Washigton Post - 17 December 2023

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post EZ RE C9 IN MEMORIAM MCCOTTRY JAMES AND LORRAINE MCCOTTRY James McDowell McCottry 9/24/1922-12/10/2010 Lorraine Stockton McCottry 4/11/1922-12/20/2017 Your legacy as parents, grandparents and great-grandparents will live on forever. We love and miss you both so much. You will always be only a heartbeat away. Melvern, Benny, Gerrie, Ceska, Todd, Airis, Anthony, Noah, Isabell, Chloe DEATH NOTICE BASKERVILLE ELIZA YVONNE BASKERVILLE (Age 71) E. Yvonne Baskerville, of Washington, DC, passed away at her home on December 2, 2023. Born in Long Island, NY to Rev. Dr. John E. & Mrs. Jessie Durham, she moved to Washington, DC to pursue a master9s at Howard University. She is survived by her loving and devoted husband, Lewis Baskerville; daughter, Janel Baskerville Turner (Devonn); son, Justen Baskerville; grandchildren, Aaron and Aria Turner; sister, Shirley Richardson, other loving relatives and friends. Viewing will be held on Monday December 18, 2023 at 9:30 a.m., followed by Homegoing services at 11 a.m. at Union Wesley AME Zion Church, 1860 Michigan Ave N.E., Washington, DC 20018. In lieu of ûowers, please send contributions in her name to the Union Wesley Scholarship Ministry. www.mcguire-services.com CARLE GLORIA LITA CARLE Gloria Lita Carle passed away at the age of 92 over the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 23, 2023. She was known for her kindness, humor, positivity, and creative artistry. Despite having never before travelled far from Wakeûeld, Massachusetts, where she was born and raised, Gloria set out intrepidly as a young woman to see the world asasecretary in the U.S. Foreign Service. She lived and travelled in Burma before meeting her future husband Jack Morray Carle, a foreign service ofûcer, in Bremen, Germany. Gloria and Jack lived in East Pakistan, Romania, Australia, Turkey, and Stuttgart, Germany, before retiring and settling down in Waynewood, Virginia, where they enjoyed many happy years. Gloria was an accomplished artist who exhibited in Germany and Virginia, a master gardener and practitioner of the art of Ikebana, and a loving grandmother. She is survived by her daughter Diane Carle, a veterinarian in Seattle, and her partner David Smith; daughter Susan Carle, a law professor at American University; son-in-law Henry Friedman, an environmental attorney at the U.S. Justice Department; and grandson Joshua Carle-Friedman, C.P.A. Her ashes will be interred next to those of Jack M. Carle at Arlington National Cemetery at a date to be determined. Donations in her memory may be made to Americans for the Arts. GRAFTON SARAH INNES GRAFTON Sarah Innes Grafton, beloved spouse, treasured friend of many, and consummate public servant, passed away on November 16, 2023 surrounded by her husband and family, after suffering a tragic accident. She is survived by her husband, Walter Grafton; her parents, Bill and Cindy Innes; her brother, Greg Innes; Greg9s wife, Jenna; and Greg9s son. Born Sarah Ann Innes on January 16, 1983 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Sarah held lifelong passions for her family and friends, reading, travel, arts and culture, animals, and the outdoors. From a young age, Sarah was interested and engaged in politics and policy at all levels. After excelling across the board in high school, Sarah attended the University of Chicago (UChicago) where she met Walter Grafton, her future husband. At UChicago, she participated in the Model United Nations club, was an active member of College Democrats, and a beloved member of Delta Gamma sorority. After graduating from UChicago in 2005 with a degree in political science, she receivedaJD in 2008 from Michigan State University College of Law. Following her graduation from law school, Sarah left the Midwest for Northern Virginia, where she spent the next 14 years rising rapidly through the ranks at the Department of Homeland Security. She began as a Program Analyst for the Federal Air Marshal Service and rose to the position of Assistant Chief Counsel of Employment, Civil Rights, Labor Policy, and Ethics at the Chief Counsel9s ofûce of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Sarah was recognized with numerous awards for her contributions to complex litigation and her role in implementing the new TSA pay system. Her TSA colleagues remember her as one who radiated joy and who believed strongly in the mission of protecting transportation security. Sarah and Walter married in 2014 and bought a house in the Arlington View neighborhood of South Arlington, VA, where they spent their free time bicycling, hiking, gardening, and socializing with friends. Sarah was an avid supporter of progressive causes and will be deeply missed as a true friend to many. She steadfastly supported her friends through the happiest and saddest portions of their lives, adding levity to challenging times with her empathy and humor. Sarah deeply adored animals, often making time in her busy life to observe them in the wild or taking pains to ensure their well-being 3 even removing turtles from the middle of busy roads. Sarah9s warmth, intelligence, and energy will never be forgotten by the many lives she touched. Sarah9s funeral service will be held in late January 2024, by invitation only, in Northern Virginia. In lieu of ûowers, donations in Sarah9s memory may be made to the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. MOORE JOHN LANSFORD MOORE John Lansford Moore, born on May 21, 1944, died peacefully on November 19, 2023, at his home in Chevy Chase, MD. John was preceded in death by his parents, Lansford <Bud= and Jane Moore, and his sister, Marti McCartney. He is survived by his loving wife, Bela Moore, his daughters, Lauren (Mark) Roche-Garland and Karen Moore (James Wentworth) and his brother Tom (Shannon) Moore. His memory will live on through his grandchildren, Mairin, Emmy, Thomas, and Everly. John was a dedicated and accomplished individual with a profound interest in economics. John earned his bachelor9s degree in economics from Kalamazoo College and later received his Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of Michigan. His intellectual curiosity and commitment to the ûeld were evident in his numerous publications throughout his illustrious career. One of John9s most signiûcant professional accomplishments and sources of pride was his over 30-year tenure at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He served for many years as the Director of the Resources, Science, and Industry Division and its predecessor division, where his expertise and insights made lasting contributions to the ûeld of natural resource and environmental policy. Beyond the world of academia and his career, John found enjoyment in the simple pleasures of life. His love for sailing and golf was infectious, and he never missed an opportunity to invite others to share in these passions. Michigan heldaspecial place in his heart, and he reveled in spending summers sailing at Beaver Island with his two daughters when they were children. Later he enjoyed time on his beloved sailboat in Annapolis with family and friends, as well as playing chess with his grandchildren. He will be dearly missed by his family, friends, and colleagues. Contributions may be made in John9s name to the Nature Conservancy. A private celebration of life will be held January 11, 2024. Memories can be shared on the family9s online guestbook at www.josephgawlers.com. DEATH NOTICE BROOKS MARGARET MARY BROOKS Margaret M. Brooks, 92, passed away on December 8, 2023. She is predeceased by her beloved husband, Clarence <Joe= Brooks, and their son, Michael J. Brooks. Margaret is survived by her brother, Jim Kemp; 28 nieces and nephews, and many great-nieces and -nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, December 18 at 11 a.m. at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, 26 Grant Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002 with interment to immediately follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Family will be receiving guests beginning at 10 a.m. When the need arises, let families ond you in the Funeral Services Directory. To be seen in the Funeral Services Directory, please call paid Death Notices at 202-334-4122. DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE KALER WILLIAM KALER Bill= Sadly, Bill passed on November 6, 2023 after a brief illness. He lived at Hughes House and wasadedicated member of Hughes United Methodist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. Bill retired in 2020 after 52 years of employment with the U.S. Department of Education. His gentle spirit will be missed. Memorial contributions to a charity of your choice are welcome. Services previously held. PELASARA JACQUELINE PELASARA <Jackie= Jacqueline <Jackie= Pelasara was a loving wife, mother, sister, and friend. She peacefully passed away at her home on December 5th, 2023 at age 70. Jackie was born to Daniel and Florence Rehr on May 25, 1953. She is survived by her older brother, Randy Rehr. After receiving her Associates degree in Art, she met the love of her life, Rick Pelasara. They were married in 1975, and had just recently celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary. Rick and Jackie spent their years together visiting art galleries, enjoying French cuisine, and creating lifelong memories in their favorite city, Paris. Along with her deep appreciation for the arts, Jackie had a passion for the rehabilitation of and care for stray cats and other animals without homes. As the loving person she was, Jackie put her heart into helping those in need. All those who were fortunate enough to meet her, loved her. Jackie9s warm and infectious smile lives on in her two daughters, Casey Marie Bohler and Jessie Lynne Pelasara, and her granddaughter, Quinn Soleil Bohler. The family has chosenaprivate memorial. In lieu of ûowers, please consider a donation to Jackie9s favorite charity, <Alley Cat Allies= at AlleyCat.org . www.hinesrinaldifuneralhome.com SCHUSTERMAN EMMA SCHUSTERMAN 5/03/1948 - 12/4/2023 Emma Schusterman, a tennis enthusiast and passionate world traveler, dies at 75. Emma Shusterman passed away on Monday, December 4, 2023, following an accidental fall and a brief hospital stay. Emma was 75. Emma lived life with passion and seemed invincible. She was brilliantly smart, loving, and engaging, full of humor and wry wit. She was a team player, dedicated to her work and passionate about supporting the DOD and its mission. As a life-long athlete, Emma inspired hundreds of children to become tennis fans, teaching and coaching for many years up until this past summer. She cooked enormous vats of delicious food, nourishing her loved ones and even their pets. Her attentive mothering extended to her granddaughter, her grand-puppies, her garden, and her indoor plants. Even from the hospital in her last days she was concerned about everyone9s well-being. If you knew Emma, you knew she loved to travel to Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Portugal, and many other places. She also loved to spend time with her diverse circle of wonderful and close friends. Thankfully, we have many photos and memories of Emma exploring the world with her friends - with enthusiasm and vigor. As we work through our grief, we are comforted in these memories. Emma9s funeral was held on December 9, 2023. We plan on holding a memorial service to celebrate Emma9s life and will share time and location details as they become available. In lieu of ûowers, we suggest contributions to Fairfax County Parks where Emma taught tennis for the past two decades. To donate in Emma9s memory, please enter her name under <Add Special Instructions= or make a dedicated tree contribution in her honor at https://fairfaxparkfoundation.org/. Her family will be dedicating a tree and a bench in Emma9s honor in Reston, VA, near the tennis courts where Emma loved to play. If you feel so moved, we would love to hear your memories on www.legacy.com. Funny stories, everyday recollections, even those <that9s so Emma= phrases or thoughts& we would really love to hear them. We are assembling our expressions in an online document of Emma9s legacy and would appreciate any words and images you can share. This capture will help us to process and come to peace with the loss of such a powerful woman. We are deeply touched by everyone9s love and support. Thank you. Tatiana, Emma9s daughter, and her loving family and friends SCHWEITZER CAROLE E. SCHWEITZER Carole E. Schweitzer, 81, of Arlington died unexpectedly on Saturday, November 25, 2023, at The Jefferson Assisted Living Center in Arlington, Virginia. She was born on April 6, 1942, in Chilhowie, Virginia to C.D. and Ethel Osborne Earls. Carole was raised in Blueûeld, Virginia. She graduated from American University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in education. Carole was also proud of the graduate work she completed in education at the University of Virginia. Carole9s ûrst career was as an elementary school teacher, serving Arlington County Public Schools from 1968 3 1980. She was passionate about children and especially teaching reading. Through her many years of teaching, she touched the lives of countless children and their families. One of the highest compliments she received was having her former student, now a lauded writer of sitcoms and other shows, chose to name teachers in his scripts Mrs. Schweitzer in tribute to his third-grade experience with her. Carole is perhaps best known for her eminently successful career in real estate sales, most recently with Weichert Realtors. She became a full-time agent in 1980. Her accomplishments included Life Member, Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR) Top Producer9s Club, Member, NVAR 10 Million+ Club, Life Member, NVAR Multi-Million Dollar Club, and Member, Weichert9s Hall of Fame. Her warm personality engaged others in an energetic manner and developed a level of trust from those she served. Many of her clients became longterm friends. Carole was preceded in death in 2002 by her husband of 42 years, James Michael Schweitzer. She is survived by two daughters, Lisa (Tom) Courtice of Columbus, OH and Anne Crank of Colonial Beach, VA, and a brother Greg Earls of New York City. She leaves behind three loving grandchildren, Hudson (WillaClare) Crank, Tora Crank, and Lindsey Courtice, four nephews and two nieces, and ten grandnieces and grandnephews. It was Carole9s wish not to have a memorial service. While we honor her wishes, we know that her community of friends may want to want to share a memory and leave a tribute. Please visit www.murphyfuneralhomes.com. Carole loved the beach and frequented Colonial Beach where she had a second home. If you would like to contribute in her memory, please consider a gift to Colonial Beach Volunteer Fire Department, Attn: Ladies Auxiliary, 312 Colonial Beach, VA 22443 or a nonproût of your choice. www.murphyfuneralhomes.com STEWART HERBERT PRESTON STEWART September 23, 1936 - December 10, 2023 At 6:50 a.m. on Sunday, December 10 in the year of our Lord 2023, Herbert Stewart left us to join his mother, father, four sisters, and brother. He is survived by his loving wife Kay Walker Stewart, his two children, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. <G=, <G-Daddy= and <Mr. Herb= as he was known to those who loved him was a good man, a wonderful father, and an amazing husband. He was born and raised in Norfolk Virginia, where in 8th grade he met his best friend and wife of 67 years3Kay. They met in the hallway of Ruffner Middle School where G was the captain of the 2nd Floor Hall Monitors, and Kay was so taken by his poise and new high-and-tight haircut that she circled the hallway countless times until he took notice. Their young love ûourished, and they wed in 1956. G was a French horn player, and he lugged that horn all over Norfolk after school and on Friday nights after football games to see the love of his life 3 Kay. As with everything he did, he was meticulous, and practiced 3 and he excelled at the French Horn. He sat with the Norfolk Symphony Orchestra as a high schooler and was offeredascholarship to play in the University of Michigan marching band. After high school, Mom and Dad moved 17 times, with only one move outside of Virginia to Fort Campbell Kentucky when G was called up to active duty during the Berlin Crisis. G spent 38 years working for Norfolk Southern Railroad where he climbed from a secretary to the executive vice president, to the Director of Pricing Services in the Marketing Department. To make that climb, he knew he needed a college degree, so with two young children at home, he applied to George Washington University and spent the next seven years in night school. He retired at 58 and Herb and Kay spent the next 30 years being the most amazing parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents a family could have. G 3 You provided for us, you taught, and loved us. We love you G! We do it for you! We do it 4G! Services will be held on January 6, 2024, at 11 a.m. in Trinity United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. A reception will follow the Service in the Fellowship Hall. The burial will be a private service at Arlington National Cemetery. Dad loved kids, so if you are moved to send ûowers, please instead donate to the INOVA Children9s Hospital in Herb9s name- http:// tinyurl.com/zeyf5zan DEATH NOTICE SMITH JANET B. SMITH Peacefully passed on November 28, 2023. Beloved wife of the late Nahum Smith. She is survived by her children, Sherri Y. Smith and Wesley Smith, Sr. (Laurie). Also survived by her grandchildren, Ian, Nia, Jordan, Kai, Niles, Chad, Wesley II and Noelle, her great-grandchildren, William and Zion, her siblings, Clyde Bishop, Jr. (Cynthia) and Claudette Evans and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. On Monday, December 18, 2023 friends may visit with the family from 10 a.m. until time of funeral service at 11 a.m. at Woodstream Baptist Church, 9800 Lottsford Rd., Bowie, MD. Interment Maryland Veterans Cemetery. DEATH NOTICE NESS NORMAN FREDERICK NESS Norman Frederick Ness, 90, passed away at his home in Venice, FL on December 4, 2023. He was born April 15, 1933, in Springûeld, MA to the late Herman Hugo and Eva Carlson Ness. Norman grew up in Meriden, CT. After high school, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree (Geophysics) in 1955 and a Doctorate in Geophysics in 1959. He became involved in the scientiûc exploration of space by joining the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1960 as a National Academy of Sciences - Postdoctoral Resident Research Associate at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). In 1961, Norman joined an experimental program of magnetic ûeld studies with satellites and space probes. He was principal investigator for the magnetometer studies on the IMP series of 10 satellites launched between 1962 - 1973. He was responsible for the conception and scientiûc direction of the lunar orbiting Explorer 35, an adjunct of the IMP series, which provided invaluable reference data for subsequent studies of the moon in the Apollo program with its more than 5 years of continuous measurements of the magnetic ûeld in the lunar environment. In the 19709s, he participated in the USA program of planetary exploration, and joined in the studies of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Later in the 19709s, his experiments for the ûrst time, went to Saturn where they discovered and studied the magnetic ûeld in 1979 on Pioneer 11 and again on Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1980 and 1981. In 1986 his experiment on Voyager 2 discovered a magnetic ûeld at Uranus and in 1989 the global magnetic ûeld of Neptune. From 1966 to 1986, he was Chief of the Laboratory of Extraterrestrial Physics, initiating and supervising research activities in solar system plasma physics, planetary atmospheres and infrared and radio astronomy. In 1987, he left NASA and became President of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware retiring in 2005. Norman is recognized as one of the world9s experts in the conduct of magnetic ûeld investigations from unmanned satellites. He has lectured widely throughout the United States and internationally. Over his career, he has received numerous awards. He received the John A. Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 1965 in recognition of his work in the description of the electricity and magnetism of the earth and its atmosphere. He also received the 1965 NASA medal for Exceptional Scientiûc Achievement in the conduct of interplanetary research studies. In 1968, he was selected asarecipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award as one of the 10 outstanding young men in Federal service. He received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Science Award in 1972. He received the GSFC Lindsay Memorial Award in 1975, a second NASA Exceptional Scientiûc Achievement Medal in 1981, a third in 1986, and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1986. In 1983, he was nominated and elected to the National Academy of Science. He received the German Geophysical Society 1992 Award and the U.S. National Space Club Science Award in 1993. Norman was very passionate about sailing, both racing and cruising, locally and internationally. He was a coach for the U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Squadron in Annapolis, MD. Norman is survived by his wife of 52 years, Miroslava Jurancic Ness; his former wife, Amelia Mercaldi Roberts, his children Elizabeth Ness and Stephen (Melanie) Ness; four grandchildren Anthony Ness, Vincent (Maggie) Ness, Stephanie Hammel, and Sabrina Ness; and eight great-grandchildren Lorelai and Joseph Ness, Maranatha, Maximus, Alethea and Xavier Ness, and Eliana and Dominic Hammel. Interment will be at Gethsemane Cemetery in Meriden, CT. A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date. Donations can be made to the Eva Carlson Ness Scholarship Endowment at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (https://www.nursing. umaryland.edu/giving/endowments/). Arrangements in the care of Beecher & Bennett-Flatow Funeral Home, Meriden, CT. To send condolences to the Ness family, please see obituary at www.beecherandbennett.com SCHWENTKER DONALD MILTON SCHWENTKER On November 10, 2023, Donald Milton Schwentker passed away. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 9, 1934. He was a member of the Cincinnati Friends Meeting. He attended Withrow High School, and earned degrees at the University of Cincinnati in Mechanical Engineering and Law. Don achieved the rating of Professional Engineer in the state of Ohio and was a member of the bar in Ohio and Washington, DC. He married Esther Conrad in June of 1956. Don9s cause of death was myocardial infarction.He is survived by his wife, Esther; his son David; his daughter Jane Tosolt (Glenn); and grandchildren Jillian and Olivia Tosolt. After college, Don served in the U.S. Army as a Legal Ofûcer of Third Group at Ft. Eustis, VA. during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Don9s post-military career began at the FAA writing Airworthiness Directives. He transferred to what is now the NHTSA to write the ûrst National Highway Auto Safety Regulations in legal form. His Co-op experience during engineering college at Chrysler Corp gave him exceptional knowledge of auto manufacturing. After leaving the government, he represented Asian and European Auto Manufacturers in private practice as a lawyer and consultant for over 40 years with an appearance on the Nationally televised MacNeil Lehrer report regarding small car safety issues. Don was an avid enthusiast for virtually anything that moved. He was a pilot with multiple ratings and enjoyed ûying gliders as well. Don loved ûying his own airplane and riding motorcycles. He loved the Indy car races and watched the Indy 500 religiously every year. Don was a huge football fan; he supported the Washington Commanders (previously Redskins) and ranafootball pool for many years. His photography was outstanding: it was used twice on the cover of a national magazine. Traveling was what he enjoyed most: whether it was by airplane, car, ship or train. He collected hundreds of t-shirts from places all over the globe - and he proudly wore them when he returned to those countries. He loved communicating with friends and relatives by writing trip reports which described his travels and gave interesting facts about the places he visited. One of the joys of his life was remembering the birthdays of friends and family. He adored calling and singing <Happy Birthday= on the phone. His last days of life were spent on a Trans-Atlantic cruise. Experiencing chest pain, he was MediVaced from Grand Turk to a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, FL where he passed away. Don was a force of nature who will be missed. Don was a supporter of the Mofûtt Cancer Center (www.Mofûtt.org). Donations may be sent to Mofûtt Cancer Center Foundation, 12903 Magnolia Dr, MBC-FOUND Tampa, FL 33612. Per Don9s wishes, no services are scheduled. VANDERSTAR JOHN VANDERSTAR John Vanderstar (90) died on December 6, 2023, at Deerûeld Episcopal Retirement Community in Asheville, North Carolina, afteracourageous struggle with heart disease and Parkinson9s. John was born in Jersey City, NJ, and was raised there and in Florida. He graduated from high school at the age of ûfteen and won a full scholarship to attend Princeton University. There, John was an aeronautical engineering major, rowed crew, and was sports director and a disc jockey for the radio station. After graduation in 1954, John attended Ofûcer Candidate School and served in the Navy as a ûight navigator in an airborne early warning squadron, ûying fourteen-hour sorties between Newfoundland and the Azores. John then attended Harvard Law School and, upon graduation in 1961, joined the law ûrm of Covington and Burling in Washington, DC, where he became partner in 1970 and from which he retired in 2000. John practiced in all areas of federal court and administrative agency litigation and arbitration, including antitrust, commercial, sports, broadcast, and civil rights law. John was active in the District of Columbia Bar, serving on various committees including the Judicial Evaluation Committee, and as a three-year member of the Board of Governors. He also served as a mediator in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and taught antitrust law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. John devoted much of his free time to advancing the causes of civil and women9s rights. He served on the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union, National Capital Area, from 1970-80, was its Chair from 1976 to 1978, and received its Alan Barth Service Award in December 1984. John was a member of the Boards of the National Organization for Women9s Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum); the Legal Counsel for the Elderly, Volunteer Lawyers Project; the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice; and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, on which he served as Treasurer. In 1978, he successfully defended NOW in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the state of Missouri in response to boycotts that NOW had organized against states that had not ratiûed the Equal Rights Amendment. In October 2004, John was honored as a Champion of Choice by Planned Parenthood. John was also a devoted member of the Episcopal Church. In Washington, DC, he worshiped at St. Columba9s Episcopal Church, where he served on the vestry, including as senior warden. John co-founded and served as the ûrst president of Iona Senior Services. In the 1970s, John was an active participant in the drive to ordain women in the Episcopal clergy, and in 1975 he took his young daughters to one of the earliest ordinations of women priests. He chaired the Finance Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington in the late 1980s and was Secretary of the Bishop Search Committee from 1989 to 1990. John was elected as a delegate to the Diocesan Convention numerous times, to the House of Deputies ûve times, and also to the Executive Council of the Episcopal General Convention. He also served as a member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Episcopal Women9s Caucus and served a six-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Washington National Cathedral Foundation. As a member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, John authored the 2006 General Convention resolution that declared the institution of slavery a sin, mandated that the church acknowledge and express regret for its support of slavery and of racial discrimination for years after slavery9s abolition, and called for the Presiding Bishop to call for a <Day of Repentance and Reconciliation.= A commemorative service was held at St. Thomas African Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, PA, on October 3, 2008. John will be remembered as a man of great intellect, integrity, and humor. He was a lover of words, a gifted punster, a faithful Episcopalian, a skilled and talented attorney, a champion of human rights, an asker of questions and contributor of letters to the editor, a steadfast friend, and a devoted husband and father. John taught his daughters to value the dignity of all humankind and never to take themselves too seriously, and he was there to cheer their successes and catch them when they stumbled. He was an affectionate father who loved a good caper and relished laughing at himself. John found deep and abiding love in mid-life, marrying M. Elizabeth Culbreth (Libby/Liz) in 1985. He became enchanted with Libby9s hometown of Waynesville, NC, and they built a mountain home there in 2000, moving there permanently in 2009. During his years in Waynesville, John initiated an oral history project in the local African American community, helped establish an NAACP Chapter in the western counties, and with Libby found a church home at St. Andrew9s on the Hill Episcopal Church in Canton, NC. John and Liz traveled extensively, nurtured numerous decades-long friendships, enjoyed their shared faiths and love of sports, politics, history, art, and the mountains of Western NC, and stood by each other through the vicissitudes of life. John became a proud member of the spouses9 club of the Board of Trustees of Berea College in Kentucky, where Libby attended college and, beginning in 1978, served as Trustee and eventual Chair until her retirement in 2021. John endowed the Student Parent Recruit and Support Program Fund at Berea College. John is survived by his wife Elizabeth Culbret;, his daughters Pippa, of Glenside, PA; Alexandra, of Sharon, MA; Thankful (Harry Velasquez), of Silver Spring, MD; and Eliza (Michael Bennett, children Owen and Lily), of Brookline, MA; grandchildren Clara Reyes, of Weymouth, MA; and Levi Reyes, of Burlington, VT; and his brother-in-law James M. Culbreth, of Waynesville, NC. John is also survived by his half-brother Birney LeGette (Nanscy Neiman), half-sisters Dr. Judith Vanderstar (Dr. David Russell) and Marie V. Phelan (Michael), and cousins Diane Smith and Elaine Greene. John was predeceased by his infant daughter Liza and his brother Ronald Vanderstar. A service will be held at Grace Chapel, Deerûeld Episcopal Retirement Community, in January 2024, with a memorial service to follow atalater date at St. Columba9s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, where John9s remains will be interred. Memorial contributions may be made to any of the organizations or institutions that John believed in and supported. Wells Funeral Home in Waynesville, NC, is assisting the family. The care of Mr. Vanderstar has been entrusted to Wells Funeral Home of Waynesville and an online memorial register is available at <Obituaries= at www.wellsfuneralhome.com DEATH NOTICE

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2023 AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST <–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ T-storms Showers Snow Flurries IceRain Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front NATIONAL Today Tomorrow High Low Normal Record high Record low National Dulles BWI National Dulles BWI Today’s tides (High tides in Bold) WORLD Today Tomorrow Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air quality data); National Weather Service * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature® combines over a dozen factors for an accurate measure of how the conditions really “feel.” Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice Solar systemMoon Phases NATION OFFICIAL RECORD Rise Set REGION Past 24 hours Total this month Normal Total this year Normal Richmond Norfolk Ocean City Annapolis Dover Cape May Baltimore Charlottesville Lexington Washington Virginia Beach Kitty Hawk Harrisburg Philadelphia Hagerstown Davis OCEAN: OCEAN: OCEAN: OCEAN: Temperatures Precipitation for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Yesterday's National Snow, past 24 hours Snow, season total 61° 2:18 p.m. 35° 6:23 a.m. 49°/34° 74° 1971 10° 1917 60° 1:09 p.m. 28° 7:00 a.m. 46°/29° 72° 1971 9° 2016 58° 2:13 p.m. 33° 7:48 a.m. 47°/30° 71° 1971 10° 1951 Washington 6:05 a.m. 11:12 a.m. 6:16 p.m. 11:32 p.m. Annapolis 2:47 a.m. 8:02 a.m. 2:15 p.m. 9:03 p.m. Ocean City 4:17 a.m. 10:44 a.m. 5:17 p.m. 11:09 p.m. Norfolk 12:14 a.m. 6:16 a.m. 12:41 p.m. 7:10 p.m. Point Lookout 4:07 a.m. 10:11 a.m. 4:54 p.m. none 55° 51° 55° 34° 43° 28° 46° 32° 54° 34° 50° 36° Sun 7:20 a.m. 4:47 p.m. Moon 11:24 a.m. 10:07 p.m. Venus 4:02 a.m. 2:34 p.m. Mars 6:44 a.m. 4:09 p.m. Jupiter 1:59 p.m. 3:26 a.m. Saturn 11:19 a.m. 10:04 p.m. Dec 19 First Quarter Dec 26 Full Jan 3 Last Quarter Jan 11 New 0.00" 2.66" 1.85" 31.91" 40.26" 0.0" 0.1" 0.00" 2.46" 1.81" 31.49" 41.75" 0.0" 0.5" 0.00" 2.79" 2.01" 37.89" 43.30" 0.0" Trace Blue Ridge: Today, rain, heavy at times. High 41 to 45. Winds east–southeast 7–14 mph. Tonight, periods of rain, some heavy. Low 34 to 38. Winds north 15–25 mph. Monday, a stray shower; periods of wet snow, accumulating 1–3 inches in southern parts. Atlantic beaches: Today, rain. High 56 to 61. Winds east–southeast 12–25 mph. Tonight, rain, heavy at times; periods of rain, some heavy, a thunderstorm early, then a little rain in the south. Low 52 to 56. Winds south– southeast 20–30 mph. Pollen: Low Grass Low Trees Low Weeds Low Mold Low UV: Low 0 out of 11+ Air Quality: Good Dominant cause: Ozone 57/50 61/53 57/54 55/50 56/53 56/53 56/51 51/49 48/42 61/54 62/53 54/50 56/54 51/47 45/36 55/51 47° 50° 49° 50° Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, rain beginning. Wind east 6–12 knots. Waves 2 feet or less. Visibility less than 3 miles. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, rain beginning. Wind east 8–16 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac; 1–3 feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: ffe stage at Little Falls will be around 3.40 feet today, falling to 3.30 Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Albany, NY 48/45/r 58/37/r Albuquerque 55/31/s 52/31/pc Anchorage 36/22/sf 23/14/c Atlanta 56/41/r 55/28/c Austin 71/43/s 66/38/pc Baltimore 56/51/r 55/34/r Billings, MT 47/31/s 53/38/pc Birmingham 57/39/r 55/28/c Bismarck, ND 40/12/pc 33/16/s Boise 40/29/pc 43/36/sh Boston 53/49/c 61/43/r Buffalo 51/42/c 44/25/sn Burlington, VT 45/43/c 57/35/r Charleston, SC 64/49/r 62/34/pc Charleston, WV 52/40/r 42/27/c Charlotte 51/43/r 56/28/pc Cheyenne, WY 51/26/s 54/39/s Chicago 46/30/c 31/20/sf Cincinnati 50/36/sh 39/23/c Cleveland 48/39/r 41/27/sn Dallas 68/42/s 61/36/s Denver 57/25/s 54/35/pc Des Moines 46/24/s 33/19/s Detroit 46/37/r 38/23/sf El Paso 66/39/s 65/41/pc Fairbanks, AK 12/–1/c 8/–4/c Fargo, ND 38/11/pc 23/19/s Hartford, CT 49/46/r 61/39/r Honolulu 79/67/sh 77/69/r Houston 67/44/s 68/42/s Indianapolis 47/32/sh 36/20/sf Jackson, MS 57/38/pc 60/31/s Jacksonville, FL 67/49/r 61/37/s Kansas City, MO 51/29/s 39/26/s Las Vegas 66/46/pc 63/45/c Little Rock 59/39/s 55/28/s Los Angeles 80/58/pc 70/58/c Louisville 52/38/sh 42/24/c Memphis 55/39/s 50/29/s Miami 79/61/t 74/54/s Milwaukee 46/32/c 35/21/sf Minneapolis 38/17/pc 25/19/s Nashville 53/37/c 46/23/c New Orleans 61/46/pc 64/42/s New York City 55/54/r 59/38/r Norfolk 61/53/r 60/36/c Oklahoma City 62/35/s 51/28/s Omaha 49/24/s 37/23/s Orlando 74/56/t 67/46/s Philadelphia 56/54/r 60/36/r Phoenix 79/47/pc 78/53/pc Pittsburgh 51/40/r 44/25/r Portland, ME 47/43/c 56/40/r Portland, OR 50/40/c 47/44/r Providence, RI 53/51/r 61/40/r Raleigh, NC 56/49/r 59/32/pc Reno, NV 49/34/pc 53/40/c Richmond 57/50/r 58/34/c Sacramento 61/49/pc 61/53/r St. Louis 49/33/pc 40/23/s St. Thomas, VI 84/76/sh 84/75/pc Salt Lake City 44/27/pc 46/35/pc San Diego 74/52/pc 69/56/c San Francisco 65/54/sh 63/55/r San Juan, PR 84/75/r 86/75/pc Seattle 48/39/c 49/44/c Spokane, WA 36/28/pc 37/34/c Syracuse 51/46/r 49/32/r Tampa 70/58/sh 67/48/s Wichita 57/30/s 47/28/s Addis Ababa 74/48/pc 74/50/c Amsterdam 51/44/pc 51/49/c Athens 53/44/pc 59/43/s Auckland 76/63/pc 75/65/r Baghdad 72/45/c 69/41/c Bangkok 93/75/pc 92/76/pc Beijing 24/3/s 23/7/s Berlin 50/41/c 47/42/pc Bogota 64/51/sh 67/51/r Brussels 49/36/pc 44/41/pc Buenos Aires 82/72/r 75/59/c Cairo 75/60/c 72/59/s Caracas 81/66/sh 79/66/pc Copenhagen 49/46/c 49/45/r Dakar 88/72/pc 86/69/pc Dublin 56/52/sh 55/42/sh Edinburgh 55/51/r 53/41/pc Frankfurt 42/33/pc 42/36/pc Geneva 43/31/pc 48/31/s Ham., Bermuda 69/66/c 73/69/sh Helsinki 38/28/c 36/31/c Ho Chi Minh City 94/75/s 92/75/pc Hong Kong 59/55/c 70/64/c Islamabad 65/41/s 68/39/s Istanbul 48/38/c 51/40/s Jerusalem 67/49/pc 64/44/pc Johannesburg 84/63/pc 83/64/s Kabul 49/29/s 51/30/s Kingston, Jam. 85/76/r 86/74/pc Kolkata 77/57/s 77/57/s Kyiv 40/38/sn 42/38/c Lagos 90/75/pc 92/77/s Lima 76/67/c 76/68/s Lisbon 60/40/s 58/40/s London 52/47/s 55/52/c Madrid 55/33/s 54/32/s Manila 88/77/pc 87/78/c Mexico City 70/43/pc 71/42/pc Montreal 45/42/c 49/32/r Moscow 36/24/sn 36/33/sn Mumbai 92/76/c 94/79/pc Nairobi 79/60/pc 80/60/pc New Delhi 73/51/pc 72/50/s Oslo 41/33/c 37/31/pc Ottawa 44/39/c 41/22/r Paris 45/33/pc 42/39/c Prague 45/36/c 47/35/s Rio de Janeiro 84/74/c 83/73/s Riyadh 70/49/s 73/51/c Rome 57/35/s 58/35/s San Salvador 87/63/s 85/58/s Santiago 80/50/s 87/50/s Sarajevo 36/26/s 46/29/s Seoul 21/9/s 28/17/pc Shanghai 36/29/c 45/42/pc Singapore 87/77/t 86/77/t Stockholm 40/35/c 38/35/s Sydney 77/68/pc 83/73/pc Taipei City 58/55/c 73/60/r Tehran 60/44/s 59/40/s Tokyo 60/41/pc 51/41/pc Toronto 47/39/c 43/22/sn Vienna 47/31/pc 48/31/s Warsaw 47/43/c 46/41/r Today Rain Monday Morning rain Tuesday Breezy and cooler Wednesday Sunny fiursday Partly sunny Friday Partly sunny Tu W ff F Sa Su M Tu W ff F Sa Su M Tu Statistics through 5 p.m. Saturday Difference from 30–yr. avg. 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hoCkey Alex ovechkin goes withoutagoal again, extending his career-worst drought, as the Capitals lose in nashville. D6 oN the NFl Miami wideout Tyreek hill is the rare non-quarterback who could be the league9s MVP, Adam kilgore writes. D5 meN9S College baSketball Thanks to 27 points by fletcher Loyer and 26 by Braden smith, no. 3 Purdue hands no. 1 Arizona its first loss. D2 KLMNO SP su OR nday, december 17, 2023 TS M2 D BY AVA WALLACE PHOENIX 4 The Washington Wizards9 seven-day, four-game jaunt through the Western Conference was supposed to be a reunion tour of sorts. ex-Laker Kyle Kuzma will face his former coach in Los Angeles 4 Frank Vogel, who is now leading Phoenix 4 when the Wizards visit the suns on sunday. ex-Warrior Jordan Poole returns to where his career began for the first time since he was traded this past summer when the Wizards play at Golden state on Friday. And in between, Corey Kispert will flit up to seattle to see some old friends as his no. 24 King9s High school jersey is retired Wednesday. But there9s a marquee name missing from that list. In their injury report saturday, the suns revealed that former Wizards guard Bradley Beal will not play in the first meeting for Washington and Phoenix since Beal was traded to the suns in a blockbuster June move that started the Wizards9 rebuild. Beal sprained his right ankle Friday in a 139-122 loss to new York when he landed awkwardly on the foot of the Knicks9 Donte DiVincenzo after hitting a three-pointer in the first quarter. Vogel said after the game that X-rays did not show a fracture. The sprain is another setback in a trying season for Beal. After 11 years in Washington as a roster cornerstone, he has mostly been confined to the bench in Phoenix because of a lower-back issue. Friday9s was just his sixth game of the season and his third since returning from his most recent back flare-up, which sidelined him for a month. This is the first time that an ankle injury has kept him out of a game this season. His injury issues are part of the reason Phoenix9s hotly billed trio of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Beal have shared the court just twice, including their debut in a loss to the Brooklyn nets on Wednesday. Booker has missed nine games with foot, ankle and calf injuries; Durant has missed two games with a right foot injury and two games with a left ankle injury. Beal9s sprain is part of a see wizaRDS on D3 Beal will sit out Wizards reunion Injuries have limited Suns guard to six games since blockbuster trade The absolutely dreadful Washington Wizards hosted the Indiana Pacers on Friday night, and if this season didn9t already feel like a slog, well, now there9s a dark lining to it all. Maybe, in five years, the Wizards will have pulled themselves from their status as permanent stakeholders in the nBA draft lottery. But even if they do, their trudge to relevance 4 to mere competence, even 4 is colored by their impending move to a new arena in northern Virginia. What will the next five years look like4what will they feel like4for the Wizards and their hockey brethren, the Capitals? Ted Leonsis, the founder of the parent Monumental sports & entertainment that owns both teams, wants to move them to Alexandria. If that happens 4 and it says here that remains a big <if=4it won9t be until 2028 at the earliest. That9s a long time to wander in the wilderness 4 or, in this case, to scurry through the District9s streets, in danger of passing more vacant storefronts than restaurants filled with loyal and hopeful fans. The news of Leonsis9s intention to move his top tenants from downtown in the nation9s capital to a strip of land in the suburbs 4 where he can develop his own $2 billion selfsustaining city that, in theory, would support those teams 4 still feels jarring. There arealot of emotions to sort through, and that doesn9t even get to the finances, which are nothing short of staggering. According to reporting by several of my Washington Post colleagues, the new development would receive 4 make sure you9re sitting down before you read this 4 $1.35 billion in state and local funds. That, my colleagues report, is a record total for one of these projects. so the idea that this is a done deal is beyond premature. This is a start, nothing more. There are no rubber stamps on $1.35 billion in public funds. Let the discussion 4 and the dissection 4 begin. The potential move is going to define the Wizards and the Capitals until it happens, and Leonsis9s legacy as a civicminded sports owner will be determined by whether a new facility brings a region together rather than rips it apart. In the days since the plans were first reported, it certainly feels like the latter. But there9s time. see SvRluga on D8 Fans want winning teams built, not arenas Barry Svrluga BY GENE WANG ATLANTA 4 As he directed Howard to its first bowl appearance in nearly three decades and a shot at the Black college football national championship, quarterback Quinton Williams was so conscientious about ball security that he threw just four interceptions on 298 pass attempts. But the graduate student, a four-year starter, nearly matched that total in an uncharacteristically bumpy performance saturday, and the defense broke down at inopportune stretches of the fourth quarter to leave the Bison with a 30-26 loss to Florida A&M in the Celebration Bowl. Williams9s third and final interception with 1:45 left essentially ended any aspirations of a comeback in front of a MercedesBenz stadium crowd of 41,108 that included Vice President see CElEBRaTion Bowl on D8 Picks, defense sink Bison in the Celebration Bowl Mike sTeWArT/AssoCiATed Press Quinton williams threw four interceptions in his first 11 games but had three against the Rattlers. florida a&m 30, Howard 26 series of violent, impulsive acts the Warriors enabled with their feckless attempts at discipline. now the Draymond problem has escalated into a crisis at a time when the Warriors have never needed him more. The nBA stepped in Wednesday and handed Green an indefinite suspension after he swung wildly and struck the head of Phoenix suns center Jusuf nurkic. <Personally,Ifeel like that brother needs help,= nurkic said afterward. Just a month ago, the nBA banned Green for five games for putting Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in a chokehold. In the first round of the playoffs last season, the league made Green sit one game for stomping on the chest of sacramento Kings center Domantas sabonis. And there are a dozen outbursts and near skirmishes over the past year that qualify as typical for Green and tend to get see BREwER on D3 Play too much with rage, and rage will char you. Rage also will char everyone in your vicinity 4 enemy, ally or bystander 4 because it cannot be controlled. Draymond Green used to play with edge, with nastiness and purpose. now he just rages. Basketball IQ, charred. situational awareness, charred. Dependability, charred. What remains of the Golden state Warriors9 dynasty felt this burn, too. There may not be anything distinguishable left. If so, it9s a sad and troubling way for its greatness to conclude. Fourteen months ago, the Warriors were still aglow after winning their fourth championship in eight seasons. Then Green shoved and punched teammate Jordan Poole during a preseason practice, triggering a As Green raged over and over, Warriors simply enabled him Jerry Brewer Commanders at Rams 4:05 p.m., CBs CrAig hudson for The WAshingTon PosT The Commanders9 ownership group has not indicated a preference for the location of its new stadium to replace FedEx Field. Wizards at Suns 8 p.m., Monumental 2 BY SAM FORTIER AND NICKI JHABVALA If approved, the deal to move the Washington Capitals and Wizards from downtown D.C. to northern Virginia is likely to increase political pressure on the District to win the jurisdictional battle for the Commanders9 new stadium. D.C. Mayor Muriel e. Bowser (D) would feel more urgency to land the nFL team she long has championed to return to the RFK stadium site because of the public perception that she <lost= the Capitals and Wizards, according to Derek Hyra,apublic administration and policy professor at American University. Marc Ganis, the founder of sportscorp Ltd. and a consultant to multiple leagues and teams, and one other person with direct knowledge of the Commanders9 stadium search, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions, agreed with the broader characterization that the political pressure on Bowser to bring back the Commanders would increase if the Monumental deal goes through. Ganis said Bowser9s $500 million offer to Monumental immediately set a new floor in financial negotiations for the Commanders 4 which is notable because Bowser had not previously discussed any direct public funds for the team. But Beverly Perry, a senior adviser to the mayor who is spearheading D.C.9s efforts to bring back the Commanders, disagreed that the deal to move the Capitals and Wizards would affect the city9s pursuit of the football team. <They9re independent of each other,= she said. <There is no way you can tie the two together.= The immediate ripple effects for D.C.9s competitors, Maryland and Virginia, are less clear. experts have particularly conflicting views on whether the deal increases or decreases Virginia9s chances at the nFL team. But the deal to move the teams owned by Monumental sports & entertainment to Potomac Yard, which could involve the largest arena subsidy ever, sets the stage for a bidding war over the Commanders9 next stadium that could continue shaking the regional sports landscape. For its part, the Commanders9 see CommanDERS on D5 It9s their turn next Commanders9 search for stadium may be affected by deal to move Caps, Wizards

