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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016
A night of terror in Orlando
As police uncover
details about the
gunman, club-goers
recount the harrowing
hours in Pulse.
By Joe Mozingo,
David S. Cloud and
Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
THOUSANDS ATTEND a rally in downtown Orlando to honor those killed and wounded in the Pulse nightclub massacre a day earlier.
Trump,
Clinton
diverge
on guns,
security
Inside Pulse nightclub: A timeline of the rampage emerges
4 About 2:30 a.m.: Mateen
Roofed service alley
calls 911. He pledges
allegiance to Islamic State.
Exit
Dressing
room
5 Over the next two hours,
Mateen talks with police.
6 5:05 a.m.: SWAT team
storms the club. A
shootout ensues.
Mateen is killed.
Dressing
room
Women’s
restroom
3 About 2:15 a.m.: Police enter the
Storage
room
Exit
club and exchange fire with
Mateen, who retreats to a
bathroom. A SWAT team is called.
Stage
Exit to patio
Drink prep
Bar
Exit to patio
Fence
Men’s
restroom
Stage
Bar
Dance floor
2 Mateen opens fire. Police
VIP seating
Emergency
exit
For
decades,
the
Calderon name carried
weight.
Ronald
and
Tom
Calderon, along with an older brother, were power brokers and deal makers who
rose up from the small-time
politics of Montebello, their
hometown east of Los Angeles, to hold sway in
Sacramento’s corridors of
power.
Known for a ruthless
style of political hardball
and audacious fundraising,
the brothers were masters of
Exit
Restroom
Gate
Stage
Reception desk
1 2:02 a.m.: Omar Mateen walks to the entrance and starts
shooting. An off-duty police officer working security
exchanges fire with Mateen, who slips into the club uninjured.
Fence
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Shooter was a ‘known wolf’
In two FBI investigations, agents concluded he was not a threat
By Del Quentin Wilber
and Brian Bennett
WASHINGTON — Omar
Mateen was scaring his coworkers.
In the spring of 2013, the
edgy security guard at St.
Lucie County Courthouse in
Florida was boasting of his
family ties to Al Qaeda, the
Sunni extremist group,
while also bragging that he
belonged to Hezbollah, a rival Shiite group.
He hoped to die as a martyr when police raided his
apartment, he told his coworkers.
Alarmed, they called the
FBI, which launched a 10month investigation to determine whether Mateen, a
U.S. citizen born in New
York, really was a terrorist —
Calderon guilty plea is
blow for political family
By Joel Rubin
and Patrick McGreevy
Bar
Patio
Closet
CLEVELAND — The
candidates didn’t take the
requisite timeout from the
presidential campaign trail.
They didn’t announce that
this week was for healing
only. The body count, in fact,
was not even final before the
massacre in Orlando, Fla.,
had become as politically
charged as it was horrific.
The
deadliest
mass
shooting in American history became the launching
point Monday for what was
already expected to be one of
the country’s nastier presidential campaigns, coming
the week that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were
set to turn their attention
entirely to attacking each
other and building their
cases in battleground states.
Instead, the attack forced
them to rewrite planned
speeches and confront the
anxieties set off by yet another gruesome mass murder — and another perpetrator of Islamic faith.
Trump focused relentlessly on immigration as the
root cause of the massacre,
saying that “the only reason
the killer was in America in
the first place was because
[See Candidates, A11]
Seating
said most of the victims
died in the first moments.
By Noah Bierman
and Evan Halper
leverage,
using
others’
wants and weaknesses to
their advantage.
But in recent years whispers about misdeeds and
broken laws erupted into the
open as federal prosecutors
indicted the two Democrats
on a host of bribery and
money laundering charges.
Monday brought a crushing blow to the family dynasty as Ron Calderon, a former state senator, pleaded
guilty to mail fraud, conceding he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes
from undercover FBI agents
and a corrupt hospital executive.
The announcement of
the plea agreement came on
the heels of a guilty plea last
week by Tom Calderon, a
former state assemblyman,
to a charge of money laundering that stemmed from
allegations he helped conceal the bribes his brother
solicited.
The plea deals mean the
brothers will avoid a trial
that had been scheduled to
begin next month and was
expected to feature a who’s
who of state lawmakers, including Senate leader Kevin
de León (D-Los Angeles),
who testified before a grand
jury in the case and whom
prosecutors planned to call
[See Calderon, A7]
or might become one.
Between May 2013 and
March 2014, the FBI sent an
undercover informant who
secretly recorded Mateen,
conducted surveillance of
his movements and scrutinized his communications,
FBI officials said Monday.
They even interviewed him
twice.
At the end, the agents
concluded that Mateen was
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not a threat and had broken
no laws. He was full of bluster, they decided, and angry
about being teased and, in
his view, discriminated
against by his colleagues.
His name was removed
from the terrorist watch list
maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, a
database that serves as a
clearinghouse for federal
[See FBI, A11]
ORLANDO, Fla. — In
less than six seconds, 17
shots reverberated through
the Pulse nightclub.
Amanda Alvear, a 25year-old pharmacy assistant, was taking a selfie video
on Snapchat. She had lost
180 pounds over two years
and loved to show off her new
figure, loved to dance. She
felt safe to be herself in gay
and lesbian clubs like Pulse.
The video shows her crew
dancing around her against
a backdrop of purple and
blue lights. She holds a drink
and smiles.
As the first bang rings
out, sharp and metallic, Alvear squints, as if trying to
figure out what made the
noise. Her eyes scan the
room, blinking, becoming
more fearful. “Shooting,” she
says. The 17 shots are heard
before the video stops, just
as she appears to move
away.
She and 48 other people
would not survive the night.
In the wake of the worst
mass shooting in modern
U.S. history, investigators on
Monday were trying to
understand how three terror-filled hours unfolded after Omar Mateen, a gymbulked, 29-year-old security
guard and onetime wannabe
cop, entered the popular gay
nightclub and gunned down
dozens of patrons and staff
before taking hostages. Substantial questions remain
about how many of the injured were stranded without
treatment in the lengthy
standoff, and whether Mateen knew any of his victims.
At least four regular customers said they had seen
Mateen at the club before,
and one said he had communicated periodically over the
last year with Mateen on a
gay chat and dating app,
Jack’d. Whether the visits
and exchanges were motivated by his sexual orientation or were ruses to target
victims is unclear.
FBI agents scrambled
Monday to recover data
from Mateen’s electronic
media
—
cellphones,
computers and other devices — looking to find clues
into what sparked the massacre, according to current
and former FBI officials.
One U.S. law enforce[See Night, A9]
An outpouring
of love and grief
Loved ones remember
the shooting victims,
who came from all over
the country, as charming
and kind. NATION, A8
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Microsoft bets
on business with
LinkedIn purchase
By Tracey Lien
When newly appointed
Chief
Executive
Satya
Nadella spelled out his vision for Microsoft in 2014, he
pledged to revive a stagnant
technology giant that had
been eclipsed by more nimble and more mobile companies.
To do that, he said, “we
must rediscover our soul —
our unique core.”
So where is the unique
core of the $392-billion company
that
brought
computers into the home
and made Windows the default operating system for
nearly two decades? The
workplace, apparently.
With Monday’s $26.2-billion acquisition of professional
networking
site
LinkedIn Corp. — a deal that
marks one of the biggest
purchases in the history of
the technology industry and
the biggest ever for Microsoft — Nadella further
pinned the company’s future
to business software.
It
brings
together
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and “the world’s leading pro[See Microsoft, A14]
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Lone survivor of Yarnell Hill blaze is criticized for book, movie deal
By Nigel Duara
PHOENIX — Brendan McDonough
survived one of the deadliest wildfires
in U.S. history, an inferno near Yarnell,
Ariz., that killed 19 of his fellow Granite
Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
For the next year, he went to
memorials, gave speeches and raised
money for wildland firefighting. But
the constant reminders of the fire wore
on him. He was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder and had to
stop making so many public appearances.
“I kept reliving it, kept reliving it,
kept reliving it,” McDonough said.
Citing his PTSD, he twice canceled
depositions scheduled by the Arizona
Division of Forestry, which was investigating the fire and negotiating settlements with the families of the dead.
Arizonans were infuriated, then,
when it was announced that McDonough would write a book about his life
and the ordeal, and advise on a movie,
“Granite Mountain,” which is set to
begin filming this summer.
In an interview with The Times,
McDonough spoke about the controversy.
How many times did the Arizona
Division of Forestry ask to depose
you, and what happened each time?
The first time they came at me, they
just said, “Come on down for lunch and
let’s talk.” I told someone and he said,
“Hell no. Even if you have nothing to
hide, they’ll twist your words.” So he
put me in touch with an attorney. The
attorney said, “I’m not free for some
time.”
The [Arizona Division of Forestry]
scheduled the day he said he might be
free. So there was no time to prep, and
he said no.
The second time, I was talking to
my counselor, and I was just getting
into some real heavy [stuff], really
getting into the nitty-gritty of what
makes my stress, my anxiety, my
PTSD tick. She’s like, “There’s no way
you’re doing it right now. They can
come back to us in six months or a
year. If they want to do it then, we’ll do
it then.”
While this is going on, everyone in
the media is saying, “Brendan is hiding, he’s lying, he won’t testify, yada
yada yada, he’s deceitful. He’s still
writing a book, but he’s going to write
something in the book he doesn’t want
to testify about.”
We set up a third deposition. I
wanted to shut these people up. I was
ready to testify.
The [Arizona Division of Forestry]
canceled it the night before, like 8, 9
o’clock. More information had come
out that showed [the 19 dead firefighters] didn’t make the mistakes they
were accused of. I think that’s
why [the Arizona Division of Forestry]
canceled it.
(State records show that the deposition had been scheduled for late May
2015. The state reached a settlement
with the families of the deceased firefighters on June 1, 2015.)
I’m not scared of them; I don’t fear
them. The worst they can do is come to
my house and put a bullet in my head.
These are the people who were
supposed to take care of us. I don’t feel
taken care of.
So why not make a bigger deal about
this, hold a news conference or something of that nature? Do you care
about what the public thinks outside
of the small area where you live?
Nigel Duara Los Angeles Times
BRENDAN McDONOUGH survived an inferno near Yarnell, Ariz., that
killed 19 of his fellow Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013.
No, I do care. I want to be mindful of
how I’m perceived.
I’m trying not to go out in the media
and say they did this to me and they
did that to me. But they tried making it
about me when there were 200 other
people who should have been looked
at, people [at the Arizona Division of
Forestry] who could have made better
choices.
You’re recognized near your home in
Prescott, Ariz., and at firefighter
memorials. It’s a weird kind of celebrity, isn’t it?
I’ve learned to just talk and listen,
listen to people’s grief. That’s what I’m
famous for. I’m not famous for being an
Olympic gold medalist. I’m not famous
for inventing the cure for cancer or
anything like that. I’m famous for
losing my brothers.
Do you find people using the tragedy
for their own benefit?
It’s one thing to continue to honor
men. But there’s other people, a very
few people, taking advantage of what it
is, taking grief and trauma that’s not
their own. They’ve attached them-
selves, leeched on to my brothers’
legacy.
They’ll say, “Oh, my car just turned
over to 119,000 miles,” or “Oh, I just saw
19 doves fly by.” How the [expletive]
can you count 19 doves?
I had a lady, she came to one of my
book signings. She was telling me the
story of how she got pulled over for
speeding. She had a memorial shirt
on. She played it off like she didn’t use
it for her advantage, but she did. She
didn’t get a ticket. I’ve never done
that.
Since reliving the tragedy is difficult,
how do you balance the outreach
you’re doing with your own mental
health?
[Well-wishers] want to talk. They
want to say, “I’m so sorry for your loss.”
People don’t understand, that’s me
reliving it. But I’m not going to tell
them, “Don’t talk to me.”
When I was first in therapy, I didn’t
know that it was OK to still be alive.
But I have a purpose in life. I can’t let
those feelings take over.
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Islamic State hunts for gay men
Sunni extremist group
uses obscure writings
to try to justify its
brutal executions.
By Nabih Bulos
BEIRUT — The camera
lingers on the jihadists suspending the man by his legs
over the edge of the building.
Blindfolded,
his
hands
bound behind his back, he
flails as he falls to his death,
the video switching to slow
motion as an Islamic chant,
known as a nasheed, plays in
the background.
The clip, from a 2015 video
celebrating the anniversary
of Islamic State’s takeover of
the Iraqi city of Mosul, is one
of dozens of photo reports
and videos depicting the fate
of those accused by the militant group of “committing
the act of [sodomy]”: being
thrown from “a tall height,”
usually a building. Those
who survive have stones
hurled at them by crowds
waiting below.
In the almost two years
since Islamic State declared
its self-styled caliphate in
parts of Iraq and Syria, it has
carried out amputations,
whipping and crucifixions to
punish those who violate its
strict reading of sharia, or Islamic law. But for gay people
living in Islamic State-held
areas, Sunday’s “lone wolf ”
attack in Orlando, Fla.,
served as a bitter reminder
of the systematic targeting
they face under the group’s
regime of terror, where their
sexuality is a death sentence
— one often carried out with
the tacit approval of the
community around them.
“Since December 2014,
the group has bragged that
it has killed at least 41
individuals for what it calls
sodomy,” said Jessica Stern,
executive director of OutRight Action International,
an advocacy group.
“Clearly the 41 deaths are
just the tip of the iceberg,
and when we talk to our
friends in Iraq and Syria
they tell us of many other
deaths that [Islamic State]
didn’t claim public responsibility for,” she added.
Islamic State maintains
a veneer of legality, backing
its persecution of gay people
with arguments derived
from the group’s interpretation of Islamic texts.
In February, the group
outlined its legal argument
for its crackdown on what it
described as “sexual deviance” in its English-language magazine, Dabiq. The
article is a jeremiad against
the “West’s sexual revolution,” which “plunged it into
a downward spiral of sexual
deviance and immorality”
where “disease is rampant.”
“In the midst of this widespread affront to the fitrah
(natural human disposition),” the article rails, “the
Islamic State continues its
efforts against these deeds
of misguidance — which
Western ‘Civilization’ regards as a part of their
‘values’ — by implementing
the rulings of Allah on those
who practice any form of
sexual deviancy or transgression.”
The body of the article is
peppered with quotes from
both the Koran as well as
sayings attributed to the
prophet Muhammad to derive “rulings … that will protect the Muslims from treading the same rotten course
that the West has chosen to
pursue.”
The Koran discusses the
issue of homosexuality in its
retelling of the story of Sodom and Lot. In Arabic, the
word “loti” is a derogatory
term for homosexual. The
Koran says both men who
engage in homosexual acts
are to be punished, but it
does not specify how, and
says the death penalty can
be waived if they repent.
For its signature punishment, Islamic State instead
relies on literature from the
Hadith, a lesser-known compendium of the prophet’s
words, said Islamic State expert Aymenn Jawad alTamimi, a research fellow at
the Middle East Forum. The
book was “very obscure until
Islamic State started publicizing it.”
“This is the way Islamic
State justifies itself foremost
to its supporters, by presenting a theology meticulously backed by source ma-
terial so as to impress them,”
concluded Tamimi in a social media interview.
This approach, observers
say, is central to the image
Islamic State hopes to
create for itself as the protector of Muslims throughout
the world, which serves as a
powerful recruiting tool.
Armed with these rulings, Islamic State hunts for
gay men in its midst, apprehending people and rifling
through their phones for
simply walking or speaking
in a way that would arouse
suspicion, said Subhi Nahas,
a Syrian who escaped from
Idlib after it was taken over
by the Al Qaeda affiliate Al
Nusra Front.
He now resides in San
Francisco, where he has become an advocate of LGBT
rights for refugees.
Since Nahas left, he has
learned from others that Islamic State’s tactics have
gotten uglier. The group now
stalks websites that are
popular with gay Arab men.
Some people have been
betrayed by other gay people in the community who,
fearing for their safety, hope
to avoid detection by giving
up others while pretending
to support Islamic State.
But the jihadists can also
rely on support for their
cause from Muslim communities where intolerance of
homosexuality is mainstream. “There is no acceptance of [homosexuality],
people aren’t even willing to
talk about it,” said Nahas,
who even feared his father
would hand him over to the
militants. “I always had
trouble with my father because of my orientation, so I
thought he would do it to get
rid of me,” Nahas said.
“These atrocious acts exist on a continuum of violence,” said Stern. “I think
it’s really important to
underscore that there is vi-
olence by families, killing
campaigns by militias ... and
there was indifference by
governments even before
the rise of ISIS, with not a
single
murderer
being
prosecuted.”
Although
there
are
bright spots, including a
thriving LGBT community
in Lebanon and one in Jordan that is somewhat tolerated, many countries across
the Arab and Islamic world
sentence people to death or
subject them to lashings.
The Orlando attack has
also spurred some to challenge those around them to
acknowledge prejudice.
On Sunday, Murad Zagal, a resident of Jordan who
volunteers with a group promoting HIV awareness, expressed his anger on Facebook. “Please don’t lecture
me about Islam’s ‘true’ image that you think is being
mutilated by terrorists who
‘don’t represent true Islam.’
Instead just show me,” he
wrote. “The majority of Muslims are homophobic, there,
I said it. Until that changes
your claims of true Islam are
delusional
and
hypocritical.”
Bulos is a special
correspondent.
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IRAQI GOVERNMENT forces and elite counter-terrorism fighters patrol the outskirts of south Fallouja’s Shuhada neighborhood during
a military operation, backed by air support from the U.S.-led coalition, to regain control of the area from Islamic State.
Militant group suffers setbacks
Islamic State is losing
territory and doesn’t
have sufficient
personnel, U.S. says.
By W.J. Hennigan
and Brian Bennett
WASHINGTON — The
mass shooting in Florida
comes as Islamic State
forces are stretched thin,
under financial strain and
losing
ground
near
strongholds in Iraq, Syria
and Libya, U.S. officials say.
A multi-pronged U.S.
strategy has killed thousands of Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq,
trimmed their ability to
smuggle oil and move supplies, and steadily chipped
away at the group’s self-declared caliphate in both
countries.
“The noose is tightening,” CIA Director John
Brennan said in an interview
Sunday with the Saudiowned Al Arabiya news
channel.
“They still maintain quite
a bit of capability to carry
out attacks in [Iraq and Syria] as well as beyond, so this
is going to be a long, hard
fight,” Brennan said.
As the slaughter of 49 patrons at a gay nightclub in
Orlando, Fla., early Sunday
made clear, the Obama administration is battling a
multi-front war against Islamic State, with more
American casualties on the
home front than overseas.
“Everybody is focused on
the destruction of the caliphate,” said Christopher
Harmer, a former Pentagon
strategist now at the Institute for the Study of War, a
nonpartisan public policy
group in Washington. “But
the more daunting task will
be combating their ideology
to inspire attacks, which is a
virtually impossible problem to solve.”
No evidence indicates
that the Orlando gunman,
New York-born Omar Mateen, had contact with or
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FORCES LOYAL to Libya’s U.N.-backed unity government wait on Friday at the entrance of Surt in the
effort to recapture the city from Islamic State fighters. Militia fighters have reportedly taken over Surt’s port.
support from Islamic State
or any other terrorist group,
officials said Monday. He
professed allegiance to the
leader of Islamic State in a
911 call during the shooting.
He later died in a shootout
with police.
Mateen’s self-radicalization, apparently from extremist websites and other
online material, is part of a
trend that has confounded
the Obama administration.
“Even as we hit their leadership, even as we go after
their infrastructure … one of
the biggest challenges we
are going to have is this kind
of propaganda and perversions of Islam that you see
generated on the Internet,”
President Obama said Monday at the White House.
The U.S. military portrays the domestic attacks,
in part, as a sign of the growing pressure it is putting on
Islamic State in Syria and
Iraq.
“We know they continue
to look for opportunities to
make spectacular, headline
grabbing attacks, in part to
make up for their losses on
the battlefield in both Iraq
and Syria,” Col. Christopher
Garver, spokesman for the
U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad, wrote in an email.
But the evidence is
scanty. Islamic State has
urged followers since 2014,
when it was at its peak, to
carry out attacks in America, Europe and elsewhere.
Nothing suggests that
Mateen, or the couple who
gunned down 14 people in
San Bernardino in December, or the 18-year-old who
stabbed four people at UC
Merced last fall, did so to
avenge
Islamic
State’s
battlefield setbacks.
Although the militants
remain entrenched in cities
and towns, by any measure
the group’s losses are substantial and growing.
Iraqi military forces, tribal fighters and Shiite Muslim
militias are attempting to recapture Fallouja, an Islamic
State stronghold west of
Baghdad. Backed by more
than 80 coalition airstrikes
in the last month, the offensive has moved slowly closer
to the city.
At the same time, Islamic
State has ramped up a
deadly series of suicide
bombings in Baghdad in an
apparent attempt to rekindle sectarian strife between
Sunnis and Shiites, and to
destabilize the government.
In Syria, rebel forces
backed by coalition warplanes and about 300 U.S.
advisors have encircled the
border city of Manbij in an effort to cut the militants’ ability to move supplies or personnel in and out of Turkey.
An estimated 3,500 fighters, mostly from Arab
militias, are seeking to close
the so-called Manbij Pocket,
a 60-mile stretch of the border that long served as a
conduit for the militants.
The
terrorists
who
carried out deadly attacks in
Paris and Brussels since November had traveled from
Raqqah, Islamic State’s selfdeclared capital in Syria, up
to Manbij “and then out to
the capitals where they
organized their attacks,”
Brett McGurk, Obama’s envoy to the U.S.-led coalition,
told reporters Friday at the
White House.
“So we have to work with
forces on the ground to close
out this area,” he said.
In Libya, militias aligned
with the fledgling United
Nations-backed unity government have retaken parts
of Surt, which has been an
Islamic State stronghold. In
recent days, the militias reportedly took over the port
area and began advancing
on the city center.
“What we see now is that
they are also being pressured by various militia
groups, and the armies that
have been brought to bear
against them,” Brennan
said. “These efforts take
time.”
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Japan cracks down
on coerced sex in
the porn industry
By Jake Adelstein
and Mari Yamamoto
TOKYO — Japan’s pornography industry has come
under greater scrutiny after
Tokyo Metropolitan Police
arrested executives of a wellknown talent agency on suspicion of coercing an actress
to engage in sex on camera.
Human rights groups had
been calling for action for
months.
Police announced Monday that they had arrested
the president of Marks
Japan and two others on
suspicion that they forced a
woman into appearing in
adult films by threatening to
punish her financially. They
also threatened to force her
parents to pay for “contract
violations” if necessary, police said.
The woman, described as
being in her 20s, reportedly
signed with the company in
2009 as a fashion model and
was forced to have sex on
camera in more than 100 videos before being able to cancel her contract in 2014, according to police.
The three men arrested,
including the company
president, Takashi Kozasu,
were charged with breaking
laws that regulate temporary employment agencies
— specifically, rules that prevent the agencies from sending workers into assignments that violate public
morals. The assignment
that led to the charges was a
film shoot in September
2013.
In March, the Tokyo-
based advocacy group Human Rights Now issued a
report charging that Japan’s
pornography
industry,
which is reputed to take in
$4.4 billion annually, violated
the human rights of women
and girls by blackmailing
them and coercing them
into work they didn’t want
to do.
Shihoko Fujiwara, the
founder of another group,
the nonprofit Lighthouse:
Center for Human Trafficking Victims, said that in the
last year her group had received more than 100 complaints regarding forced
participation in porn — and
that the industry uses tactics similar to those of human traffickers.
Ten percent of these
complaints were from young
men. Japan has a shortage of
men in the adult film industry, with an estimated 70
men and several thousand
women.
“Victims are talked into
signing a fashion-modeling
contract,” Fujiwara said.
“When they turn up on set
they are informed that it is a
porn shoot. They beg to quit
or go home but are
threatened to be charged
millions of yen for penalties
for contract violations and
often end up giving in. The
results are life devastating.”
Marks Japan did not respond to queries about its
practices or the charges.
Adelstein and Yamamoto
are special correspondents.
Special correspondent
Louis Krauss contributed to
this report.
FOR THE RECORD
TV review: In the June 13
Calendar section, a review of
the TV series “BrainDead”
said Ronald Reagan has not
been president since January 1988. He was president
until January 1989.
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California section, a chart
listing facts about Oregon’s
aid-in-dying law gave “46” as
the median time between a
patient’s first request for a
lethal medication and his or
her death. It should have
said 46 days.
Loving Day: In the June 13
California section, an article
with reader stories about
their multiracial families
said the anniversary of the
Supreme Court’s Loving vs.
Virginia decision, which
struck down a ban on
interracial marriage, was
this weekend. Because of a
production error, the time
element was incorrect. The
anniversary was June 12.
Electoral map: In the June
9 Section A, a map showing
battleground states in the
race to win 270 electoral
votes for the presidency
listed North Carolina as having six. North Carolina has15
electoral votes.
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June 13 California section, a
column about legislating
boxing was accompanied by
a photo whose caption
misidentified Sugar Ray
Robinson’s opponent in a
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OSCAR PISTORIUS’ mental condition has deteriorated sharply, a psychologist testified at a sentencing
hearing in South Africa. Pistorius suffers from depression and should be in a hospital, the psychologist said.
Pistorius is a ‘broken
man,’ psychologist says
Athlete should not be
sent back to prison for
his girlfriend’s murder,
the defense argues.
By Robyn Dixon
JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa — Oscar Pistorius is a depressed, “broken
man” who shouldn’t go back
to prison for the murder of
his girlfriend, a psychologist
told Pretoria’s High Court
on Monday at a sentencing
hearing for the South
African athlete.
Jonathan Scholtz, appearing for the defense, said
the athlete told him he had
overheard the sound of a
young inmate being raped in
prison, and later found out
the victim killed himself. He
had seen the inmate’s body
hanging from his doorway.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel,
who is seeking a sentence of
at least 15 years, told the
court that the incident never
happened.
Pistorius spent a year in
the hospital wing of a Pretoria prison after being convicted of culpable homicide,
South Africa’s term for a
reckless but unintentional
killing, for shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp,
through the toilet cubicle
door in his bathroom in 2013.
Sentenced to five years, he
was released in October and
ordered to spend the remaining four years under
house arrest at his uncle’s
mansion.
But the verdict was overturned last year and the athlete was convicted of murder. The trial prosecution
and defense were sparring in
court Monday on the first
day of a sentencing hearing
that is expected to last five
days.
Scholtz argued that Pistorius’ psychological condition
had
deteriorated
sharply since 2014. He said
the athlete was suffering
from worsened depression,
anxiety,
post-traumatic
stress disorder and agoraphobia, a condition that
can include a fear of enclosed spaces. Instead of being sent back to prison, he
should be in a hospital, the
psychologist testified.
He added that Pistorius
wasn’t psychologically fit to
testify at the hearing, but
that he was remorseful and
expressed guilt about taking
Steenkamp’s life.
“Unfortunately, I feel his
condition has worsened.
He’s almost given up. One
has to prompt him to get
some semblance of hope for
the future,” said Scholtz,
adding that Pistorius was
forgetful, would not remember things he had just said,
and fell asleep during his
interviews with the athlete.
Nel countered that Pistorius had never expressed an
appreciation of the fact that
he had committed murder,
not culpable homicide.
“It can never be true re-
morse. It’s feeling sorry for
himself,” Nel said.
He questioned why it was
too stressful for Pistorius to
testify in court, when he had
recently appeared on a television network making comments about the trial.
Pistorius testified that he
opened fire in the belief an
intruder was in the bathroom. The appeals court
found that Pistorius must
have known that firing four
high-powered bullets would
kill anyone in the cubicle and
he was therefore guilty of
murder.
Pistorius won global admiration as the first double
amputee to compete in the
2012 Olympic Games in London.
“His fall from grace was
enormous. Although he received support from many
quarters, he was vilified by
many,” Scholtz said.
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Pakistan closes border crossing
with Afghanistan after clashes
Installation of a fence
by the Islamabad
government sparks a
heavy exchange of
fire, killing one guard.
By Zulfiqar Ali
PESHAWAR, Pakistan —
Pakistan closed its main
border crossing with Afghanistan and imposed a de
facto curfew Monday after
overnight clashes, including
an exchange of gunfire, between the countries’ border
security forces.
One Afghan guard was
killed and 22 people were
wounded, officials said.
Residents of the border
town of Landi Kotal in Pakistan said that after the security forces exchanged heavy
fire, the local administration
warned them early Monday
to remain indoors.
Pakistani
authorities
also closed the immigration
and customs offices at
Torkham, the main border
crossing, and sent in
reinforcements of paramilitary forces.
The clashes began Sunday evening when Pakistani
officials began installing a
security fence about 30 yards
inside their territory. The
fence is part of increased security measures that Pakistan says will better regulate
the movement of people between the countries and
curb infiltration by militants
and criminals.
Gen. Zarawar Zahid, police chief of Nangarhar, Afghanistan, said one Afghan
security officer was killed
and six were wounded, the
Associated Press reported.
He said Pakistani forces
opened fire after the
Afghans asked them to
stop working on the fence,
which he claimed is located
on no man’s land.
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AN AFGHAN border policeman takes position after security forces traded gun-
fire with Pakistani counterparts. Pakistan deployed paramilitary reinforcements.
Afghanistan does not
recognize
the
present
boundary, the so-called Durand Line, as an international border, and has denounced Pakistan’s plans to
erect a fence at the crossing.
The Afghan government
has called on Pakistan to
ease some border controls to
facilitate the movement of
refugees. Pakistan hosts
about 1.5 million documented Afghan refugees in
addition to more than 1 million who do not have legal
status.
Pakistani officials said
they had informed Afghan
border police of the fence
installation in advance. A
statement from the Pakistani military accused Afghanistan of “unprovoked
firing” into Pakistani territory.
“Pakistani authorities informed Afghan officials
about the gate installation
on its own territory, but despite that Afghan border po-
lice resorted to heavy firing,”
said a Pakistani official, who
requested anonymity because he was not authorized
to speak to the media.
The Torkham highway
serves as the main trade
route from Pakistan to Afghanistan
and
Central
Asian states, and has also
been the major supply line
for U.S.-led coalition forces
in Afghanistan. Hundreds of
vehicles were stranded on
both sides of the border
Monday.
Residents at Landi Kotal
said they were breaking
their daylong fast, customary during the Muslim holy
month of Ramadan, on Sunday when the firing began.
“Shells were flying over
residential quarters and
people started fleeing their
homes,” resident Sabir
Shinwari said by phone.
He said shells fired from
the Afghan side caused partial damage to houses and
that firing from both sides
continued into the morning
hours Monday.
Officials said the movement of visitors from Afghanistan to Pakistan has
drastically decreased since
the Islamabad government
began installing fences at
Torkham about two months
ago. The move came after a
January attack on a university in Charsadda, in
northern Pakistan, that left
at least 21 people dead. Pakistan says militants involved
in the attack entered the
country from Afghanistan
via Torkham.
Between 1,000 and 2,000
travelers with visas have
been entering Pakistan daily
from Afghanistan, down
from the 15,000 to 25,000 who
crossed via Torkham previously, according to officials.
Ali is a special
correspondent. Times staff
writer Shashank Bengali in
Mumbai, India, contributed
to this report.
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THE NATION
Tony Dejak Associated Press
“CLINTON’S negative coverage can be equated to millions of dollars in attack
ads, with her on the receiving end,” said Thomas E. Patterson, a study author.
Jim Cole Associated Press
“TRUMP’S positive coverage was the equivalent of millions of dollars in ad buys
in his favor,” Patterson said. He “exploited [the media’s] lust for riveting stories.”
Trump’s ‘edge’ with the media
News coverage early on greatly helped the Republican and hurt Clinton, a study finds
By David Lauter
WASHINGTON — News
coverage of the early months
of the presidential campaign
strongly boosted Donald
Trump’s bid and put Hillary
Clinton at a disadvantage,
according to a new study
from Harvard University
that is likely to add to the
heavy volume of complaints
that the media aided
Trump’s rise.
From the time he announced his run in mid-June
2015 to the end of the year,
Trump received about onethird of all coverage of the
Republican race among 17
candidates, according to the
study by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media,
Politics and Public Policy
that examined all stories on
the campaign from eight
major television and print
news outlets, including The
Times.
And although Trump has
loudly objected since early in
his campaign to coverage he
deemed unfair — he an-
nounced Monday that he
was banning the Washington Post from his campaign
events, the latest in a line of
more than half a dozen
organizations to be frozen
out — his coverage during
2015 was overwhelmingly favorable, the study found.
Trump’s former Republican rivals as well as Democrats have griped for months
that the news media played
an outsize role in helping
Trump secure the nomination. Their objection has
been that news outlets disproportionately
covered
him early in the contest,
when candidates seek to
gain exposure and establish
themselves
as
viable
contenders.
But the problem was not
that news media actively favored Trump, wrote the
study’s principal author,
Thomas E. Patterson, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy
School, who for many years
has studied the intersection
of the press and politics. Instead, reporters did what
they naturally do: look for
stories about subjects that
are new, different and unexpected. Trump fit that bill
precisely and knew how to
take advantage.
He “exploited their lust
for riveting stories,” Patterson wrote of the news media.
“The politics of outrage was
his edge, and the press became his dependable, if unwitting, ally.”
The coverage Trump received was about twice the
amount devoted to Jeb
Bush, the former Florida
governor who was briefly the
GOP front-runner. Two
other leading Republican
candidates, Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz
of Texas, each received
slightly less coverage than
Bush.
Just in the eight outlets
studied,
the
exposure
Trump received during
those early months would
have cost about $55 million
in advertising to obtain, the
study found — outpacing
Bush by just under $20 million.
Because most of the cov-
erage during those months
focused on the campaign itself and presented Trump as
gaining in polls, drawing
large crowds and exciting his
supporters, it was overwhelmingly positive in tone.
Across the eight outlets
studied — the New York
Times, Los Angeles Times,
Washington
Post,
Wall
Street Journal, USA Today,
CBS, NBC and Fox News —
neutral or positive stories
about Trump made up
about two-thirds to threequarters of the total, according to the study, which employed Media Tenor, a company that collects and codes
news stories to analyze the
content of the coverage.
The Democratic race had
a different pattern. Not only
was coverage significantly
less, but, more notable, stories about Clinton overwhelmingly took a negative
tone.
In contrast with every
other major candidate, the
majority of stories about
Clinton were negative in all
but one month in 2015. The
exception was October,
when Vice President Joe
Biden announced he would
not run for the nomination
and Clinton dominated her
first debate with Sen. Bernie
Sanders of Vermont and
held her own in 11 hours of
grilling from a congressional
committee investigating the
terrorist attack in Benghazi,
Libya.
Fox News stood out for
the most consistently negative coverage of the Democratic front-runner, but
across the board, each of the
eight news sources published more negative than
positive or neutral stories
about Clinton during the
year, the study found.
Part of the reason for the
negative tone was that a
higher share of stories about
Clinton dealt with her record
and positions on issues than
with the campaign horse
race. The record and issue
coverage accentuated her
problems, the study found.
At the same time, the horse
race stories tended to focus
on her losing ground in polls.
“Whereas media coverage helped build up
Trump, it helped tear down
Clinton,” Patterson wrote.
“Trump’s positive coverage
was the equivalent of millions of dollars in ad buys in
his favor, whereas Clinton’s
negative coverage can be
equated to millions of dollars in attack ads, with her
on the receiving end.”
Sanders
received
relatively little coverage at
first, but the volume grew
over time, and the overall
mix was more positive than
for any other candidate, the
study found.
The Vermont senator
often complained that stories about him mostly focused on the campaign
horse race and not on the issues he raised, but that may
have helped him, Patterson
noted: The horse race stories mostly fit into a narrative of Sanders “gaining
ground,” which almost always presents a candidate in
a positive light.
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Case probes murky chapter in Chile’s past
Decades after national
hero was shot dead,
his accused killer goes
on trial — in Florida.
By Les Neuhaus
ORLANDO, Fla. — In the
bloody days after a military
coup in Chile, a folk singer
and poet named Victor Jara
was marched to a soccer
arena in the nation’s capital,
where he was held for days in
the dark tunnels of the National Stadium.
Eventually he was shot —
44 times in all. Jara’s wife
was later summoned to the
morgue in Santiago and
asked to identify her husband.
Decades later, the man
accused of killing Jara —
whose music, words and fate
long ago cemented his
status as a national hero —
appeared Monday in a
Florida courtroom, where a
murky chapter in Chile’s history is being resurrected.
Pedro Pablo Barrientos
Nunez was indicted along
with eight retired Chilean
military officials four years
ago in the folk singer’s 1973
death but has never been
extradited to Chile to stand
trial.
Now Jara’s family has
forced Barrientos into a U.S.
federal courtroom, where he
will face civil accusations
that he was the gunman who
killed the singer.
An eight-person jury will
decide whether he’s guilty or
innocent, though he cannot
be imprisoned in the U.S.,
even if found guilty. He can
be found liable only for damages. Jury selection began
Monday.
“The importance of this
case is twofold: Up to this
point nobody has been held
accountable in the murder
of Victor Jara,” said Dixon
Osburn, an attorney and
executive director of the
Center for Justice and Accountability, which — along
with a New York-based law
firm — is representing Jara’s
widow. “And it will be a clear
attempt to pull back the veil
on what happened at the
stadium in Chile during
those days — and that has
incredible importance to the
people of Chile.”
“It is our belief that Barrientos was the triggerman,”
Osburn said.
Barrientos, who moved
to the U.S. in 1989, lives in
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Walking with a cane and
assisted by her daughter,
Jara’s 89-year-old widow,
Joan Jara, took the witness
stand Monday and talked
about her husband’s final
days.
“I was very, very afraid for
him because his life had
been threatened so much,”
she said. “My life was cut in
two, and my children’s.”
Mark Beckett, another
attorney representing Jara’s
survivors, said he would call
Chilean civilians who lived
through the coup and army
conscripts who heard the
screams and the gunshots,
and who were forced to help
carry bodies out of the stadium.
“The conscripts will tes-
Associated Press
VICTOR JARA’S poems and songs struck a chord with his countrymen and
influenced musicians such as Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen.
tify that Barrientos bragged
about shooting Victor Jara
in the head and showing off
the gun he used to do it
with,” he told the jury.
Jara, whose poems and
songs about the common
man struck a chord with his
countrymen and influenced
musicians including Joan
Baez and Bruce Springsteen, was rounded up at a
time when thousands suspected of having communist
affiliations
were
being
hauled off to jail in the first
few days of the CIA-backed
military coup that ousted
Socialist President Salvador
Allende, as Gen. Augusto
Pinochet began his 17-year
reign of terror. Rather than
surrender, Allende shot himself.
But what exactly happened to Jara in his final
hours has remained a mystery for decades.
“The last time I saw my
husband, we were sitting in
our living room, listening to
the radio as a brutal military
dictatorship took over Chile,” Joan Jara said in a statement before the trial began.
“More than 40 years later, my
daughters and I are still
seeking justice.
“The importance of this
trial does not end with my
family, but it extends to all
who have spent so many
decades searching for answers about their loved ones
who were tortured, disappeared or killed at the hand
of the Pinochet regime.”
The accused killer’s back
story is nearly as murky.
Though he was indicted in
Chile in connection with
Jara’s death, it’s unclear
whether a formal extradition request was ever filed
and, if so, what became of it.
“As a matter of policy, we
generally do not comment
on extradition-related matters,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for the criminal division
of the U.S. Justice Department, said in an email.
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, a
professor at the UC Hastings College of the Law in
San Francisco and an expert
in international human
rights law, said the two nations haven’t ratified a new
extradition treaty since 1900.
She said a new one was finally drafted in 2013, and it
passed through the Chilean
legislature the following
year. But the same draft has
sat in the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
untouched, she said.
“Nobody has any idea
when it will be pushed out of
the Foreign Relations Committee,” she told The Times.
“They’ve been extraordinarily slow in getting things
like this done…. There’s no
reason why that’s sitting
there for two years. It’s
crazy.”
Roht-Arriaza, who wrote
a book titled “The Pinochet
Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human
Rights,” said the Justice Department could be hamstrung by the treaty ordeal,
unable to accomplish anything until the new extradition treaty is approved. She
also noted that Chile, to
some degree, has changed
the way it deals with these
cases — by not ignoring
them anymore.
“A lot of Barrientos’
codefendants have been
prosecuted,” she said. “The
fact that he escaped and has
lived in the U.S. rankles a lot
of Chileans.”
While he was being held
at the soccer stadium, where
thousands of others were reportedly beaten, tortured or
killed, Jara is said to have
written a poem about the violence and chaos he was witnessing. It was later smuggled out into the city.
“You song, you come out
so poorly, when I have to sing
of the terror,” he wrote.
Saying the authorities
carried out their actions
with precision, he wrote:
“Blood is like medals for
them. Slaughter is an act of
heroism.”
Neuhaus is a special
correspondent.
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Calderon pleads guilty
[Calderon, from A1]
as a witness.
“This closes a sad chapter in the Senate’s history,”
De León said in a statement
Monday. “We move on.”
Although the guilty plea
spares Ron Calderon the
possibility of a jury convicting him and the harsh punishment that would have followed, he is almost certain to
be given a lengthy prison
sentence. Under the terms of
the deal, prosecutors agreed
only to request that U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder
sentence him to no more
than 70 months behind bars
— the low end of what sentencing guidelines suggest.
His brother, meanwhile, is
expected to receive about a
year in prison.
Along with a guilty plea
for mail fraud, the deal filed
Monday in U.S. District
Court in Los Angeles calls on
Ron Calderon not to contest
any of the other allegations
prosecutors leveled against
him in a 2014 indictment.
Although a mail fraud
charge sounds somewhat innocuous, included within it
are an array of allegations
that Calderon solicited and
received bribes for himself
and his children.
For example, Calderon,
58, admitted that he pressured the owner of a Long
Beach hospital to hire his
son as a paid summer intern
in exchange for pushing legislation in Sacramento that
would have benefited the
man.
Similarly, Calderon acknowledged he agreed to
push for a state law that
would have provided a tax
break for producers of
smaller-scale, independent
films. He made the legislative moves on behalf of
men he believed were film
executives, but who were actually
undercover
FBI
agents. In return, Calderon
demanded that his daughter be put on one man’s payroll for a fabricated job
and that the supposed
executives send a $25,000
check to an organization run
by Tom Calderon. The
brothers used the organization as a front to enrich
themselves, the plea agreement said.
T U E SDAY , J U N E 14 , 2 016
Supreme Court
rejects Samoans’
citizenship appeal
By David G. Savage
Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press
FORMER STATE Sen. Ronald Calderon pleaded guilty to accepting tens of thou-
sands of dollars in bribes from undercover FBI agents and a hospital executive.
Ron Calderon’s attorney,
Mark Geragos, had steadfastly declared his client’s innocence and vowed to beat
the charges. He previously
described the case as “the
definition of entrapment” —
a reference to work the FBI
agents did to lure Calderon
in — and said the alleged offenses had been “manufactured by the government at
the cost of millions of dollars
to the taxpayer.”
Geragos could not be reached for comment Monday.
The plea agreements
mark the downfall of a political dynasty in California
that saw members of the
same L.A. County family
wield power in the Capitol
for more than three decades.
One or more Calderons
have been part of the state
Legislature since the 1982
election
of
Charles
Calderon, a Democrat from
Whittier and brother to Ronald and Tom.
“It’s a huge fall from
power for the family because
they were riding the crest,”
said Jaime A. Regalado,
emeritus professor of political science at Cal State L.A.
“It’s from the top of the
mountain to the deepest
valley.”
Charles Calderon, who
lost a race for Superior
Court judge in 2014 after his
brothers’ indictment, at one
time was the Senate majority leader. He helped elect
his son, Ian Calderon, to the
Assembly in 2012.
Ian Calderon distanced
himself from his uncles after
their indictment and is the
last remaining family member in state office. Neither
Charles nor Ian were
charged — or implicated —
in the criminal scandal.
Playing musical chairs,
Tom Calderon served in the
Assembly from 1998 to 2002,
when Ron Calderon was
elected to the Assembly.
Ron jumped to the Senate
four years later, earning a
reputation as a moderate
vote for business. After his
indictment, he was suspended with pay for the last
eight months of his term in
office, which ended in November 2014.
The Calderons all were
skilled at political fundraising: The family raised nearly
$15 million in contributions
for dozens of political committees they controlled
since 2000, The Times has
reported. Much of the fundraising took place at lavish
resorts where family members liked to golf.
Family members also
leveraged their power to
gain important committee
chairmanships. Until his legal troubles began, Ron
Calderon was chairman of
the Senate Insurance Committee.
Tom Calderon was also
able to benefit from his
family name to obtain a lucrative consulting contract
with the Central Basin Municipal Water District, which
serves 2 million people in
southeast
Los
Angeles
County. Tom Calderon was
paid to advise the district
when his brother was in the
Senate.
Ian Calderon has won reelection once and is running
again this year. By distancing himself from his uncles
and raising funds for a political reform measure on this
month’s ballot, the youngest
Calderon has shown signs he
may be able to survive the
fallout from the scandal that
engulfed his relatives, according to Jack Pitney, a professor of political science at
Claremont McKenna College.
“Family members once
succeeded because of the
family name,” Pitney said.
“Ian Calderon is succeeding
despite the family name.”
The Calderons were two
in a handful of current and
former legislators to face
criminal charges in 2014. Former Sen. Leland Yee (D-San
Francisco) was sentenced in
February to five years in
prison for doing political favors in exchange for campaign cash, and former Sen.
Roderick D. Wright (D-Inglewood) was found guilty of
lying about living in his district.
“It’s the end of a chapter,”
Bob Stern, an attorney who
co-wrote the state’s political
reform laws, said of Ron
Calderon’s plea. “The Legislature suffered a black
eye.”
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WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court on Monday
turned down an appeal from
American Samoans who
said they deserved the right
to be U.S. citizens at birth.
The court’s action leaves
in place a law adopted in1900
that says people born in
American Samoa will be
considered “nationals” who
owe allegiance to the United
States, but not citizens with
the right to vote and hold
public office.
“We’re obviously very disappointed. This means
there will be many Samoans
living in California, including veterans, who will not be
able to vote in November,”
said Neil Weare, a civil rights
lawyer and president of We
the People Project, which
sponsored
the
lawsuit
brought by the Samoan Federation of America, based in
Carson.
Acting without comment, the justices refused to
review a U.S. appeals court
ruling that said it is up to
Congress, not the courts, to
change the legal status of
American Samoans.
Currently all people born
in the 50 states and the other
U.S. territories, including
Guam and Puerto Rico, become U.S. citizens at birth.
The lawsuit brought by
five
Samoan
plaintiffs
pointed to the 14th Amendment, which declares that all
people “born or naturalized
in the United States” shall be
American citizens.
In the early 1900s, however, the Supreme Court ruled
that people in the newly acquired U.S. territories were
not entitled to all the constitutional rights of citizens.
In 1901, Justice Henry
Brown
said
the
“development of the American
empire” could be set back by
the “annexation of distant
possessions,” which are “inhabited by alien races.”
During the 20th century,
Congress
extended
citizenship rights to the people of the other territories,
except for the people of
American Samoa.
The timing of the appeal
may have played a role in its
dismissal. Since the death of
Justice Antonin Scalia in
February, the eight justices
have granted review of only a
few new cases, and most of
those arose because the
lower courts had split on an
issue of law.
On Monday, the court
said it had denied review in
more than 100 appeals, including Tuana vs. United
States, the Samoans’ case.
No new cases won a review.
Also Monday, the court
left in place the Obama administration’s anti-pollution rules that require power
plants to sharply restrict
emissions of mercury and
other toxic chemicals.
The justices turned away
an appeal from Michigan
and 19 other Republican-led
states, which contended the
rules were too costly and illegal.
Last year, Scalia spoke
for a 5-4 ruling that rebuked
the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to
conduct a cost-benefit analysis before publishing the
long-delayed rules. That decision, however, stopped
short of striking down the
rules.
This year, the EPA published its cost-benefit analysis. Michigan’s attorney general appealed, arguing the
rules should be put on hold
while further legal challenges go forward.
But the court said Monday that it would not hear
the latest appeal in Michigan vs. EPA.
“Today,
millions
of
American families and children can breathe easier
knowing that these lifesaving limits on toxic pollution
are intact,” said Vickie Patton, general counsel for the
Environmental
Defense
Fund.
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L AT I ME S . CO M
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Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
AT A VIGIL in downtown Orlando, loved ones mourn the victims of the nightclub attack. The shooting left 49 people dead and more than 50 others wounded.
An outpouring of love, grief
The victims, who
came from all over
the country, are
remembered as kind
and charismatic.
By Sarah Parvini
It was Latin night at the
Pulse nightclub in Orlando,
Fla. The DJ played reggae.
Club-goers danced against
the backdrop of purple and
blue lights, sipping their
drinks as they swayed.
Then, just after 2 a.m.
Sunday, a gunman opened
fire and sprayed bullets
throughout the club. Fortynine people were killed and
more than 50 others were
wounded in the deadliest
mass shooting in U.S. history.
The victims came from
all over the country, from
Hawaii to New York. A
theme park employee “without a mean side.” A protector and confidant. A charismatic singer.
Many of the victims were
Latino. At least three Mexican citizens were among
those killed, Mexican authorities confirmed Monday; more than half were of
Puerto
Rican
descent,
Puerto Rican government
officials said.
Some dreamed of becoming emergency medical technicians; others, photographers and nurses. Their
mothers waited for them at
home and left food for them
in case they were hungry
when they returned, only to
learn later they would never
speak to their children
again.
Amanda Alvear went to
Pulse on Saturday night to
dance with her friends. Gay
and lesbian clubs were
among her favorites because
she felt safe to be herself, her
family said.
The Polk County, Fla., native had reshaped herself
over two years, shedding 180
pounds with the help of gastric bypass surgery and daily
workouts.
She
proudly
documented her transformation with her phone.
“Can you tell I look
better? Can you tell I look
cuter?” she would tease her
brother.
The 25-year-old was a
graduate of Ridge Community High School in Davenport, Fla., and worked as a
pharmacy technician. She
planned to be a nurse.
“People got caught in her
wake,” her brother, Brian Alvear, said. “Whatever she
was doing, that’s what they
were going to do and have
fun doing it.”
She also loved to take
selfies.
In a Snapchat video
posted by one of her friends
Sunday, Alvear is dancing to
the beat of the music booming in the club.
In a series of posts, she
sipped her drink and
toasted the people watching
her feed. Her friends danced
around her.
But the next video set a
different tone. Alvear held
the camera close to her face,
her brows furrowed and her
eyes filled with confusion.
“Shooting,” she said.
Seventeen rounds fired
off around her.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
It was her final post.
Rosalie Ramos expected
her son would come home
hungry after a night of dancing at Pulse. She made a tomato and cheese dip and left
it in the refrigerator for him.
But her son, Stanley
Almodovar III, a pharmacy
technician, died in the
shooting.
He was hit three times —
in the chest, stomach and
the side — and died at Orlando Regional Medical
Center.
Ramos said her son was a
happy man with a big heart.
He often fussed with his hair,
changing the style. It was
dyed Saturday night.
He would have turned 24
this month.
THE VICTIMS
AMANDA
ALVEAR
STANLEY
ALMODOVAR III
LUIS DANIEL
WILSON-LEON
In a video posted on
Snapchat,
Almodovar
laughed and sang on his way
to the club. Ramos said she
wished she had the video to
remember him by.
Friends described Luis
Daniel Wilson-Leon as a protector, confidant and hero.
“We grew up in a really
small town in Puerto Rico,”
Daniel Gmys-Casiano said.
Stanley Almodovar III, 23
Amanda Alvear, 25
Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21
Martin Benitez Torres, 33
Antonio Davon Brown, 29
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29
Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24
Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28
Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31
Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25
Luis Daniel Conde, 39
Cory James Connell, 21
Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25
Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50
Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22
Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22
Paul Terrell Henry, 41
Frank Hernandez, 27
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30
Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40
Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30
Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25
Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32
Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35
Akyra Monet Murray, 18
Kimberly Morris, 37
Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36
Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32
Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37
Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24
Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34
Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33
Luis S. Vielma, 22
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37
Jerald Arthur Wright, 31
One victim remains unidentified.
“He was going to the same
church that I was, and he
was always the odd man out.
He was bullied constantly.
He was different. He would
dress in black, wear long
sideburns.”
Gmys-Casiano said Wilson-Leon, 37, was the first
person he ever told he was
gay. He did not know that
Wilson-Leon was too.
Wilson-Leon moved to
Vero Beach, Fla., soon after,
where he quickly became
manager of a shoe company
and offered Gmys-Casiano a
job when he also moved from
Puerto Rico.
Wilson-Leon had been
with Jean Carlos Mendez
Perez, 35, another fatality in
the Pulse nightclub shooting, for about eight years.
“He’s been dealing with
hate all his life. We all have,”
Gmys-Casiano said. “He
never retaliated with hate.
He was a very loving person.
He was strong. He would
stand to protect his friends.”
