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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012 Volume 12 Issue 10
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TASTY CHARITY Brandon Wise [email protected] 500 volunteers work together the day before Thanksgiving to cook for and feed the many individuals in need of a warm meal and a wel-come smile at St. Monica Catholic Church’s annual Thanksgiving meal and clothing give-away on Wednesday afternoon.
SUE MANNINGAssociated Press
LOS ANGELES Turkeys: Main course or ani-mal companion?
OK, so it isn’t even close. According tothe industry group National TurkeyFederation, more than 46 million of the bigbirds will be served as Thanksgiving dinnerthis year. Just a few hundred will get to expe-rience the holiday as a pet, said turkey res-cue Farm Sanctuary.
“I believe they make amazing compan-ions, but they are different than cats ordogs,” said Susie Coston of Watkins Glen,N.Y. For one thing, turkeys get too hot andare too messy to come indoors, saidCoston, the national shelter director forthe Farm Sanctuary.
Taking the large bird on as a companionrequires more responsibilities than owninga dog or a cat, experts say. “If people areadopting domesticated turkeys, theyshould be aware that it’s not a simpleendeavor and would take a considerableamount of work,” said NTF spokeswomanKimmon Williams.
“Turkeys as pets is a complicated ques-tion,” she added.
Like other animals that serve as compan-ions to humans, turkeys come in differentbreeds, with some weighing as much as 60pounds, Williams said. Every turkey has itsown personality — and some can be aggres-sive, she said.
Most pet turkey owners agree the birdsaren’t the kind of pets that can be walked ona leash or dressed for the Christmas familyphoto.
Coston said, for instance, that she would-n’t sleep with her turkey “like I do my dogsand cats. But I don’t love dogs more than Ido pigs or dogs and cats more than chickensand turkeys. I have a different relationshipwith each of them.”
“Turkeys are inherently nervous and donot tend to be warm and cuddly. Turkeysalso need plenty of space to run around inand be fed the appropriate diet,” Williamsnoted.
BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALDDaily Press Staff Writer
THANKSGIVING DAY It’s a day of excess andgluttony for most, but the euphemistic“Turkey Day” can be something of a mis-nomer for the growing multitude that likethe celebration without a side of death.
In fact, many of the traditional dishesconsumed on Thanksgiving can be off-put-ting for those seeking an alternative to themeat and preservative-filled menu that manyhave come to associate with the holiday.
Green bean casserole cooked in sodium-rich cream of mushroom soup. Cranberrysauce that holds the shape of the can itcomes in. Stuffing that comes out of a card-board box. Ambiguously crunchy sticksthat claim to be onions.
A big roast turkey. Free range and organ-ic? Who knows?
Andrew Wilder, the man behind the blogwww.EatingRules.com, has seen, eaten andovercome them all.
Eating Rules puts forth three clear-cut,but hardly simple, rules. First, if you eat
grains, make them whole grains. Second,cut the high fructose corn syrup. Third, nomore hydrogenated oils, trans fats or any-thing deep fried.
Even with the one cheat day Wilderallows per week, that doesn’t leave a lot ofroom for the dishes that appear in LadiesHome Journal.
Wilder further limits himself byembracing fish as the single source of meatin his life, making him either a pescetarian
Some peopleeat them, somejust feed them
SEE TURKEY PAGE 8SEE MEALS PAGE 9
Alternative Thanksgiving meals findturkey-free ways to celebrate the day
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Thankful for skatingICE at Santa Monica
1324 Fifth St., 10 a.m. — 10 p.m.
Ice skating by the beach? Theannual ICE at Santa Monica rinkwill be open on Thanksgiving togive locals a taste of winter. For
more information, visitwww.downtownsm.com/ice.
A Westside ThanksgivingSanta Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main St., 11 a.m. — 3 p.m.
Celebrate Thanksgiving Day witha hearty traditional dinner. Lastyear many students, singles,
low-income families, seniors andthose who were homeless joined
the celebration. While there,you’ll have the opportunity to
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Friday, Nov. 23, 2012
Get craftyThird Street Promenade
12 p.m. — 3 p.m.Downtown Santa Monica invitesthe little ones to get creative anddecorate ornaments for the holi-days. Third Street Promenade
between Wilshire Boulevard andArizona Avenue. For more
information, visit www.downtownsm.com.
To be or ...The Broad Stage
1310 11th St., times vary“Hamlet” is never more fabulousthan when acted by one of the
best Shakespeare companies in
the world. For the fourth time,the bard hits The Broad with
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.This fresh, fast, and youthful
staging is brimming with existen-tial angst, Oedipal impulses and
paranormal activity. Even ifyou’ve seen “Hamlet” a hundred
times before, missing this onewould be the greatest tragedy of
all. For more information, call(310) 434-3200.
Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012
Wobble it upReed Park
1133 Seventh St., 8 a.m. — 11 a.m.
How about a run — or walk —to work off some of those holi-
day calories? The GobbleWobble returns with a 5K turkeytrot and a 1K walk/run. Bring acan of food for the WestsideFood Bank. For more informa-
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Born to knitFairview Library
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Photo courtesy Google ImagesTIME OF LIFE: A study in a popular scientific journal has discovered that apes are prone to having midlife crises.
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INDIANAPOLIS Former Mouseketeer Bonita LynnFields Elder, an agile dancer who showcased those skillson the 1950s children’s show “The Mickey Mouse Club”and later performed on Broadway, has died in Indiana atage 68.
Her cousin Robbin Myers said Tuesday that Elderdied Saturday at a Richmond hospital following atwo-year battle with throat cancer. Elder had smokedfor decades but quit after her diagnosis, Myers said.
Elder had been living in Winchester after movingback to eastern Indiana a few years ago to care for herailing, now-deceased mother.
She was 12 in 1957, when her dancing abilitieshelped her win a slot on the third season of “TheMickey Mouse Club.” She auditioned in California,where her family had moved from Indiana when shewas 9.
Elder always went by the name Lynn, but sheadopted the stage name “Bonnie” — a shortened ver-sion of her real first name — at the suggestion of theshow’s producers because there was already a castmember, a boy, with the first name Lynn, her cousinsaid.
