The Bulletin

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

AN AMERICAN PRINT MEDIA PUBLICATION

‘There Were No Turf Wars!’

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Local and Fed Agencies say, together, they’ve delivered big hit to Compton violent crime Story and photos by Jim Forbes

COMPTON, CA—“We actually had a safe city for the last 3 years,” Compton City Councilwoman Janna Zurita reflected. “When you look over at the table and see all the weapons that have been

confiscated, that makes for a safer Compton.”

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urita spoke at a press conference noting the conclusion of a 3-year collaboration of city, county and the federal governments, that resulted in thousands of arrests, hundreds of guns confiscated along with significant caches of explosives and drugs.

And as the councilwoman, was flanked by approximately two-dozen law enforcement officers, from street cops to undercover officers to prosecutors, she asked for a round of ap-

plause, in appreciation of what is occurring in the city of her birth.

It was September 2015 and many of the same people stood before the community proclaiming a determina-

Sheriff Jim McDonnell (R) and Compton Councilwoman Janna Zurita were among the 2 dozen City of Compton and law enforcement officials heralding Compton’s reduction in violent crime.

Deputies Who Helped Save Baby Boy’s Life Reunite with Child and His Parents

Some of the 445 firearms seized over the past three years by LASD, ATF, DEA and the FBI.

Photo courtesy of LASD photographer Jaime A. Lopez.

Lakewood Station Deputies Alissa Farrington (l) and Tyler Milton (r) are reunited with 9-month-old Steven Hanna, whose young life they saved last month.

LAKEWOOD—Two deputies activated -- to a hospital. During the who helped save a 9-month-old boy’s trip, the baby was resuscitated and relife in Lakewood were reunited with sumed breathing on his own. the child Monday and thanked by his Hospital staffers were waiting for grateful parents. their arrival and the baby was rushed Steven Hanna’s parents brought inside. At the reunion Monday mornhim to the Lakewood ing, Milton held Steven sheriff’s station to see in his arms.

“They come deputies Tyler Milton “I was happy to and Alissa Farrington, follow me. I told see the baby alive and whose boss, Sheriff Jim healthy and smiling and them my son playful,” he said.

McDonnell, was on hand to witness the reMilton recalled dying, my son seeing union. a driver going On Aug. 27 about through red lights and dying.”

10:30 p.m., Milton saw thinking the motorist a car being driven errat- Rescued baby’s father might be drunk or drivically and made a trafing a stolen car. fic stop on southbound “Mr. Hanna got out Lakewood Boulevard near the Artesia of the car, and he was crying, and he (91) Freeway. The visibly distraught was pretty hysterical,” Milton said. driver got out of the vehicle holding “And that’s when I saw the baby; and his son, who was limp, unresponsive the baby’s eyes were open, but he and not breathing. He recalled Mon- wasn’t breathing, he wasn’t responday morning how frantic he was to get sive. So, I got on the radio ... and let help for his son. “They come follow everybody know that I had a baby not me. I told them my son dying, my son breathing, and I started CPR right dying,” the father said. away.”

Milton radioed for help and began Farrington said she heard the raCPR, and Farrington quickly arrived dio call and went to the scene. to assist. The deputies coordinated “I got there first,” she said. “I see with other personnel to get the baby him in the middle of Lakewood Bouto a hospital for medical treatment. levard giving CPR on the baby, like in Milton took the baby into his arms the middle of the street. And he was and administered CPR as Farrington like, ‘we gotta go,’ and I was like, ‘OK, drove them -- with lights and siren let’s go.”

CA REPORTS FIRST WEST NILE DEATHS

Nia Franklin Wins Miss America Crown

By Stacy M. Brown The genius, intelligence, beauty and spirit of Black women, which continues to transform the world, shined brightly again Sunday as Nia Franklin became the first Miss America in the post-swimsuit era.

“It took a lot of perseverance to get here,” Franklin, the freshly crowned beauty queen, said after her win. “I want to thank my beautiful family, my mom and my dad, who is a survivor of cancer.”

An opera singer, Franklin is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and earned her master’s degree in music composition from UNC School of the Arts, according to her biography as reported by CNN. She moved to New York after being accepted at the Kenan Fellow program at Lincoln Center Education in Manhattan.

During the competition, Franklin described how music helped her find her identity. n NIA FRANKLIN, see page 8

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tion to reverse the trend of violence and crime that has paralyzed Compton for decades.

“What was initially announced as the Violence Reduction Network, today continues as the Public Safety Partnership. The name alone tells you how far we’ve come since September 2015,” reflects Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.

Funded by the Obama Justice Department, Compton was designated as one of 10 cities nationwide in serious need of intervention. The realities had outgrown the resources of local agencies to handle alone, whether it be manpower or specific expertise.

And so LASD Compton Station began working with the FBI; Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); U.S. Marshall’s Service and the Justice Department through the U.S. Attorney’s office.

“Often times you have turf battles between the different agencies, the federal agencies and the locals that everyone seems to know about,” acknowledges Compton’s Commanding Officer, Capt. Michael Thatcher.

But all sides of the equation agree, that hasn’t happened in Compton these last three years. Capt. Thatcher says it’s a matter of respecting each other’s complementary expertise.

“We all know the lanes we usually operate in, what each agency brings to the table and what their specialty is.”

Sheriff McDonnell adds that’s not by accident but because of reality and necessity. While locals and feds may work together sporadically in many locales, there’s a lot more familiarity in Compton because of its needs.

“We train together, we work together and unfortunately we have enough natural and man-made disasters here, we’re not changing business cards when we meet at an event. We know each other, and we’ve developed that long-term relationship and it’s working out well.”

And as a result: ATF seized 300 of the 445 weapons confiscated as well as 80 pounds of explosives, U.S. Marshall’s took into custody more than 200 fugitives and wanted criminals, the FBI conducted wiretaps directed at violent gang members engaged in n TURF WARS, see page 2

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BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

NEWS

Preparing for Emergencies in Advance Can Be a Lifesaver

Turf Wars continued from page 1

A 3-year joint city, county and federal effort by the “Violence Reduction Network,” has significantly reduced Compton’s violent crime. interstate drug trafficking and the DEA confis- then have the sheriff go all in on it. What made cated over 300 pounds of methamphetamine, it even better was that the District Attorney’s heavy loads of cocaine, heroin and 18 pounds office was there, and there wasn’t any arguof fentanyl. ment about which way (state or federal chargAnd according to Sheriff McDonnell, es) a defendant should go.”

“Eighteen pounds of fentanyl is enough to kill Assistant United States Attorney Justin nearly 4 million people. That’s incredible.”

Rhoades is Chief of the Violent Organized For all the Crime Section seizures, confor the Central fiscations and District of Calarrests, it goes ifornia. for naught if “Everyone those responjust wanted sible aren’t sucthe best result cessfully prosfor the city. ecuted. As part Sometimes of this unique that meant we program, The would defer to Sheriff Jim McDonnell U.S. Attorthem because ney’s office was it was thirdimbedded in Compton Station and worked striker. Or someone they really had experience alongside the Los Angeles County District At- with prosecuting as part of a larger case, sometorney’s office. times they would say this should be a federal “It’s rare that you get to see DEA, ATF, FBI case, we don’t want this guy to come through all sitting down and saying we are all going to the revolving door…or the evidence worked collectively try to solve this one problem. And out one way better than the other.”

“Eighteen pounds of fentanyl is enough to kill nearly 4 million people.

That’s incredible.”

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TIPS: • Learn lifesaving skills. Take a CPR and/ or first aid class. Learn how to shut off water and gas.

• Make a safety kit.

Include fresh water, nonperishable food, a manual can opener, batteries, a flashlight, necessary medication and more.

• Keep emergency contacts. Include the phone numbers of your doctor, family members, friends and medical equipment company. Keep a fullycharged cell phone or spare battery pack on hand.

• Have a plan. Work with your hospital or medical company that supplies your life-support device to develop a backup plan.

They may offer special services during an emergency.

• Let your city or county first responders know. Contact your local fire department to see if they keep a list of customers with special medical needs.

It could be helpful in responding to you during emergencies.

• If you must leave your home. Create a plan for leaving your home in the event of a lengthy departure and share this plan with your family and friends.

By Susan Cox

happens, knowing what to do and being prepared in advance can be a lifesaver.

When Anna Campos That’s extremely important learned a recent if you or someone who lives extended maintenance with you depends on life support equipment at home, outage would leave and/or has a medical condiher and her husband tion involving heat and/or without electricity for cooling needs.

Individuals with special more than eight hours, energy needs due to qualifyshe didn’t panic. ing medical conditions may he Southern Cali- be eligible for assistance fornia Edison cus- through SCE’s Medical Basetomer turned to her line Program.

Enrollees receive an extra backup plan.

16.5 kilowatt hours per day She filled portable oxygen over their standard electrictanks she keeps at home for ity allotment at the lowest her husband Eddie, who has rate available to help offset hypertension and difficulty the cost of the additional breathing at times. Next, she electricity used as a result of checked her “grab and go” their medical equipment or bag filled with emergency esdevice. sentials. Then she headed to They also her mothreceive SCE er-in-law’s September a u t o m a ted where the alerts and Palmdale is National notifications couple kept about mainPreparedness cool until tenance outtheir power Month and SCE ages, extendwas reed outages, stored. encourages emergencies “ Y o u and schedMedical Baseline have to aluled changes. ways be customers to “It’s really prepared. important to No surbe prepared for us to help our prises. We most vulnerdisasters and don’t want able customto be suremergencies. ers and our prised with Medical Basea phone call line Program telling us we’re turning off is just one of the ways we can your electricity because of do that,” said Kari Gardner, a power outage today,” said SCE senior manager of ConAnna, whose husband is ensumer Affairs. rolled in SCE’s Medical Base“It provides extra energy line Program. “You never per day at a lower rate and know what could happen. lets us know there is a fragile I keep my bag handy by the situation in the home so we door so I can grab and go.” can send alerts and notificaSeptember is National tions to our residents.”

Preparedness Month which To enroll in the Medical encourages and reminds evBaseline Program, a licensed eryone to be prepared should physician or a physician’s an emergency or disaster assistant must certify a resistrike.

Each week, preparedness dent has a qualifying medical themes are planned and “A condition. For additional inNational Day of Action” is formation, call 800-447-6620 or print out and complete a scheduled for Sept. 15.

