The NFL will return to Los Angeles. This was the prediction of a panel of football notables, including Hall of Fame quarterback and UCLA alumnus Troy Aikman, at an event co-presented by UCLA at the Grand Avenue MOCA. The city will welcome back professional football—as long as the new team wins. As for who that team will be, where they will play, when the move will happen, how the stadium will be funded, or what can make them a financial success—well, that’s anyone’s guess. …
In 1997, Rebecca MacKinnon—who was at CNN’s Beijing bureau at the time—was having dinner with Chinese friends when she told them about a book she was reading. The book was about East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when German citizens suddenly got access to the files of the East German secret police, the Stasi. Germans were shocked to discover who had been informers. As MacKinnon described the book, one of her Chinese friends put his chopsticks down and said, “One of these days, something like that’s going to happen in China, and then I’ll know who my real friends are.” An uncomfortable silence fell over the table. …
“How many people here are natives of Arizona?” asked Flinn Foundation President and CEO Jack Jewett. Only a few hands in the large audience at Tucson’s Hotel Congress, at an event co-presented by Arizona State University, went up. It was a reflection of the transient nature of the state’s population. But it was also, said University of Arizona anthropologist Thomas Sheridan, an affirmative answer to the question that had been presented to a panel of Arizonans with deep ties to the state: Does Arizona history matter today? …
Is California’s solar gold rush destined to fail? That’s what moderator Warren Olney, host of KCRW’s Which Way, L.A.? and To the Point, asked a panel of energy experts at an event co-presented by KCRW at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. This was “an ominous question,” Olney noted, but California has a history of boom-and-bust industries. Also in the air—although it wasn’t broached until later in the conversation—was the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, a fiasco that critics have cited as a sign that the technology hasn’t caught up with the enthusiasm of policymakers. …
The United States has been trying to prevent childhood trauma and treat its victims for decades. But new research has shown that the stakes are even higher than was previously believed. Trauma—particularly chronic exposure to abuse, neglect, and violence—experienced in childhood can affect the physical health of adults decades later, increasing the risk for illnesses ranging from heart disease to hepatitis as well as addictive behaviors like IV drug use. In front of a crowd at The Actors’ Gang, several experts on a panel sponsored by the California Healthcare Foundation discussed what childhood trauma is, how it can be treated and prevented, and its effects on the health of adults. …
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