While they made a few fans nervous by starting their set about 10 minutes late, things went a lot smoother for Radiohead during weekend two of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Sound issues stopped the headliner’s set twice last week forcing the band to also exit the stage twice.
This weekend however, about 30 minutes into their Friday night set, everything was going off without a hitch and unlike last week the band kept it’s momentum with songs like “Daydreaming,” and “15 Step.”

“I heard about what happened last week and I was getting a little worried when they weren’t starting,” Los Angeles resident Justin Linares said. “But they’re sounding good.”

This is the third time the band has headlined Coachella. They performed at the Indio music festival in 2004 and 2012.

And while last week they may have lost a few fans on Friday night who were drawn to the  dance music performances at the Sahara tent, with Empire of the Sun and Dillon Francis slotted opposite Radiohead, this Friday the band played before a large crowd who were sparred last week’s sound troubles.

As reported, there will be no Brea Lions Orange County All-Star Football Game this year after organizers cancelled the tradition-rich game a few weeks ago. But there was hope that the game would be played in late June, and coaches were asked to nominate players. Brethren Christian’s Pat McInally was selected to coach the South all-stars and accepted the post.

I worked as the South chairman, so below are the nominees that I collected. There is no game but these players earned their nominations and deserve to be recognized. All schools in the South except Laguna Beach responded, so here is what I can share. And I hope to add the Breakers’ players soon.

As has become the practice, the nominees came from the pool of players willing to play in the game.

I also hope to share the North nominees but that was handled by another media member this year.

2017 SOUTH NOMINEES

Coach: Pat McInally, Brethren Christian

Aliso Niguel – Sam Marrazzo (6-4, 280, OT), Andre Cotton (6-1, 190, RB), Drake Diaz (5-11, 225, DL), Marshall Boyd (6-0, 200, DE), Jacob Real (6-4, 190, FS)

Beckman – I’Jon Akahi (5-11, 195, RB/LB/S), Liam Molina (5-8, 160, WR/K), Dean Nagle (6-3, 211, QB), Trenton Rasmussen (6-3, 240, OL/DL)

Brethren Christian – Jordan Leonard (RB), Nathan Sagastume (ATH), Dante Sanchez (LB), Joey Gutierrez (QB), Levon Lester (CB/RB)

Calvary Chapel – Bryce Debernarde (6-2, 205, LB)

Capistrano Valley – Clay Eggeman (6-0, 160, K), Juan Manzo (6-1, 230, DT), Matt Slymen (6-2, 260, OG), Rafael Ramos (5-9, 175, CB/WR), Tim Anderson (6-5, 270, OT)

Capistrano Valley Christian – Dawson Piper (6-2, 185, ATH.), Garin Green (6-2, 195, RB/DB), Nolan Kahal (6-1, 215, LB/FB/TE)

Corona del Mar – Jaydin Moses (6-0, 210, LB/S), Arwin Rahmatpanah (6-0, 275, C), Teddy Barber (5-8, 200, LB), Bryce Clabaugh (6-0, 200, DE), Mickey Quinn (6-0, 200, LB)

Costa Mesa – Roman Ayala (6-0, 215, DE)

Crean Lutheran – Robert Briones (6-2, 210, DE/LB)

Dana Hills – Davis Degroote (6-0, 185, LB), Ryder Lynch (6-0, 180, WR/DB)

Edison – Kenny Carmichael (6-1, 200, DE/OLB), Shaun Colamonico (5-11, 160, WR), Jonathan Moreida (5-11, 200, LBFB), Garrett Weichman (6-3, 280, OL), Spencer Bazer (5-9, 210, DL)

El Toro – Conrad Frick (6-4, 250, OT), AJ Aguilar (5-11, 195, OLB), Tyler Romo (6-1, 215, OLB)

Estancia – Tyler Ross (6-1, 180, ATH), Eric Carrasco (6-1, 180, WR/QB)

Fountain Valley  – Angel Hernandez (6-1, 190, ATH), Scott Craig (6-2, 260, OL/DL),George Sykes (5-0, 208, RB)

Huntington Beach – Derek Thomas (6-2, 210, DE), Jonah Apelu (5-11, 235, DT), Payton Marlow (6-5, 250, DE/TE), Chase Elliott (6-2, 210, TE/LB)

Irvine – Brent Miller (5-9, 165, RB/SS), Luke Coleman (6-0, 210, DE/LB)

JSerra – Nick Callen (5-9, 170, RB), Ryan Hickey (5-9, 190, FB/LB)