Myers, who now lives in DeBary, Fla., said she andElder were a year apart and grew up together inRichmond until Elder’s family moved to Granada,Calif. It was exciting when Elder was cast in thenationally broadcast show only a few years later, shesaid.
After the original “Mickey Mouse Club” showended, Elder continued performing at California’sDisneyland. Myers said that as teenagers, she and hersister Diana visited Elder at Disneyland. They werechatting with her after one show when they heardsomeone behind them calling out “Bonnie!”
“We turned around, and it was Walt Disney, so wegot to meet Mr. Disney!” she said.
According to Elder’s obituary posted online byDoan & Mills Funeral Home in Richmond, she landedbit parts in several 1960s movies, including “Kissin’Cousins” with Elvis Presley and “Bye Bye Birdie” withAnn-Margret. She later appeared as a dancer on televi-sion shows and on Broadway before opening a dancestudio in Santa Monica, Calif.
According to the website of The Original MickeyMouse Club Show, Elder appeared in 1980 on a tele-vised program marking the 25th anniversary of “TheMickey Mouse Club.”From 1981 to 1985, she took partin live Mouseketeer reunion shows at Disneyland.
Elder was born in Walterboro, S.C., but her fami-ly moved to Richmond when she was 3 months old.She was divorced and had no children, her cousinsaid.
A visitation and memorial service is scheduled forMonday at Doan & Mills Funeral Home, followed byburial at Webster Cemetery.
MALCOLM RITTERAP Science Writer
NEW YORK Chimpanzees going througha midlife crisis? It sounds like a setup fora joke.
But there it is, in the title of a reportpublished Monday in a scientific journal:“Evidence for a midlife crisis in greatapes.”
So what do these apes do? Buy redFerraris? Leave their mates for some cuteyoung bonobos?
Uh, no.“I believe no ape has ever purchased a
sports car,” said Andrew Oswald, anauthor of the study. But researchersreport that captive chimps and orang-utans do show the same low ebb in emo-tional well-being at midlife that somestudies find in people.
That suggests the human tendencytoward midlife discontent may have beenpassed on through evolution, rather thanresulting simply from the hassles ofmodern life, said Oswald, a professor ofeconomics at the University of Warwickin England who presented his work
Monday in the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences.
A second study in the journal looks ata younger age group and finds that hap-piness in youth can lead to higherincome a few years down the road.
More on that later. Let’s get back tothose apes.
Several studies have concluded thathappiness in human adults tends to fol-low a certain course between ages 20 and70: It starts high and declines over theyears to reach a low point in the late 40s,then turns around and rises to anotherpeak at 70. On a graph, that’s a U-shapedpattern. Some researchers questionwhether that trend is real, but to Oswaldthe mystery is what causes it.
“This is one of the great patterns ofhuman life. We’re all going to slide alongthis U for good or ill,” he said. “So whatexplains it?”
When he learned that others had beenmeasuring well-being in apes, “it justseemed worth pursuing the hunch thatthe U might be more general than inhumans,” he said.
He and co-authors assembled data on
508 great apes from zoos and research cen-ters in the U.S., Australia, Canada,Singapore and Japan. Caretakers and otherobservers had filled out a four-item ques-tionnaire to assess well-being in the apes.The questions asked such things as thedegree to which each animal was in a posi-tive or negative mood, how much pleasureit got from social situations, and how suc-cessful it was in achieving goals. The raterswere even asked how happy they would beif they were the animal for a week.
Sounds wacky? Oswald and his co-authors say research suggests it’s a validapproach. And they found that the sur-vey results produced that familiar U-shaped curve, adjusted to an ape’s short-er lifespan.
“We find it for these creatures thatdon’t have a mortgage and don’t have togo to work and don’t have marriage andall the other stuff,” Oswald said. “It’s asthough the U shape is deep in the biolo-gy of humans” rather than a result ofuniquely human experiences.
Yes, apes do have social lives, so “it
SEE APES PAGE 10
Former MouseketeerBonita Lynn Fields Elderdies at 68 in Indiana
Even apes have ‘midlife crises,’ study finds
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Religion is personal Editor:
I realize that there are fervent believers in theteachings of the Bible as the truth. I realize the FirstAmendment is sacred for many people. What I don’tunderstand, Mr. Barber, is that your beliefs and thosepolicies of the Liberty Counsel Action exclude me andmillions of Americans like me (“God will not bemocked,” Your Column Here, Nov. 13).
The separation of state and church is sacred to me,hence the imposition of your policies personally on mil-lions is quite different to the policies and laws ofAmerica followed by millions as a community. That, Ibelieve, is the difference. Religion is personal, period.The good, the perfection of the union of the USA iscommon to all of us, including you.
Sergio LiraLos Angeles
Don’t care Editor:
It’s laughable when Santa Monica Public WorksDirector Martin Pastucha expresses concern about tax-payer dollars being wasted on the trash bin the city isbuilding near the Chez Jay restaurant (“Landmarksagas over Chez Jay, ‘Chain Reaction’ end,” Nov. 13).
Any problems with this project have been createdentirely by the city. When you consider all the city stafftime in actual dollars being wasted on this project, thiswill end up as the most expensive trash bin in theworld. But then again, the City Council, city manage-ment and city staff could care less about wasting tax-payer money because it’s not their money, but ours.
Saul CohenSanta Monica
In the closet Editor:
I have but one issue with this otherwise remarkablybalanced article (“Judge denies injunction to displaynativity scenes,” Nov. 19). The author refers to, “a tac-tical shift as atheists evolve into a vocal minority... .”But I would seriously question if atheists are a minori-ty at all. Certainly they are not any more than other so-called mainstream belief systems.
The fact exists that most atheists keep their beliefsto themselves, as they find their views generally repel-lent to those who do not share them. Therefore I wouldsay that there are a great deal more closeted atheiststhan vocal ones.
Dylan RushVenice, Calif.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORSend comments to [email protected]
THE RIGORS OF THE CAMPAIGN ARE STILLfresh, but for newly-elected House membersand senators, the hard part is just beginning.Already, they’re inundated with advice onthe issues they’ll be facing: the fiscal cliff,crises overseas, how to behave in a highlypartisan Congress.