d2 ez M2 the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 dIGEST TElEVISIon and radIo nfl 1 p.m. kansas city at new England » Wttg (ch. 5), WBFF (ch. 45) 4:05 p.m. washington at los angeles rams » WUsA (ch. 9), WJz (ch. 13), WBig (100.3 FM) 4:25 p.m. dallas at buffalo » Wttg (ch. 5), WBFF (ch. 45) 8:20 p.m. baltimore at Jacksonville » Wrc (ch. 4), WBAl (ch. 11), WBAl (1090 AM), WBAl (101.5 FM), WsBn (630 AM) nHl 3 p.m. Vancouver at chicago » nHl network 6 p.m. washington at carolina » Monumental sports network, WJFk (106.7 FM) nba 8 p.m. washington at phoenix » Monumental sports network 2, WteM (980 AM) mEn9S collEGE baSkETball 1 p.m. colgate at Illinois » Big ten network 1 p.m. oregon vs. Syracuse » cBs sports network 1 p.m. Southern california at auburn » esPn 2 p.m. pepperdine at louisville » Acc network 5 p.m. Seton Hall at missouri » esPn 6 p.m. Hbcu challenge: Howard vs. Texas Southern » esPnU 8:30 p.m. Hbcu challenge: north carolina a&T vs. Jackson State » esPnU womEn9S collEGE baSkETball noon purdue at notre dame » Acc network 1 p.m. louisiana monroe at alabama » sec network 3 p.m. northwestern State at lSu » esPn 4 p.m. missouri at Illinois » Big ten network 5:30 p.m. Virginia Tech at rutgers » Fox sports 1 Golf 12:30 p.m. pGa Tour: pnc championship, final round » golf channel 1:30 p.m. pGa Tour: pnc championship, final round » Wrc (ch. 4), WBAl (ch. 11) 1:30 p.m. pGa Tour: Q-School, final stage » golf channel SoccEr 7 a.m. french ligue 1: brest at nantes » bein sports 9 a.m. french ligue 1: rennes at Toulouse » bein sports 9 a.m. English premier league: brighton at arsenal » UsA network 11 a.m. french ligue 1: clermont at olympique marseille » bein sports 11:30 a.m. English premier league: manchester united at liverpool » Wrc (ch. 4), WBAl (ch. 11) 2:45 p.m. french ligue 1: paris Saint-Germain at lille » bein sports 1 3 p.m. french women9s league: paris Saint-Germain at paris fc » cBs sports network TEnnIS 11 a.m. ultimate Tennis Showdown, semifinals and final » tennis channel nba G lEaGuE 4 p.m. rio Grande Valley at austin » nBA tv womEn9S collEGE VollEyball 3 p.m. ncaa tournament, final: nebraska vs. Texas » WJlA (ch. 7), WMAr (ch. 2) FROM NEWS SERVICES AND STAFF REPORTS Sarah Andrews had 18 points as No. 10 Baylor handed No. 24 Miami its first loss of the season, rolling to a 75-57 victory in the Hall of Fame Series on Saturday in San Antonio. Baylor forced 15 turnovers and led for all but 94 seconds. <This is a big matchup for us,= Bears guard Darianna LittlepageBuggs said. <Preparation has been crazy. Just to be able to get out there and play and complete the mission, we9re feeling great right now.= Jada Walker added 14 points, Bella Fontleroy had 13 points and Yaya Felder had 12 for Baylor (9-0). Littlepage-Buggs had six points and 13 rebounds. Shayeann Day-Wilson had 12 points to pace Miami (8-1). l SOUTH CAROLINA 99, PRESBYTERIAN 29: Gamecocks Coach Dawn Staley had no worries about seeing freshman MiLaysia Fulwiley start at point guard while giving junior regular Raven Johnson a rest. Fulwiley, making just her second start, put any concerns to rest with her steady performance as she scored a team-high 18 points to spark top-ranked South Carolina to a blowout of the Blue Hose in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina is 10-0 for a third straight season as Fulwiley added seven rebounds, four assists, three steals and zero turnovers. Tilda Sjokvist led Presbyterian (8-4) with 15 points. l NORTH CAROLINA STATE 66, SOUTH FLORIDA 54: River Baldwin had 16 points and 11 rebounds, Aziaha James added 16 points, and the third-ranked Wolfpack downed the Bulls in Tampa. Madison Hayes and Zoe Brooks both scored 12 points for the Wolfpack (11-0). Brooks, coming off a triple-double, had seven rebounds and two assists. South Florida (7-4) got 11 points from Romi Levy. l IOWA 104, CLEVELAND STATE 75: Caitlin Clark scored 38 points and reached No. 9 on the all-time scoring list as the fourthranked Hawkeyes trampled the Vikings in the nightcap of a men9swomen9s doubleheader in Des Moines. Hannah Stuelke added 17 points for the Hawkeyes (11-1). The loss snapped Cleveland State9s nine-game winning streak. Mickayla Perdue led the Vikings (9-2) with 24 points. With a basket in the third quarter, Clark moved past former Iowa State player Ashley Joens (3,060 points) for ninth on the all-time scoring list. Clark9s career total stands at 3,079. l UTAH 96, SOUTHERN UTAH 60: Alisa Pili scored 20 points, leading five Utes in double figures, as No. 11 Utah handled the Thunderbirds in Cedar City. The Utes (9-2) got 15 points from Dasia Young. Kennady McQueen had 12 points, six assists, six rebounds and three steals. Megan Smith made 11 of 17 shots and scored 26 points for Southern Utah (3-6). l KANSAS STATE 79, NORTH FLORIDA 53: Aoka Lee scored a season-high 36 points on a near-perfect shooting night as the 12th-ranked Wildcats (10-1) overwhelmed the Ospreys in Manhattan, Kan. Kansas State led 20-13 after one quarter, then saw North Florida (4-8) close the deficit to 29-25 at the three-minute mark. But the Wildcats finished the half on an 8-0 run, the last five points coming from Lee. She scored 21 points in the first half and was perfect on nine shot attempts. Lee missed her first shot of the third quarter, then made her next five. She finished 15 for 17 from the field and 6 for 6 from the line. l CONNECTICUT 86, LOUISVILLE 62: Aubrey Griffin scored a season-high 25 points and Aaliyah Edwards added 22 for the 17th-ranked Huskies, who pulled away from the No. 18 Cardinals in Hartford, Conn. Griffin and Edwards combined to shoot 19 for 23 from the field for Connecticut, which earned its second straight win over a ranked team and is 2-3 against teams now in the Associated Press top 25. Louisville gave up a season high in points and saw its six-game winning streak halted. Paige Bueckers hit four threepointers and scored 20 points for the Huskies (7-3), recording a career-high five blocks. Kiki Jefferson had 20 points for the Cardinals (10-2). l SETON HALL 84, UNLV 54: Azana Baines had 23 points and 11 rebounds to help vault the Pirates to a rout of the 23rd-ranked Rebels in South Orange, N.J. It was the fourth straight win for Seton Hall (8-3), which jumped all over UNLV (9-1). After putting up just 21 points in the opening 20 minutes, UNLV scored 23 in the third quarter but couldn9t get defensive stops. The Pirates shot 73 percent in the third and 56 percent for the game. U-Va. stunned in final second Rachael Rose flirted with a triple-double, but it was her running bank shot with 0.4 seconds remaining that lifted Wofford to a 71-70 victory over Virginia in Charlottesville. Paris Clark and Olivia McGhee each scored 14 points for the Cavaliers (7-3), who outrebounded the Terriers 45-27, including 18-5 on the offensive end, but saw their three-game winning streak end. Rose finished with 21 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for the Terriers (7-4). l GEORGE WASHINGTON 46, HAMPTON 40: Essence Brown scored a game-high 17 points and Asjah Inniss finished with 14 points and 11 rebounds as the Revolutionaries overcame a poor shooting performance and 24 turnovers to edge the Pirates at Smith Center. George Washington (6-5) improved to 5-0 at home for the first time since the 2010-11 season despite shooting 35.4 percent. Camryn Hill led Hampton (0-8) with 14 points. l HOWARD 46, FLORIDA ATLANTIC 45: Kaiya Creek scored 12 points off the bench as the Bison (2-10) edged the Owls in Boca Raton, Fla. Mya Perry led all scorers with 19 points for Florida Atlantic (4-5). womEn9S collEGE baSkETball roundup No. 10 Bears deal No. 24 Hurricanes their first loss ronAld cortes/getty iMAges Yaya Felder (2) scored 12 points as Baylor improved to 9-0 with Saturday9s runaway victory over Miami in the Hall of Fame Series. BAylor 75, miAmi 57 ASSOCIATED PRESS Fletcher Loyer tied a career high with 27 points, Braden Smith added 26 and No. 3 Purdue beat No. 1 Arizona, 92-84, on Saturday in Indianapolis. Loyer hit 5 of 9 shots from three-point range, and Smith was 4 for 7 while falling one point shy of his career high. Zach Edey added 22 points and nine rebounds for the Boilermakers, with the 7-foot-4 all-American handling the middle while Loyer and Smith supplied the outside firepower in the Indy Classic. <To be able to have three guys play at that level offensively, I think, really puts defenses in a bind,= Purdue Coach Matt Painter said. The Boilermakers (10-1) picked up their fourth win over a ranked team while handing the Wildcats (8-1) their first loss. Purdue9s last victory over a top-ranked team was Nov. 25, 2000 4 when it knocked off Arizona, 72-69, in Indianapolis. Caleb Love scored 29 points and Keshad Johnson had 24 for the Wildcats. Oumar Ballo added 13 points. Loyer scored 18 and Smith 14 in the first half to help the Boilermakers take a 49-38 lead at the break. Purdue built its advantage to 67-52 before Arizona answered with an 11-0 run to close the deficit to 67-63 midway through the second half, but the Wildcats would get no closer than that. <I9m not trying to be the No. 1-ranked team in December,= Arizona Coach Tommy Lloyd said. l KANSAS 75, INDIANA 71: Kevin McCullar Jr. scored 21 points, including four crucial free throws in the final minute; Hunter Dickinson had 17 points and 14 rebounds; and the No. 2 Jayhawks (10-1) rallied in the second half to beat the Hoosiers (7-3) in Bloomington, Ind. l HOUSTON 70, TEXAS A&M 66: Emanuel Sharp finished with 21 points, L.J. Cryer added 17 and the No. 4 Cougars (11-0) held off the Aggies (7-4) at the Halal Guys Showcase in Houston. l MICHIGAN STATE 88, BAYLOR 64: Tyson Walker scored 18 of his 25 points in the first half to help build a huge lead, and the struggling Spartans (5-5) went on to stun the No. 6 Bears (9-1) in Detroit. l CREIGHTON 85, ALABAMA 82: Ryan Kalkbrenner came back from an early ankle injury to score 17 of his 19 points in the second half and lead the No. 8 Bluejays (9-2) past the Crimson Tide (6-4) in Omaha. l KENTUCKY 86, NORTH CAROLINA 83: Rob Dillingham scored 17 points, including two straight baskets to swing the momentum, and the No. 14 Wildcats (8-2) held on down the stretch to beat the No. 9 Tar Heels (7-3) at the CBS Sports Classic in Atlanta. l OKLAHOMA 81, GREEN BAY 47: Rivaldo Soares scored 13 points, and the No. 11 Sooners (10-0) overcame a sluggish start to roll past the Phoenix (5-7) in Norman, Okla. l MEMPHIS 79, CLEMSON 77: David Jones scored 16 of his 22 points in the second half, Jahvon Quinerly added 17 points and six assists, and host Memphis (8-2) dealt No. 13 Clemson (9-1) its first loss. l FLORIDA ATLANTIC 64, ST. BONAVENTURE 54: Johnell Davis scored 16 points and the No. 15 Owls (9-2) held off the Bonnies (7-3) in the Hall of Fame Classic in Springfield, Mass. l BYU 86, GEORGIA STATE 54: Richie Saunders scored a career-high 20 points as the No. 18 Cougars (10-1) beat the Panthers (4-6) in Provo, Utah, for their second straight victory. l TEXAS 96, LSU 85: Max Abmas had 20 points and seven assists, Tyrese Hunter added a season-high 19 points and the No. 19 Longhorns (8-2) defeated the Tigers (6-5) at the Halal Guys Showcase in Houston. l JAMES MADISON 88, HAMPTON 71: Xavier Brown matched a career high with 17 points off the bench to lead six players in double figures for the No. 20 Dukes (10-0) in a win over the Pirates (4-6) in Hampton, Va. l VIRGINIA 56, NORTHEASTERN 54: Reece Beekman scored 21 points, hitting a pair of free throws to tie the score before banking in a short jumper with 5.1 seconds left to lift the No. 22 Cavaliers (9-1) over the Huskies (4-7) at John Paul Jones Arena. l MIAMI 84, LA SALLE 77: Wooga Poplar overcame a slight ankle injury and scored a careerhigh 25 points to help the No. 24 Hurricanes (8-2) beat the Explorers (8-3) in Coral Gables, Fla. l NORTHWESTERN 56, DEPAUL 46: Nick Martinelli scored 16 points, and the No. 25 Wildcats (8-2) bounced back from a stunning loss to beat the Blue Demons (2-8) in Chicago. Hokies win third straight Lynn Kidd scored 17 points, and Virginia Tech (8-3) limited Vermont to 17 points in the first half of a 73-51 victory at Cassell Coliseum. The Catamounts (8-4) were scoreless until Aaron Deloney9s jumper more than six minutes into the game. By the time Nick Fiorillo got their second basket with 7:08 left, the Hokies led 26-4. Tyler Nickel scored 13 points and Hunter Cattoor added 10 for Virginia Tech, which has won three straight. l GEORGE MASON 62, LOYOLA MARYLAND 54: Keyshawn Hall had 17 points and 13 rebounds and Darius Maddox chipped in 13 points and two blocks to help the Patriots (8-2) beat the Greyhounds (1-10) at EagleBank Arena. l GEORGETOWN 72, NO - TRE DAME 68 (OT): Ismael Massoud hit a go-ahead threepointer, Supreme Cook preserved the lead with a blocked shot, and the Hoyas (7-4) edged the Fighting Irish (4-6) in overtime in South Bend, Ind. l VCU 87, TEMPLE 78: Zeb Jackson and Max Shulga both scored 19 points to help the host Rams (6-5) defeat the Owls (6-4) at Siegel Center. l RICHMOND 64, CHARLOTTE 56: Jordan King scored 14 points and Isaiah Bigelow added 12 points and nine rebounds as the Spiders (6-5) beat the visiting 49ers (5-5) at Robins Center. mEn9S collEGE baSkETball roundup Boilermakers win heavyweight battle vs. Wildcats AJ MAst/AssociAted Press Fletcher Loyer hit 5 of 9 shots from three-point range and tied a career high with 27 points for Purdue. Purdue 92, ArizonA 84 Golf Woods and his kids enjoy 8special9 outing Tiger Woods has never had a family outing quite like the PNC Championship on Saturday, even in the rain. He was competing with his 14-year-old son, Charlie, while his 16-year-old daughter, Sam, was on the bag as caddie for the first time. The only things missing were enough birdies. <It couldn9t have been any more special for us,= Woods said after the first of two rounds at the Ritz-Carlton Club in Orlando, where they beat the worst of the rain and fell behind 10 other teams. Matt Kuchar and son Cameron led the way with a 15- under-par 57, building a threeshot lead over the teams of Bernhard Langer, Vijay Singh, David Duval and Retief Goosen. Woods and his son were at 8- under 64, leaning on Charlie9s booming drives even while having to move back a set of tees, with Woods delivering most of the approach shots and neither converting enough birdie chances. <I drove the ball really good today,= Charlie said. <Didn9t miss a fairway and still managed to shoot 8 under. We just suck at putting.= That caused Woods to close his eyes and grin. <That sums it up right there,= he said. So much attention is on the similarities in their swings and other mannerisms, but the trash talking is not to be overlooked. Charlie Woods piped a drive on the par-5 fifth hole and waved it goodbye, as Justin Thomas could only watch and smile. The 14-year-old also hit a big drive on the 11th, some 65 yards short of the green, hit wedge to a few feet and turned and shrugged. . . . Louis Oosthuizen moved into position to win on the DP World Tour for the second straight week after making three eagles in a 7-under 65 to take the thirdround lead at the Mauritius Open in Bel-Ombre. Oosthuizen was at 14 under for the tournament and one shot clear of fellow South African Jacques De Villiers (68), with Laurie Canter (65) a further two strokes back in third. Oosthuizen9s remarkable round at La Réserve Golf Links included back-to-back eagles at Nos. 5 and 6 4 the latter coming when he pitched over a bunker before the ball rolled into the cup 4 and another eagle at the par-5 15th hole thanks to a long, uphill, right-to-left putt. baSEball Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr. won the 2023 Hank Aaron Awards presented by Major League Baseball to the most outstanding offensive performer in each league. The award is picked by fan balloting combined with votes from a panel of Hall of Famers and former winners. HockEy Marie-Philip Poulin scored the lone shootout goal and Ann-Renée Desbiens made 22 saves as the Canadian women9s team beat the United States, 3-2, in Sarnia, Ontario, to cut the Americans9 Rivalry Series lead to 3-1. <The game was such a backand-forth contest,= U.S. Coach John Wroblewski said. <It was a physical contest and a classic U.S.-Canada game.= wInTEr SporTS Dominik Paris is back. The Italian skier dominated a World Cup downhill in Val Gardena to claim his first victory in more than a year 4 and for Italy a first home win in the discipline in more than 20 years. The 34-year-old Paris punched the air and smiled broadly after crossing the line almost half a second faster than two-time defending downhill standings leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and then faced a lengthy wait in the leader9s chair. . . . Jasmine Flury claimed only her second World Cup win as the Swiss skier triumphed in a downhill race in Val d9Isere, France, while Sofia Goggia moved to the top of the discipline standings in the absence of Mikaela Shiffrin. Flury was 0.22 seconds ahead of compatriot Joana Haehlen and 0.24 faster than Austrian skier Cornelia Huetter in a race that was delayed because of a horrific crash for Stefanie Fleckenstein. 4 From news services kevin kolczynski/AssociAted Press Daughter Sam, 16, serves as the caddie as Tiger Woods plays with son Charlie, 14, on Saturday at the PNC Championship in Orlando.

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ M2 d3 the team reinstated Green in time for him to avoid missing any regular season action. The Warriors tolerated his wayward sin and hoped to smooth things over because they were desperate for toughness. Their failings in maintaining the roster have created an exaggerated need for Green and center Kevon Looney to anchor them in the post. They9re now paying a greater price for acting desperate than they may have if they had forced Green to deal with his problems 14 months ago. maybe the NBA9s decision will make Green change. maybe it won9t. Since Green punched Poole, the Warriors have gone 54-52 in the regular season. Poole was traded to the Washington Wizards during the offseason, and that young core is down to Kuminga and moody, both of whom seem like candidates to be attached to a big trade soon if the Warriors can9t turn around their season. Green9s future is in the hands of the NBA now, and the stakes are higher than ever. Golden State needs him to rebound. If he can9t, it will be hard to move on from an undersized power forward who turns 34 in march, has three seasons remaining on a $100 million contract and plays under heavy scrutiny from the league office. <The tone has obviously changed from any other suspension,= Curry told reporters. <Times have passed where we9re just here because we9re playing basketball. . . . You9ve got to take a step back and make sure everybody is right.= Green is not all right. He has been wrong for too long. The Warriors thought they were handling him well enough to preserve their dynasty. They didn9t realize they were stoking his rage. It was a disastrous miscalculation. Professional Basketball ASSOCIATED PRESS Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was undergoing surgery for a broken hip Saturday after he fell at a concert in Los Angeles. The NBA Hall of famer was attending a show friday night when he was injured. Paramedics at the undisclosed venue responded, and the 76-year-old was taken to ronald reagan UCLA medical Center. His business partner, Deborah morales, declined to provide a further update Saturday and referred only to a statement posted on Abdul-Jabbar9s social media. <We are all deeply appreciative of all the support for Kareem,= it said. Abdul-Jabbar was a key player on the Los Angeles Lakers9 teams during their <Showtime= era in the 1980s, leading them to five NBA championships. He was a six-time NBA mVP. Pistons drop 23rd straight Damian Lillard scored 33 points, Bobby Portis had a season-high 31, and the milwaukee Bucks trounced Detroit, 146-114, on Saturday in milwaukee to hand the Pistons their 23rd consecutive loss. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 22 points, eight rebounds and six assists in his first game since he scored a franchise-record 64 points Wednesday night against Indiana. Detroit matched the NBA9s third-longest skid within a season. The 1995-96 Vancouver Grizzlies, 1997-98 Denver Nuggets and 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats also lost 23 straight. The longest losing streak within a single season is shared by the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers, who both dropped 26 consecutive games. l HeaT 118, BULLs 116: Jimmy Butler hit a step-back jumper as time expired to lift host miami. Butler came up the left side of the floor, then went to the right, headed toward the lane and coolly hit the step-back over Coby White. Butler had 28 points to help miami split of a two-game home series with Chicago. Kevin Love added 22, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 18. Demar Derozan led Chicago with 27 points. l warriOrs 124, NeTs 120: Stephen Curry scored 12 straight fourth-quarter points on the way to 37, Klay Thompson added 24 points with back-toback timely three-pointers in the closing minutes, and Golden State snapped a three-game losing streak by prevailing in San francisco. Cam Thomas scored 41 points on 15-for-24 shooting with five three-pointers and Spencer Dinwiddie added 16 points and a season-best 14 assists for the Nets, who lost for the third time in four games during their fivegame swing to the West. l TiMBerwOLVes 127, PaCers 109: Karl-Anthony Towns scored a season-high 40 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Anthony Edwards had 37 points in minneapolis. Naz reid added 17 points for minnesota. The Timberwolves are 11-1 at home and tied with Boston for the NBA9s best record at 19-5. minnesota shot a season-high 55.8 percent from the field, including a season-best 60 percent (18 for 30) from three-point range. Bruce Brown and Aaron Nesmith each scored 17 points for the Pacers. l 76ers 135, HOrNeTs 82: Joel Embiid had 42 points and 15 rebounds, and visiting Philadelphia handed injury-depleted Charlotte its worst loss in franchise history. Tyrese maxey added 21 points for the 76ers, who shot out quickly when Embiid outscored the Hornets by himself in the first quarter and built a 29-point halftime lead. l CaVaLiers 127, HawKs 119: Jarrett Allen had 25 points and 14 rebounds and Donovan mitchell added 22 points and a career-high 13 assists for host Cleveland. The Cavaliers built a 23-point lead in the first half of their first game since they announced that starting power forward Evan mobley and all-star point guard Darius Garland probably will be out until february. nBa rounduP Lakers Hall of Famer breaks hip at a concert postseason ended. He made the league regret trusting that he had learned from his mistakes. So NBA Commissioner Adam Silver responded with a 25-game suspension to start this season, one that has left a playoff memphis Grizzlies team with one of the league9s worst records. While the cases of morant and Green are vastly different, the difficulty juggling justice, rehabilitation and a franchise9s hopes presents a similar conundrum. This time, the NBA should be motivated to make Green do extra to convince them he can play basketball without morphing into a pro wrestling villain. Green should have to sit for a painfully long time and complete thorough reentry criteria because everyone will look like indifferent 4 or, worse, weak 4 fools if Green makes a swift return and immediately reverts to uncivil behavior. for inspiration to stay the course, the league needs only to look at the Warriors9 mollification of nearly every Green controversy. Again and again, Golden State has tiptoed around managing him, hopeful to lower his temperature but careful not to chide the intensity out of him. The Warriors needed to rebuke his rage. Instead, their softer methods merely placated Green and failed to address most of what seethed inside him. for competitive reasons, the Warriors thought they were being rational. Penalize him too harshly, and they penalize themselves, both during his absence and afterward if he overlooked. He is allowed more leeway than any player, yet he still lives in the principal9s office. After every punishment, the NBA tried to warn Green, articulating that he was being punished for repeated inappropriate behavior. After every punishment, Green showed fleeting remorse and then scoffed when asked whether he would change. Just like those nights when he keeps badgering referees even after he has received one technical foul, Green refused to stop until someone dared to stop him. In theory, he won9t be able to play basketball again until he works on himself and gets the proper assistance to resolve some of his aggressive impulsivity and anger management issues. We all know, however, that such a process takes more time than Golden State, 10-14 and reeling entering Saturday, has to salvage this season. He should be gone at least two weeks, but after his absence reaches eight games or so, the benchmark probably will be downgraded to an evaluation of whether he has done just enough to stem the bad optics that rankle the league. Yet if there is any lesson from the Ja morant gun-flashing saga, it9s the ineffectiveness of superficial discipline. morant went away last season to work on his issues, supposedly, and he returned eight games later, right on time for the playoffs, only to engage in more social media stupidity as soon as his Brewer frOm d1 Jerry BreWer By tolerating Green9s rage, Warriors hurt themselves Iguodala and Shaun Livingston retired. Equipped with three lottery picks across the 2020 and 2021 drafts, the Warriors were unable to find a star. The highest of those picks, 2020 No. 2 overall selection James Wiseman, played just 60 games for Golden State before the organization traded him. The inability to meet a championship standard in replenishing the roster has left the Warriors overly dependent on Curry, Green and Klay Thompson, who are deep into their 30s. Curry remains a superstar, but Thompson has been an inconsistent Splash Brother who also struggles defensively. And Green can9t stay on the court because he would rather deliver cheap shots than grab rebounds. When Green sucker-punched Poole in October 2022, the Warriors needed to hammer him. It seemed like a critical moment for him and for a franchise attempting the tricky task of chasing championships and developing the young core of Poole, Wiseman, Jonathan Kuminga and moses moody. But returned a more docile athlete. As a 6-foot-6 post player in a sport being overtaken by taller, skinnier and more skilled big men, Green thrives with his mind and physicality. He is a long-armed power forward who often runs the Warriors9 complex read-andreact offense and defends just about every position. He is a winner who doesn9t need to score to make an impact, an invaluable and unselfish four-time all-star. Green, who was a second-round pick, still competes with an underdog9s indignation, which transforms the Warriors from a Stephen Curry-led offensive spectacle to a steely, ornery group of cutthroats. The Warriors were once so talented, deep and full of veterans that they could absorb some of Green9s misconduct. Over the years, time has diminished them. In 2019, their most dominant phase ended when Kevin Durant left after three seasons. Salary cap restrictions and the luxury tax made it difficult to acquire highquality role players. Stabilizing influences such as Andre nATe BillingS/ASSociATed preSS The NBa suspended draymond Green indefinitely after his latest violent act: swinging wildly at the head of an opponent Tuesday. growing list of injuries that have hampered the 30-year-old in recent seasons. He shut down his 2021-22 season in early february after having wrist surgery to repair a torn scapholunate ligament and then missed 22 games in the 2022-23 campaign before the struggling Wizards shut him down march 22 with 10 games left. for Washington, his absence Sunday means there will be one fewer titanic scorer on the floor to defend. Beal is averaging 14.7 points while shooting 44.9 percent in his limited action; Durant, who leads the Suns at 30.7 points on 51.8 percent shooting, and Booker, averaging 28.1 points on 48.4 percent shooting, will be bigger problems. <Our approach won9t change,= Wizards Coach Wes Unseld Jr. said of Beal9s absence. <Just like with all good players, we9ve got to give them different looks, show them a crowd, try to guard without fouling. make them work and earn everything they get.= Washington again will be without Johnny Davis (calf), Landry Shamet (rib) and Delon Wright (knee), though all three guards traveled on the road trip. wizards frOm d1 Unseld is hoping to replicate the success Sunday that the Wizards had in a friday night win over the Indiana Pacers, specifically with how attentive his team was to defending star guard Tyrese Haliburton. He finished with 19 points on 7-for-17 shooting 4 not an extraordinarily poor performance but below his season average of 25.7 points. <It was more the game-plan discipline and less a specific coverage I thought we executed really well,= Unseld said. <. . . Just that mind-set of doing what9s necessary at every moment, each and every time you have a chance to do it.= Beal9s next chance to see the Wizards will come feb. 4 in Washington. WizardS9 nexT Three at Phoenix Suns Sunday 8 Monumental 2 at Sacramento Kings Monday 10 Monumental at Portland Trail Blazers Thursday 10 Monumental 2 Radio: WTEM (980 AM) or WJFK (106.7 FM) Start to Beal9s Suns tenure hindered by injuries MATT York/ASSociATed preSS Bradley Beal, center, will miss the suns9 game against the wizards on sunday with a sprained ankle. 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d4 ez m2 the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 texans (7-6) at titans (5-8), 1 p.m. » Houston9s defense struggled, giving up 301 passing yards to the Jets9 zach Wilson, while on offense, it lost wide receiver nico Collins to a calf injury and quarterback C.J. Stroud to a concussion. Case keenum probably will be the 56th quarterback to start in the nFl this season with Stroud not cleared to play. 49ers (10-3) at cardinals (3-10), 4:05 p.m. » maybe it9s not outrageously hyperbolic to say <Brock Purdy= and <Joe montana= in the same sentence anymore. Purdy has connected on 70 percent or more of his passes in seven consecutive games, joining montana (whose mark of eight in 1989 would seem reachable for Purdy against arizona), Sam Bradford (seven, 2016) and Drew Brees (seven, 2016) as the only quarterbacks to do so in seven or more consecutive games. cowboys (10-3) at bills (7-6), 4:25 p.m. (fox) » Dallas is on a fivegame roll and has a rookie kicker (Brandon aubrey) who is 30 for 30 on field goal attempts and was successful from 45, 50, 59 and 60 yards against the eagles. no kicker had made two from 59 or beyond in a game before. That may be important given that each of Buffalo9s losses has been by six or fewer points (with two in overtime). ravens (10-3) at Jaguars (8-5), 8:20 p.m. (nbc) » Odell Beckham Jr. is emerging as a productive receiver for Baltimore with mark andrews absent. Beckham caught four passes for 97 yards, including three for more than 15 yards, in the overtime victory against his former rams teammates. eagles (10-3) at seahawks (6-7), 8:15 p.m., monday (abc, espn) » Philadelphia has been outscored 75-32 by San Francisco and Dallas, its direct competition for the nFC9s no. 1 seed, and has given up 34, 42 and 33 points in its past three games. in those games, opponents have scored on 19 of their 30 possessions (13 touchdowns, six field goals). 4 Cindy Boren falcons (6-7) at panthers (1-12), 1 p.m. » atlanta has lost five onescore games, and younghoe koo 4 the league9s most accurate kicker with one miss going into last week9s game 4 missed field goals from 50 and 52 yards in the 29-25 loss to Tampa Bay. bears (5-8) at browns (8-5), 1 p.m. » in five games since he was traded to Chicago, defensive end montez Sweat has a team-best 3.5 sacks and helped the Bears rise to become a top-five defense (total defense, pass defense and takeaways) over that span. buccaneers (6-7) at packers (6-7), 1 p.m. » in the Packers9 loss to the Giants on a walk-off field goal, an opponent rushed for more than 200 yards against them for the fourth time this season. Saquon Barkley had 86 yards on 20 carries with two touchdowns. Jets (5-8) at dolphins (9-4), 1 p.m. » miami could have become the second aFC team to get to 10 wins, but the Titans9 rise from the crypt (with a chance of winning as low as 0.4 percent when they trailed 27-13 with 3:08 left, according to next Gen Stats) was a monday night shocker. miami9s loss no doubt left the Chiefs and ravens rejoicing in the tightly packed aFC battle for the no. 1 seed. chiefs (8-5) at patriots (3-10), 1 p.m. (fox) » rashee rice and Travis kelce were targeted on 20 of Patrick mahomes9s 43 pass attempts (hauling in 13 for 155 of mahomes9s 271 passing yards against Buffalo), with no other receiver targeted more than four times. Seven times this season, kansas City has failed to score more than 20 points in a game. as for the Bill Belichick coaching watch, new england plays road games in Denver and Buffalo before the season finale at home against the Jets. giants (5-8) at saints (6-7), 1 p.m. » Just when the Giants need a folk hero, here comes Tommy DeVito. among his accomplishments: He9s the first undrafted rookie quarterback in nFl history to win three straight souTh W L T PcT. PF Pa Atlanta 6 7 0 .462 251 269 New Orleans 6 7 0 .462 285 261 Tampa Bay 6 7 0 .462 262 270 Carolina 1 12 0 .077 197 341 NorTh W L T PcT. PF Pa Detroit 10 4 0 .714 382 331 Minnesota 7 7 0 .500 290 269 Green Bay 6 7 0 .462 280 267 Chicago 5 8 0 .385 270 309 WEsT W L T PcT. PF Pa San Francisco 10 3 0 .769 380 205 L.A. Rams 6 7 0 .462 299 290 Seattle 6 7 0 .462 280 318 Arizona 3 10 0 .231 230 331 EasT W L T PcT. PF Pa Miami 9 4 0 .692 411 294 Buffalo 7 6 0 .538 348 244 N.Y. Jets 5 8 0 .385 201 257 New England 3 10 0 .231 169 272 souTh W L T PcT. PF Pa Jacksonville 8 5 0 .615 312 290 Indianapolis 8 6 0 .571 344 343 Houston 7 6 0 .538 287 279 Tennessee 5 8 0 .385 241 282 NorTh W L T PcT. PF Pa Baltimore 10 3 0 .769 361 218 Cleveland 8 5 0 .615 289 272 Cincinnati 8 6 0 .571 307 311 Pittsburgh 7 7 0 .500 223 280 WEsT W L T PcT. PF Pa Kansas City 8 5 0 .615 292 228 Denver 7 7 0 .500 304 351 Las Vegas 6 8 0 .429 265 280 L.A. Chargers 5 9 0 .357 303 345 EasT W L T PcT. PF Pa Dallas 10 3 0 .769 421 233 Philadelphia 10 3 0 .769 342 321 N.Y. Giants 5 8 0 .385 183 314 Washington 4 9 0 .308 261 395 other games donaLd9s 70 pressures in the 10th season of his career, los angeles rams defensive tackle aaron Donald remains a force on the line, with 70 total pressures and a 22.1 percent win rate, both tops among interior linemen, according to Pro Football Focus. He notched eight pressures in each of the rams9 past two games, a win over the Cleveland Browns in Week 13 and an overtime loss to the Baltimore ravens in Week 14. He is listed as questionable with groin tightness. 102.2 passer ratIng sInce Week 11 after a slow start and injuries to his hip and thumb, quarterback matthew Stafford has turned around his season and jump-started the rams9 offense. Since the team9s bye in Week 10, he has recorded a 102.2 passer rating (sixth among quarterbacks in that span) and thrown 11 touchdown passes and two interceptions. He also has 16 completions of 20 yards or more, the fourth most among quarterbacks in the past four weeks. 3.56 yards after contact kyren Williams, the rams9 second-year running back, is having a breakout season with 801 rushing yards on 159 carries. more impressive: He9s averaging 3.6 yards after contact, the third most in the nFl. Williams could be a problem for Washington9s defense, which just lost linebacker Jamin Davis for the rest of the season because of a shoulder injury. The group has struggled in all three phases, with a leaky secondary and a limited pass rush since the trades of montez Sweat and Chase young. The Commanders have allowed 107 explosive plays (a play of at least 16 yards passing or 12 yards rushing), tied for the most in the nFl. Davis had his ups and downs, playing primarily weakside linebacker next to Cody Barton, but his speed and athleticism showed up regularly, especially against the run. His 25 run stops are tied for 15th among linebackers, according to Pro Football Focus. 4 Nicki Jhabvala mark J. Terrill/aSSOCiaTeD PreSS Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald isn9t slowing down in his 10th season, pressuring quarterbacks more than any interior lineman. Washington Commanders (4-9) at Los Angeles Rams (6-7) Time: 4:05 p.m. TV: CBS. Radio: WBIG (100.3 FM). Line: Rams by 61/2. For in-game analysis, live stats and discussion, read our live updates at postsports.com. by the numbers NFL week 15 afc nfc commanders rams 1 Jahan Dotson WR 5-11 182 2 Dyami Brown WR 6-0 195 3 Byron Pringle WR 6-1 203 4 Curtis Samuel WR 5-11 195 5 Tress Way P 6-1 220 6 Joey Slye K 5-11 213 8 Brian Robinson Jr. RB 6-1 228 12 Jacoby Brissett QB 6-4 235 13 Emmanuel Forbes Jr. CB 6-0 180 14 Sam Howell QB 6-1 220 17 Terry McLaurin WR 6-0 210 18 Jonathan Williams RB 6-0 217 20 Quan Martin DB 6-0 195 23 Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB 5-11 224 24 Antonio Gibson RB 6-2 220 25 Benjamin St-Juste CB 6-3 200 26 Tariq Castro-Fields CB 6-1 197 29 Kendall Fuller CB 5-11 198 31 Kamren Curl S 6-2 198 32 Terrell Burgess S 5-11 202 34 Christian Holmes CB 6-1 205 35 Percy Butler S 6-0 191 36 Kyu Blu Kelly CB 6-0 193 40 Alex Armah RB 6-1 255 41 Jabril Cox LB 6-3 235 47 Khaleke Hudson LB 6-0 220 50 Andre Jones Jr. DE 6-5 258 51 David Mayo LB 6-2 240 54 Camaron Cheeseman LS 6-4 237 55 KJ Henry DE 6-4 255 56 Jalen Harris DE 6-4 257 57 Cody Barton LB 6-2 237 59 Joshua Pryor DE 6-4 280 61 Julian Good-Jones G 6-5 313 63 Nick Gates C 6-5 312 69 Tyler Larsen C 6-4 335 71 Andrew Wylie G/T 6-6 309 72 Charles Leno Jr. T 6-3 302 73 Trent Scott T 6-5 320 75 Chris Paul G 6-4 324 76 Sam Cosmi T 6-6 309 78 Cornelius Lucas T 6-8 327 80 Curtis Hodges TE 6-8 240 82 Logan Thomas TE 6-6 250 83 Jamison Crowder WR 5-9 177 85 Cole Turner TE 6-6 240 86 Mitchell Tinsley WR 6-1 205 87 John Bates TE 6-6 259 91 John Ridgeway III DT 6-5 321 93 Jonathan Allen DT 6-3 300 94 Daron Payne DT 6-3 320 95 Casey Toohill DE 6-5 254 96 James Smith-Williams DE 6-4 265 98 Phidarian Mathis DT 6-4 312 roster offense QB Matthew Stafford Carson Wentz RB Kyren Williams Royce Freeman WR Cooper Kupp Demarcus Robinson WR Puka Nacua Ben Skowronek WR Tutu Atwell Austin Trammell TE Tyler Higbee Davis Allen LT Alaric Jackson Joe Noteboom LG Steve Avila Tremayne Anchrum C Coleman Shelton Brian Allen RG Kevin Dotson Joe Noteboom RT Rob Havenstein Joe Noteboom defense and specIaL teams DE Jonah Williams Desjuan Johnson NT Bobby Brown III Kobie Turner DE Aaron Donald Larrell Murchison LB Byron Young Nick Hampton LB Ernest Jones Christian Rozeboom LB Troy Reeder Jake Hummel LB Michael Hoecht Keir Thomas CB Ahkello Witherspoon Cobie Durant SS Jordan Fuller Russ Yeast FS John Johnson III Quentin Lake CB Derion Kendrick Tre Tomlinson K Lucas Havrisik P Ethan Evans H Ethan Evans PR Austin Trammell Puka Nacua KR Austin Trammell Kyren Williams LS Carson Tinker depth chart offense QB Sam Howell Jacoby Brissett RB Antonio Gibson Chris Rodriguez Jr. WR Terry McLaurin Byron Pringle WR Jahan Dotson Dyami Brown WR Curtis Samuel Jamison Crowder TE Logan Thomas John Bates LT Charles Leno Jr. Cornelius Lucas LG Chris Paul Nick Gates C Tyler Larsen Nick Gates RG Sam Cosmi Trent Scott RT Andrew Wylie Cornelius Lucas defense and specIaL teams DE KJ Henry Jalen Harris DT Daron Payne John Ridgeway DT Jonathan Allen Phidarian Mathis DE Casey Toohill Andre Jones Jr. LB Khaleke Hudson David Mayo LB Cody Barton Jabril Cox CB Kendall Fuller Tariq Castro-Fields CB Emmanuel Forbes Jr. Christian Holmes SS Kamren Curl FS Percy Butler Terrell Burgess CB Benjamin St-Juste Quan Martin K Joey Slye P Tress Way H Tress Way PR Jamison Crowder Jahan Dotson KR Antonio Gibson Byron Pringle LS Camaron Cheeseman depth chart Carson Tinker LS 6-0 233 0 Byron Young OLB 6-2 250 1 Derion Kendrick DB 6-0 190 2 Russ Yeast DB 5-10 195 4 Jordan Fuller DB 6-2 203 5 Tutu Atwell WR 5-9 165 6 Tre Tomlinson DB 5-9 180 8 Lucas Havrisik K 6-2 188 9 Matthew Stafford QB 6-3 220 10 Cooper Kupp WR 6-2 208 11 Carson Wentz QB 6-5 237 14 Cobie Durant DB 5-11 180 15 Demarcus Robinson WR 6-1 203 16 Tyler Johnson WR 6-1 205 17 Puka Nacua WR 6-2 205 18 Ben Skowronek WR 6-3 224 21 Zach Evans RB 5-11 202 23 Kyren Williams RB 5-9 194 24 Royce Freeman RB 6-0 238 25 Jason Taylor II DB 6-0 204 31 Nick Hampton OLB 6-3 235 32 Ochaun Mathis OLB 6-5 260 35 Jacob Hummel LB 6-1 235 37 Quentin Lake DB 6-1 201 38 Shaun Jolly DB 5-9 180 42 Ethan Evans P 6-3 231 43 John Johnson III DB 6-0 209 44 Ahkello Witherspoon DB 6-2 195 52 Larrell Murchison DT 6-2 297 53 Ernest Jones IV LB 6-2 230 55 Brian Allen OL 6-2 303 56 Christian Rozeboom LB 6-2 230 59 Troy Reeder ILB 6-3 245 65 Coleman Shelton OL 6-4 299 69 Kevin Dotson OL 6-4 321 70 Joe Noteboom OL 6-5 321 71 Warren McClendon Jr. OL 6-4 300 72 Tremayne Anchrum Jr. OL 6-2 314 73 Steve Avila OL 6-3 332 77 Alaric Jackson OL 6-7 285 79 Rob Havenstein OL 6-8 330 81 Austin Trammell WR 5-10 185 87 Davis Allen TE 6-6 245 88 Brycen Hopkins TE 6-4 245 89 Tyler Higbee TE 6-6 255 90 Earnest Brown IV DE 6-5 270 91 Kobie Turner NT 6-2 288 92 Jonah Williams DE 6-5 275 94 Desjuan Johnson DE 6-3 252 95 Bobby Brown III NT 6-4 324 96 Keir Thomas OLB 6-2 275 97 Michael Hoecht OLB 6-4 310 99 Aaron Donald DT 6-1 280 roster Week 1 at Commanders 20, Cardinals 16 Week 2 Commanders 35, at Broncos 33 Week 3 Bills 37, at Commanders 3 Week 4 at eagles 34, Commanders 31 (OT) Week 5 Bears 40, at Commanders 20 Week 6 Commanders 24, at Falcons 16 Week 7 at Giants 14, Commanders 7 Week 8 eagles 38, at Commanders 31 Week 9 Commanders 20, at Patriots 17 Week 10 at Seahawks 29, Commanders 26 Week 11 Giants 31, at Commanders 19 Week 12 at Cowboys 45, Commanders 10 Week 13 Dolphins 45, at Commanders 15 Week 14 Bye Week 15 at rams 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Week 16 at Jets Dec. 24, 1 p.m. (CBS) Week 17 vs. 49ers Dec. 31, 1 p.m. (Fox) Week 18 vs. cowboys Jan. 6 or 7; date, time and TV TBD scheduLe starts without an interception, the first undrafted rookie quarterback in nFl history with a 100-plus passer rating in three straight starts and the first Giants quarterback to win three straight starts with a 100-plus rating and zero interceptions since Fran Tarkenton in 1970. improbably, the Giants are in the nFC playoff picture after winning their third game in a row monday. kamil krzaCzynSki/aSSOCiaTeD PreSS Montez Sweat, left, has been the dominant pass rusher Chicago needed since it acquired him from Washington at the trade deadline.

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ su D5 stadium. moore could have the most to lose if fedEx field isn9t replaced with a gleaming, multibillion-dollar stadium and a mixed-use development to attract year-round activity in the state. moore has called his early efforts to persuade the team to stay in Landover <very aggressive.= <Nothing about what we saw this week with the Wizards and the Capitals changes how we will continue to aggressively pursue a continued relationship with the Commanders,= moore said in a radio appearance on 106.7 the fan on friday. In a statement Saturday, Carter Elliott IV, a spokesman for moore, said the governor was <committed to continuing= the <long-standing partnership= with the Commanders. A more limited competition for the stadium would also help D.C. because, as Ganis and Hyra pointed out, the city has a ceiling on what it can offer to the Commanders. <Bowser may not have much more to give them,= Ganis said. <Interestingly, I think Congress [which can reject or modify D.C.9s budget] might be more inclined to help with a football stadium than the arena. People still remember what the old redskins meant to the city and to the politicians and to the people who would use the stadium to bring guests and things like that. There9s still memory of that when it was the only game in town.= others with knowledge of the Commanders9 plans have warned that funding and ancillary developments are parts of the equation but certainly are not the sole determinants of the location of their future stadium. In short: It9s about more than money. Barry svrluga, Laura Vozzella, gregory s. schneider and Michael Brice-saddler contributed to this report. NFL week 15 The bill may ultimately be rewritten as a land transfer, Perry said. City officials expect the bill to pass <early next year,= a spokesperson for the mayor9s office said. A spokesperson for the House oversight Committee, which has jurisdiction over the bill, did not respond to a request for comment. After the splashy monumental announcement Wednesday morning, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (r) was asked if Virginia would still pursue the Commanders. <We9re talking about basketball and hockey, a tremendous organization,= he said of monumental. <The Commanders are going to have to decide what they9re going to do. of course, we would engage in that discussion, but this is where our focus has been, and I9m so excited that it was able to come together in an announcement that truly reflects something that will be one-of-akind for the world.= The cost of landing the Capitals and Wizards 4 $1.35 billion in state and local funds 4 could make Virginia less inclined to pursue an NfL team and help fund a multibillion-dollar stadium. The arena might also <diminish the market viability= of an NfL stadium because the commonwealth wouldn9t want to build a competing stadium-anchored, mixed-use development, said Terry Clower, director of the Center for regional Analysis at George mason University. But Ganis argued monumental9s potential move could actually make it easier for Virginia to land the Commanders. <Virginia has put together a ownership group has been careful not to indicate a preference between jurisdictions. <It9s all developing,= the person with direct knowledge of the Commanders9 stadium search said. <obviously, D.C. needs a sports team. They need more than one sports team.= D.C.9s pursuit of the Commanders is stuck in Congress. House oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (r-Ky.) introduced a bill in July that would give D.C. greater control over the rfK site and make it a realistic option for the team. In late September 4 despite significant debate over whether the District should be allowed to use public funds to redevelop it into a stadium 4 the bill advanced from the committee. But the legislation has stalled. In october, the House spent weeks without a speaker, and more recently, House committees with jurisdiction over the bill have discussed changes, such as which federal agency would own the land or take on administrative functions, according to two people with knowledge of the legislative effort, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations. The House broke for the year Thursday without advancing the bill further. Comer introduced the rfK bill as an extension and amendment of the city9s lease of the site with the National Park Service, which is slated to end in 2038 and restricts land usage to sports, recreation and entertainment. CoMMAnDers from D1 Monumental deal affects Commanders9 prospects wary of asking constituents to support the funding of another sports stadium. Two Virginia legislators, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations, said they didn9t believe it would be possible for the state to land the Commanders as well. But both said the Youngkin administration didn9t frame monumental and the Commanders as an either-or proposition. If Virginia9s interest or negotiating power is diminished, that would help the other two jurisdictions. maryland Gov. Wes moore (D) has already begun to make his case for keeping the Commanders in Prince George9s County, and he also has said he9s willing to provide public funds for a new Yards in 1992. Three years later, the NfL approved the relocation of the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore as a new franchise, the ravens. This year, the ravens renewed their lease at m&T Bank Stadium for 15 years, keeping them there through at least the 2037 season. An increase in bond authorization from the state allowed the mSA to provide $600 million to both the ravens and the orioles for stadium improvements. The ravens announced this month that they plan to use $430 million of their allocated funds for a multiyear renovation project. Now, even though Virginia legislators are more open to working with the Commanders following the departure of former owner Daniel Snyder, they might be structure to help support the development of new sports facilities,= Ganis said. <It has crossed that line where they9ve made the decision, this is important to the community, to the state. They9ve come up with funding sources and broad parameters of a deal. When you9ve done it once, it9s a lot easier to do it a second time. We can use the example of maryland for that.= In 1986, two years after Jim Irsay moved the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis, the maryland General Assembly formed the maryland Stadium Authority to try to land an expansion NfL team. The authority, which issued tax-exempt bonds to finance its operations, negotiated a longterm lease to retain the orioles and open oriole Park at Camden Craig hudsoN for the washiNgtoN Post Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said his efforts to keep the Commanders in Landover are <very aggressive.= would be a worthy winner. Prescott9s average throw travels 8.6 yards past the line of scrimmage, per Pro football focus, which ranks 13th in the league. Purdy is right behind him at 8.5. five years ago, Prescott9s average depth of target would have ranked 18th. Ten years ago, it would have been 27th. The stylistic differences in quarterbacks are enough for a unique non-quarterback to nudge the mVP window open. Hill is doing things that don9t make sense, things that scramble the established context of professional football. Third and seven is the bane of offensive coaches. Bill Walsh once said that when he tried to fall asleep at night, it was what play to call on third and seven that kept him awake. This season, on third downs with between seven and nine yards to go, the Dolphins have thrown Hill eight passes. He has caught six, all for first downs and two for touchdowns, with an average of 26.7 yards per reception. Sixty-nine of Hill9s 97 receptions have gained a first down, most in the NfL. The gap between Hill and second place is larger than the gap between second and 10th place. This season, the Dolphins have frequently blown out opponents, which prompts them to either preserve Hill or run the ball to drain the clock. Despite mostly taking the fourth quarter off, Hill has been the NfL9s most prolific wideout. If you count only what Hill has done in the first three quarters, he still leads the NfL with 1,429 receiving yards. That is 171 yards clear of second-place A.J. Brown. As it stands, Hill has 1,542 receiving yards heading into miami9s showdown against the New York Jets on Sunday. The stats of prolific receivers typically balloon in the fourth quarter, when pass rushers wear down and trailing offenses pass to come back. of Brown9s 1,258 receiving yards this season, 348 (27.7 percent) have come in fourth quarters. When Calvin Johnson set the receiving yardage record in 2012 for the 4-12 Detroit Lions, 31.9 percent of his 1,964 yards came in the fourth quarter. It9s 7.3 percent for Hill this year. And yet Hill was outgaining Johnson9s 2012 pace, 123.4 yards per game to 122.8, before monday night9s injury limited him. Hill is now averaging 118.6 yards, which ranks fifth most all-time. When Hill returned in the third quarter of monday night9s game, he caught a 25-yard pass at the Tennessee 6-yard line. The crowd at Hard rock Stadium chanted, <m-V-P! m-V-P!= most years, it would have sounded absurd. But this is not a normal season, and Hill is nothing close to a normal player. other position, not just in football but in all professional sports. But they are more reliant on the skill players around them. The two best quarterbacks this season 4 and the betting favorites for mVP 4 are the San francisco 49ers9 Brock Purdy and the Dallas Cowboys9 Dak Prescott. If the season ended today, either defensive coordinators have defused long passes with deep safeties, more athletic, bettertrained pass rushers have further forced quarterbacks to throw quicker, shorter passes. Quarterbacks leaguewide are averaging 10.8 yards per completion, the lowest ever. They still matter much more than any way he contorts coverage, opens space and forces the defense to devote resources to him. Even when the Dolphins handed off, the absence of defensive attention to Hill made them less effective. Hill is operating in a climate that has slightly flattened the influence of quarterbacks. While underrated understanding of defensive coverage. He effectively allows the Dolphins9 offense to play on a larger field than any other team9s. When the Dolphins9 offense sputtered without Hill on monday night, it was not just because it missed his production. more crucially, miami missed the Quarterbacks have won the past 10 NfL mVP awards and 15 of the past 16, and their monopolization of the honor is utterly justified. Within the offensive environment created by rule changes and modern strategy, the position9s preeminence is inherent. In 999 seasons out of 1,000, it would be folly even to consider the candidacy of a non-quarterback. But the collision of stylistic trends and the outlandish impact of miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill make it necessary. Hill is a one-in-a-thousand player, and this might be a onein-a-thousand season. Hill is the player most responsible for the AfC9s highestscoring offense, an attack that fell into disarray monday night against the Tennessee Titans when he was sidelined by, and then intermittently played through, an ankle injury suffered in the first quarter. With a return to health, Hill will challenge the record for receiving yards in a season and might not need a 17th game to break it. But his statistical production constitutes a fraction of his mVP case. In the spring of 2022, not long after he was hired to coach the Dolphins, mike mcDaniel learned the Kansas City Chiefs had opened their minds to trading Hill. mcDaniel could barely contain himself. He went to General manager Chris Grier with impetuous, only half-joking advice: Give the Chiefs anything they ask for. <I quite honestly thought he was one of the untouchable guys that you couldn9t get,= mcDaniel recalled in an interview with <The Dan LeBatard Show= in the summer of 2022. <When he comes in and tells me that the Chiefs have talked to him, I said, 8Chris, that9s one of the only nonquarterbacks where you do whatever it takes.9 = mcDaniel understood Hill was an outlier: a non-quarterback who could manipulate the defense on every snap. In recent seasons, defenses have decimated explosive plays by deploying multiple deep safeties in a shelllike formation. Hill may be the one player who can break that strategy, running past defenders and opening giant swaths of space underneath the deep routes he runs. Speed matters because it alters the geometry of the field. A fast offensive player enlarges the space a defense must cover, and a fast defensive player shrinks the space in which an offense can operate. Hill is the fastest player in the NfL, and he reaches his top speed immediately, with full control of his body and an Dolphins9 Hill is rare non-QB who could snare MVP award On the NFL adam Kilgore JoNathaN NewtoN/the washiNgtoN Post Tyreek Hill9s blazing speed and unique ability to manipulate defenses have made him the cornerstone of the AFC9s highest-scoring offense.