Laguna Beach – No response

Laguna Hills – Zac Crowe (5-9, 190, RB/LB/SS), Branson Weems (6-1, 185, WR/S/P), Charlie Borrego (6-1, 230, DE), Matt Davisson (6-2, 230, LB/TE), Logan Montgomery (6-0, 175, WR/ATH)

Mission Viejo – No nominees

Newport Harbor  – Cole Kinder (6-1, 205, RB), Gage Roberson (6-1, 215, LB), John Lamas (6-2, 255, OL), Mike Jarboe (6-3, 285, OT)

Northwood – Brandon Johnson (QB), Michael Bellas (WR), Ramal Silva (OL/DL)

Ocean View – Chase Foreman (FS), Xavier Salgado (ATH)

Saddleback – Rene Gonzalez (5-9, 175, FB/OLB)

Saddleback Valley Christian – Cade Henjum (6-1, 205, QB)

Segerstrom  – Denilson Santamaria (5-10, 180, RB/CB), JC Caravez (5-10, 165, RB/WR/DB), David Sevilla (5-10, 180, LB), Andrew Magana (5-10, 240, C/DT), Marcos Avaloa (6-0, 185, QB)

San Clemente – Austin Moore (6-4, 234, DE), Brandon Reaves (5-10, 170, ATH), Dayton Romo (6-1, 215, OL/DL), Mario Rossi (6-0, 200, LB), Turner Tonkovich (6-0, 200, C)

San Juan Hills – Cole Suchesk (5-7, 150, RB), Jacob Huff (5-10, 155, WR), Cameron Buchanan (5-9, 170, S), Brady Bjorkman (6-0, 190, WR/RB), Cayden McCluskey (6-0, 185, WR/S/LB)

Santa Margarita – Tommy Parker (OL), Jadon Digravio (LB), Brendan Gibbons (WR/DB), David Chen (DL), Darian Fernandez (DB)

St. Margaret’s – George Krantz (6-2, 195, QB), Nick Amouhkteh (6-4, 230, LB), Auston Locke (6-3, 190, WR), Nick Krantz (5-7, 160, RB/WR), James Eidt (6-0, 190, DE)

Tesoro – Shane Coleman (WR), Andrew Cohen (DE), Gavin Chambers (DL), Graeden Sharpe (RB), Kenny Ramchandani (DB)

Trabuco Hills – Tommy Germain (QB)

University – Hans Valdez (OL), Jalen Robertson (CB), Darrius Outland (DB)

Woodbridge – Connor McBride (6-2, 225, TB/DE), Nate Ledoux (5-9, 150, WR/FS), Chase Bradley (6-3, 220, LB/TE/QB)

It’s been a bad week for Facebook. First, a Cleveland killer livestreamed the act of murder through the app’s Live feature. Then, days later, a shooter in Fresno left behind a Facebook page littered with threats against the president and “white devils.”

In one sense, for the social media behemoth, the storm of dismay and distress won’t be hard to weather. Enforcing corporate norms against hate speech and the like may be difficult to execute perfectly, but doing so will grow more important the easier it becomes to instantly deliver the worst kind of “prohibited content” to the world at large.

But the trouble runs deeper than public-relations crises and speech codes. Facebook’s one-line Twitter bio — “Giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected” — reveals the problem. It’s not just that the bigger social media gets, the bigger the group of “bad apples” becomes. It’s that social media hasn’t figured out a way to stop its platforms from encouraging people to spread aggression and rancor — two unintended forms of more open connection — with even more velocity than they can offline. The basic pro-social premise of social media, and the huge economy it’s propping up, is under attack.

Befitting social media’s global reach, its dark side has established an international presence. Outside the United States, the issue has already been sharpened considerably. Swedish authorities have had to grapple with several high-profile livestreams of gang rape, one on Facebook and another on Snapchat. There are indications the trend is growing: some Silicon Valley insiders suggest many livestreamed rape incidents have not even made it into the European press. The abundance of caution or sensitivity around releasing reports is understandable insofar as many European officials fear fueling the rise of reactionary parties and ethno-nationalist counter-crime. But at the same time, that objective will prove hard to secure by suppressing the nightmarish attacks, which can be distorted and spread anyway by anecdote, rumor and perhaps even social media.

The dilemma has begun to ripple through the United States, too: outrage spread across the conservative internet as the Associated Press, reporting on Twitter about the Fresno killer, claimed the man shouted “God is Great” — rather than “Allahu Akbar,” the Arabic phrase he uttered that is often used by Islamic terrorists. So far, the instinct to soft-pedal horrific events for political and cultural reasons does not seem like a durable solution to tamp down social unrest online. Over time, its weakness is likely to grow more pronounced.

