Wilshire Boulevard Research Articles

Commentary on: "The Tinel Sign and Myelinated Axons in the Cross-Face Nerve Graft: Predictors of Smile Reanimation Outcome for Free Gracilis Muscle Transfer?" by Greene et al.

Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic MedicineVol. 24, No. 4 Invited CommentaryCommentary on: “The Tinel Sign and Myelinated Axons in the Cross-Face Nerve Graft: Predictors of Smile Reanimation Outcome for Free Gracilis Muscle Transfer?” by Greene et alBabak Azizzadeh and Adrian E. HouseBabak Azizzadeh*Address correspondence to: Babak Azizzadeh, MD, Center for Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery, 9401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite #650, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA. E-mail Address: drazizzadeh@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5607-1022Center for Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery, Beverly Hills, California, USA.Search for more papers by this author and Adrian E. HouseCenter for Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery, Beverly Hills, California, USA.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:29 Jul 2022https://doi.org/10.1089/fpsam.2022.0027AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View article"Commentary on: “The Tinel Sign and Myelinated Axons in the Cross-Face Nerve Graft: Predictors of Smile Reanimation Outcome for Free Gracilis Muscle Transfer?” by Greene et al." Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine, 24(4), pp. 260–261FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 24Issue 4Aug 2022 Information© 2022, American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Inc.To cite this article:Babak Azizzadeh and Adrian E. House.Commentary on: “The Tinel Sign and Myelinated Axons in the Cross-Face Nerve Graft: Predictors of Smile Reanimation Outcome for Free Gracilis Muscle Transfer?” by Greene et al.Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine.Aug 2022.260-261.http://doi.org/10.1089/fpsam.2022.0027Published in Volume: 24 Issue 4: July 29, 2022Online Ahead of Print:June 3, 2022PDF download

Measuring Historical Urban Neighborhood Sustainability: America’s Grand Avenues

From 1850 through approximately 1920, wealthy entrepreneurs and elected officials created “grand avenues” lined by mansions in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, and other developing US cities. This paper examines the birthplaces of grand avenues to determine whether they have remained sustainable as magnets for healthy and wealthy people. Using data from the US EPA’s EJSCREEN system and the CDC’s 500 cities study across 11 cities, the research finds that almost every place where a grand avenue began has healthier and wealthier people than their host cities. Ward Parkway in Kansas City and New York’s Fifth Avenue have continued to be grand. Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C., Richmond’s Monument Avenue, St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, and Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard are national and regional symbols of political power, culture and entertainment, leading to sustainable urban grand avenues, albeit several are challenged by their identification with white supremacy. Among Midwest industrial cities, Chicago’s Prairie Avenue birthplace has been the most successful, whereas the grand avenues of St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, and Buffalo have struggled, trying to use higher education, medical care, and entertainment to try to rebirth their once pre-eminent roles in their cities.

Los Ángeles: Hardware and Software. Una lectura contemporánea de las cuatro ecologías de Reyner Banham

Durante buena parte del siglo XX, Los Ángeles fue para muchos el prototipo de ciudad del futuro, de un futuro inmediato: un gigantesco sistema de infraestructuras territoriales; una ciudad pensada por y para el transporte, construida desde la escala del automóvil. Pero también una superciudad forjada por las fantasías de generaciones de inmigrantes que llegaban a California con la promesa de una vida mejor, una ilusión que alentaban sus dos principales industrias: la de la especulación inmobiliaria y la de los sueños de Hollywood. Su imaginario se nutre de todas las visiones que ella misma proyecta, miradas que se debaten entre la seducción utópica del paraíso y el horror distópico y a las que han contribuido escritores, cineastas, críticos y tantos y tantos personajes mediáticos. Probablemente, una de las visiones más seductoras sea la de Reyner Banham quien, en su afán por intentar explicarla como ciudad, terminó contribuyendo decisivamente al mito de Los Ángeles. Ante la dificultad material de visitar físicamente la ciudad, la posibilidad de descubrir Los Ángeles mediante un viaje imaginario guiado por Banham es el punto de partida de este TFG. El trabajo que se explica a continuación consiste, pues, en una aproximación a Los Ángeles desde la distancia, tomando la figura de Reyner Banham y, por supuesto, su libro Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, como guías para este viaje imaginario. En definitiva, no se trataría tanto de un trabajo de crítica de su teoría urbana sino, más bien, de una personal exploración de la complejidad de esta metrópolis mediante el análisis de un fragmento de la misma. Concretamente, de Wilshire Boulevard, una de las calles más representativas de la ciudad y que este trabajo recorre a través de su historia, la visión que el cine nos ofrece del célebre bulevar y, por supuesto, de la propia imaginación de esta autora.