d6 eZ M2 the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 help himself.= DePaul, who has been evaluating quarterbacks for a generation, gave Flacco a <functional starter= grade, which might not sound like much but eliminates a good chunk of the guys under center these days. If Flacco can curtail turnovers, there is every reason to believe the Browns can hold on to a wild-card spot, although they would need a lot of help to catch the Ravens atop the AFC North and take this Hollywood script to utterly preposterous levels. Speaking of which, don9t overlook a Week 17 meeting with the Jets, who have gotten mostly miserable quarterback play and who operate close to Flacco9s New Jersey home. Flacco has been demonstratively better than many quarterbacks 4 including all three who have attempted to replace Aaron Rodgers in New York. But you don9t get to be a Jets backup these days unless Rodgers himself gives the sign of approval, and he was apparently committed to getting paychecks for his buddy Tim Boyle, the aforementioned former U-Conn. quarterback. New York9s loss was Cleveland9s gain, and one of those teams now has a legitimate shot at playing postseason ball. Regardless, Flacco9s story is far from over; he maintains retirement isn9t on his mind, and he9s loving the fact that some of his kids are old enough to appreciate what he does for a living, even if they bust his chops about it. <We9ve talked about it, and this isn9t a temporary thing for him,= Linta said. <He9s going to play another year or two. He feels great; you can see he9s still more than athletic enough to move around and make plays. He9s loving this.= Maybe it will be convincing enough to make Linta9s job a little easier finding a spot for the veteran in 2024, when the Jets will 4 again 4 need a backup quarterback. history. It even comes with sick burns from the eldest of the Flacco brood about his dad9s occasional hiccups. <My oldest son, the first thing he said was, 8Where were you throwing that ball?9 = Flacco quipped Wednesday during his weekly meeting with the Cleveland media. < 8Where were you throwing that pick?9 = The dad jokes write themselves sometimes. But there is nothing corny about Flacco9s play. Always a believer in the seam shot to his tight ends, he has unlocked hulking David Njoku, who had a season-high 91 receiving yards Sunday and matched his season total with two touchdown catches. Wide receiver Elijah Moore, a bit player most of the season who teamed with Flacco in New York, went over 60 yards for the first time this year when Flacco took over. And teams must now respect Amari Cooper9s deep speed again, especially on play-action looks, with Flacco seemingly losing little of his arm strength and ever willing to push the ball downfield. Guess which team leads the NFL in pass attempts over the past four weeks, with 15 (!) more than any other club? Yup, Flacco9s Browns. <He9s been training and putting in the work on his own; I can tell by the tape,= said longtime NFL assistant coach and executive Bobby DePaul, who has evaluated Flacco in his consulting role for SumerSports, a quantitative analysis firm specializing in football. <He9s in the right place at the right time 4 great defense with enough talent to be balanced on offense. <His arm still looks the part, and he9s healthy and moving well when he has to run around. He has a very good command of that offense 4 being a veteran and taking what the defense is giving him and not trying to be a hero. . . . If he just stays within himself he9ll be fine, but he may not be able to anything going. Nothing.= Luckily for the Browns (8-5), even in a year of declining quarterback play, with injuries soaring and teams giving extended runs to former Division II projects or guys who couldn9t even throw touchdown passes at the University of Connecticut, Flacco was available and ready to play when rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson joined starter Deshaun Watson on the injured list. Finally, there was a team willing to let Flacco 4 who led Baltimore to the Super Bowl title in February 2013, has more than 42,000 career passing yards and started four games for the Jets last season 4 come in for a workout. After a seven-hour drive to Cleveland and a brief stint on the practice squad, Flacco readied for a Week 13 debut. <I do feel like I have stuff left in the tank,= he told reporters shortly after signing there, in his classic understated style. In reality, Flacco has done nothing short of save the Browns9 season, considering they ranked 32nd in many key quarterback metrics before this latest switch. He has thrown for five touchdowns and 565 yards in his two starts. He had the Browns in position to win a road game against the upstart Rams in his first outing, trailing by one point deep into the fourth quarter, and then led a 31-point charge in a victory over a Jaguars team that was flirting with the AFC9s top record. It9s arguably the best burst of Browns quarterbacking since Brian Hoyer was throwing jump ball after jump ball to Josh Gordon. And it has left the football world in a hokey Hallmark holiday movie of sorts, with the father of five whom nobody wanted suddenly playing for practice squad peanuts and leading a franchise whose starter has barely played despite the richest fully guaranteed contract in NFL Anyone could have had Joe Flacco. At any time. Since last spring. The 38-year-old quarterback9s rapid ascent from watching NFL games on the couch with his kids to stewarding the Cleveland Browns9 playoff hopes came to pass only after repeated overtures from his agent for months resulted in nary an invitation to work out for any team. In what has become the year of the backup quarterback, with nearly 60 men of varied résumés and accomplishments starting games this season, perhaps none of the backups is better poised to extend this narrative into the postseason than Flacco, a former Super Bowl winner now guiding the fortunes of a Browns franchise he dominated during his long run with the Baltimore Ravens. <Nobody would listen to me,= Flacco9s agent, Joe Linta, said this past week as he waited for the Browns to consummate his client9s rise from the practice squad with a proper NFL contract. <For months. You have no idea how many people I reached out to. No one wanted him. <There were a handful of guys in the league who I think did want to sign him 4 not the head cheese of a team but guys a little bit down the line. I don9t want to get into naming any of the names, but it never happened. There were five or six guys who would have signed him sooner, but they couldn9t do it themselves, and they9d call me back and say, 8It9s BS, but we9re not going to bring him in.9 <I really couldn9t get anyone at the top to give him a shot. When I tell you, no exaggeration, I begged [Jets General Manager] Joe Douglas to bring him in, just to take a look at him, from like April all the way through the season. I begged him. I mean, Joe played pretty well for them [in 2022], but it didn9t matter. I couldn9t get Amid a QB shortage, somehow Flacco fell to Browns on the nFl Jason La Canfora ASSOCIATED PRESS Vincent Trocheck, who tied the game midway through the third period, scored his second goal of the game 2:03 into overtime, and the New York Rangers rallied to beat the host Boston Bruins, 2-1, Saturday night in a matchup of the Eastern Conference9s top two teams. Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves for the Rangers, who have won three of their past four games. New York is tied with Boston with 43 points atop the conference, but the Rangers have two more wins. Trent Frederic scored for the Bruins. l WILD 2, CANUCKS 1 (SO): Mats Zuccarello scored in the shootout, and Minnesota beat Vancouver in St. Paul, Minn. Frederick Gaudreau scored in regulation and Filip Gustavsson made 35 saves for Minnesota, which won its third in a row and is now 7-2 under Coach John Hynes. Teddy Blueger scored for Vancouver, while Casey DeSmith stopped 30 shots in goal. The Canucks had won four in a row. l CANADIENS 5, ISLANDERS 3: Josh Anderson had two goals and Sean Monahan and Justin Barron had two assists apiece to lead host Montreal past New York. l FLYERS 1, RED WINGS 0: Samuel Ersson stopped 34 shots for his third career shutout and Cam York scored early in the first period to lead host Philadelphia past Detroit. l DEVILS 6, BLUE JACKETS 3: Jack Hughes scored his second career hat trick to lead New Jersey over Columbus in Ohio. l JETS 6, AVALANCHE 2: Gabriel Vilardi scored two goals, and Winnipeg raced to a 5-1 lead in its win over visiting Colorado. l MAPLE LEAFS 7, PENGUINS 0: Max Domi, one of seven Toronto players to score a goal, also had two assists as the host Maple Leafs drubbed Pittsburgh. Martin Jones made 38 saves for the shutout. l BLUES 4, STARS 3 (OT): Colton Parayko9s goal 37 seconds into overtime lifted host St. Louis past Dallas. Jordan Kyrou had one goal and two assists for the Blues. nhl Roundup New York wins battle of East9s top teams rangers 2, Bruins 1 (ot) BY BAILEY JOHNSON NASHVILLE 4 When Alex Ovechkin fell to the ice while attempting his first shot, it set a tone for what was to come. Early in the first period against the Nashville Predators on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena, the Washington Capitals9 captain had a chance to score from his office, the left faceoff circle. But Ovechkin couldn9t connect with the puck and dropped to his knees in the process 4 an early sign that Washington wasn9t clicking offensively. While the Capitals shook off some of that sluggishness as the game wore on, it was far from enough. Washington went on to lose, 3-1, to the Predators, who have won 13 of their past 16 games. The Capitals dropped their second in a row (following a shootout loss Thursday in Philadelphia) and suffered their fifth loss in seven games (2-3-2). Ovechkin9s careerworst goal drought stretched to 12 games in the process. <I just felt like guys were fighting the puck,= Capitals Coach Spencer Carbery said. <From our back end, especially, fighting the puck. They have a tough night back there, and then even offensively, a lot of the situations that you see that we get into, there9s just not quite that last couple of plays to finish.= Nashville won in overtime Friday at Carolina as the Capitals spent an idle night in Nashville, but the beginning of Saturday9s game looked as if the opposite was the case. The Predators were flying from puck drop, and Washington was on its heels. If not for goalie Charlie Lindgren (20 saves), the Capitals would have been in a deep hole before the first media timeout. By the time 4:15 had elapsed 4 when defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk sent the puck over the glass from the defensive zone, earning himself a trip to the penalty box 4 the Predators already had nine shot attempts; Washington had three. Nashville carried its early momentum to the power play. Defenseman Roman Josi fired a shot from just inside the blue line that Colton Sissons, waiting at the front of the net, tipped past Lindgren to give the Predators the lead at 5:03. But when the second period began, Washington was able to take more of the fight to the Predators. Defenseman Nick Jensen drew a tripping penalty on Cole Smith at 3:23, and 44 seconds later, Ryan McDonagh hit winger T.J. Oshie with a high stick, putting the Capitals on a five-on-three power play for 1:16. Washington needed almost all of that five-on-three advantage to solve goalie Juuse Saros (21 saves), but eventually Oshie jammed in a rebound off a tip in front by center Dylan Strome, making this the second game in a row with a power-play goal for the Capitals. After Oshie scored, Washington found a groove for a few shifts, closely matching the level of pressure that Nashville applied early in the game. The Capitals9 execution was crisper for those stretches than it was the rest of the night, and it was evident in the way scoring chances came together. Extended offensive-zone sequences don9t count on the scoreboard, though, and a miscue at the blue line between Jensen and partner Joel Edmundson led to Philip Tomasino skating in alone on Lindgren and finishing on the backhand to put the Predators back in front at 13:26. <We9ve got two [defensemen] jumping in there, which is not a good situation,= Carbery said. <. . . Now you give up a breakaway. That9s a tough goal to give up, given the circumstances and how the momentum shifted in the game.= <It felt like we built so much momentum in the second that a goal would9ve put that momentum over the edge,= Oshie added. <I think we really would9ve had a good chance to close it out. That breakaway goal really deflated a lot of the momentum that we had.= Ovechkin took a slashing penalty 1:36 into the third period, and while the Predators didn9t score on the power play, Yakov Trenin shoveled home a shot just five seconds after Ovechkin emerged from the box. Facing a two-goal deficit in a game when their offense came together only for brief spurts, the Capitals couldn9t generate enough to stage a comeback. <We give that third one up, and it really put us in a tough spot,= Carbery said. <Then it started to get a little bit sloppier. We didn9t have as much connected [offensive-zone] time, looked a little bit distorted, trying to do things on our own and just trying to save the game when we were down two. The process sort of got away from us in the third period.= Even with a power play in the final minutes, including a six-onfour advantage after they pulled Lindgren, the Capitals came up short in a way that felt frustratingly familiar. <This is the same old story,= defenseman John Carlson said. <We9re defending hard. We9re working our tails off. We9ve got to just find that extra step, that extra more precision on passes, on shots, to get over that hump.= Ovechkin stays cold as the Caps fall in Nashville george WAlker iV/ASSociATed PreSS Alex Ovechkin9s goal drought stretched to a career-worst 12 games for the Capitals, who suffered their fifth loss in their past seven outings. predators 3, capitals 1 CapItals9 next thRee at Carolina hurricanes Sunday 6 Monumental vs. new York Islanders Wednesday 7:30 TNT, Monumental at Columbus Blue Jackets Thursday 7 Monumental Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM) Gardner Minshew II threw three touchdown passes, and host Indianapolis rushed for 170 yards, improving its playoff prospects. Minshew was 18 for 28 for 215 yards and matched his career high for touchdown passes while leading a Colts offense lacking its usual complement of playmakers. The Colts (8-6) have won five of six and temporarily moved a halfgame ahead of three teams for the AFC9s seventh and final playoff spot. Pittsburgh (7-7) dropped its third straight and fell into last place in the AFC North. l LIONS 42, BRONCOS 17: Jared Goff matched a career high with five touchdown passes, three to rookie tight end Sam LaPorta, in a rout in Detroit. The NFC North-leading Lions (10-4) could clinch a spot in the postseason for the first time since the 2016 season if other results go their way this weekend. Denver9s hopes of making the playoffs for the first time since the 2015 season took a hit. The Broncos (7-7) had won six of their previous seven games to pull within a game of AFC West-leading Kansas City. Stroud out, Keenum to start C.J. Stroud will miss Houston9s game against Tennessee on Sunday after suffering a concussion last week. The Texans said the star rookie quarterback did not travel with the team to Tennessee. With Stroud out, the Texans (7-6) reportedly will look to Case Keenum to start. Keenum, 35, is an 11-year veteran who has not appeared in a game this season. l CHIEFS: Coach Andy Reid was fined $100,000 and quarterback Patrick Mahomes was fined $50,000 for criticizing officials following Kansas City9s 20-17 loss to Buffalo last week. ASSOCIATED PRESS Trailing by 14 points in the third quarter behind an offense that had struggled to move the ball, the Cincinnati Bengals needed Jake Browning to be nearly perfect 4 and he was. Browning led Cincinnati to three fourth-quarter touchdowns and directed the winning drive in overtime in his latest extraordinary performance since he took over for the injured Joe Burrow, and the Bengals beat the Minnesota Vikings, 27-24, on Saturday to improve their position in the playoff race. Browning won his third straight start and improved to 3-1 since Burrow suffered a season-ending right wrist injury in a loss at Baltimore. This time, he threw for 184 yards and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime, becoming the fourth quarterback in the past two years to throw for at least that many yards and two or more scores after three quarters. <I feel like I need a beer,= said Browning, who beat a team that cut him from its practice squad two years ago. Tee Higgins went high over a Vikings defender to catch a 16-yard pass from Browning and make a twisting move at the goal line for the tying touchdown with 39 seconds left in regulation. Then, in overtime, a scrambling Browning found Tyler Boyd for a 44-yard completion that got Cincinnati (8-6) into Minnesota territory and set up Evan McPherson9s game-ending 29-yard field goal. The Vikings dropped to 7-7. l COLTS 30, STEELERS 13: nFl Roundup Browning gets going late to keep Cincinnati in mix Bengals 27, Vikings 24 (ot)

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post EZ M2 d7 FROM NEWS SERVICES AND STAFF REPORTS An English Premier League match between Luton Town and Bournemouth was suspended Saturday after Luton captain Tom Lockyer collapsed on the pitch for the second time this year. Luton said Lockyer suffered cardiac arrest but was responsive by the time he was taken off the field on a stretcher. <Our medical staff have confirmed that the Hatters captain suffered cardiac arrest on the pitch, but was responsive by the time he was taken off on the stretcher,= Luton Town said on X, the website formerly known as Twitter. <He received further treatment inside the stadium, for which we once again thank the medical teams from both sides. Tom was transferred to hospital, where we can reassure supporters that he is stable and currently undergoing further tests with his family at his bedside.= Lockyer, 29, appeared to collapse face forward near midfield late in the 59th minute, per video from the match. The Welsh defender was flat on the pitch before teammates and opposing players beckoned for help. Luton Manager Rob Edwards ran onto the field and appeared to tell players surrounding Lockyer to allow for medics to reach him. The clock continued to run until it was stopped in the 65th minute and Lockyer was carried away on a stretcher. The score was 1-1 when referee Simon Hooper suspended the match. 4 Glynn Hill Manchester City slips again Manchester City dropped more points in its flimsy Premier League title defense when a stoppage-time penalty from Michael Olise earned Crystal Palace a 2-2 draw on the road. City was up 2-0 through goals by Jack Grealish in the 24th minute and Rico Lewis in the 54th, only to draw at home for a third straight time in the league. Palace reduced the deficit in the 76th when Jean-Philippe Mateta slid home a finish from close range. Olise then converted from the spot in the fifth minute of stoppage time after Phil Foden tripped Mateta. . . . The first career goal from 17-year-old midfielder Lewis Miley set Newcastle on its way to a 3-0 win over visiting Fulham and a seventh straight victory in the Premier League. Miguel Almirón and Dan Burn also found the net. . . . Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson scored as Chelsea defeated last-place Sheffield United, 2-0, at home to snap a two-game skid. . . . Everton beat Burnley, 2-0, in Manager Sean Dyche9s return to Turf Moor to face his former club. l SPAIN: Barcelona settled for a 1-1 draw at Valencia in La Liga, extending its winless skid to three games and falling further behind in the title race. João Félix put Barcelona ahead in the 55th minute before Hugo Guillamón pulled Valencia level in the 70th. . . . Nico Williams struck a superb goal to help Athletic Bilbao beat visiting Atletico Madrid, 2-0, and close in on the top four spots that earn Champions League berths. Gorka Guruzeta netted the 51st-minute opener at San Mamés Stadium. . . . Sevilla fired coach Diego Alonso after a 3-0 loss at home to Getafe. . . . Celta edged visiting Granada, 1-0, to exit the relegation zone. l GERMANY: Borussia Dortmund continued to struggle in the Bundesliga when it was held to a 1-1 draw at Augsburg, just days after topping a Champions League group with Paris SaintGermain, AC Milan and Newcastle. . . . Emil Forsberg scored four minutes after coming on as a substitute, helping RB Leipzig earn a 3-1 win over Hoffenheim in his last home game for the club. The 32-year-old attacker will join the New York Red Bulls this winter, the MLS team announced. l ITALY: Victor Osimhen, the newly crowned African player of the year, recorded a goal and an assist in defending champion Napoli9s 2-1 win over visiting Cagliari in Serie A. l FRANCE: American forward Emmanuel Sabbi scored twice in the first half as host Le Havre rolled to a 3-1 victory over second-place Nice in Ligue 1. 4 Associated Press sOCCeR ROuNduP EPL match halted by medical emergency sCOReBOARd COLLeGe FOOTBALL NCAA BOWL SCHEDULE SATURDAY9S RESULTS mYRTLE BEACH BOWL 4 IN CONWAY, S.C. Ohio 41, Georgia Southern 21 CELEBRATION BOWL 4 IN ATLANTA Florida A&M 30, Howard 26 NEW ORLEANS BOWL 4 IN NEW ORLEANS Jacksonville State 34, Louisiana 31 (OT) CURE BOWL 4 IN ORLANDO Appalachian State 13, Miami (Ohio) 9 NEW mExICO BOWL 4 IN ALBUQUERQUE Fresno State 37, New Mexico State 10 L.A. BOWL 4 IN INGLEWOOD, CALIF. UCLA 35, Boise State 22 INDEPENDENCE BOWL 4 IN SHREVEPORT, LA. California vs. Texas Tech, late No. 1 south Carolina 99, Presbyterian 29 PRESBYTERIAN ................. 15536 4 29 SOUTH CAROLINA ............. 36 23 21 19 4 99 Presbyterian (8-4) Brady 0-8 2-2 2, Carrillo 0-2 0-0 0, Kline 0-1 0-0 0, Neira 0-12 0-0 0, Sjokvist 6-20 0-0 15, Apsite 0-2 0-0 0, Cunill 2-9 0-0 4, Hinds 0-0 0-0 0, Herrin 1-2 0-2 3, Kindseth 0-3 1-2 1, Sato 0-4 0-0 0, Scoggins 1-1 2-2 4, Totals 10-64 5-8 29 South Carolina (10-0) Kitts 4-7 3-6 11, Cardoso 5-8 2-3 12, Fulwiley 8-16 0-0 18, Hall 3-7 2-2 10, Paopao 2-6 0-0 6, Feagin 1-2 0-0 2, Jah 2-8 0-2 5, Watkins 4-7 2-4 10, Walker 4-6 4-4 12, Johnson 5-6 0-0 13, Totals 38-73 13-21 99 Three-point goals: Presbyterian 4-17 (Neira 0-6, Sjokvist 3-9, Apsite 0-1, Herrin 1-1), South Carolina 10-22 (Fulwiley 2-7, Hall 2-5, Paopao 2-4, Jah 1-2, Johnson 3-4). Assists: Presbyterian 4 (Brady 2), South Carolina 21 (Paopao 6). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Presbyterian 33 (Cunill 6), South Carolina 55 (Watkins 12). Total fouls: Presbyterian 13, South Carolina 6. Technical Fouls: None. A: 15,176. No. 2 kansas 75, indiana 71 kansas (10-1) Adams 6-12 2-3 14, Dickinson 8-17 1-2 17, Harris 5-9 0-0 12, Jackson 2-6 0-0 5, McCullar 3-11 13-16 21, Furphy 0-1 1-2 1, McDowell 1-2 0-0 3, Timberlake 0-2 0-1 0, Braun 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 26-61 17-24 75. Indiana (7-3) Mgbako 4-9 4-5 14, Reneau 5-13 1-2 13, Ware 3-12 5-6 11, Cupps 1-4 0-0 2, Galloway 12-17 2-4 28, Walker 0-1 3-4 3, Banks 0-2 0-0 0, Gunn 0-1 0-1 0. Totals 25-59 15-22 71. Halftime: Indiana 40-32. Three-point goals: Kansas 6-18 (Harris 2-4, McCullar 2-5, McDowell 1-2, Jackson 1-3, Dickinson 0-1, Furphy 0-1, Timberlake 0-2), Indiana 6-16 (Galloway 2-4, Mgbako 2-4, Reneau 2-4, Banks 0-1, Cupps 0-1, Ware 0-2). Fouled out: Galloway. Rebounds: Kansas 31 (Dickinson 14), Indiana 33 (Ware 15). Assists: Kansas 18 (Harris 5), Indiana 10 (Reneau 4). Total fouls: Kansas 15, Indiana 21. A: 17,222 (17,222). No. 17 Connecticut 86, No. 18 Louisville 62 LOUISVILLE ........................ 27 15 9 11 4 62 CONNECTICUT .................... 28 18 19 21 4 86 Louisville (10-2) Cochran 6-10 0-0 12, Harris 2-6 3-4 7, Jefferson 8-14 2-2 19, Rickards 1-3 0-0 2, Taylor 5-11 2-2 13, Istanbulluoglu 0-1 1-2 1, Mobley 1-2 0-2 2, Curry 1-6 0-0 3, Love 0-3 0-0 0, Russell 1-5 0-0 3, Totals 25-61 8-12 62 Connecticut (7-3) Edwards 10-12 2-2 22, Arnold 3-7 5-6 11, Bueckers 7-12 2-4 20, Muhl 1-2 0-0 3, Shade 2-5 0-0 5, Brady 0-0 0-0 0, DeBerry 0-0 0-0 0, Bettencourt 0-0 0-0 0, Griffin 9-11 6-8 25, Samuels 0-5 0-0 0, Totals 32-54 15-20 86 Three-point goals: Louisville 4-15 (Cochran 0-1, Jefferson 1-1, Taylor 1-5, Istanbulluoglu 0-1, Curry 1-4, Russell 1-3), Connecticut 7-18 (Arnold 0-3, Bueckers 4-6, Muhl 1-2, Shade 1-3, Griffin 1-1, Samuels 0-3). Assists: Louisville 13 (Jefferson 5), Connecticut 24 (Muhl 10). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Louisville 29 (Cochran 6, Jefferson 6), Connecticut 33 (Edwards 7, Muhl 7). Total fouls: Louisville 21, Connecticut 15. Technical Fouls: Louisville Team 1. A: 13,028. COLLeGe BAskeTBALL NCAA men SATURDAY9S RESULTS EAST Bryant 101, Towson 93 (2OT) FAU 64, St. Bonaventure 54 Georgia Tech 82, Penn State 81 (OT) Providence 78, Sacred Heart 64 Rutgers 83, Long Island 61 St. John9s 77, Fordham 55 SOUTH Georgia 66, High Point 58 James Madison 88, Hampton 71 Kentucky 87, North Carolina 83 Memphis 79, Clemson 77 Miami 84, La Salle 77 Mississippi 88, California 78 South Carolina 73, Charleston Southern 69 VCU 87, Temple 78 Virginia 56, Northeastern 54 Virginia Tech 73, Vermont 51 mIDWEST Georgetown 72, Notre Dame 68 (OT) Iowa 88, Florida A&M 52 Kansas 75, Indiana 71 Michigan 83, Eastern Michigan 66 Michigan State 88, Baylor 64 Northwestern 56, DePaul 46 Purdue 92, Arizona 84 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 69, Lipscomb 66 Houston 70, Texas A&M 66 Oklahoma 81, Green Bay 47 Texas 96, LSU 85 WEST BYU 86, Georgia State 54 Ohio State 67, UCLA 60 Saint Mary9s (Calif.) 69, UNLV 67 (2OT) Utah 76, Utah Valley State 62 NCAA women SATURDAY9S RESULTS EAST Connecticut 86, Louisville 62 George Washington 46, Hampton 40 Seton Hall 84, UNLV 54 St. John9s 51, Villanova 46 SOUTH Auburn 67, Norfolk State 39 Arkansas 68, Samford 54 Baylor 75, Miami 57 Georgia State 78, Clemson 72 Georgia Tech 64, Georgia 53 Howard 46, FAU 45 North Carolina State 66, South Florida 54 South Carolina 99, Presbyterian 29 Wofford 71, Virginia 70 mIDWEST Iowa 104, Cleveland State 75 Kansas 69, Central Arkansas 48 Kansas State 79, North Florida 53 Michigan 75, Miami (Ohio) 49 WEST BYU 79, Idaho State 76 (OT) Utah 96, Southern Utah 60 Washington 64, Saint Mary9s (Calif.) 32 No. 20 James Madison 88, hampton 71 James madison (10-0) Bickerstaff 6-9 0-1 12, Wooden 4-8 1-1 10, Freidel 4-9 3-4 13, Green 6-15 0-0 16, Edwards 0-6 0-1 0, Horton 3-9 0-0 8, Brown 7-12 0-1 17, Carey 6-8 0-1 12, Randleman 0-0 0-0 0, Roberson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-76 4-9 88. Hampton (4-6) Benson 4-6 2-3 10, Mullen 5-8 3-8 14, Maxwell 2-5 0-0 5, J.Nesbitt 1-12 4-4 6, Wilcox 4-8 2-2 11, Deng 7-11 0-0 18, Cooper 1-4 0-0 3, Lusane 0-1 0-0 0, A.Nesbitt 1-1 0-0 2, Thomas 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 25-58 13-19 71. Halftime: Hampton 42-41. Three-point goals: James Madison 12-32 (Green 4-8, Brown 3-5, Freidel 2-6, Horton 2-6, Wooden 1-4, Carey 0-1, Edwards 0-2), Hampton 8-20 (Deng 4-5, Cooper 1-2, Maxwell 1-2, Wilcox 1-3, Mullen 1-4, J.Nesbitt 0-4). Rebounds: James Madison 38 (Carey 10), Hampton 37 (Mullen 12). Assists: James Madison 22 (Green 8), Hampton 16 (Wilcox, Cooper 4). Total fouls: James Madison 18, Hampton 15. Wofford 71, Virginia 70 WOFFORD .......................... 15 15 17 24 4 71 VIRGINIA ............................ 16 21 15 18 4 70 Wofford (7-4) Tuilave 1-1 0-0 2, Heiss 6-11 0-0 16, Paulk 4-10 0-0 9, Rose 7-15 6-7 21, Schultz 1-9 0-0 3, Clarke 6-8 0-0 15, Deidda 1-3 0-0 2, Smith 1-1 0-0 3, Totals 27-58 6-7 71 Virginia (7-3) Brunelle 0-1 0-0 0, Clarkson 2-4 3-4 7, Clark 5-9 3-3 14, Johnson 3-9 1-2 7, Smith 3-7 0-0 7, Taylor 6-9 1-2 13, Lauterbach 0-2 0-0 0, Brown 0-4 2-2 2, Lawson 2-5 0-0 4, McGhee 6-15 0-0 14, Pauley 1-3 0-0 2, Totals 28-68 10-13 70 Three-point goals: Wofford 11-26 (Heiss 4-7, Paulk 1-4, Rose 1-3, Schultz 1-5, Clarke 3-4, Deidda 0-2, Smith 1-1), Virginia 4-23 (Clark 1-3, Johnson 0-5, Smith 1-1, Lauterbach 0-2, Brown 0-2, Lawson 0-2, McGhee 2-6, Pauley 0-2). Assists: Wofford 16 (Rose 9), Virginia 19 (Johnson 9). Fouled out: Wofford Paulk. Rebounds: Wofford 27 (Rose 10), Virginia 45 (Clarkson 9). Total fouls: Wofford 17, Virginia 13. Technical Fouls: None. A: 3,955. hiGh sChOOLs SATURDAY9S RESULTS BOYS9 BASkETBALL D.C. Bell 58, E.L. Haynes 57 Dunbar 68, Rich Township (Ill.) 62 mARYLAND Douglass 76, Westlake 49 St. Charles 65, Theodore Roosevelt 61 VIRGINIA Clinton Grace 59, Patriot 58 Colonial Forge 52, Woodbridge 45 Edison 60, Washington-Liberty 50 Hylton 71, Evangel Christian 52 King9s Fork 60, Forest Park 55 Potomac (Va.) 77, Stafford 59 Stone Bridge 59, North Stafford 40 Tuscarora 90, Freedom (Woodbridge) 61 Wakefield 69, South County 46 Westfield 45, Gar-Field 34 Woodgrove 63, Osbourn 43 Woodside 67, Hayfield 47 PRIVATE Archbishop Carroll 67, Bowie 44 67Blue Ridge 73, Potomac School 28 Bullis 82, Severn 37 Fairfax Christian 66, Middletown (Del.) 42 Mt. Zion Prep Academy 70, West Catholic (Pa.) 43 Riverdale Baptist 57, George School (S.C.) 47 Rock Creek Christian (White) 57, Orangeville (Canada) 55 Roman Catholic 62, Bishop Ireton 48 Sandy Spring 75, New Hope 63 Seton 63, Rock Ridge 61 St. Anne9s Belfield 97, Maret 76 St. John9s 88, Largo 58 GIRLS9 BASkETBALL mARYLAND C.H. Flowers 70, Gwynn Park 52 Suitland 58, Friendly 29 VIRGINIA McLean 43, Westfield 36 Woodgrove 102, Alexandria City 26 PRIVATE Bishop O9Connell 54, Riverdale Baptist 46 Episcopal 50, Peddie (N.J.) 15 Holy Cross 54, St. Timothy 52 (OT) Potomac School 73, Centreville 49 St. John9s 47, Blanche Ely (Fla.) 35 Ursuline (N.Y.) 55, St. Mary9s Ryken 38 Virginia Academy 44, Maret 43 WRESTLING mARYLAND Blake 39.5, Rockville 39 Sherwood 50, Blake 21 BOYS9 SWImmING mARYLAND Springbrook 114, Seneca Valley 72 VIRGINIA Briar Woods 169, Lightridge 117 Riverside 181, Stone Bridge 100 GIRLS9 SWImmING mARYLAND Seneca Valley 115, Springbrook 67 VIRGINIA Lightridge 147, Briar Woods 128 Riverside 198, Stone Bridge 80 Bengals 27, Vikings 24 (OT) mINNESOTA ....................... 7 0 10 7 0 424 CINCINNATI ........................ 3 0 0 21 3 427 FIRST QUARTER Cincinnati: FG McPherson 34, 8:41. minnesota: Chandler 1 run (Joseph kick), 2:23. THIRD QUARTER minnesota: Addison 37 pass Mullens (Joseph kick), 10:46. minnesota: FG Joseph 39, 4:32. FOURTH QUARTER Cincinnati: Higgins 13 pass Browning (McPherson kick), 14:56. Cincinnati: Mixon 1 run (McPherson kick), 7:46. minnesota: Addison 1 pass from Mullens (Joseph kick), 3:48. Cincinnati: Higgins 21 pass Browning (McPherson kick), :39. OVERTImE Cincinnati: FG McPherson 29, 3:11. mIN CIN First Downs .......................................... 24 22 Total Net Yards ................................... 424 378 Rushes-Yards ............................... 30-143 22-80 Passing ................................................ 281 298 Interceptions Ret. ............................... 1-1 2-16 Comp-Att-Int ............................... 26-34-2 29-42-1 Sacked-Yards Lost ............................ 3-22 5-26 Punts .......................................... 3-50.667 4-48.0 Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards ................................ 4-22 3-26 Time Of Possession ......................... 33:41 33:08 PASSING minnesota: Mullens 26-33-2-303, Jefferson 0-1-0-0. Cincinnati: Browning 29-42-1-324. RUSHING minnesota: Chandler 23-132, Mullens 6-10, Nwangwu 1-1. Cincinnati: Mixon 10-47, C.Brown 7-23, T.Williams 1-10, Browning 4-0. RECEIVING minnesota: Jefferson 7-84, Addison 6-111, Hockenson 6-63, Chandler 3-25, Oliver 2-14, Mundt 1-3, Osborn 1-3. Cincinnati: Hudson 5-49, Chase 4-64, Higgins 4-61, C.Brown 3-28, Mixon 3-14, Boyd 2-53, Wilcox 2-20, I.Smith 2-18, C.Jones 2-10, Iosivas 1-5, T.Williams 1-2. mISSED FIELD GOALS None. Michigan state 88, No. 6 Baylor 64 Baylor (9-1) Bridges 2-5 0-0 5, Missi 5-6 1-4 11, Dennis 5-9 0-1 11, Nunn 3-6 1-3 9, Walter 3-9 3-3 9, Ojianwuna 3-3 0-0 6, Love 0-4 0-0 0, Lohner 0-2 2-2 2, Little 1-1 2-2 5, Grimes 1-2 3-4 6, Sacks 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-48 12-19 64. michigan St. (5-5) Hall 2-2 1-2 5, Sissoko 1-2 2-2 4, Akins 2-6 0-1 5, Hoggard 5-10 4-5 14, Walker 9-16 3-4 25, Carr 2-2 2-2 6, Holloman 4-5 1-2 11, Fears 0-0 2-4 2, Cooper 3-3 2-2 8, Booker 3-3 0-0 7, Smith 0-0 1-2 1, Izzo 0-0 0-2 0, Sanders 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-49 18-28 88. Halftime: Michigan St. 45-17. Three-point goals: Baylor 6-19 (Nunn 2-3, Little 1-1, Grimes 1-2, Bridges 1-3, Dennis 1-3, Lohner 0-1, Sacks 0-1, Walter 0-1, Love 0-4), Michigan St. 8-12 (Walker 4-4, Holloman 2-3, Booker 1-1, Akins 1-3, Hoggard 0-1). Rebounds: Baylor 14 (Bridges, Missi, Ojianwuna 3), Michigan St. 27 (Sissoko 8). Assists: Baylor 13 (Dennis 7), Michigan St. 18 (Hoggard 5). Total fouls: Baylor 24, Michigan St. 21. A: 13,277 (20,491). TeNNis WTA LImOGES OPEN At Palais des Sports de Beaublanc; in Limoges, France Purse: $107,643 Surface: Hardcourt indoor SINGLES 4 SEmIFINALS Cristina Bucsa (5), Spain, def. Anna Blinkova (2), Russia, 6-3, 6-2; Elsa Jacquemot, France, def. Erika Andreeva (7), Russia, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. Georgetown 72, Notre dame 68 (OT) Georgetown (7-4) Cook 2-6 2-4 6, Massoud 5-13 0-0 13, Brumbaugh 4-9 6-6 15, Heath 2-8 6-7 10, Styles 3-7 2-4 10, Fielder 5-7 2-2 16, Bacote 0-0 0-0 0, Bristol 1-3 0-0 2, Mutombo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-53 18-23 72. Notre Dame (4-6) Davis 2-4 0-0 5, Zona 1-2 0-0 2, Burton 6-20 4-6 17, Konieczny 6-13 1-1 13, Roper 4-10 3-4 13, Shrewsberry 4-10 0-0 10, Njie 1-2 0-2 2, Booth 2-5 0-0 6. Totals 26-66 8-13 68. Halftime: Notre Dame 35-33. Three-point goals: Georgetown 10-22 (Fielder 4-5, Massoud 3-6, Styles 2-3, Brumbaugh 1-4, Bristol 0-1, Heath 0-3), Notre Dame 8-32 (Booth 2-4, Roper 2-6, Shrewsberry 2-7, Davis 1-1, Burton 1-6, Njie 0-1, Zona 0-1, Konieczny 0-6). Rebounds: Georgetown 35 (Cook 9), Notre Dame 35 (Konieczny 8). Assists: Georgetown 13 (Heath 5), Notre Dame 8 (Burton 4). Total fouls: Georgetown 15, Notre Dame 17. Wild 2, Canucks 1 (sO) VANCOUVER ..................... 0 1 0 041 mINNESOTA ...................... 1 0 0 1 4 2 mINNESOTA WON SHOOTOUT 1-0 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, Minnesota, Gaudreau 2 (Maroon, Foligno), 18:05. SECOND PERIOD Scoring: 2, Vancouver, Blueger 3 (Joshua, Garland), 3:50. SHOOTOUT Minnesota 1 (Zuccarello G, Boldy NG, Kaprizov NG), Vancouver 0 (Kuzmenko NG, Miller NG, Pettersson NG). SHOTS ON GOAL VANCOUVER ..................... 9 12 12 2 4 35 mINNESOTA .................... 13 10 8 0 4 31 Power-play opportunities: Vancouver 0 of 5; Minnesota 0 of 2. Goalies: Vancouver, DeSmith 5-2-2 (31 shots-30 saves). Minnesota, Gustavsson 8-7-2 (36-35). A: 18,519 (18,064). T: 2:40. PRO FOOTBALL NFL WEEk 15 THURSDAY9S RESULT at Las Vegas 63, L.A. Chargers 21 SATURDAY9S RESULTS at Cincinnati 27, Minnesota 24 (OT) at Indianapolis 30, Pittsburgh 13 at Detroit 42, Denver 17 SUNDAY9S GAmES Washington at L.A. Rams (-61/2), 4:05 Baltimore (-31/2) at Jacksonville, 8:20 Atlanta (-3) at Carolina, 1 Chicago at Cleveland (-3), 1 Houston at Tennessee (-21/2), 1 Kansas City (-81/2) at New England, 1 N.Y. Giants at New Orleans (-6), 1 N.Y. Jets at Miami (-81/2), 1 Tampa Bay at Green Bay (-31/2), 1 San Francisco (-121/2) at Arizona, 4:05 Dallas at Buffalo (-11/2), 4:25 mONDAY9S GAmE Philadelphia (-31/2) at Seattle, 8:15 WEEk 16 THURSDAY9S GAmE New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 8:15 SATURDAY9S GAmES Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 4:30 Buffalo at L.A. Chargers, 8 NExT SUNDAY9S GAmES Washington at N.Y. Jets, 1 Cleveland at Houston, 1 Detroit at Minnesota, 1 Green Bay at Carolina, 1 Indianapolis at Atlanta, 1 Seattle at Tennessee, 1 Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 4:05 Arizona at Chicago, 4:25 Dallas at Miami, 4:25 New England at Denver, 8:15 NExT mONDAY9S GAmES Baltimore at San Francisco, 8:15 Las Vegas at Kansas City, 1 N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 4:30 Virginia Tech 73, Vermont 51 Vermont (8-4) Ayo-Faleye 1-4 0-0 2, Veretto 0-4 0-0 0, Bogues 0-1 1-2 1, Hurley 4-7 1-1 9, T.Long 2-7 0-0 5, Fiorillo 5-10 2-3 13, Mills 2-7 1-3 5, Deloney 1-3 0-0 2, Skipper 2-5 0-0 5, Alamutu 2-3 0-0 4, Joba 2-5 0-0 5, Roquemore 0-1 0-0 0, Ndayishimiye 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-57 5-9 51. Virginia Tech (8-3) M.Long 1-5 0-0 2, Kidd 4-7 9-11 17, Cattoor 3-8 2-2 10, Pedulla 2-5 2-2 7, Nickel 4-9 3-3 13, Rechsteiner 2-4 0-0 5, Beran 1-4 0-0 3, Young 2-4 0-0 6, Camden 1-3 0-0 3, Poteat 2-3 0-0 4, Wessler 1-2 1-2 3, Venable 0-0 0-3 0. Totals 23-54 17-23 73. Halftime: Virginia Tech 36-17. Three-point goals: Vermont 4-20 (Joba 1-1, Skipper 1-3, Fiorillo 1-4, T.Long 1-4, Alamutu 0-1, Mills 0-1, Deloney 0-2, Hurley 0-2, Veretto 0-2), Virginia Tech 10-29 (Young 2-3, Cattoor 2-5, Nickel 2-7, Beran 1-3, Camden 1-3, Rechsteiner 1-3, Pedulla 1-4, M.Long 0-1). Rebounds: Vermont 25 (Bogues, T.Long, Skipper, Alamutu 3), Virginia Tech 39 (Kidd 11). Assists: Vermont 7 (Deloney 4), Virginia Tech 13 (Rechsteiner 3). Total fouls: Vermont 19, Virginia Tech 15. TRANsACTiONs mLB Los Angeles Dodgers: Acquired RHP Tyler Glasnow and OF Manuel Margot from Tampa Bay in exchange for RHP Ryan Pepiot and OF Jonny DeLuca; Glasnow also agreed to a five-year contract with Los Angeles. No. 3 Purdue 92, No. 1 Arizona 84 Arizona (8-1) Johnson 8-13 6-7 24, Ballo 6-9 1-2 13, Boswell 3-9 0-0 6, Larsson 5-7 0-0 10, Love 9-19 7-7 29, Lewis 0-2 0-0 0, Bradley 0-1 0-0 0, Krivas 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 32-62 14-16 84. Purdue (10-1) Kaufman-Renn 2-3 0-0 4, Edey 8-15 6-9 22, Jones 3-9 2-5 9, Loyer 11-18 0-0 27, Smith 9-15 4-4 26, Gillis 1-2 0-0 2, Morton 0-1 0-1 0, C.Furst 1-2 0-0 2, Heide 0-0 0-0 0, Colvin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-65 12-19 92. Halftime: Purdue 49-38. Three-point goals: Arizona 6-16 (Love 4-9, Johnson 2-2, Lewis 0-1, Boswell 0-4), Purdue 10-24 (Loyer 5-9, Smith 4-7, Jones 1-6, C.Furst 0-1, Gillis 0-1). Rebounds: Arizona 26 (Johnson 8), Purdue 31 (Edey 9). Assists: Arizona 24 (Larsson 6), Purdue 22 (Edey 5). Total fouls: Arizona 19, Purdue 14. Colts 30, steelers 13 PITTSBURGH ........................... 6 700 413 INDIANAPOLIS ........................ 0 14 10 6 430 FIRST QUARTER Pittsburgh: Trubisky 1 run (kick failed), 1:12. SECOND QUARTER Pittsburgh: D.Johnson 4 pass from Trubisky (Boswell kick), 14:07. Indianapolis: Moss 16 pass from Minshew (Gay kick), 11:21. Indianapolis: Montgomery 14 pass Minshew (Gay kick), :22. THIRD QUARTER Indianapolis: Alie-Cox 18 pass Minshew (Gay kick), 13:16. Indianapolis: FG Gay 29, 9:02. FOURTH QUARTER Indianapolis: FG Gay 31, 9:17. Indianapolis: FG Gay 42, :48. PIT IND First Downs .......................................... 13 19 Total Net Yards ................................... 216 372 Rushes-Yards ................................. 24-74 34-170 Passing ................................................ 142 202 Interceptions Ret. ............................... 0-0 2-43 Comp-Att-Int ............................... 18-26-2 18-28-0 Sacked-Yards Lost ............................ 4-30 3-13 Punts .............................................. 4-40.0 2-28.5 Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards .............................. 8-101 2-10 Time Of Possession ......................... 26:40 33:20 PASSING Pittsburgh: Trubisky 16-23-2-169, Rudolph 2-3-0-3. Indianapolis: Minshew 18-28-0-215. RUSHING Pittsburgh: Warren 10-40, Harris 12-33, Trubisky 2-1. Indianapolis: Sermon 17-88, Goodson 11-69, Moss 4-13, Minshew 2-0. RECEIVING Pittsburgh: Warren 5-28, D.Johnson 4-62, Pickens 3-47, A.Robinson 3-19, Freiermuth 3-16. Indianapolis: Pittman 4-78, Moss 3-20, Downs 3-19, Montgomery 2-48, Alie-Cox 2-21, Goodson 2-10, Pierce 1-13, Granson 1-6. mISSED FIELD GOALS Indianapolis: Gay 56, Gay 43. No. 14 kentucky 87, No. 9 North Carolina 83 North Carolina (7-3) Ingram 4-10 2-4 10, Bacot 3-4 3-4 9, Cadeau 1-2 1-2 3, Davis 8-18 8-9 27, Ryan 8-12 0-0 20, Withers 1-4 2-2 4, Trimble 1-4 3-4 6, Washington 0-2 2-2 2, High 0-0 0-0 0, Wojcik 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 27-57 21-27 83. kentucky (8-2) Bradshaw 4-6 3-5 12, Mitchell 3-5 1-2 8, Edwards 3-9 2-2 8, Reeves 2-9 4-4 9, Wagner 6-14 0-1 14, Sheppard 4-9 2-2 11, Dillingham 6-16 4-6 17, Thiero 2-4 2-2 7, Onyenso 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 30-72 19-26 87. Halftime: Kentucky 40-38. Three-point goals: North Carolina 8-24 (Ryan 4-7, Davis 3-9, Trimble 1-2, Washington 0-1, Withers 0-2, Ingram 0-3), Kentucky 8-23 (Wagner 2-4, Bradshaw 1-1, Thiero 1-2, Mitchell 1-3, Reeves 1-3, Sheppard 1-3, Dillingham 1-6, Edwards 0-1). Rebounds: North Carolina 30 (Davis 7), Kentucky 35 (Edwards, Wagner, Sheppard 6). Assists: North Carolina 12 (Davis 4), Kentucky 15 (Wagner 5). Total fouls: North Carolina 22, Kentucky 19. A: 17,058 (18,118). No. 22 Virginia 56, Northeastern 54 Northeastern (4-7) Doherty 6-10 0-0 12, Pridgen 5-12 0-2 11, Sakota 3-9 0-0 7, Troutman 4-7 0-0 9, Turner 3-7 0-0 9, Woods 2-4 0-1 4, King 0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 1-1 0-0 2, Metcalf 0-0 0-0 0, McClintock 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-51 0-3 54. Virginia (9-1) Groves 3-5 2-2 8, Beekman 9-18 3-4 21, Dunn 2-5 1-2 5, McKneely 3-12 0-0 8, Rohde 0-5 0-1 0, Buchanan 1-1 1-4 3, Gertrude 1-3 3-5 5, Bond 3-4 0-0 6, Murray 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-53 10-18 56. Halftime: Northeastern 30-24. Three-point goals: Northeastern 6-23 (Turner 3-7, Troutman 1-3, Pridgen 1-4, Sakota 1-7, King 0-1, Woods 0-1), Virginia 2-14 (McKneely 2-6, Dunn 0-1, Beekman 0-2, Groves 0-2, Rohde 0-3). Fouled out: Troutman. Rebounds: Northeastern 33 (Pridgen 13), Virginia 24 (Beekman 6). Assists: Northeastern 18 (Doherty 5), Virginia 13 (Rohde 6). Total fouls: Northeastern 17, Virginia 10. A: 13,676 (14,593). Bucks 146, Pistons 114 DETROIT ............................. 20 36 27 31 4 114 mILWAUkEE ...................... 43 38 33 32 4 146 DETROIT: Bogdanovic 8-15 6-6 24, Thompson 3-6 0-0 7, Bagley III 6-11 0-1 12, Cunningham 10-17 5-6 25, Hayes 1-4 0-0 2, Knox II 0-2 0-0 0, Livers 1-8 0-0 2, Wiseman 7-9 3-3 17, Burks 0-2 1-2 1, Harris 0-1 0-0 0, Ivey 5-17 1-2 13, Sasser 2-4 6-6 11. Totals 43-96 22-26 114. mILWAUkEE: G.Antetokounmpo 7-9 8-13 22, Jackson Jr. 4-8 0-0 10, B.Lopez 2-3 0-0 5, Beauchamp 4-8 2-2 11, Lillard 11-22 5-5 33, Livingston 1-1 0-0 2, Portis 11-18 5-5 31, T.Antetokounmpo 0-0 0-0 0, R.Lopez 0-2 0-0 0, Connaughton 2-2 1-1 6, Green 3-6 0-0 9, Payne 3-5 4-4 11, Wigginton 2-4 2-2 6. Totals 50-88 27-32 146. Three-point Goals: Detroit 6-28 (Bogdanovic 2-6, Ivey 2-6, Sasser 1-2, Thompson 1-3, Harris 0-1, Knox II 0-1, Burks 0-2, Cunningham 0-2, Livers 0-5), Milwaukee 19-42 (Lillard 6-14, Portis 4-7, Green 3-6, Jackson Jr. 2-5, Connaughton 1-1, B.Lopez 1-2, Beauchamp 1-2, Payne 1-3, R.Lopez 0-1, Wigginton 0-1). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Detroit 36 (Bagley III 7), Milwaukee 49 (Portis 12). Assists: Detroit 25 (Cunningham 6), Milwaukee 24 (G.Antetokounmpo 6). Total Fouls: Detroit 23, Milwaukee 24. A: 17,666 (17,500) 76ers 135, hornets 82 PHILADELPHIA .................. 33 40 27 35 4 135 CHARLOTTE ....................... 17 27 15 23 4 82 PHILADELPHIA: Batum 1-3 0-0 3, Harris 6-10 2-2 15, Embiid 18-23 6-6 42, Maxey 8-13 0-0 21, Melton 2-6 0-0 6, Covington 0-0 0-0 0, K.Martin 0-0 0-0 0, Morris Sr. 3-7 0-0 6, Reed 2-4 0-0 4, Korkmaz 0-0 0-0 0, House Jr. 3-3 2-2 10, Oubre Jr. 5-10 0-0 12, Bamba 3-3 0-1 7, Beverley 0-1 3-4 3, Springer 2-6 2-2 6. Totals 53-89 15-17 135. CHARLOTTE: Bridges 3-14 2-2 9, McGowens 5-10 2-3 12, Richards 4-6 0-0 8, Miller 4-16 4-4 14, Rozier 3-10 0-0 6, Black 1-1 0-0 2, Thor 1-8 0-0 2, Mensah 1-3 0-0 2, Bailey 1-3 1-2 3, Bouknight 3-5 0-0 9, I.Smith 3-7 0-0 6, Smith Jr. 4-8 0-0 9. Totals 33-91 9-11 82. Three-point Goals: Philadelphia 14-31 (Maxey 5-8, House Jr. 2-2, Oubre Jr. 2-5, Melton 2-6, Bamba 1-1, Batum 1-2, Harris 1-3, Beverley 0-1, Embiid 0-1, Morris Sr. 0-2), Charlotte 7-35 (Bouknight 3-5, Miller 2-7, Smith Jr. 1-4, Bridges 1-7, Bailey 0-2, McGowens 0-2, Thor 0-3, Rozier 0-5). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Philadelphia 45 (Embiid 15), Charlotte 36 (Bridges 10). Assists: Philadelphia 29 (Maxey 7), Charlotte 15 (I.Smith, Miller 4). Total Fouls: Philadelphia 17, Charlotte 14. A: 17,829 (19,077) devils 6, Blue Jackets 3 NEW JERSEY ........................... 2 2 2 4 6 COLUmBUS .............................. 0 2 1 4 3 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, New Jersey, J.Hughes 12 (Toffoli), 0:47. 2, New Jersey, Haula 8 (Holtz, Mercer), 16:21. SECOND PERIOD Scoring: 3, Columbus, Marchenko 10 (Gaudreau), 0:17 (pp). 4, New Jersey, Toffoli 13 (Bratt), 0:50. 5, Columbus, Chinakhov 8 (Voronkov, Peeke), 8:38. 6, New Jersey, J.Hughes 13 (Bratt, Hischier), 14:54 (pp). THIRD PERIOD Scoring: 7, New Jersey, Hischier 7 (Bratt), 2:50. 8, Columbus, Texier 6 (Jiricek, Fantilli), 18:57. 9, New Jersey, J.Hughes 14, 19:12 (en). SHOTS ON GOAL NEW JERSEY ........................... 8 13 9 4 30 COLUmBUS .............................. 5 11 9 4 25 Power-play opportunities: New Jersey 1 of 2; Columbus 1 of 4. Goalies: New Jersey, Schmid 5-6-1 (26 shots-23 saves). Columbus, Tarasov 0-1-0 (29-24). A: 18,172 (18,500). T: 2:24. Canadiens 5, islanders 3 N.Y. ISLANDERS ...................... 0 0 3 4 3 mONTREAL .............................. 0 4 1 4 5 SECOND PERIOD Scoring: 1, Montreal, Armia 4 (Guhle, Gallagher), 7:45. 2, Montreal, Anderson 2 (Monahan, Barron), 10:35. 3, Montreal, Anderson 3 (Monahan, Barron), 19:06. 4, Montreal, Caufield 8 (Slafkovsky, Suzuki), 19:21. THIRD PERIOD Scoring: 5, N.Y. Islanders, Nelson 14 (Dobson), 2:07 (sh). 6, N.Y. Islanders, Nelson 15 (Dobson), 3:43. 7, N.Y. Islanders, Horvat 12 (Dobson, Romanov), 14:06. 8, Montreal, Dvorak 2 (Suzuki), 19:40 (en). SHOTS ON GOAL N.Y. ISLANDERS .................... 10 6 18 4 34 mONTREAL ............................ 14 21 5 4 40 Power-play opportunities: N.Y. Islanders 0 of 1; Montreal 0 of 2. Goalies: N.Y. Islanders, Varlamov 6-4-1 (40 shots-36 saves). Montreal, Montembeault 7-4-2 (34- 31). A: 21,105 (21,288). T: 2:23. Flyers 1, Red Wings 0 DETROIT .................................. 0 0 0 4 0 PHILADELPHIA ........................ 1 0 0 4 1 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, Philadelphia, York 5 (Konecny, Foerster), 6:21. SHOTS ON GOAL DETROIT .................................. 7 11 16 4 34 PHILADELPHIA ...................... 12 10 11 4 33 Power-play opportunities: Detroit 0 of 3; Philadelphia 0 of 3. Goalies: Detroit, Lyon 4-3-0 (15 shots-14 saves), Detroit, Husso 9-5-2 (18-18). Philadelphia, Ersson 7-3-2 (33-32). A: 18,341 (19,543). T: 2:31. Cavaliers 127, hawks 119 ATLANTA ........................... 28 24 29 38 4 119 CLEVELAND ....................... 41 29 22 35 4 127 ATLANTA: Bey 1-9 2-2 5, Hunter 5-7 6-6 18, Okongwu 7-12 0-0 16, Murray 8-19 5-6 21, Young 11-21 6-6 35, Fernando 5-7 3-5 13, Forrest 0-2 0-0 0, Mathews 2-2 0-0 6, Matthews 1-2 0-0 2, Mills 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 41-85 22-25 119. CLEVELAND: Okoro 6-9 3-4 18, Wade 5-8 2-2 16, Allen 12-14 1-1 25, Mitchell 7-21 4-4 22, Strus 4-13 2-2 11, Niang 0-4 0-0 0, Thompson 3-3 0-0 6, LeVert 6-15 1-2 14, Merrill 3-6 0-0 9, Porter Jr. 3-8 0-0 6. Totals 49-101 13-15 127. Three-point Goals: Atlanta 15-36 (Young 7-12, Hunter 2-2, Mathews 2-2, Okongwu 2-4, Mills 1-3, Bey 1-7, Matthews 0-1, Murray 0-5), Cleveland 16-42 (Wade 4-7, Mitchell 4-9, Okoro 3-4, Merrill 3-6, LeVert 1-4, Strus 1-8, Porter Jr. 0-1, Niang 0-3). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Atlanta 34 (Fernando 8), Cleveland 49 (Allen 14). Assists: Atlanta 21 (Young 10), Cleveland 32 (Mitchell 13). Total Fouls: Atlanta 21, Cleveland 22. A: 19,432 (19,432) heat 118, Bulls 116 CHICAGO ............................ 24 33 23 36 4 116 mIAmI ................................ 36 22 33 27 4 118 CHICAGO: DeRozan 9-13 8-9 27, Williams 8-10 5-5 25, Vucevic 3-13 5-6 12, Dosunmu 3-11 0-0 8, White 7-15 4-4 22, Craig 5-7 2-3 16, Phillips 0-0 0-0 0, Terry 1-3 0-0 2, Drummond 1-2 2-2 4, Carter 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 37-77 26-29 116. mIAmI: Butler 9-18 10-11 28, Martin 6-8 5-8 17, O.Robinson 1-4 0-0 2, D.Robinson 3-9 0-0 9, Lowry 3-7 3-4 10, Highsmith 1-2 0-1 2, Bryant 1-2 0-0 2, Love 8-12 0-0 22, Jaquez Jr. 8-14 1-1 18, Richardson 3-7 0-0 8. Totals 43-83 19-25 118. Three-point Goals: Chicago 16-38 (Craig 4-5, Williams 4-5, White 4-10, Dosunmu 2-7, DeRozan 1-2, Vucevic 1-4, Terry 0-2, Carter 0-3), Miami 13-35 (Love 6-10, D.Robinson 3-9, Richardson 2-5, Jaquez Jr. 1-3, Lowry 1-3, Highsmith 0-1, Butler 0-2, O.Robinson 0-2). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Chicago 40 (Vucevic 11), Miami 31 (Love 7). Assists: Chicago 25 (DeRozan, White 5), Miami 26 (Lowry 7). Total Fouls: Chicago 19, Miami 19. A: 19,815 (19,600) Predators 3, Capitals 1 WASHINGTON ......................... 0 1 0 4 1 NASHVILLE .............................. 1 1 1 4 3 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, Nashville, Sissons 10 (Josi, Forsberg), 5:03 (pp). SECOND PERIOD Scoring: 2, Washington, Oshie 2 (Strome, Ovechkin), 5:16 (pp). 3, Nashville, Tomasino 2 (Smith), 13:26. THIRD PERIOD Scoring: 4, Nashville, Trenin 7 (Carrier, McCarron), 3:41. SHOTS ON GOAL WASHINGTON ......................... 4 13 5 4 22 NASHVILLE .............................. 8 6 9 4 23 Power-play opportunities: Washington 1 of 4; Nashville 1 of 3. Goalies: Washington, Lindgren 6-3-2 (23 shots-20 saves). Nashville, Saros 14-10-0 (22-21). A: 17,267 (17,113). T: 2:21. Rangers 2, Bruins 1 (OT) N.Y. RANGERS ................... 0 0 1 142 BOSTON ............................. 0 1 0 0 4 1 SECOND PERIOD Scoring: 1, Boston, Frederic 7 (Poitras, van Riemsdyk), 2:07. THIRD PERIOD Scoring: 2, N.Y. Rangers, Trocheck 7 (Fox, Zibanejad), 10:50 (pp). OVERTImE Scoring: 3, N.Y. Rangers, Trocheck 8 (Panarin, Gustafsson), 2:03. SHOTS ON GOAL N.Y. RANGERS ................... 8 11 13 1 4 33 BOSTON ............................. 5 11 7 0 4 23 Power-play opportunities: N.Y. Rangers 1 of 6; Boston 0 of 4. Goalies: N.Y. Rangers, Shesterkin 11-7-0 (23 shots-22 saves). Boston, Swayman 9-1-4 (33-31). A: 17,850 (17,565). T: 2:36. hOCkey NhL ATLANTIC GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston ........................ 29 19 5 5 43 94 73 Toronto ....................... 28 16 6 6 38 106 90 x-Florida ..................... 29 17 10 2 36 86 77 Detroit ........................ 30 15 11 4 34 107 95 x-Tampa Bay............... 31 14 12 5 33 103 110 Montreal..................... 30 13 13 4 30 84 104 x-Buffalo..................... 31 13 15 3 29 90 104 Ottawa........................ 25 11 14 0 22 85 83 mETROPOLITAN GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers............... 29 21 7 1 43 96 80 Philadelphia................ 30 17 10 3 37 90 79 N.Y. Islanders ............. 30 14 8 8 36 94 100 Carolina....................... 30 16 12 2 34 99 98 New Jersey................. 28 16 11 1 33 100 99 Washington................ 27 14 9 4 32 68 79 Pittsburgh .................. 29 13 13 3 29 83 81 Columbus.................... 32 10 17 5 25 96 117 CENTRAL GP W L OT Pts GF GA Winnipeg .................... 29 18 9 2 38 97 76 Dallas.......................... 29 17 8 4 38 106 95 Colorado...................... 30 18 10 2 38 107 94 Nashville..................... 31 18 13 0 36 99 94 St. Louis...................... 30 15 14 1 31 91 102 x-Arizona .................... 29 14 13 2 30 92 86 Minnesota .................. 28 12 12 4 28 86 91 Chicago ....................... 29 9 19 1 19 67 105 PACIFIC GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas.......................... 31 20 6 5 45 107 78 Vancouver................... 31 20 9 2 42 116 76 x-Los Angeles............. 26 16 6 4 36 95 66 x-Edmonton................ 27 13 13 1 27 96 93 x-Calgary .................... 30 11 14 5 27 89 107 x-Seattle..................... 31 10 14 7 27 86 103 San Jose ..................... 30 9 18 3 21 64 118 Anaheim ..................... 29 10 19 0 20 75 101 x-Late game FRIDAY9S RESULTS at N.Y. Rangers 5, Anaheim 1 Nashville 6, at Carolina 5 (OT) Boston 5, at N.Y. Islanders 4 (SO) at Dallas 5, Ottawa 4 at Arizona 1, San Jose 0 Buffalo 5, at Vegas 2 SATURDAY9S RESULTS at Nashville 3, Washington 1 at Minnesota 2, Vancouver 1 (SO) New Jersey 6, at Columbus 3 at Philadelphia 1, Detroit 0 at Montreal 5, N.Y. Islanders 3 at Winnipeg 6, Colorado 2 at Toronto 7, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Rangers 2, at Boston 1 (OT) at St. Louis 4, Dallas 3 (OT) Buffalo at Arizona, late Florida at Edmonton, late Los Angeles at Seattle, late Tampa Bay at Calgary, late SUNDAY9S GAmES Washington at Carolina, 6 Vancouver at Chicago, 3 Anaheim at New Jersey, 7 Ottawa at Vegas, 8 San Jose at Colorado, 8 mONDAY9S GAmES Anaheim at Detroit, 7 Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 7 Montreal at Winnipeg, 7:30 Seattle at Dallas, 8 Florida at Calgary, 9:30 PRO BAskeTBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC W L Pct GB Boston ........................................19 5 .792 4 Philadelphia................................18 7 .720 11/2 x-New York.................................14 10 .583 5 Brooklyn .....................................13 12 .520 61/2 Toronto.......................................10 15 .400 91/2 SOUTHEAST W L Pct GB Orlando.......................................16 8 .667 4 Miami .........................................15 11 .577 2 Atlanta .......................................10 15 .400 61/2 Charlotte ......................................7 17 .292 9 Washington..................................4 20 .167 12 CENTRAL W L Pct GB Milwaukee..................................18 7 .720 4 Indiana........................................13 11 .542 41/2 Cleveland....................................14 12 .538 41/2 Chicago .......................................10 17 .370 9 Detroit..........................................2 24 .077 161/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST W L Pct GB x-Dallas ......................................15 9 .625 4 Houston......................................13 9 .591 1 New Orleans...............................15 11 .577 1 Memphis.......................................6 18 .250 9 San Antonio..................................4 20 .167 11 NORTHWEST W L Pct GB Minnesota ..................................19 5 .792 4 x-Denver.....................................17 9 .654 3 x-Oklahoma City.........................15 8 .652 31/2 x-Utah...........................................9 16 .360 101/2 x-Portland ....................................6 17 .261 121/2 PACIFIC W L Pct GB x-Sacramento.............................14 9 .609 4 x-L.A. Clippers............................14 10 .583 1/2 L.A. Lakers..................................15 11 .577 1/2 Phoenix.......................................13 12 .520 2 Golden State ..............................11 14 .440 4 x-Late game FRIDAY9S RESULTS at Washington 137, Indiana 123 at Philadelphia 124, Detroit 92 New Orleans 112, at Charlotte 107 Atlanta 125, at Toronto 104 at Boston 128, Orlando 111 at San Antonio 129, L.A. Lakers 115 Houston 103, at Memphis 96 New York 139, at Phoenix 122 SATURDAY9S RESULTS at Milwaukee 146, Detroit 114 Philadelphia 135, at Charlotte 82 at Cleveland 127, Atlanta 119 at Miami 118, Chicago 116 at Golden State 124, Brooklyn 120 at Minnesota 127, Indiana 109 Dallas at Portland, late Oklahoma City at Denver, late Utah at Sacramento, late New York at L.A. Clippers, late SUNDAY9S GAmES Washington at Phoenix, 8 Orlando at Boston, 3 New Orleans at San Antonio, 3:30 Houston at Milwaukee, 7 Golden State at Portland, 9 mONDAY9S GAmES Washington at Sacramento, 10 Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 Houston at Cleveland, 7 L.A. Clippers at Indiana, 7 Charlotte at Toronto, 7:30 Detroit at Atlanta, 7:30 Minnesota at Miami, 7:30 Memphis at Oklahoma City, 8 Brooklyn at Utah, 9 Dallas at Denver, 9 New York at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 Warriors 124, Nets 120 BROOkLYN ......................... 25 29 37 29 4 120 GOLDEN STATE .................. 32 38 25 29 4 124 BROOkLYN: Bridges 6-17 3-3 18, C.Johnson 5-12 0-1 13, Claxton 8-12 3-3 19, Dinwiddie 6-13 1-2 16, Thomas 15-24 6-6 41, O9Neale 4-10 0-0 11, Watford 0-1 0-0 0, Wilson 1-1 0-0 2, Sharpe 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 45-93 13-15 120. GOLDEN STATE: Kuminga 3-6 4-4 10, Thompson 7-19 6-6 24, Looney 2-5 0-0 4, Curry 14-22 3-3 37, Podziemski 7-15 1-2 19, Wiggins 4-9 5-5 14, Saric 5-8 0-0 12, Moody 1-3 0-0 2, Paul 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 44-91 19-20 124. Three-point Goals: Brooklyn 17-43 (Thomas 5-13, Bridges 3-4, C.Johnson 3-7, O9Neale 3-9, Dinwiddie 3-10), Golden State 17-32 (Curry 6-8, Podziemski 4-9, Thompson 4-9, Saric 2-3, Wiggins 1-1, Paul 0-2). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Brooklyn 42 (Claxton 12), Golden State 42 (Looney 7). Assists: Brooklyn 31 (Dinwiddie 14), Golden State 29 (Paul 11). Total Fouls: Brooklyn 21, Golden State 15. A: 18,064 (18,064) Lions 42, Broncos 17 DENVER ................................... 0 0 10 7 417 DETROIT ................................... 0 21 7 14 442 SECOND QUARTER Detroit: LaPorta 19 pass from Goff (Badgley kick), 12:31. Detroit: Gibbs 9 pass from Goff (Badgley kick), 8:15. Detroit: St. Brown 15 pass from Goff (Badgley kick), :19. THIRD QUARTER Denver: Humphrey 3 pass from Wilson (Lutz kick), 10:34. Detroit: LaPorta 3 pass from Goff (Badgley kick), 6:57. Denver: FG Lutz 23, :43. FOURTH QUARTER Detroit: Gibbs 12 run (Badgley kick), 12:12. Denver: Wilson 1 run (Lutz kick), 6:28. Detroit: LaPorta 10 pass from Goff (Badgley kick), 2:21. DEN DET First Downs .......................................... 20 29 Total Net Yards ................................... 287 448 Rushes-Yards ................................. 28-83 28-185 Passing ................................................ 204 263 Interceptions Ret. ............................... 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int ............................... 18-32-0 24-34-0 Sacked-Yards Lost ............................ 2-19 2-15 Punts .............................................. 5-51.8 4-35.25 Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards ................................ 4-40 2-54 Time Of Possession ......................... 28:42 31:18 PASSING Denver: Wilson 18-32-0-223. Detroit: Goff 24-34-0-278. RUSHING Denver: Perine 6-37, J.Williams 12-27, Mims 1-11, Wilson 7-6, McLaughlin 2-2. Detroit: Gibbs 11-100, Montgomery 17-85. RECEIVING Denver: Sutton 5-71, Jeudy 3-74, Humphrey 3-16, McLaughlin 2-16, J.Williams 2-(minus 7), Trautman 1-24, Krull 1-18, Perine 1-11. Detroit: St. Brown 7-112, LaPorta 5-56, Williams 4-47, J.Reynolds 2-41, Gibbs 2-8, Montgomery 2-(minus 3), Raymond 1-12, Peoples-Jones 1-5. mISSED FIELD GOALS None.

