The Weekly Newspaper of Manhattan Beach Herald Publications - El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 Vol. 11, No. 8 August 3, 2017 Women’s Flag Football Game Raises $60,000 Inside for Alzheimer’s of Greater Los Angeles This Issue Certified and Licensed Professionals ..................7 Classifieds ...........................2 Entertainment .....................6 Food ......................................7 Looking Up ..........................2 Pets ............................ 11 - 12 Politically Speaking ...........4 The 6th annual tackleALZ flag football game took place Saturday, July 15 at Campus El Segundo. Two teams--the FirebALZ (pictured above) and the AlzStarz--competed fiercely both on and off the field in a friendly rivalry to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and funds for Alzheimers’ of Greater Los Angeles (ALZGLA). Team FirebALZ won the game, 13-12, but team AlzStarz won the online fundraising Real Estate ................. 8 - 10 challenge. tackleALZ raised more than $60,000 for ALZGLA. (Photo by Rich Cruse Photography) Vista del Mar to Go Back to Two Lanes Seniors .................................2 in Each Direction The following is a press release issued late Janice Hahn. Thank you, Supervisor Hahn and LADOT, Sports ...................................3 last week by Los Angeles Councilmember Janice has agreed to create an equivalent for helping us find a workable solution. Mike Bonin (11th District) on plans to revert number of public parking spaces below Announcement 2: Playa del Rey Road Vista del Mar back to its former four-lane Vista del Mar, at the beach itself. That will Safety Task Force configuration, as well as other changes: allowing us to address the primary and the Now, for the second announcement, “I’m writing with some important news largest safety concern, by prohibiting parking regarding the other streets, the ones that are regarding the road safety projects in Playa entirely on Vista del Mar. And that will part of the Safe Streets for Playa del Rey del Rey. About two months ago, the City [of allow us to restore the road to two lanes in project. That project made changes to Culver, Los Angeles] launched two different projects, either direction. We will do it as soon as Jefferson and Pershing in an effort to make both designed to improve safety in parts of the County is able to restripe its lots and the community safer and more walkable. Weekend Playa del Rey. create the additional public parking. On top For those areas, I am forming a ‘Playa del I said at the time that we would evaluate of that, LADOT is going to make a change Rey Road Safety Task Force’ to evaluate Forecast them and make changes based on community to the signal and the turn at Vista del Mar and make recommendations regarding the feedback -- and I meant it. That’s why and Culver Boulevard, and they expect it project and its impact on those streets and Friday, earlier this month we added a lane back on will have a significant impact on resolving on the surrounding neighborhood. The task eastbound Culver Boulevard. I have continued the bottleneck there. Vista del Mar, page 2 August 4 to listen--and today, I am announcing some Mostly big changes in response to what I have heard. Announcement 1: Vista del Mar Smartphones Are Beginning to Sunny Two months ago, the Los Angeles 79˚/70˚ Department of Transportation (DOT) narrowed Mess with Our Heads Vista del Mar from two lanes to one in each By Rob McCarthy that a smartphone nearby makes it harder direction. DOT did so suddenly and without Commerce, education and personal to think and concentrate. The findings by Saturday, community input because they were told the communication haven’t been the same the University of Texas team came from August 5 City faced immediate and serious liability since the smartphone became the must- studying the technology and study habits concerns from people who were being killed have consumer electronic device. By one of college students, but there’s application Mostly or seriously injured crossing Vista del Mar, estimate, nearly every human being on the here for high school administrators and Sunny to and from the beach and free parking on planet old enough will have a smartphone teachers, parents and business leaders the road. DOT was warned it needed to act very soon. There could be six billion looking at ways to boost productivity and 79˚/70˚ before summer, and they also knew they of these mobile communication devices innovation in the workplace. needed to preserve beach parking to make worldwide by 2020, according to busi- “Our smartphones enable—and encour- Sunday, sure everyone, from everywhere and from ness analytics company IHS Markit. A age—constant connection to information, all walks of life, had access to the coast. decade ago, smartphones hardly existed. entertainment and each other. They put August 6 That move was incredibly controversial- Yet, for all of the advances made the world at our fingertips, and rarely Mostly -let’s be clear, most people hated it--and because of smartphones, recent research leave our sides,” the co-authors wrote, I said that I would eagerly embrace an points to an overdependence of the adding that so much connectivity has a Sunny alternative solution that met the requirements technology that shows up in how people consequence. “Although these devices have 79˚/66˚ of improving safety and maintaining coastal nowadays talk, interact when together, and immense potential to improve welfare, access. Today, I am very glad to report we problem-solve. One recent study by a team their persistent presence may come at a now have that solution thanks to my good of researchers in Austin, Texas concluded See Smartphones, page 4 friend, Los Angeles County Supervisor Page 2 August 3, 2017 Looking Up Seniors A New Search for Extrasolar Planets with Unlock the Secret to Healthy Aging by the Arecibo Radio Telescope Improving Your Health in Three Key Areas (BPT) - You’re still just as active as you glucose homeostasis and cytokine balance is were in your thirties and forties, but as you just as important to supporting proper heart continue to add those candles to your birthday health. Barnard’s Star Will Be Studied Simultaneously from Different Observatories cake each year, you can feel the effects of A healthy diet that focuses on fiber and Based on Press Release from the from SNO, LCO, TJO, and CARMENES aging starting to take a toll on your body. As regulates carbohydrate intake has been proven University of Puerto Rico, Provided from Spain, and earlier with ASH2 from you age, your body needs a little extra care to support healthy glucose levels. Consider by Bob Eklund Chile. All these observations will be used to maintain optimal health; that’s why you complementing your diet with regular exercise The National Science Foundation’s Arecibo to understand the star, but more observations go for your morning walk and eat a balanced and nutritional supplements to further support Observatory and the Planetary Habitability by the Red Dots team will be necessary for diet. These things can help you support your good health.* Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico the detection of any new planet. overall well-being, but there are other factors Maintaining healthy bone and joint func- at Arecibo have joined the Red Dots project The first extrasolar planets were discovered to consider if you want to live a healthier, tion is critical for both men and women. in the search for new planets around our from the Arecibo Observatory in 1992. They more active lifestyle as you grow older. When bones are weak or joints are stiff, it nearest stars. 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To maintain this ideal lifestyle, of time in the sun - with sun protection, of closest stellar system to our Sun after the more than 3,500 of them. he offers his advice on ways you can support course - or consult your healthcare provider Alpha Centauri triple-star system. There are The first and only time that Barnard’s Star your health in each of these key areas. about taking a supplement to achieve opti- hints of a possible super-Earth mass planet was observed from the Arecibo Observatory Properly balanced hormone levels are one of mum vitamin D levels.* Additionally, adding in a cold orbit around this star. was during the SETI Institute’s Phoenix the most important factors when it comes to a nutritional supplement such as Wobenzym The Arecibo Observatory’s giant radio dish Project (1998-2004), as part of SETI’s search staying healthy as you age. Healthy hormone Plus can help provide temporary relief from will be used in a new campaign to observe for extraterrestrial intelligence. The new ob- levels support healthy sexual function, body everyday aches and pains to ensure that when nearby red dwarf stars with planets.