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Football: Palos Verdes stuns No. 11 Corona del Mar, 42-20
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Palos Verdes received four touchdowns from running back Robert Gilbertson on Friday afternoon to stun No. 11-ranked Newport Beach Corona del Mar, 42-20, in a season opener at Palos Verdes.
Corona del Mar had Cal commit Chase Garbers at quarterback and was coming off an impressive performance in summer seven on seven passing tournaments. But with pads now on and tackling allowed, a veteran Palos Verdes team showed that it’s going to be a Southern Section Division 3 title contender.
Standout defensive end Shane Irwin had two sacks in the first half for Palos Verdes. Garbers finished with two touchdown passes to Taeveon Le.
For the latest on high school sports, follow @LATSondheimer on Twitter
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Files containing personal information on more than 700 patients treated at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center were stolen when an employee's car was broken into, county health officials said Monday.
The break-in occurred in July. The county Department of Health Services released a statement after trying to notify the affected patients by mail.
The files stolen from the car contained appointment lists for people who were treated at the County-USC neurosurgery clinic between May 10 and July 26, according to the statement.
The documents did not contain Social Security numbers or financial information, but did include patients’ full names, birth dates, telephone numbers and details about their scheduled appointments, including diagnosis information in some cases.
Health services spokesman Michael Wilson said there was no indication that the thief was after the files specifically.
It was not clear why the files had been left in the employee’s car. Wilson said department policies “direct employees to protect and/or secure patient and confidential information.”
Wilson added that the policies “are not specific about patient information in vehicles because we can’t anticipate every situation in which an employee may need to store and transport information. We rely on policies and for employees to use good judgment.”
County-USC Chief Executive Dan Castillo said in a statement, “We are committed to protecting patient privacy and will take every necessary step to prevent a similar occurrence from happening again.”
The department sent letters to the affected patients Aug. 25 and 26 but could not find a current mailing address for some of them.
Health services also notified the California Department of Public Health and will notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to the statement.
Patients can call County-USC’s call center at (844) 345-4600 for more information.
abby.sewell@latimes.com
Twitter: @sewella
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Lyft and Uber launch programs to cater to seniors
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Uber and Lyft spent the last four years cornering the millennial market. Now they’re going after a new demographic: senior citizens.
Both ride-hailing companies recently announced partnerships with service providers that allow older customers to book rides through a phone operator, bypassing smartphone apps entirely.
The partnerships come as both companies continue to compete neck and neck for drivers and passengers, with both companies announcing similar features (retirement benefits, health insurance and gas discounts, and same-day pay features for drivers, as well as carpooling, fare-splitting and scheduled rides) within months, weeks or even days of each other.
Lyft announced a partnership with the San Diego firm GreatCall on Tuesday. Uber announced a similar partnership with the Los Angeles firm 24Hr HomeCare last week.
Neither service requires customers to have accounts with Uber or Lyft or to own smartphones. Lyft’s operator service is only available to GreatCall members, and Uber’s operator service through 24Hr Home Care, named RideWith24, is available to the public via a toll-free number.
“As we looked at the challenges older consumers have with staying in their home longer, one of the main issues is transportation,” said David Inns, chief executive of GreatCall, which boasts more than 900,000 customers nationwide. “With a lot of people in the seniors age group, they’re not at the stage where downloading an app and using it effectively is a great option."
With GreatCall, customers press zero on their GreatCall Jitterbug phones and speak with an operator, who books the ride on their behalf. The operator has access to Lyft’s Concierge platform, which lets them contact the assigned driver to let them know they are picking up an elderly passenger who may require assistance. Billing for the ride then appears on their GreatCall statement.
To book a ride with Uber, customers call RideWith24 to speak with an operator, who takes the customer’s credit card details on file and books a ride for them.
Both services are currently available in California, Florida, Arizona and in Dallas, Texas.
The partnerships are similar to a service offered by GogoGrandparent, a start-up founded by San Diego native Justin Boogaard, which lets seniors call an operator to book rides with Uber, and use other on-demand services such as Instacart (grocery delivery), Munchery (dinner delivery) and Postmates (shopping).
Boogaard’s service is still in beta, but is available nationwide. The start-up was accepted by tech incubator Y Combinator in July.
tracey.lien@latimes.com
Twitter: @traceylien
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Broncos take lead, 7-6 in second quarter
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Things are starting to open up offensively for the Broncos.
After four straight completions by Trevor Siemian 29 yards following a false start to open their drive, the Rams gifted the Broncos with another first down on a pass interference call.
Cornerback Lamarcus Joyner was flagged while breaking up a pass intended for Emmanuel Sanders. Last week, Joyner got thrown out of the game against the Chiefs for fighting with receiver Jeremy Maclin.
Denver capitalized on the mistake, running C.J. Anderson three straight times up the left (12 yards), the right (18 yards) and again right (5 yards) before Siemian hit a wide open tight end Virgil Green for a touchdown.
Broncos lead, 7-6.
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Possible 'neighbor dispute' led to deadly triple-shooting in Lake View Terrace, police say
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An ongoing dispute between neighbors apparently sparked a drive-by shooting in Lake View Terrace on Sunday night that left two men dead, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Gunfire was reported about 9:30 p.m. in the 11000 block of Jouett Street, said Officer Tony Im.
Witnesses reported seeing a car drive past as someone inside the vehicle opened fire, hitting three men standing in the frontyard of a home, said Sgt. Jaime Chacon.
The men who were killed were identified as Moises Sarias, 68, of Lake View Terrace, and Edgar Leonel Canaan, 47, of North Hollywood. The third man, who authorities said is expected to survive, was not identified by police.
Though no arrests have been made, Im said detectives believe the case “is related to an ongoing neighbor dispute.”
The dead are the second and third homicides in Lake View Terrace in the last 12 months, according to the Homicide Report.
Joseph.serna@latimes.com
For breaking California news, follow @JosephSerna on Twitter.
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After Ohio passed abortion law, risk of complications nearly tripled
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Women seeking medical abortions in Ohio experienced a higher rate of complications after the state implemented a law that put new restrictions on doctors who performed the procedure, according to a study published Tuesday.
The law, which took effect in 2011, requires abortion providers to adhere to specific guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration when giving patients a combination of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol. The drugs have been shown to terminate early pregnancies safely and effectively.
The FDA protocol was set in 2000, with specific dosages of mifepristone and misoprostol. Within a few years, however, doctors realized that using a lower dose of mifepristone and a higher dose of misoprostol produced better outcomes for their patients.
The World Health Organization, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the National Abortion Federation found shortcomings with the FDA’s protocol soon after it was issued, and began recommending changes as early as 2003. Healthcare providers throughout the U.S. followed their lead and prescribed the drugs according to the latest medical research rather than the dosages on the drug’s label.
The practice of prescribing drugs for use “off label” is both legal and commonplace. By one estimate, 21% of all U.S. prescriptions are intended for off-label use.
Caption How scientists use satellite data to track poverty in Africa This video explains how satellite imagery and machine learning can be combined to map poverty around the world. This video explains how satellite imagery and machine learning can be combined to map poverty around the world. Caption Watch a time-lapse video of the Perseid meteor shower from Joshua Tree The Perseid meteor shower, which gets its name because it appears to come from the direction of the constellation Perseus, is known for the high number of spectacular meteors on display. The Perseid meteor shower, which gets its name because it appears to come from the direction of the constellation Perseus, is known for the high number of spectacular meteors on display.
Before Ohio’s law went into effect, doctors in the state were able to decide what doses of the drugs were most effective based on the latest research and best practices. Afterward, doctors lost that flexibility and were forced to follow the FDA’s outdated protocol.
To see what effect that had on patients, researchers examined the medical records of 2,783 women who had medication abortions at one of four clinics in Ohio between 2010 and 2014.
The researchers found that women were nearly three times more likely to require additional intervention after the law was implemented than they were before.
Before 2011, doctors had to provide some kind of additional care in 4.9% of cases. Usually, this meant administering an additional dose of misoprostol or using suction to remove the fetus from the uterus. After the law was enforced, measures like these were required in 14.3% of cases, according to the study.
In addition, the incidence of side effects nearly doubled after the law took effect. When doctors were able to use their own judgment, 8.4% of women experienced problems like nausea or vomiting. After doctors were required to stick to the FDA’s regimen, 15.6% of women had such problems.
The average price patients paid for medication abortions went up as well, from $426 in 2010 to $551 in 2014, the researchers found. In part, that’s because the minimum number of required doctor visits rose from three to four.
“There is no evidence that the change in law led to improved abortion outcomes,” the study authors wrote in PLOS Medicine. “Indeed, our findings suggest the opposite.”
The FDA updated its guidelines in March, approving new labeling for Mifeprex (the brand name for mifepristone) that is more in line with current practice and makes the drug easier for women to use.
The new label extends the amount of time a pregnant woman can take the drug from seven weeks after her last menstrual period to 10 weeks. It also reduces the recommended dose from 600 milligrams to 200 milligrams, which reduces side effects and makes it less expensive.
Finally, the new labeling says women can take misoprostol (sold as Cytotec, among other brand names) at home rather than in the presence of a physician.
The FDA’s action means that women in Ohio seeking medication abortions can now receive care in line with the most up-to-date research. But that could change if the agency doesn’t keep up with evolving medical practices.
“This law will continue to require physicians to provide care that may fall below the accepted standard of care, placing them in an ethical dilemma,” they wrote.
North Dakota, Texas and Arizona have abortion laws similar to Ohio’s. State legislatures in Arkansas and Oklahoma passed similar laws, but those were blocked by a court order.
The study was led by Ushma Upadhyay, an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UC San Francisco.
deborah.netburn@latimes.com
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Rams vs. Broncos: What you need to know
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The Rams play the Denver Broncos in their third exhibition Saturday night at Invesco Field. Here’s what you need to know before the 6 p.m. kickoff:
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Donald Trump still has a path to victory, but it's a tough one, USC/L.A. Times poll shows
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Although he trails in nearly all national surveys and polls of most battleground states, Donald Trump still has a potential route to victory, albeit a difficult one that would require him to coax many people who sat out the last election to vote this time around, the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Daybreak tracking poll finds.
The existence of a bloc of disaffected voters large enough to potentially swing the election Trump’s way is the main finding from an analysis of the first eight weeks of the daily tracking poll.
Whether Trump can convert a significant number of those potential supporters into voters over the final two months of the presidential campaign could determine whether the election ends up as a close contest or a runaway for Hillary Clinton.
That group of potential voters also helps explain why the Daybreak poll’s results have consistently been more favorable to Trump than other major surveys.
The key group driving that result are people who sat out the 2012 election but say they plan to vote this year. Trump, who’s due to give a major speech on immigration Wednesday, leads among them in the poll. He trails Clinton among those who voted four years ago or were too young to do so.
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The design of the Daybreak poll means it reflects, more strongly than some other surveys, the views of those who didn’t vote before but say they will this year. As a result, the poll presents something of a best-case scenario for Trump — one in which he succeeds in getting large numbers of previous nonvoters to cast ballots for him.
Even that best case is a problematic one for the Republican nominee since he seldom does better than a tie in the poll’s results. For the last two weeks, even as most polls have shown Clinton with a significant edge over Trump, the Daybreak poll has shown the two candidates roughly even, trading narrow leads back and forth. The poll also shows that a large percentage of voters remain uncertain about their choice.
As of Tuesday morning, the poll showed Trump ahead 45%-42%, well within the margin of error.
Trump’s situation is even more challenging because of the difficulty of turning nonvoters into voters, a task for which Trump’s campaign may be especially ill-suited.
Trump has not spent money on the sort of sophisticated, but labor-intensive and expensive, turnout efforts that delivered victories to President George W. Bush in 2004 and President Obama in 2008 and 2012. In one battleground state after another, reporters have found his campaign lacking even rudimentary get-out-the-vote operations.
Some of Trump’s campaign rhetoric also may work against him. Early in August, for example, the Daybreak poll found a notable decline in Trump supporters’ estimate of how likely they were to vote. The drop came shortly after Trump began making widely publicized claims that the election was rigged against him.
The timing could be coincidental, but might also indicate that the rhetoric about rigged elections was counterproductive by making some of Trump’s supporters see voting as futile.
In contrast with the Daybreak poll, other surveys have shown the race tightening recently, but not enough to erase Clinton’s lead. Averages of recent public polls have Clinton ahead by six or seven percentage points.
Caption The ultimate side-by-side convention comparison of Clinton and Trump on the issues An examination of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's convention acceptance speeches and how they line up on several key issues. Full coverage at latimes.com/conventions. An examination of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's convention acceptance speeches and how they line up on several key issues. Full coverage at latimes.com/conventions. Caption Protest outside Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser Protest outside Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser at the Beverly Hills estate of controversial billionaire Haim Saban. Protest outside Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser at the Beverly Hills estate of controversial billionaire Haim Saban.
Clinton also holds significant leads in polls of key states that have been closely divided in recent elections. Those include Virginia and Colorado, where the Democrats have stopped buying additional television advertising time because they no longer feel it necessary, and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, must-win states for Trump where the most recent surveys show him losing by big margins.
The Daybreak poll’s divergence from that trend has attracted attention from all sides, with Republicans citing it as a hopeful indicator and Democrats as a warning against complacency.
The poll has a very different methodology than most other surveys. Some elements of the methodology have drawn criticism from some analysts; others have defended it.
Analysis of the polling data makes clear where most of the difference between the Daybreak poll and other surveys comes from. The poll respondents who did not vote in 2012 are disproportionately whites who did not graduate from college — Trump’s strongest supporters. Almost six in 10 of the 2012 nonvoters fall into that group. By contrast, non-college-educated whites make up about four in 10 of the poll respondents who did vote four years ago.
Given those demographics, it’s no surprise that Trump does significantly better with the 2012 nonvoters than with people who cast a ballot last time around. And because the Daybreak poll includes more of those previous nonvoters than some other surveys, Trump performs better in its forecast.
As of Tuesday, Trump led by seven points among those who could have voted in 2012 but didn’t. Clinton led by two points among those who voted four years ago or were too young to vote then, the Daybreak poll found. Among whites without a college degree who did not vote in 2012, Trump led Clinton by more than 2-1, the poll found.
The Daybreak poll may represent the views of those potential voters more heavily than most surveys do because of the way it’s structured.
All polls adjust their data to ensure that their samples match known demographics — the correct share of men versus women, young versus old, white versus nonwhite — a process known as weighting.
The Daybreak poll goes a step further and weights the sample to match how people voted in 2012. Because of that weighting, about 40% of the poll respondents are people who were old enough to vote four years ago, but did not.
That share accurately reflects the U.S. population, although it could overstate the impact those people will have on this year’s election.
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Frida Kahlo meets John Coltrane in electric dance homage
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Frida Kahlo and John Coltrane are an unlikely pair, but at the Ford amphitheater in Hollywood, they proved an exhilarating match.
The Los Angeles-based Latin dance theater troupe Contra-Tiempo opened the Ford show Saturday night with a new homage to Mexican painter Kahlo choreographed by Marjani Forté-Saunders, an alum of the Brooklyn-based dance company Urban Bush Women. That troupe then presented the West Coast premiere of “Walking With ’Trane,” an ode to the late jazz musician known for what critic Ira Gitler called “sheets of sound.”
In “She Who: Frida, Mami & Me,” Forté-Saunders and Contra-Tiempo masterfully captured the fraught and complex spirit of Kahlo. Each dancer passionately embodied a slice of Kahlo’s multidimensional personality: a languid lover fanning herself with a voluptuous skirt, a tortured soul grabbing her back to make sure her spine is still intact, a fiery diva baring her teeth — reaching out with fingers flared as if to summon more inspiration from her canvas.
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The dancers moved through the artist’s life with elegance, reverence and an eye to the events that shaped her. Diana Toledo and Christopher Cuenza lingered lovingly in each other's arms, as if channeling Kahlo and her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Yet even as they sank into each other's folds, they were surrounded by a sea of people, suggesting the many lovers who would circle their relationship.
Gorgeously designed skirts by David Reynoso turned up over the dancers’ heads and transformed into bridal hoodies for an imaginary trip down the aisle. A pile of pineapples ceremoniously laid at the edge of the stage read as a reference to Kahlo’s unborn children, lost to abortion or miscarriage.
Like Kahlo’s paintings, “She Who” conveyed vulnerability and power. It was a mighty and moving tribute to the artist who poured her heart out with paint.
Caption Juan Gabriel fans at mortuary As news of Juan Gabriel’s death spread, fans gathered Monday at the Malinow and Silverman Mortuary in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the singer. As news of Juan Gabriel’s death spread, fans gathered Monday at the Malinow and Silverman Mortuary in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the singer. Caption The Comedy Comedy Festival in Little Tokyo The comedy festival running Thursday through Sunday in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood is an Asian American comedy fest with a bill of more than 100 comics of Asian descent. You probably wouldn't know that from the name of the event: the Comedy Comedy Festival. The comedy festival running Thursday through Sunday in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood is an Asian American comedy fest with a bill of more than 100 comics of Asian descent. You probably wouldn't know that from the name of the event: the Comedy Comedy Festival.
Similarly, the essence of Coltrane’s music seemingly oozed out of dancers’ pores in Urban Bush Women’s two-part piece, “Walking With ’Trane.”
Not all aspects of the dance inspired, however. “Side A: Just a Closer Walk With ’Trane” chugged along in fits and starts, losing momentum in deep valleys of silence, occupied only by a soloist here or there tapping barefoot wildly. Fortunately these deft dancers could hold the spotlight, but the extended riffs made me tap my own foot impatiently.
The performance also languished when each dancer limply jammed to his or her own internal beat. Like silent disco revelers stuck inside their headphones, they may have shared music and space, but they were disconnected. One scatted like a jazz singer, another embodied hip-hop, another the smooth and swiveling hip movements of a salsa.
“Walking With ‘Trane” found harmony once again in “Side B: Freed(om)” when these individual rhythms coalesced into a unified composition of springing, jumping, swooping bodies that exploded into beautifully organized chaos. To George Caldwell’s euphoric and dreamy piano composition — played live by the Grammy winner himself — “Freed(om)” surged with the unfettered joy of jazz.
When inspiration struck, it was electric.
Urban Bush Women dancer Chanon Judson performs the John Coltrane tribute at the Ford amphitheater. Gennia Cui Urban Bush Women dancer Chanon Judson performs the John Coltrane tribute at the Ford amphitheater. Urban Bush Women dancer Chanon Judson performs the John Coltrane tribute at the Ford amphitheater. (Gennia Cui)
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Novak Djokovic wins but can’t shake troubles
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Novak Djokovic double-faulted, shook his right arm and grimaced. Seconds later Monday night, a weak serve produced a wince, then was followed by a missed forehand that gave away a set in the defending champion’s first-round U.S. Open match.
While he managed to finish a 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 victory over Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, there were signs of trouble, starting with a visit from a trainer who massaged Djokovic's arm after only five games.
Asked about his health during an on-court interview, Djokovic deflected the question, saying, “I don't think it's necessary to talk about this now. I'm through. I'm taking it day by day.”
During the match, the winner of 12 Grand Slam titles hit first serves around 100 mph, 25 mph or so below his norm, and second serves in the low 80s. And he repeatedly flexed that right arm.
This was the No. 1-ranked Djokovic's first match at a major tournament since losing to Sam Querrey in the third round of Wimbledon, which ended the Serb's bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam after he won the Aus- tralian and French opens.
Heading into the U.S. Open, Djokovic spoke about a left wrist injury that flared up before the Rio Olympics, where he lost in the first round. But that didn’t appear to bother him Monday.
Earlier on Day One, another two-time Open champion, Rafael Nadal, won his first Grand Slam match in three months, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 against Denis Istomin; 20th-seeded John Isner's rallied from two sets down to edge 18-year-old U.S. countryman Frances Tiafoe; 26th-seeded Jack Sock pulled out a five-set victory over 18-year-old Taylor Fritz in another all-American matchup; and Rio women’s gold medalist Monica Puig of Puerto Rico fell to Zheng Saisai of China.
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Ben Lerner considers the hatred of poetry; Marie Ponsot celebrates its joys
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Although Ben Lerner’s latest book is titled “The Hatred of Poetry,” I am almost certain that poetry is less hated now than it has ever been. I don't think the readers who would be drawn to this book — poetry fans with their dukes up — actually need it at all. And an actual hater of poetry wouldn't get past the first page.
Lerner, 37, is one of my generation’s most brilliant literary minds, author of three books of poems and two novels, including “10:04.” In this slight book, Lerner makes a curious case for poetry, presupposing that it is an art that “assumes the dislike of its audience.” His goal, thankfully is to show how that “dislike” can ultimately “come to resemble love,” but he takes an oddly contrary path to that conclusion.
Lerner’s argument is founded upon his assertion that “the poet is a tragic figure. The poem is always a record of failure.” He means that poems strive toward the ideal, toward a better or worse or at least explainable world that they can never realize.
He begins with Marianne Moore’s three-line poem “Poetry,” which famously begins, “I, too, dislike it” and ends claiming, at its best, poetry makes “a place for the genuine.” He revels in Moore’s dislike, but already I take issue. I'd argue that that “place” the poem clears — a space in which poet and reader can inhabit the distance between the actual and the ideal — is poetry; the thrilling feeling of straddling that chasm, of describing the wished-for world in the language of the banal everyday, is what readers come to poetry for, and, more important, I'd wager most poetry readers know that going in. Lerner says “poetry and the hatred of poetry are for me — and maybe for you — inextricable,” but I don't think they are.
Perhaps the problem is the sensationalizing word “hatred.” A more accurate and believable word for what I think Lerner is getting at, and what I do believe this book demonstrates, is “ambivalence,” meaning opposing and passionate emotions experienced simultaneously. That word describes a very natural response to poetry — the sense that one is held at bay and invited in by a poem’s ostensible mysteries.
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Lerner takes us on a tour of various historical and contemporary cases for and against poetry — from a probable misreading of Plato through a wonderful glossing of the mystic, poet and critic Allan Grossman; to Whitman, Keats and Dickinson; self-identified members of the poetic avant-garde; contemporary critics proclaiming poetry is dead; and Claudia Rankine, among a few contemporary poets demonstrating it’s not. There are absolutely delicious moments, such as his takedown of William Topaz McGonagall, “whose ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster,’” Lerner points out, “is considered one of the most thoroughly horrible poems ever composed.” Lerner is often very funny as a critic, and whether or not one agrees, this book is a pleasure to read.
Poetry is read by a larger number of people than ever before, if only because it is written by more people than ever before, due in large part to the proliferation of MFA programs training hundreds of new poets a year, who are also readers of poetry — the very readers who are the likely audience for this book.
“The Hatred of Poetry” may represent Lerner’s own uneasy coming to terms with his ambivalence around his art form, but it tells me very little about mine, and, I’d bet, that of most poetry lovers. As for the haters, I don't believe in them — no one hates poetry, though many people are indifferent to it, and this book won't change that.
On the other side of the love-for-poetry spectrum is Marie Ponsot, whose “Collected Poems” is a treasure trove. Ponsot, who is 95, published her first book in 1956, raised seven children as a single parent, published almost nothing for decades, then returned to the poetry scene in the 1980s.
Emily Dickinson, with her concision, trickiness and sense of mischief, is a visible source for Ponsot’s many short, lyric poems, as is Shakespeare: the title of “Admit Impediment,” Ponsot’s 1981 return to poetry, is drawn from the Bard’s Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments”). Ponsot was a contemporary of the Beats — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who published Ponsot’s first book early in the seminal City Lights Pocket Poets series, is her only living peer and a friend with whom she exchanged early poems — though she was never like them stylistically, highly ordered where they were improvisatory. Her work sits much more comfortably alongside other now-departed contemporaries: Ponsot’s longer poems resemble — formally, at least — the extended meditative sequences of Adrienne Rich and Muriel Rukeyser. But Ponsot always keeps her politics close to her chest. Ponsot is a personal, esoteric poet, like no one but herself.
“About My Birthday,” from “Admit Impediment,” is perhaps typical of Ponsot’s short lyrics. Here it is:
I’d like to assume,
from my April birthday,
I quickened the womb
on the 4th of July.
If you suffered as I
a sternly fought tendency
to endless dependency
you’d know why.
Ponsot favors long, looping sentences, clauses leaning gently on one another, which drop the reader midway into an elliptical train of thought. There’s a bit of a Dickinsonian riddle here, probing how the circumstances of one’s birth might bear on one’s adult personality. But the real fun of this poem isn’t in the subject matter but in how she manages and subverts the demands of form. The first stanza’s ABAB rhyme pattern lets us think we’re entering a slow-moving, measured little poem, but Ponsot inverts the pattern in the second stanza: note that the first and last lines rhyme, as do the middle two, quickening the speed of our reading and dramatizing that “dependency” by making the middle two lines feel sonically so close together. From the first poems in this book, it’s obvious we’re in the hands of a virtuoso who takes true and simple joy in playing with language.
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School board discusses changes to master plan, potential bond measure and discipline policy
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The La Cañada Unified School District Governing Board on Tuesday approved contracts with two consultants to assist the district in developing a new facilities master plan and to determine the feasibility of putting a general obligation bond before voters next year.
In the first meeting of the new school year, which began earlier that day, board members also reviewed potential changes to LCUSD's discipline policy, considering the addition of language about online bullying and sexual harassment, and examined the process by which students are suspended and expelled.
Supt. Wendy Sinnette emphasized the importance of creating a new facilities master plan to address and provide funding strategies for the district's infrastructure needs over the next 20 to 25 years.
"And, as we generate community enthusiasm, we ideally want to get those with a bond election measure in November 2017," she said.
To help coordinate the financial aspects of a new master plan and possible bond measure — including determining LCUSD's bond capacity — the board approved a contract with Irvine-based Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates (FRA).
To help research the plausibility of placing a general obligation bond measure before district voters next year, board members approved a contract with TBWB Strategies, a firm based in San Francisco.
Chief Business and Operations Officer Mark Evans said the district's last facilities master plan dates back to 1995, although it was reviewed and updated by board members in 2002 and 2009. Officials and administrators may have ideas about current infrastructure needs, but much more work remains to be done to get a full picture.
"The scope will really be determined by the planning process," Evans said after the meeting. "There are some items we will definitely need to address, such as infrastructure for technology and addressing any issues with updating/modernizing buildings."
The possible addition of square footage at some of the district's school sites will be another area of discussion, he added.
In a presentation to the board, FRA chief executive Adam Bauer highlighted his firm's role as a municipal adviser, assisting in forming and executing the financing plans for the bond, organizing the debt transition, negotiating on behalf of the district, analyzing and making recommendations about alternative financing techniques and negotiating bond parameters on behalf of the school district, among other responsibilities.
Bauer said FRA will serve as a primary spokesperson with the rating agencies. The firm has worked in a similar capacity with school districts in San Diego, Pasadena, East Whittier, Riverside, San Bernardino, Anaheim City, Garden Grove and Palm Springs.
"When Mark and I interviewed several firms, we were both very impressed with Adam and felt it would be a very beneficial partnership," Sinnette told board members.
Evans said FRA will help the district hash out plans for funding those projects proposed by the new facilities master plan, including pursuing a bond next year. According to the contract, the firm is to be paid a flat fee upon issuance of a bond, depending on the type of issuance.
TBWB will be paid a monthly base consulting fee of $6,500 for an 18-month contract period. It will collaborate with the district's preferred pollster to design, conduct and analyze an opinion survey of district voters to assess the feasibility of a general obligation bond measure proposal in a 2017 election.
The survey will look at demographics and past election results to understand voter turnout trends, research other local tax proposals and make specific recommendations on how a district initiates its bond measure planning efforts.
"Bonds are focused more on capital improvements," Evans said. "The bond dollars are separate from the general fund, but sometimes improvements can have indirect cost savings. These are most typical when buildings are made more efficient and use less energy."
Tough talk on discipline
Also up for discussion were board policy amendments pertaining to discipline and due process surrounding suspensions and expulsions. Proposed updates include references to bullying via digital and social media, sexual harassment and the stipulation agreement between a student, parents and school site administrators when an offense worthy of expulsion has occurred, among other items.
Board member Ellen Multari commented on a highlighted section pertaining to firearms on campus.
"I can see we'll have to revisit this every year since there's so many moving targets, with social media and mobile devices," she said.
Parent Belinda Randolph said she did not agree with proposals recommending recess restrictions as part of discipline.
"I think the district has a history of unfair treatment of denied recess," she said. "Young children need recess to behave. You can't have a teacher discipline a child and not inform the parents, and then continue to withhold recess."
Off to a good start
Also Tuesday, the first day of the new 2016-17 school year, LCUSD board members praised the district's maintenance crews for their diligent work over the summer break to make sure all campuses were primed and ready for an influx of more than 4,000 students earlier that day.
They shared news of a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled to take place Thursday morning, recognizing the completion this summer of a new track and football field at La Cañada High School. Crews recently finished work on the new artificial turf and track, which Evans said was budgeted at $1.5 million.
With the field in place and all campuses cleaned, Supt. Wendy Sinnette warmly thanked staff members and assured those in attendance the first day back had gone off without a hitch.
"We are healthy at all five of our sites," she said. "(And) enrollment looks good."
Sanderson is a contributor to Times Community News.
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Moments before LAX panic, officers confront man dressed as Zorro
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A man dressed as Zorro and carrying a plastic sword was confronted at gunpoint by police at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday, just moments before a false report of an active shooter sent passengers stampeding from multiple terminals.
Airport police responded to Terminal 7 on Sunday at about 8:40 p.m., following reports of a man dressed in black with a sword and wearing a mask, according to a statement from Los Angeles World Airports.
Believing the man was armed with a sword, police approached him with weapons drawn “out of an abundance of caution,” according to the airport.
A video on Twitter shows at least six officers confronting the man, who was sitting on a bench just outside the terminal where arriving passengers are picked up. He was ordered to lay face-down on the sidewalk as officers approached him.
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The man was detained, questioned and released, the LAWA statement said. Airport police determined the sword was plastic.
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The costumed man could be heard on the video of the incident saying he was there to pick someone up. The man, who would not give news outlets his name, told CBS Los Angeles that the “next thing I know, LAPD is all over me.”
It is unclear if the Zorro detainment is related to reports that followed immediately after of an active shooter in Terminal 8.
According to LAWA, word of a possible shooter spread quickly through LAX terminals.
“Many passengers and employees evacuated onto the airfield and into teh Central Terminal Area roadways,” the statement read. “An investigation, that included review of closed-circuit television footage, revealed that no shots were fired. Airport Police continue to investigate what caused the incident.”
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USC suspends linebacker Osa Masina for season-opener against Alabama
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USC has suspended linebacker Osa Masina for the team’s season-opening game against Alabama on Saturday for a violation of team rules, Coach Clay Helton announced on the Trojans Live radio show.
Helton did not specify which rules Masina violated. Masina will not travel with the team.
Masina, a linebacker from Salt Lake City, took repetitions as the starter during spring practice and battled for the starting role with Michael Hutchings during training camp.
But Hutchings practiced more with the first team and won the job when USC released its depth chart.
When active, he will likely see time as a reserve. As a freshman last season, he had 25 tackles and a fumble return for a touchdown over 12 games. The two games he did not appear in he missed with a hamstring injury.
Masina is the second USC player to be suspended for the first game. Cornerback Isaiah Langley was also suspended after being arrested in May.
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France calls for halt to 'imbalanced' EU-U.S. trade deal talks
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The French government wants the European Union to end talks with the U.S. on forging a sweeping trade deal that it sees as too friendly to U.S. businesses.
French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that talks on a landmark trade deal between the U.S. and European Union are unbalanced and cannot be completed before President Obama leaves office.
"France prefers to look things in the face," Hollande said in a diplomatic speech. "These discussions cannot result in an agreement by the end of the year. The negotiations have bogged down, the positions have not been respected, the imbalance is obvious."
It's the latest blow to the proposed free-trade zone that would encompass half the world's economy. There's resistance on both continents, and the talks are complicated by Britain's planned exit from the 28-nation EU and upcoming presidential elections in the U.S. and France.
On Sunday, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that "in my opinion, the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it."
Hollande's trade chief, Matthias Fekl, accused the American side of offering just "crumbs." He said earlier Tuesday that France will ask the European Commission at a meeting in Slovakia next month to halt talks on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Fekl, France's secretary of state for foreign trade, said talks could resume if wider EU-U.S. trade relations improved.
"We need a clear, clean, definitive halt to negotiations to be able to resume on a good basis," Fekl said on RMC radio, without elaborating on what conditions would be necessary for new talks.
Not all agree that the talks have failed.
