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ommunity activist and reporter Davey D. Cook wrote on the ground coverage of the events that have been unfolding in the aftermath of violence that took place over the weekend. The marches on Dec. 8 and 9 were organized by a local grassroots Bay Area organization, By Any Means Necessary, as an emergency response to the police violence against student protestors.

“What most people know and having been around the country about the Berkeley based protests were bank windows being busted and mayhem,” Cook said in Facebook posting. “It’s what the media has focused on even though is a whole lot more to what is going on.”

Following the announcement of the Dec. 8 march, law enforcement officials warned local businesses to close down early and board up.

“Nearby schools were let out and the YMCA was shut down,”

Cook said. “News vans from all over showed up in mass, looking to see riots. They would be disappointed.”

Below is Cook’s raw report of the demonstrations in Berkeley including interviews with actual demonstrators. Random Lengths News’ editorial staff elected to run Cook’s piece as a counter-balance to the mainstream media’s one-sided coverage.

— Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

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By 5 p.m. more than 2,000 folks showed up and consisted of folks from a variety of organizations both on and off campus. Folks left the campus and headed downtown to Shattuck Avenue, which [was] ground zero for all the drama in previous nights.

It was here that folks at the height of rush hour did a massive ‘die in’ and shut down traffic. Everything came to a standstill, but ended as

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Berkeley was just one of the hundreds of sites where demonstrators protested police violence and the failure of grand juries across the county to indict the officers involved in the deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, Akai Gurley in New York, Tamir Rice in Ohio and dozens of others this past year.

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Demonstrators face off against the police in Berkeley during protests, Dec. 6-9. Photo by Dan Lurie, Berkeleyside.com

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Community Announcements:

Harbor Area Aerospace Industry Exporting Workshop

The Port of Long Beach is presenting an aerospace industry exporting workshop, from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 11, at the Toyota USA Automobile Museum in Torrance.

Join area business leaders to learn about the benefits of going global and how your business can increase sales and profits, reduce dependence on traditional markets, and grow your company’s international reach.

Details: www.polb.com/workshops Venue: Toyota USA Automobile Museum Location: 19600 Van Ness Ave., Torrance

LBPD Kicks Off Annual Holiday Toy Drive

The Long Beach Police Department has begun collecting donations of new unwrapped toys for the annual ‘Toy Patrol’ holiday toy drive.

The ‘Toy Patrol’ delivery caravan will deliver gifts to pre-designated families on Dec. 20 20, conjunction with the Fire Department’s ‘Spark of Love Toy Drive.’

Police employees, with firsthand knowledge of a family in need, submit the family’s information for consideration. No outside referrals are accepted.

LBPD invites you to spread the joy of the holiday season by donating to this worthy cause.

They are especially in need of toys for boys and girls ages 12 and up.

Monetary donations and/or gift cards are also being accepted through the Long Beach Police Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Please mail donations to LBPD, P.O. Box 15418, Long Beach, CA 90815, and mark your donation “Toy Patrol” on the memo line. Details: (562) 5705299.

Collection boxes are available at the below police facilities, as well as all Long Beach libraries, all Farmers & Merchants bank branches in Long Beach and in a variety of businesses throughout the city.

Long Beach Police Facilities: Police Headquarters, 400 West Broadway East Division, 4800 Los Coyotes Diagonal North Division, 4891 Atlantic Ave. West Division, 1835 Santa Fe Ave.

Toberman Toy Drive

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Toberman Neighborhood Center is accepting donations of an unwrapped toy (ages infant to 11) or a gift card for older youth ages 12-18 to benefit Harbor Area families.

On Dec. 20, Toberman is hosting breakfast with Santa Claus and toy giveaway from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Children will be able to take pictures with the jolly St. Nick following breakfast.

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Harbor Interfaith Services Grocery Loyalty

Do you have a membership card at your local grocery store? Designate Harbor Interfaith Services as your charity of choice, and your grocery store will donate a percentage of your expenditure to Harbor Interfaith Services. Register your cards below: • To register your Albertsons Preferred Card, enter our Community Partners ID# 49001010820.

• To register your Ralphs Club Card, choose Signup and enter our NPO# 82768.

• To register your VONS Club card, go to the eScrip website and enter our Group ID# 500003260. You can also register your Macy’s card, ATM and credit cards.

Harbor Interfaith Services Volunteer Opportunities

On the days leading up to Christmas, Harbor Interfaith Services will be packaging 350 holiday meal baskets for homeless families and individuals on Dec. 22 from 1 to 5 p.m. Distribution of the holiday meals and toys will take place on Dec. 23.

To participate, call (310) 831-0603 ext.

229 or email dramirez@harborinterfaith.org.

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Study Underlines the Economic Power of Nonprofits

By Zamná Ávila, Assistant Editor

For many people, the term “nonprofit” connotes a beggar organization for the needy.

That’s misleading according to a recent report.

The Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership commissioned a study, The Power of Nonprofits: Engines of Growth, an economic impact report that builds upon the ground-breaking 2007 study, Nonprofits: Profitable Partners for Long Beach, which analyzed the economic impact of local non profit organizations on the local economy. The recent report focused on the economic impacts on Long Beach and surrounding communities.

For example, the 7,500-member Boys & Girls Club of the Los Angeles Harbor, which comprises 202 paid positions and 600 volunteers, serve about 2,250 at-risk children a day. With this workforce, the organization provides quality services and programs in a safe environment.

“In addition to the hundreds of jobs we provide in San Pedro and Wilmington, from entry level to executive, we offer comprehensive after school programming for only $25 for the entire school year,” said Kimberly Caballero, a spokeswoman for the organization. “This includes everything from afternoon supper and homework help to enrichment activities that help our kids develop their strengths and talents. We focus on helping our members plan for the future to be productive members of our community.”

But few people see the ripple effect the nonprofit has on the economy.

“The key take away is that the nonprofit is a key factor in the economy,” said Lisa Grobar, on of the authors of the report. “The contributions nonprofits make to the economy are not insignificant. That is not even mentioning the social impacts.”

The report, completed in September, found that every member of the communities studied had some type of contact with a nonprofit organization. In fact, nonprofits have proven to be resilient though recent recessions, the author’s of the study state.

“Our objective was to dig in and document employment and spending in the local economy,” said Lisa Grobar, one of the authors of the report. “The government gives us a lot of data on employment…but the government doesn’t publish data on nonprofits. That’s the motivation for the study.”

The report found that nonprofits substantially contribute to local economies in Southern California, help communities thrive, bring money from the outside, and keep dollars in communities by employing workers and purchasing goods and services.

Researchers defined nonprofits as charitable organizations designated as 501(c)(3)s under the federal tax code for the study, excluding private foundations, religious institutions and professional associations.

The board of directors of the Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership commissioned the report.

Cal State University Long Beach’s Economics Department researchers generated the report,

Volunteers at Harbor Interfaith Services help to unload Thanksgiving donation baskets Nov. 25. The local nonprofit gave away 350 Thanksgiving meals for their annual Feed The Community Day. Photo by David Johnson.

specifically Grobar and Joseph P. Magaddino.

“The great thing is that we had really great source,” Grobar said. “Every nonprofit has a 990 with the IRS and it is made public…which is exactly the raw data we need.”

The researchers used 2012 data and surveys completed in 2013 to prepare the report. They used an economic model to calculate the multiplier effect. Researchers also used the surveys to identify the service area, the ethnic area and socio-economic categories of clients. Eightyeight Long Beach organizations responded to the survey. About one-fifth of the respondents indicated that 95 to 100 percent of their clients are low-income.

In Long Beach, 417 nonprofits were surveyed in 2012. The study was divided into eight categories: Human Service, Health, Community Improvement/Social Justice, Arts & Culture, Education/Training, Youth, Housing Shelter and Animals & Environment. Nonprofits account for 10 percent of the workforce (about 19,230 or about $687 million in payroll).

The average payroll is about $35,712 for all nonprofits; the average payroll for Long Beach is $50,968. The total direct spending impact in the city $2.7 billion for nonprofits. Hispanics and youths are among the most served groups.

Nonprofits employ a variety of workers and generate indirect jobs as they spend on legal, accounting, technology and other professional services. Out of the 81 organizations surveyed 60 percent said they plan on increasing their hiring in the near future.

Nonprofits’ $2.7 billion in expenditures have a domino effect that creates more employment and spending in the Long Beach area. When nonprofits spend on goods and services they indirectly create jobs and further spending into the local economy. In Los Angeles County the total economic impact is about 42,000 jobs, more

than $2 billion of labor income and total spending of about $4.9 billion.

The nonprofit health care industry is the anchor, mainly because of all the hospitals in the Long Beach. Health care nonprofits spent about $3 billion and employed about 9,000 workers.

That’s 82 percent of all nonprofit spending and 47 percent of all nonprofit jobs. When health care is defined broadly to include mental health and research, employment figures rise to 10,637 jobs.

In addition, researchers looked at 436 nonprofits in 17 communities in South Los Angeles: Artesia, Bellflower, Carson, Cerritos, Compton, Downey, Harbor City, Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, Lomita, Lynwood, Norwalk, Paramount, San Pedro, Signal Hill, South Gate and Wilmington.

The report found that there were 11,370 nonprofit jobs in those communities. Payroll for these jobs summed up to about $346 million, with a total labor income of $407 million—the difference represents spending on employee benefits. The proportion of benefits in total labor income is smaller for the nonprofit sector than the economy as a whole: 18 percent versus 30.9 percent for the U.S. economy. Direct spending in the 17 communities is about $666 million.

Health care nonprofits in the 17 communities spent $830 million and employed more than 4,808 workers, which is 76 percent of all nonprofit expenditures and 42 percent of all nonprofit jobs; mental health and medical research pushed the numbers to 5,289 jobs.

The report section which focuses on the 17 communities shows that fee-for-services is the largest source of funds, followed by individual donations, foundation grants and miscellaneous fundraising. The direct value of the total spending of those nonprofits is $1.586 billion. continued on following page

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The Annual Spirit of San Pedro Holiday Parade took place on Dec. 7 on Pacific Avenue.

Pictured clockwise from right, Cabrillo Beach King and Queen Polar Bears of 2014 making their last hurrah; Dana Middle School Tall Flags and Marching Band; the equestrian group Charros de Long Beach; highflying moves by the cheer and pep squad Tri-City Falcons; the San Pedro City Ballet cast of “The Nutcracker;” and the SS Lane Victory float during the San Pedro Holiday parade.

Photos by Jessie Drezner.

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Nonprofits support a total of 21,579 jobs, generating labor income of $1,008 million in the 17 communities.

