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Long Beach community arts advocate Nicolassa Galvez, left, and songwriter Alyssandra Nighswonger are taking a threeweek road trip, which they are calling the Road to the American Woman. The trip documents their journey to the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., to protest the inauguration of misogynist Donald Trump as president of the United States.

Photo by Jon Wallace

[See American Woman, p. 14]

San Pedro Mourns Photojournalist

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illary Clinton was believed to be a shoo-in for the Oval Office, especially given the Republican nominee’s confession of habitually sexually assaulting women and getting away with it because of his celebrity.

However, the election did not go as expected. Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States, leaving millions of women — gay, straight, and bisexual; cis and transgender; white women and women of color — to reexamine what it means to be an American woman. Ahead of the inauguration, the threat to women’s progress is clear.

Long Beach community arts advocate Nicolassa Galvez and songwriter Alyssandra Nighswonger are two of the many women pondering how they will be impacted in this ominous environment. On Jan. 21, they will be taking a three week road trip across the United States to participate and bear witness to the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. They are calling this road trip, the Road to the American Woman.

The idea for the Women’s March on Washington was formed Nov. 9, the day after the election. Teresa Shook, a grandmother residing in Hawaii, organized 40 of her friends to march on Washington, D.C. Like dominoes, her friends invited their friends and the idea hit the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation. Administrators on Facebook pages generated thousands of sign-ups by the hour and eventually consolidated into one united effort.

A friend suggested to Nighswonger that she go to the march on Washington. As a singer and songwriter who looks for ways to connect with audiences, the idea got the wheels in her mind turning.

“Since the election people have been speaking out and there is a

Michael Justice (Oct. 22, 1955 – Jan. 4, 2017)

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

The irony of Justice’s death is that after traveling the world in places more dangerous than this, he died less than a mile from his home on a routine assignment.”

“It’s a sad day for the Port of LA and the photojournalism community,” POLA spokesman Phillip Sanfield said. “We are feeling his loss deeply.”

Justice, 61, was born and reared in Torrance. He’s been a freelance photographer for almost 30 years. He discovered his love for photography at Torrance High School, where he took a class in the subject. At the [See Justice, p. 17]

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old Christopher Reed, were pulled out of the two-seater copter that crashed near the San Pedro breakwater the next day.

Justice was doing some aerial photography for the Port of Los Angeles for whom he had worked since 2010.

Publisher James Preston Allen fondly remembers several of his conversations with Justice.

“Michael was one of the best photojournalists who I’ve had the opportunity to work with over the 36 years [of this paper],” Allen said.

“I considered him as something more than a colleague. He was my friend and I’ll miss him….

Photojournalist Michael Justice. Photo by Casey Warren.

Michael Justice was the quintessential photographer stricken with wanderlust. During his long career, Justice followed his camera to assignments in 62 countries. By the time he landed in San Pedro, a little bit of that wanderlust had worn away.

Random Lengths News began collaborating with Justice in 2008, when he shot photos for its publication HarborLiving.

As the managing editor, I worked closely with him. He was a great photographer with an interesting back-story.

On Jan. 4, Justice died in a helicopter accident. He and the helicopter’s pilot, 41-year-

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Harbor Area Ports Host Joint Clean Air Plan Workshop

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will host a joint community workshop on Jan. 24 to gather input on strategies released late this past year to update the Clean Air Action Plan, or CAAP. The CAAP was adopted in 2006 and has dramatically reduced pollution from maritimerelated sources that operate in and around the ports. The workshop is open to the public.

Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 24 Details: www.polb.com, www.portoflosangeles.org Venue: Banning’s Landing Community Center, 100 E. Water St., Wilmington

International Terminal FIS Facility

On Jan. 24, the Long Beach City Council is projected to vote on the International Terminal FIS facility, which would make Long Beach Airport an international airport.

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Homeless Count

Join the San Pedro Homeless Count to get the official count of what homelessness looks like in the community. These statistics are used to bring services and housing to the area.

Time: 8 to 11 p.m. Jan. 25 Details: (302) 588-7952; www.theycountwillyou. org Venue: Harbor Community Police Station, 2175 John S. Gibson Blvd., San Pedro

Street, Shelter Point-in-Time Count

The 8th biennial Long Beach Homeless Count will be conducted on Jan. 26. The count is offered in two shifts. The first shift begins at 5 a.m. and the second shift begins at 8 a.m.

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The Hughes Middle School Environmental Science class is hosting and Andrea Testa Realtor is sponsoring the annual shred and e-waste event and fundraiser. The first five boxes are free.

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A public hearing on Colony Cove Mobile Estates’ Capital Improvement rent increase application is scheduled.

Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 1 Venue: Helen Kawagoe Council Chambers, 701 E. Carson St., Carson For The Child is a new Child Abuse Response Team in February. The Child Abuse Response Team provides emotional support and crisis intervention to children when forensic medical exams and law enforcement interviews are necessary. The program utilizes carefully selected community volunteers who receive 40 hours of specialized training to serve as the child advocates.

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• Lowering stress and improving sleep also contribute to feeling better and staying trim.

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New AQMD Study Reports

Southland Refinery Pollution Much Higher than Previously Reported

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

Pollution emissions at six of the Southland’s largest refineries are vastly larger than previously realized, according to a new study by the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Using a combination of three different optical remote sensing technologies, scientists found that refinery emissions ranged from three to seven times the amounts reported in yearly emissions records, according to initial reports in Science magazine.

Specifically, emissions of volatile organic compounds, primary contributors to the creation of smog, ranged from 3 to 12 times the amounts reported, which are based on operators’ engineering calculations rather than actual measurements.

Emissions of two other smog precursors were also measured in the study. Sulfur dioxide reached three times the yearly emissions reports, while nitrogen dioxide emissions were roughly in line with the reports.

“The findings are alarming,” AQMD board member Joe Lyou told Random Lengths.

“Refineries are complex facilities where lots of things can go wrong…. The good thing about this new technology is that we can use it to pinpoint the leaks and fix them…. If the refineries have been underestimating their air pollution emissions, it brings into question their assurances that they don’t pose a significant threat to public health.”

The results — part of an ongoing optical remote sensing monitoring program that’s been

underway since 2008 — were presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in mid-December. Andrea Polidori, AQMD Atmospheric Measurements Manager, discussed the study and its findings.

“Although the six refineries are very well maintained by industry standards, and they are ‘clean,’ still there’s a very, very wide discrepancy between what you measure and what the ignition inventories indicate,” Polidori said.

“Refinery community members have a right [See Pollution, p. 5]

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• Work up to walking 10,000 steps a day. You don’t need to train for a marathon or an Ironman competition to establish a good fitness routine, Seibel said. Simply injecting a little walking into your daily routine helps you become healthier.

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If hot flashes and night sweats decline of estrogen levels in the weren’t enough, many women body. who reach their menopause years Health problems aren’t the have to contend with an additional only concern when weight gain adversary. They gain weight starts happening. around the belly and waist, and “Studies show that being they quickly learn it’s a struggle overweight or obese is more to do anything about it. than a medical issue,” Seibel “Somewhere around said. “It also affects quality of menopause, many women find life and self-esteem.” their clothes becoming a size too Seibel suggests that small,” said Dr. Mache Seibel, women who want to control a leading American expert on the accumulation of visceral menopause and author of The fat should explore a regimen Estrogen Window. “Why is that? Dr. Mache Seibel. that combines diet and exercise Is it simply an aging issue or is efforts with estrogen therapy. it directly related to menopause and the lack of Specifically: estrogen?”

• Discuss with your physician taking estrogen Seibel said that part of the problem behind at the opening of your “estrogen window.” what some people call the “middle-age spread” “That will offer the easiest and best solution is the visceral fat that lies deep within the to controlling an expanding waistline and living abdominal cavity. Unlike subcutaneous fat, a fit and energized life,” Seibel said. which lies directly under the skin, visceral fat can The “estrogen window” represents the ideal contribute to a host of diseases that increase the time to begin estrogen replacement. The window risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, opens the moment a woman enters menopause. joint disease and type 2 diabetes.

Exactly when it closes is more difficult to A large number of studies, he said, show that determine, Seibel said. Generally, it’s a 10-year postmenopausal women have greater amounts time frame, but that can vary and women should of visceral fat in comparison to premenopausal have ongoing discussions with their physicians. women. One contributing reason is the natural • Increase your fresh fruit and vegetable

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ILWU Member Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison SAN PEDRO—David Gomez, a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme in which two medical clinics submitted more than a $250,000 in bills to the union’s health care plan. The chiropractic services were not provided or were not medically necessary.

Gomez, 53, was convicted in October of 20 counts of mail fraud. Gomez has been in custody since a federal jury returned its guilty verdicts.

The ILWU represents dockworkers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Members of the union receive benefits, including health care benefits, through the ILWU-Pacific Maritime Association Welfare Plan.

According to the evidence presented at trial, Gomez, a San Pedro resident, and his co-defendant, Sergio Amador, opened a clinic in Long Beach in 2009 that operated under the name Port Medical and provided medical and chiropractic care. The next year, they opened a second clinic operating under the same name in San Pedro.

Gomez and Amador also created medical management companies that they used to receive funds generated by the medical clinics, which they then used to pay themselves and to pay incentives to ILWU members. These incentives were often paid as “sponsorships” of basketball or softball teams, with the understanding that the ILWU member receiving the “sponsorship” would visit, and encourage other team members

to visit, Port Medical.

According to the evidence presented at trial, Port Medical chart entries were falsified to indicate that ILWU members and their dependents, including children as young as 5, had received repeated chiropractic services, including multiple sessions of massage therapy, that they had not. To accomplish this, ILWU members were asked to sign their names on multiple sign-in stickers that were used to create the fabricated chart entries, or their signatures on stickers affixed to the chart entries were simply forged.

Other evidence at trial related to instructions provided to Port Medical massage therapists on how to craft chart entries to maximize billing and make services appear to be medically necessary, a requirement for them to be covered by the ILWUPMA Welfare Plan. Included were instructions to massage therapists never to write that a patient had indicated “no complaints,” and to make sure not to copy or write chart entries “exactly the same each time, change things up a little!”

According to court documents, a conservative assessment determined that the total amount of fraudulent bills was $258,913, and the health plan paid out $228,440. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner ordered Gomez to pay $201,000 in restitution to the health plan.

Amador pleaded guilty this past year to one count of mail fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 6.

Carson Swearing-In Ceremony Attracts Democratic Elite

By Lyn Jensen, Carson Reporter

The City of Carson officially returned Mayor Albert Robles and Councilmen Jawane Hilton and Cedric Hicks to their seats on the city council on Jan. 10.

Though council elections are nonpartisan, a large coterie of Democratic Party dignitaries attended the ceremony, including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who participated by swearing in the mayor and council members.

Current and former public Carson officials also attended, including former Carson mayors Vera Robles DeWitt, Mike Mitoma, Gil Smith and Daryl Sweeney, and former council members Julie Ruiz Raber and Raunda Frank. Harold Williams, a former council member who now is a West Basin Municipal Water District director, too was in the audience.

Robles joked that there were so many highpowered politicians in the room that it looked like a 2018 donors’ party.

In the week prior, Robles was sworn in for his seventh term on the board of directors for the Water Replenishment District; Robert Katherman was sworn in at the same time. Both candidates had to overcome criminal allegations and other

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti swears in Carson Councilman Jawane Hilton Jan. 10, at Carson City Hall. Photo by Phillip Cooke

controversies to win.

In compliance with new state law, Carson held its elections to coincide with state and federal elections this past November. The result was that 37,650 residents voted.

Jawane Hilton received the highest vote total for a first-time Carson council candidate ever.

Robles defeated Jim Dear, who was attempting to return as mayor, 55 to 45 percent.

Hicks and Hilton were elected to council seats to which they were previously appointed.

[See Carson, p. 5]

[Pollution, from p. 3]

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to know what’s going on,” Lyou said.

“They shouldn’t be the last to know when AQMD discovers things like this.”

However, the findings weren’t entirely a surprise. Community residents have complained of excess pollution for decades, and scientific findings have been supporting that.

“There have been a lot of studies in the past that shows that there is a discrepancy between inventory emission estimates and actual measurements,” Polidori explained.