Franky Jimmy Dejesus
Velazquez moved from San
Juan, Puerto Rico, to Orlando, where he worked as a
visual merchandiser for
Forever 21.
On
social
media,
relatives and friends remembered the 50-year-old
as a loving person they could
always turn to.
One family member,
Mahya Veray, posted a
photo with Velazquez and
said she was trying to not
“fall prey to hate.”
“They killed you out of
hate for the freedom to be
who you are and it makes me
hurt inside because if there
was anyone who always had
a smile, who helped me … it
was you,” she wrote.
“Todavía no lo creo,”
wrote Shiela De Jesus, another of Velazquez’s friends.
“I still can’t believe it.”
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Orlando Sentinel writers
Stephen Hudak and Jason
Ruiter contributed to this
report.
Some global reactions prompt cries of hypocrisy
By Shashank Bengali
MUMBAI, India — Many
world leaders have rushed to
express sadness and solidarity over the Orlando, Fla.,
gay nightclub massacre, including some whose countries have less-than-spotless
records on gay rights.
Social media posts by the
leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and other
countries where homosexuality or homosexual acts
are criminalized have drawn
withering reactions.
In Afghanistan, where
shooter Omar Mateen’s par-
ents were born, President
Ashraf Ghani said he was
“praying for all those affected by this tragedy.”
Some online commenters
noted that Afghanistan is
one of 13 countries in the
world where homosexuality
is punishable by death, according to the International
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Trans and Intersex Assn., or
ILGA, an advocacy group.
In
Pakistan,
where
homosexuality also carries
the death penalty, Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif said
in a statement: “No innocent
man, woman or child should
ever feel afraid of being shot
or killed for being who they
are in a progressive and
democratic society.
“This is against every
principle
of
pluralism,
tolerance and humanity
that we have been striving
for.”
Although capital punishment for gay people is rarely
implemented in these countries, the laws have created a
stigma surrounding homosexuality that forces many to
stay in the closet or live in
the shadows.
In India, where sex
“against the order of nature”
is outlawed — including
same-sex relations — Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
said he was “shocked” by the
shooting, in which 49 people
died, along with Mateen.
Critics quickly pounced on
the statement, calling on
Modi to introduce a bill to
strike down the anti-gay law.
The Indian law does not
ban homosexuality and has
led to few prosecutions since
it was reinstated in 2013. But
activists say it has commonly been used to harass
and blackmail gay people.
“If you’re sincere about
your prayers for the Orlando
victims, maybe you will
tweet a message of support
for the millions of similar
LGBT people back home,”
journalist Dhrubo Jyoti
wrote in a letter to Modi in
the Hindustan Times.
Majority Muslim countries that are U.S. allies also
rushed to express sympathy
— including Saudi Arabia,
where homosexuality is illegal under sharia, or Islamic law.
Punishments for samesex relations in the kingdom
include
execution
and
chemical castration.
In 2014, Saudi authorities
sentenced a gay man who
used Twitter to meet another man to three years in prison and 450 lashes.
The Saudi government
issued a statement Monday
extending “its deepest condolences to the families and
friends of the victims and to
the people of the United
States. We stand with the
American people at this
tragic time.”
But experts noted that
such statements from Arab
states where homosexuality
is criminalized — and widely
seen as un-Islamic — were
careful not to specify the nature of the Orlando club or
who was targeted.
shashank.bengali
@latimes.com
L AT I ME S . CO M
S
T U E S DAY, J U N E 14 , 2 016
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ORLANDO MASSACRE
Alan Diaz Associated Press
THE BODIES of two victims arrive at the Orange County medical examiner’s
office in Orlando on Sunday. Omar Mateen killed 49 before he died in a shootout.
Phelan M. Ebenhack Associated Press
BRANDON SHUFORD waits near Pulse on the night of the shooting. It’s unclear
how many of the injured were stranded without treatment during the standoff.
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
OFFICIALS EXAMINE the back of the nightclub building. Police punched holes in the cinder-block wall to reach bathrooms where the gunman and club-goers hid.
A standoff, then a shootout
[Night, from A1]
ment official said agents also
have obtained evidence that
Mateen visited and perhaps
scoped out Disney World in
recent months. The official
said it was clear from the evidence that Mateen’s visit involved more than tourism,
but cautioned that agents
may never learn fully
whether he was casing Disney properties for an attack.
Mateen, an American citizen born in New York to
Afghan immigrants, was described by co-workers as a
bigot who despised gays,
blacks, women and Jews.
His ex-wife said he was bipolar and abusive. His father
said he grew furious when he
recently saw men kissing.
On Sunday he pulled into
the Pulse parking lot about 2
a.m. It was last call on Latin
Night, a popular event,
where DJs on three stages
played thumping reggaeton,
merengue, salsa and hiphop.
Mateen walked to the entrance in the balmy air with
an AR-15-style assault weapon and a handgun he had
purchased just days earlier,
and started shooting. An offduty, uniformed police officer doing security for the
club responded and they exchanged fire, officials said.
But Mateen slipped into the
club uninjured.
Ivory McNeal, 28, and his
friends were making their
way through the crowd to
the main bar when the
shooting erupted just behind them by the front door.
Within seconds, nearly
everyone around him had
been shot.
The music — he thought
it might have been Beyonce
playing — abruptly stopped
and people started running
in all directions, some
screaming, some falling, as
MySpace
MATEEN’S beliefs and practices were contradictory,
and he had a shaky understanding of the difference
between Sunni and Shiite Islam, authorities said.
the bullets tore through the
room — about three every
second. The muzzle flashes
lighted up the dark like a
strobe light.
McNeal’s friend Luis
Ruiz, 33, would later say that
Mateen was “pledging allegiance to Allah and calling
people faggots.”
Ruiz, a former soldier
with a shaved head and dark
beard, spent 15 years in the
Army and served in Iraq. He
sprinted across the bloody
floor toward a patio. A
woman running next to him
was hit and fell.
“Everyone was pushing
each other to get out. I still
don’t know how I wasn’t hit,”
Ruiz said.
McNeal rushed through a
different door to the same
patio while their friend Ariel
Hermina sought shelter in a
bathroom at the back of the
club.
Ruiz forced his way outside and saw people kicking
through the fence that enclosed the patio. They managed to break an opening,
and Ruiz tried to squeeze
through it with dozens of
others. In the scrum, he fell.
The panicked crowd trampled right over him, the gunshots right behind them.
He somehow got to his
feet and, with an injured
right leg, limped across the
street to a 7-Eleven, where
others were gathered, crying
and calling out for friends
still inside.
Ruiz had been in combat
in Iraq and only days earlier
he had been watching
YouTube videos of Islamic
State fighters in the Middle
East. Now, as he thought
about Mateen yelling about
Allah, he thought, “Wow,
they’re here.” Back in the patio, McNeal took cover be-
hind a planter with a big
palm tree.
“The shots kept going off,
then all of a sudden it
stopped,” McNeal said. He
said he thought at the time
that shooter was an angry
boyfriend. He wondered
whether the massacre was
over.
Then more shots rang
out. He began texting
friends. “They’re killing people,” he said he texted his exboyfriend and his cousin.
He got puzzled replies.
At some point shortly
into the rampage, several
Orlando police officers arrived and entered the building, Police Chief John Mina
said. They immediately
found themselves in a gun
battle.
Mina said they “forced
him to retreat to the bathroom, where we believe he
had several hostages.” The
chief did not indicate exactly
what time this occurred, but
said the situation stabilized”
at that point and the shooting stopped.
“At that time we were
able to save and rescue
dozens and dozens of people
who were injured or non-injured.”
The officers apparently
left the building and called
SWAT.
About 2:30 a.m., Mateen
made two calls to 911, according to the FBI. The first time
he hung up. He called again
and talked briefly with a dispatcher before hanging up
again. Then the dispatcher
called him and spoke with
him.
During one or both of the
last two calls, he pledged allegiance to Islamic State
and proclaimed solidarity
with the perpetrators of the
Boston Marathon bombing
and a Florida-born suicide
bomber who blew himself up
in Syria for Al Nusra Front,
an enemy of Islamic State.
As investigators would
later learn, Mateen’s beliefs
and practices presented a
series of contradictions. The
FBI had investigated him
twice on suspicion of terrorist ties, but found no conclusive evidence that he had
any; it even determined Mateen had a shaky understanding of the difference
between Sunni and Shiite Islam, the religion’s two major
denominations.
Texts from one victim
suggest he resumed his
killing while the officers
waited outside.
Eddie Justice, 30, texted
his mom at 2:06 a.m. saying
he was trapped in a bathroom with a shooter loose in
the building.
At 2:39, he begged her to
call police. “Call them
mommy now.”
Seconds later, he wrote
the last text of his life: “He’s
coming. … I’m going to
die.”
Over the next two hours,
Mateen holed up in a bathroom and communicated
with police, apparently over
his cellphone. Mina said the
shooter didn’t have any specific demands but made
statements about explosives and “bomb vests.”
Police requested a “bomb
truck” at 4:10 a.m., according
to scanner communications.
By 5 a.m., fearing “loss of
life was imminent,” Mina
would later say, the police
chief decided to breach the
back wall to reach the men’s
and women’s restrooms. At
5:05 a.m., SWAT officers ignited an explosive device,
but it didn’t penetrate the
cinder-block wall. They
rushed to break it open with
a BearCat armored vehicle.
Dozens and dozens of
people rushed out of one of
the holes. At some point so
did Mateen, with guns blazing. One officer took a shot
to the head but was saved by
his Kevlar helmet.
Mateen fell in the barrage
and died, the wall behind
pocked with about 40 police
bullet strikes.
The three friends McNeal, Ruiz and Hermina reunited in the parking lot.
McNeal had escaped
early when police tore down
the patio fence behind
him.
Hermina had holed up in
a handicap stall in the bathroom that Mateen had not
commandeered. He pulled
the toilet off the floor to
make room for more people
and eventually made it out
after police came in and said
it was safe.
They hugged and cried.
“Seeing them I just felt a
sense of relief,” Ruiz said.
“We made it. I made it. But I
was thinking there are people in there who didn’t make
it.”
Police and emergency
personnel moved in to retrieve the bodies. The club
was mostly silent now but for
a haunting sound that has
become the universal dirge
played in the aftermath of
mass shootings, a reminder
of all the other lives that
would soon be torn apart:
cellphones buzzing for the
departed.
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@latimes.com
Mozingo reported from Los
Angeles, Cloud from
Washington and
Hennessy-Fiske from
Orlando. Times staff writer
Brian Bennett in
Washington and the
Orlando Sentinel
contributed to this report.
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Popular with
hobbyists
— and mass
shooters
Military-style rifles
are a strong source of
profit, even as sales of
other firearms slump.
By Laura J. Nelson
and James Rufus Koren
The military-style rifles
used in some of the deadliest
mass shootings in U.S. history, including Sunday’s
massacre at a gay nightclub
in Florida, have become increasingly popular in recent
years among American consumers.
The Colt AR-15 and
similar models of semiautomatic rifles, which fire as fast
as the shooter can pull the
trigger, are a consistent
source of profit for arms
manufacturers, who have reported strong sales growth
even as sales for other types
of firearms have slumped or
remained flat.
But the weapons can be a
financial liability too. In the
wake of deadly shootings,
several major investors for
public employees, including
funds that manage California teacher pensions and
the University of California’s
endowment, have distanced
themselves financially from
the makers of those rifles.
Nearly every major arms
company builds a version of
the AR-15, which is a lightweight, portable rifle that
can fire accurately at long
ranges. The rifle has very little recoil, meaning it doesn’t
kick after each shot, which
allows for greater accuracy.
“It stays on target, it’s
very accurate, and it’s devastatingly lethal,” said Jay
Wachtel, a retired Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives agent and a
lecturer at Cal State Fullerton. “You don’t have to have
an accurate hit in order to
kill someone.”
A federal law enforcement source said the .223caliber rifle used by 29-yearold Omar Mateen in the Orlando, Fla., massacre was an
AR-15 variant made by Sig
Sauer, a subsidiary of a German company. On its website, Sig Sauer says its AR-15style rifles are “gaining a
reputation for revolutionary
design, exceptional accuracy, engineered reliability
and traditional craftsmanship.”
Semiautomatic rifles fire
one bullet each time the trigger is pulled. With parts that
can be purchased legally,
some rifles can be converted
to automatic weapons,
meaning holding down on
the trigger releases a
continuous stream of bullets. Still, from a well-trained
shooter, experts say, semiautomatic fire can be more
deadly than automatic fire,
which is harder to control.
The police have not said
whether the rifle used in the
Orlando attack had been
modified. AR-15-style rifles,
which typically sell for more
than $1,200, can be purchased legally in most
states.
Some states, including
California, limit the capacity
of magazines that can be
used with such rifles. Florida
does not.
The A in AR-15 stands for
Armalite, the company that
created its forefather, the
M-16, in the late 1950s and
sold the design to Colt. The
M-16 was used by the U.S.
Army during the Vietnam
War. Colt modified the design and released it to the civilian market in the 1960s as
the AR-15.
“When you’re into cars,
you want the fastest and the
sleekest,” Wachtel said. “If
you’re into firearms, you
want the most lethal. It had
the aura of the military, so it
became extremely popular.”
During a 10-year federal
ban on some assault-style
weapons,
manufacturers
were forced to modify their
designs in a way that made
the guns less attractive to
some consumers. Sales
slumped. When the ban expired in 2004, gunmakers increased production of semiautomatic rifles.
“It’s hard to keep making
money if you only make basic
hunting rifles, because people buy one or two and use
them for a long time,” said
Daniel Webster, director of
the John Hopkins Center for
Gun Policy and Research.
“But these companies know
their market. They know
that gun guys like macho
weapons, and that they’ll
buy new products they don’t
necessarily need.”
These guns, dubbed
“modern sporting rifles” by
manufacturers, have been
big sellers over the last few
years. Between 2010 and 2014,
sales grew at an annual rate
of 28%, double the rate for all
other types of firearms, ac-
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
SAN BERNARDINO sheriff’s deputies at the scene where two shooters were killed in a gun battle with
police. The assailants in the December attack used AR-15-style weapons to kill 14 people and wound 22 others.
A weapon of choice for mass shooters
AR-15-style guns are the semiautomatic version of the fully automatic M-16 rifle used by
the military. Produced by several manufacturers, they are used by shooting enthusiasts
and police forces – and mass killers:
Pulse nightclub
Killed 49
(Florida, 2016)
San Bernardino
14
(California, 2015)
Umpqua Community College
(Oregon, 2015)
Wounded 53
22
9
9
Sandy Hook Elementary
27
(Connecticut, 2012)
Aurora theater
2
12
(Colorado, 2012)
58
Source: Times reporting
Kyle Kim Los Angeles Times
Gunmakers’ stock performance after mass shootings
S&P
Sturm, Ruger & Co.
San Bernardino
Smith & Wesson
Planned Parenthood
Dec. 2,
2015
Nov. 27,
2015
16.03%
8.32%
7.41
7.55
0
–1.99
Nov. 24
Dec. 9
Umpqua Community College
Oct. 1,
2015
0
0.5
0
Nov. 19
Dec. 4
Charleston church
June 17,
2015
4.2%
2.78
9.2%
3.93
–1.29
0.16
0
Sept. 24
Oct. 8
June 10
June 24
Source: FactSet Research Systems. Graphics reporting by James Rufus Koren
Armand Emamdjomeh Los Angeles Times
cording to the gun conglomerate Remington Outdoor,
citing figures from the National Shooting Sports
Foundation.
Although
Remington
Outdoor reported a $46-million drop in firearm sales
overall last year, sales of its
AR-15 style rifles were up
more than $12 million.
In 2014, the most recent
year for which federal data
are available, Remington
said it made about 930,000 rifles, or about 28% of the 3.4
million rifles manufactured
domestically that year. It’s
unclear how many of those
rifles were assault-style, because gun companies do not
typically separate manufacturing figures from the
broader rifle category in
public reports.
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wanted to restore the federal
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it would divest from companies that manufactured assault-style weapons.
The California State
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arms makers Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co.,
but getting out of another
gun investment with a direct
tie to Sandy Hook proved
trickier: $500 million in a private equity fund managed by
a New York firm called Cerberus Capital Management.
The $7.5-billion fund
owned shares of Freedom
Group, a conglomerate of
gun manufacturers that included the company that
produced Lanza’s rifle.
Pension systems can
easily sell stock in publicly
traded companies. But it’s
more complicated to get out
of a private equity investment. Investors typically
agree to let a firm manage
their money for a decade.
“You don’t have any right
to force the [private equity
firm] to sell the entire position or sell your interest,”
said Timothy Spangler, a
UCLA law professor who has
worked with private equity
firms.
Days after the Newtown
shooting, Cerberus announced it would sell the
shares of the gun conglomerate, which has since become Remington Outdoor.
But two years later, it had
not found a buyer.
Cerberus told investors
that it would essentially buy
them out of their shares if
they wanted to divest from
gun manufacturing. Sources
familiar with that deal said
the majority of fund participants took the offer.
The University of California also was an investor in
that fund, but sold its stake
to another investor more
than two years ago, UC
spokeswoman Dianna Klein
said. The university system
also has sold stakes it held in
Smith & Wesson and in a
firearms distributor owned
through a separate private
equity investment.
Not all investors cashed
out of Remington when Cerberus offered. The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System invested $20
million in the fund in 2006.
Spokesman Norm Nickens
said that the pension fund
did not request that Cerberus buy it out and that it still
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FBI revisiting prior investigations
[FBI, from A1]
and state law enforcement
agencies to keep track of potential threats.
Several months later,
Mateen popped up on the
FBI’s radar a second time as
agents investigated Moner
Mohammad Abusalha, a
Florida man who had joined
Al Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda
affiliate in Syria.
In May 2014, Abusalha
blew up a truck packed with
explosives, killing more than
a dozen people and becoming the first American to
carry out a suicide bombing
in Syria.
Again, FBI agents interviewed Mateen. He told
them he had met Abusalha
casually at a local mosque
several years earlier. Again,
the FBI concluded Mateen
wasn’t a threat.
Those vivid details and
others emerged Monday as
FBI officials scrambled to
explain how two previous investigations of Mateen failed
to prevent him from killing
49 people at a gay nightclub
Sunday in Orlando, Fla., in
the worst mass shooting in
U.S. history.
The bureau’s handling of
Mateen’s case got a strong
vote of support from
President Obama after he
was briefed by James B.
Comey, the FBI director.
“The FBI followed the
procedures that they were
supposed to and did a
proper job,” Obama told
reporters.
As part of its current investigation, the FBI is seeking to determine whether
Mateen scouted out other
gay venues or other potential
targets,
including
properties associated with
Disney World, according to a
senior U.S. law enforcement
official briefed on the investigation.
Agents believe he visited
those locations in recent
months, but cannot say for
certain that he was evaluating them as potential targets, the official said.
Former agents said investigators would be digging
through Mateen’s cellphone
and other electronic devices
to look for GPS data, and
would collect records from
businesses and individuals
who may have had contact
with him.
Comey,
along
with
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Nick
Rasmussen, director of the
National Counterterrorism
Center, will give a classified
briefing to House members
Tuesday in the first of what
is likely to be an extended
congressional inquiry into
the shooting.
While the FBI was reviewing its records of the two
investigations
to
see
whether agents missed any
clues, senior officials said
Monday that they didn’t
know what else they could
have done.
“We will continue to look
forward in this investigation, and backward,” Comey
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
FBI INVESTIGATORS outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. As an inquiry into the shooting continued Monday, FBI officials
scrambled to explain how two previous investigations of the gunman, Omar Mateen, failed to prevent him from killing 49 people.
Brendan Smialowski AFP/Getty Images
ORLANDO police and FBI officials near the crime scene. The FBI is investigating
whether Mateen scouted out other gay venues or other potential targets.
told reporters at FBI
headquarters.
“We will leave no stone
unturned. And we will work
all day and all night to
understand the path to that
terrible night. We are also going to look hard at our own
work to see if there is something we could have done differently,” he said.
“So far, the honest answer is that I don’t think so. I
don’t see anything in reviewing our work that our agents
could have done differently.”
Still, officials found one
red flag that may prove important.
During the 2014 investigation of Abusalha, the suicide
bomber, FBI agents asked
someone else they interviewed who else might
become radicalized, a law
enforcement official said
Monday.
The person singled out
Mateen because he had
mentioned watching videos
featuring Anwar Awlaki, the
American-born cleric who
joined Al Qaeda and was
killed in a 2011 drone strike in
Yemen, the official said.
Awlaki’s online sermons
have inspired a generation of
terrorists. They include the
Army major who shot and
killed 13 people at Ft. Hood,
Texas, in 2009, and the couple who shot and killed 14
people in San Bernardino in
December.
But the individual added
that Mateen had since settled down, gotten married
and was holding a steady
job. In other words, he told
agents that he didn’t think
Mateen was still a threat.
Mateen was not the first
“known wolf,” the term analysts use for a person who
passes an investigation and
then becomes a terrorist.
The latest tragedy highlights the challenges authorities face in trying to predict
when noxious speech shifts
to deadly action.
Authorities had investigated the Ft. Hood killer before his rampage, and had
interviewed one of the
brothers
who
planted
bombs at the finish line of
the Boston Marathon in
2013.
One of the gunmen who
tried to assault an exhibit
featuring cartoon images of
the prophet Muhammad in
Garland, Texas, in May 2015
also had been under FBI
surveillance.
FBI officials said they
had found no evidence indicating Mateen had contact
or support from Islamic
State or any other terrorist
group before Sunday’s attack. Indeed, he seemed to
have a hodgepodge of motivations for embarking on the
massacre.
Thirty minutes into the
shooting, Mateen called 911
and told the operator he was
swearing allegiance to the
leader of Islamic State, Abu
Bakr Baghdadi, officials
said.
He then expressed solidarity with Dzhokhar and
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the
Boston Marathon bombers,
and to Abusalha, the Al
Nusra Front suicide bomber.
Neither the Tsarnaev
brothers nor Abusalha had
any affiliation with Islamic
State. To add to the confusion, Al Nusra Front and Islamic State are fighting each
other in Syria.
Mateen claimed in 2013
that he had ties to Al Qaeda,
a Sunni group, and to
Hezbollah, a Shiite group
that opposes Al Qaeda.
The FBI investigation
found no links to either
group and agents concluded
Mateen did not understand
the difference
between
Sunni and Shiite Islam, the
religion’s two major denominations, a U.S. law enforcement official said.
Mateen’s lack of rigid
ideology and his affection for
terrorist groups that are at
odds with one another suggest he was posturing or
seeking an excuse to commit
mass murder, experts said.
“The guy seems to be all
over the place,” said Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent
who worked on terrorism
cases and now runs a security consulting firm in New
York.
“This profile is about
someone who is violent,
mentally unstable, a wife
beater — this is all part of a
picture that the investigators have to look at,” Soufan
said.
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we allowed his family to
come here.” His unrestrained broadsides on immigrants, Muslim nations,
even the motivations of
President Obama — at one
point Trump seemed to
question
whether
the
president had terrorist affiliations — defied, as usual,
political convention.
Clinton delivered a nuanced speech with multiple
policy proposals, emphasizing the need for the country
to unite and avoid scapegoating Muslims. “Our open,
diverse society is an asset in
the struggle against terrorism, not a liability,” she said,
while warning that installing
an unsteady hand with
xenophobic tendencies in
the White House is among
the most dangerous things
voters could do. She mentioned no names.
The day highlighted approaches, on style and substance, so starkly opposed
that at times the candidates
seemed to be coming from
different planets. It all reflected the nation’s deep divisions on the national security and gun safety concerns
likely to dominate the election, as well as the new normal in political discourse.
Trump accused Clinton
— her name came up at least
19 times in his address — of
mismanagement, political
correctness and designing
an Obama administration
immigration policy culpable
for the killings in San Bernardino and now Orlando.
He appeared to expand his
proposed ban on Muslims
entering the country to an
even bigger group of people,
those from any “areas of the
world where there’s a proven
history of terrorism” against
the U.S. and its allies.
“Why does Hillary Clinton want to bring people
here — in vast numbers —
who reject our values?”
Trump asked, citing no evidence that Clinton wants to
do so. He also suggested that
Clinton, who enjoys broad
support from LGBT groups,
is no friend of gays.
“Ask yourself: Who is
really the friend of women
and the LGBT community?”
Trump
said.
“Donald
Trump with actions, or Hillary Clinton with her words?
Clinton wants to allow radical Islamic terrorists to pour
into our country — they enslave women, and they murder gays.”
The aggressiveness of
Trump’s remarks at a New
Hampshire college were
overshadowed only by his
comments earlier in the day
when he skewered Clinton
and Obama on the cable
news networks.
He said on Fox News that
either Obama was not smart
and tough enough for the job
or “he’s got something else in
mind.… And the something
else in mind — you know,
people can’t believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama
is acting the way he acts and
can’t even mention the
words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something
going on. It’s inconceivable.
There’s something going
on.”
The tone of the accusation and the unspecified insinuations harked back to
Trump’s time as the most
prominent member of the
so-called birther movement,
those
who
questioned
whether Obama was born in
the U.S. He was.
Clinton’s response since
Orlando has been measured. Her campaign is confident that swing voters are
going to perceive Trump as
unhinged and unstable. For
her, the shooting was a time
to recognize the stakes of
taking a gamble on a volatile
personality.
In Cleveland, she delivered a speech much like
the ones she gave after the
shootings last fall in Paris
and San Bernardino, in
which she soberly laid out a
plan for fighting Islamic
State and sought to rally
voters to embrace, not resist, diversity in these moments. As in the other addresses, she laid out her
bona fides for confronting
such threats with a plan focused on engaging U.S. allies, boosting the resources
of local law enforcement to
combat homegrown terrorism and toughening gun
laws that allowed shooters
to get the assault weapons
used in their attacks.
“Whatever
we
learn
about this killer and his motives in the days ahead, we
know already the barbarity
we face from radical jihadists is profound,” Clinton said. “The attack in Orlando makes it even more
clear we cannot contain this
threat. We must defeat it.”
Clinton warned that the
type of Muslim ban Trump
has proposed “is wrong. It is
also dangerous. It plays
right into the terrorists’
hands.”
The only place Clinton
yielded to Trump, ever so
slightly, was in the language
she used to describe terrorists. She referred in a television interview to “radical Islamism,” a rhetorical shift
for her campaign and one
the White House is refusing
to make amid concerns that
the term needlessly complicates U.S. relationships with
Islamic allies such as Saudi
Arabia and underscores the
misguided idea pushed by
Islamic State and other extremists that the West is
fighting a war against all of
the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims.
Trump took credit for the
Clinton shift, but then went
on to declare his rival “still
has no clue what radical Islam is.”
Trump
and
Clinton
talked extensively about failures in U.S. gun law enabling
the Orlando killer, underscoring how once again 2nd
Amendment concerns will
play big in the election. Their
comments reflected how little
common
ground
Americans have been able to
find on the issue, even as gun
violence escalates and the
weapons used in large-scale
attacks are often legally obtained.
“If the FBI is watching
you for suspected terrorist
links, you shouldn’t be able
to just go buy a gun with no
questions asked,” Clinton
said. “You shouldn’t be able
to exploit loopholes and
evade criminal background
checks by buying online or at
a gun show.”
Trump, by contrast, bo-
asted of his support from the
National Rifle Assn. He has
suggested the attack could
have been averted — or minimized — if there had been
guns available in the Orlando nightclub to defend its
patrons. Clinton, he said,
“wants
to
take
away
Americans’ guns, then admit the very people who
want to slaughter us.”
The candidates did attempt to take some semblance of a break from
politics in deference to the
victims of Orlando and their
families. Clinton postponed
fundraisers Monday and a
major campaign event with
Obama in Wisconsin on
Wednesday,
their
first
scheduled rally together
since he endorsed her. It was
moved to next week. Trump
canceled his Monday evening campaign rally.
But Clinton’s declaration
at the top of her address
Monday that “today is not a
day for politics” hardly held
true. There was no avoiding
them.
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@latimes.com
Twitter: @noahbierman
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Bierman reported from
Manchester, N.H., and
Halper from Cleveland.
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Trump’s innuendo a new low
His bizarre suggestion that Obama
is standing down in the face of
Islamic terrorism is a smear.
D
onald Trump, the loose cannon
who would be president, hinted
Monday that President Obama
might be complicit in terror attacks by Islamic extremists, including Sunday’s bloodbath in Orlando, Fla.
That accusation by innuendo marks a new
low for Trump, who along with his surrogates
is engaged in a smear campaign reminiscent
of the dark days of McCarthyism.
Trump — who made hay during Obama’s
2012 reelection campaign by pushing
“birther” challenges to Obama’s citizenship
— told television interviewers Monday that
Obama may be willfully standing down in the
face of terror plots by Islamic radicals, lending credence to a conspiracy theory pushed
by folks who stubbornly cling to the fiction
that the president is a Kenyan-born Muslim.
“Look, we’re led by a man that either is
not tough, not smart, or he’s got something
else in mind,” Trump said on Fox News. “And
the something else in mind — you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting
the way he acts and can’t even mention the
words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s
something going on. It’s inconceivable.
There’s something going on.”
What’s
inconceivable
is
Trump
suggesting Obama may be endangering the
people he has sworn to protect based on
nothing more than the chatter of political
lunatics. This isn’t the first time Trump has
used innuendo to introduce personal smears
as though he’s a small-town gossip. You can
almost hear him whisper, “I’m not saying
this, but others are talking …” before channeling the kind of garbage that lives out on
the political fringes.
Trump doubled down on his anti-Muslim
hate-mongering in a speech in New Hampshire in which he warned that “radical Islam
is coming” and pledged to ban immigration
from areas of the world in which anti-U.S or
anti-European terrorism may arise. Never
mind that the shooter in Orlando was a native New Yorker. In Trump’s view, the government has no mechanism for keeping children
of immigrants from radicalizing. So not only
would he ban adherents of a major world
religion for the acts of the few, he also indicts
them for the imagined crimes of their unborn
children. And he urged Muslim communities
to “turn in the people who they know are bad
— and they do know where they are,” implying Muslims are intentionally shielding terrorists.
We’ve said before that Trump’s shootfrom-the-lip persona makes him unsuited for
the presidency, and we’ll keep saying it right
up until the election, when we hope he fades
from the national stage and takes his repugnant intolerance with him. Yet we also fear
his campaign has given currency to dangerously wrong ideas about race, religion and
proper conduct of a civil society. More reasonable minds recognize those ideas as intellectually and morally bankrupt, and they
should recognize the boastful messenger for
what he is.
A proactive war on poverty
L
os Angeles County provides
the “safety net” for millions of residents who have fallen off the financial cliff due to personal
catastrophes such as job loss, illness, accidents or just oppressive, persistent poverty. It’s a net that must be constantly mended and reinforced because so
many other nets — those provided by the
federal government, by private philanthropy and by an economy with plentiful
manufacturing jobs — have been dropped or
have unraveled.
About a third of county residents worry
about being pushed to the brink of hunger
or homelessness, according to a survey conducted this year by UCLA's Luskin School of
Public Affairs. Nearly half lack sufficient
savings or assets to stay above poverty for
even three months after losing a job.
Meanwhile, nearly 3 out of 10 county residents are “underbanked,” meaning they
don’t have checking or savings accounts or,
even if they do, they still have to rely on payday lenders or check-cashing services to get
by. That means a proportion of their earnings that ought to help build their savings
goes instead to just financing their payments. And that, in turn, means more people falling off the cliff and into the net.
What if the county, in addition to keeping
its net in good repair, worked to keep so
many people from approaching the edge of
that financial cliff in the first place? Governments in other counties, including San
Francisco, and in places such as Seattle and
New York, have created financial empowerment offices that connect people living on
the brink with services to help them build a
savings cushion and develop economic
savvy.
Earlier this year, the L.A. County Board
of Supervisors began studying a similar program here, to be coordinated by the county
but funded in part by a grant from Citi Community Development and in part by the existing county Department of Consumer and
Business Affairs budget. It’s a good idea,
and the board should move forward with its
plan and approve a two-year pilot Center for
Financial Empowerment project Tuesday.
This is wealth building, not wealth transfer. In some cases, it’s as simple as making
people aware that they can keep thousands
of dollars in their pockets by using the federal earned income tax credit and the new
analogous state credit. In others, it’s a matter of connecting people with the coaching
they need to create college funds or start
and sustain small businesses. The county is
uniquely positioned to coordinate services
already available but not currently sufficiently known or accessible to people who
need them.
Getting more out of CURES
L
ike 48 other states, California
has an online database that records all the prescriptions issued
for potentially habit-forming or
abuseable drugs, such as OxyContin and Ritalin. The hope is that the system
will deter patients from “doctor shopping”
to obtain excess quantities of a drug, and
help authorities crack down on healthcare
professionals who negligently — or cynically
— prescribe pills on demand.
With opioids and other prescription
drugs accounting for more than half of the
overdose deaths in the United States, curbing excess prescribing needs to be part of
the effort to slow the epidemic of ODs.
That’s one reason numerous states share information across state lines (but not, sadly,
California’s). One study found that doctors
in Ohio who consulted the state’s prescription database tended to change the amount
of opioids they prescribed, typically to reduce or eliminate them.
But as researchers have shown, most
prescribers don’t consult drug databases
when they’re not required to do so. That’s
why Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens)
has proposed a bill requiring doctors and
pharmacists to look up a patient’s prescription history on the state’s database, called
CURES, before prescribing or dispensing a
controlled substance to that patient for the
first time, and again at least once every year
that the patient continues to receive it.
The bill (SB 482) passed the Senate last
year but has yet to move in the Assembly,
and a trade group for California doctors is
opposing it (as it has with similar proposals
in the past). One of the group’s main concerns is that the database isn’t ready for the
added volume of inquiries the bill would
generate; but if the bill did cause CURES
traffic to surge, that would only show how
badly the database has been underused.
The association also argues that not all doctors are in a position to consult CURES, and
that the system doesn’t sufficiently protect
the privacy of prescribers or patients.
A compromise seems within reach. It’s
reasonable to hold off the mandate to consult CURES until the system can handle the
extra volume, and to provide carefully tailored exemptions for some emergency-room
physicians and others who can’t reasonably
be expected to access the database — as
long as the exemptions don’t create easy
pathways for abuse. The privacy concerns,
meanwhile, boil down to setting the right
limits on how the CURES records can be
used. With the alarming rise in prescriptiondrug overdose deaths, though, lawmakers
need to finish the job they started in 2009.
The database won’t truly serve the purpose
for which it was created unless those who
prescribe and dispense dangerous drugs
check it routinely.
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AT L.A. PRIDE on Sunday, many participants
rifles. It doesn’t take military-style weapons with
large magazines to hunt.
The other sad thing is
that there are mass killings
almost every day in America and we are getting more
numb so when 50 people
are killed, we just shrug our
shoulders and go back
talking about trivial things.
America is sinking to
Trump’s level because we
are letting a small number
of greedy people keep us
from doing the right thing
on guns.
Steve Werner
Centennial, Colo.
Sadness, then pride
What hath Ralph
Nader wrought?
Re “ ‘An act of terror and an act of hate,’ ” June 13
Re “Spoiler alert,” Opinion,
June 12
Richard Vogel Associated Press
expressed support for the Orlando shooting victims.
I am part of the LGBT community; which of those
letters I associate with does not matter. Sunday
morning’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.,
opened my now-watery eyes to a few things.
After the shooting, I realized the magnitude to which
our community’s members are so lovingly intertwined.
The “that could’ve been me, a close friend or family
member” thought would not seem to pass. The hurt I felt,
however, proved those victims are family.
On Sunday I bought a rainbow flag to fly for the first
time as the smallest of gestures for those whose lives
were taken. I’ve never felt such pride in being a part of
this community.
On Sunday I was given a new level of appreciation for
our loving allies. They, in many ways, are just as much a
part of the movement for widespread equality.
On Sunday we cried. On Sunday we mourned. On
Sunday we were angry.
Today and tomorrow, we will continue to stand
together, speak out and advance a loving movement that
no amount of hate can tear down.
Daniel Cowell
Monrovia
This tragic massacre is
an act of domestic terrorism, not Islamic terrorism.
It was a uniquely American
act — a mass murder by an
American citizen, a man
born and educated in
America.
It will be said that it was
Islamic State-inspired
because the killer, one
individual, pledged allegiance to the terrorist
group. He could have just
as easily been inspired by
any number of America’s
religious or political
organizations that espouse
bigotry.
America cultivates
discrimination very well on
its own without outside
help. Blaming this horrific
tragedy on Islamic State is
a convenient excuse that
group will be only too
happy to accept. But the
sad truth is, there are
many individuals who
share those same
intolerant views, own the
lethal weaponry and
possess the hatred to
commit this act.
We need to look inward,
not outward.
Janet Haislip
Redlands
::
The tragedy of the
Orlando massacre is made
worse by the reality that
our nation seemingly has
no will to do anything
about it. There is no lack of
ignorant, mentally unstable people in this world and
there is no lack of armaments. We must address
both to bring an end to this
madness.
We too often demonize
those who are different
from us. Ignorance, hate
and mental illness know no
boundaries. People who
are easily influenced by
extremist ideologies are
more numerous than we
care to admit and exist in
every nation, religion,
political persuasion, gender, race and sexual orientation.
We need parents and
leaders not only to
condemn the violence but
also to challenge the
underlying ideologies that
promote hate. We also need
common-sense gun control.
But don’t count on
members of Congress
putting aside their own
ideological differences to
do anything. It’s up to us to
change hearts and minds.
Stephen Newcomer
West Hollywood
Gun control: If
not now, when?
Re “Once again, this time
in Orlando,” editorial,
June 13
As a medical student at
UCLA, I stand for healing
and caring, and it breaks
my heart that underregulated guns work
against this by putting all
of us in harm’s way.
This month I huddled
on the UCLA campus on
lockdown. This weekend
we heard that the worst
gun massacre in U.S. history has happened in Orlando, where so many
people lost a child, a friend,
a partner. Police in Santa
Monica may have narrowly
averted a similar tragedy
at Sunday’s L.A. gay pride
parade.
I encourage everyone to
contact their
representatives and ask
them to support sensible
gun legislation such as
universal background
checks and assault
weapons bans and dedicate funds for the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention to conduct
research on gun violence.
Doing nothing in the
face of this violence is a
decision. Don’t let it be
yours.
Katrina Koslov
Santa Monica
::
In your editorial you say
that “blood is on the hands
of the National Rifle Assn.
and its sycophants in Congress who have conspired
to make this a more dangerous nation.”
Do you actually believe
that if all of the legal guns
in the U.S. are taken away
that this kind of terrorism
would stop? I would like to
remind you of the war on
drugs, which has accomplished nothing. It has not
been able to stop the flow
of illegal drugs across our
borders. Our borders are
open to the flow of illegal
contraband because of the
demand.
The same kind of demand for illegal guns would
provide a flow of guns
across our borders into the
hands of terrorists and
criminals.
Robert Pecoraro
Prescott, Ariz.
::
If we don’t have the
decency to pass reasonable
gun regulations after another mass shooting, then
we deserve someone like
Donald Trump as
president because we don’t
have the courage to demand that something be
done.
The media and
politicians wring their
hands and talk a lot, and
we put flowers and stuffed
animals at the site of the
killings and organize
church vigils, but we do
this over and over and we
don’t vote in politicians
who will stand up to the
National Rifle Assn. and
the gun industry and pass
reasonable laws.
There isn’t any reason
for citizens to own assault
Ralph Nader’s intelligence has never been in
doubt, but his grip on
reality has sometimes been
a different matter.
His criticism of the
two-party system is valid,
and I agree with it. But to
say it’s not possible to split
the vote in a way that helps
an opposing candidate is
absurd.
Presidents can only do
so much good and so much
damage. I would put
George W. Bush’s U.S.
Supreme Court appointments during his two terms
as president in the damage
column — damage that
could have been avoided if
Nader had not insisted on
running as a third-party
candidate in 2000.
I hope Democratic
presidential candidate
Sen. Bernie Sanders
doesn’t make the same
mistake.
Carmen Reid
Santa Barbara
::
When a person runs for
president knowing he
cannot win —
understanding the potential of tipping the results in
a direction he doesn’t even
want or forcing the election
into the House of
Representatives — but
nonetheless runs to make a
political statement or for
an ego massage, that is the
definition of a spoiler.
Donald J. Loundy
Simi Valley
The Bible as
humanity’s diary
Re “You’re reading the
Bible wrong,” Opinion,
June 10
Carel van Schaik and
Kai Michel have an interesting premise, but they
miss a major point.
Yes, the Bible is a series
of stories written to explain
the natural world and the
culture of the time, and it
was changed or modified to
fit new religious dogma
(although comparing this
to doing “what good scientists today would do” is a
bit puzzling).
So we have a diary that
was written in the youth or
perhaps adolescence of
human existence, and then
set in stone. Thus we
should read the book as
the fascinating diary of a
young teenager and not
literal wisdom for the ages.
John Clement
Arleta
::
As a person who has
attended church regularly
my whole life, I was delighted to see this opinion
piece about the Bible. The
ideas expressed in it are
not new, but I don’t see
them expressed in most
forums.
I don’t have to see how
many impossible things I
can believe in my church,
which voted to call ourselves progressive. The
Bible was never meant to
be seen as literal.
The Bible is an important piece of Western culture. But belief in God is
not dependent on belief
that the Bible is a literal
history.
Lake Nofer
Woodland Hills
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Even the
loathsome
have rights
By Ken White
L
ast week’s Gawker Media bankruptcy inspired online triumph.
“What a beautiful day,” tweeted
Hulk Hogan, whose $140-million invasion-of-privacy verdict —underwritten by hostile Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel — doomed Nick Denton’s
snarky online empire. Most were less subtle.
“Goodbye and good riddance to Gawker,” the
New York Post sneered.
It’s tempting to side with the gloaters; I’m
as disgusted by Gawker as the next guy, and
I’m not above feeling a frisson of glee when
bad people face consequences for their actions. But schadenfreude isn’t a 1st Amendment value. From a legal and constitutional
perspective, even Gawker haters should be
troubled by its fate.
Spite arose from partisan hostility to
Gawker’s reliably left-of-center sensibilities.
It was also a reaction to Gawker’s routine
degradation of its targets, and to how
sharply that behavior contrasts with Gawker’s progressive pieties. Gawker Media attacks anti-gay politicians and celebrates advances in gay rights. At the same time, its
writers smugly and self-righteously out gay
men. Recently, Gawker transmuted blackmail into clicks when it participated in a male
escort’s extortion of a married executive
from a rival media empire. Gawker also
champions feminist values, particularly
through its site Jezebel, even as it humiliates
women for traffic. Gawker paid a young man
to describe a sexual encounter with a candidate for U.S. Senate, including a critique of
her pubic hair, because Gawker didn’t like
her politics. A reliable critic of objectifying
women out of one side of its mouth, Gawker
publishes hacked and leaked nudes out of
the other. Gawker offers nihilistic hypocrisy
as clickbait.
Observers were, then, rather skeptical
that Gawker had principled journalistic reasons to publish Hulk Hogan’s sex tape. And
the trial, far from rehabilitating Gawker’s
reputation for professionalism or decency,
soiled it further by dredging up unseemly
episodes from the site’s past. “Blah, blah,
blah,” a Gawker editor wrote in passing along
a complaint from a young woman who was
the subject of a stolen video, eagerly published for clicks, that may have depicted her
rape.
So, yes, Gawker got what was coming in a
karmic sense. Nevertheless, when a jury verdict bankrupts a media company for what it
has published, we ought to examine meticulously whether the company received due
process, whether the court applied the correct 1st Amendment principles, whether the
verdict was based on mere antipathy rather
than law and fact, and whether the damages
are proportionate to the alleged wrongdoing.
The 1st Amendment does not allow courts to
craft new ad hoc exceptions to free-speech
principles when speech is sufficiently upsetting. Rather, courts must carefully determine whether particular speech falls into
well-defined exceptions to the 1st Amendment, such as obscenity or fraud.
Nor should we just assume that the judge
and jury decided the case wisely, because
most of our cherished free-speech rights
have been recognized by appellate courts after judges and juries erred. The right for high
school students to wear black armbands to
protest the Vietnam War, the right to burn a
flag, the right for Hustler magazine to satirize Jerry Falwell, the right for the New York
Times to publish the Pentagon Papers without prior restraint, the requirement that
public officials prove that journalists engaged in actual malice before winning a defamation case — all of these important rights
arose from Supreme Court decisions correcting the mistakes of trial courts and juries.
In short, we shouldn’t just assume that
crushing bad people is just or defensible. We
don’t need the 1st Amendment to defend
popular speech, we need it to protect unpopular speech; our civic obligations are at their
peak precisely when loathsome people are on
the line.
Devotion to the 1st Amendment should
also provoke grave concerns about Thiel’s
open-checkbook funding of Hogan’s lawsuit
against Gawker. What Thiel did wasn’t illegal; he has free-speech rights too. The problem is that Thiel found a way to weaponize
the brokenness of our legal system.
Though Thiel crushed Gawker through
victory, he might well have crushed it in defeat. Defending a civil suit, whatever its
merits, is often a years-long pitched battle.
Eventual vindication rarely comes with reimbursement of fees and costs, let alone compensation for the disruption and stress. Most
victories are Pyrrhic. Few factors deter
vengeance by litigation; one is that litigation
is impossibly expensive, even for plaintiffs. A
billionaire’s support eliminates that barrier
and allows angry people to silence speakers
they hate.
That doesn’t mean we should stop the
rich from funding causes they care about. It
means that the cause of free speech requires
us constantly to reevaluate our legal system
and demand that the process of litigation itself cannot prove ruinous. Again, that’s true
even when hated gossip-mongers are at the
receiving end of that litigation. We owe this
vigilance to ourselves — as the potential next
targets — and to our free-speech heritage.
Ken White is a criminal defense attorney
and civil litigator at Brown White & Osborn
LLP in Los Angeles.
FOR THE RECORD
California primary: A June 10 op-ed article
on primary results said that Assemblyman
Henry Perea of Fresno resigned to take a
government relations job with Chevron.
Perea went to work for the pharmaceutical
industry.
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REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Donald Trump observed a moment of silence for the Orlando shooting victims.
An Orlando conspiracy
O
By Jesse Walker
n Monday morning, Donald
Trump hinted that President
Obama may have welcomed the
slaughter of 49 clubgoers in Orlando, Fla. “He doesn’t get it, or
he gets it better than anybody understands,” the presidential candidate said on
Fox. “It’s one or the other.” He repeated the
sentiment later in the segment, declaring
that Obama “is not tough, not smart — or
he’s got something else in mind.”
Trump left it to his listeners to infer what
that “something else” might be, but it’s not
hard to see what he was implying. The man
is already prone to saying things like “If
President Obama’s goal had been to weaken
America, he could not have done a better
job.” This week, Trump just took it a step
further. Perhaps, he suggested, that really is
Obama’s goal.
These comments were an off-the-cuff encapsulation of one of the core components
of Trumpism: not just conspiracy theories
— they’re rather common among
politicians, even mainstream ones — but
conspiracy theories of a particular kind.
You can divide most of Trump’s conspiracy rhetoric into two categories.
In the first, Trump tries to cast suspicion
on his political rivals. The most infamous
example of this was when he implied that
Ted Cruz’s dad was mixed up with the JFK
assassination, citing the National Enquirer
as his source. Less flamboyantly, he has accused Cruz of stealing the Iowa caucuses
Trump hinted that
Obama welcomed
the slaughter of
49 clubgoers.
and he periodically suggests that the people
who protest his rallies are paid to do so.
The second category is more ideological.
Trump at his core is a nationalist, and nationalists are especially likely to embrace
Enemy Outside stories. In these tales, the
conspirators are based outside the
community’s gates; if they’re not out to conquer your country, they at least aim to subvert and outwit it. Listen to any Trump
speech, and you’re likely to hear some version of this. China is plotting against us.
Mexico is deliberately dumping its
criminals on our side of the border. Syria’s
refugees are a jihadist Trojan horse.
Such stories are central to Trump’s
worldview — and to his sales pitch. “I have
great respect for China, but their leaders are
too smart for our leaders,” he tells us. “Our
leaders don’t have a clue.” That quote
comes from his Super Tuesday victory
speech, but he has said the same thing in
countless ways on countless days: We’re being led by weaklings and naifs; I’ll be the
tough, smart commander the nation needs.
Vote for Trump!
There is a tension here. Those weaklings
and naifs, after all, are the same leaders who
are supposed to be conniving Machiavellis
when it comes to domestic politics — creating false-flag protests, stealing elections,
rigging the game. Now, there are ways to resolve that tension without contradiction.
Given his string of political victories, Trump
can always shrug and say the conspiracy arrayed against him is simply inept. But the
tension is there, and it bubbles up most obviously in Trump’s rhetoric about Obama.
Half a decade ago, Trump leaped headfirst into birtherism. The birther story has
taken several forms, but the usual upshot is
that Obama was born in Africa, not Hawaii,
and therefore has no right to be president.
In other words, the president is foreign and
concealing it; the man charged with defending American interests is not just metaphorically but literally un-American. It’s a
horror movie on a grand political scale: “The
call is coming from inside the White House!”
On some days Trump’s Obama is a wily
alien agent deliberately undermining the
country. Other days, he’s a stupid dupe who
can’t handle the foreign forces assembled
against us.
And if you catch Trump at the right moment, he might bring up both accusations at
once: “He doesn’t get it, or he gets it better
than anybody understands. It’s one or the
other.”
Jesse Walker is books editor of Reason
magazine and author of “The United
States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory.”
After terror, politicians on autopilot
JONAH GOLDBERG
F
riedrich Nietzsche, that great
sage of despair, asked, “What if
some day or night a demon were to
steal into your loneliest loneliness
and say to you: ‘This life as you
now live it and have lived it you will have to
live once again and innumerable times
again; and there will be nothing new in
it…?’ ” Nietzsche called this idea of eternal
recurrence “the heaviest weight.”
In the aftermath of the slaughter in
Orlando, Fla., where 49 people were killed
and even more injured during an attack
early Sunday on a gay nightclub, it seems
many are all too eager to carry a similar
load. As soon as news broke, pundits and
politicians returned to dog-eared scripts to
repeat lines memorized long ago.
President Obama, who has spent his
presidency yearning for the reality he
wants, rather than the one he has, once
again downplayed any suggestion that this
was another battle in the war on Islamic
terrorism he does not want to fight.
“Over the coming days, we’ll uncover
why and how this happened,” the president
promised, referring to a killer who called 911
to proclaim his allegiance to Islamic State.
Obama acknowledged that it was an
“act of terror,” but as John Podhoretz noted
in the New York Post, referring to “terror”
without a modifier is like a doctor discussing “cancer” without identifying its
specific form; it is a way of talking around
the problem without addressing it.
(For her part, presumptive Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton said she was perfectly “happy” to call it “radical Islamic
terrorism.” Beyond that, she offered little
other than staying the course in her desired
third Obama term.)
Obama’s tentativeness gave way to
conviction when he spoke of how “we need
the strength and courage to change” our
attitudes toward gays and lesbians. And
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PRESIDENT OBAMA stressed
the need for gun control.
Both sides used
Orlando to hit the
usual talking points.
conviction gave way to certainty when he
tried to make this attack into one more
example in his brief for gun control.
In this reflexive return to rote thinking,
the president was truly a representative of,
if not the American people, then at least
much of the media and the political class.
The New York Daily News blamed the
attacks on the National Rifle Assn. The
only references to “jihad” on its front page
were not to a self-proclaimed jihadist but
to past cheap shots the newspaper has
taken at the NRA. Left-wing pundits
flipped on the autopilot and tried to make
this slaughter about guns and homophobia (based on the testimony of the killer’s
father, an apparent Taliban supporter no
doubt eager for a different story line).
Meanwhile, many on the right — not to
mention a Republican presidential candidate —immediately turned an atrocity into
an argument for a ban on Muslim immigration. Such a ban would not have stopped a
killer born and raised in the United States,
but it would surely encourage more potential “lone wolves” to believe that America
regards Islam as the enemy. Indeed, banning Muslims as if they were all part of an
undifferentiated blob of terrorists just
happens to echo Islamic State’s
propaganda.
“There are only two armies, two camps,
two trenches,” Muslims and everyone else,
the Islamists proclaimed in a recent communique.
But the GOP’s instant analysts didn’t
limit themselves to relatively new ideas,
such as a ban. Donald Trump surrogate
and possible running mate Newt Gingrich
seized the moment to call for a return of the
House Un-American Activities Committee,
launched during the 1930s. See, it’s not just
Democrats who want to go back to the
Roosevelt years.
At least Gingrich was pointing to the
real problem.
As Obama demonstrated in his remarks, too many elites in this country
reflexively try to make Islamic terrorism
America’s fault. Whether the culprit is
American imperialism, guns, Guantanamo
Bay, or, this week, homophobia, we instantly race to comfortable excuses and
comfortable arguments. The true nature
and scope of the challenge is too unpleasant to contemplate, and so we return to our
scripts and read our lines until the next
slaughter provides an opportunity to read
them all over again.