When the unexpected Medical Baseline Program application.

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The specific funding for the program has now ended, but the collaboration has not.

Both LASD and the feds are working on a 5-year strategic plan to continue the momentum.

Two FBI agents remain embedded in Compton Station and two Compton gang deputies, certified by the FBI, remain in the unit as well.

So instead of mourning a program that is no longer similarly funded, Councilwoman

Zurita remains hopeful for more peaceful days still, with pride in the role her community has already played.

“We have the lowest crime that we’ve ever had in the city of Compton, and you have to contribute it to all these agencies being in the city and working together. It was a commitment to the City of Compton. We are now a model city for the VRN (Violence Reduction Network) partnership program here in the United States.”

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BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

NEWS First Two Human West Nile Virus Deaths of 2018 Confirmed SACRAMENTO–The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced today two confirmed deaths in California due to West Nile virus (WNV). The deceased persons were residents of Glenn county and Yuba county. “We are still in a peak period of West Nile virus transmission in the state so we urge everyone to take every possible precaution to protect themselves against mosquito bites,” said CDPH Director and State Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith.

As of September 7, CDPH has reported 56 human cases of WNV from 21 California counties this year. Additionally, 422 dead birds from 18 counties have tested positive for WNV in 2018, and 1,606 mosquito samples from 28 counties have also tested positive for WNV this year. some individuals – less than one percent – can deCDPH recommends that individuals protect lents should not be used on children under two West Nile virus is influenced by many fac- velop serious neurologic illnesses such as encepha- against mosquito bites and WNV by practicing months of age. tors, including 2. DAWN climate, the AND DUSK West Nile virus is transmitted to humans and animals by the bite of an infected mosquito. number and – Mosquitoes types of birds that transmit and mosquitoes in an area, and the level of litis or meningitis. the “Three Ds”: West Nile Virus usually bite in the early mornWNV immunity in birds. West Nile virus is People 60 years of age and older and individu1. DEET – Apply insect repellent contain- ing and evening so it is important to wear proptransmitted to humans and animals by the als with diabetes or hypertension have a higher ing DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus or er clothing and repellent if outside during these bite of an infected mosquito. The risk of seri- chance of getting sick, and are more likely to de- IR3535 according to label instructions. Repellents times. Make sure your doors and windows have ous illness to most people is low. However, velop complications. keep the mosquitoes from biting you. Insect repel- tight-fitting screens to keep out mosquitoes.

Brown Sets Ambitious Carbon, Clean Energy Goals by 2045, Signing de Leon Bill LOS ANGELES (CNS)—Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday authored by a Los Angeles legislator that sets a 100 percent clean electricity goal for the state, and also issued an executive order establishing a new target to achieve carbon neutrality -- both by 2045.

Senate Bill 100, authored by Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, pledges that California will obtain 100 percent of its power from clean sources by 2045, including wind, solar and hydropower.

“In California, Democrats and Republicans know climate change is real, it’s affecting our lives right now, and unless we take action immediately -- it may become irreversible,” de Leon said. “Today, with Governor Brown’s support, California sent a message to the rest of the world that we are taking the future into our own hands; refusing to be the victims of its uncertainty. Transitioning to an entirely carbon-free energy grid will create good-paying jobs, ensure our children breathe cleaner air and mitigate the devastating impacts of climate change on our communities and economy.”

The governor’s executive order, meanwhile, directs the state to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 and net negative greenhouse gas emissions after that. The move comes after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in June set a goal for the

Inglewood and Baldwin Hills Selected for Air Monitoring of Communities’ Oil Fields LOS ANGELES—Two Los Angeles cardiovascular disease, and in some cases, The board said the communities are communities were among four selected cancer, but limited information exists on diverse in size and population, reflectFriday by the California Air Resources how oil and gas extraction facilities affect ing many other oil and gas communities Board for a new program to monitor air air quality in neighboring communities. around the state, and the study involves a quality near oil and gas extraction facili“Many Californians live in communi3-4 month monitoring campaign in each ties. ties near oil and gas facilities, but we know area including air monitoring trailer inBoth the Inglewood Oil Field in Baldvery little about the impact of these facilistallation and community meetings. win Hills and the Las Cienegas Oil Field ties on their neighbors’ health,” said Chair “CARB recently adopted more strinin South Los gent regulaAngeles will tions requiring be involved in enhanced inthe Study of spection of oil Neighborhood and gas operaAir near Petrotions including leum Sources pump jacks.

(SNAPS) proThe rules re—Mary D. Nichols, CA Air Resources Board gram, and will quire the use host mobile air of technolomonitoring units to identify and measure Mary D. Nichols. “We need up-to-date gies including chemical sniffers to better pollutants of concern over several months information to assess whether existing pinpoint and repair any leaks that are to help inform efforts to protect public standards and regulations are effective, identified,” Executive Officer Richard W. health from environmental hazards, the and to lay the groundwork for any needed Corey said. board said. improvements.”

“The SNAPS program will compleThe board also said that it is well The Lost Hills Oil Field, the McKitment the regulation to better ensure oil known that short and long-term exposure trick Oil Field and the Midway- Sunset and gas operations that impact nearby to air pollutants can contribute to negaOil Field in Kern County also were selectcommunities are identified and adtive health outcomes, including asthma, ed for the program. dressed.”

“Many Californians live in communities near oil and gas facilities, but we know very little about the impact of these facilities on their neighbors’ health.”

“Climate change is real, it’s affecting our lives right now, and unless we take action immediately— it may become irreversible.”

—Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) city to be carbon neutral by 2050.

Brown’s office said the order gives California the most ambitious carbon neutrality commitment of any major economic jurisdiction in the world.

“This bill and the executive order put California on a path to meet the goals of Paris and beyond. It will not be easy. It will not be immediate. But it must be done,” Brown said.

The legislation was met with strong resistance from utility and oil companies, arguing it would lead to higher electricity prices for consumers while failing to make a major dent in greenhouse gas emissions. Opponents argued that electricity power plants are responsible for a small percentage of such emissions, particularly in comparison to the percentage emitted by cars and trucks.

Harold P. Wimmer, National President and CEO of the American Lung Association, applauds the bill. “Climate change and poor air quality are threats to public health in California. Air pollution contributes to asthma attacks and lung cancer, hospitalizations and even early death. Right now, 90 percent of Californians live in areas that experience poor air quality at some point during the year.”

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BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

OPED There is A Black Wave Sweeping Across the State of Florida

By Roger Caldwell

sion of cash from billionaires Tom Steyer, George Soros and a super PAC. Many political experts and pundits The fight for the soul of the Demowill admit that their polls were wrong, cratic Party starts with the unificawhen they discuss which Democratic can- tion, mobilization, and organization didate would win the Florida governor’s of the base. Gillum is a bold powerful primary election. When a candidate like voice for change, and the question is, Jeff Greene comes into a campaign and “Will the Florida Democratic Party spends $34 million, and Philip Levine get behind this progressive candidate spends $28 million, you must begin to ask 150%?” the question, “Is politics a game only rich With Gillum being 39, it is very men play?” easy for the older DemoTallahassee crats to say they want fresh Gillum is a bold ideas, but the test is for Mayor Andrew Gillum, a Black man them to support a young powerful voice saw the Florida priprogressive Black man. All mary election from for change, and across the state diversity is a different lens and winning and more womthe question is, surprised everyone en, African Americans, with a historic vicHispanics are winning “Will the Florida and tory. Black men and their primary race. Now women don’t like to that these candidates are Democratic talk about the spewinning, “Is the Florida Party get behind Democratic Party all in?” cial sauce, which is given to them from the four most powthis progressive erfulInpositions their ancestors, but in the state, the mayor’s gift was candidate 150%?” two African Americans on display in the won, one woman won, and election. During the one white man won. This race, Gillum was invisible, his campaign is unprecedented, and I am willing to started with very little money, and many guess that many African Americans pundits expected him to drop out of the don’t know that Sean Shaw running primary. for Attorney General is a Black man, Many will suggest that the mayor’s and they don’t know his story and the oratorical skills reminded Florida Demo- significance of his father’s legacy in crats of President Obama’s speeches, but the state, and to the Black community. still many thought his campaign was not Ex-Senator Jeremy Ring is runvery significant. Historically, Democratic ning for Chief Financial Officer. He primaries were about only older voters is a tech pioneer, and helped establish and women, but in 2018 the younger vot- “The Florida Growth Fund,” which ers stood up and showed out. invest in homegrown Florida compaFrom the very beginning of this race, nies. Nikki Fried is a lawyer and will the Gillum camp knew that three middle be the second women to hold the title of the road Democrats would split the of Commissioner of Agriculture in base vote, and a progressive and diverse Florida, if she wins. She is a propocandidate could pull off an upset. When nent of legalizing medical marijuana, Jeff Greene entered the race late, he im- improving public schools, fighting for proved Gillum’s chances to win the pri- children, seniors, and the quality of mary, by splitting up the wealthy older life for everyone.

Jewish Democratic vote even more. GilThe candidates running for the lum’s campaign stayed under the radar, four most powerful positions in the but he kept his eye on the prize. state are progressive, innovative, diMany political experts are now saying verse and care about all Floridians. that the young vote in Florida from age 18 There is a Black wave sweeping to 30 increased after the Parkland High across Florida and the nation and it school shooting by over sixty percent this starts with the Collective Super PAC. year, after registering new voters. Early in The Collective PAC is focused on inthe election Gillum did college tours and creasing the number of African Amercontinued to utilize progressive young or- icans in public offices at all levels. This ganizations to get the vote out. The final super PAC has helped 18 candidates 12 weeks is when Gillum made his move win in primary and general elections, after millions were donated by organiza- and they have assisted Andrew Gillum tions, celebrities, Senator Bernie Sanders and Sean Shaw in winning their pricampaigning with Gillum, and an infu- mary elections.

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum saw the Florida primary election from a different lens and surprised everyone with a historic victory.