Chief EU negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero played down Gabriel's talk of failure. And in Washington, Matt McAlvanah, assistant U.S. trade representative for public affairs, insisted that the "negotiations are in fact making steady progress."
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Sparks struggle again, losing to Mercury, 70-66
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Diana Taurasi scored 26 points and made two free throws with 8 seconds left to ice the Phoenix Mercury's 70-66 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Sunday night.
The Mercury (12-14) had their largest lead at 64-55 on Brittney Griner's basket with 6:33 left and Los Angeles went scoreless after Kristi Toliver's 3-pointer cut it to 68-66 with 1:24 left. It was Toliver's 400th career 3-pointer.
Taurasi was 4 of 10 from 3-point range to help Phoenix improve to 4-1 in its last five games.
Candace Parker had 25 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists for Los Angeles (21-5), and Nneka Ogwumike added 15 points and nine rebounds for Los Angeles. The Sparks have lost four of five after opening 20-1. They dropped a half-game behind Minnesota for the WNBA lead.
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Joe’s Jeans founder sells his Hal Levitt-designed home for $6.1 million
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Fashion designer Joe Dahan, who launched the premium denim company Joe’s Jeans in 2001, has sold his compound in Hollywood Hills West for $6.1 million.
Tucked behind gates and a blanket of tropical landscaping, the cantilevered residence was designed by architect Hal Levitt and completed in 1969. Modernist details of note include such staples as walls of floor-to-ceiling glass, custom built-ins and white terrazzo floors.
Unbridled living spaces include a formal entry that opens to living, dining and family rooms. Five bedrooms and five bathrooms include a master suite with a fireplace and a brilliant tiled shower. Glass doors off nearly every room open to the grounds.
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Outside, there’s a raised wood deck that spans the length of a lap swimming pool. Multiple gardens, lawns and a bamboo grove fill the grounds. Elsewhere, a pair of glass-enclosed structures, holding a separate office and exercise room, complement the main house.
Dahan, the founder and creative director of the jeans company, bought the property more than a decade ago for $4.65 million. He has served as president and head designer of Joe’s Jeans since creating the brand.
Branden and Rayni Williams of Hilton & Hyland, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, were the listing agents. Alec Traub of Redfin represented the buyer.
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Park worker falls to her death in Yellowstone canyon
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An Ecuadorian woman has fallen to her death at Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park.
Twenty-one-year-old Estefania Liset Mosquera Alcivar was a park concession worker from Quito, Ecuador. She fell into the canyon at Grandview Point around 3:15 a.m. Friday.
Park officials say she fell while socializing with a small group of co-workers near a trail along the canyon rim. Her companions saw her fall and dialed 911.
Rescuers spotted her body in the canyon at first light. They determined the fall was not survivable.
Search and rescue crews used a helicopter to recover her body later in the morning.
Yellowstone officials say the death is under investigation.
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Rams fans attending training camp and two home exhibitions proudly donned replica jerseys and T-shirts of their favorite players.
Rookie Jared Goff’s No. 16 was omnipresent, Todd Gurley’s No. 30 stood out and Aaron Donald’s No. 99 also appeared popular.
The jerseys of Eric Dickerson, Jack Youngblood, Roman Gabriel and other former Rams also were part of the new-and-nostalgic apparel mosaic at UC Irvine and the Coliseum.
Few, if any, Case Keenum No. 17 jerseys were sighted.
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One thing is certain in the Clinton Foundation scandal: Hillary didn't avoid the 'appearance' of conflict
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The first thing you need to know about the Clinton Foundation is that it’s not, contrary to what Donald Trump said last week, “the most corrupt enterprise in political history.” It’s not even close. Nor is it, as Trump also claimed, “Watergate all over again.” The Republican candidate has a gift for hyperbole; he doesn’t know much about history.
But, as with Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email controversy, the foundation stories are still troubling, because they reflect a stubborn unwillingness by the Democratic nominee to listen to her critics – feeding the widespread suspicion among voters that she’s not trustworthy.
The furor is tragic, too, because it has given a bad name to an otherwise successful philanthropic enterprise – one that has helped save millions of lives around the world.
Clinton may have been close to the mark when she said last week, “I know there’s a lot of smoke, and there’s no fire.”
Even before Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, it was clear that her family’s charitable enterprise, which depended heavily on donations from foreign governments and corporations, was a potential problem.
“Foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton Foundation as a means to gain favor with the secretary of state,” then-Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) warned at the time.
Lugar and other senators urged the foundation to ban all foreign donations, but the Clintons decided not to go that far. Instead, they agreed to clear new foreign donations with the State Department and to disclose all their donors. Their intention, Hillary Clinton said, was “to avoid even the appearance … of a conflict.”
In practice, though, several of the Clinton foundations didn’t comply fully with their own rules until their lapses became public last year. And it’s now clear they failed the “appearance” test too.
Emails uncovered thanks to a conservative group’s lawsuit show that Doug Band, who helped create the Clinton Global Initiative, sought access to State Department officials for Clinton Foundation donors.
In some cases, Band didn’t get what he was after. (Los Angeles entertainment executive Casey Wasserman wanted a U.S. visa for a British soccer player with a criminal record; no dice.) In at least one case, he did – but that was a meeting for the crown prince of Bahrain, a U.S. ally who would have gotten his appointment eventually without the extra help.
Still, the emails revealed an assumption on Band’s part – and some donors’, too – that contributions to the Clintons’ charitable work should move them to the head of the line.
It’s not a pretty picture when contributions give donors privileged access to members of Congress. It’s even less appetizing when money seems to promise special access to American diplomats.
Granted, there’s no evidence that any Clinton Foundation donors got tangible favors in exchange for their generosity. Clinton may have been close to the mark when she said last week, “I know there’s a lot of smoke, and there’s no fire.”
But that’s still a problem. A good synonym for “smoke” in this context is “appearance” – exactly what Clinton promised to avoid.
Meanwhile, the Clintons have taken some steps to allay concerns – while insisting nothing was wrong in the first place.
Bill Clinton has announced that if his wife is elected president, he will resign from the boards of the Clinton Foundation and its affiliate, the Clinton Health Access Initiative. The Clintons’ daughter Chelsea will remain on both boards.
The Clinton Foundation will stop accepting foreign donations and corporate donations; the health initiative, which depends heavily on foreign government funds, will not.
But those limited measures won’t solve the whole problem. Donors and fundraisers will still be tempted to see the foundations as a channel for currying favor with the new president if Clinton is elected.
Here’s one modest further step recommended by Norman L. Eisen, President Obama’s former ethics officer: Clinton should sign a strong ethics agreement barring herself and her closest aides from discussing foundation business with anyone, including her husband and daughter. And she should impose tough transparency rules to guarantee that if donors get access, it’s quickly made public.
There’s nothing preventing the Clinton campaign from announcing that kind of rule now – the sooner the better.
Until then, Clinton supporters, including reluctant Bernie Sanders voters, have been reminded again of all the things they didn’t love about Hillary Clinton.
Lucky for her she’s running against Donald Trump – who has been even less transparent about his own tax returns, business dealings and foreign interests than she has.
doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com
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French soccer club thinks Frank McCourt led Dodgers to 'tremendous economic success'
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Olympic de Marseille made some big news Monday regarding former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt.
Not so much that McCourt is in exclusive discussions to purchase the French Ligue 1 soccer club — billionaires have to do something with their money, don’t they?
The big news, at least to folks around here, is that McCourt led the Dodgers to “tremendous economic success.”
Here’s a line from Marlseille’s press release announcing its exclusive negotiations with McCourt:
“Mr. McCourt's leadership helped guide the team to competitive success which returned the team to its rightful place among baseball's elite organizations, along with tremendous economic success following years of financial challenges under its previous ownership.”
Hmm. So somewhere in the midst of driving the Dodgers into bankruptcy, needing loans in order to pay the players and being forced by Major League Baseball to sell the team, McCourt guided the team to economic success?
The statement goes on to detail the team’s success on the diamond during McCourt’s tenure as owner. The only mention of finances of any kind is this: “In 2012, Mr. McCourt sold the Dodgers for $2.15 billion, the highest price paid for any sports team in history.“
Of course, this is true. But that money, minus all the debts he owed, landed in McCourt’s pocket.
But he probably used the details of that financial windfall to sell himself to soccer club owner Margarita Louis-Dreyfus. Here’s a quote from McCourt after he purchased the Global Champions Tour, a series of horse-jumping competitions held mostly in Europe, two years ago:
“You know what happened with the Dodgers. We took a franchise losing almost $60 million per year and ended up selling it for the highest price ever paid for a sports franchise. We created value there and we plan to do the same thing here.”
Sounds great, if you skip a lot of sticky details in between.
Anyhow, Olympique de Marseille hopes to have the transaction with McCourt completed by the end of the year. Hopefully there will be tremendous economic success — this time for all involved.
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Huma Abedin is Hillary Clinton's closest aide, and now she might be a liability
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Before any of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s creepy sexting even came to light, his wife had attracted unwanted attention for her boss, Hillary Clinton.
Huma Abedin is a favorite target of Republicans. They accuse her of being a Saudi spy, a self-dealing insider, the mastermind behind a plot to hide Clinton’s email.
But the noise around Abedin was so often distorted by conspiracy theories that the public seemed to tune it out — until Weiner suddenly appeared back in the spotlight with the revelation of his most disturbing Twitter message yet: an illicit photo in which his son was a prop, sent privately to another woman. Abedin announced Monday that she and Weiner would separate.
Now, Clinton’s campaign finds itself unable to duck unwanted attention drawn to Abedin, a 40-year-old aide closer to Clinton than anyone else on her payroll.
Abedin, who has been referred to as Clinton’s “second daughter,” is the gatekeeper to the nominee. Even Bill Clinton sometimes can’t get to his wife without working through Abedin, who carries Hillary Clinton’s cellphone in her purse. Abedin’s imprimatur can be found all over Clinton’s world: on emails she sent to Clinton trying to explain how to use a fax machine, high-stakes diplomatic efforts in Libya (Abedin got hauled before the House committee on the Benghazi attacks for questioning) and the care and feeding of billionaire donors.
Yet Abedin almost never speaks publicly, meaning her work for Clinton is opaque to voters.
Operatives and pundits ascribe to her the motives that suit their own agendas. The media outlet that has most aggressively targeted her is the right-wing website Breitbart News, which first uncovered Weiner’s sexting. More recently, it has taken to suggesting Abedin is spying for Saudi Arabia and working to spread sharia law. Breitbart’s leader recently decamped from the outlet so he could run GOP nominee Donald Trump’s campaign.
The media attention erupting around Abedin right now, though, is not Breitbart’s making. It is the kind of spectacular staff drama the Clinton operation had been so good at avoiding during her presidential run over the last year and a half, the kind associated with previous campaigns of both Bill and Hillary Clinton.
By contrast, Clinton’s current team is disciplined, tight-lipped and uncharacteristically dull.
Trump wasted no time pouncing after Abedin said she was separating from Weiner. Her announcement followed a New York Post story detailing an unsettling private message Weiner sent on Twitter last year, in which he tried to impress a woman with an image of his and Abedin’s toddler son sleeping alongside him — and with the outlines of Weiner’s genitals clearly visible through his underwear in the photo.
“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information,” Trump said in a statement Monday. “Who knows what he learned and who he told? It's just another example of Hillary Clinton's bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”
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Abedin’s and Weiner’s relationship has been strained since his second round of publicly revealed sexting sunk his mayoral bid in 2013. They scarcely saw each other amid the rigors of the presidential campaign, during which Politico noted Abedin was frequently seen without her wedding ring. Abedin is almost always within steps of Clinton, and Clinton is almost always on the road.
But that close proximity to Clinton — paired with Abedin’s upbringing in Saudi Arabia — has fueled the many conspiracy theories.
“Why aren’t we talking about Huma and her ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?” said Rep. Sean Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican, during a CNN appearance last week. “Why aren’t we talking about the fact that she was an editor for a Sharia newspaper?” That same day, Roger Stone, a longtime Trump insider, accused Abedin of being a “Saudi asset.”
Fact checkers at the Washington Post looked into the charges and found them to be “bogus.” The allegations stem from Abedin’s upbringing in Saudi Arabia and a staid academic journal her mother publishes that Islamic scholars say is decidedly not radical.
The accusations that Abedin is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the political organization that briefly gained power in Egypt after the Arab Spring but is also classified as a terrorist group by some countries, has been uniformly panned as absurd by experts who track and study such groups.
But the Clinton campaign has been unable to easily swat away some of the other charges that swirl around Abedin. She operates in that controversial nexus of Clinton’s government work and the Clinton family foundation. At one point while Clinton was secretary of State, Abedin was being paid both by the government and a consulting firm founded by one of the top executives at the foundation. During that time, it was not always clear whose interests she was representing — the public’s, the foundation’s, or her own.
Congressional Republicans have been investigating the arrangement for years. More recently, Abedin’s name has surfaced in emails disclosed as part of Clinton’s private email server controversy. They show her working to help donors and other foundation friends get access to Clinton while she was secretary of State.
Some inside the Clinton orbit acknowledge that has created some anxiety, particularly for the high-level operatives who joined it only as this election cycle got underway. They have worked determinedly to keep the staff’s profile low. The flamboyant advisors who in the past had been known to possess the power to rattle the entire operation with a few whispers in the candidate’s ear are gone. Though that’s not Abedin’s style, she also doesn’t need to play by the same rules that everyone else on the team does.
That much was clear when Abedin, a fashion aficionado and a style icon in her own right, was profiled in Vogue — for the second time. The story for the magazine’s high-profile September issue, which Abedin agreed to be interviewed for, came at a time when others in the campaign already wanted less attention on her, not more.
Now Abedin herself is asking the media to back off.
“During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy,” she said in a statement Monday.
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Eddie Murphy makes a new bid for serious-movie stardom with 'Mr. Church'
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On a recent afternoon, Eddie Murphy sat and reflected on how much the world around him has changed in the past few years.
“It’s not just comedy – it’s a brand new world,” Murphy mused in the restaurant of a Beverly Hills hotel, dressed all in black, his manner far more serious and composed than his often outsized, extroverted comic persona might suggest.
“Remember back in the days when they said the Mayan calendar said it was going to be the end of the world?” he went on, warming to the subject. “Everybody waited and it passed. But the world ended. If you think about the world the way it was just 10 years ago, everything is the opposite of what it was. All these people who were a really strong, important part of the world – like [Muhammad] Ali and Prince – passed away. Now people are figuring out what the new normal is.”
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More than three decades after he rocketed to fame, Murphy himself, at 55, is figuring out what his own new normal is.
Early in his career, when he exploded out of “Saturday Night Live” and starred in a string of smash hits such as “48 Hrs.,” “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Trading Places,” Murphy’s electrifying charisma – which, in person, he masks behind a cool reserve, like a superhero wearing a blazer and tie over his spandex suit – was like nothing audiences had ever seen. The idea of anyone ever getting bored with him seemed inconceivable.
But somewhere along the way in Murphy’s roller coaster of a career, his on-screen persona started to drift away from that dangerous young comedian who had once prowled the stage clad in tight red leather. To often, by his own admission, he chose films more on the basis of how much they paid than how inspired he felt by them. He racked up plenty of huge hits including “The Nutty Professor” and “Shrek” but, to many longtime fans, he seemed too willing to coast in films that weren’t worthy of his tremendous talent.
About five years ago, Murphy decided he needed a break. He had made a huge splash with his critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated turn in the 2006 musical “Dreamgirls” only to follow that triumph with a string of largely forgettable duds like “Meet Dave,” “Imagine That” and “A Thousand Words.” Now he wanted to take some time to reassess his priorities and recharge his creative batteries.
He told people, half-jokingly, that he was retired. The truth was, in his mind, the audience needed a breather just as much as he did.
“I got on ‘Saturday Night Live’ when I was 18 or 19, so it’s been 35 years of my face,” Murphy said. “You get sick of looking at people’s faces – I know I do. There are people whose faces pop up and I just turn the channel. And I was like, ‘I’m sure I’m that to some people.’ ”
As the first African American global box office star, one whose films have collectively earned nearly $7 billion at the box office, Murphy had helped pave the way for many to follow, from Will Smith to Chris Rock to Kevin Hart. But in an increasingly fragmented, perpetually distracted cultural landscape, he had started to wonder, what was the place for a comedy performer like him?
Murphy was enjoying his respite from the movie business and mulling over a return to stand-up comedy – an idea he has flirted with for years without ever quite pulling the trigger – when, out of the blue, he received a script for a family drama called “Mr. Church” about a kind but enigmatic cook who takes care of a cancer-stricken single mother and her daughter.
The project, to which Samuel L. Jackson had initially been attached, was even further outside of Murphy’s usual wheelhouse than “Dreamgirls,” which had brought him a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his turn as a talented but embittered soul singer. But that was exactly what drew him to it.
“ ‘Dreamgirls’ has some dramatic things but it was a really showy role and it’s got funny stuff in it,” Murphy said. “What was exciting for me about ‘Mr. Church’ was you have to have this whole performance where everything is the opposite of what I usually do. I don’t get offered stuff where it’s just about relationships and family and love.” He chuckled. “It’s like, ‘It’s about a family.’ ‘OK, and are there any animals talking in it?’ ”
“Mr. Church,” which opens Sept. 16, is more than just another detour into dramatic territory for Murphy. It’s a chance, after a long absence from the screen, to reintroduce himself to audiences on new terms.
“I think me not doing a movie for five or six years and now doing something like this will be a good thing ultimately,” Murphy said. “Because I’m doing something that people have never seen me do.
“Five years ago, I was like, It’s time to do stuff that I feel good about and that I get – I don’t have to do these movies just for this big check,” he continued. “That’s hard because I’m from the Tilden projects in Brooklyn.” He harked back to one of his most notorious flops, 2002’s sci-fi comedy “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.” “You wave a big check in front of me and it’s like, ‘You say you want to do “Pluto Nash 2”? OK, let’s go! So he’s on the moon again?’ ”
“Mr. Church” screenwriter Susan McMartin, who based the script on her own real-life friendship with a man who’d helped care for her and her mother, says she had seen glimpses of Murphy’s potential as a dramatic actor in even some of his broadest comedies.
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“There’s a scene in ‘The Nutty Professor’ where his character is being heckled that always broke my heart,” McMartin said. “There’s so much vulnerability in his face: the embarrassment, the trying to smile through that pain. In that moment, I was like, ‘That man is such an incredible actor.’ ”
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Nico Rosberg won an incident-packed Belgian Grand Prix featuring a chaotic start, wild overtaking, a heavy crash, safety cars and a red flag.
The Mercedes driver's win on Sunday saw him close the gap to nine points on teammate Lewis Hamilton, who finished third behind Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo as the resurgent Australian driver secured a third straight podium finish.
“It's been a great weekend, very, very happy with that result,” Rosberg said after his 20th career win. “Congrats to Lewis, last place to third must be pretty impressive.”
Rosberg started from pole position with teen driver Max Verstappen also on the front row. Hamilton started from the back row with Fernando Alonso, after both incurred multiple grid penalties for extra engine part changes this weekend.
“Lewis wasn't out there to battle it out, so that made it an easier weekend,” Rosberg said. “It all worked out fine.”
For him at least.
Verstappen was involved in a first-turn collision with the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel that shaped the race.
It had a beneficial effect on Hamilton and Alonso, who avoided the early carnage in front of them, then gained places when the safety car came out after Danish driver Kevin Magnussen's crash.
Magnussen emerged from the wreck, hobbled away and was taken to hospital for checks for a cut to his left ankle. He escaped serious injury.
German driver Nico Hulkenberg was a season's best fourth ahead of Mexican Sergio Perez and Vettel, while Alonso was seventh, Raikkonen ninth and Verstappen 11th.
The race start was clean enough for Rosberg, but it was mayhem behind him.
The 18-year-old Verstappen, the youngest driver to ever start on the front row, was overtaken by Raikkonen and Vettel, and then aggressively tried to go for the inside heading into the first turn — even though there was very little room.
The impeded Ferraris were now squeezed wide and, as a consequence, Raikkonen came across and nudged into the side of Vettel.
Verstappen blamed them, saying “they just turned into me” but the incident was the latest of several involving the Red Bull driver. Verstappen became the youngest driver to win a race when he clinched a brilliant victory at the Spanish GP in May.
His talent is undoubted, but his aggression is not to everyone's liking. Later in the race, he again infuriated Raikkonen, a rare feat considering the Finn's nickname is “The Ice Man” for his usually unflappable demeanor.
Raikkonen came in for a front nose change but the pit crew also had to put out a small fire under his car.
Others struggled as the manic tempo continued.
Spaniard Carlos Sainz lost control when his rear right tire blew out, sending him pirouetting to an improvised halt on the grass. He then acrobatically drove back across the track, with his rear right wheel up in the air, before parking at the side of the track.
The incidents prompted the safety car to come out on lap three, and when the race re-started a lap later Sainz, Marcus Ericsson, Jenson Button and Pascal Wehrlein — who hit Button from behind — had all retired.
The safety car emerged again after Magnussen lost control of his Renault coming out of the top of the hill at Eau Rouge, spinning at speed and slamming backward into the barriers.
On lap 10 of 44, the race was halted as the red flag came out, because the barrier Magnussen crashed into needed repairing.
When the race resumed 20 minutes later, the top five was Rosberg-Ricciardo-Hulkenberg-Alonso-Hamilton.
In a fascinating sub-plot, Verstappen and Raikkonen were involved in another incident as Verstappen appeared to nudge him wide.
Raikkonen — who is twice Verstappen's age — let his frustration out, saying “his only interest is to push me off the track.”
Then, as they battled for 13th place, Verstappen zig-zagged in front of him as he tried to hold position, prompting Raikkonen to use an expletive when describing Verstappen's driving as “ridiculous.”
Hamilton overtook Hulkenberg on lap 18, leaving just Ricciardo and Rosberg ahead of him.
With no traffic, however, Rosberg was pulling away.
Hamilton came in for new tires on lap 22, switching to softs, and was down in ninth when he came back out after a slow pit stop.
But with others changing tires, he was soon back up to third.
“This is the best result I could have hoped for,” said Hamilton, who said on Saturday that he was aiming for a top-10 finish. “Our performance today was stronger than I expected. Third (place) is something definitely helped by the safety car.” Meanwhile, the Ferrari-Verstappen duel continued with Vettel overtaking the Dutchman.
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Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury is a longtime friend of Bill Clinton and major donor to the Clinton Foundation who drew attention this month when a 2009 email from Clinton aide Doug Band, seeking to connect Chagoury to top State Department figures, was made public. Band wrote to Huma Abedin, a top aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to try to arrange a meeting for Chagoury with a U.S. diplomat to Lebanon. Abedin suggested then-Ambassador Jeffrey D. Feltman. In response to questions asked as part of a Los Angeles Times examination of Chagoury’s background and relationship to the Clintons, a spokesman, Mark Corallo, gave this detailed response:
“Gilbert Chagoury doesn’t understand all of the media concern over the Clinton Global Initiative, which has done so much good philanthropic work around the world — especially in Africa. He is proud to be associated with what he truly believes is a wonderful charitable organization.
“The last time Mr. Chagoury had any contact with Secretary Clinton was at a dinner in 2006. He has had no personal contact with Secretary Clinton or any of her staff since 2006. He has never met or had any contact with Ambassador Feltman. He had no contact of any kind with anyone from the State Department regarding the subject matter of the emails between Mr. Band and Ms. Abedin. He was simply passing along his observations and insights about the dire political situation in Lebanon at the time. But nothing ever came of it. He had no contact of any kind with the State Department.
“It should be noted that while Gilbert Chagoury is a Nigerian of Lebanese ancestry and still has a large extended family and many close friends in Lebanon, he has no business interests in Lebanon. Beyond his family and his many generous charitable works, his greatest concern is for the protection and preservation of the Christians of Lebanon and the Middle East.
The State Department is considering a deal to build a new consulate at a huge development in Lagos, Nigeria, called Eko Atlantic, which is owned by Chagoury's family business. The project was highlighted as an innovative response to climate change by the Clinton Global Initiative.
“Eko Atlantic is a 21st Century city being built on Victoria Island adjacent to Lagos, Nigeria, to protect Victoria Island from severe erosion and to solve the chronic shortage of real estate in the world’s fastest-growing megacity. It is a gateway to emerging markets of the African continent. One of the largest land reclamation projects ever attempted and protected by an 8.5-kilometer-long sea wall to stop the catastrophic erosion, Eko Atlantic will be the size of Manhattan’s skyscraper district. Self-sufficient and sustainable, it includes state-of-the-art urban design, its own power, clean water, advanced telecommunications and state-of-the-art security. It will provide tens of thousands of jobs for Nigerians for decades to come. As such, Eko is a natural location for businesses, financial institutions and government offices. Eko Atlantic was just one of several locations being explored by the United States for its new consular facilities in Lagos. Considering its size, modern infrastructure, technology and security, it should come as no surprise that the United States government and other governments from around the world are considering Eko Atlantic as a new opportunity for locating their offices that operate in Lagos, Nigeria.
“It is important to note that Eko Atlantic began as a project to protect Victoria Island from sea erosion which had already claimed 2 kilometers of valuable land and threatened to do severe damage to Lagos itself. The Nigerian government faced a rapidly intensifying and costly crisis. At no cost to the Nigerian government, the Chagoury Group embarked on this visionary land reclamation project that is soon to be the business and financial hub of West Africa.
“As I understand it, the State Department hired a real estate search firm that conducted a multi-year assessment of properties in Lagos for the future U.S. consulate. I would refer you to the State Department to discuss their process.
In 2010, Chagoury was pulled from a plane in New Jersey and questioned because he showed up on the U.S. government’s no-fly list. He was later removed from that list. Last year, he was denied a visa to enter the U.S., according to documents and interviews, based on terrorism-related grounds, a broad category that can include suspicions — proven or not — of providing financial backing to terrorist-designated organizations.
“As to the 2010 incident, Mr. Chagoury was never told why he was placed on the no-fly list, but was pleased that after his excellent legal team at Steptoe & Johnson worked through appropriate channels, the Department of Homeland Security issued a formal, written apology to him. He did not discuss the matter nor did he seek assistance from anyone outside his legal team to resolve it and he was pleased that he was cleared by the U.S. government to fly to the United States. What he didn’t understand was the decision by someone in the U.S. government to disclose his name to the media and to unfairly suggest that he was a potential threat. That was and is false, as the government knew, which simply made the leak even harder to excuse. It caused great harm, without reason, to a man who has been a friend and supporter of America all his life.
“Any allegation that Mr. Chagoury is involved in any way with providing material support to any terrorist organization, of any stripe, is false, outrageous, and defamatory. Mr. Chagoury is prepared to take any and all action against those who would promote such outrageous and unfounded remarks.”
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'Star Trek' at 50: How the TV series inspired a boy to become a scientist
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Like “Star Trek,” I turn 50 this year. But that’s not my only connection to the original television series. “Star Trek” inspired me to become a scientist, convincing me at an early age that science and the advancement of human knowledge could make the world a better place.
Like many people my age, I was transfixed by the futurism of “Star Trek” and the adventures of the Starship Enterprise. Part of the appeal was the action and exotic science-fiction elements: giant space amoeba, time-travel, cloaking devices — even shape-shifting alien salt-vampires. (Like I said, I’m a lifelong fan.)
But part of what makes “Star Trek” so compelling has been a consistent commitment to a set of pro-social values. If an advanced alien species sets up some sort of bizarre test where the only way the crew could survive was by acting in some barbaric or murderous fashion, you could be darn sure that they would choose to die rather than betray their values, and they would make their stand exceedingly clear in a moral lecture to said advanced alien race.
Coupled with that unshakable moral commitment was an unsinkable optimism: In the “Star Trek” universe, all problems are solvable. Some predicaments were short-term, with plot-advancing solutions that relied on the ingenuity and competence of the crew. Other dilemmas were long-term, such as the Cold War-like hostilities between humanoid aliens the Klingons and the Romulans, but the show made clear that one day those same enemies would become our friends.
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I wanted to be part of that world, one where the best intentions mattered and scientific knowledge was more important than military power. But then math happened, as it does to many of us. As a high school student I thought my struggles with math meant I couldn’t do science, and so I sought a different way to make a difference. I became a Marine, which ended up being a profoundly good experience for me.
But life takes strange turns, and at age 41 I enrolled in a doctoral program at Carnegie Mellon University. I found that scientists don’t just count things — they describe them as well. I found that software could do a lot of the heavy math-lifting. And I found that there were places like the Rand Corp., a research institution where scientists work in teams to do their part to make the world a safer, healthier, more just place for everyone — a description that sounds like something members of “Star Trek’s” United Federation of Planets would recognize.
After I joined Rand in 2013, I was pleased and surprised to learn that I now shared another connection with “Star Trek,” because a Rand employee had been involved with the show years before the first episode aired on Sept. 8, 1966.
I wanted to be part of that world, one where the best intentions mattered and scientific knowledge was more important than military power.
Rand researcher Harvey Lynn had served as a consultant to series creator Gene Roddenberry, brainstorming technical issues and contributing insights that helped shape such “Star Trek” signatures as the Enterprise’s computer (he suggested that it talk, in a woman’s voice), the sickbay (he suggested outfitting the beds with “electrical pickups” that monitor the body) and the transporter used for teleportation, series star William Shatner later recalled.
“Gene wanted authenticity and Harvey helped deliver it,” Shatner wrote in “I’m Working on That,” a 2002 book about the link between “Star Trek” scientific fact and fiction. An Air Force colonel who knew Lynn to be a “creative scientific thinker” had connected the series creator with the researcher, who consulted for “Star Trek” as a “private citizen, not as part of a Rand project” a fact noted in the FAQs on Rand’s website.
The back-and-forth documented in letters between Roddenberry and Lynn is serious, respectful and occasionally playful, much like the give-and-take between my researcher colleagues. After thanking Lynn for his detailed comments, Roddenberry wrote in 1964: “Any point you feel strongly about, please feel free to continue arguing.”
“Star Trek” and Rand also share a values connection because both are fundamentally about trying to improve the world. “Star Trek” makes the case that technological advancement, the accumulation of knowledge and our perfectibility and maturation as social beings can work together to ensure a better future. Rand’s policy research aims to accomplish a similar goal by producing and synthesizing knowledge in an attempt to solve persistent problems around the globe. I think the 10-year-old me would be happy with my small role in this scientific galaxy.
William Marcellino is a social and behavioral scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Rand Corp. and a professor at the Pardee Rand Graduate School.
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Vikings’ Bridgewater injures knee
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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered a “significant” knee injury in practice Tuesday and the team was awaiting tests to determine how long he might be out.
Coach Mike Zimmer confirmed the injury a few hours after an ambulance took Bridgewater from the practice field to a nearby hospital. There is no timetable on how long the third-year quarterback will be out. But when Zimmer was asked if he had any hope of Bridgewater being able to return sometime this season, the coach replied, “I don't know. It doesn't look good right now.”
Bridgewater dropped back to pass during a drill, planted his foot and immediately went down. He grabbed his left knee while concerned teammates and trainers huddled around him.
There is little behind Bridgewater on the depth chart. Shaun Hill is the primary backup, but he's 36 years old and has played only sparingly over the last five years.
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Colin Kaepernick will get one more chance to impress Coach Chip Kelly before the San Francisco 49ers announce their starting quarterback even as the debate surrounding Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem remains heated. Kelly said Tuesday that Kaepernick will play in the team's final exhibition game Thursday night in San Diego after missing the first two preseason games with a tired shoulder. Blaine Gabbert, who is also in the running for the starting job, won't play because he has gotten 30 more plays in the preseason and Kelly does not need to evaluate him further.
The Dallas Cowboys placed quarterback Kellen Moore on season-ending injured reserve, eliminating the chance for him to return after breaking his right ankle in practice early in training camp. Moore was expected to be Tony Romo's backup, and now both are out after Romo broke a bone in his back in the preseason against Seattle. The Cowboys haven't said how long Romo will be out, but rookie fourth-round pick Dak Prescott figures to start at least the first few games if healthy.
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No, Ice Cube does not back Donald Trump
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Seems there may have been some confusion after rapper Ice Cube shared his thoughts on the presidential race.
The West Coast star offered insight on Donald Trump's popular appeal before also quickly dismissing the GOP nominee as out of touch with struggling Americans, during an interview months ago with Bloomberg,
"Rich, powerful, do what you want to do, say what you want to say, be how you want to be. That's kind of been like the American Dream," the rapper said.