All of this will take time to sort out. Butthere’s one task I’d advise them to tackleright away, whatever their party: learninghow to do constituent services right.
Many years ago, when I was still in theHouse, I accompanied a senator to a publicmeeting. A woman approached him after-ward to ask for help with a Social Securityproblem. Irritably, my colleague told her thathe didn’t have time; he had important policyissues to deal with. I was stunned. So was thewoman. I have never forgotten the look ofhelpless chagrin on her face.
Self-interest alone would have counseleda more helpful approach. I ran into someonefrom my district once who told me, “I don’tagree with you most of the time, but I’m vot-ing for you because you take good care ofyour constituents.” People notice. And theycare. That senator who rebuffed the plea forhelp? He was defeated in the next election.
But there’s more to it than just curryingfavor with the electorate. Good constituentservice, I believe, is crucial to being a goodelected representative.
There’s no mystery why. The federal gov-ernment is vast, complex, and confusing, andit touches far more lives than any privatecompany. Sometimes it’s a model of efficien-cy, but too often it’s agonizingly slow to get offa passport or approve a disability payment.And it makes mistakes — a transposed SocialSecurity number, a wrong address, a benefitmiscalculation — and then drags its heels fix-ing them. Its rules and regulations can behard to navigate. Ordinary Americans getcaught up in the gears, and they need help.
As a member of Congress, you can learna lot by paying attention. Though it’s a habitfor legislators to think of policy-making andconstituent service as two distinct halves oftheir responsibilities, that’s not always thecase. The problems people are having keepyou alert to what might need to be done leg-islatively. If there’s a huge backlog of disabil-ity cases at the Social SecurityAdministration, for instance, or a surge ofveterans having trouble getting their bene-fits, that ought to be a warning sign. Workersin those agencies may be struggling toremain efficient, or they may need addition-al staff and resources — either way, it bearsinvestigating and, possibly, legislative action.
The challenge, of course, is that helping
constituents with their problems isn’t easy. Itdemands a commitment of staff and time. Itmeans being careful to avoid even a hint thata constituent’s party affiliation matters. Itrequires walking a fine line with the bureau-cracy — which can sometimes resent con-gressional “meddling” — so that you’re help-ful without going overboard on a con-stituent’s behalf. Sometimes, the peopleyou’re helping don’t tell the whole story. Thebest you can do is ask for fair and promptconsideration for their pleas, without put-ting yourself at cross-purposes with eitherthe law or the federal officials you work withdaily.
But none of this is a reason to downplayconstituent service. Because the need is end-less. I used to set up shop in a local postoffice in my district, and was constantlyamazed at how many people would turn out.They needed help getting their mail deliv-ered properly, or tracking a lost SocialSecurity check. They were having problemswith the IRS, or getting enrolled for veteransbenefits. They got confused by the overlap-ping responsibilities of different levels ofgovernment, and needed help finding theright person
The point is, these problems are constant.I’ve been out of public office for over adecade, yet the other day a neighbor stoppedme on the street to ask for help speeding upa visa application. Americans need a point ofcontact with their government. If you’re apublic official — or even an ex-public offi-cial — get used to the idea that you’re it.
LLEEEE HHAAMMIILLTTOONN is director of the Center onCongress at Indiana University. He was a mem-ber of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34years.
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In 15 years of teaching, University ofPennsylvania classicist Peter Struck hasguided perhaps a few hundred studentsannually in his classes on Greek and Romanmythology through the works of Homer,Sophocles, Aeschylus and others — “the old-est strands of our cultural DNA.”
But if you gathered all of those tuition-paying, in-person students together, thegroup would pale in size compared with the54,000 from around the world who, this fallalone, are taking his class online for free — a“Massive Open Online Course,” or MOOC,offered through a company called Coursera.
Reaching that broader audience of eagerlearners — seeing students in Brazil andThailand wrestle online with texts datingback millennia — is thrilling. But he’s notprepared to say they’re getting the same edu-cational experience.
“Where you have a back-and-forth, inter-rogating each other ideas, finding shades ofgray in each other’s ideas, I don’t know howmuch of that you can do in a MOOC,” hesaid.
A year ago, hardly anybody knew theterm MOOC. But the Internet-based cours-es offered by elite universities throughCoursera, by a consortium led by Harvardand MIT called edX, and by others, are prov-ing wildly popular, with some classes attract-ing hundreds of thousands of students. In afield known for glacial change, MOOCs havelanded like a meteorite in higher education,and universities are racing for a piece of theaction.
The question now is what the MOOCswill ultimately achieve. Will they simplyexpand access to good instruction (no smallthing)? Or will they truly transform highereducation, at last shaking up an enterprisethat’s seemed incapable of improving pro-ductivity, thus dooming itself to ever-risingprices?
Much of the answer depends on the con-cept at the center of a string of recentMOOC announcements: course credit.
Credit’s the coin of the realm in highereducation, the difference between knowingsomething and the world recognizing thatyou do. Without it, students will get a littlebit smarter. With it, they’ll get smarter —and enjoy faster and cheaper routes todegrees and the careers that follow.
Students are telling the MOOC develop-ers they want credit opportunities, and witha push from funders like the Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation, the MOOCs aretrying to figure out how to get it to them.
“Initially, I said it’d be three years” beforeMOOCs began confronting the credit issue,said MIT’s Anant Agarwal, president of edX,which launched only last May and has420,000 students signed up this fall(Coursera is approaching 2 million). But
making MOOC courses credit-worthybrings challenges much harder than produc-ing even the best online lectures, from enter-ing a state-by-state regulatory thicket toassessment. How do you grade 100,000essays? How do you make sure students in acoffee shop in Kazakhstan aren’t cheating onquizzes?
Last Tuesday, Coursera, which offersclasses from 34 universities, announced theAmerican Council on Education wouldbegin evaluating a handful of Courseracourses and could recommend other univer-sities accept them for credit (individual col-leges ultimately decide what credits toaccept). Antioch University, ExcelsiorCollege and the University of Texas systemare already planning to award credit forsome MOOCs.