GOV. BROWN NEEDS TO RIGHT THE WRONG OF MAKING COPS UNTOUCHABLE Courtesy The Sacramento Bee

under the California Peace Officers Bill of Rights. This allows onths away from bad officers to move around the ending his govstate, from department to department, without the public We still don’t know much about the Sacramento police officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark in ernorship, Jerbeing the wiser. his grandparents’ backyard in March. Nor do we know much about the Sacramento County sheriff’s ry Brown still This surely doesn’t talk isn’t what Brown deputies involved in the deadly shooting of Mikel McIntyre in Rancho Cordova last May. much about his intended.

He legacy. But it’s should set his clear that he cares about it, back sentencing enhancements during his first term as gov- rect access to it. misconduct by cops who testify legacy straight by righting this particularly when it comes to that can add years of prison ernor, it was Brown out there It was Brown, in the final in court is often kept hidden clear wrong, and sign SB 1421. stumping for Proposition 57, months of his first term in the persuading voters to make it 1970s, who created the foundaeasier for nonviolent offenders tion for this excessive secrecy to earn parole and to dismantle and the state’s powerful law enyet another piece of the tough- forcement lobby has expanded on-crime system of mass incar- and protected it ever since. ceration and over-policing that At the time, the goal was to he helped build. stop defense attorneys from go"You create a problem you ing on fishing expeditions for figure out how to solve it,’’ he evidence in an officer’s personsaid in 2016. "If politicians nel file to prove a client’s claim would do that we’d be in a lot of self-defense. better place.’’

But this isn’t this 1970s.

We agree. That’s why the This is the era of smart phones governor should again take his and social media, and of officers own advice and solve another being caught on video shooting problem by signing Senate Bill unarmed people of color.

1421.

With district attorneys The legislation, which who are either unable or repassed the Assembly last week luctant to file charges in these and is authored by Sen. Nancy situations, the California Skinner, D-Berkeley, would Peace Officers Bill of Rights force law enforcement agen- has morphed into a shield for cies to release the details of bad cops to avoid both public use-of-force investigations, scrutiny and consequences as well as personnel records for their actions. of cops who commit crimes For example, we still don’t while on duty. know much about the SacCurrently, all of this in- ramento police officers who formation—in addition to fatally shot Stephon Clark in disciplinary records, annual his grandparents’ backyard in appraisals and details on pro- March. motions—is confidential unNor do we know much der the legislative straitjacket about the Sacramento County Stephon Clark, pictured above and in the photo on the right with known as the California Peace sheriff’s deputies involved in family, was shot and killed on the evening of March 18, by two ofOfficers Bill of Rights. the deadly shooting of Mikel ficers of the Sacramento Police Department in Sacramento, CA.

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criminal justice reform in California.

In recent years, he has signed a number of bills to roll

time for people with criminal histories. And four decades after signing strict, mandatory sentencing standards into law

Only a judge can release such information as part of a criminal case or lawsuit. And not even prosecutors have di-

McIntyre in Rancho Cordova last May. And an investigation by The Los Angeles Times found that

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BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

OPED We Must Stop Destroying our Children

By Marian Wright Edelman

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues—the most dominating virtues of human society—are created, strengthened and maintained.”

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oseph Miles is 51 years old, but says he spends a lot of time today thinking about this quote by Winston Churchill because it helps him understand everything that was missing in his own childhood. Joseph is currently incarcerated and serving a life sentence.

He is a regular participant and leader in SALT: Schools for Alternative Learning and Transformation, a participatory educational community inside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee. Many SALT classes include students from local universities coming into the prison to learn alongside students who are residents of Riverbend. Rev. Janet Wolf, a Children’s Defense Fund organizer, is one of SALT’s founders.

In a recent workshop Joseph joined others in discussing the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research which tracks the impact children’s stressful and traumatic experiences can have on their adult health and opportunity including future violence victimization and perpetration.

These experiences are an important public health issue, too often ignored. Many incarcerated students spoke about how difficult it is for any studies to fully capture the trauma and terror that defined many of their childhoods.

And as importantly, what if the right resources had been available to help them then? Several shared their stories. This is Joseph’s.

Joseph’s father left his mother while she was pregnant with him, claiming the baby wasn’t his. As he says, “It is my belief that my daddy’s disloyalty to their marriage left my mother broken and blaming me for ruining their marriage. Over time, I believe she developed a hatred for me.” His father alternated between refusing to see him at all and taunting him: “He would trick me by talking nice to me, and once I went to him with that little boy smile on my face, he would say to me ‘you little ugly mother***, get away from me, I ain’t your goddamn daddy,’ and he would continue that verbal assault until I was standing there crying and shaking in fear. Just imagine this big man with this strong voice yelling those words down on the little friable boy . . . The only time my mother ever hit me was when I cried after my daddy or for something he had promised me and did not do, and that was every time he picked up [Joseph’s older siblings] and left me standing there crying. Eventually, to hear my daddy’s voice

would start my little body to shaking with fear.”

As a child Joseph tried hard to stay on his best behavior because he thought that might make both parents finally love him. But he says everything changed on Christmas Eve, 1980, when he was 13. “My daddy had never given me anything but a hard time, and a promise that I knew he would not keep. Nevertheless, he was promising to buy me a bike for Christmas, a bike that I wanted very much . . . My mother told me to stop talking about that damn bike because he was not going to get it, but I was so excited about it because he had bought my sister a bike, and I could not stop talking or thinking about my bike, or wait for Christmas Day. I needed to see my bike before I went to sleep.” Joseph went to his father’s house to try to peek at the gift he was so sure was waiting – but there was no bike, just his

6 inches round at the bottom and it got smaller as you moved up to the top of it; it was shaped like a baseball bat. (How do I remember it so well? That night is forever etched in my mind) . . . Now, one would have thought this is where my mother would have consoled me as her child, but she attacked me as if I were her enemy.

“Momma said, ‘Didn’t I tell you to shut your mother*** mouth?’ Before her words ended, she had hit me twice with that club. I crawled to the corner of the bed, and put my arm up to block the blow and she beat it down. I lay on that bed with my head taking every blow. ‘Pop, pop, pop’ was the sound the club made inside my skull as it struck my head. My sister stood in the door yelling for my mother to stop. The club continued striking my head, ‘pop, pop, pop, pop . . .’ My eyes locked with my sister’s eyes, and whatever

Those words cut through my little heart unmercifully, paralyzing me with fear; I stood there shaking with tears streaming down my face. drunk, enraged father.

“He woke up and saw me through eyes red as fire and his voice was louder than I had ever heard it before and his words were terrifying as he called me all kinds of little ugly nappy head mother***. Those words cut through my little heart unmercifully, paralyzing me with fear; I stood there shaking with tears streaming down my face. He got up off the bed, took me by my arm, walked me to the front door, opened it, and pushed me out of his house.”

Then Joseph’s mother found him walking home distraught. “I got in the back seat of the car and momma said to me, ‘Shut your mother*** mouth!’ I tried my best to stop crying but I could not. We got home and she told me to go to the back room and shut the door . . . My mother had a club that she carried around in her pocketbook.

It was approximately 13 inches long and about

she saw in me caused her to let out a loud piercing scream, and she grabbed the club from my mother’s hand.”

He says: “I realize now that all of my mother’s rage toward me came out in that room that night, and if my sister had not followed my mother down that hall to that room that night, there is not a doubt in my mind that my mother would have beaten me to death. That beating left me traumatized and afraid of my mother, and determined to never again be anyone’s victim.”

In an instant Joseph’s response to a lifetime of rejection and abuse switched from that of a child desperate to please to a young man determined to harden and protect himself at all costs.

It was a life-altering moment – and one that put him on a destructive path for the next 15 years that ended with his incarceration and life sentence at age 28. That was 23 years ago.

Joseph looks again now at Winston Churchill’s words: “That statement helped me to understand why there was so much trouble in my life as a child. Moral excellence was not taught in the house I was raised in . . . As a child [I was] beaten by my mother and bullied by my daddy for no other reason than loving my daddy. My parents’ actions left me deeply scarred in my heart. I would carry this pain and suppress it with any and all other adversities that touched my young life. Eventually, that pain would be unleashed on the people in those streets and I would be judged as a bad child, with no one understanding, not even myself understanding that pain that was destroying me from within.

“I wish I could have met the person that coined this phrase: ‘Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.’ I would like to tell him or her how detrimental that phrase became to many children, children who really needed help from people or the person who was bullying them, children who consciously or unconsciously, verbally or silently, to no avail, called on that rhyme as if it had some kind of mystical power that would fend off the verbal assault that was being inflicted upon them. Many children lost their way because of words that were so emotionally damaging and penetrating much deeper than a child understands, and in some cases, those words were directly responsible for children committing suicide, or the taking of human life. Sticks and stones will break your bones; however, words used in a destructive manner have and will continue to destroy lives.”

How many children’s lives are being destroyed right now without attention and help from any caring adult? How many children face teachers who don’t know their students or stop to explore what they may be experiencing and instead focus only on their behavior, leading them to suspend or expel children from the classroom for days or weeks at a time? How many social workers or detention staff who welcome new children in their caseloads have the expertise and take the time to look at experiences that brought children into what we at the Children’s Defense Fund call the Cradle to Prison Pipeline™ and then find them the help they need? How many of us as parents see friends of our children who we sense are hurting but don’t ask why or try to get them help?

We must never give up on any child. It is never too late. Caring and love are always needed.

Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children’s Defense Fund, whose Leave No Child Behind’s mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information, go to www.childrensdefense.org.

Civil Rights and Racial Justice Organizations Oppose Washington NFL Team Relocating to District of Columbia WASHINGTON, DC—Today, nine leading national civil rights and racial justice organizations formally announced their joint opposition to the Washington National Football League (NFL) team locating its new stadium in the District of Columbia unless the team agrees to drop the “R-word” racial slur as its mascot.

The coalition, which previously denounced the team’s continued use of this offensive mascot, felt compelled to speak out now given the team is actively exploring potential stadium sites across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

“In 2018, no other people of color must confront the harm and ridicule levied by a sports team whose name refers to the color of their skin,” Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, stated. “It is long past time that the NFL and its Washington franchise throw this dictionary-defined racial slur into the dustbin of history, where it belongs.”

“The need to recognize and respect the humanity of all of our fellow Americans is more critical than ever to the future of our nation. The prospect that our nation’s capital would once again be adorned with this derogatory term runs counter to that ideal,” said Kathy Ko Chin, President and CEO of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum.

