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$2.00 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER © 2016 WSCE latimes.com WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016 California Obamacare rates to jump Premiums are set to go up an average of 13.2% next year. Rising medical costs are one reason, officials say. By Melody Petersen and Noam N. Levey Photographs by Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times BELMONT HIGH School Principal Kristen McGregor greets student Gaspar Marcos after school. The orphan is among those at the school who made their way to the U.S. from Central America without parents. L.A. school is a haven for teens after long treks Nearly 1 in 4 at Belmont High are from Central America By Cindy Carcamo Gaspar Marcos stepped off the 720 bus into earlymorning darkness in MacArthur Park after the end of an eight-hour shift of scrubbing dishes in a Westwood restaurant. He walked toward his apartment, past laundromats fortified with iron bars and scrawled with graffiti, closed stores that sold knockoffs and a cook staffing a taco cart in eerie desolation. Around 3 a.m., he collapsed into a twin bed in a room he rents from a family. Five hours later, he slid into his desk at Belmont High School, just before the bell rang. The 18-year-old A TIRED Marcos wipes an eye in history class. He and several others at the school work full shifts at night, then get little sleep before going to classes. Studios applaud new crop of fan films — to a point By Josh Rottenberg In early April, two longtime friends, Jeffrey Henderson and Nick Finch, went out to the sand dunes of Glamis, Calif. — a barren landscape that, three decades ago, stood in for the desert planet Tatooine in “Return of the Jedi” — to shoot a “Star Wars” fan film called “The Sable Corsair.” With a crowd-funded budget of less than $10,000 for the short film — about a group of smugglers who crash-land on a desert planet while on the run from the Empire — creature comforts for the cast and crew of roughly 60 people were few. A day and a half out of the three-day shoot were lost to transportation snafus and a sandstorm. But, as in every good “Star Wars” story, the heroes persevered. Finch and Henderson entered “The Sable sophomore rubbed his eyes and fixed his gaze on an algebra equation. Minutes ticked by, and others straggled into the class, nine in all. Like Marcos, most had worked a full shift the night before — sewing clothes, cooking in restaurants, painting homes. Most were immigrants from Central America, part of several waves of more than 100,000 who arrived as children in the U.S. in the past five years without parents, often after perilous journeys. Many ended up in classrooms throughout the country. In Los Angeles’ Belmont High, nearly 1 in 4 of the school’s estimated 1,000 stu[See Belmont, A9] Premiums for Californians’ Obamacare health coverage will rise an average of 13.2% next year — more than three times the increase of the last two years and a jump that is bound to stir debate in an election year. The big increases come after two years in which California officials had boasted that the program helped insure hundreds of thousands people in the state while keeping costs moderately in check. Premiums in the insurance program called Covered California rose just 4% in 2016 after rising 4.2% in 2015 — the first year that exchange officials negotiated with insurers. The program insures 1.4 million Californians. On Tuesday, officials blamed next year’s premium hikes in the program on rising costs of medical care, including expensive specialty drugs and the end of a mechanism that held down rates for the first three years of Obamacare. Two of the state’s biggest insurers — Blue Shield of California and Anthem Inc. — asked for the biggest hikes. Blue Shield’s premiums will jump an average of more than 19%, according to officials, and Anthem’s rates will rise more than 16%. For consumers, the effect will depend on whether they get taxpayer-supported subsidies for their premiums and whether they are willing to switch to less-ex- REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Comic-Con gets into launch mode The annual pop culture event is all set to make a splash in San Diego with film premieres and much more. CALENDAR, E1 Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times Corsair” into Lucasfilm’s official Star Wars fan film contest, and on Sunday they were awarded the Audience Choice prize at the Star Wars Celebration convention in London. For years, studios have generally tolerated and even encouraged short fan films like “The Sable Corsair” as long as they don’t attempt to capitalize financially on copyrighted material. Recently, however, with the advent of crowd funding and the spread of inexpensive tools to create digital effects, fan films have grown in [See Fan films, A8] Kirk McKoy Los Angeles Times JEFFREY HENDERSON , left, and Nick Finch ful- fill a childhood fantasy as co-directors of “The Sable Corsair,” an award-winning “Star Wars” fan film. A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON left little doubt that one passage of Melania Trump’s speech had been largely copied from one Michelle Obama gave in 2008. How one speech ate up a whole day for Trump By David Lauter CLEVELAND — The allegation that a chunk of Melania Trump’s Republican convention speech had been lifted from Michelle Obama — a charge that overshadowed much of Day 2 of the GOP event here — almost certainly won’t change anyone’s vote. That doesn’t mean it won’t affect the Trump campaign. The problem for Donald Trump and his allies is lost opportunity. The whole purpose of a modern political convention is to serve as a 96-hour-long advertisement for the nominee and party. The aim is to spend every minute of those hours pounding home a few basic messages. Even in the best of times, Trump has little patience LATIMES.COM CONVENTION COVERAGE 8 Go inside (and outside) the GOP convention with Times journalists for live coverage and analysis at latimes.com/trailguide 8Watch the GOP convention gavel-to-gavel at latimes.com/conventions with that sort of discipline. To be sure, his seemingly freewheeling, unconstrained style forms a big part of Trump’s appeal to his core constituency. But even Trump’s allies agree that his most faithful supporters, who have proved willing to stick with him through any controversy, are not numerous enough to win the general election. At the convention, “he has to convince some of the doubters” that he “can deliver” on his promises, Kellyanne Conway, a senior advisor to the campaign, told reporters Tuesday. That effort to reach out to the uncommitted is where the apparent plagiarism interferes. The issue is not that voters necessarily care about whether Melania Trump, or more likely someone working for her, lifted [See Speech, A5] pensive plans that may come with higher co-pays and deductibles. Changing plans could also mean a new network of physicians, which could be disruptive to care for those with chronic conditions. The rates vary significantly by region and insurer. Los Angeles and the rest of southwest Los Angeles County will see an average increase of almost 14%. Blue Shield’s preferred provider organization rate in Los Angeles, chosen by 21% of those using the exchange, is increasing by an average of 19.5%. For a 40year-old single person making $17,820 to $23,760, choosing a silver level plan, the monthly rate currently is [See Obamacare, A12] AILES APPEARS CLOSE TO LEAVING FOX NEWS By Stephen Battaglio NEW YORK — While the stars of Fox News Channel were covering the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, their pugnacious leader Roger Ailes was discussing his departure in what would be a shocking exit following recent allegations of sexual harassment by a former anchor. Ailes, 76, who turned Fox into the most influential force in the news media over the last two decades, has been uncomfortably thrust into the spotlight since former anchor Gretchen Carlson alleged that her contract was not renewed after she spurned sexual advances by Ailes. Ailes has denied the Carlson allegations, which Fox is investigating. But one person close to Fox News said it’s a matter of time before Ailes leaves. His attorney, Susan Estrich, and a spokesperson for 21st Century Fox said Ailes was still a Fox News employee as of late Tuesday. “We don’t have a deal,” Estrich said. “The review is ongoing. There have been no decisions reached and no deal. I don’t know what the internal review has turned up.” Since the allegations by Carlson became public, reports have emerged of sev[See Ailes, A7] Nancy R. Schiff Getty Images ‘Happy Days’ creator dies Garry Marshall, 81, was a prolific writer, producer, director and actor whose career included iconic 1970s TV sitcoms and hit movies. OBITUARY, B3 Weather Mostly sunny, warm. L.A. Basin: 89/65. B8 A2 W E D N ES DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 L AT I ME S . CO M BACK STORY UNCONVENTIONAL COVERAGE OVERAGE Crumbling beneath our feet Why it’s time to invest in infrastructure, and why we probably won’t By Don Lee Live from the 2016 Republican Convention Each day of the convention, our team brings you gavel-to-gavel coverage inside and outside of the arena, including live video and expert analysis at latimes.com/ TrailGuide. And join Los Angeles Times journalists at a free watch party July 21 in downtown L.A. RSVP at latimes.com/ConventionParty. WASHINGTON — Broken water mains, creaking subway systems, tens of thousands of rickety bridges and countless miles of shoddy, traffic-clogged roads. America’s infrastructure is crumbling. Never has there been a better time to bolster public investments and shore up one of the nation’s biggest competitive weaknesses, say many advocates for stepped-up spending. Yet the golden opportunity may soon pass. Here’s why: What’s so great about the timing right now? You can’t borrow money for much cheaper. Longterm interest rates remain near record lows; yields on 10-year Treasury bonds, which dipped further after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, hover around 1.5%. With inflation running just a tad below, that means it’s almost like free money for Uncle Sam. Construction materials also are near cyclical lows, thanks to the bottom falling out of the commodities market. But such favorable conditions for ramping up projects won’t last forever. Construction labor is already getting harder to find. Industry unemployment is down to 4.6%, from nearly 10% just three years ago. Before it’s too late, “we should be creating the infrastructure bank and moving aggressively to fund it,” says Rep. John Garamendi (DWalnut Grove), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. How bad is the infrastructure problem? Globally, America ranked 11th this year in infrastructure quality, below most of its peer group of major developed nations, according to the World Economic Forum. But here’s a more sobering statistic: Across the nation, a whopping 142,915 bridges — or about 1 in every 4 — were classified “deficient” in 2015 by the Department of Transportation. One of them was the halfcentury-old Tex Wash Bridge on I-10 in Southern California’s desert. It crumpled last summer after heavy rains, costing millions in repairs and closing a main artery from California to Arizona for five days. It wasn’t always so bad. In the mid-1960s, federal, state and local government spending for structures, including roads and bridges, represented more than 4.5% of the nation’s gross domestic product, or total economic output. That’s latimes.com/politics Don Bartletti Los Angeles Times ACROSS the nation, a whopping 142,915 bridges were classified “deficient” in 2015. One was the Tex Wash Bridge on I-10, which crumpled in flooding last summer. since declined to a meager 1.5% in recent years. Why did federal infrastructure spending slow down so much? The main problem is that federal funding for transportation has come from a fuel tax of 18.4 cents per gallon. That hasn’t changed since 1993, meaning it hasn’t kept up with inflation, the increasing population and amount of infrastructure, or the rising costs to maintain the roads, airports, rail, airports and the like. What’s more, as autos have become more fuelefficient, spending for gas simply hasn’t grown in proportion to the miles driven by motorists. That means more use — or damage to roads — but not more money to maintain or upgrade them. So how much money are we talking about to catch up? By Moody’s Analytics’ estimates, all levels of government would need to spend an extra $865 billion total over 10 years for infrastructure to bring investments back to historical averages, at least as far as spending per GDP. But because of years of lagging investments, much more than that would be needed annually to catch up. The Federal Highway Administration figures it would take $124 billion to $146 billion a year in capital investments in roads to see “noticeably improving roadway conditions and performance.” What would be the impact to the economy? If spending returned to historical norms, it would add as much as $1.5 trillion to GDP over 10 years, says Moody’s, which based its projections on a multiplier of 1.78. And that would support as many as 12 million additional jobs. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the right-leaning American Action Forum, thinks that’s way too high; the right multiplier might be half that, or even less depending on the broader economic conditions. He’s also skeptical that public infrastructure spending will generate as much productivity gains as economists have projected. Fixing potholes may get you to the office quicker, he says, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be any more productive at work. If the timing is right and it would help the economy, why doesn’t the government act? In two words: tea party. It’s no secret that this wing of congressional Republicans has had an outsized influence on the GOP leadership, with its mantra of reducing government spending and lowering taxes. But neither did the Obama administration really “put the muscle” behind its budget request for more infrastructure spending, said Garamendi. The White House last year proposed spending $485 billion for highways, bridges and rail over five years, but ended up getting only $305 billion. Even though Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his presumed opponent, Hillary Clinton, have spoken of the need to address failing infrastructure, political deadlock and disagreement over where to get the money is likely to block progress for the foreseeable future. Sooner or later, though, most everyone agrees that Congress will have to come up with a new funding source to replace the existing gas tax, especially in an ever more fuel-efficient and less carbon-dependent economy. Can’t states and cities pick up the slack? To some degree, they already have. A growing number of states have raised fuel taxes of their own to support infrastructure projects. Counties like Los Angeles have boosted sales taxes, and municipalities including Chicago have raised infrastructure bond issues. But after the Great Recession, state and local governments remain cautious about debt financing. One drawback of raising sales taxes to fund infrastructure is that such taxes are inherently unpredictable as a revenue source, because they fluctuate with the vicissitudes of the economy, says Asha Agrawal, a transportation economics expert at San Jose State University. Smaller rural areas have little capacity to raise enough money, she says. The upshot is that all these still would not be enough to make up for the shortfall in federal spending. Could private-public partnerships be the solution? Private investors, including foreign firms, are beginning to get into the game. Georgia, for example, this year signed a $679-million deal to redevelop a major highway interchange in metro Atlanta with the Spanish multinational firm Ferrovial Agroman. Ferrovial is fronting the investment money for Georgia and will build the interchange in exchange for guaranteed payments over a long period of time, says Wassim Selman, infrastructure president of the North American operations of Dutch-based Arcadis, a consultant on the project. Still, the private-sector involvement in U.S. infrastructure remains tiny and isn’t likely to grow big any time soon. A big factor is that government agencies remain circumspect about letting private firms manage or operate public roads and structures, says Selman. 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CO M W E D NE S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 A3 THE WORLD Train assailant vowed revenge Knife-and-ax attack in Germany by Afghan refugee adds to debate over risks posed by influx of migrants. By Laura King and Nabih Bulos A teenage Afghan refugee who terrorized passengers aboard a suburban commuter train in a knife-and-ax rampage left behind a note vowing revenge against “infidels,” German investigators said Tuesday after the latest attack on European soil claimed by Islamic State. The assault, carried out by a 17-year-old baker’s apprentice who had arrived in Germany little more than a year ago, came amid growing debate over the security repercussions of an unprecedented influx of migrants and refugees, many from war-ravaged Syria. Even as civil libertarians and rights activists cautioned against unfairly tarring those fleeing war and persecution in their homelands, right-wing politicians across the continent have seized on such attacks as proof that it is impossible to safely assimilate so many newcomers. A video disseminated by the Islamic State-affiliated Amaq News Agency pur- Karl-Josef Hildenbrand European Pressphoto Agency Amaq News Agency GERMAN police stand guard after an attack on a train near Wuerzburg. Islamic OFFICIALS referred to the slain attacker as “R.A.,” ported to show the young assailant before the attack Monday night aboard a regional train outside the normally placid Bavarian city of Wuerzburg. In it, he boasted that he was a “soldier of the caliphate.” German officials were working to determine whether the youth with pimples and a scraggly beard in the video was in fact the attacker, who apparently concealed his weapons in a bag before bursting from a restroom on the train and hack- that attack, and French officials said even in the absence of any direct link to the group, signs pointed to a swift radicalization on the part of the assailant, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. He was described by neighbors as a drinker and womanizer who had not followed the harsh religious tenets espoused by Islamic State. The attack in Nice, which spurred intense criticism of French President Francois Hollande and the French security establishment, also State claimed responsibility; the assailant said he was a “soldier of the caliphate.” ing away at those around him. Police shot him dead when he confronted them as he tried to flee the scene after the train came to an emergency halt. Citing privacy issues, German authorities did not identify the five wounded by name, but officials in Hong Kong said that they included four members of the same family, and that two were in grave condition. Authorities did not identify the assailant by his full name because he was a minor, instead referring to him using only the initials “R.A.,” but the video introduced him as Muhammad Riyad. The attack rattled nerves across Europe, coming only four days after a Tunisianborn deliveryman barreled a 19-ton truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera resort city of Nice, killing at least 84 people and injuring more than 200 others. Islamic State also claimed responsibility for but a video introduced him as Muhammad Riyad. Strains on an uneasy alliance U.S. assures Turkey of support for its elected government and decries reports of backing for uprising. By Roy Gutman and Tracy Wilkinson ISTANBUL, Turkey — With tensions on the boil over Turkey’s demand for the handover of a Muslim cleric it blames for last weekend’s attempted military coup, President Obama telephoned the Turkish president Tuesday and assured him the U.S. does not support terrorists but will follow a lawful process before considering extradition. Obama’s phone call to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the first since the failed coup Friday by elements of the Turkish military, and his forceful words appeared to be a direct response to Erdogan’s demand Monday that “the United States has to extradite” his political nemesis and onetime ally, Fethullah Gulen. The two leaders spoke after the Turkish government announced a vast expansion of its purge, which grew to 50,000 military, police, teachers and civil servants — a fast-moving process that drew an implicit rebuke from Obama. “It’s in times like this that it’s particularly important for the Turkish government and the Turkish people to adhere to the principles of democracy they have been fighting for and that they’re justifiably proud of,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, referring to Obama’s words. Turkish officials said Erdogan replied that Turks, who turned out by the thousands to block the coup plot, had shown “great support for democracy.” He added that proceedings against those responsible will be in line with justice and the rule of law — something few in the country expect under Turkey’s politicized system of justice. Turning to the extradition demand, Obama made some other things clear, Earnest said. “The first is that the United States doesn’t support terrorists, the United States doesn’t support individuals who conspired to overthrow democratically elected governments. The United States follows the Aris Messinis AFP/Getty Images SUPPORTERS of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rally in Istanbul. The government says thousands of people have been suspended from their jobs, including 15,200 employees of the Education Ministry. ‘Such speculation is harmful to the decades-long friendship between two great nations.’ — U.S. Ambassador John Bass, on reports that U.S. supported coup attempt in Turkey rule of law,” he said. The U.S. will follow the extradition process agreed to by treaty that would also provide due process for Gulen, Earnest said. Obama spoke one day after Erdogan called Gulen a terrorist and a criminal and questioned how the U.S. could keep him in the face of an urgent demand from its NATO ally. Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, told reporters Monday that the paperwork for an extradition request was being prepared. Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, had announced he was traveling to Washington on Tuesday but canceled his plans on short notice to at- tend a meeting of the Turkish National Security Council on Wednesday. Obama’s call came two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin contacted Erdogan, a delay that bore testimony to the strained relationship. It seems unlikely to settle the dispute, which has taken on a far more bitter tone in the days since the Turkish military put down the revolt Saturday. Warning signs that it could turn into a full-blown rift appeared in the pro-government media Monday in the form of accusations that the U.S. played a passive role, even as the rebels were shutting down airports, bridges and government offices in Ankara and Istanbul and attempting to seize top government officials. Sabah, a leading pro-government daily, claimed in an editorial that Secretary of State John F. Kerry had failed in the middle of the coup to say the U.S. stood in solidarity with Turkey and urge the military to return to the barracks. But the White House and Kerry both issued strong statements during the uprising supporting Turkey’s elected government. Voicing the “gravest con- cern” about the events unfolding in Turkey, Kerry said he had emphasized over the phone to Cavusoglu “the United States’ absolute support for Turkey’s democratically elected civilian government and democratic institutions.” Media accusations continued Tuesday when Yeni Safak, a pro-government daily, claimed Kerry had extended support to the junta by saying he hoped “there will be stability and peace within Turkey.” Columnist Ibrahim Karagul said that the U.S. government had used Gulen’s organization in an attempt to trigger a civil war in Turkey. The pro-government tabloid Gunes also said that Western countries were silent while the rebellion was underway. Taking note of the accusatory tone, U.S. Ambassador John Bass decried speculation in news reports and by some public figures that the U.S. in some way supported the coup attempt. “That is categorically untrue,” he said, “and such speculation is harmful to the decades-long friendship between two great nations.” The Pentagon said Defense Secretary Ash Carter telephoned Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik on Tues- day and among the issues discussed was Incirlik Air Base, a principal launch point for air attacks against Islamic State, but which has had limited operations since the failed coup. The Turkish government cut power to the base as well as all access after it learned that aerial tankers from the base had been used for airto-air refueling for the rebel air force Friday and Saturday. There was no indication when the base would return to full operations. Although Turks of every political persuasion have voiced relief at the outcome of the weekend struggle, there were growing misgivings over the government’s mass purges in the days that followed. On Tuesday the government announced that the thousands of people it was suspending included 15,200 employees of the Education Ministry and that it had demanded the resignations of 1,577 deans of state and private universities. tracy.wilkinson @latimes.com Special correspondent Gutman reported from Istanbul and Times staff writer Wilkinson from Washington. prompted hand-wringing over the difficulty of staving off assaults by lone attackers who might have been inspired by radical ideology, even if not trained or directed by a particular group. Recent surveys have documented rising fears in Europe over immigration and security. “The refugee crisis and the threat of terrorism are very much related to one another in the minds of many Europeans,” the Pew Research Center wrote in a report released this month. In eight of the 10 European nations surveyed, half or more respondents believed incoming refugees increased the likelihood of terrorism, according to the Pew report. It notes, however, that anxiety tended to be the highest in countries that had taken in relatively few newcomers, such as Hungary. Germany absorbed more than 1 million arrivals last year, with the influx largely driven by Syria’s bloody, multi-sided conflict, but the newcomers also included about 150,000 Afghans. Public sentiment in Germany initially backed Chancellor Angela Merkel in welcoming them, but support has waned considerably, especially after a wave of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults against women in the city of Cologne and other locales. By some accounts, the train attacker had appeared to be settling into a new life. After requesting asylum, he received a temporary residence permit this year, German media reported, and was placed in a foster home just weeks ago, after spending his initial months in a group residence for unaccompanied minors. Having secured an apprenticeship in a bakery, he was seeking a spot in a jobtraining program, the German news agency DPA reported. That hopeful-seeming trajectory was a sharp contrast to the furious diatribe in the video that Islamic State distributed, which appeared to have been selfrecorded by smartphone. “I will fight you so long as I have a vein that beats, and I will slaughter you with this knife, and I will cut your necks with axes, God permitting,” says the youth in the video, speaking in Pashto, one of Afghanistan’s two main languages. Specific clues as to the motive were slow to emerge. German news reports quoted a state prosecutor, Erik Ohlenschlager, as telling reporters that the suspect had learned over the weekend of a friend’s death in his homeland. A spokesman for Bavaria’s criminal investigations bureau, Lothar Koehler, said a note found in the attacker’s room read: “Pray for me that I will attain revenge on these infidels.” Witnesses told police that after someone pulled the emergency cord, the assailant jumped off the train, attacking and seriously injuring a female pedestrian he encountered before police spotted him. DPA cited a witness as saying that the train’s interior resembled a slaughterhouse after the attack. [email protected] Times staff writer King reported from Washington and special correspondent Bulos from Amman, Jordan. A4 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 L AT I ME S . CO M Feeling vulnerable in France The country had already stepped up security. After the latest terrorist attack, frustration rises. By Erik Kirschbaum and Sarah Harvey NICE, France — Terrorism in France has shifted from bloodbaths at a newspaper office and a concert hall in Paris to a summer tourist hot spot on the Mediterranean. The killers have included trained attackers with automatic rifles and bombs and a man driving a tractor-trailer into an unsuspecting crowd of revelers. As France struggles to come up with an antidote to the terrorist attacks that have killed scores of people in the last 18 months — including 84 in Nice last week — its increasingly unpopular government has warned the public that the country is at war. Officials have advised that there will probably be more terrorist attacks like Thursday’s low-tech atrocity with a truck. “The reality is that France is at the epicenter of the current global terror threat,” said Raffaello Pantucci, a counter-terrorism expert and associate fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization in London. Security experts say there are several reasons France is likely to remain vulnerable. Among those: France is a major combatant in the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State extremists, with its air force bombing targets in Iraq and Syria, and France has a large number of poorly assimilated Muslim immigrants from its former colonies in North Africa — Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. With high youth un- Olivier Anrigo European Pressphoto Agency FRENCH SOLDIERS patrol the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where a terrorist attack killed 84 people last week. Security experts say some kinds of terrorism are virtually impossible to prevent. employment, some are susceptible to recruitment by the militant group Islamic State. Also, France has stirred anger in the Arab world because its government has been accused of discrimination against Muslims for laws banning head scarves in public schools and outlawing full-face veils in public. Nice has traditionally been a gateway into France from North Africa. A report by the International Center for Counter-Terrorism in April found that more than 900 French citizens have journeyed to Syria and Iraq to join forces with the extremists and at least 250 have returned. About 11,000 French citizens are on the center’s terrorism watch lists, including 2,000 with suspected direct links to Is- FOR THE RECORD Jennie Abrahamson: In the July 19 Calendar section, a review of Peter Gabriel and Sting’s concert at the Hollywood Bowl misspelled backing vocalist Jennie Abrahamson’s first name as Jenny. Kit Harington: In the July 15 Calendar section, a photo caption with an article about the Emmy nominations misspelled the last name of “Game of Thrones” actor Kit Harington as Harrington. 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France has been under a heightened state of alert for months, and heavy security was in place across the country for the monthlong European soccer championships that had finished without any incidents of note four days before the July14 attack in Nice. Under a state of emergency, authorities have the power to place those suspected of terrorist activity under house arrest without evidence and without charge, or search homes without warrants. Since 2015, 10,000 soldiers have been deployed to sensitive sites. Hollande’s recruitment drive seeks to boost the gendarme reserve to 40,000 from 28,000 by 2018. Speaking in Lisbon on Tuesday at the start of a tour aimed at reviving European Union partnerships after Britain’s vote last month to leave the 28-nation bloc, Hollande said the “first priority” of Europe is “security and defense.” Nevertheless, several people in Nice said they remained baffled that security services weren’t able to stop one man in a truck from killing so many people. Valerie Collignon, a 38year-old worker in a nail salon, said she did not think France was prepared for the war against terrorism. “We can’t protect ourselves from every madman, but we’ve got to try harder,” Collignon said. “I want to see more police patrols and more security at big public events.” Philippe Castelli, an 18year-old student in Nice, said a lot of people are angry, as evidenced by Prime Minister Manuel Valls being booed and jeered at a memorial ceremony Monday. “What kind of future do we have if these terror attacks keep happening? The president is weak, the prime minister is even worse,” Castelli said. “We need a great leader to move us forward. We’re angry and frustrated and it seems there aren’t any good options.” Several security experts said that they understood the frustration, but that some kinds of terrorism are virtually impossible to prevent. Kirschbaum and Harvey are special correspondents. Palestinian prisoners father test-tube babies Fertility clinics help their wives conceive using sperm smuggled out of Israel. By Joshua Mitnick NABLUS, West Bank — Fathiya Safadi was married less than three weeks when her husband, Ashraf, a wanted Palestinian militant, was arrested, jailed and sentenced to 21 years behind bars in Israel. Her friends suggested a divorce so she could start over and have a family. Instead, Safadi resigned herself to life without a husband at her side and childless: “I thought, this is my fate. This is my life.” But her life changed a decade later when, during a prison visit, Safadi’s husband slipped her a candy wrapper and told her to take it straight to a fertility clinic in the West Bank town of Nablus. The wrapper contained his semen and — with the aid of clinic doctors — she became pregnant and gave birth to the couple’s first child, Amir. The Safadis are among dozens of Palestinian couples who have defied jail terms and conservative social norms to become parents by undergoing in-vitro fertilization treatments with semen smuggled out of Israeli prisons. Although IVF is rare in the traditionalist society of the Palestinian territories, some have started to embrace the procedure as a way to support the cause of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails, many of whom are considered prisoners of war. For Fathiya Safadi, it is far more personal. “Even though people feel that having a baby from a prisoner is a patriotic act, I disagree. I consider Amir coming into my life as having saved me from a personal crisis,” she said. In June, she was back at the Razan fertility clinic in Nablus with 2-year-old Amir climbing on the waitingroom chairs as she nervously awaited another procedure in the hope of expanding her family. “My life had no meaning before Amir,” she said. “It was difficult. “Nothing was beautiful in my eyes. I was insecure.” In the nearly four years since the first IVF birth to a prisoner’s wife, about 50 Palestinian children have been born using the treatment, Joshua Mitnick For The Times FATHIYA SAFADI waits with son Amir, 2, in a clinic in Nablus, West Bank. He was conceived using seminal fluid smuggled out from prison in a candy wrapper. said Dr. Salem Abu Khaizaran, director of the Razan Medical Center, which pioneered treatments in the West Bank. Abu Khaizaran said that wives of prisoners began inquiring about the fertility treatments as far back as 2003, but that he was initially skeptical that it would gain traction in Palestinian society. “We were reluctant to do it because we were worried that the community will not accept such treatment,” he said. “We are a small society, and if people suddenly saw a woman pregnant whose husband is in jail, they might start accusing her of cheating.” To offset social backlash, the Razan center instructed treatment candidates to bring two representatives from each side of the family to vouch for the woman. The prisoners’ wives won religious support for the procedure from a fatwa issued by the Palestinian Authority’s religious council, which deemed the treatment acceptable if it was for a husband and wife. Though IVF treatments — which cost about $3,000 — are not covered by the Palestinian public medical plans, unlike in Israel, the Razan center offers such procedures free of charge for the wives of prisoners. About 6,000 Palestinians are in Israeli jails, many of them sentenced for involvement in violence against Israelis that includes stone throwing and bus bombings. Family members said Ashraf Safadi was wanted by Israeli forces for involvement in a Palestinian uprising against Israel, and in 2004 he was sentenced to 21 years in jail for shooting at Israelis. Among Palestinians, inmates like him are considered a cause celebre. “It’s considered a national mission and a national achievement,” said Zaid Nasser, a doctor at the clinic. “This is helping the prisoners. “They get hope from the fact that they’ll have a family waiting for them” when they get out of jail, he said. Though Israeli prisoners are allowed conjugal visits — most notably for Yigal Amir, who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 — they are not permitted for Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza Strip. So Palestinian prisoners have become creative. Holding up a plastic pen and a pitted date, Nasser demonstrated some of the improvised containers used to smuggle seminal fluid out of prisons. The sperm can survive for up to 48 hours before it needs to be frozen, said Nasser, whose clinic now is treating about five women pregnant with the children of prisoners. The Israel Prison Service did not respond to a request for comment. As Safadi caressed Amir’s tiny knuckles with her thumb in the waiting room, she recalled feeling a moment of “liberation” for her husband when she found out she was pregnant. But she also described a sort of personal liberation. Having a child suddenly conferred on her social status: She moved from her family’s home to an apartment set up by her in-laws. “My in-laws were extremely happy with Amir. Before I had no place in their family. I didn’t feel like I fit in,” she said. “Socially I changed, personally I changed, and people started looking at me differently.” The fertility center provides the IVF treatments for free as a “humanitarian” gesture to the wives of prisoners who might miss the opportunity to get pregnant before their husbands are released from jail, said Abu Khaizaran. The center does not receive any subsidies from the Palestinian government or from political groups, he said. Although the wife of a prisoner serving a life sentence would be eligible for pro bono treatments, a woman in her mid-20s whose husband is scheduled for release in 10 years would not be eligible. Safadi, who will be in her mid-40s when her husband is released, qualified. “The reproductive life of a woman is short,” Abu Khaizaran said. “If they are too old, the husband will marry another woman just to have a child.” Back in the waiting room, it was the turn of Safadi’s brother-in-law, Ali Safadi, to watch Amir after she was called to begin the procedure. The brother-in-law boasted that it was he who convinced his reluctant brother to try the procedure to preserve the couple’s marriage. “The personal part of this is that there is part of my brother with us. My brother is home with us,” he said. “I hope more will come, so when Ashraf gets out there will be three or four children.” Mitnick is a special correspondent. L AT I ME S . CO M W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 A5 Speech is the perfect fuel for a media fire [Speech, from A1] parts of her speech, but that the controversy got in the way of the message Donald Trump wanted — and needed — to convey. For a brief moment, Melania Trump’s speech seemed like a clear fit with the convention’s message — a simple, human rebuttal of the image Democrats have tried to foster of her husband as an unsteady, bigoted and dangerous man. But within minutes of her conclusion, whatever benefit the campaign had reaped began to curdle. The agent of the undoing was a recently laid-off television reporter, Jarrett Hill, who had watched the speech at a Starbucks in Culver City and had been struck by a phrase that reminded him of Obama’s 2008 speech. Eight years ago, he had thought the speech was “really beautifully written,” he recalled in an interview Tuesday. “I believe I even wrote it down or typed it,” he said, “obviously having no idea that eight years later I’d hear them again from a woman who wanted to be first lady speaking at a convention in front of 40 million people.” Hill’s tweets Monday night reporting what he had discovered spread at Internet speed through the cavernous media filing center here. The side-by-side comparison left little doubt that one passage of Trump’s speech — ironically a section dealing with honor and in- ‘If there was a mistake ... we’re better served ... to just admit it and move on. It’s a shame this is now the story.’ — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) tegrity — had been largely copied from Obama’s. In both speeches, for example, the section began with the speaker saying that her parents had impressed on her certain “values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say.” Both went on to talk about the need to pass those values to the next generation and teach young people that “the only limit” to achieving their “dreams” is their “willingness to work for them.” Similar plagiarism controversies in recent years have seriously damaged careers, both in politics and academia. In 1988, for example, then-Sen. Joe Biden was among the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination until aides to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis noticed that he had lifted part of a speech from British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. When the Dukakis operatives tipped off a reporter to the story, the resulting controversy forced Biden to drop out of the race. Nothing so dramatic is in the offing this time, but the evidence of copying undermined one of Donald Trump’s strengths — that he is the candidate of authenticity. The controversy also overturned one of Trump’s great advantages in his campaign to date — his ability to use his celebrity and mastery of social media and the cable television news cycle to shape his message without having to worry much about being filtered by the media. At a convention, the media coverage of a campaign is at a peak, with thousands of reporters eager to find any bit of news that breaks from the campaign’s prepared script. The plagiarism charges — easy to understand and Laid-off reporter breaks the news He apparently was the first to publicly note that speech repeated words of Michelle Obama. B9 quickly illustrated by sideby-side video — were perfect fuel for a media fire, and the Trump campaign’s shifting explanations served only to fan it hotter. At first, before the speech was delivered, Melania Trump had said in an interview with NBC News that she had written the speech personally, with “little help.” That was implausible from the start — writing a speech to deliver in a huge, noisy convention center before a television audience of tens of millions is a specialized skill that campaigns don’t typically entrust to candidates or their families. By the morning after the speech, Trump campaign aides had largely abandoned that claim, although they would not say who had written the speech. Instead, various factions close to Trump pointed fingers at one another — reprising the staff intrigue that had threatened to debilitate Trump’s campaign earlier in the season. On CNN, where he now works as a commentator, Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager until his ouster last month, suggested that his rival, campaign chairman Paul Manafort, should “do the right thing and resign” if he had signed off on the speech text. Donald Trump Jr. defended Manafort in an interview later in the day with CBS, saying that “you have to work with speechwriters. Those are the people that did this, not Paul.” Manafort, speaking to reporters at the campaign’s daily briefing, tried to dismiss questions about the speech. He blamed Democrat Hillary Clinton and the media for bringing attention to “50 words, and that includes and’s and the’s and things like that.” “There’s a political tint to this whole issue, and certainly we’ve noted that the Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and tried to say that there was something untoward about the speech,” he added. Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, shot back on Twitter: “Nice try, not true.” “Blaming Hillary Clinton is not the answer for every Trump campaign problem,” she wrote. There was no evidence that the Clinton campaign had been involved in the initial spreading of the story, although it certainly joined in the Democratic glee once it became widely publicized. Even as Manafort tried to minimize the problem, fellow Republicans urged the campaign to stop digging in. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called it a potential firing offense for someone on staff. “If there was a mistake there ... we’re better served, and Donald Trump’s better served, to just admit it and move on,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) told CNN. “It’s a shame this is now the story,” said Capito. By then, of the convention’s 96 hours, more than 18 had vanished into the maw of Melania Trump’s speech. That’s time Trump will never get back. 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By Nigel Duara BATON ROUGE, La. — Every morning that her husband sat behind the wheel of his police cruiser, Tonja Garafola began her day by tapping her phone to life and smiling at the text message waiting for her. It usually arrived around 7:45, and this last Sunday morning was no different. “Good morning, my love,” it said. An hour later, just as his overnight shift was winding down, 45-year-old Brad Garafola was shot dead. The East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff ’s deputy was one of three officers killed by a 29-year-old black separatist less than a mile from police headquarters in this southern Louisiana college town. On Monday, Tonja Garafola learned about her husband’s final minutes as he faced the killer, Gavin Eugene Long. Armed with an IWI Tavor SAR 5.56-millimeter rifle, Mark Boster Los Angeles Times A MEMORIAL for Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola, from left, the officers slain in Baton Rouge by a black separatist. “He wasn’t thinking of himself,” Tonja Garafola said of her late husband. Long was taking his time. He was after cops, not civilians. One officer, wounded, fell to the ground and crawled, according to authorities’ recounting of a surveillance video. Long closed in on him. “Brad knew right then he could have waited for backup — he could have thought of just his family, of us,” Tonja Garafola said. “But that’s not what he did.” “He could have stayed down, but he was never going to do that,” she said. Instead, her husband moved to intervene, al- though it’s unclear how close he was to the wounded officer. Even after he was hit, Garafola returned fire as Long continued to shoot at them. Garafola “went down fighting,” said Sheriff Sid J. Gautreaux III. Authorities believe Long, of Kansas City, Mo., was in Baton Rouge for days before the attack, which they described as militaristic in its precision. The superintendent of the Louisiana State Police called the officer killings “assassinations.” Dechia Badeaux Gerald, the wife of another slain offi- cer, took to Facebook after midnight Tuesday to thank well-wishers and write a message to her husband, Matthew Gerald. “No worries babe, [the Baton Rouge Police Department], our community, family, friends, thin blue line family and military family has our 6,” she wrote, using the military lingo for watching a person’s back. “I’m forever grateful and will never forget. I’m drawing my strength from all the love surrounding me from all directions.” Garafola was a 24-year veteran of the Sheriff ’s Office. “Of course, of course, of course I want him back,” his wife said. “But I know that when he went to [help] that other officer, he wasn’t thinking of himself. He was thinking of the officer’s family.” Garafola had four children, the eldest a 21-year-old son and the youngest a 7year-old daughter. “He’ll never get to walk his daughters down the aisle,” Tonja said. “That’s what I think about. Everything he’s going to miss. Everything he won’t be there for, because he was taken from us.” [email protected] Twitter: @nigelduara Trump has ‘nothing to offer,’ Clinton tells labor groups By Chris Megerian Hillary Clinton steered clear of the plagiarism controversy enveloping Donald Trump’s campaign Tuesday, instead heaping scorn on the Republican presidential candidate’s business record and the first day of his party’s convention. “Last night in Cleveland was surreal,” she told union members in a speech in Las Vegas, comparing Trump’s dramatic entrance — silhouetted by bright lights as rock music blared — to “The Wizard of Oz.” “Lots of sound and fury,” Clinton said. “But when you pulled back the curtain, there was just Donald Trump, with nothing to offer the American people.” When Trump says he’ll help workers and get tough on Wall Street, Clinton said, “don’t buy it.” “Donald Trump’s business model is basically fraud and abuse,” she said. She rattled off a list of Trump products that are produced outside the country, despite the candidate’s pledges to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United. States. Clinton also talked about the recent killings of police officers in Baton Rogue, La., and Dallas, an issue that has inflamed an already raw national debate over policing and race relations. “If you take aim at police officers, you take aim at all of us,” she said in an address at a union conference. “There can be no justification for killing a police officer. None — none at all.” At the same time, Clinton said police need training in the “proper use of force” and “how to build trust with the NEUROPATHY CLINIC communities they serve.” Amid her blistering criticisms of Trump, Clinton made no mention of the most talked-about story from the first day of the Republican convention — allegations that the speech delivered by Trump’s wife Monday night included lines lifted from a Michelle Obama speech in 2008. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has defended Melania Trump and accused Clinton’s operation of stoking the controversy. Clinton has been working to rally union support for her candidacy, and spoke to two organizations in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Her first speech was at a conference hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, where she pledged to defend workers’ collective bargaining rights. “Supporting and respecting public employees means supporting and respecting police officers and firefighters, all the men and women who put their lives on the line to keep us safe,” she told the union members. Clinton later spoke to Unite Here, another labor group that includes the Culinary Union, a political powerhouse in Las Vegas. The union, which declined to back a candidate during Nevada’s caucuses in February, endorsed her Tuesday. “We will deliver Nevada for Hillary Clinton,” said Geoconda Arguello-Kline, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Union. Clinton is scheduled to campaign in Orlando and Tampa on Friday, and a campaign official suggested she may announce her vice presidential pick in Florida. The on-the-record hint, Andrew Harnik Associated Press HILLARY CLINTON uses a fitting phone to take a selfie with a backer after speaking in Las Vegas. which came after days of backstage rumors, was dropped when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed Karen Finney, a spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign. Blitzer asked whether the announcement could come on Friday. “I expect that’s about right,” Finney said. Finney later downplayed her answer. “To be clear, there is no announcement set yet,” she said on Twitter. Clinton has been widely Frank Gehry reported to be seriously considering several candidates, including Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and at least two members of President Obama’s Cabinet: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Labor Secretary Tom Perez. chris.megerian @latimes.com Twitter: @chrismegerian Times staff writer Michael A. 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Ailes helped launch Fox News in 1996 and positioned it as being a “fair and balanced” network — many would say with a staunchly conservative viewpoint — that would be an alternative for viewers who believed there was a liberal bias in the established media outlets, including CNN, which had the cable news market all to itself. The approach appealed to conservatives. “We’re not programming to conservatives,” Ailes said in a 2003 interview. “We’re just not eliminating their point of view.” A political force, Ailes toiled in Republican politics as a media advisor for Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign — helping engineer the greatest political comeback of its time. He also played a major role in the presidential election of George H.W. Bush in 1988. Ailes’ ability to transform personalities worked on Fox News as well. He oversaw Bill O’Reilly, who had trouble fitting into the broadcast network news culture, into one of the most influential commentators on TV. He helped conservative radio commentator Sean Hannity make the transition to television. Megyn Kelly was a corporate litigator before she came to Fox News and became one of its biggest prime-time stars. By early 2003, Fox News Channel had passed CNN as the most-watched cable news network, a crown it has held ever since. It also became highly profitable, and Ailes was richly rewarded by becoming one of the highestpaid television news executives. That combination of political clout and financial success made Ailes a favorite of News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch. However, Ailes is viewed less favorably by Murdoch’s sons, James and Lachlan, who now have leadership roles at 21st Century Fox. They have avoided making any changes at Fox News because it has been such a reliable profit center — generating more than $1 billion in profit annually. But the sexual harassment charges appear to have led to a reexamination of Ailes’ role. Carlson’s complaint, filed in Superior Court in New Jersey this month, said Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, “sabotaged” the anchor’s career at the cable channel because she complained about a hostile working environment when she was a co-host of “Fox & Friends.” The suit also alleges that Ailes made sexual advances that were rebuffed by Carlson and that he directed innuendo-filled comments toward her. Ailes said the allegations were untrue and defamatory. Estrich, his attorney, said the news of Ailes’ possible departure has upset some of the Fox News talent who called to offer support. “I’ve heard Roger say, ‘I want you to tell everybody to be professional about this,’ ” Estrich said. “Put this aside and be professional.” The reaction is a testament to how Ailes’ personality is the force that has built Fox News into the most-watched cable news network and helped shape the public’s tendency to have their news delivered with a healthy side order of opinion and commentary. Ailes’ departure could lead to uncertainty at Fox News Channel because of the loyalty of many anchors. Some anchors are believed to have clauses in their contracts that could allow them to leave if Ailes doesn't remain in power. But Ailes’ imperial managing style has left Fox without any clear successor. One possible replacement is Bill Shine, a senior executive vice president for Fox News who has also been with the organization since its launch. 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Backed by our unprecedented 125% Guarantee, we stand behind each and every piece. the Rings,” comic book movies or slasher flicks, nothing gets closer to the source than the act of making a fan film. “In some small way, I’ve become part of this thing that was so defining, that I love so much,” Henderson, the 46-year-old storyboard artist and voice-over actor behind “The Sable Corsair,” said on a recent afternoon at his apartment in the San Fernando Valley. “It was like Adolescent Wish Fulfillment 101. I mean, we had 14 dudes show up dressed as Stormtroopers!” Since the modern fan film movement kicked off with the 1997 short “TROOPS,” a parody of TV’s “COPS” with Stormtroopers, fan films have largely been modest, homemade affairs shared among fellow obsessives well below the mainstream radar. “The studios put up with this because they don’t want to alienate the fan base,” said Christine Cuddy, a partner at the entertainment law firm Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo. “These fans can be very active on the Internet.” Boundary-pushing fan films like “Star Trek: Axanar,” however, have changed the equation. “There’s a lot of talk online about: ‘What is a fan film?’ ” said Robert Meyer Burnett, who is set to direct “Axanar” if it ever gets made. “A lot of people are saying, ‘Well, a fan film needs to be made in your parents’ basement by a bunch of friends.’ I don’t know where that notion even comes from. As technology has gotten exponentially better, if you’re clever and you employ real production methodologies, you can make something to rival what you see in television and the movies. But the difference will always be that what fan filmmakers are doing is given away for free.” Although some see “Axanar” as a David-and-Goliath battle for a form of creative expression that should be protected under fair use, others regard it as a legally questionable overreach that threatens the entire world of fan films. “If you make a fan film that’s $1 million, by definition it’s not a fan film,” Henderson said flatly. “OK, five or 10 grand — that’s fine. But once you start stepping on the toes of stuff that they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make, no reasonable person could think they’re not going to shut you down.” The fact is, no matter how much your fan film costs, the holder of the copyright can take you to court at any time if they feel you’ve stepped over the line. “If you’re saying it’s fair use, you have to comply with the fair use rules, and it’s always gray,” Cuddy said. “There’s no black line. People always want to know, ‘Can I do this?’ And you go, ‘Well, there’s a risk.’ ” Even so, J.J. Abrams, who directed “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and appeared in a video announcing this year’s “Star Wars” Fan Film Awards, has expressed support for fanmade projects. At a promotional fan event in May for “Star Trek Beyond,” which Abrams produced, he argued that litigation “was not an appropriate way to deal with the fans.” A few weeks later, CBS and Paramount issued new guidelines directed at those looking to create their own “Star Trek”-inspired works. For now, though, the “Axanar” lawsuit remains unresolved. In a statement accompanying their new “Star Trek” guidelines, CBS and Paramount said that they want to “encourage celebrations of this beloved cultural phenomenon.” Some fan filmmakers argue that rules such as these inevitably stifle creativity. But Finch, who co-directed “The Sable Corsair” with Henderson, thinks Lucas- Honor a loved one and share remembrances. placeanad.latimes.com/Obituaries film is wise to encourage fan filmmakers to play around in the “Star Wars” sandbox — within limits and on their terms. (According to the official rules of the Star Wars fan film contest, entries couldn’t be longer than five minutes, could use only Lucasfilm-supplied sound effects and music cues and had to “avoid bad language, rude gestures and other inappropriate stuff.”) “It’s great in my opinion that the ‘Star Wars’ family is embracing these fan films,” said Finch, a 33-year-old actor. “You’re never going to be able to put a gag in the mouths of the fans. So you might as well embrace it and give people the tools to showcase your brand. You never know — you could have someone who does one of these fan films that blows people away go on to direct the next ‘Star Trek’ or ‘Star Wars’ movie.” Indeed, a well-made fan film can become an attention-grabbing calling card. “TROOPS” writer-director Kevin Rubio has parlayed the success of that short into a career writing and directing for TV. Creature designer and filmmaker Sandy Collora made a mash-up of “Dark Knight,” “Alien” and “Predator” into a fan film called “Batman: Dead End.” The film debuted at ComicCon in 2003 and became a viral hit; he is now developing an independent sci-fi/horror feature, for which he has raised nearly $100,000 on Kickstarter. For both fans and studios alike, things were much simpler back in 1982, when a pair of 12-year-old kids in Mississippi named Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala set out to make a shot-for-shot re-creation of their favorite movie, “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Their seven-year DIY odyssey has since passed into fan film legend and is chronicled in the new documentary “Raiders!” “Our primary intention was just to have fun and role play,” said Strompolos. “It wasn’t to make money or sell it or do anything with it. We were just doing it for ourselves in a vacuum without any sort of guidance, teaching ourselves from an organic place. There was a purity to it that people really gravitate toward.” Though he wouldn’t mind seeing the recognition for “The Sable Corsair” open up a few doors in his career, Henderson says the film ultimately came out of a similar place of love. “No matter what happens from this point forward, I got to make a ‘Star Wars’ movie with my best friends, with real Stormtroopers and Boba Fett, where they made ‘Return of the Jedi,’ ” he said. “I win.” josh.rottenberg @latimes.com L AT I ME S . CO M W E D N E SDAY , J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 A9 A haven for migrant students [Belmont, from A1] dents came from Central America — many of them as unaccompanied minors. They crossed the border to reunite with mothers and fathers or to find refuge from unprecedented gang violence at home. Some dare to dream they will find success in America, not just the means to survive. Belmont Principal Kristen McGregor said it has forced the school to reimagine its role in its students’ lives. “Our students, a lot of them have to work. A lot of them have to send money home or pay for rent,” she said. “This is going to take a rethinking of education in general. Sure, they get into school, but what’s next? How do we support them?” She first noticed a surge of students from Central America in the spring of 2013. Some of the Guatemalan students spoke only indigenous languages, such as Quiche and Mam. She bought a Quiche dictionary. For the hungriest, McGregor turned a bookcase into a food pantry stuffed with canned peas, Sloppy Joe sauce and dried fruit. When some students ended up homeless, she found places for them to stay. “They come here to have a better life, but that’s not always the case,” McGregor said. Photographs by :: Marcos grew up in an indigenous village called Huehuetenango, a poor community where most residents speak Chuj. When he was 5, his mother and father fell ill. There was no doctor in town, and they died. Orphaned, Marcos was taken in by a neighbor. She kicked him out when he was 12. “You’re a man now,” she said. “You have to find your own way.” Marcos shined shoes to scrape together a living. He earned enough money to put himself through the better private school in his village, where he learned to read and write in Spanish. A year later, work dried up, and the teenager set his gaze north. He called up a half-brother who lived in L.A. Marcos had never even been to Guatemala City. He wore a T-shirt and pants for the long trip. He forgot to take a backpack. Like most children who make the journey to the U.S. without a parent or guardian, a smuggler — often referred to as a coyote — is paid to guide them along the trip. Marcos spent three days lost and without water in the Sonoran Desert. He didn’t eat for a week. At one point, he fainted. The smuggler abandoned him after he fell behind. He made it to Falfurrias, Texas, where Marcos said he was kidnapped by two men who wanted him to pay $3,000 to let him go. They spoke only English, and Marcos spoke some Spanish. They used a translation app on a cellphone, he said. Marcos said he was able to negotiate the price down to $1,000. His relative wired the money and bought him a bus ticket to Los Angeles. But immi- Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times BELMONT HIGH student Gaspar Marcos runs down the stairs of the Westlake apartment he lives in to catch a bus to work. AFTER arriving home from school, Marcos , 18, has little time to get ready for his job as a dishwasher. Marcos made the journey to the U.S. when he was 13. gration officials caught him in Arizona. He was 13 at the time, so they gave him a notice to appear in immigration court before releasing him to a half-brother he’d never met. A few months later, the halfbrothers had a falling out and Marcos struck out on his own. He got a job that paid about $5 an hour to sew clothes in a factory in downtown L.A. Later, he’d land a job at a restaurant making $10.50 an hour and he’d pay $600 a month in rent as well as a few hundred dollars for groceries. Every month, he peeled off $300 to pay off the $10,000 smuggling debt that brought him to the U.S. “What can I do?” he said in Spanish. “It’s just the life I was given to lead.” :: His formal learning cut short in Guatemala, Marcos knew that education was “the most important thing.” “If you don’t have education, nobody will respect you,” he said. “If you don’t educate yourself, you don’t have employment. I want to be a good person and have an education … have a good, stable job. I want to have a home, the sort of home I never had.” McGregor said some of the immigrant children who came to L.A. showed up at Belmont in the Westlake neighborhood almost immediately. Others enrolled a few years later, having first gone to work. Because of this, many students, like Marcos, are older than other students at their grade level. “They start here in the ninth grade, regardless of how old they are,” McGregor said. “Some finish at 19 or 20 years old.” Many of these children have ended up at Belmont High because it had a reputation for welcoming them. At Belmont, teachers contend with the trauma many of these children suffered in their countries of origin or along the treacherous journey north. Some of the students struggle against resentment and abandonment issues while getting to know a mother, father or family member who left them behind. Some run away. Some of algebra teacher Marvin Centeno’s students studied until only the third or fourth grade in their home country. 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If you do not exclude yourself, you will release any claims you may have against First American, as more fully described in the Settlement Agreement, available at the settlement website. If you are a Settlement Class Member and do not exclude yourself, you may object to the terms of the proposed settlement by August 19, 2016. For more information about excluding yourself from, or objecting to, the proposed settlement, please visit www.RESPAClassActionSettlement.com. The timeliness of requests for exclusion and objections will be conclusively determined by the post-mark date or other like proof of the date of mailing or for the delivery. The Court will hold a Hearing on September 19, 2016 to consider whether to approve the proposed settlement and a request for attorneys’ fees and expenses of up to $5,750,000 and a service award of $10,000 to the Class Representative. You may appear at the hearing, either yourself or through an attorney hired by you, but you don’t have to. For more information, call or visit the website. www.RESPAClassActionSettlement.com • 1-844-778-5951 rico Bustamante, who manages a transitional shelter for unaccompanied migrant children called Casa Libre. Bustamante helped Marcos retain a pro-bono attorney through Kids in Need of Defense, an advocacy organization that works to find representation for these children in immigration court. Marcos was allowed to stay at Casa Libre until he turned 18. A condition of staying there was attending Belmont High, something Marcos thought he couldn’t do because he wasn’t in the country legally. At school, he declined to take food from the makeshift pantry, believing other students needed it more. But he devours any advice from McGregor about improving his English. Marcos has at least one advantage over some immigrant students: He was able to receive a special immigrant juvenile visa, usually given to children who were found to have been abused, neglected or abandoned by one or both parents. That makes him eligible for legal residency, for which he’s in the process of applying. But he still struggles with balancing school and work. Many of the immigrant students attend school every day, McGregor said. But for some, work and other complications become an obstacle to education. Worried about earning enough money, Marcos rarely turns down extra work shifts. Sometimes he oversleeps and misses morning classes. Other days, he doesn’t show up at all. A’s and B’s started sinking into C’s. McGregor often turns to pleading with students like him to show up. “If you have to pay off a coyote who brought you up here, at what point does school play a role?” she said. During his second-period biology class, Marcos thumbed through two textbooks — one in English, one in Spanish — with a laptop within reach. “What are some of the plants that live in this biome?” he read out loud to himself, pulling on the top of his hair as he searched for the answer. When a student sitting next to him asked Marcos a question in Chuj, he answered in Spanish, thinking it disrespectful to leave other classmates out of the conversation. The last week of school, Marcos was in and out. McGregor pulled him aside and again urged him to come to school. On the very last day, his desk sat empty during first-period algebra, and then again during his biology class. When third-period history started, he slid into his desk. cindy.carcamo @latimes.com Bothered by knee or hip OSTEOARTHRITIS PAIN? A clinical research study for knee or hip pain caused by osteoarthritis is enrolling now. • Investigational medication for up to 56 weeks • Study-related care from a local doctor Reimbursement may be provided for travel and other expenses related to participation. 844-213-4343 www.cnstrial.com A10 W E D NE S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 L AT I M E S. C O M /O P I N I O N OPINION EDITORIALS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LETTERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herbalife’s empty promises O ne of the basic tenets of consumer goods is that companies live or die based on the demand for their products. But some companies have charted a path to prosperity by selling something else: the lure of riches hidden in their products’ sales chain. That’s been one of the keys to success for Los Angeles-based Herbalife, which sells nutrition and personal care products through a global network of ordinary people who act as distributors. But like many other companies of its ilk, Herbalife has been dogged by accusations that its distributors are actually victims of a scam designed to enrich the company and a few people at the top of the distribution chain. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Herbalife that will change the company’s practices for the better, in addition to extracting $200 million in compensation for money-losing distributors. More important, though, the settlement will make it easier in the future to distinguish legitimate approaches to this business model from scams. Known as multi-level marketing companies, firms like Herbalife typically produce household goods, cosmetics and health- and wellness-related products. But rather than wholesaling to established retailers, they recruit individuals to act as distributors by promising them a cut of the proceeds. For those people, profits lie not in selling small quantities to many customers, but in persuading friends and acquaintances to buy large supplies that they, in turn, distribute within their social circles. And therein lies the problem, because the same approach is the hallmark of a pyramid scheme — a scam that doesn’t produce wealth, but simply transfers money from new recruits to those who signed up before them. At some point the supply of new recruits dries up and the scheme collapses. Herbalife admits no wrongdoing, and in fact characterizes the settlement as validation of its business model. But the FTC’s complaint pulls together statistics from Herbalife’s own financial reports and statements to paint a damning picture of the company’s operations. According to the complaint, the “overwhelming majority” of distributors who try to sell Herbalife products to actual consumers make little or no money doing so. And those who try to profit off the rewards the company offers for signing up new distributors largely fail to do so as well; more than half of Herbalife’s elite distributors in 2014 received an average reward payment of less than $300 for the year, according to the FTC. (Herbalife says the agency’s figures are inaccurate.) That helps explain why nearly half of Herbalife’s U.S. distributors quit each year, and why more than half of the distributors “stop ordering Herbalife products within their first year,” the complaint says. The settlement with the FTC sets at least two key standards for Herbalife, and by extension every other multi-level marketing company that wants to avoid a lawsuit by the feds. The first is that the incentives offered to distributors have to be tied to sales of the product to bona fide consumers. In other words, distributors can’t be rewarded for funneling products onto other middlemen; companies must have a stake in the success of their products at the retail level. The second is that the materials Herbalife uses to attract distributors can’t promise a better life than the company can actually deliver. The FTC’s complaint cites promotional videos by Herbalife that show “images of expensive houses, luxury automobiles and exotic vacations,” while offering testimonials from distributors who claimed to be making six- and seven-figure incomes. A pyramid scheme may be so desperate to recruit new participants that it has to grossly inflate its returns, but a legitimate business should be able to entice people with its actual results. Sadly, the FTC’s investigation into Herbalife apparently was triggered by a complaint from a hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman, who bet more than $1 billion on Herbalife’s stock tanking. Although Ackman has said he was trying to stop a predatory company with “phantom, or fictitious, customers,” he stood to gain heavily if the FTC had sought to shut down the company. The end result leaves Herbalife in business, which won’t help Ackman, but with new strictures that will protect those who might be tempted to sign on as distributors — and, with the right amount of diligence by the FTC, anyone else trying to discern a real business opportunity from a pyramid scheme. Ban the Russians from Rio T he use of performance-enhancing drugs at the top levels of sports is a persistent and intractable problem. But the Russians have raised the sordid practice to an art form, according to an independent report released Monday. Commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the report confirms the core accusations of Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia’s laboratory responsible for certifying that athletes have not used banned substances. It says that instead of ferreting out cheaters, Rodchenkov was personally involved in a scheme that reached to the top levels of the Russian sports ministry to cover up the use of banned substances by dozens of athletes who competed in the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics, as well as the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow and the 2015 World Championships of swimming in Kazan, Russia. How did they cover up the cheating? In part, by making false assertions that athletes’ tests were clean, according to Monday’s report. When a sample tested positive for banned substances, the deputy minister of sport would determine whether to protect or report the cheating athlete. In what sounds like an episode from the old “Mission: Impossible” television show, the Russians also turned to an agent of the Federal Security Service (a successor to the infamous KGB) to spirit dirty urine samples out of a secured testing room at the Sochi Olympics, circumvent the supposedly tamper-proof container seals and replace the tainted samples with frozen-and-thawed urine collected before the athletes began doping up. The investigation by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren was conducted over 57 days — an insufficient amount of time, he said, to identify individual athletes who benefited from the cheating. The anti-doping agency has commissioned McLaren to keep digging and file as complete a report as possible. That’s a welcome step. Yet the scope of the cheating already revealed means that the International Olympic Committee has a decision to make. With the Summer Olympics set to begin in Rio de Janeiro next month, anti-doping groups are urging a blanket ban on participation by Russian athletes. The International Assn, of Athletics Federations, which oversees world track and field athletics, already has barred the Russian team from international competitions — including the Olympics — because of a related doping scandal. (Russia has appealed the ban.) The IOC’s executive committee said Tuesday that it is seeking advice on its legal options, including banning all Russian athletes from the Rio Games, and that it is urging the international sports community to not schedule any events in Russia. The committee also announced it will not issue credentials for the Rio Games to members of the Russian Ministry of Sport, has created a disciplinary commission to review the 2014 Sochi doping tests and will not plan or support any competitions in Russia. Banning the entire Russian delegation from the Summer Games raises an interesting question about individual versus group punishment, and whether athletes who have not been found to have been doping should suffer for the dirty dealings of others. Collective guilt treads on dangerous ground, and risks denying due process. But as the World Anti-Doping Agency noted, the details in the McLaren report, along with allegations by Rodchenkov and others, make it clear that cheating is so rampant within the Russian athletic system — 580 positive tests covered up across 30 different sports — that a presumption of innocence may be misplaced. The IOC should, if its bylaws allow, ban the entire Russian team from Rio. Why did the Russians cheat at such an epic scale? Apparently, a misplaced sense of national pride. After what McLaren described as a “very abysmal medal count” at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the Russians decided to cheat to avoid a similar embarrassment at the 2014 Winter Games it hosted on its own territory in Sochi. Russia, unsurprisingly, denies that it has engaged in systematic cheating and has attacked Rodchenkov’s credibility. Yet it also suspended at least four high-level sports ministry officials. It would be naive to think doping is limited to Russia. Just look at the parade of suspensions among professional American athletes caught using banned substances, not to mention the fall of cycling legend Lance Armstrong. It would be naive, too, to think that banning Russia from the Games will end the problem. But it would send the necessary message that cheating is unacceptable, even if it is just for the sake of sport. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND PUBLISHER Davan Maharaj News MANAGING EDITORS Marc Duvoisin, Lawrence Ingrassia DEPUTY MANAGING EDITORS Colin Crawford, Megan Garvey, Scott Kraft ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS Christina Bellantoni, Shelby Grad, Kim Murphy, Michael Whitley FOUNDED DECEMBER 4, 1881 Opinion Nicholas Goldberg EDITOR OF THE EDITORIAL PAGES Juliet Lapidos OP-ED AND SUNDAY OPINION EDITOR Mark Boster Los Angeles Times ALTON STERLING is memorialized outside the store in Baton Rouge, La., where he was killed. A real conversation Re “The racial divide in Baton Rouge,” July 19 Every media outlet, every law enforcement agency, every publicized comment from a citizen, every politician’s news release agrees how outrageously wrong are the latest killings of police officers in Baton Rouge, La. I can do no less than concur. However, someone needs to say — as I do now — that until law enforcement agencies across the country mention not only the names of the too many officers killed, but also the names of civilians recently killed by police that are excused as being “within department policy,” and until many officials cease their oblique blame of President Obama for these problems, then we are not actually having a national conversation about these issues. We are simply accepting the conditions of the police state we live in. How brave we are. Bob Loza Burbank “Certainly,” Ernest Hemingway once observed, “there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.” Hemingway was talking about war and the battlefield. The shooters in both Dallas and Baton Rouge were products of expert military training and the hunting of armed men in U.S. war zones overseas. As Martin Luther King Jr. said of a different war in an equally terrible period of American history, “The bombs in Vietnam explode at home.” Could the same be true of the bombs in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan? Leigh Clark Granada Hills :: Guns don’t kill people. People with guns kill people, and we can’t ban people. Patricia Freter Yucca Valley :: Re “The thinning blue line,” editorial, July 19 In regard to the strained relationship between police and the black community, The Times asks, “So what to do about it?” For starters, how about doing what officers ask you to do? Your editorial calls the recent shootings of police officers “reprehensible” and “indefensible,” and then the rest of the piece places the blame for these disasters squarely on law enforcement policies. As for your call for better accountability, the recent acquittals of the Baltimore officers prove that charging them in the first place with crimes related to the the death of Freddie Gray was a supreme example of over-reaction on the part of the state’s attorney for the city. One thing is very clear now: If there’s ever a time to support your local police, this is it. Charles Reilly Manhattan Beach ago become ridiculous. It began about the time that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because, just a few months into his first term, he had not yet used thermonuclear weapons. I look forward with great anticipation to see all the honors that will arrive at the White House in the next few months to adulate this president for things he has done, things he might have done, things he didn’t do and things he shouldn’t have done. Ermanno Signorelli Mar Vista Crest :: At first blush I agreed with Alex Berezow and Tom Hartsfield that President Obama should not have had a paper published in a scholarly journal. But upon examination I found the authors of this piece not as objective as I first thought. Berezow is with the American Council on Science and Research. Its backers have included the Koch brothers, tobacco companies, Big Pharma, Monsanto Co. and ExxonMobil Corp. The group, which has a decidedly conservative bias, has claimed that there’s no scientific consensus on global warming, no evidence that secondhand smoke can lead to heart problems, and that fracking doesn’t pollute water or air. Hartsfield writes for RealClearScience, which has a similar point of view. Watching, reading and listening to media nowadays obviously requires greater skepticism than ever. Hal Rothberg Calabasas :: The president is not a scientist, and I can’t imagine that the readership of JAMA believe that he is. The editors of the journal felt Obama’s paper was important enough to publish. I can’t imagine that any reader would put this in the category of “the discovery of DNA or black holes.” Patrick A. Mauer, MD Pasadena Barack Obama, doctor in chief? Donald Trump’s insecurity and us Re “The president is not a scientist,” Opinion, July 18 Re “Mixed signals and missed chances,” news analysis, July 19 With the publication of an opinion piece by Barack Obama in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., a new title has been bestowed on the president: physician in chief. Where will it end? There are so many organizations and institutions that are eager to bestow titles and awards on this president while he is in office that it has long I can’t help but be struck by the irony in presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s messages that he is “tough” and that he will “make America safe again.” Trump’s knee-jerk reactions to any perceived slight speak to a level of insecurity unmatched in any presidential candidate in U.S. history. Yet he would have us believe this behavior betrays a “toughness” that will make America safe. I would argue the opposite. More disturbingly, Trump’s reactions are so predictable that foreign powers will have no problem manipulating him. Several months ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly praised Trump; as expected, Trump swooned at the compliment. Now Putin understands how false praise (or insults) can be employed against Trump to manipulate him. Far from making America safe, Trump’s fragile ego will have the direct effect of making the world far more dangerous. Matthew Singerman Newbury Park :: I heard excerpts from Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night and Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democrats’ convention in 2008. While it is likely true that each of them were taught to work hard, keep their word and respect others, those are all the usual core values taught by parents to children. Given that Melania Trump probably did not write her own speech, it was her speechwriter’s parents who apparently missed, “Thou shalt not steal.” Michele Hart-Rico Los Angeles Taxpayer funding for antibiotics Re “Deadly medical disaster slowly unfolds,” July 12 Can the government encourage the development of new antibiotics? Not only can the government do so; it must. As an infectious diseases physician, I see too many patients dying from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A purely market-based approach can no longer deliver the goods, as pharmaceutical companies develop more profitable drugs instead of antibiotics. If the government fails to offer appropriate incentives, the new antibiotics our patients need will not be brought to market. Tax credits targeted to antibiotics that would address unmet medical needs — such as those proposed in the Reinvigorating Antibiotic and Diagnostic Innovation Act by Reps. Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) — would have a critical impact. Antibiotic-resistant infections cost our health care system more than $20 billion annually; this is money that could be saved if we had new, safe and effective antibiotics. Inaction is not an option. Henry Chambers, MD San Francisco Why print the villain’s photos? Re “Caught in a ‘net of shame,” July 19 An obviously beautiful young woman (a Playboy model) invades another person’s privacy by taking a photo of her showering at a gym and posts it with her ugly comments. The beast shows itself, but The Times reports on the disgusting act while publishing not one, but two publicity photos of the young woman. What does this say about The Times’ values? I for one am appalled at both the young woman’s actions and The Times’ handling of the story. Chris Keller West Covina HOW TO WRITE TO US Please send letters to [email protected]. For submission guidelines, see latimes.com/letters or call 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511. L AT I M E S . C OM / O P I N IO N W ED N E S DAY , J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 A11 OP-ED A big reveal on political ‘dark money’ REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Must the show go on? By Ann M. Ravel D Los Angeles Times Opinion has asked columnist Doyle McManus and other political observers to send their thoughts on the Republican convention in Cleveland as it unfolds. A failure so far By Doyle McManus A modern political convention, now that it’s no longer about choosing a nominee, is supposed to be a well-crafted infomercial — a four-day miniseries that energizes party loyalists and attracts undecided voters into their camp. By that measure, Donald Trump’s shambolic gathering is failing. It isn’t unifying the Republican Party. It isn’t making Trump more appealing to skeptics. It hasn’t offered much solace to audiences who feel demeaned by some of Trump’s language: women, African Americans, Latinos. Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has said his goal this week is to “expand” voters’ view of Trump and win some converts, just as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. And yet he started off the festivities by denouncing Ohio Gov. John Kasich — who is not attending the convention — as “dumb, dumb, dumb.” “When is John Kasich going to grow up?” he asked. Then the Trump majority refused to give minority #NeverTrump delegates a roll call vote on rules changes, even though they were almost certain to lose. “He’s shown us that we’re not wanted,” said Kendal Unruh, a Ted Cruz delegate. Meanwhile, the convention speakers have focused more on the depredations of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than on the hitherto undetected virtues of the man the GOP nominated Tuesday. A parade of politicians and minor celebrities accused Obama of ignoring terrorism (not really true) and presiding over higher crime rates (definitely not true). One, soap opera actor Antonio Sabato Jr., said after his speech that he is “absolutely” sure Obama is a Muslim (also not true). Slamming the other party is a compulsory exercise at a political convention, of course. And loathing Clinton may be the glue that holds the GOP together. But many of the speakers nearly forgot to talk up the man they want to be president. “One remarkable thing about this campaign is that you have a large number of undecided voters, mostly because they don’t like either candidate,” GOP pollster David Winston told me. “Those voters don’t know how to choose between them. They need a framework for making a decision. And the convention can help provide that.” But, he added, “It can’t just be about why the other side is wrong. The candidates … have to define their visions of a future for the country.” That’s a good description of what’s been missing from Trump’s campaign, and an explanation for why he’s lagging behind Clinton in all but a few polls. Manafort says Trump needs a “bounce” from the GOP convention to open a path to victory in November. The way his week has gone so far, he’s not going to get one. [email protected] Melania’s plagiarism By David Litt I n the words of Melania Trump, “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” This is something I thought about often four years ago, when I was part of the speechwriting team at the Democratic National Convention. There were about a dozen of us responsible for the remarks of just about anyone without an “OTUS” in their job title. Every speech was subject to thorough quality control. First, strict time limits were imposed — if a speech was long, even by a single word, it would be sent back for revisions. Next, drafts were edited by Jeff Nussbaum and Ken Baer, two veteran writers. After that, speeches were fact-checked by the research department to make sure they were accurate. The message was clear: It’s important to get even the little things right. As Melania Trump once said, “God is in the details.” Apparently, her husband never got the message. On Monday, we saw what happens when a political team leaves quality entirely to chance. Trump counterprogrammed his own convention with interviews on the Golf Channel and Fox News. A 45-minute opus from retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn pushed Sen. Joni Ernst out of prime-time. And Melania Trump Angel Boligan Cagle Cartoons delivered remarks that were plagiarized from Michelle Obama’s, eight years before. On a campaign, disorder leads to minor embarrassments. But in theory, the next stop for the Trump Train is the White House, a place where even tiny mistakes have enormous consequences. Imagine Melania’s speechwriting team responding to a mass shooting. Imagine this lack of competence — and even more, this lack of interest in competence — transplanted from a greenroom to the situation room. A spouse’s plagiarized speech doesn’t tell us much about a candidate. But the missteps that lead to plagiarism speak volumes. David Litt wrote speeches for President Obama from 2011-2016, and is currently the head writer/producer for Funny or Die D.C. The coming coup By James Kirchick A mericans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story — the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil — should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Trump were to win the presidency. Trump is the most brazenly authoritarian figure to secure the nomination of a major American political party. He openly expresses his support for all manner of strongmen and his campaign manager, Manafort, has actually worked for one: former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. At the convention on Monday, Manafort put some of the tricks he learned overseas as a dictator-whisperer to good use, employing underhanded tactics to avoid a roll call vote on the convention’s rules package and removing language from the party platform expressing support for Ukraine’s democratic aspirations. Throughout the campaign, Trump has bragged about ordering soldiers to commit war crimes, and has dismissed the possibility that he would face resistance. “They won’t refuse,” he told Fox News’ Bret Baier earlier this year. “If I say do it, they’re going to do it.” Oh really? Blimpish swagger might fly within the patriarchal confines of a family business, a criminal operation (the distinction is sometimes blurred) or a dictatorship. It does not, however, work in a liberal democracy. Try to imagine, then, a situation in which Trump commanded our military to do something stupid or illegal. Something so dangerous that it put the lives of Americans and the security of the country at risk. (Trump’s former rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio, said the U.S. could not trust “the nuclear codes” to an “erratic individual.”) Faced with opposition from his military brass, Trump would perhaps reconsider and back down. But what if he didn’t? In that case, our military men and women, who swear to uphold both the Constitution and a civilian chain of command, would be forced to choose between obeying the law and serving the wishes of someone who has explicitly expressed his utter lack of respect for it. They might well choose the former. “I would be incredibly concerned if a President Trump governed in a way that was consistent with the language that candidate Trump expressed during the campaign,” Gen. Michael Hayden, who served as head of the CIA and NSA under President George W. Bush, said in response to Trump’s autocratic ruminations. Asked by Bill Maher what would happen if Trump told soldiers to kill the families of terrorists, as he has promised to do, Hayden replied, “If he were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would refuse to act.” Such a scenario is unimaginable under a President Hillary Clinton, who, whatever her faults, would never contemplate ordering a bombing run or a nuclear strike on a country just because its leader slighted her small hands at a summit. Trump is not only patently unfit to be president, but a danger to America and the world. Voters must stop him before the military does. James Kirchick is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative. His forthcoming book is “The End of Europe.” Who’s not at the convention By Mickey Edwards T here are no Ronald Reagans in Cleveland this week, no Jack Kemps. There are few neo-cons, eager to promote the spread of democracy, and even fewer serious players in the Republican foreign policy establishment. Nor, most surprising, are there many members of the #NeverTrump movement, those Republicans, like Kasich and Jeb Bush, who are not only appalled by Trump’s ignorance and bigotry but willing to oppose him because of it. Instead the convention has become a battle between two more narrowly defined elements: on the one hand, the coalition of actual Trump supporters and their enablers at the Republican National Committee, and on the other hand, Cruz supporters trying less to block Trump than to reconfigure the nomination process to secure the brass ring for Cruz four years from now. This is why people like Bob Dole have given their support to Trump: He may be awful, scary, stupid, but at least he’s not Cruz. Or, for others, Trump is incompetent and unhinged but at least he’s not Hillary Clinton. This is not 1964 or 1976, where the Republican conventions provided a framework for ideological confrontation — what does our party stand for; what policies make most sense for America? The convention unfolding in the Quicken Loans Arena is at least in part about who is least loathsome. Do we despise Trump more than we despise Cruz? Do we hate Trump more than we hate Hillary? Do we hate hate more than we hate Democrats? Mickey Edwards is a former member of the House Republican leadership. ark money — campaign spending from undisclosed sources — is seeping into the 2016 election at a rate unmatched in U.S. history. Sham nonprofit organizations and limited liability companies put blinders on voters. And as I’ve seen firsthand during my three years on the Federal Election Commission, misguided court decisions plus my pwm agency’s dysfunction have completely hampered the ability to ensure accountability in election spending on a nationwide level. Voters have a right to know who is paying for a political campaign before they go to the polls. Given how easily dark money is shuttled around the country, a national solution would be best. But until that happens, states and cities can take steps to improve transparency in campaign spending. In California, where I used to chair the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission, strong state campaign finance laws and a commitment to enforcement exposed who was spending millions on campaigns. As a result, dark money in California has been kept to a minimum. A notable example came in 2012, when the FPPC investigated the largest anonymous donation in the history of California politics. Ultimately we uncovered a web of secretive nonprofits stretching from Virginia to Iowa to Arizona that colluded to funnel $15 million into ads about two state ballot measures. California’s robust disclosure laws led to a record $1-million fine against two of those donor groups — and would have permitted the state to collect an additional $15 million from the political action committee that spent the donations. At the time, however, California’s laws did not require disclosure of the individual donors hiding behind the nonprofits. The state Legislature passed measures in 2014 to remedy that. So this November, when Californians vote on whether to renew Proposition 30 — the tax that was one of the ballot measures targeted by dark money in 2012 — they stand a much better chance of learning who is supporting or opposing it. A new report on a study by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law quantified what a difference strong transparency laws have made in California. The study analyzed outside spending in six states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maine and Massachusetts — between 2006 and 2014. California saw by far the greatest total amount of outside spending, which includes all election spending that is not coordinated with a candidate: a minimum of $75 million in a cycle. Still, no more than $2 million of it was dark money. California, as a result of its 2014 reforms, was the only state to see dark money actually drop between 2010 and 2014. By contrast, in the five other states with weaker transparency requirements, average dark money expenditures shot up nearly threefold between 2010 and 2014. Arizona was particularly egregious; dark money there skyrocketed from about $600,000 in 2010 to more than $10 million in 2014. Unfortunately, Arizona doesn’t recognize how this is undermining its elections. In March the Arizona Legislature actually voted to significantly weaken its state oversight of anonymous campaign spending. I’ve advocated repeatedly that the federal government could learn from California. But given the gridlock in Washington, some cities and states — Connecticut, Montana, New York City and Austin, Texas — have seized the lead. Among their reforms: requiring nonprofits that buy political ads to disclose their relevant donors, and for those donors to disclose their donors. Some also require that top donors’ names appear on any advertisement. Some governments require each politically active group to name the individual who controls its election activity, which provides a starting point for uncovering the networks behind meaningless nonprofit names such as “Americans for Apple Pie.” Even California could make its laws stronger. For example, it could enshrine the public’s right to transparency in all campaign spending in the state’s Constitution as a way to advance democratic self-government and protect the integrity of the electoral process. It also could make it much easier for voters to access information about the true sources of campaign money. At the national level, we are a long way from compelling transparency in political spending from outside groups. Already, $37 million of dark money has been spent this election cycle — three times the amount spent at this point in 2012. Meanwhile, three of my fellow FEC commissioners who are ideologically opposed to campaign finance regulation have blocked the agency from updating its disclosure rules to bring this spending into the light. Ideally, curbing dark money will someday get a national solution. In the meantime, local and state measures to increase transparency can have an effect, and California’s efforts serve as a model for the rest of the country. Ann M. Ravel has served on the Federal Election Commission since 2013 and chaired the commission in 2015. latimes.com /opinion Patt Morrison Asks Ursula K. Le Guin As Comic-Con begins, an acclaimed pioneer of imaginative fiction explains how she helped change the genre. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript. A12 W E D N E S DAY , J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 WSCE L AT I ME S . CO M State’s Obamacare rates rising Monthly rates by income level Here’s what a 40-year-old single person might pay in southwest Los Angeles County for a silver, or mid-level, plan next year. Annual income Federal assistance * Anthem EPO Anthem HMO Blue Shield HMO Blue Shield PPO Health Net HMO Kaiser Permanente HMO L.A. Care HMO Molina Healthcare HMO (Coinsurance) Oscar EPO Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press “CALIFORNIA has a very competitive marketplace,” said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. Above, Lee discusses the program last year. Tuesday, saying that the competition among insurers offering coverage on the exchange was working to keep rates lower than they otherwise would be. “California has a very competitive marketplace,” said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California. Obamacare has significantly reduced the number of uninsured Californians. Since the state’s health insurance exchange began offering coverage in 2014, the share of Californians without health insurance has fallen from 17% at the end of 2013 to 8.1% at the end of last year, according to officials. Rates are expected to jump in other states too, although complete details won’t be available until later this year. An analysis of 14 metro areas that have already announced their 2017 premiums found an average jump of 11%. The changes ranged from a decrease of 14% in Providence, R.I., to an increase of 26% in Portland, Ore., according to the analysis by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. The federal healthcare.gov exchange provides in- REALIZE THE VALUE OF YOUR COLLECTION C O N S I G N M E N T D AY S July 27, Brentwood August 3, Mission HIll August 24, Studio City August 31, Brentwood Doyle Specialists will evaluate your Jewelry and Watches for auction consignment or purchase. We are always available to discuss the sale of a single object, collection or estate. We invite you to schedule a private appointment. Nan Summerfield or Emily Marchick 310-276-6616, [email protected] 9595 Wilshire Blvd, Penthouse #1012, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Bayco, Colombian Emerald and Diamond Ring. 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Next year that same person would pay $170, while the government would chip in $211 a month. “We’re paying more for less,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica. “Insurers are limiting access to doctors and hospitals while also demanding a higher price.” Horacio Chavez, 34, of Boyle Heights said he made less than $25,000 last year as an education coordinator at a youth center. He currently pays a $100 premium for a Covered California plan that he uses for an annual checkup and a safety net in case of emergencies. “I do want healthcare — I want the peace of mind that if anything happens to me that there’s some kind of coverage,” Chavez said. But “a 13% hike ... that’s going to affect people.” He said he’s already barely making ends meet trying to pay his rent, student loans from the University of Chicago, car payments and his health insurance premium. “I’m already living check to check,” Chavez said. Covered California officials defended the system surance under the Affordable Care Act in 38 states. California and a few other states operate their own exchanges. Around the country, several insurers, including giant UnitedHealth, have stopped selling health plans on the exchanges, and a number of new nonprofit health insurance co-ops have gone out of business. Those decisions have fueled charges from the law’s critics that Obamacare isn’t working. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is pushing a number of specific steps to ease price pressure on consumers, including allowing Americans ages 55 to 64 to buy into Medicare. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has argued the health law should be repealed. The health law’s next enrollment period begins a week before election day. The state and federal health insurance exchanges provide coverage to about 12 million people nationally, representing just a fraction of the nation’s total insurance market. The vast majority of Americans — more than 250 million people — are in health plans purchased through an employer or provided by a government plan such as Medicare or Medicaid. But the exchanges are a pillar of the Affordable Care Act’s program for guaranteeing Americans’ insurance coverage. And monthly premiums have become a closely watched barometer of how the law is performing. Covered California’s Lee told the House Ways and Means Committee on July 12 that 2017 would be “a transitional year” for Obamacare, with rates seeing “significant adjustments” across the nation. He said one reason for the increase was the end of a program designed to keep rates down during the insurance exchange’s first three years. The program had assessed a fee on all health insurers and then redistributed those funds among carriers whose members had the highest medical expenses, Lee said. Lee added that some insurers had also not charged enough in the first two years because they didn’t have full data on the medical costs or health status of those signing up. Now they’re adjusting to account for those higher costs. $47,520 $ 71 349 231 287 310 218 264 199 185 $0 421 302 358 381 289 335 270 256 261 332 * Applies to all plans Mia Campitelli, a Blue Shield spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the insurer’s average 19.9% premium increase was “driven by our members using more healthcare services than we expected,” as well as the phaseout of the federal mechanism that had kept rates down in the law’s early years. Anthem spokesman Darrel Ng said: “Factors such as increased use of medical services and added costs of drugs and medical therapies put upward pressure on rates and underscore the additional work that needs to be done to moderate the growth in healthcare costs.” The financial pain for most Californians getting insurance through the exchange will be muted because 90% get taxpayer assistance to cover the premiums. Americans making less than four times the federal poverty level — about $47,000 for a single adult or $97,000 for a family of four — qualify for the assistance. Nonetheless, Americans who make too much to qualify for subsidies are likely to feel the brunt of the higher premiums. That will probably increase pressure on the new president — Democrat or Republican — to review the exchanges in 2017 for ways to make health plans more affordable. A year ago, Lee wrote an op-ed in The Times saying that Covered California’s power in negotiating with insurers was allowing Obamacare to work in the state. “We now have the full picture in California, where we are proving that health insurance exchanges can keep prices in check,” he wrote. Though the Affordable Care Act has improved care for millions of Americans — for example, insurance companies can no longer set lifetime limits on care or exclude anyone because of a preexisting condition — the 6-year-old law contains few controls on overall costs. Spending on the country’s medical system averages more than $10,000 for every American, according to statistics released by the Obama administration this month, far higher than any other nation. melody.petersen @latimes.com [email protected] Times staff writer Soumya Karlamangla contributed to this report. PHOTO: LA Times Introducing the free Hot Property newsletter. Celebrity home sales and high-end real estate transactions accompanied by stunning photos. Sign up at latimes.com/HotProp $2.00 W ED NE SDAY , JULY 20, 2016 L AT I ME S. C O M/ TR AI L GU ID E ELECTION 2016 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times FOUR OF Donald Trump’s children — Donald Jr., center left, Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany — take part in the roll call of states to nominate the billionaire candidate. Trump claims nomination A night of praise and ambivalence ANALYSIS Anger, optimism vie for dominance By Cathleen Decker CLEVELAND — Donald Trump won the Republican nomination by harnessing the dour mood of GOP voters put off by the nation’s political class. Now, as he turns to the general election, he faces the challenge of incorporating something he has mostly omitted to this point — an overarching, positive vision for the country. His best opportunity to date will come during his Thursday night convention address. Hillary Clinton will have the same opportunity — and the same demand — one week later. For Trump and his fellow Republicans, crafting an appealing argument requires a How he scooped everyone A laid-off TV reporter in a Culver City Starbucks first uncovered borrowed passages in Melania Trump’s speech. B9 Marginalized no more Once insulted by fellow Republicans, Harmeet Dhillon is now a rising GOP star. B2 On the stump, not the floor Republicans facing tough reelection races keep their distance from Cleveland and the nominee. B2 $2.00 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER 7 85944 00200 5 deft touch. They must convince even parts of the country that have benefited under President Obama that what they say would be his third term — under Clinton — would be untenable. That requires a heavy dose of negativity. But history suggests that shifting gears toward an upbeat message is also a necessity. “What voters want is a message of optimism — an upbeat, positive message that tells them, to use the words of a past candidate: Americans, better days are ahead,” said G. Terry Madonna, a veteran pollster in Pennsylvania, a state targeted by Trump this fall but reliably Democratic for two [See Analysis, B10] By Noah Bierman and Mark Z. Barabak Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times “WHEN IT’S about ideas, the advantage goes to us,” Speaker Paul D. Ryan assured the often angry crowd. CLEVELAND — Setting aside another day of self-inflicted turmoil, Donald Trump celebrated his formal ascension Tuesday to the Republican presidential nomination — an achievement once seen as highly improbable and not fully assured until the roll call was completed on the second night of the GOP convention. Republicans hoped the moment would help them correct course after a muddled first day on which the dominant images were a failed revolt by resistant delegates and a plagiarism controversy involving Trump’s wife, Melania. Unlike Monday night, when amateur speakers dominated the prime-time convention schedule, Tuesday’s headliners were some of the party’s heavyweights, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the 2012 vice presidential candidate viewed by many as the GOP’s intellectual leader. But once more, a distinct ambivalence about the party’s newly minted standardbearer was evident. Ryan and others offered only passing praise for Trump, whose main virtue, many suggested, was simply the fact that he was not Hillary Clinton. The mere mention of her name automatically drew angry roars from the delegates on the convention hall floor. “Not since Baghdad Bob has there been a public fig[See Day Two, B9] OUTSIDE THE HALL Protesters are rocking and rolling, peacefully By Matt Pearce reporting from cleveland Tales from the streets outside the GOP convention, where thousands are holding their own debate over America’s future. Day 2, 10:25 a.m. I’ve never been around so many police in my life. In downtown Cleveland, there are thousands of them, roving in specially sworn patrols on seemingly every block. They might be from California, Texas or Georgia, and the units all have different uniforms — black, blue, tan. It’s got a quasi-multicultural flair, kind of like a gathering of Olympic delegations where the pole vaulters from Ukraine have guns and the power to arrest you. Which is what makes Tuesday morning’s first protest so interesting. Despite the city’s enormous police and surveillance presence, about 7:15 a.m., two women began shimmying up the two flagpoles outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which has been hosting Republican National Convention guests. The two had managed to unhook and slip past the least rock ’n’ thing imaginable: metal barricades around the hall, draped with signs that say, “MUSIC DEFIES BARRIERS.” “Slightly ironic in its own right,” said activist Collin Rees, who was assisting with the protest from the ground, and whose favorite group is the Temptations. It was immigration and anti-fracking activists who were defying the barriers this time. As police arrived about 15 minutes later and helplessly barked for the two women to stop what they were doing, according to Rees, the activists hung a 25-by-25-foot banner that said, “DON’T TRUMP OUR COMMUNITIES: Ban fracking, tear down the wall, stop climate injustice.” The flag hung slightly above the American, Ohio and Cleveland flags, which had been lowered to halfstaff for the recent killings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La. The two women, Jacqui Zepeda of Los Angeles and [See Outside, B10] Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times TREVOR LEIS of the West Ohio Minutemen militia stands guard outside the convention arena. B2 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 L AT I ME S . CO M R E P U B L I C A N NAT I O NA L C O N V E N T I O N ‘Democracy is a series of choices.... Have we had our arguments this year? Sure we have. And you know what I call those? Signs of life.’ — Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Will unity betray Ryan’s ideals? House speaker’s bid to hold party together could come at the expense of GOP’s conservative policies. By Lisa Mascaro Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times CALIFORNIAN Harmeet Dhillon opened the second night of the convention by singing the invocation in Punjabi and then translating it. Devout and determined Once insulted by fellow Republicans, Harmeet Dhillon is now a rising star. By Seema Mehta When Harmeet Dhillon first ran for vice chairwoman of the California GOP, rivals whispered that the Indianborn Sikh would slaughter a goat at the lectern. On Tuesday night, Dhillon opened the second night of the Republican National Convention by singing the invocation in Punjabi and then translating it into English. It’s a first for the RNC. But it’s not the first time the 47-year-old San Francisco lawyer has upended expectations. Born in Chandigarh, India, she emigrated with her parents to England and then to the Bronx, N.Y. Her father, an orthopedic surgeon, soon moved the family to rural Smithfield in central North Carolina. Dhillon says she was an awkward, chubby child who didn’t fit in at school. “I had two long braids and a funny name and my mother didn’t dress me in fashionable clothes. I was not popular at all,” said Dhillon. Now thin with long hair, she wore an Escada jacket and draped a silk navy-andgold scarf over her long hair when she delivered the prayer Tuesday. “Please give us the courage to make the right choices, to make common cause with those with whom we disagree, for the greater good of our nation,” she told the delegates. She was raised as a devout Sikh. “I had a very religious upbringing at home. That was very central to my life from day one,” she recalled. Her parents supported Republicans after they became naturalized U.S. citizens. Their politics were driven in part by her father’s contempt for trial lawyers because of medical malpractice lawsuits. But they also were formed by turmoil in India in the 1970s, when an insurgency in Punjab led to temple raids and attacks on some Sikhs. Dhillon’s parents hosted fundraisers for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a conservative with strong views on foreign policy. He, in turn, spoke out against persecution of Sikhs. Dhillon attended Dartmouth College, where she wrote for the college’s conservative paper, the Dartmouth Review, and ultimately was named editor. In October 1988, the weekly made headlines when it published a satirical column likening the college president to Adolf Hitler, and the effects of his campus policies to the Holocaust. A drawing on the next issue’s cover depicted the college president, who was Jewish, as Hitler. As condemnation poured in, Dhillon, then editor in chief, denied in an interview with the New York Times that the column was antiSemitic, saying critics were “trying to twist the issue to their own ends.” She said the column sought to compare “liberal fascism” with other forms of fascism and was not meant to show “callous disregard” for the Holocaust. “I’m very disturbed about the response to it,” she said. “I’m very surprised, very, very surprised.” Dhillon went to law school at the University of Virginia and worked in New York City and London before she settled in San Francisco. She grew active in Bay Area politics after hosting debate watch parties for President George W. Bush’s reelection campaign in 2004. After becoming county party chair, she ran unsuccessfully for the state Assembly in 2008. She met her future husband, Sarv, during that campaign. In 2013, Dhillon ran for vice chairwoman of the state GOP. Some Republicans castigated her for serving on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Bay Area chapter. She says she got involved in the ACLU after some Sikhs were abused in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. But some of her opposition at the state GOP was blatantly racist. Fliers at the convention called her a “Taj Mahal princess.” The goat slaughter rumors spread. The leader of a county GOP women’s group posted on Facebook that Dhillon was a Muslim who would defend beheadings. (The woman was rep- rimanded by the party and no longer holds the post.) Party leaders came to Dhillon’s defense and she won the election. Since then, she has become the public face of the state GOP while the chairman, Jim Brulte, worked to rebuild its war chest. “As she’s proven, she’s a rising star in the party and she’s also a sharp cookie and highly able,” said Charles Munger Jr., a major GOP donor. “One has to distinguish, she was elected on her merits,” he added. “She got there in spite of being a woman, in spite of being Sikh. She’s the first woman vice chair in party history. There was no royal road paved for her.” Dhillon also has an acerbic wit. Brulte recalled a 2013 fundraiser where he saw a thin man receive an award for walking precincts. “I said to the people at the table, ‘You see, when you walk precincts you lose weight,’ ” said Brulte, who is not svelte. Dhillon “spun around, looked at me and said, ‘You should walk a few.’ ” [email protected] On stump, far from Cleveland Republicans facing tough reelection races keep their distance from the nominee. By Lisa Mascaro CLEVELAND — Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio spent this week building houses with Habitat for Humanity, motivating young campaign volunteers and kayaking with wounded veterans on the Cuyahoga River. Sen. Marco Rubio was home in Florida, stumping for votes before investigating mold contamination in a federal courthouse in Pensacola. And Sen. Kelly Ayotte was busy in New Hampshire fighting the scourge of opiate addiction crushing the state. As the Republican Party gathers in Cleveland to nominate Donald Trump as their candidate for president, some key lawmakers are steering clear of the GOP convention. Usually, elected officials would be climbing over one another for the chance to deliver a prime-time speech on the convention stage or share the limelight with their party. They can hobnob with donors at swanky parties. Instead, House and Senate Republicans are set- ting aside the possible gains that come with attending a convention and charting their own route to reelection as they try to retain their majorities in Congress. “I’m supporting Donald Trump,” said Portman, a first-term senator meeting with campaign volunteers less than a mile from the convention site, as he wages a tough fight for reelection against Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland. “He could be helpful because he’s bringing more people into the party,” Portman said of Trump, saying he would make his way to the convention hall at Quicken Loans Arena this week. “But we’ll see.” The story among House Republicans was similar, as many decided to stay away from Cleveland rather than hitch their reelection prospects to Trump. Campaign officials said it makes sense for lawmakers to concentrate on their constituents at home rather than pass the week at parties and political events in Cleveland. Republican leaders remained confident they will hold the majority in both the House and Senate with Trump as the nominee. “Our members are doing what they need to do,” said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Even though it doesn’t always get as much attention Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times NEW YORK delegate Wendy Long attends the GOP convention, unlike some down-ballot Republicans. as this year’s unusual presidential contest, the downballot battle for control of Congress has become fierce, with both parties sensing an advantage because Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are so unpopular among voters. The House and Senate battles have also attracted big-money Republican donors, including the influential Koch brothers and their political network, who would rather invest in Congress than Trump. Republicans are likely to easily hold the majority in the House, where they have a comfortable margin and few seats at risk. Democrats would need to pull off a landslide to flip nearly 30 seats to retake the chamber. In the Senate, though, the majority may be in jeopardy, with Republicans defending 24 seats, including some in the key swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Hampshire and Florida that could be tough to hold with Trump on the ballot. “The word ‘volatile’ doesn’t begin to describe the fight for a Senate majority this year,” wrote veteran political analyst Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report this month. Democrats have been taking overt pleasure in linking virtually every single House and Senate Republican up for reelection to Trump’s bombastic pronouncements and policies that break from GOP orthodoxy as Republicans convene in Ohio. “They’re celebrating the most hateful, dangerous presidential nominee in a generation,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, who is in line to become the majority leader if Democrats retake the Senate, wrote in an email to donors Tuesday. A few rank-and-file Republicans running for reelection did decide to make the trek to Cleveland. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who faces a tough reelection against Democratic former Sen. Russ Feingold, was expected to attend, and another lawmaker from the Badger State, Rep. Sean P. Duffy, had a prime-time speaking role Monday with his wife. But Sen. John McCain, the GOP’s 2008 nominee, was home campaigning in Arizona, as was Sen. Mark Steven Kirk, perhaps the most endangered senator facing reelection, in Democrat-heavy Illinois. “We’re running for Senate. We’re not running for president,” said Ward Baker, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee working to keep the Senate GOP majority. “I’ve always counseled people to stay in their states,” he said at a briefing Tuesday in Cleveland. “I gave that advice in ’12, I did it in ‘16, and I’d do it again in ’20.” [email protected] Twitter: @LisaMascaro CLEVELAND — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan spent a career honing an image as one of Washington’s most serious, likable and wonkish Republicans. At a recent fundraising dinner, he dazzled finance industry leaders by sparring for more than an hour over the intricacies of monetary policy. He used his leadership position this year to turn the House into an incubator for GOP policies on poverty and taxes. During the mudslinging Republican primary, he implored presidential candidates to “raise our gaze.” Yet on Tuesday night, Ryan found himself presiding over a presidential convention that nominated a Republican nominee who could not be more different in style and substance from the 46-year-old Wisconsin congressman. As Ryan conceded just days ago, Donald Trump is “not my kind of conservative.” He previously called Trump’s attack on an American-born judge of Mexican descent the “textbook definition of racism.” And only after a very public hand-wringing did the 2012 vice presidential nominee reluctantly agree to endorse Trump with a logic that only a debate champ might appreciate: He called it a “binary choice” of either supporting Trump despite misgivings, or helping Democrat Hillary Clinton. In a convention speech Tuesday night, Ryan tried again to bring his party together, focusing largely on the risk of electing Clinton rather than the promise of Trump, whom he scarcely mentioned. “Democracy is a series of choices,” he said. “We Republicans have made ours. Have we had our arguments this year? Sure we have.” But he characterized the internal disputes as a promising “sign of life” and energy inside the party and said the time had come to unify. “This year of surprises and dramatic turns can end in the finest possible way — when America elects a conservative governing majority,” he told delegates. “So what do you that say we unite this party, at this crucial moment when unity is everything?” Ryan still faces an uphill battle for the rest of the week: Can he unify a fractured Republican convention boycotted by most of the party’s biggest names and inject some of his own traditional GOP policy prescriptions into an inexperienced, unpredictable and often hostile presidential campaign whose positions sometimes contradict long-standing Republican ideology? The task is a risky one for Ryan. While he may succeed in holding the party together, helping to elevate Trump’s White House bid, it could come at the expense of the core GOP principles that have been Ryan’s life’s work. At stake is not only Ryan’s brand as the keeper of conservative ideology of Washington, but also the future of the Republican Party. lisa.mascaro @latimes.com Twitter: @Lisa Mascaro CALIFORNIA B3 W E D N E S D A Y , J U L Y 2 0 , 2 0 1 6 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A Wage dispute stalls housing plan A COAS TA L QU E ST Governor and unions are at an impasse over pay demand as part of a push to build more low-income units. By Liam Dillon Photographs by Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times A SURFER catches a wave in Crescent City, Calif. Times columnist Steve Lopez has embarked on a summer-long trip along the length of the state to study coastal preservation. Along the way, he’ll be reviewing past victories and disappointments. Our shoreline savior Coastal Act’s 40th anniversary is a good time to see its effects STEVE LOPEZ Editor’s note: On Monday, Steve Lopez left Oregon headed for the Mexican border, on a summer-long trip to understand the forces that helped save and still threaten California’s 1,100 miles of beaches, wetlands, wave-pounded coves and rocky cliffs. Once upon a time, the California coast was up for grabs. Really up for grabs. Industry took what it could, erecting mills, oil refineries and power plants. Mega-hotels squatted on beaches. Subdivisions sprouted by the dozens. People of means built homes with backyard oceans, blocking public access and views. And then, in the 1960s, something extraordinary happened. People began demanding a halt to unregulated development, and began fighting to save what was left. On Monday morning, I stood with one foot in Oregon and one in California. Then I began the first leg of my 1,100-mile trek to the Mexican border, a summer trip along the A BIRD in Lake Earl Wildlife Area near Crescent City. The Coastal Act resulted from activism of the 1960s and early ’70s. length of the state to study coastal preservation. Along the way I’ll be reviewing past victories and disappointments with an eye toward understanding what Californians might do to make sure your greatgrandchildren can still enjoy this glorious landscape. The timing is right for two reasons. First, this is the 40th anniversary of the California Coastal Act that resulted from all the activism of the 1960s and early ’70s. Second, developers are warm- ing up bulldozers along several stretches of the coast at a moment when the state Coastal Commission has stirred up a troubling little political drama. Commissioners fired Executive Director Charles Lester in February for reasons that don’t add up. Some have challenged the science of experts as if they’re carrying water for developers. And Gov. Jerry Brown has been invisible, leaving reasonable people to assume he likes the way business at one of the nation’s most powerful regulatory agencies is being conducted. But two ethics investigations are underway involving campaign donations from an executive with the most powerful coastal lobbying firm, and two legislative reform efforts are in play, one of which would put an end to private confabs between commissioners and those who want to build something on the coast. When my plane landed in Arcata, my first visit was with former California Coastal Commission Chief Counsel Ralph Faust, who reminded me of the words of former agency Executive Director Peter Douglas: “The coast is never saved. It’s always being saved.” Douglas was right. It’s a constant battle to save the coast, not just from big industrial projects, but from hundreds of little ones where someone wants to build or expand a house that could impinge on the public’s right to access or views. But like I said, the victories are many, and they offer lessons and inspiration going forward. An hour after talking to Faust, I hiked the Ma-le’l Dunes on Humboldt Bay with Jen Kalt of Humboldt Baykeeper. This 160-acre treasure has been called one of the most pristine dune systems on the [See Lopez, B6] LATIMES.COM/lopez-road-trip >>> Follow along as Steve Lopez documents his exploration of California’s coastline. GAR RY M ARSH ALL , 1934 -2 016 Brought comic touch to TV, film From Associated Press W riter-director Garry Marshall, whose deft touch with comedy and romance led to a string of TV hits that included “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” and the box-office successes “Pretty Woman” and “Runaway Bride,” has died. He was 81. Marshall died Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank of complications from pneumonia after having a stroke, his publicist Michelle Bega said in a statement. The director also had an on-screen presence, using his New York accent and gruff delivery in colorful supporting roles that included a practical-minded casino boss unswayed by Albert Brooks’ disastrous luck in “Lost in America” and a crass network executive in “Soapdish.” “A great, great guy and the best casino boss in the history of film,” actor-filmmaker Brooks posted on Twitter. Henry Winkler, who starred as Fonzie on “Happy Days,” saluted Marshall in a tweet as “larger than life, funnier than most, wise and the definition of friend.” Richard Gere, who starred opposite Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman,” said in a statement that “everyone loved Garry. He was a mentor and a cheerleader and one of the funniest men who ever lived. He had a heart of the purest gold and a soul full of mischief. He was [See Marshall, B7] Gary Friedman Los Angeles Times ‘A SOUL FULL OF MISCHIEF’ Garry Marshall enjoyed a long string of sitcom successes including “Laverne & Shirley” and “The Odd Couple.” Among his film hits was “Pretty Woman.” SACRAMENTO — A fight over construction worker pay has left Gov. Jerry Brown and a powerful labor group at a stalemate over the governor’s plan to speed up housing development for low-income Californians, leaving uncertainty over whether a final deal can be reached before the end of the legislative session in August. Brown has proposed legislation to streamline approval for housing with units for low-income residents. The State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents ironworkers, roofers, electrical workers and other construction unions, wants Brown to force home builders to pay construction workers at rates often equivalent to union wages to qualify under the plan, something the governor is resisting. Without the higher pay rules, known as prevailing wages, Brown’s plan would push construction workers into needing low-income housing themselves, said Robbie Hunter, the head of the State Building and Construction Trades Council. “It’s bad for the state of California. It’s bad for residents,” Hunter said. “The developers are just going to pad their profits.” [See Housing, B8] Cal State funding woes linger By Rosanna Xia State budget cuts have left California State University with about 19% less in funding to spend per student compared with pre-recession years — compromising efforts to fully address student needs, university officials said. The state spends about $7,858 per full-time student, compared with $9,686 in 2007-08, adjusted for inflation, Assistant Vice Chancellor Ryan Storm told the board of trustees at a meeting Tuesday in Long Beach. The state’s final budget agreement for fiscal year 2016-17 gave Cal State about 60% of the additional funding that administrators wanted, which forced some priorities, such as student enrollment, to be downsized. Cal State received an additional $154 million from the state general fund — raising total state support for the university system to $3.2 billion — plus one-time funding increases for maintenance needs and student success initiatives. Trustees had requested an additional $110 million from the state for enrollment growth — enough to fund roughly 12,600 additional students. The final state budget plan allocated an additional $57.4 million, which will allow the [See Cal State, B6] B4 W E D N E SDAY , J U LY 20 , 2 016 L AT I ME S . CO M CA L I F O R N I A BRIEFING ROCKLIN Boy arrested in slaying of girl, 13 A teenage boy has been arrested in the killing of a girl whose body was found in her bedroom in Northern California. The 13-year-old girl was found dead Tuesday by her mother in their Rocklin home, where the suspect also lives. Rocklin Police Department spokesman Lon Milka said the girl appeared to have died from blunt force trauma. Milka said both the boy and girl lived in the home but police had not determined their relationship. —Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Man held after alleged threat Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times SASHA ALI sits outside Yucca-Argyle Apartments in Hollywood. The tenants association supports the L.A. Tenants Union, which is fighting against a November affordable housing ballot measure, saying it would create more luxury housing at the expense of renters. CITY HALL WATCH Housing plan faces new foes Tenants groups join fight against ballot measure, reject its vow to aid renters. EMILY ALPERT REYES When labor unions and community groups teamed up to back a November affordable-housing ballot measure, their plans drew a predictable set of opponents. The ballot measure, called Build Better L.A., would impose new requirements for affordable housing on real estate developers who seek to build projects bigger than city rules ordinarily allow. Business groups such as the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce said the proposal would end up making it harder and costlier to build needed housing, pointing to labor requirements they said would favor unions. Now the Build Better L.A. initiative has a new and unexpected foe: tenant activists. At a Tuesday news conference, the L.A. Tenants Union railed against the ballot proposal, arguing that it would fuel luxury housing rather than truly affordable apartments. Renters hoisted signs that read “Affordable for Who?” outside a Hol- lywood apartment building that is targeted for demolition to make way for a bigger project that would include restaurants, shops and hundreds of housing units. Activists said more renters would face displacement if the new measure is passed, despite promises to protect affordable housing. “Build Better L.A. is expediting displacement in our communities, and we need to protect the tenants who are going to be affected,” said tenant union member Elizabeth Blaney. The proposed rules would require some developments that seek zoning changes or amendments to the city general plan to either provide affordable housing or pay additional fees, according to an analysis by City Atty. Mike Feuer. Building projects funded by the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund would also have to follow new hiring and wage requirements. Feuer also noted that the proposal would limit L.A.’s ability to restrict amendments to the general plan — a city document that guides development — for real estate developments that meet affordable housing, transit and labor requirements. The L.A. Tenants Union argued that wording would make it easier and faster to build new, more expensive developments without providing enough housing for the poor and displaced. Tenants ejected to make way for such developments would not have a guaranteed right to return, the group said. “We don’t want to accept breadcrumbs that are being thrown at us,” Blaney said. Backers of Build Better L.A. say the concerns are unfounded. Laura Raymond, campaign director for the Alliance for Community Transit-Los Angeles, argued that Build Better L.A. would not take away any city discretion over big projects. She said the wording that had worried the tenant activists was meant to address any future limits on general plan amendments, not alter the existing process. The proposed measure has had firm support from several other groups that represent renters, including Strategic Actions for a Just Economy and the Coalition for Economic Survival. Larry Gross, executive director of the coalition, said that tenants don’t have a guaranteed right to return except in specific circumstances — something that the measure would not change — and that the new requirements would help protect affordable housing. Big developments can be built either way, Gross said. The ballot measure ‘is expediting displacement in our communities, and we need to protect the tenants who are going to be affected.’ — Elizabeth Blaney, L.A. Tenants Union member Without the housing and labor requirements imposed by Build Better L.A., “they’re doing it anyway — and we’re not getting these things.” Tuesday’s event was held jointly with the Yucca-Argyle Tenants Assn., whose members raised concerns about how displaced tenants would fare if their Hollywood building is torn down. Sejal Patel, who has lived in the building for five years, said she earned too much to qualify for affordable housing but couldn’t afford the planned new units either. Bob Champion, whose company is developing the new project, said Tuesday that the firm plans to re- place all of the affordable units that exist in the building and offer them to the current tenants. Like the tenants, he opposes Build Better L.A. — but said his worry was that it would destroy jobs for building companies that aren’t unionized. The L.A. Tenants Union was formed last year as renters reeled from evictions and displacement. Its concerns about luxury development echo similar arguments raised by backers of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, another upcoming ballot measure that targets bigger developments. That measure would restrict “mega developments” and curb the ability of city lawmakers to alter planning rules for individual projects. Members of the L.A. Tenants Union said it has not yet taken a position on the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, which backers now aim to put on the ballot in March. Sasha Ali, a tenant at the Argyle Avenue building, has spoken publicly at a Neighborhood Integrity Initiative event but said she and the Argyle tenant group had not endorsed it either. [email protected] Times staff writer David Zahniser contributed to this report. SURROUNDINGS ‘Pokemon Go’ raises agencies’ ire Some players of the game upset officials by seeking access to fire stations and a jail. VERONICA ROCHA “Pokemon Go” players will go anywhere to catch a virtual fictional character, even if it’s a trip to jail. The augmented reality game is the latest craze sweeping the nation, but not everybody is happy about it. Using GPS mapping on smartphones, the app allows “Go” players to hunt for the characters while out and about in their neighborhoods. Stops and landmarks have been established throughout the game, allowing players to collect loot and battle others. But that aspect of the game is part of the problem, officials said, and it’s causing headaches for public safety agencies in Los Angeles County. In just the last two days, fire dispatchers received about 100 calls from app users saying they couldn’t get into certain fire stations because they were closed when firefighters were responding to calls, said fire Inspector Richard Licon. “They couldn’t get in and called 911, asking if they Karl Mondon TNS USING GPS MAPPING on smartphones, “Pokemon Go” enables players to hunt for virtual fictional characters while out and about in their neighborhoods. could gain access,” he said. At the request of fire dispatchers, the Fire Department released a tweet asking “Pokemon” users not to call 911 for gaming questions. Soon thereafter, the calls stopped, Licon said. Licon’s message to “Go” gamers: “Although it’s not your emergency, it’s someone else’s emergency you are slowing down,” he said. Even more mind-boggling is that some players are trying to get into jail. The Covina Police Department on Thursday re- ceived two calls from “Pokemon Go” players asking if they could visit the jail because it was a “target-rich environment,” Sgt. Trevor Gaumer said. And to one request, Gaumer responded: “Absolutely not.” The two calls were enough to prompt Lt. Tim Doonan to put out a tweet advising “Go” players they could not access the jail. In a post-9/11 environment, Gaumer said police departments and fire stations are not accessible to the public because of increased security measures. “It just can’t happen,” he said. “It’s a little naive to think you can have access to a government building in this day and age.” Across police headquarters, Gaumer said he sees up to 40 players daily glued to their smartphones searching for characters at a small concrete park. The players are usually in their teens to early 20s. On Friday about 4:15 a.m., there were a handful of “Go” players already at the park fixated on the game, he said. While some law enforcement agencies have complained about the game’s unintended consequences, other departments have taken the concept and run with it. They see the game as an opportunity to connect with their community. Coronado officials placed an electronic traffic sign near the San Diego-Coronado Bridge with the message: “No Pokemon and driving.” In Fairfield, the Police Department hosted a “Pokemon Go” hunt Friday morning and invited players to help them “catch them all.” Officer Kathryn McCormick told players she picked up the game three days ago and is still learning. But she noted she has taken some funny photographs showing the fictional characters. McCormick used the opportunity to advise players about the risks that come with playing “Pokemon.” “This kind of gives us a chance to come and hang out and have fun and hopefully to get to know some of you guys and you guys get to know us,” she said. “Realize we are people just like you. We are not scary. You can come up and talk to us anytime you want to.” veronica.rocha @latimes.com A man who allegedly tweeted a threat against San Francisco’s acting police chief is in police custody, an official said. Officer Carlos Manfredi said 60-year-old Donald Hoganson was taken into custody Tuesday. Manfredi said police began investigating after a tweet posted Saturday called for beheading Chief Toney Chaplin, who is black, and included a photo of the chief beside a guillotine. He said Hoganson was taken into custody after a judge approved a warrant to search the man’s San Francisco home. Hoganson’s Twitter account is filled with photographs of swastikas and messages about white supremacy. —Associated Press LOS ANGELES Actor accused of domestic abuse Actor Tom Sizemore, known for his roles in the films “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down,” was arrested Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles on suspicion of domestic violence. Police received a report of cohabitant abuse about 8:15 a.m. in the 400 block of South Main Street, said Officer Jane Kim, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers took Sizemore into custody, and he was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Sizemore, 54, has a history of run-ins with the law. In 2006, he pleaded no contest to using methamphetamine outside a Bakersfield motel and was sentenced to 36 months’ probation. Los Angeles police arrested him twice in 2009: once on suspicion of battery on a former spouse and the other time on suspicion of transporting or selling a controlled substance, according to arrest records. In 2011, he was arrested on charges of battery on a former spouse. Most recently, Sizemore was reported to be driving a vehicle that ran over a stuntman on the set of the new TV show “Shooter.” Sizemore reportedly didn’t see the stuntman while filming at Agua Dulce Airpark. The stuntman suffered major injuries, Los Angeles County fire officials said. — Veronica Rocha Lottery results Tonight’s SuperLotto Plus Jackpot: $18 million Sales close at 7:45 p.m. Tonight’s Powerball Jackpot: $361 million Sales close at 7 p.m. For Tuesday, July 19, 2016 Mega Millions Mega number is bold 3-34-54-65-66—Mega 4 Jackpot: $25 million Fantasy Five: 3-15-17-20-24 Daily Four: 4-3-9-0 Daily Three (midday): 1-9-0 Daily Three (evening): 4-1-5 Daily Derby: (4) Big Ben (1) Gold Rush (2) Lucky Star Race time: 1:46.25 Results on the Internet: www.latimes.com/lottery General information: (800) 568-8379 (Results not available at this number) L AT I ME S . CO M W E D NE S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 B5 CITY & STATE Obama and Biden endorse Harris Support strengthens her U.S. Senate race and adds new hurdle for rival Sanchez. By Phil Willon SACRAMENTO — President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that they are backing state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, a longtime political ally of the president, in California’s historic Democrat-on-Democrat U.S. Senate race. The president praised Harris as a “lifelong courtroom prosecutor” who fought international gangs, oil companies and the big banks responsible for the mortgage crisis. “Kamala Harris fights for us. That’s why I’m so proud to endorse her for United States senator,” the president said in a statement released by the Harris campaign and Democratic National Committee. “And if you send her to the Senate, she’ll be a fearless fighter for the people of California — all the people of California — every single day.” For Harris’ rival, Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez, the endorsements add another political obstacle to the many she must overcome by the November election. Sanchez, who has served in Congress for two decades, said in a statement released by her campaign Tuesday evening that she was “disappointed” that Obama picked sides in a race between two Democrats. Instead, she said, he should be focused on defeating Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “I believe that California voters are deeply concerned about the entrenched political establishment which has failed to work for them. Yet, it has been clear for some time that the same political establishment would rather have a coronation instead of an election for California’s next U.S. Senator,” Sanchez said. “California’s Senate seat does not belong to the political establishment — it belongs to the People of California, and I believe California voters will make their own independent choice for U.S. Senate in November,” she said. The president’s nod caps a string of major endorsements for Harris, the candidate of choice among the Democratic Party’s power barons and some of the left’s most influential interest groups. It also sends a clear signal to Democratic donors, many of whom have stayed on the sidelines this election. Harris already has won the support of Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Democratic Party, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a favorite of the left. Sanchez supporters expressed dismay that the administration would attempt to tip the scales in this intraparty contest. “In this historic Democrat versus Democrat race, we have two strong, qualified women of color and it is unfortunate that instead of letting the voters decide, the Democratic party along with President Obama are picking sides,” said Martín Diego Garcia, director of the Campaign for Latino Victory Fund, a political action committee that supports Latino candidates. Lori Cox Han, a political science professor at Chapman University in Orange, said the endorsements by Obama and Biden solidified the message that Harris was the Democratic Party’s chosen one. “It just kind of says that it’s really not going to be that competitive going forward,” she said. If Sanchez had the ability to mount a serious challenge, that would have become apparent in the June primary, Cox Han said. Sanchez finished a distant second with 19% of the vote, compared with the 40% nabbed by Harris. Sanchez supporter John Harris, the Republican owner of Harris Farms in Coal- inga, said he still thinks the congresswoman has a chance if she can stitch together support among enough Southern California Democrats, Latinos, moderates and Republicans. “Loretta Sanchez has a path to victory, if she can get there,” said Harris, whose farm was home to the 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, California Chrome. The impact of Obama’s endorsement will be “neutral” in the Central Valley, he said. Harris is largely perceived as part of the “elite San Francisco establishment,” and along with the president has been unsympathetic to the water issues faced by California’s farmers and ranchers, he said. Harris has more than a 3-to-1 edge over Sanchez in fundraising and easily topped a crowded field of Senate candidates in the June primary. The attorney general also held a 15-percentage-point lead over Sanchez in the latest Field Poll. The two Democrats will face off in the November election, setting the stage for the highest-profile contest between two members of the same party since California adopted a top-two primary election system. Harris’ ties to Obama and his administration stretch back more than a decade, even before he burst onto the national political scene. While she was still the San Francisco district attorney, Harris supported and raised money for Obama when he ran for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. She later served as the California cochair of his upstart 2008 presidential campaign. Obama reciprocated by helping to launch Harris into the national spotlight when Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times AS SENATOR , Kamala Harris would be a “fearless fighter” for California, President Obama wrote. he gave her a speaking role at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in North Carolina. The next year, the president landed in hot water when he called Harris the “best-looking attorney general” in the country during a Democratic fundraiser in the Bay Area. The president called Harris the next day to apologize for the remark and the distraction it caused. Because of that political allegiance, it would have been more surprising if Obama hadn’t endorsed Harris, said John Hanna of Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, which supports Sanchez. The Orange County congresswoman backed Hillary Clinton in her 2008 campaign against Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, so that also could be a factor, Hanna said. “The president and vice president are stand-up guys,” Hanna said. “They reward loyalty.” Hanna said he was thankful that the endorsement was announced this week, predicting that it would get lost in the blizzard of news coverage of Trump and the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. philip.willon @latimes.com Twitter: @philwillon Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times A SEWAGE SPILL in Boyle Heights flowed into the Los Angeles River, prompting beach closures in Long Beach, above, and Seal Beach. Sewer line splits; spill worsens Ruptured pipe breaks again as workers try to fix it. Beaches remain closed to swimmers. By Veronica Rocha, Alexia Fernandez and Matt Hamilton A damaged sewage line spilled a total of about 2.4 million gallons of untreated waste into the Los Angeles River and has forced the closure of all beaches in Long Beach and Seal Beach, officials said Tuesday. The sewage line began leaking Monday about 2 p.m. and was stopped late that night, but the cracked pipe split again Tuesday as repairs were underway, said Tonya Durrell, a spokeswoman for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works. The overflow, which occurred near 6th Street and Mission Road in Boyle Heights, was fully stopped Tuesday afternoon, Durrell said. Officials said the top of a 5-foot sewer pipe collapsed, sending debris into the pipe. The clog then caused the sewage to overflow. The spill sent millions of gallons of waste into the river, a 51-mile waterway that snakes through Los Angeles County, ending in Long Beach. Using pumps, workers were able to capture about 750,000 gallons of sewage before it reached the river, Durrell said. Officials don’t know what caused the break, but the large sewer line was built in 1929, said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant director of Los Angeles Sanitation. “This happening is just a part of the maintenance system,” Hagekhalil said. “Something grows old, you have to repair it or replace it.” Sanitation workers on Tuesday installed a permanent bypass system to divert the flow of waste around the old pipe. Crews were working to mend the damaged pipe and expected to complete repairs by late Thursday, Durrell said. In addition to the foul stench, the deluge of waste posed health risks. The untreated sewage could lead to eye, ear and throat infections, health officials said. Dr. Mauro Torno, the acting health officer for Long Beach, decided to shut down swimming along the coast until tests show the water is safe. Officials asked the public to avoid puddles of water near the spill. Long Beach officials planned to regularly test samples of ocean water for the rest of the week, said Nelson Kerr, manager of the city’s Bureau of Environmental Health. Depending on the quality of the samples, the beaches could reopen as early as Thursday. “It’s a lot of sewage to consider,” he said. “This is a fairly large spill.” The Orange County Health Care Agency also closed Seal Beach’s shore from the mouth of the San Gabriel River to Anaheim Bay. Swimming, surfing and diving were prohibited. veronica.rocha @latimes.com alexia.fernandez @latimes.com matt.hamilton @latimes.com Homeless protester spared from probation Court commissioner refuses to punish man who blocked truck in Venice cleanup. By Gale Holland Calling Venice homeless cleanups “troubling,” a Los Angeles court commissioner has turned down the city attorney’s request to punish a homeless man for protesting by lying in the path of a sanitation truck. “People are not disposable property,” Commissioner Alan I. Rubin said Monday during a sentencing hearing at the Airport Courthouse for homeless activist David Busch. “You just can’t sweep people up.” Busch, who had long accused the city of illegally seizing and destroying homeless people’s belongings, was arrested during a March 2015 cleanup on the Venice boardwalk, and later pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace. Prosecutor Claudia Martin had asked Rubin to sentence Busch to a year’s probation and order him to stay off the boardwalk on cleanup days. Rubin suggested the city overstepped its bounds by destroying homeless people’s property during the weekly sweeps and rejected any further sanctions for the activist. “It seems to me a lot of personal property is being thrown away that should not be thrown away,” Rubin said. “It’s not for the Bureau of Sanitation to decide what clothing is valuable to people.” The city has long been embroiled in controversy and litigation over the sweeps, which were dramatically increased as homeless encampments spread throughout the city last year. Officials say their policies balance homeless people’s property rights against the need to maintain public safety and health in the streets. In Venice, the sweeps take place every Friday on the boardwalk, where teams of police and sanitation workers power-wash the concrete as well as the grassy and sandy areas where homeless people congregate. In addition, the workers search and discard contaminated belongings left unattended while their owners line up for food, collect cans for recycling or seek a bathroom. The city also confiscates oversized possessions and impounds them in storage on skid row, 18 miles from Venice Beach. Busch’s attorney, Venicebased John Raphling, argued that Busch was exercising his 1st Amendment rights to protest what he sees as unjust city politics. “This is a very important case,” Raphling said. “It’s a test of our moral values and how we as a society choose to deal with the problems of poverty and homelessness.” Raphling showed photographs to the court of city workers taking neatly bundled clothing, bedrolls and pill bottles and throwing them in a dumpster, and tagging and confiscating bicycles. Raphling also presented a city report indicating that of the ton of belongings discarded the day of Busch’s arrest, only 50 pounds were contaminated with feces, needles and other hazardous residue. Rubin appeared particularly concerned that the city stored items, including bicycles, so far away from homeless Venice residents. “You take away their means of transportation, their bicycle, and then tell them to go downtown,” the commissioner said. “There’s a certain irony there, don’t you think? How are they supposed to get downtown? Hitchhike? Walk?“ Martin argued that the court appeared to be taking Raphling’s “interpretation” as fact, and said she could present counter-testimony that the items destroyed were contaminated. She declined Rubin’s offer to delay sentencing so she could bring in city officials to take the witness stand. “Sometimes in a free society, the peace needs to be disturbed,” said Rubin, who invoked Martin Luther King Jr. and his own history of protest of the Vietnam War during the hearing. “I have to think there is some sort of justification for their protest.” “How many judges have to say these things to the city before the city stops wasting judges’ time?” Busch said after the decision. Martin declined to comment. gholland @latimes.com Twitter: @geholland B6 W E D NE S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 L AT I ME S . CO M Wrongly jailed man gets $10 million Former gang member spent 20 years behind bars before his case was overturned. By Abby Sewell Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to pay $10.1 million to a man who spent 20 years behind bars before having his murder conviction overturned in 2011. Francisco Carrillo Jr. was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1992 in the fatal drive-by shooting of Donald Sarpy in Lynwood. Carrillo, who was 16 at the time of the 1991 shooting, maintained his innocence through two trials and in prison. In 2011, a judge overturned his conviction after witnesses who had identified Carrillo as the shooter recanted and a reenactment of the shooting convinced the court that the witnesses could not have seen the shooter well enough to accurately identify him. After his release from prison, Carrillo sued the county, former Sheriff ’s Deputy Craig Ditsch and other unnamed deputies, alleging that his civil rights had been violated. He argued that deputies had improperly influenced the witnesses to pick his picture out of a photo lineup and that deputies involved in the case were part of the Lynwood Vikings, a white supremacist gang within the Sheriff ’s Department. Ron Kaye, the attorney who represented Carrillo in the suit, said that the case “epitomizes the corrupt practices of the L.A. Sheriff ’s Department in 1991” and that the deputy “stole my client’s youth by coercing a 15-year-old witness to pick Franky out of a lineup, even though [the witness] admitted he could never identify the shooter of the drive-by on the night of the crime.” “Franky Carrillo will never regain those years of his life — the birthdays, the Michael Robinson Chavez Los Angeles Times AFTER HIS 2011 release, Francisco Carrillo Jr. sued L.A. County, alleging that sheriff’s deputies improperly influenced witnesses and violated his civil rights. weddings, the graduations and the funerals of loved ones that he missed, things we all take for granted — but at least this settlement holds those responsible accountable,” he said. Since his release, Carrillo has gone back to school and obtained a bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University, Kaye said. On the night Sarpy was killed, he had walked out of his home to talk to a group of teenagers, including his son, when someone leaned out of a passing car and opened fire. The victim was not gang affiliated, but investigators believed the shooting stemmed from a rivalry between a primarily African American gang, the Neighborhood Crips, and the Young Crowd, a predominantly Latino gang. The teenagers who witnessed the shooting were initially only able to describe the shooter as a “Hispanic male.” Of the six teenagers who witnessed the shooting, five were not shown photos of potential suspects until six months after the shooting. The other witness, Scott Turner, was shown the photos immediately after the shooting, but later said the deputy had steered him into picking Carrillo as the suspect. Carrillo acknowledged in his suit that he had considered himself a member of the Young Crowd because he grew up in the gang’s territory, but said that by the time of the shooting, he had moved away from Lynwood and was not associating with the gang. A corrective action plan submitted by the Sheriff ’s Department to the county Board of Supervisors said the department had put in place new policies governing procedures for identifying suspects and the use of Recession’s toll felt at Cal State [Cal State, from B3] system to accept about 6,100 new students. This issue will continue to be a sticking point. Although enrollment has increased by about 20,000 since 2008, officials have not been able to make room for everyone who wants to attend one of Cal State’s 23 campuses. Cal State is the largest university system in the nation and last fall had to turn away about 30,000 applicants who fulfilled all the admissions requirements, Chancellor Timothy P. White said. The system, which serves about 460,000 students, is dependent on state general funds to cover about half its operating costs. The rest is covered by fees and tuition, which has been frozen for five years. “That is the nexus of our dilemma,” White told the trustees. “In the absence of resources, and you look at the difficult decisions we had to make to live within our means again this year, you see that we end up disinvesting in those support services that enable the very students that we ourselves are under the gun to get their degrees sooner rather than later.” Cal State has also had to compromise on addressing a backlog of buildings that are in need of repair or replacement — maintenance work totaling about $2.6 billion and growing by $150 million each year, officials said. Trustees requested an additional $25 million each year in the state budget but instead received a one-time boost of $35 million earmarked for this year’s most urgent infrastructure needs. Cal State had also sought an additional $50 million to improve graduation rates, such as hiring more tenuretrack faculty and providing more hands-on academic advisors. In its final budget plan, the state allocated $10.2 million as well as a one-time appropriation of roughly $15 million toward improving degree completion. An additional one-time boost of $35 million is expected in the fall once university officials have updated goals and plans to improve graduation rates. Gov. Jerry Brown has been sharply critical of Cal State’s performance: Across the country, the average four-year graduation rate for public universities is about 34%. For the Cal State system, the average is about 17%. White wants to raise that rate to 24% by 2025. Trustees are expecting a report in September on how the university plans to reach that goal. After the budget discussion Tuesday, the board unanimously agreed to grant White, six vice chancellors and 18 campus presidents a 2% increase in compensation. The 2% raise will cost the system a total of $160,185, White said. Five new presidents, whose salaries were set when they took office July 1, were not included in this increase. Executive compensation has been a thorny issue in the past: The system took heat in 2011 when trustees approved a $100,000 increase in compensation for the incoming San Diego State president as it also increased annual student tuition by 12%. The next year, Cal State adopted a policy that froze compensation paid with state funds while allowing a 10% increase paid with private donations. In November 2015, in a move to quell criticism and controversy, the trustees voted to eliminate the use of private funds to supplement salaries. From 2010 to 2014, executives received no salary raises, officials said. In the 2014-15 budget year, a 3% increase was approved, followed by a 2% increase in 2015-16. Officials had long argued that restricting compensation puts the system at a disadvantage when trying to attract the most qualified candidates. “Recruiting and retaining high-quality leadership, faculty and staff for the CSU is important for the shortand long-term health of our enterprise,” White told the board, “and it is critical to the overall success of our students and our system.” White’s salary, after the 2% increase, will total $439,361. Campus president salaries now range from $267,903 at the Maritime Academy to $428,645 at San Diego State. rosanna.xia @latimes.com Twitter: @RosannaXia DONATE YOUR CAR Wheels For Wishes Benefiting Make-A-Wish® Greater Los Angeles *Free Vehicle Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *We Also Accept Boats, Motorcycles & RVs *Fully Tax Deductible WheelsForWishes.org Call: (213) 465-3770 * Wheels For Wishes is a DBA of Car Donation Foundation. photo lineups. The settlement, which the supervisors approved unanimously and without discussion, will be one of the largest the county has paid out in a case involving the Sheriff ’s Department. Payouts in lawsuits against the Sheriff ’s Department have driven litigation costs higher in Los Angeles County in recent years. An analysis of county legal costs released this year showed that litigation costs had risen from $95.6 million in the 2014 fiscal year to $118.9 million last year. Cases against the Sheriff ’s Department accounted for $40.7 million of the total cost in 2014 and rose to $61 million in 2015. Kaye said the settlement, which amounts to more than $500,000 for each year Carrillo spent behind bars, is also the largest claim ever paid in a wrongful imprisonment case in California on a per-year basis. [email protected] Twitter: @sewella MWD finalizes purchase of islands By Matt Hamilton Photographs by Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times STEVE LOPEZ follows Jen Kalt of Humboldt Baykeeper on a hike through the Ma-le’l Dunes, called one of the most pristine dune systems on the West Coast. Coastal preservation’s victories and letdowns [Lopez, from B3] West Coast, a place where forest meets sea and both the landscape and vegetation are unlike anything I’ve seen. The dunes go on forever, then rise up and over a berm to miles of crashing waves. And yet it was in danger of being destroyed. “You’d be walking in the dunes and see a motorcycle track,” Kalt said. The land was privately owned by a dune buggy club with big plans to transform a gift from Mother Nature into an off-road vehicle playground — at least until conservationists and local officials began a battle to turn the environmentally sensitive habitat over to the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. In the early 1990s, the California Coastal Commission approved an amendment to the area’s local plan, banning off-road vehicles. “Those are shore pine, this is Sitka spruce, these are bearberries, and that’s reindeer lichen,” Kalt, a botanist, said as we walked past marshland, through forest, on our way to the lunar landscape of the dunes. We passed signs saying motorized vehicles are prohibited. In places the California coast is cold and gray and wet, and the sea-misted red hues on beach-strewn driftwood are brilliant. At the Oregon border, I saw no swimmers, no surfers, no flip-flops. The coast is different here, much wilder than the Southern California shore, and if you haven’t seen it, you should, if only for the rocky crests and curtain of giant redwoods that rise in full majesty from the edge of the continent. One early stop, just north of Crescent City, was the scene of another Coastal Commission victory. Pacific Shores was sold THE COAST in Northern California is different, much wilder than the Southern California shore. in the 1960s as a dream community in the making. For as little as $1,800, a halfacre parcel could be had, and with it, the possibility of one day building an affordable vacation getaway or retirement home. More than 1,500 dreamers were easily hooked, many of them sending checks from Southern California and even Hawaii. It all sounded too good to be true. And it was. Streets were paved and remain to this day in the ghostly seaside expanse, but when it came time to build sewer systems and other utilities, the Coastal Act was firmly in place and it forbade this very type of development. The Coastal Commission’s Douglas, traveling north with zoologist Bill Kier, the state Senate’s natural resources guru, identified Pacific Shores and surrounding privately owned land as coastal habitats crucial to bird and marine life. To them, these were treasures, not commodities, and the public had a duty to reclaim and refurbish them for current and future generations. “The Coastal Act gave us a long time to work on it, “ said Patty McCleary of the nonprofit Smith River Alliance, which facilitated the state’s purchase of many of those parcels. Today more than half the land is in public hands, and McCleary, along with husband and business partner Grant Werschkull, hopes to one day purchase the remaining parcels. On a tour of the surrounding land, I saw what might have been lost if Pacific Shores had been built. A wildlife paradise flourishes between mountains and sea. Werschkull spotted and identified dozens of birds as they chirped a symphony with the whisper of waves in the distance. “I don’t think you can appreciate the Coastal Act until you go to other states, where the beaches are private,” McCleary said. “It’s different here, where we have this California experiment.” My next stops are Shelter Cove, Sea Ranch and Bodega Bay, where I will meet with some of the pioneers who gathered signatures in 1972 for Proposition 20, which changed everything. Four years after that, the Coastal Act became law. Forty years later, the coast is still being saved. [email protected] Southern California’s powerful water supplier has completed the $175-million purchase of five islands in the heart of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the ecologically sensitive region that’s a key source of water for the Southland. The top attorney for the Metropolitan Water District said in a memo Monday that the agency had finalized the purchase of the islands from Delta Wetlands Properties. The purchase comes less than a week after the state Supreme Court lifted an order that had barred the water agency from buying the islands. The order was imposed after San Joaquin County, other local governments and environmental groups sued to block the sale of the islands. Metropolitan is a wholesaler that uses water from Northern California as well as the Colorado River to supply more than two dozen cities and water agencies, including Los Angeles. The water district has said the land may be used during the construction of the proposed delta tunnel system, a controversial $15billion project that would divert Sacramento River water through tunnels directly to pumping plants in the southern delta. Two of the islands are in the path of the tunnels; the MWD’s ownership would end the need for eminent domain battles. An MWD spokeswoman told The Times last week that the agency has yet to put forth a project for the land. The acquisition of the land from Delta Wetlands Properties, a subsidiary of the Swiss insurance company Zurich Insurance Group, has generated division since it was proposed in 2015. The MWD board approved the deal in March on a 54% to 41% vote, with “no” votes from representatives of Los Angeles, Santa Monica and the San Diego County Water Authority. Opponents of the sale filed suits claiming breach of contract or arguing that the water agency should have filed an environmental impact report. Attorneys for San Joaquin County and the environmental group Food and Water Watch blasted the water agency for sidestepping the California Environmental Quality Act, according to court papers. The Supreme Court order from last week did not dismiss any litigation but cleared the way for the MWD to buy the islands while fighting the legal challenges. The litigation against the MWD is expected to continue for months or years. matt.hamilton @latimes.com Twitter: @MattHjourno Times staff writers Bettina Boxall and Matt Stevens contributed to this report. L AT I ME S . CO M W E D N E SDAY , J U LY 20 , 2 016 obituarY notices OBITUARIES DAVID HOROWIT Z, 1929 - 2016 Place a paid Notice: latimes.com/placeobituary Search obituary notice archives: legacy.com/obituaries/latimes Refooah, amanollah M.D. Publicist for Oscar films By Jill Leovy D avid H. Horowitz, a longtime Oscar publicist who helped broker public appearances for Bill Clinton, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, said friend and colleague Carl Samrock. He was 86. Horowitz was a publicist for various Hollywood celebrities, but was known particularly for his Academy Awards campaigns. He worked on behalf of such winning films as “Dances With Wolves,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” which not only swept the awards but broke new ground as a fantasy epic best-picture winner in 2004. Horowitz broke similar conventions with “The Fugitive,” an Oscar outlier that did not win but succeeded in getting a surprise nomination. Called one of the publicity industry’s top veterans by the Los Angeles Times in 2003, Horowitz excelled at low-key, naturalistic campaigns, said A TOP PUBLICITY VETERAN David Horowitz excelled at low-key campaigns, spreading interest in films through chatter. Samrock. He spread interest in films through chatter and word-of-mouth. He would toss a casual mention into conversations. His pitches were as simple as “ ‘I’ve seen this movie. It’s great,’ ” Samrock recalled. Horowitz had a longstanding interest in leftleaning politics, and occasionally combined his political and professional interests. One such occasion was when he helped arrange for his longtime client Barbra Streisand to perform at the Hollywood Bowl in 1968 to benefit the Southern Christian Leadership Con- ference after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Horowitz also did work on behalf of Native American causes and was active with Peace Now, a group seeking a politically negotiated twostate solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. When the Clinton presidential campaign needed to repair the candidate’s image after a long-winded appearance in 1988, they turned to Horowitz to float the idea to late-night host Johnny Carson. Clinton’s subsequent appearance on Carson’s show playing the saxophone was “a good night” for the candidate, producer and Clinton backer Harry Thomason later told PBS. Horowitz also reminisced about Clinton’s subsequent saxophone performance on “The Arsenio Hall Show” four years later, in which the publicist said he played a similar role, Samrock said. Horowitz’s career included stints with Rogers & Cowan, Kirk Douglas’ Bryna Productions, and as vice president of publicity at TriStar Pictures. During the 1970s, he was head of publicity for the film division at Warner Bros. and later a television vice president there. Horowitz was born July 21, 1929, in New York City. He came to Los Angeles as a child and graduated from University High School. He went to UCLA as a premed student, but his interests shifted after a summer job with an advertising agency. He started his show business career as a cameraman for KERO-TV in Bakersfield. He is survived by his wife, Lynn, whom he married in 1959. [email protected] G AR RY MARSH ALL , 1934 -2 016 Director reached for the masses [Marshall, from B3] Garry.” Marshall, brother of actress-director Penny Marshall, earned a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and worked at the New York Daily News. But he found he was better at writing punchlines. “In the neighborhood where we grew up, in the Bronx, you only had a few choices,” Marshall said in a 1980s interview. “You were either an athlete or a gangster, or you were funny.” He began his entertainment career in the 1960s selling jokes to comedians, then moved to writing sketches for “The Tonight Show” with Jack Paar in New York. He caught the eye of comic Joey Bishop, who brought him to Los Angeles to write for “The Joey Bishop Show.” Sitcoms quickly proved to be Marshall’s forte. He and then-writing partner Jerry Belson turned out scripts for the most popular comedies of the ’60s, including “The Lucy Show,” “The Danny Thomas Show” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Marshall and Belson detoured into screenwriting in 1967 with “How Sweet It Is,” starring Debbie Reynolds, and followed it up with “The Grasshoppers” (1970) with Jacqueline Bisset. But the two kept their hand in TV. In 1970, they turned Neil Simon’s Broadway hit “The Odd Couple” into a sitcom starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall and produced by Marshall. It ran for five seasons and proved the beginning of a TV sitcom empire. In January 1979, Marshall had three of the top five com- Neighbors say that Marvin and Mae Acosta moved into their tidy, new Eastvale home in Riverside County late last year. Then, about a week ago, moving vans appeared out front. On Friday, the couple walked into the California Lottery’s office in Van Nuys with a Powerball ticket for the record Jan. 12 jackpot worth $1.6 billion. Their share of the pot before taxes was estimated at $528.8 million. The Acostas, who purchased the ticket at a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, opted for the lump sum payment of $327.8 million before federal taxes. Lottery officials said that by law, the lucky couple would have to be publicly Satin, alex Paul Glass, seamon September 26, 1925 - July 12, 2016 Seamon Glass, beloved husband to Yan Zhang for 23 years, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 in his Los Angeles home surrounded by family and friends. He was 90. A long-time resident of Santa Monica, California, Seamon was born in New York City on September 26, 1925. Two years after losing his father, at the age of 13, he moved to California with his mother. At the age of 17, he convinced his mother to let him serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. He returned to California following his honorable discharge in 1945. Seamon lead a full and adventurous life. He found and married the love of his life while teaching English in China. He was an actor, writer, teacher, guidance counselor, professional heavyweight boxer, merchant seaman, harbor patrol officer in Santa Monica, world traveler, and a veteran of World War II. As an actor, Seamon was best known for his work on the films, Deliverance, Slither, Damnation Alley, The Rose and This Is Not a Test, and the television shows Star Trek, Perry Mason, and Vegas. He was a natural teacher, a great story-teller and reciter of poetry, a friend to many, and a well-loved guidance counselor for many years at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, California. Seamon is survived by his wife, Yan Zhang, his son, David Glass, his granddaughter, Chelsea Glass, his cat, Ghengis, and his giant unnamed blood parrot cichlid fish. A memorial service will be held at 9 AM on Sunday, July 31, 2016 at the Public Viewing Deck located on the west end of the Santa Monica Pier next to the Harbor Patrol station and Marisol’s restaurant in Santa Monica, California 90401. Please RSVP to [email protected] by July 27, 2016 if you wish to attend. Harrison, aaron Matthew September 9, 1975 - July 17, 2016 Alex Satin was born June 13th, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a corporal in the US Army during WW2 and was honored with the Silver Star for gallantry in action. An Optometrist turned automobile dealership owner, Alex loved to golf, jog, bike ride, and travel. More than anything he loved his wife of 67 years, Shirley Satin. He is survived by his wife, his three children; David (Gail), Diane and Michael; and four grandchildren, Josh (Allyson), Danny (Emily), Jaclyn and Dylan, as well as many loved ones and friends. He will be deeply missed and remembered forever. Services will be held on Thursday, July 21, 2016, at 12:30pm, Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries~ Hollywood Hills. Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries 800-600-0076 www.mountsinaiparks.org Segall, Dena F. December 6, 1927 - July 14, 2016 Dena F. Segall passed away at the age of 88 with her family at her side. Dee leaves behind a heartbroken family including four children: Jeff and Laura Segall, Bruce and Sandy (Segall) Hilton; seven grandchildren; and a great grandson. Her husband, Leonard Norman Segall, passed away in 2004. A Celebration of Life is planned at The Castaway in Burbank on Saturday, July 23 at 1:30 p.m. Sneh, Dina Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries 800-600-0076 www.mountsinaiparks.org In Memoriam Michael Sobhani Weigand March 3, 1979 - July 20, 2015 Buckley School 1996/UC Santa Cruz 2001 genius, musician, artist, writer, love you forever, brother Kevin Shahraum Weigand Joseph J. Ybarra September 29, 1930 - July 20, 1998 Its been 18 years. Remembering you today as always. With love and sadness. Your wife Gloria and family. Cemetery Lots/Crypts Beautiful Inglewood Park Cemetery plot 105D available in the highly desirable Cherry Blossom area. List price $12,190 asking $9,000 OBO. Call 805-478-7061 or email [email protected] To place an obituary ad please go online to: latimes.com/placeobituary or call 1-800-234-4444 ABC Photo Archives ABC via Getty Images THE ‘HAPPY DAYS’ GANG Henry Winkler, left, Garry Marshall, Jim Knaub and Ron Howard in 1979. Winkler saluted Marshall in a tweet as “larger than life, funnier than most.” New York Times in 2001 that her brother “has a life. He’s not into the show business glitterati. If he has a hot movie, that’s great. But if he has something that doesn’t do great, he’s not around those people who won’t speak to you.” After cranking out what he once estimated to be 1,000 sitcom episodes, Marshall switched his focus to the big screen with 1984’s “The Flamingo Kid,” starring Matt Dillon, which Marshall wrote and directed. He concentrated on directing with his later films, including “Nothing in Common” (1986), with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason; “Overboard” (1987), starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell; “Beaches” (1988), with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey; “Pretty Woman” (1990) and “Dear God” (1996), with John Denver and George Burns. The Gere-Roberts pairing that helped make “Pretty Woman” a smash hit did the same for “Runaway Bride” in 1999. “The Princess Diaries” in 2001 was another winner, although Marshall suffered a flop with “Georgia Rule” (2007), starring Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan. Marshall is survived by his wife, Barbara, and the couple’s three children, Lori, Kathleen and Scott. Funeral services will be private but a memorial is planned for his birthday on Nov. 13, his publicist said. [email protected] Powerball winners claim prize By Joseph Serna and Paloma Esquivel Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries 800-600-0076 www.mountsinaiparks.org Aaron Matthew Harrison passed away on Sunday, July 17, 2016 in the county of San Diego, California. He was the son of the late David Jay Harrison. He is survived by his mother, Elaine Pansky Harrison, brother Jamie Harrison, sister-in-law Laura Harrison, nieces and nephew, Kayla, David, and Taegan Harrison, and grandmother Jane Link. A celebration of Aaron’s life is to follow at a later date. Donations may be made to the Foundation for Fighting Blindness in Aaron’s memory. edies on the air with “Happy Days,” which ran from 197484; “Laverne & Shirley” (1976-83), which starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams; and “Mork and Mindy” (1978-82) with newcomer Robin Williams. “Critics have knocked me for targeting society’s lowest common denominator,” he said in his 1995 autobiography, “Wake Me When It’s Funny,” written with his daughter Lori Marshall. “I believe that television was, and still is, the only medium that can truly reach society’s lowest common denominator and entertain those people who maybe can’t afford a movie or a play. So why not reach them and do it well?” he said. Penny Marshall told the identified after coming forward. The Acostas had the weekend to brace for the onslaught of attention. On Tuesday, the blinds on the home on Glover Court were closed and no one appeared to be inside the residence. Maria Franco, who lives across the road, said she was happy to hear about the family’s win, though she didn’t know them very well. Like others in the neighborhood, she bought her own Powerball tickets when the jackpot soared in January and had wondered whether the winners would ever come forward. The Acostas requested privacy, lottery officials said. In lieu of interviews, they released a statement: “We are thankful and blessed for the rare gift that has been placed in our care. We have engaged a team of B7 advisors to educate and guide us through this process so that we can be good stewards of these new resources. While many decisions are still to be made, we have committed nearly all of this new resource to a Trust and to charities that are important to us. While we are very grateful for the wonderful wishes and encouragement we’ve received, it is not our intention to become public figures, and we ask for and appreciate privacy going forward. Thank you.” Speculation surrounded the identity of the Chino Hills ticket owner for months. The January jackpot was the biggest in U.S. lottery history, and the two other winners, from Tennessee and Florida, came forward within days of the drawing. A Pomona nurse mistakenly believed she owned the winning ticket after her son pulled a prank on her. But the Acostas opted to stay silent until their affairs were in order, said lottery spokesman Alex Traverso. “They did all the stuff we hoped they would … they got a lawyer, made a plan, got everything squared away so they could get their claim and sort of disappear,” he said. “They’re going to fall off the grid. That’s going to be an interesting challenge.” The 7-Eleven that sold the winning ticket received the maximum award of $1 million. joseph.serna @latimes.com Twitter: @JosephSerna paloma.esquivel @latimes.com Twitter: @palomaesquivel John O’Donnell October 20, 1932 - July 18, 2016 John David O’Donnell was born in Lorain, Ohio. When he was 12 his mother sold everything they had and bought a 10 year old Cadillac to drive to California. If they were going to be poor at least they were going to be warm. After failing out of San Fernando High he enrolled in the Air Force to get some discipline. He served in Korea for four years which included his getting a High School diploma. John enrolled at LA Valley Junior College all the while selling for Sears Roebuck, selling Jewel Tea door to door, and selling anything else one might purchase in order to fine tune his salesmanship skills and put a dollar in his pocket. After two years he entered USC to be introduced to his yet to be discovered social skills, get his degree in Telecommunication, join Beta Theta Pi and meet his wife to be, Trish Dwyer. He graduated in 1959. They married July 2, 1960. Upon graduation, John joined Coldwell Banker with the help of his fraternity ties. They had never seen the likes of him. Six years later he was their top salesman. By 1969 he was ready for a new challenge and accepted management of Rancho California now called Temecula. The area was massive and too much for John and Coldwell Banker. It was time to move on to becoming a developer. He began his new challenge in Southern California where he developed empty warehouses. Not wanting to compete with himself, he continued to build northward. Ending up in Alaska, he developed in Anchorage just before the pipeline was signed. Voila and the rest is history. John was a giant among giants. He cherished his faith, his family and his friends above all else. We all will forever treasure the good times we shared and the large imprint he left with each of us. He was incredibly generous to anyone in need. His faith, his moral code, the love he had for life and his wonderful personality will remind everyone what is truly right in this world. God blessed him in so many ways for which he was eternally grateful. Trish and John were married 56 years. He desperately loved his wife Trish, three wonderful children, Leslie, David and Douglas, two daughtersin-law Dana Jenkins O’Donnell and Angela Tesselaar O’Donnell, four grandsons, Oliver, Peter, JD and Christian, his sister, Helen Gerth and an amazing number of friends who have supported them through their lifetime. Thanks to all the medical staff at Hoag Hospital and at Eisenhower for their loving care but most especially to Dr. John Storch and Dr. Joel Hirschberg for whom we will be eternally grateful. A funeral Mass will be offered at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in Newport Beach this Saturday, July 23rd at 12:00 with reception to follow at The Pacific Club. In lieu of flowers, John would prefer that donations be sent to his favorite charities: Hoag Hospital Foundation, Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church or The Vintage Club Employee Scholarship Fund. To place an obituary ad please go online to: latimes.com/placeobituary B8 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 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 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday L.A. Basin 89/65 Valleys 94/68 Mostly sunny, warm Mostly sunny 90/66 Sunny, warm 92/67 Partly cloudy 95/67 Mostly sunny 90/63 Los Angeles Basin: Patchy morning low clouds or fog at the beaches, then mostly sunny and warm. Valleys/canyons: Sunny with a hot afternoon. Clear and warm tonight. Mostly sunny and hot Thursday. Orange County: Patchy morning low clouds or fog Air quality Beaches 82/64 Mostly sunny, warm Mostly sunny 95/70 Sunny, hot 99/71 Sunny, hot 100/67 Mostly sunny 94/64 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Partly cloudy Clearing at the coast, then mostly sunny and warm. Mostly clear tonight. Ventura/Santa Barbara: Mostly sunny and warmer. Mostly clear tonight with patchy fog late at the coast. San Diego County: Patchy morning low clouds or fog at the coast, then mostly Good Moderate Mountains 83/54 83/65 88/65 89/66 84/63 Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Sunny Partly sunny Partly sunny sunny and warm. Local mountains: Mostly sunny and warm today and Thursday. Mostly clear tonight. High desert: Sunny and hot with a breezy afternoon. Mostly clear tonight. Mostly sunny and hot Thursday. Low desert: Mostly sunny Unhealthful for: Sensitive people Heat wave: Temperatures will climb into the upper 90s to lower 100s Thursday across the Plains and the Southeast. Afternoon thunderstorms are forecast for the Rockies and the Southeast, while the Mid-Atlantic region has a few strong thunderstorms. Temps Deserts 113/84 –0 Low H High Cold Front 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ and hot. Clear and warm tonight. San Francisco Bay Area: Low clouds across most of the area during the morning, then mostly sunny and breezy this afternoon. Seattle 78/58 Los Angeles 89/65 All ▲ Warm Front Jet Stream Rain T-storm Snow Ice New York 83/68 Chicago 88/74 Las Vegas 108/84 Denver 92/65 Houston 98/79 Not Available Miami 89/79 South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality SANTA BARBARA CO. Santa Clarita Hesperia 97/62 Santa Paula LOS ANGELES CO. 100/66 93/63 Santa Simi Valley Barbara Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO. Burbank Monrovia 92/64 77/58 93/67 Camarillo Ventura 96/68 94/68 82/61 79/62 Yucca Valley Pomona/ UCLA 102/73 Fairplex Oxnard San Bernardino Westlake 86/65 LA Downtown 100/65 Ontario 76/62 Woodland 103/68 89/65 Village 103/68 Hills Whittier Santa Barbara Co. 91/62 Chino 96/64 Height Period Direction Santa Monica Hills Riverside 104/63 RIVERSIDE CO. Fullerton 94/67 1-3’ 13 sec S 82/64 101/64 94/67 Torrance Santa Ana Ventura Co. 83/67 ORANGE CO. Palm Hemet Long Height Period Direction 85/67 Springs 100/65 Irvine Beach Newport 2-4’ 13 sec S 87/65 113/84 89/66 Beach Mission Viejo Los Angeles Co. 82/68 Temecula Height Period Direction 90/65 Laguna 96/62 2-4’ 15 sec SSW Beach San 83/66 Clemente Orange Co. Surf and sea 85/65 SAN DIEGO CO. Height Period Direction POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO Oceanside 3-5’ 12 sec S Inner waters: Wind becoming west 85/59 10-15 knots. Wind waves 1-5 feet; mixed San Diego Co. west and south swells 2-4 feet. Ramona Escondido Height Period Direction 98/59 90/61 Surf zone: The potential for strong rip 2-4’ 15 sec SSW currents is high today at beaches in Poway L.A., Ventura and Orange counties; 83/65 moderate in San Diego County and low Tides UV index in southern Santa Barbara County. L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. Minutes to burn for San Diego Today 11:00a 4.2 Hi 4:36a -0.7 Lo sensitive people Station Time Wind Waves Temp 79/68 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 93/63 WNW7 WSW8 WSW10 WSW8 SW12 WSW8 WSW8 WSW10 WSW8 W8 W8 W8 W8 WNW8 W8 3/14 2/13 4/13 4/15 4/15 4/15 4/15 4/12 4/12 3/12 4/15 3/15 3/15 3/15 3/15 58/70 67/75 68/77 70/75 71/78 70/78 68/79 68/81 69/80 71/81 73/83 74/76 74/77 73/74 70/82 Wind speed in knots; wave heights in feet/intervals in seconds; temperatures for sea/air 10:07p 6.2 Hi Thu. 11:36a 4.4 Hi 10:46p 6.0 Hi Tuesday Today Thursday Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo Anaheim 93 Avalon/Catalina 79 Bakersfield 95 Barstow 107 Beaumont 97 Big Bear Lake 79 Bishop 100 Burbank 94 Camarillo 80 Chatsworth 98 Chino 100 Dana Point 75 Death Valley 117 Del Mar 72 Escondido 91 Eureka 66 Fallbrook 90 Fillmore 94 Fresno 95 Fullerton 93 Hemet 100 Hesperia 98 Huntington Beach 77 Idyllwild 87 Irvine 84 L.A. D’ntown/USC 82 L.A. Int’l. Airport 76 65 57 66 73 65 53 47 64 58 63 62 65 94 68 65 55 63 54 63 66 66 65 63 56 67 64 65 ---------------------------- 94 82 98 108 98 83 100 96 82 93 104 82 116 72 90 62 90 93 97 94 100 100 81 89 87 89 80 65 68 69 78 67 54 59 68 61 67 63 67 90 67 61 52 62 62 67 67 65 66 68 66 65 65 66 94 84 99 110 99 84 101 98 83 99 105 82 117 78 91 62 90 94 99 95 102 101 81 91 87 90 81 66 66 68 78 67 52 59 70 64 70 65 67 94 67 61 51 64 64 68 68 66 66 68 67 65 66 67 3:57p 1.9 Lo 5:10a -0.7 Lo 4:40p 1.9 Lo Almanac Los Angeles, 25 Phoenix, 25 San Francisco, 25 Tuesday Downtown readings Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura High/low 82/64 93/66 74/61 High/low a year ago 92/72 91/72 87/71 Normal high/low for date 84/64 84/65 74/58 Record high/date 97/1960 94/2009 82/2015 Record low/date 52/1884 63/2001 51/1966 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) 8.85 6.83 8.24 Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 14.77 13.69 16.41 Humidity (high/low) 86/46 84/21 86/61 California cities City Trough Anchorage 72/61 Mostly sunny, warm Sunny 115/86 Sunny 115/85 Some sun 116/84 Some sun 114/85 84/52 85/53 86/55 84/55 L ◗ Gradual warming: Strong upper-level high pressure centered in the Plains will expand westward through the weekend. This will promote a warming trend with above-normal warmth and minimal coastal clouds each morning. By Friday, daytime highs inland from the coast will range from 95 to 105, and overnight low temperatures will be above normal. City Tuesday Today Thursday Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo Laguna Beach 80 66 -- 83 66 82 66 Lancaster 99 63 -- 102 69 104 71 Long Beach 86 66 -- 89 66 89 68 Mammoth Lakes 82 37 -- 85 46 85 44 Mission Viejo 93 63 -- 90 65 91 66 Monrovia 95 63 -- 94 68 95 69 Monterey 66 54 -- 66 53 65 52 Mt. Wilson 86 64 -- 88 63 89 65 Needles 113 89 -- 114 90 116 90 Newport Beach 75 66 -- 82 68 82 68 Northridge 97 62 -- 97 67 97 70 Oakland 70 57 -- 69 56 70 55 Oceanside 80 63 -- 85 59 86 63 Ojai 97 51 -- 93 63 93 63 Ontario 99 65 -- 103 68 103 70 Oxnard 75 59 -- 76 62 77 62 Palm Springs 108 80 -- 113 84 115 86 Pasadena 94 64 -- 94 66 94 67 Paso Robles 95 51 -- 97 54 100 54 Pomona/Fairplex 97 62 -- 100 65 100 66 Poway 91 61 -- 83 65 87 64 Redding 89 63 -- 93 62 92 61 Rialto 101 62 -- 102 67 104 68 Riverside 99 66 -- 101 64 102 65 Forecasts provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 City Sun and moon Today’s rise/set Los Angeles County Sun 5:56a/8:02p Moon 8:37p/6:43a Orange County Sun 5:55a/8:01p Moon 8:36p/6:42a Last Quarter July 26 New Moon August 2 First Quarter August 10 Ventura County Sun 6:00a/8:07p Moon 8:42p/6:47a Full Moon August 18 Tuesday Today Thursday Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo Sacramento 86 San Bernardino 99 San Clemente Pier 83 San Diego 78 San Francisco 69 San Gabriel xx San Jose 75 San Luis Obispo 79 Santa Ana 83 Santa Barbara 76 Santa Clarita 92 Santa Monica Pier 76 Santa Paula 92 Santa Rosa 82 Simi Valley 88 Tahoe Valley 76 Temecula 97 Thousand Oaks 82 Torrance 79 UCLA 78 Van Nuys 98 Ventura 74 Whittier Hills 89 Woodland Hills 100 Wrightwood 83 Yorba Linda 95 Yosemite Valley 91 56 66 56 66 55 xx 57 52 66 54 76 63 53 50 57 40 61 58 68 62 64 61 63 59 62 62 50 -- 89 56 88 55 -- 103 68 104 68 -- 85 65 85 64 -- 79 68 80 68 -- 68 55 69 54 xx 97 67 99 68 -- 76 56 77 55 -- 81 54 82 55 -- 85 67 86 68 -- 77 58 77 60 -- 97 62 98 67 -- 82 64 83 65 -- 93 63 94 63 -- 81 50 81 48 -- 92 64 93 66 -- 79 43 80 39 -- 96 62 96 63 -- 88 62 88 64 -- 83 67 84 69 -- 86 65 87 66 -- 101 68 102 70 -- 79 62 79 63 -- 94 67 94 68 -- 96 64 97 67 -- 91 65 93 64 -- 96 65 97 66 -- 91 56 91 57 U.S. cities High 117 in Death Valley, Calif. Low 21 at Bodie State Park, Calif. City Tuesday Hi Lo Prcp. Albuquerque 95 70 .04 Amarillo 94 67 -Anchorage 74 63 -Atlanta 98 76 .34 Atlantic City 84 74 -Austin 98 73 -Baltimore 90 70 -Billings 99 63 .10 Birmingham 93 75 .12 Boise 93 57 -Boston 84 75 -Brownsville 95 77 .03 Buffalo 78 62 -Burlington, Vt. 75 63 .05 Casper 95 70 Tr Charleston, S.C. 95 76 .38 Charleston, W.Va. 88 72 -Charlotte 95 70 -Chicago 91 68 -Cincinnati 90 68 -Cleveland 85 68 -Colo. 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Notes: National extremes are for NWS stations; excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Missing data indicated by “xx”. Wage impasse puts housing plan at risk [Housing, from B3] But Ben Metcalf, the governor’s director of Housing and Community Development, said the labor group’s proposal is a deal-breaker because it would raise costs for developers, making them less likely to build new homes. “The cost-benefit analysis is such that few developers could actually afford to do that,” Metcalf said. The prevailing wage impasse reflects deep disagreement between the governor’s office and labor over the housing plan, and could threaten its approval in the Legislature. Hunter said Brown’s proposal was the most important bill his organization has dealt with in the last three decades. He compared the loosening of housing rules offered by Brown to those that preceded the state’s energy crisis in the early 2000s and the nation’s financial crisis shortly thereafter. “We have found the history of mass deregulation in America doesn’t work well for working people,” Hunter said. But the changes offered by Brown apply only in a limited set of circumstances: low-income housing projects that match a local government’s zoning rules. Brown’s plan is an effort to chip away at local restrictions that make it difficult to build housing, something many academics and researchers blame as a primary driver of California’s soaring housing costs. Under the proposal, developers would be allowed to bypass some of those restrictions if they set aside between 5% and 20% of their projects for low-income residents depending on how close the project is to transit. To qualify, the projects would already have to comply with a city’s underlying zoning. For example, a developer couldn’t receive expedited approval to build 300 condominiums on land approved for only 100 units. By itself, the plan would result only in a modest increase in new development — by one estimate, fewer than 2,400 new units would be constructed in San Francisco — but it would make dramatic changes in the housing approval process in that city, Los Angeles and others that now require often lengthy reviews for nearly all developments. The strongest supporters of Brown’s plan are home builders and businesses — especially in the Bay Area, where a tech-fueled job boom has spurred demand for housing. Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of user-review website Yelp, said the state’s high housing costs have made it difficult for his company and others to attract and retain employees. “The governor’s simple solution will increase the state’s supply of housing, making it more affordable for all Californians, including those most in need of help,” Stoppelman said. Brown’s effort, however, Eric Risberg Associated Press GOV. JERRY BROWN’S plan has not been warmly received in the Legislature. No lawmaker has emerged as a full-throated backer of the proposal. has not been warmly received in the Legislature. No lawmaker has emerged as a full-throated backer of the proposal, even after the governor agreed to spend $400 million on low-income housing subsidies if the Legislature passes a version of his plan. Instead, the proposal has continued to face intense opposition, chiefly from labor and environmental groups upset that the plan would limit reviews for projects under the state’s main environmental law that guides development. Brown and others have criticized labor groups for threatening litigation under that law to leverage union-friendly hiring rules. Lawmakers are feeling the heat, said Metcalf, the Housing and Community Development director. “They are getting a lot of political pressure from significant constituencies that don’t want this to happen,” he said. In contrast to labor’s request for prevailing wages, Metcalf said the governor was open to some of the changes proposed by environmental groups, such as strictly limiting the program to urban areas. Since 2001, the majority of California’s low-income housing projects that include taxpayer subsidies have required builders to pay prevailing wages, and there’s little consensus on what effect the requirement has had on home building. In 2005, researchers at UC Berkeley found that paying prevailing wages increased costs by as much as 37%, concluding that the requirement effectively subsidizes construction workers at the expense of low-income housing consumers. Other economists have argued that the Berkeley study significantly overestimated the effects of labor on construction costs and failed to consider benefits of a betterpaid workforce. The Brown administration is trying to drum up support for the plan this month through a series of events with housing advocates and other backers across the state, starting Wednesday in San Francisco with Mayor Ed Lee. Negotiations are expected to heat up once the Legislature returns from its summer recess in August. Despite the strong opposition from powerful groups, Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), who is part of the discussions, said he was hopeful a deal could get done. “I support a responsible compromise,” said Bloom, who has authored narrower legislation than Brown’s. “It looks somewhat different than what’s on the table.” Prior to the $400 million in subsidies as part of this package, Brown had been reluctant to spend more state money on low-income housing during his current tenure as governor. If nothing gets done this legislative session, Metcalf said, it’s unlikely Brown would offer a similar deal to lawmakers. “I would worry a lot if I were them that if they pull the rug out from under this, there is not going to be an interest to do this again,” Metcalf said. [email protected] L AT I ME S . CO M W E D N E SDAY , J U LY 20 , 2 016 B9 R E P U B L I C A N NAT I O NA L C O N V E N T I O N ‘So we must ask this question: Hillary Clinton is ... a failed strategist who has allowed Russia back into the Middle East. Is Hillary guilty or not guilty?’ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, as the crowd chanted, “Guilty! Guilty!” and “Lock her up!” GOP tries to put chaos behind it [Day Two, from B1] ure with such a tortured relationship with the truth,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said, referring to Iraq’s famously prevaricating former information minister. “There is a clear choice before us. And it is not Hillary.” The arm’s-length embrace suggested a party still struggling to unify after a bitterly contested primary season that delivered the most unorthodox nominee either party has nominated in generations. Fittingly, one of the most forceful testimonials came from one of the most unlikely of speakers, Dana White, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, who recalled Trump supporting his mixed martial arts competition in 2001 when others rejected it as a “blood sport.” “Sometimes he’ll call just to say, ‘Hey, Dana, I’ll be watching the fights this weekend,’ ” White said, vouching for the business tycoon’s regular-guy credentials. The most stinging case against Clinton came from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor who delivered what he called an “indictment” of her. He led the crowd in a call and response, reciting “charges” based on her foreign policy record and various scandals, asking after each count whether she is “guilty or not guilty.” “Guilty!” the crowd chanted repeatedly, crossing their arms as if cuffing the former secretary of State, and frequently interrupting Christie’s speech to yell “Lock her up!” in unison. It was perhaps the week’s most visceral demonstration of the anti-Clinton hatred that seethes from the party’s core activists. Pro-Trump delegates seemed eager to put Monday’s chaos behind them as his name was put up for nomination and the stateby-state tally began, erupting into chants of “Trump, Trump” as speakers promised he would build a wall on the Southwest border and construct a new political movement too. Trump’s home state, led by his son Donald Trump Jr., ceremonially awarded him the last of the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, and the band struck Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times THE CALIFORNIA delegation celebrates Trump’s nomination. Earlier, many booed when Colorado awarded 31 delegates to Ted Cruz. up “New York, New York” while delegates danced. The stage lighted up in gold, with stars bursting, amid a sign declaring Trump “Over the top.” “Congratulations, Dad. We love you!” Donald Trump Jr. shouted. Amid the hail of Clintonbashing, the most intimate and heartfelt testimonials came from Trump’s children. Tiffany Trump spoke of the loving notes her father — “a natural-born encourager ” — wrote on her report cards, starting in kindergarten. His namesake, Donald Jr., gave a stirring speech that sparked immediate speculation about his own political future; it was a far more detailed and traditional policy address than his father usually delivers. The younger Trump spoke of “my father, my mentor, my best friend, Donald Trump” as a businessman who “hung out with guys on the construction sites, pouring concrete and hanging sheetrock.” “For my father, impossible is just the starting point,” Trump Jr. said. The movement to dislodge the nominee, which was largely crushed in a procedural move Monday, was left gasping during Tuesday’s pomp. Many in the crowd booed when Colorado — ground zero for the effort to thwart Trump — announced that it had awarded 31of its 37 delegates to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Portions of the downtown sports arena sat empty; typically delegates clamor to be in the hall to witness history firsthand. Some did little to hide their disappointment. “We’re trying to get behind Trump,” said Chris Herrod, a mortgage officer from Provo, Utah. “We obviously don’t want Hillary. But it’s a lot harder when there’s a spear at our back.” Before Trump could claim the nomination, he had to contend with plagiarism allegations against his wife that festered throughout Tuesday as the campaign, in characteristic fashion, refused to back down or confess error. In her speech Monday, Melania Trump repeated verbatim portions of the speech that future First Lady Michelle Obama delivered at the 2008 Democratic convention. Normally, these choreographed party pageants give candidates an opportunity to reintroduce themselves to a vast audience, answer questions about perceived weaknesses, demonstrate party enthusiasm after a grueling series of primaries, or attempt all three. Trump’s unscripted style and bare-bones campaign operation — touted as a virtue during the primary — have made it more difficult for him to achieve those goals. Speeches from would-be first ladies in particular provide a personal accounting that often transcends typical political criticism, so the perceived failing put more pressure on Trump to deliver a flawless second night of the convention. For all the statements Tuesday professing party unity, it was clear many of the wounds from the bitter primary season had yet to fully heal. Ryan and McConnell have repeatedly criticized Trump’s policy positions, many out of step with those of his party, and his rhetoric, which has forced them to answer allegations of racism and nativism. Ryan, who took the ceremonial role of chairing the evening’s events, did not speak to Trump’s policy goals. Rather, he cast the choice facing voters in November as one between a forward-looking Republican vision — including his own proposals to alleviate poverty, overhaul the tax code and repeal Obamacare — and a stagnant status quo. “Here we are at a time when men and women in both parties so clearly, so undeniably want a big change in direction for America.... What does the Democratic Party establishment offer? They are offering a third Obama term,” Ryan said to a cascade of boos. “Brought to you by another Clinton.” Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, said earlier that the convention was off to a great start and that Trump’s nomination would mark a seminal moment. As usual with the campaign, the joy of that moment was inflected with a grievance aimed at the media. “All of you who doubted that he could be the nominee will no longer be able to say, ‘Yes, but maybe it won’t happen,’ ” Manafort told Laid-off reporter breaks the news Watching the GOP convention, he heard a familiar phrase. His tweet made headlines. By Brittny Mejia Since he lost his TV reporting job last year, Jarrett Hill has been looking for his next opportunity. It presented itself in an unexpected way. Hill was sitting at a corner table Monday night in a Culver City Starbucks, drinking a venti iced coffee and watching the Republican National Convention on an MSNBC live stream. As Melania Trump spoke, she uttered a phrase that the 31year-old California native had heard once before — from soon-to-be First Lady Michelle Obama. “The only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams … ,” Melania Trump said during her address to the convention in Cleveland. Instinctively, Hill finished the phrase aloud to his laptop screen: “… and your willingness to work for them.” He recalled the words from Michelle Obama’s speech because, he said, he had thought to himself at the time that it was “really beautifully written.” “I believe I even wrote it down or typed it,” Hill said. “Obviously having no idea that eight years later I’d hear them again from a woman who wanted to be first lady speaking at a convention in front of 40 million people.” When Hill googled Michelle Obama and parts of her memorable turn of phrase, her 2008 convention speech popped up. An hour later, after he had watched Melania Trump’s full speech again, he realized more than just a few words had been borrowed. Hill went on Twitter to share his discovery. He apparently was the first person to publicly note the similarities between the speeches. The discovery prompted headlines across media outlets and flooded Hill with interview requests worldwide. One of Hill’s tweets, highlighting text from Obama’s speech and sharing a link to a video of Trump’s speech, states: “CORRECTION: Melania stole a whole graph from Michelle’s speech.” It had been retweeted more than 20,000 times Tuesday. The controversy prompted Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign chief, to blame Hillary Clinton and the media for bringing attention to “50 words, and that includes and’s and the’s and things like that” that were similar to Michelle Obama’s speech. “These are themes that are personal to her, but they’re personal to a lot of people depending on the Al Seib Los Angeles Times JARRETT HILL reported findings about Melania Trump’s speech from a Culver City Starbucks. stories of their lives,” he said, pointing out Trump’s focus on her own story and what he referred to as “family values.” “Obviously, Michelle Obama feels very much similar sentiments towards her family,” he said. Although Manafort blamed those who work for the Democrats’ likely pres- idential nominee, stating they were the “first to get it out there,” Hill said he has no connection with Clinton’s team, though he is a registered Democrat. Hill, who is from Fairfield, Calif., moved to Los Angeles in 2011 to work in television. In 2014, he was hired by ABC Action News WFTS in Florida to work as a pro- ducer and a digital on-camera reporter. He lost his job in April 2015, eight months after he started. “It was a gutwrenching loss, for sure,” he said. Since then, Hill has worked with his agent to look for his next full-time job and has freelanced for places including Huffington Post and Independent Television News in Britain. He also runs an interior design business on the side. Now, things are looking up for Hill, who did interviews with the BBC, New York Times and MSNBC, among others. “I would love to get a great job from this, doing something that I love,” he said, “but I don’t think I’ve even processed all of what’s happening.” Hill also received tweets and texts from former colleagues at WFTS, requesting an interview. He hasn’t spoken to them yet, but said he planned to. “I loved a lot of people I worked with there, but I’m a little salty,” Hill said. “I was really upset to have been laid off the way that I was. “My gut told me I’d come back to that station on a national story someday. No idea it would be like this.” brittny.mejia @latimes.com Twitter: @brittny_mejia Times staff writer Noah Bierman contributed to this report. reporters. But Manafort’s effort at a victory lap lasted only about a minute before reporters began peppering him with questions about Melania Trump’s speech. Although there was much finger-pointing, the campaign has not said who wrote the speech or whether anyone would face discipline. Nor would it concede plagiarism. Manafort tried to dismiss questions about it, blaming Clinton and the media for bringing attention to “50 words, and that includes and’s and the’s and things like that.” In fact, the similarities were first reported on Twitter by someone with no evident ties to the Clinton campaign. Even events beyond the campaign’s control cast a pall over the day’s proceedings. At least a dozen California GOP staff members were quarantined in their hotel rooms after becoming ill with what appears to be a highly contagious norovirus, also known as the cruiseship virus, according to officials from the California party and local health agencies. noah.bierman @latimes.com mark.barabak @latimes.com Times staff writers Michael Finnegan, Lisa Mascaro, Melanie Mason and Seema Mehta in Cleveland and Javier Panzar in Los Angeles contributed to this report. Christopher Serra Convention coverage online Go inside (and outside) the Republican convention with Times journalists for live coverage and analysis. latimes.com /trailguide Watch a gavel-to-gavel live stream of the Republican convention. latimes.com /conventions Join Times journalists on July 21 and July 28 in downtown L.A. at free convention watch parties. RSVP at: latimes.com /conventionparty B10 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 L AT I ME S . CO M R E P U B L I C A N NAT I O NA L C O N V E N T I O N ‘My father is good with advice.... If you do what you love ... never let fear of failure get in the way, then you’ve pretty much figured out the Trump formula.’ — Tiffany Trump Negativity isn’t enough to win [Analysis, from B1] decades. “A sense of optimism, ebullience, that says, ‘Yes, things are tough but we can solve them,’ ” Madonna said. Other Republicans, particularly those running in Senate and House races, have been anxious to distance themselves from Trump’s mien and emphasize their own, different viewpoint. On Tuesday night, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, who only belatedly endorsed Trump and has upbraided him more than once for damaging remarks, tried to inject a sense of optimism into the convention. Ryan has sought to make clear that members of Congress have different priorities than their nominee. He continued that effort Tuesday night, offering a bit of self-deprecation about how “things didn’t work out quite according to plan” after the last time he was onstage as the 2012 vice presidential nominee. “But, hey, I’m a positive guy,” he said. He offered a lengthy critique of Democrats but followed it with an equally lengthy list of Republican desires that he cast in uplifting terms. “By the true measure we are all neighbors and countrymen, called — each one of us — to know what is right and kind and just, and to go and do likewise,” he said. “Everyone is equal, everyone has a place, no one is written off, because there is worth and goodness in every life.” Ryan also offered what could be read as a warning to Trump. “We know better than most — we know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats,” he said. “It still comes down to the contest of ideas. Which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it’s about ideas, the advantage goes to us.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who is trying to prevent Trump-related losses of seats in Congress’ upper house, added a less lyrical, but still specific, list of Republican policy goals. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions joined the effort, describing Trump in his remarks as a man who “is positive by nature.” But over the convention’s first two days, many of the attendees and speakers have hewed to pessimism — often with an apocalyptic tone. Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times DONALD TRUMP addresses delegates by satellite on the second night of the convention. His fans are recep- tive to his bleak assessment of the country’s state, but he may need a more positive message to reach others. Speakers on Monday and Tuesday condemned the state of the country — and Obama and Clinton in particular — in harshly negative terms. On both days, Republicans spent hours talking about Clinton’s role in the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, and Clinton’s uses of a private email system. Both are issues of high importance to conservatives and Republican regulars, but have pre- sumably already exacted whatever political punishment they possess on Clinton. The first night of the convention was supposed to highlight how to “Make America Safe Again,” and Tuesday’s theme was to be “Make America Work Again.” In reality, the two nights were indistinguishable as speakers delivered blistered accusations and repeated grievances against Democrats. Sharon Day, co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said Clinton had “viciously attacked the character of women who were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of her husband,” referring to unproven claims against Bill Clinton. Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Assn.’s lobbying arm, warned the delegates that “we live in dangerous times,” casting access to guns as the solution. Former candidate Ben Carson suggested that Clinton was influenced by a follower of Lucifer. The epitome came when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offered a fierce — and in some cases inaccurate — condemnation of Clinton’s actions as secretary of State. He cast the crowd as her jury, asking delegates over and over for a verdict. “Guilty!” they yelled, adding chants of “Lock her up!” while they held their wrists together to mimic handcuffs. Placating Republicans energized by that display, as well as other voters seeking a broader understanding of what Trump would bring to the White House, is a challenge for the nominee. Throughout his campaign, Trump has been caustic and bleak in his assessments of the country, castigating his opponents, existing officeholders and negotiators as “stupid.” As the nation reeled in recent weeks over shootings of Americans by police, and later the multiple shootings of police, Trump asserted that the world was spinning apart and that nearly a dozen cities were on the verge of exploding. Trump’s fans are receptive to those arguments, as his nomination shows. A recent Suffolk University poll of likely voters asked whether in the last five to 10 years respondents felt more safe or less. Overall, 54% said less safe. But among Republicans, 76% said they felt less safe. Among other voters Trump will need to win the presidency, fewer than half took that view. That suggests Trump’s problem: He has to maintain his often bleak rhetoric to engage and motivate his core voters while somehow also attracting others. “It’s really unfortunate that this is such a negative campaign,” said Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson. She said Trump has a negative message “that’s tailor-made for places where opportunity has left,” such as the Rust Belt. But, she said, the message isn’t enough in the Sun Belt, where the economy has improved — and where many important electoral states lie. The first two days of the convention have failed to focus on those voters, pollster Madonna said. “There’s nothing wrong with him talking about the problems, but he has to have a path to solve them,” he said. “Saying ‘Crooked Hillary’ does not provide voters with a solution.” On the highest-profile stage he will occupy until fall’s presidential debates, Donald Trump now has two days left to offer that solution. cathleen.decker @latimes.com Times staff writer David Lauter contributed to this report. Fist bump between protester, officer [Outside, from B1] Sharon Spencer of Akron, Ohio, were arrested as soon as they climbed down, Rees said. A third activist helping from the ground, Liz Butler of Mount Rainier, Md., was also arrested, he said. “They were doing their job; we were doing our job,” Rees said of the officers, adding that the activists were not part of a formal group. “We were sending out the message we set out to send.” By the time I got to the Hall of Fame, the protest had ended, the women were arrested, the banner was already gone — gone, like dust in the wind. Because all we are is dust in the wind. 2:29 p.m. “They’re both carrying AR-15s,” the police scanner barked. I was sitting in the shade at Public Square when I heard the descriptions of two armed men come over an officer’s radio — not with any seeming urgency. There have been other armed men, 2nd Amendment advocates, wandering around with their weapons outside the Republican National Convention, which is their right in Ohio. Up to now, they haven’t caused any trouble. Still, I hopped up to see whether I could find these two who had caught the police’s attention, to see what it looks like when you bring weapons to what feels like one of the most heavily guarded places on Earth. It’s probably a sign of how well things are going in Cleveland that I couldn’t find anybody with AR-15s, or even any other sign of trouble. Downtown’s Public Square has become a pulsing jugular of the republic, where pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators mill about with signs and score TV interviews. It’s peaceful. There are no brawls between sides. Protester riots have not materialized. Guns haven’t been fired. When I wandered past, I saw two groups of performance artists dancing in a grassy lawn, moving in slow motion, figures from a hallucination, as if this weird little world outside the RNC had started falling asleep. “I see people with water guns,” one of my photographer co-workers, Marcus Yam, texted me. AR-15s are legal in the protest zone, but water guns are not. They were temporarily banned by the City Council as a security measure. I decided to check it out. Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times POLICE PUSH back protesters and photographers during a confrontation in Cleveland. Despite this inci- dent, the scene has been mostly peaceful — no riots and no brawls between protesters and counter-protesters. I found Stevedore Crawford Jr., 53, of Delaware, Ohio, standing in a white T-shirt that said “TAMIR RICE ONLY,” with what looked to be three technically prohibited lime-green squirt guns on the sidewalk. (Actually, I couldn’t tell whether they were squirt guns or regular toy guns.) Rice was the 12-year-old shot and killed by police while playing with a toy gun in a Cleveland park in 2014. The officer who shot him was not charged. Crawford was there with a woman and two very young girls who appeared to be his daughters. “I find it hard to live my life ... knowing Tamir Rice was shot down where she will be playing,” Crawford, who is black, shouted to anyone who would listen, patting one of the girls on the head. “They murdered Tamir Rice in this city!” A group of police officers walked past, and a white officer hailed Crawford: “Hey, boss.” They bumped fists as cameramen circled — one of those made-formedia moments when a black American and a white cop come together for something — a visual metaphor for the idea that we can bridge our differences, even though the reality tends to be much, much harder. The fist bump was a little awkward. Crawford began crying and bent over after the officers passed, overcome by emotion. The officers left the play guns alone. After Crawford collected himself, he wandered down the street in the other direction. [email protected] BuSINESS C W E D N E S D A Y , J U L Y 2 0 , 2 0 1 6 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / B U S I N E S S DOW 18,559.01 ▲ 25.96 S&P 500 2,163.78 ▼ 3.11 NASDAQ 5,036.37 ▼ 19.41 GOLD $1,331.50 ▲ 3.10 OIL $44.65 ▼ 0.59 EURO $1.1015 ▼ .0053 U.S. T-NOTE (10-yr.) 1.56% ▼ 0.03 Health insurer deals are in danger Regulators will sue to block Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers, reports say. By Jim Puzzanghera Amel Emric Associated Press A SIGN near the Bosnian town of Brcko warns of a minefield as a man plays “Pokemon Go” on his smartphone. Products that blend the real world and the digital world using a technology called augmented reality are raising a host of new issues. FOR PUBLIC SPACES, A GAME-CHANGER The success of ‘Pokemon Go’ — which turns random sites into virtual arcades — raises questions about real-world friction in augmented reality By Alex Schiffer The magic of “Pokemon Go” is in the way it overlays the Pokemon world atop the real world. Step outside and you’ll spot cartoonish creatures to capture. Head to a place where people congregate — say a park or a bus stop — and you’ll battle other players or encounter the rarest beasts. In the two weeks since the app’s launch, random locations have essentially become arcades for the mobile gaming set — attracting crowds of phone-toting players at all hours. That’s a problem for UC Irvine Medical Center, which is the unenthusiastic host of five Pokemon hubs — dubbed gyms and Pokestops — across its Orange campus. “What we’re trying to do is discourage people who don’t have a legitimate rea- Alexander Koerner Getty Images IN HANOVER, GERMANY, young “Pokemon Go” players gather at the city center and then walk around holding their smartphones. Why is the FTC letting Herbalife stay in business? MICHAEL HILTZIK The legal complaint and settlement wit h Herbalife unveiled Friday by the Federal Trade Commission answers several questions about the Los Angeles-based nutritional supplement marketing company, but leaves the most important question wide open. Yes, Herbalife’s business model is deceitful, according to the FTC’s complaint — the company has misrepresented itself as a nutritional supplements company, when what it’s really selling are business opportunities, at inflated values. And yes, it’s a ripoff: “Consumers have suffered and will continue to suffer substantial monetary loss as a result of [Herbalife’s] violations of the law,” the FTC said. The agency extracted a $200-million settlement from the company, along with a promise to straighten up and fly right. “Herbalife is going to have to start operating legitimately,” FTC Chair Edith Ramirez said Friday. So here’s the unanswered question: Why is the FTC allowing Herbalife to remain in business? The agency isn’t powerless to act against pyramid schemes, which is what Herbalife has been alleged to be. Last August, the FTC shut down Vemma Nutrition Co., a Phoenix multilevel marketing outfit it said was targeting college students and recent college graduates. The FTC alleged that [See Hiltzik, C4] son to be at the hospital [from coming] here looking for Pokemon,” hospital spokesman John Murray said. The hospital wants out of the app — and it’s not alone. Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C., the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland have asked visitors to stop playing out of respect. Funeral homes sought an exclusion from the game as the blog Pokemon at Funerals shared images of people playing at services. Such conflicts have raised pressing questions about games and other products that blend the real world and the digital world using a technology called augmented reality. Exactly how much of reality should be augmented? [See Pokemon, C3] Two major health insurance deals that would reshape the industry’s landscape — Anthem Inc.’s purchase of Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc.’s deal to acquire Humana Inc. — appear to be in trouble amid concerns they would reduce competition. The Justice Department, which has been reviewing both transactions, is preparing lawsuits to block them, Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. A decision whether to file the suits could come as early as this week, and the companies could fight in court or agree to settle, the reports said. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. Shares of the four companies fell 2% to 4% on Tuesday. “We are steadfast in our belief that this deal is good for consumers and the healthcare system as a whole,” Aetna spokesman T.J. Crawford said. Anthem and Cigna declined to comment. Humana did not respond to email requests for comment. The Obama administration has been tough on major mergers in various industries, with the Justice Department blocking Comcast Corp.’s purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc. and Halliburton Co.’s acquisition of oil-services rival Baker Hughes Inc., among other deals. The two health insurance deals were announced a year ago. If approved, they would result in just three companies dominating the U.S. health insurance business. The mergers have drawn opposition from consumer advocates. In March, Assistant Atty. Gen. William Baer told Con[See Mergers, C4] A search-based credit score Baidu users’ Web history will play role under deal with ZestFinance By James Rufus Koren For Chinese consumers, what you search for online soon could determine whether you’re eligible for a loan. Through a landmark deal with Hollywood credit scoring firm ZestFinance, China’s leading search engine, Baidu, soon will assign credit scores to its users based on search, location and payment data. A handful of Chinese companies already judge creditworthiness based on the shopping and payment histories of their customers, but Baidu’s plan to use search data appears to be a first. “Nobody’s ever been able to turn search data into credit data,” said Douglas Merrill, chief executive of ZestFinance, which also will get an equity investment from Baidu as part of the deal announced late Sunday. Merrill would not dis[See ZestFinance, C4] Michael Robinson Chávez Los Angeles Times DOUGLAS MERRILL is CEO of Hollywood credit scoring company ZestFinance. China’s Baidu will give credit scores based on search, location and payment data. C2 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 L AT I M E S. C O M / BU S I N E S S BUSINESS BEAT Home prices in the Southland keep climbing By Andrew Khouri Justin Sullivan Getty Images GOOGLE CHAIRMAN Eric Schmidt, left, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, right, look at a Google self-driving car. Foxx said it’s time to move beyond existing safety rules to address the technology. Autonomous cars will get new U.S. guidelines By Russ Mitchell Companies working on self-driving cars need to focus on safety: “We want people who start a trip to finish it,” Transportation Secre- MARKET ROUNDUP Stocks mixed; Netflix plunges associated press Stocks ended mixed Tuesday as investors let up on the accelerator after a three-week rally sent indexes to all-time highs. The Dow Jones industrial average inched up to set another record. But the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Nasdaq composite pulled back. A mixed set of corporate earnings helped keep the market in a tight range through the day. Netflix was one of the decliners to pull down the S&P 500. It dived 13.1% to $85.84 after the video-streaming service reported adding fewer subscribers last quarter than it expected. The tumble continued a sharp turnaround for Netflix, whose stock has struggled in recent months after more than doubling in 2015. Philip Morris International fell 3% to $99.89 after the firm posted weaker quarterly results than analysts expected. Smokers in North Africa, Japan, Argen- tary Anthony Foxx announced Tuesday, saying his department will issue new guidelines on the vehicles this summer. “Autonomous doesn’t mean perfect,” he told attendees at an industry con- ference in San Francisco. “We need industry to take the safety aspects of this very seriously.” Foxx’s remarks come in the wake of May’s fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S sedan being used in semiau- Major stock indexes Index Dow industrials Close Daily change Daily % change YTD % change 18,559.01 +25.96 +0.14 +6.51 S&P 500 2,163.78 -3.11 -0.14 +5.86 Nasdaq composite 5,036.37 -19.41 -0.38 +0.58 S&P 400 1,542.18 -2.89 -0.19 +10.27 Russell 2000 1,200.45 -7.45 -0.62 +5.68 EuroStoxx 50 2,851.05 -13.82 -0.48 -8.56 16,723.31 21,673.20 +225.46 -129.98 +1.37 -0.60 -12.14 -1.10 Nikkei (Japan) Hang Seng (Hong Kong) Source: AP tina and elsewhere bought fewer cigarettes, leading to a 5% drop in shipments from a year earlier. Better-than-expected earnings from Johnson & Johnson, meanwhile, helped prop up the Dow. The healthcare giant’s shares rose 1.7% to $125.25 after it raised its forecast for profit this year. California companies making big moves included Palo Alto cloud computing firm VMware, whose shares jumped 9% to $68.23 after it posted quarterly results that beat expectations and raised its estimates for the year. Super Micro Computer plunged 27.8% to $19.02 after the San Jose server technology firm slashed its forecasts for the fiscal fourth quarter. SciClone Pharmaceuticals dived 20.8% to $10.50 after the Foster City drugmaker said it is no longer in active talks with potential buyers and plans to remain independent. “For investors, the most important questions are: When is the recession coming, and am I paying too much for stocks?” said Linda Duessel, senior equity strategist at Federated Investors. “Everything else is noise, and there’s so much noise.” Duessel does not foresee a recession on the horizon, and she said stock prices can stay high because alternatives look even less attractive. Overseas, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index jumped1.4%, France’s CAC 40 was down 0.6%, and Germany’s DAX shed 0.8%. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 1.55% from 1.59%. Gold rose $3 to $1,332.30 an ounce. Silver fell 7 cents to $20.01 an ounce, and copper rose nearly 3 cents to $2.26 a pound. The price of U.S. crude oil fell 59 cents to $44.65 a barrel. Brent crude slipped 30 cents to $44.66 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline fell 1 cent to $1.38 a gallon, heating oil edged up less than 1 cent to $1.38 a gallon and natural gas rose less than 1 cent to $2.73 per 1,000 cubic feet. The euro fell to $1.1015 from $1.1068, the British pound fell to $1.3093 from $1.3260 and the dollar slipped to 106.09 yen from 106.12 yen. tonomous “autopilot” mode. The car crashed into a truck that the autopilot feature did not sense, killing the car’s driver. The Transportation Department has been working with Google, BMW, General Motors and other companies developing driverless and partly autonomous cars to adapt existing safety rules to the new technologies. But Foxx said it’s time to move beyond existing safety rules. Although vague about the guidelines, Foxx hinted that they involve “pre-market approval steps” for autonomous car technology. Given industry concerns about regulation hampering innovation, Foxx promised that the approach would be flexible, with a lot of input from businesses, drivers and technology experts. “We need clear lines of responsibility between industry, government and consumers,” he said. Autonomous cars have great potential to improve safety, he said, but clear rules and guidelines are needed to ensure safety and boost would-be buyers’ confidence. He said his department also would create an advisory committee to help plan how to “approach autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence more generally” and work with states to come up with standard approaches to regulation. After the fatal crash in May, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk noted that owners are told that they must remain alert and keep their hands on the steering wheel, even when using the autopilot feature. Foxx, however, said it must be assumed that some drivers will “push the limits of what the manufacturer intends.” Distractions “that can be reasonably foreseen” must be considered for safety’s sake. [email protected] 3 states accuse Volkswagen of fraud associated press New York state, Massachusetts and Maryland are suing Volkswagen and its affiliates Audi and Porsche over diesel emissions cheating, alleging that the German automakers defrauded customers by selling diesel vehicles equipped with software enabling them to cheat emissions testing. Prosecutors also delved into which executives knew about the problem and when. The lawsuits, announced Tuesday, accuse company employees of trying to cover up the cheating by submitting false documents and de- stroying incriminating paperwork. “The allegations against Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche reveal a culture of deeply rooted corporate arrogance, combined with a conscious disregard for the rule of law or the protection of public health and the environment,” New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman said. Schneiderman’s investigation found it “was clear” that current Volkswagen Chief Executive Matthias Mueller knew about emissions issues in July 2006, the attorney general told reporters Tuesday. Other top VW executives, including former CEO Mar- tin Winterkorn, knew about the deception and participated in efforts to cover it up, the New York lawsuit said. In a statement, Volkswagen said it already is in talks with authorities regarding “a comprehensive national resolution of all remaining environmental issues arising from the diesel matter.” The firm noted that it has agreed to buy back or modify affected vehicles, create a $2.7-billion environmental trust and invest $2 billion on infrastructure for zero-emission vehicles. “The allegations in complaints filed by certain states today are essentially not new, and we have been addressing them in our discussions with U.S. federal and state authorities,” the company said. “It is regrettable that some states have decided to sue for environmental claims now, notwithstanding their prior support of this ongoing federal-state collaborative process.” Some 25,000 affected vehicles were sold in New York state and 15,000 in Massachusetts, according to the lawsuits. As of October, about 13,000 such vehicles were registered in Maryland, officials said. Some 600,000 were sold nationwide. Times staff writer Alex Schiffer contributed to this report. Southern California home prices jumped in June as prospective buyers bid higher, fighting over a meager supply of homes for sale. The six-county region’s median price rose 5% from a year earlier to hit $464,000 in June, data firm CoreLogic announced Tuesday. Sales were essentially flat, reflective of the low inventory that experts say is driving up prices. Job growth and historically low mortgage rates are also adding fuel to the fire, and prices have now risen for more than four years. In some communities, prices are now higher than during last decade’s bubble, at least before accounting for inflation. According to CoreLogic’s calculations, the median price in Orange County surpassed its bubble-era high of $645,000 in May. The county’s median continued to climb in June, reaching $657,500. Other areas have further to go. Los Angeles County’s median price, for example, rose 6.2% from a year earlier to $530,000 in June. That is 3.6% below the county’s peak of $550,000 in summer 2007. San Bernardino County is 25% below its peak, Riverside County 23%, Ventura County 12.7% and San Diego County 4.3%. In other housing news, the Commerce Department said builders nationwide started construction on 4.8% more new homes in June than in May. Economists say one reason prices have soared in many areas of the U.S. is that not enough homes have been built to meet demand. Though prices in some areas are nearing, or surpassing, levels seen in last decade’s bubble, CoreLogic analyst Andrew LePage cautioned that there are important differences this time, including tighter lending standards. “The last cycle benefited from loose underwriting and high-risk ‘subprime’ home loans that allowed borrowers to stretch to their financial max, if not well beyond,” he said. Today, after accounting for inflation, even Orange County prices are about 10% below their 2007 peak, he said. [email protected] Hyperloop One files countersuit By Paresh Dave Hyperloop Technologies Inc. is seeking at least $250 million in damages from four former high-ranking employees who the company says tried to incite rebellion within the Los Angeles start-up. Now referring to itself as Hyperloop One, the firm says then-Chief Technology Officer Brogan BamBrogan and his fellow “conspirators” knew their days at the company “were numbered” because of poor performance or erratic and misogynistic behavior, according to documents submitted Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. In an attempt at taking control before being shoved out the door, the group launched a failed coup attempt and then tried to form a competitor, the documents say. BamBrogan went as far as registering the Internet address hyperlooptoo.com. Hyperloop One attorneys describe BamBrogan as being in a “Gang of Four” with William Mulholland, vice president of finance; Knut Sauer, vice president of business development; and David Pendergast, assistant general counsel. They’re accused of breaching employment contracts, along with their duty of loyalty to the company. The filing counters a lawsuit the four men brought against the company last week seeking to get their jobs back. They say Hyperloop One pushed them out after they complained about the firm’s top investors breaching their fiduciary duty. They asserted that investors’ friends and family had been overpaid for company work, including a public relations consultant whose salary was boosted while dating Executive Chairman Shervin Pishevar. The company says those controversial decisions were justified. The PR firm, for one, charged the standard rate rather than a discounted one as it took on more responsibilities and Hyperloop One got more cash. [email protected] IMF cuts outlook for global growth By Jim Puzzanghera Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has led the International Monetary Fund to trim its forecast for global economic growth through 2017, but so far the impact has not been as severe as initially feared. World economic output will increase 3.1% this year, the same as it did in 2015, and improve to 3.4% growth next year, the IMF said Tuesday. Those forecasts each were a tenth of a percentage point lower than in the organization’s April World Economic Outlook. The U.S. economy is expected to expand 2.2% this year, down 0.2 percentage point from the April estimate. The 2017 forecast of 2.5% growth is unchanged. If not for the British vote, dubbed “Brexit,” the IMF said it would have left its world forecast for this year unchanged because “better-than-expected economic activity” in the Eurozone had offset “disappointing U.S. first-quarter growth.” The forecast for next year would have been increased by a tenth of a percentage point from the April estimate. But the result of last month’s referendum in Britain “creates a wave of uncertainty amid already-fragile business and consumer confidence,” the IMF said. Britain’s economy now is forecast to expand 1.7% this year — down 0.2 percentage point from the IMF’s April estimate — and just 1.3% in 2017. The forecast for next year is nearly one percentage point lower than the April estimate. [email protected] L AT I ME S . CO M / B U S IN E S S C3 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 COMPANY TOWN GOP CONFAB A CABLE NEWS HIT By Stephen Battaglio NEW YORK — Donald Trump has been a ratings draw for most of the events related to the 2016 presidential campaign and the first night of the Republican National Convention was no different. Nielsen data showed a significant audience lift for cable news networks on Monday compared with the Aug. 28, 2012, opening night of the last GOP convention, which was delayed a day because of weather. Fox News Channel, which typically draws the largest audience for the GOP confab, led prime-time coverage Monday with 5.5 million viewers from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern time, a gain of 7% over 2012, when the party faithful gathered to nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. CNN saw a far bigger Trump bump as its primetime audience of 3.6 million viewers was up 200% from 2012. MSNBC was up 46% to 1.9 million viewers. While Fox News also led among the 25 to 54 age group that advertisers seek for the commercials they buy on news programming, CNN made significant inroads in the category. Fox News ranked first with 1.3 million viewers in the demographic, a gain of 11% over 2012. But CNN was close behind with 1.18 million, thanks to a 220% increase. MSNBC scored 469,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 age category, up 39% from 2012. More than 22 million viewers watched across cable and broadcast networks during the 10 p.m. Eastern time slot that featured an appearance by Trump and a speech by his wife, Melania, which soon became engulfed in controversy as several passages appeared directly borrowed from first lady Michelle Obama’s remarks to the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Fox News had 6.4 million viewers in the hour; followed by CNN, with 3.94 million; NBC, 3.91 million; ABC, 3.6 million; CBS, 2.7 million; and MSNBC, 1.99 million. NBC’s broadcast coverage led in the 25-to-54 demographic with 1.6 million viewers. stephen.battaglio @latimes.com Kimberley French THE CAST of “Star Trek Beyond” includes John Cho, left, Anton Yelchin, Karl Urban, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg. MOVIE PROJECTOR ‘Star Trek’ likely to soar to top The latest film in the franchise is expected to knock ‘Secret Life of Pets’ from its perch. By Ryan Faughnder Paramount Pictures is hoping Kirk and Spock will help revive its sagging boxoffice fortunes. “Star Trek Beyond,” the third voyage on the USS Enterprise since J.J. Abrams revived the venerable franchise in 2009, is expected to easily replace “The Secret Life of Pets” as the No. 1 film this weekend. It’s on track to gross about $60 million in ticket sales from the U.S. and Canada through Sunday, according to people who have reviewed pre-release audience surveys. Though down about 15% from 2013’s “Star Trek Into Darkness,” that would be considered a solid debut for the big-budget picture and a welcome success for a studio that could use a hit after the relative disappointments of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” and “Zoolander 2.” Paramount is last among the six major Hollywood studios in domestic ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo. Studio executives are cautious, projecting an opening weekend of $50 million to $55 million for “Star Trek.” Nonetheless, Paramount clearly has high hopes for the new film, for which it recruited director Justin Lin of the “Fast & Furious” series. The studio on Monday announced it had greenlighted a fourth “Star Trek,” featuring “Thor” and “Ghostbusters” star Chris Hemsworth. The world premiere of “Beyond” takes place Wednesday at San Diego Comic-Con, complete with an outdoor Imax screening and a live orchestra. “It is a very important film for them,” said Bruce Nash, a box office analyst with Nash Information Services. “They need a film that’s going to do pretty decent business, and clearly it will.” Abrams, who directed the previous two “Star Treks,” produced “Beyond” with Paramount and David Ellison’s Skydance Productions. Its estimated production budget of $185 million is similar to “Into Darkness,” and it will need to do powerful business internationally. Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group said in April it would invest in the new “Star Trek.” “Star Trek” has been one of Paramount’s most reliable franchises. The 2009 reboot posted $385 million globally, while the follow-up took in $467 million. The latest space adventure was filmed largely in Vancouver, Canada, and Dubai, unlocking rebates and tax benefits for the production. That’s in contrast with the previous two installments, which Abrams wanted to shoot in Los Angeles. “Star Trek Beyond” has several factors working in its favor, including a loyal fan base and largely stellar early reviews. On the other hand, sequels have proved unpredictable at the box office this year, with disappointments including “Alice Through the Looking Glass” and “Neighbors 2.” “Beyond” returns Chris Pine as James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock, joined by newcomers Sofia Boutella and Idris Elba. The cast and crew were dealt a tragic blow last month with the death of actor Anton Yelchin in a freak automobile accident at his Los Angeles home. As “Star Trek” beams scifi fans to the multiplex, 20th Century Fox will try to draw families with its latest computer-animated offering, “Ice Age: Collision Course.” Fox and analysts are expecting a debut of $25 million from the fifth “Ice Age” movie, which would be significantly less than the last one, which came out in 2012. That’s not surprising, given the dominance of “The Secret Life of Pets” and “Finding Dory.” Still, “Ice Age” movies tend to do a vast majority of their business overseas (more than 80% of its ticket sales for the previous one, “Continental Drift” were international). Indeed, “Collision Course” has grossed an impressive $127 million internationally already. The only other wide release this weekend is “Lights Out,” a PG-13 supernatural horror tale from Warner Bros.’ New Line Cinema that is expected to take in $16 million to $18 million in its debut. ryan.faughdner @latimes.com Where the cameras roll Overall shoot days were up 11% last week for TV, film and commercial shoots in the Los Angeles area compared with the same period last year, according to FilmL.A. Inc. Production days for three main categories Television Commercials Features July 11-17, 2016 (438 total shoot days) 93 240 +13% +5% July 13-19, 2015 (395 total shoot days) 82 229 [Pokemon, from C1] “When people are being directed by the gameplay to enter inappropriate or dangerous places, there are a whole host of different questions that need to be addressed whether or not the gameplay is to blame,” said Darren Cahr, an intellectual property attorney in Chicago. “No one really knows how far people are going to push this.” Many in the gaming industry doubt it was the intention of Niantic Labs, which developed the game, to create uncomfortable situations at memorials or distractions for staff at hospitals. The app usually designates geographic landmarks big and small as Pokestops and gyms. It knows the location of those sites based on data from Niantic’s first augmented reality game, Ingress. Ingress isn’t known for causing real-world problems or for its big audience. Analysts say the 3-year-old game has 1 million monthly users — a fraction of the 15 million Pokemon has racked up in just days. With such a difference in scale, there’s no way Niantic could have seen this coming, said Sunny Dhillon, a partner at Signia Venture Partners, a fund that invests in games involving augmented reality. Cole Burston Associated Press GAMERS use their smartphones during a release party this week in Toronto for the “Pokemon Go” app. “I’m willing to give the game developer the benefit of the doubt,” said Dhillon, who predicts engineers will tinker with the game to help reduce these real-world faux pas. “A lot of the privacy issues were unanticipated.” Niantic launched the app without giving locations the ability to opt out. That hasn’t stopped many establishments, including UC Irvine Medical Center, from contacting the company asking to be left out. (UC Irvine Medical Center says it has not heard back from Niantic, and Niantic declined to comment for this story). Some tech experts predict Niantic will create a feature that allows estab- lishments to opt out (though that could raise its own questions: Which requests coming from affected establishments are valid?) But because of the game’s huge success, some question whether those changes will come soon. Now that “Pokemon Go” is, by some estimates, the biggest-ever mobile game in the U.S., the San Francisco company has lots on its plate. Since its launch, there have been complaints about bugs and faulty servers that will probably take priority. Then there’s building the business side of the game with in-app purchases and advertising. Julia Ask, a media ana- lyst at Forrester Inc., says it’s not Niantic’s place to tell people how to behave. She compared the situation with kids eating dinner with their phones out. Some parents would ask them to put them away during the meal; others wouldn’t care. “It’s an old-fashioned value,” she said. “It’s more of a point of view of how people should experience their space. It’s a public space, and they can’t enforce that.” Both Ask and Cahr said businesses that don’t wish to participate in the game should put up signs asking users not to play. Murray, of UC Irvine Medical Center, said the hospital is “developing some messages” to discourage gamers from entering the facility. But, he said, turning away gamers shouldn’t be the hospital’s responsibility. Boosters of augmented reality predict more apps to use the technology in the coming years. The success of “Pokemon Go” suggests they’ll have a captive audience — and the potential for real-world friction. “Its just the beginning,” Cahr said. “Five years from now, 10 years from now, people are going to look back at this as quaint and will be amazed at far these things have really gone.” alex.schiffer @latimes.com 84 Sampling of permitted shoots this week K 14 A LOS ANGELES COUNTY 5 Los Angeles 118 L G F 405 101 Questions over augmented reality 105 +25% M N H C S Q 10 D J Commercials 60 E 605 T 5 710 Television Unincorporated Santa Susana Mountains, Thu.-Fri. MJZ B Microsoft R B 110 10 MILES A Toyota O IP 210 K NCIS Santa Clarita, Mon.-Sat. CBS Studios L Who Do You Think Westlake, Mon. Afterall You Are? Chatsworth, Mon.-Sun. Shed Media US Inc. C Roku Brentwood, Mon. Iconoclastic Features M Leno's Garage North Hollywood, Mon.-Wed. Mad Dog Video Inc. D TJ Maxx Downtown L.A., Tue.-Thu. Identity Media Inc. N The Way Home Studio City, Fri. Slauson Productions E Buick East Los Angeles, Mon. Motomo Inc. O Goliath West Hollywood, Mon.-Sat. Picrow Inc. Features P Mind of a Chef Westwood, Tue. Zero Point Zero Production Inc. F Camp Hollywood Sun Valley, Mon.-Tue. First Dog Corp G Bodied Canoga Park, Mon. Bodied Productions Inc. H Shine Beverly Hills, Wed. Protean Image Group I Unplugged Bel-Air, Mon.-Fri. Blessedly Silent Films J Female Brain Lennox, Mon. BBG Female Brain LP Note: Permits are subject to last-minute changes. Q How to Get Away With Murder University Park, Mon. ABC Studios R Ray Donovan Palms, Mon. Blind Decker Productions Inc. S Superdope Santa Monica, Mon. Znak & Jones Productions T Major Crimes South Gate, Mon. Warner Bros. Television Production Sources: FilmL.A. Inc.; cities of Beverly Hills and Santa Clarita Thomas Suh Lauder Los Angeles Times C4 W E D N E SDAY , J U LY 20 , 2 016 L AT I M E S. C O M /B U S I NE S S Health insurer mergers may be blocked [Mergers, from C1] gress that the deals would be scrutinized “very, very carefully” because they would be a “game changer” for the industry. The biggest effect would be from the $48-billion combination of industry giants Anthem and Cigna. The deal would create a company with 53 million members and about $115 billion in annual revenue. The membership of the combined company would vault it over industry leader UnitedHealth Group Inc., which has about 46 million members. The combination of Aetna and Humana would be No. 3 with 33 million members. Paul Ginsburg, a professor at USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, said he wouldn’t be surprised if the Justice Department sued to block the Anthem-Cigna deal. “That clearly has potential to reduce competition in the national market where large, self-insured employers get coverage,” he said. Last month, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones urged the Justice Department to block the deal. A state review found that the combined company would control more than half the insurance market in 28 California counties. “When it comes to the Anthem and Cigna merger, bigger is not better for California’s consumers or the health insurance market,” Jones said. Aetna’s $34-billion acquisition of Humana is less problematic because its main effect would be in the market for Medicare Advantage coverage, Ginsburg said. That market is regional, which would allow the companies to sell assets in places where both companies have a significant presence in order to allay antitrust concerns, he said. “The Aetna/Humana merger, which is like many other heathcare mergers, is a local phenomenon and there are clearly remedies” to address antitrust problems, he said. Last month, the California Department of Managed Health Care approved that deal after Aetna agreed to several conditions, including increased state oversight of rates. jim.puzzanghera @latimes.com Introducing the free Hot Property newsletter. Celebrity home sales and high-end real estate transactions accompanied by stunning photos. Sign up at latimes.com/HotProp Mark Boster Los Angeles Times THE FTC EXTRACTED a $200-million settlement from Herbalife, along with a promise to straighten up and fly right. Founded in 1980, Herbalife last year posted profit of $339 million on sales of $4.5 billion. Above, the lobby of Herbalife’s factory in Lake Forest in 2013. Firm’s wealth buys influence [Hiltzik, from C1] Vemma’s business model “depends upon recruiting individuals to participate in Vemma as Affiliates and encouraging them to purchase Vemma products in connection with such participation, rather than selling products to ultimateuser consumers.” Here’s how the FTC described Herbalife’s model: “[Herbalife’s] compensation program incentivizes not retail sales, but the recruiting of additional participants who will fuel the enterprise by making wholesale purchases of product.” Yet the FTC called Vemma “an unlawful pyramid” and Herbalife merely as a “multi-level marketing company.” The details in the FTC’s complaint against Herbalife are damning. It enticed individuals to sign up as “distributors” by suggesting they could earn annual income of six figures or more and live a lifestyle of “big houses, fancy cars, cash, and boats” by hawking Herbalife inventory. But as the FTC observed, the vast majority of Herbalife distributors don’t even make minimum wage. One striking difference between Vemma and Herbalife is size: Vemma was collecting about $200 million a year in revenue when the FTC went after it. Herbalife, which was founded in 1980, last year reported profit of $339 million on net sales of $4.5 Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times HERBALIFE CEO Michael O. Johnson says the company’s business model “is sound.” billion. That wealth buys a lot of influence. Enough to keep the words “pyramid scheme” out of a federal regulator’s lawsuit, for example. Herbalife has not been shy about putting its connections on public display. For years it boasted of its close connections with UCLA Medical School, which as we reported in 2013 it exploited to give its nutritional shakes and other products the veneer of scientific credibility. 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Albright touted Herbalife in public statements as a paragon of “corporate responsibility and community service,” and as an “ethics-driven company.” We asked Albright’s consult- ing firm, Albright Stonebridge Group, for comment but didn’t receive an answer. The FTC is forcing the company to restructure its marketing pitch and its distributor compensation. Herbalife will have to drop the references to lavish wealth and the images of opulent mansions and personal helicopters that lured the unwary into signing up as distributors. It will have to connect the compensation of top-tier agents — those tiny few who make big money from lower-level distributors — to retail sales, not to potentially bogus purchases. Some say that forcing Herbalife to make its money from actually selling its nutritional supplements to retail buyers will be its death knell, since a small percentage of the product actually goes to such customers. It’s also possible that Herbalife will cry all the way to the bank. The stock market treated the $200-million settlement as a triumph for the company, sending its shares up nearly 10% Friday after the FTC settlement; the shares also gained about 9% in May, after the company disclosed the pending penalty in a quarterly report. The company already has pointed out that the FTC settlement applies only to its activities in the U.S., and those account for only 20% of its net sales. So it’s free to continue its old model in the rest of the world. Herbalife’s chairman and chief executive, Michael O. Johnson, said in a release that the FTC settlement, along with a second deal with the state of Illinois, “are an acknowledgment that our business model is sound.” If that’s not thumbing his nose at government regulators, what is it? A version of this column can be found online at lat.ms/2a642p6. michael.hiltzik @latimes.com China’s Baidu to break new ground on credit scoring [ZestFinance, from C1] close terms of the investment. Aaron Rieke of consulting firm Upturn, which has tracked various alternative credit scoring firms, said the deal, thanks to Baidu’s size, would mark the first time a company has taken such a vast amount of information about online behavior and used it to make credit decisions. “They’re going to have a lot of data,” Rieke said. “Once you’re going to be judged by the byproducts of online activity, that’s a brave new world.” ZestFinance, founded in 2009, specializes in scoring the creditworthiness of borrowers who have little or no credit history. The firm uses complex algorithms that look for correlations between creditworthiness and all kinds of nontraditional credit information. In the U.S., it makes consumer loans under the brand Basix, and judges customers based on a wide array of information gleaned from data brokers and other sources. In China, e-commerce site JD.com uses ZestFinance’s systems to underwrite loans to its customers based on their browsing and transaction history. But the deal with Baidu takes things a step further, setting ZestFinance’s system loose on a huge trove of information about what consumers are looking for online, where they go and what they purchase through merchants on Baidu’s ecommerce platform. Though much of that information has nothing to do with money, Merrill said behavioral data can weed out fraud and produce solid credit information. “If you get enough data about people’s behavior, you’ll be able to extract information about ability to repay and willingness to repay,” Merrill said. Because of the vagaries of ZestFinance’s system, which may find correlations that are far from obvious, it’s difficult to say precisely how the Baidu scores will work or what factors will lead to a good or bad score. For instance, in ZestFinance’s U.S. lending practice, Merrill has said that borrowers who fill out a loan application using proper capitalization are more likely to repay than those who use all capital letters — though Merrill also acknowledges he’s not sure why that is. The deal with ZestFinance comes less than a year after Baidu and Chinese fi- nance firm Citic Group announced plans to start a new bank, to be called Baixin Bank. At the time, Baidu said in a statement that its search data could “help the bank understand the individual needs of customers.” Now, by working with ZestFinance, it’s likely planning to use that same data to help it underwrite credit cards, loans and other financial products for hundreds of millions of potential customers. 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The currently proposed amendments to Regulation XX would not be expected to trigger any conditions identified in CEQA Guidelines §15162 because the proposed project would not: - result in new or more severe significant effects requiring substantial revisions in the previous CEQA document (e.g., the Final PEA); - create new significant project-specific or cumulative impacts in any environmental topic areas; or, - make any project-specific or cumulative impacts in any environmental areas substantially worse as a result of implementing the proposed project. Thus, SCAQMD will prepare an Addendum to the December 2015 Final PEA for the currently proposed project. While an Addendum need not be circulated for public review [CEQA Guidelines §15164 (c)], the Addendum, as well as the currently proposed amendments to Regulation XX, will be made available to the public 30 days prior to Public Hearing to be held on October 7, 2016 (subject to change). 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Proposed Amended Regulation XX also includes exclusions from this provision to allow facilities under common ownership that conduct the same function to use shutdown RTCs as well as provisions that allow for planned non-operation for up to five years for facilities that meet specific criteria. California Environmental Quality Act The currently proposed amendments to Regulation XX are considered to be modifications to the previously approved project (the December 2015 amendments to Regulation XX) and are a "project" as defined by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). For the previously approved project, the SCAQMD, as the CEQA Lead Agency, prepared a Final Program Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Proposed Amended Regulation XX - Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM) that was certified by the SCAQMD Governing Board on December 4, 2015 (State Clearinghouse No. 2014121018 / SCAQMD No. 12052014BAR). C5 Pass it on. Sell your unwanted items where they’ll be appreciated. latimes.com/marketplace Questions regarding the CEQA analysis and the upcoming preparation of the Addendum may be directed to: Barbara Radlein Planning, Rule Development and Area Sources South Coast Air Quality Management District 21865 Copley Drive Diamond Bar, CA 91765 Phone: (909) 396-2716 Email: [email protected] Fax: (909) 396-3324 Available Supporting Documents The following supporting documents will be made available on or before the public workshop: - Proposed Amended Regulation XX - Preliminary Draft Staff Report To Obtain Copies of the Above Documents Copies of the documents listed are available and may be obtained from: Mr. Philip Crabbe III Public Information Center South Coast Air Quality Management District 21865 Copley Drive Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (909) 396-2039 The documents are also available for download from the SCAQMD website at: http://www.aqmd.gov/home/regulations/rules/proposed-rules Submissions of Documents or Comments The public is requested to send comments, documents or other information relevant to these proposals to: Mr. Gary Quinn, P.E. Planning, Rule Development and Area Sources South Coast Air Quality Management District 21865 Copley Drive Diamond Bar, CA 91765 Phone: (909) 396-3121 Fax: (909) 396-3324 Email: [email protected] Written comments regarding the proposed rule amendments submitted by August 26, 2016 will be responded to in the staff report, which is part of the information considered by the SCAQMD Governing Board. 7/20/16 09CL397 THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. USAHQ ©2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. TURET ONEHGU GYTIZL Answer here: Yesterday’s Check out the new, free JUST JUMBLE app SALES EVENTS BUSINESS Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. “ ” (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: PICKY KNIFE DONKEY OUTLET Answer: When Steve Martin got the role of Inspector Clouseau, he was — TICKLED PINK C6 WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016 LOS ANGELES TIMES Para más información sobre este aviso por favor llame al número 1-866-237-1333. Notice of General Rate Case Application filed by California American Water for an Increase in Water Rates Southern Division (APPLICATION NO. A.16-07-002) California American Water has filed a General Rate Case (GRC) application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to increase customers’ rates beginning January 1, 2018. This GRC will cover the years 2018–2020. The Application The CPUC requires California American Water to file a GRC every three years. On July 1, 2016, California American Water filed a GRC requesting overall revenue increases of $34,559,200 (or 16.29%) for 2018, $8,478,500 (or 3.43%) for 2019, and $7,742,600 (or 3.03%) for 2020. The GRC includes revenue requirement information, the anticipated cost to run the water company’s systems, new infrastructure investments, a request to increase rates to cover anticipated costs and other requests the water company deems necessary to run its business. Without consolidation, the proposed revenue increases in the Ventura District are shown in the chart below by customer class. Ventura District Proposed Revenue Increases WITHOUT Consolidation 2018 2019 Increase Over 3 Years 2020 CUSTOMER CLASS $ Increase % Increase $ Increase % Increase $ Increase % Increase Residential $1,827,933 7.9% $615,882 2.5% $579,034 2.3% $3,022,849 Commercial $569,349 7.8% $190,173 2.4% $178,795 2.2% $938,317 Rate Consolidation As part of this GRC, California American Water is proposing three major consolidations. The consolidations will encompass several districts for rate-making and operations purposes. The consolidation proposals should provide customer benefits by spreading costs of large infrastructure projects over time and over a larger base of customers. Industrial $265,717 7.5% $85,318 2.3% $80,213 2.1% $431,248 Public Authority $202,274 7.7% $66,119 2.3% $62,163 2.1% $330,557 Southern Division The proposed Southern Division consolidation includes the Ventura, San Diego and Los Angeles County service districts. These systems are served primarily with water purchased from the Metropolitan Water District and share common management and administrative support staff. Private Fire A. With Consolidation California American Water’s revenue proposals for the Southern Division, WITH consolidation, are shown by customer class in the chart below. Construction/ Other TOTAL CUSTOMER CLASS $ Increase 2019 % Increase $ Increase % Increase $ Increase % Increase 10.7% $1,909 4.0% $1,794 3.7% $8,285 $15,845 5.9% $0 0.0% $0 0.0% $15,845 $959,400 $ Increase YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill 2018 135.3 $103.30 2019 135.3 2020 135.3 $2.73 $116.53 2.40% $116.53 $2.56 $119.10 2.20% 4.4% $2,700,379 3.8% $14,219,627 Commercial $2,891,231 11.8% $1,117,947 4.1% $1,017,794 3.6% $5,026,971 Industrial $736,640 18.0% $169,173 3.5% $154,018 3.1% $1,059,831 Public Authority $907,009 11.3% $336,354 3.8% $306,221 3.3% $1,549,585 $904 17.0% $456 7.4% $415 6.2% $1,775 $22,011 11.9% $9,012 4.6% $8,205 4.0% $39,228 $100,939 95.5% $11,692 5.7% $10,645 4.9% $123,276 YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill ($31,298) 2018 110.2 $68.79 ($31,298) TOTAL -4.0% $13,180,584 $0 0.0% $4,610,734 $0 0.0% $4,197,677 $21,988,995 Customer Impact If California American Water’s proposed consolidation of the Southern Division is approved, a typical residential customer’s monthly water bills (with a 5/8-inch meter size) would resemble those below. Amounts shown include fees, taxes and surcharges. Ventura District Average Residential Bill WITH Consolidation YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 135.3 $103.30 $23.45 $126.74 22.70% 2019 135.3 $126.74 $5.29 $132.04 4.17% 2020 135.3 $132.04 $4.82 $136.85 3.65% San Diego District Average Residential Bill WITH Consolidation YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 71.6 $63.33 ($1.46) $61.88 -2.30% 2019 71.6 $61.88 $2.58 $64.46 4.17% 2020 71.6 $64.46 $2.35 $66.81 3.65% Los Angeles District - Baldwin Hills Average Residential Bill WITH Consolidation YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 110.2 $68.79 ($3.28) $65.51 -4.77% 2019 110.2 $65.51 $2.73 $68.24 4.17% 2020 110.2 $68.24 $2.49 $70.73 3.65% Los Angeles District - Duarte Average Residential Bill WITH Consolidation YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 130.0 $65.76 $12.72 $78.48 19.34% 2019 130.0 $78.48 $3.27 $81.75 4.17% 2020 130.0 $81.75 $2.98 $84.73 3.65% Los Angeles District - San Marino Average Residential Bill WITH Consolidation YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 157.8 $68.73 $18.02 $86.75 26.21% 2019 157.8 $86.75 $3.62 $90.37 4.17% 2020 157.8 $90.37 $3.29 $93.66 3.65% 1: CGL= 100 gallons B. Without Consolidation California American Water’s proposed revenue increases, WITHOUT consolidation, for each Southern District are shown below. San Diego District Proposed Revenue Increases WITHOUT Consolidation 2018 2019 Increase Over 3 Years 2020 CUSTOMER CLASS $ Increase % Increase Residential $1,135,790 8.1% $665,909 4.4% $587,375 3.7% $2,389,075 Commercial $777,063 7.2% $453,343 3.9% $399,878 3.3% $1,630,285 Industrial $276,479 7.1% $161,496 3.9% $142,450 3.3% $580,424 Public Authority $10,091 8.4% $5,551 4.6% $4,897 3.9% $20,539 ($57,124) -25.4% $0 0.0% $0 0.0% ($57,124) Private Fire TOTAL REVENUE $2,142,300 $ Increase % Increase $1,286,300 $ Increase % Increase $1,134,600 $ Increase $4,563,200 Without consolidation, the proposed revenue increases in the Los Angeles District are shown in the chart below by customer class. Los Angeles District Proposed Revenue Increases WITHOUT Consolidation 2018 CUSTOMER CLASS $ Increase Residential Commercial 2019 % Increase $ Increase $5,978,030 27.2% $1,621,111 25.0% Industrial $126,605 Public Authority Increase Over 3 Years 2020 % Increase $ Increase $1,643,208 5.9% $1,562,310 5.3% $9,183,548 $479,950 6.0% $456,321 5.3% $2,557,381 22.7% $34,561 5.1% $32,860 4.6% $194,026 $374,508 24.7% $104,009 5.5% $98,888 4.9% $577,405 Sale for Resale $1,589 29.9% $472 6.8% $449 6.1% $2,509 Construction/ Other $6,124 27.8% $1,633 6.4% $1,553 5.7% $9,310 $120,764 114.3% $13,167 5.8% $12,519 5.2% $146,450 $0 0.0% $0 0.0% $3,969 Irrigation Private Fire TOTAL $3,969 $8,232,700 1.4% $2,277,000 $2,164,900 % Increase $ Increase $12,674,600 % Increase $113.81 $2,966,100 Private Fire Proposed Bill $113.81 14.4% Irrigation $ Increase $10.51 $8,553,147 Construction/ Other $4,747,100 Customer Impact If California American Water’s proposed consolidation of the Southern Division is not approved, a typical residential customer’s monthly water bills (with a 5/8-inch meter size) would resemble those below. Amounts shown include fees, taxes and surcharges. Residential Sale for Resale $902,000 Ventura District Average Residential Bill WITHOUT Consolidation Increase Over 3 Years 2020 $4,582 $2,885,700 Southern Division - Proposed Revenue Increase WITH Consolidation 2018 $ Increase 10.17% San Diego District Average Residential Bill WITHOUT Consolidation YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 71.6 $63.33 $4.49 $67.83 7.10% 2019 71.6 $67.83 $2.79 $70.62 4.12% 2020 71.6 $70.62 $2.46 $73.09 3.49% Los Angeles District - Baldwin Hills Average Residential Bill WITHOUT Consolidation $ Increase $16.08 Proposed Bill % Increase $84.87 23.37% 2019 110.2 $84.87 $4.92 $89.79 5.80% 2020 110.2 $89.79 $4.68 $94.47 5.21% YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 130.0 $65.76 $18.59 $84.34 28.26% 2019 130.0 $84.34 $4.89 $89.23 5.80% 2020 130.0 $89.23 $4.65 $93.88 5.21% Los Angeles District - Duarte Average Residential Bill WITHOUT Consolidation Los Angeles District - San Marino Average Residential Bill WITHOUT Consolidation YEAR Avg Use (CGL)1 Current Bill $ Increase Proposed Bill % Increase 2018 157.8 $68.73 $17.64 $86.37 25.67% 2019 157.8 $86.37 $5.01 $91.38 5.80% 2020 157.8 $91.38 $4.76 $96.14 5.21% 1: CGL= 100 gallons Primary Drivers of Rate Increase California American Water has made efforts to keep expenses low. However, there continues to be an ongoing need to invest in the infrastructure for each district. This application will also cover proposals to make investments to improve water quality and comply with new water treatment regulations. Additionally, California American Water is requesting approval for investments in automated meter reading. This will give customers more accessibility to data about how and when they use water, and how that impacts their bill. Customer conservation and the drought have led to reduced sales revenue for California American Water. Due to this reduction and projected declining sales, California American Water is requesting an increase to the price per unit of water. The proposed rate increases will also allow California American Water to sustain new infrastructure investments, higher depreciation, higher costs for purchased water, higher operating and maintenance costs, information technology and laboratory costs, as well as higher taxes. Obtaining a Copy of the Application A copy of California American Water’s proposed GRC application and related exhibits may be reviewed at California American Water’s offices at the locations below: • Los Angeles County - 8657 Grand Avenue, Rosemead, CA 91770 • San Diego County - 1025 Palm Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932 • Ventura County - 2439 W. Hillcrest Drive, Newbury Park, CA 91320 Copies of the proposed application are also available to review at the CPUC’s Central Files Office in San Francisco by appointment. For more information, please contact them at [email protected] or (415) 703-2045. The CPUC’s Process This application will be assigned to an Administrative Law Judge (Judge) who will determine how to receive evidence and other related documents necessary for the CPUC to establish a record upon which to base its decision. Evidentiary hearings may be held where utilities, consumer advocacy groups, and other entities which have been given official status as “parties” will present their testimony and may be subject to cross-examination by other parties. These evidentiary hearings are open to the public, but only those who are parties may participate. The hearings and documents submitted in the proceeding become part of the formal record that the Judge relies upon when writing a proposed decision to present to the Commissioners for their consideration. After considering all proposals and all evidence presented during the formal hearing process, the Judge will issue a proposed decision determining whether to adopt California American Water’s request, modify it, or deny it. Any of the CPUC’s Commissioners may sponsor an alternate decision. The proposed decision and any alternate decisions will be discussed and voted upon at a scheduled Commission Voting Meeting. The Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) may review this application. ORA is the independent consumer advocate within the CPUC with a legislative mandate to represent investor-owned utility customers to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. ORA has a multi-disciplinary staff with expertise in economics, finance, accounting, and engineering. For more information about ORA, please call (415) 703-1584, e-mail [email protected], or visit ORA’s website at www.ora.ca.gov. Stay Informed If you would like to follow this proceeding, or any other issue before the CPUC, you may use the CPUC’s free subscription service. Sign up at http://subscribecpuc.cpuc.ca.gov. If you would like to learn how you can participate in the proceeding, have informal comments, or have questions about the CPUC’s processes, you may access the CPUC’s Public Advisor’s webpage at http://consumers.cpuc.ca.gov/pao/. You may also contact the Public Advisor as follows: Email: [email protected] Write: Public Advisor’s Office, 505 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102 Call: Toll free 1-866-849-8390; TTY toll free 1-866-836-7825 Please reference California American Water’s GRC Application No. 16-07-002 in any communications you have with the CPUC regarding this matter. All public comments will become part of the public correspondence file for this proceeding and be made available for review for the assigned Judge, the Commissioners, and appropriate CPUC staff. D SPORTS W E D N E S D A Y , J U L Y 2 0 , 2 0 1 6 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S Angels lose another pitcher Tropeano has a torn elbow ligament and will be sidelined for rest of the season. ANGELS 8, TEXAS 6 By Mike DiGiovanna The Angels on Tuesday lost their third starting pitcher to a major elbow injury in 31⁄2 months when Nick Tropeano was diagnosed with a medium- to high-grade tear in his ulnar collateral ligament, an injury that will sideline the promising young righthander for the rest of this season and, most likely, all of 2017. Tropeano joined lefthander Andrew Heaney, who underwent elbow ligament-replacement surgery July 1, and ace Garrett Richards, who tore his UCL in May and could need surgery, on the disabled list and sent the Angels searching for clues as to why they have suffered so many UCL tears this season. Since Mike Scioscia took over as manager in 2000, only three Angels pitchers have had ligament-replacement surgery while with the club [See Angels, D5] Mitchell Layton Getty Images CHASE UTLEY IS GREETED by Howie Kendrick after getting the Dodgers off to a fast start with a leadoff home run against Washington’s Reynaldo Lopez, who was making his major league debut. Utley had three hits and three RBIs in the 8-4 victory. D5 BACK OFF Kershaw still has soreness and his return to the Dodgers is ‘uncertain,’ according to Roberts. Ryu also has a flare-up and goes on disabled list. DODGERS 8 WASHINGTON 4 By Andy McCullough Sean M. Haffey Getty Images NICK TROPEANO might be headed for elbow surgery. Not again Three Angels pitchers might have elbow ligament-replacment surgery this season, matching the team’s total for the previous 16 years:. Pitcher Andrew Heaney Garrett Richards Nick Tropeano* Tyler Skaggs Michael Kohn Matt Wise Year 2016 2016 2016 2014 2012 2003 * Suffered a medium- to high-grade UCL tear in right elbow. Ligament-replacement surgery is one option, but Tropeano has not determined a course of treatment. WASHINGTON — On Sunday in Los Angeles, a day after he completed a simulated game that looked like his final tuneup before rejoining the Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw met with team doctor Robert Watkins. It was Watkins who initially prescribed an epidural for Kershaw’s herniated disk last month. And it was Watkins who listened to Kershaw relay a recurrence of soreness in his lower back and advised him to rest until the discomfort subsided. The setback pulls the rug out beneath a franchise awaiting the return of its left-handed anchor. On Tuesday, before the Dodgers defeated the Washington Nationals, 8-4, Manager Dave Roberts referred to a return date for Kershaw as “uncertain.” “When you’re dealing with the back, there’s always some concern, certainly,” Roberts said. “But you’re just hoping in the coming 2016 OLYMPICS Elsa Garrison Getty Images CLAYTON KERSHAW , who hasn’t pitched since June 26, was expected to return to the Dodgers’ rotation this week. days there is some improvement.” Roberts revealed a series of injury issues before the game. The team scratched Hyun-Jin Ryu from a scheduled start Wednesday because of elbow tendinitis, placing him on the 15-day disabled list along with reliever Casey Fien, who is also suffering from elbow tendinitis. The Dodgers activated outfielder Joc Pederson, who has recovered from a sprained AC joint, and recalled reliever Luis Avilan. Scrambling to align a rotation, the team will start Bud Norris on Wednesday and 19-year-old rookie Julio Urias on Thursday. The Dodgers had sent Urias to triple-A Oklahoma City to preserve innings as a reliever. He has pitched one inning since July 4. Heading into the weekend, the Dodgers hoped Kershaw (11-2 with a 1.79 earned-run average) could start either Thursday in Washington or Friday in St. Louis. He completed four simulated innings Saturday at Dodger Stadium and revealed no physical issues during the outing, which led Roberts to remark that, barring any setbacks, all that remained for Kershaw was [See Dodgers, D5] ROAD TO RIO 16 DAYS TO SUMMER GAMES Purity, shmurity: All bets are on IOC moves with care over Russia Another vestige of Olympic ideal fades away with Vegas books taking wagers on Games for the first time since 2000. Executive board, pondering whether to ban nation from Games amid doping allegations, will explore legal options. By Lance Pugmire By David Wharton LAS VEGAS — The long, slow erosion of the Olympics’ claim to sporting purity has reached a new landmark. The Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro will be gambled on inside Nevada sports books. The Nevada Gaming Control Board, acting on the interests of race and sports book directors in the state, agreed last year to allow bettors to wager on Olympic events for the first time since the practice was forbidden in 2001. Asked if the world should pause to mourn the lost innocence once associated with the Games, the head of Las Vegas’ powerful Westgate Superbook saw no reason to shed a tear. “ ‘Used to be’ is exactly right, because almost everyone in the Olympics is getting paid now,” Jay Kornegay said. “I don’t [See Gambling, D3] Sixteen days before the opening ceremony for the 2016 Summer Games, Olympic leaders still aren’t sure what to do with the Russians. Anti-doping authorities want the International Olympic Committee to consider banning the entire national contingent over allegations of systemic cheating among athletes, coaches and officials. It would set a bold precedent — no country has ever been excluded from the Games for doping — but the IOC’s executive board sounded a more cautious note Tuesday, saying it would spend the next few days exploring “the legal options.” “We have to do this the right way or it will be an even bigger mess than it already is,” said Anita DeFrantz, an IOC member from Los Angeles. The board has asked [See IOC, D3] Francine Orr Los Angeles Times “WE’RE DOING as much as we can as fast as we can,” says International Olympic Committee member Anita DeFrantz. Gordon Earnhardt Racing team’s backup plan Jeff Gordon, who’s retired, is ready to pinch-drive for NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr., who has health issue. D3 Make sure of eligibility As a new high school sports season nears, Eric Sondheimer says player transfers need to be properly cleared. D2 Woods will miss PGA The golfer, rehabbing after back surgeries, will pass up that major and the rest of the tour season. D6 D2 W E D NE S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 L AT I M ES . C O M / SP O RTS PRO CALENDAR WED. 20 DODGERS ANGELS at Wash. 4 SNLA THU. 21 FRI. 22 SAT. 23 SUN. 24 at Wash. at St. Louis at St. Louis at St. Louis 9 a.m. 5:15 4:15 5 SNLA SNLA SNLA ESPN TEXAS 7 FSW at Houston at Houston at Houston 5 4 11 a.m. FSW FSW FSW SEATTLE 7:30* at Portland 12:30 ESPN GALAXY Shade denotes home game. *-U.S. Open Cup SPARKS: Friday, at Washington, 4 p.m. PDT, TWC, Dep. TODAY ON THE AIR TIME EVENT AUTO RACING 2 p.m. NASCAR, Camping World Truck Series, Eldora, qualifying 6 p.m. NASCAR, Camping World Truck Series, Eldora BASEBALL 9:30 a.m. Atlanta at Cincinnati 11:15 a.m. New York Mets at Chicago 4 p.m. San Francisco at Boston 4 p.m. Dodgers at Washington 7 p.m. Texas at Angels 7 p.m. San Diego at St. Louis (in progress) CYCLING 5 a.m. Tour de France, Stage 17 5 a.m. Tour de France, Stage 18 (Thurs.) GOLF 4 a.m. Senior British Open (Thurs.) HORSE RACING 1 p.m. Racing Coast to Coast 2 p.m. Trackside Live, Del Mar PRO BASKETBALL, WNBA 9:30 a.m. Connecticut at Dallas Noon San Antonio at Seattle SOCCER 11:30 a.m. Exhibition, Munich vs. Manchester City 4:45 p.m. Copa MX, Queretaro vs. Puebla 5:30 p.m. Copa Libertadores, Independiente del Valle vs. Nacional 6:15 p.m. Copa MX, Venados vs. America TENNIS 11 a.m. ATP, Citi Open, early round ON THE AIR TV: FS1 TV: FS1 TV: MLB TV: ESPN TV: ESPN TV: SNLA R: 570, 1020, 1540 TV: FS West R: 830, 1330 TV: MLB Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times TV: NBCSN TV: NBCSN LONG BEACH POLY quarterback Nolan McDonald tries to escape a tackle by Narbonne last fall. Poly had to forfeit three Moore League games last season because of an ineligible player and missed the playoffs. TV: Golf TV: Prime TV: Prime TV: NBA TV: NBA TV: FOXD TV: ESPND TV: FS2, FOXD TV: UDN TV: Tennis 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; consult your guide. GALAXY TONIGHT U .S. OPEN CUP VS. SEATTLE SOUNDERS When: 7:30. Where: StubHub Center track stadium. On the air: Streaming on lagalaxy.com. Record vs. Seattle: 1-0 (in MLS play). Update: The Galaxy have reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Cup four times in the last seven years, but the team hasn’t gone further since 2006 when it reached the final. The Sounders, on the other hand, have been the tournament’s dominant team, reaching the final five times since 2009 and winning the title four times. The teams come into this game heading in opposite directions. The Sounders have won just three of their last 11 games against MLS competition, and the Galaxy have lost one of their last eight. The Galaxy are unbeaten at home this season, although Wednesday’s game will be played in the StubHub Center’s track stadium since the main field is playing host to the CrossFit Games. — Kevin Baxter Check out transfers now, or risk paying price later player. Los Angeles Hawkins was banned from last season’s City Section playoffs because of ineligible players in 2014. The vast majority of problems involve transfer students. Yes, it’s fun to get excited when someone new shows up and looks talented. But it’s the responsibility of each school to know the rules, fill out the paperwork and confirm eligibility. If that means going to a student’s house in a surprise visit, or double checking transcripts, so be it. Asking for advice or help from CIF officials is way better than having to break the news of forfeits to a team. Seemingly every year, right around playoff time, ineligible players are revealed. That’s because people sometimes wait to inform schools about where players are really living until after they see how the team or player has performed. It’s not ethical or classy to wait so long to blow the whistle on a violation, but it’s the way it often happens, so ERIC SONDHEIMER ON HIGH SCHOOLS Consider this a public service announcement before the new high school sports season begins: Parents, coaches and athletic directors, you need to prevent the embarrassment, ridicule and chaos that happen when an ineligible player is discovered during a season. There were more than 6,000 transfers in the CIF Southern Section alone last school year, so the potential for mistakes, oversights and even cheating is pretty high — especially if the people in charge don’t fulfill their responsibilities. Last football season, Long Beach Poly had to forfeit three Moore League games because of an ineligible player, leaving the Jackrabbits out of the playoffs. Simi Valley Grace Brethren, on the eve of playing for a championship, was removed from the playoffs because of an ineligible administrators had better do their job thoroughly. Southern Section Commissioner Rob Wigod, a former athletic director, said he used a simple approach at the start of each school year to determine eligibility. First, he introduced himself to each varsity team on the first day of practice. “Then I asked all of the players who played the sport at our school last season to gather in a spot,” he said in an email. “Next, anyone who attended our school last year but did not play that sport, go join them. Finally, whoever is left, after practice is over, come to the main office and we can make sure that we have your eligibility situation taken care of, paperwork, etc. “In that way, we identified the students who we needed to make sure were eligible. There were still two to three weeks before the first game, which was plenty of time to get things done, before they actually started playing in games. It may seem like a simple thing, but it really helped.” Wigod stressed that “eligibility is an administrative task, not a coach’s task.” But coaches need to be proactive, and if they have any suspicions about a player’s eligibility they need to intervene and make sure questions and concerns are answered. Wigod recommends athletic directors bounce questions off other ADs and “never hesitate to call or email our office any time with questions.” Athletic directors probably deserve a big raise, because so much is riding on their competence and integrity. It’s a tough assignment, but the process works if the person has the freedom and support to do the right thing and demand rules be followed and ask the appropriate questions when a transfer shows up. 