new and nearly half were updated from the 1972 original. Sperling was the editor for revisions regarding the Bible.

The introduction to Moses’ life (from another writer) says “we cannot really reconstruct a biography of Moses. We cannot even be sure that Moses was a historical character.”

The 1972 edition was less skeptical.

Not that the second edition’s attitude is odd in academic or Jewish intellectual circles nowadays. Conservative Judaism’s official Torah commentary (2001) says that what should concern Jews is “not when, or even if, Moses lived, but what his life conveys in Israel’s saga.” It calls Moses a “folkloristic, national hero.”

This fading Moses, of course, departs radically from longstanding tradition. The “13 Principles” of the revered 12thcentury sage Maimonides, for example, insisted that Moses lived as Judaism’s supreme prophet through whom God gave the Torah. And the Book of Exodus, of course, recounts Moses’ career in considerable detail.

Orthodox Judaism further believes that Moses’ last will and testament in Deuteronomy affirms his role in writing the Bible’s first five books and that he provided authoritative oral interpretations of these scriptures.

Sperling, however, writes that the biblical story of Moses’ birth “contains generic elements that are discounted by historians” and echo pagan legends. He deems passages on early adulthood “historically unverifiable” and says the exodus account was “dramatically woven out of various strands of tradition.” He thinks the credibility of the wilderness wanderings is undercut by discrepancies in the story and lack of confirmation from archaeology.

Sperling considers Moses’ authorship of the Pentateuch improbable due to “inconsistency, variant repetitions, diversity in style and viewpoint and divergent historical presuppositions.”

Still, Sperling allows that there might be a historical core in some biblical materials and doesn’t flatly rule out Moses’ existence.

This treatment omits elaboration of opposite reasoning among Orthodox Jewish scholars, admittedly a minority.

Orthodox Rabbi Shalom Carmy of New York’s Yeshiva University grants that historians have so far discovered no documentation on Moses apart from the biblical writings.

He doesn’t find this gap surprising and says scholars who make that argument fail to acknowledge that evidence cor-

roborating ancient texts is very spotty.

But Carmy says the scriptures show familiarity with Egyptian culture and language. Conservative Protestants, including Britain’s K.A. Kitchen, agree on those points and provide further historical data to support the biblical scenario.

Summarizing the Jewish divide, Carmy observes that liberals hold the biblical text “doubted until independently proven true,” while for fellow traditionalists “it is true unless conclusively disproved.”

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Proposal to pipe water to Nevada town draws opposition in Arizona

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LAS VEGAS — Residents in the northwest corner of Arizona are gearing up to fight an unprecedented plan to pump groundwater across the Nevada border to Mesquite.

“The general consensus is, nobody wants this,” Nikki Stoddard, a Beaver Dam, Ariz., resident told the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a Monday report.

Almost 400 people filled a room at an elementary school in Beaver Dam, Ariz., last week to hear about the proposal by Wind River Resources. Dozens of people lined up to sign petitions against the water deal, and many wore stickers advertising a Web site called NoNevadaWaterGrab.com.

A banner along Interstate 15, which slices through the area, also directs attention to the Internet site, which Stoddard helped establish.

She called the Wind River application to the Arizona Department of Water Resources a “test case” for others who would buy land in the so-called Arizona Strip and sell groundwater to Nevada.

The fight dates to March 2005, when Wind River Resources filed an application to export groundwater from Arizona for use in another state. Arizona never has granted such an application.

Wind River wants to sell the water to the Virgin Valley Water District, which serves the Mesquite area. The water would be pumped from wells on property northwest of Beaver Dam and piped about 10 miles to Mesquite.

The company also wants to use the district’s water system to deliver water back across the border to supply development on another part of the Arizona Strip.

Some residents in Beaver Dam and neighboring Littlefield, Ariz., worry that the project could leave their wells dry.

“They can’t take this water into Nevada without having a negative impact on Arizona,” said Bob Frisby, whose Beaver Dam Water Company serves about 1,000 customers on the Arizona Strip. “It will dry us up.”

Wind River Resources spokesman John Michael said the water would come from a different aquifer than the one supplying Beaver Dam and Littlefield. He said the groundwater Wind River is after flows west into Nevada.

Michael accused Frisby and Jack Riley, who owns several thousand acres along I-15 in Arizona, of whipping up opposition to the Wind River project to protect their own interests.

He said Frisby wants a water monopoly on the Arizona Strip and Riley wants to increase the value of his land along I-15 by scuttling growth elsewhere in the area.