The coalition takes particular exception with various proposals to locate the new stadium on the site of the team’s former home, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Memorial Stadium. That stadium’s namesake was an ardent champion of equality for communities of color, notably this country’s First Americans. Events DC, the city’s official convention and sports authority, is planning a major redevelopment project at the site that will serve “as a place of remembrance and a place of teach-

ing and practicing the civil rights and equality ideals Robert F. Kennedy championed.”

“We applaud Events DC’s decision to honor Robert Kennedy’s legacy of racial justice in this place in this way. The Washington NFL team and its symbol of racial injustice should be no part of it,” said Janet Murguía, President and CEO of UnidosUS. “The R-word is the moral equivalent of the N-word,” said Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League. “It packs the same level of bigotry and insensitivity for Native Americans as any other racial slur. We cannot tolerate the NFL’s continued commitment to normalizing this demeaning characterization of Native Americans. The success of theWashington football franchise does not depend on the name of its team, but rather the talent of its players and leadership. The NFL must abandon its tone-deaf culture as it relates to people of color and change the hurtful name of this team.”

“We thank our racial equity colleagues for locking arms in solidarity with Indian Country as we grow this decades-long movement to eradicate offensive Nativethemed mascots from the sports landscape once and for all. We call on D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council to stand firm in its stated opposition to the team relocating to the District as long as it retains its current name and mascot,” stated Jacqueline Pata, Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians.

“We also welcome other organizations, governments, corporations, sports leagues, and everyday Americans to likewise choose to stand on the right side of history.”

“In “In2018, 2018,no noother otherpeople peopleof ofcolor colormust mustconfront confront the theharm harmand andridicule ridiculelevied leviedby byaasports sportsteam team whose whosename namerefers refersto tothe thecolor colorof oftheir theirskin.” skin.”

—Derrick —DerrickJohnson, Johnson,NAACP NAACP

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HEALTH

No Immediate Ruling in GOP’s Latest ‘Obamacare’ Lawsuit

By Paul Weber

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USTIN, Texas (AP)—The latest push to scrap the Affordable Care Act once and for all pressed ahead Wednesday as Republican-controlled states asked a federal judge to finish what Congress started last year and bring the law that insures 20 million Americans to a halt.

A small group of protesters, some holding signs reading “Save the ACA,” shouted across the street from a Fort Worth, Texas, courthouse where former President Barack Obama’s health care law is again under attack. At issue are core principles of the law, including protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions and limits on how much older customers can be charged.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor made no immediate ruling following a four-hour hearing. Twenty GOP-led states brought the lawsuit, arguing that the entire health care law was rendered unconstitutional after Congress repealed the “individual mandate” that required most Americans to buy insurance or risk a tax penal-

ty. “Texans and other Americans should be free again to make their own health care choices,” said Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading the court challenge.

The case is the most high-profile legal challenge to “Obamacare” under President Donald Trump, whose administration is not defending the law in court. But the Justice Department

The arguments in Texas unfolded as senators in Washington pressed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, whose confirmation could swing the next major challenge to the health care law. Kavanaugh issued a 2011 opinion that some conservatives viewed as favorable to the individual mandate, but Democrats worry he will provide a key vote on the court against the law.

“The Republican-backed lawsuit that seeks to take away protections from people with pre-existing conditions makes the stakes as high as could be.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) doesn’t want an immediate injunction suspending enforcement of the law, even as Republicans press for one.

Justice Department attorney Brett Shumate told the judge that any immediate injunction could create “a potential for chaos,” The Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The Trump administration sitting out the case has left defense of the law up to Democratic state attorneys general. On Capitol Hill, Democrats sought to tie the Texas case into the fight over whether Kavanaugh should serve on the Supreme Court.

“The Republican-backed lawsuit that seeks to take away protections from people with pre-

existing conditions makes the stakes as high as could be,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said at a news conference.

The law has proved largely durable so far— both in previous challenges that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and in a failed GOP effort to repeal it during Trump’s first year in office.

But the collation of GOP-controlled states saw a new opening when Congress removed the individual mandate as part of a tax overhaul last year. Paxton has said that without the tax penalty, there is no “remaining legitimate basis for the law.”

William Sage, a professor of law and medicine at the University of Texas at Austin, called it a “swing for the fences lawsuit” that appeared thinner than previous challenges.

Nathan Cortez, a law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said it’s not clear whether this challenge is different from other attempts to strike down the law that have failed.

“All it takes is for a district court judge and then an appellate panel to find some validity in the argument for it to get up to the Supreme Court,” he added.

SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH How You Can Recognize One in Need and Help To Find Your Local Crises Center, visit

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/our-network/#section-1 As provided by Suicide Prevention Lifeline Ask How – Asking the question “Are you thinking about suicide?” communicates that you’re open to speaking about suicide in a non-judgmental and supportive way. Asking in this direct, unbiased manner, can open the door for effective dialogue about their emotional pain and can allow everyone involved to see what next steps need to be taken. Other questions you can ask include, “How do you hurt?” and “How can I help?” Do not ever promise to keep their thoughts of suicide a secret.

The flip side of the “Ask” step is to “Listen.” Make sure

you take their answers seriously and not to ignore them, especially if they indicate they are experiencing thoughts of suicide. Listening to their reasons for being in such emotional pain, as well as listening for any potential reasons they want to continue to stay alive, are both incredibly important when they are telling you what’s going on. Help them focus on their reasons for living and avoid trying to impose your reasons for them to stay alive.

Why – Studies show that asking at-risk individuals if they are suicidal does not increase suicides or suicidal thoughts. In fact, studies suggest the opposite: findings sug-

gest acknowledging and talking about suicide may in fact reduce rather than increase suicidal ideation.

Keep Them Safe How – First of all, it’s good for everyone to be on the same page.

After the “Ask” step, and you’ve determined suicide is indeed being talked about, it’s important to find out a few things to establish immediate safety. Have they already done anything to try to kill themselves before talking with you? Does the person experiencing thoughts of suicide know how they would kill themselves? Do they have a specific, detailed plan?

What’s the timing for their plan?

What sort of access to do they have to their planned method?

Why – Knowing the answers to each of these questions can tell us a lot about the imminence and severity of danger the person is in.

For instance, the more steps and pieces of a plan that are in place, the higher their severity of risk and their capability to enact their plan might be. Or if they have immediate access to a firearm and are very serious about attempting suicide, then extra steps (like calling the authorities or driving them to an emergency department) might be necessary. The Lifeline can always act as a resource during these moments as well if you aren’t entirely sure what to do next.

Be There How – This could mean being physically present for someone, speaking with them on the phone when you can, or any other way that shows support for the person at risk. An important aspect of this step is to make sure you

follow through with the ways in which you say you’ll be able to support the person – do not commit to anything you are not willing or able to accomplish. If you are unable to be physically present with someone with thoughts of suicide, talk with them to develop some ideas for others who might be able to help as well (again, only others who are willing, able, and appropriate to be there).

Listening is again very important during this step – find out what and who they believe will be the most effective sources of help.

Why – Being there for someone with thoughts of suicide is life-saving. Increasing someone’s connectedness to others and limiting their isolation (both in the short and long-term) has shown to be a protective factor against suicide. Thomas Joiner’s Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide highlights connectedness as one of its main components – specifically, a low sense of belonging. When someone experiences this state, paired with perceived burdonsomeness (arguably tied to “con-

nectedness” through isolating behaviors and lack of a sense of purpose) and acquired capability (a lowered fear of death and habituated experiences of violence), their risk can become severely elevated.

Help Them Connect How – Helping someone with thoughts of suicide connect with ongoing supports (like the Lifeline, 800-2738255) can help them establish a safety net for those moments they find themselves in a crisis.

Additional components of a safety net might be connecting them with supports and resources in their communities.

Explore some of these possible supports with them – are they currently seeing a mental health professional? Have they in the past? Is this an option for them currently? Are there other mental health resources in the community that can effectively help?

One way to start helping them find ways to connect is to work with them to develop a safety plan. This can include ways for them identify if they start to experience significant, severe thoughts of suicide

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NEWS Obama in Campaign Mode, Back to Promoting Hope Over Fear

By Elliot Spagat

ANAHEIM (AP)— Former President Barack Obama said Saturday that November midterm elections would give Americans “a chance to restore some sanity in our politics,” taking another swipe at his successor as he raises his profile campaigning for fellow Democrats to regain control of the House.

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bama didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name during a 20-minute speech in the key Southern California battleground of Orange County but the allusions were clear.

“We’re in a challenging moment because, when you look at the arc of American history, there’s always been a push and pull between those who want to go forward and those who want to look back, between those who want to divide and those are seeking to bring people together, between those who promote the politics of hope and those who exploit the politics of fear,” he said.

His appearance—one day after a strongly worded critique of Trump at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—touched on themes of retirement security, climate change and education.

“If we don’t step up, things can get worse,” the former president told the audience at the Anaheim Convention Center. “In two months, we have the chance to restore some sanity to our politics. We have the chance to flip the House of Representatives and make sure there are real checks and balances in Washington.”

Obama gave shout-outs to seven Democratic candidates in competitive House districts across California that are considered crucial to the party’s efforts to oust Republicans from control. Four of those districts are at least partly in Orange County, a formerly reliable GOP bastion that went for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presi-

dential election.

“We’re going to put on our marching shoes, we’re going to start knocking on some doors, we’re going to start making

fornia, have climbed to 25 percent.

Democrats, hoping to build on their 39-14 advantage in the state’s congressional del-

description.

In Orange County, GOP Rep. Mimi Walters faces a challenge from Katie Porter, a law professor at University of Cali-

Orange County.

Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, whose district encompasses part of Orange County, is fending off a chal-

“We’re going to put on our marching shoes, we’re going to start knocking on some doors, we’re going to start making some calls.”

—Former President Barack Obama’ some calls,” he said to cheers.

Clinton trounced Trump by more than 4 million votes in California in 2016 and carried Orange County by 9 percentage points. A surge in immigrants has transformed California and its voting patterns. The number of Hispanics, Blacks and Asians combined has outnumbered whites in the state since 1998. Meanwhile, new voters, largely Latinos and Asians, lean Democratic.