It’s enough to make you want, as Nietzsche imagined, to “throw yourself down
and gnash your teeth and curse the demon
who spoke thus.”
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Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
[Microsoft, from A1]
fessional network,” Nadella
said in a statement.
He
described
how
LinkedIn’s database of some
433 million users — imagine
Facebook for the cubicle set
—
will
complement
Microsoft’s workplace products
Office
365
and
Dynamics businesses. He
described the “magic” that
will happen when data from
LinkedIn and Microsoft
cross-pollinate. He envisioned how the two companies will “transform the lives
of professionals.”
When PCs were king,
Microsoft was the dominant
force in computing and the
nation’s highest valued company by market capitalization. But as Web browsing
moved to mobile devices,
Apple
and
Google
overshadowed the Redmond, Wash., firm in both
prosperity and prestige.
But the workplace is one
place where Microsoft has
found staying power. The
majority of office computers
still use Windows products,
with estimates from IT management firms that as many
as 90% of office computers
run the Windows operating
system.
The addition of LinkedIn
— which will retain its “distinct brand, culture and independence” after the acquisition, with Chief Executive Jeff Weiner remaining at
the helm — could beef up
Microsoft’s work-focused offerings and make them more
attractive to businesses and
businesspeople.
“It follows in the pattern
of Microsoft trying to use its
huge cash flow from its mature business (Windows and
Microsoft Office) to grab
onto something else that
can grow,” said James Angel,
a professor of finance at
Georgetown’s McDonough
School of Business. He compares Microsoft’s move with
that of IBM, which in the
1990s pivoted away from its
core business of PCs to focus
on software for office workers.
Although analysts are
generally optimistic about
the acquisition, Microsoft’s
past bets have given business experts reason to be
Richard Drew Associated Press
LINKEDIN SHARES soared after word of the company’s acquisition by Microsoft, as seen at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
skeptical.
In 2013, Microsoft paid
$7.2 billion to acquire Nokia’s
mobile phone business and
license all its patents. The
deal was widely considered a
disaster, with Microsoft gutting the Nokia business and
exiting mobile hardware two
years later.
Three
years
earlier,
Microsoft acquired Internet
communications company
Skype for $8.5 billion, the results of which have been
underwhelming. Last year,
it bought Mojang, the company that developed the
video game “Minecraft,” for
$2.5 billion. They jury is still
out on the success of that
move.
“Microsoft doesn’t have a
great track record of success
with these acquisitions,” Angel said.
LinkedIn is a treasure
trove of professional data,
according to Gene Marks,
founder of the Marks Group
PC, a firm that specializes in
customer relationship management software. One po-
tential opportunity is Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the
customer relationship management platform that lets
businesses analyze and
manage interactions with
customers.
By
integrating
with
LinkedIn, Microsoft’s platform could access frequently
updated user and business
profiles, as well as information on people’s professional
connections — a valuable asset in generating sales leads.
This could help Microsoft
fend off competition from a
younger rival that has
inched into the world of business software: Salesforce.com.
Last year the CRM industry brought in $26 billion
in revenue, according to
data research firm Gartner,
of which Salesforce had
19.7% market share. Microsoft had 4.3%. The industry
continues to grow at double
digits year over year.
“Microsoft is looking for a
way to defeat Salesforce,
and I think they’ve found it,”
Marks said.
The acquisition is a “big
and bold step” for Microsoft
and a “great deal” for
LinkedIn, said Gregory
Sichenzia, a partner at securities law firm Sichenzia
Ross Friedman Ference,
who said both companies
will breathe new life into
each other.
LinkedIn has in recent
years struggled to grow its
user base and hit revenue
targets. The Mountain View,
Calif., company attracts 105
million visitors to its site and
mobile app every month,
compared with Twitter’s 305
million and Facebook’s 1.65
billion monthly users. One of
its biggest challenges, analysts say, has been persuading users to log on when they
aren’t searching for work.
The company’s stock
took a dive in February, falling 43% and wiping out $11
billion in value after it lowered its revenue projections
for 2016. Until Monday’s acquisition news, LinkedIn’s
stock had spent the last
three and a half months depressed. A hacker last
month offered for sale more
than 100 million LinkedIn
passwords.
“A lot of people feel that
LinkedIn has gotten stale,
and it couldn’t grow beyond
what it’s already done,”
Sichenzia said. “Microsoft
has also become somewhat
stale — it’s not where the excitement is anymore, so
Microsoft will be a terrific
partner that can grow
LinkedIn in ways it couldn’t
grow itself, and having
LinkedIn puts Microsoft at
the level of a younger, hipper,
more socially relevant company.”
Analysts also speculated
that Microsoft has financial
incentives for spending big.
Mike Wade, a professor at
IMD Business School, noted
that the company is sitting
on $100 billion in cash and
short-term investments — a
big weight on the balance
sheet.
“The pressure to spend it
or issue a special dividend,
as it has done in the past,
was mounting,” Wade said.
“Better to spend it than to
lose it.”
Microsoft will pay $196
per share of LinkedIn in the
all-cash transaction, a 50%
premium on LinkedIn’s closing stock price of $131.08 on
Friday.
Despite the premium,
Microsoft’s offer is still
significantly lower than
LinkedIn’s 52-week high of
$258 a share. On Monday,
shares of LinkedIn soared
$61.13, or 46.6%, to $192.21.
Microsoft closed down $1.34,
or 2.6%, to $50.14.
The deal has been unanimously approved by both
companies’ boards of directors and is subject to approval
by
LinkedIn’s
shareholders and other
regulatory approvals. It is
expected to close this year.
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Twitter: @traceylien
Times staff writer
Samantha Masunaga
contributed to this report.
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ORLANDO M AS SACRE
Gilbert Michel took
a $1,500 bribe to
smuggle a cellphone
to an inmate in an
L.A. County lockup.
By Joel Rubin
Mark Boster Los Angeles Times
THE ROOF of artist ChadMichael Morrisette’s West Hollywood home has a jumble of 50 mannequins, symbolizing the victims in Orlando.
Joined together in solidarity
More than 2,000
people at L.A. City
Hall and others at
vigils across the area
honor the victims.
By Emily Alpert Reyes,
Jason Song
and Ben Poston
They came to pay their
respects, to mourn, to comfort each other.
The crowd of more than
2,000 people gathered Monday evening at the steps of
Los Angeles City Hall to honor the victims of the mass
shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., over
the weekend.
“We are with our family in
Orlando and everywhere
else our community faces
hate and violence,” said Justine Gonzalez, a member of
the Los Angeles Transgender Advisory Council.
“And so I urge each and
every one of us to love, to
never slow down. To show
the agents of fear and hate
that they can’t win. They will
not hate us away.”
As the names of the 49
people killed were read
aloud, the crowd lifted their
smartphones into the air,
making a starry night of the
masses gathered before City
Hall.
Singer Lady Gaga, whose
[See Vigil, B5]
An additional
safety precaution
West Hollywood gay bar
is considering armed
guards after the Orlando
shooting. LOS ANGELES, B4
Katie Falkenberg Los Angeles Times
ALISON COSSIO, center, holds a photo of her friend, Christopher Sanfeliz, who was one of those killed in the
massacre. Standing behind her is her husband, Luis Dieppa. The names of the victims were read aloud.
‘He was young and dumb’
Armed man headed to
Pride fest made gun
threats and had other
troubles with the law.
By Brittny Mejia,
Veronica Rocha
and Joseph Serna
It was a random yet chilling discovery.
Just hours after a gunman had opened fire at a
popular gay nightclub in
Florida, Santa Monica police stumbled upon a parked
motorist with a cache of
weapons and explosive
chemicals — some displayed
openly in his vehicle.
When asked what he was
doing, 20-year-old James
Wesley Howell told officers
he was bound for the L.A.
Pride festival.
As the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community
and the nation as a whole on
Monday continued to mourn
the deaths of 49 Orlando
clubgoers, investigators in
California said they did not
believe Howell’s actions
were tied to the massacre or
that he had intended to
cause harm at L.A. Pride.
Nevertheless,
it
remained unclear exactly why
Howell had driven from his
home state of Indiana with a
small arsenal — and what, if
anything, he intended to do
with it.
Those with knowledge of
Howell’s past said he has a
hot temper and a penchant
for intimidation.
“The boy was young and
Uh, this could get awkward
House Democrats have a difficult choice: Harris or Sanchez?
By Sarah D. Wire
With two Democrats on
the ballot for the U.S. Senate
for the first time in state history, California’s House
Democrats are attempting
to minimize the awkwardness that could come with
the intra-party fight.
Lawmakers who serve
with Orange County Rep.
Loretta Sanchez are split on
whom to back in the race to
replace Sen. Barbara Boxer:
their longtime colleague or
Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris,
who won 40% of the vote to
the congresswoman’s 19% in
Tuesday’s primary.
According to the campaigns, 17 of California’s 39
House Democrats have endorsed Sanchez and nine
have endorsed Harris. The
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
Mark Boster Los Angeles Times
ACCORDING to the campaigns, nine of California’s
39 House Democrats back Kamala Harris, left, and 17
support Loretta Sanchez; the rest have yet to choose.
other 12 are sitting it out so
far, as are Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Boxer.
Rep. Mike Thompson (DSt. Helena) said Wednesday
he’s worked with Harris on
gun violence prevention, an
issue that’s dear to him.
“I was impressed with
her. I think she’s smart, I
think she would make a good
U.S. senator,” Thompson
said.
He said he was concerned
that Sanchez had told the
combined editorial boards
of McClatchy’s California
newspapers in April that
everything,
including
changes to the Endangered
Species Act, should be on
the table to address the
state’s water needs. Thompson said he and Sanchez
spoke about it.
“She said that was her
position, and I explained to
her that if it were, I couldn’t
be with her,” Thompson
said. “I like Loretta, we’re
friends. But in my district
the Endangered Species Act
is life or death.”
Rep. Jared Huffman (DSan Rafael) has known Harris since she was a district attorney in San Francisco. He
[See Democrats, B8]
dumb and had a mouth on
him,” said Jeremy Hebert, a
former Indiana neighbor
who once was threatened at
gunpoint by Howell, according to court documents.
Howell was arrested just
before 5 a.m. Sunday in
Santa Monica after a resident reported a suspected
prowler. Officers arrived to
find Howell sitting in his
white Acura.
Upon searching the vehicle, they discovered three assault rifles, high-capacity
[See Pride, B4]
A former Los Angeles
County sheriff ’s deputy at
the center of the jail scandal
that rocked the department
and led to the conviction of
21 agency officials, including
the former sheriff, was sentenced Monday to six
months in federal prison.
Gilbert Michel was the
first to be charged in the
wide-ranging FBI investigation into misconduct and
corruption in the jails after
he was caught in a sting operation smuggling a cellphone to an inmate in return
for a $1,500 bribe.
In sending Michel to prison, U.S. District Judge Percy
Anderson rejected a request
from prosecutors that he
spare Michel time behind
bars. The request for leniency stemmed from a plea
agreement
prosecutors
struck with Michel, in which
he pleaded guilty to the bribery charge and agreed to testify against other sheriff ’s officials in subsequent trials.
Anderson did go more
lightly than he could have,
setting aside sentencing
guidelines that called for
Michel to be sent away for 24
to 30 months. But the government’s recommendation
that Michel be given just
four months of home detention was not acceptable to
the judge, who has handled
many of the cases stemming
from the FBI investigation
and come down harshly on
other sheriff ’s officials who
were convicted.
After Michel offered a
tearful apology for taking
the bribe — a crime that he
said he “will forever regret”
— Anderson said the misconduct had been “a gross
abuse of the public’s trust.”
“The defendant’s actions
were symptomatic of a department where abuse of inmates
was
rampant,
unchecked and corruption
went all the way to the top,”
Anderson added.
The August 2011 discovery of the cellphone by sheriff ’s officials exposed the
FBI’s secret investigation
and disrupted the bureau’s
plans to carry out a more
ambitious plan — Operation
Blue Line — targeting corruption inside the Sheriff ’s
Department.
[See Michel, B6]
New approach to
grading teachers
Critics warn the
change may favor
educators, not pupils.
By Howard Blume
Sebastian, who goes by
one name, takes issue with
the new teacher evaluation
system in Los Angeles. Her
rating has declined, unfairly
in her view.
The San Pedro High
teacher is hardly the only
one with concerns.
Some see the observation-based system — negotiated by the district and
unions — as too friendly
toward teachers. Others say
it’s too cumbersome or too
reliant on principals with
limited expertise.
Supporters see the district’s approach as breaking
ground, even leading the nation. Critics say the kind of
political compromise it was
born of inevitably promotes
mediocrity and fails to help
students.
The latest revisions to
the 1-year-old system are expected to win formal approval at Tuesday’s Board of Ed[See Teachers, B7]
A push to
redefine rape
A bill seeks to broaden
the definition beyond
“an act of sexual
intercourse.” B3
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T U E S DAY, J U N E 14 , 2 016
L AT I ME S . CO M
CALIFORNIA RETROSPECTIVE
Winged
‘army’ kept
watch over
L.A. tower
No one knew what
to call the sculptural
figures that made the
Richfield Building,
razed in 1969, distinct.
SCOTT HARRISON
For years the Richfield
Building dominated the
downtown Los Angeles
skyline, an art-deco neontopped masterpiece that is
considered one of the city’s
most beloved buildings.
But in 1969, the new
downtown — with its modern high-rises — meant the
end for the Richfield Building. It was torn down to
make way for the Arco twin
towers.
In April 1969, The Times
wrote about some of the
unlikely refugees of the
Richfield Building’s demise:
For 40 years they stood
guard over the black-gold
fortress at Flower and 6th
Sts. that was the Richfield
Building.
From 15 floors they
watched Los Angeles
From 15 floors
they watched
Los Angeles
around them grow
from simple order
to smoggy
complexity.
around them grow from
simple order to smoggy
complexity. They saw the
gaudiness of their own
building turn to art.
Now they lie strewn
about a Cleveland Wrecking
Co. yard like a defeated
army.
Soldiers? Is that what
these mysterious creatures
were supposed to be? Soldiers with golden wings?
Maybe angels. But angels with Roman helmets
and breastplates?
“I don’t know what the
heck they’re called,” an
employee at Cleveland
Wrecking said Wednesday
while poring over invoices.
“I know we’re selling ’em
for a hundred bucks each. It
cost us that to tear ’em
down.”
He said they were hauled
into the yard at 3170 E. Washington Blvd. about a month
ago. There are 40 of them.
Workmen arranged them
in several rows, some sitting
straight up like a Harvard
crew, some lying on their
backs. A few have fallen
forward, their gold-colored
Roman noses buried in
asphalt.
Other than being ripped
from the building at waist
level, the figures suffered
few casualties — a broken
nose here, a clipped wing
there. Two were
decapitated
After 40 years in sun and
rain their brilliant gold
glaze remains only in recesses, their eye sockets,
their navels, the insides of
their wings.
During all that time they
faced only one real test as
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guardians of the Richfield
Building. And they blew it.
The Cleveland Wreckers
picked them off easily, one
by one.
“It took about two
weeks,” said Dick Laws,
superintendent of the job.
“We put a choke around the
neck and one around the
waist and just cut away the
concrete.
“I’ll say this, they came
down a lot harder than they
went up.”
Laws didn’t know what
the figures were supposed to
be called. “They usually call
those things gargoyles,
don’t they? At least they
served that purpose,” he
said.
Neither did Mickey Parr,
a public relations man at
Atlantic Richfield.
“I guess nobody around
here has ever bothered to
ask,” he explained. However, he dug out a 1930 copy of
Arts and Architecture and
read the following caption:
“Heroic in size, impressive in conception, are the
sculptural figures designed
by Haig Patigian which
crown the main walls with a
fairly regal procession of
silhouetted torsos.
“This figure is a highly
conventionalized
suggestion of motive
power.”
“I don’t know what it
means either,” said Parr.
“Perhaps the oil
executives of the day considered them merely expansive hood ornaments.”
A few of the guards have
survived. In 2010, The Times
wrote about one man who
snagged a piece of the building for himself:
John Malmin Los Angeles Times
WRECKERS removed 40 gilded terra cotta sculptures that resembled Roman soldiers with angel’s wings
from the Richfield Building, a downtown L.A. landmark that was torn down in 1969. A few have survived.
For his first 40 years he
looked down on 6th Street in
downtown Los Angeles. For
the next 40 years he looked
down on a frontyard in
Santa Ana.
Now the stone-faced
figure wearing a Roman
soldier's helmet and breastplate and angel's wings is
gazing upon the polished
concrete floor of Eric
Lynxwiler's Los Angeles
loft.
The 1½-ton terra cotta
sculpture is one of the few
surviving remnants of the
Richfield Building, a blacksided, gold-trimmed landmark that was topped by an
oil-derrick tower and
served as a monument to
petroleum.
Ornate elevator doors
from the Richfield are on
display in the courtyard
between the twin towers.
scott.harrison
@latimes.com
Larry Sharkey Los Angeles Times
THE oil-derrick tower, atop the Richfield in 1965, served as a petroleum monument, The Times wrote in 2010.
SCIENCE FILE
Seeing marine fish in a new light
Bioluminescence is so
useful that it evolved
27 times, a study says.
DEBORAH NETBURN
We don’t often encounter
species that produce their
own light here on land.
Fireflies do it. Some millipedes and fungi do it. That’s
about it.
But in the murky depths
of the ocean, it’s a whole
different glowing story.
About 1,000 to 1,500 feet
beneath the ocean surface,
in a region known as the
deep scattering layer, there
can be so much bioluminescence that the sea looks as if
it is twinkling with blue
stars.
“As you get deeper and
deeper in the water column,
it becomes less and less
penetrable to sunlight,” said
Matt Davis, an ichthyologist
at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. “The
only light many of these
Matt Davis
BIOLUMINESCENCE allows fish to communicate with one another, hide their
silhouettes from predators or ward off an attack, scientists say.
animals see is made from
other organisms.”
The almost magical
ability of creatures to
chemically create their own
light serves a lot of purposes
in the deep sea. Fish use
bioluminescence to communicate with one another,
hide their silhouettes from
low-lurking predators, as a
way to lure prey, and even as
a defense mechanism.
The shining tubeshoulder fish got its name because it squirts a blob of
bioluminescent goo out of
its shoulder when it is being
attacked, using the flash of
light to confuse its
predators as it escapes into
the darkness.
Bioluminescence is so
useful to underwater creatures that it turns out it
evolved independently at
least 27 times in marine fish
alone, according to a new
study in PLOS One.
“When we see something
that’s repeatedly evolving
over and over again, that’s a
good clue that it is of
biological importance,” said
Davis, who led the work.
Previous studies on
bioluminescence have
found that the ability for an
organism to create its own
light evolved 40 times across
the tree of life. The new
study, which focused entirely on ray-finned fish,
suggests that this evolutionary adaptation occurred
many more times than that.
Not all fish use it in the
same way. The authors’
genetic analysis suggests
that intrinsic bioluminescence — when a fish creates
and emits light without any
help from bacterial symbiosis — evolved eight times.
Bacterially mediated bioluminescence evolved 17
times.
The genetic analysis also
allowed them to see that the
evolution of these lightmaking phenomena began
as early as 150 million years
ago and continues.
deborah.netburn
@latimes.com
Twitter: @DeborahNetburn
L AT I ME S . CO M
T U E SDAY , J U N E 14 , 2 016
B3
THE STATE
Lawmakers
pressing for
gun control
With the Legislature
about to take key
votes on 11 bills,
officials use Orlando
attack to spur action.
By Patrick McGreevy
John Gastaldo San Diego Union-Tribune
ELIZABETH DENNY, 13, president of the Julian and Santa Ysabel 4-H Club, locks the pigpen at her family’s
home near Lake Cuyamaca as part of a Mountain Lion Foundation project to keep mountain lions at bay.
Saving predators and prey
A game warden, landowners and 4-H club members work
to fortify structures to protect livestock and mountain lions
By J. Harry Jones
Volunteers gathered this
weekend at a home near
Julian to work on a project
aimed at protecting both
area livestock and mountain
lions.
The wild animals and the
farm animals frequently
have had contact — in ways
potentially fatal to all.
Mountain lions are protected animals and it is illegal to hunt them. But rules
change when a puma kills
livestock, said Game Warden Jorge Paz. If there is
strong evidence that a
mountain lion is responsible
for a livestock death, the
state is required to offer the
landowner a “degradation
permit,” which allows for the
killing of the lion within 10
days should it be seen or
trapped on the property.
Three area mountain
lions have been killed in the
last eight months after livestock attacks.
The weekend project,
organized by the national
Mountain Lion Foundation,
brought together scientists,
a state game warden, 4-H
club members and local
landowners.
The aim was to build a
protective pigpen to keep
lions out and, in the end, protect the lives not just of prey
but of predators.
“It’s obvious that if you
don’t work to preserve and
protect the livestock you’re
not going to be able to preserve and protect the mountain lions,” said Lynn Cullens, the Mountain Lion
Foundation’s associate director.
In Julian in the last couple of years, mountain lions
have eaten penned chickens,
goats and sheep. Usually
lions won’t stick around a
specific area and feed on
livestock more than once or
twice, but that has not been
the case on the Denny property near Lake Cuyamaca.
In October something
got into the chicken coop
and ate all but two birds. The
next two nights, Brian
Denny saw a mountain lion
trying to get into the reinforced coop.
His wife, Tara, soon encountered the lion when she
went outside to find out why
the chickens were “screaming.”
“I was bent over talking
to the chickens and didn’t
think to look behind me,”
she said. When she did, a
mountain lion stared at her
from just a few feet away. “I
screamed probably the loudest I could and then I did the
thing they tell you never to
do. I ran for it,” she said.
Her husband was just
pulling into the driveway. He
said he’d never seen his wife
move so fast. “Her feet never
hit the ground.”
He and his teenage son
Trevor armed themselves
with a rifle and a shotgun
and went outside to look for
their dog. Brian saw the lion
crouched next to the house.
“I was aiming at it but I
didn’t want to shoot a lion,”
he said. “Not only is it not
cool, it’s a huge hassle and a
big mess and a really important animal.”
But the lion acted menacingly, so Denny killed it.
In May, 13-year-old Elizabeth Denny — the president
of the Julian and Santa Ysabel 4-H Club — lost three
show pigs she had been raising for this summer’s Ramona Fair to at least two
lions that jumped the pen’s
6-foot fence with apparent
ease. A trail camera caught
one of the attacks on film.
Degradation permits were
obtained, and two lions were
killed.
“We do appreciate (the
lions). It was very sad when
they had to be put down,”
Tara Denny said. “It wasn’t a
victorious thing. We cried. It
was awful. The whole thing
was sad.”
Just last week, another lion showed up on the property, denting the roof of the
chicken coop.
The Dennys agreed to
work with the foundation on
the demonstration project
because they want alternative ways to protect their
livestock. The chain-link pen
is enclosed on all sides and
on the top to better keep
lions out.
At the weekend gathering, people also saw various
devices that use noise and
lights to ward off unwanted
wildlife.
Paz said in his eight years
as game warden, this is the
first time that landowners
and the Mountain Lion
Foundation have joined
forces in such an effort.
“It’s a step in the right direction,” he said.
jharry.jones
@utsandiego.com
Jones writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
SACRAMENTO — On
the eve of key votes on a
package of 11 gun control
bills, California lawmakers
on Monday cited the Orlando massacre as a call for
approval of the measures,
and opponents of the measures accused the legislators
of exploiting a tragedy.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom,
who has proposed a gun control initiative for November,
said the Orlando attack that
killed 49 people and December’s terrorist shooting in
San Bernardino that killed
14 are brutal evidence that
existing gun laws are not
working.
“This is a uniquely horrific tragedy that is unprecedented,” Newsom said Monday. “The fact that this individual allegedly was able to
purchase an assault rifle so
easily despite being watched
by the FBI suggests that our
gun laws are wholly inadequate in this country.”
Newsom and Democratic
state lawmakers said Congress has failed to act so the
states must.
“Why are guns that are so
dangerous to human life
available so easily?” asked
Assemblyman Marc Levine
(D-San Rafael), one of four
legislators at a news conference in San Francisco on
Monday.
“Yesterday’s tragedy was
a call to action. The loss of
life in our communities has
become unbearable.”
California law bans the
sale of AR-15-style assault
weapons like the one reportedly in possession of Omar
Mateen when he killed 49
people and wounded more
than 50 others at a nightclub
in Orlando.
However, Assemblyman
Phil Ting (D-San Francisco)
said the bills scheduled for
action Tuesday in legislative
committees would close
loopholes that allow the sale
of semiautomatic rifles with
detachable
ammunition
Doctor indicted
in drug scheme
By Richard Winton
A federal grand jury has
indicted an Orange County
doctor and his two physician
assistants on allegations of
drug trafficking, saying they
issued prescriptions for dangerous and addictive narcotics, including oxycodone
and methadone, without a
medical purpose.
Within days of seeing Dr.
Victor Boon Huat Siew, at
least four patients he wrote
prescriptions for died of
drug overdoses, according
to the 56-count indictment
made public Monday. Those
deaths occurred in 2009, 2010
and 2013, it said.
Siew, 65, of Laguna
Beach, is accused of seeing
“patients” at his Fountain
Valley clinic — some of
whom were addicted to
drugs, and some of whom
were undercover law enforcement officers — and issuing prescriptions outside
the usual course of professional practice.
The indictment said Siew
and his employees allegedly
wrote prescriptions for narcotics for “patients” who
often paid cash for office
visits that typically involved
only the most cursory examination, if at all.
Siew and his employees
repeatedly wrote prescriptions for oxycodone and
methadone,
authorities
said.
“Opioids such as oxycodone and methadone can
bring substantial benefits to
patients who truly need
these drugs,” said U.S. Atty.
Eileen M. Decker. “But narcotics such as these also
threaten the lives of people
who abuse the drugs or become addicted. Medical professionals who prescribe
dangerous drugs without a
medical need are harming
patients and threaten entire
communities when these
drugs are diverted to the
black market.”
The indictment charges
one count of conspiracy to
distribute controlled substances and 55 counts of illegal distribution of a controlled substance by a practitioner. Each defendant is
charged in multiple, but not
all, distribution counts.
Siew is due to surrender
Tuesday; physician assistant Thanh Nha T. Pham, 45,
of Fountain Valley has
agreed to surrender to authorities this week. The second physician assistant,
Kaitlyn Phuong Nguyen, 31,
was arrested by federal authorities in the Bay Area.
Eachcharge carries a
maximum sentence of 20
years in federal prison.
richard.winton
@latimes.com
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STANFORD graduates wear “1/3” signs. The fraction reflects a statistic that says
1 in 3 female students will experience a sexual assault by the time she graduates.
Calif. lawmakers say it’s
time to redefine rape
By John Myers
SACRAMENTO — Amid
the intense debate over the
sentence given a former
Stanford student after a
campus sexual assault, two
members of the California
Legislature say the state’s
definition is out of date.
“We found a loophole in
California’s criminal code
and need to fix the law to
send a strong message that
we do not accept rape in Cal-
ifornia,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (DBell Gardens).
Garcia and Assemblywoman Susan Eggman (DStockton) introduced Monday a bill to broaden the
state’s definition of rape as
beyond “an act of sexual
intercourse.” That would include “penetration” of any
kind without consent.
The lawmakers said that
the six-month jail sentence
for Brock Turner, the former
Stanford student found
guilty in the attack, was
limited because the assault
did not fit the existing definition of rape.
Eggman called it an “archaic definition” that “finds
any excuse to be lenient with
rapists.” Both women have
been outspoken about the
Stanford case, with Garcia
signing on to political efforts
to remove the Santa Clara
County judge who handed
down the sentence.
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LT. GOV. Gavin Newsom
says Orlando and San
Bernardino show existing gun laws don’t work.
magazines.
Other bills would outlaw
the possession of magazines
with a capacity of more than
10 bullets and require background checks for people
who buy ammunition.
“We want to make sure we
have opportunities to grieve
right now,” Ting said. “But at
the same time we do have an
opportunity to take action.”
Newsom’s
initiative
would also require background checks for ammo
purchasers, ban large-capacity magazines and dictate quick removal of
firearms from those disqualified from owning them because of a felony conviction
or other factor.
Lawrence
Keane,
a
leading advocate for gun
owners, accused the legislators of trying to use a horrible tragedy to gain political
ground for bad legislation.
“This is just the latest effort by anti-gun politicians
to exploit tragedy to extinguish what little remains of
the Second Amendment in
California,” said Keane, a
senior vice president of the
National Shooting Sports
Foundation.
Tuesday’s hearings are
expected to be packed with
opponents, including Chuck
D. Michel, president of the
California Rifle & Pistol
Assn., who condemned the
violence in Orlando.
“The worst response to
attacks like this is to strip
law-abiding citizens of their
rights and the ability to protect themselves and their
families,” Michel said.
The bills pending in the
Legislature were introduced
in response to the Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. Democratic Assemblymen Rob Bonta of Oakland
and David Chiu of San Francisco also said the Orlando
mass shooting shows that
action is overdue.
“After the tragedies in
Newtown, [Conn.], and San
Bernardino, our community
demanded action, and this
week approximately another 50 families will be planning funerals for their loved
ones,” Bonta said.
Ting is author of a bill
that would expand a yearold law allowing law enforcement and family members to
ask a court to issue a restraining order to take guns
away from people who they
believe are dangerous.
“If Florida had what we
have in California, a gun violence restraining order,
people could have acted,”
Ting said.
“What we had [in Orlando] is law enforcement
had concerns, this person’s
wife had concerns.”
The news conference was
also attended by leaders of
the gay and Muslim communities who condemned the
Orlando shooting but did
not take a position on the
pending gun control bills.
Senate leader Kevin de
León (D-Los Angeles) also
urged approval of the gun
bills.
“There are logical steps
we can take to prevent
highly destructive weapons
from getting into the wrong
hands, responsible ways to
do it, and we can take action
right now,” De León said in a
statement
Sunday.
“Thoughts and prayers are
not enough.”
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@latimes.com
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LOS ANGELES
Gay bar
weighs
adding
guards
Well-known West
Hollywood venue
considers increasing
its security after the
Orlando shooting.
By Hailey
Branson-Potts
Photographs by Harrison Hill Los Angeles Times
VANESSA DELIRA, a student at Owensmouth High School, waves to her family during the graduation ceremony in the football
stadium at East Los Angeles College. Alternative schools serve students who need to recover credits or learn on flexible schedules.
EYES ON THE PRIZE
Students who took nontraditional routes celebrate their hardearned degrees from alternative L.A. Unified high schools
By Sonali Kohli
Destin Thompson attended five
high schools in two states as his
mother traveled in search of work.
He started high school in Compton, then moved to Nevada. When
his mother lost her job, they wound
up back in Los Angeles.
Keeping up with each new
school’s demands was hard for
Thompson. But finding his way to
L.A.’s Patton High School helped.
The alternative school allowed him
to make up credits and take the
classes he needed to finish high
school with his peers.
Last week, Thompson was one
of hundreds of Los Angeles Unified
School District students to graduate from two dozen alternative
high schools.
The ceremony at East Los Angeles College included most of the
district’s educational options program schools, which serve students who haven’t graduated on
time or who need to recover credits
or learn on flexible schedules.
Most graduates take nontraditional paths to the finish line.
Jaileene Flores, who rocked a
mustache-adorned bow tie and a
Ravenclaw-inspired cap, went to
three high schools in Texas and
L.A. before graduating from Youth
Opportunities Unlimited Alternative High School in South L.A.
It’s hard to track credits, make
sure they transfer and keep up with
lasses when you’re moving a lot,
students said. The alternative and
continuation schools are more
likely to accept credits from other
states, and allow students to take
more classes in one semester.
Walter Webb and Chandra McPherson sat in the crowd Wednesday watching their son Christo-
L.A. UNIFIED high school students wait to walk to their seats for the graduation ceremony. The
alternative and continuation campuses are more likely to accept credits from other states.
pher Webb graduate from Henry
David Thoreau Continuation High
School in Woodland Hills. They
know what a struggle he had.
Christopher, 17, attended three
high schools in three different
states: Illinois, North Carolina and
California. He was home-schooled
for two years while his parents were
in custody negotiations. Halfway
through this school year, while he
lived with his father in North Carolina, Christopher realized he
would not be able to graduate on
time, McPherson said.
So he moved to L.A., where his
mom lives, and enrolled in Thoreau, where he finished 12 classes in
eight weeks so he could graduate
Wednesday.
“He just whipped through
them,” working from 8 a.m. until
midnight many days, McPherson
said. “He was not playing.”
McPherson knows her son did
not spend as much time with the
materials as students at traditional schools do, and that he
might have a lower-quality high
school education because of it. But
she said her son already has a plan
for the future. He’s going on to a
two-year college with plans to
transfer to a four-year college.
“At some point you’ve just got to
say, ‘I’ve just got to get it done,’ ”
McPherson said.
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A well-known West Hollywood gay bar is considering
making armed security
guards a regular presence
after Sunday’s mass shooting in a Florida nightclub.
During the L.A. Pride celebration just hours after the
attack in Orlando, Abbey
Food & Bar increased its security, with 36 guards on
duty — including a visible
armed presence at the front
and back entrances at all
times, said Brian Rosman, a
spokesman for the bar.
The Abbey is considering
making armed guards routine, especially during peak
times such as Pride, Rosman said. “It’s something
we’re looking at moving forward,” he said. “We’re going
to talk more with the sheriff
and City Hall to figure out
the appropriate safety precautions.”
The Robertson Boulevard bar, he said, already
searches patrons’ bags and
purses and asks them to
open up bulky coats to see if
they have anything dangerous underneath, Rosman
said. On Sunday, the bar was
“extra vigilant,” he said.
“It was about keeping our
patrons safe and making
sure people felt safe,” Rosman said. “We were worried
with the news out of Orlando. We didn’t know what
would happen.”
The attack at the Pulse
nightclub — the deadliest
mass shooting in American
history — left 49 people dead
and at least 53 injured.
David Cooley, owner and
founder of the Abbey, was in
regular contact with Los Angeles
County
sheriff ’s
deputies at the West Hollywood station to figure out
the best safety precautions,
Rosman said.
Thousands of people
lined the streets for the annual Pride parade Sunday,
many of them saying it was
more important than ever
before to be visible and to
not let hatred push them
back into the closet.
The Abbey staff, Rosman
said, did not consider closing and had large crowds
throughout the day. At 3
p.m., the crowd observed a
moment of silence.
“It was really unusual to
see the Abbey at full capacity
and completely silent during
Pride weekend,” Rosman
said.
hailey.branson
@latimes.com
Suspect, on probation, charged in Kentucky
[Pride, from B1]
magazines,
ammunition
and a 5-gallon bucket containing “chemicals capable
of forming an improvised explosive device,” police said.
Howell was booked by
Santa Monica police on suspicion of possessing an explosive device, possessing a
loaded firearm in a vehicle
and possessing high-capacity magazines.
According to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller,
Howell “remains in state
custody while investigators
consult with prosecutors at
the district attorney’s office
in Los Angeles and the
United States attorney’s office to determine whether
Mr. Howell will be charged at
either the state or federal
level in relation to the
weapons and other items
found in his vehicle.”
Howell is being held in
lieu of $500,000 bond and was
scheduled to appear in court
Tuesday, jail records show.
Indiana
court
documents show that Howell had been accused on
three
occasions
of
threatening people with
firearms; in two of those, the
alleged victim was a man
who identified himself as
Howell’s boyfriend.
In October 2015, at a
McDonald’s in Charlestown,
Ind., a manager informed
law enforcement that one of
her employees, Richard
Hambrick, had said his
boyfriend had called and
threatened to shoot him
when he got off work.
When the officer spoke
with Howell, he denied the
allegations.
Days later, officers were
called to Howell’s residence,
where they were met by
Hambrick, who said he was
there to collect some of his
possessions. When he entered the yard, Hambrick
said, Howell came out with
an “AR rifle,” pointed it at
him and told him to leave.
“James told me if I
stepped foot in his yard, he
would kill me,” Hambrick
told police. A witness, according to court records,
verified Hambrick’s account.
Howell, however, told police that he told Hambrick to
leave his yard and then
grabbed his rifle, held it up
on
his
shoulder
and
continued to ask him to
leave. Other witnesses said
that Howell had not pointed
a weapon at Hambrick.
One day later, Howell
pointed a gun at a neighbor
who was arguing with one of
his roommates. Howell was
arrested on charges of intimidation with a weapon and
pointing a firearm, convicted and sentenced to probation earlier this year,
court documents show.
One neighbor told police
that Howell “is going to get
AFP/Getty Images
JAMES Wesley Howell
was found with weapons
and chemicals, police say.
someone hurt and he needs
to quit pointing guns at people,” documents show.
Months later, he was arrested in Kentucky for allegedly evading police during a
traffic stop.
Howell was stopped in
February on an expressway
in Jefferson County for a
traffic violation, said his attorney, Ryan Vantrease. The
officer approached Howell
in his vehicle, got his driver’s
license information, and
then returned to his police
cruiser.
That’s when Howell
“gunned out of there,”
Vantrease said. “There was
no high-speed chase or anything like that,” he said.
Howell got away, but police had his information. Investigators presented evidence to the district attorney, who filed charges
against Howell, his attorney
said. In that case, Howell is
charged with felony evading
a police officer, reckless driving and speeding.
Robert Boyd, Howell’s
second attorney in the Kentucky case, told The Times
on Monday that his client’s
parents were “shocked to
learn about the situation” in
Santa Monica and were
“fully cooperating” with federal investigators.
Initially, Santa Monica
Police Chief Jacqueline
Seabrooks said on Twitter
that Howell had told one of
her officers that he wanted
“to harm Gay Pride event.” A
department spokesman later said the tweet was a misstatement and that although Howell told investigators that he was going to
the Pride festival, he did not
make statements about his
intentions.
Boyd said Howell’s family
was concerned about the
Santa Monica Police Department spreading “misinformation” about their son’s
arrest.
Details about the case,
Boyd said, “may have been
blown out of proportion.”
“They are very interested
to find out the true facts of
the case,” he said.
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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING
WESTLAKE
One person dies, 3 are
rescued from office fire
One person was killed Monday evening in a fire at an office building in Westlake, authorities said.
Firefighters rescued three people from the two-story
building, but a fourth person was confirmed dead at the
scene, said Brian Humphrey, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The four were described as “unauthorized occupants” of
the building, Humphrey said.
Los Angeles police have interviewed a “person of interest” and the fire remains under investigation, Humphrey
said.
Fire crews arrived just after 7 p.m. to find flames engulfing a large building at 2411 W. 8th St., Humphrey said. It took
145 firefighters about two hours and 20 minutes to knock
down the blaze.
— Ben Poston
Photographs by
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
RABBI Neil Comess-Daniels plays guitar and sings during an interfaith vigil in Koreatown hosted by the Is-
lamic Center of Southern California and Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace.
Mourning, comforting
[Vigil, from B1]
surprise appearance drew
gasps from the crowd, called
the shootings “an attack on
humanity itself ” and urged
everyone to mourn “these innocent, beautiful people.”
“Let’s all today pledge an
allegiance of love to them
and to their families who are
suffering so deeply,” she
said.
The vigil and rally was
organized by the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Other observances were
held across the Southland
on Monday night. The Islamic Center of Southern
California and Interfaith
Communities United for
Justice and Peace hosted an
interfaith vigil at the center
in Koreatown. A vigil was
held at Micky’s West Hollywood, a gay nightclub on
Santa Monica Boulevard in
West Hollywood, and the
San Diego LGBT Community Center hosted a candlelight vigil Monday evening.
At the L.A. City Hall
event, members of the crowd
waved rainbow flags and
signs. Valentino Lugo, of
South Los Angeles, held a
sign that read “We Are Not
Afraid / We Have Fought Before / We Will / Fight / Once
More!”
Lugo said he decided to
attend the vigil “to support
the victims in Orlando and
to let people know we don’t
need to be afraid. We’re not
going to be anyone’s victim.”
is time to mourn,” Rabbi
Denise L. Eger of Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood told the crowd. “We
must mourn those amazing,
precious souls in Orlando.”
Juan Carlos Hernandez,
who owns a downtown clothing store, came to the vigil
with a Mexican flag draped
over his shoulder. He said he
was saddened by the deaths
of so many young people —
so many of them Latinos like
himself.
“They were so young —
beginning a life in the great
freedom of this country,”
Hernandez, who is from
Acapulco, said in Spanish.
“Nobody had the right to
snuff out their lives.”
Hernandez, who is gay,
said the attack has made
him more worried to go out
to clubs or even on the street
at night.
“If we don’t do anything,
there will be more attacks,”
he said.
MARWA BALKAR holds a candle at the Koreatown
vigil. Others were held around the Southland.
Lorri L. Jean, chief executive of the Los Angeles
LGBT center, roused the
crowd by declaring that the
attack was not instigated by
the terror group ISIS, but by
extremists closer to home —
including
“divisive”
politicians such as presump-
tive Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump and
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
But those in attendance
quickly turned somber when
speakers urged them to
grieve for the Orlando
shooting victims.
“Let us not forget that it
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FRESNO
Woman admits
defacing parks
A San Diego woman who
painted and drew on
treasured natural rock formations at national parks
and shared her work on social media pleaded guilty
Monday to defacing government property.
Casey
Nocket,
23,
pleaded guilty in a federal
court in Fresno to seven
misdemeanors for the autumn 2014 painting spree at
seven national parks including Yosemite in California
and Zion in Utah.
She also admitted to defacing rocks at Crater Lake
National Park in Oregon and
Rocky Mountain National
Park in Colorado.
Nocket used Instagram
and Tumblr to document
her trip and her graffiti-like
work, which led to broad
outrage on social media.
She was sentenced to two
years’ probation and 200
hours of community service.
The vandalism in September and October of 2014
caused serious cleanup
problems at the national
parks. The sandblasting and
chemical stripping used to
remove paint can cause even
more damage to irreplaceable natural features.
At two parks, Crater
Lake and Death Valley in
California, the cleaning has
yet to be completed nearly
two years later.
A later hearing will determine how much Nocket
must pay to help with the
cleanup.
— associated press
FRESNO
Four teens, dog
hit by gunfire
Authorities say four
teenagers and a dog were
shot at a home in Central
California.
The shooting happened
about 5 a.m. Monday. All
four teenagers were hospitalized: a 19-year-old female
and three males, ages 19, 16
and 14.
Police spokesman Joe
Gomez says the victims are
all in stable condition. Their
gunshot wounds are not
considered to be lifethreatening.
Their names were not released. Animal control also
carried out a dog that was
hit by gunfire. It was not expected to survive.
No arrests have been
made. Police believe the
shooting was gang related
after a party.
— associated press
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Former deputy gets 6 months
[Michel, from B1]
The discovery, prosecutors later alleged, also set
into motion a conspiracy to
frustrate the FBI probe. As a
result, several sheriff ’s officials were convicted of obstruction of justice or other
charges, including former
Sheriff Lee Baca, who recently pleaded guilty to lying
to federal authorities and
awaits sentencing.
In January 2012, Michel
pleaded guilty to bribery as
part of the deal with prosecutors in which he was required to cooperate with federal investigators. In a series
of interviews with the FBI
from late 2011 to early 2013, he
described incidents of unprovoked
assaults
by
deputies against inmates,
including some that he was
personally involved in, according to FBI internal
documents reviewed by The
Times.
Some of the assaults
punished inmates accused
of rape or other violent
crimes against women,
Michel said. Other times,
deputies would squeeze an
inmate’s fingers until he
flinched, then claim the inmate had started the altercation. Often, the incidents
would not be reported or
deputies would falsify reports, Michel told investigators.
Michel said he was
among the deputies who felt
he had to be “one notch”
more aggressive than the inmates. If a deputy treated inmates well, other deputies
called him or her “Deputy
Love,” Michel told agents.
Michel, who resigned
from the Sheriff ’s Department soon after the cellphone was found, was not
charged with crimes relating
to his admitted uses of excessive force.
Outside court on Monday, he told reporters that
the six-month sentence was
“totally fair and justified,”
and that he wanted to apologize
to
the
county’s
taxpayers for what he had
done.
“I made the wrong
choices, so I’m truly sorry,”
he said.
Michel decried the culture of the Sheriff ’s Department and what he called the
arrogance of jail deputies,
Turner
juror
blasts
judge
A man who heard the
Stanford sex assault
case says 6 months is
‘ridiculously lenient.’
associated press
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
THE DISCOVERY in August 2011 of a cellphone smuggled into a jail facility by Gilbert Michel exposed a secret
FBI investigation and disrupted the bureau’s plans to carry out a more ambitious probe of the jails.
which he said led to the
abuse.
“We thought that we ran
the jail,” he said. “It was our
jail. It wasn’t anyone else’s
jail. And we controlled the
jail. It’s a little arrogant to
think that you own that. You
don’t. The people of Los
Angeles County own that
jail.”
Federal prosecutors used
Michel as a witness in some
of the criminal cases that
arose from the jails investigation.
In 2014, testifying in one of
the obstruction of justice
trials, the disgraced former
deputy described a culture
among jailers guarding the
high-security floors of the
county’s detention facilities
that led to excessive force
and frequent coverups.
He matter-of-factly recounted incidents in which
he said he and at least five
other sheriff ’s employees
brutalized inmates on the
third, or “3,000,” floor of
Men’s Central Jail, then falsified reports to legitimize
their actions.
Michel described beating
inmates unprovoked, slapping them, shooting them
with a Taser gun and aggressively searching them to pick
a fight — something he
learned “on the job.”
He said he would huddle
with other jail guards to get
their stories straight and
write up reports with bogus
scenarios justifying the brutality. If the inmate had no
visible injuries, he wouldn’t
report the use of force, he
said.
He did all this with impunity, knowing that even if inmates reported the abuse it
“wouldn’t go anywhere,” he
testified. If they were to put
it in writing and drop it in a
complaint box, it was his fellow deputies who opened
that box too, he said.
After Michel accepted a
bribe from the undercover
FBI agent to smuggle the
cellphone into jail, federal
agents had planned to use
the deputy as a key player in
a wider undercover operation.
Called Operation Blue
Line, the plan was to rent a
warehouse, spread the word
that it was full of narcotics
and hire corrupt deputies
from the jails to moonlight
as guards. Included in the
budget was $10,000 for bribes
and kickbacks, according to
an internal FBI memo reviewed by The Times.
Investigators hoped that
Michel would recruit his coworkers to guard the warehouse if he were enticed with
additional bribes, the memo
said. The deputies lured into
the purported drug enterprise would then be used to
get
information
about
abuses in the jails.
Two days after it was
OKd by headquarters in
Washington, Blue Line came
to an abrupt halt. Sheriff ’s
officials had found the cellphone and traced the phone
back to the FBI.
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Times staff writers Cindy
Chang and Victoria Kim
contributed to this report.
A juror who helped convict a former Stanford University student-athlete of
sexually assaulting an unconscious woman thinks the
“ridiculously lenient” sixmonth jail sentence imposed by the presiding judge
has made a mockery of the
jury’s verdict, a newspaper
reported Monday.
The Palo Alto Weekly
published a letter that the
juror sent Santa Clara
County Superior Court
Judge Aaron Persky over the
weekend to convey his shock
and disappointment over
the sentence 20-year-old
Brock Turner received.
“It seems to me that you
really did not accept the jury’s findings,” he wrote to the
judge. “We were unanimous
in our finding of the
defendant’s guilt and our
verdicts were marginalized
based on your own personal
opinion.”
The man is the first juror
to speak publicly about the
case. He wrote the letter and
spoke
to
the
Weekly
anonymously to maintain
his privacy in a case that has
attracted intense media coverage. The names of the
Turner jury’s members have
not been made public.
In an interview with the
newspaper, the juror said
he found Turner’s contention that the victim had
consented to sexual contact
to be unpersuasive, especially compared to the accounts of the two Stanford
graduate students from
Sweden who testified that
he ran away when they
confronted him on top of
the motionless, partially
clothed woman.
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New teacher evaluation
fails students, critics say
[Teachers, from B1]
ucation meeting. The pact
was achieved with far less
acrimony than what has
usually accompanied efforts
here and elsewhere to overhaul how teachers are assessed.
But, said Dan Goldhaber,
a professor at the University
of Washington with extensive experience in teacherevaluation research, “The
ultimate test is: Is this having positive, measurable effects on teachers and students?”
In L.A., it’s still too early
to say, even more than six
years into a sweeping endeavor to revamp how instruction is measured and
improved.
Notably missing in the
latest system is any direct
reliance
on
student
standardized test scores to
determine whether teachers
keep their jobs. Test scores
are to be used instead for analyzing student needs, setting goals and reviewing
progress toward achieving
them.
Until
recently,
the
Obama
administration
pushed hard for test-based
evaluations, as did wellheeled foundations with an
outsize influence on the nation’s education policy. But
opponents called them inconsistent and unfair.
Across the country, aligning against them along with
teachers were many parents, who objected to the
time and emphasis placed
on standardized tests.
In L.A., efforts to use student scores to evaluate
teachers led to lawsuits and
legislative
battles,
and
played a central role in
highly charged and expensive local and state elections.
But the district has more
or less made peace with the
teachers
union,
which
fought against relying on
test scores, and the hope is
that the new approach will
work at least as well.
Goldhaber,
however,
worries, as do others, that labor harmony has been given
priority over student welfare. L.A. Unified, he said,
needs to resist the norm of
most school systems, which
rate nearly every teacher effective.
A good evaluation, he
said, reliably separates
teachers of different abilities
and is used to improve instruction.
In Los Angeles, former
Supt. John Deasy pushed for
test scores to count for
about 30% of an evaluation.
His target failed to survive, though his efforts, including a lawsuit he backed,
helped cement the place of
student achievement in a
more meaningful review
process.
L.A. Unified administrators undergo five days of
training in how to provide
consistent and fair evaluations. Under state law, data
such as test scores must be
part of appraising a teacher.
But the new L.A. system also
can consider students’ progress in learning to read, portfolios of student work,
school-wide
attendance,
suspension rates and the
percentage
of
passing
grades in the school or a
class. A teacher rated as below standard can challenge
the rating by filing a grievance.
Although Sebastian had
reservations about testbased evaluations, she’s not
convinced that the new format will greatly improve
teaching. Formal observation, for example, which
plays a key role, is required
only once during an evaluation year. Schools are supposed to evaluate about a
quarter of a school’s teachers every year.
“I think even the worst
‘The ultimate
test is: Is this
having positive,
measurable effects
on teachers and
students?’
— Dan Goldhaber,
University of Washington
professor
teachers at my school are
able to pull off a decent onehour evaluation,” she said.
Sebastian’s
personal
quibble, however, is with the
limited new ratings categories. The district gave in to
union demands and reduced
the choices from four to
three — eliminating the previous top rating of highly effective.
Now there are three
rankings:
effective,
developing and ineffective.
And Sebastian, who previously had been assessed as
highly effective, is ranked effective.
“It kind of, in essence,
lowers my rating,” said
Sebastian, who teaches
moderately
to
severely
disabled students.
This seeming minutiae is
part of a larger debate.
The district would prefer
a four-level rating system to
better identify, among other
things, teachers who could
serve as mentors. Other
districts have used such
yardsticks to hand out bonuses.
Teacher unions, however,
are concerned that rating
systems could trump seniority when layoffs are necessary, or abet the targeting of
outspoken
or
highersalaried veteran instructors.
That concern prompted
one new provision: If a
teacher is to undergo a formal evaluation, he or she
now must be notified within
the first five weeks of the
school year.
“We’ve had situations
where an educator sometime during the year does
something to get on the bad
side of an administrator and
the administrator in March
says: ‘Oh, by the way, I’m going to evaluate you this
year,’ ” said Alex CaputoPearl, president of United
Teachers Los Angeles.
Caputo-Pearl also noted
that an administrator now
must provide feedback on an
evaluation within 10 working
days. Previously, there was
no deadline.
Administrators
and
teachers have applauded
the simplification of the
evaluation form, which has
far fewer categories. The
idea is to delve deep into a
few areas rather than get
lost in a multitude of superficial details, said Linda Del
Cueto, who heads the district’s training and evaluation for teachers and principals.
The new evaluation
guidelines are part of a
teachers contract revision
that also includes extra
counseling days outside of
the formal school term, an
extra teaching position at 55
elementary schools with especially high needs, a cap of
55 students in physical education classes, and an extra
teaching position at high
schools to help provide more
electives or smaller classes
in elective courses.
“Our elective classes
often make students want to
come to school every day
and allow for creative expression,”
Caputo-Pearl
said.
