Responsereceived on April 2, 2015:
Please be advised that this office has made its determination on your request as required by Government Code section 6253(c). To the extent that this office has non-exempt records responsive to these requests, those records will be produced at the conclusion of our search. A small number of the records in our possession are exempt from production under California Government Code section 6254(c) and 6254(f). These records directly relate to specific criminal complaints and criminal investigations. Most of the records are of a more general nature and will be subject to inspection and/or copying. At this time, we estimate that we will know the exact number of non-exempt pages by April 15, 2015. As you know, the Los Angeles Municipal Code authorizes this office to charge 10 cents per copy of any requested public document. Please feel free to contact me with any questions in the interim.
Currently you have JavaScript disabled. In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Moore discloses ownership of fourteen different stocks, all of them but one with aggregate values in one of the two lower ranges. Here they are along with links to their Yahoo Finance pages, which is where I obtained historical price data:
Fairly regularly one City department will say that there are no responsive records while another one will produce proof that the first was lying. For a recent and spectacular example of this phenomenon take a look at this stunningly good Twitter thread from @LANCWatch.
In 2020 LAPD was in full-on attack mode against the protesters who filled the streets of Los Angeles supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and other progressive causes. They shot, beat, and falsely arrested protesters by the hundreds. As part of their carefully planned media response strategy LAPD engaged former Police Commission president Gerald Chaleff to write a report on their misbehavior.
The City of Los Angeles is generally very, very, very bad at complying with the California Public Records Act. There are no consequences that matter to them for violating it so they violate it wantonly. Only lawsuits will get them to comply, and only in that specific instance. So we were glad to hear that our friends at the Los Angeles Sunshine Coalition filed yet another petition against the City of Los Angeles to enforce compliance.
Repetitive exposure to contact events in rugby union players promotes a decline in cerebral hemodynamic function and cognition and an increase in markers for oxidative stress over the course of a single playing season, a new study published in Experimental Physiology suggests.
A longitudinal study included 21 players from a professional rugby union team (13 forwards and 8 backs) who played a total of 31 games in a season of the Guinness PRO-14 league. The researchers determined life-long concussion history through the players' medical records provided by the team doctor. Oxidative-nitrosative stress (OXNOS) was assessed using venous blood samples. Measures of cerebral hemodynamic function and cognition were also assessed.
There was a significant elevation in OXNOS, as evidenced by an increase in ascorbate free radical and a corresponding reduction in the bioavailability of nitric oxide, which did not vary across different player positions.
Impairments in cerebral oxygen delivery and cerebrovascular reactivity range were seen among all players, but were more marked in forwards. The players also witnessed a decline in scores of cognition tests, but there were no significant differences among forwards and backs.
Professor Damian Bailey, senior author involved in the study said in a press release: "We hope that this study will encourage more rugby teams to engage in larger scale studies of this nature to determine the life-long implications associated with recurrent contact and concussion in rugby, including the potential links to neurodegeneration in later life. Our ultimate goal is to make the sport safer for the players and minimise the damage they incur through contact."
Commenting on the findings, Prof Willie Stewart, consultant neuropathologist and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Glasgow, stated: "Although a relatively small study in respect of number of rugby players followed, there are intriguing findings here that require pursuit in further research and, although there is suggestion that the measures here might have relevance to development of neurodegenerative disease, this is, at best, speculative."
A key limitation of the study was that it did not account for concussions occurring during training. Dr Susan Kohlhaas, Director of Research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "To better understand the specific factors of a rugby professional's career that might affect their brain health, future studies should also consider collisions in training. Comparing rugby players with players of non-contact sports could also help to determine whether factors other than collisions could be playing a role in these findings."
Owens TS, Calverley T, Stacey BS, Iannetelli A, Venables L, Rose GA, Fall L, Tsukamoto H, Berg RMG, Jones GL, Marley CJ, Bailey DM. Contact events in rugby union and the link to reduced cognition: evidence for impaired redox-regulation of cerebrovascular function. Exp Physiol. 2021 July 5 [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1113/EP089330.
3a8082e126