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The second largest mining conference in the country, the NWMA’s annual meeting had never before been held anywhere other than it’s home town of Spokane, Wash., until last week’s meeting in Sparks, near Reno.

“We won’t know until we get back to Spokane and count it all up but we’re really, really close to topping 2,000 attendees,” the association’s executive director, Laura Skaer, said as the event wrapped up over the weekend.

If so, it would make it the most attended conference since 1999, she said.

“Next year’s conference is back in Spokane, but after that, my guess is we’ll probably be here,” Skaer said.

The idea of taking the meeting on the road was prompted by sagging attendance in recent years. The gathering had drawn as many as 3,000 people in the early 1990s but dropped to as low as 700 when gold prices bottomed out in 2000.

Attendance had slowly been recovering as prices rose, with about 1,200 present at last year’s meeting.

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“It worked out exceptionally well. We’ve reconnected the convention to people who used to come from Nevada,” she said.

A number of members and speakers at the five-day conference said the association should consider rotating between Spokane and northern Nevada.

“The attendance proves it out,” said Janine Clayton, the U.S. Forest Service’s acting director for minerals and geology management.

“I think it will increase the participation from California as well as Nevada,” Clayton said.

Jeffrey Kenner, director of business development for Aero-Metric, an aerial mapping company based in Seattle, said the 90minute flight to Reno was “no big deal.”

“If they decided to alternate it, I think that would be a good move,” he said.

Jeff Doyle, vice president of operations for Delhur Industries, a heavy construction company based in Port Angeles, Wash., said John Ascuaga’s Nugget hotel-casino offered plenty of space for exhibitors.

“It’s really well-laid out. And this is a pretty good area for mining,” he said. “It’s more convenient for the miners here.”

John Sangster of Riggins, Idaho, said the added space is appreciated because the booth for his mining supply company, Miners, has grown since it first participated in the convention 15 years ago.

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Investigators confirm traces of polonium in contact’s car

BY SIMONE UTLER Associated Press Writer

HAMBURG, Germany — German investigators have confirmed that a car used by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko before the two men met was contaminated with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, police said Monday.

Still unknown is whether Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun was involved in the poisoning, or a victim of it. He is reportedly being treated in Moscow for radiation poisoning.

Investigators said Kovtun flew to Hamburg from Moscow with Aeroflot on Oct. 28 and departed for London on Nov. 1.

That is the day when Kovtun and at least one other Russian met with Litvinenko at London’s Millennium Hotel — and when Litvinenko is believed to have fallen ill.

Litvinenko — an ex-Russian agent who was a fierce Kremlin critic — died Nov. 23 of poisoning from polonium-210 after blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin, also a former intelligence officer, for the poisoning.

The Kremlin has vehemently denied involvement.

German authorities said Sunday they found traces of polonium-210 at a Hamburg apartment where Kovtun is believed to have spent the night before he left for London to meet Litvinenko. The substance was found on a couch where Kovtun is believed to have slept.

Tests on radioactive traces found in the passenger seat of the BMW car that picked up Kovtun from the Hamburg airport showed that “it is definitely polonium,” police spokesman Andreas Schoepflin said Monday.

Radioactive traces also have been found on a document Kovtun brought to Hamburg immigration authorities; and at the home of Kovtun’s ex-mother-in-law outside Hamburg — again from before the Nov. 1 meeting.

German prosecutors did not say whether they suspect Kovtun might have been involved in Litvinenko’s death. But they said they were investigating him on suspicion he may have improperly handled radioactive material.

Officials said that any connection between Kovtun and Litvinenko’s death would have to be investigated by British

police — rather than by the Hamburg police task force, codenamed “The Third Man” in an apparent reference to the 1949 film about a mysterious death in postwar Vienna.

“We still believe that both variants are possible: that he may be a victim, but also that he may have been involved, at least in procuring the polonium,” prosecutor Martin Koehnke said Sunday.

On Monday, a British police official arrived in Hamburg and was to be briefed on the German investigation, Hamburg police said.

Kirchner, the radiation agency official, said it was possible Kovtun could already have been poisoned and that he left behind traces through body fluids such as sweat.

Whatever his role, at this point, “we have to assume that Mr. Kovtun already had this polonium-210 contamination on him when he came to Hamburg Oct. 28 on a flight from Moscow,” police investigator Thomas Menzel said on ARD television.

On Saturday, the German plane aboard which Kovtun flew from Hamburg to London tested negative for polonium-210.