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@latimes.com
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@howardblume
obituary NotiCES
Browning, Doris May
May 14, 1926 - June 7, 2016
Born May 14, 1926June 7th 2016. Passed
away in Santa Monica,
California following a
lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s. Doris
was predeceased by her only brother,
Howard Berg in 1992 and is survived by
her husband, Frank A. Browning, her
son Ross A. Landrum, daughter, Susan
E. Landrum-Brien and stepdaughter,
Jeannette Browning Hernandez. Born
in Chicago, IL Doris moved to California
in 1941 and lived the rest of her life in
the Los Angeles area. She attended
Fairfax High School and resided in
the Fairfax district before moving to
Malibu in 1972 with her husband and
children where she lived for the next
42 years. After the outbreak of World
War II, Doris volunteered at the Red
Cross and ran the Blood Bank. She
was in charge of the fundraising events
for blood donations to help out the
cause for our troops including the big
celebrity Hollywood event at Scandia
Restaurant on Sunset Blvd. She was a
lover of animals starting with dogs and
then adopting orphan cats that would
stray into their yard. She loved all
animals, including birds and horses as
well as many of the nocturnal visitors
to her yard and swimming pool. Her
family always joked that if they were
to come back as a four legged animal
they would want to be adopted by her.
Her family also joked that the strays
would tell the other strays, “Hey, come
over here. There is a nice lady who
feeds us and takes care of us too!” Doris
was an avid traveler with her husband
and many good friends, loved fine
dining, throwing big parties for family
and friends, listening to music by
Betty Buckley & Barbara Streisand as
well as collecting artwork of window
paintings with her good friend Jean
Robinson.
A memorial is to be scheduled
sometime in July at Riviera country
Club in Pacific Palisades to celebrate
Doris.
Butler-love, Shirley A.
BUTLER-LOVE, SHIRLEY
A., retired Operations
Assistant II, Los Angeles
County
Sheriff’s
Department, passed away on May
11, 2016. Shirley joined the Sheriff’s
Department on July 12, 1970 and
retired from Medical Services Bureau
on March 29, 2004.
Services were previously held.
Submitted by the Sheriffs’ Relief
Association.
Horkin, rose Perlman
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks
and Mortuaries 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
KapeluszniK, Jorge
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks
and Mortuaries 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
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Kimura, asako
(90), passed away on April 26, 2016
in Santa Monica. She is survived by her
children, Phyllis (Eugene) Hayashibara,
Claudia (Carlos) Nakata, and Marie
(Ken) Baker; grandchildren, Akemi
and Lauren Hayashibara, Gina (Henry)
Yu, Kenji Nakata, Kevin and Justin
Baker; great-grandson, Tristan Hiro
Hayashibara Horton; sister, Hanako
Oshita; sisters-in-law, Yuki Yanagi,
Yone (Aki) Asai, Hiro (Henry) Shimizu,
Clara Ike; also survived by many nieces,
nephews and other relatives.
A memorial gathering was held
on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at the
Pavilion of Green Hills Memorial
Park. (213) 749-1449 www.
kubotanikkeimortuary.com
Nagai, Michio
(93) passed away on June 3, 2016
in Glendale. He was predeceased by
his wife, Lorraine, of 65 years; and is
survived by his sons, David and Mark;
brother, Toru Nagai; sister-in-law,
Marjorie Hasegawa and nephews.
A private graveside service was held
on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at Rose
Hills Memorial Park. (213) 749-1449
www.kubotanikkeimortuary.com
June 16, 1923 - June 3, 2016
Marcella was born in Los Angeles
to Andrew and Mary Schaefer, and
grew up in San Gabriel. She attended
St. Stephen’s School, The Academy of
the Holy Names and Alhambra High
School, and Sawyer’s Business School.
With the goal of ferrying airplanes
during WWII, she took flying lessons,
then worked at the instrument lab
at Vega. Marcella was one of 15
women chosen to go to The California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena
for accelerated courses in aeronautical
engineering. She then worked at
Lockheed and JPL in engineering,
where she met and married James
Kirst of La Canada. After the war and
Jim’s return from the Sea-Bees, they
lived in La Canada for 45 years and
raised their four children.
Marcella was active in St. Bede’s
Catholic Church and School, the
Huntington Memorial Hospital Guild,
and enjoyed golf, tennis, painting,
puzzles, reading, gardening, and the
ocean. Marcella and Jim traveled
extensively and had great fun with
their children.
She is predeceased by her son,
Gregory; and her husband, James;
and leaves her greatly loved family:
James Kirst, Jr. (Sue Ann), Dana
Gabriel (Steven), and Mary Kirst;
grandchildren: James Kirst III (Laura),
Jennifer Craycraft (Brian), Holly Kirst,
Andrew Gabriel, Nicholas Gabriel
(Stephanie), and Gregory Gabriel;
and great-grandchildren: Cameron
Craycraft, and James and Emily Gabriel.
She and her strength, wisdom, grace,
kindness, compassion, and love will be
greatly missed.
A celebration of Marcella’s life will
take place on Wednesday, June 15,
at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church,
2046 Mar Vista Dr, Newport Beach,
where a Mass of Christian Burial will be
held at 2:00 pm. Private interment will
be held the following day at Calvary
Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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1923-2016. William (Bill) is
survived by wife Rae Ann, son Ross,
sister Barbara, step-children Robert
& Nancy, and grandchildren Jenna &
Julia. He was a bright light. No service.
Thomas, Pamela m.
Pamela M. Thomas,
retired Public Response
Dispatcher
II,
Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s
Department, passed away on May
22, 2016. Pamela joined the Sheriff’s
Department on June 25, 1984 and
retired from Communications and Fleet
Management Bureau on December 27,
2012.
No services are planned.
Submitted by the Sheriffs’ Relief
Association.
Westlund, Robert eugene
Weese, Denise McAuliffe
Robert Eugene Westlund, 81,
passed away peacefully in Corvallis,
OR on May 14, 2016. He was born in
Alhambra, CA on July 25 1934 to Lelah
and Walter Westlund.
He spent his early years attending
schools in the Alhambra School
District. Then he attended UCSB,
where he received his B.S. Degree in
1956 and Master’s in 1957. After UCSB,
he served as an aviation officer in the
US Navy,
A gifted communicator, Bob was
known to recognize humor in his
business dealings, and among his
many friends. He was a valued
member of the Oregon State University
Foundation having served for almost
22 years and was vice president
for principal gifts to athletics prior
to his retirement in 2013. He was
instrumental in the major facility
improvements of Reser Stadium, the
Valley Football Center, the MerrittTruax Indoor Center, the Prothro
Footballl Complex, and Goss Stadium
at Coleman Field.
Prior to joining the OSU Foundation,
Bob was vice president of W.M. Keck
Jr. Foundation in Los Angeles, and as
director and vice president of the Keck
family’s Coalinga Corporation.
Bob also served as the development
director at the University of Southern
California School of Business from
1975-80 and later as executive director
for the southern California region
1980-85.
Bob was preceded in death by
his daughter, Alison Hester, and his
son, Ross Lewis Westlund as well as
his parents. Bob is survived by his
grandchildren Madeline and Toby
Hester and his son-in-law, Bryan
Hester; his sister, Janice (Bingham)
Cherrie and nephews Matthew (Eva)
Cherrie and Daniel (Carolyn) Cherrie.
He is also survived by his former wife,
Wendy Ross and many wonderful
cousins, nieces, nephews, family and
friends whose lives have been touched
by this funny and kind man. Our family
is extremely grateful to Jennifer and
Dave Milburn and Mike Brantley
and Kay Yates for their wonderful
friendship and amazing support of Bob
in his last year.
The OSU Foundation will hold a
Celebration of Bob’s Life on June 20,
2016 in Corvallis, OR. Gifts in Bob’s
memory may be made to the Nature
Conservancy of Oregon, www.nature.
org/oregon.
In loving memory of Denise
McAuliffe Weese a celebration of life
service to be held on Tuesday, June
14, 2016 from 5-8pm @ 740 Amigos
Way#1, Newport Beach, CA. Denise
was a loving mother, sister and friend
and is survived by her daughters
Elizabeth and Margaret and her sister
Patricia McAuliffe Forbes.
July 25, 1934 - May 14, 2016
Kirst, Marcella Marie
Sherwood, william r.
March 4, 1944 - June 11, 2016
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OBITUARIES
VETERAN ACTRESS
Janet Waldo and Richard Crenna in the play “The
World and His Wife.”
JANET WALDO, 1920 - 2 016
Actress was the
cartoon voice
of Judy Jetson
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J
anet Waldo, who provided the voice for Judy
Jetson and many other
cartoon characters, has
died.
The veteran film, TV and
radio actress died Sunday at
age 96 at her home in Encino.
Her daughter Lucy Lee
told the Associated Press on
Monday that Waldo had
been battling a brain tumor.
Waldo was born inYakima, Wash., on Feb. 2,
1920. She was featured in the
futuristic series “The Jetsons,” which initially aired in
the 1960s. Her other credits
included Josie in “Josie and
the Pussycats” and Fred
Flintstone’s mother-in-law
in “The Flintstones.”
Before “The Jetsons,”
Waldo had been an actress
for decades, appearing on
such sitcoms as “I Love
Lucy” and “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Waldo’s husband, playwright Robert Edwin Lee,
died in 1994.
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Nishimura, Florence aiko
Age 92 passed away peacefully
at her home on June 4, 2016.
Predeceased by her husband, Rev.
William Y. Nishimura, siblings, William
and Roy Fujitaki and Chizuko Ikeda
and a nephew, Michael Ikeda; she is
survived by many nieces, nephews,
grandnieces, grandnephews and other
relatives.
Celebration of life will be held on
Tuesday, June 21, 11 a.m. at First
Presbyterian Church of Altadena, 2775
N. Lincoln Ave. in Altadena.
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James Howard Banks
September 8, 1938 - July 11, 2016
Jim Banks, our treasured father, grandfather,
and loved one, passed away at home on June 11,
2016. Born in Toronto, Canada, he moved to Los
Angeles in 1965 to begin his family. He worked as
a tax accountant his entire life, and loved spending
time with his clients, whom he considered friends.
His greatest joy was his family, and it grew larger
over the years. He is survived by his children
Jennifer (Michael), Brian (Joanna), Jon (Julie),
Andrew (Elad), and James. He was loved by his
partner Karen Schwartz and her family, and his
brothers Leonard and Richard and their families.
He was Papa to Zachary, Audrey, Ben, Josh,
Conor, Matthew, Joey, Maya, Abe, Levi, Margaret,
and three more grandchildren due later this year.
We mourn the loss of a very special man, but
celebrate his memory.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests a donation
to the Katz Summer in Israel Scholarship at
University Synagogue in Brentwood.
Donald J. Nores
May 28, 1930 - June 9, 2016
Donald Nores was received into Gods hands,
surrounded by his family, on June 09, 2016.
Don was born at Queen of Angels Hospital in
Los Angeles on May 28, 1930 to his loving parents
Marguerite and Robert Nores.
His childhood was spent in Alhambra, California
where he attended St. Therese Catholic School.
He later attended Loyola High School and Loyola
University where he graduated in 1952 with a
degree in Business Administration. In later years, as
an entrepreneur, he returned to Loyola Marymount
University to establish the Entrepreneurship
Program.
In 1950, Don met Joyce Ann O’Hagan of San
Marino – a blind date grew into the love of a
lifetime. They wed at Saint Felicitas Church in San
Marino on June 21, 1952. Upon graduation, he
was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the US Air
Force, serving for two years.
Due to his love of classical music, he became
involved as a founding director of the Los Angeles
Master Chorale and remained actively involved with
the Chorale, rising to the title of Director Emeritus.
Don, always challenging himself, decided in
1971 to establish his own company, Digital Printing
Systems. With Don at the helm, DPS has become
the leader in the parking and transit industry.
Don had many interests and hobbies; however,
sailing, woodwork, and traveling with his family
were his true passions. Don and Joyce extensively
traveled to many capitals of the world. He was
particularly proud of a pair of bent wood baby
cradles he built for his grandchildren. With great
zeal, Don set goals and accomplished them.
He was deeply involved in his community, serving
as President of Holy Family Adoption Service and
many other charitable organizations including St.
Phillip the Apostle, Loyola High School, Loyola
Marymount University, Mayfield School, and Saint
Andrew’s Abbey.
Donald Nores was a humble man of incredible
integrity and character, always giving, in countless
ways, to his family, friends, and the community he
loved. There are no words to describe the amazing
son, husband, father, uncle, and grandfather he
was.
Don found tremendous joy in spending time with
his family and will be greatly missed by all. He is
survived by: his loving wife Joyce of 64 years, his
three children and their spouses: Jim and Mary
Nores, Nancy Snowden, Brian Nores and Edmundo
Luna, his grandchildren: Christopher, Matthew and
Michelle Nores, David Flannery, Danny, Mitchell,
Mariah and Scott Snowden and his adoring niece,
Drucilla Kent.
Funeral services will be held at Saint Philip the
Apostle Church, 151 South Hill Avenue, Pasadena
on Saturday, June, 18, 2016 at 1:30PM. Interment
will be at San Gabriel Cemetery, 601 Roses Road.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in
his name to St Phillip the Apostle Church, Loyola
Marymount University, Loyola High School, or the
Huntington Hospital.
Cabot and Sons Funeral Homes
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T U E S DAY, J U N E 14 , 2 016
L AT I ME S . CO M
Today in Southern California
Today in North America
5-day forecasts
Pressure:
High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.
Today
L.A. Basin
74/59
Valleys
76/54
Clouds, then sun
Wednesday Turning sunny 74/59
Thursday Turning sunny 77/61
Turning sunny 79/63
Friday
Saturday Sunny, warm 87/65
Los Angeles Basin:
Widespread low clouds
gradually clearing to
sunshine. Low clouds
returning tonight.
Valleys/canyons: Low
clouds through
mid-morning then
becoming mostly sunny.
Mostly clear then low
Air quality
Mostly sunny
Sunny
Clearing
Sunny
Sunny
Beaches
69/58
Turning sunny
Turning sunny
Turning sunny
Turning sunny
Sunny, warm
74/52
77/54
82/57
89/66
clouds later tonight.
Orange County: Low clouds
gradually clearing to a
mostly sunny sky in the
afternoon. Low clouds
returning tonight.
Ventura/Santa Barbara:
Areas of low clouds then
becoming mostly sunny.
Low clouds along the coast
Good
Moderate
Mountains
72/38
70/57
72/54
75/57
80/61
Mostly sunny
Sunny
Sunny, cool
Sunny
Sunny
then inland tonight.
San Diego County: Low
clouds clearing to afternoon
sunshine. Low clouds
returning tonight.
Local mountains: Sunny,
breezy at times. Mostly
clear tonight.
High desert: Sunny, breezy
at times and warm. Clear
Unhealthful for:
Sensitive people
Temps
Deserts
99/69
Sunshine
Sunny
Sunny
Sunny
Sunny
68/33
67/36
71/39
79/45
Low
H
High
▲
Warm Front
Cold Front
0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+
Rain T-storm Snow Ice
96/67
98/68
99/73
105/81
Seattle
59/48
Chicago
85/70
New York
81/63
Denver
81/55
Los Angeles
74/59
Las Vegas
98/74
Houston
91/76
Not Available
Miami
91/77
South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality
SANTA
BARBARA CO.
Santa Clarita
Hesperia
80/52
Santa Paula
LOS ANGELES CO.
87/54
74/54
Santa
Simi Valley
Barbara
Chatsworth
SAN BERNARDINO CO.
Burbank Monrovia
75/53
70/53
76/54
Camarillo
Ventura
76/58
76/52
71/56
68/54
Yucca Valley
Pomona/
UCLA
92/57
Fairplex
Oxnard
San Bernardino
Westlake
Ontario
72/57 LA Downtown 80/54
68/56
Woodland
84/53
74/59
Village
80/57
Hills
Whittier
Santa Barbara Co.
72/53
Chino
78/52
Height
Period
Direction
Santa Monica Hills
Riverside
82/56
RIVERSIDE CO.
Fullerton
76/57
2-4’
18 sec SSW
69/58
82/53
76/60
Torrance
Santa Ana
Ventura Co.
72/59
ORANGE CO.
Palm
Hemet
Long
Height
Period
Direction
71/61
Springs
83/51
Irvine
Beach Newport
3-5’
18 sec SSW
71/58
99/69
72/61 Beach
Mission Viejo
Los Angeles Co.
69/61
Temecula
Height
Period
Direction
73/57
Laguna
79/51
3-5’
18 sec SSW
Beach
San
69/59
Clemente
Orange Co.
Surf and sea
71/59
SAN DIEGO CO.
Height
Period
Direction
POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO
Oceanside
3-5’
18 sec SSW
Inner waters: Variable winds 5-10 knots
72/59
becoming west 10-15 knots. Wind waves
San
Diego
Co.
2-5 feet, west and southwest swells 1-3
Ramona
Escondido
Height
Period
Direction
feet.
79/48
75/54
3-5’
18 sec SSW
Surf zone: A moderate rip current risk
Poway
in Santa Barbara and Orange counties,
73/59
a high risk at other beaches.
Tides
UV index
L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet.
Minutes to burn for
San Diego
Today 6:25a 3.3 Hi 12:50a 1.4 Lo sensitive people
Station
Time Wind
Waves Temp
69/62
Las Vegas, 25
Morro Bay
Santa Barbara
Ventura
Zuma Beach
Marina del Rey
Hermosa Beach
Cabrillo Beach
Hunt’n. Beach
Newport Beach
Dana Point
San Clemente
Oceanside
Solana Beach
Mission Beach
Avalon
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
4p
VENTURA CO.
Ojai
76/54
WNW8
SW4
SW4
SW4
SSW4
SSW4
SSW4
SSW4
SSW4
SSW4
SSW4
SW4
SW4
WSW4
SW4
4/8
3/18
5/18
4/18
4/18
4/18
4/18
4/18
4/18
4/18
4/18
4/18
5/18
5/18
1/18
57/65
61/71
60/69
63/67
65/67
64/67
64/70
63/69
65/68
65/68
67/69
66/68
64/70
65/70
65/68
Wind speed in knots; wave heights in feet/intervals in seconds;
temperatures for sea/air
California cities
City
Monday
Today
Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo
Anaheim
73
Avalon/Catalina
59
Bakersfield
92
Barstow
94
Beaumont
73
Big Bear Lake
70
Bishop
86
Burbank
73
Camarillo
71
Chatsworth
77
Chino
79
Dana Point
67
Death Valley
106
Del Mar
65
Escondido
76
Eureka
65
Fallbrook
75
Fillmore
77
Fresno
92
Fullerton
76
Hemet
79
Hesperia
89
Huntington Beach 72
Idyllwild
65
Irvine
73
L.A. D’ntown/USC 71
L.A. Int’l. Airport 69
Trough
Jet Stream
Anchorage
68/55
tonight. Remaining breezy
Wednesday.
Low desert: Sunny and not
as warm as it usually is in
mid-June. Clear tonight.
Sunny Wednesday.
San Francisco Bay Area:
Low clouds clearing to
partial sunshine. Becoming
mostly cloudy tonight.
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Storms in the Plains: Storms with damaging wind, hail and flooding
rain will move across the northern and central Plains. Scattered
storms will move through the Deep South and Southeast. Dry
weather will span the Northeast while the Northwest is quite cool.
Marine layer in the morning: A moderately deep marine layer will push clouds deep into the valleys
Tuesday morning then gradually clear. The same pattern with similar temperatures will occur
Wednesday into Thursday. An upper-level ridge will develop in the west and by Sunday and Monday,
extremely high heat is likely with some valleys reaching 110 degrees and lower deserts over 120.
62
53
67
64
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58
54
56
61
59
77
62
60
51
59
51
63
61
55
53
61
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62
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Wed.
Hi Lo
-- 75 57 75 55
Tr 65 52 63 52
-- 89 59 83 56
-- 98 66 92 61
-- 81 50 78 48
-- 72 38 68 33
Tr 88 52 85 48
-- 76 58 76 57
-- 71 56 70 54
-- 76 54 74 53
-- 82 56 81 54
-- 69 60 69 58
-- 107 71 103 67
-- 66 57 66 55
-- 75 54 74 53
-- 60 46 58 45
-- 75 55 73 52
-- 77 52 75 50
-- 87 58 80 55
-- 76 60 75 59
-- 83 51 81 50
-- 87 54 82 51
-- 69 61 69 58
-- 74 50 72 48
-- 71 58 71 57
-- 74 59 74 59
-- 69 59 69 57
Wed.
6:41p 5.0 Hi 11:56a 1.5 Lo
7:27a 3.4 Hi 1:35a 1.0 Lo
7:12p 5.3 Hi 12:37p 1.7 Lo
Almanac
Los Angeles, 25
Phoenix, 10
San Francisco, 25
Monday Downtown readings
Temperature
Los Angeles Fullerton
Ventura
High/low
71/60
76/61
67/56
High/low a year ago
72/63
75/64
74/62
Normal high/low for date 77/60
78/61
71/55
Record high/date
99/1896 90/2007 81/1972
Record low/date
46/1894 58/1999 46/1952
Precipitation
24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00
0.00
0.00
Season total (since Oct. 1)
6.88
5.26
8.43
Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 8.47
6.35
7.99
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 14.71
13.61
16.39
Humidity (high/low)
83/60
44/38
92/67
City
Monday
Today
Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo
Wed.
Hi Lo
Laguna Beach
xx xx xx 69 59 69 57
Lancaster
88 59 -- 88 61 82 56
Long Beach
72 61 -- 72 61 72 59
Mammoth Lakes
69 38 -- 68 38 64 36
Mission Viejo
75 59 -- 73 57 72 54
Monrovia
75 60 -- 76 52 74 50
Monterey
62 55 -- 64 52 63 49
Mt. Wilson
xx xx -- 69 51 65 47
Needles
101 77 -- 104 79 103 76
Newport Beach
67 61 -- 69 61 69 59
Northridge
76 56 -- 77 53 75 51
Oakland
67 57 -- 68 55 67 53
Oceanside
73 55 -- 72 59 71 56
Ojai
76 46 -- 76 54 73 52
Ontario
75 59 -- 80 57 80 56
Oxnard
68 55 -- 68 56 67 54
Palm Springs
95 66 -- 99 69 96 67
Pasadena
73 58 -- 76 55 75 53
Paso Robles
82 49 -- 84 47 76 44
Pomona/Fairplex 76 59 -- 80 54 79 52
Poway
77 59 -- 73 59 72 58
Redding
89 62 -- 78 56 72 53
Rialto
81 58 -- 82 54 81 51
Riverside
77 60 -- 82 53 80 52
Forecasts provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
Sun and moon
Today’s rise/set
Los Angeles County
Sun 5:41a/8:06p
Moon 3:03p/2:13a
Full Moon
June 20
Last Quarter
June 27
Orange County
Sun 5:40a/8:04p
Moon 3:02p/2:12a
New Moon
July 4
Ventura County
Sun 5:45a/8:10p
Moon 3:08p/2:17a
First Quarter
July 11
City
Monday
Today
Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo
Wed.
Hi Lo
Sacramento
San Bernardino
San Clemente Pier
San Diego
San Francisco
San Gabriel
San Jose
San Luis Obispo
Santa Ana
Santa Barbara
Santa Clarita
Santa Monica Pier
Santa Paula
Santa Rosa
Simi Valley
Tahoe Valley
Temecula
Thousand Oaks
Torrance
UCLA
Van Nuys
Ventura
Whittier Hills
Woodland Hills
Wrightwood
Yorba Linda
Yosemite Valley
81
76
63
72
66
72
75
74
71
68
78
71
77
83
74
70
78
69
72
67
76
67
72
77
71
75
82
72
82
70
68
66
77
67
70
70
69
77
70
72
69
74
56
76
71
72
72
75
68
76
76
72
76
68
55
60
52
64
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61
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61
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84
71
69
66
78
70
74
71
70
80
69
74
75
75
64
79
73
72
72
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68
76
78
77
77
75
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53
59
62
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56
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61
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58
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53
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59
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57
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52
49
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61
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59
52
52
57
52
44
51
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50
51
58
55
56
51
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54
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U.S. cities
High 106 in Death Valley, Calif.
Low 26 in Bridgeport, Calif.
City
Monday
Hi Lo Prcp.
Albuquerque
90 64 .04
Amarillo
89 68 -Anchorage
66 50 .09
Atlanta
97 75 -Atlantic City
76 60 -Austin
94 77 .20
Baltimore
80 59 -Billings
80 57 .11
Birmingham
96 72 .13
Boise
87 53 -Boston
73 54 -Brownsville
92 80 -Buffalo
63 51 Tr
Burlington, Vt.
66 50 .08
Casper
73 50 .29
Charleston, S.C.
91 78 .14
Charleston, W.Va. 82 52 Tr
Charlotte
93 70 .04
Chicago
86 54 .02
Cincinnati
86 61 -Cleveland
70 52 -Colo. Springs
74 57 .20
Columbia, S.C.
97 74 -Columbus
83 52 -Concord, N.H.
69 49 -Dallas/Ft.Worth
92 73 .15
Denver
76 55 .27
Des Moines
91 73 .22
Detroit
74 53 Tr
Duluth
61 47 .56
El Paso
98 81 -Eugene
68 46 -Fairbanks
63 51 .07
Fargo
84 57 -Flagstaff
71 42 .02
Grand Junction
73 64 .04
Grand Rapids
78 53 Tr
Green Bay
70 54 .66
Hartford
72 54 -Helena
77 43 -Honolulu
85 74 .19
Houston
93 74 .22
Indianapolis
90 63 -Jacksonville, Fla. 97 74 .04
Kansas City
88 67 Tr
Las Vegas
95 75 -Little Rock
88 73 .51
Louisville
90 69 -Medford
78 52 -Memphis
94 75 .04
Miami
91 77 .06
Milwaukee
71 54 Tr
Minneapolis
78 64 .39
Nashville
97 74 .20
New Orleans
90 79 .63
New York
74 57 -Oklahoma City
84 67 .01
Omaha
92 73 .01
Orlando
96 76 .03
Philadelphia
78 61 -Phoenix
100 79 -Pittsburgh
77 52 -Portland, Maine
71 51 .03
Portland, Ore.
65 53 .01
Providence
73 54 -Pueblo
82 62 .34
Raleigh
85 65 -Rapid City
83 60 1.23
Reno
83 54 -Richmond
82 62 -St. Louis
96 74 .12
Salt Lake City
74 60 .30
San Antonio
93 77 -San Juan, P.R.
91 79 .15
Santa Fe
89 53 -Seattle
65 52 Tr
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89
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79
83
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87
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95
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89
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98
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Spokane
71 54
Springfield, Mo.
88 67
Tallahassee
100 75
Tampa
91 79
Tucson
97 67
Tulsa
88 74
Washington, D.C. 81 64
Wichita
90 70
Yuma
98 70
World
Acapulco
Amsterdam
Athens
Baghdad
Bangkok
Barbados
Beijing
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Copenhagen
Dublin
Edinburgh
Frankfurt
Geneva
Havana
Ho Chi Minh City
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Kabul
Kingston
London
Madrid
Manila
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Mumbai
New Delhi
Oslo
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Seoul
Stockholm
Sydney
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Tokyo
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Vienna
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Sh showers; Ts thunderstorms; R rain; Sn snow;
Sf snow flurries; I ice; Rs rain/snow; W windy;
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stations; excludes Alaska and Hawaii.
Missing data indicated by “xx”.
Whom to support:
Harris or Sanchez?
[Democrats, from B1]
endorsed her in January 2015
“within seconds” of finding
out she was getting in the
race, he said.
“I just think she is the
complete package. She’s got
the intellect, she got the
values, she’s got the political
skills, she has a compelling
personal story,” Huffman
said. “She’s a terrific candidate and she’s going to be a
great U.S. senator.”
Huffman said he and
Sanchez have talked about
why he backs Harris. “It’s always a little awkward when
you have a colleague running against someone that
you think very highly of, but
this is a huge, high-stakes,
long-term proposition, who
is going to be our second U.S.
senator. We’ve got to get it
right,” he said.
Huffman said the Democrats in California’s delegation don’t spend much
time talking about the race.
“We know that within the
delegation there are some
fault lines that make it a little bit awkward, and so, to
each his own, or her own,” he
said.
Rep. Juan Vargas (D-San
Diego) has been campaigning for Sanchez .
“I strongly believe Loretta would be a fantastic
senator and I’m happy to try
to help her in any way. That’s
in no way deprecating to Kamala,” Vargas said. “It’s an
embarrassment of riches.
We have two people who are
just absolutely fantastic
people … but I think
Loretta’s the better candidate.”
As two Democrats, they
should try to keep the contest from becoming bitter, he
said.
“I hope there isn’t a nasty
fight between the both of
them. I hope they keep it on
the issues. That would be
good for everybody,” Vargas
said.
Rep. Mark Takano (DRiverside) campaigned for
Sanchez when she won the
seat over Rep. Bob Dornan
in 1996.
Takano said other lawmakers ask him about
Sanchez’s path forward.
“Republicans
and
independents, I think, are
up for grabs. Where do they
go?” Takano said. “There is,
I think, a very plausible scenario under which the race is
going to be close.”
The dozen members who
have stayed out of the race
entirely are in a tough spot.
Rep. Jackie Speier (DHillsborough) said she’s still
thinking about it. “It’s who
you think is going to be the
best representative, who is
going to be the most persuasive and articulate and able
to fulfill the responsibilities,”
she said.
Rep. Julia Brownley (DWestlake Village) said Har-
ris and Sanchez each have
strengths. She wants to take
a close look at how her district voted in the primary before making a choice.
“We have two good candidates running and I think it’s
going to really narrow in the
general. I think that Loretta
has a very good chance of
winning, I think Kamala has
a good chance, I just haven’t
made a decision,” Brownley
said.
Rep. Adam Schiff (DBurbank) said he tries to
stay out of contests between
Democrats.
“Most of us hate when we
get in between two good
Democrats running for the
same office, and so I haven’t
gotten involved yet,” said
Schiff, who may one day seek
higher office in California.
“I’ve done my best to remain
neutral, but that’s hard
when you have friends running against friends.”
California Democratic
Caucus Chairwoman Zoe
Lofgren said that as head of
the state’s Democrats, it’s
better for her to stay on the
sidelines.
“My delegation is split, so
I’ve so far just decided to see
what all my members are doing,” Lofgren said. “It’s all in
good faith, it’s all friendly,
but I’m just thinking, do I
need to be divisive in my delegation?”
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REP. MIKE THOMPSON (D-St. Helena) said he’s worked with Kamala Harris
on gun violence, an issue that’s dear to him. “I was impressed with her,” he said.
Tom Williams CQ-Roll Call,Inc.
REP. JUAN VARGAS (D-San Diego) has been campaigning for Loretta Sanchez
in the Southland. “I strongly believe Loretta would be a fantastic senator,” he said.
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Grocers,
workers
square off
COMPANY TOWN
Strike authorization
vote looms as talks
continue between
union and two chains.
By Natalie Kitroeff
Peter Kramer Getty Images
VIACOM CEO Philippe Dauman, left, and CBS CEO Leslie Moonves attend an awards event in 2007.
Redstone’s men
richly rewarded
More than a decade after
launching the longest major
supermarket strike in the
nation’s
history,
union
representatives for Southern California grocery store
workers are back at the bargaining table.
This time, there’s a third
party in the room: a $15
minimum wage.
California’s schedule of
steady increases to the wage
floor, which will boost that
wage to $15 an hour by 2022,
is doing some of the work for
the union as it seeks its
fourth contract with the
Ralphs and Albertsons
chains since the epic 141-day
strike that brought the region’s supermarkets to their
knees in 2003-04.
But the two big chains,
which include Safeway, Vons
and Pavilions stores under
the Albertsons umbrella, are
looking to offset rising pay in
other ways. That is likely to
be the basis for any new confrontation.
“They are offsetting the
cost of the minimum wage,
they are trying to find ways
to get around it,” said Rick
Icaza, the president of
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local
770.
The starting wage for a
worker at the two chains is
$10.10 an hour, just over the
current state minimum. The
companies have proposed a
raise of 10 cents an hour per
worker over the next three
years and cuts to holiday
[See Grocers, C6]
Stocking up on workers
The Los Angeles metro area has added more than 16,000
union and nonunion grocery store employees since 2004.
The mogul’s top lieutenants, Leslie Moonves and
Philippe Dauman, earn far more than their peers
By Meg James
When it comes to executive compensation, few corporate chieftains
have soared to the sky-high levels enjoyed by Sumner Redstone and his
top lieutenants, Leslie Moonves and
Philippe Dauman.
CBS Corp. Chief Executive
Moonves and Viacom Inc. CEO Dauman are the second- and third-highest-paid executives, respectively,
among publicly traded U.S. companies, according to the latest survey
from data firm Equilar Inc.
Moonves pulled in $56.4 million in
compensation last year, Equilar said,
and Dauman was right behind at
$54.1 million.
Both men earn far more than their
peers who command much bigger
media companies. Walt Disney Co.
CEO Robert Iger made $43.5 million
last year, and he runs a corporate empire with more than $52 billion in annual revenue, or nearly four times the
size of either CBS or Viacom. Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts
collected $27.5 million in 2015, and his
realm, which includes media company NBCUniversal, generated
nearly $75 billion in revenue.
What’s more, Dauman’s pay
jumped 22% in fiscal 2015 — even
though Viacom’s stock plummeted
42% during that same period, according to Equilar.
Dauman’s big bump was powered
by a $17-million signing bonus for renewing his employment agreement.
Without that, his pay package would
have been $37 million, about 16%
lower than the previous year, but
that’s still substantially more than
what most CEOs make.
Why are the packages so rich?
Mostly it reflects the style of Redstone, who has long run his $40-bil-
A GOP plan to
gut watchdog
A proposal would roll
back bank rules and
cripple the consumer
agency, writes David
Lazarus. C2
11 shows to get
state tax credits
The California Film
Commission says the
TV projects have been
OKd for $65 million in
tax breaks. C3
Title Insurance
building is sold
A development group
plans to transform the
tower in downtown
Los Angeles into
creative offices. C4
Business Briefing .. C4
Market Roundup .. C4
Frederick M. Brown Getty Images
SUMNER REDSTONE has run
his empire like a private fiefdom.
lion media empire like a private fiefdom and believes in awarding whopping pay packages to the bosses —
himself included.
Until this year, Redstone, 93, collected pay from both Viacom and
CBS — raking in annual salary, bonuses and stock awards valued at
more than $350 million since 2006, the
year he split his vast empire into the
two companies.
“Sumner has always been willing
to pay top dollar for his executives ...
but the performance just hasn’t been
there at Viacom,” said Eric Jackson,
managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management, which has agitated
for changes at Viacom. “The board of
Viacom has been hands-off when it
comes to Philippe.”
Representatives for Dauman and
Moonves declined to comment.
Until recently, Dauman, 62, was
widely considered to be Redstone’s
heir apparent. “He was Sumner’s
consigliere for the past 30 years,”
said Porter Bibb, managing partner
of Mediatech Capital Partners in
New York.
No more. Tensions between the
ailing Redstone and Dauman came
to the surface after Redstone’s former companion, Manuela Herzer,
sued to have her status overseeing
Redstone’s healthcare restored.
Herzer lost, but the case put a spotlight on Redstone’s mental competence — and in the run-up to the trial,
Redstone stepped down as executive
chairman of CBS and Viacom,
putting Moonves and Dauman in
charge of their companies.
While Redstone and Dauman
were allies against Herzer, they became at odds over Dauman’s decision, shortly after becoming Viacom’s chairman, to sell a stake in
Paramount Pictures movie studio.
Redstone and daughter Shari Redstone, who has been a fierce critic of
Dauman, are expected to push for
new board members who will remove
Dauman from his executive suite. Viacom has Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV and other cable channels.
“When you are working in a family
business, blood is a lot thicker than
water,” said William Klepper, a management professor at the Columbia
Business School. “Just when Philippe
thought he was blood, he found out
that he really wasn’t.”
If Dauman ends up getting
pushed out of Viacom, he won’t go
empty-handed: His contract calls for
him to get a golden parachute with a
payout that includes triple his bonus,
which was $14 million last year, and
three times his $4-million annual salary, as well as vested stock and options.
Moonves since 2006 has received
annual packages that add up to more
than $500 million, according to CBS’
[See Redstone, C5]
4/1/16
84,100
1/1/14
67,300
2004 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16
Source: The California Employment Development Department
K y l e K i m Los Angeles Times
Apps get OK
to talk to Siri
Apple said it’s letting
developers integrate
products with the
virtual aide and more.
By Paresh Dave
Despite the increasing
amount of time people
spend on their smartphones, the app market is in
a lull.
Facebook,
Snapchat,
Uber and other big-name
apps get heaps of downloads. But most everyone
else is seeing demand level
off.
That’s why app makers
raved about Apple’s announcement at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference on Monday that apps
may integrate with virtual
assistant Siri, Apple Maps
and iMessage. This would al-
low developers to build software that lets iPhone users,
say, talk to Siri to send a
friend $20 through Venmo,
book a ride on Lyft directly
on Maps and select and send
Dropbox files without leaving iMessage.
Cool, new connections
between apps could lift
downloads and spur new
business models. The move
carries extra weight as Siri,
added to Apple TV last year,
arrives on Mac computers
this fall.
But Apple, which rarely
goes all-out with new tools
for developers, placed restrictions on the types of
apps that can connect with
Siri and on the actions users
can take by voice. Siri starts
with support for only ridehailing, messaging, photo,
payments, calling and workout apps. Meanwhile, Maps
handles only ride-hailing
[See Apple, C4]
L.A. TECH
Start-up debuts a fashion line for gamers
By Paresh Dave
Though fans may not always notice, professional
athletes put thought into
their outfits off and on the
field.
They’ll choose custom
sneakers on the court, fancy
jackets at the news conference and color-coordinated
headphones in the locker
room.
But in e-sports, not so
much.
Professional video game
players rarely do better than
jeans and oversized hoodies.
So at its first of several
planned ventures to amp up
e-sports, a Los Angeles
start-up is hoping to give the
growing industry a sophisticated look.
Ultimate Media Ventures
on Monday launched ULT
Kills, a fashion line of
T-shirts, hoodies, hats and
eventually footwear that, in
the words of co-founder
Nate Eckman, isn’t the usual
“super-embarrassing
...
kitschy, nerdy gamer wear.”
The Los Angeles-stitched streetwear, priced from
$28 to $78, will have woven labels, embroidery, custom
printing and generally more
attention to detail than the
gaming-fashion
industry
typically sees, Eckman said.
It comes in men’s and
women’s styles.
There’s no “all-over print,
colorful fabric, splash art
and big throw-up characters
on a shirt that costs $2,” Eckman said.
“If people keep designing
products for nerds in basements, they are going to
keep ending up with that,”
he said.
Ultimate Media Ventures
is among dozens of small
services companies and
product makers seeking
space in e-sports niches that
include analyzing a player’s
value to developing fancy
chairs for matches. As deeppocketed investors flock to
the booming industry, the
start-ups hope to carve out a
[See L.A. Tech, C5]
Ultimate Media Ventures
A SAMPLING of the ULT Kills fashion line from
e-sports apparel company Ultimate Media Ventures.
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BUSINESS BEAT
Republicans cook up
plan to gut watchdog
Yan Green ABC
DAVID LAZARUS
TIMOTHY HUTTON, left, and Felicity Huffman
If there’s one
thing the
financial
services industry hates,
it’s adult
supervision.
Last week,
Rep. Jeb
Hensarling, a
Texas Republican who
serves as chairman of the
House Financial Services
Committee, unveiled a plan
that he said would rectify
the “grave mistake” that
was the 2010 Dodd-Frank
Act, which tightened the
regulatory screws on financial firms and created the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an industry watchdog.
“Dodd-Frank’s false
premise is that an alchemy
of Wall Street greed, outsized private risk and massive Washington deregulation almost blew up the
world economy,” he said in a
speech last week to the
Economic Club of New
York.
“It wasn’t deregulation
that caused the financial
crisis,” Hensarling said. “It
was dumb regulation.”
As for greed, he said,
“When hasn’t there been an
element of greed on Wall
Street?”
Boys will be boys, right?
Hensarling would fix
things by throwing out large
sections of the law.
“He’d gut Dodd-Frank
and gut the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau,” said Deepak Gupta, a
Washington lawyer who
previously worked as senior
counsel for the watchdog
agency. “Jeb Hensarling is a
wholly owned subsidiary of
the financial services industry.”
Too harsh? Not when
you consider that, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Hensarling has received more than
$5.5 million from financial
firms and industry groups
since being elected to the
House in 2002. The top two
contributors to his political
endeavors are JPMorgan
Chase ($105,000) and the
American Bankers Assn.
($85,000).
In the 2014 election cycle,
Hensarling was Congress’
No. 1 recipient of cash from
payday lenders ($68,000),
which are strongly against
proposed rules from the
CFPB that would rein in
their operations.
Hensarling’s office
11 shows to get
state tax credits
in “American Crime,” which will relocate to L.A.
By Yvonne Villarreal
Mark Wilson Getty Images
REP. JEB HENSARLING (R-Texas), chairman of the House Financial Services
Committee, last week unveiled a plan to revamp the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
steered me to the Financial
Services Committee for a
comment. Jeff Emerson, a
committee spokesman, said
Hensarling has opposed
Dodd-Frank since its introduction and “his record has
been consistent and
transparent.”
Hensarling’s planned
legislation — the misleadingly titled Financial
Choice Act — would roll
back significant portions of
Dodd-Frank. Among other
things, it would do away
with the so-called Volcker
Rule, which limits a bank’s
ability to use its own accounts to make risky
speculative investments.
It would radically revamp the CFPB by renaming it the Consumer Financial Opportunity Commission and replacing its sole
director with a five-member
bipartisan commission.
The commission’s mandate
would be not just protecting consumers but also
safeguarding the well-being
of financial services markets.
Hensarling’s bill would
make the rejiggered agency
more beholden to Congress
by giving lawmakers say
over the agency’s funding.
Currently, the bureau’s
funds come not from Congress but from the Federal
Reserve.
“Hensarling and Repub-
licans on the House Financial Services Committee
can’t stand this,” Gupta
said. “It means they don’t
have control over the purse
strings.”
A spokesman for the
bureau declined to comment.
Of course, the financial
services industry is thrilled
with Hensarling’s
proposals.
“Every law can be improved and Dodd-Frank is
no exception,” said Jeff
Sigmund, a spokesman for
the American Bankers
Assn. “Today, it is not unusual to hear bankers from
strong, healthy banks say
they are ready to sell because the regulatory burden has become too much
to manage.”
Tom Quaadman, senior
vice president of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce,
told me the changes proposed for the CFPB would
result in a more effective,
more accountable agency.
“Congressional oversight is important to make
sure the rights of people
and businesses aren’t being
trampled upon,” he said.
Consumer advocates
see a different agenda at
work.
“This plan doesn’t get
tough on banks,” the advocacy group Americans for
Financial Reform said in a
statement. “It gets tough on
the regulators policing
them.”
Liz Ryan Murray, policy
director of the People’s
Action Institute, which
represents grass-roots
organizations, said the
millions in contributions
showered on Hensarling
“bought a really good friend
in Congress.”
Is there room for improvement in Dodd-Frank?
Yes. Some regulations, such
as capital requirements,
that are intended to keep
big banks healthy might be
too stringent for smaller
institutions.
But there’s no disputing
the success of the CFPB.
Since its founding in 2010,
the bureau has secured
more than $11 billion in relief
for more than 25 million
consumers harmed by
dubious financial practices.
In other words, it made
financial firms behave responsibly, in a grown-up
fashion.
The industry clearly
would prefer to go back to
the way things were before.
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‘Hamilton’ boosts Tonys
The Broadway smash
helps the awards show
telecast gets its best
ratings in 15 years.
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Walgreens splits
with Theranos
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A day after the nation’s largest drugstore chain severed ties with Theranos, the troubled blood-testing startup said Monday that it would continue serving customers
through independent retail locations.
Walgreens said Sunday that it would immediately
close all 40 Theranos Wellness Centers at the drugstore
chain’s Arizona locations. In January, Walgreens Boots
Alliance Inc. told Theranos to stop sending samples collected at its stores to a testing facility that drew
regulatory scrutiny over possible patient risks.
Theranos said Monday in a brief statement posted on
its website that it was disappointed with the Walgreens
decision. The blood-testing company said it was working
with government officials “to ensure that we not only
comply with all federal regulations but exceed them,” and
that it still would serve customers in California and Arizona through independent retail locations.
Palo Alto-based Theranos has raised millions of dollars by pitching its technology as a cheaper, faster way to
run blood tests.
The privately held company said in April that it was
under investigation from several regulators and agencies.
That followed a series of Wall Street Journal reports that
raised questions about the company’s tests.
Easing student
loan debt relief
By Stephen Battaglio
Broadway’s acclaimed
smash “Hamilton” pushed
the ratings for the annual
Tony Awards telecast Sunday to its highest level in 15
years.
The ceremony from the
Beacon Theatre in New York
City that aired from 8 to 11:15
p.m. averaged 8.73 million
viewers, an increase of 35%
over the 2015 ceremony. The
preliminary figure from
Nielsen does not include the
last 15 minutes of the broadcast, which aired outside
prime time.
The
Tony
Awards
telecast is a must for theater
fans but has typically been a
modest ratings attraction
compared with other major
awards shows. But it clearly
received a boost from offering performances by the cast
of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel
Miranda’s groundbreaking
hip-hop musical on the nation’s founding that has become the most coveted
ticket on Broadway.
“Hamilton”
won
11
awards, one short of tying
the record set by “The Producers” in 2001, the last time
that the Tony Awards had
“American Crime” and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” are
among the TV shows selected to receive state tax credits.
In the first round of credits allocated for the second fiscal year of the expanded tax credit program, the California Film Commission on Monday said 11 TV projects
have been approved for $65 million in tax breaks.
The projects include ABC’s “American Crime,” which
is relocating production of its third season from Austin,
Texas, to Los Angeles. With the addition of “American
Crime,” California has gained a total of six relocating TV
series under the expanded incentive program.
Other approved projects include four returning TV
series already in the program (the CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” CBS’ “Code Black,” Fox’s “Rosewood,” and
HBO’s “Veep”) and six pilots picked up to series, including Hulu’s “Citizen,” NBC’s “This Is Us,” and Freeform’s
“Famous in Love.”
“Year two of our expanded program is off to a very
encouraging start as we welcome a sixth relocating TV
series,” California Film Commission Executive Director
Amy Lemisch said in a statement. “It’s also great to host
another long-term project like ‘American Crime’ that is
set elsewhere.”
The 11 projects announced Monday are estimated to
generate $464 million in direct in-state spending, including $171 million in wages to below-the-line crew members,
according to the film commission.
The commission said it expects that such in-state
spending and wages will grow substantially for the second
fiscal year as the program receives its full $330 million in
annual funding.
“With the program fully funded for year two, we will be
able to attract and retain even more projects, which
translates into more in-state spending and high-wage
jobs that would otherwise go elsewhere,” Lemisch said.
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Theo Wargo Getty Images
THE CAST of the groundbreaking hip-hop musical “Hamilton” performs onstage
during the Tony Awards ceremony at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
such a large TV audience,
8.94 million.
The 70th Tony Awards
drew an 11.4 rating and 18
share in the New York TV
market, averaging 1.23 million viewers. It’s the largest
hometown audience for the
Tonys since Nielsen started
using people meters to
measure local market audiences in 2004.
In Los Angeles, where the
telecast airs on a delay, the
show scored a 7.4 rating and
a 13 share — up 42% over 2015
— with an audience of
582,000. The rating and
share were the same in Chicago — up 23% over last year
— with an average audience
of 384,000. It was the largest
audience in both markets
since 2004.
Ratings
more
than
doubled year-over-year in
smaller TV markets such as
Nashville,
Hartford-New
Haven, Conn., and Jacksonville, Fla.
The ceremony, hosted by
James Corden of CBS’ “The
Late Late Show” and a Tony
winner himself, included
big-name presenters Oprah
Winfrey
and
Barbra
Streisand. Glenn Close also
appeared as Hillary Clinton
in one comedy bit.
Presenters and winners
also paid tribute to the victims of the early Sunday
morning shooting rampage
at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., which had
dominated the news in the
hours leading up to the
telecast.
stephen.battaglio
@latimes.com
The Obama administration is trying to make it easier
for students who have been misled or defrauded by their
colleges to have their loans forgiven.
A rule proposed Monday would lay out a clear relief
process for borrowers who believe that they were lied to
about job prospects after college or otherwise deceived to
get them to enroll in the school. It also aims to hold
schools accused of fraud or at financial risk more accountable by requiring them to notify prospective and enrolled
students, as well as set aside money that could help cover
future claims against the school.
The proposal follows the collapse last year of
Corinthian Colleges, one of the largest for-profit college
companies.
The proposal, expected to be in place by July 2017,
would streamline debt relief for groups of students if they
all experienced the same misconduct by a school, such as
instances of wide misrepresentation — meaning that they
all wouldn’t have to file individual applications for loan
forgiveness.
The new provisions also would bar schools from forbidding students from class-action lawsuits as part of
enrollment agreements, something Corinthian had done.
California’s attorney general filed a lawsuit in 2013, alleging rampant lies to students about job placement.
Corinthian filed for bankruptcy protection last year, closing schools and leaving thousands of students with hefty
debt and frustrated in their efforts to earn degrees.
The U.S. Education Department has so far erased the
debt for more than 8,800 former Corinthian students, totaling more than $132 million. But that’s only a small fraction of the estimated $3.6 billion in federal loans given to
Corinthian students.
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TECHNOLOGY
EA plans
to award
e-sports
prize pool
Video game publisher
will give $1 million to
the top players of
latest ‘Madden NFL.’
By Paresh Dave
Frederic J. Brown AFP/Getty Images
MICROSOFT unveils its Xbox One on Monday at the Galen Center. The system offers a 2-terabyte hard drive
and will support 4K resolution for Blu-ray discs. The console comes with a stand allowing it to sit vertically.
Microsoft unveils its
new, slimmer Xbox One
The upgraded gaming
console, which starts
at $299, takes aim at
the Sony PlayStation.
By Alex Schiffer
Microsoft
Corp.
announced a slimmer version
of its Xbox One at USC’s
Galen Center on Monday.
The new console, unveiled as the Electronic Entertainment Expo gets
underway Tuesday in Los
Angeles, is the smallest
Xbox yet — 40% smaller
than its predecessor.
The system will feature a
large 2-terabyte hard drive
and will support 4K resolution for Blu-ray discs. Unlike
its predecessor, the console
will come with a stand that
allows it to sit vertically. It
goes on sale in August starting at $299.
The
announcement
came hours before rival
Sony Inc. was expected to
discuss an updated version
of its PlayStation 4. Analysts
predict that the upgraded
console will have improved
graphics, potentially larger
storage and support for 4K.
Sony has yet to announce
the price for the device, but it
is expected to be higher than
the current PlayStation 4
price of $350. If that holds
true, Microsoft may be in position to have early success
in sales with its new Xbox
One model.
“The price is really important here,” said Mike
Vorhaus, president of Magid
Advisors, a media consulting firm.
Because these releases
represent minor updates to
an existing console — not en-
tirely new platforms — a few
dollars in savings could sway
consumers, he said.
“Over and over we saw
that the lower-priced guy is
going to sell more units in
the beginning. And that’s
still true,” Vorhaus said. “So
Xbox lets [Microsoft] appeal to people who haven’t
bought a console yet. The
late adopters. And it lets
them appeal to people who
already bought a PS4.”
And there are plenty of
those people. Sony has sold
double the amount of PS4s
to Microsoft’s Xbox Ones.
“It’s a tale of two different
consoles,” said Andrew Alvarez, a gaming industry research analyst at IBIS
World. “For the Xbox it’s an
attempt to press the reset
button and see if the second
life to this console will help
increase sales.”
In an industry in which
consoles must now compete
with mobile devices, PCs
and even virtual reality helmets, console sales have
held strong despite the increasingly crowded field.
At its news conference
Monday, Microsoft talked
about the idea of cross-platform gaming, which is the
ability to play a game on a
console against someone on
a PC and vice versa. It’s
something that could help
the industry stay competitive even as its rivals continue to grow.
“Everyone thought this
generation
of
consoles
weren’t going to sell as well
as they did,” Alvarez said.
“That was a huge boom.
There’s a huge core demographic that still exists
that’s still interested in using their consoles.”
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Snapchat to place more ads
The start-up will put
commercials that last
about 10 seconds
between Stories.
By Paresh Dave
Teen favorite Snapchat
Inc. is turning its app into a
bigger hub for advertising,
announcing Monday plans
to place commercials in a
new spot and simplify the
process of buying an ad.
The moves, in effect, turn
on the jets on Snapchat’s ad
business.
Investors have valued the
Venice start-up at $16 billion
and showered it with $2 billion in cash. But Snapchat
only expects to generate a
few hundred million dollars
in revenue this year and isn’t
near profitability.