In Orange County, Republicans held a 13-point edge in voter registration 10 years ago but that has shrunk to 3 points while independents, who tend to vote like Democrats in Cali-

egation, are eyeing Republican seats in districts that Clinton won in 2016. Each of the seven candidates that Obama campaigned for on Saturday fit that

fornia at Irvine. Environmental lawyer Mike Levin is seeking an open seat to replace retiring GOP Rep. Darrell Issa in a district that includes part of

lenge from Democratic real estate investor Harley Rouda to secure a 16th term in Congress despite barely winning 30 percent of the primary vote. In the

other Orange County race, Gil Cisneros, a Democratic philanthropist and Navy veteran, is vying for an open seat created by retiring Republican Ed Royce.

Obama also highlighted two races in the state’s Central Valley, praising venture capitalist Josh Harder in his bid to unseat four-term Republican Jeff Denham, and T.J. Cox, who is challenging David Valadao in a district where Democrats hold a 17-point advantage in voter registration.

He also made a plug for nonprofit executive Katie Hill in her Los Angeles-area race to unseat sophomore Republican Steve Knight, who won an underwhelming 53 percent of the vote in 2016.

California Republicans said Obama’s appearance would have little impact and may even help their party.

“I wish he would come more often because he reminds Republicans of eight years of misery,” said Republican National Committeeman Shawn Steel, who lives in Orange County. “It reminds the Republicans why these midterms are important.”

Vice President Mike Pence says it’s disappointing that Obama is back on the campaign trail criticizing Trump.

Says Pence: “The truth is, the American people in 2016 rejected the policy and direction of Barack Obama when they elected President Donald Trump.” Pence comments came in a taped interview set to air on “Fox News Sunday.”

Fox released an excerpt on Saturday.

Obama is expected to deliver a similar message in Cleveland on Thursday, when he campaigns on behalf of Richard Cordray, the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor, and other Democrats.

Boston City Council Member Ayanna Pressley Becomes the Latest Young Candidate to Win Big

Suicide Prevention continued from page 6

along with what to do in those crisis moments.

A safety plan can also include a list of individuals to contact when a crisis occurs. The My3 app is a safety planning and crisis intervention app that can help develop these supports and is stored conveniently on your smartphone for quick access.

Why – Impact of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline found that individuals that called the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline were significantly more likely to feel less depressed, less suicidal, less overwhelmed, and more hopeful by the end of calls handled by Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training-trained counselors. These improvements were linked to ASIST-related counselor interventions, including listening without judgment, exploring reasons for living and creating a network of support.

Follow Up How – After your initial contact with a person experiencing thoughts of suicide, and after you’ve connected them with the immediate support systems they need, make sure to follow-up with them to see how they’re doing. Leave a message, send a text, or give them a call. The follow-up step is a great time to check in with them to see if there is more you are capable of helping with or if there are things you’ve said you would do and haven’t yet had the chance to get done for the person.

Why – This type of contact can continue to increase their feelings of connectedness and share your ongoing support. There is evidence that even a simple form of reaching out, like sending a caring postcard, can potentially reduce their risk for suicide.

By Lauren Victoria Burke

Pressley’s victory is one in a growing line of stunning upsets by progressive candidates this primary season. Many political observers are citing polls indicating Democrats will flip many House seats in their favor on November 6th.

Pressley’s victory follows stunning wins

of Donald Trump. Polls show that the congressional generic ballot is +15 points in One week following a stunning politifavor of the Democrats. Those types of poll cal victory coming out of Florida with Talresults are sending a great deal of concern lahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum’s unforethrough Republican ranks — and the conseen win in the Democratic gubernatorial tinuing surprise victories of Democrats of primary, a political surprise arrived out of diverse backgrounds are causing even furBoston. ther concern.

At-large Bos- Pressley’s victory follows stunning wins by progressives Pressley was ton City Council not endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York), Jahana Hayes the Congressional member, Ayanna Pressley, 44, has Black Caucus PAC. in Connecticut and Ilhan Omar’s in Minnesota. stunned politiHer opponent, cal prognosticaRep. Capuano, retors and defeated longtime Congressman by progressives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ceived notable support from civil rights Mike Capuano in the Democratic primary (over long time Congressman Joe Cowley legend Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) during his for Massachusetts’ 7th congressional dis- in New York), Jahana Hayes in Connecti- campaign. trict. Congressman Capuano, who is well cut (replacing retiring Congresswoman Rep. Capuano is known as a popular regarded by colleagues, has been in Con- Elizabeth Etsy) and Ilhan Omar’s primary progressive who championed many of the gress for twenty years. victory in Minnesota’s 5th congressional causes CBC members support.

In less than sixty days, Pressley is to district, to fill the seat left open by Rep. At a time when pushback against the become the first Black U.S. Representa- Keith Ellison leaving Congress who is run- Trump administration’s divisive policies tive ever elected to Congress from Massa- ning for Minnesota Attorney General. towards minorities and immigrants have chusetts. The seat she will be representing, Today’s progressive wave first appeared been featured, Pressley’s vigorous camMassachusetts’ 7th district, was once held in Virginia in 2017 but is now widely re- paign captured the imagination of the naby John F. Kennedy. garded as a backlash against the presidency tion’s current political climate.

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NEWS Poll: Teens Say Social Media Makes Them Feel Better NEW YORK (AP)—Today’s teens are constantly on their smartphones, many check social media “constantly” and prefer texting over face-to-face communication.

But a new poll finds that these same teens also say that social media has a positive effect on their lives, helping them feel more confident, less lonely and less depressed.

The poll was released by Common Sense Media, a San Francisco-based nonprofit group focused on kids’ use of media and technology. It found that 89 percent of teenagers have their own smartphone.

But while 2012’s teens were all over Facebook, the age group’s presence on the social network has plummeted in the past six years. Only 15 percent of teens now say Facebook is their main social network. In 2012, 68 percent did.

Today, 44 percent of teens say their primary social network is Snapchat, making it the most popular social media app, followed

by Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) at 22 percent.

Among the survey’s other findings: • The majority of teens—59 percent— said social media makes no difference in how depressed they feel. Twenty-nine percent, meanwhile, said it makes them feel less depressed and 11 percent said it makes them more depressed. Thirty-nine percent said it makes them feel less lonely and 13 percent, more lonely.

• Thirty-five percent of teens said texting is their favorite way to communicate with friends, compared with 33 percent in 2012.

Only 32 percent said talking in person is their preferred method of communication, down from 49 percent among 2012 teens.

• Almost three-quarters of teens said they believe that tech companies manipulate people into spending more time on their devices and more than half said using social media often distracts them from homework.

STATEPOINT CROSSWORD

Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles Emerges From Bankruptcy, Inglewood Location Survives

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OS ANGELES—The parent company of several Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles restaurants emerged from bankruptcy this week when a Los Angeles judge confirmed a modified confirmation plan to repay creditors, it was announced last Thursday.

No further substantive court hearings are anticipated in the case.

East Coast Foods Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2016.

The filing came months after the company was ordered to pay $3.2 million to a former employee who won a wrongful termination

and discrimination lawsuit against the soul food chain.

In filings with U.S. Bankruptcy Court, East Coast Foods estimated that it had debts between $10 million and $50 million with assets of less than $50,000.

A 363-page plan filed earlier this year outlined the restaurant chain’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy.

There are seven Roscoe’s locations in the Southland -- in Hollywood, Long Beach, Pasadena, West Los Angeles, Inglewood, Los Angeles and Anaheim. Plans to open a San Diego branch were put on hold last year.

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ACROSS 1. Rodeo garb 6. Prefix for prior 9. a.k.a. leaf cabbage 13. Conversation starter 14. "____ the land of the free ..."

15. Drunks 16. Tree in Latin 17. Exec's degree 18. Full of emotion, in slang 19. *Meeting at Appomattox Court House 21. *Major Civil War issue 23. Sun in Mexico 24. Recover 25. *It was split during the Civil War 28. ____book 30. Be in the right place 35. Botticelli's Venus, e.g.

37. Soccer ____, pl.

39. Excessive sternness 40. Orthodox artwork 41. Homeless cat's home 43. Presented at customs 44. Galactic path 46. Desperate 47. Like never-losing Steven 48. Vital 50. Grannies 52. "C'____ la vie!"

53. "At ____, soldier" 55. Casual attire 57. *Spielberg's 2012 movie 61. *"American Nightingale" 64. Remote in manner

65. Between Fla. and Miss.

67. IRS' threat 69. Middle Eastern rice dish 70. Hi-____ graphics 71. Part of a whole 72. ____ Mall, in London 73. Cry of horror in comics 74. Ruhr's industrial center DOWN 1. Repeated Cuban dance step 2. Flavor-giving plant 3. "Fantastic Four" star 4. Land chunks 5. Somewhat 6. Fleshy fruit 7. *Johnny's other nickname 8. Clear the chalkboard 9. Chicken ____ 10. Initial stake 11. Displeasure on one's face 12. Grammy of sports 15. Melville's "Pequod," e.g.

20. "Is Your Mama a ____?"

22. Dr. Frankenstein's workplace 24. Bottom of a dress 25. *Divided, it cannot stand 26. Sugar in Paris 27. PDF reader 29. *"____ Mountain," Charles Frazier's novel 31. Like SNL 32. Nose of a missile 33. Olfactory organs 34. *General and post-Civil

War President 36. Children's author ____ Blyton 38. "Will be" in Doris Day song 42. Busybody, in Yiddish 45. Start a hole 49. Indian restaurant staple 51. Colorful Mexican wrap 54. Animal catcher 56. Lady's pocketbooks 57. Nordic native 58. Pelvic parts 59. Steelers's Chuck 60. *___ Torpedo, used by Confederacy against steam engines 61. Lounge, like in the sun 62. Words from Wordsworth 63. French Riviera city 66. *Commander of the Confederate States Army 68. Base of the decimal system

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

“I grew up at a predomi- radio and television personal- smart, very talented and absonately Caucasian school and ity Donnie Simpson said. “Nia lutely stunning. I’m so proud.” there was only five percent mi- Franklin represented New Another popular radio nority, and I felt out of show host, Michael Lyle, place so much because Jr., also couldn’t contain “Growing up, I found my his joy for Franklin. of the color of my skin,” Franklin said.

“Huge congratulalove of arts, and through tions.