Given a set of poor options, however, social media companies may well be inclined to choose the least worst, much as a floundering political campaign will make its candidate look foolish if the choice is calculated to offer the best possible shot at improving his or her fortunes. And like a candidate that can no longer authentically pivot away from a campaign launched on relentless optimism, social media companies are now somewhat imprisoned within a way of seeing the internet that formed during the technology’s formative — but smaller, more innocent — years.

“Facebook stands for bringing us together and building a global community,” as Mark Zuckerberg recently reiterated. “When we began, this idea was not controversial […]. Yet now, across the world there are people left behind by globalizations, and movements for withdrawing from global connection. There are questions about whether we can make a global community that works for everyone, and whether the path ahead is to connect more or reverse course.” To move ahead, Zuckerberg explained, Facebook must continue its job “to help people make the greatest positive impact while mitigating areas where technology and social media can contribute to divisiveness and isolation.”

Zuckerberg admirably understands that the challenges here are thorny even though the tools that will apparently help him achieve his goals are relatively obvious: inclusivity good, sensationalism bad, and so on. But he remains stubbornly incurious — almost as if his goals and his platform require him to be — about the basic anthropological facts surrounding aggression, violence, and the use of communication as a way of access to real violent experiences.

Like many online and off in today’s political culture, Zuckerberg devotes a lot of mental energy to the semiotics of communication — what different units of language or imagery mean, and how our individual and social appetite for meaning leads us to engage and react to different forms of content. Certainly, some critics of social media are right to suggest that social media’s quest to make niceness more universal can itself flatten out meaning and deprive us of deeper sources of significance. But we should go further, because the appeal of antagonism and conflict, online and off, oftentimes has little to do with meaning and much more with mattering — with the substantial, not the signified.

Rather than helping us know who or what we are, fighting helps us know that we are, whether in the rich sense of confirming our existence in a shifting and evanescent world, or the simpler one of enjoying personal power on its own terms. To go one step further, too many social media theorists refuse to consider the “extreme” premise that people fight because fighting is often fun, even when it often becomes, by degrees, painful or horrible.

Perhaps it’s a little unfair to expect social media moguls to prevail over such burdensome philosophical questions. On the other hand, they dove into their now-awkward position of political and cultural world-making. If they can’t admit there are limits to what technology can and should do to ameliorate social disorder, they’ll soon find their life more uncomfortable still.

James Poulos is a columnist for the Southern California News Group.

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CHICAGO — Business was bustling at the latest edition of StyleMax.
“The buzz at StyleMax was all about the new brands that buyers were excited about,” said Susan Glick, vice president for women’s apparel at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, where the show takes place and ended its four-day run earlier this month. “Traffic was steady and retailers enthusiastically embraced the daily events including the Montreal Floor Party, all the amenities and the social media seminar. [There were] more lines, more brands, more daily special events than ever. The energy on the trade-show floor reflected the show’s commitment to the total buyer experience.”
More than 350 exhibitors participated in the show, including premium denim lines like J Brand and Frame; jewelry line Soko, founded in Nairobi, Kenya, and Gretchen Scott Designs. Retail traffic was on track, with a slight increase over last year’s show, noted Glick.
“We more than doubled our [fall] business. We were extremely happy with the turnout,” said Judy Walthour, a representative for Dylan, a casual luxury clothing line based in California.
Buyer Lisa Weiss, of Ann Arbor-based Bivouac, said the show setup is designed for an easy shopping experience.
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In the face of the fourth anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory complex collapse, labour rights group Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is outlining a set of key actions required from governments, brands and employers it says will drive “fundamental changes” in the aftermath of the disaster.

The US textile industry has applauded the signing by President Donald Trump of an executive order aimed at promoting American industry and protecting it from “unfair competition”.

Pentland Brands, one of the world’s largest sports, outdoor and fashion companies, has published the names and locations of the direct factories that manufacture garments for its Berghaus brand, in a bid to increase transparency across its supply chain.

The environment is about to take center stage in American politics — a rare but potentially transformational moment in the brief, brown history of the Trump administration.

Today and again next weekend, tens of thousands of people are expected to participate in environment-oriented marches at the Washington Mall and around the country. First, they’ll protest President Donald Trump’s proposed science budget cuts and urge Trump to take science into account when making policy decisions on the environment and research. Next week, the goal is to raise awareness about global warming in the wake of Trump’s move to erase environmental rules on coal power and as Trump ponders the United States’ future in the Paris Climate Accord.