They also support spending on goods and services in the county.At least 50 percent of all nonprofits surveyed (42 respondents) stated that near future hiring anticipation, concluding that the nonprofit workforce is the third largest in the United States and accounting for 10.1 percent of the nation’s total private employment. Eighty-three percent of the organizations surveyed stated that 83 percent of their clients were low income. Of those, 95 to 100 percent indicated that their clients were low-income. Similar to Long Beach, the highest categories of clients served in the 17 communities were Hispanic youths and the lowest were LGBT Native Americans.

Toberman Neighborhood Center, for example, is a non-profit communitybased organization committed to assisting Harbor Area families and individuals through literacy programs, mentoring, food distribution and volunteering.

Yet, there are secondary ways that may not be so apparent as to how the nonprofit helps the community, such as English as a second language. A volunteer routinely teaches English as a second language. Community members later can use that skill to help them get promoted or employed, which in turn allows them to spend more on goods and services, and contribute to the well being of the economy.

Toberman also has about 20 fulltime workers in different positions, and about six part-time workers, not counting the 10 to 20 volunteers. Again, those employees bring back their working dollars into the economy.

And then, there are the businesses and people with whom nonprofits do business such as banks and mechanics, who also circulate their income into the economy.

“Every time one of our clients gets food at the Toberman food pantry and/ or meets with one of our case workers, they are a little better off,” said Bill Keenan, Toberman’s director of finance and operations.

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Settlement Reached, but Carousel Keeps Turning

By Lyn Jensen, Carson Reporter

Crews conduct soil excavations at Carson’s Carousel Tract, where much of the neighborhood sits above petroleum drenched soil from a former oil tank farm. File photo.

part we have also reached a settlement with Shell which includes ensuring that the tort settlement fund [that] the residents receive out of the tort lawsuit is separate from the funds Shell will use to fund the real estate program and the relocation program.”

The City of Carson joined the residents’ suit against Shell, Barclay Hollander, and the Dole Food Company, filed on July 16, 2013. Barclay Hollander was the developer of the site in the

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court must declare the settlement to have been in good faith. At press time the court had yet to take this action.

As for the next turn, Finnerty said if an outof-court settlement is not reached with Barclay Hollander and Dole, the trial is expected to start August 2015.

Alan Caldwell, Shell’s Communication Manager said that Shell offered the settlement because, “we wanted to remove any litigation barriers” that would otherwise prevent the company from moving forward with site remediation.

Shell estimates clean-up will cost $146 million, removing contaminated soil down to a depth of 10 feet.

Carousel was first identified as a toxic site in 2008 when the California Regional Water Quality Board found contamination in the residential neighborhood off Lomita Boulevard. The site formerly housed three large Shell oil tanks. A final “clean up and abatement” order was issued to Shell in 2011.

Water Board Fights Water Shortage

As the public agency that provides Carson’s water, the West Basin Municipal Water District needs to ensure the community doesn’t suffer a shortage. According to the agency’s website, more than 80 percent of California is suffering from exceptional drought likely to persist through the winter. State reservoirs, which provide some of the district’s supply, remain at all-time low levels.

Spokespersons Ron Wildermuth and Natalie Miller said that West Basin’s residential and commercial water use has decreased by more than 13 percent since June 2014.

The Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility plays a major role in the district’s water conservation efforts, Wildermuth and Miller pointed out. They explained, “To date, more than 150 billion gallons of fresh, potable water has been recycled at the facility,” which has been operating since 1995.

Recently the facility’s fourth expansion increased its capability from treating about 45 million gallons per day to 62 million gallons per day of recycled water. The expansion also allowed the facility to install energy-efficient pumps, the equivalent of reducing about 5.2 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The expansion was made possible by a $538,530 award from Southern California Edison.

The spokespersons also mentioned how West Basin’s Water Reliability 2020 program is designed to develop new local water supplies. Its goal is to conserve 2 billion gallons of water per day by 2020, partly by asking residents to save at

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More than 1,000 residents of Carousel, a Carson housing development, had reason to be somewhat thankful when the city of Carson and Shell signed off on a personal injury settlement the week of Thanksgiving. The settlement amount was kept confidential but news sources reported that it was $90 million. The action means that 1,491 current and former Carousel residents will receive some financial compensation after having unknowingly lived for decades on toxic soil.

Carson Mayor Jim Dear noted administrative actions on behalf of Carousel residents will continue. He provided the following written statement to Random Lengths: “The City has actively participated in influencing a favorable Remedial Action plan before the Regional Quality Water Board which now includes a real estate program and a relocation benefits program for the residents of the Carousel Tract.

Comments to the [most recent] RAP are due by Jan. 9, 2015, and the city is currently analyzing its position on the RAP and intends to comment as appropriate.”

Dear also said, “The plaintiffs in the tort action related to the Carousel tract have reached a confidential settlement with Shell. City was also a real party in interest in that suit and for our

‘60s and has since become a subsidiary of Dole.

The portion of the suit against Barclay Hollander and Dole remains unsettled.

Representing the residents, Bob Finnerty, a lawyer with Girardi & Keese said, “We reached a compromise with Shell.” He explained that the settlement is only for physical injury, because the court threw out claims for property damage.

He explained further that the plaintiffs will not divide the money evenly.

Instead a court-appointed “special master” will determine how much each plaintiff receives.

Finnerty also said, “Shell has agreed to guarantee fair market value for homes if residents want to sell.

Shell has agreed to provide reimbursement for the relocation of individuals.”

He cautioned that before funds can be disbursed, the

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least 20 gallons of water per day.

One way to do that is through changes in property landscaping. “With much water being used outdoors for irrigation, West Basin has placed an emphasis on helping residents conserve water,” the district spokespersons said. “Classes and workshops teach residents about landscaping with water conserving plants. Residents can learn more about these classes and check the schedule of upcoming classes by visiting www. westbasin.org or www.bewaterwise.com.”

In partnership with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, West Basin is providing “Turf’s Up,” a rebate for turf removal.

The program has replaced more than 140,000 square feet of turf, equivalent to about 70 front yards. The rebate is still available and residents can apply by visiting www.socalwatersmart.com “We help [businesses] apply for funding through the regional customized Water Savings Incentive Program and offer support to any business interested in participating in the regional rebate program, So Cal Water Smart.” Miller and Wildermuth also mentioned. “We offer Cash for Kitchens, a water efficiency program specifically for the food service sector.”

The West Basin public information office recommends checking the district’s website (www.westbasin.org) for information on any upcoming classes, events, or incentives. There’s also a speakers’ bureau for educational talks about water conservation.

—Lyn Jensen

Lynching 2.0: More Lethal Than Ever Extra-Judicial Killings Surpass Historical Numbers From 100 Years Ago

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death rate for the black community that surpasses every year of lynching.

Early the next year, they released a full-year report, “Operation Ghetto Storm,” which documented 313 extra-judicial killings in 2012—a rate of one every 28 hours. But the large-scale pattern they documented remained obscured, until the protests centered in Ferguson began. After they began, in late August, both The Guardian and The Nation ran stories drawing comparisons between the lynching era and today—comparisons which resonate even more powerfully now that Michael Brown’s killer has been given a free pass.

“Lynchings were, of course, distinct from today’s police killings,” Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, noted in Clergy staged a “Die-in” in New York City Hall rotunda following the nonindictment of the NYPD officer that killed an unarmed Eric Garner with a The Guardian.

“They were ritualistic chokehold. File Photo displays of public violence before sometimes Michael Brown, mysteriously “bulking up” to thousands of people, including children. They run through a hail of bullets like a comic book were intended to reinforce the arbitrary rules creature—rather than as human beings like of a race-based caste system, primarily in the themselves. The resulting racial disconnect and American south. One white father in Texas took the utter trivialities that can lead to black deaths his toddler to a lynching in Waco in 1916, for as a result further underscore the continuities that express purpose. He propped the boy up on with the lynching era. The growing awareness of his shoulders as 18-year-old Jesse Washington was burned alive. ‘My son can’t learn too young,’ the man said.”

Nowadays, extra-judicial killings are largely invisible to white America, and there is no official racial order to protect. Yet, Wilkerson noted profound similarities as well, most notably the role of racial images and stereotypes in creating a disposition among whites to view blacks as beast-like criminals—“like a demon,” as Darren Wilson improbably described

modern day lynching as a systemic plague built up over the summer as a direct result of multiple incidents—most notably the death of Eric Garner from an illegal chokehold in Staten Island on July 17, and the shooting of John Crawford III in an Ohio Walmart on Aug. 5, both captured on video, followed by the shooting of Michael Brown on Aug. 9. But the back-to-back grand jury decisions not to charge the killers of Brown and Garner significantly reinforced the lynching parallels. Then, as now, the official system stands back and washes its hands, as the killers of black men—and women—go free.

The response to the grand jury decisions has been such a widespread wave of protest that even rightwing media figures and conservative politicians have expressed outrage, though they downplay or deny the role race has played. Even New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a centrist Wall Street Democrat, recognized the uncontainable nature of the problem.

“The problem is the perception itself, even if it wasn’t the reality,” Cuomo said, after the Staten Island grand jury refused to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the officer whose illegal chokehold was responsible for killing Garner, according to the medical evidence and what all the world can see on the videotape. “If people don’t trust the justice system, you have a problem because the justice system’s responsibility is two-fold: One, to do justice, but second to instill the confidence in people that they are represented by that justice system.”

Yet, remarkably, the majority of white Americans still remain oblivious to what’s happening all around them. For example, a recent NBC/Marist poll found that 82 percent of Extra-Judicial Killings/ to p. 7

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By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor he police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on Aug. 9 was not an isolated incident, but part of centuries-long pattern of violent racial subjugation, which white America would like to pretend ended almost 50 years ago. But the objective historical record unambiguously shows that we are not living in a post-racial America far removed from our racist past. In fact, blacks today are being killed by police in extra-judicial executions at a higher rate than they were lynched more than 100 years ago. It took the killing of Michael Brown and the demonstrations that followed, to begin forcing that historical truth onto the national stage.

When the St. Louis County grand jury refused to indict Brown’s killer just before Thanksgiving, not only did it reignite demonstrations—this time in scores of different cities nationwide, and even overseas—it also underscored a deeper parallel with the lynching era: the role of tacit legal, institutional support for clearly illegal individual acts of murder.

Then, when a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict the killer of Eric Garner a few days later—even though the entire incident was videotaped—this further underscored the systemic nature of the problem, as well as its profound resistance to evidence (the videotape), as well technocratic reforms (bodycams wouldn’t have given any better evidence).

To begin to get a realistic sense of the problem before us, it’s helpful to gain some historical perspective. From 1882 through 1964, there were 4,742 lynchings, according to statistics compiled by the Tuskegee Institute, with more than 100 every year but one from 1882 through 1901.