“More sensitive technologies have been around for quite a while and have been used for different purposes, and people both in the United States and Europe have conducted studies basically to show that this type of technology can be used for measuring refinery emissions…. We thought that there is enough interest to demonstrate the validity of the technology and try to do some measurements ourselves using this technology. [It] can be used for different purposes … [it] can be mounted inside motor vehicles, can be driven around refineries or other industrial facilities, and if you have a leak, from a pipe or from a different part of the facility, then you are able to detect these leaks very quickly and very efficiently.”

Indeed, one such leak was detected by all three sensor systems during the test period.

The monitoring of refinery emissions was just one part of a threeproject study, which also focused on

small point sources and ship emissions.

There were no similarly shocking results with ships.

“New International Maritime Organization rules force ships to use new fuels and abatement techniques,” the American Geophysical Union summary on the ship-monitoring project stated. “This has an impact on SO2, NOx and [particulate matter] emissions. Our data revealed a very good compliance rate for sulfur ( in the range of 99 percent).”

When shifting to low-sulfur fuel was first suggested locally by the Port Community Advisory Committee, during the Hahn administration, the idea was rejected out of hand. It’s now a worldwide standard. The optical remote sensing monitoring technology provides an effective way to detect

non-compliance.

Within a four-week period, 692 ships were monitored, each identified by their Automatic Identification System signal. Monitoring was done both on-shore, from fixed locations at both ports, and from off-shore, from small boats. Polidori said that a full report on the results is being finalized and preferred to wait until the report is released before discussing it in detail.

The refinery monitoring involved three different technologies, with different strengths and weaknesses.

Fluxsense employs a method “Solar Occultation Flux,” combined with two standard processes for spectroscopic analysis.

“Their claim to fame, is they can conduct mobile measurements by setting up their instrumentation

inside a vehicle and driving around a fence line of the refinery,” Polidori explained. “They also can determine the wind speed and direction at every single point in time so they know if they are downwind or upwind of the refinery. So, by subtracting the upwind contribution from the downwind contribution, they can tell you basically what the total emissions from that particular facility is.”

It was tested at all six facilities for five weeks.

Its downside is precision, which is the strength of a second technology, Differential Absorption Lidar, from the National Physical Laboratory.

“You can get very accurate in measurements but only from a very limited part of the industrial complex,” Polidori said.

It’s contained in a large trailer, and was tested at one refinery for one week in a carefully selected location to maximize the amount of expected emissions it could detect.

“For our study, we used it for validation purposes,” he explained Comparisons showed that other technologies, though less accurate, produced similar results.

The third method, “Vertical Radial Plume Mapping,” from Atmosfir Optics, relies on a set of reflectors, so it can’t measure anything above the highest one.

“We placed it on the western edge of one of the major refineries,” he said.

There, it was downwind most of the time, Polidori said.

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While running for two offices on the same ballot, Robles thumbed his nose at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office despite its warning of legal action if he won both races. The district attorney’s lawsuit still is pending.

Robles won despite other criminal charges including sexual harassment (the cases were dropped). “I was called a criminal, a rapist, a thug, and that was just by Donald Trump,” he joked about his controversies.

This referenced Trump’s assertions during his presidential campaign that Mexicans who cross the border include rapists.

Robles is not related to Robles DeWitt. But he said that a man once remarked he had the same last name as then-mayor Robles DeWitt, which inspired him to one day be mayor of Carson.

Robles, Hicks and Hilton also won seats to be Assembly District 64 delegates in an election Jan. 7 at the Juanita Millender-McDonald Community Center in Carson. They will join other representatives of the Democratic party at the state convention in Sacramento May 19 through 21, where the party sets its agenda and policy.

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Atmospheric River Storms Bring Hope of Droughts End

At least temporarily, California’s drought has been broken by a string of atmospheric river storms originating in the vicinity of Hawaii.

Atmospheric rivers are jet streams of moist air, tens to hundreds of miles wide, which can carry 7.5 to 15 times as much water vapor as the Mississippi River at its mouth. A month-long series of AR storms in 1861 and ‘62 flooded the entire LA Basin, and many other parts of the state, creating a 300-mile lake in the San Joaquin Valley.

The current series of storms destroyed a California landmark, the iconic “Pioneer Cabin” sequoia, which is thought to be more than a thousand years old and is the most famous of the handful of tunneled-through sequoias in the state. It was toppled by the storm and shattered when it hit the ground. The initial set of storms removed most of Northern California from official drought status, according the Drought Monitor Index weekly update on January 12. It replenished surface water reserves across the state, but it will require multiple wet years to fully replenish California’s aquifers.

It’s also possible this year will be anomalous.

Global warming intensifies AR storms on one hand, but also makes droughts more extreme.

Multi-decade mega-droughts are projected to be increasingly likely this century, and we may still be in the midst of the first one. It will take at least one or two more wet winters before Californians can breathe easy again on that score.

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SAN PEDRO — Daniel O’Connell, a physics teacher at Mary Star of the Sea High School, was arrested for possession of child pornography on Jan. 10 by Los Angeles Police Department detectives with special training in handling online crimes against children.

Investigators began scrutinizing O’Connell after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that O’Connell was having inappropriate contact with minors he met on a mathematics tutoring website. They showed up at O’Connell’s Rancho Palos Verdes home with a search warrant and booked him at LAPD 77th Regional Jail, where he is being held on $20,000.00 bail.

People with any additional information, or additional victims are urged to call (562) 624-4027 or visit www.lapdonline.org. Click on “Anonymous Web Tips” under the “Get Involved-Crime Stoppers” menu to submit an online tip.

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Woman Killed on Knight Avenue in Long Beach

LONG BEACH — On Jan. 10, Susan Garcia, a 33 year-old resident of Long Beach, was shot to death on the 6300 block of Knight Avenue.

Long Beach Police Department officers responded to the area at about 7:30 p.m. after reports that two people were shot.

Officers found Garcia with a gunshot wound to the upper torso. The Long Beach Fire Department declared her dead at the scene.

A man also was shot in the torso and was taken a local hospital in critical condition.

John McVoy, a 35-year-old resident of Corona was detained by witnesses until police officers arrived and took him into custody.He was booked for murder and attempted murder, and is being held on $2 million bail.

The relationship between the victims and the suspect is still to be determined.

[See News Briefs, p. 10]

The Real Trump-Russia Scandal Looking for A Smoking Gun in a Smoke-Filled Room

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

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n Jan. 10, Buzzfeed published an explosive series of memos (misleadingly called a “dossier”) from a former British spy, later revealed to be Christopher Steele, former head of MI6’s Russia desk, with a network of sources there.

The first memo, dated June 2015, alleged the “Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for at least 5 years… to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance … [and that Russian intelligence] has compromised Trump through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him.”

“The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors,” BuzzFeed warned. “CNN reported Tuesday that a two-page synopsis of the report was given to President [Barack] Obama and [president-elect Donald] Trump.

“Now BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the presidentelect that have circulated at the highest levels of the U.S. government.”

From other reports, it immediately became obvious that the memos had circulated widely for months. The author had repeatedly updated the FBI, hoping to spur an investigation, which seems to have languished, for reasons unknown, even as FBI Director James Comey sparked a last-minute public wild-goose chase after Clinton emails in the last two weeks of the campaign.

In late October, while the phony Clinton email scandal again dominated the news, Mother Jones correspondent David Corn published a story based on the FBI information, but no one had published any of the actual content before. At the same time, the story was consistent with recent Russian political activity working to undermine other western democracies—with Trump’s Russian ties (praising Putin at least since 2007), and with Trump’s long, sordid personal history.

All three actions were severely under-reported during the campaign.

The Real Scandal

Maybe there wasn’t a smoking gun in the memos, but there was a smoke-filled room full of unanswered, even unasked questions.

“Maybe we ought instead to abandon our obsession with ‘secrets’ and ‘spies’ and look at what is sitting in front of us,” Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum wrote on Jan. 13.

She went on to cite Trump’s reliance on Russian money (the exact quantity is unknown), his political ties to Russia through former campaign manager Paul Manafort, his altering the Republican Platform by softening language on Ukraine, his repetition of “slogans and conspiracy theories — ‘Obama invented ISIS,’ ‘Hillary will start World War III’ — lifted from Sputnik, the Russian propaganda website,” and his dogged fealty to Putin, never speaking ill of him, no matter what.

The most telling of the sources Applebaum links to is a Dec. 19, 2016 story in the American Interest, by investigative economist and journalist Jim Henry.

“A few of Donald Trump’s connections to oligarchs and assorted thugs have already received sporadic press attention,” Henry writes.

“But no one has pulled the connections together, used them to identify still more relationships and

The dossier compiled by former head of Britain’s M16 Russia desk Christopher Steele alleges that Russia has cultivated Donald Trump for the past 5 years and has compromising information with which to blackmail him. File photos.

developed an image of the overall patterns.”

“Nor has anyone related these cases to one of the most central facts about modern Russia: its emergence since the 1990s as a world-class kleptocracy, second only to China as a source of illicit capital and criminal loot, with more than $1.3 trillion of net offshore ‘flight wealth’ as of 2016,” said Henry, which is important for understanding the political big picture.

That kleptocracy was created by the way Russia reorganized after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. American neoliberals played a central role in that process.

“From 1992 to the Russian debt crisis of August 1998, the West in general — and the U.S. Treasury, USAID, the State Department, the International Monetary Fund/World Bank, the EBRD and many leading economists in particular—actively promoted and, indeed, helped to finance one of the most massive transfers of public wealth into private hands that the world has ever seen,” he wrote. “For example, Russia’s 1992 ‘voucher privatization’ program permitted a tiny elite of former state-owned company managers and party apparatchiks to acquire control over a vast number of public enterprises, often with the help of outright mobsters.”

This program turned out to be enormously unpopular.

Boris Yelstin began his 1996 re-election campaign with just 8 percent support. But, with help from U.S. political consultants, massive new IMF loans worth $10.1 billion, and campaign cash from newly-wealthy oligarchs, Yeltsin managed to get re-elected over the Communist Party candidate. From then on, the kleptocrats were fully in charge, it was only a question of which ones landed on top. But the cash they looted had to go somewhere. Trump was a prime beneficiary. Henry quotes Donald Trump Jr. from a 2008 conference presentation:

[I]n terms of high-end product influx into the United States, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.

The big picture bottom line Henry points to is this: [N]either Trump nor Putin is an “uncaused cause.” They are not evil twins, exactly, but they are both byproducts of the same neoliberal policy scams that were peddled to Russia’s struggling new democracy.

This is precisely the essence of what Trump pretended to run against: the neoliberal global elites running the whole world. Far from fighting against it, he and Putin are its most outrageous examples. This is the big-picture crime scene.

This is what’s in the smoke-filled room. It’s a story that some in the media have told — pieces of it, at least — but that the media as a whole has proven incapable of grasping as a whole, much less communicating to the public.

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Telling big, complicated stories is hard, a lot harder than having scoops handed to you, or covering hot he said/she said controversies. And no one knows this better than Trump.

So, naturally, when BuzzFeed published the memos, Trump hit back hard, in his usual scattershot, wild way.

“Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to ‘leak’ into the public,” he tweeted. “One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?”

But BuzzFeed didn’t get the documents from [See p. 7]

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birtherism, it reflected the same basic mindset and modus operandi on Trump’s part: a habitual reliance on discredited make-believe, gossip and fake news to attack whomever stands in his way, matched with an instant reflex to play the victim whenever anything critical is said about him, as a way to preemptively shut down further inquiries.

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LBPD Chief Appoints New Commander

LONG BEACH — On Jan. 13, Long Beach Police Department selected 19-year veteran Chief Robert Luna Berkenkamp for the position of commander. Berkenkamp began his career with LBPD in 1997, was promoted to sergeant in 2007, and to lieutenant in 2015.

Berkenkamp has worked a variety of assignments: patrol, field training officer, directed enforcement, SWAT, critical incident management and event planning section. Most recently he oversaw the special enforcement section, which includes SWAT, the K-9 detail and air support.

Berkenkamp will begin his new assignment on Jan. 21 as the commander of the West Patrol Division.

The current West Patrol Division Commander Robert Smith will assume command of the Gang and Violent Crimes Division to replace commander Robert Luman, who recently retired.

Hall Appointed to Agricultural Labor Board

January 19 - February 1, 2017

SACRAMENTO — On Jan. 13, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed former state Sen. Isadore Hall to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board.

The appointment requires Senate confirmation. He will earn an annual salary of $142,095.