"Do I think he's going to do anything to help poor people or people that's struggling? No," the rapper went on. "He's a rich white guy. How does he — how can he relate?"
On Saturday, some pro-Trump Twitter accounts tweeted parts of the interview to imply the rapper was endorsing Trump.
It is unclear if the accounts are associated with the Trump campaign.
Ice Cube, though, did not take it lightly.
He issued a scathing rebuttal — one unprintable in a family paper, and another that included an apparently doctored photo that appeared on one Twitter account of him wearing a Trump shirt alongside his out-of-context quote.
Trump's campaign did not immediately respond for comment.
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Man dies after being stabbed by woman he assaulted with knife, police say
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A man stabbed multiple times Saturday evening by a woman who police say he attacked with a knife on the roof of an apartment complex parking structure in Newport Beach has died, authorities said Thursday.
Authorities identified the man as John Michael Meehan, 57, of Cathedral City.
Police said the altercation began at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday when Meehan approached a woman atop the parking structure of the Coronado at Newport apartment complex in the 1900 block of Sherington Place and assaulted her with the knife. Police did not identify the woman but said she is a Newport Beach resident in her 20s.
The woman suffered several lacerations before she grabbed the knife and stabbed Meehan several times, said Newport Beach police spokeswoman Jennifer Manzella.
"There was no verbal altercation that preceded the activity," Manzella said.
Manzella said Meehan and the woman were not related by blood or romantically involved but had "an ongoing troubled relationship."
The woman was treated by paramedics and then taken to a hospital.
Meehan was taken to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, where he died of his injuries just after 10 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
No arrests were made. Detectives will forward results of their investigation to the Orange County district attorney's office for review, Manzella said.
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Hannah Fry, hannah.fry@latimes.com
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Rams receiver Pharoh Cooper could miss opener because of shoulder injury
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Rams receiver Pharoh Cooper made a spectacular catch against the Denver Broncos, but it came with a price.
Cooper suffered a shoulder injury on the play and will be sidelined for a few weeks, possibly missing the season opener, Coach Jeff Fisher said Sunday.
Cooper, a fourth-round draft pick from South Carolina, had impressed during off-season workouts and training camp and figured to have a prominent role this season.
“He’s had a great camp — we drafted him for a reason,” Fisher said during a news conference at UC Irvine. “We’ll have to make some decisions next weekend that revolve around his status.”
Cooper, Fisher said, was injured on a second-quarter play when he came down hard on his shoulder. On third and three, Cooper had leaped to make an acrobatic catch of a Jared Goff pass for a 19-yard gain. Cooper remained in the game and had a five-yard reception a few plays later.
Cooper’s absence will add another twist to a receiver corps that has been a major question mark since the end of last season, when the Rams finished ranked last in the NFL in passing offense.
The Rams made no trades or major free-agent signings to bolster the position group. They drafted Cooper in the fourth round, Michael Thomas in the sixth.
Veterans Tavon Austin and Kenny Britt have been the starters, but the 5-foot-11, 207-pound Cooper was projected to be a major contributor heading into the Sept. 12 opener against the San Francisco 49ers on “Monday Night Football.”
Veteran Brian Quick had been plagued by drops through the first two exhibitions, but he caught the ball all three times he was targeted against the Broncos.
Bradley Marquez, sidelined Saturday after suffering an ankle injury against Kansas City, participated in the Rams’ closed practiced Sunday, Fisher said. Nelson Spruce, sidelined two games because of a knee injury, did some running but is not expected to play Thursday night against the Minnesota Vikings.
Reaction to Kaepernick
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick caused a firestorm of reaction after he spoke about his decision not to stand for the playing of the national anthem.
Fisher said, “I’m going to let his words speak for themselves,” that Kaepernick “had every right to do that,” and that players “have every right to stand up and be heard.”
He also said he considered the anthem “a special event, something that should be respected,” and he would be surprised if a Rams player did not stand for the anthem.
“I think our respect for the national anthem has been very, very well documented,” he said. “And we’re going to continue to have respect for the national anthem.”
The Rams are accustomed to players’ making political statements and the controversy that can follow.
In 2014, before a game against the Oakland Raiders, five St. Louis Rams players did a “hands up, don’t shoot” pose in support of demonstrators in Ferguson, Mo.
Britt, Austin, former Rams receivers Stedman Bailey and Chris Givens and tight end Jared Cook participated.
The players were not disciplined, and Fisher said Sunday that he thought the organization handled the situation well.
“I think the players were misunderstood,” he said. “What the players wanted was to direct attention to the community of Ferguson because they felt the community needed help. They didn’t want it to be misunderstood.”
Confidence boost
Players said they were not surprised that quarterback Case Keenum responded with a solid performance after he absorbed a late hit from Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib.
Keenum had scrambled toward the Broncos sideline.
“I saw him get hit pretty hard and I’m like, ‘Wow, he’s out there pretty far,’’’ tight end Lance Kendricks said after the game. “I was just hoping he was OK.
“He’s a strong guy. I think it kind of got him fired up to want to go out and score. It might have helped him, actually.”
Keenum completed eight of 12 passes for 77 yards.
Quick hits
Cornerback E.J. Gaines started against the Broncos but suffered a quadriceps injury that could sideline him against the Vikings. … Left tackle Greg Robinson and cornerback Troy Hill went through the concussion protocol after the game Saturday night, Fisher said. Neither is expected to play against the Vikings. … Offensive tackle Rob Havenstein (foot) will start to work out with the team this week but is not expected to play against the Vikings, Fisher said. … The Rams began the process of releasing players in advance of the Tuesday afternoon deadline to trim the roster from 90 to 75 players.
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Smartphone cases that look like guns will be outlawed under bill signed by Gov. Brown
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Cellphone cases made to look like guns are a new fashion trend but they may also put owners at risk, so their manufacture and sale will be outlawed in California under a bill signed Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The legislation was introduced by Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) in response to concerns by law enforcement officials that the phone cases might be mistaken by police officers for a real firearm and lead to a violent confrontation.
Some of the cases have a handgun grip and trigger system.
“These devices are fairly new, and this bill takes a proactive approach to stop a problem before it happens,” said Cooper, a former captain with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.
Brown previously has signed seven other gun-control bills, and he has others on his desk.
The latest bill would make it a misdemeanor to import, manufacture or sell smartphone cases that look like guns starting Jan. 1.
The bill is supported by groups including the Assn. of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, the California Assn. of Highway Patrolmen, the California Police Chiefs Assn. and the California State Sheriffs’ Assn.
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Regular visitors to the Venice Beach boardwalk are accustomed to unusual sights: an electric guitarist on roller skates, a cat napping inside a piano and a giant snake made of sand.
Then there’s the annual "Go Topless Pride Parade,” which begins at 1 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Navy Street and Ocean Front Walk. Organizers hope it will result in hundreds of women and men marching topless through the popular tourist spot.
The march – organized by gotopless.org – is one of more than 60 worldwide intended to call attention to laws that bar women from going bare-chested in public.
“We’re working toward freeing women’s nipples and obtaining equal gender topless rights that are enforced worldwide,” said Beatrice Charles, a GoTopless spokeswoman who leads the organization’s L.A. branch.
The event will feature a speech, followed by the mile-long march to Windward Circle. Organizers say they chose this weekend in order to honor the 95th anniversary of Women’s Equality Day (Friday) and support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
“Around the world, gender inequality over the centuries, including exclusively male leadership, caused imbalances that could destroy society,” Charles said. “We’re inviting women to free their bodies from repression and recover their self-esteem. Freeing the nipples frees minds!”
Advocates say they believe they are making progress in Los Angeles.
In April 2015, the Venice Neighborhood Council voted 12-2 in favor of a resolution stating that the council "supports women being afforded the same rights as men to sunbathe topless."
The city and county of Los Angeles prohibit nude or topless sunbathing, and Councilman Mike Bonin has said he has other priorities for the neighborhood.
But Melissa Diner, the Venice council community officer who sponsored the resolution, has insisted that topless sunbathing “is a serious equality issue.”
"Venice Beach was founded and designed around the European culture of Venice, Italy," the neighborhood council said, "and ... topless [sun]bathing is commonplace throughout Europe, much of the rest of the world and many places within the U.S."
Organizers say Sunday’s march will mark the ninth anniversary of the event. Previous renditions have drawn hundreds of people – some more interested in watching than participating.
In a statement, event organizers acknowledged that getting the city and county to approve topless sunbathing “could take time.”
Still, Charles said she sees progress.
“The Venice Neighborhood Council’s approval is a hopeful step forward after our nine years of activism on Venice Beach,” Charles said. “Now it’s time for the city and county to follow up by making equal gender topless rights a priority!”
matt.stevens@latimes.com
Twitter: @ByMattStevens
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FYF Fest: Vince Staples and Head Wound City keep the fest's rep for harshness alive
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The consensus so far in the first hours of FYF 2016? The music is great, if you can find it.
The festival underwent yet another significant layout change this year, where the main thoroughfare around the Coliseum was augmented by spidery routes in-between and behind the stages. We understand the impulse to fix it — pedestrian traffic on that road can get clogged, and no one wants to schlep around the coliseum to get between stages.
But it also lent a confusing note to the early hours, where fans scuttled behind the Coliseum service roads to find some way to see Vince Staples on the Main Stage or Head Wound City in the Club (the heir to the late, lamented Sports Arena, whose seating and easy entry have never been more missed).
If you could figure it out, however, there were great acts to find.
Staples was the highlight of the awkwardly laid-out main stage in the early hours, playing searing cuts like “Birds & Bees” and “Surf” that evoked a Long Beach on edge that was a world far away from the FYF idyll. He was relatively reserved, but saved an absolutely savage deadpan for America’s police officers: ‘You’re doing a stellar job,” he said, before tearing into his anti-brutality single “Hands Up.”
FYF is billed as “The Best Weekend of Summer,” but Staples was a rare artist to remind the crowd how difficult it can be outside the gates.
Elsewhere, the hardcore supergroup Head Wound City tore into its early-day crowd with a barrage from its LP “A New Wave of Violence.” The group, which counts members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs,Blood Brothers and The Locust among its regulars, was a flashback to FYF’s scabrous beginnings, where avant-garde punk bands carved space for themselves on the major festival circuit without compromising their harshness. Blood Brothers put on an amazing reunion show at their last FYF appearance; Head Wound City proved that the act’s deconstructive legacy is still vital.
Dance acts were a connective tissue between everything — the experimental techno producer Floating Points dipped into Afro-Funk to enliven the early shift at the Woods stage; Classixx charged up the indie audiences with upbeat neo-disco.
Of course, the whole fest is on edge for Kendrick Lamar, but if you could find out where you were supposed to be, so far, FYF delivered on its most essential lineup yet.
Caption The Comedy Comedy Festival in Little Tokyo The comedy festival running Thursday through Sunday in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood is an Asian American comedy fest with a bill of more than 100 comics of Asian descent. You probably wouldn't know that from the name of the event: the Comedy Comedy Festival. The comedy festival running Thursday through Sunday in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood is an Asian American comedy fest with a bill of more than 100 comics of Asian descent. You probably wouldn't know that from the name of the event: the Comedy Comedy Festival. Caption Director Andrew Ahn on his new film, 'Spa Night' Actor Joe Seo and director Andrew Ahn discuss what inspired the new film "Spa Night." Actor Joe Seo and director Andrew Ahn discuss what inspired the new film "Spa Night."
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Rihanna recap of the 2016 MTV VMAs: A lot of labels on display - but not hers
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With so much style worth profiling on the way into Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards, we never got around to focusing on what was being worn (or not worn) by the folks inside Madison Square Garden – particularly Rihanna, whose multiple performances as well as being honored with the Video Vanguard Award afforded plenty of screen time for a handful of fashion brands.
When RiRi took to the stage the first time, she was clad in a custom Hood by Air ensemble that included a custom pink “Cookie Ringer” T-shirt body suit. Finishing off the look were a Hearts on Fire diamond necklace, Lydia Courteille ruby rings, Cutler and Gross sunglasses and Comme des Garcons shoes.
Performance No. 2 found her kitted out in a pair of black Alexandre Vauthier pants, a pink, fur-trimmed bra by Rosamosario and a white T-shirt (or part of one anyway), which multiple reports credit to Adam Selman. (Alas, the provenance of the black mesh do-rag atop her head is unknown.)
Wardrobe-wise RiRi went collaboration heavy for her third performance of the night, pairing a black Vetements X Juicy Couture bodysuit with long sleeves and padded shoulders (if you look close enough in some photos, you can see the word “Juicy” emblazoned in sparkly letters down the left arm of the outfit) paired with hip-high Vetements X Manolo Blahnik boots.
Rihanna had at least four costume changes over the course of the 2016 VMA telecast Michael Loccisano first three from left and Jason Kempin far right / Getty Images Rihanna had at least four costume changes over the course of the 2016 VMA telecast Rihanna had at least four costume changes over the course of the 2016 VMA telecast (Michael Loccisano first three from left and Jason Kempin far right / Getty Images)
For her final performance of the evening — and to accept the Video Vanguard Award from Drake (who frankly looked sharper than he had a right to in his peak-lapel Tom Ford tuxedo) Rihanna turned out in an Alexandre Vauthier tan silk collared gown with grommet-detailed belt and shoes from the label’s Fall / Winter 2016 Haute Couture collection.
Almost as notable as what the singer did wear was what she didn’t wear. In an era of celebrity clothing lines where an observation like: “Ryan Seacrest is wearing himself on the red carpet” actually makes sense, and barely nine days before her fall Fenty by Rihanna collaboration with Puma is set to hit retail, the singer didn’t use the 2016 VMAs as a platform for clothing-brand-building synergy.
Which, in our book, makes her a totally different kind of vanguard.
Caption What did you do on your summer vacation? Took photos, we bet. Share them with us and the world Our annual summer vacation photo issue is almost here. What will you submit for possible inclusion in our Sept. 18 issue? Our annual summer vacation photo issue is almost here. What will you submit for possible inclusion in our Sept. 18 issue? Caption Designers add a personal touch to the decor of the Dorland house A glimpse at the decor of Lloyd Wright's Dorland house in Altadena by designers Miao Miao and Scott Franklin A glimpse at the decor of Lloyd Wright's Dorland house in Altadena by designers Miao Miao and Scott Franklin
For more musings on all things fashion and style, follow me @ARTschorn.
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Like a Hollywood star who gets a bit of work done in her older years, so it is with the Spanish-style home that once belonged to late actress Betsy Drake.
Drake, the third wife of Cary Grant, had been living in London when she died last year. Her Westwood home was then put on the market.
The house was purchased in March by George Gonzalez, a real estate investor, for $1.325 million. He set out to restore and resell it but bristles at the term “house flipper.”
“A flipper is someone who just comes in and paints, but my name goes with every house that I do, so I’ll spend the money to do it right,” said Gonzalez, who has undertaken many similar projects over the last three decades, including a restoration of the Jack Anderson house in Ontario.
Drake’s three-bedroom, two-bathroom house had good bones, but overgrown landscaping, a roof in need of attention, and dated fixtures and appliances meant it was in desperate need of a makeover.
“It was like a time capsule,” said Robert Silverman of Magno Realty Group, who represented Gonzalez in the purchase and is now the home’s listing agent. Post-renovation, the house is back on the market for $2.199 million.
To enhance the home’s curb appeal, Gonzalez replaced the boxwoods and grass with a drought-tolerant landscape, a terra cotta-colored concrete walkway and a new driveway. He also designed a bubbling fountain made of hand-painted tiles made by third-generation Los Angeles ceramic artist Jose Nonato.
The backyard now has a new wood fence backed with a blocked stucco wall and a wall fountain with custom peacock decorative tile design by Nonato in place of overgrown ficus trees and decrepit chain-link fence.
Inside, Gonzalez opened up the large wood-beamed space by removing a wall between the living room and dining room and staining the home’s original floor a lighter blond. In the kitchen, Gonzalez brought in Viking appliances and nixed the strange green glass cabinet handles for elegant clear ones.
To give the home more storage space, Gonzalez enlarged it by about 300 square feet, which accommodated a walk-in closet plus a luxurious bathroom that has three shower heads, a steam shower, a standing bath and a separate room for the toilet.
“Your whole family can shower at the same time,” Silverman said.
Gonzalez also expanded the guest bedroom’s closet space and added built-in niches in the hallway for extra storage.
Wrought iron from Revival Antiques in Pasadena and Nonato’s tile work throughout the home keep it grounded in the past, while a Nest thermostat, Sonos speakers and a nine-camera security system give it a modern touch.
Gonzalez put in just over $500,000 for the renovations, which took five months to complete.
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Knott’s Berry Farm returns to the fog for Halloween Haunt 2016
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Knott’s Berry Farm will add two new haunted mazes for Halloween Haunt 2016 that feature demonic samurais and sadistic farmers plus a new scare zone stalked by the legendary headless horseman.
The 44th annual Knott’s Scary Farm will start Sept. 22 and run on select nights through Oct. 31.
The granddaddy of Halloween events will feature nine haunted mazes, four scare zones and two shows scattered throughout the Buena Park theme park. Elvira Mistress of the Dark returns as the face of the event.
Among the new offerings for Halloween Haunt 2016:
Shadow Lands
The Shadow Lands maze will put visitors in an ancient Japanese temple inhabited by the rotting corpses of disgraced samurai warriors who must redeem their honor on the battlefield.
The maze, which is behind the Xcelerator coaster, takes the space previously used for the Black Magic maze.
Concept art of the Red Barn haunted maze coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. Knott's Concept art of the Red Barn haunted maze coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. Concept art of the Red Barn haunted maze coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. (Knott's)
Red Barn
A vengeful farmer and his sadistic sons prey on innocent victims who wander into a blood-soaked Red Barn, which teems with carnivorous farm animals and chainsaw-wielding hillbillies.
The gory Red Barn maze re-creates horror films of the 1970s and ’80s like “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Motel Hell.” It replaces the Pinocchio Unstrung maze in the Wilderness Dance Hall.
Skeleton Key rooms
This year, Knott’s will build four new standalone Skeleton Key rooms that are independent of the haunted mazes. In years past, the upcharge rooms were an interactive first scene for visitors willing to pay extra for the experience.
In the Visions key room, visitors armed with augmented reality devices will explore a museum teeming with paranormal activity.
The Zozo key room features a Ouija board session and a visit from a demonic spirit.
A masked killer known as the Angel Maker inhabits the world of 1980s horror movies in the Slasher key room.
Armed with only a faulty lantern, visitors must navigate a blacked-out hay maze filled with mutant beasts in the Prey key room.
Previews of returning mazes:
Paranormal Inc.
A team of ghost hunters from a cable TV show investigate a haunted hospital where patients have been tortured for decades by deranged doctors in the Paranormal Inc. maze.
The maze offers interactive story lines, branching paths and aerial stunts as visitors team up with the ghostbusters from the fictional “Paranormal Inc.” television show.
Voodoo: Order of the Serpent
The Voodoo maze takes visitors into the swampy backwoods of a Louisiana bayou brimming with witch doctors and zombies.
The choose-your-own-path maze wanders through the swamp shanties of a bayou village.
Concept art of the Black Ops: Infected haunted maze coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. Knott's Concept art of the Black Ops: Infected haunted maze coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. Concept art of the Black Ops: Infected haunted maze coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. (Knott's)
Black Ops: Infected
The rebooted Black Ops: Infected zombie apocalypse attraction will be moved from the wide-open spaces of the 6-acre Camp Snoopy kiddie land to the tighter confines of a haunted maze built to look like a cityscape.
The interactive video game-like experience arms visitors with simulated military assault weapons and assigns them a simple mission: Kill as many zombies as possible. Guided by squad commanders, teams of Haunt visitors will set off into an infected zone swarming with zombies.
Dead of Winter: Wendigo’s Revenge
The Dead of Winter maze puts visitors in the icy grasp of a resurrected snow queen who sounds a lot like a vengeful version of Elsa from Disney’s “Frozen.”
The dark and gory maze will include an army of undead Viking warriors bent on avenging the murder of the queen’s family and determined to destroy anyone who enters her ice palace.
Tooth Fairy
The Tooth Fairy maze mashes up two rites of passage: the legendary creature that sneaks into children’s bedrooms in the middle of the night and an agonizing trip to the dentist’s office.
Trick or Treat
The beautifully rendered Trick or Treat maze takes visitors inside the haunted home of Haunt’s iconic Green Witch on Halloween night.
Gunslinger’s Grave: A Blood Moon Rises
The Red Hand Gang tries but fails to kill a legendary gunslinger, who rises from the dead to seek revenge on an 1883 Old West town teeming with werewolves.
Concept art of the Hollow scare zone coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. Knott's Concept art of the Hollow scare zone coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. Concept art of the Hollow scare zone coming to Halloween Haunt 2016 at Knott's Berry Farm. (Knott's)
Scare Zones and shows
Three scare zones will return for Haunt 2016: Carnevil, Fiesta de los Muertos and Ghost Town.
New for 2016, Knott’s will adapt the Sleepy Hollow legend into a scare zone haunted by the headless horseman and his army of undead soldiers and farmers. The new scare zone will be in the Camp Snoopy area of the park.
Haunt 2016 will also feature two shows. Elvira Mistress of the Dark will return with an all-new music, dance and comedy show called “Elvira’s Dance Macabre.” The perennial pop culture evisceration of celebrities and their foibles known as "The Hanging" mixes comedy and music with disembowelment and a noose-swinging finale.
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Select Nordstrom stores to stock J. Crew merchandise starting September 12
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Nordstrom likes Madewell and is ready to give J. Crew a chance.
“We have had a really very positive experience with Madewell, both from a business and relationship point of view,” Pete Nordstrom, copresident of Nordstrom Inc., told WWD.
So it’s a natural progression, Nordstrom added, to start selling the J. Crew brand, which, like Madewell, is a division of the J. Crew Group.
Yet unlike Madewell, it’s not selling as well. “That’s true,” agreed Nordstrom. “But I will say our customers have an awareness and affinity for the J. Crew brand. If you were to survey our customers about what brands they like, J. Crew would be right up on top. We probably share more customers with J. Crew than any other department store.”
The J. Crew and Madewell deals recall Topshop’s agreement with the Seattle-based Nordstrom department store chain. Bringing Madewell, J. Crew and Topshop to its doors and web site reflects Nordstrom’s efforts to broaden its base of customers and its image through new and sometimes exclusive arrangements with brands. It’s also a sign of the times underscoring the industry imperative to be multichannel and global; the blurring lines between retail and wholesale, and the challenging, often treacherous specialty retail sector.
Another possibility for Nordstrom is with Uniqlo, the Japanese vertical retailer, which about 11 years ago, starting opening stores in the U.S. and has had uneven success with the expansion. “Of course, we would be open to having a conversation with them,” Nordstrom said. “But it’s a pretty different thing. It would be an unusual fit in our full-line stores.” Hiroshi Taki, group senior vice president and chief executive officer of Uniqlo USA, concurred he is also open to discussions with Nordstrom.
Already, Nordstrom has begun selling some J. Crew Ludlow men’s suits at four of its stores. The real launch of the partnership happens Sept. 12 when J. Crew starts selling inside 16 Nordstrom locations, in 500-square-foot settings in the Point of View section. Nordstrom.com will also sell J. Crew.
“I wouldn’t say this is a test. It’s more of a pilot,” Nordstrom noted. “We need to start somewhere so we understand the business. We’ll spread it around to different-size stores and regional locations. Madewell has kind of worked everywhere.”
“This was an easy decision,” said Millard “Mickey” Drexler, chairman and ceo of the J. Crew Group. “Nordstrom is the perfect partner because we both share the same high standards of customer service and store experience. We’re doing this exclusively with Nordstrom. This is excellent exposure for us.”
Drexler said Nordstrom will sell an edited assortment of the J. Crew collection, including classics such as the Regent and Rhodes blazers, Italian cashmere, outerwear and the Martie pants, to name a few. The pieces will be merchandised and presented in the “signature” J. Crew way — pattern mixing, quirky styling, bright colors, mixing prints and stripes along with accessories.
Nordstrom will also sell J. Crew petites online only, and on the men’s side of J. Crew, Nordstrom has focused on J. Crew’s Ludlow suits in Italian worsted wool and Loro Piana fabrics in black, charcoal and navy. In addition to the four Nordstrom stores selling the men’s wear, another seven will be added in October.
Aside from their own stores, J. Crew and Madewell are sold on Net-a-porter, and J. Crew is sold at Bon Marché in Europe. Crewcuts, the J. Crew children’s division, is sold at Harrods in London. At one time, J. Crew was sold at Lane Crawford in Asia, though it’s no longer there.
Asked if the arrangement with Nordstrom suggests that the J. Crew Group is moving into a wholesale business model, Drexler replied, “This is an exception for us. It doesn’t at all suggest wholesaling.”
The idea of collaborating with the J. Crew Group occurred to Nordstrom while he was traveling. “I’ve spent a lot of time traveling in the last couple of years,” he said. “We did see J. Crew in select stores in Europe and Asia. This whole thing started with J. Crew in mind,” though the initial conversations revolved around Madewell.
With J. Crew, Nordstrom said his buyers focused on iconic styles, newness and what’s selling. “J. Crew gave us a lot of latitude to do this. We are going to learn about what type of things do best in our environment. We’ve done that with Madewell….We try to establish relationships with great brands that allow us to focus on regular-priced selling, newness and fashion. It’s not exclusivity for exclusivity sake.”
J. Crew Group’s success with Madewell was underscored recently when Nordstrom disclosed that its distribution of Madewell would increase with an additional 20 stores this fall. It was the third distribution expansion since the initial launch of the partnership in March 2015 and will result in Nordstrom carrying Madewell in 76 locations in the U.S. and Canada, as well as on nordstrom.com.
Nordstrom said there has been no discussion regarding his company investing in the J. Crew Group, which is owned by the TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners private equity firms.
Outside of Madewell stores, Nordstrom is the only brick-and-mortar retailer to sell Madewell merchandise. Madewell is also sold on madewell.com, Net-a-porter and Shopbop.com. In 2015, when the deal to sell Madewell merchandise to Nordstrom was disclosed, Drexler told WWD, “This, for us, is really a new beginning. I wouldn’t call it necessarily a wholesale distribution. I would just call it distribution that makes sense from a customer point of view, from a brand point of view, from a Nordstrom and Net-a-porter point of view.”
The 16 Nordstrom stores set to carry J. Crew are in downtown Seattle; Bellevue Square, Wash.; Washington Square in Tigard, Ore.; Michigan Avenue in Chicago; Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook, Ill.; Somerset Collection in Troy, Mich.; Scottsdale Fashion Square in Scottsdale, Ariz.; NorthPark Center in Dallas; Houston Galleria in Houston; Barton Creek Square and Domain Northside, both in Austin, Tex.; King of Prussia Mall, Pa.; Tysons Corner Center in McLean, Va.; South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif.; The Mall at Short Hills in New Jersey, and The Mall at Green Hills in Nashville.
Caption What did you do on your summer vacation? Took photos, we bet. Share them with us and the world Our annual summer vacation photo issue is almost here. What will you submit for possible inclusion in our Sept. 18 issue? Our annual summer vacation photo issue is almost here. What will you submit for possible inclusion in our Sept. 18 issue? Caption Designers add a personal touch to the decor of the Dorland house A glimpse at the decor of Lloyd Wright's Dorland house in Altadena by designers Miao Miao and Scott Franklin A glimpse at the decor of Lloyd Wright's Dorland house in Altadena by designers Miao Miao and Scott Franklin
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It appears it was one sexting episode too many for a marriage, and possibly, the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced Monday she was separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, hours after the former congressman became headline fodder in another scandal involving sexually-explicit tweets with another woman.
Abedin issued this statement, according to NBC News:
"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband. Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."
Weiner, who resigned his congressional seat in 2011 after his previous sexually explicit tweets went public, apologized at the time for what he called a "regrettable thing."
The couple later that year welcomed their first child, a son.
Abedin is a constant present on Clinton's team, and remains her long-time top aide.
But Weiner was apparently texting again in 2015, according to a report Monday in the New York Daily News, this time to a Donald Trump supporter. The report said one of the exchanges took place while he was babysitting and included a photo of himself in underwear with his son laying next to him.
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The gig: Francisco Pinedo, 53, is chief executive of Cisco Bros., a fast-growing manufacturer known for environmentally friendly design and practices in its home furnishings business. Carrying the Cisco nickname that Pinedo has answered to since his childhood in Mexico, six Cisco Home stores operate in California. The company’s furniture, which ranges in price from $595 to $12,000, also shows in a gallery at New York City’s ABC Carpet & Home. Revenue has been growing about 20% a year for the past five years, Pinedo said, and the company has branched into new products, including textiles. “We’re not contemporary or traditional,” he said. “We try to cover the entire architectural landscape of Los Angeles.”
Sustainable: Since founding his company in 1990, Pinedo has focused on using natural or reclaimed materials. His was one of the nation’s first furniture companies “to only use organic materials and certified, sustainable lumber only,” Pinedo said. All wood must come from a Forest Stewardship Alliance lumber provider that, among other practices, plants more trees than the supplier harvests. “It’s our line in the sand,” Pinedo said. “Do you know how many vendors that takes off the table? It makes everything simple. Don’t even bother making a pitch about becoming a supplier if you don’t meet our criteria.”
In his blood: On the wall of his bedroom, Pinedo displays a cross carved by his grandfather from wood found in the small, impoverished village where the family lived in Jalisco. For Pinedo, the cross represents more than a shared talent for making things. It was a sign of how there is always something to create with even when money is tight. “There are materials everywhere,” Pinedo said. “There was always plenty of wood and stone and earth to work with.”
Hard work: Pinedo joined his father during summers, toiling on California’s farms as laborers. “It was really hard work, picking grapes in the sun and in the heat, all day,” Pinedo said. He added that it taught him “how tough life could be without either an education or a skill.” Pinedo followed his family to the U.S. when he was 13. He had no formal education and spoke no English. “Life there was built around the most basic human needs,” Pinedo recalled about his Mexican roots. “There were no jobs, very few opportunities. What we had was a respect for the land around us because that was all we had to sustain us.”
Pitching in: After less than four years of schooling in Los Angeles, Pinedo was forced to give up his educational pursuits to help his parents provide for his four younger siblings. Pinedo found a kind of classroom at houses where he helped his father work as a gardener. “You could tell what was well-made when the homeowner was ready to discard it,” Pinedo recalls of the cast-off furniture he would see “because someone came along and took it away very quickly.” Pinedo said he started pulling apart the furniture “and see how they were made. The things that were built to last were always made of the best natural materials.”
Getting ready: Pinedo began working full time for a furniture company while still in his teens. It was a steady job that even included a 401(k) retirement plan. But Pinedo was formulating something bigger. “Every raise my boss gave me, I never took it in my paycheck,” Pinedo said. “I put all of it into the 401(k). If I got the chance someday to start my own business, I wanted to be able to take advantage.”
Recessionary risks: When the 1990 recession cost Pinedo his job, he made a risky move. He took everything out of his retirement account, about $10,000 after penalties for early withdrawal. It turned out to be enough to begin the furniture operation. “Two customers said, ‘If you decide to go on your own into business, I’ll buy from you.’ That’s how we started.” Pinedo said he doesn’t think of his entrepreneurial leap as particularly risky considering “how tenacious my parents were. They were survivors. They did whatever was needed. I was going to have to do the same.”
All in the family: One of Pinedo’s brothers, Salvador, is the company’s wood-carving artist, and another brother, Martin, is the plant manager. Brother Jose owns Wise Living, which makes frames and other wood products that are carried at Cisco Home stores. Sister Rosie runs the Costa Mesa store. Pinedo’s eldest daughter, Maurishka, is creative director, and middle daughter, Natalie, is marketing coordinator. The youngest daughter, Amanda, doesn’t work for the company, which has more than 200 employees.
Giving back: To help others who faced the same lack of education he did, Pinedo helped start a nonprofit program called Making Education the Answer, or META, which gives scholarships to Latino students. The program tracks the 92 students who have been given college scholarships so far to make sure they are doing well. A second nonprofit, Refoundry, was developed by Pinedo and longtime friend Tommy Safan to teach furniture building to prison parolees, then goes a step further by teaching them how to sell what they have made. “Don’t make it pink,” Pinedo laughs, recalling the first piece of furniture he built as a teen. It was a bright pink chair. “Didn’t sell. Bright pink. You learn. Don’t do pink!”
Personal: Pinedo lives in San Marino with his wife, Alba. On the rare occasion that he has spare time, Pinedo said he can be found hiking.