“But growing up, I Well-deserved found my love of arts, music that helped me to and another reason why and through music that Black Girls Rock,” Lyle helped me to feel posi- feel positive about myself said. tive about myself and Dr. Benjamin F. and about who I was.” about who I was.”

Chavis, Jr., the presiHer win set Twitter dent and CEO of the —Nia Franklin and all of social media National Newspaper ablaze.

Publishers Associa“Congratulations to our York and won the crown last tion – the trade organization new Miss America,” famed night. She’s obviously very that represents 220 African American-owned newspapers across the country – said Franklin’s win is just another statement on the outstanding achievements of Black women today.

“The NNPA Congratulates 2018 Miss America, Nia Franklin. The genius, intelligence, beauty and spirit of Black women impact and transform the world,” Chavis tweeted.

Franklin, who plans to advocate for the arts during her tenure as Miss America, told reporters that she was also happy that the swimsuit competition – which had been part of the overall contest throughout its 92-year history – had been discontinued.

“I’m happy I didn’t have to wear a swimsuit,” she said.

“I’m more than just that.”

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NEWS Good for Business? Nike Gets Political with Kaepernick Ad

By Mae Anderson NEW YORK (AP)—Why do it?

Nike has touched off a furor by wading into football’s national anthem debate with an ad featuring Colin Kaepernick, the former 49ers quarterback who was the first athlete to kneel during “The Star-Spangled Banner” to protest police brutality against Blacks and hasn’t played a game since 2016.

The ad copy reads: “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”

The ad, part of Nike’s 30th anniversary “Just Do it” campaign, has outraged many. Online, people threatened boycotts and posted videos and photos of shoes set on fire, Nike gear thrown in the trash, and swoosh logos cut out of products.

Most big corporations steer clear of politics, and marketing experts disagreed Tuesday over whether the Kaepernick campaign is good business.

But some noted approvingly that it made a big splash and set Nike apart. And they said it could solidify Nike’s bond with athletes, especially Black ones, an important consideration for a company that relies heavily on sports stars to endorse its products.

Brian Gordon, CEO of Engine Shop, a sports and entertainment marketing agency, said the ad is provocative but “authentic to who they are and the communities they represent and speak to,” including the athletes.

“Even in the face of potential backlash, they support their athlete partners, and that’s an in“They’re credibly powstatefocused on erful ment to the athlete comwhat they munity,” Gorstand for, don said.

Other athand if that letes in the upsets some c a m p a i g n include tenusers, so be nis star Serena Williams, it.”

New York Giants wide —Allen receiver Odell Adamson, Beckham Jr. and Shaquem Marketer Griffin, a linebacker whose left hand was amputated when he was 4. But the Kaepernick ad struck a nerve, timed just before the NFL season kicks off on Thursday.

Nike did not return a request for comment about its strategy. Its stock closed down more than 3 percent Tuesday.

Neil Saunders, managing director of the data and analytics firm GlobalData, called the Kaepernick strategy “commercially imprudent.”

“Nike’s campaign will generate both attention and discussion which is, arguably, one of its central aims,” he said. “However, it is also a risky strategy in that it addresses, and appears to take sides on, a highly politicized issue. This means it could ultimately alienate and lose customers, which is not the purpose of a marketing campaign.”

But other experts think the strength of Nike’s brand will help it weather the storm and perhaps benefit from it, too. Nike is one of the world’s largest sports apparel companies, with $34.5 billion in revenue last year.

“What you stand for is almost as important as what you make,” said Allen Adamson, co-founder of marketing firm Metaforce. “It’s a polarized marketplace. No matter what you do, you offend some people. They’re focused on what they stand for, and if that upsets some users, so be it.”

Robert Passikoff, founder of marketing consultancy Brand Keys, said an ad like Nike’s will divide people, but the outrage won’t last.

“My guess is that the audience that is reacting so badly to this aren’t buying a lot of Nikes anyway,” he said.

“They’ll move on to the next thing.

Welcome to the 21st century.”

Nike, based in Beaverton, Oregon, has made waves before. An ad for the company’s sport hijab went viral in 2017. And a 2010 commercial featuring a voiceover by Tiger Woods’ late father when the golfer was trying to recover from a sex scandal drew mixed reviews.

In August, Nike made news when the French Open banned Williams’ Nike-branded black catsuit. Nike re-

sponded by posting an image of her on social media with the line “You can take the superhero out of her costume,

but you can never take away her super-

powers.”

Brands run the

risk of a backlash in taking a political stand in their advertising.

Starbucks was mocked in 2015 for trying to start a discussion about race by writing the slogan “Race Together” on its cups. Pepsi

ended up pulling a commercial that showed Kendall Jenner giving a Pepsi to a police officer; some said the ad trivialized the “Black Lives Matter” protests.

John Sweeney, sports communication professor at the University of North Carolina, said the Kaepernick ad was created to provoke people, and in that respect, it succeeded.

“You may have a negative reaction or a positive reaction, but you have a reaction,” he said. “They wanted something that would stop the presses and stop people in their places.”

For some, the ad has made them bigger fans of the brand.

“I think what Nike did was a tremendous step in fighting against the people who misunderstand the protests by Kaep and players,” said Seth Buchwalter, of Portland, Oregon, a lifelong Nike customer.

But Wesley Callaway, of Omaha, Nebraska, said he doesn’t agree with kneeling during the national anthem and thinks it is unfortunate Nike is featuring Kaepernick, though he said he doesn’t buy many Nike products and won’t make any changes in his shopping habits.

“I don’t mind them protesting brutality,” he said. “I just wish they wouldn’t do it during the anthem.”

Massive Boom Hopes to Corral Pacific Ocean’s Plastic Trash

By Olga R. Rodriguez

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.

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he 2,000-foot (600-meter) long floating boom was being towed from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—an island of trash twice the size of Texas.

The system was created

by The Ocean Cleanup, an organization founded by Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old innovator from the Netherlands who first became passionate about cleaning the oceans when he went scuba diving at age 16 in the Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish.

“The plastic is really persistent and it doesn’t go away by itself and the time to act is now,” Slat said, adding that researchers with his organization found plastic going back to the 1960s and 1970s bobbing in the patch.

The buoyant, U-shaped barrier made of plastic and with a tapered 10-foot (3-meter) deep screen, is intended to act like a coastline, trapping some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic

that scientists estimate are swirling in that gyre but allowing marine life to safely swim beneath it.

Fitted with solar power lights, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas, the cleanup system will communicate its position at all times, allowing a support vessel to fish out the collected plastic every few months and transport it to dry land where it will be recycled, said Slat.

Shipping containers filled with the fishing nets, plastic bottles, laundry baskets and other plastic refuse scooped up by the system being deployed Saturday are expected to be back on land within a year, he said.

Slat said he and his team will pay close attention to whether the system works efficiently and withstands harsh ocean conditions, including huge waves. He said he’s most looking forward to a ship loaded with plastic coming back to port.

“We still have to prove the technology... which will then allow us to scale up a

fleet of systems,” he said.

The Ocean Cleanup, which has raised $35 million in donations to fund the project, including from Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel,

“We still have to prove the technology... which will then allow us to scale up a fleet of systems.”

Boyan Slat, 24-yearold innovator will deploy 60 free-floating barriers in the Pacific Ocean by 2020.

“One of our goals is to remove 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years,” Slat said.

The free-floating barriers are made to withstand harsh weather conditions and constant wear and tear.

They will stay in the water for two decades and in that time collect 90 percent of the trash in the patch, he added.

George Leonard, chief scientist of the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, said he’s skeptical Slat can achieve that goal because even if plastic trash can be taken out of the ocean, a lot more is pouring in each year.

“We at the Ocean Conservancy are highly skeptical but we hope it works,” he said. “The ocean needs all the help it can get.”

Leonard said 9 million tons (8 million metric tons) of plastic waste enter the ocean annually and that a solution must include a multipronged approach, including stopping plastic from reaching the ocean and more education so people reduce consumption of single use plastic containers and bottles.

“If you don’t stop plastics from flowing into the ocean, it will be a Sisyphean task,” Leonard said, citing the Greek myth of a task never completed. He added that on

September 15 about 1 million volunteers around the world will collect trash from beaches and waterways as part of the Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanup. Volunteers last year collected about 10,000 tons of plastics worldwide over two hours, he said.

Leonard also raised concerns that marine and wildlife could be entangled by the net that will hang below the surface. He said he hopes Slat’s group is transparent with its data and shares information with the public about what happens with the first deployment.

“He has set a very large and lofty goal and we certainly hope it works but we really are not going to know until it is deployed,” Leonard said.

“We have to wait and see.”

The system will act as a “big boat that stands still in the water” and will have a screen and not a net so that there is nothing for marine life to get entangled with. As an extra precautionary measure, a boat carrying experienced marine biologists will be deployed to make sure the device is not harming wildlife, Slat said.

“I’m the first to acknowledge this has never done before and that it is important to collect plastic on land and close the taps on plastic entering into the ocean, but I also think humanity can do more than one thing at a time to tackle this problem,” Slat said.

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BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

NEWS Galaxy Coach Sigi Schmid Steps Down CARSON—With just six games remaining in the Major League Soccer season and the team fighting for a playoff berth, LA Galaxy head coach Sigi Schmid announced Monday he is stepping down, effective immediately.

“After careful consideration, I have decided to step away from coaching at this time, but would like to remain in the game,” Schmid said in a statement released by the team. “With six games remaining as the bluc fights for a playoff spot, I understand the timing of this decision is unfortunate.”

Schmid said he is confident the team can succeed under assistant coach Dominic Kinnear, who was appointed to the head coaching job on an interim basis.

Schmid has been with the Galaxy since last year. He previously coached the team in the late 1990s and early 2000s, leading the Galaxy to an MLS Cup title in 2002. Schmid is the winningest coach in MLS history, with 266 total wins. He also won an MLS Cup with the Columbus Crew.

LA Galaxy President Chris Klein thanked Schmid for his work with the team, calling him an “integral part” of the team’s success since 1996.

“We respect Sigi’s decision and we will continue to focus on our push for playoffs as we move forward,” Klein said. “Dom is one of the finest coaches in the history of this league, and we trust him to lead this group for the remainder of the season.”

CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS CONTINUE SHIFT FROM MASS INCARCERATION

SACRAMENTO (AP)—The recently completed California legislative session continued a yearslong effort to lower criminal sentences, ease restrictions on suspects, and keep juveniles out of adult prisons despite objections that the moves could harm public safety.