Hall, 45, was appointed the same day that board Chairman William B. Gould IV announced his resignation, accusing the state bureaucracy of stalling a proposal to allow the board to demand access to farms to educate workers about their rights.

Hall served in the state Senate from 2014 to 2016, the Assembly from 2008 to 2014 and was a member of the Compton City Council from 2003 to 2008.

Hall was defeated in the Nov. 8 election by former Hermosa Beach City Councilwoman Nanette Barragán, a fellow Democrat, in the race to replace Rep. Janice Hahn.

All this is a highly amplified echo of what happened in the 2004 campaign. On the one hand, John Kerry, a decorated war hero, was savagely and effectively attacked with a fake news operation decades in the making — the so-called “Swiftboat Veterans for Truth” — based on the absurd notion that Kerry had not really earned a Purple Heart, but had somehow conned the Navy into giving it to him — or perhaps, he simply pinned the medal on himself? On the other hand, there was an extensive, highly detailed record showing that George W. Bush had not fulfilled his military obligation, and had been flat-out absent without official leave for a period of months. Evidence of Bush’s dereliction of duty had been uncovered by the Boston Globe during the 2000 campaign, but Bush’s full military records were successfully blocked from public view, until 2004, when two separate researchers, Paul Lukasiak and Col. Gerald Lechliter, put together detailed analysis proving that Bush had failed to fulfill his requirements and that he had benefited from some sort of coverup. But their work, which Random Lengths explored at length in October 2004, was dense and complicated. It was not made for sensationalist TV. What would make a sensationalist scoop would be one single “smoking gun” document that could prove the existence of a conspiracy and cover up, rather than patiently putting all the

pieces together, so that a clear, undeniable picture emerged. That picture was one of the smokefilled backroom, from which Bush was protected by his father’s friends. That smoking gun is what Dan Rather and 60 Minutes went after, shortly before we ran our story. The result was a disaster.

By all appearances, the memos in question — from Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, Bush’s superior at one point — were apparently accurate, Killian’s secretary, Marian Carr Knox, said.

“I know that I didn’t type them,” she said in a followup broadcast interview, “However, the information in those is correct.”

An accurate forged document is consistent with “Bush’s Brain,” Karl Rove’s modus operandi, and suggests it was intentional disinformation designed to discredit any and all questioning of Bush’s record — whether it was or not, it worked.

The Steele memos are similar smoking gun material, and the fact they can’t — or at least haven’t been — confirmed is now being used to discourage further questioning, just as happened with Bush military service. But as much as the core dynamic is similar, the surrounding political environment is radically different today. There are not just two dedicated researchers who’ve put together a big-picture view of the smokefilled room, there are scores of them. And the focus is not on a tightly circumscribed military/ bureaucratic cover up of an AWOL junior officer decades in the past. The focus is on the global financial and political forces that are reshaping our world and have been doing so in their current form, at least since the fall of the Soviet Union.

It’s a very big smoke-filled room, indeed. And we’re going to stumble around in it for a good long time — at least if we keep getting distracted by looking for smoking guns, rather than simply examining what’s right in front of our eyes.

LONG BEACH — On Jan. 11, Long Beach resident Christopher Michael Salisbury was sentenced to 60 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for two counts of child pornography.

Salisbury, 38, also was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. After his release, he must register as a sex offender wherever he resides, works or attends school.

According to Salisbury’s plea agreement, he sexually abused two minors — beginning when each victim was about five years old — while residing in Maryland between 2006 and 2013.

Salisbury produced images and videos of himself and the minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Salisbury used video and photo editing software to compile videos of his sexual abuse that included music, text and other editing.

Additionally, Salisbury regularly accessed the internet through a network specifically designed to facilitate anonymous communication, commonly referred to as the “dark web.” Salisbury used the network to find and join a hidden website whose primary purpose was to advertise and distribute child pornography. Salisbury used the “dark web” and his membership in the hidden website to view, download, receive, and collect thousands of images and videos of child pornography.

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the intelligence agencies, they’d been circulating among journalists for months, journalists who also didn’t leak what was in the documents to the public. It was Trump’s version of events in his tweet that was actually fake news, underscored by his ludicrous invocation of Nazi Germany.

In the real world, it’s Trump’s own repeated attacks on the press that have experts worried about totalitarian rule. “Lying press” was a Nazi epithet used to delegitimate the German mainstream media that opposed Hitler’s rise and accurately reported on his movement’s bigotry, paranoia and violent tendencies.

At his first press conference in six months, Trump repeatedly refused to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta, specifically calling CNN “fake news,” an obvious lie on Trump’s part. The memos surely contain errors, but CNN merely reported on the synopsis being presented to the president and president-elect, a straightforward matter of fact.

“CNN’s decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than BuzzFeed’s decision to publish unsubstantiated memos,” CNN wrote the next day. “The Trump team knows this. They are using BuzzFeed’s decision to deflect from CNN’s reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organizations.”

But even the memos themselves weren’t fake news. They were presented as intelligence, in need of further investigation. Fake news stories are objectively false, while purporting to be true.

Still, there was widespread press reaction against what BuzzFeed did. Columbia Journalism Review took a dim view of complaints. While the most typical style of investigative reporting involves months of gathering documents and cultivating sources, Managing Editor Vanessa M. Gezari observed, “BuzzFeed took a different but still wellestablished approach: release what you can when you have it and see what new leads it generates,” Gezari said.

There’s nothing unethical in the approach — provided you don’t misrepresent raw information as confirmed fact. Sometimes it may be the only way to get the information you need.

“Some critics seem to be saying that unless the information in an intelligence briefing or other leaked document can be independently verified by reporters, it shouldn’t be published,” Gezari continued. “But did reporters independently verify all the allegations against Hillary Clinton and her allies contained in the emails released by WikiLeaks?”

Obviously, they didn’t. Clinton has been the subject of similar recklessness for a quarter century now. After the election, voters were even quoted citing Clinton’s supposed involvement in the “murder of Vincent Foster” as a reason she’s more untrustworthy than Trump. Foster committed suicide in 1993, but anti-Clinton conspiracists have insisted he was murdered for decades. Fake news stories have kept such claims alive and Trump revived the charges during his campaign, falsely describing theories of possible foul play in his death is “very serious” in a May 2016 interview with the Washington Post. He falsely claimed that the circumstances of his death were “very fishy.”

But in reality, as Vox reported at the time, “few if any suicides have been investigated as thoroughly—or repeatedly—as Foster’s, and it’s very clear what happened to him. It was a tragic suicide, not a murder to further a cover-up.”

While it was almost trivial compared to Trump’s lengthy involvement in promoting

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The Long Arc of History Some secrets are only revealed too late and lost in the Twittersphere

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Amidst the uproar over the president-elect’s latest tweet, his latest cabinet picks, and the latest revelations on the impact of Russian hacking on his surprise election win, the airing of Michael Kirk’s documentary film, Divided States of America, on Frontline (PBS) was overlooked.

The documentary, which aired on Jan. 18, examines President Barack Obama’s two terms in office and the widening divide over politics, race, and economics.

The documentary noted that when Obama was elected eight years ago, Democrats became a majority in both houses of Congress.

Pundits prognosticated that the Republican party would be out of power for at least a generation.

The documentary, however, reveals how instead of accepting the dead-on arrival prognosis, Republican party members gathered at their favorite watering hole and mapped out a plan to stop Obama. The plan from the very beginning was to keep any of his objectives from ever being implemented or passed. That’s exactly what they’ve done for the last eight years.

Their strategy explains a great deal about why so little has been accomplished by this Republican-led Congress, which was won back, starting the with the House of Representatives in 2010 and the Senate by 2012. This is also why Obama began to increasingly turn to executive orders to get his agenda accomplished.

The stalemate was planned by none other than Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and a co-author and architect of the Contract With America.

It also reveals how politically naïve Obama was to the ways of D.C. politics as he tried repeatedly to cross the divide between liberals and conservatives to weld bi-partisan support for the economic recovery and the Affordable Care Act, subsequently dubbed ObamaCare.

This was probably Obama’s greatest failing as president. Under his tenure, the nation has only grown more divided. In the end, that divide created both the Tea Party revolt and the election of someone who is the exact opposite of Barack Obama. Our country hasn’t been this divided since the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam

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War era.

As the nation celebrates civil rights icon, Martin Luther King Jr. with street parades and closed government buildings, I’m reminded of how my generation reacted to assassinations of national leaders like King, President John F. Kennedy, or his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy and never found satisfaction in the official explanations given.

This was so after the FBI Counter Intelligence Program was exposed following the 1971 burgling of FBI field office of classified dossiers which were distributed to the media.

News of President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal spread. He and his merry band of political plumbers were caught red handed.

President Obama likes to quote Dr. King regarding the nature of justice, saying:

Leaks in the Age of Trump–

The Coming Flood

By David Snyder, Executive Director of the First Amendment Coalition Donald Trump is about to control the most powerful political megaphone in the world.

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There will be no shortage of communication coming from the Trump White House. But again using past as prologue, there is likely to be very little information.

As a candidate, Trump displayed two traits that made him virtually impossible for journalists to cover in any conventional way. First, there is Trump’s well-documented talent for sowing informational chaos–making assertions unsupported by facts; assertions directly contradicted by the available facts; and assertions contradicting assertions made just days or even minutes before.

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Trump has already lost his opportunity to unite this nation behind his alt-version of reality.

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It’s a safe bet that Trump will pull no punches in pursuing the sources of leaks or the media outlets that publish them. Trump has made abundantly clear that he views journalists — as a group — as “scum” and “disgusting.” He systematically denied press credentials to news outlets that covered him critically during the campaign. He has suggested that “freedom of the press” (among other things) was to blame for September’s series of bombings in New Jersey and New York.

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Trump-Don’t-Care

After 18 years working for a company, I was laid off when they replaced the computer technology I have spent most of my career working on. Luckily, I was old enough to go on Medicare. My younger wife lost the family coverage when I was laid off, and without Obamacare (ACA) would not have been able to get coverage because of pre-existing conditions.

She is college adjunct teacher and gets no benefits. As it was, she got good coverage through the ACA for about what I was paying for my company’s insurance. Also, I would not have been able to get coverage because of pre-existing conditions without Medicare.

Without Obamacare and Medicare, we would have been in dire straits, and I might well be dead by now.

Trump and the republicans are going to KILL real people if they repeal ACA, leave millions with no coverage they can afford and millions with pre-existing [Deluge, from p. 8]

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Lock Step with You

James, I’ve known you and spoken with you over the last thirty-five years. Your editorials are usually right in line with my thoughts. Being a student of history and a retired teacher of history, I read the article on the website I’ve included and thought of with whom I could or should share it. I immediately thought of you, in the good way, of course. It is from an online publication called “U.S. Uncut.” It was passed on to me, for I have never before gone to the site. I think that it is timely in view of your latest editorial. Here

My three primary concerns are protecting the coast, preserving neighborhood character and providing transparency in government. A Notice of Public Hearing that just came across my desk proves the VITAL need for all three!

The applicant for the project in question wants to develop the vacant bluff side lot at 1305 W. Paseo Del Mar and is applying for a Coastal Development Permit (CDP) to build a 29-foot high, 4,323-square foot SFD WITH a detached 1,028-square foot garage.

The Coastal Act has a requirement to protect community character and visual resources

who soon will be president.

Journalism in the age of Trump will face formidable challenges, to be sure. But there is hope. Despite potential dire consequences, courageous whistleblowers have always been willing to stand up, to alert the American people to misdeeds by those elected to govern them. Other leakers, intent mainly on creating chaos, hack and leak for the sake of hacking and leaking, yet inadvertently improve our democracy by exposing problems that otherwise would never have been exposed.

Although many of the institutions that would protect and defend such whistleblowers, and the media who bring their alarms to the public, have been weakened in recent years, the law that protects them—starting with the U.S. Constitution—remains intact. Even the President of the United States can’t change that, at least not by himself.

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permit jurisdiction)! Also, this is a CORRECTION of the notice originally issued, correcting the address of the project. It seems to me that the hearing date should have changed at the same time that this correction occurred, as this is a fundamental error! How do we even know that the correct neighbors received proper notice?