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On 'Glory,' her sexy new album, Britney Spears is back in control
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“Here’s my invitation, baby / Come feel my energy,” Britney Spears purrs to open her new album, “Glory,” and what a welcome offer that is.
Throughout the 2000s, no one made better — or weirder — pop records than Spears, who achieved instant superstardom in 1999 with “…Baby One More Time,” then spent the next decade slowly imploding as the celebrity-industrial complex closed in around her.
The process wasn’t pretty to watch, not least because watching implicated the watcher. But the music Spears made even at acute moments of crisis — especially at acute moments of crisis — was thrilling: songs like “Toxic” (an allegory about fame as a “poison paradise”), “I’m a Slave 4 U” (duh) and, most vividly, “Piece of Me,” a sneering indictment of Big Gossip that still hits harder than the umbrella she once used to whack a paparazzo’s SUV.
And then there was “Britney Jean.”
Released in late 2013, just before Spears launched a much-hyped residency in Las Vegas, the album was promoted as the “most personal” she’d ever made. In fact, it was the dullest: a monotonous set of generic EDM tracks, overseen by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, with little of Spears’ trademark intensity or dark humor. (One exception was the winningly creepy “Perfume,” about a woman determined to “mark my territory” before her boyfriend encounters his ex.)
Caption Why Frank Gehry never showed up to work for Richard Neutra Los Angeles Times Ideas Exchange: The Time’s Christopher Hawthorne in conversation with Frank Gehry at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this clip, Gehry talks about why he didn’t end up working for Richard Neutra. Los Angeles Times Ideas Exchange: The Time’s Christopher Hawthorne in conversation with Frank Gehry at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this clip, Gehry talks about why he didn’t end up working for Richard Neutra. Caption With the L.A. River, Frank Gehry thinks L.A. won’t need to import as much water, saving a lot of money Los Angeles Times Ideas Exchange: The Time’s Christopher Hawthorne in conversation with Frank Gehry at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this clip, Gehry talks about the L.A. River Revitalization project and cost of imported water. Los Angeles Times Ideas Exchange: The Time’s Christopher Hawthorne in conversation with Frank Gehry at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this clip, Gehry talks about the L.A. River Revitalization project and cost of imported water.
Yet something unexpected happened in Sin City: Spears found redemption. Her show was a hit, which seemed to buoy the singer just as her personal life — or at least the version of it she presents on Instagram — regained a measure of stability.
Now Spears is back at 34 with an album that carries her one-of-a-kind electricity without depicting her as a victim or an avenging force; here she seems in control, a grown woman having a laugh on her own terms. The result? For the first time in a decade and a half, feeling Spears’ energy doesn’t register as an act of vampirism.
Which isn’t to say, of course, that she’s not acting for our delectation. Her ninth studio record, “Glory” is almost entirely about sex, with the listener cast in the role of “you” in scenarios as varied as “Slumber Party” (not a song about her young sons), “Do You Wanna Come Over?” (duh) and “Private Show,” in which the singer play-by-plays her “spectacular” strip-club routine.
“Work, work it / Boy, watch me work it,” she moans over a slinky digital doo-wop groove. “Slide down my pole / Watch me spin it and twerk it.”
OK, so the lyrics aren’t that hot — something even a hater couldn’t have claimed about a track like “Piece of Me,” which ingeniously rhymes “lifestyles of the rich and famous” with “Oh my god, that Britney’s shameless.”
But even when the songs are providing her with flimsy messages, Spears on “Glory” sings with real style and attitude, as in “Make Me…,” in which she switches between a breathy murmur in the verse and a euphoric falsetto in the chorus, and “What You Need,” a surprising neo-Motown jam in which she comes far closer to Amy Winehouse than anyone would ever have predicted. (More surprising still, Spears takes up Spanish and French somewhat convincingly in two bonus tracks on the album’s deluxe edition.)
As a whole, the performance is a vast improvement over her flat, robotic delivery on “Britney Jean”; indeed, it’s the very performed nature of the singing — with Spears’ full battery of signature vocal tics — that makes “Glory” such a good time.
Is this proud employee of the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino really putting in work after hours at the Spearmint Rhino? It seems unlikely. But Spears, who’s set to perform Sunday night on MTV’s Video Music Awards, invites you into that fantasy in “Private Show,” and she never lets you forget that it’s her simulation.
Her studio collaborators help. Having evidently sensed that thudding 4/4 beats do nothing for her, Spears turned this time to nimble young songwriters and producers including Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels and the Swedish duo Mattman & Robin (the last of whom are protégés of her original creative partner, Max Martin).
In craftily detailed tunes like “Invitation” and the jumpy “Do You Wanna Come Over?” they restore some of the sonic invention that once defined Spears’ biggest hits — and provide her with a colorful environment to do her thing.
“That was fun,” Spears says at the end of “What You Need,” and she’s right: It was.
Twitter: @mikaelwood
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Getaway to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, drops to $329 on Southwest from Orange County
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You can find fun in the sun and a quaint city center in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, which Southwest has put on sale: $329 round trip from Orange County’s John Wayne Airport.
The fare, which is subject to availability, includes all taxes and fees. It is for travel Sept.6 through March 2, with blackouts from Dec. 14 to Jan. 9.
You must buy your ticket by Sept. 1.
Info: Southwest (800) 435-9792, www.southwest.com
Source: Airfarewatchdog.com
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Trump has called Anthony Weiner a 'sleazeball and pervert.' Turns out he's also given to his campaigns.
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Donald Trump, who used Huma Abedin’s separation from husband Anthony Weiner as a prompt to question Hillary Clinton’s judgment, donated to the disgraced former congressman multiple times.
Trump gave a total of $4,300 in 2007 and 2010 to Weiner’s congressional runs, and $150 to a city council race in 1997. The donations were first reported Monday by NBC News.
Abedin, a top aide to Clinton, announced Monday that she was separating from Weiner after he was once again caught sending sexually explicit pictures to women.
Trump, who is twice divorced and has a history of adultery, praised Abedin’s decision but argued that Clinton had shown bad judgment by allowing Weiner in her orbit.
“Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him,” Trump said in a statement. “I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he learned and who he told? It's just another example of Hillary Clinton's bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”
Last month, Trump referred to Weiner to argue that Clinton is a security risk, labeling Weiner "a sleazeball and pervert."
Trump has a history of donating to politicians on both sides of the aisle, including Clinton. When his GOP primary rivals castigated his donations to Democrats, Trump responded that he made the contributions because he was a businessman.
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Talbott Motorcycle Museum opens in Carmel Valley
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It’s official. Robb Talbott’s motorcycle museum is open.
The former wine and necktie magnate’s personal bike collection, housed inside a 5,000-square-foot space in Carmel Valley, received the last of its needed permits and is open to the public.
Motorcycle analysts have said the non-profit museum represents the West Coast's largest public exhibition of bikes, excluding private collections.
The barn-like former realty office, set at the eastern edge of the oak-dotted Carmel Valley village, houses 136 vintage two-wheeled machines.
The main room contains stunning examples of Italian postwar motorcycle art, including race bikes from Benelli, Gilera, Ducati and MV Agusta.
A basement contains a representative sample of bikes that dominated motocross racing in the 1960s and 1970s — many of them motorcycles that Talbott himself raced, or raced against.
Robb Talbott, astride one of his vintage machines. Randy Wilder / Talbott Motorcycle Museum Robb Talbott, astride one of his vintage machines. Robb Talbott, astride one of his vintage machines. (Randy Wilder / Talbott Motorcycle Museum)
Championship-winning motorcycles made by Triumph, BSA and Greeves, some slung in frames made by Rickman, stand alongside the two-strokes that ended the English reign, from Husqvarna, CZ, Maico and Bultaco — alongside some of the Japanese dirt bikes that challenged European motocross dominance.
Elsewhere are choppers, speedway racers, flat track bikes and more, along with vintage motorcycle-related photographs, signs and artwork.
The Italian room at Talbott's new museum. Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times The Italian room at Talbott's new museum. The Italian room at Talbott's new museum. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
The new museum will be open year-round, Thursday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets cost $12 for general admission, $10 for seniors and military, and $7 for children.
The opening of the museum comes after a very successful weekend for Talbott, who scored an unusual hat trick of three victories during the just-concluded Monterey Car Week festivities.
A vintage BMW R37 from his collection was named best motorcycle at the Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, on Aug. 19. The following day, a Benelli race bike featured at his museum was named top bike at the Concorso Italiano show. And on Sunday, the R37 won best in class in the BMW motorcycle division at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
“We did all right,” Talbott said Monday. “We had a pretty good weekend.”
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Rihanna's VMAs Vanguard performance split into mini-sets
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MTV's VMAs are here! But we may as well call them the Beyonce awards with how many awards she's nominated for. That would be a whopping 11. Adele comes in next with seven nominations. Drake, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are also vying for the top prize. Rihanna will receive the Vanguard Award, the VMAs' most prestigious award, which has previously been given to Michael Jackson, Madonna, and David Bowie. And while we're talking about flashback artists: Britney Spears is performing! Stay with us as we report all of the play-by-plays.
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4 Costa Mesa council candidates find a lot of common ground at forum
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A stage at the Neighborhood Community Center wasn't the only thing Costa Mesa City Council candidates shared Wednesday night.
During a two-hour question-and-answer session, they shared their thoughts about several issues facing the city. In many cases, they had similar perspectives.
Only four of the seven candidates running for the three council seats up for grabs in the Nov. 8 election attended the forum, which was sponsored by Mesa Verde Community Inc., a local homeowners association.
Those present were three Mesa Verde residents — Councilwoman Sandy Genis, former councilman and retired pharmaceutical distribution executive Jay Humphrey and business litigation attorney John Stephens — and State Streets resident Al Melone, a retired certified public accountant.
Not in attendance were Mayor Steve Mensinger, who is running for a second term, former state legislator and Costa Mesa mayor Allan Mansoor and Eastside resident Lee Ramos, a member of the city's Senior Commission.
"I apologize to you all that not all the candidates were here," forum moderator Mary Hornbuckle, a former Costa Mesa mayor and current vice president of the Coast Community College District board of trustees, told the crowd of about 120. "I don't think we ask any scary questions."
The candidates who did attend found plenty of common ground. In some cases, the candidates applauded one another's answers.
All four said they believe Fairview Park should be preserved as natural open space and that the city should do more to crack down on the use of illegal fireworks.
They also raised issues with the council's plan to move to voting districts, which was approved on a 3-2 vote in July.
Local voters will decide this fall whether to adopt the plan, which would split Costa Mesa into six voting districts. Residents in each district would elect one council member from that area to represent them. Currently, the council has five members, all elected by citywide vote.
If the plan is approved, Costa Mesa voters also would be able to directly elect a mayor, who would be a seventh member of the council. The mayor currently is a council member selected by a majority vote of the council.
The decision to shift to district-based elections was intended to prevent a threatened lawsuit alleging that Costa Mesa's citywide balloting method dilutes the ability of Latino residents to influence council elections.
On Wednesday, though, candidates said the council's plan isn't necessarily the right one.
"For various legal reasons we will have districting," said Genis, who voted against the plan when it went before the council. "But I think the 'six plus one' is a big mistake."
Melone said he's against moving to districts, but if the city has to, he would use a plan that keeps the council at five members and doesn't add a publicly elected mayor.
"I would like to think that maybe we can fight it in court," he said. "Maybe we don't have to acquiesce."
The candidates also were asked for their thoughts about the possibility of a merger between the Costa Mesa Sanitary District and the Mesa Water District.
The two agencies have feuded publicly over the topic for the past few months. Mesa Water has sponsored an advisory measure on November's ballot to gauge public sentiment on the concept.
Humphrey said he's "absolutely against" the merger idea, describing it as a "grab for power" by Mesa Water.
Stephens said he hasn't come to a conclusion about it but that he generally feels that "if it's not broke, don't fix it."
He doesn't think the measure should be on the November ballot because not enough information has been provided to the public.
A theme throughout the forum was that the candidates believe changes are needed in how council members interact with the public and one another.
"We have to develop a city that is open, that is responsive and is accountable," Humphrey said.
"Until we can be nice to one another, until we can be pleasant, we will not be able to build consensus," Stephens said.
The forum was the 16th sponsored by Mesa Verde Community Inc. Video of the event will be posted online at mesaverdecommunity.org.
The Eastside Costa Mesa Neighbors group will sponsor a candidates forum at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Neighborhood Community Center, 1845 Park Ave. A meet-and-greet will begin at 6:30 p.m.
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This year's state test scores: a mixed report card
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To the editor: Looking at and evaluating “students meeting standards” between ethnic groups is important, of course. However, without also looking at differences in home situations and reaching into them, gains in test scores will continue to be minimal.
(“State test scores up, but most students fall short,” Aug. 25)
Blaming teachers and a lack of funding is just an easy out. I don’t see anything in this article about programs that involve the parents, caregivers, guardians or anything to do with home life.
As a retired community college English professor, I have seen many students from homes that valued education and many students who had to struggle against the home situation before obtaining a high school diploma and entering higher education. All life begins in the home, “in the high chair,” so to speak — and that is where we as educators need to begin.
Beverly Reilly-Pinsky, Newport Beach
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To the editor: I have lived in Los Angeles for more than 40 years, and I strain to recall a Times headline that didn’t portray education in California as being in crisis. This time we read, “Across the state, 48% of students met English language arts standards and 37% met math standards, according to the test results released Wednesday morning.”
This pathetic performance, year after year, comes from one source: Our government-run education system. Any private corporation with such a track record would have gone out of business decades ago.
Prediction: Unless government gets out of education and turns it over to the private sector which, unlike government, thrives on competition and innovation, The Times be running similar headlines 50 years from now.
Al Ramrus, Pacific Palisades
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To the editor: In your story on test scores, it states, “The top-performing districts were wealthy enclaves such as Montecito, San Marino and Cupertino.” The article goes on to say that “the scores are just one factor that parents can use to assess the progress of the students and the quality of the schools they attend. “
No. We have known for decades that these scores primarily reflect the home environment of the students and not the schools. In fact, researchers tell us that only about 15% of a student’s level of academic achievement reflects on the school.
When we start to address the real causes of school failure, perhaps we’ll begin to see some real progress.
Linda Mele Johnson, Long Beach
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How a hot L.A. start-up went bankrupt: Inside the 'stress cage' that was Fuhu
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When graphic designers at children’s tablet and app maker Fuhu Inc. put up a Christmas tree with wacky ornaments for the holidays, an executive ripped them off and trashed them.
They couldn’t get a whiteboard for brainstorming or leave colored pencils or markers on their desk.
Former employees said the edict against untidiness emanated from a single leader, co-founder and President Robb Fujioka, whose marching orders effectively banned fixtures of office life as common as filing cabinets and snacking at the desk.
Fujioka has said he runs a democratic dictatorship at the struggling, 8-year-old El Segundo company. His micromanagement — closely monitoring, for instance, details as small as packaging labels and the waist size of animated characters — represented an asset as Fuhu tried to find its footing.
But as Fuhu grew to dominate the market for tablets tailored to children, Fujioka became a liability with a penchant for neatness that stifled creativity, a hot temper that drove workers to tears and a focus on minutiae that stalled projects, interviews with 19 people who worked at or with the company suggest. They are left to wonder whether Fujioka held on too tight, for too long.
“The fundamental issue is that when you have a vision and start the venture, that’s markedly different than taking the company to the next level,” said Suren Dutia, a former entrepreneur who advises start-ups on leadership transitions. “Founders must be brutally honest: Are they still qualified to steer the ship?”
With a parking lot overflowing with exotic cars and a string of office renovations, Fuhu appeared a success story, generating nearly $200 million in sales in 2013. But several lawsuits and disputes with vendors, including a $100-million unpaid tab with Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn, had left Fuhu in financial turmoil by last year.
El Segundo toy maker Mattel Inc. acquired the more than 400-employee start-up for $21.5 million in January out of a bankruptcy auction. It was well below the $1-billion valuation Fujioka had hoped to reach through an initial public offering that he repeatedly vowed was 18 months away. Banks such as Goldman Sachs privately rated the company as far from IPO shape, though it eventually worked with JPMorgan Chase to secretly file a prospectus.
Fuhu spokespeople have refused to make Fujioka available for an interview since the bankruptcy. In Inc. magazine’s September issue, he admits many internal issues stemmed from him.
“There was a bankruptcy of the business, but there was also a bankruptcy of the corporate culture,” he said.
Fuhu by email denied or disputed characterizations by former employees.
Designers, for instance, had collaboration tools beside whiteboards, eating at desks was welcome and no one discarded decorations, the company said.
“As much as it was able to triumph and overcome, there were many things that could have improved and serve as key learnings that help the team continue to grow,” a company statement read.
Fujioka, 46, had run several online marketing companies before he launched Fuhu alongside brothers Steve and John Hui, who had sold a PC business to Gateway. His supporters said Fuhu’s downfall primarily is a result of market dynamics. Tech giants such as Samsung and Amazon.com flooded stores with more affordable alternatives to Fuhu tablets. Demand fell as smartphone screens grew larger and people held onto tablets for many years. Fuhu also lacked big contracts with schools.
But former employees say the disorganized and grueling workplace took a toll on company culture and output.
Warned by reviews on jobs site Glassdoor or by friends and family close to the company, many workers expected long hours. They were lured, though, by the buzz around tech start-ups, their meritocracies and get-rich-quick potential.
But many soon found the conditions extreme.
“People were treated like adults, but being monitored like they were on a playground,” said a former worker, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal from Fuhu and Fujioka.
Many felt pressure to stick around late despite having completed their tasks for their day.
“You sat there like a dunce,” another former worker said.
Graphic designers packed notebooks and other supplies into drawers when not in use to appease management.
“It was a giant stress cage,” said a former designer. “I felt unsecure worrying about how many implements I had out on the table.”
Employees received perks: Unlimited vacation, an office gym with personal trainers, free lunches, loosely monitored overseas work travel and celebrations including a nearly all-expenses, two-day trip to the Hard Rock in Las Vegas in 2014.
But workers said high turnover crowded workloads, starving chances to go on vacation unless Fujioka favored the individuals. Contractors couldn’t access free food (although friends sneaked it to them), and one former employee said she got scolded for taking too many snacks.
New hires said they never received a walk-through of Fuhu’s tablets and apps. Those who requested a tutorial said they waited months for the experience.
Fujioka’s insistence on approving small details distracted him from bigger issues, said two people who interacted with him closely. It’s unclear if Fuhu’s board of directors recognized the apparent mismanagement or why investors such as Foxconn didn’t act sooner. Many, including film studio DreamWorks, declined to comment. Fuhu also had an advisory board, though an industry heavyweight on the panel said he hadn’t talked to Fuhu in at least four years. Fuhu said its directors “met regularly and were a part of all key decisions.”
Erik Beyer, a veteran game designer who spent a year at Fuhu, described Fujioka as the antithesis of a good leader.
“You’ve got to trust your employees, that’s why you hired them," Beyer said. “Anyone in that role should be focused on the big picture and propagating a vision, but that vision shouldn’t include work for the sake of work.”
Fujioka’s oversights included not enforcing stringent budgets. A former finance staffer — whose assertions Fuhu denied — left stunned that the company spent five times as much to ship tablets by air versus sea for no particular reason.
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A drone suddenly appeared above the field at Crenshaw High before the Crenshaw-oMission Hills football game on Friday night and later in the fourth quarter. School officials have no idea who it belongs to.
At one time, it dropped down very low, possibly in violation of a Los Angeles ordinance that says drones cannot be flown closer than 25 feet from another person. It also was being flown at night, in violation of the same ordinance. The drone has been seen before at Crenshaw practices.
School officials are expected to seek help in identifying who is flying the drone, adding another item to the many list of responsibilities in holding a sporting event.
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Home of the Week: An opulent dive over Stone Canyon Reservoir
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One might say this newly built mansion, overlooking the cool blue water of Stone Canyon Reservoir in Bel-Air, is awash in lavish detail.
Persian onyx, Italian travertine and French limestone finishes lend a polished look to an Italianate-inspired estate on about half an acre. Three swimming pools include the outdoor, infinity-edge variety as well as a tiled indoor oasis inspired by ancient Roman bathhouses.
The details
Known as Casa Lago, the Italianate-inspired villa sits on a half-acre hilltop overlooking Stone Canyon Reservoir in Bel-Air. (Matthew Momberger) (Matthew Momberger)
Location: 1940 Bel Air Road, Bel-Air, 90077
Asking price: $32.5 million
Year built: 2015
Developer: Marmara Development Group
House size: 25,680 square feet, eight bedrooms, 15 bathrooms
Lot size: 0.59 acres
Features: Persian onyx, Italian travertine and French limestone finishes; chef’s kitchen with custom island; wood-paneled office; master wing with foyer; billiard room, wine cellar; home theater; indoor swimming pool; two terrace patios with fire pits; infinity-edge swimming pool and spa; 12-car garage; staff garage
About the area: In June, 10 single-family homes sold in the 90077 ZIP Code at a median price of $3.08 million, according to CoreLogic. That was a 47.6% decrease in price year-over-year.
Agents: Aaron Kirman, (310) 994-9512, John Aaroe Group; and Branden and Raymi Williams, (310) 691-5935, Hilton & Hyland
To submit a candidate for Home of the Week, send high-resolution color photos via Dropbox.com, permission from the photographer to publish the images and a description of the house to homeoftheweek@latimes.com.
neal.leitereg@latimes.com
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Eugene Sims and Ethan Westbrooks have come a long way to add depth to the Los Angeles' Rams defensive line
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Between position drills, defensive line meetings and the grind of training camp, Eugene Sims and Ethan Westbrooks of the Rams spend a lot of time with each other.
But what ties their careers together is rarely mentioned.
“Once in a while one of us will do something and we’ll say, ‘You know we came from D-II?’” Sims said after a practice last week. l “Other than that, we don’t talk too much about coming from the same place.”
That place is West Texas A&M, the Rams’ unlikely source for depth at defensive end. Sims, entering his seventh season and one of the team’s oldest players, was drafted in 2010 after playing at the tiny Division II school. Westbrooks, starting his third season, was signed by the Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2014.
Each describes himself as a “rotational guy,” looking to relieve Robert Quinn or William Hayes and make big plays off the edge. It’s a key role in what might be the Rams’ strongest unit, and neither Sims nor Westbrooks is a stranger to maximizing limited opportunity.
“There’s a lot of pride in being a Division II guy,” Westbrooks said. “You’re used to being told you can’t do something. You’re used to not getting a lot of chances. But when you do, you make the most of it.”
When former West Texas A&M coach Don Carthel was recruiting Westbrooks out of Oakland, he told a white lie.
“Canyon is a great town between two cities,” Westbrooks remembers Carthel telling him in a phone conversation.
That was enough for the self-described “city kid,” who was bouncing around junior colleges in search of a stable situation. But when Westbrooks showed up for his first training camp, he noticed the flat landscape and not much else. There were no tall buildings to shield the beating sun. A few players on the team wanted to take him out for a night of fun, and that meant partying inside a barn.
Canyon’s two neighboring cities are Lubbock and Amarillo, not exactly the big-city atmosphere Westbrooks had grown accustomed to around Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento.
“You can watch a dog run away for three days,” said Brett Watson, who played with Sims at West Texas A&M and later became Westbrooks’ defensive line coach at the school. “There is nothing out there but school and football.”
For Sims and Westbrooks, West Texas A&M offered each of those things — and one last shot at the NFL.
Sims says he “messed up his chance to play Division I football” coming out of Mississippi, and leaves it at that. Westbrooks had a reputation for being difficult to coach, which is why he attended three junior colleges in two seasons before landing in Canyon.
Watson said he had been told by NFL scouts that D-II linemen have to win five out of six snaps to attract a pro team. Sims moved from safety to pass rusher and as a senior collected seven sacks among his 13½ tackles for loss. Westbrooks set a school record with 19½ sacks in his first season with the team.
When Westbrooks was trying to make the Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2014, 15 West Texas A&M players were either on NFL rosters or trying to make one. There are now nine former Buffaloes in the NFL: Three defensive linemen, two offensive linemen and four at skill positions.
“Us cats from West Texas A&M, I’ll tell you, we can play with the guys from the big conferences like the SEC, Pac-12, all that,” Sims said. “You just have to give us a shot.”
Heading into their return season in L.A., the Rams are made up of moving parts. The linebackers are either young or in new roles. Half of last year’s starting secondary is being replaced. The offense, aside from star running back Todd Gurley, is full of question marks.
That leaves the defensive line as the team’s surest unit, and the emergence of Sims and Westbrooks is another reason why. Sims has never had more than three sacks in a season but said he’s in the best shape of his career. Westbrooks, who finished with two sacks and 14 tackles while getting his first taste of action in 2015, feels a breakthrough coming.
“Those two guys provide an important lesson,” Watson said. “It’s not really about where you come from, but where you end up.”
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Home of the Day: Rustic meets refined at the Lodge in Sherman Oaks
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Equal parts hunting lodge and formal, traditionally styled home, this rustic-yet-refined property combines the best of both worlds.
Weathered timber posts, used brick finishes and exposed wooden ceilings and beams create rugged, masculine appeal while period details and imported European fixtures add touches of elegance.
Address: 3949 Oakfield Drive, Sherman Oaks, 91423
Price: $1.699 million
Built: 1937
Lot size: 17,551 square feet
House size: 4,000 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms
The home’s backyard entertaining space includes a large river-rock fireplace, covered outdoor kitchen with overhead heater, brick patio and spa. (Shooting LA) (Shooting LA)
Features: Exposed beams; weathered wood posts, molding and doors; stone and hardwood flooring; coffered ceilings; period details; built-in cabinetry; gourmet kitchen with commercial grade appliances; wine fridge; separate bar area; imported European fixtures; French doors; renovated bathrooms; multi-zoned heating and air; outdoor kitchen with overhead heater; outdoor river rock fireplace; used brick patio; in-ground spa; exterior stone fountains; treetop views of city lights and the Valley.
About the area: The median sale price for single-family homes in the 91423 ZIP Code in July was $1.172 million based on 34 sales, according to CoreLogic. That was a 0.7% decrease in median price compared with the same month last year.
Agents: Kira Gould, Gibson International, (310) 963-9563
To submit a candidate for Home of the Day, send high-resolution color photos via Dropbox.com, permission from the photographer to publish the images and a description of the house to neal.leitereg@latimes.com.
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Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near Big Bear City
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A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning 19 miles from Big Bear City, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:25 a.m. PDT at a depth of 4.3 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 21 miles from Yucca Valley, 31 miles from Desert Hot Springs, and 34 miles from Twentynine Palms.
In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.
This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm.
Read more about Southern California earthquakes.
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After 75 years, baseball in Bakersfield has struck out
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The modern ballpark is tucked into an entertainment district, with shops and restaurants surrounding the stadium, and blindingly bright digital display signs wherever you look. The ballpark here is across Chester Street from Big Valley Mower, Extra Space Storage and AAA Tire. The large sign welcoming you to Sam Lynn Ballpark is home to a few too many cobwebs, and to a weathered gold banner with a simple message for folks driving by: GAME TODAY.
There is a game Sunday, the last one scheduled at a ballpark that opened in 1941. The Bakersfield Blaze is going out of business, not by choice.
In a world with happy endings, this would be a story about the last homestand of the old ballpark, and the anticipation for the move into a new ballpark. But decades came and went, and plans came and went, and the new ballpark never came.
No ballpark does Late Night at the Ballgame quite like this one. The sun sets directly into the eye of the batter. No one much cared 75 years ago, when Bakersfield converted the old county fairgrounds into a ballpark and the team played day games.
Now, the games do not start until the sun sets, so first pitch is pushing 8 p.m. on the longest days of the year. They tried to block the setting sun by putting up a 50-foot-high screen behind center field, but it turned out the screen needed to block a little more of left field and a little less of center.
That screen became another quirk here, just like the scoreboard. Turn it on, and the scoreboard automatically credits the visiting team with no runs in the fifth inning, and the home team with seven runs in the seventh.
The scoreboard made its debut here in 1982, the same year Mark Langston played here. Langston retired 17 years ago; the scoreboard never did.
“I’ll get to tell stories to my grandkids someday about the six years I spent at the weirdest ballpark in America,” said Dan Besbris, the assistant general manager and team broadcaster.
The playing surface is first class. The stadium lights are not. The dugouts are beyond the bases, so it is a long walk from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box.
“It’s different. That’s what’s cool about it,” said Bakersfield infielder Justin Seager, older brother of Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager. “There’s a lot of character in this place.”
This is minor league baseball at its foundation, a place for players to build careers and fans to build community. The seats are functional, not lavish. But where else can you see a professional baseball game and buy bottled water for $3, Cracker Jack for $2 and, on Mondays, tickets for $1?
On one night, the home team dressed in SpongeBob SquarePants jerseys. On another night, fans got throwback Bakersfield Outlaws shirts, cheekily sponsored by Gotta Go Bail Bonds.
The Dennis “Froggy” Gallion gate at home plate is named not for a famous player or a local dignitary, but in honor of a beloved guy who has sold game programs here for a couple decades. The booster club has disbanded, but the old gang is getting together Sunday afternoon to throw a baby shower for Besbris and his wife, Jessica. (Surprise, Jessica! Your husband thought it would be really cool to reveal the surprise in this column.)
Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal played here five years ago. He became so close with team chaplain John Carter that he flew him to Florida two years later so he could officiate at Grandal’s wedding.
Grandal and Carter still talk every Sunday. When Minor League Baseball extinguished the Blaze last week, the chaplain texted Grandal to let him know.
“I still talk to a bunch of people there,” Grandal said at Dodger Stadium last week. “It’s a little sad to hear that baseball is getting away.”
It is also sad to say that Bakersfield might not miss its baseball team all that much. The team has ranked last in the Class A California League in attendance in each of the last 10 years and has not averaged even 1,000 fans per game since 2007.
Major league teams want the finest facilities for their major league players, and Bakersfield became something of a consolation prize for teams that could not find a more modern home elsewhere. The Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and San Francisco Giants all sent players here within the past two decades; none of those affiliations lasted more than six years.
In 2013, the Blaze was so close to securing a new ballpark that Besbris already had written the press release announcing the groundbreaking, but the owners failed to finalize the financing and sold the team instead. In 2014, the team was close to moving to Salinas.
This year, when the Adelanto City Council tried unsuccessfully to evict the High Desert Mavericks from their ballpark, Minor League Baseball pounced. Since moving two teams is easier than one — a league needs an even number of teams for scheduling purposes — Minor League Baseball essentially bought the Blaze and Mavericks, then sold them to owners who would place the teams in the Carolina League.
“To have baseball there that long and then to take it away, what is the city left with?” said Dodgers pitcher Jesse Chavez, who played here in 2005.
Minor league hockey does well here, in a new arena. It is difficult to imagine that minor league baseball would not do well here — in a new ballpark with modern amenities, and in a part of town closer to the population growth.
“This is a triple-A market,” said Blaze General Manager Mike Candela.
Indeed, Bakersfield has a larger population than Anaheim, and the Pacific Coast League might be a more logical home for a revived Bakersfield team than the California League. This might be wishful thinking, but what locals really hope for is a new ballpark that could lure the Dodgers’ triple-A team, currently in Oklahoma City.
The Dodgers have affiliated with Bakersfield three times, dating back to when the Brooklyn Dodgers sent Don Drysdale here. The Blaze yearbook calls the last Dodgers affiliation (1984-94), in which Pedro Martinez, Mike Piazza, Eric Karros and Raul Mondesi played here, “the golden era of baseball in Bakersfield.”
In the meantime, a town that ignored the Blaze all summer has swarmed the old ballpark to say farewell. Friday’s game sold out. So did Saturday’s. The team store has been cleaned out of just about all of its merchandise, including those SpongeBob jerseys and a roll of unused Bakersfield Dodgers tickets from three decades ago.
Bakersfield is on pace to qualify for the Cal League playoffs, so no one knows for sure when the last game here will take place. After it does, the team will donate a few memories to the Kern County Museum, and then the eight full-time employees will be out of work.
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Top 10 Boys' Athletes: Flintridge Prep's Jack Van Scoter leads way
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It was a year of stars and breakout performances from upperclassmen and seniors, in particular, in the city of La Cañada Flintridge. So many teams enjoyed valuable leadership, which translated into championship runs and individual success.
Leading the way was the 2015-16 La Cañada Valley Sun Boys' Athlete of the Year, Jack Van Scoter of Flintridge Prep.
Here is the list of the La Cañada Valley Sun's top-10 boys' athletes in 2015-16.
1 Jack Van Scoter, Flintridge Prep cross-country and track and field, senior – Through his first three years of participation at Flintridge Prep, Jack Van Scoter had already put together a very successful body of work.