d8 ez m2 the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 mayor muriel E. Bowser (D) looks as if her administration was caught napping while Leonsis was negotiating with Virginia. Yes, the District has been in discussions on improvements to Capital one Arena for two years, and yes, Sunday9s offer wasn9t their first. It still seems as though getting to the <best and final= offer of $500 million could have come earlier, heading off a clear and present danger. Publicly, this felt reactive, not proactive. So there is fallout. Bowser has openly courted the local NfL team, and monumental9s proposed move comes at a time when the Commanders and their new owners are scouting for a new stadium site. Here are the mayor9s options: Land the football team for the District and be regarded 4 among some die-hards 4 as a hero because of it, or fail to land the football team and be the mayor who watched the basketball and hockey teams walk and couldn9t get the football team to come back. That9s not a great dynamic. There is and will be a debate about what, if any, public money should be contributed to a new Commanders stadium regardless of whether it9s built in the District, maryland or Virginia. There9s pressure on the mayor, which isn9t a strong starting point. Even the impression that one of the leaders trying to broker a deal is compromised leads to the idea that the primary goal could be to save face, not to do what9s best for constituents. This feels, at the moment, like a mess. A mess of politics and business, sure, but of emotions and community ties as well. That doesn9t mean it will end up that way. But in the first days since the plans were unveiled, everything is still raw. It9s important to remember, as we parse the details of the proposal, that this is a beginning, not a conclusion. Through all the twists and turns ahead, it9s also important to remember that the wins and losses people care about aren9t whether monumental ends up with a practice facility attached to its arena attached to a concert venue attached to bars and restaurants. rather, it9s what happens on the court and the ice. In the time before a new arena deal gets finalized or falls apart, hold Leonsis accountable for that, too. everything that we do 4 to build these legacies through winning championships from doing the right things in the right way by our fans,= it9s laughable. There is no taking away the 2018 Stanley Cup from Leonsis9s Capitals, and that title was earned by a collection of players who had been knocking on the door before finally kicking it down. It was thrilling, and it changed how Washington felt as a sports town. The results since 4 no playoff series wins and a murky transition ahead from the Alex ovechkin era to whatever lies beyond 4 haven9t been encouraging. So the key to the success of any sports arena isn9t the arena itself but the inhabitants and whether they win or lose. That9s true whether the teams play in the District or in Alexandria or on the moon. Deliver <championships= 4 plural, as Leonsis said 4 and your legacy will be secure in some eyes even if Chinatown doesn9t recapture the vibrancy Abe Pollin brought there. The gap between the announcement of the deal and its potential execution has tentacles that affect not only the teams but the towns and leaders across the region. Already, D.C. The arena, though, shouldn9t be a distraction from the competitive state of Leonsis9s teams. Say whatever you want about the increase in crime in the neighborhood around Capital one Arena. The crime is on the court, too, and who wants to go see this disjointed 4-20 outfit? Yes, the Wizards are at the beginning of a full-on reboot, and plenty of people believe in new president michael Winger as a builder. There may well be better days ahead. But the Wizards9 record with Leonis as owner stinks 4 and not just this season. Since he took over majority ownership in the team before the 2010-11 season, Washington ranks 24th of the 30 NBA franchises in winning percentage. The Wizards have missed the playoffs in eight of 13 seasons and will do so again this season. They have posted a .500 or worse record nine times and will do so again this season. They have never advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, nor have they been even a mild threat to win a title. So when Leonis said at Wednesday9s announcement, <That is the higher calling on SVRLUgA from D1 barry Svrluga D.C. fans would rather see Monumental build winners JoNAThAN NeWToN/The WAShINGToN PoST ted Leonsis has not been able to raise the fortunes of the wizards as their owner but is planning to build a new arena in Alexandria. ASSOCIATED PRESS Zion Webb completed a fourthdown pass to Perry Carter for an 18-yard, tying touchdown with 1:46 left in regulation, Garrison rippa hit a 27-yard field goal in overtime, and Jacksonville State capped off its first season in the football Bowl Subdivision with a 34-31 victory over Louisiana Lafayette in the New orleans Bowl on Saturday. ron Wiggins rushed for 126 yards and a score for Jacksonville State (9-4), which had to overcome four turnovers 4 three of which were returned for touchdowns 4 just to force overtime. Safety Jalen Clark scored touchdowns on a 46-yard fumble return and a 16-yard interception return for Louisiana Lafayette (6-7). fellow safety Tyree Skipper had a 43-yard interception return for a score that gave the Cajuns a 31-24 lead in the fourth quarter. Louisiana Lafayette quarterback Chandler fields ran for oneyard touchdown 4 the only time the Cajuns ended an offensive possession in the end zone. Kenneth Almendares added a 33-yard field goal that tied the game at 24 in the fourth quarter. l MYRtLe beACH bowL: ohio running back rickey Hunt, a freshman, ran for four touchdowns and caught a pass for a fifth as ohio overcame a host of transfer portal losses to win its fifthstraight bowl, beating Georgia Southern, 41-21, in Conway, S.C. Hunt was pressed into service against the Eagles (6-7) when the Bobcats9 top two running backs, Sieh Bangura and o9Shaan Allison, entered the portal. Hunt9s five touchdowns were the best single-game showing ever for the Bobcats (10-2). Hunt finished with 115 yards and had scoring runs of two, six, 40 and nine yards. He caught an 18-yard touchdown pass from fillin quarterback Parker Navarro. l MeXiCo CURe bowL: Joey Aguilar threw for 197 yards and scored on an eight-yard run in the third quarter as Appalachian State beat miami (ohio), 13-9, in rain-soaked orlando. The mountaineers finished 9-5, while the redhawks fell to 11-3. l new MeXiCo bowL: mikey Keene completed 31 of 39 passes for 380 yards with three touchdowns and one interception to power fresno State to a 37-10 victory over New mexico State in Albuquerque. The Bulldogs (9-4) snapped a three-game losing streak. The Aggies finished 10-5. l LA bowL: Ethan Garbers threw for 152 yards and two touchdowns after coming in early in the second half, TJ Harden rushed for two touchdowns, and UCLA rallied for a 35-22 victory over Boise State in Inglewood, Calif. The Bruins (8-5) trailed 16-7 at halftime and scored on their first three drives in the second half to take control against the Broncos (8-6). l FCS SeMiFinALS: Wide receiver Junior Bergen took a pitch and, despite being face-masked while avoiding rushers, completed a two-point conversion pass to Keelan White, who caught the ball off a deflection, and montana beat North Dakota State, 31-29, in two overtimes in missoula, mont., to advance to the football Championship Subdivision title game. The Grizzlies face South Dakota State next Sunday in frisco, Tex. Bergen9s play came after Eli Gillman scored on a 13-yard run for montana on the opening possession of the second overtime. montana intercepted North Dakota State9s two-point pass attempt after TK marshall9s twoyard touchdown run for the Bison on the ensuing possession. l DiViSion ii FinAL: Blake Delacruz rushed for 208 yards, Braden Jay added 161 yards and three touchdowns on the ground and Harding won its first Division II championship, defeating Colorado School of mines, 38-7, in mcKinney, Tex. The Bison (15-0) rushed for 502 yards against the orediggers (14-1) to finish the season with 6,161 and become the first team at any level to rush for 6,000 yards in a season. college football roundup Gamecocks9 leap to FBS ends with first bowl win JAcksonviLLe st. 34, LA. LAfAyette 31 (ot) Harris, a Howard alum. Williams9s pass was intended for Jarett Hunter, but the running back fell, allowing rattlers linebacker Isaiah major to snare the ball at the Howard 19-yard line. florida A&m (12-1), the Southwestern Athletic Conference champion that entered on a 10-game winning streak, had grabbed the lead on Jeremy moussa9s 38-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jah9marae Sheread with 5:46 to play. Sheread got behind Howard defensive back Carson Hinton, whose 27-yard pick-six on the previous possession had given the Bison, the champions of the mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, their last lead of the game. <You can9t win many games when you turn the ball over three times,= said Williams, who played high school football at Wise. <That9s on me.= In its debut at the Celebration Bowl, which matches the winners of the premier football conferences featuring historically Black colleges and universities, Howard (6-6) fell short of its first winning season since it finished 7-4 in 2017. Williams completed 14 of 27 attempts for 106 yards as the Bison amassed just 187 yards. The rattlers had 357. for florida A&m, moussa finished 19 for 32 for 289 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions, and wide receiver Kelvin Dean Jr. (three catches for 87 yards and two touchdowns) was voted the game9s offensive most outstanding player. major was voted the most outstanding player on defense. <It9s never fun to lose,= Howard Coach Larry Scott said. <Had opportunities, things that you lose football games with 4 some penalties, turnovers 4 especially in championship games. Those are things that bite you, so in the end [we] couldn9t do enough to overcome that.= The Bison gave up back-toCeLebRAtion bowL from D1 Bison blow lead late in Celebration Bowl defeat straight mEAC title. They finished with the same conference record as North Carolina Central but claimed the tiebreaker via a 50-20 win over the visiting Eagles on Nov 11. In its first game in nearly a month, Howard produced a rousing start with touchdowns on its first two possessions. The first came on Hunter9s eight-yard run through the middle with 13:29 to play in the opening quarter. The defense forced a turnover on florida A&m9s first series when White strip-sacked moussa for a loss of 17 yards. Hinton recovered, setting up the Bison at the florida A&m 37-yard line. Wide receiver Kasey Hawthorne9s three-yard run bumped Howard9s lead to 14-0 less than five minutes in. <You never want to watch the other team celebrate,= said Hinton, a senior. <You want to be the one celebrating, but you know we9re definitely going to be back [and will] keep fighting. It9s not a loss 4 it9s a learning lesson.= front of moussa9s throw for an interception. Howard took over at its 49-yard line but gave the ball back when Williams threw into a crowd on fourth and 12 and was intercepted by Deco Wilson with 2:08 to go until halftime. The rattlers scored the final points of the half on Cameron Gillis9s 41-yard field goal with 11 seconds to play. Earlier in the quarter, defensive end Darrian Brokenburr sacked moussa in the end zone for the first safety in the eight-game history of the Celebration Bowl. The Bison were playing in their first bowl game since Dec. 31, 1996, when they rallied from a 14-point halftime deficit to beat Southern, 27-24, in the now-defunct Heritage Bowl at Atlanta9s Georgia Dome. This season, Howard secured a berth in the Celebration Bowl by beating morgan State, 14-7, in the regular season finale at Greene Stadium. The triumph gave the Bison their second back touchdowns to fall behind 24-16 with 10:58 remaining. The second of those scores was moussa9s 53-yard pass to Dean, who made the catch along the sideline and pulled away from safety Xavier robiou. Howard trailed for the first time at 17-16 with 13:45 left after it surrendered an 83-yard drive that ended with moussa9s 21-yard toss to Dean. moussa9s pass sailed just over the head of linebacker Christian White and settled into Dean9s hands as he tumbled backward in the end zone. The first half ended with the Bison in front 16-10 thanks in part to rattlers mistakes, including a holding penalty midway through the second quarter that erased a 31-yard touchdown pass from wide receiver marcus riley to moussa, who was alone in the end zone on the gadget play. florida A&m incurred 25 yards in penalties on that series, which ended when defensive end Ian White stepped in Alex SlITz/GeTTy ImAGeS Florida A&M9s Kelvin Dean Jr., who scored twice, was voted the offensive most outstanding player. SCHEDULE TODAY! 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STORY BY JADA YUAN IN sag harBor, N.Y. PHOTOGRAPHY BY SEAN SCHEIDT For the WashINgtoN Post C ord Jefferson likes to joke that he9d never directed anything, not even traffic, before taking the reins on his first feature film, <American Fiction= 4 a biting satire of the publishing world and the limiting expectations White America places on Black artists, adapted from Percival Everett9s 22- year-old novel <Erasure,= that has launched into the awards season seemingly out of nowhere and is now being touted as a best picture nominee. ¶ But on a beautiful early October afternoon at the Hamptons International Film Festival, traffic streaming out of <American Fiction= seemed to be directing itself just fine 4 straight to wherever Jefferson happened to be (in the lobby, on a sidewalk bench). The movie stars Jeffrey Wright as frustrated Black novelist Thelonious <Monk= Ellison, who decides to write a parody of every stereotypically <Black= misery porn cliché he can think of and becomes a runaway literary sensation, much to his horror. (<Deadbeat dads, rappers, crack 4 you said you wanted Black stuff. That9s Black, right?= says Monk, calling his agent from his family9s beach house near Boston.) see CoRd JEffERson oN E10 BY SEBASTIAN SMEE IN ParIs T his will seem odd, but I9ve been thinking a lot about the differences between a painting by Mark rothko and my smartphone. What do they have in common? Nothing extraordinary. Just that both objects were in a particular relationship to me and my body as I spent time in <Mark rothko,= an exhibition of more than 100 rothko paintings at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. the show has been generating a lot of excitement 4 and for good reason. It9s the first rothko retrospective in France in almost a quarter-century, and probably the best rothko show in my lifetime. the loans have come from some of the world9s great art collections, including several in D.C., which is usually the best city in the world to see rothko. the generosity of the National gallery, the Phillips Collection (which created the first dedicated <rothko room= in 1960), glenstone and the hirshhorn Museum has left a rothkoshaped hole in D.C. But in compensation, the National gallery has mounted an exhibition of rothko9s paintings on paper (through March 31). While I was at the Paris show, I was very conscious of my phone, slightly to my shame. It was in and out of my pocket. Like almost everyone around me, I was using it to take photos of the paintings. You can easily picture the scene. Phones are seductive. their scale and rectangular shape are part of the attraction. they may seem inert, but when you want them (and often when you don9t) they buzz, they glow, they pulse away in your mind, like the throat of a toad. You9re made to feel you can do anything with see Rothko oN E8 crItIc9s notEbook In dazzling, retrospective, Rothko works seem to glow in the dark tatE ModErn, London Mark Rothko, <Black on Maroon,= 1958. KLMNO Arts&Style sunday, december 17, 2023 EZ EE k E From Gawker blogger to Oscar contender. The rise of Cord Jeberson InsIdE Bounteous box sets make perfect gifts for classical music fans E4 Mutual attraction is evident in a celebrated portrait of a fellow artist by Édouard Manet. E3 Exhibitions by local artists conjure the teeming, uncentered qualities of the natural world. E14

E2 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 books BY MARTHA ANNE TOLL I n <Time9s Echo,= Jeremy Eichler knits together the history of the Holocaust and classical music before, during and after the cataclysm. Eichler explores two questions: How might we come to <know, honor, commemorate, feel a connection to, or most simply live with the presence of the past?= and how might we return works of art and music to history, so they become <a prism through which we 8remember9 what was lost?= Eichler, the chief classical music critic for the Boston Globe and a cultural historian, takes four prominent composers with differing backgrounds and nationalities 4 Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten 4 and grounds them in their cultural antecedents, exploring how their signature compositions reflect the horrific times in which they lived. (The more the reader knows about music, the more likely this dense, beautiful book will resonate.) In the key through line, he connects the fluidity of musical time to personal and historical memory. Despite detailed endnotes, <Time9s Echo= is not a reference book. Carefully researched and capacious in scope, it reads as elegy: mournful, elegant and gratifying. Music is notoriously difficult to get on the page. It is a great challenge to describe the lamentations of specific composers. We may know Strauss as a gifted composer of tone poems and operas, but he was also someone who had a troubling and opportunistic relationship with Nazi leadership. In an ironic twist, he ended up having to protect his Jewish daughterin-law and grandchildren from the Nazi maw. We may know Schoenberg as the inventor of the 12-tone row, but here, we also see him as a secular Jew whose prescient efforts to sound the alarm for European Jewry went unheeded. Eichler organizes chapters around themes, rather than people or events. He weaves in contemporaneous cultural influences from literature, visual arts, philosophy and academia. The German-Austrian Jewish composers Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler and Schoenberg are considered in the first chapter, where Eichler describes the 19th-century Jewish dream of <emancipation through culture.= He interprets the German word <Bildung= (as in bildungsroman) to signify <a faith in the ability of literature, music, philosophy, and poetry to renovate the self, to shape one9s moral sensibilities, and to guide one toward a life of aesthetic grace.= Subsequent chapters consider the impact of World War I on what was to come, and what it means both to remember and to forget history9s catastrophes. Nothing points up the psychosis of Nazi ideology better than pairing lofty concepts such as Bildung with the Nazi death machine. A chapter called <The Emancipation of Memory= juxtaposes the Nazi celebration of Friedrich Schiller9s 175th birthday with the story of Schoenberg9s cousin Arthur, a civil engineer who had played a leading role in creating Munich9s buildings and infrastructure. Arthur pleaded with the Munich city council not to nullify his citizenship and subject him to <the tragedy of homelessness= at age 60. Eichler notes that later scholars would call this type of appeal a reflection of the <bureaucratization of genocide.= Within nine months of being deported to Terezin, Arthur and his wife were dead. The Nazis successfully killed the carefully woven connections between Jewish intellectuals and artists and the concept of Bildung. The genocide was so far beyond imagination that the BBC delayed airing Richard Dimbleby9s real-time descriptions of Bergen-Belsen. The London office just couldn9t believe it. Encapsulating the literature of trauma, Eichler writes that the survivor cannot move on until the telling of the trauma <has been truly witnessed.= Music is part of that witnessing. Having performed as a violist in a Britten opera and orchestral pieces, I was 8Time9s Echo9 richly explores music and the history of the Holocaust TOM KaTes KnOpf particularly moved by Eichler9s discussions of the English composer. Born in the coastal English town of Lowestoft, Britten was an infant when World War I broke out. His uncle was killed in the Battle of the Somme, and a shell fired by the German fleet narrowly missed the family home. Eichler delves into Britten9s titanic composition <War Requiem,= which premiered in 1962 in the newly consecrated Coventry Cathedral (the original was destroyed by German bombs during World War II). <War Requiem= is scored for two orchestras and an organ. Three vocal soloists and two choirs sing WWI poetry by Wilfred Owen as well as the Latin Requiem. The piece was Britten9s <culminating artistic statement of a life spent responding in varying degrees to the human capacity for cruelty, and society9s capacity for violence against its own members once they had been branded as other.= A short review does not lend itself to a thorough exploration of a book as rich as this, where a consideration of Shostakovich9s music includes a discussion of Sigmund Freud and Russian poets Anna Akhmatova and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Eichler pairs the music of Paul Hindemith with the literature of W.G. Sebald. Eichler is so taken with Sebald that he adopts the writer9s visual design 4 uncaptioned photographs interspersed with the text. Toward the end, Eichler quotes a letter from Shostakovich to Britten that suggests the Russian composer9s tortured relationship with Stalin. The letter provides a wonderful summary for <Time9s Echo=: <Your music is the most outstanding phenomenon of the twentieth century. And for me it is the source of profound and powerful impressions. Write as much as possible. It is necessary for humanity 4 and certainly for me.= Martha Anne Toll9s debut novel, <Three Muses,= was published last fall. Her second, <Duet for One,= is forthcoming in early 2025. Jeremy Eichler writes about four prominent composers, exploring how their signature works reflect the horrific times in which they lived. Despite detailed endnotes, <Time9s Echo= is not a reference book. Carefully researched and capacious in scope, it reads as elegy: mournful, elegant and gratifying.

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ ee e3 art BY SEBASTIAN SMEE F orty years ago, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote that <art love is attained, or contracted, through a series of epiphanies, or seizures.= His implication 4 that art love is like a disease, something before which you9re helpless 4 I9ve found to be true. Most of the time, these epiphanies happen in front of artworks. But they can be brought on in other ways, too. I know this because I fell in love with this portrait of the painter Berthe Morisot by Édouard Manet, known as <Repose,= years before I saw it. I was a student living in Australia in the early 1990s when I read about the painting in Schjeldahl9s review of a 1983 Manet retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That review, published in <The Hydrogen Jukebox,= a collection of Schjeldahl9s writings on art, is still my favorite essay on art. What he wrote specifically about <Repose,= which I9ve since come to know on repeated visits to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, still pulses behind my eyes, gently warming my enthusiasm for criticism whenever it threatens to cool. Schjeldahl, who died last year, became a friend after I moved to the United States. He could be complicated (he told me his wife suggested he hand out business cards imprinted with <Peter Schjeldahl: Bridge Burner=), but he was deeply and magnificently human and, like many, I miss him. So forgive me if this piece comes across as much as a tribute to Schjeldahl as to <Repose.= Manet, like his hero Diego Velázquez, was cool. His paintings convey a sense that nothing fazed him. But what Schjeldahl most loved him for was his ardor. <Manet responded to the sensuous charge in things and in paint, and to the sexual charge in people,= he wrote, <not as anything hidden and shadowy but as the very flavor of a civilized existence.= You felt this responsiveness in everything Manet painted, whether it was a bunch of peonies, a brioche, a dead toreador or a turquoise sea. But his ardor was never more evident than when he painted Berthe Morisot. Several of Manet9s depictions of Morisot, including <Repose,= are now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the <Manet/Degas= exhibition. In <Repose,= which is almost five feet high, Morisot is leaning back into a deep, wine-colored sofa. She wears a white dress with a black belt and gazes off to the right 4 a little fed up, you feel, with posing, perhaps eager to get back to her own easel. On the wall behind her is a Japanese print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, in which a female pearl diver, Tamamo, is retrieving a stolen jewel from the Dragon King9s underwater palace. The print is all crashing waves and tumbling bodies, and its inclusion makes explicit an erotic tumult just below the surface of Manet9s painting. <Beneath [Morisot9s] petticoats, twisting athwart their arrangement, her body is wild,= observed Schjeldahl. <Wild not with desire & but with the thoughtless animal energy that both desires and induces desire.= People today often have trouble understanding just what it was about Manet that so scandalized France9s genteel public and its conservative art establishment. Most of the answers have to do with painting style and subject matter in the context of onrushing modernity. But I9ve always liked Schjeldahl9s simpler claim that Manet9s contemporaries <could not relax enough to appreciate his life-affirming joke: that in rendering the animal in the bonnet or frock coat, he conferred an integrity on living men and women that made them proof against whatever dehumanizing forces the world could inflict.= <Without a whisper of doting,= he wrote of Manet9s <Repose,= the painting is <a lesson in how to love.= <Without a whisper of doting= is spot on, I think. I only wonder whether Morisot9s squirming body also has to do with a frustrated desire, at that time, to be doted on by Manet & Alas, he was already married. Her eminently practical solution, when the disappointment subsided, was to marry his brother. great works, in focus Brushstrokes can9t hide the a>nity of two artists RISD mUSeUm Édouard Manet (b. 1832) Repose (Le Repos), 1871 In the collection of RISD museum in Providence, R.I.; on loan to the metropolitan museum of Art through Jan. 7. A series featuring art critic Sebastian Smee9s favorite works in permanent collections across the United States Kennedy-Center.org The ONLY OFFICIAL WEBSITE of the Kennedy Center (202) 467-4600 Theater Presenting Sponsor Theater Presenting Sponsor The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Groups 20+ call (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Oûce at (202) 416-8540 Kennedy-Center.org/health-safety now thru Dec. 31 Eisenhower Theater <BOB DYLAN9S SONGS HAVE NEVER SOUNDED SO HEARTBREAKINGLY PERSONAL AND UNIVERSAL.= NEW YORK TIMES July 19331, 2022 | Eisenhower Theater

E4 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 Carlos Roque Alsina9s <Consecuenza.= Mauricio Kagel9s <Music for Renaissance Instruments= breaks the Baroque into bits. There are (relatively speaking) some big names represented: John Cage, whose <Atlas Eclipticalis= and <Winter Music= are here recorded simultaneously; György Ligeti, whose molten second string quartet feels like the set9s center of gravity; and Stockhausen, whose <Spiral= sets up a lively dialogue between oboist Heinz Holliger and a shortwave radio. But the true pleasure of this reissue are its little secrets and surprises: the seaside field recordings of Luc Ferrari; the feral tape manipulations of Roland Kayn; the primordial electronics of Zoltán Pongrácz, Rainer Riehn and Gottfried Michael Koenig. <The Avantgarde Series= shouldn9t be mistaken for a comprehensive cross-section 4 there9s no New York minimalism, no pre-IRCAM Pierre Boulez and not a single woman to be heard. But its 186-page book does help fill in some conspicuous blanks, and the set9s fearless range and reach offer adventurous ears a compelling retreat to what once were music9s front lines. In the late 1960s, the esteemed classical recording label Deutsche Grammophon did what a lot of folks were doing at that time: They started experimenting. Between 1968 and 1971, the label released four box sets of six LPs each 4 handsomely designed attempts to package and market the burgeoning global new music scene. Rather than focus on individual works, the boxes lured hesitant browsers into the wild by organizing around scoring, ideas, principles and forms: an album of string quartets, another of choral works, another of music for early instruments. But these assurances of the familiar quickly gave way to (often literally) uncharted territory. This 21-disc set collects and reissues that ambitious and short-lived series (apart from three Karlheinz Stockhausen releases, withheld at the request of the composer9s estate), and in the process resuscitates its experimental intrigue. A grouping of string quartets by Witold LutosCawski, Krzysztof Penderecki and Toshiro Mayuzumi is a tangle of mid-century existential tensions. A trombone-centric suite assembles brass-bending experiments by Vinko Globukar, Luciano Berio, Stockhausen and the ingrown fanfare of Various artists: 8The Avantgarde Series,9 Deutsche Grammophon Maria Callas: 8La Divina: Maria Callas in All Her Roles,9 Warner Classics For some people, a perfectly sensible way to celebrate the 100th birthday of La Divina (a.k.a. soprano Maria Callas) might be to simply snack on YouTube highlights 4 say, her legendary 1958 <Lisbon 8Traviata,9= or the unforgiving newsreel coverage of her <Norma= walkout that same year. (She was indisposed!) But for others, nothing short of immersive, comprehensive, endurance-based diva worship will suffice. For those people there is <La Divina: Maria Callas in All Her Roles,= which is precisely what it says on the box. Across 131 CDs, three Blu-ray Discs and one DVD-ROM, the box set collects all the roles for which audio documents exist 4 including the 43 roles Callas sang onstage, studio recordings and alternate takes. This means no fewer than eight Toscas, seven Normas and Lucias, six Medeas, four Aidas and a joke about a partridge in a pear tree. This may all seem like way too much Maria 4 and it absolutely is 4 but each disc in this extensive library feels like an invitation 4 from the spellbinding early 1954 recording <Maria Meneghini Callas Sings Operatic Arias= to her 1972 master classes at Juilliard. The DVD-ROM includes libretti and sung texts, liner notes galore, interviews and recording sheets. And a supplementary lap-friendly hardcover book gathers dozens of photos and liner notes in French, English and German. For the most hardcore of Callas fans, this set will provide hours of discovery and pleasure. (Results may vary for their neighbors.) music BY MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR C lassical folks can be notoriously difficult to shop for. Once you do settle on something, the results can be underwhelming. An envelope with concert tickets can barely stuff a stocking. An individual CD seems like an exercise in anachronism. And have you ever tried to wrap a piano? ¶ Luckily, you can still find gifts for the musically minded that boast artistic substance to match their physical heft: I9m talking about box sets. Below are three formidable new sets that will delight the music lover in your life 4 and keep them busy for weeks. For the picky listener on your list, a holiday haul of classical gifts PhoTos by MaTT MCClain/The WashingTon PosT From left, <Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1-20 & Essays From 20 Fellow Artists,= <The Avantgarde Series= and <La Divina: Maria Callas in All Her Roles.= The box set collects all the roles for which audio documents exist of Maria Callas singing. <The Avantgarde Series= reissues an ambitious and short-lived series by Deutsche Grammophon.