It’s curious that the CEQA case, the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND), for the project is not for the same project as for the project as described in the Public Hearing Notice. It covers a lot consolidation and the construction of two new single-family homes on adjoining lots. Also, it looks like the MND was circulated in [See Letters, p. 10]

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ONLY go to owners and occupants within a 100-foot radius of this site, which literally means only a couple of households, yet a project of this scope has a huge impact and probably cumulative impact on the entire surrounding area. They constantly try to sneak these huge developments past the people most affected by them.

How often have plans and projects been dropped on our community without adequate public noticing and due process?!

Far too often, but this will not happen on my watch!

As councilman, I will require a wider radius for Notice on projects such as this in CD-15, particularly in areas such as this (right on the bluffs, in the dual

Obama’s aggressive pursuit of whistleblowers are predictable.

Due to the problem of rampant overclassification of government documents, the release of even relatively mundane information could have serious, even criminal, consequences for would-be leakers.

As McClatchy reported in 2013, under Obama “leaks to media are equated with espionage.”

It has to be assumed, given Trump’s own words over the past year, that he will make Obama’s escalation of leak prosecution look tame. Trump’s Justice Department could seek more federal grand jury subpoenas against reporters who rely on confidential sources. It could attempt to prosecute a journalist under the Espionage Act — something that has never been tried, but then Trump has shown little compunction in breaking with traditions and norms. It could follow the Obama administration’s lead and disregard Justice Department policies against secret subpoenas to news organizations or journalists.

It is also possible that Trump will do none of these things. But his words to-date suggest strongly otherwise. We disregard at our peril the threats of the showman-demagogue

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in the coastal zone. In order to do so, the CDP Findings require conformance of the project with the character, mass and scale of the existing surrounding neighborhood, and nothing on the entire bluff side of W. Paseo Del Mar even comes close to the size and mass of this project!

A project of this size and height on the bluff side will tower over the surrounding homes and block the view of many others. While it’s fine to build on this lot, the CDP should not be issued unless this project is required to scale back its size considerably.

Regarding transparency in government, the noticing requirement for CDP’s is as minimal as it gets: the notices

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those who burn the American flag—an act held to be protected under the First Amendment by the Supreme Court–should be jailed or stripped of citizenship, “perhaps.”

Trump walks into an Executive Branch that is arguably as hostile to the press as any in modern times. President Obama brought more prosecutions of leakers under the vaguely worded Espionage Act of 1917 than all previous presidents combined.

He was more aggressive than most presidents in pursuing confidential information from journalists.

His Justice Department secretly subpoenaed and seized phone and email records from more than 100 Associated Press reporters over the course of two months in 2012—in direct violation of Justice Department policies governing subpoenas of journalists and news organizations. The “Insider Threat Program” instituted while Obama was in office requires employees of the government’s vast intelligence bureaucracy to (among other things) submit to routine polygraph tests asking whether they have disclosed any confidential information.

The consequences of

conditions who cannot get insurance at any price. The USA is the only industrialized nation without national healthcare. US healthcare is 30 percent lower quality and yet costs 30 percent more than any other nation. This is a travesty, and Trump-Don’t-Care.

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is the website: http://usuncut.com/ politics/15-warning-signs-tyranny.

Keep up your fine work and may you continue to enlighten us and compel us to act.

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October 2014 and then again in February 2015 to add mitigating factors for Safety Hazards brought to the City’s attention by LAUSD. It would be interesting to know in what local newspaper these two circulations were published and whether they could be read without a full on magnifying glass…..and I also wonder whether the adjacent owners and occupants even received a copy.

These development processes, including and especially for CEQA, are certainly not designed to be user friendly such that those concerned could have even half a chance to understand the project and its risks. But in this case, with the project within 1,000 feet of a school, at least LAUSD was on the ball!

Lastly, it says this is currently a vacant lot. For purposes of the Mello Act determination, it’s very important to determine when the prior structure was demolished and on what basis it was approved.

If there were tenants living there and any of them were low-income tenants then this has likely been a work around of the Mello Act law to protect affordable housing in the Coastal Zone. It’s likely that there were tenants, as ZIMAS shows two addresses for the property—1301 [AQMD, from p. 5]

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“Usually, it’s left in place for months at a time,” he said. “You can get a very good idea about the variability of that pollutant.”

However, you can’t measure all of it that’s present.

In addition to using all three together in the field at one refinery, AQMD conducted a controlled release experiment at Anaheim Stadium.

“We released propane at different concentrations, at different heights, and we used the three technologies to basically see how accurate they could detect this propane,” Polidori said.

It was the first time such a comparison test had ever been done, as far as he knows.

“The DIAL was super. super accurate and the other two, though less accurate, correlated well,” he said.

The quality of the data collected was apparent when a leak was detected in an underground corroded pipe during the field test, which points to its potential usefulness in the future.

“The traditional way of inspections of the

and 1305. For the City to allow such work arounds in the face of being the least affordable city in the U.S., and in the midst of a serious housing crisis, is unconscionable.

Having a CEQA case (MND) for a different project than for the one as described in the Hearing Notice, and the fact that the demolition was done piece meal, are, obviously, red flags, and this project should not be allowed to be set for a Public Hearing until these problems are resolved and the appropriate changes made.

The public hearing on this project is on Thursday, February 2 at 9:00am.

San Pedro Municipal Building 638 S. Beacon Street Room 452 Noel Gould Candidate for City Council District 15

It’s a Bad Idea and They Know It

Republicans just voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act with absolutely no plan to replace it. That’s incredibly dangerous and irresponsible—even Republicans think so.

Yesterday, I went to the House floor to offer an amendment to the GOP’s bill repealing the Affordable Care Act. The amendment documents that even

refineries, it’s cumbersome, it’s very thorough, but it takes a very, very long time,” Polidori pointed out. “By the time you’re done inspecting one part of the facility and you move to the next, maybe the [first] part is leaking already, right?

So the appeal of this kind of technology is that you can survey the entire facility very quickly, you can do it multiple times a week, and you can also do it on an as-needed basis…. It’s very likely that they’re going to be implemented at refineries to detect potential leaked emissions 24/7…. There is another project, one of the Environmental Protection Agency grants that we received, in which we are experimenting exactly with this kind of 24/7 leak detection system.”

The next step is a pilot study, employing a low-cost system to do fenceline monitoring of volatile organic compound emissions from refineries in real-time and assess potential impacts on nearby communities. For $450 (four devices would be used at a single facility), it’s “not very accurate,” Polidori said.

“It can tell you the VOC is that background levels, or the VOC is a lot more than background,” he said, which is enough to be a significant step forward.

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Republicans think what they’re doing is a bad idea.

Republicans are rushing through a repeal of the ACA to appease Donald Trump. I can’t think of a worse reason to kick 30 million people off their health coverage.

Rep. Nanette Barragán San Pedro

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This is a continuation of why Hillary lost the election.

Trump is a con-artist, habitual liar, white racist with no respect for females.

Why then did the white Christians vote for him, besides voting against that nigg- Obama? They turn on their own values.

What in their life teaches them to take facts and turn and manipulate them any way they want to. It’s not science. Science teaches you to think logical, rational and analytical.

So what made these white racists rationalize this way the belief in God and the Bible?

The Bible teaches stupid believers irrational logic.

The believers in the Bible have no analytical skills at all.

That’s why they believe in God and not evolution. Their brains are scrambled and they are stupid.

Damian Walters San Pedro

He said that the sensors are “not sensitive enough to do community monitoring, but the second part of this project basically involves deploying these type of sensors within communities to see if they can be used as an alert system. So, if there is a spike in volatile organic compound concentrations, can you detect the spikes within the community? After that, in part three of the study, they are going to work with Fluxsense with a very precise and more accurate instrument to do fenceline measurement and community measurements.

The prototypes for phase one are expected to be deployed at a facility this summer, but “it might take us another couple of years before we come up with a final report,” he concluded.

Under Lyou’s urging, AQMD staff will be making a presentation to the stationary source committee within a few months, and then to the full board, AQMD spokesman Sam Atwood said.

“Obviously this is a very valuable technology, and we want to make use of it moving forward to increase the accuracy of our emissions inventories, as well as enhance our enforcement at oil refineries and any other facilities where we can use the technology,” Atwood said.

Record Year for Ports

The idle container shipping fleet has soared to 1.7 million TEU in 2016, the Dec. 23 edition of West Coast Sailors reported.

The expansion was driven by Hanjin’s collapse and by carriers withdrawing ships from service rapidly in an attempt to limit the impact of chronic overcapacity and weak demand.

The number of idle ships has increased from 238 vessels with a combined capacity of about 900,000 20-foot equivalent units in November 2015, to 435 ships aggregating 1.7 million TEUs in early November of this year, according to the maritime research, consulting and advisory services company, Drewry.

At the beginning of 2015, idle containerships comprised just 2.5 percent of the global fleet, while ships laid up around the world now account for 9 percent of the global fleet. The growth of the idle fleet may have been rapid. Of the 1.7 million TEUs, Hanjin Shipping generated 36 percent of that capacity during the past quarter, when the carrier went bankrupt.

The former Hanjin-operated fleet accounted for 622,958 TEUs, and of this, about 200,000 TEUs were for containerships of more than 10,000 TEUs from discontinued TransPacific and AsiaEurope services.

About 600,000 TEUs of capacity has also been scrapped this year, without which the idle fleet would have grown even higher.

Yet, such is the surplus vessel overhang that even with around 13 percent of the global fleet now scrapped or idling, the rebalancing of supply and demand remains elusive.

Cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles reached 8,856,782 TEUs in 2016.

December was particularly strong, at about 796,536 container units. December imports increased 22.6 percent to 394,217 TEUs, slong with a 23.5 percent rise in empty containers, while exports shot up nearly 25.6 percent to 164,900 container units. Overall in 2016, cargo increased 8.5 percent compared to 2015.

However, at Port of Long Beach cargo traffic fell 5.8 percent in 2016 to almost 6.8 million container units.

December was even weaker, falling 8 percent from the previous December as only 549,000 container units moved through the docks. Imports decreased 8.2 percent to 271,599 TEUs. Exports fell 2.5 percent to 122,933 TEUs, while empties declined 11.4 percent to 154,397 TEUs. The Aug. 31 Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy may be the cause of the diversion of cargo between the two ports. Hanjin was a majority stakeholder at POLB’s largest container terminal. Much of Hanjin’s cargo went to other shipping lines that have agreements to call on the POLA, not Long Beach.

The Long Beach Harbor Commission had approved an agreement for a subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Co. to take over the long-term lease at the terminal formerly home to Hanjin.

More detailed cargo numbers for POLA can be found at www.portoflosangeles.org/ maritime/stats.asp.

More detailed cargo numbers for POLB are at www.polb.com/stats.

Art Hits the Street in San Pedro

By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer

Street art, be it sanctioned or unsanctioned, has become a familiar sight throughout the world. Once chiefly a form of protest and political expression, street art has emerged as a means to combat urban blight.

Next month the Waterfront Arts District celebrates the completion of a trompe l’oeil style, surrealistically inspired mural created by Luis Sánchez. The mural, titled Soulful Sunrise Melody, is 101-feet long and has already added a welcome touch of grace to 6th Street from its home in the Lilyan Fierman Walkway, adjacent to the Warner Grand Theater.

Sánchez arrived in San Pedro as a muralist who was something of an exile from the downtown Los Angeles arts district. He followed another artist friend, Cherry Wood, who led him to a serendipitous experience in the San Pedro arts district. He soon found himself in a community of artists in the recently opened PacArts building on Pacific Avenue. One of the fortunate accidents in this move was meeting Regina Argenti, his new next-door neighbor at PacArts. Argenti is also a muralist and became Sánchez’ partner and collaborator on the new mural.

As the son of a Cuban artist and a Mexican-Lebanese mother, much of Sánchez’s life has been influenced by migration. Born in Mexico City, his passionate and diverse family includes artists, dancers and bullfighters. He grew up spending hours in his father’s Mexico City art studio.

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Luis Sánchez in front of his mural, Soulful Sunrise Melody in the Lilyan Fierman Walkway in downtown San Pedro.

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s we rang in the new year, the one issue that’s poised to dominate discussions of food and agriculture is the place of meat in the modern human diet.

This debate strikes at the core of our omnivorous nature. It tugs at our heart strings, tempts our palates, challenges our intellects and presents myriad health impacts.

The more I learn about the harmful effects of the world’s livestock practices on world hunger, climate change and other facets of our environment, the more foolhardy and selfish eating animal products appears to be — unless, perhaps, you’re raising or hunting your own or purchasing from a livestock operation that’s sensitive to its environmental footprint.