Two days later, Duke, Northwestern,Vanderbilt and seven other prominent uni-versities announced a consortium calledSemester Online offering students at thoseinstitutions — and eventually others,though details aren’t yet clear — access tonew online courses for credit. These won’t begiant classes, but the announcement isimportant because top colleges, generallystingy about accepting outside credit, aresignaling they agree the technology can nowreplicate at least substantially some of thehigh-priced learning experience that takesplace on campus.
The latest announcement will comeMonday, and appears smaller but is poten-tially important: a first-of-its-kind partner-ship between edX, the MIT-Harvard consor-tium, and two Massachusetts communitycolleges. EdX’s popular introductory com-puter science course from MIT will providethe backbone of a class at the communitycollege — a key gateway to degree programs— with supplemental teaching and helpfrom community college faculty on theground.
This is where the rubber meets the roadfor transforming higher education.Community colleges are beset by waitlists(400,000 in California alone) and bottle-necks in important introductory courses, aswell as low success rates. If scaled-up MIT-quality teaching can help with solve thoseproblems, MOOCS could be truly revolu-tionary. Massachusetts Bay CommunityCollege president John O’Donnell calls edXan invention comparable to Gutenberg’sprinting press.
Online classes have been around forgoing-on two decades, so what’s the big-dealabout MOOCs? Scale.
So far, online courses have offered con-venience, but they generally haven’t scaledup any more easily than traditional ones;somebody still has to grade the papers, andanswer students’ questions. One study found93 percent of institutions charge the same ormore for online courses as for in-personones.
New frontier for scaling up online classes
Entertainment6 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012 We have you covered
SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE SEEMSto be the resident visiting theatrical troupe atThe Broad Stage. They’ve presented severalinventive annual productions with castmembers playing multiple roles and simplestage sets flexible enough to represent manydifferent locales.
Their production of “Hamlet,” onstagethrough Sunday at The Broad Stage, is noexception.
Before the play begins, actors movethrough the house and come out from thewings, prepping props, mulling aboutonstage, chatting with one another.Houselights remain on throughout theshow, a tradition that stems from the origi-nal open-air Globe theatre with plays per-formed in daylight.
This opening is the last thing you’d expectin a performance of oh-so-despondentHamlet: accordions and a raucous song tograb your attention. It does.
This is a rapid-fire, youthful, freshlydirected version of the tale of the dark Dane,replete with a youthful blond, practicallypunky Hamlet (Michael Benz), the onlyactor playing just one role.
There’s a real edge in watching Hamlet’sfather’s murderer Claudius (Dickon Tyrrell)
— the uncle who usurped Hamlet’s father’sthrone and married his mother — alsoappear as Hamlet’s father’s ghost who, in avisitation from beyond the grave, reveals toHamlet the dread deed his brother has com-mitted.
A traveling troupe of players is passingthrough Elsinore. At Hamlet’s direction, theywill perform the play-within-a-play, “TheMurder of Gonzago” mimicking the murderClaudius committed, with Tyrell nowappearing as the Player King.
Scene shifts are signaled by the openingand closing of a red curtain, alternatingquickly between the action on the stage andthe audience reactions of King Claudius andQueen Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother (MirandaFoster), all played by the same actors.
“The play’s the thing/wherein I'll catchthe conscience of the King,” Hamletexplains, and he’ll be watching the reactionsof his uncle and his mother to confirm theirmurderous guilt.
So many lines from Hamlet have madetheir way into clichés and common parlance,but they’re given new energy in this produc-tion. Language is key in Shakespeare and as
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Photo courtesy Noel VasquezHISTORIC THRILLER ON STAGE: Dickon Tyrrell and Michael Benz perform in the GlobeTheater’s ‘Hamlet’ at The Broad Stage on Nov. 15, 2012 in Santa Monica.
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my companion noted, verbs are oftenemphasized under the direction of ArtisticDirector Dominic Dromgoole, making the400-year-old text fast and conversational.
From a critical perspective, while lan-guage is brilliantly rendered, it doesn’talways translate into an emotional connec-tion with the characters. But as is the customwith Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, their ver-sion of “Hamlet” is nothing like others youmay have seen; that alone is reason worthgoing.
You have just five more opportunities tosee “Hamlet” at The Broad Stage; there arematinee and evening performances Friday,Nov. 23 and Saturday, Nov. 24, and a finalSunday matinee. Get details here thebroad-stage.com/Hamlet or call the box office at(310) 434-3200.
There’s more Shakespeare in store at TheBroad. The Fiasco Theatre Company’s pro-duction of “Cymbeline” is described thisway: “Poisoning, beheading, cross-dressing,and betrayal become fresh and frisky thanksto Fiasco Theater's inventive production ofthe epic romance ‘Cymbeline.’”
Interesting that they call it a romance;most scholars put “Cymbeline” into thecategory of Shakespeare’s “problem plays.”The plot is too complex to summarize, butFiasco’s twist — turning a problem into aromance — is a good hook. In their pro-gram notes, they explain that, “Onlyartists brave enough to risk a fiasco cancreate the possibility of something spe-cial.”
Sounds good to me, I’ll be in the audienceto find out, Dec. 13 through Dec. 23 at TheBroad Stage.http://thebroadstage.com/Cymbeline or callthe box office at (310) 434-3200.
HOLY MOTORSThe first hint that this is a kind of film
you’ve never experienced before comes dur-ing the opening shot of Leos Carax’s “HolyMotors.” We see a movie audience, sitting inthe dark, from the perspective of the screen,hinting that whatever follows will be asmuch up to the viewer as the filmmaker. Isthe movie watching us?
It’s one of the strangest films I’ve everseen, but like a poem, seems to come togeth-er the longer I let it seep into my subcon-scious.
“Holy Motors” is “about” — if such a
word can be used here — an actor, Mr. Oscar(the amazing Denis Lavant) who appears incharacter in actual locations throughoutParis, creating makeup, hairpiece andwardrobe changes in the back of a whitestretch limo piloted by his driver and aide,Celine (Edith Scob), who also hands him his“assignments.”