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rom a nation-leading reform measure that eliminates cash bail to restrictions on trying juveniles, a major goal of Democratic lawmakers this year was to limit mass incarceration that supporters say often disproportionately affects women, youth and minorities.

“All these bills are coming to you because it’s time for us to rectify a system that’s been proven to not work, to not rehabilitate adults, and that’s been completely discriminatory” to minorities, said Sen. Ricardo Lara, a Los Angeles-area Democrat.

Lara successfully argued for a bill prohibiting 14- and 15-year-olds from being sent to adult prisons even for crimes like murder, arson and robbery.

The California District Attorneys Association is urging Brown to veto the bill. It could set dangerous killers free at 25 with little opportunity to keep even the most threatening locked up, the group argues.

Prosecuting people younger than 16 in adult court should be rare, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said, but

judges should have that discretion in the most safety,” said Michele Hanisee, president of the serious cases.

Association of Los Angeles Deputy District AtSchubert and other DAs came to Sacramento torneys. The felony murder bill “will result in last week to urge Brown to reject the bill and to the release of murderers, absolutely no question highlight the case of Daniel Marsh, who was 15 about it,” she said, as judges and juries try to sort in 2013 when he murdered and mutilated an el- out who pulled the trigger. derly couple in Davis.

Brown already signed a bill that in October “This was not a crime of passion or juvenile 2019 will end cash bail for suspects awaiting impulse. It was a well-planned and executed trial. Suspects will instead be held or freed based random act of violence,” said Mary Northup, on the likelihood they’ll return to court and the the daughter of one degree of danger they of Marsh’s victims. “It goes too far. It at this point is pose to the public.

“This is the exception California Bail that proves (the bill) nothing short of shocking and Agents Association SB1391 would unlobbyist David Quinan affront to public safety.” leash a violent crimitana said he’s confinal on our society.” that voters will —Michele Hanisee, LA Deputy DA dent Brown, a former support overturning state attorney genthe measure on the eral, hasn’t indicated how he will act.

2020 ballot.

Lawmakers also vastly expanded the num“All these criminal justice bills that have ber of criminal suspects who can be diverted passed in the last couple of years are really havto mental health treatment programs and have ing a cumulative effect on how the public pertheir charges dismissed, but weeks later bowed ceives their safety,” Quintana said. to critics with a revised bill excluding those Yet California voters have generally been charged with murder, rape and other sex crimes. supportive of reform efforts, easing criminal Other bills sent to Brown include restricting penalties for drug and property crimes in 2014 the state’s felony murder rule that holds accom- and allowing earlier parole for inmates in a 2016 plices to the same standard as the person who ballot measure. They’ll weigh in again in 2020 on carried out the killing. an initiative that seeks to roll back portions of Critics say the rule has been disproportion- those two earlier measures. ately used against poor and minority offenders Republican Assemblywomen Melissa Melenas well as youths and women who are more like- dez of Lake Elsinore said lawmakers are favoring ly to be accomplices. criminals over victims as she argued against a “It goes too far. It at this point is noth- bill that would have restricted enhanced sening short of shocking and an affront to public tences for most convicts.

“We have passed quite enough soft-oncrime, pro-criminal bills this year alone,” she said. “Stop race-baiting and talk about the real issue, and maybe for once here someone can talk about the victims.”

Research shows that criminal justice laws indeed disproportionately affect minority populations, said University of California, Irvine, criminologist Keramet Reiter, while several researchers also have found little link between any increase in crime rates and the easing of laws.

State justice officials reported in July that violent crime in California increased 1.5 percent last year compared with 2016 while property crime dropped 2 percent over the same year.

In a rare loss, legislators facing a barrage of law enforcement opposition shelved for the year a scaled-back bill that would have toughened the standard for when police can use deadly force.

Democratic Assemblywoman Shirley Weber of San Diego introduced the legislation shortly after Sacramento police shot and killed an unarmed Black man, 22-year-old Stephon Clark, while searching for someone breaking into vehicles. The killing unleashed angry protests in the capital city.

A coalition including the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, ACLU of California, Anti Police-Terror Project, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice and Youth Justice Coalition L.A. criticized lawmakers for not doing more.

“Every day that goes by without changing the standard for when police can use deadly force, is a day that another person will be unjustly killed in California,” they said.

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BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

LEGAL NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-18-827267-CL Order No.: 7301803787-70 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/20/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): Ernest M. Terrell Recorded: 11/1/2005 as Instrument No. 05 2640136 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California; Date of Sale: 9/20/2018 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, located at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $34,752.10 The purported property address is: 730 S ARANBE AVE, COMPTON, CA 90220-3676 Assessor's Parcel No.: 6161-025-044 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 916-939-0772 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-18827267-CL. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 916-939-0772 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-18-827267-CL IDSPub #0143823 8/29/2018 9/5/2018 9/12/2018 SchId:72368 AdId:24140 CustId:608 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. : 00000006538904 Title Order No.: 170009727 FHA/VA/PMI No.: ATTENTION RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED SUMMARY APPLIES ONLY TO COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR, NOT TO THIS RECORDED ORIGINAL NOTICE. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 10/11/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 10/20/2006 as Instrument No. 06 2332429 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: SAMUEL A. ADELEYE, A MARRIED MAN, AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK/ CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 10/01/2018 TIME OF SALE: 11:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: BY THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED AT 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA, CA 91766. STREET ADDRESS and other common designa-

tion, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 5315 WEST GOLDENWOOD DRIVE, INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90302 APN#: 4102-015031 PARCEL 1: LOTS 31 OF TRACT 29424, IN THE CITY OF INGLEWOOD, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 1005, PAGES 32 THROUGH 35 INCLUSIVE OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY. EXCEPT THEREFROM ALL OIL, GAS, MINERALS, AND OTHER HYDROCARBON SUBSTANCES LYING BELOW THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND, BUT WITH NO RIGHT OF SURFACE ENTRY AS PROVIDED IN DEEDS OF RECORD. PARCEL 2: A NONEXCLUSIVE EASEMENT APPURTENANT TO SUCH LOT FOR INGRESS, EGRESS, ACCESS, USE AND ENJOYMENT TO THE COMMON AREA WITHIN THE PROJECT AS DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIONS RECORDED ON THE PROJECT, TOGETHER WITH ALL IMPROVEMENTS THEREIN. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $783,068.26.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-730-2727 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site www.servicelinkASAP.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000006538904. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: AGENCY SALES and POSTING 714730-2727 www.servicelinkASAP.com BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP as Trustee 20955 Pathfinder Road, Suite 300 Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (866) 795-1852 Dated: 08/23/2018 BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. A-4668257 08/29/2018, 09/05/2018, 09/12/2018 SchId:72578 AdId:24209 CustId:64 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. : 00000007576515 Title Order No.: 180217397 FHA/VA/PMI No.: 1976962628-703 ATTENTION RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED SUMMARY APPLIES ONLY TO COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR, NOT TO THIS RECORDED ORIGINAL NOTICE. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 03/02/2015. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 03/10/2015 as Instrument No. 20150255049 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: SAMUEL OLIVER, AN UNMARRIED MAN, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK/ CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 10/11/2018 TIME OF SALE: 9:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: DOUBLETREE HOTEL LOS ANGELESNORWALK, 13111 SYCAMORE DRIVE, NORWALK, CA 90650. STREET ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 530 WEST POPLAR STREET, COMPTON, CALIFORNIA 90220 APN#: 6151-012-022 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with inter-

est thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $158,401.30.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site www.auction.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000007576515. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: AUCTION.COM, LLC 800-280-2832 www.auction.com BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP as Trustee 20955 Pathfinder Road, Suite 300 Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (866) 795-1852 Dated: 08/28/2018 BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. A-4668543 09/05/2018, 09/12/2018, 09/19/2018 SchId:72645 AdId:24231 CustId:64 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DIANE CECILE NEAL Case No. 18STPB08230 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DIANE CECILE NEAL A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Dionne Neal in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Dionne Neal be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on Oct. 2, 2018 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 29 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: MAX A ALAVI ESQ SBN 272099 MAX ALAVI APC 610 NEWPORT CENTER DR STE 330

NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660 CN953076 NEAL Sep 12,19,26, 2018 SchId:72678 AdId:24242 CustId:65 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Ref. No. 15-1161-Bailey Trustor and Owner/ Taxpayer. BETTYE J. BAILEY, 8733 PENRIDGE PLACE, INGLEWOOD, CA 90305 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN DATED 06/02/2015, UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A Public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state of federal savings and loan association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, an interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien described below.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

The sale will be subject to a ninety (90) day right of redemption by the current owner(s) of record. TRUSTOR: BETTYE J. BAILEY, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: JAMES GEFFNER, A Professional Corporation Recorded 06/09/2015, as Instrument No. 20150674511 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California, Date and Time of Sale: 10/02/2018 at 10:00AM. Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges as of 10/02/2018: $13,911.63. Street address or other common designation of real property: 8733 PENRIDGE PLACE, INGLEWOOD, CA 90305 APN #: 4025-018-232 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Said sale will be made, in an "AS IS" condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Date: 08/22/2018 JAMES GEFFNER, A Professional Corporation 11845 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 1245, Los Angeles, California 90064 (310) 473-0757, JAMES GEFFNER, Trustee For Sales Information Call (916) 939-0772 www.nationwideposting.com NPP0339832 To: INGLEWOOD TRIBUNE Publish Dates: 09/12/2018, 09/19/2018, 09/26/2018 SchId:72742 AdId:24259 CustId:68 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Ref. No. 17-1159-Jackson Trustor and Owner/ Taxpayer. Theodore R. Jackson and Mattie Allen, 3867-A Thorncroft Lane, INGLEWOOD, CA 90305 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN DATED 05/12/2017. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A Public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state of federal savings and loan association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, an interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. The sale will be subject to a ninety (90) day right of redemption by the current owner(s) of record. TRUSTOR: Theodore R. Jackson and Mattie Allen Duly Appointed Trustee: JAMES GEFFNER, A Professional Corporation Recorded 05/30/2017, as Instrument No. 20170591750 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California, Date and Time of Sale: 10/02/2018 at 10:00AM. Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges as of 10/02/2018: $9,961.96. Street address or other common designation of real property: 3867A Thorncroft Lane, INGLEWOOD, CA 90305 APN #: 4025-018-146 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Said

sale will be made, in an "AS IS" condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