By contrast, consumer interest in the quality of life experienced by the animals that provide us their meat, organs and secretions has spiked.

The likes of Walmart and McDonalds are happy to oblige in at least one way, having pledged to phase out their use of chicken eggs that were laid in a cage. Whether the chickens are truly any better off is an open question.

Not coincidentally, in 2016 the veggie burger came into its own, largely on the back of the Impossible Burger. This plant-based burger features umami-rich “blood” that sizzles and browns in the pan, and sheds it with each bite you take. Even the least apologetic of meat eaters surveyed have admitted to respecting the Impossible Burger, fortified with wheat and potato protein and lubricated with coconut oil.

The quasi animal product space has also exploded with the likes of “cheese” made from cultured nuts, pink-hued faux shrimp and crab meat, nut- and grain-based “milk” products like almond milk and hemp milk, egg-free “mayo,” and virtually every kind of vegan substitute for egg, chicken, flesh or fluid you can imagine.

It’s not just vegans that are are into this stuff. Locavores, climatarians, ovo-lactopaleo-bacon-vores and good old-fashioned omnivores are finding their way to vegan

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The vegan “Impossible Burger.” File photo.

alternatives for entirely different reasons.

As for me, I eat meat, mostly wild game for which I feel zero guilt, assuming the hunt goes well.

While I don’t avoid animal products as a rule, I do limit my intake of mammalian dairy products for phlegm-related reasons. I know it isn’t cool to admit it, but I like soy milk. I like milk, too, and heavy cream, and cheese.

However, I long-ago settled on mayonnaise as my go-to cheese alternative. In recent years, I’ve determined that Vegenaise, specifically the grapeseed oil formulation, is the best mayo on the market — and for reasons that are completely unrelated to the fact that it doesn’t contain eggs. I scoop Vegenaise greedily upon my deer, my scrambled eggs, my beef or veggie burger, and I’m good. Bloodthirsty omnivore that I am, I’m part of the animal-alternative products market.

Animal product industries have not been pleased with these developments in this growing market and pushed back big time in 2016.

Unilever, owner of Hellman’s and Best Foods brands of mayo, took vegan food processor

Hampton Creek to court for using the word “mayo” on the label of its egg-free mayonnaise substitute, Just Mayo. The National Dairy Council attempted, and failed, to make it illegal to use the word “milk” to describe nut and grain-based milk substitutes like almond milk.

Makers of cultured nut products have similarly lost their ability to label their products as “cheese.” It seems a matter of when, not if, the beef industry goes after Impossible Burger over its use of the word “burger.”

While many vegetarian diets often attempt to recreate animal products from plant-based ingredients, resulting in the likes of bleeding burgers and Tofurky, this re-creation is not to be confused with vegetable-based cuisine.

Vegetable cookery doesn’t carry the implicit inferiority complex that comes with constantly serving kinda-sorta-meat. Rather, it celebrates the inherent qualities of the vegetable or plant part in question. So, my final prediction for 2017 doubles as a recommendation: don’t sleep on plain vegetables.

Even as you nerd-out on a Silicon Valley burger patty formulation that’s precisely calculated to satisfy your body’s nutritional needs while simultaneously saving the earth and tickling your taste buds, don’t forget whole, normal vegetables.

With each passing study and with each passing year, vegetables continue to accumulate almost zero baggage. The debate over the pros and cons of vegetables is nonexistent, because it has been settled. Vegetables are good and not bad.

And luckily, one of 2016 biggest food

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trends, one that will likely grow stronger in 2017, is the push to sell imperfect produce, or so-called “ugly” fruits and vegetables, at a discounted rate. Like cage free eggs, imperfect produce is available at Walmart.

But with all due respect to vegetables, beautiful and ugly alike, animals are not necessarily always all bad either. In fact, there is an increasingly solid argument to be made in favor eating them, some of them at least.

In 2016, public understanding and perceptions of fat continued to be turned inside out, especially saturated fat, which has long been assumed to be the culprit behind obesity and weight-related ailments, like heart disease.

Once practically unassailable, this position is now openly questioned, as expert opinion shifts to the camp that regards sugar as the primary dietary culprit behind obesity.

Saturated fat is a fancy way of saying “animal fat” but with a few exceptions, such as coconut and palm oil, which are derived from closely related tree species. Saturated fats are increasingly understood to benefit brain health, as well as other crucial body functions.

Meanwhile, the relative merits of unsaturated fats (especially those found in plant-based oils like canola, safflower, sunflower and soy) seem to decrease the more we learn about omega-6 fatty acids, in which these oils are high.

Avocado, olive and other fruit and nut oils are in a vastly better category of plant oil, as they contain more omega-3 fatty acids.

And it isn’t clear that all meat is bad for the environment, either. A vocal minority of ranchers are making the ecology-based case that certain landscapes can benefit from properly managed herds of certain ungulates. In the absence of buffalo and other native grazers, many ecosystems could spin out of control without tasty livestock like cows to fill that vital niche.

If done correctly, rotational grazing can result in healthier ecosystems and carbon sequestration, proponents claim. It’s a compelling vision, but even if it’s true, the cattle-carrying capacity of the landscape is much less under rotational grazing than under feedlot rules. If the world were to make a dramatic switch to rotational grazing, it would mean a lot less meat to go around. But here’s another sobering truth: the global cattle industry will not be switching from feedlots to rotational grazing systems in 2017.

To recap my forecast, this will be the year of the fight over the legal definition of the word “burger.” It will also be a year of glory and evolution for imperfect produce, and a celebration of the innate beauty of plant parts.

But amidst the angst, reverence and exploration of a plant-based diet, don’t be surprised if meat makes a little comeback too. The relative placement of meat and plants within the context of our modern diet will continue to be a fluid, evolving situation in 2017.

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TransVagrant & Gallery 478 Ann Weber, sculpture

Photo by Ray Carofano.

Ann Weber's organic sculpture is abstract, formally elegant and composed of inelegant salvaged cardboard. There are abundant hints of figuration and recognizable objects: chess pieces, balloons, human torsos, plant forms and graphic ciphers. Weber's technique is disarmingly direct, referencing Arte Povera's preference for unconventional materials. The exhibition opens First Thursday, Feb.2.

An artist’s reception will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, from 4 to 7 p.m. The exhibition runs through April 30. Gallery 478 is located at 478 W. 7th Street, San Pedro. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For information contact Ron Linden at (310) 600-4873, www.transvagrant.com

Michael Stearns Studio 347 PRIMAL ORIGINS

Primal Origins, Works by Michael Stearns has been held over through February. The paintings reflect the direct connection to the life force contained in prehistoric ponds and some bring us into the contemporary landscape. Stearns approaches the subject matter, the statement and the message intellectually, while he handles the treatment of the work viscerally. For example, he uses chromosome mapping to raise questions regarding science and ethics, yet approaches the work through the primal side, with color and shape.

Open on First Thursday, Feb. 2, 6 to 9 p.m. Michael S te a r n s S t u d i o 347, 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro. www. m i c h a e l s te a r n s studio.com Michael Stearns

PacArts art tank

Regina Argentin

Art Tank, PacArts’ resident-artist group exhibition opens on Feb. 2 with an artists’ reception from 6 to 8 p.m. After the Lilyan Fierman Walkway mural celebration, meet and greet the artists who live and work at PacArts. Meet the LFW muralist Luis Sánchez and his assistant Regina Argentin. See their current works as well as works by Bejan Amini, Monica Belni, Pati Monge, Lisa Mosely and Ziggy Mrkich. Art Tank runs through April. PacArts, 303 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro. For more information (562) 436-0700, www.engagedaging.org.

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2017 WINTER calendar of Events Jan 6 – 15 | BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Based on the classic Disney animated film, this “tale as old as time” delights audiences of all ages! Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays, 2 pm. Tickets at: Encoresouthbay. org or 310.896.6459.

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Palos Verdes Land Conservancy presents the first film in its 2017 series celebrating the wonder and majesty of nature. Title TBD. $10; 18 yrs and under FREE. PVPLC. org or 310.541.7613

Friday Jan 27, 8pm | STEPPIN’ INTO THE SPOTLIGHT

Saturday Feb 11, 7pm | 2017 OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORTS – LIVE ACTION San Pedro International Film Festival presents the 2017 contenders TBD. Tickets $10 at brownpapertickets.com. For details: spiffest.org.

Saturday Feb 25, 7:30pm | UN TRIBUTO A MEXICO Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company, led by Artistic Director José Vinces, showcases the splendor of Mexican folk dance from regions throughout Mexico.

Tickets and information at grandezamexicana.com.

The Warner Grand Theatre is a facility of the City of Los Angeles, operated by the Dept of Cultural Affairs assisted by Friends Group Grand Vision Foundation.

January 19 - February 1, 2017

Scalawag Productions presents its first annual talent show featuring performers from the Harbor Area. Entry fee is $25 per 5-min. slot. Contact Gale Kadota at 310.625.2574. Tickets $10 at WGT.Tix.com

Acclaimed Southland folklorico company Sabor de Mexico presents a journey of discovery through music and dances from throughout Mexico.

Tickets $10, $15 & $20 at gruposabordemexico@yahoo. com and 310.489.3463.

Gloria Lee and Pat Woolley of Studio 345 Gallery present a show of color in the media of acrylic and printmaking. Open First Thursdays and by appointment. Books, boxes and unframed paintings, as well as other items are on display and for sale. For information, contact Gloria at (310) 545-0832 or Pat at (310) 374-8055 or artsail@ roadrunner.com. 345 W. 7th St., San Pedro, www.patwoolleyart. com

Sunday Jan 22, 4pm | WILD & SCENIC FILM SERIES

Saturday Feb 4, 7pm | MEXICO ES TODO

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When asked if he is concerned about damage by vandals to the mural, Sánchez was philosophical.

“I don’t paint for me,” Sánchez said. “The process is mine, but I hope for the work to find a home. I don’t make it for me; I make it for someone who will appreciate it. I am detached from the work once I am done.”

Sánchez expressed a spirituality that sustains him.

“I have had two kidney transplants in my life that have given me this perspective,” he said. “My work is my lifeline. It has given me tools to get through life.

Life became very clear to me after the transplants. Everything I have done has come out of that experience.”

He spoke of his struggle to find the design for his

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“I used to watch him paint for endless hours the Department of Transportation boxes on when I was a child,” Sánchez said. “Until I was Harbor Boulevard, another project funded by 15, I didn’t pick up a brush. I already knew the Waterfront Arts District. It was a small everything from watching him.” project — and a small paycheck — but helped As a child, his parents enrolled him in the familiarize him with the opportunities for artists prestigious Museo de Bellas Artes in Mexico in San Pedro.

City, where he studied for 10 years until his parents relocated to Seattle.

Following college, Sanchez came to Los Angeles.

His mural’s Warner Grand-adjacent location on 6th Street is in downtown San Pedro. That neighborhood has been struggling to recover from lost business. For now, the popular monthly art walk and performances at the Warner Grand still seem to be the most successful approach to rebuilding downtown.

The new mural is just one step in the plans of the Waterfront Arts District, formerly the Arts Culture and Entertainment group, to encourage public art in San Pedro. Linda Grimes, managing director of the district has been inspired by Jason Ostro of the Gabba Gallery Alley Project in the historic Filipino Town of Los Angeles.

Ostro, dismayed by the prevalence of graffiti and trash in his neighborhood, decided to take action. He had a vision of turning “blight to bright” by decorating local alleys with colorful artwork. As Grimes chases funding for her vision, she hopes to bring similar transformation to downtown San Pedro.

This mural award is part of the City of Los Angeles’ One Percent for the Arts Funding, a collaboration negotiated by the Council 15 Office and the Department of Cultural Affairs, which advances the social and economic impact of arts and culture.

Sanchez began his introduction Details of Soulful Sunrise Melody by artist Luis Sanchez. Photos by Terelle Jerricks. to San Pedro by painting one of

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mural. After making a few designs he became frustrated with his lack of inspiration, and he felt a need to visit the wall for insight.

“I walked over to the wall and sat for awhile,” said Sánchez. “I touched the red bricks of the wall. I love the natural, organic feel of the brick. It was a warm sunny day and I stepped back. Suddenly, I experienced a flashing vision and I saw the mural, it was already there.