Though the marches are being led by scientists and their closest supporters, the cause — the environment — could become a key driver for a much broader cohort of people who oppose the Trump administration and GOP’s efforts to promote carbon-oriented economics over environmental progress. While global warming and the environment in general have become wedge issues over the past two decades, polling and election results show environment often generates more argument than actual votes.

Now, that could be changing. Just as two generations of Christian conservatives have been politically animated by the issue of abortion, a similar number of progressives view global warming as an existential threat and, when combined with Trump’s policies and attitudes, they could be ready to mobilize in a similar fashion.

“Bottom line, when you say the word ‘environment’ and ask people if they care about the environment you get an 80 percent answer they do,” said former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer who served on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. “I think it’s a very important issue in the political world.”

Environment could be a particularly strong driver for new voters and those just now entering the political process.

“Young people really understand this,” Boxer said.

The role of environment as a political catalyst has been bumpy. Once considered largely apolitical, scientists, as a potential voting bloc, only began wading into politics after Trump’s surprise election and some key events that followed his inauguration.

It started for some the week Trump took office and government-run websites devoted to fighting climate change vanished from the White House and State Department.

On inauguration day, workers at the National Park Service used Twitter to share an image of the crowd at Trump’s swearing in, contrasting it with the much bigger crowds that gathered for President Barack Obama’s inaugurations. The move was met with hostility from the new administration which, in turn, spurred new “rogue” accounts from scientists and park rangers tweeting information about climate change.

Beyond the symbolic, however, the Trump administration also has taken steps viewed as pushing the country away from fighting global warming. The White House has frozen federal grant spending related to greenhouse gas reductions and halted government workers from sharing related information with the media. Trump also has proposed budget cuts to the Environmental Protect Agency, NASA and other institutions, and threatened to vastly reduce funding for all scientific research.

It’s all served as a spur for scientists to become politically organized.

“For the science march, especially, it’s a reaction to the presidential administration,” said UC Irvine ecology professor Kathleen Treseder who is attending today’s March for Science and organizing the People’s Climate March slated for April 29 in Irvine.

“We’re running out of time to deal with with climate change,” Treseder added. “We can’t wait on the next administration to take action. We have to do it now.”

Today’s March for Science in Los Angeles – scheduled to coincide with Earth Day – is expected to be the second biggest outside the national march on Washington, D.C. About 50,000 demonstrators are expected to meet at Perishing Square in Downtown Los Angeles.

“This is ridiculous,” Boxer said. “For me, as an American who grew up in all the years of the greatest years of scientific discoveries, that scientists have to march is shocking. The majority of people don’t see scientists as political. They see them as truth tellers. it’s just sad to me that scientists have to march, but I’m glad they are.”

The marches will serve as a means to spread the word about scientific discoveries happening at institutions around the country, hopefully bringing together politicians and researchers.

“There’s always been a gap between science and policy,” said Rebecca Fuoco, the director of media relations for the March for Science in Los Angeles who works in healthcare research. “We’re hoping this march will be a starting point to bridge that gap.”

Other marches in Southern California are scheduled to be held on the campus of UC Riverside and in front of Fullerton city hall where scientists are expected to share their research with the general public and local politicians.

For some scientists, it’s an uncomfortable role.

“We’re not so much a warrior people,” said Jeff D. Rosenblum, an organizer of the Fullerton march and Cal State Fullerton student studying economics, of the scientific community.

“We value our intellectual abilities. We value science.”

That’s not a value widely shared by the current power brokers in Washington.

“(Science policies) are not high on our Republican Party list of priorities right now,” said Fred Whitaker, the chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County. “There is a debate going on over climate science and what to fund and what not to fund. Jobs and the economy and fixing healthcare are the biggest domestic priorities.”

Another party leader and former chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, Scott Baugh, sees the March for Science and People’s Climate March as thinly veiled excuses to attack the president’s policies.

“Are there more marches?” Baugh said. “I think the Trump detractors are moving from tax issues to climate issues to whatever issues are the flavor of the day. This is more of a protest of Donald Trump than anything else.”

Jack Eidt sees it differently. He’s hoping to raise awareness about the quality of life locally by holding the People’s Climate March at Banning Park in Wilmington, an area that has historically been affected by pollution from nearby oil refineries.

Eidt, a city planner by trade, hopes that holding a march near refineries illustrates the impacts they have on their neighboring communities.

“We need to get out in the streets and show there’s strong support for reducing the use of fossil fuels. Let’s be realistic about what we can do,” Eidt said.

“I think that while street demonstrations can be incredible ways to bring people together and raise awareness and get the message out to a lot of people, I think it’s really important to go to places that embody the issues.”