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ ee E5 Philip Glass: 8Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1-20 & Essays From 20 Fellow Artists,9 Artisan D.C. audiences are still waiting for Philip Glass9s National Symphony Orchestra-commissioned Symphony No. 15, but in the meantime, all ears have been on the composer and his piano. A celebration in November at Lincoln Center assembled 10 pianists, including Timo Andres, Inon Barnatan, Lara Downes, Jenny Lin and Nico Muhly, to perform all 20 of Glass9s piano études in one evening. Earlier this month, the Joyce Theater presented <Dancing With Glass: The Piano Etudes,= featuring five new dance interpretations of the études (performed by pianist Maki Namekawa). And a new album of Glass playing a selection of his solo works arrives Jan. 26. All this activity is swirling around the release of <Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1-20 & Essays From 20 Fellow Artists,= a substantial box set not of CDs, but of sheet music folios for his 20 elegantly scored études. Taken together, they are part self-portrait and part autobiography 4 their repetitive textures helping to obscure the narrative advancement of Glass9s practice (both senses) at the piano. Gorgeously printed and prepared, they9re a perfect gift for beginners and experienced players alike. <If I9m to be remembered for anything,= Glass has said, <it will probably be for the piano music, because people can play it.= Bundled with the set is <Studies in Time,= a book of short essays from artists and collaborators, including Alice Waters, Angélique Kidjo, Ari Shapiro, Ira Glass, Laurie Anderson and Martin Scorsese 4 each of whom sing the composer9s praises. (It feels a touch repetitive, but maybe that9s the point.) music <Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1-20 & Essays From 20 Fellow Artists= is a collection of sheet music folios for his 20 elegantly scored études. The set includes <Studies in Time,= a book of short essays from artists and collaborators. MaTT MCClain/The WashingTon PosT SHOP ONLINE 24/7 AT Shop.Kennedy-Center.org HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT THE KENNEDY CENTER Groups 20+ call (202) 416-8400 LOBBY SHOP Tuesday3Sunday Noon38 p.m. STATES SHOP Tuesday3Sunday Noon3end of last performance *Days and hours are subject to change NEW PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE JFK GALLERY Open Daily 10 A.M.3Midnight | Free Admission NEW YEAR9S EVE WITH Gregory Porter <A jazz singer of thrilling presence, a booming baritone with a gift for earthy reûnement and soaring uplift.= 4TH E NEW YORK TIMES Sunday, December 31 at 8 p.m. Concert Hall Eric Umphery Millennium Stage Extraordinary Cinema Film Screenings Join us Sundays for FREE ûlm screenings in the Justice Forum at the REACH Jan. 7 | Joan Baez: I Am A Noise Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert ûlm, Joan Baez: I Am A Noise is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time. Jan. 14 | Anatomy of A Fall Anatomy of a Fall follows the family of Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel. When Samuel is found dead below the family9s French Alps chalet, what follows is not just investigation but also an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel9s conûicting relationship. Jan. 21 | BLUE GIANT Adapted from a hugely popular manga series, BLUE GIANT tells the story of a young Japanese man who is determined to become the biggest jazz musician in the world. The ûlm features about 30 minutes of stunning jazz performances, music directed by Grammy Award® winner Hiromi who has performed multiple times at the Kennedy Center. Visit Kennedy-Center.org/millennium for more information and to reserve free tickets. Kennedy-Center.org The ONLY OFFICIAL WEBSITE of the Kennedy Center (202) 467-4600 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Oûce at (202) 416-8540 THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS The Jim Johnson Arts Access Endowment Fund The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation The Meredith Foundation The Jim Johnson Arts Access Endowment Fund The Buffy and William Cafritz Family Foundation

e6 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 Dear Carolyn: I have a close friend who is 35, handsome and intelligent but, for reasonsIcan9t fathom, not the most selfassured. For several years, he has been in a relationship with a woman even less self-assured than he is. She regularly berates him for <not making her feel better about herself.= He9s shown me text exchanges in which she is incredibly abusive, and he has often told me about her spectacular tantrums and his doubts about the relationship. She either adores or hates him, and his strategy is to ignore her while she is in hate mode. I have been forthright with him that her treatment of him is concerning to me. I suggested professional support, at least for himself, if not both of them. He did not do this. After hemming and hawing about it for months, he recently proposed to her. Less than a week after the proposal, what had previously been verbal abuse became physical. She attacked my friend over a deficiency in his attention. When my friend told me this, he assured me the relationship was over, but so far, he hasn9t ended it. I do think there is religious pressure to get hitched. I could tell when we last spoke that he was reluctant to admit he hadn9t broken up with her.Idon9t want him to feel judged, so I9m done with forthright suggestions. But this is hard to watch. I am hoping you have ideas for how to more constructively express my concerns, or feel more comfortable shutting up. 4 Friend Friend: Your friend plans to marry his abuser, so there is no comfort to be had in <shutting up.= Not much wisdom in it, either, given how silence often reads as approval or acceptance. Relationships, of course, are the sole business of the people in them, almost without exception, and therefore whether others approve or accept is not germane4but abuse is the main reason for that <almost.= Especially given the denial and gaslighting involved with abuse, and the risk of serious harm, it9s essential for witnesses to be clear in their messaging that such treatment is not okay. (See how this is an abusive relationship here: joinonelove.org/signsunhealthy-relationship. There are no <modes,= just abuse.) The toughest thing for a loving bystander like you, however, besides watching your friend suffer, is to figure out what to say that won9t make things worse. So, here9s what tends not to help: · Silence. · Criticizing the abuser directly. Your friend may feel compelled to defend her, which sets his mind to work on justifying her behavior exactly when it9s in his best interests to question it. And he may feel moved to defend himself, since your concern can come across as questioning his competence at choosingapartner. Either way, defensiveness turns away new information, while his health and safety depend on his absorbing it. · Criticizing his choices. Even softer versions of, <Don9t tell me you9ve gone back,= <Why are you okay with this,= etc., are more dings to his battered confidence. Take his withholding as a cue not to say anything you suspect will drain his confidence further. Here9s what tends to help: · Building confidence. That can include assuring him he can count on you: <I9d like to be a safe person for you to talk to. I won9t judge, and I will listen when you tell me what does and doesn9t help.= It can include caring enough to listen carefully. Reflecting what he says back to him (<You sound angry about her complaint=), asking relevant questions (<How do you think you9ll respond?=) and checking in (<If you9re not comfortable talking about this, we can move on=) all send people a clear message they9re valuable and their words and experiences matter. It is essential counterprogramming to her messages that she comes first and everything he does is wrong. It also can be a confidencebuilder to talk about other things sometimes. He9s more than his abusive fiancée. Be a steady reminder of that. · Focusing on his well-being. Where you want to scream, <Look what she9s doing to you aaaaagh!!!= say evenly instead, <You seem subdued/stressed/ distracted today/lately.= Note the effect truthfully, exactly as you see it, and let him two-plustwo the cause. The effect is the thing, after all; if he were plugging happily along, credibly, then we wouldn9t be having this conversation, right? Even if she were a troll. · Giving him a guaranteed escape hatch: <If you ever need me, call. 24/7. No questions asked.= Again, no mention of her. He9ll know. · Running your questions by experts as they come up. The National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) isn9t just for victims of intimate partner abuse, but also for their loved ones as they try to navigate being supportive through this upsetting territory. I expect none of us has to look very far to find someone who, for whatever reason, never achieved escape velocity from an abuser9s gravitational pull. All you can guarantee is that your friend can count on your steady, boundaried presence in his fight to break free. Write to carolyn hax at [email protected]. get her column delivered to your inbox each morning at wapo.st/gethax. õ Join the discussion live at noon fridays at washingtonpost.com/live -chats. What can I say to a friend who recently proposed to his abusive partner? 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sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post PG EE E7 in high school. Thank you for suggesting that this young dad needed to pursue legal custody, rather than the informal arrangement they currently had. Some states will offer free <clinics= for parents to navigate this process. The young dad should also take a parenting class, which will demonstrate his commitment. And yes 4 he should use birth control! 4 Appreciative Appreciative: I admired the entire family9s commitment to this baby. Amy's column appears seven days a week at washingtonpost.com/advice. Write to [email protected] or Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, N.Y. 13068. ù You can also follow her @askingamy. © 2023 by Amy Dickinson. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. My question is this: Should we just smile and repeat our answer, or should we tell our friend we are worried because they seem to be getting very forgetful. Is there another solution? 4 E E: If your friend has a partner or family member nearby, you should reach out and report your concern. A person with an intimate tie to your friend should accompany them for a checkup and assessment. In the moment, you should deal with repeated questions by marshaling your patience and answering the question again. Nudging the person by stating, <You9ve already asked that; don9t you remember?= could bring on further confusion. Dear Amy: <Concerned Grandmother= has a son who had fathered a child while still good at this overwhelming task and who will help sort through possessions and keep, toss and sell 4 in exchange for a fee that is earned from the sale of some of the items from the house. It can be easier on everyone if a professional from outside the family assists with this very challenging task. You can contact your local Office on Aging for recommendations, or search for <senior transition services= in your area. Dear Amy: My husband and I are in our 70s. We and most of our friends are a little forgetful. However, we have one friend who will ask the same question several times during a conversation. For example, the friend will ask about the health of a mutual friend, and then two minutes later might ask basically the same question again. This is just one example of many during a conversation. caring for an elderly human, but surely your own overwhelming burdens might give you some insight into what packing and moving might be like for an 80-year-old woman, whose capabilities have always been far less than yours. Your mother-in-law has had five years to start this process, but it is simply not happening. And yes, this inaction might be her fault, but it is still not happening. Your ultimatum must seem reasonable as it escapes your lips, but it might ultimately be less stressful for you if you at least set up and supervise the sorting and packing process for your mother-in-law. Otherwise, surely you do realize that you are setting her 4 and you 4 up for a far more stressful situation down the road, because you will wind up doing this from a great distance. There are people who are shopping and/or to doctors9 appointments. Soon, we are moving out of state, and she is coming with us. For the past five years I9ve been telling her that she needs to start clearing out her house. We are now a few months from moving and she has done nothing. We are busy trying to prepare for this move ourselves and between work, property maintenance, the animals, shopping, laundry and packing up our house, we have no time to spare to pack her stuff up as well. I have told my husband that she will just have to stay put until she gets her place cleared out and then we can come back and get her. I am at a loss! 4 Frustrated in Texas Frustrated: Your life is extremely stressful. It9s a shame that caring for your dogs and horses is preventing you from Dear Amy: My father-in-law died about five years ago. My inlaws were married for 45 years. My mother-in-law is 80 and insists on living in her own house. She expects us to help with her house. Anytime anything breaks or needs fixing or work needs to be done, she expects us to tend to the issue. We both work full-time jobs and change shifts every six months. We have our own home, four acres of property to maintain, three horses and three dogs to care for. It9s not that we don9t want to help. We just don9t have time! We9ve asked her to move in with us many times, but she refuses. She is not independent. She has never learned to drive, so she has to rely on various friends or neighbors to take her How can reader get mother-in-law to clear out her house before she moves? 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E8 eZ ee the washington post . arWorks by Mark rothko, clockwise from top left: <ochre and red on red,= 1954 <Light Cloud, Dark Cloud,= 1957 <No. 21,= 1949 <Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea,= 1944 <Self Portrait,= 1936 them, gratify almost any desire, pretty much instantly. But it9s strange. Those desires tend to arrive unbeckoned. And they don9t always seem to belong to you. They9re generated by people who know how the dopamine in your brain works, people who have designs on you. A rothko painting is a different kind of thing. You see it on a museum wall. It9s not yours. It9s not for touching. But something about its symmetry and its specific scale, which is tailored to your body, encourages you to stand directly in front of it, and to look not just at it but into it. Into what? That9s the great mystery. Like the phone, it seems to glow, even to pulse. But, of course, it features no cats or attractive celebrities or angry political pundits, no <like= or <submit payment= buttons. It doesn9t want anything from you. It has no designs on you. And it doesn9t change, except with the ambient light, and with some weird internal weather system, origins unknown. I9m sure it9s obvious which of these two things I like better. But that9s not just because of the halo of piety we9re supposed to feel before great art, nor the rhetoric of transcendence that rothko9s work in particular tends to stimulate. It has to do with very specific things about how two objects relate to our bodies and desires. one kind of thing has a certain autonomy, an aloofness; the other is instrumental, transactional. one thing exists in its own right; the other exists with all kinds of ulterior motives. The Paris show9s curatorial team, led by Suzanne Pagé and Christopher rothko (the artist9s son), have kept the galleries as dim as possible. Their presentational strategy, which works beautifully, might have been inspired by the museum director Bryan robertson9s memory of a late winter afternoon with the artist in 1961 at the Whitechapel Gallery, where robertson had mounted a rothko show. When, on rothko9s request, robertson switched off all the lights, <the effect,= he wrote, <once the retina had adjusted itself, was unforgettable, smoldering and blazing and glowing softly from the walls 4 color in darkness.= That same feeling is recaptured in Paris, where the first galleries show rothko digesting the influences of such artists as Arshile Gorky, milton Avery, Joan miró, Adolph Gottlieb, André masson and Henri matisse. (matisse9s <The red Studio,= with its drenching, space-flattening reds, was decisive in tipping rothko over into abstraction.) Gradually, he moves from painting street scenes, theaters and subways to surrealistic imagery drawn from the unconscious, then to vatic, symbol-laden compositions inspired by Nietzsche9s idea of tragedy. R othko was born markus rothkowitz. As a 10-year-old, he emigrated to the United States from Latvia, which was then part of the russian empire. russia was roiled by pogroms, and violent antisemitism was never far from the rothkowitz family. markus had been studying the Talmud since he was 5, after his pharmacist father, a secular Jew, returned to religion. The boy9s studies left a deep imprint on his later life as an artist, his politics and his principles. Affable but finely strung, rothko was clearly very intelligent. He was admitted to Yale University but dropped out, alienated by antisemitism and the clubbiness of the college9s wealthy elite. His own success, and the wealth it brought him, placed unaccustomed pressures on him. Annie Cohen-Solal, his biographer (and a contributor to the show9s catalogue), described rothko as <inherently tormented,= while Elaine de Kooning thought he was <hypnotized by his own role,= which was <that of the messiah.= A messiah he may not have been, but a reverent idea of rothko prevails. That9s hardly surprising: He is one of those few artists whose work can make you weep. But for a writer, it9s almost impossible to describe the impact of his art without groping for a lyricism that9s liable to collapse into bathos. So what is there to say? It can9t hurt to describe the actual paintings. They are things, after all. And to describe a thing can be to reassert its reality in the face of inflated claims and false preconceptions. rothko9s mature paintings, which date from around 1950, are 4 as many people know 4 rothko from E1 composed of softly painted rectangles of luminous color. These rectangles have feathered, broken edges. They are like clouds torn from cotton candy. The rectangles are placed symmetrically. They9re usually oriented horizontally and placed one above the other on a vertical, more opaque ground. Already, then, you may grasp rothko9s interest in orchestrating contrasts within a format of extreme simplicity: Horizontal vs. vertical. Translucent vs. opaque. The hard edges of the stretched canvas vs. soft-edged, floating lozenges. Howard Devree, a skeptical early reviewer, compared rothko9s paintings to <a set of swatches prepared by a house painter for a housewife who cannot make up her mind.= (Ah, the 1950s.) others understood immediately what rothko was up to. He was trying to paint space and light, to make them portals to what he called <the exhilarated tragic experience which for me is the only source book for art.= Critics compared the indeterminacy in his art to Turner9s seascapes, Whistler9s <Nocturnes= and monet9s late work. What made rothko different was that there was nothing to recognize. Nothing to decipher. A painting by rothko, from 1950 on, was a thing in itself, and not a representation of any other thing. This thingness can make his paintings feel very austere. (<We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth,= rothko wrote in an early manifesto authored with Gottlieb.) But if you are in even a mildly receptive state, it can also seem luxuriant, radiant with complexity and nuance. And if you are feeling still more receptive, it might seem to conceal, as the critic robert rosenblum put it, <a total, remote presence, that we can only intuit and never fully grasp.= C olor, of course, was at the heart of rothko9s efforts. I9ve said nothing about it until now, but it is what draws so many of us to his art, and it is what makes me respond more intensely to some rothkos than others. Classic rothkos involve reds. He used every variation of red you can imagine. I love these works. But the painting I won9t forget from the Paris show has only a thin, raggedy strip of pale pink in it. This strip runs horizontally above a wider band of rich yellow. Together, they separate two large rectangles, both green, one more inflected with yellow than the other. I have to confess, I had a moment with this painting. <moment= isn9t quite right: It was an extended period, but it had no beginning, middle or end, and I lost track of time. There was no This happened, then this, then that. It was all present tense. By this time, I had already been through the exhibition 4 a sequence of miscellaneous, crowded galleries across multiple levels. I felt elated, but also jet-lagged. And in my primitive critic9s brain, I was feeling confused by the final galleries. What to make of the way rothko9s work becomes steadily darker and is almost drained of color as he nears the end of his life? How, if at all, to relate this to his illness and suicide? In short, did I like this late stuff, or not? mostly not, I was deciding. And in this befuddled, slightly undone state, I prepared to leave. But I got to the glass doors and saw that it was pouring with rain. I had no umbrella. I would have to walk back across the Bois de Boulogne, a wooded park. It was better to wait for the rain to ease before venturing out. So I reentered the exhibition and found a bench. It was only then (I realize in retrospect) that my tensed mind relaxed. The bench faced a wall with three paintings, all astonishingly lovely. on the left, yellow, white and blue. In the middle, yellow and white. on the right (but directly in front of me), green and yellow. rothko himself used the names of colors in his titles (the green and yellow one is called <No. 14/No. 10 (Yellow Green),= 1953). But how, really, do you attach words to the way his floating rectangles 4 their edges wispy and broken 4 fuse and fizz, their underlayers alternating warm and cool beneath a thin but chromatically steady top layer, the whole emulsion working on the eye in gently pulsing waves that are like sighs, like tides, like emanations of bliss and selfless love? my <moment,= as I said, has no story attached. (or if it does, I think I9ve just told it.) I can only add that I thought I was looking at the most beautiful painting in the world. Unlike the phone in my pocket, which I9d been using just a few minutes earlier to check for routes across the park, I had no use for the painting, and it wanted nothing from me. It was aloof, inviolate. Not mine to possess or exchange for anything. What9s more, although many feet separated me from it, it seemed improbably close. Elements within it appeared to move, imperceptibly, in front of me. 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E10 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 childhood except from his mother Susan9s family in Akron, ohio. When she9d married his father, Wilson, whom she9d met as her divorce lawyer, her family disowned her. <my mother was raised in a very, very racist environment,= Jefferson said. <She used to tell me that her father was such a bigot that he would say, 8You better not marry an Irishman, or a Jewish person.9 Imagine somebody saying, 8Don9t marry an Irishman,9 and then you marry a Black man.= Her father told her he never wanted her in their lives again. As an 8-year-old, Jefferson wrote a few letters to his grandparents in crayon, all of which were returned unopened. After the fourth or fifth returned letter, Jefferson stopped sending them and started thinking of his grandparents as dead. His conversations with his mother about all of this, he said, have permeated everything he does. <I think what my mother went through is in basically everything I work on,= Jefferson said. <I think she gave me my early understanding of just like, 8oh, this is pointless, the idea that somebody9s race is more important than the fact that they9re a human being.9= As he9s been sorting through his life in therapy, he9s sure that early rejection from his own blood must have permeated into his psyche, and it is probably partly responsible for the uncontrollable anger he carried with him to William & mary, his father9s alma mater. He studied sociology but mainly drank for a murderers9 row of prestige TV shows (<Watchmen,= <Succession,= <The Good Place,= <master of None,= <Station Eleven=), Jefferson spent his 20s in the trenches of online journalism, churning out music reviews and satirical essays, and covering what he later called <The racism Beat= for places like The root and Good magazine. His last job in media was as Gawker9s West Coast Editor (a title that just meant he didn9t want to move to New York), and he nearly got an Apple TV Plus show off the ground about his time there. If <American fiction= gets anywhere near the oscars, he might just be the biggest journalism-to-Hollywood success story ever. <oh, come on! David Simon! It9s got to be David Simon!= said Jefferson when I suggested such a thing. okay, the biggest millennial blogger-toHollywood success story. Growing up the son of a Black lawyer and a White teacher, first in Saudi Arabia (where the family moved for his father9s work) and then Tucson (ditto), Jefferson didn9t have much modeling for what a life in the arts might look like. <for me, being an artist was a thing that, like, rich people in New York and L.A. and Paris and rome did,= Jefferson said. <It wasn9t something for me.= I n Tucson, he9d been one of 30 or 40 Black kids in a majority-Latino school system. racism hadn9t come into play much in his Cord JEffErSon from E1 Memorable acceptance speech at Emmys put ex-blogger in spotlight sean scheidT for The WashingTon PosT The North American film festival circuit, made up of predominantly White audiences, is an interesting place to screen a movie that opens with a deliberate provocation: the n-word on a chalkboard. In a perfect introduction to the movie9s darkly comic tone, monk tries to give a lecture about its use in a literary context, only to get pushback from a White student who9s so offended that she runs out of the classroom in tears. <I wanted to give people permission to laugh at uncomfortable stuff,= Jefferson told me. <for me, it was more about establishing a tone for the film upfront. It9s like, 8Yeah, this is maybe going to make you a little uncomfortable. But also you can laugh at this stuff. Like, this stuff is ridiculous.= During test screenings, Jefferson said, audience members struggled to name the movie9s genre. Dark comedy? Dramedy? Like Everett9s book, the movie is grounded in monk9s family life: loss of a sibling, a mother with Alzheimer9s (Leslie Uggams), a complicated relationship with a plastic surgeon brother who just came out (an electrifying Sterling K. Brown). Whatever the tone, it9s a hit. After its world premiere at the Toronto International film festival in September, <American fiction= scooped up the coveted People9s Choice Award, prompting its studios, orion and Amazon mGm, to bump its release date from Nov. 3 to Dec. 15 (it opens in D.C. on Dec. 22), which means better opportunities to build word of mouth and awards prospects. This week, it received two Golden Globe nominations (for best picture and a best actor nod for Wright). When Jefferson walked into that Sag Harbor theater for the Q&A, to enthusiastic applause all around, I counted 12 people standing up 4 everyone Black in the room, in what seemed like a clear illustration of who felt most comfortable physically showing their praise and who wasn9t quite sure how to react. most of the Black audience members who stuck around later told me they worked in creative fields and had made the 21/2-hour trip from the city just to see that movie. <I was so happy, and then I started crying and just before I can get the tears, I9m laughing again!= said felicia Hardon, a professor of film production at the City University of New York. And throughout it all was a parade of people complimenting him on a single line. midway through the movie, monk, deep in his Stagg r. Leigh persona (his alias for his parody novel), tells his book publisher, <I9m sure White people on the Hamptons will delight in it.= <Yes, we will,= she replies. It was actually an ad-lib from Wright, and it killed in the room. Jefferson didn9t see the reaction; he can9t sit through the movie anymore because he9ll go too nuts thinking about what he should change. But he graciously listened to and thanked everyone who came up to him. <It did seem like the White people in the Hamptons loved it,= he told me, delighted. W ithin minutes of meeting up, Jefferson is directing me, away from my ideas of how I thought this interview might go (wandering through historic houses, checking out a whaling museum) and toward his much-preferred activity (grabbing two slices of pizza and sitting on a bench on main Street). Jefferson, 41, may be on his way to becoming a Hollywood big shot, but right now he9s still at the level where he can go out to a dive bar with festival staff and spend the whole night watching a game where people try to get a ring on a string onto a hook. He laughs, recalling the staffers9 shocked reaction. <I was like, 8oh, you guys must get, like, real Hollywood people who unless it9s Chateau marmont are like, 8No.9= Chomping away on that pizza, he9s wearing a faded Stone roses T-shirt, a vintage red plaid Polo bomber jacket that he casually mentions he bought in Paris on his way back from Switzerland, and a fat ring that covers up one of his 21 tattoos, indeed the first one he ever got when he was 22, while drunk at 3 a.m., on a friend9s band9s tour bus. It has two skulls on either end of the letters <mSC,= which stands for mommy9s Skull Club and is a joke only he and his high school friends get. (<I wear the ring because I think a hand tattoo is very aggro.=) Among the rest are an illustration of James Baldwin9s face and the title of the Cure song <Boys Don9t Cry.= <my tattoo aesthetic is bathroom stall,= Jefferson explained. If you know who Jefferson is, you probably learned of his existence, like every other American with eyes and a healthy libido, when he and Damon Lindelof won a 2020 Emmy for writing the Hooded Justice origin story episode, <The Extraordinary Being,= for HBo9s <Watchmen.= It was September of that fateful year, the pandemic was raging and the ceremony had been canceled, so Jefferson, all 6-foot-3 of him, gave a speech in a tux from Lindelof9s home. There was a certain amount of symbolism to Jefferson being part of that win, and to Lindelof ceding the floor to him, for a supernatural series rooted in the 1921 Tulsa massacre that had aired during the summer of protests over George floyd9s murder. During the speech, Jefferson thanked his therapist and declared <therapy should be free in this country!= To say Twitter became immediately thirsty would be an understatement. Lindelof 4 the creator of <Lost= 4 shockingly had never won a writing Emmy until that night, and he found himself entirely eclipsed by the internet9s surging interest in Jefferson. <I9m not being hyperbolic when I say that I got more emails that night and the following morning asking me about Cord and his availability 4 then it was like, 8oh, P.S. Congratulations,9= said Lindelof, laughing. Tracee Ellis ross, who plays monk9s sister Lisa in <American fiction,= said she, too, looked him up after that Emmys speech. <I loved that episode and thought he should have won for that episode, and then he mentioned his therapist and I was like, 8Who is this man?= (She said it was purely professional, but that she learned enough then to be thrilled when Jefferson reached out for <American fiction.=) Jefferson9s path to that moment is one of the more unique in showbiz. Before <American fiction,= before he found himself writing Cord Jefferson wrote for <Watchmen,= <Succession= and <The Good Place= before taking on his first feature film.

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ ee E11 created the Starz show <Survivor9s Remorse,= a comedy about the NBA, with LeBron James as executive producer. O9Malley called Jefferson on a Friday and asked if he9d start in the writers9 room on Monday. <I think we all thought 4 I can say this now 4 that he was going to be back at Gawker in less than a year,= said Max Read, former editor in chief of Gawker, who co-created the ill-fated Gawker TV show with Jefferson. <Obviously, that didn9t happen.= <I9m sure there9s a movie [to be made] about a young Black writer who has lost every job to Cord who9s, like, secretly stalking him,= said Aziz Ansari, who hired Jefferson to write for Season 2 of <Master of None.= There, Jefferson used his journalistic chops to interview subjects for the <New York, I Love You= episode, which centers on a doorman, a taxi driver and a woman who is deaf. Jefferson credits Ansari with first giving him the idea to direct seven years ago. <I was just like, 8I didn9t go to film school. I don9t know anything about cameras, lenses.9 And he was like, 8I went to NYU and got a business degree,9= Jefferson recalled. And so when Read told Jefferson about his idea to make a TV show about their time at Gawker, which had collapsed in 2016 in the wake of a successful Hulk Hogan lawsuit, Jefferson saw his chance to break out of writers9 rooms. The pair sold the show to Apple TV Plus in 2018, and two years later, it was finally coming together. Now called <Scraper= and based on a fictional site set in the blog heyday of 2010, it featured a Black protagonist surrounded by figures you might recognize. As Read described them: <an imperious, slightly standoffish British founder and publisher and a puckish editor and a bunch of burnout bloggers.= Workplace conflicts would bleed into personal conflicts set against the larger rise of social media in the background. <We wrote all eight episodes. I think it9s very good. I9m very proud of it,= said Jefferson, pointing out that no studio would let a writers9 room get that far if they weren9t planning on making the show. But, before the year was over, Apple CEO Tim Cook had pulled the plug. As detailed by Ben Smith in the New York Times, Cook had gotten wind that his company was making a series on a media company that, among other things, had outed him as gay. Jefferson said he doesn9t definitively know what happened but he believes Smith9s reporting, and that it was particularly dispiriting because the show was hardly a glorification of Gawker. <The show was about a tabloid website like Gawker the way that 8Mad Men9 was about advertising,= he said. When that show got killed, after five years of development and 20 weeks in a writers9 room, it felt like hope was lost. <I felt so close,= Jefferson said. <And it had been such an uphill battle constantly. And it was like, 8Okay, well, I guess I9m back to square one then.9= I t was over winter break in 2020, at his absolute nadir, that Jefferson first heard about <Erasure= while reading another book review. Twenty pages in, he said, he knew he wanted to adapt it into a film. Fifty pages in, he started reading Monk in Jeffrey Wright9s voice. The book was published in 2001, but so much of it felt relevant today. <I related to it so much,= Jefferson said. <Themes of what it means to be a creative of color bumping up against people9s expectations of what you can and can9t make.= Looking back, he thought Hollywood would be a break from <the revolving door of misery and tragedy= he had covered as a Black journalist, only to feel pigeonholed again. <I was so excited when I got into film and television because I was like, 8Great, these are fictional worlds. I can write about aliens and unicorns and anything I want to,9= he said. <And then people would come to me and say, 8Hey, you want to write about this slave? You want to write about this crack addict?9 It9s frustrating, but it9s also painful because, to me, what that suggests is that there9s this inability to see Black people9s lives as ones with breadth and depth and interiority.= Once Everett gave Jefferson his blessing, the next task was getting Wright onboard. <He sent me a lovely note along with the script. I think he said, 8I have no plan B,9= said Wright, chuckling. <So, there was a specificity to his vision, that the character of Monk was me. I was intrigued and I guess, you know, somewhat flattered by that.= Wright9s commitment, Jefferson said, turned the project legitimate for everyone else. Actors like Ross, Brown, John Ortiz and Uggams signed on because they wanted to work with Wright. Financiers gave more money (it was still made for under $10 million over 26 days, shot in Boston, which was the cheapest city they could find where a literary agent might believably live). According to everyone I talked to, Jefferson was a natural at directing, so cool and collected that Ansari got concerned. <It was making me mad,= Ansari said. <I was like, 8Goddammit, Cord, you should be pulling your hair out.9= How will <American Fiction= be received outside of the rarefied world of film festivals and Jefferson9s Hollywood friends? Will people around America actually laugh at that opening n-word joke? Can it, in an election year, get people to have a little fun talking about race? Wright told me he has seen the trailer pop up on right-leaning blog sites that he didn9t think would be interested in this story, and it feels encouraging 4 that perhaps they9ve created something that allows for different perspectives across our national chasm to share and discuss, even if it9s only for a few minutes in the lobby after the film. It makes me think of Jefferson responding to White audience members in the Hamptons who said they had no idea they9d have so much fun at a movie that is, essentially, skewering them. <I didn9t want it to be maudlin,= Jefferson said. <I wanted to highlight the fact that, yeah, these are serious issues, but we don9t need to be so serious about them. And in fact, we have to find ways to laugh. We can9t be miserable all the time. I think just as human beings, we have to find joy or else all is lost.= <His brain9s not fully developed yet. And he has no idea what awaits him. I look at that and I9m overcome with so much sympathy for him, and this wall of anger that I feel toward him just melts away.= A t Gawker, Jefferson penned long-form essays about Black atheism and why poverty was worse for kids than crack, until MSNBC9s Chris Hayes noticed a piece he9d written in July 2013 about a <White riot= at a surfing competition in Huntington Beach, Calif. Hayes invited him to do a satirical segment on his show, to play an outraged pundit spoofing language the media often uses to criticize civil unrest and <Blackon-Black crime.= Jefferson talked about the horrors of the St. Patrick9s Day Parade in Hoboken, N.J., and called on <White leadership= like Justin Bieber and Rush Limbaugh to condemn it. The segment went viral and caught the attention of Jermaine Johnson, a manager at 3 Arts Entertainment, who took him out to dinner. They still work together. When Jefferson reached out to Wright for <American Fiction,= the actor recognized him from that news parody all those years back. <He was doing a mockery of this [White] hooliganism, and I thought it was pretty funny,= Wright said. But he9d never seen any of his TV work. Also paying attention was Mike O9Malley (a.k.a. Burt Hummel on <Glee=), who had just that Jefferson believed it tore his parents9 marriage apart. Their relationship was still strained when Wilson, after two years on dialysis, sent a heartfelt, humbled email to Jefferson and his two brothers. <He sort of sheepishly said, 8I9m really sorry to ask you guys about this, but the donor list for kidneys is long and would the three of you consider donating a kidney to me?9= said Jefferson. All three immediately said yes, but Jefferson was 26 and the only one without kids who could take four months off to move to Saudi Arabia for all the medical tests. <We weren9t necessarily on great terms, but the thing is, I didn9t want him to suffer or die,= said Jefferson. Father and son grew closer, particularly after Susan9s death to cancer in 2015. Wilson was Cord9s date to his Emmys win, and to his <American Fiction= premiere at TIFF. Much of Jefferson9s anger and resentment has dissipated, but it still bubbles up sometimes, and if that happens, Jefferson told me he has a <practice= of thinking about a photograph of his dad that he recently discovered. It9s of Wilson, now 81, on the ship heading toward his first tour in Vietnam. He9s just a young Black man in his early 20s 4 somehow a captain, a commander of other men 4 fast asleep on a cot in his underwear, with a rifle draped across his chest. <I look at that picture and it9s like, he9s just a kid,= Jefferson said. and skipped class a lot, all while joining a fraternity, which is still a strange fact about him, according to many of his friends. <It9s a strange thing to me, too!= Jefferson said. <I was an 18-year-old boy, and I wanted to meet girls and drink beers.= He also got into a ton of fights. <I9ve never punched anybody, but I was getting punched a lot. I was very confrontational and angry.= Looking back, he9s come to the conclusion that he was getting racially bullied, often by members of his own predominantly White frat. There was the kid who grabbed him by the lapels and called him <a Black bastard,= and then later peed on his shoes at a urinal. The football player who screamed, <What the f--- race are you anyway?= and then dragged him into a bathroom and knocked him out. He9d often cry in the shower for no reason. It wasn9t until he started seeing his current therapist that he realized he has clinical depression (something his mother first gently pointed out when he was 18). His 40th birthday present to himself was to go on Zoloft, and his 41st birthday present was to start smoking weed, usually with his girlfriend while watching horror movies. He said both have changed his life. A lot of what he9s been doing in therapy lately, he told me, is working through those college years, and also years of anger at his dad for being so closed off all his life, for drinking so much and behaving so erratically CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The cast of <American Fiction= includes Erika Alexander as Coraline and Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious <Monk= Ellison; Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Uggams as Ellison9s sister and mother; and Sterling K. Brown as Ellison9s brother. PhOtOs by claIRe FOlgeR/ORION PIctuRes