Though the 5-year-old
company has built up its advertising business over the
last year, its policies required a good deal of handholding with clients. Part of
it has had to do with unique
ad formats, including vertically oriented videos and
branded animation tools for
selfies. But the company
also has sought to keep tight
control over the frequency
and presentation of ads.
From the start, Snapchat
hasn’t offered much data on
who had viewed an ad or
flexibility
on
the
demographics of users who
would see campaigns.
It began addressing
many of the issues in recent
months, adding 10 firms as
business
partners
to
Video game publisher
Electronic Arts Inc. plans to
award $1 million over the
next year to top players of its
latest “Madden NFL” title.
The prize money is a selling point for a new, fourtournament series beginning this fall, marking the
first e-sports initiative from
the nation’s second-mostprofitable gamemaker since
it launched a competitive
gaming division in December.
The “Madden NFL 17”
Championship Series, announced Sunday, came two
days before the Electronic
Entertainment Expo, or E3,
brings the gaming industry
to downtown Los Angeles.
Turning video games into a
sport, with all the traditional
complexities of stadiums,
free agency and drug testing,
is among the hottest topics
at this year’s convention,
which starts Tuesday.
Electronic Arts is committing to a three-year plan,
hoping to slowly build up
amateur, mid-level and professional tournaments.
It’s a more cautious approach than the ambitious
media strategy of slightly
larger rival Activision Blizzard Inc., which boasted a
pair of $1-million prize pools
last fall and has among its
goals becoming the ESPN of
e-sports.
At an investor presentation last month, Electronic
Arts “did its best to pour
cold water on the notion that
e-sports will generate significant direct revenue in the
near term,” Macquarie
Capital
analyst
Ben
Schachter wrote to clients.
At the base of EA’s setup
are plans to provide resources such as scheduling
software to college students
and other gaming enthusi-
asts that would make it
easier for them to organize
tournaments. These days,
it’s a chore involving clipboards and hauling around
gaming consoles.
At the mid-level, EA says
it will work with events
promoters like ESL and
Gfinity to run what the company calls premiere tournaments.
But what EA truly considers e-sports are global,
top-tier
tournaments
known as Majors. “Madden”
is getting the Majors treatment, and so will the popular
“Battlefield” shooter and
“FIFA” soccer franchises.
“Whether you’re an elite
player competing for cash
and prizes in global e-sports
events, or you’re taking your
first steps to play online, we
want everyone to feel the
thrill of competition,” EA
Chief Competition Officer
Peter Moore said.
EA has done tournaments before, but they were
more about selling games
than thinking through how
to get people spending more
time playing them, Moore
said.
Now executives such as
Moore are emphasizing the
development of features
that support dueling and entertainment among players.
That includes offering more
camera angles, the ability to
stream games online for others to watch and generally
creating
a
“spectacle”
around who wins and loses,
Moore said.
If players get into it,
they’ll spend more money on
packs of virtual items that
can boost their characters
and street-credibility. Socalled downloadable content is a fast-growing profit
generator for large gaming
companies.
“Every one of our development teams understands what competitive
gaming is going to bring in
the next many years,” Moore
said. “It just takes time to
do.”
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Twitter: @peard33
Apple Music’s
new interface
By August Brown
Luca Teuchmann Getty Images
SNAPCHAT EXECUTIVE Nick Bell discusses mobile storytelling in London in
April. The company has built up its advertising business over the last year.
measure the effectiveness of
ads on Snapchat and offering six subsets of users —
based on factors such as
gender and age — so advertisers can target particular
markets.
On top of that, Snapchat
said Monday that eight companies can now connect to
its ad system. It’s a bit of automation that reduces the
need for Snapchat to be
heavily involved in the videoad creation and buying process, though the company will
still evaluate all video ads
before they go live.
What users are likely to
notice is that commercials
lasting about 10 seconds will
now appear between Stories, which are compilations
showing photos and videos
that a user shared to followers over the last 24 hours.
In March, Snapchat began automatically playing
Stories back to back. As
users jump from one friend’s
story to the next, they’ll now
encounter ads from companies such as Hollister, Verizon and Warner Bros.
Snapchat says more than
100 million people, including
about 41% of adults under
age 35 in the U.S., use its app
each day for staying on top of
their friends’ lives and inter-
national news and gossip.
They spend sometimes half
an hour on Snapchat every
day, giving the company
plenty of untapped room to
show ads.
Commercials
on
Snapchat can be skipped.
But they do take up the
whole screen when shown
and that’s helped them
stand out more and generate a greater effect on consumers compared to ads on
rival services including
Facebook, according to
studies.
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Twitter: @peard33
Apple Music’s 15 million
users will soon wake up to a
dramatically different layout for the streaming service.
The
company
announced a significant redesign at its Worldwide Developers Conference on
Monday in San Francisco.
The year-old service, which
still trails Spotify’s 30 million
paid users, will both streamline its interface and introduce several new features,
while pushing others onto
the back burner.
An early preview of the
changes suggest a simpler,
clearer interface, as opposed
to the sometimes jumbled
and confusing first edition.
The design will feature
larger album art displays
and will focus on recent additions to their catalog.
But several new features
might prove especially interesting to even established
users. A new lyrics tab will allow listeners to pull up song
lyrics directly from the track
page. A new “For You section,” similar to Spotify’s
recommendation
engine,
will create daily playlists and
suggestions. And subscribers will be able to send and
play songs directly through
Apple
THE REDESIGNED
Apple Music iOS app is
seen on an iPhone 6.
the Messages feature.
There’s a backtrack as
well: The “Connect” feature,
once touted as the social
component of Apple Music,
will be shunted to the back of
the “For You” section.
The features will be updated as part of the new iOS
this fall, just as Amazon and
Pandora are planning new
streaming services that aim
to compete with Apple Music, Spotify and others.
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@latimes.com
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Stocks fall ahead
of Fed meeting
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U.S. and global stocks
fell for a third day Monday
as concerned investors
waited to see what the Federal Reserve would do with
interest rates this week and
anxiously awaited the fate
of Britain’s membership in
the European Union.
LinkedIn shares jumped
$61.13, or 46.6%, to $192.21 after Microsoft announced
plans to buy the company.
Firearms makers rose as
investors wondered if the
mass shooting in Orlando,
Fla., on Sunday would lead
to greater sales. Sturm
Ruger advanced $4.88, or
8.5%, to $62.29, its largest
one-day gain in more than a
year, and Smith & Wesson
rose $1.47, or 6.9%, to $22.88.
Similar gains have been
recorded after other mass
shootings such as the one
last year in San Bernardino.
The prospect of additional
background checks and
other regulations often
boosts demand for guns.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 132.86
points, or 0.7%, to 17,732.48.
The Standard & Poor’s 500
index fell 17.01 points, or
0.8%, to 2,079.06 and the
Nasdaq composite fell 46.11
points, or 0.9%, to 4,848.44.
The Federal Reserve
had been expected to start
raising interest rates, but
now appears likely to remain in a wait-and-see
mode. The central bank’s
two-day meeting will start
Tuesday, with a decision on
interest rates Wednesday
afternoon. Fed Chairwoman Janet L. Yellen is
scheduled to hold a news
conference after the interest
rate decision.
Last month many investors were betting that
the Fed would raise interest
rates, but the two most recent monthly jobs reports in
the U.S. have put a damper
on those expectations.
Investors’ lack of confidence that the Fed will raise
rates could be seen in bonds
and the U.S. dollar. The yield
on the 10-year U.S. Treasury
note fell to 1.61% from 1.64%
on Friday, its lowest yield so
far this year. The dollar,
while off its lows, is still also
trading near its lows for the
year against other major
currencies.
Combined
with
the
weight of the Fed decision,
stocks, particularly in Europe, remain under pressure on investor concerns
over whether Britain will
choose to remain in the European Union in a June 23
referendum.
Recent polls have shown
that the race is tight, with
some polls showing a majority of British voters are in favor of exiting the EU, a development known informally as “Brexit.”
“This week’s Fed meeting
feels like a bit of a sideshow,
given the focus on Brexit
and the market’s appropriate belief that the Fed is unlikely to [raise interest
rates] ahead of such an
event,” said John Briggs,
head of strategy for the
Americas at RBS, in a note
to investors.
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Title Insurance
building acquired
A development group
plans to transform the
downtown L.A. tower
into creative offices.
By Andrew Khouri
A development group led
by Rising Realty Partners
plans to transform the vacant Title Insurance and
Trust building in downtown
Los Angeles into creative offices, a roughly $40-million
renovation job.
The Los Angeles firm,
along with Lionstone Investments and Industry Partners, purchased the historic
Art Deco building last week
and has already begun work
on the project.
A purchase price was not
disclosed, but the deal is the
latest in downtown’s historic
core, where old buildings are
being revamped and new
towers erected.
This month a New York
City developer revealed
plans to renovate the Cecil
Hotel on Main Street, and in
May
another
company
broke ground on a 24-story
apartment tower a short
walk from the aging Title Insurance building near the
corner of 4th and Spring
streets.
Hal Bastian, a downtown
L.A. development consultant, said the Rising Realty
project marks a milestone
for the historic core — once
an office hub that declined
as businesses left for the
suburbs and new high-rises
on Bunker Hill.
In the last two decades,
he noted, most renovations
along Main, Spring and
Broadway have been residential conversions of vacant office towers. But with
the area undergoing a revitalization because of those
conversions, Rising is betting that businesses once
again want a Spring Street
address.
“It’s coming full circle,”
Bastian said.
Renovations at the 433 S.
Spring St. building will include returning the gleam to
the facade and removing
lead paint and asbestos.
The development group
plans to create about 300,000
square feet of modern offices
in the 11-story tower — most
of which is expected to be of
the creative variety, with
open floor plans and lots of
natural light.
The project also calls for
retail space on the ground
floor and a restaurant on the
roof with a 360-degree view
of downtown.
“It’s going to need a lot of
love and care,” said Christopher Rising, president of
Rising Realty. “But we are
really looking forward to the
opportunity to bring it
back.”
Lionstone, a Houstonbased real estate investment firm, and Industry
Partners, a Santa Monica
real estate services firm, previously worked with Rising
Realty to transform the PacMutual center at 6th and
Olive streets into creative
offices.
The Beaux Arts building,
which is closer to Bunker
Hill, sold for $200 million last
year after Rising Realty acquired it for just $60 million
in 2012.
The Title Insurance and
Trust Building opened in
1928, a time when Spring
Street was known as the Wall
Street of the West and the
firm was “riding high on the
wave of Southern California
real estate development,”
the Los Angeles Conservancy wrote in a request to
make the building a historic
cultural monument.
“Up until the mid-’60s,
Spring Street was the place
to be” for businesses, Rising
said.
But by the late 1970s, with
Spring Street on the decline,
Title Insurance and Trust
decamped to Rosemead, following other firms that had
already fled the historic
core.
With businesses leaving
for Bunker Hill and the suburbs, Spring and Main
streets fell on hard times.
But in recent years, the area
has seen a revival and is now
home to lofts, restaurants
and bars.
Mike Condon Jr., an executive managing director
with Cushman & Wakefield,
said Rising Realty’s project
will help extend that revitalization north to a stretch of
Spring Street that has seen
less investment.
“It’s a big boost to that
northern pocket of the historic core,” said Condon,
who represented the seller,
Capital Foresight.
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A federal appeals court
has sided with Boeing and
one of its suppliers in the
whistle-blower
lawsuit
brought by three ex-workers
at the aircraft manufacturer's former plant in Wichita,
Kan.
The 10th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals agreed
with a federal judge's decision that the ex-workers
failed to show Boeing defrauded the U.S. government in a $1.6-billion contract.
The three-judge appellate panel said it found no
evidence that Boeing knowingly submitted a false claim
for “bogus parts” in a contract for two dozen 737 Next
Generation aircraft. It upheld the 2014 summary judgment in favor of Boeing and
California-based supplier
Ducommun Inc.
COURTS
FedEx drug case
heads for trial
The U.S. government and
FedEx are set to battle in a
federal court over a claim
that the company knowingly
delivered illegal prescription
drugs such as Ambien from
pill mills to dealers and addicts, some of whom died.
Fedex denies the charge
and says it only shipped
what it believed were legal
drugs from licensed pharmacies.
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More than 1,100 workers
at a Pomona hospital voted
to unionize, the Service
Employees
International
Union-United Healthcare
Workers West announced
Monday.
The workers at Pomona
Valley Hospital Medical
Center included nurses,
phlebotomists, ultrasound
technologists, janitors and
receptionists.
The SEIU said the vote,
which took place Jan. 22 but
was cleared by the National
Labor Relations Board on
Friday, marked the largest
hospital unionization in California in 15 years.
Sean Wherley, a spokesman for SEIU-UHW, said
the union is waiting to see if
the hospital challenges the
NLRB ruling on the vote before it schedules contract
negotiation meetings.
[Apple, from C1]
and reservations. Only
iMessage is wide open.
Tight control over functionality at the outset lets
Apple avoid tying up users in
unpleasant
experiences,
whether it’s overpowered
apps draining batteries or
invasive software demanding too much access to a
user’s personal files.
Though the reins loosen
over time, there are shortterm consequences.
Expectations about last
year’s launch of the Apple
Watch soured after software
developers realized that the
company’s
restrictions
would render many of the
first apps for the smartwatch sluggish and unsophisticated. Just 20 of the
top 100 free iPhone apps and
11 of the top 100 paid apps
have an Apple Watch version, according to data from
tracking firm Sensor Tower.
“We thought we would
see more uptake from developers,”
said
Paul
Kopacki, chief marketing officer for Realm, which provides storage technology to
100,000 developers. “But Apple is rubbing against the
limits of its first-generation
hardware — battery, screen
size — and one of their responses has been to limit
what developers can do with
it.”
Uncertainty about how
to turn smartwatch apps
into significant revenue generators hasn’t given developers the incentive to prioritize apps for the Apple
Watch.
“I get the impression that
some users find watch apps
nice to have as an extra, but
it’s not a significant driver of
sales,” said James Thomson,
who develops the PCalc app.
Apple ended up with
poor early reviews for watch
apps, which may have curtailed sales of the device.
“The
watch
hasn’t
saturated like the hot device
on the market usually does,”
Kopacki said.
Siri accepting voice commands for apps should generate less severe concerns
for Apple compared with the
challenges raised by its initial watch model. Siri
launched in 2011, and users
are accustomed to interacting with it.
Issues may arise, though,
if people have two apps with
similar functionality, said
Charles Teague, chief executive of Boston start-up FitNow. His company’s app,
Lose It, helps hundreds of
thousands of subscribers
track their workouts and
diets. Should a user with
several fitness apps say to
Siri, “I just had a ham sandwich,” each of those apps
could seek to do something
with the statement. The
activity could overburden
the device or confuse the
user — problems that justify
Apple erecting barriers such
as requiring users to name
the app they want to activate.
Though Apple didn’t release the Siri floodgates, at
least opening them somewhat alongside iMessage
provides the strongest sign
yet that the company senses
itself being squeezed by rivals Google and Facebook.
The competitors also want
to boost their own virtual
assistants and messaging
apps by luring programmers
— and they aren’t known for
putting tight restrictions on
developers.
“Every major area of iOS
is open to developers,” said
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior VP of software engineering.
Apple’s desire to compete with Google and Facebook shined through in
other announcements Monday too. Starting this fall, facial recognition software in
the photos app should improve searching. And artificial intelligence software is
expected to suggest replies
to messages and automatically convert words to
emojis. Rivals already boast
some similar features.
Apple’s event Monday in
San
Francisco
also
introduced other elements
of what CEO Tim Cook described as a “gigantic” update scheduled to arrive this
fall across the company’s
products.
Among them, iMessage
users will be able to emphasize remarks by changing
the size of text or pixelating
it until the recipient waves
their hand across the screen.
Additionally, artists may
submit digital stickers for
public use in iMessages.
An SOS tool for the Apple
Watch automatically rings
the local emergency number, pings a user’s emergency contacts and displays
medical information for first
responders.
Mac and Macbook users
are expected to gain the ability to shop on websites using
Apple Pay and have online
videos stay on the screen as
they switch to a different
program.
It’s the new tools for Siri
and iMessage that provide
developers the most inspiration, though.
Apple regularly adjusts
its policies to remain app
makers’ preferred distribution partner. Last week, Ap-
ple
announced
several
changes intended to appease programmers. Getting an app — or a new version of it — on the App Store
should be faster. Attracting
users could become more
cost-effective because the
App Store will now have
spots for ads, giving app
makers an alternative to the
standard path of marketing
on Facebook or Google. And
Apple introduced the ability
for more app makers to sell
apps as a subscription
rather than just a one-time
fee.
Teague saw news about
the subscriptions and immediately crunched numbers. After a subscriber’s
first year, Apple will charge
developers a fee of only 15%
of revenue, versus the 30% it
siphons from paid apps today.
“It’s a big a deal,” Teague
said. “You think about people who stick with us for
more than a year, it’s plus
15% on all of them.”
Apple is of such importance to developers because
iPhone apps are more lucrative than Android complements. The more expansive
role of iMessages and
particularly Siri on the device could be crucial to keeping the app market humming.
“Opening up the platform for developers was long
overdue,” said Daniel Ives, a
financial analyst who followed the company until recently joining mobile software company Synchronoss
Technologies. “I view this as
a major step in the right direction for Apple to get developers behind Siri and
help fend off competition.”
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L AT I ME S . CO M / B U S IN E S S
Mogul’s
men get
high pay
[Redstone, from C1]
filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
But Bibb and others say that
Moonves, 66, has done an admirable job of keeping CBS
at the top of the network
heap, and that has he been
aggressive in making CBS
programming available on
digital platforms.
Last year, Moonves and
Dauman’s
compensation
packages were eclipsed only
by Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, whose $94.6-million compensation was
boosted by a one-time stock
award.
Some shareholders have
complained, to little effect.
The Redstone family owns
nearly 80% of the voting
stock in the two companies,
so no one had the power to
object. Viacom and CBS
have two classes of stock,
and investors who own Viacom’s Class B common
shares or CBS Class B common shares have no vote.
“Dual class stock means
there is no accountability to
other
investors,”
said
Charles Elson, director of
the John L. Weinberg Center
for Corporate Governance
at the University of Delaware. “The accountability is
to the controlling shareholder.” And that’s Redstone.
The outsize compensation has dented the bottom
line for both companies.
Over the last decade, Viacom and CBS allocated
salaries, stock awards, options, bonuses and other
benefits valued at the time
at $1.6 billion for just four
men: Moonves, Dauman,
Redstone and Viacom Chief
Operating Officer Thomas
Dooley, according to company filings.
The current value of
some those holdings is considerably less because of the
drop in the value of Viacom
shares since 2014; but had
the stock risen, the amount
could have been more.
On Monday, Viacom
shares fell 78 cents, or 1.9%,
to $41.24. CBS shares were
off 1.2%, or 62 cents, to $52.11.
CBS stock is up 10% since
OCSE
CEO pay
Viacom CEO Philippe
Dauman and CBS CEO
Leslie Moonves are among
the highest paid executives
in the country.
Annual CEO pay (In millions)
Leslie Moonves (CBS)
Philippe Dauman (Viacom)
$70M
2011:
$68.4
2015
$56.4
60
50 $43.1
$54.1
40
30
'11
'12
'13
'14
'15
Annual shareholder returns
CBS
75%
50
Viacom
2011
44%
25
2015
-14%
0
-25
9%
-42%
-50
'11
'12
'13
'14
'15
Source: Equilar Inc.
Los Angeles Times
January while Viacom is
basically flat.
Since 2006, when he became CEO, Dauman has collected compensation that,
at the time, totaled more
than $380 million, according
to Viacom filings. But with
so many stock options
underwater and a decline in
value of other equity-based
compensation, more than
$73 million in value was
erased.
The
high
pay,
particularly for Dauman,
has drawn scrutiny from
some investors. BTIG Research media analyst Richard Greenfield has referred
to the executive compensation provided to the Viacom
executive as “egregious,” in
light of Viacom’s recent
struggles, and said the core
problem was lack of board
oversight.
Viacom’s
11-member
board includes several longtime friends of Redstone.
“It’s just a simple failure
of the board,” Greenfield
said.
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Start-up targets gamers’ fashion
[L.A. Tech, from C1]
big business.
In accouterments, Eckman saw extra opportunity
because, in his view, established athletics wear giants
such as Nike are hesitant
to enter e-sports because
they could catch flak from
their traditional sportswear
customers. Among many
sports fans, playing video
games remains anything but
a sport. Nike declined to
comment.
By the end of the year,
Eckman would like to have
uniforms on players. The jerseys would be made from
multiple
undisclosed
materials in an effort to
make them breathable and
sweat-wicking.
Uniforms
also must stand up to the
chill players feel in heavily
air-conditioned video studios.
“It’s not going to be a
cheap soccer shirt,” Eckman
said, adding that there
would be matching pants
and shorts.
He and his fellow cofounders have been consulting video game publishers
on marketing initiatives for
several years. They recently
decided to combine efforts
and raised start-up capital
from Dallas firm Cedars
Spring
Capital.
Other
projects include developing
e-sports-related shows and
organizing events on behalf
of gaming companies.
2 security software
companies get cash
Irvine
cybersecurity
company Cylance, whose
software is meant to predict
what a cyberattack might
look like and what vulnerability it will exploit, picked
up $100 million as it ramps
up sales.
Cylance says it has about
1,000 customers but now
wants to add many more because its software has
achieved initial goals.
The funds from Blackstone
Tactical
Opportunities, Insight Venture
Partners and others add to
$77 million the nearly 4-yearold company previously
raised. The latest investment values the company at
$1 billion, according to reports.
Also, Los Angeles security company Armorway,
which got its start with federally funded research at
USC, announced a $2.5-million investment from Texas
venture capital firm Aristos
Ventures
and
several
individuals.
Armorway’s latest software aims to suck in data
about employees to identify
ones that could pose a
threat, potentially because
they would try to leak information.
The company also offers
software that aims to help
law enforcement determine
the best spots to position officers.
On the Web
8 Music manager and
venture capitalist Troy
Carter, based in Culver City,
is taking a global role at music streaming app Spotify,
where he will oversee the
company's relationship with
musicians, songwriters and
record labels, according to
the New York Times.
8 El Segundo fashion
brand JustFab named Todd
Tappin as chief financial officer. He held the same role at
Rubicon Project and helped
the
Los
Angeles
ad
technology company go
public, according to the Wall
Street Journal.
8 Virtual Reality Co., a
Steven
Spielberg-backed
film studio making content
for virtual reality headsets,
announced a $23-million investment from Chinese
technology
company
Hengxin Mobile Business,
according to the Wall Street
Journal.
8 Google at last has
signed a lease for a 319,000square-foot hangar in Playa
Vista, according to the Real
Deal.
8 KTLA-Channel 5 spotlights the 11 start-ups in hospital Cedars-Sinai’s healthtechnology start-up mentorship program.
8 Brogan BamBrogan,
co-founder at Hyperloop
One, says the transportation start-up is considering
developing an underwater
version of the high-speed rail
system that has only been
seen in above-ground renderings so far, according to
Science Friday.
In case you missed it
8 Snapchat Inc. downplayed a popular feature in
an update as it attempts to
better
promote
lesswatched content from the
likes of ESPN, BuzzFeed and
Cosmo.
8 Peter Csathy, a digital
media executive who has
tracked the rise of online
video for more than a
decade, has launched an
advisory and investment
company named Creatv.
8 Video game publisher
Electronic Arts Inc. plans
to award $1 million over
the next year to top players
of its latest “Madden NFL”
title.
8 Airbnb used its annual
conference to address the
tech world’s present public
relations crisis, with panels
on building an inclusive
company, mitigating bias in
hiring and managing and
nurturing trust.
Coming up
A Tel Aviv University
alumni group hosts a conference on digital media
Wednesday and Thursday in
Santa Monica, with topics
including virtual reality,
mental health in the digital
age and online distribution
strategies.
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this month in Thousand Oaks. She finds the chain’s proposal disheartening.
ing for more, we are just
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Both sides are wearier
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Obispo and Kern — giant
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locations.
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hours. In 2004, the UFCW
represented 59,000 workers
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Vons. Now the union has
about 12,000 fewer members
at those and affiliated
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Tom Hancock said that’s
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Vons in 1995, he says it took
him about two years to work
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more than 30 hours a week.
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Under the current contract, employees have to
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and Ralphs want to require
employees to work several
months more before reaching that pay rate, union officials said.
Hancock said he’s most
worried about his retirement savings, which took a
hit when the union made
concessions to secure a deal
in 2004.
“They tore up the pension pretty much,” he said.
In 2004, the union agreed
to a 35% cut in future pension returns for those working for companies before the
strike; newcomers faced an
even sharper reduction. The
UFCW said the companies
are now pushing to increase
their contributions to employee pensions by just 10
cents an hour per year, down
from a 20-cent increase they
agreed to in the last contract.
The stores also want to
force employees to retire at
age 65, rather than 60, the
union said.
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it harder for entry-level
employees to reach the highest pay grade, union officials
said.
On
Monday,
47,000
clerks, meat cutters, and
merchandise stockers will
have the chance to vote on
whether to authorize a
strike.
The union and the companies met Monday and
have four other meetings
scheduled over the next few
weeks.
“I see negotiations as ongoing at this point, and certainly moving through the
process to reach an agreement that is good for our associates and also keeps us
competitive in a very tough
market,” said Kendra Doyel,
a spokeswoman for Ralphs.
A spokesperson for Albertsons did not respond to
requests for comment.
Erika Bentzen, who has
worked for Ralphs for 31
years, finds the company’s
proposal disheartening.
“It does hurt, it’s like a
slap in the face,” Bentzen
said. The single mother
works the graveyard shift,
stocking merchandise at a
Thousand Oaks store from
midnight to 8:30 a.m., and
makes $20.10 an hour, the
most a Ralphs or Albertsons
clerk can make without becoming a department head.
Bentzen has no desire to
repeat the trauma of the
strike, which forced her to
take a second job and dip
into her savings. But she
says that her pay hasn’t kept
up with the cost of living in
the Los Angeles area.
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Carlyle, who led team
to only Stanley Cup
title, is expected to be
named coach again.
By Curtis Zupke
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IN ADDITION TO scoring 41 points in what could have been his team’s final game of he season, Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland
Cavaliers was more than willing to get down and dirty with Andre Iguodala of the Golden State Warriors in pursuit of a loose ball.
JAMES GANG
STILL STANDING
It’s been nearly a decade
since Randy Carlyle guided
the Ducks to their only Stanley Cup title, apparently
long enough for them to tap
back into that glorious past.
Carlyle is expected to be
named Ducks coach again.
An announcement could be
made Tuesday, barring issues negotiating a contract,
if not later this week.
The team did not comment Monday night and
Ducks General Manager
Bob Murray did not respond
to a message left by The
Times, but his expected selection would wrap up a sixweek-long search to fill the
vacancy left by Bruce
Boudreau, fired April 29
shortly after Anaheim was
eliminated at home in a
Game 7 for the fourth
straight season.
Carlyle was believed to be
among three finalists that
included Travis Green, a former Ducks player who is
coach of the Vancouver
Canucks’ minor league
team, and Rick Bowness, an
assistant coach with the
Tampa Bay Lightning and a
former head coach of the Ottawa Senators.
[See Carlyle, D3]
Cavaliers stay alive behind their motivated star, deny Warriors
By Mike Bresnahan
OAKLAND — LeBron James
had a simple mantra before Game
5, and he shared it publicly.
Win or lose, the Cleveland
Cavaliers had to return home after
playing Monday at Golden State.
So why not win and force a Game 6
on the Cavaliers’ court?
James almost single-handedly
made it happen by dominating
Game 5 in too many ways to capture in a sentence, let alone a paragraph.
He scored 41 points, took 16 rebounds and added seven assists in
a game-high 43 minutes of a 112-97
victory that prevented the Warriors from winning a second consecutive championship.
Cleveland still trails in the NBA
Finals, 3-2, and faces the steep
challenge known as history: No
NBA team has ever successfully
rallied from a 3-1 Finals deficit in 32
previous tries.
But James clung to his dream of
bringing the Cavaliers the first
NBA title of their 46-year existence. He made 16 of 30 shots, flying
past Golden State defenders on
plenty of them, and hit four of eight
attempts from three-point range.
His defense bordered on ma-
niacal. He ferociously blocked two
shots from behind on Warriors
fastbreaks and disrupted Shaun
Livingston’s fastbreak dunk attempt as well.
“We had a mind-set that we
wanted to come here and just try to
extend our [playoff] period,”
James said. “I understood the
magnitude of this game. I knew
how great of a team we were
[See Finals, D3]
Messi has just
one goal in mind
Argentine star wants
nothing more than to
bring home the Copa
America title.
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LIONEL MESSI is lifted
up by Ever Banega after
scoring against Panama.
COPA AMERICA
Argentina vs.
Bolivia
at CenturyLink Field, Seattle
TV: Today, 7 p.m., FS1
Changes that helped Penguins
Switching coaches and promoting youngsters
helped Pittsburgh win the Stanley Cup. D3
On the mend after crucial surgery
College pitcher and liver donor Joey Carney has
been walking more than three miles a day D5
first stint in Anaheim
ended with his firing on
Nov. 30, 2011.
Greinke
is tough
on his
old team
A former mainstay of
Dodgers keeps them
at bay and gets a hit
before decisive run.
By Kevin Baxter
It took Lionel Messi 28
years to get around to
playing a competitive game
in the U.S. It was worth waiting for.
After
sitting
out
Argentina’s first game in the
Copa America Centenario,
Messi entered the second
match, against Panama, as a
second-half substitute, then
scored three goals and assisted on a fourth in just 29
minutes.
In less than half an hour,
Messi was tied for the tournament lead in scoring and
had taken his team through
to the quarterfinals. Entering Monday’s games, seven
[See Messi, D2]
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RANDY CARLYLE’S
DIAMONDBACKS 3
DODGERS 2
By Andy McCullough
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press
DETERMINED RAMS HOPEFUL Nelson Spruce set a Pac-12 record with 294
receptions for 3,347 yards and 23 touchdowns during four seasons at Colorado.
Westlake High product
tries to stick with Rams
undrafted receiver Spruce hoping to defy the odds
By Jesse Dougherty
With hundreds of local
high school coaches at the
Rams’ organized team activities Friday, Jim Benkert
thought he’d blend into the
crowd.
There was a steady buzz
as coaches rapped about
their upcoming seasons.
Some jotted notes on the
team rosters that were distributed. Others shuffled up
and down the field to steal
glances at the more notable
players: defensive tackle
Aaron Donald; running back
Todd Gurley; No. 1 draft pick
Jared Goff.
But Benkert kept his eyes
trained on Nelson Spruce.
He was probably the only
visiting coach keeping close
tabs on an undrafted free
agent. He also was the only
visiting coach watching one
of his former players try to
[See Spruce, D3]
PHOENIX — The shock
of his departure faded
months ago, but Monday offered the Dodgers an in-person encounter with Zack
Greinke for the first time in
2016.
He wore the oddly styled
uniform of the Diamondbacks, with splotches of red
on the shoulders and ankles,
and he toiled for a team already drifting away from
playoff contention. But on
this night, in a 3-2 Dodgers
defeat, he reminded his former club of his work. Across
seven innings of two-run
baseball, he sidestepped the
Dodgers’ attempts at an offensive revival and extended
their losing streak to three
games.
Justin Turner tagged
Greinke with a run-scoring
double in the first. Corey
Seager supplied a solo home
[See Dodgers, D5]
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1020, 1540
TV: FS West
R: 830, 1330
Minnesota at Angels
HORSE RACING
2 p.m.
Racing Coast to Coast
PRO BASKETBALL, WNBA
5 p.m.
Indiana at Minnesota
7:30 p.m. Chicago at Sparks
SOCCER
8:30 a.m. European Championship, Austria vs. Hungary
TV: Prime
TV: ESPN2
TV: TWCSN
TV: ESPN, ESPND
R: 1220
TV: ESPN, ESPND
R: 1330
TV: FS1, UniMas,
UDN
TV: FS1, KMEX,
UniMas, Univision
TV: ESPN, ESPND
R: 1330
11:30 a.m. European Championship, Portugal vs. Iceland
5 p.m.
Copa America, Chile vs. Panama
7 p.m.
Copa America, Argentina vs. Bolivia
5:30 a.m. European Championship, Russia vs. Slovakia
(Wed.)
TENNIS
11 a.m.
Center Court: WTA, Birmingham; ATP, Halle; ATP,
TV: Tennis
London
TV programming subject to blackout. For TV channel questions and availability please
contact your cable or satellite provider; Note: Times may be different for satellite TV users;
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COPA AMERICA STANDINGS
GROUP A
Country
GROUP C
W L T Pts GF GA
Country
W L T Pts GF GA
United States
2
1
0
6
5
2
Mexico
2
0
1
7
6
Colombia
2
1
0
6
6
4
Venezuela
2
0
1
7
3
1
Costa Rica
1
1
1
4
3
6
Uruguay
1
2
0
3
4
4
Paraguay
0
2
1
1
1
3
Jamaica
0
3
0
0
0
6
June 3
Colombia 2, United States 0
June 5
Venezuela 1, Jamaica 0
Mexico 3, Uruguay 1
June 4
Costa Rica 0, Paraguay 0
Thursday
Venezuela 1, Uruguay 0
Mexico 2, Jamaica 0
Tuesday
United States 4, Costa Rica 0
Colombia 2, Paraguay 1
Monday’s results
Mexico 1, Venezuela 1
Uruguay 3, Jamaica 0
Saturday
United States 1, Paraguay 0
Costa Rica 3, Colombia 2
GROUP D
GROUP B
Country
Peru
Country
W L T Pts GF GA
2
0
1
2
7
4
W L T Pts GF GA
Argentina
2
0
0
6
7
1
2
Chile
1
1
0
3
3
3
Ecuador
1
0
2
5
6
2
Panama
1
1
0
3
2
6
Brazil
1
1
1
4
7
2
Bolivia
0
2
0
0
2
4
Haiti
0
3
0
0
1 12
June 4
Peru 1, Haiti 0
Brazil 0, Ecuador 0
Wednesday
Brazil 7, Haiti 1
Ecuador 2, Peru 2
Sunday
Ecuador 4, Haiti 0
Peru 1, Brazil 0
June 6
Panama 2, Bolivia 1
Argentina 2, Chile 1
Friday
Chile 2, Bolivia 1
Argentina 5, Panama 0
Today’s matches
Chile vs. Panama, 5 p.m.
Argentina vs. Bolivia, 7 p.m.
All times PDT
SCHEDULE
Thursday
6:30 p.m.
Friday
5 p.m.
Saturday
4 p.m.
7 p.m.
JUNE 21
6 p.m.
JUNE 22
5 p.m.
JUNE 25
5 p.m.
JUNE 26
5 p.m.
M25: U.S. vs. Ecuador
FS1, UniMas, UDN
M26: Peru vs. Colombia
FS1, UniMas, UDN
M27: Venezuela vs. TBA
M28: Mexico vs. TBA
FX, Univision, UDN
FX, Univision, UDN
M25 winner vs. M27 winner
FS1, UniMas, UDN
M26 winner vs. M28 winner
FS1, UniMas, UDN
Third-place game
Fox TBA, Univision, UDN
Final
FS1, Univision, UDN
SUMMARIES
At Houston
Venezuela....................................................1 0—1
Mexico .......................................................0 1—1
FIRST HALF—1, Venezuela, Jose Manuel Velazquez (Christian
Santos, Alejandro Guerra), 10th minute.
SECOND HALF—2, Mexico, Jesus Manuel Corona (Miguel
Layun), 80th.
Yellow Cards—Alexander Gonzalez, Venezuela, 3rd; Hector
Herrera, Mexico, 45+1; Christian Santos, Venezuela, 52nd; Jesus
Molina, Mexico, 59th; Adalberto Penaranda, Venezuela, 69th.
Red Cards—None.
Referee—Yadel Martinez, Cuba. Assistant Referees—Joe
Fletcher, Canada; Dario Gaona, Paraguay. Fourth Official—Armando Villareal, United States, Reserve Assistant Referee—Hiran
Dopico, Cuba.
A—67,319.
Lineups
Venezuela—Dani Hernandez, Alexander Gonzalez, Wilker
Angel, Jose Manuel Velazquez, Rolf Feltscher, Alejandro Guerra
(Romulo Otero, 83rd), Tomas Rincon, Luis Seijas, Adalberto Penaranda, Christian Santos (Salomon Rondon, 78th), Yonathan
Del Valle (Josef Martinez, 65th).
Mexico—Jesus Corona, Paul Aguilar, Diego Reyes, Hector
Moreno, Jorge Torres Nilo (Miguel Layun, 46th), Jesus Molina
(Chicharito, 68th), Javier Aquino (Jesus Manuel Corona, 18th),
Hector Herrera, Andres Guardado, Hirving Lozano, Oribe Peralta.
At Santa Clara, Calif.
Jamaica.....................................................0 0—0
Uruguay......................................................1 2—3
FIRST HALF—1, Uruguay, Abel Hernandez (Nicolas Lodeiro),
21st minute.
SECOND HALF—2, Uruguay, Je-Vaughn Watson (OG), 66th; 3,
Uruguay, Mathias Corujo, 88th.
Yellow Cards—Michael Hector, Jamaica, 32nd; Rodolph
Austin, Jamaica, 84th.
Red Cards—None.
Referee—Wilson Lamouroux, Colombia. Assistant Referees—
Alexander Guzman, Colombia; Corey Parker, United States.
Fourth Official—Ricardo Montero, Costa Rica, Reserve Assistant
Referee—Juan Mora, Costa Rica.
A—40,166.
Lineups
Jamaica—Andre Blake, Adrian Mariappa, Wes Morgan,
Jermaine Taylor, Je-Vaughn Watson, Garath McCleary (Dever Orgill, 73rd), Lee Williamson (Rodolph Austin, 69th), Michael Hector, Jobi McAnuff (Michael Binns, 80th), Clayton Donaldson,
Giles Barnes.
Uruguay—Fernando Muslera, Maxi Pereira, Gimenez, Diego
Godin, Gaston Silva, Carlos Sanchez (Matias Vecino, 66th),
Arevalo Rios, Alvaro Gonzalez (Mathias Corujo, 81st), Nicolas
Lodeiro, Abel Hernandez (Gaston Ramirez, 74th), Edinson
Cavani.
TODAY’S MATCH
GROUP D: CHILE vs. PANAMA
Where: Philadelphia. Time: 5 p.m. PDT. TV: FS1, UniMas,
UDN.
The buzz: Although both teams go into the group-play final
with three points, Panama’s minus-four goal differential
means Chile goes through to the quarterfinals with a win or
a draw while Panama goes home with anything short of a
victory. Panama can blame Lionel Messi for its predicament
since it was Messi who scored three goals in the final 30
minutes of Argentina’s 5-0 victory over Panama, turning a
close game into a rout. Chile, meanwhile, is coming off a 2-1
squeaker against Bolivia that was decided on Arturo Vidal’s
penalty-kick goal in stoppage time.
— Kevin Baxter
Mexico ties Venezuela
and sits atop Group C
fall. The team has scored 16
goals and allowed just two
since Osorio took over.
wire reports
Jesus Manuel “Tecatito”
Corona’s goal in the 80th
minute gave Mexico a 1-1 tie
against Venezuela on Monday night and first place in
Group C of the Copa America.
Corona had missed several previous opportunities
to score when he took on five
defenders before firing off a
shot from 10 yards to tie it
and thrill the overwhelmingly pro-Mexico crowd at
Houston.
By winning its group, El
Tri avoids a quarterfinal
matchup with Lionel Messi
and tournament favorite Argentina. Mexico is likely
headed for an easier
matchup with Chile in the
knockout round, leaving
Venezuela to face mighty Argentina.
Venezuela
surprised
Mexico with an early goal.
The Vinotinto used a free
kick to get it in the box, and
David J. Phillip Associated Press
MEXICO’S Jesus Manuel Corona (10) celebrates his
goal against Venezuela with his El Tri teammates.
Jose Manuel Velazquez gave
Venezuela the lead in the
10th minute after taking an
assist on a header from
Christian Santos and volleying it in for the goal.
Venezuela had a chance
to take the lead in the 84th
minute, but goalkeeper Jose
de Jesus Corona saved a bicycle kick shot by Josef Martinez.
Mexico has a 22-game unbeaten streak, its longest
ever, and has nine wins and a
draw since Juan Carlos Osorio took over for interim
coach Ricardo Ferretti last
Uruguay 3, Jamaica 0:
Uruguay signed off from the
Copa America Centenario
with a win over Jamaica despite Edinson Cavani’s
continued woes in front of
the goal.
Abel Hernandez, starting up front as Luis Suarez
was again left on the bench,
gave Uruguay a halftime
lead at Levi’s Stadium in
Santa Clara.
In the second period, JeVaughn Watson’s unlucky
own goal and Mathias Carujo’s first international strike
made it 3-0.
Jamaica keeper Andre
Blake made an early save on
Hernandez, with the resulting corner headed wide by
Cavani.
Blake cleared a ball
straight to Cavani but the
striker took too long over the
chance and saw his shot
saved.
What will he do for an encore?
[Messi, from D1]
of the 16 teams in the tournament hadn’t scored as much.
“Messi,” Panama Coach
Hernan Dario Gomez said
with equal parts awe and respect, “is a monster.”
All of which raises one big
question heading into the final day of group play Tuesday: What will Messi do for
an encore when Argentina,
the world’s top-ranked
team, plays winless Bolivia,
at No. 82 the lowest-rated
team in the tournament, in
Seattle?
If you believe Messi,
there’s a lot of room to improve after he sat out two
weeks because of a bruised
back.
“It was difficult,” Messi
told the Argentine sports
daily Ole of the injury. “It felt
like an eternity because I
was unable to move for many
days, practically not doing
anything.
“The first 30 minutes of
football after being out … it’s
not easy to get back into the
rhythm of matches.”
But Messi has a lot more
to accomplish than simply
getting his groove back. It’s
been 23 years since Argentina has raised a trophy in a
major senior competition, a
drought that has come to define Messi as one of the
greatest players never to win
an international soccer
championship.
In the last World Cup he
carried Argentina through
group play, scoring four of
his team’s six goals. He arrived for the final exhausted
and was rarely dangerous, so
Germany took home the
Cup and Messi got the Golden Ball as the tournament’s
best player.
Last summer he got Argentina to the Copa America
final unbeaten, only to lose
to Chile on penalty kicks.
Messi was again named the
tournament’s best player,
but this time he declined the
consolation award.
He’s made it clear there’s
only one prize he’s interested in this summer.
“I hope it is our Copa, it is
what we want, but we must
be calm,” he told Ole. “First
we have to think of Bolivia
Jonathan Daniel Getty Images
LIONEL MESSI , left, moves against Felipe Baloy of Panama on his way to scor-
ing his third goal in Argentina’s 5-0 victory over Panama. He also had an assist.
and after [that game] the
quarterfinal. Every game
will be difficult.”
Especially if Argentina
midfield threat Angel di
Maria is unavailable. Two
years ago in the World Cup,
Argentina scored seven
goals in its first four games
but none in its final three after losing Di Maria to a torn
muscle in his right thigh. Di
Maria limped off the field
again Friday in Chicago with
an abductor problem and
was originally thought to be
done for the tournament.
The team later upgraded
his condition, saying Di
Maria
had
“minimal
swelling” in his right leg and
could be available by the
quarterfinals.
But if Messi won’t look
ahead to the knockout
round until after Tuesday’s
group-play final, others have
already begun considering
the possibility of a U.S.-Argentina matchup in the
semifinals.
The U.S. will first have to
win Thursday’s quarterfinal
against Ecuador, a team it
beat in a warmup less than
three weeks ago. And Argentina still has to win its group
— Chile and Panama each
have a mathematical possibility at the group title if
Argentina falls to Bolivia —
and its quarterfinal.
Should all that happen, it
would bring the world’s best
player face to face with the
home team. It would match
a legend seeking his first
international title against a
U.S. national team seeking
respect.
“This is a wonderful opportunity to see how our
team is compared to those
top nations,” U.S. Coach
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Spain defeats Czech Republic, 1-0
associated press
Gerard Pique finally
broke down the Czech Republic’s stubborn defense in
the final minutes, giving defending champion Spain a
1-0 victory Monday at the European Championship.
Pique ran behind the
defenders and calmly headed the ball into the net after
a well-placed cross by Andres Iniesta in the 87th minute.
The two-time defending
champions had created a series of scoring chances
throughout the match at
France’s Stadium de Toulouse. But they looked set to
be denied victory by a combination of poor finishing
and a superb performance
from Czech Republic goalkeeper Petr Cech.
The Czechs had a chance
to break the deadlock in the
65th minute but Cesc Fabregas saved Spain with a
goal-line clearance after a
header by Theodor Gebre
Selassie.
The result left Spain and
Croatia at the top of Group
D with three points each.
Croatia defeated Turkey, 1-0,
on Sunday.
Spain’s unbeaten streak
at European Championships was extended to 13
games, with 10 wins and
three draws.
Sweden 1, Ireland 1: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the star
who calls himself a legend,
saved Sweden yet again.
Even if he couldn’t get a
goal and set a European
Championship scoring record, the 34-year-old Ibrahimovic rescued a draw after
being stifled by an impressive Ireland for most of the
match.
Sweden trailed until the
71st minute, when Ibrahimovic glided forward and
sent a teasing ball across the
goal mouth that Ireland defender Ciaran Clark stooped
to head into his own net at
Saint-Denis, France.
Ibrahimovic was seeking
to become the first player to
score in four different European Championships but
was limited to half-chances.
Italy 2, Belgium 0: Goals
from Emanuele Giaccherini
and Graziano Pelle combined with excellent defending helped Italy to a win over
Belgium in its first match at
the European Championship.
Described as one of the
worst Squadra Azzurra ever
by Italian media, Antonio
Conte’s aging team defied
the odds to take the lead in
Group E with an impressive
collective display at Lyon,
France’s Grand Stade.
Juergen Klinsmann said.
“That’s why you want to put
a stamp on the tournament.
You want to send out a
strong signal to everybody
that we are growing, that
we’re getting better.”
Panama, too, came here
eager to get a look at Messi —
until they did.
When the Argentine star
finished warming up and
walked to the sideline to
check into the game, Gomez,
the Panama coach, turned
to the fourth official and
asked, “How much time [is]
left?”
“Thirty minutes,” came
the reply.
For Panama, it was 30
minutes too many. For
Messi, on the other hand, it
may prove to have been just
the start of something.
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Galaxy tonight
When: 7:30.
Where: StubHub Center.
On the air: Live streaming
on LAGalaxy.com.
Record vs. La Maquina:
First meeting.
Update: The Galaxy’s first
game in the U.S. Open Cup
will be a neighborhood
tussle against Santa Ana’s
La Maquina, which plays in
the United Premier Soccer
League, a 5-year-old
amateur league based in
Southern California. La
Maquina is taking part in
the domestic cup
competition for the first
time and qualified for this
fourth-round game by
beating a UPSL rival, the
L.A. Wolves, two weeks
ago. With the Galaxy
nearing the end of a
two-week Major League
Soccer break, Coach
Bruce Arena may use this
match to give some of his
first-team bench players
some game action.
— Kevin Baxter
L AT I ME S . CO M / S P O RT S
T U E S DAY, J U N E 14 , 2 016
D3
Little changes were
pivotal for Penguins
Champions took flight
after switching
coaches, adding speed
at midseason.
HELENE ELLIOTT
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
LEBRON JAMES glides to the rim in the first half for two of his 41 points. The
Cleveland Cavaliers star also had 16 rebounds and seven assists in 43 minutes.
James, Irving write
41-point headlines
[Finals, from D1]
playing.”
Cavaliers teammate Kyrie Irving was plenty sharp
too, scoring 41points to complement James in many
ways, typically from the outside.
Irving made 17 of 24 shots
(70.8%), accuracy usually reserved for a big night from a
big man, not a point guard.
He added six assists.
“Just Kyrie being special,” Cleveland Coach Tyronn Lue said.
Klay Thompson had 37
points for the Warriors, who
clearly missed their most
versatile player. Draymond
Green sat out because of a
one-game suspension after
striking James in the groin
in Game 4.
As such, Warriors fans
chanted “Free Draymond”
during timeouts Monday
and booed James whenever
he touched the ball.
Warriors Coach Steve
Kerr didn’t want to address
much about Green, ending
reporters’ what-if questions
about the fine defender and
well-rounded
offensive
threat.
“We’re not talking about
that,” Kerr said. “Draymond
wasn’t here so we played
without him. We didn’t play
well enough to win. I’m not
going into all that stuff.”
The Warriors are the
ones facing some question
marks now.
NBA most valuable player Stephen Curry fell back
from his stirring Game 4 effort and missed13 of 21shots.
He scored 25 points.
The Warriors will prob-
NBA FINALS
Cleveland vs. Golden St.
Warriors lead series, 3-2
Gm 1
Gm 2
Gm 3
Gm 4
Gm 5
Gm 6
Gm 7
Golden State 104, Cleve. 89
Golden State 110, Cleve. 77
Cleve. 120, Golden State 90
Golden State 108, Cleve. 97
Cleve. 112, Golden State 97
Thursday at Cleveland, 6
Sunday at Golden State, 5*
* if necessary
Times p.m., PDT
ably go forward without center Andrew Bogut, who suffered an undisclosed left
knee injury in the third quarter and had to be helped off
the court. Bogut’s contributions aren’t as splashy
as his Warriors’ teammates
but his defensive presence
can cause trouble for opponents.
Golden State, normally a
top-notch threat from threepoint range, missed 18 of 21
from behind the arc in the
second half Monday.
The Warriors get Green
back for Game 6 but if they
lose Thursday, the series is
tied at three games each.
Golden State would host
Game 7.
Beyond James and Irving, there wasn’t much for
Cleveland. Kevin Love, for
example, returned to the
starting lineup and had two
points in 33 minutes in his
second game back from a
concussion.
It didn’t really matter.
James’
power
and
Irving’s grace were enough
to silence a keyed-up Oracle
Arena crowd that wanted to
Cavaliers 112, Warriors 97
CLEVELAND
......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
James ...............42 16-30 5-8 4-16 7 1 41
Love .................32 1-5 0-0 0-3 1 4 2
T.Thompson........41 1-3 4-10 3-15 0 1 6
Irving ................39 17-24 2-2 0-3 6 4 41
Smith................30 3-9 3-3 1-2 1 5 10
Shumpert ..........25 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 0 4
Jefferson............14 4-6 0-0 0-1 0 1 8
Dellavedova .........3 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 3 0
Williams..............3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Mozgov ...............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
J.Jones ................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
D.Jones ...............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Totals
44-83 14-23 8-41 15 22 112
Shooting: Field goals, 53.0%; free throws, 60.9%
Three-point goals: 10-24 (Irving 5-7, James 4-8,
Smith 1-2, Jefferson 0-1, Shumpert 0-1, Dellavedova
0-2, Love 0-3). Team Rebounds: 11. Team Turnovers: 16
(11 PTS). Blocked Shots: 9 (James 3, Shumpert 2,
T.Thompson 2, Irving, Love). Turnovers: 16 (Irving 4, Jefferson 3, Dellavedova 2, James 2, Love 2, Shumpert,
Smith, Williams). Steals: 11 (James 3, Jefferson 3, Irving
2, Shumpert, Smith, T.Thompson). Technical Fouls:
None.
GOLDEN STATE
......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Barnes ..............37 2-14 0-2 1-5 1 1 5
Iguodala............41 6-13 2-2 4-11 6 0 15
Bogut .................7 0-0 0-0 1-3 0 4 0
Curry ................40 8-21 4-4 2-7 4 2 25
K.Thompson.......40 11-20 9-9 0-3 1 2 37
Livingston ..........21 3-7 1-1 1-4 3 1 7
Speights............11 0-6 0-0 1-3 2 2 0
Barbosa ..............9 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 3 3
Ezeli ...................9 1-3 0-0 2-3 0 2 2
Varejao ...............8 0-0 3-8 1-1 1 0 3
McAdoo ..............7 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 3 0
Rush...................4 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Totals
32-88 19-26 13-43 18 21 97
Shooting: Field goals, 36.4%; free throws, 73.1%
Three-point goals: 14-42 (K.Thompson 6-11, Curry
5-14, Barbosa 1-2, Iguodala 1-4, Barnes 1-6, Livingston
0-1, Rush 0-1, Speights 0-3). Team Rebounds: 16. Team
Turnovers: 17 (18 PTS). Blocked Shots: 9 (Bogut 3, Curry
3, Barnes, Ezeli, Rush). Turnovers: 17 (Curry 4, Iguodala
3, Livingston 3, Barbosa 2, Bogut 2, Speights 2,
K.Thompson). Steals: 6 (Iguodala 2, Barnes, Livingston,
Rush, Speights). Technical Fouls: None.