The characters are fantastical, surreal,comical and heartbreaking, from a hunched-over, ragged beggar, to an actor performingon a CGI stage, to a character named Merde(from an earlier Carax film) who kidnaps amodel mid-shoot, making for a head-scratching through-line. Later we see andhear singer Kylie Minogue with a sorrowfulballad about the opportunities missed in life.
It’s an evocation of imagination, theactor’s trade, the stories common to bothmovies and life, the passage of time anddeath.
Don’t try to approach this film logically;just suspend your disbelief and succumb toit. It’s at Landmark’s Nuart in West LosAngeles. Call (310) 473-8530 or checkshowtimes here:www.landmarktheatres.com.
VENICE WEST POETSAt last Friday’s “Waiting for Jack” at
Beyond Baroque, one of the more touchingmoments took place when Pegarty Long, alongtime photographer of the Venice Beatscene, appeared onstage to read her latetwin sister Philomene Long’s poems.Philomene and her beloved husband, JohnThomas, were two of the best-known andmost-loved of the Venice West Beat poets,and Pegarty frequently chronicled theirlives and those of other artists with herimages.
“Waiting for Jack,” loosely hosted onstageby Rex Weiner and writer Michael C. Ford, isa homage to a legendary 1950s Beat poetryreading. In this incarnation, some of Venice’sown Beat poets are honored, including BobKaufman, the only black Beat poet with aJewish name, read by Theida Salazar; andCharles Bukowski invoked by performerDoug Knott. In a rousing conclusion, MarcOlmsted brought out the full force and furyof Allen Ginsberg.
There’s one more performance on Dec. 7.Tickets are just $10 — http://beyond-baroque.org/events.html.
SSAARRAAHH AA.. SSPPIITTZZ is a former freelance arts pro-ducer for NPR and former staff producer at pub-lic radio station KCRW-Santa Monica. Shereviews theatre for LAOpeningNights.com.
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NEW YORK Imagine having William Shatnersupply your outgoing voicemail message. Ormaybe you’d prefer Morgan Freeman coollytelling callers to wait for the beep. Or per-haps having Betty White joke around ismore your speed.
All it takes is $299 and some luck.The advocacy group Autism Speaks is
offering custom-recorded messages fromthose celebrities as well as Will Ferrell, CarrieFisher, Tom Hanks, Derek Jeter, LeonardNimoy, Patrick Stewart and Ed Asner.
From Dec. 3 to Dec. 9, a limited numberof 20-second long MP3 messages will berecorded by each celebrity on a first-come,first-served basis for fans to do with as theywish. All requests must be of the PG variety.
Asner, the curmudgeonly Emmy Award
winner of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”and “Lou Grant,” dreamed up the unusualfundraiser with his son Matt, who works forAutism Speaks.
“I think people will get a charge out of it,”says Asner, who is currently on Broadway inthe play “Grace.” “I’ll probably say, ‘What areyou wearing?’ Or, ‘Take it off.’ Something likethat.”
All proceeds will support autism researchand advocacy efforts.
If he could get a message from one of theother stars participating, which would Asnerwant?
“I’m awfully stuck on Will Ferrell, havingbeen subjected to him in ‘Elf,’” Asner says.“But they’re all such standouts — PatrickStewart, Leonard Nimoy, Shatner. The listdoesn’t stop. Even Betty White,” he addsabout his “MTM” co-star. “She’s still gotsome good left in her.”
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Still, Karen Oeh, who will be getting four pet turkeysjust before Thanksgiving, said she preferred them overdogs.
“Dogs are needy to me. They need affection, attention,security, they always need you to do something for them.With the turkeys, I don’t feel guilty because I didn’t takethem to the park and throw the Frisbee,” said the BenLomond, Calif., resident.
Despite their differences, turkeys and traditional petsshare traits such as the ability to love unconditionally, loyal-ty and intelligence, owners said. Dr. Drucilla Roberts, apathologist from Millis, Mass., pointed out a bonus: “Theygive us manure and eggs.”
“I was always told that turkeys were the dumbest of farmanimals. But that’s not true. They know us and protect us. Ifa stranger comes, the turkey is right in his face and cluckingand raising its feathers. They make great noises,” Robertssaid.
Like dogs, some turkeys grow attached to their owners.Oeh recounted how her last turkey, Ariala, followed heraround the garden.
“She would stay by my right leg. When I was pickingvegetables, she ate out of my hand. She let me pet her andkiss her,” Oeh said, adding that petting turkeys can putthem into a trance-like state. “She was so immersed in themoment that if you got tired of petting her and movedaway, she’d wake up and look around as if to say ‘What’sgoing on?’”
The part-time teacher and student services coordinatorhad to put Ariala to sleep last year due to her health prob-lems, for which Oeh discovered a lack of available informa-tion. Through trial and error, she learned that it’s hard togive a turkey a pill or take them on trips, because cratingthem requires giving them bear hugs to keep their wingsfrom flapping.
Experts and owners, however, are aware of at least one
problem: owing to their large breasts, commercial turkeyshave little balance and can fall easily. One of Roberts’turkeys, Turks, had to be put down after its weight caused asplit sternum, she said.
Commercial turkeys are usually the ones that getadopted as pets: Coston said most turkeys rescued by theFarm Sanctuary come from factory farms and have beendebeaked, detoed and fattened. Many arrive as victims ofneglect, cruelty or hoarding; they fall off farm trucks; orthey mysteriously show up in boxes on doorsteps, shesaid.
The sanctuary, which has locations in California and inNew York, places about 50 turkeys a year and has foundhomes for more than 1,500 birds since it started 26 years ago,Coston said. Hundreds of other birds, including the weakestor those with special needs are not adopted out because therescues can deal with their problems easier than adopterscan, Coston said.
Such sanctuaries are the final stop for the most well-known turkeys to escape the dinner table: the annualNational Thanksgiving Turkey (and an understudy), who arepardoned the night before the holiday. After much fanfareand a White House ceremony, this year’s turkeys will live onGeorge Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, withlast year’s birds, Liberty and Peace.