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e14 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 Yázpik9s favored materials, but the Mexican artist uses such heavy stuff to make abstract sculptures that have an airy quality. He carves or casts negative spaces that open up the slabs of stone or metal, while retaining the substance9s essential nature. His geometric yet intuitive style unifies the 30 diverse pieces on view at Cheryl Numark Fine Art, a home gallery where Yázpik9s work hangs on walls, sits on counters and spills into the outdoors. The artist9s inspirations include Japanese, Islamic and pre-Columbian art and architecture, including the roughly 1,000- year-old Toltec megaliths of Mexico9s Tula region. But his approach also draws from post-minimalist art and decorative crafts. Often executed without preliminary models, Yázpik9s sculptures are made by what his website bio calls <clearing a path= through the existing object and allowing for serendipitous developments and discoveries. If that sounds random, the results are in fact precise and masterly. In addition to multiple varieties of stone, Yázpik employs more malleable materials that offer him greater control, including porcelain, silver and gold. One set of ceramic forms, which appear to have turned partly inside out like kernels of half-popped corn, feature rough, earth-toned exteriors but have inner surfaces coated with shiny gold leaf. Nearby, a chunk of sculpted volcanic rock juxtaposes craggy, natural edges with smoothly polished sides. Yázpik centers his sculptures on their perforated interiors, but he also endows them with immaculately fashioned skins. Jorge Yázpik through Jan. 5 at cheryl numark Fine Art, 4726 linnean Ave. nW. numarkartadvisory.com. 202-460-9843. PVC pipes wrapped in colored stripes and adorned with such words as <peace,= <joy= and <hope= in multiple languages. The vivid hues continue inside but are arrayed in more complex ways. To see most of the rest of the show, you have to look up. From the rafters of a nearly round chamber, Huang has suspended pop-art flowers, painted on foam-board circles, whose cores are repurposed CDs. In a barnlike nearby room, more than a dozen brightly painted banners hug the ceiling, and four more hang down one of the walls. A look at the banners that reach the floor reveals Huang9s method. He cuts shapes 4 including flowers, fish, birds and human faces 4 into rice paper spattered with paint. Each piece is primarily one hue, yet mottled with others. Huang joins Dastur and Gourlay in referring to decorative art, in his case Zhuangstyle brocade embroidery. But his mixedmedia tapestries reach past any specific culture and toward the universal.sand Delna Dastur: Cross Pollination through dec. 30 at Fred schnider gallery of Art, 888 n. Quincy st., Arlington. fredschnidergalleryofart.com. 703-841- 9404. Maggie Gourlay and susan stacks: noticing through dec. 20 at Adah rose gallery, 3766 Howard Ave., kensington, Md. adahrosegallery.com. 301-922-0162. shanye huang: regeneration 4 Connection 4 Celebration through dec. 31 at the sandy spring Museum, 17901 Bentley rd., sandy spring, Md. sandyspringmuseum.org. 301-774-0022. Jorge Yázpik Iron, copper and obsidian are among Jorge pigments, with invasive species rendered with standard acrylic inks. Glitches in the compositions, as well as subtle color shifts, mark the transition from one to another. Also on display are examples of the artist9s <chipped paint= series, in which her screen prints of plants are largely covered by white house paint. Chinks in the top layer allow glimpses of what9s below, almost forgotten or nearly lost. While reducing plants to ornamental motifs, humans risk losing altogether the models for such designs. Unlike Gourlay9s pictures, Stacks9s are purely abstract. Yet the artist acknowledges the influence of East Asian nature paintings 4 some of her drawings recall decorative Japanese screens 4 and accepts that viewers may see her intricate patterns as blossoms, clouds or other environmental phenomena. Stacks draws on paper with ink, often metallic, and occasionally supplemented by paint. Many colors figure in her pictures, but most prominent are gold and white. White often appears in rounded forms on top of the compositions, whose elaborate construction provides a perhaps unintentional sense of depth. The artist9s statement emphasizes the importance of process over the resulting imagery, but her painstakingly devised microcosms inevitably prompt thoughts of the wider world. Like Dastur, Huang was shaped by formative years spent far from Washington. A member of the Zhuang ethnic minority of southwest China, the artist incorporates that region9s folkloric traditions into the pieces in <Regeneration 4 Connection 4 Celebration,= which is dispersed across several places within and outside the Sandy Spring Museum. Huang9s show includes four pillars erected on the museum9s lawn, which are made of in The Galleries susAn stAcks/AdAH rose gAllery BY MARK JENKINS The human eye alights on one thing at a time, a tendency that guides how artists have traditionally arranged their compositions. But in the mid-20th century, with a nudge from earlier works such as Claude Monet9s <Water Lilies= series, abstractionists began to make paintings in which no gesture or area was more important than another. Four local artists apply such allover strategies to pictures that conjure the teeming, uncentered qualities of the natural world. Or at least that9s one way to see the work of Delna Dastur, Maggie Gourlay, Susan Stacks and Shanye Huang. Vestiges of human presence are not entirely missing from these artists9 work, as Dastur9s <Cross Pollination= demonstrates. The show at the Fred Schnider Gallery of Art includes some drawings but mostly collage-paintings whose bustling vitality evokes the metropolis where the artist grew up, now known as Mumbai. (In her statement, she calls it Bombay.) The tightly abutting forms include plants and trees, but also suggest microscopic organisms and, sometimes, the sort of cities where ungridded streets twist and meander. Dastur begins by covering a large sheet of paper with woodblock prints of simple images, which combine to suggest fabric and wallpaper designs. She then adds shreds of handmade Indian paper. These layers are fixed with acrylic gels and pastes, and finally splashed with diluted acrylic pigment. The artist9s goal is to depict the relationship of nature and mankind 4 distinct and intertwined, beneficial or destructive. In symbolic landscapes this intricate, it seems, almost anything is possible. The resemblance to decorative design is intentional in Gourlay9s prints, which are paired with Stacks9s drawings in Adah Rose Gallery9s <Noticing.= Gourlay9s <Wallpapers for a Warming World= juxtapose native flora, printed with plant- or mineral-based Exhibits creatively capture the optics of our relationship with nature sHAnye HuAng studio TOP: Susan Stacks9s <Comorbidities in Love= in the show <Noticing,= paired with works by Maggie Gourlay. ABOVE: <Flowers of Love= by Shanye Huang in his exhibit <Regeneration 4 Connection 4 Celebration= at the Sandy Spring Museum. Announce your Engagement, Wedding or Anniversary in The Washington Post9s Sunday Arts & Style Section. (Birthdays, Graduations & other Special Events have moved to Thursdays.) You may provide text and photos.Color is available. Many packages include keepsake plaques of your announcement. 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Wonka (PG) CC: 1:30-4:15- 7:00-9:45 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 12:30-3:55-8:15-10:00 Wish (PG) CC: 3:10 Eileen (R) CC: 11:35AM Poor Things (R) CC: 12:20-3:30- 4:15-6:40-7:25-9:50-10:35 Napoleon (R) CC: 12:30-5:35- 7:00-9:00 Waitress The Musical 2:30-5:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 11:45-2:35-5:30-8:20-10:25 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:30-1:15-4:20-7:15-10:10 Saltburn (R) CC: 4:30-7:20-10:20 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 1:05-4:45-8:30 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Die Hard (R) CC: 5:15 Wonka (PG) CC: 11:45-5:15- 8:00-10:45 Wish (PG) OC: 12:45 The Holdovers (R) OC: 9:10 Poor Things (R) OC: 1:00 Saltburn (R) OC: 2:15 Wonka (PG) OC: 2:30 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - DC Bryant Street 630 Rhode Island Ave NE Flashback Cinema: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (PG-13) 6:00 Wonka (PG) 10:15-1:45-9:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 10:45-2:45-6:30-10:15 Eileen (R) 11:45-3:00-7:15-11:15 Saltburn (R) 11:30-3:15-6:15-10:00 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 12:00-4:00-8:00 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (PG) 11:00AM Wonka (PG) 4:15-11:00 Poor Things (R) 11:15-2:45-6:45- 7:30-9:45-10:30 Wonka (PG) 7:45 Poor Things (R) 12:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:15; 12:15-3:45-7:00 Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market 550 Penn Street NE - Unit E Wonka (PG) 7:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:00 Maestro (R) 12:30-3:30 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 6:30 Wonka (PG) 11:45-2:20-4:45 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 4:00-7:00 Avalon Theatre 5612 Connecticut Avenue The Holdovers (R) 1:00-4:15-7:30 Anatomy of a Fall (R) 12:45- 4:00-7:15 Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema 807 V Street Northwest Wonka (PG) 12:45-1:30-4:00- 5:00-6:50-8:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 1:00-4:10-7:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:40 Saltburn (R) 1:50-4:50-7:45 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 1:20-3:40-7:00 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 4:30-7:30 Landmark E Street Cinema 555 11th Street Northwest The Holdovers (R) 12:45-7:25 Poor Things (R) 11:30-12:15- 1:00-1:45-2:30-3:15-4:00-4:45- 5:30-6:15-7:00-7:45-8:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:30-7:15 Maestro (R) 12:00-2:45-6:30 Saltburn (R) 1:15-4:45-8:00 Eileen (R) 3:45 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:30 Regal Gallery Place 701 Seventh Street Northwest Die Hard (R) 9:10 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 Wonka (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 1:40- 4:10-6:40-9:40 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:20-6:20-9:50 Wish (PG) 12:50-5:50-8:45 Napoleon (R) 11:40AM Waitress The Musical 12:10-1:10- 3:50-4:50-7:40 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:40-10:10 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 3:15-7:50 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 11:50-3:10-6:10-9:10 Wonka (PG) 11:30-12:00-12:30- 2:30-3:00-3:30-4:30-6:00-6:30- 7:30-8:30-9:00-9:30-10:30 Wish (PG) 3:20 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 2:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:40-7:10 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 1:20- 4:20-7:20-10:40 Wonka (PG) 5:30 MARYLAND AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road Where is Anne Frank 1:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 11:15AM The Last Ashes (Läif a Séil) 3:30 The Muppet Christmas Carol (G) 11:30AM Smoke Sauna Sisterhood 6:30 Trading Places (R) 9:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 6:20-8:50 Disco Boy 9:00 Maestro (R) 3:45 On The Adamant (Sur l'Adamant) 11:00AM Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) 2:00 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (PG) 1:30 Elf 20th Anniversary (PG) 4:15 Love Actually - 20th Anniversary (R) 6:20 AMC Academy 8 6198 Greenbelt Road The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 10:50- 1:40-4:50-7:30 Wonka (PG) CC: 10:30-1:15- 4:00-7:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 11:30-2:00-4:40-7:10 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 10:10-1:20-4:10-7:20 Wish (PG) CC: 10:20-12:15- 4:20-7:40 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:45-1:50-4:20-7:00 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 12:45-6:40 AMC Annapolis Mall 11 1020 Annapolis Mall Road Wonka (PG) CC: 11:00-1:45-4:30- 7:15-10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 10:10-1:30-5:30-7:20-9:40 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG-13) CC: 10:00-11:50-3:20- 6:45-9:50 Wish (PG) CC: 10:50-2:10-4:40- 7:05-9:30 Monster (Kaibutsu) (PG-13) 11:15-10:15 Napoleon (R) CC: 12:30-3:55- 6:50-10:25 Waitress The Musical 10:30AM The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:05-1:00-4:00-7:00-10:20 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:40-1:50-4:45-7:40-10:35 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 4:50 Silent Night (R) CC: 7:50-10:45 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 12:00-3:35-7:10-10:10 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Wonka (PG) CC: 10:00-12:45- 3:30-6:15; 9:00 AMC Center Park 8 4001 Powder Mill Rd. Wonka (PG) CC: 10:30-11:45- 1:30-2:45-4:15-5:30-7:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 10:45-1:40-4:20-7:20 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:40 Wish (PG) CC: 10:20-1:40-5:00- 8:15 Napoleon (R) CC: 7:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:10-1:10-4:30-7:30 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 10:50AM Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:00-1:50-4:40-7:40 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 4:00-6:40 AMC Columbia 14 10300 Little Patuxent Parkway Die Hard (R) CC: 8:00-9:40 Wonka (PG) CC: 12:00-3:00- 6:00-9:00 Animal (Hindi) 12:10-4:15-8:30 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 2:15-4:35-7:05-9:30 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) CC: 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 11:30-4:25-6:00-9:30 Wish (PG) CC: 2:00-4:50-6:35- 9:00 Eileen (R) CC: 11:35AM Napoleon (R) CC: 11:15-2:25- 6:45-9:30 Waitress The Musical 11:45-3:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 11:00-12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 11:30AM Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:10-3:05-6:30-10:00 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG13) CC: 6:00 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 3:00-7:00 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 Wonka (PG) CC: 11:00-5:00- 8:00; 2:00 AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18 9811 Washingtonian Center Flashback Cinema: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (PG-13) CC: 1:00 Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (PG) CC: 10:30AM The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 12:10- 2:45-5:30-8:15 Wonka (PG) CC: 11:00-2:00-5:00- 8:00-11:00 Sam Bahadur 5:15 Animal (Hindi) 10:00-2:00-6:00- 10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 11:00-1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) CC: 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00- 10:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG-13) CC: 10:45-11:45-3:15- 6:45-10:15 Wish (PG) CC: 11:45-2:15-4:45- 7:15-9:45 Eileen (R) CC: 2:30-8:30 Monster (Kaibutsu) (PG-13) 3:15-9:50 Thanksgiving (R) CC: 11:00 Napoleon (R) CC: 11:15-2:45- 6:15-10:00 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:30-1:30-4:30-6:00-7:30-10:30 Waitress The Musical 11:00-7:00 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 9:00 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:15-1:15-4:15-7:15-10:15-11:00 Silent Night (R) CC: 11:15-4:40- 10:15 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG13) CC: 12:15 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 11:15-3:15-7:00-10:45 12.12: The Day (Seoul Spring) 11:55-6:30 Die Hard (R) CC: 11:00 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Wonka (PG) CC: 12:00-3:00-6:00- 6:30-9:00-9:30; 3:30 AMC Magic Johnson Capital Center 12 800 Shoppers Way Die Hard (R) CC: 7:35 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 4:55 Wonka (PG) CC: 3:45-6:30 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 1:15-7:45 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) CC: 1:45-4:30-7:15 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 1:20-3:45-7:15 Wish (PG) CC: 1:15-4:35-7:20 Thanksgiving (R) CC: 7:10 Waitress The Musical 3:40 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:30-4:25-7:20 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 1:00 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 1:00-3:55-6:50 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 1:00-3:40-7:00 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 Wonka (PG) OC: 1:00 The Shift (PG-13) OC: 4:50 Wonka (PG) 5:00 AMC Montgomery 16 7101 Democracy Boulevard Die Hard (R) CC: 6:15 Flashback Cinema: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (PG-13) CC: 3:30 Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (PG) CC: 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 4:45-9:15 Wonka (PG) CC: 10:00-11:30- 12:15-1:00-2:30-3:15-5:30-6:15- 7:00-8:30-9:15-10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 11:00-1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 10:15-1:45-5:15-8:45 Wish (PG) CC: 10:00-12:30-3:00- 5:30-8:00-9:30 Eileen (R) CC: 7:00-10:30 The Holdovers (R) CC: 3:15-8:30 Monster (Kaibutsu) (PG-13) 10:45-1:45-4:45-7:45-10:45 Thanksgiving (R) CC: 6:30-11:00 Napoleon (R) CC: 10:30-12:30- 4:05-7:30-10:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:15-1:15-4:15-7:15-10:15 Waitress The Musical 12:00-3:30 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:05-12:15-2:35-5:35-8:35-9:45 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG13) CC: 5:40 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 10:20-9:20 Endless Journey (San da dui) 10:45-2:10-5:15 Wonka (PG) OC: 4:00 AMC St. Charles Town Ctr 9 11115 Mall Circle Wonka (PG) CC: 5:45-8:30 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 10:30-5:45-8:15 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 11:45-3:15-7:00 Wish (PG) CC: 10:00-12:30-3:00- 5:30-8:00 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:45-1:45-4:45-7:45 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:00-1:00-4:00-7:00 Silent Night (R) CC: 5:00 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 11:45-3:30-7:15 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 Wonka (PG) 10:45-1:30-4:30-7:30 Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD 7000 Arundel Mills Circle It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (PG) 2:00 Wonka (PG) XD: 10:40-1:35-4:30- 7:25-10:20; 11:00-11:45-1:55- 2:40-4:20-5:35-7:45-8:30-10:40; 4:50 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 3:15 Wish (PG) 11:05-1:40-6:50-9:25; 4:15 Thanksgiving (R) 5:00 Napoleon (R) 4:55 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:35-1:40-4:40-7:40 The Shift (PG-13) 4:40 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:00-4:00-7:05-10:10 Silent Night (R) 2:10 Die Hard 35th Anniversary (R) 12:20-9:40 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:15-4:45- 7:30-10:15 Animal (Hindi) 11:05-3:25-8:00 Wonka (PG) 11:20-2:15-5:10- 8:05-11:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 10:15- 11:25-4:35-7:15-9:50 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:35-6:55-10:35 Eileen (R) 10:25AM Thanksgiving (R) 11:15-7:50- 10:35 Napoleon (R) 11:55-8:30 Fireworks (Shamareek) 10:15- 4:55-8:10 Waitress The Musical 12:10- 3:40-7:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:20-1:20-4:20-7:20-10:20 The Shift (PG-13) 10:50-1:45- 7:35-10:35 Concrete Utopia 7:00-10:10 Hi Nanna (Telugu) 3:05-6:50- 10:25 Silent Night (R) 11:30-5:00- 7:40-10:20 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 11:10-2:55-6:40-7:15-10:30-11:00 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 3:30-6:35 Endless Journey (San da dui) 10:40 The Invisible Guest (Man tian guo hai) 10:40 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) 4:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 2:00 Wonka (PG) XD: 10:15-1:10-4:05- 7:00-9:55 Trolls Band Together (PG) 2:05 Cinépolis Gaithersburg 629 Center Point Way Trolls (PG) 11:00-1:45-4:30- 6:30-9:15 Wonka (PG) 11:15-12:30-1:00- 2:30-3:45-4:15-5:35-7:00-7:30- 8:45-10:10-10:45 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:00-2:45-6:30-10:20 Wish (PG) 11:25-2:10-4:55-7:40- 10:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 11:45-7:15 Maestro (R) 12:00-3:25-6:45- 10:05 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 12:00-4:00-8:00 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:15-10:40 Greenbelt Cinema 129 Centerway Wonka (PG) 5:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 5:00; 2:15 Wonka (PG) 2:00 Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema 7235 Woodmont Avenue Wonka (PG) 12:00-2:30-3:30- 5:00-6:00-7:30 The Holdovers (R) 12:30-6:30 Poor Things (R) 11:30-1:00- 2:30-3:15-4:00-5:30-6:15-7:00- 7:45-8:30 Napoleon (R) 11:45AM Maestro (R) 12:45-3:45-6:45 Saltburn (R) 3:00 12th Fail (Malayalam) 1:15 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) 4:00 Poor Things (R) 12:15 Landmark at Annapolis Harbour Center 2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1 Wonka (PG) 12:30-1:20-2:20- 4:10-5:15-6:00-7:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 12:50- 3:00-5:30 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 12:45-4:00-7:30 The Holdovers (R) 1:10-3:55-6:45 Napoleon (R) 12:55-3:50-6:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:05-7:05 Maestro (R) 1:00-4:05-7:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:15 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) 4:00 Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 3899 Branch Avenue The Marvels (PG-13) 12:10-2:35- 5:00-7:35 Wonka (PG) 1:00-3:45-6:30-9:15 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:45- 2:00-4:30-6:45-9:00 Wish (PG) 1:00-3:30-6:00-8:30 Thanksgiving (R) 1:00-3:30- 6:00-8:30 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 12:30-4:00-7:30 Regal Cinemas Majestic Stadium 20 & IMAX 900 Ellsworth Drive Die Hard (R) 10:25 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 9:50 Wonka (PG) 11:00-11:15-11:25- 12:00-12:30-1:30-2:00-2:15-2:25- 2:45-3:00-3:15-3:30-4:30-5:00- 5:25-5:45-6:00-6:15-6:30-7:15- 7:30-8:00-8:25; 9:00-9:30 Animal (Hindi) 10:30-9:15 Trolls Band Together (PG) 1:35- 4:15-6:55 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 10:45-2:35-6:20-10:10 Wish (PG) 11:45-2:50-5:40-8:05- 10:35 Eileen (R) 10:50AM Napoleon (R) 2:55-10:05 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 10:35-6:25 Waitress The Musical 3:00-6:45 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:35-9:45 Dream Scenario (R) 8:45 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:35-3:45-6:50-10:15 Silent Night (R) 10:45 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 5:15-9:10 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:00-3:20-6:40-10:00 Pindam 1:40-5:35-9:20 Endless Journey (San da dui) 2:10-8:40 The Invisible Guest (Man tian guo hai) 11:10-5:30 Wonka (PG) 4:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:25-6:35 Regal Germantown 20000 Century Boulevard Die Hard (R) 9:40 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:50AM Sam Bahadur 2:30-5:50-9:20 Wonka (PG) 11:00-11:30-12:00- 1:00-1:30-4:00-4:30-6:00-7:00- 7:30-9:00-9:30-10:00 Animal (Hindi) 4:20-8:50 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:20- 4:10-6:50-10:05 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 10:55-2:20-6:10-9:50 Wish (PG) 11:40-2:20-5:00-7:40- 10:10 Napoleon (R) 12:20 Waitress The Musical 2:00-6:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:30-9:55 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:35-3:50-7:10-10:20 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 3:10-6:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:20-6:50 Wonka (PG) 3:00 Regal Hyattsville Royale 6505 America Blvd. Die Hard (R) 9:30 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 12:00- 3:20-6:30 Wonka (PG) 11:40-12:40-1:10- 2:00-2:40-3:10-4:10-5:00-5:40- 6:40-7:10-8:00-8:40-9:40 Trolls Band Together (PG) 12:20- 3:30-6:00-9:55 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:10-2:45-6:20-9:10 Wish (PG) 11:00-1:30-4:20- 6:50-9:20 Thanksgiving (R) 11:20-1:20- 4:05-6:55-9:50 Napoleon (R) 12:30-4:00-7:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:20-9:45 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:50-3:00-6:10-10:00 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 6:05-9:00 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:20-6:30 Wonka (PG) 3:40 Regal Laurel Towne Centre 14716 Baltimore Avenue Die Hard (R) 8:30 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 2:40 Trolls Band Together (PG) 10:50- 1:20-3:50-6:30-9:00 Wonka (PG) 10:55-11:30-12:15- 1:50-2:30-3:15-4:00-4:45-5:30- 7:00-7:45-10:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:50-3:30-7:10 Wish (PG) 11:00-1:40-4:15- 6:50-9:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:30-9:45 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 1:10-4:30-7:30 Silent Night (R) 8:00 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 6:20 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:00-3:00-6:10-9:15 The Perfect Christmas 11:40-5:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:40-6:40 Regal Rockville Center 199 East Montgomery Avenue Die Hard (R) 8:30 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:50 Wonka (PG) 11:10-11:40-12:00- 12:30-1:10-1:40-2:10-2:30-3:00- 3:40-4:00-4:30-5:00-5:30-6:00- 7:00-7:30-8:00-8:50-10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:30- 2:00-4:40-7:10 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:00-2:40-6:10-9:40 Wish (PG) 11:50-2:50-5:10-7:40- 10:10 The Holdovers (R) 12:20-3:20- 6:50-9:50 Napoleon (R) 10:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:30-9:10 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:20-2:20-5:20-8:20 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 6:30-9:40 Endless Journey (San da dui) 12:50-7:20 The Invisible Guest (Man tian guo hai) 4:10-10:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 6:20 Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX 1419 South Main Chapel Way The Polar Express (G) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 7:20 Wonka (PG) 11:00-11:30-12:00- 3:00-6:00-8:00-9:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:50- 1:20-3:50-6:50 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:10-2:40-6:20 Wish (PG) 11:00-1:30 Thanksgiving (R) 9:55 Napoleon (R) 11:10-7:50 Waitress The Musical 6:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 4:10-7:10 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 1:10-4:30-7:40 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 2:50-6:40-9:20 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:00 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) 4:00 Regal Westview & IMAX 5243 Buckeystown Pike Die Hard (R) 9:40 Wonka (PG) 9:50-12:50-3:50-7:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 12:40- 3:20-6:20 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) 10:30-1:30-4:30-7:30 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:50-3:40-7:20-9:10 Wish (PG) 10:10-1:00-4:00- 6:40-9:15 Napoleon (R) 11:00-2:30-6:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 4:20 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 10:15-1:10-4:10-7:10 Wonka (PG) 11:40-12:20-2:10- 3:00-5:00-6:00-6:30-8:00-9:00- 9:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:20-7:40 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:00-3:10-6:50 Wonka (PG) 3:30 Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 7710 Matapeake Business Drive It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00 Die Hard (R) 4:15 The Marvels (PG-13) 1:35-6:45 Private Watch Party 4:00 Wonka (PG) 10:10-10:50-12:10- 1:30-2:50-4:10-5:30-6:50-8:10- 9:30 Trolls Band Together (PG) 10:40- 1:20-3:40-6:20-8:40 Wish (PG) 11:40-2:00-4:20- 6:40-9:00 Thanksgiving (R) 11:15-1:45- 7:15-9:45 The Shift (PG-13) 10:45-4:25-9:15 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:00-1:00-4:30-7:20-10:20; 11:50AM Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 3:00-6:30-10:00 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 10:05-1:15-4:00- 7:05-9:55 Wonka (PG) 11:30-2:10-4:50- 7:30-10:10 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 10:25-7:25-9:45 iPic Pike & Rose 11830 Grand Park Avenue The Marvels (PG-13) 11:30-2:30- 7:45-10:45 Wonka (PG) (!) 11:45-12:30-1:00- 3:00-4:00-6:30-7:15-9:45-10:30- 11:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 12:00- 3:00-6:00-9:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:15-2:45-6:45-10:00 Wish (PG) 11:00-3:45-6:15-10:45 Napoleon (R) 11:15-3:30-6:15- 9:15 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 2:00-7:00 VIRGINIA AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 2150 Clarendon Blvd. Wonka (PG) CC: 12:00-1:20-2:50- 4:10-5:40-7:00-8:30 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 1:00-4:00-7:30 Wish (PG) CC: 12:30-3:00-5:30- 8:00 Napoleon (R) CC: 1:10-3:20-6:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:40-1:20-4:20-7:20 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:20-4:40-7:40 Silent Night (R) CC: 4:30 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 7:10 AMC Hoffman Center 22 206 Swamp Fox Rd. Wonka (PG) 12:30-5:30-6:30 Flashback Cinema: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (PG-13) CC: 4:30 Elf 20th Anniversary (PG) CC: 5:00 The Polar Express (G) CC: 11:15AM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (PG) CC: 2:15 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 2:15-5:00 Wonka (PG) CC: 12:00-3:00- 6:00-9:00 Animal (Hindi) 12:00-4:30- 7:15-9:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 10:30-1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) CC: 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00- 9:45 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 Wish (PG) CC: 10:00-12:30-3:30- 6:30-9:30 Eileen (R) CC: 11:00AM Monster (Kaibutsu) (PG-13) 10:30-1:30-4:30-7:30-9:30 Thanksgiving (R) CC: 10:15-1:00- 3:45-6:30-9:15 Napoleon (R) CC: 12:00-3:00- 6:00-9:00 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) CC: 10:00-7:00 Waitress The Musical 11:00-2:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:00-11:00-1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 12:00-3:00- 6:00-9:00 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG13) CC: 8:00 Silent Night (R) CC: 11:30- 7:00-9:45 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 2:15-6:00-9:45 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Die Hard (R) CC: 10:30-6:15 Wonka (PG) CC: 11:30-2:30-3:30- 8:30-9:30 Eileen (R) OC: 1:30 AMC Potomac Mills 18 2700 Potomac Mills Circle Die Hard (R) CC: 10:45-4:10- 7:10-10:15 Flashback Cinema: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (PG) CC: 10:50AM The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 11:20-4:50 Wonka (PG) CC: 10:00-1:00-4:00- 7:00-10:00 Animal (Hindi) 11:50-1:50- 6:00-9:40 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 11:15-1:50-7:10-9:30 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 11:15-3:00-6:40-10:10 Wish (PG) CC: 10:30-1:10-3:45- 6:20-9:00 Eileen (R) CC: 5:10-7:40-10:20 Thanksgiving (R) CC: 10:30 Napoleon (R) CC: 11:10-2:50- 6:30-10:00 Waitress The Musical 10:00- 1:40-10:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:20-1:20-4:20-7:20-10:20 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 1:10-4:15- 7:15-10:10 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:15-1:15-4:15-7:15-10:15 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG13) CC: 1:30 Silent Night (R) CC: 5:15-7:50- 10:20 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 2:20-6:00 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Wonka (PG) CC: 10:30-11:00- 11:30-12:00-2:00-5:00-6:00-7:45- 9:00-9:15-10:30; 3:00-6:30 AMC Shirlington 7 2772 South Randolph St. Wonka (PG) CC: 11:20-12:40- 2:40-3:40-4:40-6:30-7:30 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 12:55-2:10-5:20-7:40 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 12:20-3:50-7:20 Wish (PG) CC: 12:40-3:05-5:30- 8:00 Eileen (R) CC: 12:15 Napoleon (R) CC: 12:10-3:30-7:10 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 3:20-7:00 AMC Tysons Corner 16 7850e Tysons Corner Center Wonka (PG) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 4:55-10:05 Wonka (PG) CC: 11:00-1:55-4:50- 7:55-10:55 Animal (Hindi) 10:10-2:20-6:20- 10:20 Trolls Band Together (PG) CC: 9:50-12:50-3:10-5:35-8:00-10:25 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) CC: 12:10-3:15-6:10-9:05 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) CC: 11:05-2:35-6:05-9:35 Wish (PG) CC: 9:55-1:35-4:10- 6:45-9:15 Eileen (R) CC: 10:20-3:25 Monster (Kaibutsu) (PG-13) 1:40- 4:40-7:45-10:50 Napoleon (R) CC: 11:10-2:40- 6:20-9:50 Waitress The Musical 10:30AM The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:25-1:20-4:15-7:15-10:10 The Shift (PG-13) CC: 10:55-9:00 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:15-1:10-4:20-7:20-10:30 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG13) CC: 12:20 Silent Night (R) CC: 4:30-7:05- 9:40 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 10:45-2:35-6:15-9:55 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:00-7:30 The Boys in the Boat Early Access (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Die Hard (R) CC: 7:10-10:15 Wonka (PG) CC: 10:00-10:35- 1:30-4:00-7:00-10:00 AMC Worldgate 9 13025 Worldgate Drive Wonka (PG) CC: 10:00-11:00- 12:45-1:45-3:30-4:30-6:15-7:15- 9:00-10:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG-13) CC: 10:15-12:15-4:15- 6:15-10:15 Wish (PG) CC: 10:00-1:45-3:45- 7:45-9:45 Napoleon (R) CC: 10:45-2:15- 5:45-9:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 Hi Nanna (Telugu) 11:00-2:30- 6:00-9:30 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé CC: 6:00 Jorugaa Husharugaa 12:00- 3:00-9:45 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - One Loudoun 20575 East Hampton Plaza It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (PG) 11:00AM Flashback Cinema: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (PG-13) 8:00 Wonka (PG) 10:15-1:45-9:05 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 10:30-1:00-5:00-7:30-9:00 Eileen (R) 10:15-1:30-4:30-7:15- 10:10 Napoleon (R) 3:25 Flashback Cinema: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (PG-13) 6:00 Elf 20th Anniversary (PG) 10:30-4:00 Wonka (PG) 12:15-3:00-5:30- 7:00-8:40-10:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:00-3:30-6:45 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:45-3:15-6:30-9:50 Wonka (PG) 2:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:00 Angelika Film Center Mosaic 2911 District Ave The Polar Express (G) 10:00AM Wonka (PG) 2:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 10:15-2:05-5:25-8:40 Eileen (R) 5:00 Napoleon (R) 1:35-7:30 Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) 12:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:55-4:25 Maestro (R) 10:30-1:30-4:20- 8:45-9:55 Saltburn (R) 9:35 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 7:10 Wonka (PG) 11:30-12:30-3:00- 4:30-5:30-7:00-8:00 Poor Things (R) 10:45-1:45-2:45- 4:45-5:45-7:45 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:40-7:15-9:55 CMX Village 14 1600 Village Market Boulevard The Polar Express (G) 3:30 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:35- 2:20-5:05 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:50- 2:15-4:55-7:15 Wonka (PG) 12:30-3:15-6:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:30-4:05-7:50 Wish (PG) 11:20-12:45-3:35-6:15 Waitress The Musical 12:40-3:55 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:15-4:25-7:25 The Shift (PG-13) 7:10 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 7:45 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:00-3:25-6:45 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:40 Die Hard 35th Anniversary (R) 12:10-6:20 Wonka (PG) 11:15-11:45-12:30- 1:00-1:30-2:00-2:30-3:15-3:45- 4:15-4:45-5:15-6:00-6:30-7:00- 7:30-8:00 Cinema Arts Theatre 9650 Unit 14 Main St. Past Lives (PG-13) 9:50-12:10- 2:20-7:30 The Holdovers (R) 10:10-1:15- 7:20 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 7:15 Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) 10:05-12:00-2:00-7:00 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 9:40-12:05-2:35-7:40 Dream Scenario (R) 9:55-12:15- 2:25 Maestro (R) 10:00-1:00-7:10 The Holdovers (R) 4:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 5:05 Napoleon (R) 4:35 Anatomy of a Fall (R) 4:05 Dream Scenario (R) 4:40 Maestro (R) 4:00 Cinemark Centreville 12 6201 Multiplex Drive Wonka (PG) 10:45-11:45-2:40- 4:35-5:35-7:30-8:30-10:25 Animal (Hindi) 8:10 Wish (PG) 9:10AM Napoleon (R) 9:55-8:00 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:00-1:25-4:00-7:20-10:10 Hi Nanna (Telugu) 9:50-4:20 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 10:10-3:45-6:50 Wonka (PG) 1:40 Trolls Band Together (PG) 9:00- 10:25-1:15-4:40-7:40-10:05 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 10:35-4:15-7:50-9:35 Wish (PG) 11:30-5:05-7:00-9:55 Napoleon (R) 4:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:35-6:40 The Shift (PG-13) 9:40-2:10- 4:25-7:10 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 9:40 Wonka (PG) 9:45-12:40-3:35- 6:30-9:25 Trolls Band Together (PG) 2:05 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 12:25 Wish (PG) 1:35 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 9:25-3:40-10:20 Cinemark Fairfax Corner and XD 11900 Palace Way It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (PG) 2:00 Wonka (PG) 10:30-11:30-12:55- 1:25-3:50-6:45-9:40-10:10 Animal (Hindi) 4:40-9:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 12:35- 3:05-5:35-8:05-10:35 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:20-2:55-6:30-10:05 Wish (PG) 10:45-1:20-4:05- 6:40-9:15 Napoleon (R) 10:10-1:45-5:20- 8:55 Waitress The Musical 1:30-5:00 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:15-4:15-10:15 The Shift (PG-13) 10:05-1:00- 3:55-6:55 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:25-1:30-4:30-7:30-10:30 Hi Nanna (Telugu) 10:00-5:45- 9:20 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 8:30 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 3:45-6:50 Die Hard 35th Anniversary (R) 9:55 Wonka (PG) XD: 11:00-12:00- 1:55-2:55-4:50-5:50-7:45-8:45- 10:40 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 1:15-7:15 Regal Ballston Quarter 671 North Glebe Road Die Hard (R) 10:05 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 Wonka (PG) 11:10-12:10-12:40- 3:10-3:40-4:10-5:10-6:10-6:40- 7:10-8:10-9:10-10:10 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:50- 2:50-5:50-8:50 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 12:20-4:40-8:30 Wish (PG) 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:20 Napoleon (R) 11:00-2:40-6:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:20-9:50 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:20-2:30-5:40-9:00 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 9:40 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 4:00-7:00-10:00 Wonka (PG) 2:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:00-6:35 Regal Dulles Town Center 21100 Dulles Town Circle Die Hard (R) 9:50 Wonka (PG) 11:00-12:00-1:00- 3:00-3:30-4:00-5:00-6:00-6:30- 7:00-8:00-9:00-10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:40- 2:20-4:50-7:25 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:15-2:40-6:05-9:30 Wish (PG) 11:30-2:10-4:40- 7:10-9:40 Napoleon (R) 11:50AM The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:50-9:55 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:40-3:40-6:45-9:45 Silent Night (R) 9:30 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:50-3:45-6:35-9:15 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:30-6:55 Wonka (PG) 2:00 Regal Fairfax Towne Center 4110 West Ox Road Wonka (PG) 11:20-12:00-1:00- 3:00-4:00-5:10-6:00-7:00-8:10- 9:10-10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 11:30- 2:20-5:00-7:30 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 12:40-4:20-8:00 Napoleon (R) 6:10-9:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:40-10:10 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:50-4:10-7:20-9:20 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 2:50-6:20 12.12: The Day (Seoul Spring) 11:40-3:10-6:30-9:40 Pororo the Movie: Popstar Adventure 11:10-11:50-1:30-3:50 Wonka (PG) 2:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:30-6:50 Regal Fox & IMAX 22875 Brambleton Plaza The Polar Express (G) 1:00 Wonka (PG) 12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00 Sam Bahadur 11:45-3:15-6:45- 9:55 Animal (Hindi) 1:10-5:45-9:45 Trolls Band Together (PG) 10:10- 11:20-2:00-4:30-7:10-9:40 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 Wish (PG) 10:20-11:10-1:50-3:40- 6:10-8:45 Waitress The Musical 11:00- 2:50-6:40 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 4:10-10:35 Hi Nanna (Telugu) 11:00-2:40- 6:15-10:10 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:20-3:20-6:20-10:20 Pindam 1:30-5:20-9:05 Die Hard (R) 10:00 Wonka (PG) 10:30-11:00-2:00- 4:30-5:00-7:30-8:00-10:30-11:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:25-3:10-6:50-9:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:40-7:20 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 11:20-2:20-5:50-8:50 Wonka (PG) 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 Regal Kingstowne & RPX 5910 Kingstowne Towne Center Die Hard (R) 10:10 The Polar Express (G) 1:05 Wonka (PG) 10:30-11:00-11:30- 12:30-1:30-1:45-2:00-2:30-4:15- 4:30-5:00-5:30-6:30-7:15-7:30- 8:00-8:30-10:30-11:00 Animal (Hindi) 9:30 Trolls Band Together (PG) 10:50- 1:25-4:10-6:40-9:10 Wish (PG) 10:40-1:10-3:50- 6:20-9:20 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:10-12:20-4:20-8:20-10:45 Napoleon (R) 10:35-2:15-5:50- 9:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:20-9:40 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 4:50-8:50 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:05-3:05-6:05-9:05 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:50-3:55-7:10-10:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 11:55-6:35 Wonka (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 Waitress The Musical 2:50-6:50 Wonka (PG) 12:00-3:00-6:00- 9:00; 3:30 Regal Manassas & IMAX 11380 Bulloch Drive Die Hard (R) 5:00-8:20 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 Wonka (PG) 11:10-12:00-1:10- 2:20-3:00-3:35-4:20-5:30-6:00- 6:30-7:30-8:30 Wonka - The IMAX Experience (PG) 11:00-2:00-5:00-8:00 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 11:30-3:10-7:10 Wish (PG) 11:50-2:30-5:10-7:40 Napoleon (R) 11:00-2:40-6:20 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:30 The Shift (PG-13) 11:05-2:00 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 12:20-3:40-6:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 12:00-6:40 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 12:30-4:00-7:20 Regal Springûeld Town Center 6859 Springûeld Mall Die Hard (R) 9:40 The Polar Express (G) 1:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 8:00 Wonka (PG) 10:30-11:30-12:00- 12:30-1:00-1:30-2:30-3:00-3:30- 4:00-4:30-5:00-5:30-6:00-6:30- 7:00-7:30-9:00-10:00 Trolls Band Together (PG) 10:35- 10:50-1:40-4:20-7:05 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (PG13) 12:20-4:10-8:10 Wish (PG) 12:40-3:40-6:50-9:50 Napoleon (R) 9:30 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 5:10 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) 10:40-2:50-6:10-9:20 Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé 9:10 Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:10 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10:40-1:50-8:20 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX 8001 Gateway Promenade Place Die Hard (R) 10:40 The Polar Express (G) 1:00-2:10 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:20 Wonka (PG) 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e16 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 kids or social events. after the Moon alert is over, discuss responsibilities, duties and obligations with ex-partners and old friends. liBra (sept. 23-oct. 22) don9t be too eager to act. check the limitations of the Moon alert. however, once the Moon alert is over, you will be surprisingly productive. Finish old business related to family or home repairs. scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21) although this is an excellent time for you to buy wardrobe items, do not do so until the Moon alert is over. old flames might be back in your life. Meanwhile, children could be an increased responsibility. sagittarius (nov. 22-dec. 21) this morning isafun-loving time; however, it9sapoor time to make important decisions or to shop. once the Moon alert is over, everything will shift and family responsibilities will take on a serious note. capricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19) wait until the Moon alert is over to make important decisions. Ultimately, this is a good day to deal with the past and wrap up old business. aQuarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) the Moon alert takes place in your sign, which might make you feel indecisive. Make no important decisions during this time. once it is over, you can deal with shopping and financial matters with confidence. pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) after the Moon alert is over, things will tend to go your way. you will be serious about something and willing to take on duties and responsibilities. however, you will do this with a positive attitude. b y G e o r G i a n i c ols Happy Birthday|dec. 17: you are an honest, straightforward, practical realist. you speak your mind and say what you mean. this year you have wrapped up many things and let go of what was no longer relevant. next year, in 2024, you will open new doors and explore new avenues. moon alert: avoid shopping or important decisions from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. after that, the Moon moves from aquarius into Pisces. aries (March 21-april 19) Just coast for the early part of today during the Moon alert because things are confusing. don9t shop except for food or gas. Make no important decisions. after the Moon alert is over, you will suddenly feel confident. taurus (april 20-May 20) agree to nothing important this morning. however, after the Moon alert is over, you can move forward with confidence. People will help you. Friends will be reliable. you also might make an appeal to groups or organizations. gemini (May 21-June 20) travel plans are loosey-goosey, especially this morning. however, after the Moon alert is over, your day begins to take shape inasolid way. discussions with authority figures will be important and are very likely to entail increased responsibilities about something. cancer (June 21-July 22) Postpone important decisions about shared property and money issues during the Moon alert. be smart. wait until it9s over. Meanwhile, discussions with expartners and old friends might tell you something important. leo (July 23-aug. 22) be cooperative with others, especially this morning. however, agree to nothing important until the Moon alert is over. when it9s over, you can make decisions about shared property with confidence. you might feel financially squeezed. Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22) your focus on home and family continues, especially relating to past issues with Horoscope 12/10/23 Answers to last week9s L.A. 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F2 EZ EE the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 nATALIE B. COMPTOn/THE WASHInGTOn POST Reporter Natalie B. Compton sent her luggage via LugLess and printed her label at UPS for free when she was dropping the bag off. Her rate for a four-day turnaround was $117.99 plus a $7 <Basic= package. BY NATALIE B. COMPTON, AMANDA FINNEGAN, HEIDI PÉREZ-MORENO AND ANDREA SACHS You start to feel like Sisyphus after a while, heaving your suitcase up and down the airport, in and out of overhead bins and baggage claims, through bathrooms, bars and parking lots. It9s even more of a slog when you9re traveling during the busiest times of the year. But what if you didn9t have to take your bag to the airport at all? What if you could unshackle yourself from your mule-like misery? With luggage shipping, you can do just that. All it takes is a little cash and planning. <All of a sudden you don9t care about boarding early, you don9t care about bin space,= said Brett Snyder, who runs the airline industry blog Cranky Flier and Cranky Concierge air travel assistance. <It9s a freedom that many people do not know.= Depending on your turnaround time, you can expect to pay from about $50 to more than $100 to ship a bag 4 higher than the $30 to $35 many U.S. airlines charge to check one piece of luggage. Snyder says beyond the selling point of feeling fancy-free, many travelers turn to shipping despite the higher cost 4 particularly older travelers and those with disabilities. <Lugging those bags to the airport, that9s a lot to deal with,= he said. <And so there9s huge value in [luggage shipping].= Our team decided to test out three popular luggage-shipping services to see whether they9re worth the time and money. Luggage Free Cost: $113 Tested by: By The Way editor Amanda Finnegan Experience: The plan was to ship my suitcase via Luggage Free from my apartment in Chicago to D.C., then pick it up on my trip to the office the following week. I was skeptical my bag would arrive in time, so instead of packing items important to me, I packed my dog9s toys. Cooper looked confused as I loaded his prized stuffed pineapple, a pillow (to fill some space) and an AirTag (for tracking) into the bag. I logged on to the site on a Thursday morning, with the goal to ship my bag on Friday. Delivery was priced by size and weight, starting at $75 for a carry-on to $135 for an oversize bag, with arrival in four days. You can also ship other items, such as standard-size snowboards, starting at $130, or golf clubs, for $90. There were a host of extras to choose from, such as an early arrival or having your bag picked up. I initially chose to have my bag picked up at home vs. dropping it off at a FedEx location. But there was a flaw in my plan that I didn9t realize until after I paid the extra fee: I didn9t have a printer to produce my own shipping label, so I would have to take my bag to a shipping location anyway. (The company should disclose ahead of purchase that customers need to print their own labels.) My total came to $113: $75 for shipping, $22 for insurance and $10 for pickup, plus extra fees. For location, you could enter a hotel or cruise, too; I chose reporter Andrea Sachs9s D.C. apartment. I played around with a few locations within the United States and noticed pricing stayed the same. I located the closest FedEx through the feature on the Luggage Free site and headed there. (You can use UPS or DHL, but not all locations are authorized.) I asked the woman who helped me at FedEx how often people drop off luggage for shipping. <A lot. It9s pretty common here,= she said. She printed out my tag, attached it to the bag, and it was off. I checked the AirTag throughout the weekend, and by Sunday, it was already in Maryland. Two days ahead of schedule, it arrived at Andrea9s apartment. Takeaway: I see the benefits, especially if you don9t want to lug bulky items or gifts to the airport over the holidays. But for me, a frequent Southwest flier who gets two checked bags free, I can9t see a scenario that would justify the price for shipping. LugLess Cost: $124.99 Tested by: Reporter Natalie B. Compton Experience: LugLess was the first option that popped up when I Googled <luggage shipping= for the first time last year. The company works as a middle man, connecting you to shipping services with its own search engine. You plug in the kind of bag you have and the dates you need it picked up and delivered, and LugLess provides shipping rates from FedEx or UPS. You select whether you9d like to add <value protection= covering up to $3,500 per bag, and either doorstep pickup (you9ll need to print a bag tag at home or pay extra for a digital label) or a drop-off site. If I would have gotten my holiday shopping done earlier, I could have shipped my gifts for my nieces from D.C. to Fresno, Calif., for as low as $42.99. But to meet my deadline, my rate for a four-day turnaround was $117.99 plus a $7 <Basic= package that included $200 of coverage, customer service support plus a partial refund if I canceled. I printed my label at UPS for free when I was dropping the bag off. I shipped a similar bag on the same route from the same dropoff point last November under the $18 <Essential= package ($70.99). That included $500 of coverage, a digital label and a guarantee that if your bag gets there late, LugLess will submit a claim with the carrier. If that claim is approved, it will give you an account credit for that approved claim amount. Last time around, my bag arrived a day late 4 a seven-day turnaround. But this year, it arrived a full three days early. Takeaway: Now that I9ve tried LugLess twice, I trust the company to get my bags from Point A to Point B, but I would make sure I sent it a little earlier than necessary in case of another delay. The service is easy enough, but it9s more hand-holding than I need, so I9d just take my bag straight to UPS or FedEx instead. Luggage Forward Cost: $99 for basic, up to $209 for express Tested by: Reporter Heidi Pérez-Moreno Experience: If there9s one thing I can appreciate about anything I purchase online, it9s a responsive customer service line. I made five calls to Luggage Forward during various stages of trying out this service. I had some trouble figuring out the site and initially confused the drop-off and pickup dates, but I was able to get everything sorted out on a call that was answered on the first ring. The shipping setup process goes like this: On the Luggage Forward site, you9ll choose round-trip or one-way (I did oneway) and enter your origin and destination cities. Next, you select which type of bag you want to ship: carry-on, standard or oversize. Choose your delivery date, and you9ll get pickup date options: $99 for basic for a carry-on, with arrival in eight days, to $209 for express, with arrival in three days. You can choose a pickup time frame, which starts free but goes up to $75. Value protection for $500 is included, but you can add more for extra costs. I chose a Dec. 1 pickup date from my apartment in D.C., so my bags could arrive in Miami around five days later. I was informed through the booking process that I would receive luggage shipping tags for my suitcase via FedEx, although I didn9t get a specific estimate of when I would get them. The tags didn9t arrive until the following Monday, Dec. 4, which made my original goal more of a time crunch. I called the Luggage Forward customer service line, and they switched my delivery for expedited processing so my luggage could get there within two days. Once I had my tags, I packed a suitcase with items I had been meaning to send to my mom in Miami. I cut off one of the labels from Luggage Forward and squeezed them into a stick-on pouch that pinned onto my luggage with the paper9s built-in adhesive. I also stuck another a copy of the label inside the suitcase, per the company9s instructions. Then I dropped off the bag at a FedEx store near my D.C. apartment, feeling as if it would save time to bring the bag in myself rather than wait for pickup. I had also packed an AirTag, so I knew my bag got to Miami just a day and a half after I shipped it. Right as I got an email that my bags had been delivered, my mom gave me a call confirming. The suitcase was intact, and she didn9t see any damage. Takeaway: I wish the site would have given a better explainer on how bags are processed before sending me straight to a payment page. Waiting on luggage tags in the mail pushed me to pay extra for an express delivery. However, I would recommend Luggage Forward to people who prefer talking to a human vs. a bot, because this made a world of a difference in navigating my reservation. I wouldn9t hesitate to use this service again given how attentive and helpful the staff was. UPS Cost: $90.29 Tested by: Reporter Andrea Sachs Experience: United Parcel Service offers online scheduling, plus pickup from your residence for an extra fee ($13 in my case). However, with so many delivery options and input requirements, such as weight and bag dimensions, I preferred to work with a human in a store and not a bot online. At the store in western Massachusetts, my bag9s departure point, I learned that I could ship my luggage with no box required. The employee swiftly measured and weighed my wheeled duffel bag, which clocked in at just over 27 pounds and 32 inches long. Because I wasn9t in a rush to receive my bag, I asked for the lowest, and thereby slowest, option. The employee recommended ground service for $90. The price included $100 of coverage in the event of loss or damage. I asked whether I could knock the price down by removing some items. The UPS worker said no, so I felt confident that I was making the most fiscally wise decision. I later discovered that my cost included a $27 handling fee for my irregularly shaped bag. Before bidding my bag farewell, the employee secured the zipper and handles with a plastic tie and attached a pennant-size UPS label. Then she whisked it away for its road trip to D.C. My bag9s estimated arrival time was roughly two days later, the Thursday to my Tuesday drop-off. I returned to my mother9s house to stalk my bag, which was carrying an AirTag in its front pocket. I watched it crawl down the East Coast, from western Massachusetts to Hartford, Conn., to Saddle Brook, N.J. It spent Thursday night in Hyattsville, Md., before continuing onward to Mount Pleasant, near my D.C. apartment. The AirTag, not UPS, alerted me to its arrival on Friday morning. I found the luggage in the lobby of my building, surrounded by other packages. The bag was in pristine condition; the ties were intact. I shouldered it up one flight of stairs, thankful that UPS had taken care of most of the heavy lifting. Takeaway: Overall, UPS was quick, straightforward and efficient. However, the price seemed high. I wish I had known about the handling fee, and I might have sent my items in a box. Is shipping luggage better than checking bags? We tried it 4 ways. AMAnDA FInnEGAn/THE WASHInGTOn POST By The Way editor Amanda Finnegan sent dog toys and a pillow, plus an AirTag, from Chicago to D.C. Her total came to $113: $75 for shipping, $22 for insurance and $10 for pickup, plus extra fees. ð Get our newsletter every Thursday: washingtonpost.com/ newsletters/by-the-way ý Read us online: washingtonpost.com/travel ð Follow us on Instagram: @bytheway To respond to one of our articles: Email [email protected], call 202-334- 7750 or write: Washington Post Travel section, 1301 K St. nW Washington, D.C. 20071. editor: Amanda Finnegan Deputy editor: Gabe Hiatt art directors: Stephanie Hays, Katty Huertas, Allison Taliaferro Photo editor: Lauren Bulbin Staff writers: natalie B. Compton, Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Andrea Sachs, Hannah Sampson Copy editors: Rachael Bolek, Jamie Zega editorial aide: Olivia McCormack Travel advertising: Ron Ulrich, 202-334-5289, [email protected] Travel

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ ee F3 BY NATALIE B. COMPTON 9Tis the season to be paranoid. After last winter9s travel chaos, can you blame us for feeling anxious about airports? There was that <once in a generation= storm, and the resulting Southwest meltdown, where more than 15,000 flights were canceled over the busy holiday travel stretch. Then there9s the string of airplane near misses over the past year attributed to understaffing and outdated technology at the Federal Aviation Administration. As the next wave of holiday travel approaches, is there any hope for us? <If the comparison is last year, then yes, I9m feeling optimistic,= said Ganesh Sitaraman, author of <Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It.= Scott Keyes, founder of the flight booking site Going, says bad weather will always be a factor, but airlines are coming into the holidays on much stronger footing this December. He argues airlines have more staff than in 2022 and more planes in rotation. Cancellations are down from last year, too, from 2.7 percent to about 1.6 (through September). After the Southwest debacle, <airlines walked away with a much more conservative approach to scheduling, and now the schedules are much more realistic,= Keyes added. The Transportation Security Administration also recorded its busiest day on record over the Thanksgiving travel period, and there were no meltdowns. But as the old saying goes, it9s better to be safe than sorry. Here are nine ways to prepare for holiday flying, just in case, from low-lift to hardcore. Easy: Buy travel insurance To protect yourself from incurring extra costs should your plans go haywire, <get travel insurance,= said Katalina Mayorga, founder and CEO of El Camino Travel. Before you book a policy, check to see whether the credit card you used to book the trip offers travel insurance perks; many cover costs associated with lost luggage, travel delays and weather cancellations. Then you can buy any additional coverage you want. Mayorga goes with the company Battleface, which offers customizable coverage. For about $100 extra per person, <it9s going to be peace of mind,= Mayorga said. Easy: Reserve your airport ride Don9t wait until the last minute to figure out your airport transportation. If you9re taking a taxi, shuttle or ride share, schedule it days or weeks beforehand. Uber lets you book a trip up to 90 days out, and Lyft will let you up to 30 days out. worth of clothes in a carry-on bag, plus any valuables or medication. Should your bag get lost, you9ll have some belongings with you. Medium: Hire help To ensure smoother sailing, enlist the help of a professional to plan your itinerary, be on standby in case of emergency or get through the airport fastest. For the first two options, a travel agent or adviser is your best bet. Look for companies like Altour that offer 24/7 customer service and promise <rapid re-accommodation= with flights, hotels and car rentals. They can deal with airlines for you and fight to get you a refund. For getting fast-tracked through the airport, try a traveler concierge company like Perq Soleil or Royal Airport Concierge. For a few hundred bucks, you9ll be met at the airport by a concierge, whisked through security like an airline employee and assisted to your gate. Extreme: Book more than one flight By The Way editor Amanda Finnegan got caught in the Southwest meltdown last year, so this year she9s not taking chances: She booked backup flights in case of cancellations or if plans need to change. If her first pick takes off according to plan, she9ll cancel the Plan B and bank a future flight credit. She9s not alone. <We don9t do it all the time, & but if we have to be somewhere, we will book a flight on a separate airline just in case,= Genter said. Genter recommends booking your backup using points or miles for the easiest refund option. Most U.S. airlines will not charge you a cancellation fee if you booked with rewards, although the keyword is <most.= If you aren9t using miles, the move is even more complicated. You9ll need to know your airline9s cancellation policy inside and out. Does it charge a fee if you cancel within a certain time period? If you cancel, can you get flight credits? Does the policy change depending on the type of ticket you booked? Not all experts are keen on travelers booking backup flights. <It just makes it more expensive and difficult for other people to actually buy tickets to see their families,= Snyder said. <There are only so many seats around, so that9s just not cool.= Extreme: Don9t go To eliminate all potential for disaster, skip the trip. <The actual best advice for holiday travel is if you can avoid it, just don9t do it,= Keyes said. <It9s the most crowded time of the year to fly. It9s the most expensive time of year to fly. It9s when bad weather starts to hit.= And for those reasons, plus his family living nearby, <I9m staying home,= Keyes said. 9 ways to prepare for a holiday travel meltdown After last year9s woes, it9s better to be safe than sorry. These expert suggestions can help. illusTRaTion by Randy MoRa foR The WashinGTon PosT If you9re driving yourself to the airport, <reserve parking in advance,= said Brett Snyder, who runs the airline industry blog Cranky Flier. <You can do that at most airports now.= You9ll have a lot of competition, so keep sites such as SpotHero in mind to find nearby buildings such as hotels that sell parking spaces and offer shuttle services to the airport. Easy: Sign up for loyalty programs and apps You don9t have to be a frequent flier to benefit from a frequent-flier program. There can be perks from signing up alone. <Even just joining the American Airlines [AAdvantage program], you get a better boarding position,= said JT Genter, editor in chief of the travel rewards site AwardWallet. Those who don9t join end up in the last boarding groups, such as seven, eight or nine. Those who do, <you get Group 6,= Genter said. <That gets you ahead of a lot more people= 4 a particularly nice perk if you9re carrying on a roll-aboard that you don9t want to have to gate-check. With airlines changing their loyalty programs for the worse, Sitaraman backs the growing movement to eschew status-chasing in favor of being a free agent. Instead of focusing on flying one carrier for the sake of points, <I usually will look for the airlines with the most convenient times,= Sitaraman said. Opening yourself up to more airline options may help you find holiday flights that work better for you. No matter which carrier you prefer, download its mobile app and sign up to get notifications by phone, text, email or push alert. Those apps can alert you to gate changes and cancellations in real time, and they can offer you an easy way to rebook flights instead of having to wait in line at customer service. Easy: Book nonstop, morning flights The fewer flights you have, the less opportunity there is for something to go wrong. That9s why <I always try to fly nonstop as opposed to connecting,= Sitaraman said. Snyder agrees: <Eliminating connection is a huge point of failure that you avoid.= While you9re shopping for flights, prioritize quieter travel days, such as midweek instead of weekend, and flights that leave as early as possible. The later you leave, the greater the chance you have for delays to stack up. <Morning flights tend to do better as a general rule,= Snyder said. Medium: Arrange longer layovers If you do arrange a connecting flight, make sure you get one with some buffer time between each leg. Even if you9re usually comfortable with 40-minute turnarounds, it9s a trickier move with holiday crowds and weather concerns. <Build in a longer layover than you might normally do and longer than the airlines might push you toward,= Snyder said. In an internet search, airlines will often show you itineraries in order of the total trip duration. Flights with the shortest connections tend to show up first, so scroll down a little more 4 or play with your search filter 4 and you should find options with longer layovers. Medium: Don9t check bags Packing light can be challenging, particularly in the winter, when clothes are bulky and you9re traveling with gifts. But <if people are able to, I would recommend doing carry-on only,= Genter said. It9s not just for bragging rights; in case your flight gets canceled or seriously delayed and you want to pivot your plans, you9ll have your bag with you. If you must check luggage, Mayorga recommends putting an AirTag inside your suitcase for tracking purposes and packing a few days <The actual best advice for holiday travel is if you can avoid it, just don9t do it. It9s the most crowded time of the year to fly. It9s the most expensive time of year to fly. It9s when bad weather starts to hit.= Scott Keyes, founder of the flight booking site Going

F4 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 BY NATALIE B. COMPTON The holidays are full of clichés: some real, some overblown. Yes, a lot of us go home for the holidays. No, we won9t all have a white Christmas. Then there9s the cliché we wish wasn9t true: This festive time of year can put a strain on couples 4 particularly those traveling. Marriage therapists, researchers and authors John and Julie Gottman say they notice clients start to anticipate the tension and anxiety of the holidays as early as Halloween. There are the recurring issues (presents, year-end work deadlines, who to spend the holidays with) and travel logistics (airline meltdowns, chaotic airports, traffic). Combine them, and <there9s lots and lots of stress and fighting,= says Julie Gottman. Sex and relationship therapist Tom Murray sees the same with his clients, particularly those who expect perfection: <Of course, life isn9t a Hallmark movie,= he says. The more rigidly you attach to a particular idea of what the holidays should look like, the more you set yourself 4 and your beloved travel partner 4 up for disappointment. How can you set yourself up for success instead? Here9s what four marriage counselors advise. Don9t sugarcoat your expectations As Murray said, life isn9t a cheesy holiday movie. If you9re shooting for perfection, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot. <I always say that expectations are premeditated resentment,= says marriage counselor and rabbi Shlomo Slatkin. <The less expectations you have, the better.= It9s not just your relationship you need to be realistic about. <Travel itself is miserable,= says Julie Gottman. <There9s no question about it. Don9t expect it to be pleasant.= By bracing yourself for the worst, you can be ready for the disappointment if things go south. Ahead of your trip, go over the pain points together: packing, cleaning, traffic, lines, prices, delays and other people. Go with the flow, and take each moment as it comes. Tense moments will pass. <If you can live in the present, [you can say]: 8Okay, at this moment, things are stressful. The next moment things could be relaxed and calm,9= Slatkin says. Strategize your conflict resolution Maybe you had that pre-trip pep talk, maybe you didn9t. But emotions are running high, and you9re fighting with your partner. Now what? Murray says it9s important to remember that fighting doesn9t mean you9re on different teams. <A lot of people will put the problem on the individual when the problem is the problem,= he says. To be better at the repair process, Murray says to tackle the problem with collaboration, coordination, consideration and kindness while avoiding criticism, sarcasm and shutting down. The Gottmans have a system for recovering in the <aftermath of a fight or regrettable incident,= plus an upcoming book on healthy fighting, but here9s the crash course: Once you9ve calmed down, it9s time to process the clash. Step 1 is accepting that each person is going to have a version of what happened, <both of which are absolutely valid,= says Julie Gottman. Each person needs to own some responsibility for how they contributed to the situation. Finally, each person should offer ways they could avoid the situation in the future. Take care of yourself You9re in a mood that9s darker than the pits of the underworld. Have you morphed into a demon, with no choice but to embrace a new life of wrath? Or are you just hungry? <When someone blows up or someone gets edgy, a lot of times it9s something simple,= Slatkin says. When you9re swept up in the frenzy of travel, it9s easy to put your health last. We let ourselves get hungry. We sleep poorly. We get jet-lagged. And it all contributes to our mood. <They can definitely throw you off and make normal problems more aggravated,= Slatkin says. You9re responsible for your body. Let those Snickers commercials serve as warnings: If you know you get hangry, pack snacks. If you9re crankier than the Grinch, you might not really hate your travel partner; you might be spiraling from that 4 a.m. wakeup to catch your flight. Be playful Being playful is good for us. It can reduce our stress and enhance bonding. But it might not be the first response when you9re dealing with travel mishaps. But you can change that. Imagine you get to airport security and discover a line that snakes to the airport parking lot. Instead of groaning, <you can lay bets, for example,= says Julie Gottman. <8I bet that the TSA line is going to take us an hour.9 & 8Okay, you9re on.9= Once you9re at your destination, <sex can certainly be a stress relief,= Murray says. Intimacy sends the message to your partner that <I see you, you9re important to me,= Murray says. If you don9t have the privacy for such activities, you can try other playful activities, such as games, sports and exercise. Have an escape route No matter how much you like your partner9s relatives or your own, <you need to have an escape route when you9re going to a family visit,= says Julie Gottman. That could be stealing away for lunch, going on a walk or running errands, just the two of you. One of her clients tells her family plainly, <8We9re going to go into town to spend some romantic time together,9= says Julie Gottman. <Families will usually accept that.= While you9re off on your own, check in and share any stress or discomfort you9ve been feeling. Remember: Your partner isn9t a mind reader and might not realize what you9ve been going through. But don9t try to solve anything during the download. <Just empathize with each other so that neither one of you feels alone,= says Julie Gottman. A quick escape if you can9t leave the house: Take a shower. You9ll wash off the travel day and have some peace and quiet to think. Give your partner the benefit of the doubt When the going gets tough, remind yourselves why you love each other. Try getting over a bad mood or a bad moment with the daily appreciation exercise Slatkin encourages. Step 1: Face each other, and make eye contact. Then spend a few minutes taking turns sharing one thing you appreciate about your partner. Elaborate on why you chose your answer. If you said you appreciate that your partner made dinner, you could say: <The reason I appreciate that is because it makes me feel like you really care about me,= Slatkin says. Once one person has said their token, the other reflects it back. <So they don9t just say thank you. They say, 8I heard you say you appreciate that I made your favorite dinner last night,9= Slatkin says. The practice helps couples refocus on the positive aspects of their relationship. <It feels good to hear that, and it outweighs all the negativity,= Slatkin says. <And it turns the tide of the relationship, and it keeps the couple more connected.= He adds: <So even when these hiccups happen, even around the holidays, it9s not the end of the world.= Survive the stress of holiday trips with these tips from marriage counselors WaSHIngTon PoST IlluSTraTIon; ISTock BY LES CARPENTER To submit a travel hack to The Upgrade, visit wapo.st/upgrade. I am a reasonably sane, middle-aged man who has gone my entire adult life without buying shampoo. Instead, I use only the free little bottles of hotel shampoo that I9ve gathered over the years as a traveling sportswriter. Some might find collecting hotel shampoo an odd thing to do, but there9s comfort in knowing that when one little bottle runs out, I only need to reach inside the basket of samples I keep in a bathroom cabinet. No leaving the house. No racing to the store. My basket of shampoo was always bountiful. Until it wasn9t. A few years ago, I noticed that some hotels no longer lined tiny bottles of shampoo atop their sinks. In an attempt to trim costs and cut down on plastic, they were replacing them with huge bottles locked in brackets on shower walls like prisoners in stockades. Soon the little bottles were gone from virtually every hotel. The supply in my bathroom basket began to dwindle. I could see the end coming. I never set out to wash my hair with only hotel shampoo. It just happened. A bottle I absently brought home led to another bottle, and another, until free shampoo became a kind of obsession. It wasn9t enough to have a complimentary little bottle from each hotel on a trip; I needed a bottle from every night at every hotel. I started stashing bottles inside my toiletries bag on the mornings of hotel stays, hoping that, when I returned, a replacement would be waiting on the counter. Almost always, it was. Occasionally, a housekeeper would go rogue, plucking the bottle from my bag and placing it back on the sink. But such vigilantes were rare, and soon my collection grew. Confident that my basket would remain forever filled, I basked in home showers, lathering healthy gobs of that free shampoo into my hair, letting it pour down my shoulders in a foamy cascade of bubbles. But the other day, I noticed my basket was down to just three bottles: one from a Beijing hotel, brought home after the last Olympics; another from a hotel I can9t remember; and a third so old the liquid inside had hardened into a grayish clay that crumbled into chunks when I shook it. Discarding that last bottle, I placed the one from the mystery hotel on my usual spot beside the shower door. Then I began to dread the inevitable trip to the drugstore, knowing that soon I will be standing frozen in the shampoo aisle, overwhelmed by the rows of bottles in blues and greens and reds with labels screaming words such as <Shape!,= <Volume!= and <Shine!= <You are embarrassing, and I don9t want people knowing I know you,= my wife recently said. She could have been talking about many things, but in this case, it was shampoo. She has never understood my basket of hotel samples claiming valuable space in the bathroom cabinet. She thinks I9m <being cheap=; I prefer the word <practical.= For the most part, I9ve continued to use hotel shampoo because it9s easy. Doing so meant one less decision in a life of dilemmas. But now, with the bottle from the mystery hotel growing emptier, I9m met with the sadness one feels when reduced to rationing his last drops of free shampoo, trying to stave off the inevitable. I can9t believe I am alone in this lament. Surely, there are others who have relied on the generosity of hotels and never bought their own shampoo. Others who, like me, are facing a dark and uncertain future. People have suggested I bring empty little bottles to hotels and fill them with shampoo from the big shower containers. That would be stealing. I am not a thief. Instead, when my last free hotel sample goes dry, I will walk to the closest store, head to the shampoo aisle, close my eyes and buy the first bottle I grab. Like any other normal adult. The Upgrade Build your hotel shampoo collection for a lifetime of free hair care IlluSTraTIon by MIn Heo for THe WaSHIngTon PoST