Investigators raised the possibility that that may be because the plane had been cleaned thoroughly.

Litvinenko met at the Millennium Hotel in London’s Mayfair neighborhood with Kovtun and former Soviet agent Andrei Lugovoi. Another man, security firm head Vyacheslav Sokolenko, has said he was at the hotel but did not participate in the meeting.

Lugovoi has denied that the men were involved in the ex-spy’s death.

Lugovoi, Kovtun and Sokolenko all graduated from an elite military academy in Moscow. Their fathers were Soviet officers who served together at the Defense Ministry, and they went to the same military academy.

Kovtun has said he graduated in 1986, a year ahead of Lugovoi.

Speaking on Ekho Moskvy radio Nov. 24, Kovtun said he served in Czechoslovakia and Germany, remained in Germany after the Soviet collapse in 1991 and lived there for 12 years. He said he was married until recently to a German citizen and still had residency status in Germany.

He said his business dealings are now in Russia.

Associated Press writer Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report from Moscow.

Guantanamo abuse probe submitted

BY MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — An Army officer has finished his investigation into allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay and submitted the report to superiors, according to a military spokesman.

Col. Richard Basset’s report, commissioned after several guards allegedly acknowledged beating detainees, is being reviewed, said Army Col. Bill Costello, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Command, who spoke by telephone Saturday.

Army Brig. Gen. Edward Leacock, deputy commander of detention operations, said guards who allegedly told a Marine sergeant in September that they regularly beat detainees have not been disciplined pending results of the investigation.

Leacock said no mistreatment is tolerated, and he dismissed accusations of routine abuse at the military prison where about 430 men are held on suspicion of links to alQaida or the Taliban.

“I believe we run probably the most safe and humane facility in the world,” he said last week.

Basset, appointed by the U.S. Southern Command to investigate “credible allegations” of abuse, interviewed guards and some detainees during a visit to the naval base in southeast Cuba. He also traveled around the United States to speak with guards who had left Guantanamo, Leacock said.

The investigation stems from Marine Sgt. Heather Cerveny’s claims in a sworn affidavit that a group of sailors she met at a Guantanamo bar on Sept. 23 described beating detainees as a common practice. Some spoke of denying prisoners water.

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

★★★ You discover that many situations aren’t like you thought they were. Knowing what is happening could be very important to your ultimate well-being. Tonight: Finish up a project.

★★★ Take your time, especially if you feel that someone has hurt you in some way. Could you possibly be overreacting or doing something a bit different? Walking away or thinking about a situation in a new light will help. Tonight: Get some extra R and R.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Your creativity might not hit the bull’s-eye in a way that pleases you. Understanding takes you in another direction with different results. Use compassion when dealing with someone you care about. Challenging someone simply will not work. Tonight: Let bygones be bygones.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ Zero in on what you want. Realize that you might not have as much control as you would like. Be specific with someone you care about, especially if finances are involved. Sometimes you might have no choice but to say “no.” Tonight: As you like.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ You might have difficulty dealing with someone who seems willful and tough. You can and will handle this person. Trust yourself here. Someone’s directness might be offensive. Try another approach. Tonight: Happy at home.

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★★★ Pressure builds simply through daily life and your goals. Know when to say “enough” or head in another direction. Easily, a reorganization could be on the table. Evaluate before you decide what someone else is thinking. Perhaps asking might be more effective. Tonight: Visit with a friend.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

★★★ Try as you might, a risk isn’t what you need right now. Walking the conservative path is. Face facts: You cannot control others, nor do you really want to. How much is the challenge motivating you? Be honest with yourself. Tonight: Revamp your gift list.

★★★★ You might feel as if you are taffy being pulled in two directions. At the base of this tension, a friend thinks one way yet a partner clearly steers you in another direction. You will need to work with what you want. Tonight: Decide which side your bread is buttered on.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

★★★★ You have a lot of ground to cover, and you will. Opposition occurs where you least expect it. Allow yourself to tune in to someone’s reasoning. Walk in this person’s shoes. With understanding, the two of you will gain and grow. Tonight: Happy as a cat.

★★★ You might feel pulled in different directions. When you attempt to steer a course, you become very uncomfortable and wonder what you are doing. Others challenge you, no matter what you do. Tonight: Easy does it.