Karen Dawn, an author from Los Angeles, gets twoturkeys every year and socializes them before they move on.This year’s birds are going to live in Malibu.
They arrive stinky, so she gives them a bath and blow dry.“They relax like this is the best day they have had so far,” saidDawn, who wrote “Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking theWay We Treat Animals.”
Turkeys make great outdoor pets and “make better petsthan other birds that you have to keep in a cage indoors,” shesaid.
Dawn said her two 20-pound turkeys will be at herThanksgiving dinner — but as guests. Rosie and Martha willgreet two dozen human guests in the garden and watch thesun set over the Pacific Ocean, while Dawn serves up WildTurkey bourbon — and tofurkey.
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or vegequarian, whichever you prefer.These days, the main course of the
Thanksgiving meal no longer holds muchsway over Wilder’s holiday plans.
“My strategy is to skip the turkey, myfamily has gotten used to it,” he said.
It wasn’t always that way. When Wilderfirst went vegetarian in high school, his sup-portive mother dutifully purchased a fauxturkey, which are now made of seitan, a pro-tein gleaned from wheat.
“We bought a Tofurky. It was a specialorder at the co-op,” Wilder said. “I veryclearly remember stretching the fake skinover it.
“They can’t possibly be doing that any-more,” he said.
(Update: As far as we know, Tofurky nolonger employs “skin.” The recommendedcooking method involves putting the thawedroast on top of vegetables, similar to a moretraditional bird, and basting it with one oftwo optional glazes as it bakes in the oven.We hear it looks almost like the real thing.)
Taking the chemical unwanteds out ofThanksgiving is all about cooking fromscratch. That can sound daunting to anyonetasked with putting together a spread likeThanksgiving, but it’s all about sharing theburden, Wilder said.
“We share the workload, that’s a big partof it. We list the menu, who’s preparingwhat. Planning and e-mail has made it all alot easier,” he said.
TURKEY THE PALISADES WAYKaren Dawn took her holiday meal one
step further last year.Dawn’s neighborhood knows her as “the
turkey lady.” Turkeys don’t show up at herThanksgiving table, mostly because they’reoutside, living the life.
Dawn fell in love with turkeys after visitingone named Olivia at an animal sanctuary.Since, she has either sponsored or rescuedturkeys, which then live at her Palisades home.
Last year, Dawn began the celebrationwith her two newest avian tenants — namedRussell and Perry after the (now-divorced)vegan couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand.
“Well, they’ll be hanging out with us out-side,” she said. “We’ll start on the patio over-looking the ocean, with hot apple cider withWild Turkey bourbon.”
The rest of the feast is turkey-free.Dawn prepared butternut squash soup,
heightened with cashew butter for flavor andrichness, pumpkin pies, stuffing with pecansand cranberry sauce.
The protein of the show, hickory smokedTofurky slices and seitan smothered in vegangravy.
“It’s festive and delicious, while still beinganimal-friendly,” Dawn said.
RAWESOMEVegan, but don’t want to take the cooking
home?Santa Monica’s raw food restaurants have
the answer for that.Euphoria Loves RAWvolution and Planet
RAW both know how to make holiday mealsthat approximate traditional grub for thosethat value not only animal-friendly prac-tices, but also the preservation of key nutri-ents and enzymes.
Last year’s Euphoria Loves RAWvolutionThanksgiving menu was unique, said ZatBaraka, the cafe manager.
“We’re creating something that resemblessomething that people are used to eating at atraditional Thanksgiving meal, and having italso be highly nutritious,” Baraka said.
The menu included coconut turkey jerky,cauliflower mashed potatoes, heirloom kalesalad, walnut stuffing, mushroom gravy anda cranberry orange sauce.
The trick lies not just in the taste of themeal, but creating the right look while usingraw techniques, which can be quite laborintensive, Baraka said.
“You’re soaking the seeds and nuts toactivate the enzymes to make them morealive,” he said.
Raw food is a life-changing and life-sav-ing endeavor, Baraka said.
“It helps us rid ourselves of poisons andtoxins to prevent horrible diseases,” Barakasaid. “We don’t get enough of those througheating fast food or the processed, cookedfood diet.”
Whatever your dietary inclinations, thepoint of Thanksgiving is to appreciate thethings you have in life, preferably with goodfood, family and friends.
It doesn’t have to be healthy or unhealthy,meat-filled, vegan, raw or parcooked, just anauthentic celebration of what’s gone rightover the last year.
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could still be something human-like that weshare with our social cousins,” he said. “Butour result does seem to push away the likeli-hood that it’s dominantly something to dowith human life.”
Oswald said it’s not clear what the evolu-tionary payoff might be from such discon-tent. Maybe it prods parents to be restless,“to help find new worlds for the next gener-ation to breed,” he said.
Frans de Waal, an authority in primatebehavior at Emory University, cautionedthat when people judge the happiness ofapes, there may be a “human bias.” But in anemail he called the results “intuitively cor-rect” and said the notion of biological influ-ence over the human pattern is “an intrigu-ing possibility.”
Even happiness researcher SonjaLyubomirsky of the University of California,Riverside, who thinks the U-shaped patternin people is a statistical mirage, says she can’twrite off the ape result the same way. “I’mnot really sure what it means,” she said.“I amfinding this very intriguing.” Maybe it willspur more thinking about what’s going on inboth apes and humans, she said.
Oswald is also an author of a secondreport in the journal that finds new evidencethat being happy can help young people earnmore money later on. Prior research had alsoreached that conclusion, but Lyubomirskyand University of Virginia psychology pro-fessor Shige Oishi called the new work thebest evidence yet.
“Wow,” Oishi said in an email. “This is avery strong paper” in its approach.
Researchers drew on data from a hugesample of young Americans who were sur-
veyed repeatedly. They were asked to ratetheir positive feelings such as happiness andhopefulness at age 16 and again at 18, andtheir satisfaction with life at 22. Researchersthen compared their ratings with theirincome around age 29. The data came fromnearly 15,000 participants at age 16, and atleast 11,000 at the latter two ages.
