Apparel giant VF Corp has partnered with textile firm Auping, denim major Orta Anadolu and Dutch social enterprise Circle Economy to develop a circular decision making tool for the fashion and textiles industry.
Orange Lutheran senior-to-be quarterback Ryan Hilinski (6-3, 218) is staying busy on the college recruiting circuit.
Hilinski was offered last week by Oregon, posting a special message to his late, Tyler, brother on Twitter.
Happy Valentine’s Day Ty! Hope you like this one. Humbled and ecstatic to say I have received an offer from The University of Oregon! #GoDucks 🦆 pic.twitter.com/F0Sx58Vrpl
— Big Bo (@ryan_hilinski) February 15, 2018
On Tuesday, Hilinski posted on Twitter that he made a “GREAT” unofficial visit to Mississippi. He said a visit to Georgia was scheduled for Wednesday.
Mississippi also is among several schools that have offered Hilinski. His Pac-12 offers also include Arizona State, Utah and Washington State.
Last season, Hilinski passed for 3,749 yards and 33 TDs to help the Lancers reach the CIF Division 1 quarterfinals.
GREAT visit today at Ole Miss! Wishing you were here Ty. #HottyToddy 🔴🔵 pic.twitter.com/RnmHo3Bl9s
— Big Bo (@ryan_hilinski) February 21, 2018
Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano at dalbano@scng.com or @ocvarsityguy on Twitter
Premium outdoor and lifestyle brand Barbour has invested in product lifecycle management (PLM) solution to streamline design and development while speeding time to market.
A new push for north-south traffic relief could be in store for south Orange County with the latest incarnation of the Orange County Transportation Authority’s Long Range Transportation Plan.
It includes a $237 million proposal to extend carpool lanes on Interstate 5 from Avenida Pico to the San Diego County line, San Clemente City Council members were told at their Feb. 20 meeting.
Councilwoman Lori Donchak, who represents San Clemente on the OCTA board, reported that the updated countywide plan identifies future transportation projects in two categories – proposed or conceptual. The I-5 widening to the county line is on the “proposed” list and, for the first time, has a cost estimate attached to it, Donchak said.
“It is significant that it has been added in,” she said, “because Measure M (a countywide half-cent sales tax for transportation) is voter-approved and the money is committed at the time when the vote is taken.”
She said the project is being put forward as an extension of a $230 million Measure M-assisted I-5 widening that is due for completion in March, having been under construction for four years. That project is adding 5.7 miles of carpool lanes to I-5 between San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente. A ribbon-cutting is in the works, Donchak said.
That project began at Camino Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano and is ending just past Avenida Pico in San Clemente. The new project, Donchak said, would carry the carpool lanes south through San Clemente to the Orange County line at the Cristianitos Road exit.
Donchak said she was conveying information presented to OCTA board members Feb. 12.
She also reported that a proposed extension of the 241 Toll Road south from Oso Parkway does not appear in the Long Range Transportation Plan. “The 241 extension appears on neither list,” she said, “which is a difference from prior Long Range Transportation Plans.”
Earlier versions of the Long Range Transportation Plan, she explained, showed a state-approved route for the 241 behind San Clemente to San Onofre that has been abandoned.
Donchak said a proposal to connect the north end of the 241 Toll Road with the 91 Freeway’s express lanes does appear in the plan, with a cost estimate of $180 million.
“Riverside and Orange County have both asked the Transportation Corridor Agencies to take a pause on that project,” she said. “In spirit, it was a pause, not a stop.”
Donchak also reported that OCTA is accepting applications for $12 million in grants to help Orange County cities provide summer trolleys that offer free rides to the public. Grant applications are due March 23, she said, and San Clemente city staff is working up a proposal.
San Clemente launched its first summer trolley in 2017. An OCTA grant funded most of the costs. The city has been discussing enhancements – including a potential connection to Dana Point’s trolley, which in turn connects to trolleys in San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Beach.
Donchak said she believes San Clemente’s trolley is in a good position for an added grant, since the city’s first-year program averaged 46 boardings per service hour, tops among 15 trolley systems across the county. Laguna Beach was second with 34 hourly boardings, Lake Forest third with 21, she reported.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing a domestic violence case involving USC wide receiver Joseph Lewis IV, said Greg Risling, a spokesman for the office.
Prosecutors received the case from the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday.
Lewis was arrested on a felony domestic violence charge last week. LAPD confirmed it was earlier investigating an alleged incident of domestic violence involving a USC student-athlete that occurred on Feb. 11, a day before Lewis’ arrest.
Police have declined to provide further details surrounding the reported incident or describe the nature of the allegations.
Lewis was held on $50,000 bail prior to his release shortly before 1 a.m. on Feb. 13. He is scheduled to appear in court on March 6, the first day USC begins spring football practice.
USC suspended Lewis from all team activities following his arrest.
Police said Lewis was arrested on suspicion of violation of the California Penal Code section 273.5, which can can carry a punishment from a $6,000 fine to four years in state prison.
Lewis appeared in 11 games as a freshman last season, mostly on special teams.
Las Vegas-based rock band Imagine Dragons dropped a brand new single, “Next to Me,” on Wednesday morning as it also announced the summer dates of its Evolve World Tour.