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post EZ EE F5 BY HEIDI PÉREZ-MORENO In the 15 years she has worked as a Disney travel planner and tour operator, Melinda Hanks has built a host of ways to keep her youngest clients enchanted while they explore Disney World. She carries plastic jewels in her black fanny pack, ready to be thrown in the air once Ariel starts showing off her treasurefilled grotto on the <The Little Mermaid= ride at Magic Kingdom. And with fake cobwebs all over her blond hair, Hanks has kids convinced she tussled with a ghost at the Haunted Mansion. Hanks has worked with hundreds of families through her third-party tour and planning company Create a Dream, organizing their Genie Plus line-cutting service and escorting them around restaurants and rides. She has carried infants on their first trip to Animal Kingdom, then watched them come back for years. Some got married and eventually brought their own children. So, when Hanks was issued a trespassing order on Oct. 2 that prohibited her from reentering Disney World, she feared losing those connections. In recent months, Disney has begun cracking down on independent guides such as Hanks who have made a living by helping visitors navigate the Florida parks, as Insider first reported. The Washington Post spoke to eight third-party tour operators and company owners who have received trespassing orders at Disney World; they said they know of dozens more guides who have received the same. This has left operators looking for new jobs, moving out of Florida and adjusting their business models to focus on non-Disney tour operations. Disney said in an emailed statement that it is taking additional steps to enforce its rules that prohibit commercial activities, such as tours provided by third-party operators, because of a <significant increase in these rule violations.= It said some operators have sold unauthorized Disney services, including in-park offerings such as Genie Plus line-cutting services, the Disability Access Service, and the park9s dining and lodging reservations. <When this activity happens, it impacts the experience of other guests following the rules 4 including our guests with disabilities 4 and impedes our theme park operations,= a spokesperson wrote. <Just like Starbucks would not permit a third party to come into their stores to sell coffee to their customers, Disney does not permit unauthorized commercial activities in its theme parks.= Third-party tour operators say they have worked for years 4 sometimes decades 4 in the Florida parks without issue, despite not having a formal agreement with Disney. As parks have become more complex, visitors rely on guides to design itineraries, coordinate line-cutting tickets, arrange accommodations and escort visitors, often at a lower cost than Disney9s tours. <No one ever thought this would happen,= said Alayna Crutchfield, who owns Elevate Amusement. <We would like a seat at the table. They9ve really knocked out every bit of ability that we have to fight this.= Banned at the gates Many third-party operators who spoke to The Post found out they were banned while trying to enter the parks, either on their personal vacations or with clients. Hanks was waiting in line to enter the park to meet her clients, who were inside. When her annual pass wristband turned blue, meaning entry to the park was denied, she texted that she was delayed. That delay would take several hours at guest services, where she was eventually told to leave the park. <I9m not some criminal,= Hanks recalls telling security officers as she pleaded with them to reconsider the ban. She moved to Orlando from Wisconsin with her husband and family to be closer to Disney World, which she has been visiting since she was a child. Her sons celebrate their birthdays at the parks; she and her husband do the same for their wedding anniversary. <Disney is everything to me. It9s my entire life,= she said. <I don9t know what I9m going to do.= Crutchfield, who worked as a personal assistant and nanny through her company, said she was in line with a friend on Oct. 5 when her wristband turned blue. She was prompted to go to guest services, where she said she was met by several Disney managers, including security personnel, and officers from the Orange County Sheriff9s Office. She was told that she would be banned from the park for at least a year because of her previous employment at another thirdparty service, Stone Vacation Services. An Orange County Sheriff9s Office spokesperson said in an email that trespass orders are issued at the discretion of the property owner. Once it9s determined that the person or company requesting the trespassing order has the authority to do so, the standard procedure is to issue a warning. Failure to comply can lead to additional law enforcement measures. <We don9t inquire about someone9s occupation, reasons why the person is on the property or any ancillary information,= the spokesperson said. The ban extends to all Walt Disney World properties, including <Theme Parks, Water Parks Resorts and Disney Springs,= according to the trespassing notices. Tour operators said they haven9t heard of trespassing orders being issued at Disneyland in California. After contacting Disney in hopes of lifting the ban, Crutchfield received a notice in the mail, dated Oct. 23, that she could appeal to lift the ban in a year. <We reviewed your request and the information concerning the conduct that resulted in the trespass being issued against you. Regrettably, we decline to lift the trespass at this time,= the letter from Walt Disney World security vice president Linda Reid said. Similar letters have been sent to operators who have attempted to appeal their cases. Crutchfield feels as if Disney has treated her and other tour guides like <criminals.= Several operators are looking into potential legal options to lift their trespassing orders, but they have said that the annual pass contract waives their right to file a lawsuit. Tour services at a lower cost Tour operators say their clients might use third-party services because they are often cheaper than Disney9s private tour rates, which range between $450 to $900 per hour, depending on the season. Most thirdparty services typically range between $150 to $300, depending on packages and companies, according to Rachel Ratliff, who has worked as a third-party operator for the past two years. Disney fans have complained that Disney World has become increasingly complicated and expensive in recent years, with ticket prices rising and extra fees for services that were once free. Now visitors turn to webinars, message board communities and guides to figure out how to navigate the parks. When Murray Krasnoff founded Suntastic Service in 1997, he said, he remembers being one of the few third-party operators offering services in Disney World to families who needed help navigating the parks. Over the next 13 years, the 56-year-old would see hundreds launch their own companies and each evolve into their own area of expertise. Independent guides are an option for those who need more personalized attention, such as visitors with disabilities or health conditions or senior citizens. In 2013, Disney tightened the rules for its program that allowed visitors with disabilities to bypass ride lines, after several reports of able-bodied people abusing the program. Ratliff said she has acted as a caretaker in her role, carrying bags, taking care of children while their older siblings ride roller coasters and shepherding families through crowds. <We9re a much-needed service for these families,= she said. Providing tours was Ratliff9s main source of income, coupled with a part-time job as a real estate agent. Now she has taken extra shifts as a part-time sales associate at Target while looking for hospitality jobs. Crutchfield has since had to close her business and accepted a job as an administrative assistant at a real estate company in Little Rock, but she was torn over having to leave Orlando, her hometown. Hanks said that some days she has made peace with Disney9s call but feels anxiety about having to reroute her livelihood in a matter of weeks. <It almost just feels like this was taken away from us,= she said. <I love Disney. I want to work with Disney.= Disney World abruptly starts banning third-party tour guides thomaS SImonEttI for thE WaShInGton PoSt Walt Disney World has begun cracking down on third-party tour guides, forcing many to look for new jobs or adjust their business models. <They9ve really knocked out every bit of ability that we have to fight this,= said Alayna Crutchfield, who owns Elevate Amusement. BY NATALIE B. COMPTON To help with your 2024 travel planning, the National Park Service has announced its annual list of free entrance days. The six days are split between seasons and are offered as a way of giving Americans cost-friendly vacation options. Normally, entering one the 63 national parks in the United States costs $10 to $35. <If an entrance fee is a barrier to anybody visiting, we want to be able to take that away on certain days throughout the year to encourage people to go and visit a park maybe they9ve never been to before,= said National Park Service spokesperson Kathy Kupper. In 2024, the entrance fee-free dates will take place on what Kupper calls days of celebration and commemoration, whether that9s national holidays or parkspecific ones. Here9s the list: l Jan. 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. l April 20: First day of National Park Week. l June 19: Juneteenth. l Aug. 4: Great American Outdoors Day. l Sept. 28: National Public Lands Day. l Nov. 11: Veterans Day. Visitors on fee-free days will still have to pay for services and amenities such as camping reservations, boat launches and special tours. If you can9t make it on these particular dates, there are still more than 300 national park sites 4 including national monuments, historical places, seashores and trails 4 that are always free to visit. <The majority of national parks are free to enter every day,= Kupper said. <Currently, there9s 109 of the 400-plus that have an entrance fee.= For inspiration on which parks to visit, download The Washington Post9s podcast <Field Trip= on your favorite podcast app. The show follows host Lillian Cunningham to five parks, including New Mexico9s White Sands and Alaska9s Gates of the Arctic, digging into their histories and challenges. You can also read By The Way travel guides, written by locals, for Yosemite, Glacier and Everglades at bytheway.com. Kupper said parks near major metros 4 such as Shenandoah National Park near D.C., or Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California 4 tend to get the biggest spike in traffic on fee-free days. <It9s an incentive to the populations nearby to choose that day to go and visit a nearby park,= she said. Harder-to-reach, bucket-list parks such as Glacier National Park in Montana or Big Bend National Park in Texas don9t see the same influx because they9re less likely to get the jump-in-thecar-and-go visitor. <When you9re planning a large-scale trip like that, the entrance fees are so minimal,= Kupper said. <For instance, Yellowstone is $35 for the week for everybody in your vehicle. So it9s not enough to make you say, 8Let9s fly across the country and go to Yellowstone because we9d save the $35 entrance fee.9= To avoid some of the crazier crowds that can plague the country9s most popular parks, particularly in the busy summer months, consider seeing an alternative. Instead of Yellowstone National Park, for example, you can head to Bison Range nature reserve near Missoula, Mont., where you9ll see most of the same wildlife with the exception of wolves and grizzly bears. Or instead of Zion National Park, try Capitol Reef National Park, one of the country9s newer parks that has striking geologic wonders and a fraction of the visitors. If you9re going with a baby, start by planning your trip with adjusted expectations, such as beginning your days gently and accepting that you9ll probably cover less ground. Whether you9re going with a family or not, be sure to do your homework well before your trip. Does the park you want to visit require reservations? Are there road closures? Weather concerns? <We always say, 8Start your trip with a visit to nps.gov,9= Kupper said. <Even when you9ve already planned the trip, go back and check as your trip gets closer for any of these important updates.= To save a few bucks, visit national parks on these 6 free days in 2024 PatrIck J. EndrES/GEtty ImaGES Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska. <If an entrance fee is a barrier to anybody visiting, we want to be able to take that away on certain days throughout the year to encourage people to go and visit a park maybe they9ve never been to before,= said National Park Service spokesperson Kathy Kupper.

F6 EZ EE the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 Oldest, tallest, sandiest: Comparing America9s quirky Christmas trees Sources: Additional sources: Caroline Titus, former owner of the Ferndale Enterprise; Traci |ayne Corbett, director of Cape Ann Art Haven, which manages the Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree event; Linda J. Reid, community development manager of Perkasie Borough; Linda Sidebottom of the National Christmas Tree Association; National Park Foundation; and representatives of Legoland California and the city of West Palm Beach, Fla. Most typical Height: 7 feet Species: Various Americans bought more than 22 million real trees in the 2022 season, according to the National Christmas Tree Association. Scotch pines were once the most popular, but now most have <ûr= in the name 4 Fraser, Douglas, Noble, etc. 4 and stand 6 to 8 feet tall. Leaves you least want to step on Legoland Christmas tree, Carlsbad, Calif. Height: 35 feet Species: Plastic Builders spent 2,900 hours snapping together 364,481 multicolored Lego and Duplo bricks to create this year9s formidably blocky yet festive tree, according to a Legoland video. |e star on top weighs more than 175 pounds. Oldest lighting ceremony Perkasie Borough Christmas tree, Perkasie, Pa. Height: 35 feet Species: Norway pine In 1909, the Perkasie Owls Club hosted what is believed to be the country9s ûrst outdoor community tree lighting, a fact read into the congressional record by Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) in 2015. |is year9s tree has grown in place for two decades. Most likely to end up in your swimsuit Sandi Tree, West Palm Beach, Fla. Height: 35 feet Species: Fine-grain Miami sand Professional sand sculptors created Sandi out of 700 tons of sand using plywood molds and by working their way from top to bottom. A spray of water and glue keeps it together until aver the holidays, when the sand is used for other city projects. Most susceptible to political winds National Christmas Tree, Washington, D.C. Height: 40 feet Species: Norway spruce |e ûrst national tree was a 48-foot balsam ûr strung with 2,500 electric lightbulbs and lit by Calvin Coolidge in 1923. |is year9s managed to stay lit on Nov. 28, when a strong gust toppled it. It was at least the third time in history to be (temporarily) felled by bluster. Most useful for catching dinner Lobster Trap Tree, Gloucester, Mass. Height: 50 feet Species: Wire mesh Lobster trap trees 4 a New England ûxture4leaped in 2001 from front-yard kitsch to downtown glory in the oldest U.S. seaport. |e latest tree is made of 400 working traps and draped in nearly 800 buoys painted by local kids. Like any decent trap, the atrium-style design allows you to walk right in. Most rooted in the legislative branch <|e People9s Tree,= Washington, D.C. Height: 63 feet Species: Norway spruce Since 1970, the U.S. Forest Service has chosen a tree from a national forest for the U.S. Capitol. |e Shawnee Tribe named the 2023 tree <wa9feem9tekwi,= meaning <bright tree." It came from West Virginia9s Monongahela National Forest, part of the Shawnee ancestral homeland. Tallest indoor holiday tree Galleria Dallas tree, Dallas Height: 95 feet Species: Steel |e Texas mall went big, and has since 1984. A crew of about 50 people spent four days assembling 717 branches, each resembling a 3- to 5-foot mini-tree, into what organizers hail as the country9s tallest indoor Christmas tree. It9s decked with 15,000 ornaments, 200,000 lights and a 10-foot star. Most likely to need a SAG card Rockefeller Center Tree, New York City Height: 80 feet Species: Norway spruce |e ûrst Christmas tree at the site was put up by Depression-Era workers toting homemade decorations in 1931. Since then, iterations of the tree, its 900-pound crystal star and the skating rink below have propelled plots in movies such as <Home Alone 2= <Elf= and <Hawkeye.= Tallest living Christmas tree Ferndale Christmas tree, Ferndale, Calif. Height: 162.5-plus feet Species: Sitka spruce In 1934, the Ferndale Enterprise declared the massive spruce at the end of Main Street to be the <world9s tallest living Christmas tree,= and the town has lit it every year except during World War II. It hasn9t been measured since 2011, but strings of lights that cascade from the top are 150 feet long. BY AARON STECKELBERG AND BONNIE BERKOWITZ Sometimes beauty is in the eye of the tree holder, especially at the holidays.¶Who9s to say that one town9s towering, professionally lit evergreen is better than an equally lofty stack of lobster traps decorated by another town9s kids? Not us! ¶ Take a look at these nine trees and <trees= from different parts of the country. We wouldn9t dare call any of these thebest, but each is matchless in its own way.

KLMNO ee AX fn fs lf PW dC bd Pg AA fd ho mn ms sm Busi sunday, december ne 17, 2023 SS G BY JULIAN MARK AND TAYLOR TELFORD The conservative campaign to dismantle corporate diversity initiatives has hit pay dirt by focusing on a surprising target: law firms. since August, the conservative American Alliance for equal Rights has sued or sent threatening letters to at least seven law firms, demanding that they shutter diversity fellowship programs, and claiming that they exclude qualified White and Asian students based on race. Meanwhile, five Republican state attorneys general have fired off letters to 100 top law firms, threatening legal action and suggesting that <racial discrimination in employment and contracting may be commonplace= in the legal industry. These actions have spurred some swift changes: Three big law firms 4 Perkins Coie, Morrison Foerster and Winston & strawn4opened their fellowships aimed at students of color to students of all races and backgrounds after being sued. After receiving an oct. 9 letter threatening litigation, a fourth law firm, Adams and Reese, ended its diversity fellowship. The American Alliance for equal Rights is a nonprofit run by edward Blum, the activist who successfully challenged affirmative action in college admissions, leading toalandmark supreme Court ruling in June. <Many law firms have been some ofthe most enthusiastic and outspoken entities to restrict opportunities to resources based on race and ethnicity,= Blum said in an email to The Washington Post. <It is likely that other corporate entities with similar racially discriminatory policies will be sued in the coming weeks.= Kenji Yoshino, a law professor and director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at new York University, said targeting law firms is effective because it can serve as a warning to other industries. <If you sue a law firm, then the law firm gets up to speed very, very quickly on what is permissible and what9s impermissible,= Yoshino said, noting that many law firms advise Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofits. <It9saway of getting the message out about people needing to flip over their policies in a wide variety of domains 4 not just fellowships, but hiring, recruiting retreats and the like.= For decades, employers have been banned from making employment decisions based on race. But long-standing precedent has allowed companies to take race into consideration in hiring and other decisions, especially when working to counter historic inequalities in their ranks. Both the legal industry and corporate America have struggled to diversify their workforces and upper ranks. There are only eight Black Ceos among Fortune 500 companies 4 the highest number since the list started in 1955. And while Black people make up about 14 percent of the U.s. population, less than 5 percent of practicing attorneys are Black,ashare that has grown less than 1 percent since 2010, according to the American Bar Association. About 10 percent of practicsee lAw firMS on g2 Law ûrms sued over diversity programs Conservatives threaten at least seven companies, demanding that they stop DEI fellowships ing thataproposal meant to boost the financial stability of banks would make mortgages more expensive for cash-poor home buyers 4 disproportionately people of color. The proposed rule change would force banks to hold on to more capital for residential mortgages with smaller down payments. The logic is that such loans are riskier, so banks should keep more in reserve against defaults. The practical effect: To afford that BY TORY NEWMYER Marsheila Caldwell wants to celebrate her upcoming 50th birthday by buying a home in a neighborhood safe enough for her 11-year-old son to play outside. The Cincinnati social worker is gearing up to restartasearch she had abandoned out of frustration three times in recent years because she couldn9t find an affordable house that met her needs. But she also knows the market has only gotten more difficult, with home prices hitting record levels and interest rates hovering at two-decade highs. <I9m just praying that somewhere I can find what I9m looking for,= Caldwell said. Finding a home she can afford could get harder if regulators get their way. An unusual alliance of big banks and some housing affordability advocates is argubigger cushion, banks will demand higher mortgage rates for borrowers who can afford only a small down payment. Despite narrowing during the pandemic 4 helped by low interest rates and government stimulus programs 4 the racial homeownership gap has been widening more recently and nowstands at 29 percentage points, its widest in a decade, according to the national Association of Realtors. <This is an all-hands-on-deck moment,= said odette Williamson, a senior attorney with the national Consumer Law Center. And working-class minorities hoping to buy their first home4acritical toolfor building wealth that many have been systematically denied 4 have been facing new obstacles in recent years. see hoMe buyerS on g4 The racial homeownership gap is widening. New rules for banks could make it worse. Higher capital requirements for lenders would probably make mortgages pricier for cash-poor buyers mAdeleIne hordInskI for the WAshIngton Post Marsheila Caldwell, 49, decorates the family Christmas tree with sons DaySean Sims, 22, and DeAngelo Caldwell, 11, in their apartment in Cincinnati. Write about gift-giving and you find out a lot about folks. In a recent column, I put together a holiday wish list for teachers based on the results of an informal poll. Though many made clear they did not expect presents from their students, gift cards and school supplies were always welcome. Then, as readers began commenting on the column, it became clear that what matters most4to teachers and otherwise 4 is feeling appreciated. Affirmation doesn9t need a gift receipt. If you9ve still got shopping to do, or you9re racking up debt to show your love, read what it meant to some commenters to hear how their work made a difference. It9s a lesson for us all. (Responses have been edited for clarity.) see SingletAry on g2 A gift anyone will love, not just your teachers Michelle Singletary The Color of Money IllustrAtIon by AntoInette thomAs for the WAshIngton Post No-gift or small-gift holidays are possible Set budgets, boundaries and expectations, no matter the occasion. Here9s how. G3

G2 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 way to profit from the legal threats by helping companies with DEI issues. <As law firms always do, they9re going to make money on this,= Vaughn said. But, she said, the legal attacks on corporate diversity policies are <a distraction from the efforts that have been made for the past 50 years for equity and inclusion.= <The smart people who understand that not only is this good for our country, it9s good for their business, will figure out alternative ways of doing what needs to be done,= she said. Alternatives include moving away from explicit consideration of protected characteristics 4 such as race, gender and sexual orientation 4 to the <character of each individual applicant= via statements or essays, NYU9s Yoshino said. He said some of the most <aggressive= programs 4 including those that tie executive compensation to diversity goals 4 are <going to be in trouble.= They could be replaced by programs aimed at removing unconscious bias from hiring, as well as building a <firewall= between company officials who recruit job candidates and those who make hiring decisions, Yoshino said. <DEI will look very, very different 10 years from now,= Yoshino said. <But it will still exist4if anything, in a more robust form than it has today.= editor: lori montgomery " Design: andrew braford " Photo editor: haley hamblin " e-mail: [email protected] " Telephone: 202-334-9800 " Mail: The Washington Post, Sunday business, 1301 K St. nW, Washington, D.C. 20071 " Advertising: noelle Wainwright, 202-334-7610, [email protected] BuSINeSS for commuting and on-the-job training to become a mechanic. He now intends to move to a more affordable apartment and sell his own car to make ends meet. The boss asked why he hadn9t spoken up sooner. <maybe I am too passive,= the reader said. <I need to be proactive in seeking what I want.= The workplace in turmoil over whether to open a lactation room to other uses has reached détente 4 for now. The reader who wrote about the situation said the man who wanted to use the pumping room to recover from overstimulation has since been given a private office, and the previously public Slack channel for scheduling breastmilk-pumping sessions is now private and moderated so only nursing workers have access. The reader noted that the solution isn9t perfect; there are no more private offices if another employee needs a recovery space, and other employees in shared workspaces may resent their colleague9s private accommodations. finding the budget and space to create a general-use comfort room with amenities comparable to the lactation room9s <is a priority for 2024,= the reader reported. <The way this spun out and led to people taking sides and ugly accusations is something we hope to avoid in the future.= finally, a blast from the past: remember Grace, the teenager who successfully protested unequal pay at her summer lifeguarding job? <I ended up writing my Common App college admissions essay about that whole experience and how I learned that our voices do matter and can make a difference,= she said. <I9m currently studying biomedical engineering at [an Ivy League institution] and hope somedayImay make a difference, too.= teammates meant the world to a new hire with invisible disabilities who was anxious about supporting the employer9s annual conference. <I probably had baggage from previous poorly fitting jobs in which health limitations were not considered or cared for,= the reader acknowledged. But the new employer took an entirely different approach. The reader started discussions with managers about how to optimize performance within their physical capacity and provided clinical notes to Hr with recommendations. <Without needing to know the details of my conditions, my managers helped map out sessions and [schedule] me appropriately= 4 for example, by assigning consecutive sessions in the same room, the reader reported. The employer also put the reader up at a nearby hotel and gently enforced scheduled breaks. Afterward, the reader debriefed management and Hr on what worked 4 and notes that Hr is pushing to provide more breaks for all staff at next year9s conference. <I hope [the column] helped others in similar situations & especially those with more invisible disabilities,= the reader concluded. The reader who found work as a used-car-lot attendant more rewarding than his pre-pandemic profession said he <did some soul-searching= after reading the column and comments. After being laid off from an architectural design job, he said, he was slow to try reentering the field because he was <tired of the office politics= and enjoyed working outdoors with cars in a lower-stress environment. However, he said, <I also realized&I need to move forward and improve my financial situation.= When he broached the subject with his boss, the response was beyond all expectations 4 an offer of a raise, the use of a car from the lot want to walk away from that.= The reader also took the time to tease out the causes of anger: <I originally wrote that my husband was 8not blameless,9 but as I stepped back & he really did nothing wrong. In letting go of my anger with him,Ican see my anger at everyone else involved will fade over time, too. my trust in the owners is shaken&but I9m not feeling it so personally anymore.= as good as it gets It9s rare that life ties things up with a tidy bow, but a few readers had betterthan-expected outcomes. The worker whose boss, <Paul,= was creating a toxic, distrustful environment through constant backchannel communications reported an organizational shake-up that changed the political dynamic: <Paul9s boss and the senior colleague who protected Paul9s poor behavior got moved to other departments, so Paul no longer had much power or allies,= the reader reported. Another colleague ended up in charge and began trying to change the culture that had enabled Paul9s bullying. The reader has since been promoted and heard that Paul is receiving managerial training. <A boss who isabully should be a dealbreaker,= the reader concluded. <I9m glad I didn9t have to leave and it resolved itself for now.= The reader who had requested inhouse mediation to resolve prepandemic conflict withanew boss ultimately decided it was unnecessary after the boss9s personality improved unexpectedly: <The boss has kept the same kind temperament for the last few years and has given me glowing reviews on my performance.= The reader has likewise given the boss strong reviews in upward feedback surveys. (Bob Cratchit, eat your heart out.) Advance planning and supportive As a year-end treat, I9ve been collecting updates from readers whose questions appeared in the column this year. Here9s a roundup of the good, the bad and the yet-to-be-seen. all9s well that ends Some readers ended up parting ways with their employers after their problems became the backbreaking final straw. The reader frustrated by their office9s <hoteling= setup had a panic attack one day after spending 90 minutes just trying to get their reserved workspace ready for a complex project. After an unproductive conversation with the boss, the reader decided to resign, fed up with the struggle to make the workplace more workable. The reader who was put off by a social media manager bantering with her father on the company9s facebook feed brought it up in a meeting. After a <brief, jokey discussion,= the department head declared it <cute.= <In the end, I couldn9t take that (and oh, so many other things) and I resigned= four months later, the reader said. The bantering, presumably, continues. Pausing to reflect Stepping back and reflecting kept one reader from rage-retiring from a job spanning decades. The reader9s husband had been hired by the same employer, but quit after a few tense, conflict-filled years. <I really appreciated your advice to think about my needs 4 not his, not the owners9 or the manager9s. That helped me recognize all the things I was not responsible for,= the reader reported. In the end, <I have a great job, it pays well, with plenty of autonomy, and I don9t Updates from readers who submitted questions in 2023 Work Advice KarLa L. MiLLer [email protected] l <I quit teaching preschool in 2015, and I still haven9t used up all my Starbucks cards! The letters, drawings, and cards I9ll keep forever. I especially love whenaparent shares a favorite memory orastory their child brought home.= l <32-year high school teacher here: WhatIcherished the most were end-ofthe-year notes of thanks from kids and parents stopping by at conferences after their kids graduated who thanked me for preparing their kids for college.= l <Gift cards are nice, but I keep every single note my students write to me. I particularly treasure the ones that are specific and heartfelt.= l <As a teacher of high school students inaTitle I school, my favorite gift was a handwritten student note. one young man wrote, 8You9re one of my top three teachers ms. W.9 one mother told me, 8Leon said you treat him like a real person.9 Those shared thoughts, shared affection, were the most treasured gifts I ever received, and now seven years retired,Istill remember.= l <It costs nothing to acknowledge the very important and necessary role educators play in the lives of other people9s kids.= l <When I was a teacher, I valued the cards and notes my students gave me. I9ve moved a bunch, butIstill have those. Their kind words were great gifts!= l <I once received a note fromahigh school student when her little sister became one of my elementary music students. I9m not a crier, but I came awfully close that day. And yes,Ikeep the letters and cards. I did start scanning them once I retired and began downsizing, but I still have them.= l <A few years ago, my mom celebrated her 100th birthday. I connected with the facebook group from the school where she primarily taught and collected birthday wishes and memories from former students. She kept those cards and notes until her death. Letting teachers know they made a difference is a huge gift.= l <As a (professor) mom of a kindergarten child, I can absolutely vouch for thank you cards/notes that I get from students.= l <As a retired teacher, after 25-plus years in the Wash. state public schools (elementary), the very best 8gifts9 I ever received were having a student come back to visit me after they were in middle or high school, or as young adults, and letting me know thatIhad made a positive difference in their lives, particularly the students who had been more challenging. It was really thrilling and gratifying to see them again, and to hear about their successes and accomplishments!!! Just no greater gift than that!!!= l <The best giftsIhave received over the years have been students who returned to my school to say 8hello9 and give me a hug. Thank you notes are always treasured.= l <Two quick stories. my mom was a teacher. She died seven years ago. Last summer I was cleaning out when I came across dozens of thank you cards from her students, which made me cry. Second, I am a professor. Thank you notes from students actually end up in my tenure review files.= l <I got gifts from some of my high school students at Christmas. The gift I still remember 30 years later was a note from a student telling me I had made her feel seen and that my classroom was a safe place.= I know the sentiments expressed are repetitive. So, you might be thinking, <I get it.= But do we, really? What if we spent as much time telling people about the positive impact they9ve had on our lives as we do shopping for the right gift to buy them? Think about the hours you have to work to pay off the credit card charges to demonstrate your affection. Add to your list a present that money can9t buy 4 taking the time to write a genuine note of gratitude for the people who have made your life better4a teacher,aparent, a grandparent, sibling, friend, mentor, supervisor or colleague. This is a gift people hold on to. sinGletary from G1 MICHeLLe SINGLeTARY When their eborts make a diberence, let them know ing attorneys fall into other minority groups. Since the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious college admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in June, Jenner & Block partner Ishan Bhabha said he has been inundated with calls from companies seeking guidance on how to protect their efforts to hire, mentor and promote a diverse workforce. Companies view such programs as a <key plank in their business case and how they9re going to be successful,= said Bhabha, who co-chairs his firm9s diversity, equity, and inclusion protection task force and represented two law firms against diversity challenges 4 Perkins Coie and Winston & Strawn. While many diversity programs are legal, companies should be looking closer at programs that direct large amounts of money or tangible benefits to designated groups, such a racial or gender groups, Bhabha said, although programs like employee resource groups that are open to everyone, as well as hiring based on an applicant9s commitment to diversity and inclusion, are generally safe. The mounting scrutiny is leading some firms to set up practices dedicated to making DEI programs safe from litigation and bad publicity. Bhabha said Jenner & Block formed its DEI task force in october 2022, having been involved early in the Harvard and UNC case, representing the interests of other Ivy League schools. <We could see this impending wave because we9d been working on the case,= Bhabha said. <And it was very clear that this was not just going to be limited to college admissions.= In their Aug. 29 letter, republican state attorneys general highlighted a relatively new hiring practice that has been widely adopted in the legal industry. The mansfield rule, established in 2017 and based on the National football League9s rooney rule, holds that 30 percent of candidates for leadership roles need to be women and historically underrepresented minorities. Supporters of the rule, which some 200 firms have adopted, say it is helping to diversify law firms9 upper ranks. <These programs were already questionable before the Supreme Court9s decision= on race-conscious college admissions, the attorneys general wrote. <Now, they are unambiguously in tension with employer legal duties under state and federal law.= merleVaughn, national law firm diversity practice leader with major, Lindsey & Africa, said law firms are under so much pressure because DEI opponents <realize that law firms are traditionally risk-averse, and lawyers are risk-averse by nature.= It9s too soon to gauge the magnitude of recent litigation on corporate diversity efforts, Vaughn said, but one thing is certain: Despite efforts to diversify the legal industry, Black and minority representation continues to lag. The assault on private-sector DEI programs reaches beyond the legal industry. America first Legal, the conservative nonprofit backed by former Trump adviser Stephen miller, has filed complaints against NASCAr, major League Baseball, law firms from G1 Law ûrms guide DEI eborts but face their own diversity cases IllUSTraTIOn bY emma KUmer/The WaShIngTOn POST panies use, the higher the risk= of legal scrutiny, she said. Lynch is part ofalegal team representing the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer againstalawsuit alleging that one of its fellowships illegally discriminates on the basis of race. The fellowship offered jobs and graduate school funding to underrepresented college students, although it was opened to students of all backgrounds after the lawsuit was filed. The case was dismissed in December but is on appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. <You have to make sure everyone has an opportunity to compete equally,= said Lynch, who is also a member of Paul Weiss9s new DEI strategic advisory practice. <You want to make sure that you recognize that excellence is found everywhere.= Vaughn said law firms have found a Progressive Insurance, Activision Blizzard and Nordstrom targeting practices ranging from establishing workplace affinity groups for employees of color to giving grants to Black-owned businesses. In July, 13 republican state attorneys general warned microsoft and other fortune 100 companies in July to reexamine their DEI policies, threatening <serious legal consequences= for companies that rely on race-based employment preferences, including <explicit racial quotas and preferences in hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion and advancement.= Loretta E. Lynch, a former U.S. attorney general who now practices law at Paul, Weiss, rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, said she9s been reminding clients that it9s still <lawful and laudable= to try to improve workforce diversity. But <the more restrictive the language that com- <If you sue a law firm, then the law firm gets up to speed very, very quickly on what is permissible and what9s impermissible.= Kenji Yoshino, a law professor and director of the meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and belonging at new York University The Department of Data The Department of Data column is off this week. It will return next Sunday. If you have a personal finance question for michelle, please call 1-855-aSK-POST (1-855- 275-7678). her award-winning column The Color of money is syndicated by The Washington Post news Service and Syndicate and carried in dozens of newspapers.

sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ ee G3 We hear all the time that it9s the thought that counts. But in reality, our love is often measured by what comes in a pretty box or gift bag. We9ve been indoctrinated to be generous, even if it means going into credit card debt. Here9s an illustrated guide to help you give without creating financial strain for yourself. How to say 8happy holidays9 with a small gift or none at all illusTrATions by AnToineTTe ThomAs for The WAshingTon PosT

G4 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, december 17, 2023 The financial Services forum, representing eight of the biggest U.S. banks, said it is spending a seven-figure sum on television advertising blasting the proposal as an added fee on Americans already burdened by inflation. Another group, called Center forward, is airing ads with a similar message on national broadcasts, including during National football League games. And big bank CEos raised the issue in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Dec. 6. meanwhile, the NAACP, the National Urban League and the Urban Institute have lodged their own critiques. An Urban Institute study of the proposal9s impact on lower-income minorities concluded it is <particularly perverse in the face of efforts by the bank regulators and other government agencies to encourage banks to increase their lending to precisely these borrowers and communities.= Not all progressive groups oppose the proposed rule. Alexa Philo, a former federal reserve Bank examiner who now works as a senior policy analyst at Americans for financial reform, said the proposal has sparked heated nia at San Diego who has studied the phenomenon. He also experienced it firsthand when he needed to finance 90 percent of his home purchase and could land a mortgage only from a local bank. The reason, reher said, is that banks have greater leeway to keep mortgages with smaller down payments on their balance sheets, since they have a generally stable cushion of funding from their deposits. By contrast, the newer mortgage companies aren9t banks and don9t have deposits, so they need to sell off a greater portion of the loans they make to fannie mae and freddie mac, the government-backed mortgage giants that help pump liquidity into the housing market. In turn, fannie and freddie limit the sorts of loans they will buy to reduce their exposure to risk. The proposed capital rule would not apply directly to nonbank lenders. That disparate treatment could end up costing the neediest borrowers, some housing finance experts say. minority home buyers tend to pay more than others in closing costs when buying a home, an expense that can cost up to 1 percent of their loan, recent research has shown. And the fewer lenders available, the more expensive these costs will be on account of the diminished competition, reher said. for Caldwell, every additional expense weighs against buying a house, a move she already needs to stretch to afford. So the Cincinnati resident has padded her savings for a down payment to $3,000, paid off credit cards to improve her credit score, expanded her search area 4 and adjusted her expectations. Caldwell said she originally told her realtor she wanted to find a three-bedroom house and could spend $1,500 a month on a mortgage. He countered she had to find a way to pay $1,800, and that number has since climbed. Then again, if she extends the lease on her two-bedroom apartment 4 where her 11-year-old son is sharing a bedroom with his 22-year-old brother 4 her rent will increase by $70 a month, to nearly $1,400. <To hear costs just keep going up is really disheartening,= she said. <Where do they want people to live?= opposition from the industry because it could dent executives9 pay. <When banks have to raise more equity capital, it can depress the share prices that are linked to banker bonuses,= she said in an email. <That9s why the bank lobby fights greater capital requirements with everything it has. The rest, particularly about alleged harms to economic growth, is largely nonsense.= Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-ohio), who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, struck an incredulous tone over the industry9s lobbying push as the bank CEos testified before the panel last week. <Wall Street banks are actually saying that cracking down on them will, quote, 8hurt working families.9 really?= he asked. <You9re going to claim that?= But pushback from such a broad range of outside groups has helped spur bipartisan concern on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers pressed michael S. Barr, the fed9s chief banking cop, on the matter in a pair of hearings last month. Barr, the architect of the proposal, signaled that regulators could tweak the final version, expected to roll out next year. <We do care very much about access to credit for low- and moderateincome borrowers,= he testified. <We hear those concerns, and we will very much take those into account as we work to finalize the rule.= The new players As banks have offered fewer home loans, companies such as Quicken Loans and Guaranteed rate 4 <non-bank lenders= that are not subject to the same strict oversight facing banks 4 have stepped in to fill some of the gaps. In 2014, four of the top five mortgage lenders were banks; in 2022, only Wells fargo remained in the group, according to the mortgage data analysis firm recursion. But this new crop of lenders is at best an imperfect substitute for banks, housing finance experts say. <A borrower in a high-cost area with limited cash for a down payment would probably still find it difficult to secure credit from a non-bank lender,= said michael reher, an assistant professor at the University of CaliforBorrowing costs for mortgages have more than doubled over the past two years as the federal reserve has battled inflation by hiking interest rates, which hit a 22-year high earlier this year. That has compelled homeowners to hold off from selling and instead stay put until rates cool 4 choking off supply and locking in prices that rocketed during a pandemic-fueled buying spree. out of reach Higher financing costs already have put homeownership out of reach for most of these borrowers who qualified just two years ago: Before the fed started raising interest rates, 3.4 million Black Americans were deemed <mortgage ready= based on their credit history and income, according to research by freddie mac. Thanks to the higher cost of financing, that number stands at less than 1 million now, the National fair Housing Alliance found in a follow-up analysis based on traditional underwriting standards. meanwhile, Black home loan applicants in the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan markets are 1.6 times more likely to be denied than the overall population, a recent study by LendingTree found. <That just shows you what happens with this wealth divide,= National fair Housing Alliance CEo Lisa rice said. <When you don9t have family members that you can lean on because they weren9t able to build wealth to help with a down payment, these higher interest rates have a devastating impact.= These concerns prompted regulators and industry executives a few years ago to make homebuying easier for underserved borrowers. After George floyd9s murder ignited nationwide protests in the summer of 2020, corporations across the economy committed to projects aimed at battling systemic racism. mortgage lenders pledged to work with financial regulators to provide credit to more minority borrowers. Yet only a handful of companies followed through. While a number of mortgage lenders have launched pilot programs over the past year that collectively pledge HoMe buyers from G1 Big banks, progressive groups rally against proposed rules abecting mortgages Madeleine hordinski for the Washington Post A photo of Marsheila Caldwell and her sons hangs above the couch in their apartment. Hoping to be able to buy a house that meets her needs, she has increased her savings and expanded her search area. critics say. The proposal, unveiled in July by the federal reserve and two other agencies, would not only harmonize U.S. regulations with international rules on capital requirements but also would go beyond foreign standards regarding extra capital for larger banks. Advocates of the change say it9s an attempt to ensure the banking system remains sound in the event of another crisis like the one that shook the industry this spring. odd bedfellows The banking industry has launched an unusually aggressive lobbying blitz against the proposal with help from some unlikely allies: Traditionally progressive groups focused on promoting homeownership are also rallying against it. to initiate tens of thousands of home loans, those efforts will barely make a dent in the racial homeownership gap at their current scale: Closing it would require 4.5 million more Black Americans buying homes, according to the Urban Institute. more broadly, big financial institutions have retreated from lending to economically dis - advantaged mortgage borrowers. Three of the largest banks for mortgage lending 4 Bank of America, JPmorgan and Wells fargo 4 cut the share of home loans they issued to lower-income borrowers by more than half in the six years following the Great recession, a 2017 federal reserve study found. The new rules put forth by banking regulators could drive banks to accelerate that trend, <To hear costs just keep going up is really disheartening. Where do they want people to live?= Marsheila Caldwell IBM, the IBM logo, watsonx and watsonx your agency are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on ibm.com/trademark. ©International Business Machines Corp. 2023. Before you use AI. to help get where you9re going you need to trust what it9s doing. 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sunday, december 17, 2023 . the washington post eZ ee G5 direction of photographic style in an unreal setting.Istruck gold with the prompt: <Wes Anderson style surrealistic photo Christmas card.= The AI began setting family portraits in candycolored rooms with elaborately decorated trees, garland 4 even Rudolph9s head mounted on the wall. One version with a 1960s vibe reminded me of how my grandmother Margaret used to decorate for Christmas. So I told the AI to generate some of the details I could recall, such as an Evergleam Christmas tree and pink reindeer guarding the presents. <More colorful lights reflecting around the room,= I typed, recalling how I used to crawl underneath the aluminum branches and watcharotating color wheel turn everything rainbow.Iwasn9t just making a picture; I was reassembling a memory. NowIneeded to get my likeness in there. I described myself to the chatbot, but it kept spitting out fitness models. I told it my real age and about my saltand-pepper hair, but that still didn9t help. AI has a <hotness= problem, rooted in training data with too many perfect selfies and models. <No, fatter,= I kept typing. (<You look like you got a jump on New Year9s resolutions,= said one disapproving friend after receiving my card.) Finally,Ilanded on the right feeling with a prompt that totaled 153 words 4 even though the AI me, sitting on top of a large present, had too many fingers and slightly mismatched shoes. (Someday, I imagine, I might look at my extremities here and say: <How 2023.=) There was a bigger problem: The AI me still had someone else9s face. DALL-E won9t intentionally let you re-create the likeness of a real person, a guardrail against deepfakes 4 images designed to mislead or harm because they feature someone else9s likeness. There are more technically complicated ways I might have trained my own AI to clone our faces, but I wanted to stick with widely accessible tools. I turned toadedicated AI avatar program to make my family9s faces, the Lensa app. I fed it 20 reference photos of each family member9s face, and its <magic avatar= spit back out 50 AI-generated profile photos in different styles, such as business, Roman Empire and, now, Christmas. Mine were laughably dashing, but close enough to reality. It had more trouble getting the faces right for members of my family who are of Asian descent, often making them stray too far from their actual facial features or just look too White. This bias is probably baked into the AI model the app uses, called Stable Diffusion. (Lensa9s maker didn9t respond to an email.) At lastIhad my background and my faces, but I needed to combine them into one. For that, I turned to one more AI tool: Photoshop. The classic photoediting app this year added a function called <generative fill= that lets you select specific areas in an existing picture to have generated by AI. I cut out the heads from the Lensa images, Photoshopped them into the DALL-E image and let generative fill stitch them together inaway that looks more natural. I also used that tool to fill and fix extra little details. I left the weird fingers andafew other Easter eggs for fun. Three AIs later,Ihad my Christmas card. All together, it cost me $49 and a lot of free time. I sent it to my dad. <Looks like a classic Margaret Fowler Christmas decoration!= he said. Fake? Sure. But also more real than any photoIcould have taken on my own. conversation with a slot machine: After each new chat, I waited a few moments to see how it interpreted my words. Sometimes I got flashes of brilliance; other times I got 11 fingers and three legs. I wanted my card to make viewers do a double take, but in a good way, so I headed in the my prompt based on piles and piles of training images. I needed my own artistic vision. So I chatted back and forth with the AI for days, with increasing specificity. <Make it a Victorian Christmas,=Ityped. <More gothic.= I tried <Pixarcartoon Christmas= and <980s movie= themes. It was like a <Try again,= I typed. This time I got a picture of a mom feeding a snowman a carrot while a boy stuffs a carrot into the snowman9s belly. Without really understanding what a Christmas card (or even a snowman) means, the tech was trying to find statistically middle-of-the-road responses to Christmas card= into ChatGPT. That9s the primary way you interact with DALL-E 3, OpenAI9s image-generating AI. Out popped an illustration about as unremarkable as Christmas cards you9d find in the drugstore bargain bin, featuring a family that looks nothing like mine holding gingerbread men. technology & innovation BY TATUM HUNTER Our future selves used to be a mystery. Now, thanks to social media filters, we can stare them right in the face. People took to TikTok this month to share themselves <aging= in real time using a filter called <time travel.= Set to a wistful Elvis Presley song, the effect shows the user9s face slowly getting older, complete with wrinkles and sunspots. The effect was released by an independent creator in October, and the app says it9s been shared 1.4 million times. Camera filters that artificially age you have been around for years 4 Snapchat and FaceApp both had popular versions in 2019. But advancements in AI imaging are making the results more realistic, perhaps by using machine learning trained on young and old images of real faces. Board-certified dermatologist Aleksandra Brown said the TikTok time travel filter is the most accurate she9s seen in guessing how a given face would age, including details like skin texture and muscle positions. As we get older, our facial skin thins, fat dissolves and gravity pulls everything downward. Not everyone is pleased about this. <I hated it,= Xavier Wilson, a 17-year-old in Los Angeles, said of the filter. <I looked all worn out.= Wilson isn9t alone. During the summer, users shared TikTok9s <aged= filter along with the popular <I need to buy a gun= sound clip from the TV show <Why Women Kill.= (The joke being that the sight of their own aged faces is driving them to violence.) Brown said she9s seen no fewer than four people cry after using the filter, including herself. One friend didn9t like watching the decades fly past, according to Brown. She felt overwhelmed watching herself age 50 years in 15 seconds 4 could life really go by that fast? Later, Brown and her co-workers cried together after Brown showed the aging effect on her own young daughter. She won9t live to see her daughter get that old, she pointed out. For other people, the time travel filter brought up unexpected positive emotions. Actor Jonathan Bennett sharedavideo saying his own filtered face evoked happy memories of his late father. Nicole Loehle, a 24-year-old in New Jersey, tested the effect with her boyfriend. It gave her a new perspective, she said 4 she could imagine the relationship lasting into their old age. <It9s showing what we might look like, but obviously it9s not showing all the milestones we could hit by those different ages,= she said. Users unhappy with their future faces wouldn9t have to look far on TikTok for purported fixes. <Anti-aging= content and creators have exploded on the app, with cosmetic companies targeting ever-younger consumers. Some critics have pushed back against child influencers promoting makeup and skin care. And trendy concepts like <glass skin= (a glowing, poreless complexion) and <baby Botox= (anti-wrinkle injections for people who don9t have wrinkles yet) reach new audiences on TikTok. Loehle struggles with acne, she said, so she9s familiar with the wayaTikTok video can send her itching to buy new skin care. She9s ordered skin products promoted by influencers just to find they don9t work for her 4 or that the influencer was using a facesmoothing filter in the first place. Aging filters could lead to more of the same if she9s not mindful, she said. There9s no correct way to age, and many people find skin care and cosmetic procedures empowering or relaxing. But it9s important to remember that no one can freeze time or undo its effects, Brown said. Glimpsing our older faces could be a scary reminder of our own mortality. Or, it could be an exercise in gratitude for our elders and compassion for ourselves. <I keep trying to reframe aging as a gift,= Loehle said. <Some people don9t get to age, unfortunately.= On TikTok, glimpses of our future faces stir up a range of emotions This year, my Christmas card features smiling faces, unreal places and ... a few too many fingers. Instead of posing for a photo, I made my card using artificial intelligence. Technology now available to anyone with a bit of patience can transform written prompts and pictures into totally made-up 4 and sometimes anatomically weird 4 photos. The AIgenerated Christmas card has arrived. Fake? Sure. But since when has the holiday card, that stressful annual performance of family joy, been entirely about reality? AI lets you express what you9re feeling even if you can9t capture it IRL. Gather far-flung family into one scene. Take the vacation you couldn9t afford. Go ahead, turn yourself into an elf. But AI is digital drag: You are no longer constrained by the laws of time and space to tell your story. The AI was hard to control, including once when it decided on its own to draw me without pants. Yet crafting my card left a much bigger impression than I expected. AI took me on a trip into childhood to re-create memories of my grandmother Margaret9s glowing Christmas decorations. Here I9m sharing a version of my card that features me alone, though I also used the AI to make my squirmy 2-yearold pose for a family portrait in front of his great-grandma9s tree. (What would you make? Send me an email.) This is all possible because AI tools have hit an inflection point. You no longer need to master coding or advanced Photoshopping to generate pictures wholly out of your imagination. And I9m not the only one using it for the holidays: AI selfie-generating app Lensa added a Christmas option that lets you transform yourself intoasnow bunny or hunky Santa. And Coca-Cola has a website where you can use a version of OpenAI9s DALL-E image generator to make the soda brand9s classic Santa do whatever you want 4 as long as it's not too naughty. If some of this feels worrisome, I hear you. Lately, I9ve been exploring what role AI can, and should, play in our lives. In my experiments, I9ve discovered many ways the tech industry9s race to throw AI into everything can do harm, from fueling eating disorders to upending democracy. While making my Christmas card, biases baked into AI software reared their ugly head by making my family look too White and even too attractive. And sometimes AI literally made ugly heads with crossed eyes and deformed features, along with extra fingers and legs, because of a bizarre quirk of how it creates. Yet it9s also true that my final product was a total delight. There9s something more authentic about this fakeness than, say, an Instagram filter. The viewer is in on the joke. Making an AI Christmas card helped me see not only the limitations of AI, but also its possibilities. HowImade an AI Christmas card You might think AI is all about automation and saving time. Let me correct the record: Making my Christmas card with AI was a lot of work. I ended up using not one but three different commercial AI tools, each of which comes with a small price tag and a learning curve. But ultimately,Idiscovered I could get as much out of AI as I put into it. It started with me typing <make me a whimsical family Geoffrey A. Fowler My AI Christmas card is totally fake 4 but the joy is real WAShington poSt iLLuStrAtion; DALL-e; LenSA; photoShop; iStock Columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler made this AI-generated Christmas card using three different commercial AI tools: DALL-E, Lensa and Photoshop9s generative fill. Along the way to landing on this card, AI pictured him with 11 fingers, and even no pants. AI-GENERATED WAShington poSt iLLuStrAtion; DALL-e DALL-E made this draft AI-generated holiday card in response to the prompt <Victorian Christmas,= followed by <more gothic.= AI-GENERATED WAShington poSt iLLuStrAtion; DALL-e In this draft AI-generated Christmas card image, DALL-E pictures a scene inspired by the visual style of filmmaker Wes Anderson. AI-GENERATED WAShington poSt iLLuStrAtion; DALL-e Fowler9s AI-generated card started with this image from DALL-E with the prompt <make me a whimsical family Christmas card.= AI-GENERATED WAShington poSt iLLuStrAtion; DALL-e In this draft AI-generated image, rejected before Fowler inserted his real face, DALL-E decided on its own to remove his pants. AI-GENERATED