Unchallenged as a social problem by the national media at the time, it fell to campaigners like Ida B. Wells and the black press to create widespread critical awareness of the bloody public record, and mobilize resistance against it.

Now, more than a century later, it’s déjà vu all over again, but with social media playing the role once played by the black press. A 6-month study issued in July 2012 by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement found that “Since January 1, 2012, police and a much smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes have murdered at least 110 black women and men”—a

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City Attorney Feuer Secures Conviction Under State’s Revenge Porn Law

LOS ANGELES—On Dec. 1, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced that his office has secured a conviction and jail sentence against a Los Angeles man under California’s new “Revenge Porn” law, which prohibits the unauthorized posting of nude or sexual images of an individual with the purpose of causing emotional distress.

A relatively new form of pornography, Revenge Porn, are nude and sexual images and videos posted by ex-lovers to the internet for the express purpose of causing embarrassment and emotional distress. In recent years, a countless number of file sharing site specializing in such pornography have sprung up leading to the creation of the new law.

Noe Iniguez, 36, was found guilty of three criminal counts including two restraining order violations and the state revenge porn statute following a seven day jury trial. Iniguez was sentenced to a year in jail with 36 months’ probation. He was ordered to attend domestic violence counseling and stay away from the victim. Iniguez was immediately taken into custody to begin his sentence.

In December 2013, Iniguez, using an alias, allegedly began posting derogatory comments about his ex-girlfriend on her employer’s Facebook page. In March, 2014 Iniguez allegedly posted a topless photograph of the victim on her employer’s Facebook page which was accompanied by a message that called the victim a “drunk” and a “slut” and encouraged her firing from the company. The victim had previously secured a restraining order against Iniguez in November 2011, after receiving several harassing text messages following the breakup of their fouryear relationship.

Sen. Feinstein Releases Torture Study, “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” Ineffective

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Dec. 9, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is the chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released the executive summary of the committee’s 5–year review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.

In a released statement, the long serving senator said, “This document examines the CIA’s secret overseas detention of a least 119 individuals and the use of coercive interrogation techniques—in some cases amounting to torture.”

Among the study’s key findings were that the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” were not effective; The CIA provided extensive inaccurate information about the operation of the program and its effectiveness to policymakers and the public; The CIA’s management of the program was inadequate and deeply flawed; and the CIA program was far more brutal than the CIA represented to policymakers and the American public.

The study noted that, “at no time did the CIA’s coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of imminent threat intelligence, such as the hypothetical ‘ticking time bomb’ information that many believe was the justification for the use of these techniques.”

The committee reviewed 20 of the most prominent examples of counterterrorism success attributed to the CIA’s interrogation techniques and found that each were fundamentally wrong.

“In some cases, there was no relationship between the claimed counterterrorism success and any information provided by a CIA detainee during or after the use of the

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quickly as it started. There seemed to be some confusion, as some folks got up while others wanted to stay.

Eventually, everyone got up and headed down to the Berkeley police station on MLK Jr. Way. They arrived around 6 p.m. By then, the crowds had grown even larger and for as far as the eye could see you saw folks marching. As was the case in previous nights, the crowd was mostly everyone but black folks. It was an interesting sight to see this sea of people chanting, “Whose Life Matters? Black Lives Matter!” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.”

At the police station, which is across the street from Berkeley High School, a line of several dozen police in full riot gear greeted the students.

They stood behind barricades and almost from [the start] acted aggressively.

For example, a young woman standing next to the barricade put her hand on it and an officer wearing glasses named Johnson smashed his baton down at her. A man, who I believe was a local reporter standing nearby, also had his hand on the barricades. I saw a baton bash down on him. It was an unnecessary behavior, with more than few pointing out that it was this sort of action that set off the firestorm the last couple of nights. Why are the police acting so ill was the question of the night? Folks were getting pissed.

Protesters in Berkeley block an Amtrak train on Dec. 8. They then On the opposite side of faced off against police in a demonstration to protest the murders of the barricade, near the PG&E black men by police around the country, and the impunity of police building, a scuffle broke out. An who commit these crimes. Photos by David Bacon officer who was identified as J Jones was accused Abe could be heard saying that the police of jabbing a baton into the side of 16 year-old needed to be challenged. He said “We can’t sit named Tyrese. He was one of the youngest and down. Protests are not peaceful. This is not how also one of the few black folks in the crowd. you protest.”

He said he had traveled to Berkeley from Still large numbers of folks felt differently East Oakland and was present because he had and held their ground. They felt they should sit knowledge of self and wanted to speak out and down and “be peaceful.” make a difference for people in his neighborhood After a while many in the crowd that were who weren’t there. He said he was upset and even sitting got up and left. It had to be close to a more disturbed that he was hit by one of the few thousand people. They [left]. The whole thing Black officers standing behind the barricades. seemed disorganized as it was clear folks had not The crowd reacted in anger to the scuffle, fully planned things out. with some wanting to set it off. Others in the The brother with the red hat (Abe), who by crowd started chanted, ”Peaceful Protest! now had a small crowd around him, declared the Peaceful Protest.” Someone in the crowd yelled march was a failure. “We lost tonight” he said. for everyone to ‘sit down.’ More than half the “We allowed 25 police officers to punk 2,000 crowd sat down, while folks in the front, many wearing masks stood up and faced down police.

The folks in the front, still angry from the baton swings, turned to the crowd that was sitting and demanded everyone stand up. There was a bunch of back and forth between protestors.

There was a brother named Abe Adelaja from New York. For folks who were there, he was the cat rocking a jean jacket and wearing a red baseball hat. He got really hyped and ran to the middle of crowd and demanded everyone stand up.

“You don’t protest sitting down,” he yelled.

“No justice will come with us sitting down! This is not a Kumbaya moment! Everyone stand up!”

At that point someone grabbed a bullhorn and tried to urge the crowd to be silent for 4 minutes in honor of Michael Brown.

The brother with the red cap was not having it.

He and the guy with the bullhorn got into a back and forth. It was peaceful protestors versus those who wanted to take more aggressive action.

protesters.”

He continued; “Look at the media... they are no longer watching us… They are leaving. Our message won’t be heard.”

In actuality, many of the local commercial media including folks from the CBS affiliate KPIX were on hand and had gathered around him as he continued to stress his points about how protests are not suppose to be love-fests.

I asked the brother; “What’s wrong with sitting down. Can’t one cause disruption and shut things down by sitting down and blocking traffic?”

He said “Yes, but sitting down in front of a police station is not the move… We are being killed for sitting down. We are being killed for holding our hands up….We have to push back, We have to push through...”

He again re-emphasized the lack of media coverage and our message not being heard about the horrors of police brutality if we just sit down.

While all the local media cameras were on Abe, I asked him, “Why do we need to have marches, show up in large numbers, bust up windows or confront the police in order for these commercial news outlets to cover issues of police brutality? Why do we need to protest in order for all these media to talk about the police killing unarmed people?”

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African Americans said that police have different standards based on race, while half of whites said they did not.

In sharp contradiction to this post-racial fairytale, a ProPublica review of federal data on police shootings, which is extensive but incomplete, found that “Young black males in recent years [2010 to 2012] were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts—21 times greater.”

Thus, a big part of what the protests sparked by Michael Brown’s death have to do is simply to get white Americans to admit the obvious. The racial bias of the existing system has to be acknowledged before it can be fixed—but there’s the rub. Like the system of lynching before it, a good case can be made that the system is working exactly the way it’s supposed to. After all, the hyper-racialized “war on drugs” has been going on for decades, putting blacks in prison at rates three to four times that of their drug use, or even more, and providing a large part of the rationale for the antagonistic style of policing that’s involved in most of these cases.

As mentioned above, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement report, Operation Ghetto Storm, found that 313 African-Americans were the documented victims of extrajudicial killings by police or security officers in 2012—a rate of one every 28 hours. But the more detailed findings were even more devastating in some respects, leaving no doubt about various patterns of multiple problems involved. To begin with, the report notes that it almost certainly understates the problem. Other cases which could not be confirmed at that time could have raised the total to one per day or more.

A small fraction of these—13 percent —were “in situations where the ‘suspect’ fired a weapon either before or during the officer’s arrival,” the report noted. “It is in this group that we find that some of the killings that may actually be justified.” But in the vast majority of cases the killings involved excessive use of force and were not justified, in sharp contrast to the rarity of killer cops being held accountable.

The victims were overwhelmingly young. Twenty-six percent were 21 or younger (8 percent under 18) and another 40 percent were 22 to 31, meaning that two-thirds of the victims were 31 or younger, and the senseless killing of people who posed no serious threat was more common than not. “Invariably the beginning of a chain of events that leads to death had little relation to making communities safer,” the report noted.

Specifically, the report found: • 19 percent of deadly encounters began with calls to 9-1-1 to seek help in with emotionally disturbed household members.

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brown folks and non-students. This second group was even bigger than the first group. There were several hundred people on actually hoped the railing and went on the freeway but throngs of people were a few feet away along the walkway and jogging trail that runs alongside the freeway.

Those folks would not be seen from the aerial footage because its too dark. But folks were there and in large numbers. It wasn’t just students out there. It was neighborhood folks, students, older and younger.

One mother who was on the freeway brought her two daughters and said it was important for them to witness this. Another older gentleman also on the freeway said he recalled when folks tried to shut down the freeway after Rodney King verdict in ‘92. He said, back then, the crowds were much smaller and everyone got arrested, but tonight he was proud to see folks came out for a problem that sadly still persists.

There was another sister with a bull horn walking up and down and in between cars demanding that folks call their congresspeople and demand they do something about police killing black people. She was amped and kept shouting where’s Nancy Pelosi? Why aren’t our elected officials they out here with us? She gave out the phone numbers and websites of everyone from Barbara Lee to Pelosi and urged people to

call their representatives and get them to do something about the police killing folks.

Some of the footage being shown is a third group of marchers who attempted to shut down the Bay Bridge. They were eventually stopped and arrested after police got reinforcements in Emeryville. More than 150 were sent to Santa Rita last night for being on the freeway.

Another thing to note is that marchers had their own drones or aircraft that was set into flight and followed along. While on the freeway the peoples drone flew overhead with people talking about how they have their own technology to watch the police.

At every point students and marchers confronted the police and asked them to examine the roles that they are playing. One man refused to leave the freeway until one of the officers would step forward and promise to stand up to those who are mistreating people. He kept asking is there one officer or any officer who will stand up and speak out against wrongful deaths by police. He told the police they are making choices.