In another dimension, I already painted the mural. I knew that all I had to do is put the paint on the wall.”

A celebration of the new mural will take place prior to the First Thursday artwalk, Feb. 2 at 5 p.m. The Lilyan Fierman Walkway, is near 470 W. 6th St. Councilman Joe Buscaino will be present for the ceremony and entertainment will be provided by the Alex Smith trio. Art prints of the completed mural will be available for sale in the walkway.

As part of the mural celebration, the PacArts Gallery will host a group exhibition, featuring Luis Sánchez, Regina Argentin and other notable resident artists. The exhibition will be open from 6 to 9 p.m, during the artwalk. The gallery is at 303 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro.

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American Woman conversation of inclusiveness,” Nighswonger said. “What if we take a road to go there, play music and interview women along the way about their stories and what it means to be a woman and ask them questions?”

One of Nighswonger’s first order of business was inviting Galvez to come along on this trip.

Galvez is a community arts advocate, but her strength lies in her researching, writing and online publishing skills. And, Galvez, like millions of others, was stunned by the election and eager to do something about it.

“I got together with some women friends to watch the results,” Galvez said. “The week before voting day is always when the big guns come out, the big story and we all know Trump made many comments about women … that was when the comment came out about the sexual assault.

“It came out and no one cared. They were all still talking about the [Clinton] emails. So, on election night, we could see he was gaining.

I still didn’t think he could win. Then it hit me, all those people still voted for him and didn’t care about what he said. They don’t care about how he feels about the Mexican community or the Muslim community. It hit me hard and I

wondered, ‘What I do now?”’

Nighswonger envisioned going on a road trip during which she would collect stories from various women at the stops along the road to Washington D.C. Her model is loosely based off of blogs like Humans of New York and podcasts like This American Life.

Nighswonger want to engage in “storycatching,” a throwback to the term songcatchers which is a reference to the pioneering work of Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp to preserve the traditional Scots- Irish ballads of Appalachia.

She reflected on the idea and scope of that project and the influence that music has on today’s stories.

“Someone was going out into the mountains ready to meet some people and hear some songs,” Nighswonger said. “It made me think of our purpose, setting out on this journey, ready to meet some people and hear their stories.”

The modern American woman is made up of many voices. American feminism has taken a beating during this recent election cycle for ignoring intersectional discrimination. It has been criticized for its propensity for telling [See American, p. 15]

[American, from p. 14]

American Woman women of color where their interests lie.

Bringing diverse voices and stories into this discussion is foremost on the minds of Galvez and Nighswonger. This mission of inclusiveness also mirrors that of the organizers for the upcoming march in Washington D.C. The original organizers of the D.C. march were white. It’s an ironic twist since Clinton’s weakness with white women in key states cost her the election. Trump won their support 53-43 nationwide. It’s imperative that diverse voices actively participate in this social discussion.

This is what Road to the American Woman seeks to do.

To address this issue Vanessa Wruble, who

in redefining what the American woman is and it’s been difficult. Before, there was a formula for how her personal life should look. Then, there was what she calls, “this explosion.” It blew out any formulas for her, both personally and on matters of gender and sexuality.

“I feel everybody is a little bit everywhere,” Galvez said. “It used to be gay or straight.

Now there’s so many definitions. For me in defining an American woman, this trip is about expanding my understanding of all the possibilities out there, so that I can start finding that definition for myself. I’m not even in that place right now. I’m still in the place of postexplosion.”

As early as this past year, those labels didn’t have an effect on her. The first time she considered being single, having a nontraditional relationship and leaving her job was

Arts Cuisine Entertainment Jan 19 - Feb 1, 2017 ENTERTAINMENT Jan. 20

CRSB The duo of Chris Ramos and Sonny is based in the San Francisco Bay area and creates its own brand of island, soul-infused pop.

Time: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 Cost: $12 to $25 Details: www.solvenue.com Venue: Sol Venue, 313 E. Carson St., Carson

Jan. 21

Hijos del Sol This band can satisfy your hunger for the roots reggae with their Calicoastal reggae stylings.

Time: 9 p.m. Jan. 20 Cost: $1 Details: www.sanpedrobrewing.com Venue: San Pedro Brewing, 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro Andy & Renee The award-winning regional favorites return with the Hard Rain Band and a three-piece horn section to continue their full-length album concerts. This time they’re playing the complete CD, A River is Gone.

Time: 8 p.m. Jan. 21 Cost: $25 to $30 Details: www.grandvision.org Venue: Grand Annex, 438 W. 6th St., San Pedro

A band performing ata Long Beach fundraiser supporting Nicolassa Galvez and Alyssandra Nighswonger roadtrip to Women’s March on Washington D.C. Photo by Jessie Drezner

after a recent break up. Her degree in social justice opened up a world to her that she didn’t know. She came to realize that there still are many labels and invisible prejudices in society.

Some of labels that stand out to Galvez and Nighswonger are both positive and negative.

“I identify with mestiza, (mixed with European and indigenous) and chingona, or bad ass,” Galvez said. “Some people see it as a bad word, but to me, it’s a bad word because women aren’t allowed to be badass. Another positive term that is new to me is ‘queen,’ as a term of endearment. Negative ones are, ‘overweight,’ ‘lady’ or “proper.”’

“For negative ones, ‘honey,’ ‘sweetie, or ‘Miss,’” Nighswonger interjected. “It’s very condescending. For positive ones, ‘power [See American, p. 16]

Jan. 22

Akiko Tsuruga Trio Akiko is a mainstay on the New York jazz scene.

Originally from Japan, she launched her jazz career after graduating from the Osaka College of Music. While living in Osaka, she performed with world-renowned jazz musicians from the United States, including Grady Tate.

Time: 4 to 7 p.m. Jan. 22 Cost: $35 Details: www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

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The Fire

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Bold, upbeat music and stories of Scotland, complete with fiddle, bagpipe and bodhran.

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Jan. 28

Dennis Herrera Blues Band This contemporary electric blues and blues rock band has the blues fix you looking for.

Feb. 2

Steinway by Starlight This concert features world-renowned American pianist, Sean Chen. The concert will also include a classical guitar performance by Cal State Dominguez Hills student Tara Rose Davison, Dr. Scott Morris and David Issacs.

Time: 8 p.m. Feb. 2 Cost: $20 Details: http://tinyurl.com/2017Steinway-byStarlight Venue: University Theatre, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson

Feb. 3

The Fire The fire is a high energy Scottish band with world class fiddling, bagpipes, guitar, bodhran, whistle and bouzouki. The trio includes piper and multi-instrumentalist David Brewer, Adam Hendey on guitar and bouzouki and International Scottish fiddle champion, Rebecca Lomnicky.

Time: 5 p.m. Feb. 3 Cost: $20 to $120 Details: www.grandvision.org Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

THEATER Jan. 20

Pick of the Vine: Season 15 Directed by Madeleine Drake, Gigi Fusco Meese, Richard Perloff and Elissa Anne Polansky, this year’s Pick of the Vine offers 7to 15-minute plays hand-picked by Little Fish Theatre from authors across the country.

Time: Jan. 20 through Feb. 11 Cost: $27 Details: www.littlefishtheatre.org Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 Centre St., San Pedro

Feb. 1

Figaro’s American Adventure This opera created by Eli and LeRoy Villanueva is based on Rossini’s popular classic, The Barber of Seville. With his band of sneaky barbers and mercenaries, Figaro leads the audience on a musical goose chase.

Time: 10:30 a.m. Feb. 1 Cost: Free Details: (310) 329-5345; ArtsTickets@ elcamino.edu Venue: Center for the Arts, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

FILM

Jan. 22 Wild and Scenic Film Series Palos Verdes Land Conservancy presents the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, celebrating the wonder and majesty of nature.

Time: 4 p.m. Jan. 22 Cost: Free

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Sgt. Peppers Tribute to the Beatles They call themselves Sgt Peppers, but this outfit performs all your favorite Beatles songs. The band was recently added to the prestigious Los Angeles County Musicians Roster, which is rare for a tribute band.. Hear music from across the Beatle decade from Time: 8 p.m. Jan 28 Cost: $25 to $35 Details: www.grandvision.org Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Cumbre Flamenca 1 Enjoy the highest level of Flamenco artistry featuring internationally renowned flamenco dancer Inmaculada Ortega from Spain, with Daniela Zermeno and Sarah Parra, some of our finest dancers from Southern California.

This is a superb and passionate performance in this first of two back-to-back weekend shows at the Annex.

Time: 8 p.m. Jan. 29 Cost: $40 to $65 Details: www.grandvision.org Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Steppin’ Into the Spotlight San Pedro’s Scalawag Productions presents its inaugural talent show, Amateur performers from the Harbor Area compete for prizes in three age categories. The entry fee is $10 per 5-minute performing slot.

Time: 8 p.m. Jan. 27 Cost: $10 Details: (310) 625-2574 or gkadota@aol.com for entry forms Venue: Grand Annex, 438 W. 6th St., San Pedro

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worked alongside a page administrator for the march, made efforts to include women of different backgrounds. The point was to make sure their voices were reflected in meetings and the decision-making process.

Tamika D. Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour came on to work with the team as national co-chairwomen.

These three women organized a 250-mile march from New York to Washington D.C. to demand changes in America’s criminal justice system. The site acknowledges these activists as, “not tokens, but dynamic and powerful leaders who have been organizing intersectional mobilizations for their entire careers.”

Shortly after their first fundraiser for their road trip, Galvez and Nighswonger spoke about what it means to each of them to be an American Woman now.

“For me personally I define it as a very traditional role,” Galvez said. “Growing up, it was like, ‘follow the rules, listen to authority.’ As far as my academics or politics, I’m super liberal but my personal life was very reserved.”

For Galvez, the last couple of years have shown a breakthrough

Porterhouse Bob Party your brains out on New Orleans Funk featuring Porterhouse Bob with the brotherhood horns.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Jan. 21 Cost: $20 Details: www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Time: 9 p.m. Jan. 28 Cost: TBD Details: http://tinyurl.com/BigBluesWeekend Venue: Godmothers, 302 W. 7th St., San Pedro

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Arts Cuisine Entertainment Jan 19 - Feb 1, 2017

Details: pvplc.org Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Jan. 30

Getting the Shot From sneaking past the Khmer Rouge to outrunning Somali bandits, acclaimed storyteller Rick Ray shares the adventures behind his most compelling footage.

Time: 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30 Cost: $9 Details: www.elcamino.edu/centerforthearts/ performances Venue: Center for the Arts, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

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Resurgence and Rediscovery Resurgence and Rediscovery demonstrates and enables the growing trend of film photography as smart phones have replaced digital cameras as the popular medium of choice.

Cost: Free Details: www.huzgalleries.com Venue: huZ Galleries, 341 W. 7th St., San Pedro

Long Beach Arts Nostalgia: Toys Join Long Beach Arts and WE Labs for its ongoing series of art exhibits featuring local Long Beach artists. This installment is all about nostalgia via toys.

Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 21 Cost: Free Details: http://tinyurl.com/NostalgiaToys Venue: We Labs, 235 E. Broadway, 8th Floor, Long Beach

Dr. Martin Luther King Tribute Pay tribute to the man whose faith continues to inspire.

Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 20 Cost: Free Details: (310) 835-0212, ext. 1475 Venue: Carson Community Center, 801 E. Carson St., Carson

Feb. 2

Black Economics: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow The Andy Street Community Association, along with Councilmember Austin and the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association are hosting Black Economics: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, a Black History Month Celebration featuring the Forgotten Images Collection.

Time: 5 to 9 p.m. Feb. 2, 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 3, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 4 Cost: Free Details: www.andystreetlb.org Venue: Expo Arts Center, 4321 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach San Pedro Waterfront Arts District to Celebrate New Mural The San Pedro Waterfront Arts District, in collaboration with Council District 15 Office and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs celebrates the new mural in the Lilyan Fierman Walkway by Luis Sanchez on the First Thursday Artwalk.

Time: 5 p.m. Feb. 2 Venue: Lilyan Fierman Walkway, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Primal Origins Some of the pieces reflect direct connection 16 to the life force contained in prehistoric ponds,

woman’ and ‘boss.’”

Nighswonger comes from a blended family.

Both her parents were on their second marriage when she was born. She had half-siblings from each parent. There was some turmoil making ends meet and keeping everyone happy. Also, her mother had leukemia. She had a bone marrow transplant and has been in a 20-year remission, but it was difficult growing up.