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McLean,VA w/ trvl/ relco to proj sites w/in US. Serve as Primary POC with the WMATA client and CFO9s office. Req9s: BS in comp Sci & 3yrs exp. Res to: DMI, Attn: V Dey, 1600 International Dr. Ste 500, McLean, VA 22102. Ref: Functional Team Lead - PeopleSoft. Healthcare- General Anesthesiologists needed by Certified Anesthesia Services, PLLC, at locations in Washington, DC. Requires M.D., D.O., or foreign equivalent; completion of residency in Anesthesiology; and eligibility for medical licensure in Washington, DC. Email CV to Tiffany Goins at: Tiffany_Goins@ teamhealth.com. Dental-Han Song Yang, Inc. DBA Art Dental Lab in Chantilly, VA seeks Training Specialist. Create & execute training programs for dental techs. Associate Degree in Dental Technology or related field + 2 yrs exp. as Dental Lab Manager or owner req'd. Send resume: Han Yang, 3852-A Dulles South Ct. Chantilly, VA 20151 Director, Field Medical Science Novavax, Inc. seeks Director, Field Medical Science in Gaithersburg, MD to work closely with Medical Affairs leadership and market access to create a field-based strategy. Telecommuting permitted within the U.S. Up to 10% domestic travel required. Apply at jobpostingtoday.com Ref: 14840. Find a job. Healthcare- General Cosmic Healthcare, LLC is looking for Medical Technologists to work in the Aldie, VA area. Positions require: "Bachelor9s degree in Medical Technology, Life Science, or Medical Laboratory Science; "ASCP Certification; and "May be asked to provide services at unanticipated worksite locations. Please send resumes and cover letter to ATTN: Lakshmi Narra 23099 Red Sunset Place, Aldie, VA 20105. Please refer to job code #CHMT3 in your cover letter. Cosmic Healthcare, LLC is looking for Medical Technologists to work in the Aldie, VA area. Positions require: "Bachelor9s degree in Medical Technology, Life Science, or Medical Laboratory Science; "ASCP Certification; and "5 years9 (60 months) of experience asaMedical Technologist. "May be asked to provide services at unanticipated worksite locations. Please send resumes and cover letter to ATTN: Lakshmi Narra 23099 Red Sunset Place, Aldie, VA 20105. Please refer to job code #CHMT2 in your cover letter. L JOBS Shenandoah Landscape Services, Inc. looking to fill multiple perm, FT Landscape Foreman. Report to Work: 7848 Bethlehem Rd., Suite 100, Manassas, Prince William County, VA 20109. Employer will transport workers daily between report to work address and additional worksites throughout VA. Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, removing thatch, or trimming. Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges. Use hand tools such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, hedge or brush trimmers, rake mulch and compost leaves. Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, or other grounds features. Gather and remove litter and debris. Shovel snow from walks, driveways, or parking lots, and spread salt in those areas. Operate vehicles or powered equipment. Direct activities of workers who perform duties such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs & other related Landscape Foreman activities as per SOC/OES 37-1012 (onetonline.org).Work is outdoors, exposed to weather; must do physically strenuous labor for long hours, occasionally in extreme heat or cold.Variable weather conditions. Employer will comply with all applicable Federal, State and local employment-related laws and regulations such as wages, breaks, hours worked, and OT hours (OT possible, but not required or guaranteed. If OT is worked, wage is paid at 1.5x regular rate of pay per hour worked beyond 40 hours each week.) Must lift, balance, walk, stoop, handle, position, move, manipulate materials use static strength to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, carry objects up to 50lbs. 24 mo Landscape experience. No min education requirement. Based on Employer's discretion/cost: Worker may have random drug/alcohol testing during employment: positive test/refusal to abide = dismissal. Mon-Fri 7AM-4PM. 40+, Poss wknd/holiday work. Shenandoah Landscape Services, Inc. - 866-718-7188, bblosser@shenlandscape. com. Applications and/or resumes to VA SWA: Address: 13370 Minnieville Road Woodbridge, VA 22192, 703- 586-6800. Job Order # 3578050 L JOBS Legal-Arnold & Porter seeks Associate, White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice Group (Washington, DC) to focus on white collar defense and compliance matters. Ability to work remotely as agreed upon with manager, within commuting distance. Any applicant who is interested in this position Reference Job Code 7452497 to: recruitingdc@ arnoldporter.com OR K. Stelcen, Ref Job Code: 7452497, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, 601 Massachusetts Ave, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001-3743. M JOBS Manager, People and Organization (Mult Pos) PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC, Washington, DC. Hlp clnts reset their talent strategies & deliver extraordinry bus rslts thru their people. Req Bach9s deg or foreign equiv in Actuarial Sci, Math, HRM, Acct, Fin or rel + 5 yrs post-bach9s prgrssv rel wrk exp; OR Master9s deg or foreign equiv in Actuarial Sci, Math, HRM, Acct, Fin or rel + 3 yrs rel wrk exp. 80% telecommtng prmttd. Mst be able to commute to designated local office. Domestic &/or intrntnl trvl up to 20% is req. Please apply by sending your resume to US_PwC_Career_ [email protected], specifying Job Code DC3896 in the subject line. Multimedia Marketing Specialist: marketing plan, design, dev. for real estate industry. Bachelor9s degree (US or foreign equiv.) in multimedia marketing or mass communication rel. CV to [email protected]; GAEA Group (Herndon,VA) O JOBS Kidsdom Inc. Office Manager. AS in Bus. or rel. field. & 2 yrs. exp. Job in NO.VA. Fax res info@ kidsdommontessori.com P JOBS Planning & Budget Analyst, Washington, DC. Support financial plan preparations, budget formulation & execution activities, incl. non-compensation expenses, chart of accts mgmt, & costing allocations for all fund types. Prep routine budget rpts for expenditure analysis & control. Mail resume to S. Galib, Office of Global Services, Georgetown University, Box 571013, Car Barn Suite 140, Washington, DC 20057. Planning Manager in Alexandria, VA. Manage the planning & logistics of complex, multiphase residential construction projects. Mail resume to D. Tracy at Classic Cottages, LLC, 433 E. Monroe Avenue, Alexandria,VA 22301. Project Manager - Biomedical Imaging, Guidehouse Digital LLC, McLean, VA Wrk wthn a multdscplnry team dedctd to the dvlpmnt & extnsn of a rsrch biomdcl infrmtn intgrtn prgrm with a fcus on electrn microscpy data. Req Ph.D. or foreign equiv deg in Biomdcl, Chem, Engg, or rel, & six (6) yrs of post-bach9s, prgrssv, & rel wrk exp. May be req to wrk frm an unantcptd clnt site in the Estrn Regn of the US. Up to 10% dmstc trvl req. Telecmmtng prmttd. To apply, please email resume to: [email protected] and reference:VA0018. Project Manager (Job in Hyattsville, MD), Plan, organize & direct multiple construction projects ; primary point of contact of projects/ 40 hrs/wk/MS Civil Eng'g/ Knowledge & understanding of Eng'g softwares, Microsoft office, etc/ Email resume to AIW, Inc at hr@ americanironworks.com Q JOBS Quality Systems Analyst Micron Technology, Inc. has an opening for Quality Systems Analyst in Manassas, VA. Job duties include: Use data analysis and evaluation tools and skills to prepare, support, and conduct internal process audits, as well as hosting or supporting external quality audits (customer and certification). Use data and modeling to develop schedules, review documents and procedures, gather and evaluate information related to quality, and summarize and report findings. Position requires travel up to 25%. To apply, visit Micron.com/ Careers. Search by requisition no. JR43494 R JOBS Deli Worker: Prepare/cook foods, and serve food, beverages and desserts; Clean facilities, counters and equipment. Need related work exp. Contact K&K Int9l, 8768 Richmond Hwy, Alex.VA 22309 S JOBS Senior Cost Manager (Sterling, VA): Actively participate & analyze tenders/bids to ensure client value for money. Create estimates & cost plans. Oversee project spend by creating valuations & cost reports, & communicate variations to team. Foster top performance & growth. Salary: $135,000/yr. Reqs: Master9s degree in Construction Mgmt/ foreign equiv. + 24 mths exp in Position/Estimator. Mail CV to Linesight, 355 Lexington Ave, Fl. 18, New York, NY 10017. Attn: J. Fitzgerald,VP. Sr. Associates - Acoustics, Washington, DC. Mng acoustic projct wrk/lead acoustic dsgn. Req's MS or equiv in Acoustics or Mech E & 5 Yrs exp modlng & dsgn w/AutoCAD. Exp must includ 2Yrs w/CATT/Cadna A&strcturl acoustic/vibratn anlys. $136,219-$146,219/Yr +med/ dent/vis/401k. Mail res: HR/ Kara Butterly, Trinity Consultants, Inc. 12700 Park Central Dr.#600, Dallas, TX 75251 Sr Manager, Marketing Analytics Sirius XM Radio Inc. (Washington, DC) seeks Sr Manager, Marketing Analytics to wrk cross func9lly acrss Finance, Mrktng & Prod teams to suppt anlytcs & biz insghts for streamng biz, end to end. Reqs MS in Statstcs, Data Anlytcs, Engg Mgmt or rltd fld +2yrs exp in pos offrd or mrktng anlytcs role or Bach in Statstcs, Data Anlytcs, Engg Mgmt or rltd fld +5 yrs postBach prgrssvly resp exp in pos offrd or mrktng anlytcs role. All reqd exp mustv incld bldng visualzns, dashbrds & rprts usng mult tools (Excel & Tableau); codng & mining data usng SQL & Pythn for anlys; concptlzng & commncatng rprtng stratgies that addrss wide rnge of info needs rltng to streamng bizfrom acquisitn & engagmt thru retentn; regressn modlng; SQL codng; machne learnng & statstcl mthds; MS Offce (Word, Excel & PP); translatng big data into actionble insghts usng Cloudera, Teradata, or Spark; automatng rprtng prcesses; & Adobe anlytcs & digitl anlytcs stes. Role entails hybrid wrk, w/ time split btwn wrkng in Washington, DC offce & flexblty to telecmmte from anothr US locatn. Apply online at www.siriusxm.com/ careers. Ref P-2023-47. STRUCTURAL STEEL DETAILER (Job in Hyattsville, MD), Prep plans, drawings for the manufacture & erection of structural, ornamentals & misc steel/ 40 hrs/wk/BS Architecture or any Eng'g Field/1 yr Steel Detailer exp/Knowledge & understanding of Tekla Structure 3D Steel Modeling/ Email resume to AIW, Inc at [email protected]. S JOBS Support Assistant: resp. for front desk, collect ID9s/ins. cards, & intake forms, + rel. duties. HS/GED or for. equiv.+6 mos. exp. in any support assistant-rel. pos. in dental or medical setting. Send cl/resume Caring Dental PC, Attn: Mariem Zahri 6316 Castle Pl, Ste 201, Falls Church, VA 22044 Marketing Administrator Computer Packages Inc., a world leader in intellectual property software, is seeking a Marketing Administrator to work at our headquarters in Rockville, MD. Will train a highly motivated individual, however some marketing admin. experience and strong computer skills are preferred. Excellent salary and benefits including fully paid health insurance, tuition reimbursement, visa sponsorship and strong opportunity for growth. Resume only to cpijobs@ computerpackges.com IT Systems Administrator Computer Packages Inc., a global software company, is seeking an IT Systems Administrator who will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of our IT systems. You will: manage and maintain our IT infrastructure; diagnose and resolve hardware, software, and network issues; install, configure, and maintain software applications, operating systems, and active Directory environments; monitor and manage user accounts, permissions, and access controls; implement security measures to protect against cyber threats and unauthorized access. Requirements: Minimum of 3 years of experience as an IT Systems Administrator, including experience with Office 365, Windows server environment and Active Directory services. Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field preferred. Solid understanding of networking protocols, configurations, and troubleshooting. Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, HyperV, etc.). Excellent problemsolving skills and attention to detail. Strong communication and interpersonal abilities. We offer an excellent salary and benefits package along with relocation assistance and opportunity for growth. Resumes only to cpijobs@ computerpackages.com T JOBS TV Host and Producer Radio Javan Inc., TV Host and Producer. Arlington, VA. Researching and developing content for the show, writing scripts, booking guests, coordinating with production staff, and hosting the show. Developing and pitching show ideas to networks and sponsors. Researching and selecting music, guests, and other content for the TV show. Organizing and coordinating production schedules. Managing budgets and ensuring that the show stays within budget. Hosting the show and interviewing guests. Quality control of all pre-and postproduction. Promoting the tv shows through various media outlets. Networking with industry professionals to secure future opportunities. High school diploma and 12 months of experience as a TV Host and Producer. Must be fluent in Farsi. Email resume to [email protected]. The local expert on local jobs G6 JOBS H GENERAL JOBS H A H TECH JOBS OPQRS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2023 A good employee recruitment strategy depends on a strong employer brand. A recent Top Workplaces Research Lab study recently uncovered: " Despite 80 percent of employers believing they effectively convey their company culture, only 30 percent of candidates share the same perception. " The dissatisfaction with the time it takes to ûll vacant positions is palpable, with nearly half of employers expressing concern. " Post-pandemic, 60 percent of employers and 55 percent of job seekers express increased difûculty in recruiting and job hunting. So in the competition for talent, how does an employer stand out? Here are ûve suggestions. Start with an employee engagement survey: This is a workplace x-ray. A sound employee survey reveals engagement levels, cultural strengths and areas for improvement. Understand what sets your company9s workplace experience and culture apart. Consider this a powerful magnet to attract new talent and customers. Understand your employee value proposition: This is what your organization offers beyond basic compensation. It conveys the tangible and intangible beneûts of your workplace, including company culture, employee development opportunities, work-life balance and additional perks. Strong employers ensure what they offer employees aligns with the values and expectations of the workplace. Effectively communicating this employee value proposition is crucial for building and maintaining a strong employer brand that resonates authentically with employees and sets your organization apart in competition for talent. Promote an authentic, credible brand: Communicating and promoting a credible employer brand is a strategic imperative for attracting top talent and fostering a positive workplace culture. Creating a robust careers page is an excellent place to start. It9s a window into your company9s workplace culture. This adds credibility to your employer brand and establishes a connection with candidates seeking an environment that aligns with their values. Earn credible employer recognition: Awards and other third-party veriûcation showcase your organization9s ability to stand tall among industry leaders. Whether local or national, focused on industry or culture excellence, awards and any type of recognition play a pivotal role in a compelling employer brand. They offer tangible proof that your organization excels, dispelling potential employee uncertainties and establishing trustworthiness. They also bring valuable media exposure, creating opportunities for networking, sponsorships and engagement with prospective employees and other organizations. Refresh employee feedback to stay updated: Stay current. Regularly revisit employee feedback to ensure your employer brand remains true to the expectations of your workforce. As you refresh your employee feedback, you reinforce a commitment to transparency, responsiveness and a genuine connection with your team, ultimately solidifying your position as an employer of choice. Bob Helbig is media partnerships director at Energage, an employee survey ûrm that is The Washington Post9s survey partner for Top Workplaces. The production of this section did not involve the news or editorial staff of The Washington Post. Effective recruitment starts with your employer brand Covering career advice, recruitment trends and delivering the area9s newest jobs. We are D.C.9s #1 source for employment news. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2023 " WASHINGTONPOST.COM/JOBS AN ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO THE WASHINGTON POST PRINT: Advice, events, and Jobs every Sunday. ONLINE: Visit jobs.washingtonpost.com, a leader in local jobs. Twitter: @washpostjobs Facebook: facebook.com/WashingtonPostJobs/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/washington-post-jobs./ Instagram: @WashPostJobs [email protected] By Bob Helbig

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Our commitment to excellence& Subcontracts Compliance Manager3Fairfax Dewberry is currently seeking a Subcontracts Compliance Manager. This employee provides subcontract management support for construction services personnel, e nsuring subcontractor compliance and efficient subcontract administration through the& Deputy Department Manager & Traffic Engineering3Fairfax Dewberry is currently seeking a motivated Deputy Department Manager - Traffic Engineering in our Fairfax, VA office. This position is an excellent career advancement opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented individual. This position& Westat Research3Westat, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is an employee-owned research corporation serving agencies of the U.S. Government, state and local governments, businesses, and foundations. We conduct surveys and program evaluations, provide statistical research, and offer related services. Our multiproject environment provides career opportunities in health, energy, education, transportation, the environment, human services, and the workforce. We combine the relevant research area expertise& Corporate Controller - Remote (U.S. Based)3 Rockville Westat is an employeeowned corporation providing research services to agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments. Westat's research, technical, and administrative staff of more& Principal Research Associate - Quantitative - Remote3Rockville Westat is an employeeowned corporation providing research services to agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments. Westat's research, technical, and administrative staff of more& The Emmes Company, LLC Science3The Emmes Company, LLC established in 1977, is a privately owned Clinical Research Organization (CRO). 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Fairfax County Government is a& Administrative Assistant II3 Fairfax This position provides administrative support to the Unit Director, Assistant Unit Director, and probation counselors within the unit, assisting with the delivery of efficient and effective services to the public. Processes all court paperwork as it comes through as well& Administrative Assistant III3 Fairfax Works within the Resource Management Bureau, serving as the central control and receiving point for the bureau. Prepares, updates, and processes all administrative, analytical, and clerical functions. Defines and maintains complex filing and record keeping systems& Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Defense / Aerospace3The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority operates a two-airport system that provides domestic and international air service for the mid-Atlantic region. The organization consists of approximately 1,700 employees in a structure that includes central administration, airports management, and police and fire departments. In addition to operating Ronald Reagan Washington National and Washington Dulles International Airports, the Airports Authority is responsible for capital improvements at both airports and& Police Department System Coordinator3Washington D.C. Compensation Grade: S19-H. Salary Range: $37.29-$54.07. Opening Date: December 6, 2023. Closing Date: Please Note: All job announcements close at 11:59 p.m. of the day before the posted closing date. As a Police Department Systems Coordinator, you will maintain the Police& Airport Construction Inspector Term (4 years & 5 months)3Washington D.C. Compensation Grade: H19-H. Salary Range: $36.56-$53.01. Opening Date: December 4, 2023. Closing Date: December 16, 2023. Please Note: All job announcements close at 11:59 p.m. of the day before the posted closing date. The Airport Construction& Fairfax Water Science3Fairfax County Water Authority (Fairfax Water) is Virginia's largest water utility, serving one out of every five Virginians who obtain their water from public utilities. Nearly 1.5 million people in the Northern Virginia communities of Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William and Alexandria depend on Fairfax Water for superior drinking water. That's 1.5 million friends, neighbors and family members. We don't need any other reason to demand the highest in water quality standards! Chartered in 1957 by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as a& Engineering Inspector I/II3 Fairfax Fairfax Water has an immediate opening for an Engineering Inspector I/II. This position will perform routine construction inspection of public water supply facilities. Essential functions include: Reviewing plans, specifications and cut sheets for construction projects. 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The children of Alexandria have benefited significantly from the strong support of City Council and the Alexandria& Head Track & Field Coach (Outdoor & Indoor)3 Alexandria The Head Coach organizes, coordinates and promotes a comprehensive athletic program that is designed to: Meet the needs and interests of the school community Provide effective leadership that will ensure a positive learning environment and& Assistant Cheerleading Coach3Alexandria The Assistant Coach carries out the aims and objectives of the sports program as outlined by the Head Coach; instructs athletes in individual and team fundamentals, strategies, and physical training necessary for them to realize a degree of individual and team success. This& The MIL Corporation (MIL) Government Contractor3Established in 1980, MIL provides innovative cyber, engineering, financial, and information technology services to the federal government. Our subject matter experts help advance customer operations through proven tools and methodologies. Dedicated to excellence, service, and support, MIL recognizes that sustained high-quality service delivery is a critical contributor to our success. We are recognized by our clients and industry professionals alike for our integrity, diligence, and expertise across our core service areas: Cyber& Information System Security Manager - ISSM (Info. Systems & Cyber Security, Sr. Associate)3 Lexington Park Clearance Required: Secret. Education Required: BA/BS. U.S. Citizenship: Required. The MIL Corporation is seeking an Information System Security Manager/ISSM (Info. Systems & Cyber Security, Sr& MS Power Platform Developer (Software Engineering, Associate)3 Remote Clearance Required: Public Trust. Education Required: BA/ BS. U.S. Citizenship: Required. The MIL Corporation seeks a Microsoft Power Platform Developer to support a government client in the Chesapeake, VA area. 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Exp specified must incl 5 yrs exp (or 3 yrs exp if Master9s deg) w/ each of the following: research, explaining mkt events utilizing quantitative & analytical skills; MS Office (Excel & PowerPoint); fin'l modeling; & utilizing general acctg & finance principles. Telecommuting may be permitted w/in a commutable distance from the worksite in accord w/ co. policy. Salary: $160,000 - $225,000/yr. To apply please send resume to [email protected]. Virginia Marble & Granite seeks Measurement Tech in Chantilly, VA: H.S. Dip. or For. Eq. & 12 mnths Exp. Req. Take job measurements. Assist in delivery, install & cleanup for stone installations. Resume to: HR Virginia Marble and Granite, Inc. 3933 Avion Park Court, Suite B110, Chantilly, VA 20151 Tech Jobs Associate Professional Application Delivery CSC Covansys Corporation hiring for Associate Professional Application Delivery in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #5952847). Cde, tst, debg, implmnt, & dcmnt bsc prgrms. Assst in the mdfctn of cmpny prdcts &/or cstmr/intrnl systms to meet the needs of the clnt &/or endusr. Assst in the resrch & anlyss of exstng systms & prgrm reqrmnts; assst in preprng dcumnttn to chng exstng prgrms. Pstn rqrs a Bchlr's dgre or a foreign eqvlnt in cmptr scnc, mthmtcs or rltd fld, & 0 yrs of wrk exprnc in job offrd, or rltd occptn.Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Offer: $78,354. Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program. DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off; and much more. Email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref. #5952847, full name, email, address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks Production Support Specialist in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout US) to provide day to day production support for multiple mission critical apps running in production. Bach degree in Comp Science, Info Systs, IT, or a rel field & 2 yrs of exp in any job title involving providing production support for: Java apps on a UNIX platform; Oracle apps on a UNIX platform; or custom apps on a UNIX platform. Must be willing to relocate to various unanticipated work locations throughout US. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background check, which may also incl drug screen depending on work assignment. Email resume to recruiting@ cgifederal.com & ref job code 1246. Tech Jobs Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks Business Systems Analyst in Fairfax, VA to act as a liaison between the biz function & info systems, providing tech/functional expertise in identifying, eval, & devel basic systems. Job req Bach deg in Comp sci, Engg, IT, Accounting, Biz or a rel field & 5 yrs in any job title involving exp following guidelines of the Agile Process to strategize the implementation in different sprints of the S/W Devel Life Cycle. Full-time telework permitted. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background check, which may also incl drug screen depending on work assignment. Email resume to recruiting@ cgifederal.com & ref job code 1213. Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks Software Developer in Fairfax,VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout US) to research, design, devel, &/or modify enterprise-wide systs &/or apps s/w. Job req Bach deg in Comp Sci, Comp Engg, Electronic Engg, IT, or a rel field & 5 yrs in any job title involving exp working with iSeries AS400 in s/w development or s/w engg. Must be willing to relocate to various unanticipated work locations throughout US. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background check, which may incl drug screen depending on work assignment. Email resume to [email protected] & ref job code 1202. Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout US) to research, design, devel,&/or modify enterprisewide systs &/or apps s/w. Job req Bach deg in Comp Sci, Engg, IT or a rel field&5 yrs in any job title involving exp with all phases of SDLC in Waterfall & Agile models. Must be willing to relocate to various unanticipated work locations throughout US. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background check, which may incl drug screen depending on work assignment. Email resume to recruiting@ cgifederal.com & ref job code 1217. Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks Software Developer in Fairfax,VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout US) to research, design, devel, &/or modify enterprise-wide systems &/or apps s/w. Job req Bach deg in Comp Sci, Engg, Info Systems, IT, or a rel field & 5 yrs of exp in any job title involving all phases of SDLC life cycle. Must be willing to relocate to various unanticipated work locations throughout US. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background check, which may also incl drug screen depending on work assignment. Email resume to recruiting@ cgifederal.com & ref job code 1223. Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks Programmer/Analyst in Fairfax, VA to build and code apps &/or modules using languages such as C++, Visual Basic, ABAP, JAVA, XTML, Objective C, HTML 5, and .NET. Job req Bach deg in Comp Sci, Info Systems, Digital S/W Devel, Engg, IT or a rel field & 4 yrs in any job title involv apps devel working with Java or Spring Boot. Full-time telework permitted. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background check, which may also incl drug screen depending on work assignment. Email resume to recruiting@ cgifederal.com & ref job code 1261. Tech Jobs COMPUTER/IT: ISD Engineer IV - Cloud Engineering (Navy Federal Credit Union - Vienna, VA (part-time telecommuting permitted). Build, integrate, test, & maintain tech software solutions. Reqs: Bach in CS or rel & 5 yrs exp in any occupation w/ designing building & configuring Oracle HCM apps OR Mast9s in CS or rel & 3 yrs exp. Email cvr ltr & CV to: openpositions@ navyfederal.org. Ref: ISD Engineer IV - Cloud Engineering 4137942 Computer/IT: Mercury Analytics, LLC: Advanced Analytics Associate - Washington, DC: dvlp in-depth survey q9naires using Microsoft or Google Docs & conducting Focus Groups, combining qual. & quant. methods that drive tactical & strateg. decisions & address both user behavior/attitudes. Req9s Bach. Degree or equiv. in Info Systems, Data Analytics, or rltd field & 2 yrs exp. w/ stat. survey dvlpmt OR Master9s degree or equiv. in Info. Systems, Data Analytics or rltd field & knowledge of stat. survey dvlpmt. Email resume to careers@mercuryanalytics. com & ref MA102 Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks Business Systems Analyst in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout US) to act as a liaison between the business function & info systs, providing technical/functional expertise in identifying, evaluating, & developing basic systs. Job req Bach degree in Comp Science, Engg, Info Systs, IT or rel field & 5 yrs in any job title involving analyzing user requirements, syst behavior, & technologies to identify design solutions. Must be willing to relocate to various unanticipated work locations throughout US. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background check, which may also incl drug screen depending on work assignment. Email resume to recruiting@ cgifederal.com & ref job code 1244. Core Network Engineer sought by Global Technology Associates, LLC in Reston, VA. Freq travel to unantic loc throu US. BS any Engr field or IT + 2 yrs exp + special skills. For BS any engineering or Information Tech, employer will accept a single degree or any combo of degrees, diplomas, professional credentials, and/or professional experience equi to BS by qualified eval service. To apply send resumes to Lorena Cerruto at lorena.cerruto@ gtatelecom.com or at 1890 Preston White Dr., Ste. 150, Reston,VA 20191. Database Administrator Fairmount Heights, MD Administer, test & implement computer database applying knowledge of database systems. Centralize data mgmt using SAP ERP app across different modules. Store busn transaction data in SAP Unix file system. Input changes to computer database. Plan & implement security measures. Bchlr9s deg in Info Systems, 1 yr exp. Send resume to: Brandywine Sand and Gravel Co., 5800 Sheriff Rd, Fairmount Heights, MD 20743 Find the right job for you. The local expert on local jobs Find a job. Tech Jobs Data Engineering-ETL Developer, Fannie Mae, Reston, VA. Devel data infrastructure & pipelines to capture, integrate, organize, centralize data while testing & ensuring the data is readily accessible. Suppt integration of data into readily available formats while maintaining existing structures. Analyze new data sources & monitor data performance, scalability, & security. Engage in product devel incl dsgng products, dvlpg product roadmaps, translating dsgn reqmts, prototyping, etc. Perform product testing incl testing/evaluating s/ ware, usability testing, UAT, & using relevant product testing tech. Participate in governance & compliance duties. Req: Master's in CompSci+3 yrs exp as ETL dsgn & devel w/ Informatica, AWS, Python, PySpark, SQL, Jenkins, Rally, & JIRA. Hybrid position. To apply search Data Engineering-ETL Developer @ fanniemae.com/careers. DevOps Engineer, Leesburg, VA: Limited domestic travel, telecommute and/or occasional relocation to multiple client locations nationwide to analyze, design, develop end-to-end code configuration, automation of software applications using Agile process; work with DevOps, container tech including Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes in multiplatform environments. Test, troubleshoot, maintain existing applications. Reply to: Softrams, LLC, 161 Fort Evans Road NE, #205, Leesburg, VA 20176 Engineer III-Materials Hughes Network Systems LLC in Gaithersburg, MD. Execute industrial engineering tasks for the manufacture of metallic/plastic/composite parts for satellite network hardware, components and structures. Req9s: MSc in Industrial or Manufacturing Engin. & 6 months exp or BSc w/ 5 yrs exp. To view & apply visit https://echostar.wd5. myworkdayjobs.com/ echostar enter job # R0004166 in the Search Field & follow instructions. IBM FileNet Developer at CITI. Job req. bach. in CS, Comp engr, elec. engr, or related; & 24 months exp in JO or as IBM FileNet Consultant, FileNet Consultant, FileNet Associate Consultant, FileNet Support Engineer, SWE Developer, SWE Engineer, Asso. Consultant, or related. Work loc., Falls Church, VA and unanticipated locations throughout the US. Resume to CITI, 7799 Leesburg Pike, Ste 500N, Falls Church,VA 22043 IT Professionals: Ent. Lvl to Sen. Lvl Sftwr Engnrs, Prgmr Anlysts, Sftwr Dvlprs, Sys Admins, DBAs, & QA Anlysts are needed for our Herndon, VA Ofc. Must be willing to travel to set up systems to various clients at unanticipated locs across the U.S. Pls send resume, Cvr Ltr., & Sal. Req. to Realsoft Technologies LLC at 506 Carlisle Dr, Ste 175, Herndon,VA 20170. IT Professionals: Ent. Lvl to Sen. Lvl DBAs, Data Analysts, QA Analysts, Sftwr Dvlprs. are needed for our Chantilly, VA Ofc. Must be willing to travel to set up systems to various clients at unanticipated locs across the U.S. Pls send resume, Cvr Ltr., & Sal. Req. to Ven Soft LLC, 4221 Walney Rd, Ste # 500, Chantilly, VA 20151. IT Professionals (Gaithersburg, MD) Software Developers, Software Engineers, Business Analysts. Multiple Positions. Various worksites. May travel to unanticipated client sites nationally. Mail resume to Quantum Vision LLC, Attn: HRGC, 352 Christopher Ave, Ste B, Gaithersburg, MD 20879. Tech Jobs Java Developer: Req. Bach. in CS, IT or rel. + 5 yr exp. Use Java, SQL, Spring, and HTML/CSS/Javascript to design enterprise system software. F/T. Leidos, Inc. Bethesda, MD. Email c.v. to R. Shrestha, RAJENDRA.P.SHRESTHA@ leidos.com & ref. #6536. Principals only. No calls or visa sponsorship. Java Software Developer Guidehouse Digital LLC McLean VA Dvlop new & existing webbased/data-drivn apps. Dsign, install, configure & maintain intrnt, intrant, grant mgmnt, bioinfrmatics & othr webbased apps for clnts. Req a Master9s deg or foreign equiv deg in Comp Sci, IT orarel field + 2 yrs rel wrk exp. May be req to wrk from an unanticiptd clnt site in the Eastrn Reg of the US. Telecommtng permitted. To apply, please email resume to: [email protected] and reference: VA0019. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (Rockville, MD) seeks a Lead Developer. Bachelor9s in Comp. Sci, Info Sys. or rltd field or foreign equiv. + 7 yrs. rltd exp. or equiv. trng. and/or work exp. in fin. svcs industry. Alternatively, Master9s in Comp. Sci, Info Sys. or rltd field or foreign equiv. + 5 yrs. rltd exp. or equiv. trng., and/or work exp. in fin. svcs industry. Can work remotely. For work performed in CA, CO, NY, NY and WA, the chart below outlines proposed salary range for the corresponding location. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, incl but not limited to, the candidate9s skill set, level of exp, edu & internal peer compensation comparisons. CA: Min $165,173, Max $227,500; CO: Min $165,173, Max $189,600; NY, NY: Min $165,173, Max $227,500; WA: Min $165,173, Max $218,100. To apply, submit resume to: www.finra.org/careers. Position #R-007257 Managing Consultant (Mult Pos), Guidehouse Inc. McLean, VA Idntfy clnt9s bus needs & dploy sols using ServiceNow. Address entrprise IT srvics, bus processes & ops needs using Low-code technologies. Req Bach9s deg or foreign equiv deg in Comp Sci, Elctrnic Engg, IT or rel + 5 yrs of rel wrk exp; OR a Master9s deg or foreign equiv deg in Comp Sci, Elctrnic Engg, IT or rel + 3 yrs wrk exp. Emplyr will accpt any suitable comb of edu, training or exp. 20% domestic travel req. Telcmmuting prmittd. To apply, please email resume to: [email protected] and reference:VA0022. Mindboard, Inc., Sterling, VA based co. seeks DotNet Dvlpr (#DD23). Dvlp web applictns using C# w/Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, JavaScript, LINQ, Entity Frmwrk, HTML5, CSS, JSON, XML, Membership (app security), etc. MS in CS or equv. & 12 mos exp. ASP.Net, C#, .Net Core, AngularJS, RESTAPI, SSRS, SSAS, Cognos, SQLServer & Kafka. Full details of duties & reqmts avlble @ www. mindboard.com. Resume to [email protected]. Refer to Ad#DD23 when applying. Find the most Washington-area jobs. The local expert on local jobs Tech Jobs Packaged Application Development Manager (Accenture LLP; Arlington, VA): Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope. Must have willingness and ability to travel domestically approximately 10% of the time to meet client needs. Multiple Positions Available. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply, go to: www.accenture.com/ us-en/careers (Job# R00186602) Equal Opportunity Employer 3 Minorities/Women/Vets/ Disabled. Principal Solns Architect, Cld Automn Brightspot seeks Principal Solns Architect, Cld Automn (multiple openings) in Reston, VA to dsgn & improve infra sppt9ing complex apps; mntn cld rsrcs & network configs through cld providers incl AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure; prfm syst mngmt w/ cntrs running on Kubernetes; mntr & resp to infra incidents; mng SW engineers. Reqs Bach deg in CS or rltd fld & 3 yrs of exp dvlp9ing cld automn soltns; working w/Java, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, & Docker & data-driven apps in Java. Occas telecommut permtd. To apply, mail CV to Parker Ramsdell, Brightspot, Attn: PSA-CA, 12120 Sunset Hills Rd, #600, Reston,VA 20190 Professional Programmer Analyst Computer Sciences Corporation hiring for Professional Programmer Analyst in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #7776868). Cdes, tsts, debgs, implmnts, & dcmnts prgrms. Asssts in the mdfctn of cmpny prdcts &/or cstmr/intrnl systms to meet the needs of the clnt &/or endusr. Gthrs infrmtn frm the systm, anlyzs prgrm & tme rqrmnts, & prprs dcumnttn to chng exstng prgrms. Pstn rqurs a Bchlr's dgre or a foreign eqvlnt in Cmptr Scnc, Mthmtcs, or rltd fld, & 3 yrs of wrk exprnc in job offrd, or rltd occptn. Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Offer: $114,026. Fulltime hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program. DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off; and much more. Email resume to [email protected] resume must include Ref. #7776868, full name, email, address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE Security Delivery Associate Manager (Accenture LLP; Arlington, VA): Provide Tier 2 and 3 (severity 1, 2, 3, 4) level troubleshooting and resolution of device-specific issues which are affecting the clients log ingestion stream. Must have willingness and ability to travel domestically approximately 5% of the time to meet client needs. Multiple Positions Available. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply, go to: www.accenture.com/ us-en/careers (Job# R00186614) Equal Opportunity Employer 3 Minorities/Women/Vets/ Disabled. Find more jobs. The local expert on local jobs Tech Jobs SENIOR APPLICATION ENGINEER, Paeonian Springs, VA. Coordinate and manage Application and R&D team in the software and firmware development; provide technical support, product consulting and service to key customers and company personnel; perform firmware, software, and documentation releases for company products. Send CV to: [email protected] Senior Consultant, Guidehouse Inc. Rockville, MD Prpr nw rprts, executv dashboards, & assist usrs wth issues. Prfrm reqs gathrng of bus, usr & sys frm both tchncl & non- tchncl stkhldrs. Req a Bach's deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Engg, Info Tech or rel, + three (3) yrs of rel wrk exp. Telecmmtng prmttd. Up to 20% dmstc trvl req. To apply, please email resume to: [email protected] and reference: MD0013. Senior Consultant Guidehouse Inc. McLean,VA Assist bus needs & implmnt sols using ServiceNow. Address entrprse IT srvcs, bus procsses & ops need using Low-code techs. Req Bach9s deg or foreign equiv deg in Comp Sci, Engg, Comp Info Sys or rel + 2 yrs rel wrk exp. 20% domestic travl req. Telecommtng permitted. To apply, please email resume to: [email protected] & ref: VA0023. Senior Developer / Systems Engineer: Multiple full-time positions available with Swift in Manassas, VA. Design, develop, code, test, & maintain high quality application software, tools, programs/systems, using tools like C/C++ or Java, Perl, Oracle, SQL, UNIX or HP-UX, & Visual Studio.Work might also be performed in Culpeper,VA. May WFH per company policy, presently 2 days/wk. Min reqd: Bachelor's or foreign equiv in comp sci, computer engg, info sys, or closely related, plus 5 years progressive experience in software dev, systems engineering, or computer programming / analysis. Submit resume through www.swift.com/about-us/ careers, job # 2023-12371. Senior Professional Product Developer Computer Sciences Corporation hiring for Senior Professional Product Developer in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #6242677). Prfrms cmplx dsgn, implmnttn, & mntnnc of mlti prdct mdles/sub-systms to ensr tht bsnss needs are met. Asssts in otlning new prdct/srvc bsnss case jstfctn to ensr tht prpsd sltn is cpbl of dlvring artcltd bsnss bnfts to clnts. Prtcpts in prdct dsgn metings w/ mngmnt, othr dvlprs & crss-fnctnl tchncl teams to ensr tht prdct dvlpmnt adhrs to clnt spcfctns & is cnsstnt acrss various unts. Pstn rqrs a Bchlr's dgre or a foreign eqvlnt in Sftwr Engnrng, Infrmtn Systms, Cmptr Scnc, or rltd fld, & 5 yrs of wrk exprnc in job offrd, or rltd occptn. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Offer: $165,173. Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program. DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off; and much more. Email resume to [email protected] resume must include Ref. #6242677, full name, email, address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE Tech Jobs Senior Software Engineer Gartner, Inc., Arlington, VA. Utlzng stndrd procdrs & technqs, prfrm coding & configurtns to meet documntd needs. Req. Master9s deg or foreign equiv deg in Elctrcl Engg, Comp Sci, Info Sys, or rel &3yrs rel wrk exp. Telecmmtng prmttd. To apply, please email resume to: Josh Dubinsky, Josh.Dubinsky@ gartner.com and reference job code: 80057. SmartEdge IT, LLC is seeking 3 FT (40 HW) Java Developer9s at 464 Herndon Pkwy, Suite # 216, Herndon, VA 20170 at a competitive salary. Java Developer: Design & develop, analyze general computer applications software using Core Java and J2EE technologies such as HTML5, JSP, Servlets, jQuery, Spring MVC, JDBC. Travel within the USA required. Requirements: Masters in Comp Sci or Info Tech or Comp Applications + 2 Yrs of Exp as Comp Software Professional. We offer comprehensive benefits. To apply send your resume to the above address. S/W Developers. Mult openings. Dev platforms & work w/ Angular, TypeScript, Bootstrap, SASS, NodeJS, ExpressJS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, NGRX, RxJS, Jasmine, Karma, ALM, GitHub, etc. 40 hrs/wk, must have MS or equiv in Comp Sci, Electr Eng, or related fld & 1 yr exp (will accept BS+5 yrs exp in lieu of MS). Must be willing to travel/relocate to unanticipated lctns in US on short notice for extnd time. Email or Mail resume w/ ID#624 to [email protected] or HR, Teksky LLC, 22636 Glenn Drive, Suite 203, Sterling, VA 20164. Turning Point Global Solutions LLC has multiple permanent F/T openings for SW Engr Position. Req. Mstr9s or forgn equv in Info Sys/CIS/Comp Engg.+1yr exp OR Bach+ 5 yrs. post-bach progressive exp as SW Developer. Job Loc9n: Rockville, MD & various unanticipated loc9ns in the US. Reloc9n possible. Mail Resumes: Talent Acquisition Lead, 2273 Research Blvd., Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20850 OR Email: [email protected] Software Developer, Sr. Complete system lifecycle. MS in CS/IT + 3yrs. work exp. or BS in CS/IT with 5 yrs work exp. CV to np@ pcsenterprisesinc.com; PCS Enterprises, Inc. (Bowie, MD) Software Developer SKY Technologies, LLC., is seeking 3 Fulltime Software Developer positions (40 hrs/w) at 950 N Washington St, Suite 243, Alexandria, VA 22314 for competitive salary. Software Developer: Design, Develop, Analyze and Test general computer applications software using below tools and languages like, C, C++, Python, JDBC, SQL and PL/SQL, Java/REST, JavaScript, JAX-RS, Eclipse, Eclipse STS, DAO/SQL, Apache Maven, Jenkins, JQuery, AJAX, AngularJS, Bootstrap, IntelliJ, Spring Tool Suite (STS), RAD. Search engines such as (Solr or Elastic). Travel within the USA required. Requirements: Masters in Comp Sci or Information Technology or Engg (Any) We offer comprehensive benefits. Travel within the USA is required for all positions. Send your resume to the above address. Software Engineer 2 Asurion, LLC seeks a Software Engineer 2 in Sterling, VA. Design & develop solutions for databases. Telecommuting is permitted. Apply @ www.jobpostingtoday.com Ref #65767. Find more jobs. Tech Jobs Solution Sales Manager Sell Mobile Security solutions based on customer problems. Develop, present, and respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions. Min. Req: Bachelor's in Computer Systems Eng or rel (or for equiv) and 3 years of IT or Service Sales experience. Position requires 20% domestic travel. Work location: Dulles, VA w/ ability to work remote from anywhere within the contiguous United States. Salary: $125,694/yr. Qualified applicants send resume to:Jocelyn Abbott, HR Specialist, Benefits & Immigration, G+D Mobile Security America Inc., 45925 Horseshoe Dr., Dulles, VA 20166 w/ ref to SSM. No calls please. Fundrise seeks Sr. Cloud Engnr in Washington, DC. Rspnsble for brngng Fundrise's infrastrctre undr srce cntrl to modrnze it, by applyng various soltns incldng implmntng infrastrctre as code. Telcommtng from anywhre in U.S. accptd. Snd rsme to [email protected] ref#NDD Sr. Cust'mr Support Engr Onfido in Arlington, VA seeks a Sr. Cust'mr Support Engr to provide tech support & trblshoot issues raised by software engrs and cust'mrs re specialized applicatns. Reqs BS +5yrs exp / MS + 2 yrs exp. To Apply: email resumes to nathan.benavides@ onfido.com; reference job title: Senior Customer Support Engineer. Sr. Sol'ns Engr Onfido in Arlington, VA seeks Sr. Sol'ns Engr to develop Cust'mr solut'ns for ID-verification software & rel'd applctns. 100% remote, occasional travel. Reqs MS + 1 yr exp/ /BS + 3 yrs exp. To Apply: email resumes to nathan.benavides@ onfido.com; reference job title: Senior Solutions Engineer. Sr. Systems Analyst Analyze and evaluate clients existing software system and integrate object server systems. May need to work in other locations as required. Bachelor9s degree w/ 5 yrs. exp. Mail resume to HR- Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc., 20130 Lakeview Center Plaza, Suite 400,Ashburn,VA 20147 Sr. Technical Consultant Salesforce, Inc. seeks Sr. Technical Consultant in McLean, VA. Related technical degree required: Implement APIs as per design specifications. Build, orchestrate & deploy complex integration patterns between systm, process & experience layers. Full-time telecommuting permitted. Some travel to client sites & Acumen offices may be required. Req9s: MS(or equiv.) + 2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.) + 5 yrs. exp. Salary: $157,061 - $168,700 per annum. Submit resume to/include Job# 21-2857/JR226621 via Salesforce Career's webpage: rb.gy/ avqrw or by email at: onlinejobpostings@ salesforce.com Salesforce is an Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action Employer. Education, experience & criminal background checks will be conducted. TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS Two openings available in Reston, VA. 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S0435_1x4 wapo.st/ my-post Other Counties 887 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES SALE OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 304 BOWMAN MILL ROAD STRASBURG, VA 22657 In accordance with the terms of that certain Multifamily Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing, dated as of February 5, 2016, recorded February 8, 2016, as Instrument No. 16000591, in Book 1704, Page 0096, in the land records of the Circuit Court of Shenandoah County, Virginia (the <Land Records=) and re-recorded July 8, 2016, as Instrument No. 160003547, in Book 1719, Page 0310, in the Land Records, executed by GREENFIELD REFLECTIONS OF STRASBURG, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company (the <Borrower=), in favor of LAWYERS TITLE REALTY SERVICES, INC., a Virginia corporation, the prior trustee for indexing purposes, for the beneût of CAPITAL ONE MULTIFAMILY FINANCE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (<Original Beneûciary=), in trust, to secure a certain Multifamily Note, dated February 5, 2016, in the original principal amount of Three Million Nine Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($3,900,000.00), payable to Original Beneûciary; as assigned by that certain (i) Original Beneûciary to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States (<Freddie Mac=), pursuant to that certain Assignment of Security Instrument, executed as of February 1, 2016, to be effective as of February 5, 2016, recorded February 8, 2016, as Instrument No. 160000593, in Book 1704, Page 0129, in the Land Records; (ii) Freddie Mac to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee for the registered holders of Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc., Multifamily Mortgage Pass-Through Certiûcates, Series 2016-KS06 (the <Trust=), pursuant to that certain Assignment of Multifamily Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing, dated October 21, 2016, recorded October 31, 2016, as Instrument No. 160005819, in Book 1733, Page 0981, in the Land Records; and (iii) the Trust to 304 Bowman Mill Road Holdings, LLC pursuant to that certain Assignment of Multifamily Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing, dated as of November 7, 2023, recorded November 30 2023, as Instrument No. 202305770, in the Land Records; as affected by that certain Cross-Collaterization Agreement - Master, dated as of February 5, 2016, made by Original Beneûciary and the parties identiûed as Borrowers on Exhibit A attached thereto, as evidenced of record by that certain Cross-Collaterization Agreement Memorandum - Master, dated as of February 5, 2016, recorded February 8, 2016, as Instrument No. 160000592, in Book 1704, Page 0125, in the Land Records, currently in favor of constantinos g. panagopoulos, esq. and ANDREW I. ALMAND, ESQ., as trustees, pursuant to that certain Deed of Removal and Appointment of Substitute Trustees, dated November 30, 2023, recorded December 1, 2023, as Instrument No. 202305791, in the Land Records, either of whom may act (together with their successors and assigns <Trustees=), for the beneût of 304 BOWMAN MILL ROAD HOLDINGS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, (together with its successors and assigns, the <Beneûciary=) (as so amended, affected and/or assigned, and as otherwise amended, affected and/or assigned, the <Deed of Trust=), the Trustees, any one of whom may act (or any Substitute Trustees appointed by Beneûciary), will offer for sale at public auction, at the main public entrance to the Circuit Court for Shenandoah County, Virginia, located at 112 S. Main St., Woodstock, Virginia 22664, on JANUARY 5, 2024, at 10:00 AM, all of the Borrower9s right, title and interest in and to certain real property together with all improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto as more fully described in the Deed of Trust, including, without limitation, that certain real property together with all improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto known as Tax Map ID No. 025-A-164B, and located at 304 Bowman Mill Road, Strasburg, Virginia 22657 (the <Property=), and any and all Personalty as deûned in that certain Multifamily Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing, dated as of February 5, 2016, recorded February 8, 2016, as Instrument No. 16000591, in Book 1704, Page 0096, in the Land Records. TERMS OF SALE: Cash or certiûed funds. With respect to the bidding of the Property, a bidder9s deposit of $25,000 will be required in cash or certiûed funds made payable to Ballard Spahr LLP (which, as to Beneûciary or its assignee, nominee or afûliate, may be in the form of a credit against the unpaid indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust). Settlement is to occur within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, otherwise Trustee(s) may cause the bidder9s deposit to be forfeited. If the bidder9s deposit is not forfeited, interest shall accrue on the balance of the purchase price from January 5, 2024, at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum. In the event of default by the successful bidder, the deposit (plus any accrued interest) shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and expenses of the sale and the Trustees9 fee, and the Property resold at the defaulting bidder9s risk and expense. The defaulting bidder shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or proûts resulting from any resale of the Property, and shall be liable for the payment of any deûciency in the purchase price resulting from the resale of the Property, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorneys9 fees, auctioneer9s fees and all other charges incurred by the Trustee(s). In the event settlement is delayed for any reason and the Property is purchased by someone other than the Beneûciary (or its assignee, nominee or afûliate), there shall be no abatement of interest caused by the delay. The sale is subject to post-sale conûrmation that the Borrower did not ûle for protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale. In such event, the sale shall be null and void, and the successful bidder9s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of its deposit without interest. All costs of conveyance, including examination of title, auctioneer9s fees, if any, shall be borne by the purchaser including any grantor9s tax and/ or recordation taxes or charges incurred as a result of such sale. Purchaser assumes liability for payment of all taxes, ground rent, water rent, insurance premiums, and all public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, from the date of sale. All risk of loss shall be on the successful bidder at the time as such bid is accepted and the Memorandum of Sale evidencing such sale is executed by purchaser and Trustee(s). Neither the Trustee(s), nor any other party, guarantees or covenants to deliver or obtain possession of the Property for any purchaser. The Trustee(s) reserves the right to reject all bids, extend the time to receive bids, withdraw the Property from sale, waive or modify the deposit requirement, and/or extend the period of time for settlement. Should the Trustee(s) be unable, for any reason, in its sole discretion, to convey marketable title, the successful bidder9s sole remedy in law or equity shall be the return of its deposit. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect. Any additional terms will be announced at sale. PROPERTY REPRESENTATIONS; MATTERS OF RECORD: Property will be sold in an <AS IS= CONDITION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND SUBJECT TO conditions, restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, liens and encumbrances of record affecting the Property or any other matter which would be disclosed by an accurate survey or inspection. TRUSTEE9S CONDUCT OF SALE: Trustee(s) may require a show of bidders9 deposits before actual bidding begins. Bidders may be required to sign up in advance, giving name, address, phone number, and if they are bidding for any person and/or company, the name of such person or company. Trustee(s) shall be present to conduct and supervise the sale. Trustee(s) shall then conclude the sale of the Property by knocking down the Property to the bidder with the highest bid for the Property. Upon the conclusion of the sale and the knocking down of the Property, Trustee(s) shall execute a Memorandum of Sale with the purchaser, incorporating all terms and conditions of the sale. Constantinos G. Panagopoulos, Esq. Andrew I. Almand, Esq. Substitute Trustees INFORMATION: For more information, please contact Constantinos G. Panagopoulos, Esq. at (202) 661-2202 or via email at [email protected]. Please direct written inquiries to Constantinos G. Panagopoulos, Esq., c/o Ballard Spahr LLP, 1909 K Street, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20006. Dec 15,16,17,18,19 2023 0012445741 Other Counties 887 S0114 4X5 Washington Post newsletters deliver more of what you9re looking for. Discover and subscribe for free at washingtonpost.com/newsletters heal h & welln ss? 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