Just doing your job is a weak excuse. Who will stand up to wrongful deaths at the hands of police? None of the officers standing alongside the freeway would answer.

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was actually intended to make the point to the commercial outlets standing with us. I also pointed that all the outlets standing around us run commercials each night, bragging that they have investigative units. “Why aren’t those investigative units not investigating the police being violent?”

While police were engaging the throngs of people on the freeway, another large group headed up to the nearby Amtrak station. They entered onto the tracks and laid down and refused to move.

Amtrak was shut down and would remain so for the entire night as folks stood in front of the train with doing ‘Hands Don’t Shoot’ gesture.

A few things that should be noted. In the local coverage, some of the news accounts have shown folks who suggested that folks were just out there protesting to protest. That’s far from the truth.

Over and over again, folks emphasized, that it can no longer be business as usual and that police brutality must stop.

If you are watching local news coverage, they are trying to show folks who were ‘upset’ about the freeway closures. Not sure if the folks they interviewed were actually stuck in traffic.

However, if you were on the freeway or even

near it along the park, then it was plain as day to see that many who were in their cars were honking their horns in approval with more than a few getting out of their cars and joining the protests. People were chanting, doing the ‘Hands Up Don’t Shoot’ gesture, while others who were sitting in their cars cranked up their music and gave folks a soundtrack.

From what I could see last night, none of the local outlets reporting on the freeway shut downs this morning had reporters on the freeway to interview drivers or protestors. Most are using the same stock footage of an overhead shot taken when folks were in Emeryville in much smaller numbers and was given to them by a service.

Some of the footage being shown alongside the freeway footage came during earlier parts of the march when folks were at the police station.

This is important to note, because a lot of important aspects were missed. First, the news keeps saying a thousand people were at the march. No way, no how. There were several marches. The first group that showed up to Highway 80 via Aquatic Park might have been at least a thousand deep.

There was another group that went through South Berkeley and got local residents to join.

What started out as a mostly non-black student demonstration was soon mixed with black and

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Just how many of them were afraid of superhuman demons who could “bulk Demonstrators in Midtown Memphis at Hattiloo Theater. File Photo. up” to run through a hail of gunfire, it’s impossible to say. But there is good reason to think that fear, anger, and racial animosity create a toxic mix among a small minority of cops, who are then empowered and protected by the larger system, for a variety of different reasons.

“There is a significant problem with the criminal justice system from top to bottom,” said New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams, responding to Cuomo comments cited above on MSNBC. “I’m glad to see so many people outraged, and so many people coming out—even more diverse than from before,” Williams said. “To remain in ignorance [of the system’s failings] that I’ve been hearing, you have to do so now in a whole new world of insurmountable evidence that that is the case.”

Additional evidence comes from a • 22 percent had diagnosed mental health problems or had been recent WYNC investigation, which found an intense concentration self-medicating, while another 4 percent behaved in ways that of “resisting arrest” charges being filed by a tiny minority of indicated they had mental health problems and/or were self- NYPD officers—charges frequently seen as covering up for police medicated, even though these conditions were not explicitly violence.

“There’s a widespread pattern in American policing where documented.

• 7 percent of deadly encounters began with 911 to report resisting arrest charges are used to sort of cover—and that phrase is used—the officer’s use of force,” Sam Walker, a retired criminal domestic violence or abuse.

• 43 percent of police accounts explicitly cite “suspicious justice professor from the University of Nebraska-Omaha told behavior or appearance” [100 killings] or traffic violations WYNC. “Why did the officer use force? Well, the person was [“driving while black,” 35 killings] as the reason for their resisting arrest.”

WYNC discovered that 60 percent of NYPD officers generate attempt to detain the person who they eventually killed. no resisting arrest charges, while 5 percent of officers account Additionally, the report found that: • 20 percent of victims had verified guns—though at least 1 for 40 percent of such arrests and another 10 percent of officers account for another 32 percent —meaning that 15 percent of percent involved toy or replica guns.

NYPD officers account for almost three-fourths of all resisting • 7 percent had verified knives or cutting implements.

• 27 percent were alleged to have guns, but corroboration was arrest charges. But even within this population there’s a hard core within the hard core. One of the worst offenders they identified lacking. was Donald Sadowy, who has “been accused of excessive force in • 44 percent were admittedly unarmed. multiple lawsuits during the six years he’s been making arrests.”

According to WYNC, “criminal court records shows that less At the same time, “Some 146 or 47 percent, nearly the majority of officers, security guards and vigilantes who fatally shot black than two percent of police officers in the NYPD have 10 or more people in 2012 did so because they ‘felt threatened,’ ‘feared for resisting arrest cases since 2009. Sadowy has more than 20.” In their life,’ ‘were forced to shoot to protect themselves or others.’”

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The View from the Park Overlooking the Port

Harbor Department Issues Draft Public Access Investment Funding Policy James Preston Allen, Publisher

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On one of my many trips to the old San Pedro Post Office recently, I stopped off at the newly renovated Plaza Park on Beacon Street.

I had good reason to stop at one of this town’s oldest green spaces that overlooks the industrial Port of Los Angeles. My mission was to talk with a few of the homeless residents who had recently been unceremoniously evicted from the park and dispossessed of their belongings by some unknown city department.

The accusation is that the city did not follow policy on dealing with these homeless people. The park is not posted with either “no camping” or “hours closed” signage.

And, the law clearly states that people must be given 72-hours notice before their belongings can be confiscated, even if it looks like a pile of junk.

Last week on Dec. 3, the Harbor Division of the Los Angeles Police Department hosted an outreach effort at the Bartlett Center to address the community’s concern over the number of homeless at the park and their treatment, as well as offer services from various agencies that serve the homeless.

Harbor Division Capt. Gerald Woodyard attended the event and said point blank, “It’s not against the law to be homeless, but if we find them in violation of any other laws we’ll enforce them.”

According to two fellows camped out in the park across the street, the LAPD has “rousted” them 30 times in the past 45 days, but it wasn’t the police who evicted them and removed their property. So I asked the two guys if they had a way to contact me if it happened again and to my surprise one man with a toothless smile offered up that he had a cell phone and would call me if it did.

When I stood up to walk away, I looked out over the harbor at the vast expanse of containers and cranes and cargo ships. Then I looked back at these poor souls camped in the park, and thought, “Can we really have this kind of poverty juxtaposed next to so much wealth?”

The hypocrisy of this only sunk in when I thought about a homeless man living at the bottom of the economic scale and yet he owned a cell phone. A phone that was probably shipped here on one of those containers, manufactured by workers who barely make more than him, in a country he’ll never see thousands of miles away.

I looked out over the harbor again and

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thought about the $200 billion-a-year worth of cargo that makes up 42 percent of all imports entering this country. I looked at the hundreds of millions of dollars invested over more than a century that makes this port complex the biggest, most productive in the Western Hemisphere— everything from the federal breakwater to the Vincent Thomas Bridge, to the Alameda Corridor and the very shape of Terminal Island and the wharves, docks and pilings.

I turned my back on it and conitnued to the Post Office to pick up my mail. The very next day, as I sat in the boardroom at the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, I discussed POLA’s staff report, “Draft Public Access Investment Funding Policy” with local business people. The staff report proposes to spend 10 percent of its operating income, about $221 million, for the next 10 years starting in fiscal year 2014-2015 on “public access projects.”

As I sat there listening and thinking about all the years this community fought the port over environmental issues, all the promises that were made to change the interface between the port and the communities that surround it, I started thinking about the two homeless men in the park overlooking this expanse of industrial wealth.

Shouldn’t we be discussing economic justice at this point? Shouldn’t there be some greater connection between the amount of wealth generated by this port and its effect on the economics and livelihood of everyone who lives in sight of it? Not just for the benefit of the union guys who chant, “An injury to one is a injury to all.” For truly, if that were the case, they would be protesting the plight of the homeless who have been injured the most by the globalization of capital and manufacturing.

But here we are, sitting in this boardroom discussing whether $20 million a year is enough to build certain long-awaited waterfront development and why it is that the port didn’t seek neighborhood council advice and consent in advance.

What this plan or any plan hasn’t addressed in the past 20-some years is the catastrophic loss of 30,000 blue-collar jobs from the Harbor Area during the Reagan/Bush years of 19801990. Those jobs are gone and this community has suffered the consequences. And, the new automated terminals will lead to the continued bleeding out of good paying jobs.

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My Brother, Kenny, and I:

A Story About Autism, Acceptance

By John J. Muto, Los Angeles Harbor College Student When I became a freshman at San Pedro High School, Kenny and I attended the same school for the first time in a long while. Kenny was a senior and he was autistic.

The disorders associated with autism are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors.

Last year, the National Institutes of Health merged all autism disorders into one umbrella diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

People with autism sometimes have communication problems, which stem from tiny delays in the perception of speech, or from imprecise pairing of spoken words and gestures. In Kenny’s case, this resulted in him speaking fast— so fast that people had difficulty understanding him.

In high school, I had friends. I was on the baseball team. I had a social life. I was embarrassed to be seen with him. So I avoided him, despite my mom’s instruction to say “hi” whenever I saw him.

I never spoke to him while we were at school.

We were brothers and attended the same school, but our lives and our worlds were separate. Yet, I watched him—whether it was during our late morning 20-minute nutrition break or our early afternoon lunch break. Kenny sat alone and no one said a word to him. Not even me, his own brother.

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I felt convicted. When the school year ended, I thought a lot about his lonely lunch periods.

There were a lot of nights I’d lay awake thinking about how terrible a brother I was to Kenny.

One night, tired from wrestling with my conscience, I resolved to be a better brother to Kenny. I began to spend my nutrition and lunch periods with him and began visiting him in his class, which housed other special needs students.

As my relationship with Kenny deepened, my desire to befriend the other special needs students in his class deepened, too.

I wanted to be their friend. I wanted to get to know all of them and hang out with them every chance I could. I treated them like I treated my friends. I wanted them to know that they are normal; they have autism but they are still regular human beings, like the rest of us.

Once I got to know all of them, I recognized that, like everyone else, they act and enjoy the same things that regular teenagers do. I didn’t do this for service hours for school or to make everyone think I was a nice person. This was for Kenny, who had never had a friend.

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RANDOMLetters Re: Cabrillo Beach Youth Water Sports Center RFP

Many Harbor Area stakeholders are greatly concerned about the quickly announced RFP for the Cabrillo Beach Youth Water Sports Center.

Recently, a community meeting was held in which all agreed that the Port of Los Angeles issuance of this RFP without community input was contrary to all previous promises and conversations. Participants of this meeting agreed to send letters to the port expressing the concerns and requesting the RFP be rescinded immediately.

The Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council sent letters requesting this RFP be immediately rescinded to allow for community input. To date our Neighborhood Council has not received any response to our requests. We are totally in the dark as to whether the community concerns are being heard or considered. This lack of communication is disconcerting.

Why is this not being addressed?

The quickly and quietly announced RFP with an inappropriately short submission window was disturbing.

Now the silence leads many to believe that the Port of LA already had a planned agenda for this property. If we are wrong...please enlighten us.

Our next NWSPNC Board

Meeting is this Monday, Dec. 8. We request that Port of LA representatives please attend and address the growing concerns. We also request support from Mayor Garcetti and Council District 15 in helping to get our voices heard and action taken.

Below is a copy of what our Council sent on Nov. 10, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council unanimously approved the motion found below, regarding the POLA’s request for proposals (RFP) for the Cabrillo Youth Sports Facility: Due to the timeline stipulated by the RFP, we request immediate action as per this motion.

Laurie Jacobs moved to approve the motion, seconded by Dan Dixon: Motion Re: Future of Boy Scout Property at Cabrillo Beach Youth Water Sports Center-Whereas, the community of San Pedro has for years made clear its interest in opening to the public the area known as the Cabrillo Beach Youth Water Sports Center, at 3000 Shoshonean Road, Whereas, the Port of Los Angeles released (Oct. 8, 2014) a Request for Proposal for the property without previous announcement or a public discussion of what the land’s future use should be, Whereas, the Northwest San Pedro NC asks the port to rescind the RFP and provide the community an opportunity to give

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medical privacy are not conservative views. That is government control of private lives at its worst! What a tragic worldview he has that would have him “take his country back” from his fellow citizens.

There have been experiments done on those with similar extreme views. Television and radios have

been removed from them. And, in short order, they begin to lift up their curtains, open their doors and engage with their neighbors again.

Schaper’s view of the 2014 election is wishful thinking. The only thing we can be sure of after this election is what wealthy billionaires want. 2014 was the

first full election under Citizens United v. McCutcheon and the rollback of the Voting Rights Act. More than a million 2012 voters were not allowed to vote in 2014, for the crime of not having the “right” kind of ID. Four billion dollars in contributions was spent, shattering all previous More Letters/ to p. 10

2014 Elections and True Progressives

This letter is long overdue.

I’ve long admired the work of the Random Lengths and the writing of James Preston Allen....especially his patient attempts to bring Mr. Schaper back to Earth from Planet Fox. One must suspend reality and cover both eyes and ears to have such beliefs. It is amazing that someone like Mr. Schaper could live a few miles away and hold such self-contradictory views.

For starters, restricting marriage equality or women’s

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my two greatest passions: baseball and serving the autism community.

I want to raise awareness of autism disorders during the season and provide special opportunities for families and individuals affected by autism. I want people that are affected by autism to participate in various baseball activities, including throwing out the first pitch, announcing, “Play Ball!” and singing, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”

If I am able to get my dream job of working for the Dodgers, I would like to eventually hold the autism baseball game at Dodgers Stadium instead of having it at a recreation park like we always do. I would also like to have some of the Dodgers’ players go out to the community and socialize with autistic children all over the Los Angeles area. The impact they would have on these children is unspeakable.

There are a lot of nonprofit autism organizations all over the world that are raising millions of dollars trying to find a cure for autism.

But something that is beneficial for autistic people can be done right now—be a friend to them, engage with them and get to know them.

Strong and enduring friendships within the autistic community are rare. Children who are not autistic take for granted the ability to form friendships and enjoy life with others on their own.

I’ve learned from spending time with Kenny and volunteering in special needs classes, the power of a simple hello and the act of remembering names in the autistic community.

It’s a great feeling when a connection is made.

So I ask you, the next time you see someone who has autism, will you make a difference in their life?

If you’d like to learn more about the “Challenge League Game,” call (310) 8741189.

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Every mid-April, we invite autistic students from throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District and San Pedro community to play a game of baseball with San Pedro and Mary Star high school players and former players from the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The major leaguers usually act as the pitchers for the game, but perhaps what’s more important is that high school students, autistic or not, get to talk and interact with each other over the game of baseball.

Aside from the experience of playing baseball and making new friends, the students going up to bat get to hear their names announced over the loudspeakers and go home with a “Challenge League Game” T-shirt.

This past year, former Dodger player, Maury Wills, donated $1,500 to the Challenge League baseball event.

My mother and I want to make jerseys for the autistic children who play in the game. We want their names to be on the back of each jersey.

This coming April will be our seventh year hosting the Challenge.

Spending time with autistic students has changed my life. I love baseball, but I have no aspiration of becoming a baseball player in the major leagues. I do, however, aspire to join the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Community Relations Department.

Major League Baseball is a major supporter of Autism Speaks, a national advocacy organization that sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, government and the public.

Through Autism Speaks, I hope to combine

input prior to the issuance of a new RFP. Resolved, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council calls on the port to open the preproposal meeting to the public, Resolved, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council asks for a community representative on the evaluation committee, who would be selected by the neighborhood councils via the Neighborhood Council Port Affairs Committee, Further Resolved, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood calls on Council member Joe Buscaino and the Harbor Commissioners to assist the Neighborhood Councils in securing port cooperation with this community initiative.

Motion passed unanimously by all 17 members of the NWSPNC Board.

Laurie A Jacobs Vice President NWSPNC

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addition, “WNYC easily found a dozen other cops who appear to use force more often than most and who have been the subject of numerous lawsuits.”

In addition, “a relatively small number of cops generate the most civilian complaints—and the department routinely ignores recommendations on how to discipline the worst of them. All of which calls into question just how seriously the NYPD polices its own.”

It’s an extremely costly oversight. In 2012, Bloomberg News reported, “New York City plans to spend $735 million this year on settlements or awards in lawsuits claiming negligence, police abuse and property damage.” Payments were projected to rise to $815 million by 2016.

It’s part of a nationwide pattern, in which rogue cops run wild with at least tacit permission from above, and taxpayers are left holding the bag. This creates a perverse incentive system in which there is no reason for the most violenceprone cops to restrain themselves. The pattern is only now coming into focus, as revealed in a recent law review article by UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz. As Schwartz notes, “The Supreme Court has long assumed that law enforcement officers must personally satisfy

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CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques,” the executive summary said.

Internally, apparently, CIA officers regularly called into question the techniques effectiveness, noting how the techniques failed to elicit detainee cooperation or produce accurate intelligence.

White House Push for Stronger Community Policing Following Ferguson Rebellion

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—In the wake of the Ferguson rebellion, the White House released the results of its community policing review Dec. 2, after President Barack Obama ordered it in August 2014.

Entitled “Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition,” the review highlighted the importance of strong, collaborative relationships between local police and the communities they protect.

During the course of its review, the White House explored whether existing federal programs: • Provide law enforcement agencies with equipment that is appropriate to the needs of their communities, • Ensure law enforcement agencies have adequate policies in place for the use of the equipment and that personnel are properly trained and certified to employ the equipment they obtain, and • Encourage law enforcement agencies to adopt organizational and operational practices and standards that prevent misuse or abuse of the equipment.

The report found a lack of consistency in how federal programs are structured, implemented and audited. Following conversations with stakeholders, the report identified local community engagement, federal coordination and oversight, training requirements and the community policing model as the keys to maximizing the safety and security of police officers and the communities they serve.

Subsequently, the president instructed his staff to draft an executive order directing relevant agencies to work together, with law enforcement, civil rights and civil liberties organizations to develop specific 10 recommendations within 120 days.

settlements and judgments, and has limited individual and government liability in civil rights damages actions—through qualified immunity doctrine, municipal liability standards, and limitations on punitive damages—based in part on this assumption.”

But that assumption is entirely false, Schwartz discovered. “My study reveals that police officers are virtually always indemnified: During the study period, governments paid approximately 99.98 percent of the dollars that plaintiffs recovered in lawsuits alleging civil rights violations by law enforcement.” This held true “even when indemnification was prohibited by law or policy and even when officers were disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for their conduct.”

In short, the most violence-prone cops are the greatest beneficiaries of the existing system.

But the practice of having taxpayers pick up the tab for violent cops is just one facet of the problem. There is also the systemic resistance to reigning in violent police behavior. Eric Garner died from a forbidden chokehold used by NYPD

officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was described as “the model of what we want a police officer to be,” by Pat Lynch, the head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. Lynch went on to say, “What’s also been lost is the character of police officer Daniel Pantaleo. What’s not being told is what kind of man and what kind of person and what kind of professional he is.”

But, in fact, Pantaleo has a documented history of getting into trouble and the NYPD has a documented history of failing to enforce its own chokehold ban. Numerous media outlets reported that Pantaleo had previously been sued at least three times for racially biased misconduct.

One involved a 22 year-old, black Staten Island resident, who alleged he “was subjected to a degrading search of his private parts and genitals” during a February 2012, arrest. He received $15,000 in an out-of-court settlement, as did another plaintiff.

More generally, a report from the New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board said it had received more chokehold complaints in the previous 12 months than in any year since 2001. Moreover, Huffington Post reported, “The agency’s new report also takes some of its own investigators to task, saying they failed to report or properly classify more than 150 clear-cut cases of chokehold usage.” It went on to explain: “Although the original ban restricts officers from applying any pressure to a suspect’s neck, the report finds that judges in the department’s internal trials—and some CCRB investigators— have weakened that rule, redefining a chokehold as a maneuver that restricts breathing.” This utterly ignores the dangers of restricting blood flow, which cannot only be dangerous, but fatal.

Even in those rare cases where its investigators could prove misconduct, the CCRB report said, the chokehold ban was “emasculated” by NYPD judges who preside over the department’s internal trial proceedings.

“None of the 10 officers who the investigators concluded had committed misconduct was penalized with anything more than a loss of vacation days,” Huffington Post reported.

There was also further evidence that a small number of officers were disproportionately responsible for the problems. A high number of those accused of using chokeholds—78.5 percent—had two or more use-of-force complaints filed against them, compared to just 49.3 percent among officers accused of misconduct but not chokeholds.

All together, reports such as these reveal widespread systemic problems involving a small number of officers whose conduct is significantly out of line with most of their peers. Most of their misconduct is not fatal, but it is outside of the norms of good policing, even within the flawed systems as they exist today. When defenders of “the police” rally around the actions of such officers, as almost invariably happens, they are actually defending poor policing practices which the vast majority of officers do not engage in.

That “silent majority” of good police officers could be key to getting America out of this tragic situation—if they are brave enough to take a stand against the bad cops in their midst, and for the communities they are sworn to protect and serve. But until they do so, there is no reason to expect the new anti-lynching movement to stop.

It has only just begun.