The cross-country program won three Prep League titles, one CIF Southern Section Division V championship and turned in two top-three finishes at the state championships. Individually, Van Scoter also won a Southern Section Division V title and Prep League crown in 2014.
As for track, Van Scoter picked up a few Prep League championships.
What remained before the start of Van Scoter's senior year was whether all this success would lead to a brilliant 2015-16 campaign or a letdown.
"I don't think there was ever a worry that Jack wouldn't have a great senior year, but you also have to acknowledge that he had an already successful run in high school," Flintridge Prep cross-country Coach Ingrid Herskind said. "I think we were all excited to see what he would do."
Van Scoter didn't disappoint. If it's possible, the senior outperformed expectations and delivered in both cross-country and track and field.
Van Scoter won six individual races during the cross-country season, including a second straight Prep League individual title, a second consecutive Southern Section Division V crown and a second-place finish at the CIF State Division V meet.
His team also enjoyed its share of spoils as the Rebels won their 23rd league crown in 24 seasons and captured the Southern Section Division V crown, the seventh such title in school history.
Flintridge Prep also claimed an elusive state championship, the first for the program since 2004, as the Rebels blasted Marin Academy, 43-168. Van Scoter ended up finishing second in that race with a time of 15 minutes, 07.28 seconds.
"That's the one we had wanted to get for years and had come up short," said Van Scoter, whose team lost, 86-87, to St. Joseph Notre Dame in the 2012 state final. "It was a wonderful feeling."
In track, Van Scoter enjoyed his finest season, which included the best mark in the state in the 3,200-meter run at the Arcadia Invitational in a time of 8:51.32.
The senior won Prep League titles in the 1,600-meter (4:20.42) and 3,200 (9:18.06) runs, followed by Division IV championships in the 1,600 (4:13.90) and 3,200 (9:01.81).
Finally at the CIF State Championships, Van Scoter finished fifth in the 3,200 with a mark of 8:55.60.
2 Dante Fregoso, Flintridge Prep basketball and volleyball: Flintridge Prep's boys' basketball and boys' volleyball teams had banner seasons and without Fregoso, it's hard to fathom their fates would have been nearly as successful.
The front court force led the Rebels' basketball team to a Prep League title, a run to the CIF Southern Section Division 5-A championship game and the second round of the Division 5 state playoffs. After averaging 18.1 points, 9.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.2 steals per game, Fregoso was the Prep League Most Valuable Player, an All-Area first-teamer and an All-CIF selection.
He earned all the same accolades in the spring.
The former All-Area Boys' Volleyball Player notched 414 kills, 265 digs, 57 aces and 48 blocks as the outside hitter led the Rebels to another league championship and a spot in the Division IV semifinals.
"With Dante these last few years, it's been kind of like having an extra coach on the floor," Flintridge Prep Coach Sean Beattie said in June. "He's the type of player that can change a game with a big hit, or a big block or with the jump serve. He's the type of player who gets six, seven, eight straight points for you.
"Maybe the most important thing, though, is that 'coach on the floor' aspect. He's great at mentoring younger kids and getting them to play their best."
3 Koko Kurdoghlian, La Cañada basketball, senior – It was a wonderful year for the sharp-shooter, who helped his team to a 26-4 record and a 10-0 mark in the Rio Hondo League for a league crown.
For a third straight year, Kurdoghlian earned a least a share of the league's most valuable player honor, along with being named a CIF Southern Section Division IV-AA first-team choice.
Kurdoghlian averaged 13 points, 6.7 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.3 steals per contest this season and was named the All-Area Boys' Basketball Player of the Year.
"It's just so important to know your role and watch a lot of game film, so you can step on the court and be prepared for any given situation," Kurdoghlian said. "You need to know how to be in position to know the flow of the game and be a facilitator so you have all of your teammates involved at the same time."
Though known for his prowess behind the arc, Kurdoghlian became the program's all-time leading rebounder with 906 boards, which easily surpassed the previous mark of 785.
"It's something I take great pride in," Kurdoghlian said. "You work your tail off for so long to be good in something and rebounding became an area in which I could help my team.
"It wasn't really a goal of mine to break the rebounding record. You're taught to go after the ball on either side of the floor. It's just about being able to box out and then jump up to get the ball. It's pretty cool to break the record."
La Cañada advanced to the quarterfinals of the Division IV-AA playoffs after wins over Northview (65-24) and San Luis Obispo (58-32), but fell to visiting San Gabriel Academy (68-60) to end its season.
Sean Davitt Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun St. Francis High senior defensive end Sean Davitt registered sacks in 12 of 13 games, had 78 tackles and 34 tackles for a loss for the Golden Knights. St. Francis High senior defensive end Sean Davitt registered sacks in 12 of 13 games, had 78 tackles and 34 tackles for a loss for the Golden Knights. (Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun) (Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun)
4 Sean Davitt, St. Francis football: Twenty-three sacks.
It's a number that stands out and is unlikely to be duplicated anytime soon.
It's the final tally for Sean Davitt, the 2015 All-Area Football Player of the Year, who led the Golden Knights to the CIF Southern Section Southeast Division semifinals.
An All-CIF first-teamer performer who was voted All-Angelus League co-Linemen of the Year, Davitt registered sacks in 12 of 13 games, 78 tackles and 34 tackles for a loss.
The defensive end also played some tight end and was an excellent blocker who came up with a clutch catch here and there. But, ultimately, he turned in a season in which he terrorized offenses like nobody has in the area for some time.
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Yesterday was a big day at Fitbit. On August 29, the wearables company lifted the curtain on a number of new updates and products that are key indicators that connected accessories are being treated more as personal accessories than one-size-suits-all gadgets.
Among the new items from the fitness-tracking expert is the FitbitCharge 2, which is a wristband that merges the functionality of a fitness tracker with the notifications and larger screen of a smartwatch. The device can be worn with a handful of leather or metal bands that are sold separately.
Additionally, Fitbit releases the Fitbit Flex 2, which is a swim-proof fitness wristband that is smaller than the original. What’s especially interesting is that the removable tracker inside the wristband can be worn with alternative accessories aside from the classic bands in the form of metallic bracelets or necklaces. This signifies a dramatic shift in the versatility of Fitbit’s offerings, although other companies have manufactured accessories and jewelrylike cases for the Fitbit tracker, the brand today takes that approach in-house.
“Over the past nine years, it has been our ability to innovate on both design and utility, and our deep understanding of what consumers want, that has made us the leading global wearables company,” said Fitbit cofounder and chief executive officer James Park.
The tracker in the Flex 2 can be inserted into a lariat-style necklace or bangles in materials such as stainless steel or 22-karat plated gold. Fitbit today also shares new collections for its Fitbit Alta, a fitness wristband, and Fitbit Blaze, a smart fitness watch.
These new hardware options come with enhanced functionality and features in the fitness tracking and alert department, in addition to a new in-app feature called Fitbit Adventures.
But Fitbit hasn’t kept all the makeover fun in-house. It also revealed the expansion of a few designer collaborations; Public School, Simply Vera Vera Wang and Tory Burch all have created new fitness tracking accessories with Fitbit. Each is designed with an aesthetic that reflects the brand in materials such as metal and leather; Simply VeraVera Wang for Kohl’s, for example, features a double-wrap leather or chain-link bracelet. The Tory Burch pieces will be available in 2017.
Some of the new Fitbit Flex 2 designs unveiled August 29, 2016. Fitbit Some of the new Fitbit Flex 2 designs unveiled August 29, 2016. Some of the new Fitbit Flex 2 designs unveiled August 29, 2016. (Fitbit)
The Charge 2 and Flex 2 were available for pre-sale in the U.S. yesterday on Fitbit.com and today at online retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Target and more. This will extend globally through October. The Fitbit Charge 2 is $149.99 and the Fitbit Flex 2 is $99.95. These prices do not reflect additional bands or premium or special-edition items.
“Creating Fitbit products that consumers love and find indispensable is as much about advancing the innovative features and performance of the product as it is about designing how well it fits into wardrobes, lifestyles and moods,” said Tim Rosa, who is vice president of global marketing at Fitbit. Rosa said that with the software updates and the new designs, “we are continuing to build on the popularity of our products with more style choices and features that provide more usefulness than ever before so that consumers can wear them day and night.”
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Charles Osgood, long-time anchor of “CBS Sunday Morning,” announced today that he plans to retire after 22 years leading the broadcast. His career spanning 45 years at CBS News will be celebrated during his final show on Sept. 25.
“For years now, people — even friends and family — have been asking me why I keep doing this considering my age — I am pushing 84,” he said on Sunday’s show. “It's just that it’s been such a joy doing it... It's been a great run, but after nearly 50 years at CBS... the time has come.”
He will continue as the host of his daily news commentaries radio show, “The Osgood File,” and will make occasional appearances on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Osgood joined CBS News in 1971 and has served as an anchor and reporter for every news broadcast on the network including “CBS Morning News,” “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” and “CBS Sunday Night News.”
In 1994, he took over “CBS Sunday Morning,” where his voice became “one of the most distinctive voices in broadcasting,” David Rhodes, CBS News president, said in a statement. Osgood, said Rhodes, was adept at “guiding each broadcast, making sure the words were just right, and being a calming, reassuring presence to our viewers.”
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“His impeccable commitment to quality inspires all of us,” he said.
Under Osgood’s stewardship, “Sunday Morning” reached its highest audience levels in nearly three decades, and three times the broadcast was awarded a Daytime Emmy for outstanding morning program.
Top honors earned by Osgood include the Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism Award from Arizona State University, the George Foster Peabody Award and the National Assn. of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award.
The 90-minute special edition of “CBS Sunday Morning” honoring Osgood will feature a look at the legendary broadcaster’s career and include surprise guests, interviews, comments from well-wishers and special performances.
Follow me on Twitter: @TrevellAnderson.
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Beyoncé is the top nominee heading into the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards with 11 nods total, including the top prize video of the year for "Formation."
The song, which was released unannounced on the eve of her 2016 Super Bowl appearance, was praised for its assertive and unapologetic lyrics and imagery.
In additional to video of the year, "Formation" landed five additional nominations for pop video, direction, cinematography, editing and choreography.
Beyoncé's other nominations are for "Sorry" for cinematography, "Hold Up" for female video and art direction, "Freedom" for collaboration (with Kendrick Lamar) and "Lemonade" for long-form video.
The 16-time winner took away one award of her five nominations at last year's event.
Check out a couple of her nominated videos below (warning: adult language and imagery).
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Dodgers' Brock Stewart stifles Cubs and gets his first major league hit
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Jon Lester has two World Series championship rings, and 141 major league victories. Brock Stewart has zero rings and zero victories.
The Dodgers started Stewart against Lester and the Chicago Cubs on Sunday, and the Dodgers won. Stewart, making his third major league start, did not figure in the decision, but he pitched five shutout innings and struck out eight.
On Saturday, fellow rookie Julio Urias gave up one run in six innings, becoming the only Dodgers starter to beat the Cubs in the seven games between the teams this season.
“Each guy is really starting to blossom and grow,” Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts said. “There’s really no soft landing for these young players.”
The Cubs have the best record in the major leagues. The starter that stifled them on Sunday jumped from Class-A Rancho Cucamonga to double-A Tulsa in April and to triple-A Oklahoma City in June, and since then he is on his third stint with the Dodgers, an organization that is not shy about shuttling players between the majors and minors, even for a day or two.
“I’ve been all over the country, really,” Stewart said. “Those frequent flyer miles are piling up. It’s just part of it.”
Stewart did not get his first major league victory Sunday, but he did get his first major league hit, a single off Lester.
“It’s kind of surreal, to be honest,” Stewart said. “I just hope to be as good as him one day.”
The afternoon would have been more surreal had Stewart beaten his favorite team growing up. He grew up outside Chicago, but as a fan of the Chicago White Sox, so he was delighted to play a part in beating the Cubs.
“It was a lot of fun,” he said. “I’ve never been a big fan of them. I respect the heck out of them. They’re a great team. But I certainly don’t mind seeing them lose.”
Ruiz left out
For the second time in the three days since Carlos Ruiz joined the Dodgers, the team faced a left-handed starter. This time, Ruiz was on the bench.
When the Dodgers traded A.J. Ellis to the Philadelphia Phillies for Ruiz last week, they said that Ruiz could help win games against left-handers. Ruiz entered play Sunday with an .856 on-base-plus-slugging percentage off left-handers, as compared with .616 for Ellis and .803 for Yasmani Grandal, the Dodgers’ starting catcher.
On Sunday, the Cubs started Lester, a left-hander against whom Ruiz is hitless in 14 career at-bats. Roberts said that track record was a secondary factor in the decision to start Grandal over Ruiz.
“He’s a backup catcher,” Roberts said.
Since the Dodgers played a day game Sunday after a day game Saturday, Roberts said there was no need to rest Grandal in favor of Ruiz.
“No one said he’s going to play against every lefty,” Roberts said.
The Dodgers lost on Friday, in Ruiz’s debut, after the Cubs scored the tying run when Ruiz could not handle a cut fastball from closer Kenley Jansen. Ruiz never had caught Jansen, an issue that former Dodgers pitcher Dan Haren referenced when he tweeted that the Ellis trade “makes zero sense.”
Haren further tweeted: “Grandal catches everyday now. If something happened and he got hurt, the Dodgers would be much better off with AJ catching. Even with Grandal healthy, the upgrade is marginal at best. A catcher familiar with the pitching staff is vital.”
On Saturday, as Grandal caught in the game, Ruiz volunteered to catch every Dodgers reliever in the bullpen, so he could become familiar with their pitches. Roberts saluted Ruiz, an 11-year veteran, for his willingness “to humble himself and to educate himself.”
Said Roberts: “That’s something A.J. Ellis would do.”
Short hops
When rosters expand to 40 this week, Roberts said the Dodgers plan to activate relievers Louis Coleman and Casey Fien and call up Austin Barnes as a third catcher. Before anyone could ask about Yasiel Puig, Roberts said whether Puig would be called up in September was “under discussion.” … The Dodgers held their fantasy football draft Sunday. Jansen arrived at Dodger Stadium wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey, and cheese on his head.
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Partisan gerrymandering — the drawing of legislative districts to benefit one political party at the expense of another — is a venerable feature of American politics. It’s also an insidious and anti-democratic practice.
Especially with the advent of sophisticated computer programs, districts can be designed so that a party can exercise influence in a state legislature or congressional delegation obscenely out of proportion to its overall support — while satisfying the “one-person, one-vote” requirement that districts be roughly the same size.
For example, under a redistricting plan approved by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature, that state elected nine Republicans and four Democrats to the U.S. House in 2012 — even though 51% of North Carolina voters cast ballots for a Democrat.
Another consequence of gerrymandering is a lack of competition between the parties on election day. According to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, only 56 races for the U.S. House out of 435 contests this year are considered competitive. It's easy to game the outcome of elections by creating districts that are either “packed” with a surplus of voters of one party or “cracked” so there aren't enough members of that party to make a competitive election possible.
Either way — to borrow a phrase often heard in this year’s presidential campaign — the system of congressional districting in too many states is rigged. But the federal courts, which long have intervened in the drawing of district lines to guard against the abridgment of voting rights on the basis of race, have been skittish about tackling partisan gerrymandering.
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In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering could be challenged as unconstitutional if it involved “intentional discrimination against an identifiable political group and an actual discriminatory effect on that group.”
Yet in that case the court didn’t actually find such a violation, and in 2004, four justices led by the late Antonin Scalia said that the court should essentially stop looking. Scalia argued that the court should overturn its 1986 decision and admit that “no judicially discernible and manageable standards for adjudicating political gerrymandering claims have emerged.”
Fortunately, Scalia’s expression of futility 12 years ago was not the last word. As partisan gerrymandering continues to marginalize voters and paralyze the political process, courts have been forced to look at the issue anew. Two cases demonstrate that this problem is not going away.
One comes from North Carolina, where Republican legislators recently tweaked the map mentioned above after a court held that it constituted a racial gerrymander. But, like the previous version, the new map provides a lopsided advantage for Republicans and has provoked claims of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. One legislator involved in the latest redistricting acknowledged that “we are going to use political data … to gain a partisan advantage on the map.”
Meanwhile, Republicans in Maryland allege that a congressional map adopted by that state’s Democratic-controlled legislature in 2011 violated their constitutional rights. The new map changed the borders of one district traditionally represented by a Republican so that it no longer included 65,000 registered Republican voters but did include 30,000 new Democratic ones. In the 2012 election, the district was won by a Democrat, reducing the number of Republicans in the state’s eight-member delegation from two to one. Last week, a three-judge federal court ruled that the case should go to trial.
It’s too soon to say that days of partisan gerrymandering are numbered. But it’s significant that the Supreme Court last year unanimously rejected a claim that the Maryland suit couldn’t go forward.
Also, while past arguments against partisan gerrymandering have emphasized the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws, opponents of the Maryland map are focusing on the 1st Amendment’s free-speech protections. (Challengers to the North Carolina plan also make a 1st Amendment argument.)
That approach echoes Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s opinion in the 2004 case. Kennedy emphasized that allegations of partisan gerrymandering “involve the 1st Amendment interest of not burdening or penalizing citizens because of their participation in the electoral process, their voting history, their association with a political party, or their expression of political views.” When legislators move voters from one district to another because of the way they have voted in the past — and the way they are expected to vote in the future — that certainly looks like what is known as viewpoint discrimination.
If and when the high court revisits partisan gerrymandering, it will need to address an objection raised by Scalia in the 2004 case: that, unlike race, “political affiliation is not an immutable characteristic, but may shift from one election to the next; and even within a given election, not all voters follow the party line.”
That’s true, but if party loyalties didn’t exist and persist over time in geographical areas, gerrymandering wouldn’t be such a popular tactic.
Judicial intervention isn’t the only way to address partisan gerrymandering. For instance, some states, including California, have taken the drawing of congressional districts out of the hands of state legislatures and entrusted them to citizens’ commissions, an option the Supreme Court declared constitutional last year.
But, as in other areas, the Supreme Court must be willing to step in where the other branches of government refuse to act.
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Even though Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) holds a morbid fascination for “the infected,” he’s shocked at how they’re catered to at a Tijuana colonia on AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead.”
In “Los Muertos” (Episode 209), Nick awakens to the sound of chanting as a man sacrifices himself to ravenous zombies.
“Mi Papa!” sobs the doomed man’s young daughter (Katia Lopez).
“You don’t need to see it,” Nick exclaims, shielding the girl from this ghastly spectacle. “Don’t look!”
Later, when accompanying Luciana (Danay Garcia) on a supply run, Nick has questions.
“Those near death deliver themselves to the dead,” Luciana explains, thus protecting the community from attack.
“What if your friend became lunch for no reason?” Nick argues.
Dismissing Nick as a weak and faithless gringo, Luciana claims a natural cleansing process has begun. And when the zombies depart, “this world will be as new.”
Sounds great, but Nick and Luciana’s immediate goal is swapping prescription meds for bottled water. That involves making nice with gangsters controlling East Tijuana.
“They deal with everything now,” Luciana says. “And they will hang you for looking at them wrong!”
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The supply run proceeds smoothly until Nick is caught pilfering snack food.
“You know what we do to rats?” machete-wielding Marco Rodriguez (Alejandro Edda) yells. “We cut off their paws!”
Talking fast to save his hand, Nick points out that Marco’s sister is hooked on OxyContin.
“You’re gonna run out of Oxy,” Nick warns. “You let your sister go for one week without it, you’re gonna pray she turns so you can kill her!”
Nick will deliver the opioids, he says, in exchange for a shopping cart loaded with water.
“They could have killed us both right there,” Luciana hisses during their walk home. But her hostility eases when she realizes Nick stole the snack for the fatherless girl.
Nick’s kindness was misguided, however, according to colonia leader Alejandro Nuñez (Paul Calderon).
“Comfort is no supplement for faith,” Alejandro insists. “You do that girl no favors.”
Suddenly Nick spots an ominous scar on Alejandro’s shoulder. Are the stories true that this pharmacist suffered a zombie bite but didn’t become infected?
Upon hearing one of Alejandro’s fervent sermons, Nick wonders if he’s among “the children of the resurrection.”
“The world is for us. The faithful. The chosen ones,” Alejandro proclaims. “From death we come and to death we deliver ourselves!”
Elsewhere in Baja, Nick’s mother, Maddie (Kim Dickens), gives up searching for her son. She joins daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), Ofelia Salazar (Mercedes Mason) and Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) in heading for the “Abigail” yacht.
To their dismay, the boat is gone.
Needing shelter, these survivors break into a beachfront hotel. While Alicia and Ofelia explore the guest rooms, Maddie and Victor get drunk at the bar. Maddie laments that she’s “never gonna see Nick again.”
“That boy was born lost, like his daddy,” Maddie dejectedly says. “He’s been slipping through my fingers ever since the day I gave birth to him.”
As Maddie bitterly offers a toast to motherhood, Victor plays an out-of-tune piano. The ghoulish noise attracts zombies locked inside the hotel tower.
Alicia watches in horror as the undead hurl themselves off balconies, rise to their feet upon hitting the ground and stagger toward Maddie and Victor.
Making matters worse, Ofelia is suddenly AWOL.
“We’re not gonna make it,” Ofelia glumly said before disappearing. Devastated by the deaths of her parents, Ofelia lost all hope.
“You have me, for what it’s worth,” Alicia offered. “We’re family now.”
“Family is family,” Ofelia sadly replied.
In other words, Alicia is just a companion, not a sister.
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A federal appeals court decided by a 2-1 vote Friday that Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a child and held by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officials liable for failing to supervise her abductor.
“Phillip Garrido, a parolee with a terrible history of drug-fueled sexual violence, committed unspeakable crimes against Jaycee Dugard for 18 years,” U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John B. Owens wrote. “State and federal authorities missed many opportunities to stop these tragic events.”
Dugard received a $20-million settlement from California and sued the federal government for similar compensation.
“While our hearts are with Ms. Dugard, the law is not,” Owens, an appointee of President Obama based in San Diego, wrote for the majority.
The panel said federal law and its intersection with California law prevented her for being compensated “for the incompetence of the parole office that was supposedly supervising Garrido.“
Garrido was on federal parole when he and his wife kidnapped Dugard near her home in South Lake Tahoe. She was 11.
He held her captive, sometimes in chains, in a backyard shed and repeatedly raped and drugged her. She gave birth to two of his children during the ordeal. The three were discovered and freed in August 2009.
maura.dolan@latimes.com
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The ups and downs of L.A.'s tower boom
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To the editor: Those of us who live, work and play in downtown L.A. welcome the investment being made by Chinese developers in our emerging urban community.
(“Chinese builders think big in downtown L.A.,” Aug. 27)
The new development improves our streetscapes, gives us more living and shopping options and encourages additional investments by entrepreneurs in restaurants and other businesses catering to the blossoming downtown population.
Many of the developers in L.A. are required to provide community benefit packages that include funds to rebuild our parks and streets and in some cases provide additional low-income housing.
Patricia Berman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: That Chinese real estate giants (one curiously called Greenland) are building mega shopping and housing in downtown Los Angeles gives me the willies. I’m struck that this is happening while thousands of people in L. A. are working for stagnant wages where the cost of living is getting preposterous, and the homeless population keeps growing.
I wonder what other reason to build on such a massive scale than to make fast profits from sky-high rents? I find it worrisome that after supply exceeded demand in China, the real estate giants rushed to the U.S. and other countries to continue raking in profits.
Lucienne Ryerson, Los Angeles
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To the editor: It is inconceivable to me that the city fathers want to emulate Beijing and Shanghai with their populations in the millions.
It is bad enough that L.A. is almost 4 million with continued high density, intolerable traffic and parking problems, unaffordable housing and all while undergoing a continued drought.
How much revenue is needed at the expense of quality of human life?
Linda Roberts, Altadena
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To the editor: The building spree in downtown L.A. will add thousands of units of much-needed housing and retail space. The article mentions the possibility of “overbuilding” that may result in vacancies, as has occurred in China.
For housing to be “sellable” and sustainably occupied, it must also be accompanied by the support facilities residents require, such as retail space, schools, hospitals and libraries, for example.
My neighborhood of single-family homes was developed in the 1960s and the developer built a school, a park and adjoining retail space. Today our local school is a major factor in families continuing to move into our neighborhood, as are the park and the convenient nearby stores.
It would be good governance to require developers in downtown L.A. to include schools, parks and similar facilities in their developments or, at a minimum, to help the public sector pay for such facilities.
Ken Murray, Thousand Oaks
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Barbershop agrees to change advertising, pay damages to settle discrimination lawsuit by transgender man
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A barbershop accused of denying service to a transgender male will, as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the man, remove potentially discriminatory advertising from its website and its locations in Long Beach, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Australia.
The lawsuit, filed in March, claimed that employees at the Long Beach location of Hawleywood's Barber Shop & Shaving Parlor denied service to Rose Trevis, saying, "We don't cut women's hair."
Hawleywood's website formerly described the shop as a "men's sanctuary" and included the statement, "You all know how distracting a woman can be, and who wants a straight-razor shave with a buxom blonde in the joint?"
The website currently reads: "Hawleywood's Barber Shop attracts people from all walks of life."
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Frederick Shaller issued an injunction Aug. 16 that barred Hawleywood's from denying service based on gender or perceived gender, according to the settlement, which was reached Friday.
As part of the settlement, Hawleywood's also agreed to pay damages and attorney fees.
Trevis' attorney, Gloria Allred, and Hawleywood's attorney, Paul Sink, declined to reveal the amount of the payment.
Allred said Tuesday that her client is happy the lawsuit is over.
"It's 2016," Allred said. "That a business in California would so blatantly discriminate both by excluding women from their service and in their advertising in such a stereotypical manner … it's unacceptable."
Sink said Tuesday that the decision to settle the case was not an admission of wrongdoing on Hawleywood's part.
"Sometimes it's more economically feasible to settle than to fight," he said.
According to the lawsuit, Trevis and his female domestic partner walked by Hawleywood's in Long Beach and Trevis decided to get a haircut.
A barber told Trevis he would need an appointment, but when Trevis asked to make one, the barber said the shop didn't cut women's hair, according to the lawsuit.
"Who says I'm a woman?" Trevis said.
According to the suit, another employee looked Trevis up and down and said, "We don't cut women's hair."
Though Trevis said he was denied service, Sink said there were simply no immediate openings that day.
"They booked her for the next day," Sink said. "She never showed."
Sink also said his clients were confused as to who was requesting service.
"It was a mix-up on whose hair was going to get cut," Sink said. "[Trevis] came in with a female friend who had long hair, and my clients thought they were talking about the long-haired woman. They're not beauticians. They don't know how to cut women's hair."
Trevis said in a statement Monday that he was upset by the shop's treatment of him.
"I never would have thought I'd experience the humiliation of being discriminated against as a transgender man," he said. "What began as an unfortunate event has ended in justice."
Sink said the shop wants to move forward.
"They're still going to cater to men," he said. "But if you want a man's haircut, women can get it."
Fernandez is a Daily Pilot staff writer. Evans writes for the Los Angeles Times.
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Campaign 2016 updates: Donald Trump will meet with the Mexican president
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Donald Trump’s biting statements and blunt promises on immigration have been the core of his campaign since he announced his candidacy more than a year ago. But as he prepares to deliver a long-awaited speech on the subject Wednesday night in Phoenix, his once-forceful views have grown muddy.
“I’m not sure what his immigration policy is going to be,” said Helen Aguirre Ferre, the head of Hispanic communications for the Republican National Committee, during an interview. “We’ll see on Wednesday.”
Trump’s views rocketed him to the top of the GOP field and propelled him to the Republican nomination, but the issue has bedeviled him in the general election campaign. Only about 1 in 5 Latino voters supports him, according to a recent Fox News poll. Some strategists believe his sharp tone and unsparing policy proposals may also be dragging down his support among other groups of voters who recoil at the vision of rounding up 11 million immigrants who entered the country illegally.
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Why you'll want to figure out how to use a spiralizer
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I came late to the spiralizer party. I’d never heard of the gadget that turns vegetables into noodle-like strands until about a year ago, when I started seeing dishes with names such as “Zinguine™” on restaurant menus.
The gluten-free and paleo crowd have been onto this tool for some time — it’s a terrific technique for those who love pasta but have a problem with wheat or with carbs. I’m not a member of either of those groups, but I’ve always loved the taste and texture of zucchini pasta, which I made, laboriously, with a vegetable peeler before I bought my spiralizer.
It turns out that the spiralizer is a great prep tool for all sorts of other vegetables, including onions, potatoes, celeriac and beets; and it does a lot more than just transform them into pasta. Pass an onion through the fine blade and you’ll get incredibly thin slices in less than a minute — and no tears. The tool is like a simplified and much less expensive version of a mandolin; and you don’t risk cutting off the tip of your finger when you use it.
Recipe: Celeriac pasta with tomatoes and mint or basil »
This summer I’ve been using my spiralizer mainly to make vegetable pasta dishes. It’s perfect for this because many people crave lighter pastas when the weather is hot. Prep goes quickly and the cooking time for spiralized pasta strands, whether made with summer squash, celeriac, beets or rutabaga — can be less than a minute. Your stove won’t be on for long and your kitchen can stay cool.
Try using a mix of green and yellow squash ribbons — it makes for a gorgeous dish, and you can use up the mountains of summer squash your garden is producing or you pick up at the market.
Celeriac noodles are made using a spiralizer. Dillon Deaton / Los Angeles Times Celeriac noodles are made using a spiralizer. Celeriac noodles are made using a spiralizer. (Dillon Deaton / Los Angeles Times)
Zucchini and other summer squash have a high water content and release water when they cook, and afterward. Because of this, it’s a good idea to avoid accompanying squash noodles with liquidy sauces; the juices from the squash will dilute them. The squash provides its own welcome moisture, and if you use enough salt in your cooking water, the juice that it releases will be tasty.
Celeriac, one of my very favorite choices for vegetable noodles, doesn’t get watery when cooked. The noodles have a lot of flavor and are a better option to toss with tomato sauce than summer squash.
Spiralized vegetables also make wonderful stir-fries. I blanch them first, for just a minute, to ensure that the noodles are evenly cooked before I finish them in my wok with other stir-fry ingredients.
For those of you who find vegetable prep tedious, the spiralizer just may change your attitude about cooking. My sister, who has celiac disease and must avoid gluten in her diet, was visiting last winter when I was working on a collection of recipes for the spiralizer. After watching me turn out several dishes a day and being the happy recipient of one gluten-free pasta dish after another, she had an epiphany. “I realized that it’s not that I don’t like to cook,” she said. “It’s chopping that I don’t like.”
Recipe: Summer squash ribbons with green beans and herbs »
Summer squash pasta with greens and fresh herbs. Dillon Deaton / Los Angeles Times Summer squash pasta with greens and fresh herbs. Summer squash pasta with greens and fresh herbs. (Dillon Deaton / Los Angeles Times)
How spiralizers work:
There are two types of spiralizers on the market: smaller hand spiralizers and larger freestanding models. The freestanding models are easier to use and more versatile, with three to four blades for making fine and thicker strands and flat, ruffly pappardelle-like ribbons or slices.
To spiralize a vegetable, place a sheet pan or a wide shallow bowl at the end of the spiralizer to catch the strands. Trim the ends off the produce so that each end is flat. Affix one end to the circular hold in the center of the blade and secure it at the other end with the pronged piece attached to the crank. Make sure that it is centered. Then turn the crank. As you turn the crank the item moves against the blades as the center moves through the hole (sort of like a pencil in a pencil sharpener), and long curly strands or slices fall into the bowl or sheet pan. The strands can be very long, so you’ll want to cut them into manageable lengths with scissors. Some cooks cut their vegetables into shorter, 4-inch pieces before spiralizing.
Take care to double-peel vegetables with thick skins and those that have a fibrous layer underneath the skin, such as kohlrabi, celeriac and winter squash. If you don’t, some of the strands will be tough.
Left over, after the vegetable or fruit has gone through the blade as far as it will go, is a mushroom-shaped solid bit consisting of the middle that moved through the tube and the end affixed to the holder. You can use this for another purpose or cut it by hand.
Recipe: Stir-fried zucchini noodles with greens, cabbage and shrimp »
Stir-fried zucchini noodles with greens and shrimp. Dillon Deaton / Los Angeles Times Stir-fried zucchini noodles with greens and shrimp. Stir-fried zucchini noodles with greens and shrimp. (Dillon Deaton / Los Angeles Times)
What fruit and vegetables work:
— Produce that is firm, at least 1 1/2 inches long and at least 1 1/2 inches in diameter. This eliminates most carrots sold in 1-pound bags, but loose carrots are often wide enough at one end. I find it easiest to use a hand-held spiralizer for carrots and broccoli stems because the pronged holder on the crank spiralizers can’t get a purchase on the hard, narrow ends; they won’t turn properly against the blade.