“I was taking care of her for a long time,” Nighswonger said. “It was hard to find that role model of what it means to be a strong woman. It

Jan. 19

Roots: Asian American Movements in Los Angeles 1968-80s Roots collects and presents the history and work of young LA activists through a decade of displacement that analyzes the intersections of gender, race, and class. The exhibit runs through June 11.

Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 19 Cost: Free Details: rsvp@camla.org Venue: Pico House, 424 N. Main St., Los Angeles

Los Diez: Selections from Latin American Fotografía é Ilustración Latin American Fotografía e Ilustración, judged by an international jury honors the best work by Latin American photographers and illustrators.

Five selected photographers and five selected illustrators comprise Los Diez.

Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, through Jan. 22 Cost: $10 Details: (562) 437-1689 Venue: Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

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Significant Otherness, Sea/Saw Experience Significant Otherness and Sea/Saw two exhibits at Angels Gate Cultural Center.

Sea/Saw will showcase BFA student sculptural works from California State University Long Beach. Significant Otherness explores the bond between animals and humans.

Time: 1 p.m. Jan. 21 through March 12 Cost: Free Details: (310) 519-0936; www.angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

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and some bring us into the contemporary landscape.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, through Feb. 28 Cost: Free Details: michaelstearnsstudio.com Venue: Michael Stearns Studio 347, 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro

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Jan. 20

Songwriter Alyssandra Nighswonger is taking the Road to the American Woman, documenting her interactions with other women, playing music and participating in the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. Photo by Jessie Drezner

was hard to define that when I was younger and was always hunting.”

That changed when she got to college and read a poetry book titled, Naked by Alma Luz Villanueva, a Latina writer from San Francisco.

“She had a vibrancy and this ferociousness and this love and this warmth that I’d never encountered quite like that before,” Nighswonger said. “I identified with her heavily.

Maybe being a real woman is more raw than I thought and stronger than I thought.”

Nighswonger’s mother turned out to be a strong role model to her all along. While sick, she studied and became a registered nurse. When she became strong enough in her wheelchair, she got a job at a call center at Kaiser Permanente, then became a Lamaze instructor and later a lactation consultant. Now, she is a head lactation consultant in California.

She’s even served on the board of La Leche League, a nonprofit dedicated to providing education and support to women who believe breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.

“Being an American woman is being proud of your fortitude,” Nighswonger said. “We live in a diverse country, everyone has different hardships. The feminine role has this sometimes subtle strength and sometimes ferocious strength. It’s powerful. We live in a beautiful country. Even though there is this tension now there is so much diversity at our fingertips.

Being an American woman you can hone in on that diversity and strength. It’s something to be proud of.”

The documentary tour schedule is available at http://tinyurl.com/RoadtotheAmericanWoman

Jan. 21

Lunar New Year Festival on the LA Waterfront Time: 2 to 7p.m. Jan. 21 Cost: Free Details: www.portoflosangeles.org Venue: Downtown Plaza, Harbor Blvd at 6th St., San Pedro

Jan. 26

Family Appreciation Night at the Aquarium Join Long Beach Vice Mayor Rex Richardson to celebrate a night of unity among the aquatic wildlife of the California coast, while enjoying live music and giveaways.

Time: 6 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 26 Cost: Free Details: www.aquariumofpacific.org Venue: Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach

Jan. 27

King of the Court 3point Contest Do you think you have the best stroke to win this contest? Signup and find out.

Time: 6 to 10 p.m. Jan. 27 Cost: $10 Details: http://ci.carson.ca.us/ communityservices/parks_rec.aspx Venue: Veterans Sports Complex, 22400 Moneta Ave., Carson

Jan. 30

The Harry Bridges Institute Grand Opening The Institute wants to share its new direction of helping Harbor Area organizations that strive for better working conditions, a cleaner environment and improved schools. Be part of the solution!

There will be refreshments and you may sign up for a subcommittee.

Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Cost: Free Venue: 231 West C street Wilmington Details: (310) 831 2397

Dr. Larry G. Allen has co-authored and edited many publications on the biogeography and ecology of marine fishes of the Pacific coast of North America, including the books, “The Ecology of Marine Fishes: California and Adjacent Waters” and “A Field Guide to the Coastal Fishes from Alaska to California.”

Dr. Allen will discuss the demise and recent return of the apex predator of California’s southern kelp forests, the Giant Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas.

Fee: FREE, but reservations required, RSVP to lecture@cmaqua.org

2017 Discovery Lecture Series qua.org

Please RSVP to lecture@cma

April 7 • Dr. Kristy L. Forsgren, CSU, Fullerton June 2 • Dr. Stephen Weisberg, Southern California

Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) Aug. 4 • Dr. Branwen Williams, Claremont

McKenna College Visit www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org for details

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium 3720 Stephen M. White Drive San Pedro, CA 90731 Tel. 310-548-7562

A facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks with support from Friends of CMA

Turning Point Founder Dies at 67 Patricia Means (Dec. 15, 1949 - Jan. 8, 2017)

became the first woman allowed at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. In 1981, she became only the second female astronomer admitted as member to the National Academy of Sciences.

Rubin wrote a potentially ground-breaking paper, that reported a plane denser with galaxies than other regions. This plane was later recognized as the “supergalactic plane,” the equator of our home supercluster of galaxies. But the paper was harshly received when Rubin presented it at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting, where she was unknown and friendless. It was never published.

After that, Rubin began working with Kent Ford, first studying quasars, then galactic dynamics, using the most sensitive spectrometer at the time. Their initial observations of the Andromeda galaxy surprisingly showed that— unlike the solar system—objects far from the center moved at the same speed as those near it, seemingly in defiance of laws of gravity.

They repeated observations on dozens of other galaxies with the same result. Ultimately Rubin concluded that most of the galaxies’ mass could not be concentrated toward the middle, where it was most visible. Rather, a halo of dark matter would spread the mass equally throughout the galaxy, producing a similar gravitational force and orbital speed throughout. Within a few years, her explanation was widely accepted, fundamentally altering our picture of the universe.

Over the course of her career, Rubin observed more than 200 galaxies. “Fame is fleeting,” Rubin told Vassar College’s Hall of Fame for women in science. “My numbers mean more to me than my name. If astronomers are still using my data years from now, that’s my greatest compliment.”

Despite her earth-shaking discovery, she remained moved by childhood sense of awe and wonder. “No one promised that we would live in the era that would unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. The edge of the universe is far beyond our grasp,” she wrote.

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Photographer Michael Justice

and later, Justice taught Warren the art of photography.

“He was always at his happiest when he was shooting photos,” Warren said. “I’ll always remember him for his love and passion for photography and his dedication to his family and friends…. Michael was one of the funniest, energetic and caring people.”

Justice is survived by his two sisters, Leann Atwater and Lori Mahler, and several nieces and nephews. A celebration of life reception was held at Ports O’ Call Restaurant in San Pedro on Jan. 13.

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time photography equipment was very expensive, but Justice stuck with it. He perfected his craft at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design in Photography, California State University Long Beach and Brooks Institute of Photography. It took time for him to be able to invest in his craft, but it paid off his sister Lori Mahler recalled.

“He’d travelled the world,” Mahler said. “We were very close.”

His work has appeared in Random Lengths News, Daily Breeze, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Adventurer, AAA World Magazine, Life Magazine, Newsweek and Time Magazine.

His clients included California United Terminal, Los Angeles World Airports, The Port of Los Angeles, China Shipping, Maersk Inc., BNSF, Waste Management, the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, Baxter BioScience, Microsoft, the Los Angeles Police Department, American Express, McDonald’s Corporation, GTE, Aetna-US Healthcare, Wescom Credit Union and Gemological Institute of America.

Casey Warren knew Justice his entire life. In fact, Warren’s father was Justice’s classmate in high school. Justice became Casey’s godfather.

When Warren moved to San Pedro seven years ago, Justice took him under his wing. For four years, Warren helped Justice with lighting,

renewed focus on black-owned businesses, Means and her good friend Karen Hixson started Turning Point Magazine in the same year as the unrest to emphasize and encourage community and business development among African Americans in Greater Los Angeles.

Both also served as co-hosts of a Sunday morning “The Turning Point” talk show on KACE radio.

Means became sole proprietor, president and publisher of Turning Point in 1995, growing the magazine as a statewide and later national publication with a team of editors, writers, photographers, graphic designers, account executives, event planners and more.

“What drove my mom was wanting to make a difference,” said daughter Carla. “It sounds so cliché, but she always wanted to mentor people and to encourage people to do the same.”

Known for her energy and vision, Means expanded Turning Point from a one-magazine operation to a company with a nonprofit (TPC Foundation), the summit drew notable keynote speakers, including Jesse Jackson and Iyanla Vanzant.

Her ventures drew major advertisers and sponsors from Toyota, Nike and AT&T to UPS and Southern California Edison. Pat’s company served as a consultant for public officials and executives wanting to navigate the “turning points” in their careers through personal and business development. Pat printed her last issue in 2008, shifting to an online version while continuing to serve as a business coach and trainer.

In recent years, Means moved to San Pedro where she began serving as director of communications and community for AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles in 2014. She was very proud of their work creating a research center for marine science. Means enjoyed the networking and outreach, particularly bringing South Los Angeles youth for tours of the Nautilus ocean exploration vessel to gain exposure to careers in the marine sciences.

Some youth came from the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center where Means served on the board of directors from 2013 until two months before her passing. Her family requests donations be sent to the South Los Angeles youth center in honor of Means. See donate at www.wootencenter.org.

Means was surrounded by family and friends at her daughter’s home in San Pedro when she died. She is survived by her son-inlaw and daughter, Tony and Carla Callaway; her son and daughter-in-law, Carl and Tonja Means of Lee’s Summit, MO; grandchildren Tristan, Carlaysea, Jaylyn, Alexxis, Kai and Bayli; mother Corean (Scourten) King of Dallas; brothers-in-law and sisters Francisco and Debra Obera and Andrea and Delores Hawkins, all of Dallas; and a host of beloved nieces and nephews and other family and friends, plus her dogs Peanut and Butter.

Means’ brother Charles Miller preceded her in death in 2004.

Astro physicist Vera Rubin, who discovered the first direct systemic evidence of dark matter in the mid-to-late 1970s, died on Christmas Day at the age of 88. Although its exact composition still remains mysterious—other than a small percentage represented by neutrinos—dark matter makes up 84.5 percent of total mass in the universe, dwarfing all that is visible. Its discovery was akin to Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World, but on a cosmic scale.

“The existence of dark matter has utterly revolutionized our concept of the universe and our entire field; the ongoing effort to understand the role of dark matter has basically spawned entire subfields within astrophysics and particle physics at this point,” astronomer Emily Levesque told Astronomy magazine earlier this year.

Yet, Rubin died without receiving the Nobel Prize. Only two women in more than 100 years have been selected. “Alfred Nobel’s will describes the physics prize as recognizing ‘the most important discovery’ within the field of physics,” Levesque pointed out. “If dark matter doesn’t fit that description, I don’t know what does.”

Rubin’s love of astronomy blossomed at age 10, when her family moved to Washington D.C., where windows lined the wall next to her bed, so that she could see the stars. “What fascinated me was that if I opened my eyes during the night, they had all rotated around the pole,” she recalled. “And I found that inconceivable. I just was captured .... How could you possibly live on this Earth and not want to study these things?”

Her parents supported her passion for astronomy, but she faced repeated hurdles in education and the profession. She was the only astronomy major to graduate from Vassar (then a women’s college) in 1948, after she was rejected

by Princeton’s astronomy program, which didn’t accept women until 1975. Instead, she studied at Cornell and Georgetown, beginning her doctoral studies at age 23, with one young child and another on the way. Often a pioneer, she later

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Pat Means, AltaSea’s director of communications and community died Jan. 8 from cancer. She was 67.

In San Pedro, Means worked with the TallShips Festival and AltaSea. Means was known for her passion and commitment to service.

Means worked with elected officials and others in the nonprofit sector and for women imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit.

One example of her life’s work was her cofounding of Turning Point, the largest Los Angelesbased magazine for African American small business owners. At its peak, the publication, which published every two months, had a national distribution of 50,000 copies and a web presence featuring more than two million visitors per month.

She served as the magazine’s president and publisher until it shut down in 2008.

In a released statement by her family they said, Means “Dedicated her life to helping fellow entrepreneurs and community members flourish.”