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Call it a desperation pass. “What are you doing next week?” he said, trying to find a fallback plan in case Dale Earnhardt Jr. was unable to drive for a second consecutive week because of continued concussion-like symptoms. “He said he’d be in Indy for one of the appearances he has to make,” Hendrick said. “I said, ‘Well, bring your driver’s uniform just in case.’ He said, ‘Are you kidding?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m serious.’ So if Dale can’t go then Jeff is ready to step in.” And so there you go. The perfect storm of good and bad for the Hendrick Motorsports team. The good: Gordon, a four-time Cup season champion who retired at the end of the 2015 season, is ready to step in should Earnhardt be unavailable Sunday for the 400-mile race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The bad: Earnhardt is still hung up physically, not only putting his chances of qualifying for the Chase in peril but also raising questions about his longterm future. Things are understandably a bit fuzzy. Earnhardt did not race last weekend at New Hampshire after suffering balance issues and nausea. Presumably, he is still feeling the sting of crashes in Michigan and Daytona. But there’s also concern that this is becoming a recurring issue because Earnhardt did not drive in two races in 2012 because of concussion-related symptoms as well. The encouraging news is that a test that measures cognitive function showed optimistic results, but the game plan is still TBA for Earnhardt and Hendrick Motorsports. “I take my health and quality of life as a top priority. ... I am going to take this slow and strictly take the advice of my doctors,” Earnhardt said during his weekly race recap podcast, “The Dale Jr. Download.” It was be the epitome of mixed emotions for Gordon to get back in a Hendrick car. That was Gordon’s only team in his NASCAR Cup career that spanned 23 full-time seasons. And he still has a business stake in the Hendrick team. It would be an easy fit, under the most difficult conditions. “I think Jeff will do well,” said team owner Hendrick. “He’s won that race a lot of times. I expect if he gets in the car, he might be a little bit rusty. But we’ve got a lot of practice time and I don’t think it’ll take Gordon long to get back in the groove.” Gordon will have a few days to get over some jet lag if indeed he does drive in Indy. He was traveling back from Europe on Tuesday. But that’s not the pressing physical concern at Hendrick Motorsports these days. “He wants to race for a long time, so we are going to let the doctors make those decisions,” Hendrick said of Earnhardt. “It’s really hard at first and then the [Gambling, from D1] think there’s anything wrong with it. The Kenyans in the marathon, the Russians — they get paid. Our athletes get endorsements. There are very few amateurs left.” Experts speculate Nevada books will accept around $20 million to $30 million in betting tickets on Olympic events, a small fraction compared to the sports that gamblers bet most frequently on the big boards along the Strip. Jay Rood, director of the MGM Resorts’ race and sports book, said he expects 70% of Olympic bets to be on men’s basketball games. “And I think the average draw [betting amount on a specific game] will be like a low-tier college game, like Santa Barbara playing Long Beach,” Kornegay said. “The gold-medal game, even if it becomes this super showdown of the U.S. against a team who’s beating everyone by 50 will be 10%, maybe less, of the average game in the Cleveland-Golden State NBA Finals.” Nevada’s Gaming Control Board re-instituted Olympic gambling after a campaign by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) sought to stop betting on college sports. McCain’s argument was that point-shaving concerns were real, because Nevada previously didn’t set lines on University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball games. The sports books ultimately retained college sports gambling, adding UNLV and Nevada games, but made a concession in 2001 to stop setting lines on the Olympics. In 2012, however, the Summer Games in London were bet upon by books in England, catching the Nevada sports book directors’ attention and prompting them to push their state to overturn the ban. “We stated the position that we’re at a bit of a disadvantage in Nevada by not being able to offer odds on some of the more mainstream events,” Rood said. “Everybody agreed that we don’t think the state of Nevada is interested in booking 12-year-old gymnasts or ice skaters, but we do want to book the basketball, the hockey, some of the track and field — things that are appealing . . . the volleyball, the swimming.” Stephen Mosher, a sports ethics and character development professor at Ithaca College in New York, said it is “not surprising to hear that Vegas is taking bets on Olympics. “The purity of the Olympic movement was lost years ago when the International Olympic Committee removed any distinction between amateurism and professionalism. Only in the U.S. does a portion of the population actually believe in what even the IOC calls this ‘magic dust.’ ” Regulations allow Nevada to set odds on all Olympic events, but Rood said he and most of his peers will limit setting odds to popular competitions that are “scored or timed, not voted upon by judges, with the exception of boxing, because that is the accepted form of scoring.” It’s good business, the Nevada bookmakers say, to offer action on events visitors want to gamble on. With limits not expected to exceed $2,000 on each bet, in most cases, the potential for fixing Olympic events is minimized, as well. “We’ll appease those who want it now, but it’s really not going to move the needle at all for us,” Kornegay said. Kornegay likes having odds posted on a lot of events, but admitted he can’t be overzealous when it comes to the Olympics. “It’s a lot of work,” he said. Establishing odds and lines “has to be 100% accurate,” Kornegay said. “There’s unusual names, countries and rules — in some cases, we don’t even know the rules. So it’s going to be a very selective menu at most books — basketball, soccer, golf. You’re not going to see rowing, kayaking, fencing, handball.” The bookmakers will strive to have odds set on the handful of other events that draw media attention and national interest. In some cases, the Nevada books will consider European and offshore book odds in setting lines for events considered third- and fourth-tier American sports. “I know basketball, soccer, golf,” Kornegay said. “As far as swimming, fencing, absolutely not. . . .” While most betting on the Games will be done by casual gamblers, Kornegay is aware that major gamblers — known as sharps — will pounce if he has a bad number. “Sharps don’t care if the athlete or team is American, Romanian or Brazilian,” he said. “They just look at the odds and if there’s an overlay, I guarantee you they’ll take it.” [email protected] Twitter: @latimespugmire Current turmoil might ultimately prove useful Wilfredo Lee Associated Press DALE EARNHARDT JR. is suffering balance issues and nau- sea after crashes in NASCAR races at Michigan and Daytona. more you think about it it’s the right thing to do for him and it’s the right thing to do for the team and everyone else. He wants to get back and we want him back. We will just take it day by day.” Mixed viewing numbers Facts don’t lie, so the saying goes, but the numbers game involving NASCAR racing and fan engagement can be viewed through optimistic and pessimistic prisms. “Debbie Downer” says that ratings are down for most races, including last weekend’s race at New Hampshire that included a 13% dip from last year (2.3 rating) and down 23% from 2014 on TNT (2.6). “Oliver Optimistic” says not so fast. Through the Kentucky race the previous weekend, TV ratings are up double digits in major markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore and West Palm Beach, Fla. And more to the point of engaging fans on different platforms, NASCAR rolled some impressive bumps in terms of interaction. Engagement with content on the NASCAR social platforms is up 83% year over year, with more than 114 million total engagements. The NASCAR Facebook and Twitter accounts have generated more than 2.3 billion impressions to date this year. There have been more than 76 million video views on the NASCAR Facebook and Twitter accounts, more than five times as many as last year. Kenseth gets popped A car failing post-race inspec- tion is kind of a little dirty asterisk next to a driver, but nothing noteworthy. Winner Matt Kenseth’s Toyota failed the postrace technical-measurements inspection at New Hampshire. Penalties have yet to be announced, but don’t expect any news that will rock the NASCAR Nation. Perhaps it should be, said NBC Sports analyst and former Cup champion Dale Jarrett. “This is the third time this [infraction] has been found this year,” Jarrett said. “Kyle Larson and Kasey Kahne have already been through this. Maybe this is the time to up the penalty a little bit to get people’s attention. If this is something race teams are doing to make their cars better, than they are getting a slight advantage.” This was the first time a race winner has been cited for a postrace infraction since 2013. Townley is out John Wes Townley will not be able to compete in the Camping World Truck Series race Wednesday at Eldora Speedway because he remains under treatment for a possible concussion. ARCA competitor Brady Boswell will step in and take Townley’s ride in the No. 05 Zaxby’s/Jive Communications Chevrolet. On Friday night, veteran driver and NASCAR on NBC analyst Parker Kligerman will sub for Townley in the ARCA Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200. Townley is scheduled to be reevaluated by his physician Monday and will need clearance before returning to competition. [email protected] [IOC, from D1] for help from an array of international federations that govern the various sports in the Summer Olympics. To further complicate matters, Russia’s track and field team, which has been banned from competition since late last year, is pursuing an appeal in court. A comprehensive resolution seems unlikely in the next few weeks. “There’s no good outcome at this point,” said Roger Pielke Jr. of the Sports Governance Center at the University of Colorado. “Decisions will be made and people will be unhappy.” But the turmoil engulfing the Olympic movement on the eve of the Rio de Janeiro Games, while unpleasant, might ultimately prove useful. The trouble began last fall with a World Anti-Doping Agency report that alleged widespread doping within Russia’s track and field program. The international track federation subsequently suspended that team. Two later reports — one of which was released this week — implicated other sports, alleging that Russian officials and government agencies conspired to conceal hundreds of positive tests from their athletes over the last five years. The IOC executive board held an emergency teleconference Tuesday to discuss the matter and settled on a multi-pronged approach. As has often been the case, the board laid much of the problem at the feet of the international federations, asking them to investigate and “take the appropriate measures.” The Russian track ban notwithstanding, anti-doping enforcement has traditionally focused on individual athletes. The Assn. of Summer Olympic International Federations appears to be leaning in that direction, preferring case-by-case sanctions over a blanket ban. “It is important to focus on the need for individual justice in all these cases,” the association stated. Any penalties handed down could be subject to appeal. It remains unclear if there is time for mass adjudication before the Games begin Aug. 5. “We’re talking about hundreds of athletes who would need to have their cases evaluated,” Pielke said. Meanwhile, IOC leaders will consider other options. Their decision will probably hinge upon the Russian track athletes’ appeal. The Court of Arbitration for ‘There’s no good outcome at this point. Decisions will be made and people will be unhappy.’ — Roger Pielke Jr., of the Sports Governance Center at the University of Colorado Sport, expected to rule later this week, could side with the track federation, establishing a precedent for team-wide bans. Or, it could go the opposite direction. “As soon as we get more information, we’ll reconvene,” DeFrantz said of the IOC’s executive board, adding: “We’re doing as much as we can as fast as we can.” At the very least, Olympic leaders will pursue disciplinary proceedings against Russian Sports Ministry officials mentioned in WADA’s McLaren Report earlier this week. They will also begin retesting samples from all Russian athletes who competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where workers at a drug-testing lab allegedly swapped dirty samples for clean ones. And WADA still has a role to play in all this. In the McLaren Report, investigators said there was much more evidence to be scrutinized. The IOC has asked them to proceed as quickly as possible, and to provide names of alleged dopers. No athletes have been identified by the McLaren team so far. Though the ongoing controversy might cast a shadow over the Rio Games, all the attention being paid to doping could help in the long run. It could fuel a growing effort to centralize the anti-doping effort. At present, each nation is responsible for testing its own athletes; critics would like to see WADA given global authority over enforcement. Pielke believes that policies need to be modernized to account for corrupt organizations and governments, not just corrupt athletes. He remains hopeful. “When the Games end, the sports world still has a lot of problems to deal with,” the professor said. “The worst-case scenario would be that everyone forgets.” [email protected] Twitter: @LATimesWharton D4 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 S L AT I M ES . C O M / SP O RTS BASEBALL DODGERS NATIONALS GB L10 — 5-5 53 42 .558 41⁄2 5-5 43 50 .462 131⁄2 5-5 San Diego 41 52 .441 151⁄2 5-5 Arizona 40 54 .426 17 3-7 GB L10 West L W Pct. San Francisco 57 37 .606 DODGERS Colorado Central W L Pct. Chicago 56 37 .602 — 4-6 St. Louis 48 44 .522 71⁄2 5-5 Pittsburgh 48 45 .516 8 6-4 Milwaukee 39 52 .429 16 4-6 Cincinnati 35 59 .372 211⁄2 5-5 GB L10 East W L Pct. Washington 56 38 .596 — 6-4 Miami 51 42 .548 41⁄2 8-2 New York 50 43 .538 51⁄2 5-5 Philadelphia 43 52 .453 131⁄2 4-6 Atlanta 33 61 .351 23 5-5 Tuesday’s results DODGERS 8, at Washington 4 Miami 2, at Philadelphia 1, 10 innings New York 2, at Chicago 1 at Pittsburgh 3, Milwaukee 2 Atlanta 5, at Cincinnati 4, 11 innings at Boston 4, San Francisco 0 Tampa Bay 10, at Colorado 1 Toronto 5, at Arizona 1 San Diego at St. Louis, ppd., rain AL STANDINGS West W L Pct. GB ANGELS RANGERS 8 6 Streak Won 1 This month 9-5 Home 30-18 Road 23-24 Division 23-18 Interleague 5-7 Next: Tonight at Washington, 4 PDT TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020, 1540 Streak Won 5 This month Home 21-26 Road Division 17-20 Interleague Next: Tonight vs. Texas, Angel Stadium, 7 TV/Radio: FS West/830, 1330 10-5 21-26 6-9 55 40 .579 — 2-8 Houston 50 44 .532 41⁄2 5-5 Seattle 47 47 .500 71⁄2 4-6 ANGELS 42 52 .447 12 ⁄2 8-2 Oakland 42 52 .447 12 ⁄2 6-4 GB L10 Central W L Pct. 1 1 Cleveland 55 38 .591 — 4-6 Detroit 49 45 .521 61⁄2 5-5 Kansas City 47 46 .505 8 4-6 3-7 Chicago 46 47 .495 9 Minnesota 34 59 .366 21 6-4 GB L10 East W L Pct. Dodgers Utley 2b Kendrick lf J.Turner 3b Gnzlz 1b Grandal c Pederson cf Puig rf C.Taylor ss Kazmir p a-Toles Totals Dodgers Washington AB 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 3 2 0 39 R 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 8 H 3 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 13 BI 3 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 8 Avg. .266 .274 .266 .285 .208 .235 .256 .321 .097 .286 Washington T.Turner 2b Revere cf c-M.Taylor cf Murphy 3b Harper rf Werth lf Robinson 1b Espinosa ss Lobaton c Lopez p Belisle p b-Heisey lf Totals AB 4 3 1 4 4 4 3 4 3 1 1 2 34 R 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 4 H 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 7 310 020 011 —8 000 010 030 —4 BI 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 Avg. .318 .219 .226 .352 .248 .244 .216 .233 .194 .000 .000 .228 13 7 0 2 a-walked for Kazmir in the 8th. b-singled for Treinen in the 8th. c-struck out for Revere in the 8th. Walks—Dodgers 3: Kendrick 1, C.Taylor 1, Toles 1. Washington 1: Lobaton 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 11: Utley 1, J.Turner 1, Grandal 3, Pederson 3, Puig 1, Kazmir 2. Washington 9: T.Turner 1, M.Taylor 1, Werth 2, Robinson 1, Espinosa 2, Lopez 1, Belisle 1. E—Murphy (7), Harper (2). LOB—Dodgers 8, Washington 5. 2B—J.Turner (17), C.Taylor (2), Murphy 2 (27), Werth (18). 3B—T.Turner (1). HR—Utley (6), off Lopez; Grandal (13), off Kelley; Lobaton (3), off Kazmir. RBIs—Utley 3 (30), Gonzalez (45), Grandal (38), Pederson 2 (35), Puig (32), T.Turner 2 (2), Murphy (68), Lobaton (6). SB—Puig (5). S—Kazmir. DP—Washington 1 (Espinosa, Harper). Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kazmir W, 8-3 ..............7 4 1 1 0 8 88 4.30 Hatcher .......................0 2 3 3 1 0 15 5.53 Liberatore ....................1 1 0 0 0 1 10 0.57 Jansen ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 15 1.33 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lopez L, 0-1 ..............42⁄3 10 6 6 1 9 105 11.57 Belisle ......................11⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 19 2.02 Perez ..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 9 4.72 Treinen ........................1 1 1 0 1 0 20 2.10 Kelley .........................1 1 1 1 0 1 11 2.78 Hatcher pitched to 3 batters in the 8th. IBB—by Belisle (C.Taylor). HBP—Jansen (Robinson). WP—Hatcher. PB—Lobaton (5). T—3:14. Tickets sold—38,747 (41,418). L10 Texas RAYS ROCKIES R 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 H 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 BI 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Avg. .307 .327 .286 .338 .269 .232 .277 .243 .232 .188 .000 .204 13 4 1 0 6-4 1 ⁄2 8-2 Toronto 53 42 .558 11⁄2 7-3 New York 47 46 .505 61⁄2 6-4 Tampa Bay Colorado Tampa Bay 36 57 .387 17 ⁄2 2-8 a-flied out for Arcia in the 8th. b-grounded out for McGee in the 8th. c-grounded out for Germen in the 9th. Walks—Tampa Bay 4: Miller 1, Kiermaier 1, Arcia 1, Snell 1. Colorado 3: LeMahieu 1, Story 2. Strikeouts—Tampa Bay 3: Longoria 1, Maile 1, Snell 1. Colorado 12: Blackmon 2, LeMahieu 1, Arenado 2, Raburn 2, Reynolds 1, Hundley 2, Barnes 2. E—Maile (1). LOB—Tampa Bay 5, Colorado 5. 2B—Forsythe 2 (18), Miller (15), Dickerson (15), Kiermaier (10), Blackmon (17). HR—Longoria (22), off Chatwood; Pearce (10), off Germen; Story (23), off Andriese. RBIs—Forsythe (23), Miller 2 (35), Longoria 3 (53), Dickerson (36), Pearce 2 (27), Kiermaier (17), Story (60). CS—Story (4). DP—Colorado 2 (Reynolds, Story), (Story, LeMahieu, Reynolds). Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Snell W, 2-4.................6 1 0 0 3 9 96 3.11 Andriese S, 1-1 ............3 3 1 1 0 3 48 2.78 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chatwood L, 8-6...........3 8 7 7 2 1 64 3.83 Lyles...........................4 3 0 0 1 2 47 6.15 McGee ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 8 5.81 Germen.......................1 2 3 3 1 0 24 5.94 Chatwood pitched to 2 batters in the 4th. Inherited runners-scored—Lyles 2-1. WP—Snell. U— Clint Fagan, Paul Emmel, Bob Davidson, Dan Iassogna. T—2:54. Tickets sold—33,061 (50,398). W-L 5-7 5-8 1-1 4-0 8-4 8-6 5-3 8-6 4-7 6-6 4-10 8-5 5-3 6-7 ERA TIME 4.17 4 p.m 4.70 SNLA 3.63 9:30 a.m. 2.55 MLB 3.11 11:15 a.m. 2.41 ESPN 4.95 11:15 a.m. 2.85 5.05 5:15 p.m. 4.11 MLB* 5.44 4 p.m. 5.26 4.90 4 p.m. 4.03 AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> MATCHUP TEX/Perez (L) Angels/Santiago (L) MIN/Santana (R) DET/Verlander (R) CLE/Carrasco (R) KC/Kennedy (R) HOU/Fister (R) OAK/Mengden (R) CHI/Gonzalez (R) SEA/Hernandez (R) BAL/Gallardo (R) NY/Pineda (R) W-L 7-6 7-4 3-8 9-6 6-3 6-7 9-6 1-4 2-5 4-4 3-1 3-9 ERA TIME 4.05 7 p.m. 4.27 FS West 4.12 10 a.m. 3.91 2.49 11:15 a.m. 3.86 3.64 12:30 p.m. 5.54 4.40 12:30 p.m. 2.86 5.77 4 p.m. 5.56 W-L 4-13 6-6 7-4 4-8 1-5 8-7 ERA TIME 4.68 Noon 5.50 5.15 12:30 p.m. 5.25 5.34 4 p.m. 2.47 ESPN INTERLEAGUE >>> MATCHUP TB/Archer (R) COL/De la Rosa (L) TOR/Stroman (R) ARI/Corbin (L) SF/Cain (R) BOS/Pomeranz (L) *-joined in progress AROUND THE MAJORS Peralta returns to disabled list St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Jhonny Peralta is going back on the 15-day disabled list because of a strained ligament in his surgically repaired left thumb. The 34-year-old Peralta (.221, five homers, 13 runs batted in) missed the first 57 games of the season before returning June 7. The three-time All-Star underwent surgery in March for an injury in a different spot on the thumb. The team is hopeful Peralta will resume baseball activities in 10 days. Etc. Toronto slugger Jose Bautista (turf toe) is expected to begin a rehab assignment Wednesday and could rejoin the Blue Jays on Monday. ... Pittsburgh pitcher Jameson Taillon was struck in the head by a 105-mph line drive by Milwaukee’s Hernan Perez but remained in the game Tuesday. ... Cincinnati starter Jon Moscot had surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right elbow.... Outfielder Michael Conforto rejoined the New York Mets after a demotion to the minors. — associated press 0 1 Josh Harrison tripled in the ninth and scored when the throw from the outfield skipped past Milwaukee’s Hernan Perez. Third baseman Perez had hit a tying single in the top of the ninth. Miami AB R H BI Avg. Realmuto c 4 0 2 0 .316 Prado 3b 4 0 0 0 .316 Yelich lf 5 1 2 2 .318 Stanton rf 5 0 0 0 .235 Ozuna cf 3 0 1 0 .304 Dietrich 2b 4 0 0 0 .285 Rojas 2b 0 0 0 0 .259 Johnson 1b 3 0 1 0 .236 Hchvrria ss 3 1 1 0 .244 Urena p 1 0 0 0 .000 b-Suzuki 1 0 0 0 .343 Kelly 1b 1 0 0 0 .053 Totals 34 2 7 2 Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Villar ss 4 0 0 0 .299 Jaso 1b 4 0 0 0 .267 Gennett 2b 4 0 0 0 .263 Rdrigz 1b 0 0 0 0 .254 Braun lf 3 1 1 0 .313 Polanco rf 3 1 0 0 .284 Lucroy c 4 0 2 0 .305 McCthn cf 3 1 1 0 .245 Carter 1b 4 1 1 0 .224 Marte lf 3 0 0 0 .312 Nuwnhuis cf 4 0 0 0 .197 Freese 3b 4 0 1 1 .286 Perez 3b 4 0 2 2 .267 Cervelli c 2 0 0 1 .254 Flores rf 4 0 0 0 .218 Harrison 2b 4 1 1 0 .270 Guerra p 2 0 1 0 .240 Mercer ss 3 0 2 0 .278 Knebel p 0 0 0 0 --- Taillon p 2 0 0 0 .000 b-Elmore 0 0 0 0 .100 Feliz p 0 0 0 0 --Jeffress p 0 0 0 0 --- a-Joyce 1 0 0 0 .275 Thornbrg p 0 0 0 0 --- Watson p 0 0 0 0 --Totals 33 2 7 2 Totals 29 3 5 2 Miami Philadelphia Philadelphia Herrera cf Bourjos rf Franco 3b Rupp c Joseph 1b Asche lf Galvis ss C.Herndz 2b Velasqz p a-Howard c-Blanco Totals AB 4 5 5 4 3 3 4 3 2 1 1 35 R 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 000 100 000 1 —2 000 100 000 0 —1 H 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 BI 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Avg. .285 .264 .255 .278 .264 .244 .228 .277 .222 .158 .259 7 5 1 0 a-lined out for Velasquez in the 7th. b-grounded out for Phelps in the 8th. c-popped out for Gomez in the 9th. Walks—Miami 5: Realmuto 1, Prado 1, Ozuna 1, Johnson 1, Hechavarria 1. Philadelphia 4: Herrera 1, Joseph 1, Asche 1, C.Hernandez 1. Strikeouts—Miami 8: Realmuto 2, Yelich 1, Stanton 2, Ozuna 1, Dietrich 1, Urena 1. Philadelphia 11: Herrera 1, Bourjos 1, Franco 3, Rupp 2, Joseph 1, Galvis 2, Velasquez 1. E—Realmuto (8). LOB—Miami 8, Philadelphia 8. 2B—Hechavarria (12). HR—Yelich (8), off Velasquez; Joseph (13), off Urena. RBIs—Yelich 2 (51), Joseph (23). SB—Realmuto (10), Bourjos (5). S—Urena. DP—Philadelphia 2 (Galvis, C.Hernandez, Joseph), (Galvis, Joseph). Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Urena .......................52⁄3 4 1 1 1 5 94 6.23 Phelps ......................11⁄3 0 0 0 3 3 37 2.76 Wittgren ......................1 1 0 0 0 0 18 2.46 Dunn W, 2-1 ................1 0 0 0 0 1 8 3.45 Ramos S, 31-32...........1 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.02 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Velasquez ....................7 3 1 1 4 5 105 3.15 Neris ..........................1 1 0 0 0 1 19 2.70 Gomez ........................1 1 0 0 0 1 16 2.82 D.Hernandez L, 1-3.......2⁄3 1 1 1 1 1 16 4.43 Stumpf ....................... 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 8 9.00 Inherited runners-scored—Phelps 1-0, Stumpf 2-1. IBB—by Phelps (Herrera). U—Tom Hallion, Laz Diaz, Adam Hamari, Dan Bellino. T—3:26. Tickets sold—18,347 (43,651). Milwaukee Pittsburgh 000 100 001 —2 200 000 001 —3 7 5 3 1 No outs when winning run scored. a-grounded out for Feliz in the 7th. b-walked for Knebel in the 8th. Walks—Milwaukee 2: Braun 1, Elmore 1. Pittsburgh 4: Polanco 1, McCutchen 1, Marte 1, Cervelli 1. Strikeouts—Milwaukee 8: Villar 1, Gennett 1, Lucroy 1, Carter 2, Nieuwenhuis 2, Perez 1. Pittsburgh 9: Jaso 2, Polanco 1, McCutchen 2, Cervelli 1, Harrison 1, Taillon 2. E—Villar 2 (14), Gennett (6), Mercer (5). LOB—Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 7. 2B—Carter (18). 3B—Harrison (5), Mercer (2). RBIs—Perez 2 (24), Freese (39), Cervelli (22). SB—Cervelli (4). SF—Cervelli. Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 4 (Villar, Carter, Flores 2); Pittsburgh 4 (Jaso, Polanco, Cervelli, Harrison). RISP—Milwaukee 1 for 8; Pittsburgh 2 for 10. Runners moved up—Nieuwenhuis, Perez, Freese. GIDP—Villar, Lucroy, Freese. DP—Milwaukee 1 (Gennett, Villar, Carter); Pittsburgh 2 (Mercer, Harrison, Jaso), (Mercer, Harrison, Rodriguez). Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Guerra ........................6 3 2 2 3 6 106 3.06 Knebel ........................1 1 0 0 0 2 23 5.68 Jeffress .......................1 0 0 0 1 1 15 2.29 Thornburg L, 3-4...........0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.46 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Taillon .........................6 5 1 1 0 3 65 3.44 Feliz H, 20...................1 0 0 0 0 2 17 3.19 Watson H, 20...............1 0 0 0 1 1 12 2.85 Melancon W, 1-1 ..........1 2 1 1 1 2 25 1.63 T—2:49. Tickets sold—27,106 (38,362). METS CUBS 2 1 New York AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Reyes 3b 4 1 1 0 .227 La Stella 3b 3 0 2 0 .276 Grndrsn cf 3 0 0 1 .238 d-Szczur 1 0 0 0 .291 Cespedes lf 4 0 1 0 .295 Bryant rf 5 0 2 0 .284 Loney 1b 4 0 1 0 .283 Rizzo 1b 4 0 0 0 .290 Walker 2b 4 1 1 0 .246 Zobrist 2b 4 0 0 0 .274 Cabrera ss 4 0 1 0 .266 Contreras lf 3 1 1 0 .290 Conforto rf 3 0 0 0 .223 Heyward cf 4 0 1 0 .236 Lagares cf 0 0 0 0 .262 Russell ss 3 0 1 0 .239 Rivera c 4 0 3 1 .217 Montero c 3 0 0 0 .194 Syndrgrd p 2 0 0 0 .139 1-Almora 0 0 0 0 .256 a-De Aza 1 0 0 0 .179 Arrieta p 2 0 1 0 .293 Robles p 0 0 0 0 .000 b-Baez 3b 2 0 1 0 .283 c-Johnson 1 0 0 0 .291 Totals 34 1 9 0 Totals 34 2 8 2 AB 4 3 3 1 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 1 30 — MATCHUP Dodgers/Norris (R) WAS/Gonzalez (L) ATL/Harrell (R) CIN/DeSclafani (R) NY/Colon (R) CHI/Hendricks (R) SD/Rea (R) STL/Martinez (R) SD/Cashner (R) STL/Garcia (L) MIL/Anderson (R) PIT/Locke (L) MIA/Chen (L) PHI/Hellickson (R) 13 10 Christian Yelich’s 10th-inning single scored Adeiny Hechavarria, who’d doubled, with the winning run. Yelich also homered for Miami, which leads the race for the NL’s second wild card. T. Bay AB R H BI Avg. Colorado Frsth 2b 5 2 2 1 .276 Blackmon cf Miller ss 4 2 2 2 .245 LeMahieu 2b Lngria 3b 5 1 2 3 .290 Arenado 3b Dkrsn lf 5 2 3 1 .230 c-Descalso Prce 1b 5 1 2 2 .324 Story ss Krmar cf 4 0 1 1 .226 Raburn lf Maile c 4 0 0 0 .308 Reynolds 1b Arcia rf 2 2 1 0 .244 Hundley c a-Gyr rf 1 0 0 0 .246 Barnes rf Snell p 2 0 0 0 .000 Chatwood p Adrse p 1 0 0 0 .000 Lyles p Totals 38 10 13 10 bAdms 3b Totals 52 39 .571 NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> 010 221 000 —6 000 431 00x —8 a-grounded out for Rua in the 9th. 1-ran for Nava in the 7th. Walks—Texas 2: Desmond 1, Beltre 1. Angels 3: Calhoun 1, Trout 1, Simmons 1. Strikeouts—Texas 9: Choo 2, Odor 1, Beltre 1, Moreland 2, Rua 2, Chirinos 1. Angels 2: Calhoun 1, Simmons 1. E—Escobar (14). LOB—Texas 9, Angels 4. 2B—Andrus (17), Trout (23). 3B—Calhoun (4). HR—Chirinos (7), off Lincecum; Chirinos (8), off Lincecum; Desmond (17), off Guerra; Pujols (18), off Lohse; Pujols (19), off Lohse; Bandy (3), off Tolleson. RBIs—Desmond (57), Mazara (37), Andrus (45), Chirinos 3 (17), Pujols 6 (71), Bandy 2 (14). SB—Desmond (16), Odor (8), Trout (16). SF—Bandy. Runners left in scoring position—Texas 5 (Odor, Rua 4); Angels 1 (Calhoun). RISP—Texas 1 for 7; Angels 2 for 4. Runners moved up—Escobar. GIDP—Simmons, Petit. DP—Texas 2 (Andrus, Odor, Moreland), (Beltre, Odor, Moreland); Angels 1 (Simmons, Choi). Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lohse L, 0-2 ..............41⁄3 6 7 7 3 0 79 12.54 Tolleson ....................12⁄3 2 1 1 0 2 24 7.20 Barnette......................1 1 0 0 0 0 16 2.25 Bush...........................1 1 0 0 0 0 7 2.30 Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lincecum W, 2-3...........5 9 5 3 2 7 91 6.59 Guerra H, 1..................1 1 1 1 0 0 19 2.86 Smith H, 5...................1 1 0 0 0 0 12 4.50 Bedrosian H, 5 .............1 1 0 0 0 2 15 1.03 Street S, 8-10 ..............1 1 0 0 0 0 11 4.82 IBB—by Lohse (Trout). HBP—Barnette (Pujols). U—Mark Wegner, Mike Muchlinski, Mike Winters, Marty Foster. T—3:01. Tickets sold—36,368 (43,250). 3 2 Jeurys Familia got Kris Bryant to hit into a game-ending double play, and Rene Rivera singled to drive in the tiebreaking run with two outs in the top of the ninth, lifting New York. 53 39 .576 TODAY’S GAMES Texas Angels PIRATES BREWERS Blake Snell (2-4) allowed one hit and struck out nine over six strong innings, Evan Longoria homered and drove in three runs, and Tampa Bay ended an 11-game road losing streak. Boston Tuesday’s results at ANGELS 8, Texas 6 at New York 7, Baltimore 1 at Boston 4, San Francisco 0 Minnesota 6, at Detroit 2 Cleveland 7, at Kansas City 3 Tampa Bay 10, at Colorado 1 Toronto 5, at Arizona 1 at Oakland 4, Houston 3, 10 innings Chicago 6, at Seattle 1 Texas AB R H BI Avg. Angels AB R H BI Avg. Choo dh 5 0 0 0 .260 Escobar 3b 4 0 0 0 .314 Dsmnd cf 4 1 3 1 .315 Calhoun rf 3 2 1 0 .284 Odor 2b 5 0 3 0 .276 Trout cf 3 2 1 0 .320 Beltre 3b 4 0 0 0 .271 Pujols dh 3 2 3 6 .252 Mrelnd 1b 5 0 0 0 .231 Nava lf 4 0 1 0 .240 Rua lf 4 1 1 0 .263 1-Cnghm lf 0 0 0 0 .105 a-Profar 1 0 0 0 .316 Smns ss 3 1 0 0 .267 Mazara rf 4 1 1 1 .277 Choi 1b 4 0 1 0 .175 Andrus ss 4 1 3 1 .296 Bandy c 3 1 2 2 .282 Chirinos c 4 2 2 3 .217 Petit 2b 4 0 1 0 .281 Totals 40 6 13 6 Totals 31 8 10 8 2 1 10 1 Baltimore 1 MARLINS PHILLIES 8 4 NL STANDINGS 105 100 003 —10 000 000 001 — 1 New York Chicago Charles Rex Arbogast Associated Press E S CA P E A RT I S T RY Mets closer Jeurys Familia celebrates after wriggling out of a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the ninth to preserve a 2-1 win over the Cubs and earn his 33rd save. BLUE JAYS 5 DIAMONDBACKS 1 YANKEES ORIOLES 7 1 TWINS TIGERS 000 001 001 —2 001 000 000 —1 8 9 1 0 a-struck out for Blevins in the 7th. b-grounded out for Arrieta in the 7th. c-grounded out for Robles in the 9th. d-out on fielder’s choice for Rondon in the 9th. 1-ran for Montero in the 9th. Walks—New York 1: Conforto 1. Chicago 4: La Stella 1, Contreras 1, Russell 1, Montero 1. Strikeouts—New York 10: Reyes 2, Cespedes 1, Cabrera 2, Conforto 2, Syndergaard 2, De Aza 1. Chicago 9: Rizzo 4, Zobrist 1, Heyward 1, Russell 1, Montero 1, Arrieta 1. E—Rivera (1). LOB—New York 7, Chicago 10. 2B—Contreras (6), Russell (13), Arrieta (2). 3B—Reyes (1). RBIs—Granderson (29), Rivera (14). SB—Contreras (1). SF—Granderson. Runners left in scoring position—New York 3 (Syndergaard, De Aza, Johnson); Chicago 5 (Bryant 2, Contreras 2, Montero). DP—New York 1 (Reyes, Walker, Loney); Chicago 1 (Rizzo, Russell). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Syndergaard ..............52⁄3 7 1 0 2 8 105 2.42 Blevins .......................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 6 2.05 Robles W, 4-3 ..............2 1 0 0 0 1 19 2.76 Familia S, 33-33...........1 1 0 0 2 0 22 2.44 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Arrieta.........................7 5 1 1 1 8 85 2.60 Strop ..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.03 Rondon L, 1-2..............1 3 1 1 0 1 21 1.85 WP—Syndergaard 2. U—Eric Cooper, Jim Wolf, Gabe Morales, Gary Cederstrom. T—3:04. Tickets sold—41,456 (41,072). 6 2 RED SOX GIANTS 4 0 Edwin Encarnacion hit a three-run home run in the third inning and Aaron Sanchez (10-1) gave up six hits in seven innings to improve to 9-0 in his last 15 starts. Starlin Castro hit a two-run home run against Vance Worley (2-1) in the second inning and drove in four runs, and Nathan Eovaldi (8-6) won for the first time since May. Tommy Milone (3-2) held Detroit scoreless until the ninth inning, and Minnesota broke through with five runs in the seventh inning, three against Anibal Sanchez (5-11). David Ortiz hit a three-run home run against Jake Peavy (5-8) and Rick Porcello (12-2) improved to 9-0 at Fenway Park this season. San Francisco is 0-4 since the All-Star break. Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Travis 2b 5 2 2 1 .267 Segura 2b 4 1 2 0 .306 Dnldsn 3b 5 1 3 1 .306 Bourn cf 3 0 0 0 .266 Ecrncn 1b 4 1 1 3 .266 Gldsmdt 1b 4 0 0 1 .294 Saunders lf 3 0 0 0 .286 Lamb 3b 4 0 0 0 .298 Martin c 4 0 1 0 .232 Castillo c 3 0 0 0 .261 Tulowitzki ss 4 0 1 0 .240 Drury lf 4 0 1 0 .267 Pillar cf 4 0 0 0 .262 Tomas rf 4 0 2 0 .253 Lake rf 4 0 0 0 .222 Ahmed ss 3 0 0 0 .219 c-Smoak 0 0 0 0 .239 Godley p 1 0 1 0 .167 1-Burns 0 1 0 0 .000 a-Freeman 1 0 0 0 .000 Totals 35 5 8 5 b-Weeks 0 0 0 0 .239 Totals 31 1 6 1 Baltimore Jones cf Rickard lf Machado 3b Trumbo rf Schoop 2b Alvarez dh Hardy ss Joseph c Flaherty 1b Totals Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Detroit AB R H BI Avg. Nunez ss 4 1 2 3 .312 Kinsler 2b 4 0 0 0 .290 Grssmn lf 5 0 1 0 .282 Maybin cf 4 1 1 0 .337 Mauer 1b 4 1 2 1 .268 Cabrera 1b 4 1 1 0 .287 Dozier 2b 4 1 1 2 .247 Martinez dh 3 0 1 1 .295 Sano 3b 4 0 1 0 .243 Cstllns 3b 3 0 0 1 .299 Kepler rf 3 0 0 0 .227 Upton lf 3 0 1 0 .237 Vargas dh 3 1 0 0 .344 Aviles rf 3 0 1 0 .208 Suzuki c 4 2 2 0 .289 McCann c 4 0 1 0 .200 Buxton cf 3 0 1 0 .202 Iglesias ss 4 0 0 0 .255 Totals 34 6 10 6 Totals 32 2 6 2 San Fran. Span cf Pagan lf Belt 1b Posey c Crawford ss Parker dh Gillaspie 3b Green 2b Williamson rf Blanco rf Pena 2b-3b Totals Toronto Arizona Baltimore New York 003 010 001 —5 100 000 000 —1 8 6 0 2 a-flied out for Godley in the 5th. b-hit by pitch for Burgos in the 7th. c-walked for Grilli in the 9th. 1-ran for Smoak in the 9th. Walks—Toronto 3: Saunders 1, Sanchez 1, Smoak 1. Arizona 1: Bourn 1. Strikeouts—Toronto 9: Travis 2, Encarnacion 1, Saunders 1, Martin 1, Tulowitzki 1, Lake 2, Sanchez 1. Arizona 5: Lamb 1, Castillo 1, Drury 2, Ahmed 1. E—Godley (1), Leone (1). LOB—Toronto 6, Arizona 6. 2B—Drury (17), Tomas (16). HR—Encarnacion (25), off Godley. RBIs—Travis (23), Donaldson (67), Encarnacion 3 (84), Goldschmidt (62). SB—Segura (16). Runners left in scoring position—Toronto 1 (Saunders); Arizona 4 (Segura, Lamb 2, Ahmed). RISP—Toronto 2 for 5; Arizona 0 for 10. Runners moved up—Travis, Bourn 2, Goldschmidt. GIDP—Goldschmidt, Ahmed. DP—Toronto 2 (Sanchez, Tulowitzki, Encarnacion), (Travis, Tulowitzki, Encarnacion). Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sanchez W, 10-1 ..........7 6 1 1 0 5 98 2.87 Grilli H, 7.....................1 0 0 0 1 0 17 2.30 Osuna.........................1 0 0 0 0 0 7 2.11 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Godley L, 2-1 ...............5 6 4 3 1 7 91 5.31 Bracho........................1 1 0 0 0 0 16 7.24 Burgos ........................1 1 0 0 1 2 29 4.30 Delgado ......................1 0 0 0 0 0 8 4.15 Leone .........................1 0 1 0 1 0 18 6.43 HBP—Sanchez 2 (Castillo,Weeks). WP—Leone. T—2:58. Tickets sold—26,626 (48,633). ATHLETICS ASTROS Houston AB R H BI Avg. Oakland AB R H BI Avg. Springer rf 5 1 1 1 .255 Crisp cf 4 0 2 1 .240 Gnzlz 1b 5 0 1 0 .255 Lowrie 2b 5 0 1 0 .280 Altuve 2b 5 2 4 0 .354 Valncia 1b 5 0 1 0 .298 Correa ss 3 0 1 1 .265 Davis lf 5 0 0 0 .252 Valbna 3b 4 0 1 1 .262 Semien ss 4 1 1 0 .241 Gomez dh 5 0 0 0 .208 Butler dh 2 1 1 0 .253 Rasmus lf 4 0 0 0 .236 b-Alnso dh 0 0 0 0 .259 Gattis c 4 0 2 0 .220 Smlnski rf 2 1 1 0 .301 Mrsnck cf 4 0 0 0 .194 c-Rddick rf 2 0 1 1 .298 Totals 39 3 10 3 Healy 3b 4 0 2 2 .316 MBride c 2 0 0 0 .182 a-Vogt c 2 1 1 0 .289 Totals 37 4 11 4 001 020 000 0 —3 000 000 201 1 —4 R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 H 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 BI 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Avg. .262 .269 .308 .284 .298 .250 .259 .160 .233 10 11 1 1 Two outs when winning run scored. a-lined out for McBride in the 7th. b-pinch hit for Butler in the 8th. c-flied out for Smolinski in the 8th. Walks—Houston 2: Correa 1, Valbuena 1. Oakland 6: Crisp 1, Semien 1, Butler 1, Alonso 2, Smolinski 1. Strikeouts—Houston 8: Springer 2, Gonzalez 1, Altuve 1, Gomez 2, Marisnick 2. Oakland 10: Lowrie 1, Valencia 3, Davis 2, Butler 1, Healy 2, McBride 1. E—Gonzalez (5), Semien (12). LOB—Houston 9, Oakland 10. 2B—Altuve (26), Gattis (11), Crisp (20), Lowrie (11), Smolinski (2), Healy (2), Vogt (20). 3B—Altuve (3). HR—Springer (21), off Overton. RBIs—Springer (53), Correa (59), Valbuena (38), Crisp (38), Healy 2 (6), Reddick (23). SB—Correa (9), Semien 2 (9). CS—Gattis (1), Smolinski (1). SF—Correa. DP—Houston 2 (Altuve, Correa, Gonzalez), (Gattis, Altuve). Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Keuchel ....................61⁄3 5 2 2 3 6 116 4.70 Giles H, 16..................2⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 10 4.19 Gregerson H, 6 .............1 0 0 0 2 1 22 3.27 Harris BS, 1-10 ............1 2 1 1 0 2 31 1.80 Neshek L, 2-2..............2⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 12 2.73 Sipp ...........................0 1 0 0 1 0 9 4.91 Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Overton.....................61⁄3 9 3 3 0 6 107 8.40 Coulombe .................11⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 19 4.19 Hendriks......................2 1 0 0 0 0 28 5.06 Rzepczynski W, 1-0 .......1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 5 3.30 WP—Gregerson. PB—Gattis (1). T—3:41. Tickets sold—15,143 (37,090). New York Gardner lf Ellsbury cf Beltran rf 1-Hicks rf McCann c Rodriguez dh 2-Trryes dh Grgrius ss Castro 2b Headley 3b Rfsnydr 1b Totals AB 4 2 2 0 3 3 0 3 4 3 3 27 R 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 1 1 7 H 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 7 000 001 000 —1 020 012 02x —7 BI 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 7 Avg. .259 .272 .301 .197 .239 .213 .219 .299 .261 .252 .260 4 7 1 0 1-ran for Beltran in the 7th. 2-ran for Rodriguez in the 8th. Walks—Baltimore 2: Machado 1, Flaherty 1. New York 7: Beltran 2, McCann 1, Rodriguez 1, Gregorius 1, Headley 1, Refsnyder 1. Strikeouts—Baltimore 6: Rickard 1, Machado 1, Trumbo 1, Schoop 1, Alvarez 1, Hardy 1. New York 5: Gardner 2, Beltran 1, Rodriguez 1, Headley 1. E—Joseph (2). LOB—Baltimore 4, New York 5. 2B—Rickard (13), Castro (17). HR—Castro (11), off Worley; Headley (9), off Givens. RBIs—Rickard (19), Ellsbury (31), Castro 4 (36), Headley 2 (30). SB—Ellsbury (17), Refsnyder (2). S—Ellsbury. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 2 (Schoop 2); New York 1 (Refsnyder).GIDP—Hardy, Beltran, McCann. DP—Baltimore 2 (Schoop, Hardy, Flaherty), (Flaherty, Hardy, Hart); New York 1 (Gregorius, Refsnyder). Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Worley L, 2-1 .............41⁄3 3 3 3 4 3 88 3.16 Despaigne.................12⁄3 2 2 2 1 2 36 3.64 Hart............................1 1 0 0 1 0 14 0.00 Givens ........................1 1 2 2 1 0 22 3.61 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Eovaldi W, 8-6............51⁄3 4 1 1 2 1 82 4.93 Swarzak H, 1 .............22⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 27 4.00 Goody.........................1 0 0 0 0 3 13 4.50 Inherited runners-scored—Despaigne 1-0, Swarzak 3-0. IBB—by Hart (Beltran). WP—Despaigne. U—Todd Tichenor, Brian Knight, Mark Carlson, Tony Randazzo. T—2:51. Tickets sold—31,192 (49,642). 4 3 Coco Crisp hit a run-scoring double to tie the score in the ninth inning and pinch-hitter Josh Reddick hit a walk-off single against Tony Sipp in the 10th inning. Houston Oakland AB 4 4 3 4 4 3 3 3 2 30 INDIANS ROYALS Cleveland Kansas City AB 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 1 36 R 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 H 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 12 BI 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 7 Avg. .260 .283 .303 .249 .254 .294 .214 .202 .250 .301 Kansas City Escobar ss Cuthbert 3b Hosmer 1b Morales dh Perez c Gordon lf Orlando rf Merrifield 2b Dyson cf Totals AB 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 34 R 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 201 030 001 —7 000 002 100 —3 H 0 2 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 8 BI 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 Avg. .258 .293 .301 .256 .278 .200 .317 .276 .259 12 8 0 0 a-popped out for Gonzalez in the 8th. Walks—Cleveland 2: Davis 1, Napoli 1. Kansas City 1: Merrifield 1. Strikeouts—Cleveland 6: Davis 1, Napoli 1, Uribe 2, Gimenez 1, Gonzalez 1. Kansas City 11: Escobar 1, Hosmer 2, Morales 2, Perez 2, Gordon 2, Dyson 2. LOB—Cleveland 6, Kansas City 6. 2B—Kipnis (19). HR—Napoli (21), off Flynn; Lindor (12), off Wang. RBIs—Lindor 2 (49), Napoli 2 (65), Santana 2 (53), Uribe (25), Cuthbert (31), Perez (43). SB—Kipnis (7). SF—Lindor, Cuthbert. S—Kipnis. Runners left in scoring position—Cleveland 3 (Santana 2, Gimenez); Kansas City 2 (Hosmer, Orlando). RISP—Cleveland 3 for 7; Kansas City 1 for 5. DP—Kansas City 2 (Escobar, Merrifield, Hosmer), (Escobar, Hosmer, Merrifield). Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Salazar W, 11-3 .........62⁄3 8 3 2 1 7 104 2.75 Crockett H, 2 ...............1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 13.50 Shaw H, 16 .................1 0 0 0 0 2 8 4.46 Allen...........................1 0 0 0 0 1 12 2.59 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Flynn L, 1-1 ...............21⁄3 4 3 3 1 1 43 3.14 Gee..........................51⁄3 6 3 3 1 5 82 4.19 Wang........................11⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 13 3.79 Inherited runners-scored—Crockett 1-0, Gee 2-0, Wang 1-0. WP—Salazar. PB—Gimenez (4). U—Doug Eddings, Ryan Blakney, Cory Blaser, Jeff Nelson. T—2:46. Tickets sold—31,144 (37,903). 001 000 500 —6 000 000 002 —2 10 6 1 0 Walks—Minnesota 2: Kepler 1, Vargas 1. Detroit 2: Martinez 1, Upton 1. Strikeouts—Minnesota 13: Nunez 2, Grossman 4, Dozier 2, Sano 2, Kepler 1, Vargas 1, Buxton 1. Detroit 6: Kinsler 1, Castellanos 1, Aviles 1, McCann 2, Iglesias 1. E—Kepler (3). LOB—Minnesota 5, Detroit 7. 2B—Sano (10). HR—Dozier (16), off Rondon. RBIs—Nunez 3 (43), Mauer (29), Dozier 2 (49), Martinez (55), Castellanos (52). SB—Nunez (23), Mauer (2). CS—Nunez (6). SF—Nunez, Castellanos. S—Buxton, Aviles. Runners left in scoring position—Minnesota 4 (Mauer, Kepler, Suzuki 2); Detroit 4 (Martinez, Iglesias 3). RISP_Minnesota 2 for 8; Detroit 2 for 8. Runners moved up—Vargas, Cabrera. Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Milone W, 3-2 ............81⁄3 4 2 2 2 4 109 4.71 Kintzler .......................2⁄3 2 0 0 0 2 16 2.28 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sanchez L, 5-11 ...........6 7 3 3 2 10 100 6.60 Rondon.......................2⁄3 3 3 3 0 1 24 5.56 Wilson ........................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.49 Ryan...........................1 0 0 0 0 0 14 3.54 Lowe...........................1 0 0 0 0 2 12 9.39 Sanchez pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. Inherited runners-scored—Kintzler 1-0, Rondon 2-2. U—Jerry Layne, Scott Barry, Tripp Gibson, Hunter Wendelstedt. T—2:55. Tickets sold—32,030 (41,681). 7 3 Danny Salazar (11-3) handled Kansas City for the third time this season, Mike Napoli hit a two-run home run and Cleveland ended a skid at Kauffman Stadium at five games. Cleveland Davis cf Kipnis 2b Lindor ss Napoli 1b Santana dh Ramirez lf Uribe 3b Gimenez c Gonzalez rf a-Chsnhll rf Totals Minnesota Detroit WHITE SOX MARINERS 6 1 Melky Cabrera hit a tiebreaking home run leading off the top of the seventh inning, Todd Frazier hit a two-run shot in the ninth and Chicago ended a losing streak at five games. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Eaton rf 4 0 0 0 .273 Andrsn ss 5 0 2 0 .283 Abreu 1b 3 0 0 0 .269 Cabrera lf 3 2 1 1 .298 Frazier 3b 4 2 2 2 .215 Lawrie 2b 4 1 1 1 .252 Garcia dh 1 0 0 0 .234 a-Mrnu dh 1 0 0 0 .100 Shuck cf 4 1 3 1 .260 Navarro c 4 0 1 1 .208 Totals 33 6 10 6 Seattle AB R H BI Avg. O’Malley ss 3 0 0 0 .226 Gutierrez rf 4 0 0 0 .244 Cano 2b 4 1 1 1 .305 Cruz dh 4 0 3 0 .284 Lee 1b 3 0 0 0 .275 Seager 3b 4 0 0 0 .283 Iannetta c 2 0 0 0 .211 b-Smith 1 0 0 0 .273 Martin cf 3 0 0 0 .242 Robertson lf 3 0 2 0 .263 c-Lind 1 0 0 0 .230 Totals 32 1 6 1 Chicago Seattle 010 000 203 —6 000 100 000 —1 10 6 1 0 a-struck out for Garcia in the 9th. b-struck out for Iannetta in the 9th. c-grounded out for Robertson in the 9th. Walks—Chicago 5: Eaton 1, Abreu 1, Cabrera 1, Garcia 2. Seattle 3: O’Malley 1, Lee 1, Iannetta 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 10: Eaton 2, Anderson 2, Abreu 1, Cabrera 1, Lawrie 2, Morneau 1, Navarro 1. Seattle 11: Gutierrez 2, Cano 2, Lee 2, Seager 2, Iannetta 1, Smith 1, Martin 1. E—Shuck (1). LOB—Chicago 5, Seattle 8. 2B—Navarro (10). HR—Lawrie (12), off Miley; Cabrera (9), off Miley; Frazier (27), off Benoit; Cano (22), off Quintana. RBIs—Cabrera (42), Frazier 2 (61), Lawrie (36), Shuck (13), Navarro (24), Cano (60). DP—Chicago 1 (Lawrie, Abreu); Seattle 3 (Lee, O’Malley), (O’Malley, Cano, Lee), (Seager, Cano, Lee). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Quintana W, 8-8 ...........6 6 1 1 3 7 109 3.13 Duke H, 17..................1 0 0 0 0 1 10 2.78 Jones H, 19 ...............11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 23 2.38 Fulmer........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 8 0.00 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miley L, 6-7 ...............61⁄3 6 3 3 3 4 98 5.36 Wilhelmsen .................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 8 1.50 Diaz............................1 0 0 0 0 3 15 2.29 Benoit ........................2⁄3 2 3 3 1 2 24 5.40 Rollins ........................1⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 15 4.05 HBP—Quintana (Martin). T—3:00. Tickets sold—24,851 (47,476). AB 4 4 4 3 4 2 2 1 1 1 3 29 R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 H 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Avg. .251 .289 .287 .287 .274 .255 .255 .265 .222 .247 .344 San Francisco Boston Boston Betts rf Pedroia 2b Bogaerts ss Ortiz dh Ramirez 1b Bradley Jr. cf Shaw 3b Leon c Holt lf Totals AB 4 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 29 R 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 000 000 000 —0 001 300 00x —4 H 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 4 BI 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 Avg. .299 .298 .318 .327 .280 .293 .265 .431 .264 5 4 1 0 Walks—San Francisco 2: Posey 1, Williamson 1. Boston 1: Pedroia 1.Strikeouts—San Francisco 5: Belt 2, Posey 1, Crawford 2. Boston 6: Bogaerts 2, Bradley Jr. 1, Shaw 2, Leon 1.E—Green (2). LOB—San Francisco 5, Boston 2. HR—Holt (5), off Peavy; Ortiz (23), off Peavy. RBIs—Ortiz 3 (75), Holt (23). FIDP—Gillaspie. GIDP—Crawford, Green. DP—Boston 3 (Ramirez, Bradley Jr.), (Pedroia, Bogaerts, Ramirez), (Shaw, Pedroia, Ramirez). San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peavy L, 5-8.................6 3 4 4 1 6 96 5.15 Lopez..........................1 1 0 0 0 0 17 4.60 Kontos ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2.86 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Porcello W, 12-2.........61⁄3 4 0 0 2 3 108 3.47 Ross Jr........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2 4.31 Ziegler.........................1 1 0 0 0 0 17 0.00 Uehara .......................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 7 4.50 Layne .........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 11 3.42 Lopez pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. Inherited runners-scored—Kontos 1-0, Ross Jr. 1-0. HBP—Porcello (Parker). U— Tim Timmons, Stu Scheurwater, Mike Everitt, Jordan Baker. T—2:42. Tickets sold—38,082 (37,499). BRAVES REDS 5 4 Atlanta’s bullpen blew a two-run lead in the ninth, but Ender Inciarte rescued the Braves with a sacrifice fly in the 11th that scored Nick Markakis, who had singled to start a rally. Atlanta Bckhm 2b Garcia 3b Fremn 1b Markkis rf Francoeur lf Inciarte cf Recker c Aybar ss Jenkins p Peterson Pierzynski Totals Atlanta Cincinnati AB 5 5 5 5 5 3 4 3 2 1 1 39 R 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 5 H 2 1 0 3 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 10 BI 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 Avg. .262 .257 .274 .260 .255 .236 .222 .212 .000 .274 .215 Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. Cozart ss 6 0 1 1 .261 Hmiltn cf 5 0 1 0 .244 Votto 1b 2 1 2 0 .270 Bruce rf 5 1 1 2 .263 Duvall lf 3 0 1 0 .245 Phillps 2b 5 0 1 0 .260 Suarez 3b 5 1 3 0 .230 R.Cabra c 4 0 1 0 .266 Peraza 0 1 0 0 .237 DJsus 2b 1 0 1 0 .241 Reed p 2 0 0 0 .000 Holt 1 0 0 0 .223 Brnhart c 2 0 0 1 .266 Totals 41 4 12 4 020 000 200 01 —5 200 000 002 00 —4 10 12 1 2 Walks—Atlanta 3: Inciarte 1, Recker 1, Aybar 1. Cincinnati 4: Votto 3, Duvall 1. Strikeouts—Atlanta 8: Freeman 2, Francoeur 3, Recker 1, Jenkins 1, Peterson 1. Cincinnati 6: Cozart 1, Hamilton 1, Bruce 1, Duvall 1, Reed 1, Holt 1. E—Aybar (11), Bruce (5), Suarez (16). LOB—Atlanta 5, Cincinnati 9. 2B—Phillips (17), Suarez (6), R.Cabrera (6). HR—Beckham (4), off Lorenzen; Bruce (19), off Jenkins. RBIs—Beckham 2 (19), Inciarte (12), Aybar (15), Cozart (40), Bruce 2 (66), Barnhart (22). SB—Inciarte (10). CS—Hamilton (5). SF—Inciarte. DP—Atlanta 2 (Freeman, Aybar), (Freeman, Aybar); Cincinnati 3 (Votto), (Phillips, Cozart, Votto), (Hamilton, De Jesus). Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Jenkins........................6 4 2 2 4 2 107 4.05 Alvarez H, 1 ...............12⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 27 2.08 Withrow H, 7................1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 4 3.33 Johnson BS, 3-5...........2⁄3 4 2 2 0 0 12 4.59 Cervenka ....................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 5 2.93 M.Cabrera W, 1-0 .......12⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 25 1.80 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Reed ..........................6 5 2 0 2 5 94 6.75 Lorenzen .....................1 1 2 2 1 1 17 4.26 Diaz............................2 1 0 0 0 1 18 4.24 Cingrani L, 2-3 .............1 2 1 1 0 1 15 3.43 Wood..........................1 1 0 0 0 0 10 2.98 Cingrani pitched to 1 batter in the 11th. HBP—Jenkins (Duvall). T—3:38. Tickets sold—23,080 (42,319). L AT I ME S . CO M / S P O RT S S W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 D5 DODGERS REPORT Kazmir gets out of a pickle and wins By Andy McCullough WASHINGTON — Because these are the 2016 Dodgers, a team beset by injuries at every turn, an 8-4 victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday would not be complete without a scare. Which is why Scott Kazmir retired to the clubhouse after the fifth inning to gulp down pickle juice, swallow a nutrition bar and squirt a bottle of spicy mustard into his mouth. All to combat a case of cramping in both his calf muscles. Kazmir diced up the Nationals across seven innings of one-run baseball. He was less precise with the mustard. When he returned to the dugout, Justin Turner spotted a splotch on his cheek. “What is on your face?” Turner asked. “I don’t know,” Kazmir said. “It’s probably mud or something.” “It’s yellow,” Turner informed his teammate. Either way, Kazmir recovered from his midgame swoon to log his longest outing since May 14. He struck out eight Nationals as his teammates battered Reynaldo Lopez, a 22-year-old making his big league debut, for six runs. Chris Hatcher coughed up three runs in the eighth, but the Dodgers hung on for the victory. The team declined to pout after learning about the setback with Clayton Kershaw’s back and the tendinitis in Hyun-Jin Ryu’s elbow. Kazmir performed like the pitcher the Dodgers hoped they acquired when he signed a three-year, $48million contract last winter. “Kaz has a lot of fight in him,” Manager Dave Roberts said. “With what we’re going through, guys have to step up.” The lineup also did its part. Chase Utley drove in three runs on three separate hits, including a leadoff solo shot in the first inning. Joc Pederson victimized Lopez for a crucial, two-out, tworun single in the first. Turner recorded three hits and scored twice. Howie Kendrick reached base three times and scored twice. The victory continued an odd trend. The team is now 12-6 since Kershaw last pitched. “We realized that we’ve got to pick it up a little bit,” Utley said. “It’s tough losing the best pitcher in baseball.” Yet the night still involved worry. In the fifth inning, Kazmir hopped to snag a grounder. When he landed on the lip of the mound, his right leg buckled, caused by cramping. On his next pitch, he felt his left calf cramp. He soon gave up a solo homer to catcher Jose Lobaton on an 87-mph fastball. After that inning, the training staff tended to Kazmir’s dehydration, administering the odd mixture of ingredients. The remedy stuck. He passed an early test in the sixth, when he had to spring to first base on a groundout. “It felt like I was walking on eggshells,” Kazmir said. “I was a little cautious.” Kazmir’s fastball velocity returned to 93 mph, and he retired six of the last seven batters he faced. It was only the second time in 19 starts this season that he finished the seventh inning. “To be able to get deep in the game, and pick those guys up?” Kazmir said. “That was huge.” Mitchell Layton Getty Images [email protected] Twitter: @McCulloughTimes CATCHER YASMANI GRANDAL hits a home run, his 13th, in the ninth inning in the Dodgers’ 8-4 victory over the Washington Nationals. Kershaw not expected to need surgery ANGELS REPORT Pujols powers fifth in a row By Mike DiGiovanna The batting average, onbase and slugging percentages are nowhere near what he posted during his 11-year career in St. Louis, but Albert Pujols left no doubt Tuesday night that he is still capable of driving the ball out of the park. Pujols crushed a pair of three-run home runs in an 8-6 victory over the Texas Rangers in Angel Stadium, giving the 36-year-old slugger two multi-homer games in three days and 54 in his career. Pujols’ 18th and 19th homers of the season gave him 579 homers in his career, four shy of Mark McGwire for 10th place on baseball’s all-time list, and pushed the Angels to their fifth straight win and ninth win in 11 games. The Angels, 191⁄2 games behind Texas at the beginning of July, now trail by 121⁄2. Pujols and the Angels got a scare in the seventh when a 92-mph fastball from Rangers reliever Tony Barnette hit both the brim of Pujols’ helmet and his face. Pujols went down to one knee while Barnette rushed to check on him. Pujols got up, and took first base, where he smiled as he was checked by a trainer. “I’m good,” Pujols said afterward. “Any time you get hit in the head it’s a little scary, but it’s part of the game. I’m lucky. It could have been worse.” There were no hard feel- Sean M. Haffey Getty Images ALBERT PUJOLS , who had hit two three-run homers, reacts after having his helmet knocked off by a pitch from Texas’ Tony Barnette in the seventh inning. ings between Pujols and Barnette, who met after the game. “He apologized three times, actually,” Pujols said of Barnette. “I’m pretty sure that’s the last thing he wants to do on a 1-2 count. I told him it’s baseball, it happens, just thank God I was OK.” The Pujols homers, which both came with Kole Calhoun and Mike Trout aboard, erased deficits in the fourth and fifth innings and gave him 71 runs batted in on the season, putting him on a pace for 122. “He’s quietly having another incredible season,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “You look at the production numbers, it’s what you’d expect. And more importantly, he’s getting Mike pitches to hit.” Trout got Pujols a pitch to hit in the fifth inning Tuesday night. After Calhoun hit a one-out triple, the Rangers walked Trout intentionally to face Pujols, who belted a three-run homer to left-center off starter Kyle Lohse for a 7-5 lead. “I don’t think it’s disrespect,” Pujols said. “If I was the manager, I’d have done the same thing. Trout is one of the best players in the game. In that situation, they’re looking for a doubleplay grounder.” Pujols followed a Calhoun walk and Trout double with a three-run homer to left in the fourth that tied it at 3-3. Andrelton Simmons walked, took third on Ji-Man Choi’s single and scored on Jett Bandy’s sacrifice fly to center for a 4-3 lead. Angels starter Tim Lincecum was roughed up for five runs — three earned — and nine hits in five innings but escaped a basesloaded, one-out jam in the first and a first-and-third, no-out jam in the third. He gave up a solo homer to Robinson Chirinos in the second and a two-run shot to Chirinos in the fourth. Joe Smith, Cam Bedrosian and Huston Street pitched scoreless relief innings, Street ending the team’s 28-game streak without a save dating to June 14. It was the secondlongest stretch without a save in club history. The Angels went 48 games without a save in 1972. [email protected] Twitter: @MikeDiGiovanna Angels lose Tropeano for rest of year [Angels, from D1] — Matt Wise in 2003, Michael Kohn in 2012 and Tyler Skaggs in 2014. “With so many back to back, we’re looking in the mirror,” Scioscia said before Tuesday night’s 8-6 victory over the Texas Rangers. “You definitely look internally. You analyze everything from the throwing program to how you monitor guys. We’ve been very healthy over the course of our time here. “This might be a fluke thing, but naturally, you have to look from within to make sure that the process is correct. We’ve always been confident with it, but when you have injuries like this, naturally, you look to see if there’s any cause.” Tropeano, who was 3-2 with a 3.56 earned-run average in 13 starts, was pulled from Monday night’s game after giving up four runs and three hits — home runs to Rougned Odor, Adrian Bel- tre and Mitch Moreland — in two innings. Tropeano, 25, described his initial discomfort as “day-two soreness after a start … it wasn’t anything that was alarming to me.” The results of Tuesday’s MRI test were jarring. “It’s upsetting; it’s a tough blow to me,” Tropeano said. “Obviously, I want to be out there. I want to pitch. I want to help this team win, and it sucks. It’s a part of the game nowadays, I guess. It’s one of those things where you’ve got to stay positive until you get that diagnosis.” Tropeano plans to consult another doctor or two before deciding on a course of action. He will consider stem-cell therapy, which Heaney and Richards had, and platelet-rich plasma injections but knows that surgery, which requires a 12to 18-month recovery, is a distinct possibility. “As of now, we’re going to keep all options open,” Tropeano said. “Usually when you see [UCL] damage, Tommy John surgery is the course of action. Right now, we’re just defining the severity of the tear and seeing what action I can take.” Scioscia said either Skaggs, who is nearing the end of a long rehabilitation from elbow surgery and a shoulder injury, or Jhoulys Chacin, who threw four scoreless innings in relief of Tropeano on Monday night, would replace Tropeano in the rotation. Skaggs, who hasn’t pitched in the big leagues in nearly two years, was scheduled to start for triple-A Salt Lake on Tuesday, but the game against Iowa was rained out. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader Wednesday, with Skaggs scheduled to start the first game. Since the Angels are off Thursday and won’t need a fifth starter until next Tuesday in Kansas City, Skaggs could pitch at triple A and still have five days of rest before starting for the Angels. Skaggs gave up one hit, struck out 14 batters and did not walk any in seven scoreless innings of his last triple A start in Omaha on Thursday night. Tropeano’s injury will likely scuttle any plans the Angels had of trading Hector Santiago or Matt Shoemaker before the Aug. 1 nonwaiver trade deadline. With Richards, 28, Heaney, 25, and Tropeano likely out for 2017, and the contracts of Jered Weaver and the injured C.J. Wilson expiring, Santiago, Shoemaker and Skaggs will be needed to form the bulk of the rotation next season. “All we’re thinking about right now,” Scioscia said, “is 2016.” [email protected] Twitter: @MikeDiGiovanna [Dodgers from D1] “figuring out what day we’d put him into our rotation.” His optimism was misguided. The symptoms Kershaw felt Sunday were similar to how he felt before the epidural, Roberts said. Kershaw has not picked up a baseball since Saturday, but team officials do not expect him to completely restart his throwing program in order to build up arm strength. Neither do the Dodgers believe Kershaw will require another pain-killing injection. One team official described the prospect of surgery as “very unlikely.” The team planned to monitor Kershaw on a daily basis and see how he recovers. “I don’t know if it’s a step back,” Roberts said. “But we’re going to let the back pain subside and see where we go.” The club must take a similar approach with Ryu. He missed the entire 2015 season because of a torn labrum. He slogged through a lengthy rehab assignment, one interrupted by a bout with shoulder soreness, to return to the mound July 7. In a discouraging outing during which his fastball velocity faded, Ryu gave up six runs and could not finish the fifth inning against San Diego. His arm failed to respond to the strain. The Dodgers placed him in the fifth spot in the rotation coming out of the break, which gave Ryu 12 days off between starts. The delay was not enough. Ryu felt inflammation “flare up” after a bullpen session Sunday, Roberts said. There was no timetable for a resumption of his throwing. An MRI exam revealed no “notable changes” in his elbow from previous examinations, said Andrew Friedman, president of baseball operations. Ryu has pitched through issues Jae C. Hong Associated Press HYUN-JIN RYU made one start for Dodgers in his return from injury. with his elbow after more than 1,600 innings split between the majors and his seven-year career in Korea. “We’re disappointed for him, and the time that he’s put into coming back, and for us,” Roberts said. “It’s something that’s not a new injury, in the sense that there’s been something before in the elbow. It’s disappointing, but we’ll see where we go from there.” The continued absence of Kershaw stings for a club so reliant upon him during the first half of the season. Though the team has not foundered since he went on the disabled list, team officials understand how vital his presence is for the Dodgers’ championship aspirations. “Clayton is going to do everything he can to get back,” Roberts said. “But, yeah, we’re better when he’s active, obviously. It’s something we’ve got to deal with. We’ve got to continue to try to win baseball games.” [email protected] Twitter: @McCulloughTimes Fever hand Sparks second straight loss after 20-1 start INDIANA 92 SPARKS 82 associated press INDIANAPOLIS — Tamika Catchings had 23 points and four steals Tuesday night to help the Indiana Fever hand the Sparks their first two-game losing streak of the season in a 92-82 victory. Catchings made steals on consecutive possessions, leading to Erica Wheeler's give-and-go layup and Lynetta Kizer's baseline jumper for an 86-70 lead. Kristi Toliver hit her fourth three-pointer of the fourth quarter to pull the Sparks to within 90-82 with 56.2 seconds left, but Catchings made two free throws to seal it for Indiana. After starting the season with 20 wins in their first 21 games, the WNBA-leading Sparks have lost two in a row. Despite their 20-3 record, they are only one game ahead of Minnesota in the Western Conference. Toliver finished with 18 points for the Sparks. Nneka Ogwumike had16 points and 14 rebounds, her 12th double-double, and Candace Parker scored 15 points. Kizer and Wheeler each scored 14 points for Indiana (11-12) D6 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 L AT I M ES . C O M / SP O RTS THE DAY IN SPORTS Woods out of PGA and for season staff and wire reports Tiger Woods pulled out of the PGA Championship, marking the first time in his career that he will miss all four majors in a year. The PGA Championship is next week at Baltusrol in New Jersey. The decision, while not a surprise, also means he will go an entire PGA Tour season without playing. His agent, Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports Management, said in a text to the Associated Press on Tuesday that Woods will not play the remainder of the tour season as he continues to rehab following back surgeries. That would have amounted to only three more tournaments before the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Steinberg said Woods will continue to work hard and assess when he can play the following season, which starts in October. Woods now has gone eight full years since winning his 14th major championship at the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. Nice perk for NCAA’s top seed The NCAA says the top overall seed in the men’s basketball tournament will be able to pick its locaAdam Nurkiewicz Getty Images for IAAF tion to play for the first and second round and regional sites. B EL LY U P T O T H E B A R The Division I Men’s Basketball Committee decided the geographic preferences would be made by Alessandro Van De Sande of Belgium competes in the high jump portion of the decathlon during the World U20 teams in contention for the overall No. 1 seed far in advance of Selection Sunday. There is no indication Track and Field Championships at Bydgoszcz, Poland. Van De Sande was in 14th place after five events. whether the preferences will be guaranteed. Teams will be able to choose from eight assigned PRO TENNIS TRANSACTIONS cities for the first and second round. The eight cities GOLF SINGLES (first round)—Gerald Melzer, Austria, BASKETBALL $1.85-MILLION CITI OPEN BASEBALL hosting the first- and second-round games in 2017 PGA TOUR STATISTICS Through July 17 d. Albert Montanes, Spain, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; JanAt Washington WNBA Angels—Claimed infielder Sean Coyle off are Buffalo, Milwaukee, Orlando, Salt Lake City, FedExCup Season Points Western Conference Lennard Struff (8), Germany, d. Akira Snatillan, Surface: Hard-Outdoor waivers from Boston and optioned him to ArkanW L Pct. G B sas (TL); designated pitcher A.J. Achter for as1. Dustin Johnson, 2,493.066. 2. Jason Day, MEN’S SINGLES (first round)—Yoshihito Nish- Japan, 6-2, 6-2; Adam Pavlasek, Czech Repub- Team Greensboro, Indianapolis, Tulsa and Sacramento. Japan’s Risa Ozaki upset second-seeded Sloane Stephens in straight sets on the women’s side, and eighth-seeded Sam Querrey advanced on the men’s side at the Citi Open in Washington. Stephens, the defending champion, lost 6-2, 6-1to Ozaki in her opening match. Querrey, coming off a trip to the Wimbledon quarterfinals that featured a victory against world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, beat fellow American Bjorn Fratangelo, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4, on center court. Earlier in the day, fifth-seeded Eugenie Bouchard of Canada was upset by Italy’s Camila Giorgi, 7-5, 6-4. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Rogers Cup, leaving the Toronto tournament next week without three of the world’s top four men’s players. Tennis Canada announced the withdrawals a day after Wimbledon champion and world No. 2 Andy Murray said he would not defend his Rogers Cup title this year. British cyclist Mark Cavendish has withdrawn from the Tour de France in a bid to improve his medal chances at next month’s Olympics. Team Dimension Data made the announcement Tuesday on the race’s second and final rest day, with five stages remaining. Cavendish, a sprinter, has won four stages on this year’s Tour and is preparing to race on the track at the Olympics, where he will be competing in the omnium event. Brock Lesnar has been informed his UFC 200 fight-night sample has the same banned performance-enhancing substance that he tested positive for on June 28, UFC announced. An official with knowledge of Lesnar’s samples identified the banned substance as the fertility drug clomiphene, one of the two banned substances found in a June sample taken from former UFC lightheavyweight champion Jon Jones. Lesnar, 39, defeated No. 8-ranked heavyweight Mark Hunt by unanimous decision in the co-main event of UFC 200 on July 9, a celebratory return from a five-year absence by the former heavyweight champion. — Lance Pugmire 2,352.250. 3. Adam Scott, 2,010.700. 4. Jordan Spieth, 1,903.567. 5. Phil Mickelson, 1,497.983. 6. Russell Knox, 1,456.750. 7. Brandt Snedeker, 1,444.850. 8. Kevin Chappell, 1,421.500. 9. Patrick Reed, 1,408.500. 10. Justin Thomas, 1,345.543. Scoring Average 1. Dustin Johnson, 69.101. 2. Phil Mickelson, 69.218. 3. Jason Day, 69.457. 4. Jordan Spieth, 69.501. 5. Adam Scott, 69.611. 6. Sergio Garcia, 69.656. 7. Rory McIlroy, 69.667. 8. Matt Kuchar, 69.679. 9. Charl Schwartzel, 69.775. 10. Brooks Koepka, 69.872. Driving Distance 1. J.B. Holmes, 312.7. 2. Dustin Johnson, 312.3. 3. Tony Finau, 310.7. 4. Bubba Watson, 308.6. 5. Andrew Loupe, 307.2. 6. Jason Kokrak, 306.7. 7. Gary Woodland, 306.5. 8. Hudson Swafford, 306.3. 9. Luke List, 305.6. 10. Jamie Lovemark, 304.7. Driving Accuracy Percentage 1. Colt Knost, 73.96%. 2. Thomas Aiken, 73.50%. 3. Jerry Kelly, 71.50%. 4. Darron Stiles, 70.97%. 5. Justin Hicks, 70.50%. 6. Zac Blair, 69.81%. 7. Henrik Stenson, 69.65%. 8. Graeme McDowell, 69.58%. 9. Brian Stuard, 69.41%.10. Roberto Castro, 69.32%. Greens in Regulation Percentage 1. Lucas Glover, 71.72%. 2. Henrik Stenson, 71.62%. 3. Thomas Aiken, 70.58%. 4. Sergio Garcia, 70.46%. 5. Jhonattan Vegas, 70.05%. 6. Patrick Rodgers, 69.90%. 7. Stewart Cink, 69.83%. 8. Greg Owen, 69.80%. 9. Russell Knox, 69.57%. 10. Graham DeLaet, 69.54%. Total Driving 1. Henrik Stenson, 74. 2. Emiliano Grillo, 76. 3. Hudson Swafford, 77. 4. Keegan Bradley, 81. 5. Lucas Glover, 86. 6. Russell Henley, 87. 7. Rory McIlroy, 90. 8. Jim Herman, 100. 9. Thomas Aiken, 104. 10. Boo Weekley, 106. Strokes Gained-Putting 1. Jason Day, 1.106. 2. Steve Stricker, .930. 3. Jamie Donaldson, .887. 4. Phil Mickelson, .821. 5. Jordan Spieth, .785. 6. Harris English, .688. 7. Aaron Baddeley, .677. 8. Brian Harman, .652. 9. Adam Hadwin, .650. 10. Andrew Landry, .644. Birdie Average 1. Rory McIlroy, 4.52. 2. Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, 4.45. 4. Henrik Stenson, 4.32. 5. Hideki Matsuyama, 4.25. 6. Jason Day, 4.18. 7. J.B. Holmes, 4.17. 8. Phil Mickelson, 4.15. 9. Sergio Garcia, 4.10. 10. 3 tied with 4.00. Eagles (Holes per) 1. Kevin Chappell, 93.9. 2. Ben Martin, 94.2. 3. Morgan Hoffmann, 102.6. 4. Jhonattan Vegas, 103.5. 5. Bubba Watson, 105.8. 6. Dustin Johnson, 108.0. 7. Patrick Rodgers, 109.6. 8. Jason Day, 110.3. 9. Adam Scott, 112.0. 10. Chez Reavie, 114.5. Sand Save Percentage 1. Jason Day, 63.75%. 2. Sean O'Hair, 63.72%. 3. Jonas Blixt, 62.90%. 4. K.J. Choi, 62.16%. 5. Bryce Molder, 61.47%. 6. Phil Mickelson and Brendon Todd, 61.32%. 8. Robert Allenby, 61.02%. 9. Jon Curran, 60.53%. 10. David Toms, 60.00%. All-Around Ranking 1. Henrik Stenson, 218. 2. Rory McIlroy, 277. 3. Jason Day, 302. 4. Sergio Garcia, 339. 5. Dustin Johnson, 343. 6. Brooks Koepka, 355. 7. Phil Mickelson, 360. 8. Kyle Reifers, 388. 9. Rickie Fowler, 396. 10. Ryan Palmer, 399. More than 50 former professional wrestlers sued BOXING FIGHT SCHEDULE World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., saying the Today At Osaka, Japan, Shingo Wake vs. Jonathan WWE is responsible for repeated head trauma in- Guzman, 12, for the vacant IBF junior-featherweight title; Kazuto Ioka vs. Kyvin Lara, 12, for cluding concussions they suffered in the ring that Ioka's WBA World flyweight title. led to long-term neurological damage. Thursday Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, Joseph “Road WarAt Mashantucket, Conn. (ESPN), Sergiy vs. Sam Soliman, 12, rior Animal” Laurinaitis and Paul “Mr. Wonder- Derevyanchenko middleweights; Ievgen Khytrov vs. Paul Mendez, ful” Orndorff are among the plaintiffs who filed the 10, middleweights. Friday lawsuit Monday in federal court in Connecticut. USC cornerback is suspended for opener By Zach Helfand USC cornerback Isaiah Langley has been suspended for the Trojans’ season-opening game against Alabama, Coach Clay Helton confirmed Monday, after Langley was arrested on suspicion of three misdemeanor offenses in May. Langley was arrested on May 6 on UCLA’s campus on suspicion of trespassing, intoxication and resisting arrest, according to UCLA police spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein. Helton said Langley was disciplined by USC in May for violating team rules. Langley was a backup cornerback as a freshman in 2015. He appeared in 11 games. Langley was attending a fraternity party at UCLA when he was arrested, according to Greenstein. She said Langley gave responding officers the wrong age and resisted arrest. “When he was asked to leave, he refused,” Greenstein said. “Police were called and he was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing.” Langley does not currently face charges, according to Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the Los Angeles city attorney's office. Mateljan said the city attorney’s office is in the process of placing Langley in the Neighborhood Justice Program, a diversion program for first-time, nonviolent offenders to avoid criminal records. [email protected] Twitter: @zhelfand Times staff writer Richard Winton contributed to this report. ioka, Japan, d. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 6-2, 4-2, retired; Donald Young d. Ernesto Escobedo, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Ryan Harrison d. Stephane Robert, France, 7-6 (1), 6-3; Brian Baker d. Sam Groth, Australia, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5); Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, d. Austin Krajicek, 6-1, 7-6 (3); Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, d. Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4; Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, d. Reilly Opelka, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3). (Second round)—Daniel Evans, Britain, d. Grigor Dimitrov (12), Bulgaria, 6-4, 6-4; Alexandr Dolgopolov (11), Ukraine, d. Jordan Thompson, Australia, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4); Benoit Paire (4), France, d. Jared Donaldson, 6-0, 7-5; Sam Querrey (8), d. Bjorn Fratangelo, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4. WOMEN’S SINGLES (first round)—Camila Giorgi, Italy, d. Eugenie Bouchard (5), Canada, 7-5, 6-4; Christina McHale d. Monica Niculescu (8), Romania, 6-3, 6-4; Sabine Lisicki, Germany, d. Kristina Kucova, Slovakia, 6-3, 7-5; Tamira Paszek, Austria, d. Lauren Albanese, 6-3, 6-4; Naomi Broady, Britain, d. Irina Falconi, 6-3, 6-4; Risa Ozaki, Japan, d. Sloane Stephens (2), 6-2, 6-1; Monica Puig (3), Puerto Rico, d. Oceane Dodin, France, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. $710,000 BANK OF THE WEST CLASSIC At Stanford Surface: Hard-Outdoor SINGLES (first round)—Julia Boserup d. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Urszula Radwanska, Poland, d. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, 6-4, 7-5; Magda Linette, Poland, d. Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5; Alison Riske, d. Varvara Lepchenko (8), 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4); CiCi Bellis d. Jelena Ostapenko (6), Latvia, 6-4, 6-4; Sachia Vickery d. Elitsa Kostova, Bulgaria, 6-1, 6-2. $511,275 GSTAAD OPEN At Gstaad, Switzerland Surface: Clay-Outdoor SINGLES (first round)—Robin Haase, Netherlands, d. Thiemo de Bakker, Netherlands, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-1; Tristan Lamasine, France, d. Radu Albot, Moldova, 6-4, 6-2; Konstantin Kravchuk, Russia, d. Guido Pella (5), Argentina, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7); Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, d. Fernando Verdasco (6), Spain, 6-4, 6-2; Henri Laaksonen, Switzerland, d. Jozef Kovalik, Slovakia, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5); Paul-Henri Mathieu (8), France, d. Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland, 7-5, 6-1; Dustin Brown, Germany, d. Juan Monaco, Argentina, 6-2, 7-5. $511,000 CROATIA OPEN At Umag, Croatia Surface: Clay-Outdoor SINGLES (first round)—Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, d. Nino Serdarusic, Croatia, 6-4, 6-2; Andrej Martin, Slovakia, d. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 7-6 (6), 6-4; Gastao Elias, Portugal, d. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 6-1, 6-2; Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, d. Nicolas Almagro (5), Spain, 6-2, 5-7, 7-5; Jiri Vesely (8), Czech Republic, d. Michael Linzer, Austria, 6-3, 6-1; Thomas Fabbiano, Italy, d. Franko Skugor, Croatia, 6-0, 4-1, retired; Carlos Berlocq, Argentina, d. Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-1; Pablo Carreno Busta (6), Spain, d. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-4, 6-4; Martin Klizan, Slovakia, d. Enrique Lopez-Perez, Spain, 6-2, 7-5; Renzo Olivo, Argentina, d. Andre Ghem, Brazil, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5). $511,000 GENERALI OPEN At Kitzbuehel, Austria Surface: Clay-Outdoor lic, d. Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4; Roberto Carballes Baena, Spain, d. Dennis Novak, Austria, 6-0, 6-2; Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, d. Lukas Rosol (5), Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-6 (4); Dusan Lajovic (6), Serbia, d. Rogerio Dutra Silva, Spain, 7-6 (7), 6-1; Jurgen Melzer, Austria, d. Taro Daniel, Japan, 6-4, 7-6 (4). $226,750 ERICSSON OPEN At Bastad, Sweden Surface: Clay-Outdoor SINGLES (first round)—Sara Errani (2), Italy, d. Cagla Buyukakcay, Turkey, 6-2, 6-3; Laura Siegemund (6), Germany, d. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-2; Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, d. Teliana Pereira, Brazil, 6-2, 6-2; Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, d. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; Annika Beck (4), Germany, d. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 7-5, 7-5; Mona Barthel, Germany, d. Yaroslava Shvedova (7), Kazakhstan, 4-6, 6-3, 3-0, retired; Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, d. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Katarina Siniakova, Czech Republic, d. Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-2; Johanna Larsson (8), Sweden, d. Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, 7-6 (3), 6-2; Julia Goerges, Germany, d. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-4; Bethanie Mattek-Sands, d. Kiki Bertens (3), Netherlands, 7-5, 6-2; Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, d. Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 6-2, 6-4; Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, d. Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russia, 7-6 (5), 6-1. THE ODDS Baseball National League Favorite Underdog at Washington OFF DODGERS OFF at Cincinnati -180 Atlanta +165 at Chicago -170 New York +158 at Pittsburgh -157 Milwaukee +147 Miami -125 at Philadelphia +115 at St. Louis -185 San Diego +170 American League Favorite Underdog at ANGELS -140 Texas +130 at Detroit -170 Minnesota +158 Cleveland -135 at Kansas City +125 Houston -133 at Oakland +123 at Seattle -175 Chicago +163 at New York -133 Baltimore -123 Interleague Favorite Underdog at Colorado -120 Tampa Bay +110 Toronto -160 at Arizona +150 at Boston -185 San Francisco +170 Updates at Pregame.com —Associated Press PRO FOOTBALL ARENA LEAGUE Saturday’s Schedule KISS at Jacksonville, 4 p.m. Portland at Tampa Bay, 2 p.m. CANADIAN LEAGUE Thursday’s Schedule Calgary at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m. In the Bleachers by Steve Moore At Mashantucket, Conn. (SHO), Adam Lopez vs. Roman Ruben Reynoso, 10, bantamweights. Saturday At Las Vegas (PPV), Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol, 12, for the WBC-WBO World juniorwelterweight title unification; Gilberto Ramirez vs. Dominik Britsch, 12, for Ramirez's WBO super- middleweight title; Oscar Valdez vs. Matias Adrian Rueda, 12, featherweights; Jose Benavidez vs. Francisco Santana, 10, welterweights; Lenny Zappavigna vs. IK Yang, 10, junior-welterweights; Ryota Murata vs. George Tahdooahnippah, 10, middleweights. SPARKS ..............20 3 .870 — Minnesota ...........19 4 .826 1 Phoenix...............10 14 .417 101⁄2 Dallas ..................9 14 .391 11 Seattle .................8 14 .364 111⁄2 San Antonio ..........5 17 .227 141⁄2 Eastern Conference Team W L Pct. GB New York.............17 7 .708 — Atlanta ...............12 11 .522 41⁄2 Indiana ...............11 12 .478 51⁄2 Chicago ..............11 12 .478 51⁄2 Washington ...........9 13 .409 7 Connecticut ...........6 16 .273 10 Tuesday’s Results Indiana 92, SPARKS 82 Chicago 79, Phoenix 77 Today’s Schedule New York at Washington Connecticut at Dallas Atlanta at Minnesota BOX SCORE Fever 92, Sparks 82 SPARKS—Beard 3-9 0-0 7, Carson 3-9 2-2 8, Ogwumike 6-11 3-4 16, Parker 5-13 2-2 15, Toliver 6-9 2-2 18, Belyakova 2-3 0-0 4, Gray 1-2 0-0 2, Lavender 6-8 0-0 12. Totals 32-64 9-10 82. INDIANA—Catchings 8-13 4-4 23, January 4-5 2-2 12, Kizer 6-9 2-2 14, Larkins 2-7 0-0 4, Wheeler 6-10 2-2 14, Coleman 1-4 2-3 5, Johnson 3-5 5-5 12, Mitchell 2-5 2-2 6, Pohlen 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 33-59 19-20 92. Sparks ......................19 21 20 22—82 Indiana .....................22 27 18 25—92 Three-point goals—Sparks 9-15 (Toliver 4-6, Parker 3-5, Ogwumike 1-1, Beard 1-1, Carson 0-2), Indiana 7-15 (Catchings 3-4, January 2-3, Johnson 1-2, Coleman 1-2, Mitchell 0-2, Wheeler 0-2). Fouled out—None. Rebounds—Sparks 34 (Ogwumike 14), Indiana 26 (Kizer, Coleman 5). Assists—Sparks 22 (Ogwumike 7), Indiana 22 (January 9). Total Fouls—Sparks 20, Indiana 16. Technicals—Sparks defensive three second. A—7,269 (18,165). PRO SOCCER MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER WEST W L T Pts GF GA FC Dallas......12 6 4 40 34 30 Colorado.......10 2 7 37 22 13 GALAXY ..........8 3 8 32 32 18 Real Salt Lake .8 6 6 30 29 30 Vancouver .......8 8 5 29 33 35 Portland .........7 6 8 29 32 31 Sporting K.C....8 10 4 28 24 25 San Jose ........6 6 7 25 21 22 Seattle ...........6 11 2 20 20 24 Houston .........4 9 6 18 23 26 EAST W L T Pts GF GA N.Y.City FC ......9 6 6 33 34 35 Philadelphia....8 6 6 30 34 28 New York ........8 9 4 28 32 27 Montreal.........6 5 8 26 30 29 Toronto FC ......6 7 6 24 21 22 New England ...5 7 8 23 26 33 D.C. United .....5 7 7 22 18 21 Orlando City ....4 5 10 22 30 33 Columbus .......3 7 9 18 24 30 Chicago..........4 Three points for a win, one for a tie. Friday’s Schedule San Jose at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m. Saturday’s Schedule GALAXY at Portland, 12:30 p.m. Chicago at New England, 4:30 p.m. D.C. United at Toronto FC, 4:30 p.m. Orlando City at Columbus, 4:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Montreal, 4:30 p.m. FC Dallas at Colorado, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Houston, 6:30 p.m. NATIONAL WOMEN’S LEAGUE Saturday’s Schedule FC Kansas City at Western New York, 4 p.m. Washington at Shy Blue FC, 4 p.m. Houston at Chicago, 5 p.m. Seattle at Portland, 7:30 p.m. MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Tuesday’s Results Omaha 13, Las Vegas 6 Sacramento 1, New Orleans 0, first game New Orleans 3, Sacramento 0, second game Albuquerque 7, Nashville 5, first game Albuquerque 5, Nashville 3, second game Fresno 1, Round Rock 0 El Paso 9, Memphis 2 Reno 9, Colorado Springs 6 Tacoma 5, Oklahoma City 4 Salt Lake at Iowa, rain CALIFORNIA LEAGUE Tuesday’s results San Jose 4, High Desert 3 Inland Empire 12, Lake Elsinore 5 Lancaster 5, Rancho Cucamonga 4 Stockton 4, Modesto 2 Visalia at Bakersfield, late AUTO RACING INDYCAR LEADERS Through July 17 1. Simon Pagenaud, 432 points. 2. Will Power, 384. 3. Helio Castroneves, 358. 4. Scott Dixon, 349. 5. Josef Newgarden, 344. 6. Tony Kanaan, 339. 7. Alexander Rossi, 300. 8. James Hinchcliffe, 299. 9. Charlie Kimball, 294. 10. Carlos Munoz, 293. 11. Graham Rahal, 292. 12. Ryan Hunter-Reay, 282. 13. Juan Pablo Montoya, 279. 14. Sebastien Bourdais, 273. 15. Takuma Sato, 235. 16. Mikhail Aleshin, 227. 17. Marco Andretti, 220. 18. Conor Daly, 211. 19. Max Chilton, 173. 20. Jack Hawksworth, 153. 21. Spencer Pigot, 108. 22. Gabby Chaves, 105. 23. JR Hildebrand, 84. 24. Oriol Servia, 72. signment. Dodgers—Put pitchers Casey Fien and HyunJin Ryu on the 15-day disabled list, Fien retroactive to July 17 and Ryu to July 9; activated outfielder Joc Pederson from the 15-day disabled list; called up pitcher Luis Avilan from Oklahoma City (PCL); sent pitcher Yimi Garcia to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for a rehab assignment. Baltimore—Purchased the contract of outfielder Julio Borbon from Bowie (EL); put outfielder Hyun Soo Kim on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 11; designated outfielder Henry Urrutia for assignment. Chicago Cubs—Sent pitcher Trevor Cahill to Iowa (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Cleveland—Sent pitcher Zach McAllister to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment. Detroit—Sent pitcher Daniel Norris to Toledo (IL) for a rehab assignment. Miami—Optioned outfielder Yefri Perez to Jacksonville (SL); called up pitcher Jose Urena from New Orleans (PCL). N.Y. Yankees—Agreed to terms with outfielders Blake Rutherford, Joe Burton and Ben Ruta, first basemen Dalton Blaser and Tim Lynch, pitchers Trevor Lane, Connor Jones, Tony Hernandez, Phillip Diehl, Tyler Honahan, Brooks Kriske, Nolan Martinez, Greg Weissert, Nick Nelson, Taylor Widener, Brian Trieglaff, Miles Chambers, Braden Bristo, William Jones and Brian Keller, center fielders Dom Thompson-Williams, Jordan Scott, Evan Alexander, Timmy Robinson and Edel Luaces, third baseman Mandy Alvarez, second baseman Nick Solak and catcher Keith Skinner on minor league contracts. Oakland—Put pitcher Andrew Triggs on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 18; optioned infielder Tyler Ladendorf to Nashville (PCL); called up pitchers Daniel Coulombe and Dillon Overton from Nashville. Philadelphia—Sent outfielder Aaron Altherr to Clearwater (FSL) for a rehab assignment. Pittsburgh—Designated catcher Erik Kratz for assignment; optioned pitcher Chad Kuhl to Indianapolis (IL); activated catcher Francisco Cervelli and pitcher Jameson Taillon from the 15day disabled list. St. Louis—Put infielder Jhonny Peralta on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 18; designated catcher Michael McKenry for assignment; called up outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker and pitcher Miguel Socolovich from Memphis (PCL). Tampa Bay—Optioned infielder Nick Franklin to Durham (IL); activated first baseman Steve Pearce from the 15-day disabled list; sent pitchers Brad Boxberger and Chase Whitley to Charlotte (FSL) for rehab assignments. Texas—Sent catcher Bryan Holaday to Round Rock (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Washington—Put pitcher Sammy Solis on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 8; claimed pitcher Abel de Los Santos off waivers from Cincinnati; purchased the contract of pitcher Reynaldo Lopez from Syracuse (IL). BASKETBALL Detroit—Signed forward Henry Ellenson to a multiyear contract. Phoenix—Signed guard Leandro Barbosa. FOOTBALL Arizona—Released cornerback Carrington Byndom; signed cornerback Mike Jenkins. Oakland—Signed cornerback David Amerson to a four-year extension. SOCCER Major League Soccer— Fined D.C. United mifielder Lloyd Sam an undisclosed amount for violating the policy regarding hands to the face, head or neck of an opponent, and Philadelphia defender Fabinho an undisclosed amount for simulation. CYCLING TOUR DE FRANCE Rest Day At Bern, Switzerland STANDINGS: (after 16 stages)—1. Chris Froome, Britain, Sky, 72 hours, 40 minutes, 38 seconds. 2. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, TrekSegafredo, 1 minute, 47 seconds behind. 3. Adam Yates, Britain, Orica-BikeExchange, 2:45. 4. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, 2:59. 5. Alejandro Valverde, Spain, Movistar, 3:17. 6. Romain Bardet, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 4:04. 7. Richie Porte, Australia, BMC Racing, 4:27. 8. Tejay Van Garderen, U.S., BMC Racing, 4:47. 9. Daniel Martin, Ireland, Etixx-QuickStep, 5:03.10. Fabio Aru, Italy, Astana, 5:16. 11. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Tinkoff, 5:24. 12. Louis Meintjes, South Africa, LampreMerida, 5:48. 13. Joaquim Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, 5:54. 14. Sebastien Reichenbach, Switzerland, FDJ, 8:40. 15. Sergio Henao, Colombia, Sky, 12:24. 16. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Team Sky, 12:47. 17. Pierre Rolland, France, Cannondale, 13:03. 18. Warren Barguil, France, GiantAlpecin, 19:15. 19. Mikel Nieve, Spain, Sky, 27:00. 20. Alexis Vuillermoz, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 28:23. Others included: 49. Peter Stetina, U.S., TrekSegafredo, 1:20:34. 109. Lawson Craddock, U.S., Cannondale, 2:22:16. 135. Alex Howes, U.S., Cannondale, 2:39:31. 149. Brent Bookwalter, U.S., BMC Racing, 2:47:09. Today’s Schedule, Stage 17 A 114.6-mile ride with a Category 1 climb to the Col de la Forclaz followed by an Hors categorie finish at Finhaut. DEL MAR ENTRIES Fourth day of a 39-day thoroughbred meet. Odds 5-2 3-1 4-1 5-1 5-1 8-1 12-1 7033 THIRD RACE. 7 furlongs. Maiden claiming. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming price $20,000. Purse $21,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 6192 Stylistic,5 S Elliott,125 2-1 6301 Marriedtoaminister,6 F Prat,121 5-2 6192 Journeytothestars,8 S Gonzalez,121 3-1 6200 Hilda,2 I Puglisi,121 6-1 2062 Tanager,4 M Pedroza,121 8-1 6039 Big Alice,1 C Lindsay,XX118 12-1 6298 One Afleet Star,98 T Pereira,121 20-1 .... Smarty’s Choice,7 C Salcedo,XX118 20-1 6298 Maria Faustina,3 B Boulanger,121 30-1 7035 FIFTH RACE. 5 furlongs turf. Allowance optional claiming. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming price $62,500. Purse $68,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 7024 Kentuckian,5 F Prat,120 2-1 6176 Act,3 G Stevens,120 5-2 4533 Chips All In,6 B Blanc,122 3-1 .... Bottle Rocket,4 S Elliott,120 8-1 6295 Pay The Fine,1 M Gutierrez,120 8-1 5047 Fueled By Bourbon,2 T Baze,120 12-1 6326 Why Two,8 K Desormeaux,120 12-1 6151 Horse Laugh,7 G Ercegovic,120 20-1 7032 SECOND RACE. 6 furlongs. Claiming. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming prices $8,000-$7,000. Purse $18,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds (6317) Sweet Profit,1 R Bejarano,122 5-2 .... Allthatnmore,4 B Blanc,120 3-1 6124 Senza Fina,7 F Perez,120 7-2 4386 Warren’s Cracker,3 T Baze,120 4-1 6160 Smooth Talker,6 D Van Dyke,120 8-1 6317 Papaslilprincess,8 G Ercegovic,120 10-1 9060 Jackie K,5 E Maldonado,120 12-1 6203 Smil’n From Above,2 C Lindsay,XX111 20-1 7034 FOURTH RACE. 51⁄2 furlongs. Claiming. Fillies. 3-year-olds. Claiming prices $12,500-$10,500. Purse $23,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds (6269) Spicy Blonde,2 F Perez,124 5-2 .... You Sleep On That,5 J Talamo,120 3-1 6269 Wife Approved,7 T Baze,122 4-1 6272 Golden Bayers,8 K Desormeaux,120 6-1 2011 Sharp Holiday,9 J Theriot,120 8-1 6159 Sooner Time,4 C Lindsay,XX113 10-1 6159 Dancing Sunset,6 S Elliott,120 12-1 2006 Khalaya,3 A Cedillo,122 12-1 4070 Seaside Fantasy,1 B Pena,120 20-1 7036 SIXTH RACE. 6 furlongs. Maiden special weight. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. State bred. Purse $63,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt Odds 6268 Chao Chom,6 T Pereira,121 5-2 6271 Christy Jackson,7 K Desormeaux,121 7-2 6245 Rebarules Again,4 R Bejarano,121 4-1 6268 Tinian,2 E Maldonado,121 4-1 .... Princess Tiznow,8 J Talamo,121 5-1 .... Southern Drawl,1 F Prat,121 6-1 9014 Curlina Curlina,5 S Gonzalez,121 20-1 6147 Swiss Breeze,3 I Puglisi,121 20-1 7031 FIRST RACE (2 p.m.). 61⁄2 furlongs. Maiden claiming. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming prices $40,000-$35,000. Purse $28,000. PR Horse (PP) Jockey,Wt 6194 Agronomy,7 S Gonzalez,121 6320 Zealous Tale,5 J Talamo,125 6237 Dreamy Martini,4 V Espinoza,121 6181 Guapo Diablo,3 R Bejarano,121 8345 Marvelous Max,6 F Prat,125 4352 Elegant Street,1 N Arroyo, Jr.,125 .... Shell Beach,2 T Baze,121 7037 SEVENTH RACE. 6 furlongs. C.E.R.F. Stakes. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. Purse $75,000. PR (6284) (4238) 4046 6080 6072 6072 Horse (PP) Shh She’s Ours,6 Enchanting Lady,1 Pretty N Cool,2 Dr. Fager’s Gal,4 Everqueen,3 Lucky Folie,5 Jockey,Wt V Espinoza,123 R Bejarano,119 M Smith,118 Mn Garcia,119 M Gutierrez,116 F Prat,118 Odds 8-5 5-2 3-1 5-1 10-1 10-1 7038 EIGHTH RACE. 11⁄8 mile turf. Claiming. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming prices $32,000-$28,000. Purse $36,000. PR 6084 4430 6184 6224 6208 6191 6217 6348 6239 Horse (PP) Trifecta,3 Buymeabond,5 Infinite Magic,9 Terrys Tom Cat,2 Horizontalyspeakin,6 Prime Issue,4 Sky Preacher,8 Madikwe,7 Bird E House,1 Jockey,Wt J Talamo,125 B Blanc,125 K Desormeaux,125 M Gutierrez,125 C Lindsay,XX116 G Ercegovic,125 T Baze,125 S Gonzalez,123 A Lezcano,123 Odds 5-2 7-2 4-1 5-1 8-1 8-1 12-1 15-1 20-1 CALENDAR E W E D N E S D A Y , J U L Y 2 0 , 2 0 1 6 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R C O M I C- C O N I N T E RNAT I ONA L THEATER REVIEW Salve for a world gone mad Musical ‘Sense and Sensibility’ provides happy endings just when they’re needed. CHARLES McNULTY THEATER CRITIC Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times JEFFREY WALKER is largely credited with bringing the comic book, sci-fi and movie worlds together in the Comic-Con of today. The tent-widener This guy helped connect the fan fest to Hollywood. Ka-pow! was not alone, but Walker’s understanding of genre, marketing, music and film brought the movie business — and the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christian Bale — to the loyal and lucrative fantasy domains of nerds, geeks and all those who costume out as droids, Stormtroopers, aliens, hobbits, Jokers, Supergirls, Captain Americas and steampunks. “Comic-Con was the perfect convention to grow like it did,” said Walker, a publicist and media consultant who lives and works in a rambling house and office in Laurel Canyon. “It had location. It had pros in the business fans wanted to meet. … It was the biggest tent in [See Walker, E7] By Jeffrey Fleishman In a galaxy known as New York, in a drab age before Trekkies and light sabers, there lived a curious boy who liked comic books, time travel and Elvis. He read Isaac Asimov and tuned in to John Zacherle, this Phantom of the Opera-type guy with scraggly hair and a creepy laugh who introduced horror movies on Channel 9, which, if you were a kid at the time, was something close to splendid. This boy — let’s call him Jeffrey Walker — who, incidentally would later watch “2001: A Space Odyssey” 29 times, tended toward the imaginative. His mother was a beauty queen, his father a clothier. Walker grew up to be many things, including an actor who played poker with Jesus Christ, shot a nude scene with Al Pacino and was hugged by Natalie Wood. This is not that Walker story. This tale is about the man who helped transform Comic-Con into the pop-culture bazaar it is today by bridging the gap between Hollywood and the world of science fiction and comic book fandom. He Those fancy fan films Movie studios are applauding the new crop of sophisticated fan films, but only to a point. A1 Kim Gottlieb-Walker IN 1982 , Walker, right, and Batman co-creator Bob Kane look through slides for a presentation at the comics convention. Disabled actors left out The few roles for them are filled mostly by the able-bodied, study has found. ‘Star Trek’s’ big score By Tre’vell Anderson “Star Trek Beyond’s” ComicCon premiere will feature a live orchestra performance. E4 When Hollywood discusses diversity, one community is often left out of the conversation: people with disabilities. Even in the discussion’s most recent iterations, prompted by #OscarsSoWhite, differently abled people in the industry seem unable to find a seat at the table. A recent study by the Ruderman Family Foundation found that, despite those with disabilities representing nearly 20% of the country’s population, about 95% of characters with disabilities on television are played by able-bodied actors. “The protest and ensuing media frenzy ignited by the ‘Oscars So White’ campaign has shaped an ideology [See Disabled, E9] It’s a fan’s fantasy come to life San Diego is about to be the center of the universe for aficionados of sci-fi and sword ’n’ sorcery fare. By Josh Rottenberg As Donald Trump whips up Republicans to a fever pitch in Cleveland, and the Democrats tee up for their rejoinder next week in Philadelphia, a very different, though no less impassioned, kind of convention is set to kick off in San Diego. Starting Wednesday, about 130,000 people of all ages will gather at the San Diego Convention Center in the annual pop-culture pilgrimage that is Comic-Con International. Some will be clad in superhero tights, some will wear Stormtrooper costumes, and some, riding the latest craze, will undoubtedly be decked out as Pokémon characters. But whatever their particular flavor of fandom, Hollywood will be there to greet them with open arms. The convention offers attendees the chance to be the first on their block to catch glimpses of some of the most hotly anticipated upcoming superhero, sci-fi and fantasy films, including possible [See Comic-Con, E6] SAN DIEGO — Feeling overwhelmed by this summer of tumult, when the news seems to go only from bad to worse? I have just the remedy: an English novelist who wrote delectable comedies of manners that haven’t gone out of style despite being more than 200 years old. Yes, Jane Austen is the writer to soothe our jangled nervous systems. Her books, operating on the principle that the more delayed the romantic gratification the more delicious it will be, comfort their readers with the assurance that good oldfashioned English morals will prevail even as good oldfashioned English mores are satirized with a gently unrelenting hand. A musical version by Paul Gordon of Austen’s early novel “Sense and Sensibility” is having its West Coast premiere at the Old Globe. Having seen Gordon’s “Jane Austen’s Emma — A Musical Romantic Comedy” at the Old Globe in 2011, I wasn’t expecting more from his “Sense and Sensibility” than [See ‘Sensibility,’ E8] Setting the stage in L.A. Latino Theater Company’s recent grant showcases the group’s mark on the local theater scene. E3 A new season of inspiration The Mark Taper Forum’s 2017-18 season will feature world premieres and a homegrown classic. E3 Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times CHRISTOPHER CISNEROS , left, and brother Zachary visit Comic-Con 2015 as video-game char- acters. San Diego expects about 130,000 fans at this year’s fantastical event, starting Wednesday. Comics ............... E12-13 TV grid ..................... E11 WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016 LOS ANGELES TIMES TUES - FRI AT 8 • SAT AT 2 & 8 • SUN AT 1 & 6:30 BROADWAY’S DEFINITIVE TONY -WINNING MASTERPIECE ® “DIVINELY, DANGEROUSLY DECADENT.” BEN BRANTLEY Andrea Goss and the 2016 national touring cast of Roundabout Theatre Company’s CABARET. Photo by Joan Marcus E2 N OW THRU AUGUS T 7 ONLY! HOLLYWOODPANTAGES.COM/800-982-2787 16/17 Single Tickets Now on Sale! DANCE SEP 23-25 / Diavolo WORLD MAR 18 / Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn FEB 16–18 / Les 7 Doigts de la Main Cuisine & Confessions THEATER BROADWAY JAZZ JAN 14 / Matthew Morrison OCT 15 / Joey Alexander FAMILY APR 22–23 / Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat 310.434.3200 thebroadstage.com Follow us @TheBroadStage SANTA MONICA COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER L AT I M E S. C O M / CA L E N DA R W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 E3 CULTURE MONSTER latimes.com/culturemonster 5 DAYS OUT Highlights of the week ahead in arts, music and performance ART STAGE MUSIC MUSIC OPERA “Conversations: Todd Gray & Hamza Walker” Hammer Museum Westwood 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Free “New Original Works Festival 2016” REDCAT, L.A. Opens 8:30 p.m. Thursday Ends Aug. 6 $14-$20 “Beethoven’s Ninth” Pacific Symphony Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 8 p.m. Saturday $12-$108 “Tosca” Los Angeles Philharmonic Hollywood Bowl 7:30 p.m. Sunday $14-$125 Vittorio Grigòlo Broad Stage Santa Monica 7:30 p.m. Tuesday $80-$180 THEATER Jay Thompson EDWARD JAMES OLMOS starred in the 1978 “Zoot Suit.” Center Theatre Group plans a revival. Bringing back ‘Zoot Suit’ By Matt Cooper To mark its 50th season at the Mark Taper Forum, Center Theatre Group and its artistic director Michael Ritchie announced on Tuesday a 2017-18 season that includes one Pulitzer-winning drama, two world premieres by noted playwrights and the timely revival of one homegrown, groundbreaking theatrical event. That revival would be “Zoot Suit,” writer-director Luis Valdez’s song-filled exploration of the lives of Mexican Americans in 1940s Los Angeles — the sometimes fragile bonds of family and friendship, the injustices and indignities that come with racism and the attempt to assimilate yet retain a sense of ethnic identity, all while being marginalized as a stranger in a not-strange land. Inspired by the infamous Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the so-called Zoot Suit riots, Valdez’s show was first mounted at the Taper in 1978. “Zoot Suit” was a hit, running for nearly a year. It’s often credited as later becoming the first show to represent Chicano culture on Broadway. It will return in a production once again helmed by Valdez and copresented by Center Theatre Group and Valdez’s acclaimed El Teatro Campesino. It is scheduled to run Feb. 12-March 12, 2017. Also in the Taper’s 2017-18 season: “Remote L.A.” (March 14April 2, 2017): The international theater collective Rimini Protokoll will put au- Joseph Moran QUIARA Alegria Hudes’ “Water” won a Pulitzer. Gregory Costanzo “SOFT POWER” is new by David Henry Hwang. dience members through their paces as the group sends them off the beaten path in this immersive, multiple-site, audio-enhanced guided tour of Los Angeles. “Archduke” (April 30-May 28, 2017): Three young Serbian men in 1914 Belgrade find they have roles to play in events that will ultimately set World War I in motion. The darkly comic fable is a world premiere commissioned by CTG from “Guards at the Taj” and “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” playwright Rajiv Joseph. “Head of Passes” (Sept. 24Oct. 22, 2017): Tony winner Phylicia Rashad (“A Raisin in the Sun”) will take the Taper stage in a new Southernset, biblically informed drama about family and faith from MacArthur fellowship recipient Tarell Alvin McCraney (“The Brothers Size,” “In the Red and Brown Water”). “Water by the Spoonful” (Feb. 11-March 11, 2018): Four recovering addicts connect in an online chat room while a troubled Iraq war veteran tries to readjust to civilian life in Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. “Soft Power” (April 15-May 13, 2018): Tony winner David Henry Hwang (“M. Butterfly”) riffs on a possible shift in relations between a rising China and the rest of the world in the decades to come in this world-premiere musical fable. [email protected] Jean-Marc Giboux TARELL ALVIN Mc- Craney addresses faith. Rohit Chandra RAJIV JOSEPH visits WWI in “Archduke.” Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times JOSÉ LUIS VALENZUELA says a $500,000 grant will help Latino Theater Company extend its reach. The next stage BY GARY GOLDSTEIN >>> Independent theater companies may come and go, but L.A.’s Latino Theater Company has stayed alive since its founding in 1985 by artistic director José Luis Valenzuela. ¶ The company, dedicated to the advancement of Latino theater in the United States as well as to the creative employment of all people of color, has mounted productions such as the award-winning Mexican trilogy “Faith,” “Hope” and “Charity” by Evelina Fernández, “Calligraphy” (coproduced with Playwrights’ Arena) by Velina Hasu Houston and the experimental, Iraq war-themed “Melancholia,” which was collectively written as a company project. ¶ In 2006, following a long and contentious competition with a downtown developer, the Latino Theater Company was awarded a 20-year lease — along with a $4-million state grant — to operate the city-owned Los Angeles Theatre Center, a historic five-theater facility on Spring Street. Problems erupted in 2012 when the City Council voted to terminate the theater company’s lease along with that of its leasing partner, the Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture, because of “failed expectations.” But the museum ultimately vacated the premises, and the Latino Theater Company worked with the city to update the lease. ¶ Now, the Latino Theater Company has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Valenzuela spoke recently about the company for this conversation (edited for length). How did the Mellon Foundation grant come about? The foundation first gave us a grant in 2014 for $89,000 to support the artistic director fellowship we were awarding as part of our Encuentro (Encounter) festival [which assembled 150 artists from theater companies nationwide to perform 17 plays in a month]. It was a very successful program, so the foundation was excited to support the organization again. The theater said the grant money would be used to “expand and professionalize” your staff? We will now be able to add a marketing director and a development director as well as hire a new managing director. The marketing director will help with institutional marketing and a strategic marketing plan for the next five years. The new general manager will work in partnership with our board and the artistic director to ensure the future of the center within a new global culture and environment. What’s your feeling about the state of L.A. theater these days? I don’t think theater in Los Angeles gets respected. I think there are a lot of very talented, very committed theater people here. It’s astounding why we can’t compete with a lot of other theater people in the rest of the country. L.A., specifically, does not have a lot of funding sources for theater, especially for the midsize houses. Versus New York or Chicago? Of course. Very different than New York. Very different from Chicago. Chicago is fairly well-funded for the midsize theater. Chicago is also very proud of their theater community and very united about what theater means for that city. Still, I feel like there are a lot of people interested in Los Angeles theater that really want to promote the understanding that it’s important to the city. How do you see your company’s place within the Los Angeles theater world? Most important is that we are an independent company and that we’ve been able to survive for the last 30 years. It’s extra important since our mission is to give opportunities not only to Latinos but to other communities of color as well as to smaller theater companies that need production support and exposure. Let’s talk about the Los Angeles Theatre Center. How are its performance spaces [three midsize auditoriums and a smaller black box theater and “creative space”] used? The Latino Theater Company usually does four to five plays per season, one season in the spring and one in the fall. Each season, two of the plays are Equity productions and two are produced in the small house. And the rest of the time? Outside rentals? Yes. These rentals usually come to the small theater. The bigger theater rentals are usually only for a weekend [for one-off presentations]. So then much of the time the theater is not operating at capacity? That’s right. As manager of the LATC, is it your responsibility to keep all of the houses rented? Yes, it is. The theaters are sometimes used for dance productions, panels and youth festivals. We try to find things that are compatible to our audience or compatible with what we think our future should be. Has the downtown resurgence these past years helped? This is something that we’re always talking about. It’s helped a lot. People were fearful to come to this part of town for many, many years. But now, not as much. At the same time, the populations that live [downtown] or are moving in are getting acclimated to what the cultural life is going to be for them. We have great cafes and great restaurants and great bars, but I think they are still tentative about theater as part of their cultural life. Are you saying you need to get the millennials on board? Exactly. It’s not in their DNA yet. What else is in the works for the Latino Theater Company? So much. We are creating a new relationship with seven Los Angeles playwrights that’s called the Temblors Initiative. We’re producing their plays in Equity houses, one to two [world premiere] plays a year over four years. This fall, we will be presenting “A Mexican Trilogy” in its entirety for the first time. And next fall, we’ll be returning to our Encuentro program with Encuentro de Las Americas (Encounter of the Americas), which is going to include Canada, the United States, and South and Central America. [email protected] E4 W E D N E SDAY , J U LY 20 , 2 016 L AT I M E S. C O M /CA L E N DA R C O MI C -C O N I N T E R NAT I ONA L QUICK TAKES More ‘Murderer’ shows The saga of Steven Avery will continue at Netflix. The streaming network announced Tuesday that it had ordered an unspecified number of additional episodes of “Making a Murderer.” The documentary series chronicles the strange case of Avery, a Wisconsin man who was exonerated in 2003 after spending 18 years in prison for rape, only to be convicted of a murder that some believe he did not commit and that helped fuel a cultural obsession with true-crime tales. Directors and creators Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos have started production on the additional episodes, which will follow Avery, his co-defendant Brendan Dassey and their respective lawyers as they fight to overturn the convictions. A project 10 years in the making, “Making a Murderer” was released in December. Like the HBO series “The Jinx” and the podcast “Serial,” the documentary generated tremendous public interest and widespread, if not unanimous, critical acclaim. Last week, it was nominated for six Emmy Awards, including documentary or nonfiction series. Netflix has yet to announce a premiere date for the episodes. — Meredith Blake Katie Falkenberg Los Angeles Times Gyllenhaal on Broadway again Jake Gyllenhaal, who made his Broadway debut last year, will be returning to star in Lanford Wilson’s acclaimed play “Burn This.” The Academy Award nominee from “Brokeback Mountain” and “Nightcrawler” will also help mark a milestone of sorts — it will be the first play at the reopened Hudson Theatre in almost 50 years. In “Burn This,” grief over the accidental drowning of a brilliant young dancer unites what would seem to be, at first glance, two entirely opposite people. Performances will begin in February. Gyllenhaal’s costar has yet to be announced. The play has been tackled by Elisabeth Shue and Peter Sarsgaard, Edward Norton and Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich and Joan Allen. Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut last year in “Constellations.” — associated Press New ‘Thrones’ season delayed As “Game of Thrones” fans know, building and/or reclaiming an empire takes time. And, in a departure, it will take a bit longer than usual for HBO’s blockbuster series to return. HBO revealed this week that the show would deviate from its usual spring return date and, instead, would begin production on a seventh season later this summer to meet a planned air date of summer 2017. Filming for the seven-episode season will be based in Northern Ireland, with Spain and Iceland also among the locations, the last of which will presumably provide plenty of that wintry Westeros look. — Chris Barton “NO SAFETY NET,” Michael Giacchino says in describing the live performance. “You just gotta go for it.” Rare treat at the ‘Star Trek Beyond’ premiere Fox MARC ANTHONY is Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. Marc Anthony to receive honor Salsa star Marc Anthony has been named 2016 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. The academy will honor the five-time Latin Grammy and two-time Grammy winner Nov. 16 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, on the eve of the Latin Grammys. “I was ecstatic when I received the news,” Anthony said in a press release. “It is an honor, and I am humbled to be selected as the Person of Year recipient for my contributions as a music ambassador and my humanitarian efforts.” Anthony has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. His hits include not only salsa songs in Spanish such as “Valió la Pena” and “Vivir Mi Vida” but also pop hits in English such as “I Need to Know” and “You Sang to Me.” As a humanitarian, Anthony is cofounder and vice chairman of the Maestro Cares Foundation, which helps rescue and provide critical resources to impoverished children in Latin America. Since its creation in 2012, the foundation has opened orphanages in the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Mexico. — associated press things going off the rails. “The truth is, all of this is on the shoulders of the conductor. We have an amazing team, but that is the only guy holding the ball. So he’s the one who’s probably stressing.” The “Beyond” premiere arrives at an exceptionally busy time for Giacchino. He’s in the middle of writing his score for the upcoming Marvel film “Doctor Strange,” which he’ll record in London next month, and he just flew from two performances of the 2009 “Star Trek” at the Hollywood Bowl with the L.A. Philharmonic to a concert screening of “Ratatouille” in San Francisco. In September, he’ll conduct a showcase of his music from the ABC series “Lost” at the John Anson Ford Theatre. What keeps him fueled, ultimately, is his nerdy passion for it all. Giacchino has become the musical voice of several revived pop culture products of yore (“Star Trek,” “Planet of the Apes”), and Comic-Con seemed the ideal place for him to attempt this previously unattempted feat. “You’re sort of preaching to the choir there,” he says. “What better place to have this premiere than with the fans who are coming to celebrate it there anyway? We only get to do what we do because of our fan base. For me, it’s like a gift to them — a ‘thank you, guys, for supporting what we do and for loving these things as much as we do.’ ” Composer Michael Giacchino’s score will be played live at the film’s debut — a first since the silent era. By Tim Grieving Michael Giacchino was boldly going where few composers had gone before at the dawn of the recent explosion of film screenings with live score accompaniment. Since 2012, his scores for “Star Trek,” “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Ratatouille” have been performed live-topicture around the world. “When you have the players playing right in front of you, and you’re looking up at the screen, then down at the orchestra — it’s a whole different experience for people,” he says. “It’s a lot of fun.” It was only a matter of time before the 48-year-old composer, who won an Oscar for 2010’s “Up,” would go a step further and accompany a film’s premiere this way — and only fitting that it be the next chapter in the rebooted “Star Trek” series. “Star Trek Beyond” will kick off Comic-Con with its world premiere at the Embarcadero Marina Park in San Diego on Wednesday night, and the San Diego Symphony will be performing its score hot off the press. This will be the first time since the silent film era that a major motion picture has premiered with a live orchestra performing its score. Kimberley French Paramount Pictures ANTON YELCHIN, left, Chris Pine and John Cho in a scene from the upcoming “Star Trek Beyond.” “It was just one of those things we’ve been wanting to do on every film that I’ve been working on,” says Giacchino. “And for some reason, [Paramount] said yes this time.” This is the composer’s first journey into the final frontier without J.J. Abrams in the captain’s chair (though Abrams did serve as a producer). Justin Lin of the “Fast & Furious” franchise took the crew out this time for a different kind of adventure. “Now that the characters are well established, as far as in our new universe, it was an opportunity for someone to take that and go into a different direction,” explains Giacchino. “This film, of all the films, feels the most like an old episode of the show — but if they had $150 million to make that episode.” These live concerts always involve a hefty amount of preparation, between making sure all parts match what’s heard in the film and the conductor remaining squarely in sync with the picture while wielding an enormous collective of human beings. “No safety net,” says Giacchino. “You just gotta go for it.” Accompanying a brandnew film, though, compounds the difficulty. The picture wasn’t locked until last week, and the orchestra — which received the score Monday — has (at most) only three rehearsals. 