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records. Most of this money was used to misinform and discourage voting altogether.

The voter turnout was among the lowest ever, so we really don’t know what the “people” truly want.

As Mr. Allen so aptly notes, President Obama is not a progressive. He is far to the right of St. Ronald Reagan on most of the issues Mr. Schaper throws against the wall in his letter.

If he were a white man, or had an “R” in front of his name, he might be considered the next coming. Progressive policies have not been in force since the 1970s, so we don’t really know how they might work today. The 50 million (and growing) living below the poverty line, plus the 2 million (and growing) homeless would have fared much better during that time. Perhaps Mr. Schaper can take his country back from them.

If Mr. Schaper will join me in advocating for no contribution, no voter suppression free and fair elections, we can then see whose policies would actually win.

Again, many thanks and respect to the staff at Random Lengths for being lonely progressives and to Mr. Schaper for the comedic relief.

Gregory Lash Rancho Palos Verdes Dear Mr. Lash, The only thing lonely about being a progressive in publishing in this area is the abundant lack of response to the vocal minority of Fox News adherents. Go figure, some 73 percent of the voters in this area caste votes to elect Barack Obama president, some 62 percent are registered Democrats. Clearly, there are some socially leaning, dare I say, “liberal” Republicans in the Harbor Area who wouldn’t vote for McCain or Romney. Yet, out of this majority of liberal Democrats, progressives, union supporters and enlightened Republicans, you are one of the first to challenge Mr. Schaper and I applaud you for it. Perhaps more of our readers will take up the idea to write letters challenging conservative commentaries in this paper and the other corporate owned, conservative newspapers.

Thank you, James Preston Allen, Publisher

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wo years have past since Random Lengths News profiled Carson’s homegrown popstar, Tenelle.

Now, she’s out with a sexier look, new music and an even larger, fan-base. All of it was organically grown.

These days Tenelle’s new single, “Get Some,” written by Grammy nominated Meghan Trainor, has received nearly 5,000 views in its first three weeks. The first song Meghan Trainor ( “All About That Bass” singer) wrote for Tenelle was “Flava,” which also did very well. “Get Some” has enjoyed the most requests on Honolulu’s FM station, KCCN 100. Tenelle now boasts 15,000 followers on the social media site, Instagram.

Just as beautiful as ever, since our prior interview Tenelle has created a new look for herself. She has become a personal trainer and is looking svelte. When she is back home, not doing shows, she trains other people. The former volleyball player’s regimen consists of lots of juicing andworking out at the gym.

She recently moved into her own place. She is happy and she is excited for the future. She wants to keep building this momentum.

Faith and family are a major part of Tenelle, that has remained the same. She says she would be a mess without them.

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The throwback Majestic Cafe menu item beef sandwich with sliced bread and beef dip. Only offered at lunch. Photo courtesy of J.Tranis Ristorante

Dustin Throw-Back Lunch Menu:

Harkening Back to the Days of the Majestic Café

December 11 – 24, 2014

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By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

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Relative newcomers to San Pedro probably can’t imagine eating beef stew with chili beans, or a beef sandwich with beef dip at a place like J.Trani’s Ristorante—a place that features PanAsian and Italian cuisine on the level of a five–star restaurant. But that’s exactly what long-time fans of the restaurant can expect for lunch at the four– generations-strong, family-owned restaurant.

Local fans of Chef Dustin Trani may have noticed that the rising young chef is spending more time at the family restaurant. Since the Beverly Hills restaurant DOMA, celebrated its second anniversary this past year Dustin has been able to put more energy into the family business and launch new initiatives to bolster the J.Trani’s lunch crowd.

One of those initiatives was to go back—way back—to the restaurant’s 1925 beginnings, when it was called the Majestic Café on 7th, below Centre Street, and its basement was both a pool hall and a dispatch for longshoremen.

“We have always had a lunch business that

was kind of like there, but inconsistent,” Dustin explained. “But we’re very fortunate to be packed for dinner every night. But, that’s when we started to ask, What can we do to boost our lunch?”

The move is unapologetically nostalgic, giving San Pedrans who grew up during the 1960s and 70s, a trip through memory lane in the form of beef stew with chili-beans and beef sandwiches with beef dip.

“It’s kind of cool to give everybody a kind of taste of what we used to do when it all started,” Dustin said.

Dustin doesn’t intend to bring back the entire throwback menu for lunch, just the 8 or 9 most popular menu from that era.

“It cracks me up, because people say, ‘Oh, this is an Italian restaurant.’ Not necessarily.”

The most interesting part about Dustin’s decision to move forward by turning to the past is the opportunities it presents.

“It’s like when you look at Felipe’s and all Continued on page 15.

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Cynthia Galles: The Cornerstone of Found Theatre

By John Farrell, Curtain Call Writer

December 11 – 24, 2014

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Cynthia Galles was a star.

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A Long Beach star.

She graduated with honors, as class valedictorian from St. Anthony High School in Long Beach and with honors from the then-new University of California in Irvine in theater. She wrote music for the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and was a dynamic presence in the arts community that she helped develop throughout three decades before she died of cancer nine years ago, directing more than 100 plays and writing almost as many.

Many of her accomplishments are real, but intangible. Forty years ago, Long Beach was still a cultural backwater. Now it includes eight theater companies, the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra (which was around before anyone else) and a thriving Long Beach Opera. Galles was part of and integral to that growth.

But, she also left a physical monument located at 6th and Long Beach Boulevard.

That’s the home of the new Found Theatre, which was built in cooperation with the City of Long Beach and the Community Redevelopment Agency. The CRA put up the new shopping center that houses, amongst other tenants, Walmart.

The Found Theatre was purpose-built, with fine seating, a high ceiling, a broad stage and plenty of room for theater productions.

Galles died nearly a decade ago, but the Found, now under the artistic direction of her partner Virginia DeMoss is still very much in business, with plays, comedy acts and more in the space that Cynthia built.

Now, The Found is celebrating Galles’ life with a new production, Patron Saint of Sideshow: How I Become the One Tit Wonder, a documentary film by Michael Dale Brown that highlights Galles’ colorful career.

It opened the first weekend of December and is being shown at The Found-again, during the evenings of Dec. 12 and 14 at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with the final showing during the Sunday matinee at 3 p.m.

The film, just under one-hour-and-forty minutes long, is also available in DVD format for purchase at The Found for $15, with proceeds going to the Found’s operating

budget.

Brown has been filming The Found for over thirty years now, since his wife Barbara Duncan Brown joined up with the company in 1980 and as he filmed technology changed right under his feet. “I initially shot on Super8 film in the days before home video,” Brown said in a recent email exchange.

“As technology grew so did my equipment, from VHS to Hi-8, to digital tape and SDHC disks.”

In 2002 Galles discovered she had breast cancer. Given her natural bent, she decided that her fight with breast cancer should be the subject of one of her plays.”

“I got it into my head that there might be a film there, so I videotaped almost all of the rehearsals and performances,” Brown wrote.

“I interviewed Cynthia, Virginia and the cast members throughout the production process, as well as shot and edited video shown on TV monitors during the show...”

That was only the beginning.

“Once the play was over I edited together a video of the play itself, then the documentary sat on the shelf for a few years while I worked on other stuff, but Virginia kept urging me to finish it,” Brown said.

The project languished for several years, even after Galles’ death. “I began the process, was conducting new interviews, gathering still photos, and going through 100s of hours of old show videos looking for usable clips. At one point, the project got stalled by a computer crash and data loss. But we wanted to have it done for the 40th anniversary.”

Brown was inspired, as many were, by Galles.

“Although I had been heavily involved in theater when I was younger, I learned a lot from being around Cynthia,” Brown wrote.

“The perseverance, willingness to try anything (and) the quirky sense of humor. After her death and with The Found needing help putting on new productions, I was inspired to write my first play for The Found, Earthlings Beware— a piece that was very much in the same vein as Cynthia’s campy, over-the-top style. The play was well received and has

gone on to be performed at a number of other theaters.”

DeMoss first met Cynthia at a Found Theatre performance, when the theater was in its first permanent home, a former laundromat at 7th and Orange.

She went to their first performance of Leaves of Grass, a Chekhov adaptation, and came back for a second performance. Then she saw their production of Raid on Entebbe, a performance piece by Foundling Iris Rose.

It involved the audience directly as passengers on the hijacked plane. DeMoss was a little shy, eating bread and water, and hiding where the terrorists, including Cynthia Galles, told them to.

But she had already fallen in love with Galles and the feeling, she said, proved mutual. She found that out when she met with Galles to do a piece on spec for the Long Beach Press-Telegram. The story never ran.

“I … had found the two loves of my life: Cynthia and the Found Theatre,” DeMoss said by email. “I started out taking production photos and then doing tech. I was also a UCI graduate... I was an English major, but absolutely loved theater, and took dozens of literature of theater classes. I had no interest whatsoever in acting, but was passionate about theater.

Like so many people who enter(ed) The Found, Cynthia Galles eventually convinced me to go on stage. It turned out that I loved it and despite my

lack of experience I had an incredible time and felt completely confident because Cynthia believed in me, as she did so many others.”

The Found was in the small space on 7th Street for 20 years, finally moving to their new home and letting The Garage Theatre move into their old home. They are still going strong.

Here’s Galles’ toast to her profession: “To the people I’ve never met who are doing the same thing in other hallowed spaces, large and small. To all of us who don’t have to go to hell because we’ve been there so often—on all those nights when it’s a comedy and there’s not a single laugh; when every technical snafu the collective’s horrified imagination could conceive of does indeed occur; when everyone onstage tap dances harder and harder, and the Jell-O you’re all wading through only gets deeper and thicker because there’s something in the stars that says, ‘Tonight, you’re doomed.’

“But, of course, we’re theater people, so we just have to ride the runaway train to disaster until the final blackout, and face the tepid applause during the curtain call with all the aplomb of heroes in a silent film lined up for the firing squad.”

Tickets for Patron Saint of Sideshow are $10.

Performances are Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 14 at 3 p.m.

Venue: The Found Theatre Location: 599 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach Details: (562) 433-3363, www.foundtheatre.org

This is a vintage photo of the old Majestic Cafe.

Courtesy of J.Trani’s Ristorante.

Entertainment DECEMBER 12

Tizer Quartet The Tizer Quartet is schedule to perform, at 8 p.m.

Dec. 12, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Rob Klopfenstein Rob Klopfenstein performs, at 7 p.m. Dec. 12, at The Whale & Ale in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 832-0363; www.WhaleAndAle. com Venue: The Whale & Ale Location: 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro

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Tribute to Non-traditional Christmas Songs Scared Grounds is hosting a tribute to nontraditional Christmas songs, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Think John Prine’s “Christmas in Prison” or the Pogues’ “Fairy Tale of New York,” or John Lennon’s “Merry Christmas (War is Over)” and you get the idea.