Cleveland
29 32 32 19— 112
Golden State
32 29 23 13— 97
A—19,596. T—2:39. O—Derrick Stafford, Marc Davis,
Monty McCutchen, Ed Malloy.
witness a clincher.
James returned to the
Cavaliers two years ago in
hopes of earning that elusive
championship for them.
He still has a chance to do
it, much more than was expected before Game 5.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins’ Stanley Cup triumph is good
news for
teams built
around speed
and youth but it might be
bad news for coaches who
have been entrenched in one
place for a while.
When things were
looking dim for the Penguins around midseason,
General Manager Jim
Rutherford changed
coaches — from Mike Johnston to Mike Sullivan — and
called up several youngsters
that Sullivan had coached
with Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) of
the American Hockey
League, most notably forwards Bryan Rust and
Conor Sheary. The kids
brought energy and added
speed to a team that could
outpace nearly anybody
when the defense got the
puck up quickly to the forwards and let them fly.
Acquiring fleet left wing
Carl Hagelin, who had inexplicably failed to click with
the Ducks, gave them more
speed and enough depth to
assemble three impressive
scoring lines.
Six months to the day
after the Penguins promoted Sullivan, they completed a six-game Cup victory over the gritty but
outclassed San Jose Sharks.
“I don’t think you could
expect it,” defenseman Ian
Cole said Sunday while
players lingered on the ice at
SAP Center in San Jose to
celebrate. “When we were at
that point in December or
maybe January, when we hit
our low point of the season,
there was a lot of frustration
built up. There were a lot of
guys frustrated over how
they were playing and how
the team was playing.
“But I don’t think anyone
ever doubted that we had a
very special team that could
potentially go all the way. I
think we were still really
confident in the players we
had. We just had to figure
out some things. We figured
them out, and then you saw
how well we ran with that at
the end of the year and then
continued that right
through the playoffs.”
But without Sullivan to
guide them through the
Eric Risberg Associated Press
COACH MIKE SULLIVAN raises the Stanley Cup
on Sunday after the Penguins won the NHL title.
process, the Penguins
would not have been hugging each other and their
families Sunday while marveling at the path they took
to earn the franchise’s
fourth championship.
Sullivan is the sixth
coach in NHL history to win
the Cup after taking over at
midseason and the first
since the Kings hired Darryl
Sutter to replace Terry
Murray in December 2011.
Sullivan provided the clear,
smart direction players
needed and craved and,
much as Sutter did with the
Kings, Sullivan gave the
Penguins an identity. Sutter
played to the strengths of
his personnel by emphasizing a heavy, punishing game
and enhancing the defensive foundation Murray had
put in place. Sullivan also
maximized his resources
and pushed a speed game
that turned opponents’
defenses inside out. He held
players accountable, challenged them to turn things
around together. Penguins
captain Sidney Crosby
bought in. Everyone else
followed.
“After a coaching change,
I think everyone takes that
personal, puts the responsibility on their shoulders to
be better,” Crosby said. “I
think individually and as a
group we had high expectations, we knew we needed to
be better. I thought we just
slowly got better and better.
“Mike came in and made
it pretty clear how he
wanted us to play, what he
expected from each individual guy. I think guys just
welcomed the opportunity,
welcomed the challenge,
tried to get back on track.”
Crosby won the Conn
Smythe Trophy as the most
valuable player of the playoffs, a choice that was debated because he had no
goals and four assists in the
Cup Final and ranked
seventh in playoff scoring
with six goals and 19 points
in 24 games. But his fire in
Game 6 was a galvanizing
force, and his overall play
reflected the Penguins’
evolution into a team after
too many seasons of being a
bunch of stars skating
around the same rink.
“We’ve been through an
awful lot this year and we
really became a close-knit
group and it was pretty cool
how everybody seemed to
play a special part as we
went through the end of the
year and into the playoffs,”
said center Matt Cullen, 39,
who had won the Cup with
the Carolina Hurricanes in
2006. “Everybody shares a
big piece of it. It’s truly a
team win.”
The Cup winner’s style
usually becomes a blueprint
for those who fell short, so
look for an increase in the
trend toward speed, finesse
and team defense and away
from big, heavy lineups. And
if a team is underperforming, its general manager might be more likely to
change coaches in midstream in search of a fresh
voice. Rutherford found the
right guy and made the
switch at the right time,
producing an outcome that
seemed impossible six
months ago.
[email protected]
Twitter: @helenenothelen
Carlyle’s past success with
team commands respect
[Carlyle, from D1]
The move is surprising
given that Carlyle’s first
stint in Anaheim ended with
Murray firing him immediately after a win against
Montreal on Nov. 30, 2011.
Carlyle’s
message
was
thought to have gotten stale
in the Ducks’ room, and his
tendency toward a dumpand-chase attack seems illsuited to their current personnel.
But Carlyle is believed to
have support from Ducks
players again, and his stern
approach could be what Anaheim needs after the
“players coach” personality
of Boudreau. Murray had
said he needed a coach to
manage the team’s per-
sonalities, and Carlyle is familiar with Ryan Getzlaf,
Corey Perry, Cam Fowler
and Andrew Cogliano, who
remain from Carlyle’s previous stint in Anaheim. Ryan
Kesler and Kevin Bieksa
played for Carlyle for the
Manitoba Moose of the
American Hockey League in
2004-05.
Carlyle’s previous success commands respect. He
led the Ducks to the Western
Conference finals in his first
season in Anaheim before
the 2007 Cup win with a starstudded lineup that included defensemen Chris
Pronger and Scott Niedermayer.
Subsequent seasons saw
the Ducks reach 40 wins
three times, but they won
only one playoff round in his
remaining tenure. Carlyle
coached the Toronto Maple
Leafs for three seasons,
making the playoffs once,
before he was fired last year.
Carlyle stayed tied to
Southern California. He has
a residence in Encinitas and
the family runs the pro shop
at the Escondido rink of the
Ducks’ minor league affiliate, the San Diego Gulls. He
was often seen in the press
box at Ducks games, scouting teams.
The Ducks are believed
to have contacted between
five and 10 candidates for the
position.
[email protected]
Lack of blazing speed might have kept recruiters away
[Spruce, from D1]
make the Rams.
“I really felt like a proud
papa,” said Benkert, who
coached Spruce at Westlake
High and now heads the varsity at Oaks Christian. “I
wasn’t sure if he’d see me,
but I was watching him.”
The last time Spruce
played in front of high school
coaches, he couldn’t attract
the attention of local colleges such as USC or UCLA.
He had some contact but apparently wasn’t big enough
or fast enough, his only
Pac-12 offer coming from
Colorado. He took it, and
five years later he’s the conference’s all-time leading re-
ceiver and close to realizing
his dream of playing in the
NFL.
And the path to that
dream cuts straight through
his backyard.
“I feel like I’ve always
been a bit under the radar,”
Spruce, who grew up 30
minutes from the Oxnard facility, said last week.
“There’s something in me
that always wants to prove
everybody wrong.”
That started at Westlake,
where Spruce excelled in
football and baseball but
took long strides instead of
short, quick steps. Benkert
thinks it was Spruce’s lack of
blazing speed that kept big-
ger schools away. So he redshirted at Colorado before
starting, and shining, for
four years.
Spruce’s college totals —
294 receptions, 3,347 receiving yards, 23 touchdowns, an
average of at least 10 yards
per catch each season —
show that a wide receiver
can be effective without
notable size or speed.
“If you’re not going to
wow with your athleticism,
you need to do everything
else,” Benkert said. “Nelson
made himself into a complete player because he had
to.”
There’s a lot for Spruce to
adjust to, and think about,
as OTAs continued Monday
before wrapping up Thursday.
All of his routes need to be
more precise. The offense is
similar to what he ran at Colorado with a lot more wrinkles. Since the Rams drafted
two receivers and signed
four as undrafted free
agents, it’s easy for Spruce to
survey the field and calculate the odds.
But he mostly focuses on
short-term goals: not dropping passes, running hard
and with precision during
relaxed skeleton drills designed to teach offensive
concepts, not bobbling
punts when fielding returns
with fourth-round pick
Pharoh Cooper and fourthyear receiver Tavon Austin.
And when he gets an opportunity with the second- or
third-team offense, Spruce
looks to make himself an option on every play.
It worked just enough to
get him to Colorado, then
just enough for him to latch
on to an NFL team. Next,
Spruce will see whether it’s
enough to stick around.
“Whenever I see him out
there he gets into space well
and I try to put it on him,”
said Goff, who trained with
Spruce leading up to the
draft. “He’s done a really
good job so far.”
After making a catch in
an early practice drill last
Friday, Spruce surprised
Benkert by spotting his former coach from the field.
They made eye contact
and Spruce offered a subtle
nod. Benkert subtly nodded
back. Then Spruce dropped
his head, jogged to the end of
the line and prepared for the
next rep.
“I feel like it’s a young
group and not a lot of returning experience,” Spruce
said. “So guys like me ... it’s
just an opportunity to go out
there and make the coaches
notice us.”
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D4
T U E S DAY, J U N E 14 , 2 016
L AT I M E S . CO M / S P O RT S
BASEBALL
D’BACKS
DODGERS
NL STANDINGS
West
W
L
Pct.
GB
L10
—
6-4
San Francisco
39 26 .600
DODGERS
33 32 .508
6
5-5
Colorado
30 33 .476
8
6-4
Arizona
29 37 .439
101⁄2
5-5
San Diego
26 39 .400
13
5-5
GB
L10
Central
W
L
Pct.
Chicago
43 19 .694
—
6-4
St. Louis
35 28 .556
81⁄2
7-3
Pittsburgh
32 31 .508
111⁄2
3-7
Milwaukee
30 34 .469
14
5-5
Cincinnati
25 39 .391
19
6-4
GB
L10
—
7-3
East
W
L
Pct.
Washington
40 24 .625
New York
34 28 .548
Miami
Philadelphia
5
5-5
33 31 .516
7
4-6
30 34 .469
10
4-6
211⁄2
2-8
Atlanta
18 45 .286
Monday’s results
at Arizona 3, DODGERS 2
at Washington 4, Chicago 1
Philadelphia 7, at Toronto 0
Cincinnati 9, at Atlanta 8
Miami 13, at San Diego 4
at San Francisco 11, Milwaukee 5
AL STANDINGS
GB
L10
Texas
West
39 25 .609
W
—
7-3
Seattle
34 29 .540
41⁄2
3-7
Houston
30 35 .462
91⁄2
5-5
Oakland
27 36 .429
111⁄2
3-7
ANGELS
27 37 .422
12
2-8
GB
L10
—
6-4
Central
Cleveland
L
W
L
Pct.
Pct.
35 28 .556
Kansas City
33 30 .524
2
3-7
Detroit
32 31 .508
3
7-3
Chicago
32 32 .500
31⁄2
Minnesota
20 43 .317
East
W
L
Pct.
3-7
15
4-6
GB
L10
Baltimore
36 26 .581
—
6-4
Boston
36 26 .581
—
4-6
Toronto
35 31 .530
3
5-5
New York
31 32 .492
51⁄2
6-4
Tampa Bay
29 32 .475
Monday’s results
61⁄2
7-3
Minnesota 9, at ANGELS 4
Philadelphia 7, at Toronto 0
at Chicago 10, Detroit 9, 12 inn.
at Kansas City 2, Cleveland 1
at Oakland 14, Texas 5
TODAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
MATCHUP
Dodgers/Maeda (R)
ARI/Bradley (R)
CHI/Lackey (R)
WAS/Gonzalez (L)
CIN/Finnegan (L)
ATL/Teheran (R)
PIT/TBD (R)
NY/deGrom (R)
MIA/Koehler (R)
SD/Pomeranz (L)
MIL/Garza (R)
SF/Bumgarner (L)
W-L
5-4
2-2
7-2
3-5
2-4
2-6
—
3-2
4-6
5-6
—
7-2
ERA
TIME
2.70 6:30 p.m.
5.22
SNLA
2.63
4 p.m.
3.93
MLB
3.77
4 p.m.
2.85
—
4 p.m.
2.80
4.36
7 p.m.
2.44
— 7:15 p.m.
1.88
W-L
1-6
1-2
8-1
7-3
3-6
3-3
8-3
1-1
8-1
2-6
5-4
0-3
ERA
4.77
4.42
3.01
4.63
3.48
3.47
3.30
3.57
3.48
6.37
3.22
6.41
AMERICAN LEAGUE
MATCHUP
MIN/Santana (R)
Angels/Chacin (R)
BAL/Tillman (R)
BOS/Price (L)
SEA/Walker (R)
TB/Odorizzi (R)
DET/Zimmermann (R)
CHI/Gonzalez (R)
CLE/Tomlin (R)
KC/Young (R)
TEX/Perez (L)
OAK/Surkamp (L)
TIME
7 p.m.
FSW
4 p.m.
4 p.m.
5 p.m.
5:15 p.m.
7 p.m.
INTERLEAGUE
MATCHUP
PHI/Eflin (R)
TOR/Stroman (R)
HOU/Fister (R)
STL/Garcia (L)
NY (AL)/ Eovaldi (R)
COL/De La Rosa (L)
W-L
—
5-2
6-3
4-5
6-2
2-4
ERA
TIME
— 9:40 a.m.
4.94
MLB
3.34 5:15 p.m.
3.89
4.42 5:30 p.m.
8.81
LEADERS
Through Monday (late game not included)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING AVERAGE
Murphy, Washington...... .367
Ramos, Washington...... .337
Marte, Pittsburgh ......... .332
Prado, Miami .............. .323
Ozuna, Miami .............. .319
Zobrist, Chicago........... .319
Yelich, Miami............... .317
Braun, Milwaukee ........ .316
A. Diaz, St. Louis ......... .315
LeMahieu, Colorado ..... .314
Herrera, Philadelphia .... .314
HOME RUNS
Arenado, Colorado ....... 19
Duvall, Cincinnati ......... 18
Carter, Milwaukee ........ 17
Cespedes, New York ..... 16
Story, Colorado............ 16
Bryant, Chicago ........... 15
Seager, DODGERS........ 15
RUNS BATTED IN
Arenado, Colorado ....... 53
Rizzo, Chicago ............. 47
Bruce, Cincinnati ......... 46
Bryant, Chicago ........... 45
Duvall, Cincinnati ......... 44
Murphy, Washington...... 42
Kemp, San Diego......... 42
Story, Colorado............ 42
Carpenter, St. Louis...... 42
3 tied at..................... 40
STOLEN BASES
Villar, Milwaukee.......... 23
Marte, Pittsburgh ......... 19
Hamilton, Cincinnati ..... 16
Upton, Jr., San Diego.... 13
EARNED RUN AVERAGE
Kershaw, DODGERS...... 1.52
Arrieta, Chicago ........... 1.86
Bumgarner, S.F............. 1.88
Lester, Chicago ............ 1.89
Syndergaard, New York.. 2.00
Cueto, San Francisco.... 2.16
Hammel, Chicago......... 2.36
Pomeranz, San Diego.... 2.44
Fernandez, Miami ........ 2.57
Lackey, Chicago ........... 2.63
VICTORIES
Strasburg, Washington .. 10-0
Arrieta, Chicago ........... 10-1
Kershaw, DODGERS...... 9-1
Cueto, San Francisco.... 9-1
Fernandez, Miami ........ 9-3
Greinke, Arizona........... 9-3
Lester, Chicago ............ 8-3
Chatwood, Colorado ..... 8-4
Scherzer, Washington.... 8-4
STRIKEOUTS
Kershaw, DODGERS...... 122
Fernandez, Miami ........ 118
Scherzer, Washington.... 118
Strasburg, Washington .. 110
Bumgarner, S.F............. 99
Syndergaard, New York.. 95
Arrieta, Chicago ........... 90
Nola, Philadelphia........ 88
BATTING AVERAGE
Bogaerts, Boston ......... .359
Altuv,e Houston ........... .344
Ortiz, Boston ............... .340
V. Martinez, Detroit....... .333
Nunez, Minnesota ........ .324
Hosmer, Kansas City..... .318
Kinsler, Detroit............. .317
Mazara, Texas.............. .315
Saunders, Toronto ........ .311
Bradley Jr,. Boston ....... .311
HOME RUNS
Trumbo, Baltimore........ 20
Frazier, Chicago ........... 19
Cano, Seattle .............. 18
Beltran, New York......... 16
Ortiz, Boston ............... 16
C. Davis, Baltimore....... 16
Machado, Baltimore ..... 16
3 tied at..................... 15
RUNS BATTED IN
Ortiz, Boston ............... 55
Encarnacion, Toronto .... 54
Cano, Seattle .............. 51
Trumbo, Baltimore........ 49
Betts, Boston .............. 47
Napoli, Cleveland......... 45
Trout, ANGELS ............. 44
Beltran, New York......... 44
Bogaerts, Boston ......... 44
Kinsley, Detroit............. 44
STOLEN BASES
Altuve, Houston ........... 18
Davis, Cleveland .......... 15
Nunez, Minnesota ........ 15
3 tied at..................... 12
EARNED RUN AVERAGE
Wright, Boston............. 2.09
Salazar, Cleveland........ 2.19
Hill, Oakland ............... 2.25
Estrada, Toronto........... 2.57
Quintana, Chicago........ 2.66
Hernandez, Seattle....... 2.86
Sale, Chicago.............. 2.87
Lewis, Texas ................ 3.00
Tillman, Baltimore ........ 3.01
Tanaka, New York ......... 3.08
VICTORIES
Sale, Chicago.............. 10-2
Tillman, Baltimore ........ 8-1
Tomlin, Cleveland ......... 8-1
Zimmermann, Detroit.... 8-3
Hill, Oakland ............... 8-3
Fulmer, Detroit............. 7-1
Porcello, Boston........... 7-2
Happ, Toronto.............. 7-3
Price, Boston............... 7-3
Salazar, Cleveland, ....... 7-3
STRIKEOUTS
Archer, Tampa Bay........ 96
Price, Boston............... 91
Verlander, Detroit ......... 90
Salazar, Cleveland........ 89
Kluber, Cleveland ......... 87
Sale, Chicago.............. 86
Sanchez, Toronto.......... 83
ANGELS REPORT
3
2
Streak
Lost 3 This month
5-7
Home
17-14 Road
16-18
Division
14-13 Interleague
4-5
Next: Tonight at Arizona, 6:30
TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020, 1540
Dodgers
Utley 2b
Seager ss
Turner 3b
Gonzlz 1b
Thmpsn rf
Pedrsn cf
Grandal c
VanSlyke lf
b-Hrnandz
Bolsngr p
Kndrck lf
Totals
AB
5
4
5
4
2
3
3
3
1
2
2
34
R
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
H
0
2
2
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
7
BI
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
Avg.
.262
.284
.225
.274
.265
.229
.187
.095
.204
.000
.222
Dodgers
Arizona
Arizona
AB R H BI Avg.
Segura 2b
4 0 2 1 .299
Lamb 3b
3 1 1 1 .263
Gldsmdt 1b 4 1 1 1 .282
Peralta rf
3 0 1 0 .259
Castillo c
3 0 0 0 .272
O’Brien lf
2 0 0 0 .091
Bourn cf
0 0 0 0 .250
Tomas lf
3 0 0 0 .260
Greinke p
2 0 1 0 .290
a-Weeks
1 0 0 0 .233
Ahmed ss
3 1 0 0 .217
Totals
28 3 6 3
100 010 000 —2
101 010 00x —3
7
6
0
0
a-lined out for Greinke in the 7th. b-struck out for Baez in the 8th.
Walks—Dodgers 5: Seager 1, Thompson 2, Pederson 1, Grandal 1.
Arizona 2: Lamb 1, Bourn 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 7: Utley 1, Turner 1,
Gonzalez 1, Thompson 1, Hernandez 1, Bolsinger 2. Arizona 8:
Goldschmidt 1, Peralta 2, Castillo 3, O’Brien 1, Ahmed 1.
LOB—Dodgers 10, Arizona 3. 2B—Turner (10), Pederson (15), Van
Slyke (2). HR—Seager (15), off Greinke; Goldschmidt (12), off
Bolsinger; Lamb (12), off Bolsinger. RBIs—Seager (36), Turner (22),
Segura (29), Lamb (39), Goldschmidt (40). SB—Ahmed (3).
CS—Segura (5). RISP—Dodgers 0 for 11; Arizona 1 for 3. Runners
moved up—Gonzalez, Grandal. GIDP—Goldschmidt. DP—Dodgers 1
(Seager, Utley, Gonzalez).
Dodgers.....................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Bolsinger L, 1-4.........4 2⁄3 5 3 3 0 5
76 5.76
Howell ........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0
4 4.87
Baez........................1 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 3
30 3.18
Coleman .....................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0
7 2.80
Liberatore ....................0 0 0 0 1 0
7 0.92
Blanton.......................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0
5 2.38
Arizona ......................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Greinke W, 9-3 .............7 7 2 2 2 6
119 3.75
Hudson H, 10 ..............1⁄3 0 0 0 3 0
23 1.80
Ziegler S, 13-13 ........1 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1
18 2.93
Inherited runners-scored—Howell 1-0, Liberatore 1-0, Blanton
2-0, Ziegler 3-0. WP—Baez. U—Carlos Torres, Brian Knight, Sam
Holbrook, Gerry Davis. T—3:21. Tickets sold—21,374 (48,633).
TWINS
ANGELS
9
4
Streak
Lost 2 This month
3-9
Home
13-20 Road
14-17
Division
12-8 Interleague
6-9
Next: Tonight vs. Minnesota, Angel Stadium, 7
TV/Radio: FS West/830, 1330
Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Angels
AB R H BI Avg.
Nunez ss
5 1 1 0 .324 Escobar 3b 4 0 0 0 .307
Grssman lf 4 3 2 1 .325 Calhoun rf
4 0 0 0 .290
Mauer 1b
5 2 2 1 .283 Cron 1b
0 0 0 0 .253
Plouffe 3b 4 1 1 3 .240 Trout dh
4 0 1 0 .308
Dozier 2b
4 1 1 0 .231 Pujols 1b
4 0 0 0 .228
Park dh
4 0 0 0 .207 Ryan ss
0 0 0 0 .077
Kepler rf
5 0 0 1 .189 Giavtlla 2b
4 2 4 1 .269
Suzuki c
4 0 2 1 .238 Cnnghm rf
3 2 1 0 .091
Buxton cf
4 1 1 1 .207 Petit ss
2 0 1 1 .277
Totals
39 9 10 8
Marte lf
1 0 0 0 .306
Perez c
4 0 0 1 .189
Robnsn cf
3 0 1 1 .235
Totals
33 4 8 4
Minnesota
Angels
103 011 300 —9
010 200 001 —4
10
8
1
3
Walks—Minnesota 4: Grossman 1, Plouffe 1, Dozier 1, Park 1.
Angels 1: Cunningham 1. Strikeouts—Minnesota 6: Grossman 1,
Plouffe 1, Dozier 1, Park 2, Kepler 1. Angels 7: Escobar 1, Calhoun 3,
Marte 1, Perez 1, Robinson 1. E—Plouffe (3), Giavotella (3), Petit 2
(3). LOB—Minnesota 7, Angels 4. 2B—Dozier (12), Giavotella (12),
Cunningham (1). HR—Plouffe (5), off Weaver; Buxton (1), off Weaver;
Grossman (5), off Alburquerque; Giavotella (3), off Ramirez.
RBIs—Grossman (15), Mauer (24), Plouffe 3 (19), Kepler (6), Suzuki
(16), Buxton (6), Giavotella (19), Petit (10), Perez (15), Robinson (5).
SB—Nunez (15). SF—Petit. RISP—Minnesota 3 for 9; Angels 1 for 5.
Runners moved up—Plouffe 2, Perez. GIDP—Plouffe, Petit.
DP—Minnesota 1 (Plouffe, Dozier, Mauer); Angels 1 (Petit, Giavotella,
Pujols).
Minnesota .................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Nolasco W, 3-4 ............6 7 3 3 1 5
106 5.12
Pressly ........................1 0 0 0 0 1
10 4.29
Boshers.......................1 0 0 0 0 0
11 0.00
Ramirez.......................1 1 1 1 0 1
18 9.00
Angels .......................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Weaver L, 5-6...............6 8 6 5 2 4
106 5.71
Alburquerque ...............1 2 3 1 1 0
30 9.00
Achter.........................2 0 0 0 1 2
25 4.05
U—Mike Everitt, D.J. Reyburn, Tim Timmons, Ryan Blakney.
T—2:50. Tickets sold—36,424 (43,250).
NATIONALS
CUBS
Once a hot commodity,
Kubitza is sent packing
By Pedro Moura
Seventeen months ago, the Angels jettisoned a young pitcher
they had doted on to acquire a
player they called their third baseman of the future.
Monday, they designated that
player for assignment, proving
once again that one general manager’s coup is another general
manager’s rubble.
Jerry Dipoto was elated to acquire Kyle Kubitza. Billy Eppler
willingly removed him from the Angels’ 40-man roster in favor of another reliever.
In January 2015, the Angels
parted ways with highly regarded
teenage
left-hander
Ricardo
Sanchez to wrestle Kubitza from
the Atlanta Braves. They also added minor league right-hander Nate
Hyatt, who has since retired.
“At the end of the day,” Dipoto
said of the trade, “we’re projecting
a third baseman who can play in
the big leagues sooner rather than
later, who fills a void and who has a
strong ceiling himself.”
Kubitza, 25, had not been awful
as an Angel, but he did not acquit
himself well in a brief major league
stint last season and lacked an
overarching skill. He could still be
claimed on waivers by Dipoto’s Seattle Mariners.
A removal from the 40-man roster was necessary to purchase the
contract of right-hander Al Alburquerque, who finally was added to
the Angels bullpen Monday, 10
weeks later than expected.
Also, the Angels designated
left-hander David Huff for assignment and recalled right-handed
reliever A.J. Achter from triple-A
Salt Lake for his fourth stint in the
majors in 2016.
Huff lost both of his abbreviated
spot starts as an Angel.
Short hops
Manager Mike Scioscia said
that right-hander Tim Lincecum
would “definitely” start over the
weekend in Oakland, probably Saturday. …left-hander C.J. Wilson is
taking “baby steps” on his road to
recovery, Scioscia said. Wilson has
not pitched in a major league game
4
1
PHILLIES
BLUE JAYS
Matt Brown Getty Images
KYLE KUBITZA played in only 19 games with the Angels, with
seven hits and one run batted in over 36 at-bats, all last season.
since July because of elbow surgery
and accompanying problems.
…Shortstop Andrelton Simmons
(torn thumb) made significant
progress over the weekend for
triple-A Salt Lake and could return
to the Angels by Wednesday.
…right-hander Nick Tropeano
(shoulder tendinitis) threw a
bullpen session Monday. … lefthander Andrew Heaney (partially
7
0
ATHLETICS
RANGERS
Ryan Howard and Odubel Herrera
homered, Jerad Eickhoff (4-8) pitched
six spotless innings and Philadelphia
ended a four-game losing streak.
Herrera had three runs batted in.
Khris Davis homered and drove in five
runs, Marcus Semien and Jake
Smolinski each had three hits and
Oakland pounded Texas, hours after
the Rangers put Yu Darvish on the DL.
Chicago
AB R H BI Avg. Wash.
AB
Fowler cf
4 0 0 0 .289 Revere cf
5
Heywrd rf
4 0 0 0 .236 Werth lf
3
Bryant lf
3 0 0 0 .277 Harper rf
5
Rizzo 1b
3 0 1 0 .265 Murphy 2b 4
Zobrist 2b
3 0 0 0 .319 Zmrmn 1b 4
Coghlan lf
2 0 0 0 .222 Ramos c
4
b-Baez 3b
1 0 0 0 .270 Rendon 3b 4
Montero c
2 0 0 0 .206 Espinsa ss 2
c-Ross c
1 0 0 0 .233 Scherzer p 2
Russell ss
3 1 1 1 .234 a-Heisey
1
Hendrcks p 2 0 0 0 .083 Perez p
0
Grimm p
0 0 0 0 --- Kelley p
0
Richard p
0 0 0 0 .000 Totals
34
d-Almora
1 0 0 0 .273
Totals
29 1 2 1
Philadelphia
Herrera cf
Galvis ss
Blanco 3b
Joseph 1b
Howard dh
Ruiz c
Asche lf
CHrndz 2b
Bourjos rf
Totals
Texas
Choo rf
Dsmnd cf
b-Holdy lf
Profar 3b
Odor 2b
Rua cf
Fielder dh
Andrus ss
Morlnd 1b
Wilson c
Totals
Chicago
Washington
H
2
1
1
1
0
2
2
1
0
0
0
0
10
000 001 000 —1
001 003 00x —4
BI
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
3
Avg.
.211
.246
.256
.367
.233
.337
.263
.223
.167
.220
.000
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2
10
2
0
a-struck out for Scherzer in the 7th. b-struck out for Coghlan in the
8th. c-struck out for Montero in the 8th. d-struck out for Richard in
the 9th.
Walks— Washington 5: Werth 2, Murphy 1, Espinosa 2.
Strikeouts—Chicago 16: Fowler 3, Heyward 2, Bryant 2, Rizzo 1,
Coghlan 1, Baez 1, Montero 1, Ross 1, Russell 2, Hendricks 1, Almora
1. Washington 5: Zimmerman 1, Ramos 1, Espinosa 1, Scherzer 1,
Heisey 1. E—Fowler (3), Russell (7). LOB—Chicago 1, Washington 12.
2B—Rizzo (14), Rendon (15). HR—Russell (5), off Scherzer; Ramos
(10), off Hendricks. RBIs—Russell (33), Revere (11), Ramos (36),
Espinosa (27). SB—Revere 2 (4), Rendon (7). S—Scherzer.
RISP—Chicago 0 for 1; Washington 2 for 13. Runners moved
up—Werth 2, Harper.
ChicagoIP
H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Hendricks L, 4-651/3
6 4 3 3 4
95 3.05
Grimm12/3
3 0 0 0 1
36 5.16
Richard1
1 0 0 0 0
12 6.00
WashingtonIP
H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Scherzer W, 8-47
2 1 1 0 11
96 3.40
Perez H, 71/3
0 0 0 0 1
6 3.31
Kelley S, 1-112/3
0 0 0 0 4
21 2.70
Inherited runners-scored—Grimm 1-1. IBB—off Hendricks
(Murphy), off Grimm (Espinosa). U— Dan Lassogna, Dale Scott, Bob
Davidson, Lance Barrett. T—2:44. Tickets sold—37,187 (41,418).
ROYALS
INDIANS
2
1
Whit Merrifield hit his first career home
run, Edinson Volquez (6-6) tossed
seven innings of two-hit ball and Kansas City ended a five-game skid
against Cleveland. Volquez walked the
bases loaded in the first inning before
settling down. The Indians’ Jason
Kipnis hit a leadoff home run in the
eighth. Merrifield also tripled.
Cleveland AB R H BI Avg.
Santana dh 3 0 0 0 .228
Kipnis 2b
3 1 2 1 .272
Lindor ss
3 0 0 0 .300
Napoli 1b
4 0 0 0 .240
Ramirez 3b 3 0 0 0 .298
Chsnhall rf
3 0 2 0 .279
Gomes c
3 0 0 0 .169
Naquin cf
4 0 0 0 .312
Davis lf
3 0 0 0 .248
Totals
29 1 4 1
K.C.
AB R H BI Avg.
Merrfld 2b 4 2 2 1 .330
Escobar ss 4 0 1 1 .244
Hosmer 1b 3 0 1 0 .318
Cain cf
4 0 0 0 .285
Perez c
4 0 3 0 .290
Morles dh 4 0 1 0 .204
Fuents rf
4 0 2 0 .351
Cuthbrt 3b 3 0 1 0 .274
Dyson lf
3 0 0 0 .257
Totals
33 2 11 2
Cleveland
Kansas City
000 000 010 —1
100 100 00x —2
4
11
0
1
Walks—Cleveland 5: Santana 1, Kipnis 1, Lindor 1, Ramirez 1,
Chisenhall 1. Kansas City 1: Hosmer 1. Strikeouts—Cleveland 4:
Lindor 1, Napoli 1, Gomes 1, Naquin 1. Kansas City 9: Escobar 2,
Hosmer 1, Cain 1, Morales 1, Fuentes 1, Cuthbert 1, Dyson 2.
E—Escobar (9). LOB—Cleveland 7, Kansas City 8. 2B—Kipnis (11).
3B—Merrifield (1). HR—Kipnis (8), off Herrera; Merrifield (1), off
Carrasco. RBIs—Kipnis (32), Merrifield (6), Escobar (17).
CS—Escobar (3). RISP—Cleveland 0 for 8; Kansas City 1 for 6.
Runners moved up—Merrifield. GIDP—Ramirez, Gomes 2, Cain.
DP—Cleveland 1 (Lindor, Kipnis, Napoli); Kansas City 4 (Merrifield,
Escobar, Hosmer), (Escobar, Merrifield, Hosmer), (Merrifield,
Escobar, Hosmer), (Escobar, Merrifield, Hosmer).
Cleveland...................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Carrasco L, 2-2 ............6 10 2 2 1 8
103 3.40
Manship......................1 0 0 0 0 1
17 2.79
Chamberlain ................1 1 0 0 0 0
19 2.25
Kansas City................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Volquez W, 6-6 .............7 2 0 0 4 3
95 3.90
Herrera H, 18...............1 1 1 1 1 1
19 1.74
W.Davis S, 18-19..........1 1 0 0 0 0
7 1.11
U—Eric Cooper, Jim Wolf, Ramon DeJesus, Gary Cederstrom.
T—2:42. Tickets sold—31,269 (37,903).
AB
5
4
5
4
4
3
2
4
4
35
R
1
0
0
0
1
1
2
1
1
7
H
2
0
1
0
1
1
0
2
2
9
BI
3
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
7
Avg.
.314
.223
.262
.286
.153
.228
.226
.250
.205
Philadelphia
Toronto
Toronto
AB R H BI Avg.
Bautista dh 4 0 1 0 .234
Donldsn 3b 3 0 1 0 .255
Saundrs lf
3 0 1 0 .311
Smoak 1b
3 0 1 0 .259
Pillar cf
4 0 0 0 .253
Carrera rf
2 0 0 0 .329
Barney ss
4 0 0 0 .302
Travis 2b
4 0 2 0 .172
Thole c
4 0 0 0 .107
Totals
31 0 6 0
001 000 303 —7
000 000 000 —0
9
6
0
0
Walks—Philadelphia 4: Galvis 1, Ruiz 1, Asche 2. Toronto 5:
Donaldson 1, Saunders 1, Smoak 1, Carrera 2. Strikeouts—
Philadelphia 9: Herrera 2, Galvis 2, Blanco 1, Joseph 2, Howard 1,
C.Hernandez 1. Toronto 8: Bautista 1, Donaldson 1, Saunders 1, Smoak
1, Pillar 2, Carrera 1, Thole 1. LOB—Philadelphia 5, Toronto 9.
2B—Blanco (9), C.Hernandez (6), Bourjos (9). HR—Herrera (6), off
Dickey; Howard (10), off Dickey. RBIs—Herrera 3 (22), Howard (21),
C.Hernandez (15), Bourjos 2 (11). SB—Asche (3). CS—Asche (1).
RISP—Philadelphia 4 for 7; Toronto 0 for 4. Runners moved up—Pillar.
GIDP—Pillar, Thole. DP—Philadelphia 2 (Blanco, Joseph),
(C.Hernandez, Joseph).
Philadelphia...............IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Eickhoff W, 4-8.............6 3 0 0 4 5
106 3.40
D.Hernandez ................1 1 0 0 0 2
18 2.37
Neris ..........................1 1 0 0 1 1
19 2.41
Bailey .........................1 1 0 0 0 0
6 4.09
Toronto ......................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Dickey L, 4-7 ............6 1⁄3 5 3 3 2 4
104 4.16
Biagini........................1⁄3 1 1 1 0 1
9 2.70
Loup ..........................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 1
7 9.00
Storen.........................1 0 0 0 0 3
10 6.04
Diamond .....................1 2 3 3 2 0
26 27.00
Inherited runners-scored—Biagini 1-1, Loup 1-1. WP—Loup.
U—Todd Tichenor, Bill Miller, Tony Randazzo, Tom Woodring. T—2:55.
Tickets sold—35,678 (49,282).
REDS
BRAVES
9
8
Tyler Holt drew a bases-loaded walk off
Arodys Vizcaino in the ninth to force in
the tiebreaker. Adam Duvall homered
and drove in three Cincinnati runs.
Atlanta’s pitchers walked eight.
Cincinnati
Cozart ss
Votto 1b
Phillips 2b
Bruce rf
Duvall lf
Suarez 3b
Holt cf
Barnhrt c
Wright p
a-Waldrop
Wood p
c-Selsky
Totals
Cincinnati
Atlanta
AB
4
3
4
3
4
3
4
5
2
1
0
1
34
R
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
9
H
1
2
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
9
BI
0
0
0
2
3
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
8
Avg.
.284
.237
.258
.272
.258
.232
.277
.253
.000
.500
.000
.429
Atlanta
Smith cf
Inciarte cf
Freemn 1b
Markks rf
Garcia 3b
Przynski c
1-d’Arnd ss
Petrsn 2b
Aybar ss
Flowers c
Blair p
b-Snyder
d-Francr l
Totals
AB
3
5
5
5
5
4
0
3
3
0
2
1
0
36
R
2
1
2
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
8
H
1
1
3
0
2
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
10
303 002 001 —9
212 020 010 —8
BI
0
0
3
0
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
6
Avg.
.250
.236
.250
.239
.241
.203
.309
.231
.187
.237
.083
.250
.287
9
10
1
0
a-singled for Ramirez in the 6th. b-struck out for Weber in the 6th. c-singled
for Wood in the 8th. d-walked for Johnson in the 8th. 1-ran for Pierzynski in the
8th.
Walks—Cincinnati 8: Cozart 1, Votto 2, Phillips 1, Bruce 2, Suarez 1, Holt 1.
Atlanta 4: Smith 2, Peterson 1, Francoeur 1. Strikeouts—Cincinnati 6: Votto
1, Phillips 1, Suarez 1, Holt 1, Barnhart 2. Atlanta 3: Inciarte 1, Freeman 1,
Snyder 1. E—Votto (4). LOB—Cincinnati 8, Atlanta 6. 2B—Votto (12),
Freeman (11), Garcia (4), Aybar (6). 3B—Bruce (6). HR—Duvall (18), off Blair;
Freeman (10), off Ramirez; Garcia (3), off Ohlendorf. RBIs—Bruce 2 (46),
Duvall 3 (44), Suarez (34), Holt (7), Waldrop (1), Freeman 3 (21), Garcia 2
(14), Aybar (7). SB—Smith 2 (11). SF—Duvall, Suarez. RISP—Cincinnati 2 for
8; Atlanta 3 for 13. Runners moved up—Barnhart, Markakis, Inciarte.
GIDP—Markakis. DP—Cincinnati 1 (Phillips, Cozart, Votto).
Cincinnati ..................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Wright.........................3 6 5 3 1 0
57 7.62
Ramirez.......................2 2 2 2 0 0
24 7.20
Wood H, 5 ...................2 0 0 0 1 3
36 3.51
Ohlendorf W, 5-5 ..........1 2 1 1 2 0
27 4.40
Cingrani S, 7-12 ...........1 0 0 0 0 0
7 3.94
Atlanta ......................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Blair ...........................5 4 6 6 4 3
103 7.59
Weber .........................1 3 2 2 0 0
27 9.28
Kelly ...........................1 0 0 0 0 1
12 4.58
Johnson ......................1 1 0 0 0 1
14 6.27
Vizcaino L, 1-2 .............1 1 1 1 2 1
31 2.33
U—Adam Hamari, Laz Diaz, Marvin Hudson, Jim Joyce. T—3:22. Tickets
sold—13,198 (49,586).
Texas
Oakland
AB
4
3
2
4
4
4
3
4
4
4
36
R
1
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
1
0
5
H
1
0
0
1
1
2
0
2
2
0
9
BI
1
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
1
0
5
Avg.
.200
.303
.250
.343
.262
.291
.199
.286
.227
.288
Oakland
Crisp cf
a-Brns cf
Smien ss
Vlncia 3b
Davis lf
Butler dh
Phgley c
Smlnski rf
Alnso 1b
Ldndrf 2b
Totals
AB
3
1
5
5
4
3
5
4
4
4
38
R
3
0
1
3
3
2
1
0
0
1
14
H
2
0
3
2
2
2
2
3
0
1
17
000 112 001 — 5
104 540 00x —14
BI
0
0
1
1
5
1
3
2
1
0
14
Avg.
.228
.245
.242
.338
.244
.265
.309
.317
.245
.080
9
17
1
3
Texas.........................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Ramos L, 1-3............3 2⁄3 8 8 6 5 1
83 4.88
Wilhelmsen..................1 9 6 6 0 0
45 10.55
Tolleson ...................2 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 3
27 8.41
Claudio .......................1 0 0 0 0 0
14 4.02
Oakland.....................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Manaea ...................4 1⁄3 4 2 2 1 5
86 6.02
Coulombe W, 1-0 ......1 2⁄3 3 2 2 0 0
24 5.06
Neal S, 1-1..................3 2 1 1 0 0
32 9.00
Inherited runners-scored—Wilhelmsen 2-2, Tolleson 2-0.
HBP—Manaea (Fielder). WP—Manaea. U—John Hirschbeck, Vic
Carapazza, Bill Welke, Toby Basner. T—3:06. Tickets sold—13,453
(37,090).
MARLINS
PADRES
13
4
Adeiny Hechavarria had four RBIs for
Miami, which built an 8-1 cushion by
the third inning. Ichiro Suzuki had three
of the Marlins’ season-high 19 hits,
and Wei-Yin Chen improved to 4-2.
Miami
AB R H BI Avg. San Diego AB R H BI Avg.
Suzuki rf
4 3 3 1 .350 Jay cf
4 0 0 0 .283
Prado 3b
3 1 3 3 .332 Myers 1b
3 1 1 1 .287
1-Rjas 3b 2 1 0 0 .260 Kemp rf
4 1 2 1 .253
Yelich lf
5 1 2 1 .319 Solarte 3b
3 0 0 0 .274
Jhnsn lf
1 0 0 0 .237 Wallce 3b
1 0 0 0 .209
Ozuna cf
4 1 1 0 .318 Norris c
3 0 0 0 .214
Ellngtn p
1 0 0 0 .000 Ramrez ss
4 0 0 0 .254
Bour 1b
4 1 3 2 .251 Upton cf
4 1 2 1 .240
Rlmto c
6 1 2 2 .300 Rosales 2b 4 1 1 1 .190
Dtrch 2b
5 2 2 0 .296 Rea p
1 0 0 0 .130
Hchvra ss 5 2 2 4 .245 Jnkwski
1 0 1 0 .250
Chen p
3 0 0 0 .000 Amrsta lf
2 0 0 0 .239
Gllspie cf
1 0 1 0 .265 Totals
34 4 7 4
Totals
44 13 19 13
107 040 100 —13
101 011 000 — 4
19
7
WHITE SOX
TIGERS
10
9
Adam Eaton singled home the winning
run in the 12th inning for his fourth hit
of the night, and Chicago rallied from
seven runs down in a wild victory.
a-grounded out for Crisp in the 6th. b-flied out for Desmond in the
7th.
Walks—Texas 1: Choo 1. Oakland 5: Crisp 1, Davis 1, Butler 2,
Smolinski 1. Strikeouts—Texas 5: Profar 1, Odor 1, Rua 1, Moreland
1, Wilson 1. Oakland 4: Semien 2, Davis 1, Butler 1. E—Profar (4),
Manaea (1), Valencia 2 (9). LOB—Texas 6, Oakland 6. 2B—Andrus
(12). HR—Choo (1), off Manaea; Rua (5), off Coulombe; Moreland
(10), off Neal; Davis (15), off Ramos; Phegley (1), off Wilhelmsen.
RBIs—Choo (2), Rua 2 (15), Andrus (24), Moreland (28), Semien
(28), Valencia (25), Davis 5 (42), Butler (17), Phegley 3 (7),
Smolinski 2 (10), Alonso (13). SB—Andrus (9), Semien (5).
SF—Alonso. RISP—Texas 1 for 5; Oakland 9 for 14. DP—Alonso.
DP—Texas 3 (Andrus, Odor, Moreland), (Moreland, Andrus), (Odor,
Rua); Oakland 1 (Ladendorf, Semien, Alonso).
Miami
San Diego
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14
5
Max Scherzer (8-4) gave up two hits in
seven innings, striking out 11, and
Wilson Ramos homered for Washington. Addison Russell’s home run in the
sixth ended Scherzer’s no-hit bid.
R
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
4
torn ulnar collateral ligament) had
an ultrasound on his left elbow
Monday that showed improvement, Eppler said. There is not yet
a plan for Heaney to resume
throwing, but he is scheduled to
undergo another ultrasound in two
to three weeks.
0
1
Walks—Miami 6: Suzuki 2, Prado 1, Ozuna 1, Bour 2. San Diego 2: Myers 1,
Sanchez 1. Strikeouts—Miami 12: Yelich 2, Ozuna 2, Ellington 1, Bour 1,
Realmuto 3, Dietrich 1, Chen 2. San Diego 10: Jay 1, Solarte 3, Wallace 1, Norris
1, Upton 1, Rosales 1, Rea 1, Amarista 1. E—Rosales (7). LOB—Miami 12, San
Diego 5. 2B—Yelich (19), Dietrich (12), Hechavarria (7), Kemp (14), Upton (7).
3B—Hechavarria (3). HR—Prado (2), off Rea; Myers (14), off Chen; Kemp (15),
off Chen; Rosales (4), off Chen; Upton (8), off Chen. RBIs—Suzuki (9), Prado 3
(21), Yelich (30), Bour 2 (32), Realmuto 2 (18), Hechavarria 4 (21), Myers (38),
Kemp (43), Upton (28), Rosales (11). SB—Perdomo (1). S—Chen. RISP—Miami
9 for 19; San Diego 0 for 6. GIDP—Rojas. DP—San Diego 1 (Solarte, Rosales,
Myers).
Miami .......................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Chen W, 4-2 ................6 7 4 4 1 7
104 4.68
Wittgren ......................1 0 0 0 0 1
11 2.46
Ellington......................1 0 0 0 1 1
18 0.00
Dunn ..........................1 0 0 0 0 1
6 4.15
San Diego ..................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Rea L, 3-3................2 2⁄3 9 8 6 2 4
69 5.37
Hand .......................2 1⁄3 5 4 4 2 4
48 3.78
Maurer ........................2 2 1 1 1 3
36 6.97
Thornton......................1 2 0 0 0 0
14 5.06
Bethancourt.................1 1 0 0 1 1
18 0.00
Inherited runners-scored—Hand 2-0. HBP—Maurer (Dietrich). U—Jeff
Nelson, Nic Lentz, Cory Blaser, Doug Eddings.. T—3:15. Tickets sold—20,988
(42,302).
Detroit
AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg.
Kinsler 2b
5 2 2 2 .317 Andrsn ss 6 0 1 0 .200
Maybin cf
6 2 2 2 .372 Eaton cf
5 2 4 2 .270
Cabrera 1b 5 2 1 0 .295 Cbrera lf
6 2 3 0 .290
Castllns 3b 7 0 2 0 .304 Abreu 1b
4 2 2 3 .264
JMrtnez dh 6 0 3 2 .279 Frzier 3b
6 1 0 1 .206
Upton lf
4 0 1 1 .225 Lawrie 2b 6 0 3 2 .242
Sltlmcha c 5 2 2 0 .191 Garcia rf
6 0 1 1 .249
Aviles rf
5 0 0 0 .190 Navrro c
3 2 1 1 .211
Iglesias ss
3 1 1 1 .245 Coats dh
2 0 0 0 .000
Totals
46 9 14 8
Shuck dh
4 1 1 0 .162
Totals
48 10 16 10
Detroit
Chicago
331 001 001 000 — 9
002 131 002 001 —10
14
16
0
3
Walks—Detroit 11: Kinsler 1, Maybin 1, Mi.Cabrera 2, J.Martinez 1, Upton 2,
Saltalamacchia 1, V.Martinez 1, Iglesias 2. Chicago 6: Eaton 1, Abreu 2,
Navarro 3. Strikeouts—Detroit 7: Maybin 2, Mi.Cabrera 2, Upton 1,
Saltalamacchia 1, Aviles 1. Chicago 10: Anderson 2, Eaton 1, Frazier 1, Lawrie 1,
Garcia 1, Navarro 1, Coats 2, Shuck 1. E—Shields (1), Me.Cabrera (1), Garcia
(1). LOB—Detroit 14, Chicago 12. 2B—Mi.Cabrera (14), J.Martinez 2 (16),
Me.Cabrera (13), Lawrie (17), Shuck (1). HR—Kinsler (14), off Shields; Abreu
(9), off Boyd; Navarro (3), off Boyd. RBIs—Kinsler 2 (44), Maybin 2 (11),
J.Martinez 2 (38), Upton (18), Iglesias (11), Eaton 2 (21), Abreu 3 (37), Frazier
(43), Lawrie 2 (25), Garcia (23), Navarro (15). SB—Maybin (6), Iglesias (5),
Eaton (6). CS—Kinsler (3). SF—Kinsler, Eaton. S—Iglesias, Anderson.
RISP—Detroit 4 for 17; Chicago 5 for 13. DP—Chicago 1.
Detroit.......................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Boyd .......................4 1⁄3 7 6 6 2 3
85 4.91
Parnell ........................1 2 1 1 1 1
29 7.36
Wilson H, 6 ..............1 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1
19 4.44
Greene H, 3 .................1 0 0 0 0 1
9 4.79
Rodriguez BS, 2-21 .......1 3 2 2 2 1
33 3.80
Sanchez L, 3-7..........2 1⁄3 3 1 1 0 3
44 6.21
Chicago .....................IP H R ER BB SO
NP ERA
Shields .......................5 9 7 6 4 1
106 16.71
Danish........................1⁄3 2 1 1 1 0
14 10.80
Jennings...................1 1⁄3 0 0 0 2 1
21 1.86
Albers......................1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 2
21 4.03
Jones..........................2 2 1 1 0 2
23 2.89
Robertson....................1 0 0 0 3 0
31 3.86
Duke W, 1-0 ................1 1 0 0 0 1
10 3.22
IBB_off Danish (J.Martinez), off Sanchez (Abreu). WP—Shields, Parnell,
Rodriguez. T—4:34. Tickets sold—16,314 (40,615).
ON THIS DATE
JUNE 14
8 1952 — Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves struck out 18 Cubs in
a 3-1, 15-inning loss to Chicago. Spahn also homered.
8 1953 — The New York Yankees swept Cleveland, 6-2 and 3-0, to
extend the team's winning streak to 18 games.
8 1963 — Duke Snider hit his 400th career home run to highlight a
10-3 triumph by the New York Mets over the Cincinnati Reds at
Crosley Field.
8 1965 — Jim Maloney struck out 18 and no-hit the New York Mets
for 10 innings, but Johnny Lewis' leadoff home run in the 11th inning
gave the Mets a 1-0 win.
8 1969 — Reggie Jackson knocked in 10 runs with two homers, a
double and two singles in Oakland's 21-7 win over the Red Sox in
Boston. In the eighth, he drove in three runs with a single when he
easily could have made second base.
8 1974 — Nolan Ryan struck out 19 batters in 12 innings to give the
California Angels a 4-3 win over the Boston Red Sox in 15 innings.
Cecil Cooper of the Red Sox struck out six times.
8 1978 — Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds had two hits in a 3-1
triumph over the Chicago Cubs to start his 44-game hitting streak.
8 1995 — Mike Benjamin went 6-for-7, setting a major league record
with 14 hits in three games, and drove in the winning run in the 13th
inning as the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3.
8 2002 — Aaron Boone hit a pair of homers — one to tie the game in
the ninth inning and one to win it in the 11th — off Pittsburgh closer
Mike Williams as Cincinnati beat the Pirates 4-3.
8 2002 — With all 14 interleague games — and one NL game —
taking place in National League parks, the DH was not employed
anywhere throughout Major League Baseball.
8 2005 — Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki became the third player since 1900
to reach 1,000 hits in fewer than 700 games when he singled in the
bottom of the first inning in Seattle's 3-1 win over Philadelphia. Suzuki's 1,000th hit came in his 696th game. Chuck Klein reached the
mark in 1933 in 683 games, and Lloyd Waner reached it in 1932 in
686 games.
8 2005 — Chris Carpenter pitched a one-hitter and struck out 10 to
lead St. Louis in a 7-0 win over Toronto.
8 2007 — Craig Monroe tied the major league record for strike outs
in a nine inning game when he whiffed five times in Detroit's 6-5 loss
to Milwaukee.
8 2013 — Major League Baseball came down hard on the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks, handing out eight suspensions and a dozen fines as punishment for a bench-clearing brawl on
June 11. Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy got 10 games and infielder Eric
Hinske five for their roles in the fight.