— Like these: apples, Asian pears, beets, broccoli stems (only fat ones), carrots (only fat ones), celeriac, chayote, cucumbers, daikon radish, jicama, kohlrabi, onions, parsnips, pears, peppers, potatoes, radishes, rutabaga, sweet potatoes, turnips, watermelon radishes, winter squash, zucchini and other summer squash
What fruit and vegetables don’t work:
— Produce that is soft or juicy. The produce will give and fall apart or squish as it is pushed against the blade. Eggplant might appear firm, but the flesh has a spongy texture that will not stay intact when it is turned on the spiralizer; it will tear. Pears will work if they are firm, even if they are on the juicy side.
Caption Jonathan Gold on the secret, super spicy Jazz burger at Jitlada Jonathan Gold dishes on the Jazz burger, an off-menu item at Jitlada in Thai town, a site of pilgrimage for spicy food lovers. Jonathan Gold dishes on the Jazz burger, an off-menu item at Jitlada in Thai town, a site of pilgrimage for spicy food lovers. Caption The Walker Inn: Malibu cocktail Lead bartender, Katie Emmerson, at The Walker Inn located at the back of the Normandie Club talks about the Malibu cocktail. Lead bartender, Katie Emmerson, at The Walker Inn located at the back of the Normandie Club talks about the Malibu cocktail.
— Produce with lots of seeds or one big seed in the middle. The exception to this rule is thick-fleshed bell peppers. I use the spiralizer for peppers often, but I only spiralize a little more than halfway up the vegetable, until the blade reaches the seedpod.
— Produce that is narrow, like thin carrots and celery.
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Kamala Harris calls for measures to end 'crisis of confidence' between police, the public
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U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris on Tuesday called for new national policies to reduce recidivism by felons released from prison and to make data on crime and police actions more accessible to the public.
Harris, California’s attorney general, made the comments during a roundtable discussion on criminal justice at Community Coalition in South Los Angeles.
Harris said there is a “crisis of confidence” between law enforcement and communities that must be addressed. She spoke about how the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile in Minnesota in July and the ambush that killed five Dallas police officers shortly afterward broke “our collective hearts.”
Harris also called for more diversity in law enforcement agencies and additional training to eliminate police bias.
In 2015, Harris launched her agency’s “Open Justice” website which provides public access to data on arrest rates, in-custody and arrest-related deaths and law enforcement officers killed or assaulted — breaking the numbers down by race and ethnicity, cause of death and other factors.
That is a model of how criminal justice data should be made more transparent nationwide, she said.
“We need to have mandatory data collection. Publication of data,” Harris said. “Which means, those who have the information have to report it ... and the place where’s its being reported should make it transparent.”
Harris added that “transparency includes universal protocols around body cameras” for law enforcement officers.
Last year, Harris stopped short of supporting statewide requirements for officers to wear the body cameras, including legislation by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) to develop statewide standards on how the cameras would be operated and when the footage could be viewed.
Harris, who launched a pilot program on body cameras at the state Department of Justice, had cautioned against using a "one-size-fits-all" approach to regulate their use.
Harris campaign spokesman Nathan Click said there’s been no change in Harris' position. He said her comment Tuesday was in reference to the findings from the pilot program at the Department of Justice.
Harris is running to succeed the retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer and is being challenged by a fellow Democrat, Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez.
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Rams mailbag: How much has Case Keenum improved?
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After home exhibitions against the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs, the Rams are off to Denver to play the Super Bowl champion Broncos.
NFL teams must cut their rosters from 90 to 75 players by Tuesday afternoon. The final cuts, to 53 players, must be done by the afternoon of Sept. 3.
Now, on to your questions. Keep them coming at @latimesklein or gary.klein@latimes.com
https://twitter.com/TexansJohnny/status/768541532492292096
Case Keenum went into camp as the starter, a status he never enjoyed in his pro career with the Houston Texans and the Rams.
Despite the shadow of top pick Jared Goff, and the organization’s trumpeting him as their franchise quarterback, Keenum has played with confidence.
It is practice and exhibitions so it’s difficult to gauge how much Keenum has improved since going 3-2 as the starter last year.
We’ll know more when the regular season starts and he’s playing against front line players for an entire game rather than a few series.
But it seems clear that he has a good command of the offense.
https://twitter.com/Tommydeeman/status/768456453883465728
Quarterbacks coach Chris Weinke puts Case Keenum, Jared Goff, Sean Mannion and Dylan Thompson through a lot of drills, but throwing for distance is not one that I have witnessed.
The quarterbacks challenge each other to see who can hit the goal-post cross bar and they do any number of things when they come onto the field before practice. The other day, it looked like they were having some fun practicing a baseball relay-throw drill.
My sense is that Goff or Mannion can throw the ball the farthest.
https://twitter.com/patsayshi/status/768650431182442496
Judging from what they have done in training camp, and against Kansas City, offensive coordinator Rob Boras is not averse to having quarterbacks throw downfield.
The only regular element of the Rams offense, though, will be the quarterback handing the ball off to Todd Gurley. Perhaps this season the Rams can parlay that into effective play-action passes that will lift the franchise from the bottom of the NFL’s total offense and passing offense rankings.
Russell Wilson was a third-round pick by the Seattle Seahawks in the 2012 draft. He started 16 games as a rookie.
Colin Kaepernick was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 2011 draft. He played in three games but did not start.
As for Goff, the Rams traded to the top of the draft to select him. Through two exhibitions, he has not looked ready to start and Jeff Fisher has said he won’t play until he is ready. But that point could become moot if Case Keenum falters and the Rams brain trust decides to go all-in with Goff.
https://twitter.com/Blueblood_Rams/status/768143049796964352
Sean Mannion played well in the first exhibition against the Dallas Cowboys, passing for three second-half touchdowns.
The former Oregon State standout appears to have made big strides since the Rams drafted him in the third round in 2015.
Mannion is a tradeable asset but it’s probably way too early to consider trading him. Quarterbacks – even serviceable ones -- are a premium commodity in the NFL. Mannion gives the Rams a pretty affordable option if Case Keenum is injured and Jared Goff is not ready to play. Of course, with all the Rams have invested in Goff, he will get every opportunity.
As the season progresses, and other teams’ quarterbacks are injured, the market for Mannion might increase.
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Veteran receiver Brian Quick signed a one-year “prove it” contract and Jeff Fisher has of late not been shy about letting it be known that Quick has work to do.
On Sunday, when asked a general question about receivers, Fisher said Quick was dropping too many balls and needed to improve. Later in the week, when asked what he was hoping to see from receivers against the Broncos, he again brought up Quick by name and the need to catch the ball.
@LATimesklein chances they keep Brown and cut Mason? (tweet deleted)
Running back Tre Mason did not report to training camp in the aftermath of his March arrest in Florida in connection with misdemeanor driving and drug offenses. His future with the Rams has been in limbo and, at this point, it does not appear he will be returning any time soon.
Malcolm Brown has been the Rams’ leading rusher in exhibitions against the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs. He looks on track to win a spot behind Todd Gurley and Benny Cunningham.
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The problem you refer to, I’m guessing, is in the Rams secondary. And the solution you propose is signing free-agent safety Donte Whitner.
Whitner, 31, has been on the market since the Cleveland Browns released him in April.
The Rams had contact with Whitner but the veteran and the team were not close on proposed contract terms.
If he doesn’t sign with another team first – he reportedly was scheduled to visit the Carolina Panthers on Friday-- the Rams would probably revisit the possibility, but not at the price Whitner wanted originally.
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Fisher said Higbee was experiencing flu-like symptoms in the days leading up the Kansas City exhibition so he did not play against the Chiefs.
Higbee is coming off a knee injury that sidelined him last season at Western Kentucky. The Rams gave him a day off earlier in camp but he has gone full speed and impressed throughout training camp.
He practiced this week and appears set to play against the Broncos.
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It’s never too late if desirable players are available.
The Rams will no doubt monitor who gets cut when rosters are trimmed to 75 players after the third exhibition.
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Defensive lineman Quinton Coples signed as a free agent with the Rams after he was released by the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins last season.
The former first-round draft pick went into off-season workouts and training camp as an end, but he has been playing tackle. Against the Chiefs, he recorded a sack and forced two fumbles.
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Rob Havenstein remains on the physically unable to perform list, though he counts against the roster.
This week, he went through some warm-up drills and worked with trainers on the sideline during practices. Jeff Fisher said Havenstein would travel to Denver and go through pre-game activities. But he will not play.
Rodger Saffold has been playing right tackle on a line that includes left tackle Greg Robinson, left guard Cody Wichmann, center Tim Barnes and right guard Jamon Brown. The Rams want versatile offensive linemen so the rotation will come into focus against the Broncos.
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San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick plans to sit through the national anthem for as long as he feels is appropriate and until he sees major change in America, specifically when it comes to race relations.
He knows he could be cut for this stand. Criticized, ostracized — and he'll go it alone if need be. The quarterback realizes he might be treated poorly in some road cities, and he's ready for that, too, saying he's not overly concerned about his safety, but “if something happens that's only proving my point.”
Two days after he refused to stand for the “The Star Spangled Banner” before the 49ers' preseason loss to the Packers, Kaepernick said his stand will continue. He addressed his teammates Sunday morning, some agreeing with his message but not necessarily his method. Some said they know he has offended his countrymen.
Whatever the consequences, Kaepernick insists he will know “I did what's right.”
Kaepernick criticized presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, whom he called a “racist;” called out police brutality against minorities; and pushed for accountability.
“You can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist,” he said. “That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.”
Kaepernick insists his stand is not against men and women in the military fighting for Americans' rights and freedoms.
Exhibitions
Teddy Bridgewater was sharp in his return from a sore shoulder, completing 12 of 16 passes for 161 yards and a touchdown in the first half for the Minnesota Vikings in a 23-10 exhibition victory Sunday over the San Diego Chargers in the official unveiling their new stadium. Melvin Gordon, aiming to rebound from a rough rookie season, cruised through the middle of Minnesota's starting defense for a 39-yard touchdown run. San Diego lost running back Branden Oliver to an Achilles’ tendon injury on his right leg that required a cart to take him off.
Etc.
The Stephen Hill experiment is over in Carolina as the Panthers cut the wide receiver and 10 other players on Sunday. Hill was a 2012 second-round draft pick by the New York Jets. … Free agent running back Steven Ridley signed with the Indianapolis Colts. Ridley was cut Thursday by Detroit, which had signed the sixth-year veteran in April. … The Atlanta Falcons signed veteran free-agent safety Dashon Goldson, who was a 2012 All-Pro with the 49ers and had 110 tackles in 15 starts with the Redskins in 2015.
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Essential Politics: The Clintons and the Nigerian billionaire
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A Nigerian billionaire and a famed basketball player drew the most attention on the presidential campaign trail over the weekend.
I’m Christina Bellantoni. Welcome to Essential Politics, in what might be the final quiet week of this election.
On the front page of the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Joseph Tanfani introduced readers to the global philanthropy of Gilbert Chagoury, one of Africa’s richest men, and his ties to the Clinton family dating back to the 1990s. This is a man whose name is on a gallery at the Louvre and a medical school in Lebanon, who owns a seven-bedroom hilltop mansion in Beverly Hills, and who has a high-level network of friends from Washington to Lebanon to the Vatican, where he serves as an ambassador for the tiny island nation of St. Lucia.
Over the years Chagoury has been writing large checks, including a contribution of at least $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.
From Tanfani’s story:
By the time Hillary Clinton became secretary of State, the relationship was strong enough for Bill Clinton’s closest aide to push for Chagoury to get access to top diplomats, and the agency began exploring a deal, still under consideration, to build a consulate on Chagoury family land in Lagos, Nigeria.
But even as those talks were underway, bureaucrats in other arms of the State Department were examining accusations that Chagoury had unsavory affiliations, stemming from his activities and friendships in Lebanon. After a review, Chagoury was refused a visa to enter the U.S. last year.
We also posted in full the billionaire’s detailed response to the investigation. He says, in part, he can’t understand what all the fuss over the foundation is about.
Another big story this weekend happened as Donald Trump was criticized for his comments about the murder of Chicago Bulls player Dwyane Wade’s sister, after he linked the tragedy to his recent push attempting to win over black voters by highlighting urban plight. "Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!" he tweeted when acknowledging the shooting. The dustup continued into the weekend.
In Iowa, Trump returned to tough immigration talk, telling the crowd at Sen. Joni Ernst’s Roast and Ride that when it comes to "criminal illegal immigrants … We’re going to get rid of these people."
The GOP nominee plans a speech on immigration Wednesday.
TROUBLE IN TEXAS
Molly Hennessy-Fiske takes readers to Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, where freshman Republican Rep. Will Hurd is trying to outperform Trump and save his seat while Democrats consider his turf part of their best-case scenario attempts to win back control of the U.S. House.
For former Rep. Pete Gallego, attempting to win back his seat, he tries to talk about issues that matter to residents of the sprawling West Texas district. But the Democrat finds there’s one focus when he goes out to speak with voters: "The No. 1 local issue is Donald Trump."
Get the latest from the campaign trail on Trail Guide and follow @latimespolitics. Check our daily USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times tracking poll at the top of the politics page.
Caption Protest outside Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser Protest outside Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser at the Beverly Hills estate of controversial billionaire Haim Saban. Protest outside Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser at the Beverly Hills estate of controversial billionaire Haim Saban. Caption Gov. Jerry Brown criticizes Donald Trump and his 'acolytes' on climate change In an Aug. 24, 2016 news conference at the state Capitol to praise state lawmakers for enacting sweeping new climate change legislation, Gov. Jerry Brown called out GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his "acolytes" who have doubts on the existence of climate change. More political coverage at latimes.com/politics In an Aug. 24, 2016 news conference at the state Capitol to praise state lawmakers for enacting sweeping new climate change legislation, Gov. Jerry Brown called out GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his "acolytes" who have doubts on the existence of climate change. More political coverage at latimes.com/politics
MARK LENO: ‘I FIGHT FOR THE UNDERDOG’
This week marks the final days in the Legislature for a number of powerful lawmakers whom term limits are sending back home. Few have been as prominent on more issues than San Francisco Democrat Sen. Mark Leno, a fierce advocate on everything from LGBT issues to state budget priorities and beyond.
John Myers takes a closer look at Leno’s long record in Sacramento and how a rabbinical school dropout ended up being one of California’s most impactful lawmakers of the last decade.
THE STATE’S ENERGY REGULATOR CAN STILL HAVE PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH ENERGY COMPANIES
Under a major deal between Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers to overhaul the state’s scandal-ridden utility regulator, private communications between California Public Utilities Commission officials and energy companies will get more transparent.
But some advocates and observers are worrying that the new restrictions don’t go far enough, Liam Dillon reports. One consultant said that because even small decisions could lead to tens of millions of dollars in profit for energy companies, the entire practice should be banned.
One bill that’s part of the overhaul got sent to Brown’s desk last week.
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Same drug, different insurance tiers, crazy-high co-pays
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As sky-high EpiPen costs show, price gouging of patients by greedy drug companies is one part of our dysfunctional healthcare system. Another is what may appear to be the arbitrary way that insurers decide what co-pay to charge.
Santa Ana residents William and Phyllis Stevens encountered this recently when they were both prescribed the same cream for pre-cancerous skin growths.
One had a co-pay of $20, the other a co-insurance cost of $300. And the much-higher charge was levied for a version of the medicine that was weaker than the cheaper version — yet had jumped nearly 1,500% in price since 2009.
Welcome to Crazy Town.
“There’s no good economic rationale for why this happens,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “But it happens all the time.”
Insurers’ decisions about which drugs will be placed on which pricing tier can have a significant effect on patients.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 drugs typically will be generic or commonly prescribed medications and will have lower co-pays. Drugs on higher tiers will be regarded by the insurer as “specialty” meds and will come with higher co-pays or coinsurance costs.
Co-insurance is a percentage of the drug’s cost, usually about 25%, rather than a fixed co-payment.
“What this illustrates is that there are things we don’t think about when we buy insurance,” Kominski said. “But when we use insurance, we’re in for surprises.”
He said it’s a system “that requires us to be more and more sophisticated. But no one’s that smart.”
Shana Alex Charles, an assistant professor of health sciences at Cal State Fullerton, put it like this: “Much of our insurance system flies in the face of reason.”
The Stevens’ experience comes amid the ongoing fracas over pharmaceutical heavyweight Mylan boosting the price of EpiPens by more than 400% — the latest example of a drug company seeking sky-high payments for a medication that’s been around for decades.
Families have long relied on EpiPens to administer epinephrine, a hormone that counters the potentially fatal effects of severe allergic reactions to things such as bee stings and peanuts. There’s about a dollar’s worth of epinephrine in each EpiPen, to which Mylan purchased the rights in 2007 and proceeded to impose a string of double-digit price hikes.
On Monday, Mylan announced it will introduce a generic version of the EpiPen for half the cost. But that still will mean $300 for a pack of two and potentially will give Mylan even more control over the market by discouraging other generic manufacturers from trying to compete.
William Stevens, 83, told me he and his wife were both prescribed generic fluorourcil after their dermatologist found pre-cancerous growths on their skin. They were each given a prescription for a topical cream containing 5% of the drug.
The couple is insured by Scan Health Plan of Long Beach, which provides supplemental Medicare Advantage coverage to seniors. It’s a not-for-profit organization founded in 1977.
Stevens’ 81-year-old wife filled her prescription first. Because 5% fluorourcil was a Tier 3 drug for Scan, she was charged a $20 copay.
A few weeks later, Stevens filled his own prescription. This time, the pharmacist said she was out of 5% fluorourcil but could give the 0.5% strength. However, the pharmacist warned, this was a Tier 5 drug for Scan and thus would come with a coinsurance payment of $300.
Think about that: The same exact drug at a tenth of the strength costing more than 10 times as much.
“I asked the pharmacist how that could be,” Stevens recalled. “She had no explanation.”
There’s an explanation, but it’s not a very satisfying one.
Insurers use tiered pricing to steer members to the most affordable options, usually generics. In the case of fluorourcil, the 5% formulation is generic, so that’s the one Scan placed in its cheaper Tier 3.
The 0.5% version contains the same active ingredient but isn’t generic — it’s sold under the brand name Carac. So the insurer bumped it to Tier 5.
“It’s a loony situation,” acknowledged Sharon Jhawar, Scan’s vice president of pharmacy. “It’s maddening even to us.”
Loonier still, the manufacturer of Carac, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, has indulged in price hikes that make Mylan’s greed seem miserly by comparison. Valeant has drawn fire in the past for jacking up drug prices to astronomic levels, including a more than 700% increase in the price of heart medicine Isuprel.
In 2009, Jhawar said, a 30-gram tube of Carac sold for $160. It now runs closer to $2,500 — and that’s the discounted price negotiated by most insurers, she said. Valeant’s desired price is even higher.
Remember: Same active ingredient as the generic, only less.
I asked Valeant why the price of Carac has risen nearly 1,500% since 2009. The company sent me a statement that didn’t address that question.
Instead, it said Valeant, which replaced its chief executive in March, has set up a committee that “will take a disciplined approach to reviewing the company's pricing of drugs, and will consider the impact on patients, doctors and our healthcare industry partners.”
“While we will raise prices from time to time, we expect those price increases to be much more modest and within industry norms,” it said. “With respect to Carac, a lower-priced generic alternative is available.”
Well, that’s good news. Or maybe not.
Jhawar said Valeant gave permission last year for another drug maker, Spear Pharmaceuticals, to sell an “authorized generic” version of Carac until Valeant’s patent expires in 2021.
The price of that authorized generic? A mere $1,300 a tube.
David Lazarus' column runs Tuesdays and Fridays. He also can be seen daily on KTLA-TV Channel 5 and followed on Twitter @Davidlaz. Send your tips or feedback to david.lazarus@latimes.com.
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What we learned from Rams' exhibition defeat by the Denver Broncos
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What we learned from the Rams’ 17-9 loss to the Denver Broncos:
The Rams are keeping Tavon Austin under wraps
Hours after announcing a four-year contract extension for Tavon Austin, the wide receiver was all but invisible again. He was targeted once and did not have a reception.
That is keeping with the trend of the exhibition season.
Austin, the eighth pick in the 2013 draft, last season caught a career-best 52 passes and scored touchdowns after receptions, on carries and on a punt return.
Offensive coordinator Rob Boras will probably deploy Austin from all points and get the ball into his hands when the games start to count.
So check back in Sept. 12 when the Rams play the San Francisco 49ers on “Monday Night Football.”
Case Keenum is tough
Denver linebacker Von Miller sacked quarterback Case Keenum on the Rams’ first possession, and cornerback Aqib Talib drilled Keenum as he ran out of bounds in the second quarter.
Keenum bounced up from both hits and played a third consecutive exhibition without an interception or fumble.
Still, it would probably behoove Keenum to slide next time he scrambles into a situation that invites a violent hit.
Third down remains an issue
We understand it’s the exhibition season and multiple quarterbacks are playing with various offensive line combinations.
But the Rams converted only two of 15 third downs against the Broncos. They are eight for 33 in three exhibitions.
Yes, running back Todd Gurley did not play in two of those – including Saturday night – but the absence of a true go-to receiver is obvious.
Robert Quinn admires Von Miller
After playing in his first game since undergoing back surgery, Rams defensive end Quinn had Miller sign a Broncos jersey.
Quinn only played briefly, but the two-time Pro Bowl end made a tackle for a loss. His presence in the lineup and his performance on the field portends well for a defensive line that wants to be considered elite.
Miller had two tackles, including a sack.
Jared Goff can avoid turnovers
Rookie quarterback Jared Goff eliminated the early mistakes that plagued him in the first two exhibitions.
For the first time, he got through his first series without an interception or fumble.
He got lucky later in the first half when Broncos safety Darian Stewart jumped a route and dropped the ball before taking off for what would have been a pick six.
Goff completed only four of 12 passes for 45 yards but receivers once again dropped multiple passes.
Trumaine Johnson is a playmaker
We knew that based on the seven passes the cornerback intercepted last season and the Rams’ decision to put the franchise tag on him.
But we hadn’t seen much evidence in the first two games. Against Kansas City, Johnson got beat for a long gain.
But Johnson, who is earning about $14 million this season, showed his skills against the Broncos when he left his feet to break up a pass by quarterback Trevor Siemian and batted it to safety Cody Davis for an interception.
Brian Quick responded to a challenge
During the week, Coach Jeff Fisher all but dared veteran receiver Brian Quick to continue dropping passes.
The fifth-year pro was targeted three times against the Broncos and caught the ball each time.
That might not seem like a huge achievement for a receiver who signed a one-year, $1.75 million “prove-it” contract, but it had to be a confidence boost for Quick.
Greg Zuerlein is kicking with confidence
After not attempting a field goal in the first two exhibitions, kicker Greg Zuerlein converted from 29, 38 and 48 yards against the Broncos.
Zuerlein is coming off a 20-for-30 performance in 2015, and questions about whether the Rams were wise to re-sign him.
So far, he has made all of his extra-point kicks and field-goal attempts.
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A U.S. court has the authority to hear a trademark lawsuit by grocery chain Trader Joe's against a man who bought the company's products and resold them in Canada at Pirate Joe's, a store designed to mimic Trader Joe's, a federal appeals court said Friday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district court's decision to dismiss California-based Trader Joe's federal trademark claims.
The district court in Washington state had said it lacked authority to hear those claims because the defendant's reported trademark violations occurred in Canada and Trader Joe's had failed to clearly explain how they affected U.S. commerce.
The 9th Circuit said defendant Michael Hallatt's conduct could harm Trader Joe's reputation, decreasing the value of its American-held trademarks.
Circuit Judge Morgan Christen also pointed out that Hallatt bought the Trader Joe's goods he resold in Washington state.
Hallatt's attorney, Nathan Alexander, said in an email that he and Hallatt disagree with the ruling and are evaluating their options.
Hallatt disputed that his store looks like a Trader Joe's and said he has no intention of backing down.
“We're here to see it through, and that means doing this for the people who want this stuff,” he said.
Trader Joe's does not have stores in Canada. The company sued Hallatt in 2013, alleging that he drove across the border to a Trader Joe's store in Washington state, bought the company's products and resold them at higher prices at his Vancouver store.
A Trader Joe's store refused to sell to Hallatt, but he put on disguises to avoid detection, shopped at other stores as far away as California and hired others to shop for him, the company said in its lawsuit. It estimated Hallatt had spent more than $350,000 on its products.
In court documents responding to the lawsuit, Hallatt said that his business was lawful and that he provided a service to Canadians who wanted Trader Joe's products but didn't want to go through the trouble of traveling to the U.S. to get them. Hallatt also said he never represented himself as an authorized reseller of Trader Joe's products or as an affiliate of Trader Joe's.
The 9th Circuit sent the case back to the district court for further proceedings.
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Assembly members say goodbye to those who are leaving in 2016
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Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. Between now and Wednesday night, the big focus will be on the last hours of this year's legislative session in Sacramento.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a ban on using bullhooks to control elephants, a bill he vetoed in 2015.
An expansion of existing rules requiring equal pay, regardless of gender, is headed to Brown's desk.
Lawmakers approved a bill Monday requiring county jails to provide in-person visits for the families of inmates.
We're also tracking key bills and policy debateshere as the Legislature wraps up its work.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter for more, or subscribe to our free daily newsletter and the California Politics Podcast
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WWE Hall of Famer Mr. Fuji dies at 82
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WWE Hall of Famer Mr. Fuji, real name Harry Fujiwara, died Sunday morning at the age of 82, WWE announced. Cause and place of death have not been revealed.
Fujiwara began his career as Mr. Fuji and continued wrestling and managing for over 30 years. He was a five-time WWE tag team champion and became a manager after his in-ring career ended, leading the likes of Demolition, The Powers of Pain, Don Muraco and Yokozuna to the ring.
Fuji was heavily involved in the finish of WrestleMania IX, throwing salt in the eyes of world champion Bret Hart, allowing Yokozuna to pin Hart and become the new champion.
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Is Trump's immigration plan starting to sound like nothing more than status quo?
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Here's a question: What if Donald Trump's immigration plan ends up being not much different than how things work today?
That seems to be possible scenario after top campaign officials retreated Sunday on both his signature "deportation force" to rid the country of 11 million immigrants, but also on the possibility of granting legal status to certain immigrants.
The latest statements clouded Trump's already shifting thinking after a tumultuous week that saw him zig-zag across the immigration debate.
Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on "Fox News Sunday" shot down any chance that immigrants could stay in the U.S. and become legal.
If immigrants want to gain legal status, Conway said, they need to leave the U.S., go home and reapply.
"No legalization, no amnesty," Conway said on Fox News Sunday. "We all learned in kindergarten to stand in line and wait our turn."
But both Conway and vice presidential nominee Mike Pence also backed away from Trump's earlier promise for a "deportation force" that would round up and kick out the estimated 11 million immigrants now in the country illegally.
Pressed on what to do with those already here, Conway suggested tougher enforcement of existing laws.
"That's really the question here," she said on "Face the Nation." "We have agencies that already exist that are meant to be doing this already."
So what's the upshot of these latest positions?
It's starting to sound like the process already in effect under President Obama.
Obama has already focused the Homeland Security agencies on deporting criminal immigrants, as Trump has been emphasizing in recent days. In fact, deportations under Obama hit an all time high but have since become more targeted.
Trump says he will still act on his promise to build a wall along the border with Mexico, beefing up a barrier that already exists in some places along with virtual surveillance.
Trump's team has indicated he will deliver a sweeping immigration address at some point, but it has been repeatedly postponed.
Trump's pivot last week toward what he called a "softer" approach on illegal immigration now appears to have been a trial balloon that angered all sides.
But so far his latest position doesn't seem to offer any new ideas. In fact, it sounds more like the status quo.
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A dance 'Tour de Force,' minus the force, at Segerstrom Center
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The gala-style ballet program is an audience favorite, its international cast packed with principal dancers who normally don’t perform together. You might get stars from the Mariinsky, the Bolshoi, England’s Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, all in one night.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa opened its dance season Saturday with such a night, “Tour de Force III.” If you perused the program’s stellar names, they seemed to line up similarly to “Tour” I (2009) and II (2011).
The difference was in the ballets. “Tour” producer Sergei Danilian wanted this show to focus on new pieces by lesser-known choreographers. As it happened, dancer injury and visa troubles intervened and Russia’s Diana Vishneva and England’s Edward Watson were no shows, causing other dominoes to fall, too, including the cancellation of the 2015 piece “Zeitgeist” by the Royal Ballet’s Alastair Marriott. Next time.
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Shuffled in as substitute was Russell Maliphant’s new “Silent Echo,” a disappointing wasted effort for the gifted duo Natalia Osipova and the Ukrainian-born sensation Sergei Polunin, in his West Coast debut. (If you haven’t seen him in the dance video of Hozier’s “Take Me to the Church” — 15.6 million views and counting — it’s a worthwhile four minutes on YouTube.)
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With the dust settled, “Tour de Force III” ended up with a logical shape: works by two up-and-coming Russian dance-makers in the first half and veterans Marcelo Gomes of ABT and Maliphant after intermission.
Maxim Petrov’s “Le Divertissement du Roi” was an odd, but pleasantly entertaining curtain-opener, a counterintuitive direction to venture for a twenty-something choreographer. In five scenes, Petrov presents a fanciful theatrical at the court of Louis XIV, with the Sun King himself as soloist, to recorded selections by Jean-Philippe Rameau (“Les Indes Galantes,” among others). I did wonder if Petrov was really playing it straight here, and the audience chuckled at Soslan Kulaev as the master of ceremony, announcing upcoming scenes in a distinctive marbles-in-mouth French.
But “Divertissement” dripped with sincerity and purpose, celebrating the glory of the small detail and refined dancing. Petrov imagined a neo-early-classical style of gracefully curved arms, delicate upper-body shifts, little jumps and what we might consider old-fashioned jokiness. The corps de ballet of four men wiggled their fingers sinisterly to portray little devils. Philipp Stepin was the appropriately regal dancing King, even when pretending to be drunk and careening off balance. Backdrops taken from 17th century drawings and Tatiana Noginova’s costumes of red velvet breeches added to the ballet’s old world spirit.
Vladimir Varnava’s “Clay,” danced to composer Darius Milhaud’s “The Creation of the World,” presented a view of nascent humanity. Beginning with a clever clump of three men and three women holding on to one another, they eventually split apart while remaining emotionally reliant upon one another. Solos and group dances were cutesy and tedious, with movement for its own sake failing to provide sustenance.
Gomes’ “Tristesse” suffered from a similar malady. An extremely likable and emotionally truthful dancer, Gomes has been choreographing for a while. “Tristesse” cites inspiration from the poetry of Frenchman Paul Eluard, but this felt like a most personal endeavor. Joined by Joaquin De Luz, Denis Matvienko and the sensational Friedemann Vogel, Gomes presented scenes of companionship, love and, ultimately abandonment. This is well-worn material, and Gomes has an overly obvious choreographic touch, all the more unfortunate given that he was using the lovely Chopin Etudes, played with gorgeous passion by pianist Dimitri Dover.
We had to wait till the night’s end for “Silent Echo” and its expected fireworks, so the fact that it was a dud was all the more crushing. Maliphant and a frequent collaborator, lighting designer Michael Hulls, are guilty of the visual tease. Overhead spotlights go on and too soon off on Osipova and Polunin, with only their whirling upper bodies visible. A pounding score by Scanner, a.k.a. British composer and artist Robin Rimbaud, added to the discomfort. Solos for each dancer were tantalizingly brief, and seemingly endless visions of Osipova whipping her long hair were maddening. Here were the stars, but the “tour de force” was missing.
Maybe next time.
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If you can't vote in person, this bill would allow anyone you choose to turn in your ballot
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Ballots cast by California voters could be turned in at elections offices by anyone, including campaign workers or political party officials, under a bill sent to Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday.
Assembly Bill 1921 removes the language in existing state law that limits help in submitting a vote by mail ballot to close family members. The bill's author, Assemblywoman Lorena S. Gonzalez (D-San Diego), has said those limitations are an obstacle to getting ballots back in a timely fashion for voters in need of help.
In a legislative committee hearing in June, opponents noted that AB 1921 has no maximum number of ballots a single person can turn in and could therefore open the door to vote tampering during large-scale ballot gathering efforts.