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CO M / CA L EN DA R C O M IC - C ON I N TE R NAT I O NA L Fans of the fantastic flock to San Diego [Comic-Con, from E1] glimpses of “Justice League,” “Doctor Strange” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” For the studios and TV networks, it’s an opportunity to stoke enthusiasm for their upcoming wares among a diehard crowd of true believers and potential influencers. As with last year, a few big players will be missing in action: 20th Century Fox — which brought 6,000-odd fans in the convention’s fabled Hall H to their feet last year with its early look at “Deadpool” — is sitting this year out, reportedly over concerns about piracy. Ditto Universal Pictures. Paramount and Sony won’t be putting on major panels either, though the former will be hosting the premiere of its new film “Star Trek Beyond” and the latter will offer a screening of its R-rated animated comedy “Sausage Party.” And, barring any surprises, Lucasfilm — the 800-pound gorilla at last year’s convention — will keep its “Star Wars” franchise powder dry this year following last week’s Star Wars Celebration convention in London. That will leave the two behemoths of the comic-book world, DC and Marvel, to slug it out in the battle for buzz while also providing a chance for films that may otherwise have become lost in the shuffle — like Luc Besson’s sci-fi epic “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” and Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” — to grab a piece of the spotlight. In its two-hour panel Saturday morning, Warner Bros. will try to move past the disappointment of this spring’s critically bashed “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and stir up excitement for its future slate of DC superhero films, including “Suicide Squad” and possibly debut footage Photographs by Kirk McKoy Los Angeles Times 2015 COMIC-CON fans included, clockwise top left, Garrett Cipperly as Thor, Isabel Armas and Mason Coyle as Deadpool, Jennifer Adams as Harley Quinn with baby Anna as the Joker, and Jesse Horton as Ultron. from “Wonder Woman” and “Justice League.” “Suicide Squad” director David Ayers, who earned a raucous reception at last year’s convention when he unveiled an early look from the edgy supervillain teamup film, is well aware that the expectations have been raised for the movie, which opens Aug. 5. “The film was sort of the redheaded stepchild of the DC universe — it was always supposed to be like the cooler little brother to your Batmans and your other shows,” said Ayer, who will be on hand with the film’s stars, including Will Smith, Jared Leto and Margot Robbie. “Suddenly it became a lot more prominent than I think any of us expected initially.” Warner Bros. will also offer sneak peeks at noncomic-book fare, including “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” a spinoff from the Harry Potter franchise set to hit theaters in December. For “Fantastic Beasts” director David Yates, who helmed the last four Potter films, Comic-Con will offer the chance to pull the curtain back more on the new J.K. Rowling-scripted film, about which little has yet been revealed beyond a teaser trailer. “This is a very different part of the Potter universe — it’s new characters and brand-new stories,” Yates said. “It’s like going to a restaurant that you absolutely love, but it’s a different meal.” On Saturday afternoon, Marvel Studios — which skipped Comic-Con last year in favor of Disney’s D23 convention in Anaheim — will pull out its own big guns in Hall H. While there has been no official word about what will be showcased or who the panel’s “special guests” may be, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is expected to show off “Doctor Strange” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, while director James Gunn has teased that he may unveil an early look at “Guardians of the Galaxy 2.” Pacific Symphony’s SUMMER FESTIVAL 2016 Though big-screen tentpole fare hogs much of the spotlight, Comic-Con is about more than comicbook movies and sci-fi epics. TV has a push into the convention in recent years, and 2016 will be no exception. Fan favorites like “The Walking Dead,” “Supergirl” and “Game of Thrones” will be on hand, as will newer smallscreen fare like “Marvel’s Luke Cage,” which hits Netflix in September. Writer and producer Bryan Fuller, who has a new “Star Trek” series in the works, will join “Trek” veterans like William Shatner, Scott Bakula and Michael Dorn in a panel celebrating the 50th anniversary of the space-adventure franchise. Fuller will also be unveiling the Starz fantasy drama series “American Gods,” which he co-created and which is based on a bestselling novel by fan favorite Neil Gaiman, who will also be on hand. “I’m excited to be in a room full of Neil Gaiman fans,” Fuller said. “It’s always fascinating because Comic-Con is just like being shot out of a cannon. You don’t quite know when your feet are touching the ground.” And for those who can’t make it to San Diego this year, the official convention streaming service, ComicCon HQ, launches this year with a new video initiative. Classic Comic-Con experiences such as the Eisner Awards (hosted by John Barrowman), the Masquerade and the Her Universe fashion show will all be livestreamed from Comic-Con HQ. And a select number of panels, such as “Game of Thrones” and “Silicon Valley,” will be available for streaming at some point after they wrap up. Still, for longtime ComicCon veterans like actor Bruce Campbell, who will be touting the upcoming second season of his Starz comedy-horror series, “Ash vs Evil Dead,” there is nothing quite like being there. “Ten or 15 years ago, nobody cared about these conventions — they were for actors who weren’t working anymore,” Campbell said. “Finally, the studios realized the depth of the fandom that’s out there, the intensity that it is. I laugh at all the big actors who come to Comic-Con now. Now, you’ll get Harrison Ford. I go, ‘Where were you 10 years ago?’ ” josh.rottenberg@ latimes.com Times staff writer Meredith Woerner contributed to this report. WHERE ART HAPPENS NE W! Grand Finale Season at Irvine Meadows! Beethoven’s Ninth Sat. 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Official TV Station Official Hotel Official Pops Radio Station Official Classical Radio Station Official Media Sponsor LagunaFestivalofArts.org L AT I ME S . CO M / CA L EN DA R W E D N E SDAY , J U LY 20 , 2 016 E7 COMI C-CO N I N T E RNAT I ONA L He helped comics fest turn a page and expand [Walker, from E1] terms of fandom.” Some believe, though, that the mating of these two worlds has created a beast much too beholden to the Hollywood bottom line. “Jeff brought movies to Comic-Con to fit comic book tastes,” said Len Wein, a comic book writer and editor known for creating Marvel’s Wolverine and DC Comics’ Swamp Thing and editing DC’s seminal series “Watchmen.” “But now [the convention is] this science-fiction fantasy show that acknowledges comic books. That’s because of Hollywood studio money and power. I think there’s friction here and there between the studios and the cons.” He added, “I call Comic-Con the Bataan death march with Wookiees.” More than 130,000 fans are expected to attend this week’s convention, a universe vastly different than it was in 1970 when Shel Dorf, Ken Krueger, Richard Alf and others gathered in a hotel basement for what was called San Diego’s Golden State Comic-Con. Since showing “Star Wars” slides on a wall, Comic-Con has welcomed Tim Burton’s “Batman”; the growth of the Internet; the “Twilight” franchise, which brought more women into Comic-Con; global fervor for the video game industry; a television renaissance that delivered “The Walking Dead” and “Game of Thrones”; the rise of virtual reality; and a new wave of independent horror and sci-fi films such as Shane Carruth’s “Pri-mer.” As ComicCon goes, so goes entertainment. Not always. When Walker moved to Los Angeles in 1968 to be an actor, the founding of Comic-Con, which opens Wednesday at the San Diego Convention Center, was still two years away. He landed bit parts in “Panic in Needle Park” and “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.” A man who loved Edgar Allan Poe as much as reggae, Walker started writing music reviews for $35 a pop at publications like Phonograph Record Magazine and Cashbox. He was editor of Music World, where he met rising talents like Cameron Crowe, who wrote for him before moving on to Rolling Stone. The game changes By the early 1970s, young filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas — who were shaped in an era of cheesy ray-gun space movies, threats of the atomic annihilation, the Beatles, Rod Serling and Ray Bradbury — were trying to make sense of a world shaken by the Vietnam War and civil rights movements. Walker kept up his music reviews and later went to work for record labels, including handling national publicity for Island Records, where he learned the intricacies of different fan communities, which would lead to his marketing ventures in commingling science fiction, comics and movies. He traveled to conventions across the country and met Charles Lippincott, a publicist for Alfred Hitchcock who worked for Lucas in 1976. “He was my mentor,” Walker said of Lippincott. “He was the first person to show ‘Star Wars’ slides at conventions. That was the beginning.” Walker, who would later market films for Warner Bros. and Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, including “Gremlins” and “Back to the Future II,” advanced Lippincott’s strategy by bringing to conventions movie trailers and 16-millimeter featurettes to give fans behind-the-scenes glimpses of films such as “Outland” and “Blade Runner.” The conventions in those days were populated by gaggles of mostly white guys holding boxes of comic books and speaking in nerd while pondering light-years and the predilections of monsters and robots. “Jeff is the guy who really put it together by knowing the needs of the magazines and knowing the conventions,” said David McDonnell, editor of the now-defunct science fiction magazine Starlog, founded in 1976 to capitalize on the flowering “Star Trek” fandom. “He was well connected in the movie industry. He brought Tom Cruise to the Denver science fiction convention to promote ‘Interview With a Vampire.’ He brought Francis Ford Coppola to a convention for ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula.’ This electrified audiences.” Walker also cofounded Thinking Cap Co., which had licensing rights to create replicas of caps and insignias for “Alien,” “The Empire Strikes Back” and many other movies. “Comic-Con embraced it all,” he said. “You could see the growth of geek culture. It was obvious.” He added that today’s science fiction and comic book fans have a respect for “the fathers of the genre that you don’t see in other areas except rock ’n’ roll. These are the groups that imagine things and make them real.” His hair gray and his manner soft, Walker, who once introduced science fiction writer Philip K. Dick to “Blade Runner” director Ridley Scott, ambled into his office the other day. It was a small, messy kingdom, like a library out of “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” Filled with statues, buttons, photographs, the room spoke to more than half a century’s pop culture fantasies, stretching from Betty Page to three-headed dragons to Supergirl to an original 2002 movie poster — later reedited — that showed the World Trade Center towers gleaming in SpiderMan’s eyes. But like all good makebelieve settings there was a flash of incongruity, a huge, gold-framed pre-Raphaelite-style pastoral painting that hung square center over it all. Walker smiled as if to suggest that a man, even a sci-fi geek, contains untold dimensions. He turned to another wall. “This is one of my favorites,” he said, pointing past a picture of Serling to an old newspaper ad that read: “Civilization Inventory Clearance. Everything Must Go.” Persistence of ideas Which brings us back, not so incongruously, to that galaxy in New York in that shudder-to-think-about-it time before special effects. 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But the author’s episodic storytelling is better suited to film and television than the stage. Too often in the theater, Austen seems miniaturized and commodified — “Pride and Prejudice” converted into the theatrical equivalent of a tourist shop tea cozy. This production of “Sense and Sensibility,” directed by Barbara Gaines, succeeds within a narrow compass. More of a chamber piece than a Broadway-scale offering, the musical is impressive less as an independent work of musical theater than as an artfully efficient and occasionally highly clever adaptation. The show, which had its world premiere last year at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, economizes Austen’s plot with a frugality that might seem unnecessarily severe. But the aggressive pruning keeps the work theatrically lithe and buoyant. The story moves at a pleasant clip on a set by Kevin Depinet that makes use of only minimal furnishings and scenery. Unlike the 1995 Ang Lee film version that starred Emma Thompson, who won an Oscar for her screenplay, this production doesn’t dazzle us with Eng- ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Where: Old Globe Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park, San Diego When: 7 p.m. TuesdaysWednesdays, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Ends Aug. 14. Tickets: Start at $39 Info: (619) 234-5623, www.theoldglobe.org Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes WAYNE WILCOX as Edward Ferrars woos Sharon Rietkerk as Elinor Dashwood in Jane Austen’s play. lish countryside. The action appears to take place indoors, in that magical circle of theatrical storytelling, even when set on a rainy knoll. The focus is entirely on the talkative characters, who are lustrously enveloped by Donald Holder’s lighting design, which creates stunning effects against a darkened backdrop. 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This allows time for Marianne’s entanglement with the ardent if irresponsible Mr. Willoughby (Peter Saide) as the wealthy, dour and unimpeachably good Col. Brandon (Sean Allan Krill) longingly looks on. No matter the adaptation, I always seem to favor Elinor over Marianne, and that is the case here. Rietkerk’s dignified reserve makes a more lasting impression than McGinnis’ runaway ebullience, but that is perhaps what Austen intended. Both actresses convey, in song as well as speech, the distinctive qualities of their agreeable characters. If Wilcox’s Edward and Krill’s Col. Brandon come off better than Saide’s Willoughby, it needs to be said that we aren’t meant to hold Marianne’s libertine beau permanently in our affections. Brian Ray Norris as Lord Middleton, the sisters’ generous uncle who leases the cottage on his estate to them, and Paula Scrofano as his gossipy mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings, provide delightful comic relief. Gordon’s songs are never narratively idle. They advance the plot even when introducing a character or dwelling on a theme. Some of the numbers can seem dutifully expositional, but there’s less musical hackwork in “Sense and Sensibility” than there was in his “Emma.” Col. Brandon’s “Wrong Side of Five and Thirty” is especially winning, humorously playing up the problem Marianne has with this in every way superior gentleman — his relatively advanced age. Also fine are Edward’s “Elinor” and Col. Brandon’s “Lydia,” love ballads that linger in the memory longer than any of the lilting tunes sung by the sisters. This may seem odd, but these numbers assure us of the capacity of these male characters to love, thereby strengthening the hope of a happy ending for Elinor and Marianne. With so much discord and chaos in the world today, it’s a relief to return to Austen’s more orderly universe, where matters of personal happiness — all that make life truly worth living — are treated with the importance of grave national affairs. charles.mcnulty @latimes.com L AT I M E S. C OM / CA L EN DA R W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 E9 Carin Baer USA DANNY WOODBURN, right, in a scene from television’s “Monk” in 2007. With Traylor Howard as Natalie and Tony Shalhoub as Monk. A study finds that disabled actors often have a difficult time landing roles. Few roles for disabled actors [Disabled, from E1] around diversity in entertainment,” actor Danny Woodburn, a coauthor of the report, said in a statement. “This off-balanced idea of diversity has led to policy and even proposed legislation that has excluded people with disabilities. The Ruderman White Paper on Employment of Actors With Disabilities in Television is our attempt to bring perspective to inclusion, to reinforce access and an understanding of authenticity as an expression of what true diversity means and to finally let the least represented group in this medium be heard.” Woodburn (“Jingle All the Way,” “Seinfeld” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”), who as a little person counts himself as a person with a disability, co-wrote the report with Kristina Kopic, a specialist with the Ruderman Foundation, an internationally recognized organization that advocates for the inclusion of people with disabilities. Surveying hundreds of actors with visible and nonvisible disabilities, they found that a plurality of actors with disabilities worked less than once a year and were repeatedly subjected to negative stigma and preconceived biases by casting agents and producers. 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When taking into account that 95% of these few roles are filled by ablebodied actors, the true extent of the misrepresenta- tion is evident, the report stated. “Because of the widespread stigma in Hollywood against hiring actors with disabilities, we very rarely see people with real disabilities on screen,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation. “This blatant discrimination against people with disabilities not only is fundamentally unfair ... it also reinforces stigmas against people with disabilities. 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Fox’s coverage of the American League’s 4-2 victory over the National League July 12 averaged 8.71 million viewers, finishing third among prime-time programs airing between July 11 and Sunday, according to live-plus-same-day figures released by Nielsen on Tuesday. The previous low was 10.9 million viewers for the 2012 game. The 2015 game had drawn the secondsmallest viewership, 10.91 million viewers. The All-Star Game had set record lows in 10 of the 18 years from1995 through 2012. Fox has carried the game each year since 2001. “America’s Got Talent,” which ran opposite the first one hour and 46 minutes of the All-Star Game in most of the nation, averaged 11.54 million viewers, second for the week. The two-hour Wednesday edition of “America’s Got Talent” finished first for the week, averaging11.85 million viewers. An “America’s Got Talent” episode has been the most-watched prime-time program for four consecutive weeks and the mostwatched entertainment program all seven weeks that it has aired this summer. The All-Star Game helped Fox to its mostwatched week since April 410, when its programming included the final episode of “American Idol.” However, its 3.31 million average was not enough to end what is now a 14-week streak of fourth-place finishes among the major broadcast networks. 14MEM358 Frank Gehry Trae Patterson Associated Press SOFIE DOSSI performs on the talent competition “America’s Got Talent,” a popular show this summer. Here are the combined rankings for national prime-time network and cable television last week (July 11-17), as compiled by Nielsen. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish during its scheduled telecast or on a playback device the same day. Nielsen estimates there are 289 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program 1 America’s Got Talent (Wed.) 2 America’s Got Talent (Tue.) 3 MLB All-Star Game: American League vs. National League 4 60 Minutes 5 Celebrity Family Feud (Sun. 8 p.m.) Net- Viewwork ers NBC 11.85 NBC 11.54 FOX 8.71 CBS ABC 8.17 7.77 --------------------------------------6 The Big Bang Theory 7 $100,000 Pyramid (Sun.) 8 The Bachelorette 9 American Ninja Warrior (Mon.) 10 The Night Shift CBS 7.22 ABC 7.16 ABC NBC 6.87 6.34 NBC 6.28 CBS CBS 6.18 6.05 CBS CBS ABC 5.91 5.85 5.66 --------------------------------------11 Big Brother (Thu.) 12 Big Brother (Wed.) 13 NCIS 14 Big Brother (Sun.) 15 Match Game (Sun.) --------------------------------------16 ESPY Awards 2016 17 Home Run Derby 18 Blue Bloods 19 NCIS: New Orleans 20 To Tell the Truth 4.55 CBS CBS ABC 4.46 4.46 4.44 ABC ABC 4.42 4.41 FOX CBS TNT CBS ABC 4.35 4.35 4.14 4.05 4.02 Dateline Classic Scorpion Maya & Marty Major Crimes The Kelly File (Thu.) NBC CBS NBC TNT Fox News 4.02 3.94 3.93 3.92 3.88 NBC 3.85 FOX 3.65 NBC 3.51 ABC NBC 3.44 3.43 Fox News 3.42 CBS CBS 3.39 3.31 USA USA 3.24 3.23 Fox News 3.23 Fox News 3.22 Fox News 3.21 Fox News NBC 3.16 3.14 --------------------------------------- 53 54 55 56 Braindead CBS 57 Match Game ABC (Thu.) 58 On the Record Fox News (Thu.) 59 Madam Secretary CBS 60 WWE (8 p.m.) USA 3.13 3.11 3.07 3.05 3.04 --------------------------------------61 Mistresses ABC 62 Spartan: Ultimate NBC Team Challenge (Thu. 8 p.m.) The Kelly File Fox News (Wed.) 64 The Kelly File Fox News (Fri.) 65 So You Think Can FOX Dance tour of Grand Avenue architectural landmarks led by Hawthorne. 2.97 2.94 2.94 2.90 2.88 --------------------------------------66 Premios Juventud UNI 2016 67 The Kelly File Fox News (Tue.) 68 American Gothic CBS 69 Alaskan Bush Discover People 70 Love & Hip Hop: VH1 Atlanta GET TICKETS • Orchestra ticket $35 SOLD OUT • VIP ticket + tour + reception $150 • VIP ticket + reception $75 latimes.com/IdeasExchange The O’Reilly Factor (Wed.) The O’Reilly Factor (Fri.) The O’Reilly Factor (Mon.) Hannity (Thu.) Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge (Thu. 9 p.m.) --------------------------------------- options include a pre-event reception and a walking #IdeasExchange 2.81 2.78 2.77 2.73 2.71 --------------------------------------- Presented in association with 2.63 CBS FOX 2.50 2.37 --------------------------------------81 Por Siempre Joan Sebastian (Mon.) 82 Por Siempre Joan Sebastian (Wed.) Por Siempre Joan Sebastian (Tue.) 84 Home Free 85 Noche de Estrellas UNI 2.22 UNI 2.17 UNI 2.17 FOX UNI 2.07 2.05 --------------------------------------86 Un Camino Cacia el Destino (Wed.) 87 Tres Veces Ana (Mon.) People’s List 89 Un Camino Cacia el Destino (Mon.) Hollywood Game Night UNI 2.01 UNI 1.92 ABC UNI 1.92 1.91 NBC 1.91 --------------------------------------- 52 Christopher Hawthorne about the future of L.A. Ticket Fox News 4.60 46 The O’Reilly Factor (Tue.) 47 Criminal Minds 48 48 Hours (10 p.m.) 49 WWE (9 p.m.) 50 WWE (10 p.m.) conversation with Los Angeles Times architecture critic 2.63 5.07 4.63 4.60 --------------------------------------- of his most acclaimed projects for a fascinating Fox News 21 Life in Pieces CBS 22 Mom CBS 23 Celebrity Family ABC Feud (Tue.) The O’Reilly Fox News Factor (Thu.) 25 NCIS: Los CBS Angeles --------------------------------------- 41 America’s Got Talent (Fri.) 42 MasterChef (Wed.) 43 Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge (Mon.) 44 20/20 (Sat.) 45 Dateline Join a master of contemporary architecture in one 2.64 5.15 --------------------------------------- 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. NBC ABC 37 38 39 40 The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall American Ninja Warrior (Sun.) 77 The Kelly File (Mon.) On the Record (Fri.) 79 Elementary 80 Wayward Pines --------------------------------------- 91 Por Siempre Joan Sebastian (Fri.) 92 Tres Veces Ana (Wed.) 93 Aquarius 94 Un Camino Cacia el Destino (Fri.) 95 Un Camino Cacia el Destino (Tue.) --------------------------------------- Mon., August 1 2.64 5.52 5.39 5.26 31 Bones Code Black 33 Rizzoli & Isles 34 2 Broke Girls 35 $100,000 Pyramid (Tue.) PHOTO / Los Angeles Times, Kirk McKoy, 7/27/2014 OWN ESPN CBS CBS --------------------------------------- The Music Center 75 The Haves and the Have Nots 5.60 26 Hawaii Five-0 Zoo 28 Celebrity Family Feud (Sun. 7 p.m.) 29 Greatest Hits 30 20/20 (Fri.) presented in association with Net- Viewwork ers ABC --------------------------------------- in conversation with Christopher Hawthorne Program The Making of ABC Star Wars: the Force Awakens 72 What Would You ABC Do? 73 48 Hours (9 p.m.) CBS 74 Hannity (Fri.) Fox News 2.71 --------------------------------------- 97 98 99 100 2.67 2.65 1.88 UNI 1.80 NBC 1.79 1.78 UNI 1.76 FOX 1.76 UNI CBS 1.74 1.71 UNI 1.70 CBS 1.65 --------------------------------------- 101 Family Guy 102 The Simpsons (8 p.m.) Sal y Pimienta 104 Tres Veces Ana (Fri.) 105 Aqui y Ahora FOX FOX 1.56 1.53 UNI UNI 1.53 1.51 UNI 1.47 106 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Wed.) 107 Rosewood 108 Sueño de Amor (Wed.) 109 2016 Nitro World Games 110 MasterChef (Fri.) CW 1.46 FOX UNI 1.39 1.37 NBC 1.34 FOX 1.23 UNI 1.23 CW 1.23 --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Sueño de Amor (Fri.) Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Wed. 9 p.m.) 113 The Simpsons (7 p.m.) 114 Bob’s Burgers Sueño de Amor (Mon.) FOX 1.22 FOX UNI 1.20 1.20 --------------------------------------- 116 Crónicas de Sábado 117 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Encore) 118 Just For Laughs 119 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Fri.) 120 Sueño de Amor (Tue.) UNI 1.17 FOX 1.16 CW CW 1.12 1.09 UNI 1.08 --------------------------------------- 121 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Wed. 9:30 p.m.) 122 Masters of Illusion (8 p.m.) 123 The Last Man on Earth 124 Soccer: Club America vs. Jaguares de Chiapas 125 Masters of Illusion (8:30 p.m.) CW 1.07 CW 1.05 FOX 1.00 UNI 0.97 CW 0.91 --------------------------------------- 126 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Mon.) 127 The Flash 128 Containment 129 Beauty and the Beast Soccer: CF Monterrey vs. Puebla FC CW 0.88 CW CW CW 0.78 0.78 0.71 UNI 0.71 --------------------------------------131 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow CW 0.68 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network NBC Last week 4.88 Season to date 7.71 -------------------------------------4.69 6.77 -------------------------------------CBS 4.44 9.91 -------------------------------------Fox 3.31 5.29 -------------------------------------UNI 1.82 2.08 -------------------------------------- ABC 2.69 Premier Boxing Champions Va Por Tí Angel From Hell (8 p.m.) Tres Veces Ana (Tue.) Angel From Hell (8:30 p.m.) UNI L AT I ME S . CO M / CA L EN DA R W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 20 , 2 016 T V HIGH LI GHTS Wednesday Prime-Time TV SERIES Penn & Teller: Fool Us Jesse Eisenberg performed magic as his character in the “Now You See Me” movies, but how will he fare in staging illusions before the masters?8 p.m. KTLA Young & Hungry Gabi (Emily Osment) is thrilled, at first, when Sofia (Aimee Carrero) gets a chance to write for a media entrepreneur (Ashley Tisdale, reprising her recurring guest role). 8 p.m. Freeform Baby Daddy Ben’s (JeanLuc Bilodeau) first date with a new flame doesn’t go well, so Riley and Danny (Chelsea Kane, Derek Theler) decide to get involved and help resolve the couple’s obstacles. 8:30 p.m. Freeform Wayward Pines An error made by Jason (Tom Stevens) could spell the end of the human race. To stop that, Theo and Xander (Jason Patric, Josh Helman) try to overcome differences and work together. 9 p.m. Fox Suits Louis, Jessica and Harvey (Rick Hoffman, Gina Torres, Gabriel Macht) fend off a class action lawsuit. Meanwhile, still in prison, Mike (Patrick J. Adams) has no choice but to run afoul of a fellow prisoner. 9 p.m. USA Another Period As a very nasty contagious disease spreads at the Bellacourt Mansion, Lillian (Natasha Leggero) — not one to mingle with the staff — is horrified to end up quarantined with the sick servants. 10 p.m. Comedy Central Greenleaf Mac (Gregory Alan Williams) wants family members to help Jacob (Lamman Rucker) with his pitch to the Bishop (Keith David) and to prepare for an IRS audit. Merle Dandridge also stars. 10 p.m. OWN The A Word Following Joe’s (Max Vento) autism diagnosis, Paul, Alison and Rebecca (Lee Ingleby, Morven Christie, Molly Wright) clash over how best to deal with his first weeks at school. 10 p.m. Sundance V Rory Mulvey Sundance MAX VENTO stars as Joe in the drama “The A Word” on Sundance. SPECIALS Republican National Convention C-SPAN begins its third day of coverage with a preview of scheduled events, programs and speeches (8 a.m.), followed by live coverage (4 p.m.). Cable news channels, including CNBC; CNN; Fox Business; Fox News; Bloomberg and MSNBC, will incorporate coverage into their regular programming and as breaking news. Special programming will air on PBS (5 p.m.), CBS, NBC and ABC (7 p.m.). The Bravos Andy Cohen hosts this awards show celebrating pop culture. Erika Jayne performs; Mariah Carey is honored. 10 p.m. Bravo MOVIES Hercules (1997) 8 a.m. Disney One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 8:40 a.m. Cinemax Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 3:05 p.m. Starz TALK SHOWS CBS This Morning Eric and Donald Trump Jr., sons of Donald Trump, (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Mila Kunis; countdown to Rio de Janeiro; Dierks Bentley and Elle King; NeedtoBreathe performs; rapper Jermaine Dupri. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Julianne Moore; Joanna Lumley; Tracy Anderson. (N) 7 a.m. KABC Good Day L.A. Ashley Tisdale and Aimee Carrero; Tom Stevens (“Wayward Pines”). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10, 4, 7 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 1, 10 FINDING DORY (PG) RESERVE 10:45, 1:15, 3:45, 5:10, 9:50 FINDING DORY 3D (PG) RESERVE 9:40, 12:10, 2:40 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 11:10, 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 8, 10:45 THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) RESERVE 12:30, 5:50, 10:45 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) RESERVE 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 9:50, 3:10, 8:10 THE BFG (PG) RESERVE 11, 1:50, 5, 7:50 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10, 10:40 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 9:40, 10:15, 12:05, 2:30, 3:05, 4:55, 7:20, 7:55, 9:45, 10:20 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE 11:20, 12:40, 1:40, 4, 5:30, 6:20, 8:40 V The View Author Julianne Moore. (N) 10 a.m. KABC Wendy Williams Leslie Jones (“Ghostbusters”); chef Akhi (“Electric”). (N) 11 a.m. KTTV The Talk Teresa Palmer; Dave Coulier. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS Rachael Ray First Lady Michelle Obama; Ayesha Curry; chef Anne Burrell. (N) 1 p.m. KABC Steve Harvey Gun violence in Chicago. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC The Dr. Oz Show Unsanitary restaurant conditions; freaky food facts. (N) 2 p.m. KTTV Real Time With Bill Maher The Republican National Convention: Michael Moore; Joy Reid; Dan Savage. (N) 8 and 11 p.m. HBO Tavis Smiley Ralph Nader. (N) 11 p.m. KOCE Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR; 11:30 p.m. KOCE The Daily Show (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central Conan Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani and Zach Woods. (N) 11 p.m. TBS The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore DeRay Mckesson. (N) 11:30 p.m. Comedy Central The Tonight Show: Jimmy Fallon Mila Kunis; Mike Birbiglia; ASAP Mob performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC The Late Show With Stephen Colbert The Republican National Convention. Tony Goldwyn; Mark Cuban; Lewis Black; Cory Kahaney; Wyclef Jean. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS Jimmy Kimmel Live Cara Delevingne; Jeff Ross; Culture Club performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC The Late Late Show With James Corden Aaron Sorkin; Cheryl Hines; Scott Speedman; Carpool Karaoke with First Lady Michelle Obama. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS Late Night Taylor Schilling; Dominic Cooper; Royal Headache performs; Atom Willard performs. (N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC 8 pm CBS FOX KOCE KDOC KLCS A&E AMC ANP BBC BET Bravo CNN Com Disc Disn E! ESPN Food FNC Free FX Hall HGTV Hist IFC Life MSN MTV NGC Nick Ova OWN Spike Sund Syfy TBS TCM TLC TNT Toon Travel Tru TV L USA VH1 WGN Cine Encr EPIX HBO For today’s sports on TV, see the Sports section. TMC 11:10 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 9:30, 10:10, 12, 12:40, 2:30, 3:10, 5, 5:40, 7:30, 8:10, 10, 10:40 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE REALD 3D 11, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) RESERVE 10:30, 1:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE 10, 1, 7 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 4:10, 10:10 THE ACHY BREAKY HEARTS (NR) RESERVE 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) RESERVE 9:45, 12:15, 2:45, guests vie for the power of veto. (N) Å MasterChef (TV14) Four dishes purchased for $20 or less. (N) Å MyNt TMZ Live (TVPG) (N) Å KVCR Vera (TVPG) Å KCET Death in Paradise (TVG) Å UNI Un camino hacia el destino (N) Show FINDING DORY (PG) RESERVE 9:40, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:30 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 9:20, 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 7:50, 10:50 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) RESERVE 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 8, 11 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 9:50, 12:50, 3:50 THE BFG (PG) RESERVE 10:40, 1:40, 5 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:10, 2:10, 5:30, 6:50, 8:30, 9:50, Big Brother (TVPG) House 9 pm American Gothic (TV14) 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 V W V GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 10:10, 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX REALD 3D 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25 FIGHT CLUB (R) 2, 7 FINDING DORY (PG) 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10 THE CONJURING 2 (R) 12:45, 7:20 NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (PG-13) 4, 10:40 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) 11:35, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) 4:15, 7:15 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:15, 10:15 FREE STATE OF JONES (R) 12:40, 7:25 THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:25, 10 COSÌ FAN TUTTE MET SUMMER ENCORE (NR) 7 P.M. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 11:25, 2:15, 3:35, 5, 7:45, 10:25 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 12:50 P.M. THE BFG (PG) 11, 1:55, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:45 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 11:30, 11:50, 12:10, 12:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 4:15, 4:50, 5:10, 6:35, 6:50, 7:10, 7:30, 8:55, 9:30, 9:50 FIGHT CLUB (R) 2, 7 FINDING DORY (PG) 10, 11:20, 12:40, 3:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:25 THE CONJURING 2 (R) 10:05 P.M. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) 10:30, 1:15, 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) 10:05, 1, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) 10:50, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10 COSÌ FAN TUTTE MET SUMMER ENCORE (NR) 7 P.M. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 9:55 P.M. THE BFG (PG) 10:40, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) 10:15, 1:20, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 10:20, 11, 12:20, 1, 1:40, 3, 4:20, 5:45, 6:20, 7, 8:15, 9:40, 10:10, 10:35 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 11:40, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 7:40, 9 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) 10:55, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) 10:10, 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25 Starz Life on the Reef (TVPG) Å Law & Order: CI (TV14) Å Masterpiece Composers Duck Dynasty Duck Dynasty (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å 9:10, 10:30 7:40, 9, 10:25 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) 11, 12:20, 3:05, 4:25, 5:50, 7:10, 8:35 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:05, 1:40, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20, 9:55 THE INFILTRATOR (R) 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 SWISS ARMY MAN (R) 4, 10:30 THE ACHY BREAKY HEARTS (NR) 11:05, 2, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 GODHI BANNA SADHARANA MYKATTU (NR) 12, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 V GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10, 1, 7 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 4, 10 FINDING DORY (PG) RESERVE 10:40, 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 THE CONJURING 2 (R) RESERVE 10:15 P.M. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 11:15, 2, 4:50, 8:10, 11:05 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 10:25, 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25 THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:10, 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:50 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) RESERVE 10:50, 4:30, 9:55 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:40, 7:10 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:35, 2:20, 5:15, 8, 11:10 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 10:15, 11, 12:45, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 6:45, 8:15, 9:15, 10:45 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE 11:45, 2:15, 5, 7:30, 10:10 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) RESERVE 10:05, 12:40, 3:10, 5:50, 8:20, 11 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30, 11:25 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 THE INFILTRATOR (R) RESERVE 10:30, 1:35, 4:35, 7:40, 10:40 ShowtimeS Valid 07/20/16 ONLY V GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 4, 10 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10, 1, 7 FIGHT CLUB (R) 2, 7 FINDING DORY (PG) 10:30, 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:30 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) 10:10, 10:25 THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) 10:15, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:50 THE SANDLOT (PG) 10 A.M. COSÌ FAN TUTTE MET SUMMER ENCORE (NR) 7 P.M. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 10:45, 1:35, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 THE BFG (PG) 10:20, 1:25, 4:15 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) 11:20, 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:45 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 11, 11:55, 1:45, 2:40, 4:30, 5:25, 7:15, 8:10, 10, 10:55 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 10:05, 12:50, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) 11, 2, 5, 8, 11 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 12, 3, 6, 9 THE INFILTRATOR (R) 10, 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 News (N) Å Mike & Molly TMZ (TVPG) Å (TVPG) (N) Å (TVPG) (N) Å (TVPG) (N) Å (TVPG) (N) Å (TVPG) (N) Å op oppose each other. Å vice backfires. Å tasks for the family. (N) Å (TV14) Å X2: X-Men United ››› (2003) Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman. (PG-13) X-Men Origins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ››› (2008) (6:30) Å The A Word (TV14) (N) Å 2012 (2009) (5:30) (PG-13) Deep Impact ›› (1998) Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni. (PG-13) Å Big Bang Å Big Bang Å Big Bang Å Big Bang Å Big Bang Å Full Frontal (N) Conan (N) Å Rio Bravo ››› (1959) John Wayne, Dean Martin. (7:30) Å Rio Lobo ›› (1970) John Wayne. (G) Å My Big Fat Fabulous Life (N) Å My Big Fat Fabulous Life (N) Å I Am Jazz (TVPG) (N) Å Fat Fabulous Castle (TVPG) Å Castle (TVPG) Å Major Crimes (TVPG) Å Major Crimes King of the Hill Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers Cleveland Show American Dad American Dad Family Guy Å Expedition Unknown (TVPG) Expedition Unknown (N) Expedition Unknown (TVPG) Expedition Å Knockout Knockout Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Knockout George Lopez George Lopez Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å King of Queens Law & Order: SVU (TV14) Suits (TV14) A class action Mr. Robot (TV14) Elliot is determined to beat Spousal Privilege. Å lawsuit. (N) Å Mr. Robot, but that proves difficult. 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(R) V GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10, 4, 10 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 1, 7 FIGHT CLUB (R) RESERVE 2, 7 FINDING DORY (PG) RESERVE 10:40, 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 10:55, 4:45, 10:20 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 10:55 P.M. THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) RESERVE 1:50, 7:30 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) RESERVE 1:40, 4:25, 7:15 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 10:45, 10:10 THE BFG (PG) RESERVE 10:30 A.M. THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:15, 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:40 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 10:05, 10:50, 12:40, 1:35, 3:25, 4:20, 6:10, 7:05, 9, 10:05, 11:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE 9:30, 12, 2:35, 5:10, 8, 10:45 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) RESERVE 9:35, 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:35 V THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE XD 9:30, 12, 2:30, 7:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE XD 5, 10 FINDING DORY (PG) RESERVE 9:40, 7, 9:40 FINDING DORY (PG) RESERVE 9:40, 11, 1:35, 4:25, 7, 9:40 FINDING DORY 3D (PG) RESERVE 12:30, 3:20 FINDING DORY 3D (PG) RESERVE REALD 3D 12:30, 3:20 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 1:25, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 1:25, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 COSÌ FAN TUTTE MET SUMMER ENCORE (NR) RESERVE 7 P.M. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) RESERVE 11:10, 2, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 1:45, 6:45 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 1:45, 6:45 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE 11:15, 4:15, 9:15 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE REALD 3D 11:15, 4:15, 9:15 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) RESERVE 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:45 FINDING DORY (PG) 10:50, 1:35, 4:10, 6:50 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 1:50, 7:25 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:05, 4:35 THE BFG (PG) 10:30, 1:25, 4:20, 7:15 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 11:10, 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 1:40, 4:10, 6:45 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 7:10, 8 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:40, 1:30, 4:20 THE INFILTRATOR (R) 10:20, 1:20, 4:30, 7:30 HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (PG-13) 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:20 News (N) News (N) News (N) Ghostbusters ››› (1984) Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd. 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(N) Å Hollywood Today Live (TVPG) GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 4:45, 10:15 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 11:15, 2, 7:30 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 5:10, 10:45 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 11:40, 2:25, 7:55 Movies Sports News (N) New Å Closed Captioning The Insider Wayward Pines (TV14) Theo GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE 11:30, 5:30, 11:20 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 2:30, 8:30 THE INFILTRATOR (R) RESERVE 10:20, 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 11 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE 11, 2, 5, 7:50, 10:50 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 9:30, 12:15, 3, 6:10, 9 10 pm 9:30 Hallucinations make Cam ert Redford. question his inolvement in a (N) Å (N) Å gruesome crime. (N) Å NBC America’s Got Talent (TV14) Louis Tomlinson. (N) Å Dateline NBC (TVPG) Å KTLA Penn & Teller: Fool Us (TVPG) Whose Line Is Whose Line Is News (N) Jesse Eisenberg. (N) It Anyway? (N) It Anyway? Å ABC The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Modern Family Blackish News (N) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å KCAL News (N) News (N) News (N) Sports Central SPORTS GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 11:20, 11:20 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 2:20, 5:20, 8:20 8:30 E11 SWISS ARMY MAN (R) RESERVE 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9 SWISS ARMY MAN (R) RESERVE 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9 FINDING DORY (PG) 11:10, 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10 THE SANDLOT (PG) 10 A.M. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 11:15, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) 2:15, 5, 7:50, 10:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 10:20, 12:45, 2, 4:30, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 10:35 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 11:30, 3:10, 9:40 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11:20, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 10:45 V W GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10:45, 4:35 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 1:40 P.M. GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 2:35, 5:30, 8:20, 11:10 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX REALD 3D 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 FIGHT CLUB (R) 2, 7 FINDING DORY (PG) 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10:10 THE CONJURING 2 (R) 10:20 A.M. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) 11:20, 2:10, 5, 7:45, 10:30 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 1:30 P.M. THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) 10:35, 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 THE SANDLOT (PG) 11:10 P.M. COSÌ FAN TUTTE MET SUMMER ENCORE (NR) 7 P.M. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:45 THE BFG (PG) 10:25, 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) 10:30, 5:10, 7:55, 9:40, 10:40 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:35, 2:25 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 10:20, 12:40, 2:30, 3:10, 5:40, 7:40, 8:05, 10:35 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 10:50, 12, 1:20, 3:50, 5, 6:20, 8:50, 10:05 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) 11:55, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) 11:40, 2:35, 5:30, 8:20, 11:10 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 THE INFILTRATOR (R) 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50 SULTAN (NR) 10:30, 2:15, 6, 9:55 V THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) XD 9:30, 12, 2:40, 8, 10:50 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE XD 5:30 P.M. GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE XD 10:30, 10:30 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE XD 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 W GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX 9:40, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE D-BOX REALD 3D 11:20, 2:20, 5:20, 8:15, 11 V FIGHT CLUB (R) 2, 7 EIGHT BELOW (PG) 1:15 P.M. IRON WILL (PG) 10:30 A.M. DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL (PG) 7 P.M. COOL RUNNINGS (PG) 4 P.M. FINDING DORY (PG) 10, 12:30, 1:35, 3, 4:10, 5:30, 8, 10:30 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) 10:50, 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) 10:35, 10:05 THE SHALLOWS (PG-13) 12:30, 3:15, 5:50, 8:25, 10:45 THE SANDLOT (PG) 10 A.M. COSÌ FAN TUTTE MET SUMMER ENCORE (NR) 7 P.M. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30, 10:55 THE BFG (PG) 10:30, 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) 11:30, 2:25, 5:05, 8, 10:40 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 10, 11:10, 12, 12:45, 1:30, 2:20, 3:05, 3:50, 4:40, 5:25, 6:10, 7, 7:45, 8:30, 9:25, 10:05, 10:55 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 10:45, 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) 11:45, 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:50, 6, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50, 11 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) 10, 12, 2:45, 5:30, 6:45, 8:15, 9:30, 11 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 10:20, 11:15, 1:15, 2, 4, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 THE INFILTRATOR (R) 11:05, 2:05, 5, 7:55, 10:50 SWISS ARMY MAN (R) 9:35 P.M. FINDING DORY (PG) 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (PG-13) 10:35, 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (PG-13) 1, 6:50 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) 4, 10:10 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) REALD 3D 11, 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 THE BFG (PG) 10:45, 1:50, 5:10, 8:10 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) 10:50, 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:55, 11 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) 9:45, 10:40, 11:30, 1:10, 2, 3, 3:50, 4:40, 6:30, 7:20, 8:30, 9:20, 10 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) REALD 3D 10, 10, 12:20, 12:30, 3:20, 5:50, 6:20, 9 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) 11:40, 2:10, 5, 7:40, 10:20 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE 9:40, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE REALD 3D 11:20, 2:20, 5:20, 8:15, 11 FINDING DORY (PG) RESERVE 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (PG-13) RESERVE 11, 4:30, 10:10 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 1:40, 7:30 THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR (R) RESERVE 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) RESERVE 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D (PG) RESERVE 9:50, 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES (R) RESERVE 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 GHOSTBUSTERS (PG-13) RESERVE 10:30, 1:20, 5:10, 8, 9:50 GHOSTBUSTERS 3D (PG-13) RESERVE 11:50, 2:30, 4:10, 7, 10:45 E12 W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 2 0 , 2 016 L AT I M E S. C O M /CA L E N DA R COMICS BRIDGE SUDOKU By Frank Stewart Unlucky Louie didn’t show up for his penny game. When he finally entered the club — two hours late — he said he’d been doing odd jobs around the house. “Your wife’s ‘honey-do’ list must be long,” I said. “Her ‘honey-don’t’ list is longer,” Louie sighed. When Louie was declarer at five diamonds, he took the ace of clubs and hopefully cashed the A-K of trumps. East discarded. Louie next took his top spades, pitching a club from dummy; West refused to ruff. Louie then ruffed his last spade in dummy but was stuck there. When he led the ace and a low heart, West won and cashed his high trump, and Louie had a club loser. KENKEN Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6 puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the 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. 7/20/16 HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis Aries (March 21-April 19): Business guru Raymond Aaron said, “If you don’t have an assistant, you are one.” You’ll certainly feel like an assistant today. Taurus (April 20-May 20): You needn’t worry about what you’re going to contribute to others that will mean something. It will all happen in the moment. Gemini (May 21-June 21): Maybe you made adjustments because you had to, not because you wanted to. Ultimately you’ll be glad you were strong enough to bend. Cancer (June 22-July 22): That person asking you annoying questions is just trying to get to know you. It’s flattering that someone wants to be closer to you. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): You can easily sense social tension, and when you do, your immediate response is to smooth things over with a joke or diversion. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may be putting your all into a project, and yet the desired result still eludes you. If this makes you frustrated, all the better. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You’re spiritually generous, and this is why you can be as enthusiastic about the successes of others as you would be if the win were your own. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): The astral influences may have you feeling edgy. Among the many ways to work off this stress, the easiest way is to exercise. Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Everything that’s happened, good and bad, has made you who you are today. You’ll profit from one of your mistakes. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your experiences will mimic the scenes in your mind, so taking charge of your imagination is a powerful way to bring about the changes you desire. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ve a strong will, big goals and the freedom to pursue them. The circumstances are more precious and rare than you think. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re used to leading in a certain arena, but were you to back off and let another person help, your schedule would open up and you would be quite impressed by what happens next. Today’s birthday (July 20): Your talent for rapport and knack for warming people up to you will help you reach a significant goal in August. You’ll be paid well for this, but more importantly, you’ll make a difference. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 10, 3, 33 and 12. Holiday Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment. Previous forecasts are at latimes.com/horoscope. Louie could add an item to his “honey-don’t” list: Don’t draw trumps too soon. He can cash one high trump, then take his spade winners for a club discard. West can’t gain by ruffing the third high spade in front of dummy. Louie then ruffs a club, comes to a high trump and leads his last spade. He loses one trump and one heart. Question: You hold: ♠ A Q 8 5 ♥ 7 6 ♦ A K 9 6 4 ♣ A 6. Your partner opens one heart. The next player passes. What do you say? Answer: Slam is possible, but you must not jump-shift, crowding your auction, when you need space to find a trump suit. Bid two diamonds. If partner rebids two hearts, as he often will, continue with a space-saving bid of two spades. Since you have enough ammunition for several bids, you need not show your four-card major first. South dealer N-S vulnerable NORTH ♠K4 ♥A9843 ♦J752 ♣94 WEST EAST ♠96 ♠ J 10 7 3 2 ♥ K 10 5 ♥QJ2 ♦ Q 10 8 ♦3 ♣ K J 10 5 2 ♣Q873 SOUTH ♠AQ85 ♥76 ♦AK964 ♣A6 SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1♦ Pass 1♥ Pass 1♠ Pass 3♦ Pass 5♦ All Pass Opening lead — ♣ J 2016, Tribune Media Services ASK AMY Daughter hurt by gossip Dear Amy: Recently, my mother and I found out that my father is having an affair with a woman not much older than myself (I am 21). My mother has two older daughters, my half-sisters from a previous marriage, who, putting it nicely, have a tendency to gossip without thinking about the feelings of others. Knowing this, I asked my mother to keep our family situation to herself while we process and decide our next steps. She agreed. However, she ended up telling one sister, who then told the other, who then told my entire extended family. I now receive calls from aunts and uncles, cousins I barely talk to, and family friends expressing their condolences and subtly prying for more information. I am shocked and hurt and don’t know who to be most angry with: my mother or my sisters for betraying my confidence. On the other hand, I feel as if I don’t have the right to be angry as the primary victim is my mother, but I do also feel cheated by my father’s affair. Devastated Dear Devastated: Of course you have the right to be angry. Validating your own feelings about this be- trayal will help you to cope with those feelings. You might be feeling somewhat torn because the person your sisters are gossiping about is your father (not theirs). I could imagine that you are even wrestling with a defensive impulse, as these other women perhaps gang up on him, gossip about him and call him out. You can certainly ask family members to keep something a secret or to be discreet, but your mother and sisters are a part of this story, and they have the right to discuss it. When you hear from farflung family members, thank them for their concern, offer up no details and refer them to your mother if they want to talk further about it. Dear Amy: My husband and I have recently decided we want to move to his hometown, near his family. My mom is incredibly upset with me over it. The thing is, I haven’t lived near my mother since I left for college and have lived almost halfway across the country from my mom and other family for almost a decade. She obviously thinks I’m choosing his family over my own, even though I don’t see it that way at all. We have many good reasons to move. Our friends have moved away, and we want to be near family now that we have a child. I just don’t feel connected to my hometown. I never planned to live there as an adult. I love my mom and family and we will see each other just as often, but she’s making what should be an exciting and somewhat difficult decision a miserable one, and I feel horrible enough about it to possibly not make the move. Terrible Daughter Dear Daughter: You blame your mother for creating an untrue narrative and then feed it. It is your right and responsibility to live wherever you want to live. But you are deliberately moving your mother’s grandchild to be closer to your husband’s family. You can expect your mother to be sad about this — and she is. Reassure her. Say, “Mom, I know this is hard on you, but everything’s going to be OK.” Plan trips home with your child. Invite her out to stay with you. Send questions to Amy Dickinson by email to [email protected]. 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