8 Today's birthday: Hector Neris, 27.
L AT I ME S . CO M / S P O RT S
T U E S DAY , J U NE 14 , 2 016
D5
BASEBALL
DODGERS REPORT
Ethier continues his
wait for leg to heal
By Andy McCullough
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press
ANGELS PITCHER Jared Weaver looks on as Byron Buxton of the Twins, right,
is congratulated by third base coach Gene Glynn after hitting a solo home run.
Weaver falters in
latest Angels loss
Right-hander’s ERA
balloons to 5.71 after
he gives up six runs in
six innings.
MINNESOTA 9
ANGELS 4
By Pedro Moura
The Angels made the
worst team in the American
League look like the best
again. A poor start from
Jered Weaver and insufficient offense led to another
loss, this time by a score of
9-4 against the Minnesota
Twins at Angel Stadium.
The loss, coupled with an
Oakland
A’s
victory,
dropped the Angels into sole
control of last place in the
American League West.
It started badly. Weaver
gave up a leadoff single and
stolen base to Eduardo
Nunez, balked him over to
third and yielded a run-scoring single on a chuted fastball to Joe Mauer.
Johnny Giavotella threw
a potential double-play ball
away in the third. It could
conceivably have ended the
inning but instead put runners on the corners with one
out. Weaver then left a
changeup up to Trevor
Plouffe, who hit it over the
fence for a three-run home
run. With runners again on
the corners and no out in the
fifth, Weaver induced a double play, which scored the
fifth run as a byproduct. In
the sixth, he served up a
home run to Byron Buxton
— the major league-leading
18th homer hit against
Weaver this season.
Weaver gave up six runs
in six innings. Al Albur-
querque, in his Angels debut, gave up three more in
the seventh inning.
In the lineup as the designated hitter after he exited
Sunday’s game early because of a bruised right
wrist, Mike Trout singled
sharply in the first inning
but did not reach base thereafter, although he drove a
ball 407 feet in the eighth inning. The Angels scored
once in the second when
Shane Robinson singled to
shortstop. Todd Cunningham came home and Gregorio Petit took third when
he alertly turned into a Twin
when caught in a rundown,
causing interference to be
called.
Cunningham
helped
push across the Angels’ next
runs in the fourth, doubling
against Twins starter Ricky
Nolasco amid an abbreviated rally. In the sixth, he
walked, putting two men on
for Petit, who promptly hit
into a double play.
“We tried to put pressure
on them offensively,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “We
did, but we just got too far
behind to get where we
needed to be.”
The Angels put only one
other runner on base and
their
defensive
play
worsened. In the seventh,
Petit mishandled two balls
for errors and third baseman Yunel Escobar handled
another one oddly, eliciting
boos from the remaining
fans at Angel Stadium.
The Angels said that they
sold more than 36,000 tickets for the game. There appeared to be fewer than 5,000
fans still sitting in their seats
come the ninth inning, when
Giavotella excited them
with a home run. It was his
fourth hit of the night; no
other Angel had mor than
one.
In the ninth, the Angels
also debuted Jefry Marte in
left field. The power-hitting
infielder had been training
there before games for one
week and, earlier in the day,
Scioscia said that Marte had
demonstrated an aptitude
for the position.
Weaver, his earned-run
average at an unsightly 5.71
and his peripheral marks
even worse, has been the Angels’ worst starting pitcher.
They will incorporate a
new starter, Tim Lincecum,
into their rotation this weekend. Someone will need to
depart, and another man
will likely give way to Nick
Tropeano when he returns
to the rotation this month.
Will it be Weaver? Could it be
Weaver? The Angels are not
going to relegate Matt Shoemaker to the bullpen or back
to the minors, not with him
pitching well.
One option would be to
demote 2015 All-Star Hector
Santiago to the minor
leagues. Another would
seem to be to put Weaver in
the bullpen. Scioscia would
not address Weaver’s status
in the rotation or the rotation’s future,,other than to
say that he was excited to
put it “in order” this weekend.
“That’s what we need,” he
said. “I think it’s pretty evident.”
Scioscia insisted he remained confident the team
would improve. Weaver said
the same of himself, although he has not exhibited
the velocity gain he predicted for himself at the
season’s start.
[email protected]
Twitter: @pedromoura
PHOENIX — Four weeks
ago, Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier sat for a scan of
his fractured right tibia. He
had rested for two months,
and he viewed the checkup
as a formality. Surely the examination would show the
healing in his bones and he
would be cleared to resume
baseball activity.
Then he saw the scan.
“It was a little bit of a jawdropper when you see the result,” Ethier said Monday
afternoon at Chase Field,
where he visited his teammates before they faced the
Arizona Diamondbacks. “It
wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t as
healed and as positive as I
was hoping and thinking it
was.”
And so Ethier continues
to wait for his leg to heal. He
has been allowed to play
catch and take some swings
off a tee. But he still needs
time before he is cleared to
take live batting practice.
That goal remains weeks
away.
He suffered the fracture
by fouling a baseball of his
shin March 18. The initial
diagnosis was a few days off.
The reality looks closer to
several months.
When a follow-up examination discovered the spiral
fracture, the Dodgers placed
a 10- to 14-week timetable on
his return. Ethier has now
waited12 weeks. He has been
marooned at the team’s facility at Camelback Ranch.
He said he appreciated
the opportunity to spend
time with his children. But
even they are getting antsy.
“They ask me every other
day when I’m going back to
play,” Ethier said. “I don’t
know if that’s a sign that
they want me out of the
By Mike Hiserman
The first time Joey Carney saw his
mother after life-saving surgery in which she
received part of his liver, she came to him.
It was June 4, two days after the
transplant, and the University of San Francisco pitcher was nauseated from medication and in significant pain.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t get up to see
her,’ ” Carney recalled. “A little while later,
there she is at my door. I couldn't believe it.”
Paula Carney, 50, required the transplant
because non-alcoholic steatohepatitis had
left her with end-stage liver cirrhosis.
The surgery, performed at the UC San
Francisco Medical Center, took place two
years and three months after she was told
she might have two years to live — and after
several other family members were ruled out
as donors.
After the transplant, her husband, Dale,
said he was told by the medical team that
Paula’s liver had been reduced to something
resembling a puddle. He was also told she
would not have lived to her next birthday, in
mid-July.
Paula bounced back quickly in the days
immediately after the surgery but has since
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run in the fifth. Otherwise,
Greinke avoided danger. He
struck out six, scattered seven hits and contributed to
the go-ahead run against
Dodgers
starter
Mike
Bolsinger. The Diamondbacks whacked a pair of
home runs against Bolsinger, then manufactured the
winning rally after Greinke’s
single in the fifth.
After Greinke departed,
an opportunity arose in the
eighth. Diamondbacks reliever Daniel Hudson walked
the bases loaded with one
out. Into the fire came
sidearmer Brad Ziegler. He
fanned Enrique Hernandez
with ease. Howie Kendrick
hit a sinking line drive that
center fielder Michael Bourn
dived to snag.
The pitching matchup
posed a question: Why was
Greinke, the prize of last
winter’s free-agent class,
pitching for Arizona? And
why were the Dodgers (3332), owners of the sport’s
largest payroll, relying on a
swingman like Bolsinger?
The Diamondbacks capitalized on the Dodgers’ restraint in December and
overwhelmed Greinke with
a six-year, $206-million offer.
The Dodgers regrouped and
accumulated assets to fortify the 40-man roster. A slew
of injuries forced Bolsinger
into the rotation.
Neither Greinke nor the
Diamondbacks have flourished this season. Arizona
sat nine games below .500
heading
into
Monday.
Greinke lugged a 3.84
earned-run average into the
game, the product of a torturous April. His performance had improved across
his previous eight starts, including a shutout of Tampa
Bay in his last start.
The matchup granted his
former teammates a chance
to take stock of his absence.
His departure surprised
many in the group. Yasmani
Grandal found a silver lining.
“I was just glad he didn’t
go to San Francisco,” Grandal said.
Grandal suggested the
Dodgers did not particularly
miss Greinke, despite his excellence on the mound. The
starting rotation carried
into the game a collective
3.48 ERA, which ranked
sixth in baseball. The 1.52
ERA of Clayton Kershaw
propped up the group, but
Grandal insisted the team’s
largest issue resided with
the offense.
“I feel like our pitching
has really carried us through
the whole season,” Grandal
said. “I feel like it’s just a matter of time. It’s a ticking time
bomb — as soon as the offense goes, I don’t think
there’s any team in this
league that can compete
with us.”
The Dodgers showed
signs of life in the first inning.
After a one-out single by
Seager, Turner bashed a 92mph fastball off the centerfield wall. Seager raced
home on the double.
Arizona delivered a swift
answer. Bolsinger hung a
slider to first baseman Paul
Goldschmidt. He battered
the mistake over the wall in
center. Two innings later,
Bolsinger fed third baseman
Jake Lamb a curveball over
the middle. Lamb gave his
club the lead with a blast to
left.
Yasiel Puig reported to
Class-A
Rancho
Cucamonga to start a minor
league rehabilitation assignment. Puig has been on
the disabled list since June 4
because of a hamstring
strain.
The
Dodgers hope he can rejoin the big
league club Monday.... Carl
Crawford cleared waivers
and received his release
from the organization. The
Dodgers designated Crawford for assignment June 5....
Brandon McCarthy (elbow
ligament replacement surgery) and Hyun-Jin Ryu
(shoulder surgery) came
through their rehab starts
over the weekend without issue. Each will pitch again later this week.
[email protected]
Seager knotted the score
in the fifth. He pounced on a
slider on the inner half of the
plate for his 15th homer of
the
season.
Trusting
Bolsinger to maintain the
deadlock proved foolhardy.
Bolsinger lived on the
edge for the duration of his
outing. Not the edge of the
strike zone — the edge of
disaster. He served up a series of well-struck outs, with
his outfielders repeatedly
ranging back to the warning
track.
Even
Greinke
smacked a pair of drives, including a single in the fifth
inning.
The hit by Greinke enlivened the crowd and led to
Arizona’s reclaiming the
lead. After shortstop Nick
Ahmed hit into a fielder’s
choice, he swiped second
base
when
Bolsinger
bounced a curveball in the
dirt. Second baseman Jean
Segura ripped a single to put
the Diamondbacks in front.
In the sixth, Greinke
stranded Joc Pederson after
a one-out double. He yielded
a leadoff single to Kendrick
in the seventh, which
prompted Arizona Manager
Chip Hale to visit the
mound. Looming were Seager and Turner, who had
damaged Greinke all evening.
Greinke lobbied to stay in
the game. Hale stuck with
him. Seager hit a harmless
fly ball to left. Turner chased
a low changeup to strike out.
Greinke put his head down
as he headed to the home
dugout, an ace on a losing
team, but a winner for an
evening.
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Twitter: @McCulloughTimes
AROUND THE LEAGUES
Mets’ Collins
plans return
associated press
Mets Manager Terry Collins has been
cleared to leave a Milwaukee hospital and
planned to return to New York and be back in
the dugout for Tuesday night’s game against
the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The 67-year-old Collins, the oldest manager in the major leagues, felt sick before
Sunday’s game against the Brewers and was
held overnight at Froedtert Hospital.
New York said Monday that Collins was
examined by Dr. Brian-Fred Fitzsimmons,
that tests were negative, and that he had
been cleared to fly home.
‘I’m showering and getting
dressed by myself and have
been going somewhere with
friends just about every
day.’
— Joey Carney,
University of San Francisco pitcher who
underwent surgery this month
experienced some setbacks and is still hospitalized.
Joey returned to the family’s Millbrae,
Calif., home June 7 and recently has been
walking more than three miles a day. “In a lot
of ways I’m almost back to normal,” he said.
“I’m showering and getting dressed by myself and have been going somewhere with
friends just about every day.”
This past spring, Carney made an unlikely rise to become closer for San Francisco’s baseball team.
Formerly
an
outfielder,
he
enrolled in school without a scholarship, then became the first player in at least
18 years to make the team through an open
tryout.
As the season progressed, USF started to
rely on him when the Dons were trying to
hold slim leads in the late innings. He responded by converting all five of his save opportunities.
“An amazing story even before the
Short hops
Greinke’s reminder to Dodgers
Pitcher recovering
after liver donation
Collegian Joey Carney says he’s
‘almost back to normal’ in many
ways since surgery to give part of
his liver to his stricken mother.
house, or they want to see
me play again.”
Davis deal finalized
Dale Carney
USF’S Joey Carney walks at the hospi-
tal the day after his recent surgery.
transplant,” Coach Nino Giarratano said.
When his mother was ill, Carney would
make time for nightly bedside chats with her
after he returned from long days of baseball
workouts and school. Now he’s anticipating
having talks with her during long walks as
both recover.
“That’s going to be a much different deal,”
he said. “Before, it was like she was getting a
little worse every day. Now we’ll both be getting better.”
[email protected]
Twitter: @MikeHiserman
Ike Davis and the New York Yankees have
finalized a one-year contract, giving the
team more options after putting four first
basemen on the disabled list.
Davis gets paid at the rate of a $1.5-million
salary while in the major leagues and at the
rate of a $120,000 salary while in the minors,
according to the deal reached Monday. With
112 days remaining in the regular season, his
prorated major league salary is $918,033.
Etc.
Left-hander Eric O’Flaherty has been
put on the 15-day disabled list by the Atlanta
Braves because of a right knee strain. O’Flaherty is 1-3 with a 6.52 earned-run average in
27 games.
The Braves recalled right-hander Ryan
Weber from triple-A Gwinnett before Monday night’s game against Cincinnati. Weber
is 1-0 with an 8.38 ERA in four games with Atlanta this season.
— associated press
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T U E S DAY, J U N E 14 , 2 016
L AT I M ES . C O M /S P O RT S
THE DAY IN SPORTS
TENNIS
$2.03-MILLION AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS
At London
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
SINGLES (first round)—Steve Johnson d. Richard Gasquet (4), France, 7-6 (2), 6-2.
$1.91-MILLION GERRY WEBER OPEN
At Halle, Germany
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
SINGLES (first round)—Kei Nishikori (2),
Japan, d. Lucas Pouille, France, 6-7 (5), 6-1,
6-4. David Goffin (5), Belgium, d. Borna Coric,
Croatia, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-4. Sergiy Stakhovsky,
Ukraine, d. Denis Kudla, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Benjamin
Becker, Germany, d. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 7-5,
6-3. Yuichi Sugita, Japan, leads Taylor Fritz, 6-6
(5-4), susp., rain. Andreas Seppi, Italy, d. David
Ferrer (6), Spain, 6-3, 6-4.
$870,650 RICOH OPEN
At Den Bosch, Netherlands
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
MEN’S SINGLES (final)—Nicolas Mahut (8),
France, d. Gilles Muller (7), Luxembourg, 6-4,
6-4.
$780,900 AEGON CLASSIC BIRMINGHAM
At Birmingham, England
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
SINGLES (first round)—Madison Keys (7) d.
Timea Babos, Hungary, 7-6 (3), 6-4. Heather
Watson, Britain, d. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-4, 7-5.
Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, d. Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 7-6 (2), 6-1. Daria
Gavrilova, Australia, leads Naomi Broady, Britain,
0-0 (30-0), susp., rain.
$226,750 MALLORCA OPEN
At Mallorca, Spain
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
SINGLES (first round)—Anastasija Sevastova,
Latvia, d. Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, 6-0,
6-2. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, d. Yaroslava
Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 6-1, 6-3. Mariana
Duque-Marino, Colombia, d. Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Caroline Garcia
(6), France, d. Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 7-5,
6-4.
PRO
BASKETBALL
WNBA
Western Conference
Team................... W
L Pct.
Minnesota ...........10
0 1.000
SPARKS ................9
0 1.000
Phoenix ................4
6 .400
Seattle .................4
6 .400
Dallas ..................3
6 .333
San Antonio ..........1
7 .125
Eastern Conference
L Pct.
Team................... W
Atlanta .................7
3 .700
New York...............5
4 .556
Chicago ................5
5 .500
Indiana.................4
6 .400
Washington ...........4
7 .364
Connecticut ...........2
8 .200
GB
—
1
⁄2
6
6
61⁄2
8
GB
—
11⁄2
2
3
31⁄2
5
Today’s schedule
Chicago at SPARKS, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at New York, 4 p.m.
Washington at Connecticut, 4 p.m.
Indiana at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
Seattle at San Antonio, 5 p.m.
Thursday's schedule
New York at Connecticut, 4 p.m.
Seattle at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.
CYCLING
TOUR DE SUISSE
At Rheinfelden, Switzerland
Third Stage, a 119.6-mile hilly ride from
Grosswangen to Rheinfelden
1. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Tinkoff, 4 hours, 31
minutes, 17 seconds. 2. Michael Albasini, Switzerland, Orica-GreenEdge, same time. 3. Silvan
Dillier, Switzerland, BMC Racing, same time. 4.
Maximiliano Richeze, Argentina, Etixx-QuickStep,
3 seconds behind. 5. Jurgen Roelandts, Belgium, Lotto Soudal, same time. 6. Jhonatan Restrepo, Colombia, Katusha, same time. 7.
Michael Matthews, Australia, Orica-GreenEdge,
same time. 8. Rui Faria, Portugal, LampreMerida, same time. 9. Simon Geschke, Germany,
Giant-Alpecin, same time. 10. Christopher Juul
Jensen, Denmark, Orica-GreenEdge, same time.
OVERALL STANDINGS (After three stages)
1. Sagan, 9:14:13. 2. Roelandts, :03. 3. Dillier, same time. 4. Jon Izaguirre, Spain, Movistar,
:13. 5. Tim Wellens, Belgium, Lotto Soudal, :14.
6. Gorka Izaguirre, Spain, Movistar, :17. 7. Wilco
Kelderman, Netherlands, LottoNL-Jumbo, :17. 8.
Matthews, :18. 9. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Sky,
:19. 10. Simon Geschke, Germany, GiantAlpecin, :20.
Also
17. Andrew Talansky, U.S., Cannondale, :33.
19. Tejay Van Garderen, U.S., BMC Racing, :35.
37. Joseph Lloyd Dombrowski, U.S., Cannondale, 1:00. 67. Ian Boswell, U.S., Sky, 3:20. 97.
Peter Stetina, U.S., Trek-Segafredo, 5:41. 160.
Kiel Reijnen, U.S., Trek-Segafredo, 19:13. 165.
Tyler Farrar, U.S., Dimension Data, 20:49.
THIS DAY IN
SPORTS
1987—The Lakers win their 10th NBA championship with a 106-93 victory over the Boston
Celtics in Game 6 at the Forum.
1994—The New York Rangers hold off the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in Game 7 for their first
Stanley Cup in 54 years. MVP Brian Leetch, Adam Graves and Mark Messier score goals and
Mike Richter makes 28 saves for New York.
1995—The Houston Rockets complete the unlikeliest of NBA championship repeats, sweeping
the Orlando Magic with a 113-101 victory. MVP
Hakeem Olajuwon finishes with 35 points and 15
rebounds.
In the Bleachers by Steve Moore
COLLEGE
BASEBALL
NCAA DIVISION I TOURNAMENT
Super Regionals
At Gainesville, Fla.
Monday’s result
Florida 7, Florida State 0, Florida advances
COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
At Omaha, Neb.
TD Ameritrade Park Omaha
Double Elimination
Saturday’s schedule
Game 1—Oklahoma State (41-20) vs. UC Santa
Barbara (42-18-1), noon
Game 2—Miami (50-12) vs. Arizona (44-21),
5 p.m.
Sunday’s schedule
Game 3—Texas Tech (46-18) vs. TCU (47-16),
noon
Game 4—Florida (52-14) vs. Coastal Carolina
(49-16), 5 p.m.
staff and wire reports
MINOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Monday's results
Memphis 4, Nashville 3
New Orleans 6, Round Rock 0
Oklahoma City 9, Omaha 3
El Paso 2, Albuquerque 1
Fresno 4, Sacramento 1
Reno 14, Las Vegas 7
Tacoma 3, Salt Lake 1
Iowa vs. Colorado Springs, ppd.
Today’s schedule
Memphis at Nashville, 5 p.m.
New Orleans at Round Rock, 5 p.m.
Omaha at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.
Albuquerque at El Paso, 6 p.m.
Iowa at Colorado Springs, 6 p.m.
Tacoma at Salt Lake, 6 p.m.
Fresno at Sacramento, 7 p.m.
Reno at Las Vegas, 7 p.m.
CALIFORNIA LEAGUE
Monday's results
High Desert 6, Lake Elsinore 4
San Jose 2, Inland Empire 1
Stockton 8, Modesto 4
Rancho Cucamonga 8, Lancaster 1
Visalia 3, Bakersfield 1
Visalia vs. Bakersfield, Game 2, late final
Modesto vs. Stockton, late final
Today’s schedule
Inland Empire at San Jose, 6:30 p.m.
Lake Elsinore at High Desert, 7 p.m.
Lancaster at Rancho Cucamonga, 7 p.m.
Modesto at Stockton, 7 p.m.
Visalia at Bakersfield, 7:45 p.m.
TRANSACTIONS
BASEBALL
MLB—Suspended Texas minor league catcher
Melvin Novoa (Arizona) 56 games and Boston
minor league catcher Jhon Nunez (Lowell-NYP)
25 games for violations of the Minor League Drug
Prevention and Treatment Program.
DODGERS—Optioned pitcher Frankie Montas
to Oklahoma City (PCL).
Atlanta—Put pitcher Eric O'Flaherty on the 15day disabled list; recalled pitcher Ryan Weber
from Gwinnett (IL).
Minnesota—Optioned pitcher J.T. Chargois to
Rochester (IL).
N.Y. Yankees—Agreed to terms with infielder
Ike Davis on a one-year contract; designated
pitcher Layne Somsen for assignment; optioned
pitcher Chad Green to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
(IL).
Oakland—Sent pitcher Henderson Alvarez to
Stockton (Cal) for a rehab assignment.
San Francisco—Optioned pitcher Chris Stratton to Sacramento (PCL); activated pitcher Matt
Cain from the 15-day disabled list.
Toronto—Optioned switch-pitcher Pat Venditte
to Buffalo (IL); selected the contract of pitcher
Scott Diamond from Buffalo; transferred pitcher
Franklin Morales to the 60-day disabled list.
BASKETBALL
Detroit—Signed general manager Jeff Bower
to a contract extension.
FOOTBALL
Buffalo—Signed defensive end Leger Douzable and offensive tackle Chris Martin; released
defensive end Claudell Louis and offensive
tackle Keith Lumpkin.
Dallas—Signed cornerbacks Isaiah Frey and
Dax Swanson.
Detroit—Signed defensive back Keith Lewis
and wide receiver Andre Roberts; waived wide
receiver Austin Willis; put wide receiver Corey
Washington on injured reserve.
Philadelphia—Agreed to terms with defensive
tackle Fletcher Cox on a six-year contract.
HOCKEY
Calgary—Signed goalie David Rittich to a oneyear contract.
Carolina—Agreed to terms with forward
Sebastian Aho and forward Aleksi Saarela to
three-year, entry-level contracts.
Nashville—Signed goalie Marek Mazanec to a
one-year, two-way contract.
St. Louis—Named Mike Yeo associate coach.
OLYMPIC SPORTS
USADA—Suspended rugby athlete Nia
Williams four years after testing positive for
prohibited substances during the 2015 World
Rugby Women's Seven Series; suspended track
& field athlete Gwen Berry three months for using
an inhaler containing the prohibited substance
vilanterol trifenatate at the United States track &
field indoor championships.
COLLEGE
Florida—Announced the retirement of athletic
director Jeremy Foley.
Kentucky—Named Nick Mingione baseball
coach.
Bucks give Kidd
3-year extension
SOCCER
PRO SOCCER
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
WEST ............W L T
Pts GF
Colorado ........8 2 4
28 17
FC Dallas........8 4 4
28 24
Real Salt Lake .7 4 2
23 23
Vancouver .......6 6 3
21 23
GALAXY ..........5 2 6
21 27
San Jose ........5 4 5
20 16
Portland .........5 6 4
19 23
Sporting KC.....5 8 3
18 14
Seattle ...........5 7 1
16 13
Houston .........3 7 4
13 20
EAST.............W L T
Pts GF
Philadelphia....6 3 5
23 21
New York ........6 7 1
19 24
Montreal.........5 4 4
19 22
New York City FC
5 6
18 22
.....................4
Toronto FC ......4 5 4
16 14
D.C. United .....4 6 4
16 14
Orlando City ....3 3 7
16 23
New England ...3 4 7
16 19
Columbus .......3 5 5
14 18
Chicago..........2 5 5
11 10
Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Saturday’s schedule
GALAXY at Toronto FC, 4:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at New York City FC, 10 a.m.
New England at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Montreal at Columbus, 4:30 p.m.
San Jose at Orlando City, 4:30 p.m.
Chicago at Colorado, 6 p.m.
D.C. United at Houston, 6 p.m.
Portland at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m.
Sunday’s schedule
FC Dallas at Sporting Kansas City, 2 p.m.
Seattle at New York, 4:30 p.m.
GA
10
22
21
25
16
16
25
18
15
22
GA
16
20
20
29
15
16
21
25
21
14
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
FIRST ROUND
GROUP A
Wednesday's schedule
Romania vs. Switzerland, 9 a.m.
Albania at France, noon
Sunday's schedule
Switzerland at France, noon
Romania vs. Albania, noon
GROUP B
Wednesday's schedule
Russia vs. Slovakia, 6 a.m.
Thursday's schedule
England vs. Wales, 6 a.m.
Monday's schedule
Slovakia vs. England, noon
Russia vs. Wales, noon
GROUP C
Thursday's schedule
Ukraine vs. Northern Ireland, 9 a.m.
Germany vs. Poland, noon
June 21
At Paris
Northern Ireland vs. Germany, 9 a.m.
Ukraine vs. Poland, 9 a.m.
GROUP D
Monday's result
Spain 1, Czech Republic 0
Friday's schedule
Czech Republic vs. Croatia, 9 a.m.
Spain vs. Turkey, noon
June 21
Croatia vs. Spain, noon
Czech Republic vs. Turkey, noon
NATIONAL WOMEN’S SOCCER LEAGUE
....................W L T
Pts GF GA
Chicago..........4 1 3
15 8 6
W. New York ....5 3 0
15 13 8
Portland .........3 0 5
14 10 5
Washington .....4 1 2
14 9 6
Orlando..........4 4 0
12 9 6
Seattle ...........3 3 2
11 8 7
Sky Blue FC ....2 3 3
9 9 12
Houston .........2 4 1
7 6 8
FC Kansas City 1 4 3
6 5 7
Boston ...........1 6 1
4 2 12
Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Friday’s schedule
Portland at Western New York, 4 p.m.
Saturday’s schedule
Orland at Washington, 4 p.m.
Boston at Chicago, 5 p.m.
Sunday’s schedule
Seattle at Skt Blue FC, 3 p.m.
FC Kansas City at Houston, 5:30 p.m.
GROUP E
Monday's results
Ireland 1, Sweden 1
Italy 2, Belgium 0
Friday's schedule
Italy vs. Sweden, 6 a.m.
Saturday's schedule
Belgium vs. Ireland, 6 a.m.
June 22
Sweden vs. Belgium, noon
Italy vs. Ireland, noon
FIGHT SCHEDULE
U.S. OPEN CUP
FOURTH ROUND
Today's schedule
Wilmington (USL) at Real Salt Lake (MLS),
7 p.m.
San Jose (MLS) at Portland (MLS), 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday's schedule
La Maquina (Calif.) at GALAXY (MLS), 7:30 p.m.
Harrisburg City (USL) at Philadelphia (MLS),
4 p.m.
New York (NASL) vs. New York City (MLS) 4 p.m.
Tampa Bay (NASL) vs. Columbus (MLS), 4 p.m.
New York Red Bulls (MLS) at Rochester (USL),
4 p.m.
Orlando City (MLS) at Jacksonville (NASL),
4 p.m.
New England (MLS) at Carolina, 4:30 p.m.
Fort Lauderdale (NASL) vs. D.C. United (MLS),
4:30 p.m.
Indy (NASL) at Chicago (MLS), 5:30 p.m.
Sporting Kansas City (MLS) at Minnesota
(NASL), 5 p.m.
OKC Energy (USL) vs. Dallas (MLS), 5:30 p.m.
San Antonio (USL) at Houston (MLS), 5:30 p.m.
Colorado Springs (USL) at Colorado (MLS),
6 p.m.
Kitsap (PDL) vs. Seattle (MLS), 7:30 p.m.
Saturday’s schedule
At UIC Pavilion, Chicago (NBC), Juan Carlos
Payano vs. Rau'shee Warren, 12, for Payano's
WBA Super World-IBO World bantamweight titles; Andrzej Fonfara vs. Joe Smith Jr., 10, lightheavyweights;
June 24
At Beijing, Javier Fortuna vs. Jason Sosa, 12,
for Fortuna's WBA World junior-lightweight title;
Jun Qiu Xiao vs. Nehomar Cermeno, 12, for the
vacant WBA World super-bantamweight title.
June 25
At O2 Arena, London, Anthony Joshua vs.
Dominic Breazeale, 12, for Joshua's IBF heavyweight title; George Groves vs. Martin Murray, 12,
WBA super-middleweight eliminator; John Wayne
Hibbert vs. Andrea Scarpa, 12, for the vacant
WBC Silver super-lightweight title; Chris Eubank
Jr. vs. Tom Doran, 12, for Eubank's British middleweight title.
At Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (CBS), Keith
Thurman vs. Shawn Porter, 12, for Thurman's
WBA World welterweight title; Jesus Cuellar vs.
Abner Mares, 12, for Cuellar's WBA World
featherweight title; Jarrett Hurd vs. Oscar Molina,
10, junior-middleweights.
GROUP F
Today's schedule
Austria vs. Hungary, 9 a.m.
Portugal vs. Iceland, noon
Saturday's schedule
Iceland vs. Hungary, 9 a.m.
Portugal vs. Austria, noon
June 22
Hungary vs. Portugal, 9 a.m.
Iceland vs. Austria, 9 a.m.
The Milwaukee Bucks are close to
reaching a three-year contract extension with Coach Jason Kidd, three
people with direct knowledge of the
situation told the Associated Press.
The three spoke on condition of
anonymity Monday because the deal
was not final. It is expected to be announced in the next few days.
Yahoo! Sports first reported the
extension talks.
Kidd is entering the last year of a
three-year deal with the Bucks initially signed in 2014.
The former point guard is 74-90 in
two seasons in Milwaukee, including
a 41-win season and playoff appearance in 2014-15. He also coached
the Brooklyn Nets for one season,
guiding them to a 44-38 record and a
playoff appearance in 2013-14.
The Clippers announced the retirement of assistant coach Kevin
Eastman, a longtime lieutenant of
Coach Doc Rivers who had also spent
a season as vice president of basketball operations with the Clippers.
Eastman, 61, previously served as
an assistant on Rivers’ staff with the
Boston Celtics for eight years.
— Ben Bolch
PRO FOOTBALL
Eagles, Cox agree to
six-year contract
Standout
defensive
tackle
Fletcher Cox agreed to a six-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles
that could earn him nine figures.
The 2012 first-round draft pick has
been a starter since midway in his
rookie season.
One of the NFL’s most versatile
defensive linemen, he has 308 tackles
and 22 sacks in four pro seasons.
Cox, 25, did not attend the team’s
organized off-season activities but returned to the team last week.
He comes off his best NFL season
with 104 tackles (80 solo) and 91⁄2
sacks. Cox had a career-high three
sacks in a game against the New Orleans Saints in Week 5.
HOCKEY
Blues hire Yeo to
succeed Hitchcock
The St. Louis Blues have hired
Mike Yeo as the successor-in-waiting
for Coach Ken Hitchcock, who has
said that next season will be his last
behind the bench before retiring.
Blues General Manager Doug
Armstrong announced that Yeo, 42,
will be an associate coach for one year
under Hitchcock and take over the
team for the 2017-18 season.
The 64-year-old Hitchcock, who
led the Blues to the Western Conference finals this season, will enter his
sixth season with St. Louis and his
20th as an NHL head coach.
Pittsburgh will celebrate the Penguins’ fourth Stanley Cup championship with a parade Wednesday
morning. ... Dallas Stars announcer
Dave Strader has been diagnosed
with cancer. The announcement
Monday came a year after Strader, 61,
was hired to replace longtime Stars
play-by-play voice Ralph Strangis.
ETC.
Gators reach Series
JJ Schwarz broke out of a twoweek hitting slump by driving in five
runs, four on a grand slam, and
Florida defeated rival Florida State,
7-0, to secure the last spot in the College World Series.
The Gators (52-14) won the final
two games in the best-of-three super
regional to earn their fifth trip to
Omaha in the past seven years.
Florida, seeded No. 1 overall in the
NCAA tournament, will play Coastal
Carolina on Sunday night.
The International Tennis Federation says that it has banned a Ukrainian doctor from sports for four years
for giving a banned substance to WTA
Tour player Kateryna Kozlova.
The ITF said in a statement that
Elena Dorofeyeva gave a supplement
containing the banned stimulant
DMBA to Kozlova, the current world
No. 98, in 2014.
Kozlova tested positive and served
a six-month ban last year, when the
ITF ruled she had not intentionally
doped. Kozlova said she had taken
what she thought to be vitamins provided by Dorofeyeva. The ITF dismissed an appeal by Dorofeyeva and
ruled that she deserved a four-year
ban because “a doctor setting him/
herself up as a sports medicine specialist bears an extremely heavy responsibility,” particularly when working with young athletes.
Russell Baze, horse racing’s alltime winningest jockey with 12,842
victories, is expected to announce his
retirement Tuesday after 42 years of
riding. His last race was a secondplace finish aboard Wahine Warrior in
the 10th race Sunday at Golden Gate
Field. His longtime agent Ray Harris
confirmed the announcement to the
Paulick Report, a racing site.
Baze rode in 53,578 races in a career that started at Yakima Meadows
in Washington. He was the leading
rider in North America 13 times, his
mounts winning almost $200 million.
— John Cherwa
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T U E S D A Y , J U N E 1 4 , 2 0 1 6 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R
Slow
jump
from
Tonys
to film
‘Hamilton,’ the screen
version? Maybe in 10
years. Blame it on a
variety of factors.
By Steven Zeitchik
Photographs by
Callaghan O'Hare Los Angeles Times
ROOMFUL of Teeth and International Contemporary Ensemble play the uncanningly fitting “Kopernikus” at the Ojai Music Festival.
Songs of life and
death amid sorrow
Ojai festival mixes music, silence after the tragedy in Florida
MARK SWED
MUSIC CRITIC
OJAI — As the great Southern
California music retreat, the Ojai
Music Festival offers venturesome
refuge from normal life for locals
and visitors to this blissed-out
valley. But on the final day of the
festival that had begun Thursday,
we awoke to the same horrific news
from Orlando, Fla., as the rest of
the country.
This year’s Ojai music director,
Peter Sellars, led a moment of silence in Libbey Bowl at 3 p.m., the
hour Florida Gov. Rick Scott had
asked the nation to remember the
49 killed in the mass shooting in a
gay nightclub. The silence here initiated the U.S. premiere of Claude
Vivier’s ritual opera, “Kopernikus.”
CHARLOTTE Janus and Ray Castellini of Ojai, forefront, relax
on the lawn while enjoying a wide range of music at the festival.
As staged by Sellars, this wondrously mystical masterpiece became a profound and uncanny
guide for the dying as they leave
this world and prepare for the transcendent next.
That “Kopernikus” happened
to be written by a dazzlingly original young Canadian composer
murdered by a gay prostitute in
Paris in 1983 might have made the
premiere of this too-little-known
1979 opera seem all the more uncanny. But for Sellars, the prime
function of art is to serve as a
spiritual early warning system.
The opera itself isn’t exactly obscure. Netherlands Opera produced it a dozen years ago, as did
Opera Factory Freiburg more recently, and there are recordings of
both. But the European approach
[See Ojai, E6]
THE PLAYER
E3 makes moves to up its game
Signs of change at this
year’s L.A. event may
signal a needed shift
for the industry.
By Todd Martens
For too long, the Electronic Entertainment Expo
(E3) has existed inside a
heavily shielded bubble, one
in which game makers target
retailers and journalists
with carefully controlled
messages designed to stoke
the imagination of the most
dedicated of game players.
And what have those players
wanted? Blood and gore, apparently.
Indeed, at the pre-conference events ahead of the
Tuesday start of this year’s
E3, it seemed at first that
nothing had changed. At
L.A. Live on Sunday afternoon, Electronic Arts offered insiders a look at a sequel to “Titanfall,” a mili[See Expo, E4]
NEW YORK — Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton”
has
made
history
in
numerous ways, injecting
energy into the musical,
populating the stage with
people of color and bringing
young audiences to a middle-aged Broadway.
But there’s one barrier in
which the 11-time Tony winner is unlikely to make a
dent: the lag between hit
show and Hollywood film.
“I think the show will end
up on screen without a
doubt,” star and Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. said at a
Tonys after-party Sunday
night. “I just think it will be
like 10 years from now.”
As with so many big Tony
winners before it, “Hamilton” will take a circuitous
path to the multiplex, if it
gets there at all. Indeed, in
the last decade, more best
musical winners have come
from films (three) than have
been turned into films (one).
No “Hamilton” rights
have been sold, and at least
one film producer told The
Times that when they
sought to have a conversation about them, the show’s
[See ‘Hamilton,’ E5]
TELEVISION
REVIEW
‘Uncle’:
Wise up,
already
MARY McNAMARA
TELEVISION CRITIC
It’s not always fun to be
proved right.
Last year, when ABC announced it had greenlighted
a serial reboot of the John
Candy cult-bomb “Uncle
Buck,” the general reaction
was a groan of irritated bewilderment. With all the
things that need doing in
this crazy world, ABC is
choosing to remake “Uncle
Buck”?
That the “twist” was a
black cast raised more eyebrows than it did spirits —
how, exactly, was that going
to help? The “Uncle Buck”
concept — ne’er do well
bachelor forced to care for
children
learns,
and
teaches, life lessons — is as
worn out and dated as the
idea of “Mr. Mom” or the
template of “Baby Boom.”
Never mind that “Uncle
Buck” already failed once as
[See ‘Uncle Buck,’ E3]
‘Wrecked’
works it
The brothers behind
“Wrecked,” a new
prime-time comedy
about survivors on an
island. Also: a review
by Robert Lloyd. E3
It’s a family
jungle out there
TV drama “Animal
Kingdom” commits its
crimes under the
California sun. E7
Ubisoft
UBISOFT’S virtual reality game “Star Trek: Bridge Crew” is among the more interesting displays at E3.
Comics ................... E8-9
TV grid .................... E10
E2
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“The Perfect American,” the controversial Philip Glass
opera that recounts the final months in the life of Walt
Disney, will get its U.S. premiere next year — not by a major
institution like the Metropolitan Opera or Los Angeles
Opera but by a small company with a reputation for taking
artistic risks.
Long Beach Opera said that “The Perfect American”
would be part of its 2017 season and that it was scheduled to
run for two performances, March 12 and 18, at the Terrace
Theater.
The opera had its world premiere in 2013 as a
co-production between the Teatro Real in Madrid and the
English National Opera in London.
Glass’ piece provoked heated words at the time from
Diane Disney Miller, the eldest daughter of Walt Disney. She
told The Times that year that she was “disgusted and
angry” with the depiction of her father and that nothing in
the piece “has any basis in truth whatsoever.”
“The Perfect American,” adapted from a novel by Peter
Stephan Jungk, depicts Disney as a wildly eccentric man
obsessed with death and cryonics, and a giant animatronic
version of Abraham Lincoln.
He is also depicted as prejudiced against black people
and opposed to organized labor.
Walt Disney died in 1966 at age 65 in a Burbank hospital.
— David Ng
The John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing
Arts announced Monday
that Bill Murray, 65, would
be this year’s recipient of the
Mark Twain Prize for
American
Humor.
The
award goes to those who influence society in the tradition of Samuel Clemens, the
writer, satirist and social
commentator better known
as Mark Twain.
“I’m honored by the
award and by its timing,”
Murray said in a statement.
“I believe Mark Twain has
rolled over in his grave so
much for so long that this
news won’t disturb his
peace.”
Like past Twain prize recipients, including Tina Fey,
Will Ferrell and last year’s
winner, Eddie Murphy, Murray first gained prominence
for his work on “Saturday
Night Live.” He joined the
cast in 1977, replacing Chevy
Chase.
Murray will accept the
prize, first handed out in
1998, at an Oct. 23 gala at the
Kennedy Center.
— associated press
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WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE REALD 3D 10:00,
1:00, 7:00
WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE 4:00, 10:00
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) RESERVE 9:30, 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10,
9:35
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (PG-13) RESERVE 9:40, 12:55, 4:10,
7:25
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) RESERVE 9:35, 12:50, 5:00, 7:20, 10:35
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 10:40, 1:50, 8:15
NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (R) RESERVE 10:30, 4:05, 10:45
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) RESERVE 11:30,
5:00, 7:45
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3D (PG) RESERVE 2:15,
10:30
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) RESERVE 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) RESERVE 12:45,
3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE 11:30, 8:30
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 2:30, 5:30
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
(PG-13) RESERVE 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
3D (PG-13) RESERVE 12:25, 3:05, 5:45, 8:25
THE CONJURING 2 (R) RESERVE 9:50, 11:20, 1:10, 2:30, 4:20, 5:40,
7:30, 8:50, 10:40
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) RESERVE 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15
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WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE 1:05, 9:55
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) XD RESERVE REALD 3D 4:00,
7:00
THE MEDDLER (PG-13) 11:15 A.M.
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) 11:45, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (PG) 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (PG-13) 12:20, 3:45, 7:05, 10:30
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) 11:15, 1:10, 4:25, 7:40, 10:55
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 2:30 P.M.
MONEY MONSTER (R) 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45
NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (R) 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35
THE NICE GUYS (R) 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) 11:50, 2:35, 5:20, 8:05,
10:50
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) 11:05, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) 11:00, 1:20, 3:40,
6:00, 8:20, 10:40
WARCRAFT (PG-13) 2:40, 5:35
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:40, 8:30
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
(PG-13) 11:10, 11:50, 1:55, 2:35, 4:40, 5:20, 7:25, 8:05, 10:10, 10:50
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15
THE CONJURING 2 (R) 11:45, 12:45, 1:50, 2:55, 3:55, 5:00, 6:15, 7:20, 8:10,
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THE CONJURING 2 (R) XD RESERVE 11:20, 2:40, 6:00,
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) RESERVE 10:10, 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (PG-13) RESERVE 9:40, 12:50, 4:10, 7:30
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) RESERVE 9:30, 11:10, 12:45, 2:30, 4:00, 7:15,
9:10, 10:30
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) RESERVE 10:20, 1:15, 7:00
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3D (PG) RESERVE REALD 3D
10:00 P.M.
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) RESERVE 11:00, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) RESERVE 5:50, 10:55
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE 10:50, 1:50, 8:10
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 4:50, 11:00
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (PG-13)
RESERVE 10:40, 1:30, 2:20, 4:20, 5:20, 7:10, 8:20, 10:10
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS 3D (PG-13)
RESERVE REALD 3D 11:30, 11:15
THE CONJURING 2 (R) RESERVE 9:50, 1:10, 4:30, 7:50, 11:10
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50
LOVE ME TOMORROW (Not Rated) RESERVE 10:00, 1:00, 4:15, 7:25, 10:40
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Paul Buck EPA
will never be forgotten,
says brother Marcus.
‘Voice’ coach
offers funeral aid
The brother of slain singer Christina Grimmie said
her former “Voice” coach,
Adam Levine, had offered to
pay for her funeral.
“I’m so blown away by
everything right now,” Grimmie’s brother Marcus wrote
in a Facebook post communicating his gratitude for the
donations to a GoFundMe
page set up right after his
sister’s death. He added that
he and his parents intended
WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE REALD 3D 9:30,
3:50, 7:00
WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE 12:40, 10:10
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) RESERVE 9:40, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40,
10:30
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) RESERVE 12:55, 7:45
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 9:25, 4:25, 11:10
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) RESERVE 11:05,
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) RESERVE 10:05, 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) RESERVE 10:40, 1:25, 4:05
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (PG) RESERVE 12:15 P.M.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (PG-13) RESERVE 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) RESERVE 10:00, 1:15, 2:55, 4:30, 7:45, 10:10
THE NICE GUYS (R) RESERVE 11:30 A.M.
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) RESERVE 10:50, 1:45, 4:35,
7:15, 10:25
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) RESERVE 10:20, 1:05, 4:00, 7:25, 9:25
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) RESERVE 2:50, 5:05, 7:05,
10:10
WARCRAFT (PG-13) 11:55, 1:20, 5:35, 7:00
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 10:30, 2:45, 4:10, 8:25, 9:50
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (PG-13)
RESERVE 11:10, 1:50, 3:20, 4:30, 7:20, 8:40, 10:00
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS 3D (PG-13)
RESERVE REALD 3D 12:40, 6:00
THE CONJURING 2 (R) RESERVE 11:55, 2:55, 6:00, 6:55, 9:10, 10:00
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) RESERVE 10:00, 11:35, 1:10, 2:35, 4:20, 5:55, 7:30,
9:05, 10:35
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) 9:45 A.M.
MÖTLEY CRÜE: THE END (Not Rated) RESERVE 7:00 P.M.
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WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE 4:30, 10:35
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) XD RESERVE REALD 3D 1:30,
7:30
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) RESERVE 1:20, 4:10, 7:00
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) RESERVE 12:45, 4:20, 7:40
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) RESERVE 12:45, 4:20, 7:40
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 11:00 P.M.
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 11:00 P.M.
THE NICE GUYS (R) RESERVE 11:10, 2:10, 5:05, 8:00, 10:55
THE NICE GUYS (R) RESERVE 11:10, 2:10, 5:05, 8:00, 10:55
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) RESERVE 12:30,
3:45, 6:45, 9:45
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE 11:30, 8:30
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE 11:30, 8:30
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 2:30, 5:30
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 2:30, 5:30
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
(PG-13) RESERVE 11:20, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
(PG-13) RESERVE 11:20, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 9:50 P.M.
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) RESERVE 11:00, 12:55, 2:00, 4:00, 5:15,
7:15, 8:15, 10:20
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) RESERVE 11:00, 12:55, 2:00, 4:00, 5:15,
7:15, 8:15, 10:20
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP (PG) RESERVE
10:00 A.M.
9:25, 10:20
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) 11:30, 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00
THE LOBSTER (R) 10:55, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15
MÖTLEY CRÜE: THE END (Not Rated) 7:00 P.M.
A AA (Not Rated) 12:15, 3:40, 7:05, 10:30
LOVE ME TOMORROW (Not Rated) 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:55
MAGGIE'S PLAN (R) 11:00, 1:45, 4:15, 6:50
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) 3:40 P.M.
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 12:15, 7:00
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) 10:40, 1:25, 4:10, 6:55
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) 1:40, 7:10
WARCRAFT (PG-13) 1:20, 7:20
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:30, 4:20
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (PG-13)
10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:15
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WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE REALD 3D 10:45,
1:45, 7:45
THE CONJURING 2 (R) 12:00, 4:00, 7:10
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:35
THE LOBSTER (R) 10:45, 4:10
WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE 4:40, 10:45
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) RESERVE 11:00, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) RESERVE 1:10, 3:55
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) RESERVE 1:20, 4:35, 7:50, 11:10
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 6:50, 10:15
NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (R) RESERVE 12:50, 3:15, 5:45,
8:30, 11:05
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) RESERVE 11:45,
5:15, 8:10
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3D (PG) RESERVE 2:30,
11:00
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) RESERVE 11:25, 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) RESERVE 1:05,
3:25, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE 1:00, 7:00
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 4:00, 10:00
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
(PG-13) RESERVE 10:50, 1:40, 2:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10, 11:00
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
3D (PG-13) RESERVE 12:00, 5:30, 8:15
THE CONJURING 2 (R) RESERVE 12:20, 1:30, 3:30, 4:45, 6:40, 8:00,
9:50, 11:15
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) RESERVE 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:35
ShowtimeS Valid 6/14/16 ONLY
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THE CONJURING 2 (R) XD RESERVE 10:00, 1:10, 4:20,
7:30, 10:40
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) 11:00, 1:40, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) 10:20, 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (PG-13) 10:00, 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) 10:05, 1:15, 2:30, 9:10, 10:45
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:20, 6:00
NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (R) 10:35, 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) 6:10, 8:30, 10:55
WARCRAFT (PG-13) 11:55, 2:45, 5:35, 8:25, 11:15
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (PG-13)
10:45, 12:05, 1:25, 4:05, 5:30, 6:45, 9:25, 10:50
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS 3D (PG-13)
REALD 3D 2:50, 8:10
THE CONJURING 2 (R) 11:35, 2:40, 5:55, 9:05
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) 10:10, 11:40, 1:05, 2:35, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:45, 10:15
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY (PG-13) 10:15, 12:55, 3:35
MÖTLEY CRÜE: THE END (Not Rated) 7:00 P.M.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS 3D (PG-13)
REALD 3D 3:00, 8:40
THE CONJURING 2 (R) 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30
12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE 11:05, 5:25, 8:35
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 2:15, 11:45
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
(PG-13) RESERVE 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
3D (PG-13) RESERVE 11:45, 2:45, 5:45, 8:45, 11:50
THE CONJURING 2 (R) RESERVE 10:00, 11:40, 1:20, 3:00, 4:40, 6:20,
THE CONJURING 2 (R) XD RESERVE 10:05, 1:15, 4:25,
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) D-BOX REALD
3D RESERVE 10:30, 4:10, 9:50
THE CONJURING 2 (R) D-BOX
RESERVE 11:55, 2:55, 6:00, 9:10
10:35, 12:10, 1:20, 4:10, 5:50, 7:00, 9:45
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) RESERVE 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) RESERVE 9:35,
7:35, 10:40
1:20, 7:00
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7:05
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) 9:35 P.M.
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) 12:15, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20
WARCRAFT (PG-13) 10:30, 4:20, 10:10
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:25, 7:15
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (PG-13)
2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) RESERVE 9:50, 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40
WARCRAFT (PG-13) D-BOX RESERVE
In a year of #Oscars
SoWhite, diversity is the
name of the game in Hollywood. But Outfest, Los Angeles’ LGBT film festival,
has been leading the conversation for years. This year is
no different, as its slate of
films, announced last week
for the July 7-17 festival, features Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters” and Sundance
standouts “Kiki” and “Other
People.”
A total of 162 films will
screen during the two-week
festival. They represent 19
countries, and 43% were directed by women. Movies
will screen and events will
take place at the Harmony
Gold theater and Directors
Guild of America on Sunset
Boulevard as well as at
downtown’s REDCAT and
the newly renovated Ford
Theatres on Cahuenga
Boulevard.
Opening the festival is
Samuel Goldwyn Films’
“The Intervention,” starring
Cobie Smulders, Melanie
Lynskey and Natasha Lyonne, among others.
Outfest will also feature a
number of spotlight screenings, including the Season 2
premiere of Hulu’s “Difficult
People,” HBO’s “Looking:
The Movie” and “The Trans
List,” comedian Tig Notaro’s
series “One Mississippi”
from Amazon.
— Tre’vell Anderson
CHRISTINA Grimmie
8:00, 9:40, 11:20
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‘Ghostbusters,’
‘Kiki’ at Outfest
Twain honor
for Bill Murray
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9:20
to read every one of the personalized messages left by
fans. “Christina will be
missed and never, ever forgotten.”
Police said Marcus Grimmie tackled the gunman,
identified as 27-year-old
Kevin James Loibl, after
Loibl shot Christina Grimmie late Friday as she met
with fans following a show at
the Plaza Live theater in Orlando, Fla. Loibl then fatally
shot himself.
Grimmie, who was 22,
first gained notice with videos she posted on YouTube.
She later appeared as a contestant on NBC’s “The
Voice,” where she finished
the singing competition’s
sixth season in third place.
— Mikael Wood
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SLEEPING BEAUTY (G) 1:15 P.M.
ENCHANTED (PG) 7:00 P.M.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES (G) 4:00 P.M.
MAGGIE'S PLAN (R) 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) 11:15, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) 10:25, 12:10, 2:50
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (PG) 10:25, 12:40, 3:00, 5:20
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (PG-13) 12:55, 4:10, 7:25, 10:40
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 7:40, 9:45, 10:35
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (G) 10:30 A.M.
MONEY MONSTER (R) 10:50 P.M.
NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (R) 10:50 P.M.