Most other states that allow someone to turn in multiple ballots generally limit it to as many as 10 ballots. AB 1921, however, places no maximum number on those that could be submitted to California elections officials by a single person.
The bill passed with no floor debate on Tuesday in the Assembly. Brown has until Sept. 30 to sign it into law or veto it.
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Kyrgyzstan's deputy prime minister said a suicide bomber had rammed his car into the gate of the Chinese embassy compound in the capital Bishkek, detonating a bomb and injuring three embassy employees.
Russian news agencies on Tuesday quoted the Central Asian country's health minister as saying that one person died and two more were injured in the blast.
The Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Prime Minister Zhenish Razakov as saying that the suicide bomber had rammed into the gate of the embassy, detonating the bomb. Razakov said the bomber died and three embassy employees, all Kyrgyz nationals, were injured.
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Crime Report: Elaborate fraud scheme under investigation as suspected elder abuse case
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Burglary, vehicle, and theft by access card: 5500 block of Godbey Drive. A woman reported that she parked her car in a lot at La Cañada Flintridge Country Club at about 2:30 p.m. She and her husband got out of the car and locked it remotely with the key fob.
At approximately 3:05 p.m., the clubhouse manager advised her that someone had shattered the rear window on the driver's side of her car. She went to the vehicle and could see that her purse, which she'd left on the floorboard of the rear passenger area, was gone. In it had been her wallet with driver's license, a Nordstrom debit and credit card, an American Express card, a Target credit and debit card, a Bank of America debit card, a makeup bag and her two daughters' U.S. passports.
She reported that she received text messages from American Express and Bank of America alerting her that her cards were being used at different locations and seeking verification. She placed holds on all her bank accounts and said she would be placing a fraud alert on her name.
Theft by false pretense: 1400 block of Descanso Drive. A man reported that in March a man with an Indian accent called him on his cellphone, said he worked for Microsoft and that they'd noticed the victim had Internet problems. The caller told the victim that in order to fix the issues, he needed to pay them an amount not specified in the police report.
The victim said he provided the caller with credit card information and was immediately billed for the transaction. Then, this month, a male with an Indian accent, also claiming to work for Microsoft, called the victim's cellphone and told him he was due to receive a refund because Microsoft servers were shutting down. The victim reported that the caller somehow started controlling the victim's computer remotely and placed an amount not specified in the crime report into the victim's Wells Fargo checking account.
He then instructed the victim to go to his bank, withdraw funds from it, and place a specified amount onto several iTunes gift cards. The victim stated he purchased a total of seven iTunes gift cards through PayPal. The victim was further instructed to read the serial numbers off each gift card to the man with the Indian accent.
Later, the victim received a call from an unknown man who stated he worked for PayPal and that they'd noticed the purchase of numerous gift cards for high amounts and that this might be a scam if he was sending them to someone else. He was further advised that they would try to reject the money transfer involved.
The victim received another phone call, this time from the man with the Indian accent, seeking another exchange. It is unclear from the crime report what the outcome of that conversation was. But the victim told the deputy taking the report that his account at Wells Fargo had been closed and a new one opened.
The incidents generated a suspected elder abuse report. The deputy contacted the Pasadena office of Adult Protective Services and was told a social worker was assigned to the case for follow-up.
Aug. 12
Burglary, residential: 4000 block of Dover Road. A woman reported that she and her daughter left their home at 1:45 p.m. When they returned about two hours later, they entered through the front door and noticed that a hallway door that is always kept closed was open. The woman then walked into the family room and saw that a rear glass door was shattered. She yelled at her daughter to get out of the house. They both went out to the street and called for assistance.
Two deputies arrived and swept the area, but no suspects were found. The home office and bedrooms had been rummaged through and the master bedroom closet was ransacked. Immediately identified as missing were some Olympic pennants, an unknown quantity of costume jewelry and an unknown amount of collectible coins.
Burglary, residential: 700 block of Flintridge Avenue. A woman reported that when she left her home at about 10:30 a.m., she left a rear sliding glass door open so her two dogs could go in and out. When she returned at about 3:55 p.m., she noticed a gate was open at the property that she had left closed. She entered her backyard through the gate. She observed that the sliding glass door was still open and, through the window, she could see her dogs sitting in the living room. She could also see from outside that the master bedroom door, which she had left open, was shut.
She then walked around her property and peered into the master bedroom from a window and could see it had been ransacked. She entered the bedroom through an unlocked exterior door that is usually kept locked with a deadbolt.
A pillowcase was gone from her bed and she could see that the contents of two drawers of her vanity had been stolen. Gone were a 20-inch Mikimoto pearl necklace that's about 90 years old and a 16- to 18-inch pearl necklace that's about 40 years old. Also missing were various pieces of gold jewelry. After taking her report, a deputy learned that the Glendale Police Department had arrested three male black suspects who had been in a red SUV, on suspicion of a residential burglary that occurred nearby at about 1 p.m., in the 3500 block of East Chevy Chase Drive.
Aug. 13
Identity theft. 4000 block of Alta Vista Drive. A woman reported that, beginning on June 16 and continuing into early August, she and her husband had both received multiple notices of someone trying to open credit card accounts using their names — and, in some cases, making purchases on the fraudulent accounts. Both victims contacted the three major credit reporting agencies and placed a 90-day fraud alert on their accounts. The couple have changed their mailbox and now have a locked door on it.
Grand theft from vehicle: 5400 block of Ocean View Boulevard. A man reported that two rear passenger seats had been taken from his 2007 Cadillac Escalade SLT. He said he left town to go on a business trip on Aug. 11. At 12:36 a.m. on Aug. 12, he received a text alert from his surveillance system alerting him that a camera mounted at his garage door had been disconnected. He didn't think anything of it at the time. On Aug. 13, back in town, he and his family went to the L.A. Zoo. When he went to the rear of the SUV to pull out his daughter's stroller, he could see that the two seats were missing. He asked his wife about it and, although she had driven the SUV on Aug. 12, she didn't notice at the time that the seats were gone. He reviewed his surveillance system and it showed that an unseen person disconnected the camera to the garage at 12:36 a.m. Aug. 12 and it was reconnected at 1:15 a.m. the same day.
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Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' is timely, necessary and shattering
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It’s hard to make your way through the Underground Railroad. And when you finally do — after days, weeks, months submerged in its acrid darkness, soundless and shattered, with only bouts of desperate, fitful sleep — you come up to the light, stand still in the open air and wait for the next instance when you are either violently seized or forced to flee for your life. I am referring both to the story line of “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead and the experience of reading it. At every point of entry, opening “The Underground Railroad” feels like reentering the actual pages of the book, itself a lightless tunnel, as the narrative digs into your gut, jars you out of complacency, shoots a kind of acid history into your bloodstream and settles into your bones. As it should be.
Whitehead’s latest novel is, in its way, a slave narrative; it follows Cora, a young slave girl, and her escape from the Randall plantation in Georgia after she learns about the Underground Railroad from a newly purchased slave named Caesar. But it is also a fiercely salient reckoning of what it means, has meant and continues to mean to be black in America.
As we readers arrive at the end of our first black presidency, continue to face almost daily viral video footage of police killing black bodies, and black Americans salute — perhaps at our own peril — the awakened political power of young racial justice activists and pop cultural artists, “The Underground Railroad” could not be more timely and necessary.
In America, when it comes to understanding or examining systemic racism, we often hear reference to “the conversation” and how important it is to accept the challenge of how “uncomfortable” that conversation might be. What is so strikingly clear in the pages of “The Underground Railroad” is that we actually have no idea just how uncomfortable we need to get before we even begin to understand how far we have to go.
A fiercely salient reckoning of what it means, has meant and continues to mean to be black in America. — Rebecca Carroll on 'The Underground Railroad'
In her video announcing “The Underground Railroad” as the most recent selection for her celebrated book club, Oprah Winfrey says, “Oh, have I found a great book! ... This book has kept me up at night, had my heart in my throat, almost afraid to turn the next page.” And it is a great book — beautifully written, vigorous in its horror and proxy for historical truth — but perhaps more important than Oprah deeming “The Underground Railroad” great is the fact that her book club can function as a fire hose to get its story out to an extensive readership, elite and broad. It’s not the first time Oprah has chosen a book by a black author or one that deals with issues surrounding race in America. It is, however, the most explicit selection that deals with slavery in jarring detail. My hope is that not just a quarter or half of Oprah’s Book Club members read this book and feel moved by it — but that all of Oprah’s Book Club members read this book and feel not merely moved, but galvanized. Not to riot, but to reconcile with the racial narrative this country has contrived to center a white supremacist provenance, and which Whitehead lays bare.
The book begins with the maiden voyage, the well-documented slave ships, the treacherous, inhumane conditions of bodies stacked upon bodies, chained to plank beds, breathing in the stench and existing for weeks and months soaked in urine and feces and sick, being force fed just enough to prevent starvation, brought to the edge of death as punishment for trying to die. Cora’s grandmother Ajarry was on one of these ships — torn away from her African village of Ouidah. The men had been taken first, and Ajarry learns before her own capture that because her father hadn’t been able to keep pace with the others, the slavers “stove in his head and left his body by the trail.” This is Page 1.
We have heard and read these stories throughout history — handed down in our families or taught in college, sometimes in high school. But for many of us now so far physically removed from slavery, it’s hard to imagine enduring the utterly relentless barbarity of the Middle Passage. Or later, life on the plantation, with “travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather.” It is at the very least intensely harrowing to read, a feeling compounded by a mighty, almost insurmountable sense of gratitude for those who withstood the worst denigration of our origins as black people in America so that we could live. If I can hardly bear to read it, it would be arrogant to think that I have any real sense of what it might actually feel like to experience it.
I had vivid, brutal nightmares every night for the first few days after I started reading the book — always some variation of me and my son being kidnapped and enslaved, my son watching me get raped by a slave master with my neck in a noose, while my husband, who is white, was left to wonder whether we were dead or alive, or if he himself would be murdered for miscegenation -- but I still woke up in the morning unshackled, my son sleeping soundly in the room next door, our family intact.
What is not hard to imagine, though, what in fact feels like a backdated American anthem, is the deafening tenacity of our perceived worthlessness as living, breathing human beings.
Cora makes three trips on the Underground Railroad, which in the book is an actual railroad with tracks, platforms and compartments of varying upkeep or decay, and engineers and conductors that navigate the train through tunnels dug by hand underneath Southern land. Cora’s grandmother had died on the plantation, but her mother, Mabel, had fled and never been caught. Mabel becomes a subject of lore, about which slave masters and slave catchers alike become obsessive. Cora resents her mother for leaving her, but vehemently protects and tends to the tiny garden passed down from her and her grandmother.
Cora both does and doesn’t run because of her mother. Ultimately, the precipitating factor doesn’t entirely matter: “Every slave thinks about it. In the morning and in the afternoon and in the night. Dreaming of it. Every dream a dream of escape even when it didn’t look like it. When it was a dream of new shoes.” We follow Cora and Caesar to South Carolina, where they both make brief and tentative, almost free lives for themselves. Then Cora is forced to flee again and again, all while being hunted down by Ridgeway, a patroller who pursues runaway slaves “as if they were rabbits and then his fists subdued them.… In the chase his blood sang and glowed.”
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Did Beyoncé pay tribute to Prince or uplift feminism?
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It's fair to say Beyonce stole the MTV VMAs with an extended performance inspired by "Lemonade." It was also a special evening for Rihanna, who performed throughout the night before Drake presented the Vanguard award to the woman he's "been in love with since [he] was 22 years old." And Britney Spears returned to the VMAs stage; it was an admirable effort, but even those shadow fingers couldn't come close to topping Beyonce.
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Tim Tebow shows off baseball skills, and some scouts say he'll likely be signed and sent to the minors
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Tim Tebow showcased his baseball skills Tuesday before a bevy of scouts on the USC campus, in a spectacle broadcast by dozens of television cameras, many live.
The 29-year-old former college All-American and NFL quarterback ran a 60-yard dash, threw, caught flies and grounders in the outfield, took standard batting practice and then faced two pitchers with big league experience in live batting practice.
The Dodgers’ director of amateur scouting, Billy Gasparino, was in attendance, as was a pro scout for the Angels, former big leaguer Ben Francisco. At least 27 of MLB’s 30 teams had representatives in attendance.
Scouts queried agreed that Tebow is likely to be signed and assigned to the lower levels of the minors, perhaps high Class-A or Double-A, as a corner outfielder. His ability to hit in a competitive setting should be discerned after that. His agent, Brodie Van Wagenen of CAA, noted that teams expressed immediate interest after the tryout.
Alongside a glamour shot distributed to media in attendance, CAA listed Tebow at 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds, a rare weight for a big league position player. Still, scouts timed him between 6.6 and 6.8 seconds in the dash, generally considered above average for major leaguers. He was said to have strained his oblique muscle in recent days.
His throws from the outfield and fielding were below average, two scouts said.
While batting, Tebow faced former USC pitcher Chad Smith, recently released by Texas, and longtime reliever David Aardsma, who went to camp with Toronto this season. Both men faced him several times in preparation for the event. Tuesday’s performance, they each said, was not his best.
“Last week was the third time I threw to him, and it was unreal,” Smith said. “You wouldn’t believe it. He hit everything. He’s improved a lot.”
Aardsma said he was scared to face Tebow after the second time he pitched to him, when, he said, he could hardly retire him.
“Today was the worst I’ve seen him,” Aardsma said. “It looked like he was trying really hard, overswinging a bit. It’s what you do when you’ve got 200 people and cameras everywhere and you’re the only guy they’re watching.”
Tebow last played competitive baseball in the spring of 2005 for Nease High in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He said ceasing to play then was “the second-hardest decision” he ever made, after choosing the University of Florida over Alabama. He went on to play four years of football for Florida and three seasons plus two preseasons in the NFL.
Throughout, he said, “There wasn’t a season that went by that baseball wasn’t something I thought about.”
Tebow has increasingly worked as a broadcaster for ESPN, and he said Tuesday he has standing offers to play football at other positions besides quarterback. But he said is most passionate about basebal -- hitting, specifically. After a rant against sports specialization, he delved into an ardent, engaging defense of that passion in a press conference after the workout.
Asked about the many major leaguers who’ve expressed doubt about the seriousness of his endeavor, Tebow said he was thankful they were not making the decisions. Asked about the possibility he would fail, he said he was entirely unworried about "falling flat on my face," as long he tried, and implored everyone listening to approach their challenges the same way.
“I’m just looking for an opportunity,” he said.
Any team who offers one will be betting that Tebow’s superb athletic condition can compensate for a decade without baseball. His hitting abilities, primarily, are in question.
“He’s got bat-to-ball,” Smith said. “It’s gonna be pitch recognition, learning when to swing, when not to swing and just having an approach. But that’s in-game experience. That’s all he needs.”
Smith compared Tebow to former Stanford running back and outfielder Toby Gerhart, the 2009 Heisman runner-up and former NFL player. Aardsma said Tebow’s stance reminded him of New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira.
“He was a lot better than I expected,” said one scout who requested anonymity because his job does not permit him to submit his evaluations for the public. “But I didn’t really expect much.”
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Former Mexican president on Trump: 'He is not welcome'
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The political risks of Donald Trump's visit to Mexico cut both ways.
Not only does Trump face potential backlash from core supporters if he is perceived as softening on Mexico, but Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto also risks criticism if he cozies too closely to Trump.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox sees potential political disaster in the gamesmanship on both sides.
"It's nothing more than a political stunt," said Fox, no fan of Trump, on CNN's "New Day."
"Trump is using Mexico, using President Peña to boost his sinking poll numbers," Fox said. "President Peña is taking an enormous political risk by hosting Trump. If he's perceived as going soft on Trump, it will hurt him greatly."
Fox, who was president until 2006, and Peña Nieto are from opposing political parties in Mexico.
But Fox captured the mood of many Mexicans on Trump.
"He is not welcome to Mexico," Fox said. "We don't like him. We don't want him. We reject his visit."
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He was a billionaire who donated to the Clinton Foundation. Last year, he was denied entry into the U.S.
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Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, one of Africa’s richest men, has built a reputation as a giant of global philanthropy.
His name is on a gallery at the Louvre and a medical school in Lebanon, and he has received awards for his generosity to the Catholic Church and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. He owns a seven-bedroom hilltop mansion in Beverly Hills, and he has a high-level network of friends from Washington to Lebanon to the Vatican, where he serves as an ambassador for the tiny island nation of St. Lucia. His website shows him shaking hands and laughing with Pope Francis.
“I never imagined what the future would hold for me,” Chagoury once said of his boyhood in Nigeria. “But I knew there was a vision for my life that was greater than I could imagine.… I consider it a duty to give back.”
Since the 1990s, Chagoury has also cultivated a friendship with the Clinton family — in part by writing large checks, including a contribution of at least $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.
By the time Hillary Clinton became secretary of State, the relationship was strong enough for Bill Clinton’s closest aide to push for Chagoury to get access to top diplomats, and the agency began exploring a deal, still under consideration, to build a consulate on Chagoury family land in Lagos, Nigeria.
But even as those talks were underway, bureaucrats in other arms of the State Department were examining accusations that Chagoury had unsavory affiliations, stemming from his activities and friendships in Lebanon. After a review, Chagoury was refused a visa to enter the U.S. last year.
Chagoury is a prominent example of the nexus between Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the family’s Clinton Foundation, which has come under renewed scrutiny during her presidential run. The organization, founded as a way for the Clintons to tap their vast network for charitable works, has tackled some of the steepest challenges in the developing world, including rebuilding Haiti and fighting AIDS in Africa. It has also come under fire for its willingness to accept money from foreign governments with interest in swaying U.S. policy during Clinton’s time as secretary of State, and the controversial histories of some donors.
Part of a dictator’s inner circle
Chagoury was born in 1946 in Lagos to Lebanese parents, and as a child attended school in Lebanon. He sold shoes and cars in Nigeria, according to a biography on his website, before marrying the daughter of a prominent Nigerian businessman.
During the rule of Gen. Sani Abacha, who seized power in Nigeria in 1993, Chagoury prospered, receiving development deals and oil franchises.
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In the 1990s, Chagoury portrayed himself as an Abacha insider as he tried to influence American policy to be more friendly to the regime. Soon after President Clinton named Donald E. McHenry a special envoy to Nigeria in 1995, Gilbert and brother Ronald Chagoury visited McHenry in his office at Georgetown University in Washington. The U.S. was pushing for the return of democratic rule in Nigeria; Abacha, meanwhile, was eager to have his country taken off a U.S. list of nations that enabled drug trafficking, McHenry said.
“Their effort was to try and influence anyone who they thought could influence the U.S. government,” McHenry said, adding that the approach was heavy-handed. “They tried every key on the piano.”
Abacha turned out to be “one of the most notorious kleptocrats in memory,” stealing billions in public funds, acting Assistant Atty. Gen. Mythili Raman later said.
After Abacha’s death in 1998, the Nigerian government hired lawyers to track down the money. The trail led to bank accounts all over the world — some under Gilbert Chagoury's control. Chagoury, who denied knowing the funds were stolen, paid a fine of 1 million Swiss francs, then about $600,000, and gave back $65 million to Nigeria; a Swiss conviction was expunged, a spokesman for Chagoury said.
Ties to the Clintons
In the years afterward, Chagoury’s wealth grew. His family conglomerate now controls a host of businesses, including construction companies, flour mills, manufacturing plants and real estate.
He has used some of that money to build political connections. As a noncitizen, he is barred from giving to U.S. political campaigns, but in 1996, he gave $460,000 to a voter registration group steered by Bill Clinton’s allies and was rewarded with an invitation to a White House dinner. Over the years, Chagoury attended Clinton's 60th birthday fundraiser and helped arrange a visit to St. Lucia, where the former president was paid $100,000 for a speech. Clinton’s aide, Doug Band, even invited Chagoury to his wedding.
Chagoury also contributed $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to its list of donors. At a 2009 Clinton Global Initiative conference, where business and charity leaders pledge to complete projects, the Chagoury Group’s Eko Atlantic development — nine square kilometers of Lagos coastal land reclaimed by a seawall — was singled out for praise. During a 2013 dedication ceremony in Lagos, just after Hillary Clinton left her post as secretary of State, Bill Clinton lauded the $1-billion Eko Atlantic as an example to the world of how to fight climate change.
“I especially thank my friends Gilbert and Ron Chagoury for making it happen,” he said.
Caption Protest outside Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser Protest outside Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser at the Beverly Hills estate of controversial billionaire Haim Saban. Protest outside Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's Hollywood fundraiser at the Beverly Hills estate of controversial billionaire Haim Saban. Caption Gov. Jerry Brown criticizes Donald Trump and his 'acolytes' on climate change In an Aug. 24, 2016 news conference at the state Capitol to praise state lawmakers for enacting sweeping new climate change legislation, Gov. Jerry Brown called out GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his "acolytes" who have doubts on the existence of climate change. More political coverage at latimes.com/politics In an Aug. 24, 2016 news conference at the state Capitol to praise state lawmakers for enacting sweeping new climate change legislation, Gov. Jerry Brown called out GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his "acolytes" who have doubts on the existence of climate change. More political coverage at latimes.com/politics
By last summer, U.S. diplomats had selected a 9.9-acre property at Eko Atlantic as the preferred site for a new Lagos consulate, State Department documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times show. Two months ago, James Entwistle, then the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, wrote to Washington, asking permission to sign a 99-year lease.
No deal has been signed, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said. She did not answer questions about whether the Clintons recommended Eko Atlantic. She said at a recent briefing that she was unaware of whether Hillary Clinton knew the site was under consideration; it was on a list of possibilities submitted by a real estate firm in 2012, Trudeau said in response to questions from The Times. A spokesman for Clinton’s campaign noted that the State Department has said the process has been managed by “career real estate professionals.”
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AFI Fest to open with Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes picture 'Rules Don't Apply'
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The 30th edition of AFI Fest will open with the world premiere of “Rules Don’t Apply” on Nov. 10 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Written, directed and produced by and starring Warren Beatty — recipient of the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award and an Academy Award winner — the film then opens on Nov. 23.
The film is the first directed by Beatty since 1998’s political satire “Bulworth” and his first time back on screen since 2001’s “Town & Country.” Beatty’s new film finds him playing billionaire industrialist and movie producer Howard Hughes in a fictionalized tale of a young actress (Lily Collins) who comes to Hollywood under contract to Hughes in 1958. She is assigned an ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich), and while the two share an immediate attraction, Hughes strictly forbids romance between his employees.
The cast also includes Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Candice Bergen, Haley Bennett, Matthew Broderick, Taissa Farmiga, Oliver Platt and Martin Sheen.
“Warren Beatty has charmed and challenged moviegoers from his first moment on screen, and his talents as an actor, director, writer and producer have always transcended trends,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI president and chief executive. “AFI is honored to present the world premiere of his newest gift to America's cultural legacy.”
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The film’s classic Hollywood setting makes the Hollywood Boulevard landmark of the Chinese Theatre a particularly appropriate location for the premiere of “Rules Don’t Apply.” Other recent opening-night films for the festival have included Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By The Sea,” J.C. Chandor’s “A Most Violent Year” and John Lee Hancock’s “Saving Mr. Banks.”
AFI Fest will take place Nov. 10-17. The full festival lineup is to be unveiled in October and individual tickets will be available beginning Nov. 1. Festival passes and packages are available now. For more information visit AFI.com.
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Sheriff: Man confesses in killings of 2 Mississippi nuns
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A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday, in the latest twist to a crime that has horrified people in the small communities where the women served.
Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Miss., was arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said late Friday. Both women were 68.
Willie March, the sheriff of Holmes County where the killings occurred, said Saturday he had been briefed by police and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials who took part in Sanders' interrogation.
Sanders confessed to the killings and gave no reason for the crimes, March said.
People who knew the nuns, known for their generosity and commitment to improving healthcare for the poor, have been grappling with why anyone would want to kill them.
The women's bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work in Lexington. The sheriff said they had been stabbed.
Merrill's nephew, David Merrill, speaking by telephone from Stoneham, Mass., said Saturday the family was "thankful" Sanders is off the streets.
But the family still has to deal with the loss. Merrill said he agrees with the idea of forgiveness and that is something his aunt would want for whoever killed her but he's not sure if he's capable of completely forgiving.
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SpaceX signs first customer for launch of a reused rocket
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Now that SpaceX has proved that its rocket boosters can land back on Earth, the company has signed its first customer to launch a satellite on one of those reused rockets.
Luxembourg satellite operator SES reached an agreement with Hawthorne-based SpaceX to launch a SES-10 communications satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Martin Halliwell, SES’ chief technology officer, said he hoped that the satellite would launch in October. SpaceX would only say the launch was set for this fall.
“We believe this is the way to go forward,” Halliwell said. “Having these total-loss missions where nothing is recovered seems to be a terrible waste.”
Reusing rockets could eventually cut launch costs 30%, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has estimated. Halliwell said he could not disclose the price that SES paid for its flight on the rocket, saying only that the company did get a discount for being the first customer.
There also was “no material change” in the insurance rate compared to using a new Falcon 9 rocket, indicating insurers’ confidence in the launch vehicle, Halliwell said.
The 5.3-ton SES-10 satellite is intended to provide broadband, video and mobile-phone service, including maritime and in-flight connectivity, to Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Halliwell told investors this year that SES wanted to be the first commercial satellite operator to fly the same rocket twice.
In a statement, SpaceX’s Shotwell said relaunching a rocket that has already taken a spacecraft to orbit is “an important milestone on the path to complete and rapid reusability.”
By saving money on launch costs, SES could target emerging markets, such as Southeast Asia or Africa, Halliwell said. These large regions require bigger and more complex satellites, which can drive up costs.
SpaceX lists the starting price for a Falcon 9 rocket at $62 million.
“If we can reduce the cost of the launch vehicle, it allows us to design missions that nominally would be too expensive,” Halliwell said. “It should allow us to increase the cadence.”
SES has already launched two satellites on Falcon 9 rockets, and it has contracts for four more launches.
SES’ satellite will launch on a first-stage booster that landed in April after delivering supplies to the International Space Station. That was the first rocket to land on a floating droneship.
Since then, SpaceX has landed six first-stage boosters — two on land and four at sea.
The landed first-stages go through extensive testing at Cape Canaveral, including careful inspections of the entire booster, and individual engine tests in Texas. The engines are then put back in the vehicle. Before launch, the booster will undergo a static test fire.
Halliwell said the company has worked closely with SpaceX throughout its rocket refurbishment process and is “confident that we have a flightworthy rocket.”
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Three sea otters that washed up on California's Central Coast were fatally shot
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California wildlife officials are offering a $10,000 reward to find whoever is responsible for fatally shooting three Southern sea otters along the Central Coast over the last month.
The two juvenile males and one adult male otter were killed between late July and early August, and washed up between Santa Cruz Harbor and Seacliff State Beach in Aptos between Aug. 12 and 19, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Monday.
The animals are protected under the Endangered Species Act and state law. Killing a Southern sea otter is punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and jail time, authorities said.
Southern sea otters are also known as California sea otters and are known to navigate the waters between San Mateo and Santa Barbara counties and the area around San Nicolas Island in Ventura County. They were listed as a threatened species in 1977.
A necropsy revealed the otters had been killed days or weeks before they were found. The reward money was put forward by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the state fish and wildlife agency and a private donor.
Anyone with information about the killings can call (888) 334-2258.
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Fast-moving Bogart fire in Riverside County jumps to 400 acres; evacuations ordered
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A fast-moving vegetation fire in Cherry Valley spread to 400 acres Tuesday afternoon, prompting evacuations for residents of a mobile home park and some homes northwest of Banning, authorities said.
The Bogart fire was reported at 12:25 p.m. near the intersection of Winesap Avenue and International Park Road, according to the Riverside County fire department.
Within an hour, the blaze jumped to 100 acres, then quadrupled by 3 p.m., fire officials said.
Residents were evacuated in the Highland Springs Village mobile home park and Banning Bench, a rural plateau northwest of Banning. An evacuation center was opened at the Albert A. Chatigny Senior Community Center in Beaumont.
More than 320 firefighters have been assigned to combat the blaze. They are being assisted by five helicopters, two bulldozers and nine air tankers.
Cherry Valley is located off I-10 in Riverside County, with a population of more than 6,300, census records show.
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Comeback performer Britney Spears is more 'ready,' less 'oops'
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She's doing it again! Britney Spears is ready to perform on the Video Music Awards stage, marking her first such return to the MTV stage since her infamous 2007 show-opener. You know the one: pre-breakdown Brit, with the bad hair, bad vocals and lackadaisical showmanship.
"So ready for this night," the singer tweeted in advance of the VMAs.
The boa-slinging songstress, who is in her third year of residency in Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood and has launched many a comeback since that ill-fated outing, is historically among the awards show's many iconic performers and has been touted as one of Sunday's biggest headliners. She's slated to perform "Make Me," the first single from her just-released ninth album "Glory," with G-Eazy.
“She’s been on that stage many times. She hadn’t wanted to do [the VMAs] for awhile [because] she wanted to focus on other things, but she decided she wanted to do them again so we’re doing them again,” Spears’ longtime manager Larry Rudolph told The Times last week.
Here's hoping she leaves the oops and the drama in the past.
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Trump surrogate apologizes for spreading doctored image of Clinton in blackface
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Pastor Mark Burns, an outspoken African American backer of Trump, tweeted several attacks directed at Clinton over the weekend. The latest on Monday an image of Clinton and husband Bill, digitally altered to show them at a costume party with Hillary in blackface. Experts debunked the image as false months ago.
A prominent Donald Trump supporter apologized for retweeting a doctored image of Hillary Clinton in blackface, but stood by his accusation that the Democratic nominee panders to black voters and “uses them just for their votes.”
“I think at the time I did my initial tweet was to reinforce my position as to point out why this particular candidate Hillary Clinton is not really good for the African-American community,” Burns explained on CNN on Tuesday. “Because the Democrat Party automatically assumes they own the black vote.”
He also assured people that he didn’t intend to offend. But he stood by his support of Trump and the criticism of Clinton’s approach to minority voters.
“The tweet was not designed to anger or stir up the pot,” Burns said late Monday.
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Thursday, September 1st
CITY
NONLEAGUE
Bell at Grant, 7 p.m.
Belmont at Lincoln, 7 p.m.
Chavez at Reseda, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Granada Hills Kennedy, 7 p.m.
Dymally at Washington, 7 p.m.
Eagle Rock at Hawkins, 7 p.m.
El Camino Real at Venice, 7 p.m.
Fairfax at West Adams, 7 p.m.
Granada Hills at Canoga Park, 7 p.m.
Hollywood at Torres, 7 p.m.
Huntington Park at Chatsworth, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Hamilton at Los Angeles Marshall, 3 p.m.
Los Angeles University at Contreras, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Wilson at Santee, 7 p.m.
Mendez at Monroe, 7 p.m.
Palisades at Sylmar, 7 p.m.
Panorama at Manual Arts, 3 p.m.
Rancho Dominguez at Legacy, 7 p.m.
Roybal at Fremont, 7 p.m.
San Pedro at Los Angeles Roosevelt, 7 p.m.
South East at Carson, 7 p.m.
South Gate at Arleta, 3:30 p.m.
Sun Valley Poly at Bernstein, 7 p.m.
Taft at San Fernando, 7 p.m.
Van Nuys at Franklin, 7 p.m.
Wilmington Banning at Garfield, 7 p.m.
SOUTHERN SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Arroyo Valley at San Bernardino, 7 p.m.
Cantwell-Sacred Heart vs. Whittier at California, 7 p.m.
Long Beach Wilson vs. Fountain Valley at Huntington Beach, 7 p.m.
Garden Grove Pacifica vs. Newport Harbor at Orange Coast College, 7:30 p.m.
Godinez vs. Santa Ana at Santa Ana Stadium, 7 p.m.
Katella at Western, 7 p.m.
La Sierra vs. Arlington at Rubidoux, 7 p.m.
Loara at Estancia, 7 p.m.
Northwood vs. La Palma Kennedy at Glover Stadium, 7 p.m.
Rosemead vs. Northview at Covina District Stadium, 7 p.m.
Troy vs. El Dorado at Placentia Valencia, 7 p.m.
Westminster at Garden Grove, 7 p.m.
Woodbridge at El Modena, 7 p.m.
INTERSECTIONAL
Bakersfield Frontier vs. Paso Robles at Flamson MS (Paso Robles), 7 p.m.
Blair at Angelou, 7 p.m.
Harvard-Westlake at Jefferson, 7 p.m.
Hoover at Sotomayor, 7 p.m.