Date: 08/21/2018 JAMES GEFFNER, A Professional Corporation 11845 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 1245, Los Angeles, California 90064 (310) 473-0757, JAMES GEFFNER, TRUSTEE For Sales Information Call (916) 939-0772 www. nationwideposting.com NPP0339860 To: INGLEWOOD TRIBUNE Publish Dates: 09/12/2018, 09/19/2018, 09/26/2018 SchId:72749 AdId:24260 CustId:68 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Ref. No. 17-1165-BERRY Trustor and Owner/ Taxpayer, Dawn Berry, 3609 KENSLEY DRIVE, INGLEWOOD, CA 90305 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN DATED 07/03/2017. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A Public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state of federal savings and loan association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, an interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. The sale will be subject to a ninety (90) day right of redemption by the current owner(s) of record. TRUSTOR: Dawn Berry, A single woman Duly Appointed Trustee: JAMES GEFFNER, A Professional Corporation Recorded 07/11/2017, as Instrument No. 20170772517 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California, Date and Time of Sale: 10/02/2018 at 10:00AM. Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges as of 10/02/2018: $8,322.22. Street address or other common designation of real property: 3609 KENSLEY DRIVE, INGLEWOOD, CA 90305 APN #: 4025-018-063 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Said sale will be made, in an "AS IS" condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Delinquent Assessment and Claim of Lien plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

Date: 08/21/2018 JAMES GEFFNER, A Professional Corporation 11845 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 1245, Los Angeles, California 90064 (310) 473-0757, JAMES GEFFNER, TRUSTEE For Sales Information Call (916) 939-0772 www. nationwideposting.com NPP0339861 To: INGLEWOOD TRIBUNE Publish Dates: 09/12/2018, 09/19/2018, 09/26/2018 SchId:72752 AdId:24261 CustId:68 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JEFFREY CLAIR BROOKS Case No. 18STPB06821 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JEFFREY CLAIR BROOKS A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Melvin Terry Fisher in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests

that Melvin Terry Fisher be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on Oct. 1, 2018 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 99 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: KRISTEN C SPEES ESQ SBN 296414 3449 AKALA DR KIHEI HI 96753 CN952109 BROOKS Sep 12,19,26, 2018 SchId:72766 AdId:24266 CustId:65 -----------NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 18-41991-SP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) to the Seller(s) are: T & C OCEAN INC. 855 WEST VICTORIA STREET, #A2, RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA 90220 Doing Business as: POKI YAKI All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s) within three years, as stated by the Seller(s), is/ are: The name(s) and address of the Buyer(s) is/are: JUYEON CHOI 855 WEST VICTORIA STREET, #A2, RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA 90220 The assets to be sold are described in general as: ALL STOCK IN TRADE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, GOODWILL, TRADENAME, LEASE, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, AND COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE and are located at: 855 WEST VICTORIA STREET, #A2, RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA 90220 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: TEAM ESCROW INC, 6025 BEACH BLVD, BUENA PARK, CA 90621 and the anticipated sale date is SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

[If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided.]

The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: TEAM ESCROW INC, 6025 BEACH BLVD, BUENA PARK, CA 90621 and the last day for filing claims shall be SEPTEMBER 27, 2018, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

BUYER: JUYEON CHOI LA2097520 9/12/18

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ENTERTAINMENT John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice Complete ‘Hitting for the Cycle’

By Steven Herbert

LOS ANGELES—Singer John Legend, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Sir Tim Rice Sunday became the 13th, 14th and 15th individuals to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competition by receiving Emmys as executive producers of “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.”

The concert which aired on NBC on Easter night received the Emmy for outstanding live variety special on the final night of the two-night Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater.

Legend, born John Roger Stephens, is the first Black man to win all four of show business’ top awards in competition.

Actress Whoopi Goldberg was the first Black person to do so when she won a Tony in 2002 as a producer of the best musical winner, “Thoroughly Modern Millie.”

Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones and Quincy Jones also have received all four awards, but their Oscars were not in competition.

The 39-year-old Legend is the second-youngest person to complete what “Miami Vice” co-star Philip Michael Thomas coined as an “EGOT” in 1984.

Songwriter Robert Lopez is the youngest. He was one week past his 39th birthday when he won a best original song Oscar in 2014 for “Let It Go” from “Frozen.”

Legend won a best original song Oscar in 2015 for writing “Glory” with the rapper Common for the film “Selma”; received the first of his 10 Grammys in 2006 as best new artist and best rhythm and blues album for “Get Lifted”; and a Tony in 2017 as a co-producer

of “Jitney,” which was honored a lifetime achievement award, for best revival of a play. and four Grammys, including a Legend is also a nominee Grammy Legend Award. Rice for outstanding lead actor in has won five Grammys and a limited series or movie for three Tonys. his portrayal of Jesus in “Jesus The award for “OutstandChrist Superstar Live in Con- ing Original Music and Lyrics” cert.” That went to Chris Legend is the award will Redd, Kenan be presentThompson and first Black man ed Sept. 17 Will Stephen at the 70th who wrote the to win all four of Primetime lyrics and Eli show business’ E m m y Brueggemann Awards, who wrote the top awards in also at the music for “Come Microsoft Back Barack” on competition.

Theater.

NBC’s “Saturday Lloyd Night Live.”

Webber and Rice won a best RuPaul of VH1’s “RuPaul’s original song Oscar in 1997 Drag Race” won for outstandfor “You Must Love Me” from ing host for a reality or reality Evita. Lloyd Webber has won competition program for the six Tonys in competition, plus third consecutive year.

Serena Williams: Umpire Treated Her Differently Than Male Player

By Howard Fendrich

ity and for all kinds of stuff. For me to say ‘thief,’ and for him NEW YORK (AP)—Serena to take a game, it made me feel Williams thought she was treat- like it was a sexist remark. He’s ed more harshly by the chair never taken a game from a man umpire in the U.S. Open final because they said ‘thief,”’ Wilthan a man liams said at would have news con“For me, it blows her been. ference.

Williams “For me, my mind, but I’m was cited by it blows my going to continue mind,” Wilofficial Carlos Ramos liams said. for three code to fight for women.” “But I’m going violations to continue to Serena Williams during her fight for wom6-2, 6-4 loss en.” to Naomi Osaka on Saturday: Earlier, as Williams pleaded for getting coaching signals; for her case on court with tournabreaking her racket, which cost ment referee Brian Earley, callher a point; and for calling the ing the penalties unfair, she chair umpire a thief, which cost said: “Because you’re a woman, her a game. you’re going to take this away “I’ve seen other men call from me?” other umpires several things.

“There’s a lot of men out I’m here fighting for women’s here that have said a lot of rights and for women’s equal- things,” Williams said, “and be-

RAPPER MAC MILLER DEAD AT AGE 26

By Andrew Dalton and Mark Kennedy LOS ANGELES (AP)—Mac Miller, the platinum hip-hop star whose rhymes vacillated from party raps to lyrics about depression and drug use, and earned kudos from the likes of Jay-Z and Chance the Rapper, has died at the age of 26.

His family said in a statement that Miller died Friday but gave no further details. “He was a bright light in this world for his family, friends and fans,” the statement said.

Miller, who also drew headlines for his two-year relationship with singer Ariana Grande that ended earlier this year, apparently died in Los Angeles.

the French tennis federation president said that the black catsuit worn this year by Williams at the French Open would not be allowed at that tournament in the future. During the U.S. Open, a female player, Alize Cornet, was incorrectly admonished by a chair umpire for changing her shirt during a match, which is allowed—and which men do all the time. And the U.S. Tennis Association created a new rule last week that allows for a 10-minute break in

men’s matches when the heat and humidity are too harsh; previously, only women were given that chance for a delay.

“I just feel like the fact that I have to go through this is just an example for the next person that has emotions, and that want to express themselves, and want to be a strong woman. They’re going to be allowed to do that because of today,” Williams said.

“Maybe it didn’t work out for me, but it’s going to work out for the next person.”

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He often alluded to his battles with addiction over the years and worked with Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and Ty Dolla $ign.

Los Angeles police said they responded to a report of a deceased person at a home on the same block where Miller is listed as a resident, and had turned the case over to the coroner’s office. The coroner’s office said it did not have any details it could release.

Police lines were pulled up and a coroner’s van left the culde-sac late Friday afternoon.

About 10 news vans remained.

Another rapper, Pittsburgh Slim, appeared and left flowers in front of Miller’s house.

While Miller didn’t have a hit on Top 40 radio, he had a strong following on streaming networks and even had an album debut at No. 1 on the top 200 albums chart. He often alluded to his battles with addiction over the years and had collaborations with Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and Ty Dolla $ign.

He released his fifth, fulllength album “Swimming” last month, with Variety calling it “a simple, stately, poetic autobiography.” Rolling Stone called it “silky, deep vibe redolent of the L.A. alternative soul scene.”

New Musical Express said it was “his best work in years.”

The album included the song “Come Back to Earth,” with Miller trying to chart his way through tough times: “In my own way, I feel like living some alternate reality/And I was drowning, but now I’m swimming through stressful waters to relief.”

He was due to start a tour at the end of next month that he promised would be special every night. On Thursday he tweeted: “I just wanna go on tour.”

At the news of his death, Chance the Rapper tweeted: “I don’t know what to say Mac Miller took me on my second tour ever. But beyond helping me launch my career he was one of the sweetest guys I ever knew.

Great man. I loved him for real.

I’m completely broken. God bless him.”

J Cole said on Twitter: “This is a message for anybody in this game that’s going through something. If you don’t feel right, if you feel you have a substance problem, if you need a ear to vent to. If you uncomfortable talking to people around you. Please reach out to me.”

cause they are men, that doesn’t happen.” Two-time Australian Open champion and two-time U.S. Open runner-up Victoria Azarenka backed up Williams’ stance, writing on Twitter : “If it was men’s match, this wouldn’t happen like this. It just wouldn’t” There have been a series of recent happenings that illustrate the ways in which tennis does do things differently for men and women.

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