THE NICE GUYS (R) 10:40, 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) 11:00, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10,
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THE CONJURING 2 (R) XD RESERVE 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) D-BOX REALD 3D
RESERVE 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45
THE CONJURING 2 (R) D-BOX RESERVE
11:55, 3:10, 6:25, 9:40
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (PG-13) 1:40, 5:40, 7:35
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:00, 2:20, 9:00
NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (R) 11:10, 5:05, 11:00
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) 1:25, 7:05
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 10:35, 4:15,
10:00
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) 11:55, 2:20, 4:40, 10:15
WARCRAFT (PG-13) 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (PG-13)
10:45, 1:35, 2:25, 4:25, 7:15, 8:05, 10:05
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS 3D (PG-13)
REALD 3D 11:35, 12:35, 3:25, 5:15, 6:15, 9:05, 10:55
THE CONJURING 2 (R) RESERVE 10:50, 11:55, 2:05, 3:10, 5:20, 6:25, 8:35, 9:40
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) 10:35, 1:40, 4:45, 7:55, 11:00
MÖTLEY CRÜE: THE END (Not Rated) 7:00 P.M.
A AA (Not Rated) 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30
TE3N (Not Rated) 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25
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WARCRAFT (PG-13) D-BOX RESERVE
2:30, 5:30
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) D-BOX REALD 3D
RESERVE 11:30, 8:30
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE (PG) 10:05, 3:10, 9:00
THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 3D (PG) REALD 3D 12:35, 6:15
THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) 12:10, 3:00
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (PG-13) 12:30, 3:50, 7:40, 10:55
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 6:30, 9:50
NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING (R) 2:20, 7:10
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) 11:00, 4:50, 10:40
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 1:50, 8:00
ME BEFORE YOU (PG-13) 10:30, 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:40
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (R) 12:00, 4:40, 9:30
WARCRAFT (PG-13) XD RESERVE 10:00, 10:00
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE 2:30, 5:30
WARCRAFT (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 2:30, 5:30
WARCRAFT 3D (PG-13) XD RESERVE REALD 3D 1:00, 4:00, 7:00
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Christina House For The Times
JORDAN , left, and Justin Shipley were just winging it when they pitched their plane-crash island-survivor comedy “Wrecked.” TBS decided to take off with it.
Crashing the comedy world
‘Wrecked’ lands
prime-time slot
By Greg Braxton
Justin Shipley and his
younger brother Jordan had
little more than ambition
when they decided to dive
into the TV sitcom arena—
no credits, no experience
and few connections.
But the twentysomething Kansan siblings share
an off-kilter sensibility that
they hoped might land them
a lower-rung job on a writing
staff.
Their first script was a
twisted take on “Lost,” set
on an island with a group of
wacky plane crash survivors. The set-up was lavish, the cast large, the jokes
large-scale and the main
character — a heroic leader
blessed with good looks and
smarts — was killed off in 20
minutes.
They were realistic, seeing the idea more as a calling
card than a pitch. “It was
such a big expensive idea, we
knew no one would ever
make it,” said Justin, now 27.
But when top honchos at
TBS read the script, they
saw more than a promising
writing combo — they
wanted the show.
Three years after joining
forces, the Shipley brothers
have accomplished the nearimpossible — striking gold
with their first script,
jumping the show-biz line
from hopeful nobodies to
executive producers.
“We do realize that stuff
like this never happens,”
said Justin Shipley last week
as he and his brother prepared for the June 14 launch
of “Wrecked” on TBS. The
comedy, which received a 10episode order, has become a
flagship in the re-imagining
of the network under the
leadership of former Fox entertainment head Kevin
Reilly.
The siblings are still reeling from their good fortune.
When Jordan got the word
that TBS wanted to buy
their script, he was working
his afternoon shift at Trader
Joe’s. His brother was holding down a mundane job at a
company that makes educational films — “the kind you
see in the waiting room of
your dentist.”
“We just threw everything on the page, not even
thinking about how you’d
shoot it or produce it. It was
just a pilot we’d love to see regardless of cost,” said Jordan, 25. “It’s just so wild to
see something become so
much bigger than us — and
in the best way. We were by
far the least-experienced
ones in the writer’s room,
but everyone was so patient
with us.”
The series looks, at first
glance, like a parody of
“Lost.” A large group winds
up on a remote island after
their plane crashes. But although the brothers were
devotees of that drama
(“Justin still won’t apologize
for the ending,” Jordan
quipped), the humor has a
more wicked bite.
“ ‘Lost’ was about 40 people on an island, but we only
saw about 12 people each
week,” Justin said. “And
those12 were the most handsome and the most capable.
But we always wondered
about the 30 people in the
back, the ones who would
say, ‘What’s happening up
there? We can’t hear you.’ ”
Said Jordan, “We know if
we had been in that situation, we would have been the
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Francisco Roman TBS
BRIAN SACCA in a scene from TBS’ new comedy
series, “Wrecked,” which hopes to attract millennials.
‘Wrecked’
Where: TBS
When: 10 and 10:27 p.m.
Tuesday
Rating: TV-MA (may be
unsuitable for children
under the age of 17)
first to die. Instead of dealing with the most capable,
we wanted to take a plane
full of lovable idiots and see
how they would deal on the
island.”
The inept characters at
the core of the group include
Danny
Wallace
(Brian
Sacca), who lies to his fellow
passengers about being a
cop; Pack Hara (Asif Ali), a
sports agent who panics at
every turn, and Owen
O’Connor (Zach Cregger),
who is as clueless about survival skills as he was about
being a flight attendant.
Brett Weitz, executive
vice president of original
programming for TBS, said
that in a business that often
leans toward formulas and
cliches, the Shipleys and
their “Wrecked” script were
a clear standout that hit a
funny bone even with those
who have never seen an episode of “Lost.”
Said Weitz, “If you give
someone who’s different a
shot, sometimes brilliance
comes through. And when
these guys came in, we just
wanted to adopt them. They
were just so articulate with a
fresh point of view, and they
were not jaded. They were
themselves — that’s what we
fell in love with.”
Weitz added that the sensibility of “Wrecked” fits in
with Reilly’s directive to develop more original, “adventurous” fare aimed largely at
millennials.
Executives aren’t the
only one impressed by the
Shipleys. Jessica Lowe, who
plays Florence, one of the
survivors, said, “It’s incredible these guys are so young
but yet so funny. They
haven’t been beaten down.
Usually creators of shows
have to have celebrated their
31st birthday.”
The brothers are now
crossing their fingers that
“Wrecked” finds an audience
and gets renewed. Even if
that doesn’t happen, their
bond — both professional
and personal — has been solidified by “Wrecked.”
Said Justin, “I can’t imagine writing with anyone else.
I’ve heard how some partnerships fall apart. I can’t
see that happening with us.
No matter how bad it gets,
we’re still brothers.”
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One of those networks
you might not think about
much, TBS more than
doubled its original comedy
programming this winter
and spring with the addition
of “Angie Tribeca,” “Full
Frontal With Samantha
Bee” and “The Detour,” cocreated by Bee and her husband and fellow “Daily
Show” alum, Jason Jones,
who also stars. Notwithstanding a couple of game
shows, laughter is the medicine they’re selling. “Watch
funny TV and movies on
tbs,” their website tells you.
Joining this modest but
estimable
lineup
is
“Wrecked,” which premieres
Tuesday and will be described nearly everywhere
as a sort of “Gilligan’s Island” meets “Lost.”
In a small way it represents a bid for younger eyes:
Justin and Jordan Shipley,
the series’ first-time’s-thecharm creators, are in their
mid-20s, as are the preponderance of their main characters. (Rhys Darby, 42, who
was Murray on “Flight of the
Conchords” and is concurrently a voice on the Netflix
“Voltron” reboot, is the designated old guy. He is always
funny.)
The
Shipleys
were
teenagers when “Lost” premiered in 2004, and though
there is nothing supernatural in their own show it has
the flavor of being forged in
conversations held while
watching that series, of asking natural questions “Lost”
never asked, about bath-
room privacy and constipation and condoms.
Millennial rites, obsessions and occupation are at
the center of the comedy. A
census of survivors includes
“three baristas, one foot doctor, two lifestyle bloggers and
the founder of ... an app that
lets you see what you would
look like with other people’s
pubes.”
There’s a scene with a dying satellite phone in which
several characters realize
that none of them knows a
friend’s phone number by
heart. At the end of the first
day, someone finds the
drinks cart and there is raveish partying; the next morning, there are hangovers.
(There are also references to
“The Hangover.”)
Like other TBS comedies
it does not so much push the
envelope as tickle it. There is
a modicum of grossness —
blood and vomiting and
dumb sex jokes (mitigated,
in a way, by being put in the
mouths of dumbbells), but
the series is essentially
sweet, its conflicts more affectionate than corrosive.
It is largely a comedy of
character and character relations, and for all that it is a
collection of types, a talented
cast finds the individuals
within.
Just
as
important,
“Wrecked” looks good. That
it’s shot and scored (and
much of the time acted) as if
it were a drama — not exaggeratedly dramatic, with a
wink, put played straight —
gives the silliness some substance and makes watching
a pleasure.
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‘Uncle’ would be wise to buck the tropes
[‘Uncle Buck,’ from E1]
a television series or that
whatever popularity the
film enjoys is due entirely to
Candy’s particular (and still
much missed) skill set.
Couldn’t we just, I don’t
know,
bring
“Love,
American
Style”
back
again? Maybe, but first we
have to deal with “Uncle
Buck,” which debuts on
Tuesday and is plagued
with precisely the sort of
problems everyone had expected. Mike Epps plays the
title character and does
what he can, which is only so
much.
Comedy pilots are almost always a mess, bogged
down in exposition and erring on the side of broad humor, and “Uncle Buck” is
messier and broader than
most.
Creators
Steven
Cragg and Brian Bradley offer certain updates — a sub-
plot involves mild sexting —
but the basic premise has all
the nuance of a folding chair.
We meet Buck Russell
(Epps) and his inner manchild as he is wearing a beercan hat and playing silly bar
games even though he has
assured his girlfriend that
he’s looking for a job. As in
the film, Buck has a certain
infuriating charm, no money and a car that could exist
only on a soundstage.
By contrast, Buck’s
brother Will (James Lesure)
and Will’s wife, Alexis (Nia
Long), are models of adult
responsibility, in that they
are overwhelmed in their attempt to balance work and
family (though not so overwhelmed that their beautifully appointed home looks
anything other than, you
know, beautiful).
Strangely, the younger
members of the family,
‘Uncle Buck’
Where: ABC
When: 9 p.m. Tuesday
Rating: TV-PG-L (may be
unsuitable for young
children, with an advisory
for coarse language)
Tyler Golden ABC
“UNCLE BUCK’S” cast includes, from left, Aalyrah
Caldwell, Nia Long, James Lesure and Mike Epps.
Miles (Sayeed Shahidi) and
Maizy (Aalyrah Caldwell),
are far less modern, creations of a statelier time in
which it was the primary
duty of all fictional children
to make the nanny quit (see
also “Nanny McPhee” and
“The Sound of Music”). As
for the older daughter, Tia
(Iman Benson), well, she
wears glasses and yells a lot
about doing homework, so
you do the math (which she
will then correct).
Into this familiar scenario careens Buck, enlisted at
the last minute so Alexis
and Will can take separate
business trips. The introduction of the selfishly freespirited uncle into the pattern of post-millennial
child-rearing
produces
some funny moments —
watching the younger children sit in expectation of a
hot breakfast while Buck
guzzles the OJ out of the
carton is unexpectedly
heart-lifting — but soon the
story falls into patterns
overly familiar to anyone
who has seen either the film
or a family sitcom of pretty
much any era.
The second episode
made available, in which
Buck takes over Maizy’s
club cookie sales, is a bit
looser but still formulaic.
The cast is solid and more
effective than the material
they are given, but the Russells seem more like what
they are — a cast — than
what they should be — a
family.
Like its main character,
“Uncle Buck” seems happy
enough with its own definition of success. Of course,
the whole point of these stories is mutual transformation, and that may happen
here. But only if the creators
let go of the “Uncle Buck”
concept in favor of an actual
show.
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@latimes.com
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tary-esque shooter featuring giant robots, as well as
the gritty, World War I-set
“Battlefield I.”
Then Monday morning at
Microsoft’s bonanza at
USC’s Galen Center, cheers
erupted during a demo of
the latest “Gears of War”
when a woman used a gun to
obliterate
an
already
downed creature.
These sorts of displays
do little to debunk age-old
stereotypes about games
and those who play them.
And after another major national tragedy, this one a
mass shooting over the
weekend in an Orlando, Fla.,
nightclub, the video game
industry’s reliance on games
with guns is, admittedly, exhausting, even if Sony, in its
evening press event, paid
tribute to the victims in Orlando, stressing the power of
entertainment to heal in
times of pain.
Yet at this year’s E3,
which will draw about 50,000
industry types and journalists to the Los Angeles Convention Center through
Thursday, there are indications that the industry is on
the verge of change. As part
of E3 Live at L.A. Live, 20,000
wristbands were given away,
part of a fan-friendly makeover allowing the public direct access to many of the
games
previously
only
shown behind closed doors.
The result? While there
may be an influx of corporate branding — a tortilla
chip company has erected a
six-story working arcade
machine that will act as a
concert stage for the likes of
Steve Aoki, Wiz Khalifa and
Big Boi — E3 may also better
represent the vast, increasingly fractured video game
landscape, one where independent titles, nascent virtual reality hardware and
mobile games collectively vie
for our attention.
Amid all the bombast,
boasts and silly tech babble
(“new water shaders!”), this
is shaping up to be one of the
most intriguing E3s in recent history. Well, at least if
developers and publishers
start recognizing the need to
reach new constituents.
The console and PC base,
according to recent data
from gaming consultancy
Electronic Entertainment
Design
and
Research,
continues to lean slightly
more male than the industry
at large. And with Microsoft
and Sony pushing forward
on updated devices —
Microsoft revealed that its
Xbox One would receive a refresh in 2017 — it shows that
consoles are moving toward
a PC-like future of more frequent updates, a gaming
world at risk of catering only
to those willing to stay ahead
Nick Ut Associated Press
FLAGS FLY at half-staff at the E3 event in L.A. to
honor the victims of a mass shooting in Orlando, Fla.
on the latest tech.
There’s a danger now
that those not yet sold on
this console generation no
longer have a reason to buy
in. That’s potentially a
shame, because when E3
quiets down and focuses on
game experiences, there’s a
lot to shout about.
Electronic Arts is introducing a program it’s calling
EA Originals, which highlights odder titles from
smaller developers, the first
of which is a game called “Fe”
from the studio Zoink in
Gothenburg, Sweden.
“Fe” was described at
EA’s press conference as a
“personal narrative about
our relationship with nature,” starring a spritely,
scraggly haired blueish protagonist. The twilight world
seems to magically spring to
life with each of the creature’s movements.
Sony, too, has some potentially audience-expanding games coming for its
PlayStation 4, perhaps most
notably the long-awaited
“The Last Guardian,” in
which early clips show a
young boy and a mysterious
creature working together to
traverse ornate ruins.
Also worth watching: the
highly cinematic “Detroit:
Become Human,” which
aims to dig deep into the
emotions of an artificially intelligent being.
While some massive developers won’t be displaying
games on the E3 show floor
at the convention center —
Electronic Arts is staging
fan-focused events next
door to E3 at its own EA Play
through Tuesday — the E3
show floor promises to be
full of invigorating, accessible experiences.
Microsoft showed off a
couple Monday morning.
There was “Inside,” a creepy
sci-fi tale that follows a
young boy trying to survive
in a world where humans
have become little more
than scientific experiments.
Weirder still, perhaps, is “We
Happy Few,” in which hu-
mans must stay medicated
to avoid the increasingly
trippy horrors of reality.
Elsewhere, games expected to shine this week include “Abzu,” a calming exploration of underwater life,
as well as the brightly lit
“ReCore,” an Xbox One
game following a woman and
her charming, robotic dog.
Then of course there’s
virtual reality. Though VR
will be the province of early
adapters this year — those
working in the space expect
between 2.5 million and 3.5
million VR headsets to be
sold by year’s end — E3 this
year will be expected to
prove that the tech is not
just a nifty, high-end toy.
Look, then, to Ubisoft’s
“Star Trek: Bridge Crew,” a
cooperative game for up to
four people. Donning an
Oculus Rift headset at an
event Sunday was like stepping aboard a “Star Trek”
film set, where a ship’s imaginary touch screens bleeped
and booped before me.
It required only a quick
acclimation to the VR space
and a love of “Star Trek.”
Klingons were posing a
threat, humans needed to be
rescued and a wave of the
hand could activate a transporter or send the ship into
warp speed. My crew mates
were strangers, but it took
only a few seconds to be at
ease enough to bark orders
at them. Lives — virtual
ones, sure — were at risk.
It was also a reminder
that all the bluster and
swagger about computing
power and new tech means
little if there isn’t an easily
explainable experience to
accompany it. Updated consoles bring consumer confusion — as well as, perhaps,
frustration from those who
already bought in — but
games remain best when everyone is playing.
And that only happens
when gaming is easy and doing more than putting
digital guns into our hands.
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“HAMILTON’S” Lin-Manuel Miranda, front, is gun-shy of film adaptations.
Long, long wait for
‘Hamilton,’ the film
[‘Hamilton,’ from E1]
team politely said thanks
but no thanks, at least for
now.
Musicals are enjoying a
mini-renaissance in Hollywood, whether in the form of
original animated pieces like
“Frozen” or live telecasts of
classics such as “The Wiz”
and “Grease.” So, why have
new Broadway works not
been part of this resurgence?
To a large degree, it’s because theatrical producers
are reluctant to cannibalize
sales of hit shows. “Hamilton” is raking in eye-popping
numbers on Broadway,
nearly $2 million per week.
With a national “Hamilton”
tour not beginning until
spring, in Los Angeles, and
with possible foreign engagements to come, producers are in no rush to kill the
golden goose.
“ ‘Hamilton’ is a show
that will make more than
‘Star Wars.’ Why do they
have any incentive to try to
be like ‘Star Wars’?” asked
one Broadway producer who
declined to be identified because the producer was
speaking about a rival
production.
The cautionary tale is
“War Horse,” the West End
smash
whose
film
adaptation came out in 2011,
the same year the show
opened on Broadway. The
production ran only about a
year after the movie opened,
and some point to the film as
the reason for the early shuttering. Why lay down a few
hundred bucks on Broadway, many consumers reason, when there’s Netflix?
Audiences are also less
likely to embrace a movie until the original — and often
more urgent — theatrical
version has receded from
memory. The evidence?
Some of the most successful
modern movie musicals
(“Chicago,” “Dreamgirls”)
came a quarter-century or
more after their Broadway
openings. Toss in all of Hollywood’s usual development
friction and creative disagreements, and you have a
recipe for a lot of waiting.
This larger reluctance
plays out in particular ways
with “Hamilton,” whose
principals have their own
reason to be gun-shy.
Miranda has expressed
skepticism about Hollywood
adaptations of theatrical
pieces; if he has Hollywood
ambitions, it’s as an original
composer or actor — “Star
Wars,” a new “Mary Poppins.” (He will, however,
work with Harvey Weinstein
on another attempt to get
his 2008 best musical winner
“In the Heights” off the
ground and on to a set. Weinstein, who was making the
rounds at Tony events Sunday night, is keen for another
adaptation of a stage hit a la
“Chicago.”)
Meanwhile, “Hamilton”
producer Jeffrey Seller has
his own uneven experience
to draw from. Seller was also
the man behind “Rent,” the
mid-’90s Broadway sensation that, in fact, helped turn
Miranda on to the possibilities of theater. The film
came out nearly a decade after the show opened, and
still it was a commercial and
critical disappointment.
Indeed, capturing the energy of a live show on screen
is an imposing challenge. For
every “Chicago,” there are
five misfires. “Jersey Boys,”
one of the few recent best
musical winners to become a
film, was a flop, even in the
hands of Clint Eastwood and
much of the Broadway cast.
Ditto for “The Producers,”
which retained much of the
stage talent behind and in
front of the camera when
it came out four years later,
to a great eye roll. And let’s
not even get into “Rock of
Ages.”
Years ago in the Hollywood development world,
new bits about the film version of the 2003 Broadway
hit “Wicked” arrived with the
regularity of an 8 o’clock curtain. Producer Marc Platt
had made new hires, or the
project had new energy, or …
And still a film waits.
“Wicked” has been too big a
hit in too many places for
anyone to rush. Star Idina
Menzel, the original Elphaba, has taken to joking
that so many years have
passed that she couldn’t star
in the movie even if she
wanted to — unless it were as
the Wizard.
That doesn’t mean Hollywood and Broadway won’t
strengthen their ties. Some
of the biggest Tony nominees in recent years have
come from film, including
past best musical winners
“Once” and “Kinky Boots,”
“The Producers” and this
year’s commercial breakout,
“Waitress.”
But the challenges for
“Hamilton” will remain in
the stage realm. With the
show’s Tony triumphs in the
bag and its one-year Broadway anniversary approaching, the question will be how
to keep the momentum going.
Some of that, as recent
media speculation has had
it, is due to the possible departure of Miranda and
other principal cast. But
some of it is also about a
show finding a niche.
Many of the longest-running productions on Broadway tend to locate a consumer sweet spot. “Jersey
Boys” has the people in the
New York suburbs. “Wicked”
has teenage girls. “The Book
of Mormon” has comedyseeking tourists.
“Hamilton” has a cool factor. But to sell out for years,
past a point when it’s novel
and when many of the principals have moved on, a show
needs to lock down an audience that will come out reliably and repeatedly.
In this way, Broadway actually has a lot in common
with Hollywood: Finding a
target demographic is never
easy.
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L AT I ME S . C O M/ CA L E N DA R
Musical
worlds
come
together
in Ojai
[Ojai, from E1]
has been to treat the 70-minute experimental opera as a
Stockhausen-infused Postmodern circus.
Vivier’s libretto reads like
a phantasmagoric dreamscape. A dying figure, Agni,
is surrounded by the countenances of mythic beings, including Mozart, Lewis Carroll, a witch, the Queen of the
Night, Copernicus, Tristan
and Isolde. Seven singers
become their voices on occasion, but mostly they sing
Dada-esque nonsense syllables.
Oboe, three clarinets,
trombone, violin and a
trumpet (as a voice calling
from the beyond) make up
the instrumental ensemble,
which is enhanced by electronics. There are recognizable musical formulas,
and there is unrecognizable
musical chaos, just as there
are recognizable words and
unrecognizable ones, recognizable singing styles and all
kinds of weird vocal sounds.
For Sellars this is simply
the Balinese ceremony for
the dead, so for his
ritualistic staging, instrumentalists and singers
dressed in white were placed
on a high stage over the body
of dancer Michael Schumacher. He remained immobile for an hour (devastatingly so during the moment of silence), then rose to
the call of the trumpet from
behind the audience and began his journey. Allusions in
word and music to this
world, past and present and
future, appeared to enter
into his being. The effect was
utterly transfixing.
The performers, conducted by Eric Dudley, were
the respective instrumental
and vocal New York en-
Photographs by
YOUNG MEMBERS of YOLA prepare to rock Libbey Bowl during the music fest.
sembles ICE (International
Contemporary Ensemble)
and Roomful of Teeth. They
softened the Modernist edge
to Vivier’s score but replaced that with spiritual
purpose. “Kopernikus” is an
opera we need, and the en-
couraging news from Ojai is
that Sellars plans to develop
this production for international consumption.
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MIKI and Gavin Takahe-Sanchez dance in the streets of downtown Santa Paula during a free party to end the 70th Ojai Music Festival.
The other Sellars-staged
pieces were concerned with
social responsibility, and
both were solo vehicles for
Julia Bullock, who had appeared in the 2011 festival as
a student performer and is
now on the verge of what
promises to be an astounding career. In a new chamber
version of Finnish composer
Kaija Saariaho’s 2006 “La
Passion de Simone” on
Thursday night, Bullock
transformed a somber meditation on the disturbing
French philosopher and
activist Simone Weil’s suicidal self-sacrifice into a ritual of a young African
American woman finding
her place in a protest movement.
In the long, late-night
“Josephine Baker: A Portrait,” Bullock sang the famous African American’s
Parisian show tunes as dark
meditations and protest
songs. Avant-garde percussionist and pianist Tyshawn
Sorey recomposed everything for members of ICE.
Poet Claudia Rankine added introductory texts that
were rarely useful, but
Bullock’s singing, dancing
and sheer stage presence
proved hauntingly effective.
The baritone, Davóne
Tines, is the new name to remember from this festival.
Discovered by Sellars as a
phenomenal singer of spirituals, Tines was invited by
Sellars to be in his
production of Saariaho’s
new opera, “Only the Sound
Remains,” which was to
have had its U.S. premiere at
Ojai but had to be canceled
because of its technical demands. Two brilliant afternoon chamber concerts of
Saariaho’s chamber music
did, however, remain. They
concluded with her recent
piece “Sombre,” a setting of
three late Ezra Pound cantos — the poet conversing,
like Vivier if in a more terrestrial way, with paradise.
“I have tried to write
Paradise,” Pound writes.
Tines doesn’t need to try. He
is a singer of immense power
and fervor. Everyone in Ojai
was talking about him.
Saariaho also had the benefit of performers — ICE,
flutist Claire Chase, bass
flute Camilla Hoitenga, the
Calder Quartet and conduc-
tor Joana Carneiro — uncovering under her shimmering
surfaces strong dramatic
musical material.
Much more of this festival was, Sellars style, all over
the place — and the globe.
Sellars imported the blowsy
Egyptian singer Dina El Wedidi and her fusion band, as
he did the alluring Carnatic
Indian singer Aruna Sairam
with her inspired traditional
Indian musicians. These are
paths that didn’t show any
need to cross.
There were daily doses of
Roomful of Teeth, which has
become popular for its cute
use of extended vocal techniques and because the alto
Caroline Shaw is an appealing young star composer.
The
ensemble
needs
stretching,
which
“Kopernikus” is clearly doing.
The heavy stretching,
though, was with YOLA at
HOLA Symphonic Winds,
the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s student group.
For the free family Sunday afternoon concert that
preceded
“Kopernikus,”
Tania León wrote and conducted “Pa’lante” for the
kids and four ICE wind
soloists who have been
coaching them. They rocked
Libbey Bowl. L.A. Phil
teenage composer fellows
Benjamin
Champion,
Robby Good, Luca Mendoza
and Ethan Treiman provided solo pieces for the ICE
winds; L.A. Phil senior composer
fellows
Sharon
Hurvitz and Andrew Moses
wrote wind quartets. All revealed spunky curiosity for
cleverly unusual sounds and
arresting theatricality.
Sellars’ most radical
move was to end the festival
with a free street party in
downtown Santa Paula, a
flamboyant celebration of
life after Vivier’s flamboyant
dance of death. The Latino
band Los Jornaleros del
Norte, YOLA, El Wedidi,
Sairam and Tines took turns
performing on two stages.
By evening’s end, the crowd
thinned to a couple hundred
festivalgoers and Santa
Paula natives dancing to another Latino band, Cambalache, here two worlds meeting not in a refuge but on
Main Street.
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T U E S DAY, J U N E 14 , 2 016
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TELEVISION REVIEW
A new crime wave with ‘Kingdom’
ROBERT LLOYD
TELEVISION CRITIC
“Animal Kingdom,” a new
drama premiering Tuesday
on TNT, begins quietly, with
paramedics
entering
a
house where a woman is unconscious on a couch; next
to her, a teenage boy
watches television.
“What’s she taken?”
“Heroin,” says the boy
(Finn Cole), whose name is
Josh but is called “J.”
Later, an orphan, he will
call his grandmother — a
stranger for 11 years — and
she will come and fetch him.
And so we are gently
eased into the world of the
Codys, an Oceanside crime
family — sun-drenched California beach towns can have
crime families too — with
Jonathan Lisco (“Southland,” “Halt and Catch
Fire”)
adapting
David
Michôd’s 2010 film about a
modern Australian Ma
Barker (played here by Ellen
Barkin) and her frequently
shirtless sons (Ben Robson,
Jake Weary, Shawn Hatosy).
When not doing cannonballs
into the backyard pool or
surfing off the San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station,
they rob banks and jewelry
stores and pick up whatever
they see lying around.
With her California-girl
sunglasses and sharp-cut
blond hair, her boxer’s profile, her dare-you-not-tolook, lean-in decolletage,
Barkin’s Smurf is a woman
whose domestic bustling
and seemingly laissez-faire
attitude about what goes on
‘Animal
Kingdom’
Where: TNT
When: 9 and 10:04 p.m.
Tuesday
Rating: TV-MA-LSV (may
be unsuitable for children
under the age of 17, with
advisories for coarse
language, sex and
violence)
around her upscale ranch
house never quite mask her
need for control and a lack of
boundaries. Making cupcakes, juicing juice, she is a
kind of domestic sociopath,
a mother and grandmother
with a need for, and a use for
but something shy of, a love
for kin. The not-so-casual
juxtaposition of strawberries and bundles of cash
in one shot is a nice visual
metaphor for her character.
Scott Speedman, from
“Felicity” and “Last Resort”
— a buff, boyish 40, amazingly — is Barry “Baz” Blackwell; among the characters
who are not J, Baz is the
nearest thing the series has
to a responsible adult, with
the coolest head and tenderest heart perhaps because
he’s not a Cody. (That he
wasn’t another brother is
not exactly clear, given the
literal closeness of the characters, but that might be a
whole other kettle of plot
lines.)
J, whose expression will
stay defensively Sphinx-like
throughout, is the obvious
protagonist, whose acceptance or rejection of the ways
of his newfound family —
and their acceptance or rejection of him — engage the
viewer’s early concerns; the
concerned viewer will, of
course, want him to get as far
away from them as possible,
some place where he can do
his math homework in
peace. At the same time,
most every character gives
you something to relate to;
each has secrets and cares.
Executive producer John
Wells (“Southland,” “The
West Wing”) directed the
opening episodes; and the
series is expertly made and
subtler than the premise
suggests. As someone who
distrusts the antiheroic attitude, and movies and TV
shows in which people who
are up to no good are made
extra-glamorous by the fact
that the people who play
them are beautiful and charismatic, I take more convincing than some. But I went
with this.
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BRIDGE
SUDOKU
By Frank Stewart
In the Vanderbilt Teams
at the ACBL’s Spring NABC,
South was world-class player Sabine Auken.
When East opened with a
third-seat weak two-bid,
Auken overcalled three
clubs, and West competed
with three hearts. Then
North, Roy Welland, cue-bid
four hearts; Auken leaped to
slam. The busy East-West
bidding told her that North
had a heart singleton or void
plus useful values.
West led the queen of
hearts, and East overtook to
lead the queen of spades.
Auken won and sandwiched
three heart ruffs in dummy
around two spade ruffs in
her hand (leaving West with
the defenders’ only high
spade).
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top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
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HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
There doesn’t always need
to be a reason to draw a
boundary, yet there is one
now.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Many capable people
surround you, all of whom
are looking forward to helping you in some way.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
The natural world connects
people in a way that nothing
else can. Get into it.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
It is good to be able to represent to yourself and others
that you are not afraid and
completely able to stand up
for your beliefs.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
The one who challenges you
isn’t sure about your
strength, but he or she will
be soon.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
The idea that “everything”
could hinge on one thing is
usually an overstatement.
But today it rings true in
some way.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
You don’t know what you’ve
got till it’s gone. That is the
way it goes in the song, and
the way it goes in real life, too
— for the clueless. Not you.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Today will bring you the entire scope of a particular lesson up front so that you can
decide what to do.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21): A difference of
views will occur. It’s nothing
new; this is an ongoing argument. But it won’t go on
much longer.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): You’re great. Why don’t
you know this about yourself
already?
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Your friend has been
calling you, and you have
been less available than usual. Circumstances — that’s
the long and short of it. But
all of those situations will
clear up.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): What is to be said for a
person who can’t deliver
what you want? You can only
have respect for the intention if it’s followed up by action. Yours will be the first
and the last move, so think it
through very carefully.
Today’s birthday (June
14): Family celebrates you,
and an adventure with your
kin will kick off this solar return. Next month produces
an idea to run with. There
will be two cash-out points,
one in August and the other
at the end of September. Reinvest. It’s worth your time
and the best of your attention. November and February show you richer. Aries
and Pisces adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 4, 40, 33,
39 and 14.
Holiday Mathis writes her
column for Creators
Syndicate Inc. The
horoscope should be read
for entertainment. Previous
forecasts are at
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Auken then ran her
trumps. When she led her
last trump at Trick 10, West
could keep three cards. He
had to save his king of
spades — dummy still had a
spade — so he bared his Q-J
of diamonds. Auken discarded the spade from
dummy, took the A-K of diamonds and won the 13th
trick with the 10.
Question: You hold: ♠ A
♥ J 7 6 4 ♦ A 4 3 ♣ A Q 10 6 2.
You are the dealer. What is
your opening call?
Answer: This situation is
awkward. If you open one
club, you will lack a good second bid if partner responds
one spade. A rebid of two
clubs would suggest a sixcard suit, a reverse to two
hearts would show more
strength, and a bid of 1NT
would be an underbid. Many
players would open 1NT. I
can’t recommend that action, but the problem has no
good answer.
West dealer
Neither side vulnerable
NORTH
♠9762
♥5
♦ K 10 6
♣KJ983
WEST
EAST
♠ K 10 5 4 3
♠QJ8
♥Q3
♥ A K 10 9 8 2
♦QJ72
♦985
♣75
♣4
SOUTH
♠A
♥J764
♦A43
♣ A Q 10 6 2
WEST
NORTH EAST
SOUTH
Pass
Pass
2♥
3♣
3♥
4♥
Pass
6♣
All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ Q
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ASK AMY
Big sister is concerned
Dear Amy: I am the proud
big sister of my 18-year-old
brother “Baxter.”
His last day of high school
was yesterday, and he is set
to graduate in a few weeks.
He earned a 4.0 throughout high school and has
worked really hard for four
years.
He called me yesterday (I
live out of state) and told me
about his last day at school.
Then he dropped a
bombshell on me, when he
said, “Don’t tell mom, but I
smoked a lot of weed today!”
Amy, I was shocked! We
grew up in a no-alcohol, nosmoking household. Now I
don’t know what to do. Do I
keep his secret? Do I spill to
our mom?
I know he’s worked so
hard, so I think he was celebrating and maybe rebelling
a little bit, since he was
the “perfect” student for so
long.
I don’t want this to be a
steppingstone to more bad
decisions for him.
What should I do?
Worried in Wisconsin
Dear Worried: This is not
necessarily a binary choice
between either telling or not
telling. You can choose to
stay quiet now but change
your mind later.
It might be best for you to
communicate your next
thoughts in text form, versus
talking to him about this.
You can write: “First, I want
you to know that I appreciate your honesty. Secondly,
please don’t ever ask me to
keep a secret from our parents. That’s not fair to me, or
them, and I will make my
own choice about what to do
regarding your decision to
get toasted on the last day of
classes. I am naturally very
protective of you. I want you
to know that there are extreme risks to what you are
doing. You risk not graduating (if you are caught), but
you also risk many other
things you have worked very
hard for. Soon you will be on
your own, and I hope you will
make healthier choices.”
After communicating directly with him, leave it
alone. If this is the worst
thing this young man ever
does, he’ll be OK.
Dear Amy: I am currently seeing a man who has
two jobs, one as an “everyday
civilian” and one in the National Guard. He has been a
guardsman
for
several
years.
We have been seeing each
other for about seven
months. I just learned that
he may face a deployment within the next year
(he’s been through three already).
I am very proud of him. I
love him, and he loves me. I
don’t know how to communicate how I feel and how
scared I am; for him, for me,
for us — and for my child,
who has grown attached to
him.
My anxiety levels have
risen in the past few weeks
because of this. He has noticed a change in me. I fell in
love with this man without a
second thought of what that
would mean. I don’t want to
leave him over this because
he is serving his country.
However, I do not know how
to live the life that is approaching.
I need advice and guidance. Can you help?
Worried
Dear Worried: The most
important thing you can do
is to communicate with your
guy about what might be in
store for all of you if he deploys.
The National Guard offers helpful support and information to help you start
this
conversation.
You
should also seek friendship
and advice from experienced people on this side of
deployment. Check www.
jointservicesupport.org.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to
[email protected].
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DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn
MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
BLISS By Harry Bliss
BALLARD STREET By Jerry Van Amerongen
CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Drink-cooling shapes
6 Family girl
9 Neighborhood
13 Seize
14 So very uncool
15 Mascara target
16 *Where hockey
transgressors
cool their heels
18 Issue a ticket to
19 Shout of discovery
20 Draft classification
21 *Future attorney’s
hurdle
25 Where sleeping dogs lie
27 “Give me a break!”
28 Decide one will
29 Sound confirming a
locked car door
30 Oil-bearing rocks
33 Jimmy Fallon asset
36 Go wrong
37 June 14th observance ...
and a hint to the first
word in the answers to
starred clues
38 Sudoku section
39 Camping gear brand
40 Winner’s wreath
41 Voice quality
42 Film snippets
44 TV’s “Kate & __”
45 “The ability to fully
experience life,”
per Thoreau
47 *Polite applause
on the tee
50 “Money __ object”
51 Sandy or Roberto of
baseball
53 Catch sight of
54 *Vessel for Captain Jack
Sparrow
59 Fired, with “off ”
60 Look carefully
61 Gravel unit
62 Colors, as hair
63 NFL gains
64 Cackling scavenger
DOWN
1 Many a sports trophy
2 Function
3 Hot dog holder
4 Notable time
5 Organ associated with
ill temper
6 “Light” sci-fi weapon
7 “Don’t worry about me”
8 Physical attractiveness
9 “Little Women” novelist
10 *Colorful sushi creation
11 Perfumer Lauder
12 Down the road
14 Harp constellation
17 Shower stall alternative,
if it fits
21 Unloaded?
22 “At last!”
23 *“Drove my Chevy to
the levee” Don McLean
hit
24 Water source
26 Online crafts shop
28 Shoppe adjective
30 Silly to the extreme
31 Fräulein’s abode
32 Farm sci.
34 Ancient Greek region
35 Follower on Twitter,
informally
37 Fly like a moth
41 Affectionate attention,
briefly
43 London insurance giant
44 From scratch
© 2016 Tribune Content Agency
45 Exercise, as power
46 Thoreau work
47 Second family of the
1990s
48 “Rubáiyát” poet
49 Zero deg. at the
equator, say
52 Told tall tales
55 Oinker’s pen
56 Clod chopper
57 Ramada __
58 Green soup base
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COMICS
DOONESBURY By Garry Trudeau
Doonesbury is on vacation. This is a reprint.
DILBERT By Scott Adams
LA CUCARACHA By Lalo Alcaraz
BABY BLUES By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman
CANDORVILLE By Darrin Bell
CRANKSHAFT By Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers
HALF FULL By Maria Scrivan
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE By Stephan Pastis
NON SEQUITUR By Wiley
LIO By Mark Tatulli
JUMP START By Robb Armstrong
9 CHICKWEED LANE By Brooke McEldowney
BLONDIE By Dean Young & John Marshall
GET FUZZY By Darby Conley
ZITS By Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman
BIZARRO By Dan Piraro
TUNDRA By Chad Carpenter
DRABBLE By Kevin Fagan
PRICKLY CITY By Scott Stantis
MUTTS By Patrick McDonnell
FRAZZ By Jef Mallett
PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz
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T V HI G HL IG HT S
Tuesday Prime-Time TV
SERIES
To Tell the Truth One of several classic game shows
being revived by ABC this
summer begins its run,
with Anthony Anderson
as host. Betty White, a
regular on TV game shows
back in the day, will be a
panelist along with NeNe
Leakes, Jalen Rose and
various guests. 8 and 10
p.m. ABC
SoCal Connected The local
news magazine series reports on the competition
between two companies in
the development of the
Hyperloop system envisioned by Tesla’s Elon
Musk. 8 and 10 p.m. KCET
Genealogy Roadshow In a
Boston-themed episode,
one woman explores her
connection to the Salem
Witch Trials, while another probes whether a loss in
her family’s ancestry was
the result of 1972’s Great
Boston Fire or of a smallpox outbreak. 8 p.m.
KOCE
Containment
A
major
breakthrough brings Dr.
Cannerts (George Young)
closer to finding a cure for
the virus, as Katie and
Jake (Kristen Gutoskie,
Chris Wood) discover the
truth behind Patient
Zero. 9 p.m. KTLA
Uncle Buck This new comedy, insprired by the 1989
John Candy movie premieres with with back-toback episodes. Mike Epps
stars in the title role with
Iman Benson, Sayeed
Shahidi, Aalyrah Caldwell, James Lesure and
Nia Long. 9 and 9:30 p.m.
ABC
Animal Kingdom Based on
a 2010 Australian movie,
this edgy new drama revolves around a Southern
California crime family
headed by tough-as-nails
grandmother
(Ellen
Barkin), whose recentlyorphaned teenage grandson (Finn Cole) comes to
live with her. Scott Speedman, Shawn Hatosy, Ben
Robson and Jake Weary
also star. 9 and 10 p.m.
TNT
Person of Interest Finch
(Michael Emerson) goes
all-out to put an end to Samaritan, but there could
be a lot of collateral damage. With Jim Caviezel
and Sarah Shahi. 10 p.m.
CBS
Kelsey McNeal ABC
TV LEGEND Betty
White in a new version of
the classic game show
“To Tell the Truth.”
Maya & Marty John Cena,
Nick Jonas, Eva Longoria
and Ben Stiller are guests
on this comedy/variety series. 10 p.m. NBC
Feed the Beast Using the designs of Tommy’s (David
Schwimmer) late wife
(Christine Adams), he
and Dion (Jim Sturgess)
imbue Thirio with a sense
of life. 10 p.m. AMC
Wrecked The premise of this
new series, premiering
with two new episodes, is
that stranded together on
a deserted island after
their plane crashes. 10 and
10:27 p.m. TBS
MOVIES
The Graduate A newly
minted
college
grad
(Dustin Hoffman) has an
affair with his parent’s
friend, neighbor Mrs.
Robinson (Anne Bancroft), in director Mike
Nichols’ 1967 classic. 7:15
p.m. TCM
GBF (2013) 9:35 a.m. Showtime
The Martian (2015) 1 and
8:30 p.m. HBO
Top Five (2014) 2:40 p.m.
EPIX
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) 3:30 p.m.
Showtime
All the Way (2016) 5:15 p.m.
HBO
TALK SHOWS
CBS This Morning Nancy
Gibbs; Leslie Odom Jr.;
Elin Hilderbrand; John
Heilemann. (N) 7 a.m.
KCBS
Today “The West Wing” reunion; Amy Ryan; Olivia
Wilde; psychologist Amy
Cuddy; Joel Gamoran;
Frankie Ballard performs.
(N) 7 a.m. KNBC
Good Morning America
Ellen DeGeneres; Vivica
A. Fox; Yao Ming; GMA’s
Musical.ly challenge finalists. (N) 7 a.m. KABC
Good Day L.A. Jon Tenney
(“Big Sky”); Author D.L.
Hughley (“Black Man,
White House: An Oral History of the Obama
Years”); Jazz Jennings(“I
Am
Jazz”);
Justina
Machado (“Queen of the
South”). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV
The View Jason Biggs and
wife Jenny Mollen. (N) 10
a.m. KABC
The Wendy Williams Show
Tito Jackson. (N) 11 a.m.
KTTV
The Talk Constance Zimmer;
Kevin
Frazier;
Carnie Wilson. (N) 1 p.m.
KCBS
Steve Harvey Mike Epps
(“Uncle Buck”); Susan
Lucci and Dania Ramirez
(“Devious Maids”); Keith
Sweat performs. (N) 2
p.m. KNBC
The Dr. Oz Show Reasons
for exhaustion. (N) 2 p.m.
KTTV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Liev Schreiber (“Ray
Donovan”); Eugene Levy.
(N) 3 p.m. KNBC
Tavis Smiley (N) 11 p.m.
KOCE
Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m.
KVCR; 11:30 p.m. KOCE
The Daily Show Eddie
Huang. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central
Conan Kate Beckinsale;
Marlon Williams; Brian
Sacca. (N) 11 p.m. TBS
The Nightly Show Malcolm
Gladwell. (N) 11:30 p.m.
Comedy Central
The Tonight Show: Jimmy
Fallon Don Rickles; Lena
Dunham; DJ Shadow and
Run the Jewels. (N) 11:34
p.m. KNBC
The Late Show With
Stephen Colbert Daniel
Radcliffe; George Lopez;
HINDS performs. (N)
11:35 p.m. KCBS
The Late Late Show Matt
LeBlanc; Alison Brie; Eliot Sumner performs. (N)
12:37 a.m. KCBS
Late Night Maya Rudolph;
Michiel Huisman; Brandy
Clark performs; John
Tempesta performs. (N)
12:37 a.m. KNBC
8 pm
Sports News Movies (N) New Å Closed Captioning
9:30
10 pm
10:30
Rogues. Å
breakthrough. (N) Å
ABC
To Tell the Truth Tracee Ellis
Uncle Buck (TVPG) (Pre-
FOX
Hotel Hell (TV14) Harper’s
Ross. (N) Å
KCAL News (N)
Ferry. (Part 2 of 2) (N) Å
MyNt TMZ Live (TVPG) (N) Å
KVCR Globe Trekker (TVG) Å
KCET
miere) (N) Å
News (N)
To Tell the Truth (TVPG) Iliza News (N)
Shlesinger. (N) Å
News (N)
Sports Central Mike & Molly
Coupled (TV14) A rejection at News (N)
Seinfeld Å
Seinfeld Å
Why Treaties? Å
Ecuador: Royal Tour (TVPG) Å
SoCal Connect- Explore
Artbound Architectural critic SoCal Connect- Explore
ed Hyperloop; (TVPG) Alas- Christopher Hawthorne (Los ed Hyperloop; (TVPG) Alasrobot parks
cars. Å
UNI
ka’s Katmai
Angeles Times) looks at the robot parks
National Park. future of Los Angeles. Å
cars. Å
Copa América Centenario 2016 (N)
Tres Veces Ana (N)
KOCE
Genealogy Roadshow (TVPG)
KLCS
AMC
ANP
BBC
BET
Bravo
CNN
Com
Disc
Disn
E!
ESPN
Food
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Free
FX
Hall
HGTV
Hist
IFC
Life
MSN
MTV
NGC
Nick
Ova
OWN
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TBS
TCM
TLC
TNT
Toon
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Tru
TV L
USA
VH1
WGN
Cine
Encr
EPIX
Starz
TMC
Christopher
ka’s Katmai
Hawthorne.
National Park. Å
Un camino hacia el destino (N)
The Draft (TVPG) The mili-
The O’Reilly Factor Å
The Kelly File
Hannity
Record Å
Guilt (7:30)
Grease ››› (1978) John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John. (PG)
The 700 Club
Ride Along ›› (2014) Ice Cube, Kevin Hart. (PG-13)
Ride Along ›› (2014) Ice Cube. (PG-13)
Last Man Å
Last Man Å
The Middle Å The Middle Å The Middle Å The Middle Å Golden Girls Å
Fixer Upper (TVG) Å
Fixer Upper (TVG) Å
House Hunters Hunters Int.
Fixer Upper
Counting Cars Counting Cars Top Gear (TVPG) (N) Å
Counting Cars Counting Cars Car Hunters
’70s Show Å ’70s Show Å ’70s Show Å ’70s Show Å ’70s Show Å ’70s Show Å ’70s Show Å
Celebrity Wife Swap (TVPG)
Celebrity Wife Swap (TVPG)
Celebrity Wife Swap
Wife Swap
All In With Chris Hayes
The Rachel Maddow Show
The Last Word
Hardball Å
How High › (2001) Method Man, Redman. (R)
How High › (2001) Method Man. (R)
America’s National Parks
Airport Security: Colombia (N) Airport Security: Colombia (N) Colombia
Nicky, Ricky
Other Kingdom Full House Å Full House Å Full House Å Full House Å Friends (TV14)
Sleeping With the Enemy ›› (1991) (7:30) (R) The American President (1995) Michael Douglas. (PG-13)
Haves and Have Nots (TV14)
Haves and Have Nots (TV14)
Haves and Have Nots (TV14)
Haves, Nots
Cops (TV14) Cops (TV14) Cops (TVPG) Cops (TV14) Cops (TV14) Cops (TVPG) Cops (TVPG)
Cape Fear ››› (1991) (6) (R) The Hunt for Red October ››› (1990) Sean Connery. (PG) Å
Blade ›› (1998) (6:30) (R) Watchmen ›› (2009) Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman. (R) Å
Big Bang
Big Bang
Big Bang
Big Bang
Wrecked
Wrecked (N) Conan (TV14)
(TV14) Å
(TV14) Å
(TVPG) Å
(TVPG) Å
(TVMA) (N)
(10:27)
Sunday, September 4
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11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Hosted by Amy Scattergood
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11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
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The Graduate ›››› (1967) (PG) (7:15) Å The Earrings of Madame De... ››› (1953) (9:15)
Little People, Big World (N) Å Little People, Big World (N) Å My Giant Life (TV14) (N)
Little People
We’re the Millers ›› (2013) Animal Kingdom (TVMA) (Se- Animal Kingdom (TVMA) (N) Animal King(R) (6:30) Å
ries premiere) (N) Å
(10:04) Å
dom Å
King of the Hill Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers Cleveland Show American Dad American Dad Family Guy Å
Bert the Conqueror (N)
Bizarre Foods (TVPG) (N) Å Bizarre Foods: Andrew Zimmern Bizarre Foods
Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Hack Life (N) Hack My Life Hack My Life
George Lopez (TVPG) (8:12) George Lopez Raymond Å
Raymond Å
Raymond Å
King of Queens
Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Chrisley
Impressions
Modern Family
Above the Rim ›› (1994) Duane Martin, Leon. (R)
Gridiron Gang ››› (2006) (PG-13)
How I Met Å How I Met Å How I Met Å How I Met Å Parks & Rec Å Parks & Rec Å Engagement Å
Gone Girl ››› (2014) Ben Affleck. (7:30) (R) Å
Hitman: Agent 47 › (2015) (R) Å
The Quick and the Dead ›› (1995) Sharon Stone. (R) Å
Far and Away ››› (1992) (9:50)
American Ultra ›› (2015) (R)
Michael Ian Black: Noted Å
Addicted › (2014) (10:45) Å
Thrones (7:30) The Martian ››› (2015) Matt Damon. (PG-13) Å
The Fight Game
Miami Vice (2006) Colin Farrell. (7:15) (R) Å House of Lies Penny Dreadful (TVMA) Å
Stanley Cup
Girlfriend
Outlander (TVMA) (8:45) Å Mad Money ›› (2008) Diane Keaton. (9:45) (PG-13) Å
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) Barbra Streisand. (PG-13) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) (10:10) (R) Å
Saturday, September 3
7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Hosted by Noelle Carter, Jonathan Gold,
Jenn Harris and Amy Scattergood
Å
Walking Dead
Charlie Rose Å
Artbound
Frontline (TVPG) Gunned
Tavis Smiley
tary draft divides the citizens Down. The National Rifle As- (N) Å
of the United States during sociation’s influence on gun
the 1960s and 1970s. Å
regulation. Å
Raymond Å
Raymond Å
Family Guy Å Family Guy Å Seinfeld Å
Gay L.A. Then The Committee Anyone and Everyone (TVPG) Fast Metabolism Revolution With Haylie
Gladiator ››› (2000) Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix. (R) Å
The First 48
Man on Fire ›› (2004) Denzel Washington. (7) (R)
Feed the Beast (TV14) (N)
Feed the
Weird, True & Freaky: Monsters Yeti or Not (TVPG) Dr. Mark Evans explains the “Yeti.”
Killer Crocs
Man vs. Wild (TVPG) Å
Man vs. Wild (TVPG) Å
Man vs. Wild (TVPG) Å
Weird Wonders
The BET Life of (TVPG) (N)
Inside the Label (TV14) (N)
Inside the Label (TV14)
The BET Life
Below Deck Mediterranean
Below Deck Mediterranean (N) Below Deck Mediterranean
What Happens
CNN Tonight: Don Lemon (N) Stanford Rape Town Hall
Anderson Cooper (TVPG) Å CNN Tonight
Tosh.0 (7:52) Tosh.0 (8:24) Tosh.0 (8:56) Tosh.0 (9:28) Tosh.0 (TV14) Nikki Glaser
Daily Show (N)
Deadliest Catch: On Deck (N) Deadliest Catch (TVPG) (N)
Dark Woods Justice (N)
Deadly Catch
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ›› (7:40)
Liv and Maddie KC Undercover Girl Meets
Stuck in Middle
Botched (TV14) Å
Botched (TV14) (N) Å
Famously Single (TV14) (N)
E! News (N)
SportsCenter (N) Å
SportsCenter (N) Å
SportsCenter (N) Å
SportsCenter
Chopped Junior (TVG) (N)
Chopped (TVG)
Chopped (TVG) (N)
Chopped
Boston. The Salem witch
trials; the Great Boston Fire
of 1872. (N) Å
KDOC Law & Order: CI (TV14) Å
A&E
TMZ (TVPG)
the bungalows. (N) Å
Hollywood Today Live (TVPG)
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