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Make time to relax and rest this year. Often, you will accept additional burdens and problems; though without question, you have the capability to manage them. Opportunities are sprinkled along your path. You will have to be clear in order to decide which direction to head in. You start a new 11-year luck cycle. Use it well. How you begin this period could define the remaining years. If you are single, you will meet many potential suitors. The problem lies in that you have so much on your plate, relating could become difficult.

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Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy oozed good taste. They were dressed like fashion plates day and night. They were wellgroomed and never flashy or trashy, preferring to be consistently chic and sophisticated.

It was a lifestyle for them. Casual days weren’t sloppy days, nor were black-tie events an opportunity to make a radical fashion statement.

There are other things that link the three fashion icons — their heyday was the mid-1950s through the ‘60s, yet they continue to serve as

inspiration to today’s designers.

However, they each had a different look. Each owned a look. And each then saw women around their world imitate the look.

Here’s how Avril Graham, executive fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, defines the style of Audrey, Grace and Jackie: AUDREY HEPBURN

She followed fashion and could be seen front and center at Givenchy runway shows, yet there always was a touch of girlishness in her style. She also had the lithe shape of a dancer, and her early training in ballet, also made it a pleasure to watch her

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She was a fashion innovator, and her daring fashion choices were a sign that she had an innate sense of style instead of one manufactured by advisers. She could have played it safe when she got to the White House — everyone before her had — but it actually was in Washington that her style really came to the fore-

Blond and chic, she personified glamour of her era, although she was also seen as a healthy, all-American type. She had the figure of a model — which was her career before becoming an actress — so the movie studio wardrobers loved dressing her.

“The camera loved her. ... She looked like a walking fashion page.”

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acting, and now it’s all about everything but that. I fell in love with someone very, very famous, and that’s beyond all of our control. Strategically I probably could have analyzed it at the time and thought, `This could potentially be very damaging,’ but that was a very beautiful period of my life.”

Miller, a fashion icon and Hollywood It Girl, reportedly broke off her engagement to

Law last year after he publicly apologized for cheating on her following reports that he had a fling with the nanny of his three children from his marriage to fashion designer-actress Sadie Frost.

She says the 33-yearold actor remains “a very close person in my life.”

“It just becomes this soap opera,” she says, recalling the media attention. “And I guess I had a pretty good few episodes.”

Miller stars as Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick in the upcoming movie “Factory Girl.”

“I know that I have a lot to prove to a certain degree, but it’s fine,” says Miller, whose screen credits include roles in “Layer Cake,” “Alfie,” which starred Law, and “Casanova,” opposite Heath Ledger.

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Law-breaker: Miller happy out of limelight Her on-off relationship with JUDE LAW made her an overnight celebrity, but Sienna Miller says that wasn’t her goal.

“I was just never desperate to be famous, which I know sounds cliched and probably like a lie, but it is, in my case, very true,” the 24-year-old actress says in the January issue of W magazine. “And that’s the irony of my situation.

“It was always about

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“I was brought up in a culture where, when you’re 12 years old, you’re given a glass of wine at dinner — it was never a novelty,” she says.

“Factory Girl,” also starring Guy Pearce as Warhol, is scheduled for limited release in the United States on Dec. 29.

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Notices NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF EMMA J. JOHNSON aka EMMA JOHNSON; JEANNETTE JOHNSON; EMMA JEANETTE JOHNSON; JEANETTE TALLEY Case No. BP101793 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of EMMA J. JOHNSON aka EMMA JOHNSON; JEANNETTE JOHNSON; EMMA JEANETTE JOHNSON; JEANETTE TALLEY A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARK J SALADINO PUBLIC ADMINSTRA-TOR in the Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PRO-BATE requests that MARK J SALADINO PUBLIC ADMINSTRA-TOR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administra-tion of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representa-tive to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important ac-tions, however, the personal repre-sentative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF WILLIAM A. STANCHEL, aka WILLIAM STANCHEL, aka W. A. STANCHEL CASE NO. BP101710 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WILLIAM A. STANCHEL, aka WILLIAM STANCHEL, aka W. A. STANCHEL A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Valerie Williams in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Valerie Williams be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION request the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The Will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed actions.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 3, 2007 at 8:30 A.M. in Dept. 11 located at: 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California Probate Code. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Valerie Williams James M. Cox, SB# 117005 Attorney for Petitioner WISE PEARCE YOCIS & SMITH 249 East Ocean Boulevard, Suite 440 P.O. Box 22664 Long Beach, CA 90801-5664 Reporter# 106496 Published in: Santa Monica Daily Press Pub Dates: December 5, 8, 12, 2006

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