Higher income at age 29 was consistentlylinked to greater happiness at the earlierages. The least happy 16-year-olds, forexample, went on to average about $10,000 ayear less than the happiest. That disparityshrank by about half when the researchersstatistically removed the effect of otherinfluences such as ethnicity, health and edu-cation.
A happiness effect even appearedbetween siblings within their own families.
What’s going on? Most likely, happinessraises productivity and helps a person workeffectively with others, factors that promotesuccess in the workplace, Oswald said. Thestudy found that happier people were morelikely to get a college degree and get hiredand promoted.
Ed Diener, an authority on happinessresearch at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, said optimism prob-ably plays a role because it helps peoplepersist in their efforts and take on diffi-cult goals. Since several studies, includinghis own, have now linked happiness tolater income, that idea seems reliable, hesaid.
Parents should recognize that “the psy-chological well-being of their children isimportant in how well the kids will do insimple dollar terms later on,” Oswald said.And unhappy people should realize that theymight have to strive harder than others tofocus on work and promotion rather thantheir unhappiness, he said.
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BEIJING Zhang Hanzhong, who supplieslocks for auto manufacturers, is part of aswath of China’s economy that is lagging ina two-speed recovery.
Business for retailers, hotels, photo stu-dios and other service industries is pickingup as China limps out of its deepest slumpsince the 2008 global crisis. But exportersand manufacturers who drove its boom overthe past decade are struggling.
Zhang’s sales are down 20 percent withno rebound in sight, while labor costs are up.
“The second half of the year is even hard-er than the first half,” said Zhang, whoemploys 60 people at his factory in Meizhouin Guangdong province near Hong Kong.
China is recovering but the days of dou-ble-digit growth are gone. Faced with fallingreturns from a three-decade-old growthmodel fueled by exports and investment,Beijing is trying to rebalance the economy bypromoting consumer spending, serviceindustries and technology. It is a strategythat promises smaller but more sustainablegains. That could have global repercussionsby dampening voracious demand for ironore, industrial equipment and other importsthat drove growth for suppliers fromAustralia to Africa to Germany.
“The world has to get used to the ideathat China will grow at a 7 or 8 percent pace,and growth will be far less investment-inten-sive over the next decade,” said MarkWilliams of Capital Economics. “So the pro-jections for Chinese demand for commodi-ties, capital goods, construction equipmentand so on have to be revised down.’”
The Communist Party has committed inbroad strokes to growth based on consumerspending and innovation in its five-yeardevelopment plan that runs through 2015. Areport in February by the World Bank and aChinese Cabinet think tank said that toachieve that, the government will need tomake politically daunting changes includingcurbing the dominance of state companies.
New leaders including General SecretaryXi Jinping who took power last week areunder pressure to deliver on the party plansto overhaul the economy. But how far theywill go to rein in politically favored statecompanies and other vested interests is
unclear.Growth slowed to a three-year low of 7.4
percent in the three months ending inSeptember. That prompted concern the newleaders might feel compelled to boost spend-ing on building bridges and other publicworks, setting back efforts to reduce relianceon investment. But retail sales and otherindicators are improving, easing pressure forabrupt changes.
“The issue is how well they work togeth-er and whether they are able to overcomevested interests,” said Williams. “We reallywon’t know that until they’ve been in officefor a little while.”
This year’s growth is explosive by Westernstandards but well below the 14.1 percentthat China racked up in 2007 on its way topassing Japan as the second-largest economyin 2009.
Forecasters expected a Chinese recoveryearly this year. As the slump deepened, theInternational Monetary Fund and others cutgrowth forecasts for the year to below 8 per-cent — the weakest since the 1990s. Evenafter a recovery, they see it rising to onlyabout 8.5 percent by 2014.
Beijing has yet to take many of the stepsanalysts say are required to achieve its goals,including pumping money into health andother social programs to free up householdbudgets for consumer spending. But theimpact in some industries is clear.
A monthly survey by HSBC Corp. ofChinese service companies has shown activ-ity expanding steadily for two years, while aparallel survey of manufacturers has shownactivity contracting this year.
Already, retail spending is rising fasterthan overall growth as wages climb. InOctober, retail sales were up 14.5 percentover a year earlier.
In Huzhou, a city south of Shanghai inZhejiang province, business is strong forentrepreneur’s Li Yong bedding factory. Itemploys 10 people and doesn’t bother toexport because demand from Chinese cus-tomers is strong. Costs for labor, rent andmaterials up but so are sales.
“Our profits are up 10 percent this yearfrom last year,” Li said.
Li buys all his materials in China, high-lighting another trend that could blunt the
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payoff for its trading partners. As local com-panies develop the ability to deliver moresophisticated goods and services, they areserving Chinese consumers from domesticresources, limiting demand for importedmaterials and technology.
“I will think about using imported mate-rials in the future, but for now, both the cus-tomers and I cannot afford it,” Li said.
China’s slowdown was due largely to gov-ernment controls imposed to cool an over-heated economy and inflation following itsquick, stimulus-fueled rebound from the2008 crisis.
At the same time, steelmakers andother heavy industry was under pressurefrom a government campaign to cut pol-lution and energy use by closing olderfacilities. Construction, a major source ofjobs, was battered by a clampdown onland sales and building cool surging hous-ing prices and stop speculation-driveninvestment.
Easing building curbs would be a quickway to generate jobs, but communist leadersresisted pleas from developers even asgrowth drifted lower, worried about settingback their rebalancing plans. Instead, thegovernment is pushing companies to con-struct more low-cost housing, which thegeneral public needs but that produces lessprofit and requires less imported steel forgirders and copper for wiring.
Weaker manufacturing and construction
activity already have cut China’s demand forforeign goods. Imports of steel products fell39.9 percent in October from a year earlier.Copper imports were off 12.2 percent andthose of raw wood were down 11.1 percent.
Government pressure to raise wages hasput more money in consumers’ pockets butis squeezing companies, especially in labor-intensive industries that employ millions ofpeople making shoes, toys and other low-tech goods.
Chen Shuhai’s 5-year-old wig factory isthe sort of labor-intensive business that isbeing pushed out of China by higher costs.