Details: (512) 573-5222; chuff8@sbcglobal.net Venue: Sacred Grounds Location: 468 W. 6th St., San Pedro Markus Carlton Markus Carlton performs, at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at The Whale & Ale in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 832-0363; www.WhaleAndAle. com Venue: The Whale & Ale Location: 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro

DECEMBER 14

Richard Smith and Aaron Till Fingerstyle Duo Richard Smith and Aaron Till Fingerstyle Duo will perform, at 4 p.m. Dec. 14, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Holiday POPS Spectacular The Golden State Pops Orchestra’s acclaimed production “Holiday POPS Spectacular” returns this year with joyous music and high spirits, at 8 p.m. Dec. 20, at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro. Celebrate the holiday season by joining Maestro Steven Allen Fox and the Golden State Pops Orchestra and Chorale (led

by Choir Maestra Marya Basaraba) for a festive performance of timeless holiday film music and traditional favorites that will be sure to put you in the holiday mood.

Details: www.gspo.com Venue: Warner Grand Theatre Location: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro Markus Carlton Markus Carlton performs, at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 20 at The Whale & Ale in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 832-0363; www.WhaleAndAle. com Venue: The Whale & Ale Location: 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro

DECEMBER 28

Peter Matuchniak & Friends Peter Matuchniak & Friends will perform, at 4 p.m. Dec. 28, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Community/Family DECEMBER 12

DECEMBER 18

Farmers Market Get farm fresh products and crafts, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 12, at the Farmer’s Market in downtown San Pedro.

Details: (562) 449-9299 Location: 6th St. between Pacific Ave. and Mesa St., San Pedro

Karaoke Enjoy karaoke, from 9 p.m. to closing Dec. 18, at Blu Restaurant and Bar in San Pedro.

Venue: Blu Restaurant and Bar, Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Harbor Hotel Location: 601 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro

Santa Speedo Run 2 Be part of the Santa Speedo Run 2, starting at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 13, at The Brit in Long Beach.

One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit The Center Long Beach and 100 percent of non-perishable food donations benefit the AIDS Food Store.

Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/santa-speedorun-2-tickets-13637210263 Venue: The Brit Location: 1744 E. Broadway, Long Beach

Live Band Karaoke Live Band Karaoke takes place, starting at 8 p.m.

Details: (310) 833-1589; www.GodMothersSaloon. com Venue: Godmothers Saloon Location: 302 W. 7th St., San Pedro

DECEMBER 19

James Kimo West Holiday Slack Key Show The James Kimo West Holiday Slack Key Show will take place, at 8 p.m. Dec. 19, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Rob Klopfenstein Rob Klopfenstein performs, at 7 p.m. Dec. 19, at The Whale & Ale in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 832-0363; www.WhaleAndAle. com Venue: The Whale & Ale Location: 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro A Soulful Christmas By the Sea San Pedro at Marina Seafood Restaurant. My Christmas show is with Gospel recording artists The Starlights, 5 Tempting Men (Temptation Revue Band) and San Pedro’s favorites “Rick’s

DECEMBER 13

Portraits of the Prince of Peace Enjoy the story of Christmas with a candlelit outdoor walk, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Dec. 12 through the 14th, at various locations. Come follow the path through many nativity scenes, complete with actors and live animals. Six prominent churches located within a few short blocks feature a variety of free entertainment and refreshments. Delightful choirs, musical groups, chimes and handbells complete the joyous celebration. Supporting churches include the Calvary Chapel, Long Beach Christian Reformed Church, St. Cornelius Catholic Church, St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, The Neighborhood Church and University Baptist Church. Free parking at participating churches.

Details: (562) 421-1721; jtien@lbcrc.org Location: 5500 block of Wardlow Rd. between Bellflower Blvd. and Woodruff Ave., Long Beach Daisy Avenue Christmas Tree Lane Parade Come home for the holidays, from 5 to 7 p.m.

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and he has all of these mobster guys and stuff...

Cohen showed up with his entourage. At the picnic, we had politicians there, we had Judge Simpson, who was old school, who ran the whole Long Beach Courthouse. We had congressmen. It was like a freaking scene out of the Godfather,” Dustin said.

“One of the police chiefs came over and said, ‘That’s Mickey Cohen.’ and my grandfather goes, ‘yeah.’ You got Judge Simpson and you got congressman so-and-so with these politicians and you got Mickey Cohen here. Then the next year... they said we’re not going to give you a permit. You got some of the biggest mobsters on the West Coast coming,” Dustin recalled laughing.

Dustin said he’s looking to relaunch the picnic in the summer of 2015 at the Bobby Sox field. All would be welcomed.

But it all started with the beef sandwich.

What’s new with Dustin?

For the past two years, Dustin has been busy getting DOMA to a place where it could excel, without taking up his full attention. In 2013, he, representing DOMA, was featured on the celebrity chef show, Knife Fight, made Gayot magazine’s top 40 list of chefs to watch and this past summer he finished shooting for celebrity chef show Best New Restaurant.

“Everything has been going really well.

We’ve been getting a lot of praise and a lot of press. It’s been really fun now for the last year or so,” Dustin said.

Best New Restaurant is set to premiere on Bravo in Jan. 21. The show stars celebrity chef Tom Colicchio and was executive produced by Chef Gordon Ramsay. Filmed on both the West and East Coast, Best New Restaurant centers on a competition between 16 new restaurants throughout the United States.

Dustin was also invited to Chefdance, a culinary event at the Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah.

The first inaugural ChefDance event was developed in 2004 to coincide with the film festival, providing, as the event’s website says, “the perfect marriage of fine food and film.”

In the years since its founding, a ChefDance invitation has become the most coveted ticket of the festival.

DECEMBER 20

Eric Rigler & Dirk Freymuth: A Celtic Christmas Eric Rigler & Dirk Freymuth: A Celtic Christmas will take place, at 8 p.m.

Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

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these restaurants that claim to have the oldest wet beef sandwich with beef dip… we got them beat by five years because we started in 1925. They say they invented the wet beef. They do it in a roll, but we do it in sliced bread. But, I think we have a case for the oldest wet beef sandwich in LA,” Dustin said.

Dustin has been reaching out to various Southern California publications that feature stories on popular old restaurants.

“I’ve been trying to talk to them to say, ‘Hey man, put San Pedro in there.’ Nobody knows it, but it would be great for the community because everybody remembers their grandfathers, their dads or whatever, who always used to get the beef sandwich at Trani’s,” Dustin explained.

“All you know about are Coles and Felipe’s in LA because they’ve been around since the late 1920s. But we’re 1925 so I think we gotta step on them,” Dustin said.

Dustin brings out a 1961 Trani’s Majestic menu, a 11 by 14 burgundy fold-up with words written in a scripted font on the cover. Inside were variations of Spaghetti, ravioli and lasagna, as well a series of main dishes, featuring veal. This menu also included the original core menu items, beef stew and beef sandwich. The prices in this menu were handwritten.

“Veal with Parmesan… Veal with mushrooms…

Veal with marsala… That’s how the old school was. Spaghetti all the way down,” Dustin said with all seriousness.

But bringing back the Majestic menu wasn’t Dustin’s only inspired idea. The other was to reestablish the annual Majestic picnic at the San Pedro Bobby Sox field in the 1950s and 60s.

Dustin explained that back in the day, his grandfather and his grandfather’s brothers kept a large jar behind the bar where they would collect money for the picnic all year long.

“At the end of the year, they would take all of the money that was thrown in and have it at the Bobby Sox field over there and have this huge picnic,” Dustin explained as a set up for why the picnic ended.

The Los Angeles Police Department owns the land on which the Bobby Sox field sits and operates a pistol range nearby.

“One year, they’re sitting there (Dustin’s grandfather and his brothers) and Mickey Cohen (a notorious LA mob boss) shows up to the picnic

John Daversa Big Band The John Daversa Big Band is schedule to perform, at 8 p.m. Dec. 13, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Jamnesia.” Tickets are $25. It all starts at 9 p.m.

Venue: Marina Seafood Restaurant Location: Ports O’Call Village

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Dec. 13, for the Daisy Avenue Christmas Tree Lane Parade in Long Beach. Bring your blankets, chairs and don’t forget to bundle up. The parade runs along Daisy Avenue between Burnett Street and Pacific Coast Highway.

Details: (562) 570-7777; www.longbeach.gov/ district7/daisyparade.asp Location: 20th St. at Daisy Ave., Long Beach

DECEMBER 13

Waterfront Market Check out the certified farmers market, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 13, at the Waterfront Market in San Pedro and enjoy organic produce.

Venue: Downtown Harbor Location: Berth 84 at 6th St. on Harbor Blvd., San Pedro

DECEMBER 18

Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association Holiday Party Come out to enjoy a little holiday spirit with Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association members and your neighbors, from 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 18, at the Petroleum Club in Long Beach. Enjoy food, live music, giveaways, and the community holiday spirit. There is a $10 entry at the door.

Details: (562) 595-0081; info@bixbyknollsinfo. com.

Venue: Petroleum Club Location: 3636 Linden Ave., Long Beach Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association Holiday Party Come out to enjoy a little holiday spirit with Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association members and your neighbors, from 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 18, at the Petroleum Club in Long Beach. Enjoy food, live music, giveaways, and the community holiday spirit. There is a $10 entry at the door.

Details: (562) 595-0081; info@bixbyknollsinfo. com.

Venue: Petroleum Club Location: 3636 Linden Ave., Long Beach

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DECEMBER 21

Holidays by the Sea In December, the Port of Los Angeles is hosting “Holidays by the Sea,” a series of free and festive weekend holiday events on the LA Waterfront continuing each weekend through Dec. 21.

Downtown Harbor visitors will witness a Holiday Sail Spectacular and light show, turning the public town square outside the Los Angeles Maritime Museum into an outdoor theater venue with holiday movies projected right onto a ship’s sail.

Details: www.lawaterfront.org/events.php Venue: Los Angeles Maritime Museum Location: 84 Berth, San Pedro

Theater/Film DECEMBER 12

Patron Saint of Sideshow Celebrate The Found Theatre’s 40th anniversary with Patron Saint of Sideshow, Mike Brown’s documentary about Found Theatre founder Cynthia Galles and her play about her experience with breast cancer: One Tit Wonder, at 8 p.m. Dec. 12 and 13, and at 3 p.m. Dec. 14. The event will include a live performance by Found Theatre composer Drayfus Grayson and a Q-and-A with the director.