Marquez at Bishop Montgomery, 7 p.m.
Rivera at Hawthorne, 7 p.m.
Verdugo Hills vs. Crescenta Valley at Glendale HS, 7 p.m.
View Park vs. Morningside at Los Angeles Southwest College, 7 p.m.
West Valley at Gardena, 7 p.m.
8 MAN
CITY
NONLEAGUE
Los Angeles Jordan at Sun Valley, 3 p.m.
SOUTHERN SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Animo Leadership vs. Milken at Birmingham, 7 p.m.
INTERSECTIONAL
Fulton at Lancaster Baptist, 7 p.m.
Lone Pine at East Valley, 5:30 p.m.
University Careers & Sports Academy at Sherman Oaks CES, 7 p.m.
Friday, September 2nd
SOUTHERN SECTION
ARROWHEAD LEAGUE
CSDR at Carnegie, 7 p.m.
NONLEAGUE
Adelanto at Pacific, 7 p.m.
Agoura at Newbury Park, 7 p.m.
Alhambra at Rowland, 7 p.m.
Aliso Niguel at North Torrance, 7 p.m.
Alta Loma at Ayala, 7 p.m.
Anza Hamilton vs. Bosco Tech at Salesian, 7 p.m.
Arroyo at Temple City, 7 p.m.
Atascadero at Ventura, 7 p.m.
Azusa at Bassett, 7 p.m.
Banning at Desert Mirage, 7 p.m.
Beckman at Santa Ana Valley, 7 p.m.
Bell Gardens at California, 7 p.m.
Big Bear vs. Arrowhead Christian at Redlands, 7 p.m.
Bishop Amat vs. Servite at Cerritos College, 7 p.m.
Bloomington at Nuview Bridge, 7 p.m.
Boron vs. Brethren Christian at Ocean View, 7 p.m.
Brea Olinda vs. Sonora at La Habra, 7 p.m.
Buena Park at Paramount, 7 p.m.
Burbank Burroughs at Cathedral, 7 p.m.
Calvary Murrieta at Ontario Christian, 7 p.m.
Camarillo vs. Saugus at College of Canyons, 7:30 p.m.
Campbell Hall at Malibu, 6:30 p.m.
Canyon Country Canyon vs. Burbank at Burbank Burroughs, 7 p.m.
Canyon Springs at Moreno Valley, 7 p.m.
Carpinteria at Santa Ynez, 7 p.m.
Cathedral City at Hemet, 7 p.m.
Cerritos at Bolsa Grande, 7 p.m.
Cerritos Valley Christian at Bellflower, 7 p.m.
Channel Islands at Fillmore, 7:30 p.m.
Chaparral vs. Riverside Poly at King, 7 p.m.
Chino at Baldwin Park, 7 p.m.
Chino Hills at Diamond Ranch, 7 p.m.
Citrus Valley at Beaumont, 7 p.m.
Coachella Valley at Palm Desert, 7 p.m.
Colony at Charter Oak, 7 p.m.
Colton at Lakeside, 7 p.m.
Compton at Compton Centennial, 5 p.m.
Corona Santiago at Citrus Hill, 7 p.m.
Covina at Pioneer, 7 p.m.
Crean Lutheran vs. Saddleback Valley Christian at Laguna Hills, 7 p.m.
Crespi vs. Orange Lutheran at Orange Coast College, 7 p.m.
Culver City at West Torrance, 7 p.m.
Dana Hills vs. Sunny Hills at Buena Park, 7 p.m.
Desert Hot Springs at Linfield Christian, 7 p.m.
Dominguez at San Marino, 7 p.m.
Don Lugo at Pomona, 7 p.m.
Dos Pueblos vs. Lompoc Cabrillo at Lompoc, 7 p.m.
Eisenhower at Eastvale Roosevelt, 7 p.m.
El Rancho at Capistrano Valley, 7 p.m.
Esperanza at Irvine, 7 p.m.
Etiwanda vs. Redlands East Valley at Citrus Valley, 7 p.m.
Firebaugh at Century, 7 p.m.
Fontana at San Gorgonio, 7 p.m.
Foothill at Tustin, 7 p.m.
Ganesha vs. Gladstone at Sierra Vista, 7 p.m.
Garden Grove Santiago at Costa Mesa, 7 p.m.
Garey at San Gabriel, 7 p.m.
Glendora vs. Damien at Citrus College, 7 p.m.
Glenn at Peninsula, 3 p.m.
Granite Hills at Apple Valley, 7 p.m.
Hacienda Heights Wilson at Los Altos, 7 p.m.
Hart at Downey, 7 p.m.
Indian Springs at Jurupa Valley, 7 p.m.
JSerra at Alemany, 7 p.m.
Jurupa Hills at Chaffey, 7 p.m.
Kaiser at Warren, 7 p.m.
Keppel at Gabrielino, 7 p.m.
King at Great Oak, 7 p.m.
Knight at Barstow, 7 p.m.
La Canada vs. South Hills at Covina District Stadium, 7 p.m.
La Habra at Tesoro, 7 p.m.
La Mirada at St. John Bosco, 7 p.m.
La Serna at Lakewood, 7 p.m.
Laguna Hills at Irvine University, 7 p.m.
Leuzinger at El Segundo, 7 p.m.
Lompoc at Nipomo, 7 p.m.
Long Beach Jordan vs. Norwalk at Excelsior HS, 7 p.m.
Los Osos at Heritage, 7 p.m.
Loyola vs. Santa Margarita at Saddleback College, 7 p.m.
Magnolia at Artesia, 7 p.m.
Mary Star at St. Bernard, 7 p.m.
Mayfair vs. Mater Dei at Santa Ana Stadium, 7 p.m.
McAuliffe at Vasquez, 7 p.m.
Miller at Perris, 7 p.m.
Millikan at Gahr, 7 p.m.
Mira Costa vs. Torrance at Zamperini Stadium (Torrance), 7 p.m.
Mission Prep vs. Bishop Diego at Santa Barbara City College (Santa Barbara), 7:30 p.m.
Monrovia at La Salle, 7 p.m.
Montclair at Murrieta Mesa, 7 p.m.
Montebello at St. Paul, 7 p.m.
Mountain View vs. Viewpoint at Agoura, 7 p.m.
Nogales at Ontario, 7 p.m.
Norco at Rancho Cucamonga, 7 p.m.
Nordhoff at Beverly Hills, 7 p.m.
Norte Vista at Sultana, 7 p.m.
Oak Hills at Mission Viejo, 8 p.m.
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Championships, special runs and wonderful individual efforts highlighted a big year for girls' female athletes in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, led by the 2016 La Cañada Valley Sun Girls' Athlete of the Year, Katie Scoville of La Cañada High.
Here is the list of the La Cañada Valley Sun's top-10 girls' athletes in 2015-16.
1 Katie Scoville, La Cañada cross-country and track and field, sophomore – A wonderful freshman season was followed up by an extraordinary 2015-16 campaign for Scoville.
She would go on to win three Rio Hondo League individual titles, take home two CIF Southern Section championships and make two trips to state.
In cross-country, the sophomore led her squad to a Rio Hondo League championship and a ninth-place finish at the CIF Southern Section Division IV championship.
Individually, the two-year starter finished second at the Fastback Shootout (11 minutes, 34.33 seconds) and second in the Division IV race (18:38) at the Mt. SAC Invitational.
Scoville then captured her second straight Rio Hondo League individual championship at Lacy Park in 18:49.61 on Nov. 5. The sophomore became her school's first section champion since 1998 when she took home the CIF Southern Section Division IV individual title in 17:53.6 at Mt. San Antonio College on Nov. 21.
The All-Area first-team selection then finished off her sophomore season by taking 10th in Division IV at state in 18:13.9.
Track and field proved just as successful for Scoville.
She won the 3,000-meter run in 10:21.89 before finishing seventh in a personal-best one-mile time of 4:59.08 at the Mt. SAC Relays.
As for the postseason, Scoville won the Rio Hondo League championship 1,600-meter (5:06.47) and 3,200 titles (11:18.42) on May 6.
At the Southern Section Division III championships at Cerritos College, Scoville put on a spectacular display, rallying from last place to take home the 3,200-meter crown in a school-record mark of 10:39.82.
"I knew all the girls would go out with [Division I] Destiny Collins [of Great Oak] really fast," Scoville said. "Last week, I went out really fast and it didn't work out, so this time I went out pretty conservatively."
At the CIF State Championships in Clovis, Scoville finished 17th in state with a mark of 10:51.41.
Cassie and Sophie McKenzie Tim Berger / La Cañada Valley Sun La Cañada's Cassie and Sophie McKenzie marched all the way to the CIF Southern Section Individual Semifinals. La Cañada's Cassie and Sophie McKenzie marched all the way to the CIF Southern Section Individual Semifinals. (Tim Berger / La Cañada Valley Sun) (Tim Berger / La Cañada Valley Sun)
2 Cassie McKenzie, La Cañada tennis, senior – For most of the regular season, the St. Louis University-bound senior was her team's top singles player.
For the postseason, however, McKenzie joined up with freshmen sister Sophie McKenzie to form a formidable doubles tandem. It came a year after Cassie McKenzie paired with older sister Ally McKenzie and won the Rio Hondo League crown and advanced to the CIF Individual Championship semifinals.
A year later, Cassie and Sophie McKenzie repeated the feat.
The unanimous selection for All-Area Doubles Team of the Year steamrolled its way to the championship match of the Rio Hondo League finals on Oct. 29 at Live Oak Park before putting away San Marino's feisty twosome of Madeleine Gandawidjaja and Libby Chang, 6-3, 6-3.
"We knew it was going to be tough in the finals," Cassie said. "We just needed to play together and try not to make too many mistakes. ...But we knew we could do it."
Seeded second in the CIF Southern Section Girls' Tennis Individual Tournament Championships, the McKenzies had a bye followed by two victories at the Whittier Narrows Tennis Center.
In the round of 16 on Dec. 2 at the Seal Beach Tennis Center, the pair enjoyed an absolutely thrilling day.
The Spartans first rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over the Murrieta Valley pair of Alana Andrews and Faith Pearson.
The comeback was the first of two on the day for McKenzies, who bounced back from a 5-0 deficit in the third set to defeat Campbell Hall's Dominique Stone and Jay Kim, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4).
An improbable run ended in the semifinals, when the sisters fell to Harvard-Westlake's Jenna Mustafa and Julian Simon, 6-3, 6-0.
Kayla Lund Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun Flintridge Sacred Heart outside hitter Kayla Lund and the Tologs split the Mission League championship. Flintridge Sacred Heart outside hitter Kayla Lund and the Tologs split the Mission League championship. (Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun) (Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun)
3 Kayla Lund, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy volleyball, junior — Flintridge Sacred Heart found itself atop the Mission League, splitting the crown with Marymount. The 6-foot-1 Lund, an outside hitter, played a large part in the Tologs' success.
Lund was selected the league's co-most valuable player and named the All-Area Girls' Volleyball Player of the Year.
She continued to pound the ball past opponents, finishing with an area-high 554 kills and added 273 digs. She contributed 59 blocks and 37 aces for the Tologs, who posted a 26-win campaign.
The University of Pittsburgh-bound Lund notched 1,120 kills over the last two seasons.
"She's playing in a very tough league and you need to have that player who can step up at the most important times," said Flintridge Sacred Heart Coach Ernest Banaag, whose team fell in five games to San Clemente in the first round of the playoffs. "I've seen her every day for the last three years and she's done so well, but there's still so much for her to learn."
Julia Gonzalez Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun Flintridge Prep's Julia Gonzalez is the All-Area Girls' Soccer Player of the Year. Flintridge Prep's Julia Gonzalez is the All-Area Girls' Soccer Player of the Year. (Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun) (Roger Wilson / La Cañada Valley Sun)
4 Julia Gonzalez, Flintridge Prep soccer, sophomore — Facilitating a youthful, but talented Rebels squad, Gonzalez showed poise and impressive numbers, including dishing off a school-record number of assists.
She contributed an area-best 32 assists and 24 goals for Flintridge Prep, which shared the Prep league championship with archrival Pasadena Poly.
"She took on a bigger role," Flintridge Prep Coach Esteban Chavez said. "She got double-teamed and she could balance her scoring and distribution of the ball. When she got the ball, she could instantly recognize if somebody was open.
"It's always a plus when she can create scoring situations. She's going to be a big part of the team the next couple of years."
Gonzalez was bestowed with plenty of postseason recognition after the Rebels reached the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division III playoffs.
She was tabbed as the league's offensive player of the year and earned a spot on the league's first team. In addition, Gonzalez received All-CIF first-team recognition before being named All-Area Girls' Soccer Player of the Year.
5 Sophie McKenzie, La Cañada tennis, freshman – Normally the Spartans' No. 2 singles player, the newcomer doubled up with senior sister Cassie McKenzie and came within a match of advancing to the CIF Southern Section Individual Tennis championship finale.
It was only a year prior that the sisterly duo of Cassie and Ally McKenzie advanced to the CIF Individual semifinals.
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Fed Chair Janet Yellen: The case for another interest rate hike 'has strengthened in recent months'
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Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet L. Yellen said Friday the economy was improving and that another small increase in a key interest rate was nearing.
Her first public comments in two months signaled to financial markets that central bank policymakers could nudge up the benchmark federal funds rate as soon as next month.
"In light of the continued solid performance of the labor market and our outlook for economic activity and inflation, I believe the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months,” Yellen said in prepared remarks to a central bankers conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
She noted the U.S. economy continues to expand, “led by solid growth in household spending.” But at the same time, business investment has been “soft” and U.S. exports have been held back by “subdued foreign demand” and the strong dollar, Yellen said.
Still, the labor market has shown recent strength, with the U.S. creating an average of 190,000 net new jobs from May through July, she said.
“While economic growth has not been rapid, it has been sufficient to generate further improvement in the labor market,” Yellen said.
In saying the Fed expected “moderate” economic growth, “additional strengthening in the labor market” and inflation rising toward the central bank’s annual 2% target, Yellen appeared to be preparing financial markets for a potential September rate hike.
But as she continually does, Yellen warned that “the economic outlook is uncertain” and the Fed’s monetary policy was not “on a preset course.”
Fed policymakers have been struggling in their attempt to push rock-bottom interest rates closer to normal as the recovery from the Great Recession matures. They’re worried that if rates don’t rise they’ll be left without their best tool — lowering the rate — when the next economic downturn hits.
At the same time, Fed officials don’t want to raise the rate when the economy is still sluggish and potentially help trigger another downturn.
The Fed began lowering the rate from 4.5% in 2006 as the economy slid toward the Great Recession. The rate declined to near zero in 2008 in an unprecedented attempt to stimulate economic growth.
The Fed funds rate remained there for seven years before the central bank nudged it up a quarter of a percentage point in December. At the time, Fed policymakers estimated four similar hikes this year.
But financial market turmoil in January triggered by fears of a global economic slowdown led the Fed to hold off on another rate hike through the winter and early spring.
The Fed appeared to be nearing another hike in June, but held off because of a weak U.S. jobs report and worries about the possible impact on financial markets of the then-pending British vote on whether to leave the European Union.
When Fed policymakers met in July, most of those fears had been eased as strong job growth returned and financial markets weathered the “Brexit” vote.
The Fed’s monetary policy statement in July contained upbeat language that appeared to open the door to a rate hike as early as its next meeting in September.
Minutes of the meeting released three weeks later showed that some policymakers indicated they were ready for another small rate hike, while other officials wanted to wait until incoming data “provided a greater level of confidence that economic growth was strong enough to withstand a possible downward shock to demand.”
Although job growth has been solid this summer, the overall economy was sluggish the first half of the year. On Friday, the Commerce Department economic growth in the second quarter of the year was a bit slower than earlier estimated.
The economy expanded at a 1.1% annual rate from April through June, a slight downward revision from the initial estimate of 1.2%. Growth in the first quarter was just a 0.8% annual rate, the slowest in two years.
Growth is expected to have rebounded this summer, with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s closely watched estimate forecasting the economy is expanding at a 3.4% rate in the third quarter.
jim.puzzanghera@latimes.com
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Rams tape review: Goff's bad slide, Cooper's circus catch injury and Magee's big run
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The Rams suffered their first exhibition loss to the reigning Super Bowl champions the Broncos on Saturday in Denver.
Each week we take a look at what worked, what didn’t and what you might have missed from the Rams' last game. This week we start with something you don’t want to do.
What: Cody Davis runs into Pharoh Cooper on a punt return
Down: Fourth and five
Time: 11:11 left in first quarter
Safety Cody Davis tracks the ball as he tries to get into position to block for Pharoh Cooper, but runs right into the return man causing a muffed punt. Davis recovered the ball, but only after he nearly cost the team a possession.
What: Case Keenum fakes a run, then tosses to tight end Tyler Higbee
Down: First and 10
Time: 3:13 left in first quarter
Keenum had just five total yards rushing last season. Here he keeps the ball on a handoff just long enough to draw the weakside linebacker Shaquil Barrett (48) away from rookie tight end Tyler Higbee (89) who could have ripped a longer gain off if Broncos safety Darian Stewart (26) hadn’t been such a sure tackler.
What: Jared Goff is bad at sliding to avoid getting hit
Down: Third and four
Time: 8:35 left in second quarter
Jared Goff is a rookie and has much to learn about quarterbacking in the NFL. For instance, he needs to learn how to slide to protect himself. Here he bravely steps up in the pocket and tries to pick up the yardage but as he goes down to protect himself his foot sticks, keeping him exposed as Broncos safety T.J. Ward comes barreling over him. A hit there would have been illegal, but not out of the realm of possibility during the regular season.
What: Pharoh Cooper makes leaping catch for 19-yard gain
Down: Third and four
Time: 2:43 left in second quarter
Goff looks good stepping up in the pocket to throw, but Cooper really makes this play look good with a leaping catch. The result: a first down and a shoulder injury. The rookie receiver is expected to be out a few weeks and could miss the opener.
What: Trumaine Johnson breaks up a pass, Cody Davis intercepts it
Down: Second and three
Time: 10:06 left in second quarter
Broncos wideout Cody Latimer (14) got behind Trumaine Johnson (22) on a go-route but the corner kept a hand on the receiver and turned his head around in time to bat the pass away and into the incoming hands of Davis (38).
What: Terrence Magee runs for 73 yards
Down: First and 10
Time: 5:53 left in fourth quarter
This is the biggest yardage play of the game and it’s all made possible by the blocking of tackle Darrell Williams (63) getting off the line and in front of linebacker Zaire Anderson (50) and receiver David Richards (12), who was released by the Rams on Monday, holding off cornerback Taureen Nixon (39).
What: Aaron Donald records his first tackle for loss in preseason
Down: Third and one
Time: 6:11 left in first quarter
Broncos center Matt Paradis (61) steps up to engage Rams linebacker Alec Ogletree (52), leaving the All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald (99) free to step past a helpless, diving Max Garcia (76) on his way to tackling running back Devontae Booker (20) for a three-yard loss on third down.
Anything more you’d like to see from this each week? Let me know at matt.wilhalme@latimes.com
Follow Matt Wilhalme on Twitter @mattwilhalme
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Fretting the un-manning of America
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Three things men didn’t do when I was in high school: can tomatoes, knit scarves and push baby strollers. Today the only people I know who do either of the first two are men, and it’s nearly always a man I see pushing the stroller while his mate is working on her smartphone.
These quotidian details illustrate what sociologists describe as the “de-masculinization” of America. Our gender turfs were once distinct — women never grabbed a grease gun, nor men a flour sifter. But they become more intermingled with each passing year.
Back in the 1960s and ’70s, certain turfs were clear. Women — nice women anyway — never went to bars alone. The once-famous Two Keys bar in Lexington, Ky., just off the University of Kentucky grounds was so exclusively a jock bar that even to bring your girlfriend inside drew dark grimaces. Proper ladies took tea in hotel coffee shops.
Parks and playgrounds, numerous sociologists have noted, were the real gender training tracks for baby boomers. Aside from tots and moms, no girls entered the neighborhood playground alone when I was growing up in Eastern Kentucky. The spaces allotted for girls then? Sandboxes and carousels. Climbing cages, basketball hoops and tennis courts were exclusively boy turf. Today, parents gather around the basketball courts and soccer fields to root for girls’ teams. Boys share even the skateboard ramps.
For Southern Californians, nothing may be as shocking as who’s behind the wheel. Women are now the majority of America’s licensed drivers, according to the Auto Club, which keeps numbers on these things. The car insurance industry cites this as a leading factor in the decline in freeway fatalities. Women drivers are less aggressive, more patient in traffic jams, and weave between lanes less often.
Then comes that most fraught public space, the supermarket. There was a time when men never entered a supermarket. My father always sat quietly in the car with his Camels and the newspaper while my mother ventured into the Kroger for chops, cucumbers and cottage cheese. Today, men constitute 51% of the people gripping the grocery cart, though they consistently complain of getting lost.
Finding themselves in an aisle full of cosmetics, or worse, “feminine products,” induces mild panic, men report. This actually caused a dilemma when products like Just For Men and Touch of Gray came along. Correcting hair color was not new, but for men to be seen in public buying the dyes was altogether different. Where to put these products? Certainly not with women’s hair color. Instead, some grocery stores stashed them discretely in the shaving department among the razors and foams and after-shaves.
(The barbershop, of course, was deeply male turf, one of the few places men could be touched by other men, have a razor safely applied to their throats, have their heads gripped by sturdy hands while getting their beards trimmed, their mustaches waxed. Despite a recent uptick in hip urban enclaves, nationally the number of barbershops has been dwindling for decades, replaced by unisex salons mostly run by women.)
Women apparently have no such qualms about entering the men’s department while shopping. Women buy the vast majority of men’s underwear, which until a quarter-century ago meant mostly baggy boxers. Then came Calvin Klein and his bum-clinching tights, marketed first to gay men but then quickly snapped up by wives and girlfriends, launching an entire era of abstruse gender discourse. Do real men wear Calvins? And those willowy lads and hunks modeling on billboard panels around the world: Are these men truly men?
As if giving up some public space weren’t enough, it turns out that we males may also face temporary shrinkages of private space, especially in our brains. Yale neuroscientists have shown that men who personally care for newborn infants — cuddling and caressing them regularly — experience a decrease in the gray matter in the orbitofrontal cortex, the posterior cingulate cortex and the insula. First the barbershop and then the gray matter!
Outraged social conservatives denounce all these changes. They cite the proliferation of stay-at-home dads, now cooking and changing diapers in more than 2 million homes, as a dark sign. They fret that women are now the majority of top-performing college students headed toward jobs in middle and upper management.
Pandering political rhetoric aside, there is a genuine question here: What is masculinity today? Is it flexing steel pecs and biceps? Is it bringing home the bacon? Is it possessing testicles and a functional urinary tube? Or is it merely the possession of a Y-chromosome in an era when the value of muscles plummets before a digital economy?
Today’s chorus of angry men might want to revisit Benjamin Franklin. Drawing on the Latin word vir, or virtue, he characterized manliness as tranquillity, resolution and orderliness — none of which are much present in today’s jeremiads from evangelical pulpits denouncing gender corruption or in the bombast parading as news analysis on Fox and Breitbart channels.
Sandra Thomas, a leading scholar of gender and anger at the University of Tennessee, has spent years tracking how rage has displaced sobriety as the primary marker for masculinity in modern America. Little surprise then as the baby boom morphs into the wrinkle roster, that boomers have found a hero in the misogynistic ranting of Donald Trump and his self-styled brain trust. They are the forgotten people who refuse to push baby strollers or can tomatoes.
Frank Browning is the author of “The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture and the Human Future.”
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Guy Pearce and Carice van Houten welcome a baby boy, say they plan to 'keep him'
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Guy Pearce and Carice van Houten are now parents, The Times has confirmed — and their first-time baby announcement is equal parts cute and quirky.
“A cute little package arrived and told us his name's Monte Pearce,” the “Memento” actor tweeted Monday. “We think we're gonna keep him. Placenta smoothie anyone?”
Aww! And, um, eww …
“Both Carice and Monte are doing very well,” said a rep for Van Houten, the Dutch actress who plays Melisandre on “Game of Thrones.” The baby was born last week, though they’re keeping the exact birth date “L.A. Confidential” for now.
Cute fact: When the couple announced in March that they were expecting a child, they were already anticipating some “shadowbaby” jokes. “GoT” fans will understand why.
Aussie actor Pearce, 48, and Van Houten, who turns 40 next week, worked together in 2015 on the western thriller "Brimstone.”
They sparked relationship rumors early this year when they were photographed grocery shopping together in Los Angeles, E! News reported. The romance apparently started about a year after Pearce’s January 2014 split with Kate Mestitz, his high school sweetheart, following 18 years of marriage.
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Calvin Harris and Rihanna win male video VMA for 'This Is What You Came For'
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MTV's VMAs are here! But we may as well call them the Beyonce awards with how many awards she's nominated for. That would be a whopping 11. Adele comes in next with seven nominations. Drake, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are also vying for the top prize. Rihanna will receive the Vanguard Award, the VMAs' most prestigious award, which has previously been given to Michael Jackson, Madonna, and David Bowie. And while we're talking about flashback artists: Britney Spears is performing! Stay with us as we report all of the play-by-plays.
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FYF becomes practically its own city when it takes over Exposition Park each summer. But the fest, like much of L.A. in general, may be hitting its gentrification phase.
On one hand, 38,000 well-heeled, beautifully dressed local music fans happily paid $217.83 for general admission tickets and $361.68 for VIP perks. The bands on the bill covered a swath of tasteful, diverse and progressive genres, from minimal techno to scorching punk and arena-sized psychedelia — the best lineup yet, many fans seemed to agree.
And the food was superb. Who could have imagined eating oysters on the half-shell at FYF just a few years ago?
But some discontent lurked onstage and off.
Kendrick Lamar on the first night of FYF. Michael Owen Baker / For The Times Kendrick Lamar on the first night of FYF. Kendrick Lamar on the first night of FYF. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times)
On Saturday, the Long Beach rapper Vince Staples dedicated his anti-brutality anthem “Hands Up” to police officers everywhere, icily deadpanning that “You’re doing a stellar job.” There were also logistical concerns. Some fans grumbled as the always-formidable lines to get in the sprawling venue seemed even worse this year, and layout changes made some pathways feel like crowded back-alleys.
And then there was a simmering sense that — like the rents in many of the L.A. neighborhoods whose music scenes helped create FYF — the fest’s growing clout may leave some in its core audience behind.
“I’m just used to seeing shows in basements,” said John Klein, 21, from Salt Lake City. “FYF seems kind of fashionable now.”
He then alluded to FYF’s bigger brother, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the desert city of Indio. Both fests are promoted by Goldenvoice, and Coachella over the years has earned a reputation as a place for the trendsetters to be seen.
FYF, said Klein, is “not quite like Coachella, where you have to hire a personal trainer three months in advance, but I get a sense this doesn’t cater to me, that the people who are actually making art can’t afford to come here.”
A fan crowd-surfs during the set of Todd Terje & the Olsens at FYF. Michael Owen Baker / For The Times A fan crowd-surfs during the set of Todd Terje & the Olsens at FYF. A fan crowd-surfs during the set of Todd Terje & the Olsens at FYF. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times)
“We’re used to just drinking 40s with our friends at shows, so we’re kinda having a hard time [affording refreshments] right now,” added Patrick McBride, 21, from Philadelphia. “But we did meet some cool kids earlier who had hopped the fence to get inside.”
“I remember when it was like $15 to get in all weekend,” said Orsi Villacorta, who lives in East L.A. and recalled the fest’s scrappy early days at the Echo Park club the Echo. “Now it’s pay rent or buy FYF tickets. But It’s still punk. I always want to come because I never know what I’m going to get.”
Indeed, what you got onstage at FYF was as good as its ever been.
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Staples, the Long Beach MC, was a steely highlight of Saturday afternoon, as was the rowdy Oakland MC Kamaiyah. But alongside them, chilled-out cosmopolitan electronics from Todd Terje and Air proved that FYF has both a sense of humor and a retro-future panache. Shellac and the hardcore supergroup Head Wound City played knives-out punk—one act slow and menacing, the other fast and flailing.
On FYF’s main stage, Tame Impala showed why it’s the rare indie-rock band that commands a pop-sized audience today. Sun-dazed hits from “Currents” landed with ’70s-rock swagger and 2016 digital ambiance. Small wonder that Lady Gaga, who is reportedly working with the band’s Kevin Parker on new music, showed up onstage to simply greet the crowd and confer her approval.
Kendrick Lamar, as always, was his own force of nature, playing to a hometown crowd more hipstery than normal for him but no less devoted. Despite the deep rivers of political thought that flow through his album “To Pimp a Butterfly,” he kept his radicalism fairly close to the vest at FYF — preferring to show, not explain, just how much Black Lives Matter.
Underneath footage of black icons like Muhammad Ali and Oprah Winfrey, which contrasted with images of Ronald Reagan and Bill O’Reilly, he played a hit-packed set from “Pimp” and “good kid, m.A.A.d. city” (with a dip into 2011 breakout “section.80”) with the verbal precision and physical showmanship of a great rock band.
In fact, he had a stellar one backing him, showing that no one can rally L.A. like Kendrick Lamar, be it in his hometown of Compton or a parking lot adjacent to the L.A. Coliseum for FYF.
Crowds at FYF Fest. Michael Owen Baker / For The Times Crowds at FYF Fest. Crowds at FYF Fest. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times)
On Sunday, the afternoon mood was a little more jubilant (despite what looked like even longer lines to get in, stretching up and down Vermont Avenue in each direction). The Black Madonna brightened up her late-night club music for one of FYF's more upbeat, intelligent DJ sets. On the main stage, Blood Orange reprised the group's two Theatre at the Ace gigs for a lithe and lean funk lesson.
The pop-punk quartet Saves the Day stirred up all sorts of teen angst in its now-thirtysomething crowd at FYF. The band performed the entirety of its 2001 album "Stay What You Are," a staple LP for the now-cool kids running fests like FYF. Rarely has any act here earned a more thorough singalong than the one Saves the Day got for "At Your Funeral."
Later, the night was scheduled to get dancier and more dramatic, with LCD Soundsystem book-ending its Coachella reunion; Grace Jones performing a rare full-regalia festival date, and Anohni playing her Eco-apocalypse electronic album "Hoplessness." If you could fight through the usual FYF travails, more joy and ambition awaited you inside the grounds than perhaps any year before it.
For better and worse, FYF is L.A.’s most definitive local festival. It represents everything good about our town right now — the diversity of the crowd, the quality of our creative scenes and a hometown artistic bonhomie that’s the toast of American culture.
But all that influence comes at a price, one that FYF’s core audience may be unable (or unwilling) to scrounge up in the future.
Caption The Comedy Comedy Festival in Little Tokyo The comedy festival running Thursday through Sunday in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood is an Asian American comedy fest with a bill of more than 100 comics of Asian descent. You probably wouldn't know that from the name of the event: the Comedy Comedy Festival. The comedy festival running Thursday through Sunday in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood is an Asian American comedy fest with a bill of more than 100 comics of Asian descent. You probably wouldn't know that from the name of the event: the Comedy Comedy Festival. Caption Director Andrew Ahn on his new film, 'Spa Night' Actor Joe Seo and director Andrew Ahn discuss what inspired the new film "Spa Night." Actor Joe Seo and director Andrew Ahn discuss what inspired the new film "Spa Night."
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Gabby Douglas hospitalized, forced to miss VMA presentation
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Olympic gymnastics star Gabby Douglas was hospitalized Sunday night, forcing her to miss a scheduled appearance with her U.S. teammates at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Four of the Final Five gymnastics greats from the Rio Olympics wished their ailing teammate well before getting hugs from best female video winner Beyonce on Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Simone Biles, in a girly red mini dress, had an attack of the giggles as she shared the stage with Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian.
“The fifth member of our team, Gabby Douglas, is having medical issues and unfortunately couldn't make it tonight,” Biles said. “Feel better Gabby!”
Douglas was in a hospital for treatment of a mouth infection from a previous injury, said her publicist, Lesley Burbridge.
“She continues to have deep swelling and adverse reactions to medications,” Burbridge said in an email to The Associated Press.
The four took turns introducing Beyonce and her contenders for the award. Kocian said, “Together with our teammate Gabby we accomplished something bigger than ourselves.”
Between them, the five won nine medals, breaking the record of eight won by the 1984 and 2008 USA women's gymnastics teams.
“The five women nominated for best female video worked hard to be on top of their games,” Raisman said from the VMA stage. “They're role models for us as we hope to be to a younger generation of women.”
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