Rent on his factory in Yiwu, a southerncity famous for exporting buttons and otherlow-tech goods, doubled from 2009 to 2011.Monthly wages are up 10 percent this year toabout 3,500 yuan ($550) for each of his 80employees.
Chen said neighboring companies thatexported to debt-crippled Europe haveclosed. Others are moving to Vietnam, Indiaand other lower-wage markets.
“There is not much room left in Chinafor the wig industry,” Chen said. “I don’tknow what will happen to my factory.”
Longer-term, the government’s effort tocreate a consumer-driven economy mightturn China into a market for tourism, insur-ance, health care and other service compa-nies.
“The issue is whether it can do thissmoothly, in which case growth can remainstrong,” said Williams. If it works, “over thenext 10 years, it will be another group ofeconomies that are able to ride China’s coat-tails.”
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At home tonight, SagARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ By midday, you could experience achange in your mood and energy, and yourempowered self will emerge. As a result, youmight be asked to handle a confusing matter.You will make the right decision if you candetach from the situation. Tonight: Get intosome holiday music.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ You know what you need to act onthis morning. Even if you are confused, youwill come up with a good result. In the after-noon, you might be confronted by some-one's hesitancy. Tonight: Feeling very satis-fied.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Someone you care about is demand-ing, and you will respond accordingly. Trustyour judgment when others are spinning theirwheels. Your softer side emerges. Follow yourinstincts when dealing with family and friends.Tonight: Watch a game together.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Your ability to pull away from emotion-al content could define your Thanksgiving. Youneed to see the big picture in order to sortthrough an apparent problem. Tonight:Someone appreciates you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ A partner does everything he or shecan to make your path easier. Choose to bespontaneous, and you naturally will get into themood of the day. At the same time, you couldbe drawn to the unexpected or unusual.Tonight: Listen to someone's whispers.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ Defer as much as you can to someoneelse. You often could be confused by this per-son, yet ultimately his or her caring comesthrough one way or another. Tonight: Dinnercould go late.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ You get a lot done very quickly, as longas you remain focused. Your imagination tendsto drift. To stop your mind from wandering, youmight want to touch base with a loved one at adistance. Sitting on feelings rarely works.Tonight: Play it easy.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★★ Your imagination affects nearlyeverything you do today, even banal conversa-tions. You add cleverness to any question orconversation you have. Spend quality time witha loved one and/or a child. Tonight: Decide"yes" or "no" to Black Friday spending.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Don't worry if you are slow to start oncemore, as you will be energized as soon as yousmell some turkey. You know what to do -- followthat unusual or unique idea. Understand what ishappening with a child or loved one. Share moreof your feelings. Tonight: Ever playful.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ You might want to focus on what isgoing on with your friends and family. Thoughwork might be on your mind, you want to sup-port those close to you. Stay sensitive to theirneeds. Make plenty of fun time for loved ones.Tonight: A long-overdue visit.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ Be aware of your own sensitivities,which might be pushing you away from yourcore values. Sometimes you don't realize howstrong your inner agenda is. Tonight: Sharewith friends and partake in the holiday spirit.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Use the early part of the day to push aprime objective ahead. You might want to touchbase with your inner voice once more beforegoing out on a limb. Do not forget a friend orfamily member at a distance. Tonight: Yourtreat.
This year you are full of get-up-and-go, and you might be diffi-cult to stop. Let more spontaneity in. If you are single, be care-ful when deciding to commit, as one person you meet could beemotionally unavailable. Take your time getting to know oth-ers. If you are attached, the two of you might love your time alone where you start acting like new lovers.Make sure you have those special times together. ARIES knows how to trigger you, but also how to ener-gize you.
★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★ Positive ★★★ Average
★★ So-So ★ Difficult
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Puzzles & Stuff14 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012 We have you covered
■ Former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig ofIdaho, who made the "wide stance"famous when he explained hisalleged, notorious restroomencounter with another man in June2007, has been sued by the FederalElection Commission because heused $217,000 in campaign dona-tions to fund his legal defense tothe resulting indecent exposurecharges. Craig pointed out that vis-iting the restroom (irrespective ofany alleged activities there)occurred during the ordinary courseof Senate travel and thus that hewas entitled to spend campaignfunds.■ Jonathan Lee Riches, perhapsAmerica's most prolific quixotic liti-gator (chronicled in News of theWeird for his lawsuits against,among others, George W. Bush,Charlie Sheen, Kanye West, SteveJobs and -- for luggage theft --Tiger Woods), was likely the personnamed "Naomi Riches" who filed a$3 billion October lawsuit inPennsylvania against the acquittedchild-murder suspect CaseyAnthony, whom Naomi said had con-spired with TV personality NancyGrace to poison Naomi's water sup-ply. Anthony had also allegedlythreatened to stab Naomi in the lefteye as a symbol of the Illuminaticonspiracy. (Judge David Bakerquickly dismissed the lawsuit.)
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SudokuFill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number canappear only once in each row, column, and 3x3 block. Use logicand process of elimination to solve the puzzle. The difficultylevel ranges from ★ (easiest) to ★★★★★ (hardest).
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GETTING STARTEDThere are many strategies to solvingSudoku. One way to begin is toexamine each 3x3 grid and figureout which numbers are missing.Then, based on the other numbers inthe row and column of each blankcell, find which of the missing num-bers will work. Eliminating numberswill eventually lead you to theanswer.
SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY’S PUZZLE
1986– Mike Tyson defeatsTrevor Berbick to
become youngest Heavyweightchampion in boxing history.
1989– In West Beirut, abomb explodes near
the motorcade of LebanesePresident Rene Moawad, killinghim.
1990– British PrimeMinister Margaret
Thatcher withdraws from theConservative Party leadershipelection, confirming the end of herpremiership.
TODAY IN HISTORY
MYSTERY PHOTO Daniel Archuleta [email protected] first person who can correctly identify where this image was captured wins a prize from theSanta Monica Daily Press. Send answers to [email protected]. Send your mystery photos to [email protected] to be used in future issues.
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