Details: (562) 433-3363; foundtheatre.org Venue: The Found Theatre Location: 599 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach

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Coyotita Enjoy the folktale-based children’s musical, Coyotita, starting at 2 p.m. Dec. 13, at Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum in Rancho Dominguez.

Coyotita was written by Bill DeLuca and Naomi Buckley and informs children about how they can help the environment. The characters are all animals, played and sung by actors in masks and costumes. Coyotita gets to meet creatures from the sea, the air and the land in her quest to try to save her Yucca plants.

Details: (310) 603-0088; dominguezrancho.org Venue: Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum Location: 18127 S. Alameda St., Rancho Dominguez

DECEMBER 13

Bus Stop Experience the Bus Stop, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday, with 2 p.m. shows Nov. 20 and Dec. 7, through Dec. 13, at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro. Set in 1955, a blustery winter storm has hit the Midwest, and a busload of travelers from Kansas City must stop and spend the night at a diner outside of Topeka, Kan. Two young lover play out their courtship and discover that part of the journey is not knowing where you are headed.

Tickets start at $20.

Details: (310) 512-6030; www.littlefishtheatre. org Venue: Little Fish Theatre Location: 777 S. Centre St., San Pedro The Nutcracker Enjoy The Nutcracker, Dec. 13 and 14, at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro. The San Pedro City Ballet returns to the Warner Grand with their annual gift to Harbor residents and visitors.

Details: sanpedroballetschool.org Venue: Warner Grand Theatre Location: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro A Christmas Carol The Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage presents A Christmas Carol, Dec. 13 through 21. Returning for its third incarnation at Long Beach Playhouse, this quick-paced, highly theatrical re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of sin and redemption will delight the entire family. Tickets are $24 for adults, $21 for seniors and $14 for students.

Details: (562) 494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse Location: 5021 Anaheim St., Long Beach

DECEMBER 14

How the Grinch Stole Christmas Bundle up and watch a free evening of the Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, starting at 5 p.m. Dec. 14, aboard the Battleship Iowa.

Details: (877) 446-9261; www.pacificbattleship. com Venue: Battleship Iowa Location: 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro

December 19

The Christmas Carol is ‘Sung’ this Year in Long Beach Art-In-Relation will produce The Christmas Carol, previously produced by the Relevant Stage at San Pedro’s Warner Grand Theatre, at Long Beach’s Ernest Borgnine Theatre. there will only be eight shows between Dec. 19 and Dec. 27. The Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge, the curmudgeonly businessman who requires the intervention of a few spectral guides to understand the true meaning of Christmas and life.Tickets are $25 for general seating, with discounted seats at $20 for seniors older than 55, and $15 for children 12 and younger. Advance tickets may be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets.

Details: (800) 838-3006; http://thechristmascarol. brownpapertickets.com Venue: Ernest Borgnine Theatre Location: 855 Elm Ave, Long Beach

Art December 19

Across Generations Across Generations, a fine art painting exhibit, is on display, through Dec. 19, at Parkhurst Galleries Inc. in San Pedro.

Details: (310) 547-3158 Venue: Parkhurst Galleries Inc. Location: 439 W. 6th St. San Pedro The 94th International Watercolor Exhibit The 94th International Watercolor Exhibit runs through January 11, 2015, at the National Watercolor Society Gallery in San Pedro. This event is a juried exhibition of today’s top international and national watercolor artists. This year’s exhibit has more than 80 original paintings, never before shown in a national exhibition.

Details: www.nationalwatercolorsociety.wildapricot. org Venue: NWS Gallery Location: 915 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

Vinyl record stacks at Fingerprints. File photo.

Fingerprints Holiday Fair offers the Gift of Music

By Lyn Jensen, Contributing Reporter

D

oes your music collection still include those round things made of vinyl?

Do you fondly remember the time when browsing was something you did at a store that sold those round vinyl things?

Shops that specialize in any format of recorded music are increasingly rare, but Fingerprints has lasted for 22 years. It’s an actual store. In terms of both selection and floor space, it’s one of the largest remaining so-called record stores in Southern California.

If you’re looking for music-related gifts, Fingerprints manager Dennis Gronski recommends his store’s holiday fair coming up Dec. 14. There’ll be in-store specials, holiday cards, gift wrap, and guest vendors selling jewelry and art. The chorale group Greater California and possibly a surprise guest will provide in-store music.

Fingerprints stocks thousands of those old-school round vinyl LPs, alongside tens of thousands of CDs, DVDs, 45s—even some VHS tapes and cassette tapes. You’ll have to visit to see the full range of holiday gift possibilities, which also includes apparel, guitar straps, storage crates, memorabilia and incense. The place will

also buy your used LPs, DVDs, and CDs for instore credit Gronski observes that while people younger than 25 may prefer alternate ways of getting music, his customers include a large Woodstockera demographic that continues to prefer the instore shopping experience, being able to hold the product in hand while deciding to buy.

Fingerprints stocks extensive selections of many genres: jazz, classical, country, punk, metal. Country fans will be surprised with fresh new LPs by such contemporary stars as Kellie Pickler, Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett. If you’re in a Woodstock frame of mind, you may prefer to trip out on collectable vinyl rarities, including maybe, just maybe, that certain Beatles LP, still in shrink wrap. If you’re more into relics of 70s’ punk, there’s something for you, too, a sealed copy of Patti Smith’s Horses LP, for example.

Listening stations are scattered throughout the store, allowing you to try some items before you buy. Some are pre-stocked with store specials and employee recommendations. Others are for whatever CD you choose, so ask a sales clerk for help. If you want a caffeine break, the Berlin coffeehouse is tucked into a corner.

Fingerprints is in the East Village Arts District near downtown Long Beach: 420 E. Fourth St. (between Elm and Linden).

Details: (562) 433-4996; www. fingerprintsmusic.com

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recording now and will release an “unplugged” video of a new single called “All I Want Is You,” before the end of 2014.

lead into 2015 on that momentum. Besides the two video’s coming out she will release a Christmas EP covering her favorite holiday songs. She is also creating a website that will be out very soon.

“I want to move nations with this little voice of mine,” Tenelle says. “I want to make an impact, to be able to make someone smile and feel love, to relate and to connect.”

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“They are the two important F’s,” she said in all seriousness.

Tenelle’s single, “Bulletproof,” has an uplifting message, which speaks to living with hope and faith amidst the problems in life. The video opens with a prayer, Tenelle’s heartwarming delivery and the love of her family are captured throughout it.

The artist continues to stand strong in her convictions of faith and family and is having fun in the process. Those two important F’s have supported her to this point in her career and now her new single, “Get Some” is the mark of this young woman’s evolution into her independence.

Though that is a somewhat serious topic “Get Some” is a sexually playful, fun song .It will appeal to a younger audience and has a great groove appealing to a wider audience.

I asked her about the juxtaposition of the subject matter between “Bulletproof” and “Get Some,” a carefree song about a young woman who knows what she wants and goes for it. Or put another way, just what the title implies.

“Before, I was within my comfort zone, now I’m growing.” Tenelle said. “It’s been hard because I think so much about everything but it’s been good. I’m still the same person but I had to step outside of my comfort zone to make moves.”

We discussed the sexualization of women in the media and women’s empowerment. Tenelle looks at it through the very personal lens of family and self-awareness.

“It’s a male dominated world but women can do it just like men can,” she said. “I always think about my mom. I see her as a real go getter. She is passionate and so driven about working hard.

I think women should stay true to themselves.

It’s very important to keep yourself pure and right and goal driven for yourself.”

As Tenelle steps (or grows) outside of her box, she is enjoying her fan’s reactions.

“I’m not where I used to be but I know where I’m going and now I’m ready to step it up a thousand times,” she said. “Every day I pray for discernment.”

Talking about her fans, she shared an example of just how loyal they are to her.

“When ‘Get Some’ came out on iTunes someone posted it on YouTube,” she said. “I did not respond to it but I didn’t have to, my fans did for me. They were posting on YouTube, ‘Dude, it’s only 99 cents. Support her.’”

Tenelle is working on many projects and said for her it doesn’t make sense to put out an album now. They really don’t sell anymore unless you are a very famous and established artist.

She instead wants to keep hashing out singles so the world can hear her.

As she grows into her career Tenelle chooses to keep what is working for her the same, such as independent label, Reed Entertainment. She has been with Reed. It’s a good partnership she says and it’s awesome working with them. Her video Get Some will be out before Christmas. She is

Tenelle continues to perform with the bands Zhen and Common Kings, as she has 2 years ago. She loves being on stage with them and the familial atmosphere between everyone. She misses sharing the stage with them but is more focused now on putting out a lot of new music.

Tenelle is very encouraged and is finding success with the release of her singles and doing EPs. Her goal is to end 2014 with a bang and

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES/LEGAL FILINGS Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014296978 The following person is doing business as: Paradise Tinting, 24325 Crenshaw Blvd., Suite 109, Torrance, CA 90505, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Ronald Engel, 1051 Golden Rose Street., San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above:1-6-10. 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/. Ronald Engel, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 17, 2014. 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: 10/30/14, 11/14/14, 11/28/14,

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014327879 The following person is doing business as: Hair Force 1 Staffing, 884 W. 12th Street., San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Jeanna Ynfante, 884 W. 12th Street., San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. 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/. Jeanna Ynfante, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2014. 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: 11/25/2014, 12/11/2014,

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014326508 The following person is doing business as: Butch’s Auto Repair Inc., 1204 N. Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Butch’s Auto Repair Inc., 1204 N. Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: Jan 1, 2002.

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 Malinofsky, owner. This statement was filed with

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the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2014. 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: 11/25/2014, 12/11/2014,

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014326508 The following person is doing business as: Butch’s Auto Repair Inc., 1204 N. Gaffey, San Pedro, CA 90731. Articles of Incorporation #: 2384509. Los Angeles County. Reg-

istered owners: Butch’s Auto Repair Inc.,1204 N. Gaffey, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: Jan. 1, 2002. 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/. Jeanna Ynfante, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2014. 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: 12/11/2014, 12/23/2014,

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014327878 The following person is doing business as: (1) The Mak Look, (2) Elise Mak, 302 W. 5th Street Suite 303, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Elise Young, 302 W. 5th Street Suite 303, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. 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.

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014295900 The following person is doing business as:(1.) Carinas Flowers and Gift, 700 S. Pacific Ave, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County.

Registered owners: Zoila Murillo, 700 S. Pacific Ave, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. 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/. Zoila Murillo, owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 16, 2014. 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

to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/.

Jeanna Ynfante, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2014.

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: 12/11/2014, 12/23/2014,

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: 11/14/14, 11/28/14, 12//11/14,

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