Born in Henderson, Texas on Dec. 15, 1949 to Eddie and Corean Miller, Patricia Ann Miller grew up in a small town where black businesses were the norm. People took pride in self-determination and cooperative economics.

Her aunt and uncle, Odell and Doris Holman, were among those entrepreneurs. Odell had a garage shop, while Doris owned a beauty salon next door. Means was very close to her maternal aunt. She admired her business success in a time when black women were largely expected to be domestics. In addition, Means’ grandmother Josie and mother Corean helped instill in her values about loyalty to family and community.

Means naturally progressed to study business administration at USC and to start her own enterprises. She pursued the former after moving to Los Angeles in 1967 with her husband, Carl Means, Sr. She completed a B.S. in business management and an MBA at the campus. Despite her marriage ending in divorce, Means pursued her dreams as a single mom with two children, Carla and Carl Jr. Upon graduating from college, Means worked as a communications professional for companies including Motown, Purex, Foote, Cone and Belding/Honig Advertising. Means left corporate America after 11 years, and launched a record label with friends in Dallas in 1983. The label produced several artists, including Maxine Nightingale, but never saw the success they wanted.

Means worked as a business consultant for several years in Dallas, before returning to Los Angeles in 1989. Her stint as vice president of marketing at ProServ, a sports marketing firm, would be her last corporate job before she found success in several ventures under the auspices of Turning Point Communications. Turning Point grew out of the 1992 civil unrest to help stimulate and support African American business and community development.

With hundreds of retail stores in her community burned to the ground and with a

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Registered owners: Friends of Mexican Children 7 El Portal, Palos Verdes Estates, Ca 90274. This Business is conducted by a corporation.

The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

S/. John T. Boyt, President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on November 30, 2016. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 12/08/2016,

DBA FILINGS to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective Jan. 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 01/20/2017, 02/02/2017, 02/16/2017, 03/02/2017

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2017000157 The following person is doing business as: Tommy’s Burgers, 137 E. Anaheim St.,

from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective Jan. 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

01/20/2017, Original filing:

Wilmington, Ca 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: T Burgers Inc., 137 E. Anaheim St., Wilmington, Ca 90744. This Business is conducted by a corporation.

The registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/. Troy Spropoulos, CEO T Burgers Inc. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Jan.3 , 2017.

Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2017000158 The following person is doing business as: Harbor Area Substance Abuse Treatment Center, 599 W. 9th St., San Pedro, Ca 90731. Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: HACC Inc., 599 W. 9th St., San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 10/2006. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/. Dario L. Ghio, CEO of HACC Inc. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Jan.3 , 2017. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant

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1 Divisions of “The Hunger Games” series 10 One-named R&B singer with the hit “1, 2 Step” 15 Unaware 16 Historic account 17 1990 Warrant hit that was overplayed on MTV, but banned

by Canada’s MuchMusic 18 Urban Dictionary fodder 19 Need to unwind 20 So last week 21 Strong quality 22 Home to part of Lake Tahoe, for short 23 Essence from rose petals 24 “Guarding ___” (1994 Nicolas Cage movie) 26 Nearby 28 Put the ___ on (squelch) 31 Bezos or Buffett, e.g.

32 Enjoy Mt. Hood, say 33 Eerie sign 34 Phone setting 36 Accessories often gifted in June 37 Bait shop purchase 38 1958-61 polit. alliance 39 “Nature ___ a vacuum” 41 Put under a spell 44 “Star Trek: TNG” counselor Deanna

45 South African playwright Fugard 46 Potential Snapchat debut of 2017 48 Track on a compilation album, maybe 52 “___ More” (Backstreet Boys song) 53 Broadcast 55 Chronicler of Don Juan 56 Exploiting, in England 57 Orange Free State colonizers 58 Cheapen 59 Chimichanga ingredient 60 Protectors of the orbs?

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1 Obiter ___ 2 “___ Life: The John Lennon Story” (2000 TV biopic) 3 Mushroom features 4 Like some cranes 5 Bumps an R down to a PG-13, perhaps 6 Peaceful poem 7 Barnyard fowls 8 Troika 9 More questionable, maybe 10 1980s defense secretary Weinberger 11 Tardy 12 Phish lead vocalist Trey

13 Rifle-man?

14 Suspected Soviet spy of the McCarthy era 25 Title sheep in a wordless Aardman movie 27 Fenway star Garciaparra 28 Bulgogi or galbi, e.g.

29 “Can’t fool me!”

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, Bids for the following Work: HARBOR SCENIC DRIVE (SOUTH OF HARBOR PLAZA) AND PIER J INTERSECTION ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT at LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S2518 Bid Deadline:

h t t p : / / w w w. p o l b . c o m / economics/contractors/ forms_permits/default.asp.

NIB -2 Pre-Bid Questions.

All questions, including requests for interpretation or correction, or comments regarding the Contract Documents, must be submitted no later than February 14, 2017, at 5 p.m.

Questions received after the pre-Bid question deadline will not be accepted.

Questions must be submitted electronically through the PB System. Emails, phone calls, and faxes will not be accepted. Questions

Prior to 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.

Bids shall be submitted electronically via the Port of Long Beach PlanetBids (PB) System prior to 10 a.m.

Bid Opening:

Electronic Bid (eBid) results shall be viewable online in the PB System immediately after the Bid Deadline.

Contract Documents Available:

Download Contract Documents from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal: www.polb.com/sbe Click on the POLB Vendor Portal 1. Register and Log In 2. Click “Bid Opportunities” 3. Double-click on respective bid Project Title 4. Click on Document/Attachments tab 5. Double-Click on Title of Electronic Attachment 6. Click “Download Now” 7. Repeat for each attachment For assistance in downloading these documents please contact Port of Long Beach Plans and Specs Desk at 562-283-7353.

Project Contact Person:

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 1:00 p.m.

Location: Port of Long Beach Interim Administration Office Building 1st Floor Board Room 4801 Airport Plaza Drive Long Beach, CA 90815 Fred Patricio, Program Manager Fred.patricio@polb.com

Please refer to the Port of Long Beach PB System for the most current information.

NIB -3 Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting. The Engineering staff of the City’s Harbor Department will conduct a mandatory pre-bid meeting at 1:00 p.m., on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 in the 1st Floor Board Room, of the Port of Long Beach Interim Administrative Office Building, 4801 Airport Plaza Drive, Long Beach, CA 90815.

Attendance is Mandatory for the Contractors.

It is not mandatory for Subcontractors but highly recommended.

The City makes no guarantee that existing construction and site conditions matches construction depicted on record reference documents.

Bidders are encouraged to RSVP for the Pre-Bid Meeting through the PB

NIB -6 Contractor’s License.

The Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class “A”, California Contractor’s License to bid and construct this project. In addition, the Bidder or subcontractor(s) shall hold a current and valid Class “C-12”, California Contractor’s License to perform the following work: Earthwork and Paving.

NIB -7 Contractor Performed Work.

The Contractor shall perform, with its own employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 50% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract and the amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City in the Schedule of Bid Items.

NIB -8 SBE/VSBE. This project is subject to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program.

The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal for this project is twenty-seven percent (27%), of which a minimum of five percent (5%) must be allocated to VSBEs.

NIB -9 Prevailing Wage Requirements per Department of Industrial Relations. This Project is a public work Contract as defined in Labor Code Section 1720. The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract.

The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed.

The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/ DPreWageDetermination. htm. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices.

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. No Contractor or Subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)).

No Contractor or Subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5.

Contractors and Subcontractors must furnish electronic Certified Payroll Records (CPRs) to the Labor Commissioner’s Office, in addition to hardcopies, or if required, electronic copies, to the Port of Long Beach. .

NIB -10 Project Labor Agreement. This is a PLA project. Per the Department of Industrial Relations, projects covered by a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) are exempt from

NIB -11 Trade Names and Substitution of Equals.

With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item is of equal quality to the item specified, thirty five (35) calendar days after Bid Opening. Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City.

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NOT USED.

NIB -13 Bid Security, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City.

NIB -14 C o n d i t i o n a l Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights.

The Board, acting through the Chief Executive Officer, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity. The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required

documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder.

NIB -15 Period of Bid Irrevocability.

Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds and other acceptable Bid Security shall be guaranteed and valid for ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Chief Executive Officer executes a Contract, whichever occurs first.

NIB -16 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public

Contract Code.

NIB-17 Iran Contracting Act of 2010. In accordance with Public Contract Code sections 2200-2208, every person who submits a bid or proposal for entering into or renewing contracts with the City for goods or services estimated at $1,000,000 or more are required to complete, sign, and submit the “Iran Contracting Act of 2010 Compliance Affidavit.”

Issued at Long Beach, California, this 12th day of December, 2016.

Duane L. Kenagy, P.E. Acting Chief Executive of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California Note: For project updates after Bid Opening, please contact plans.specs@ polb.com.

DBA FILINGS [continued from p. 18]

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2016302330 The following person is doing business as: (1.) Just Relax Tax, (2.) Just Relax Property Management, (3.) JRTS (4.) Just Relax Notary Service (5.) Just Relax Tax and Accounting Service, 870 W. 9th St., San Pedro, Ca 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Just Relax Financial Management Inc., 870 W. 9th St., San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation.

The registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/. Palma Mejia, CEO Just Relax Financial Management Inc. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Jan.3 , 2017. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective Jan. 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions

code).

Original

filing:

01/20/2017,

02/02/2017, 02/16/2017, 03/02/2017

Order to Show Cause for Change of Name Case No. NS033072 Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles Petition of: Ruby Jene IbarraSerenity Izabella Ibarra for Change of Name To All Interested Persons: Petition:Ruby Jene IbarraSerenity Izabella Ibarra filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Serenity Izabella Ibarra to Serenitee Izabella Aguilera The Court orders that all person interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice of Hearing: Date: 2-17-17, Time: 8:30a.m., Dept.:26 The address of the court is 272 Magnolia, Long Beach, CA 90802.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Breeze Dte: Nov. 18, 2016 Michael P. Vicencial Judge of the Superior Court

1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2/17

January 19 - February 1, 2017

For the link to the Port of Long Beach PB System and for information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at http:// www.polb.com/economics/ contractors/default.asp.

Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/ VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at

submitted to City staff will not be addressed and Bidder will be directed to the PB System.

NIB -5 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Contractor shall achieve Affidavit of Final Completion of the Project within 639 calendar days as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8.2 of the General Conditions. The Contract time includes 365 calendar days of landscape maintenance period.

FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES SET FORTH IN SPECIAL CONDITIONS SC-6.3, INCLUDING THE ENGINEER’S APPROVAL OF AFFIDAVIT OF FINAL COMPLETION, WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS 6.4.

the requirement to submit electronic CPRs directly to the Labor Commissioner’s Office. In lieu, the Contractor and all Subcontractors will be required to submit electronic CPRs and labor compliance documentation to the Port of Long Beach utilizing the LCP Trackerweb-basedapplication.

LCP Tracker is used by the POLB’s PLA Administrator to collect and review payroll information. Each Contractor and Subcontractor will be provided a log-in identification and password to access LCP Tracker at no cost to the Contractor or Subcontractor.

Electronic submittals will require data entry of weekly payroll information including: employee identification, labor classification, hours worked, wage and benefit rates paid, etc.

NIB -1 Contract Documents.

Contract Documents may be downloaded, at no cost, from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal website. Bidders must first register as a vendor on the Port of Long Beach PB System website in order to view and download the Contract Documents, to be added to the prospective bidders list, and to receive addendum notifications when issued.

NIB -4 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: Repaving and restriping Harbor Scenic Drive from Harbor Plaza to Pier J Grade Separation as well as Pier J Ave/ Pier J Way Intersection. Includes traffic signage, storm drain improvements and landscaping.

POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. Award of the Contract will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting an SBE-2C Commitment Plan demonstrating the Bidder’s intent to meet the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal.

If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the combined goal, the Bidder shall demonstrate that it made an adequate good faith effort to do so, as specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 283-7598 or sbeprogram@ polb.com. You may also view the Port’s SBE program requirements at www.polb. com/sbe.

The Local Publication You Actually Read

Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting:

System; located under the “RSVP” tab of the Prospective Bidder Detail.

Following the meeting a list of Pre-Bid Meeting signed-in attendees will be available on the PB System.

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