The extensive jaunt, which kicked off last year, is in support of the band’s third Grammy-nominated studio album, “Evolve.” Imagine Dragons will make a stop at the Forum (3900 W. Manchester Blvd.) in Inglewood on Saturday, July 21.
Imagine Dragons sold out the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Oct. 1 as it presented new offerings from “Evolve” including “I Don’t Know Why,” “Believer,” “Thunder,” “Whatever it Takes” and “Walking the Wire.” This summer, HBO will air the Sundance documentary, “Believer,” which follows Imagine Dragons’ vocalist Dan Reynolds as he shifts his focus to explore the reasons behind the dramatic spike in teen suicides in Utah and how it could be tied to how the Mormon church treats and has an impact on LGBTQ youth.
Tickets for the show at the Forum are $29.50-$125.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 3, at 800-745-3000 or Ticketmaster.com.
Councilwoman Pam Patterson’s bid to have developers in San Juan Capistrano erect tall wooden poles known as “story poles” to show the public the magnitude of proposed buildings failed to catch on with the City Council.
Residents have a right to see the height and breadth of a proposed building and its impact on views and on neighborhoods, Patterson told her fellow council members Feb. 6 in her argument to put in place rules similar to nearby Laguna Beach. The council took no action.
Patterson suggested the city should require the story poles for all development, whether it’s new construction or an addition.
Councilman Brian Maryott said the council already has the power to require story poles on an as-needed basis when developers apply for a zoning change or a change to the city’s general plan. City Manager Ben Siegel confirmed the city can require the visuals be put in place.
In Laguna Beach, story poles are erected 28 days prior to a design review hearing, Siegel said.
Mayor Sergio Farias suggested poles could end up staying much longer if there are issues with a particular project. He wondered how story poles would look if left up for an extended period next to a historic site such as Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Councilwoman Kerry Ferguson said an accurate model, done to scale, is more helpful. “It’s a lot more illustrative,” Ferguson said.
Resident Steve Behmerwohld told the council he has no problem with story poles, just with what critics of a project could do with them, such as changing the perspective of a project by the angle of pictures taken of story poles.
Resident Michael Laux said story poles are a great tool used by neighboring cities. He said developers’ sketches of projects often are not to scale, but surveyor-certified story poles are very accurate, able to show view impediment or preservation.
“I think it’s good for all the projects,” he said. “It’s three-dimensional. You can walk up; you can see exactly what the impact is going to be.”
Alessandro Dell’Acqua said the inspiration for his fall collection for No. 21 was the majorette. But somehow, that baton-twirling symbol of wholesome beauty got lost in translation in the designer’s ode to Americana, as seen through a glass darkly.
That wasn’t a bad thing. After all, who wants to look at acres of sequined spandex? Instead, Dell’Acqua blended post-World War II references with a dash of punk and a dose of his signature — and uniquely Italian — sense of embellishment, resulting in a vaguely David Lynch-ian take on retro tough girl glamour.
“I love the image of the majorette,” the designer said backstage. “But in the melancholic way — it’s not very funny.” This girl likes to sparkle after dark, flashing ornate rhinestone motifs from a thigh-grazing LBD. The neon signs of Fifties-era Las Vegas glittered from a sequined swing coat, with a leopard-print collar for added pizzazz.
The kitschy flourishes, which extended to crystal-studded slingback kitten heels, were balanced with his signature androgynous touches — as if the majorette and her boyfriend had got their clothes mixed in the wash. It made for a compelling mix.
Military-flavored olive pants featured thick strips of crystals down the sides, while parkas came in fancy
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A photo of Diana Vreeland wearing a kimono, smiling with a glint in her eye was among the images on Albino Teodoro’s mood board backstage. “She was elegant but always with an ironic streak; this irony is what I aim for with my collections,” said the designer, who also turned to “visionarism,” a movement he explained that pairs modern technology, such as Photoshop, with past art works, presented in contemporary, industrial spaces. And so he did, showing high-definition jacquards with Ottoman patterns on voluminous, Renaissance and couture-like shapes, or technical trenches alongside liquid sequined dresses. Teodoro revisited checkered men’s wear fabrics on pencil skirts or oversize, boxy jackets.
Teodoro played with the feminine/masculine or constructed/deconstructed dichotomy. He embellished a handkerchief skirt with jewels, added ruffles on the front of simple dresses and piled on the embroideries on a taffeta coat. But he also showed a beautiful and severe buttoned dark cape as well as a feather-light, no-frills boxy down jacket. Touches of pink, yellow, mustard, ochre and gold revved up the designer’s palette of fall colors. The collection looked well thought out and reflected Teodoro’s craft.
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Reem Acra wanted to infuse her fall collection with lightness, modernist and whimsy to give a younger, simplified attitude to her grand eveningwear. She drew on “The Little Prince” for celestial embroideries, adorning jewel-toned tulle gowns with the sun, moon, stars and planets that gave the dresses a cosmic mystique. Many of the silhouettes, such as A-line, slip-like gowns and Empire styles with tulle overlays in interesting color combinations — green, black and purple — felt quite new for Acra, still elegant and beautiful but quite unfussy and fresh. “I wanted the newness of simplicity and a playful attitude,” she said. The mood was young but not too young. For all the slips and spaghetti straps, there were Acra’s classic evening caftans and tulle tops that could be layered and worked with evening separates and striking long-sleeved gowns that offered full-coverage opulence.
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