Emission of Methane and Heavier Alkanes From the La Brea Tar Pits Seepage Area, Los Angeles

AbstractNatural hydrocarbon (oil and gas) seeps are widespread in Los Angeles, California, due to gas migration, along faults, from numerous subsurface petroleum fields. These seeps may represent important natural contributors of methane (CH4) and heavier alkanes (C2‐C4) to the atmosphere, in addition to anthropogenic fossil fuel and biogenic sources. We measured the CH4 flux by closed‐chamber method from the La Brea Tar Pits park (0.1 km2), one of the largest seepage sites in Los Angeles. The gas seepage occurs throughout the park, not only from visible oil‐asphalt seeps but also diffusely from the soil, affecting grass physiology. About 500 kg CH4 d−1 is emitted from the park, especially along a belt of enhanced degassing that corresponds to the 6th Street Fault. Additional emissions are from bubble plumes in the lake within the park (order of 102–103 kg d−1) and at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Curson Avenue (>130 kg d−1), along the same fault. The investigated area has the highest natural gas flux measured thus far for any onshore seepage zone in the USA. Gas migration, oil biodegradation, and secondary methanogenesis altered the molecular composition of the original gas accumulated in the Salt Lake Oil Field (>300 m deep), leading to high C1/C2+ and i‐butane/n‐butane ratios. These molecular alterations can be important tracers of natural seepage and should be considered in the atmospheric modeling of the relative contribution of fossil fuel (anthropogenic fugitive emission and natural geologic sources) versus biogenic sources of methane, on local and global scales.

Católicos Por La Raza and the Future of Catholic Studies

Católicos Por La Raza and the Future of Catholic Studies Felipe Hinojosa72 It is Christmas Eve in the year of Huitzilopochtli, 1969. Three hundred Chicanos have gathered in front of St. Basil’s Roman Catholic Church. Three hundred brown-eyed children of the sun have come to drive the money-changers out of the richest temple in Los Angeles. Oscar Zeta Acosta The Revolt of the Cockroach People With its three dimensional glass windows, seating capacity for 900, and a thirteenth century crucifix hanging above the altar, the newly constructed St. Basil’s Catholic Church was “a magnificent statement of faith” when it opened in 1969.73 Praised for its fortress aesthetics and the contemporary artwork that graced its walls, the church assumed its place as Los Angeles’s de facto cathedral. 74 Located off Wilshire Boulevard just west of downtown, the church was the culmination of tremendous growth in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the years after World War II. But underneath the veneer of growth was a growing discontent that took aim at the opulence, power, and three-million-dollar price tag of St. Basil’s. The strongest critique came from a group of young Mexican American activists who called themselves Católicos Por La Raza (CPLR). Organized in 1969 and made up of lay Chicano Catholics – students and militants – CPLR’s demands were clear: the Catholic Church should use its power and wealth to address the economic and social needs of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles. In this short essay, I document the brief and spectacular history of CPLR and what their politics as non-clergy Catholics, as institutional outsiders, can teach us about the future of Catholic Studies. [End Page 26] The opening of St. Basil’s Church concretized the belief that the Catholic Church hierarchy cared little about its poor and working-class constituents. At the church’s dedication service in June 1969, concerned Catholics showed up carrying placards that read, “$1,000,000 for glass and stone, but for the poor?” and “Where is the concern for the poor?”75 The outspoken and flamboyant lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta, called the church a “monstrosity” with a “fantastic organ [that] pumps out a spooky religious hymn to this Christ Child of Golden Locks and Blue Eyes overlooking the richest drag in town.”76 After several failed attempts to meet with Cardinal McIntyre in December 1969, CPLR mobilized to peacefully disrupt Christmas Eve Mass. They organized a list of demands for the Catholic Church that included use of church facilities for community work, for shared governance with religious leaders, housing and educational assistance, and for the development of healthcare programs.77 That night, somewhere between 250 to 300 people gathered outside the church and marched toward the church’s front doors shouting, “Que viva la raza” and “Catholics for the people.” Unable to enter the church through the front door – church officials had locked them out – activists entered through side doors where they were met by undercover County Sheriffs who posed as church ushers. Chaos ensued as protesters were beaten and chased off the church grounds by the sheriffs and church officials. The next day, police launched an investigation, which a month later resulted in the arrest of twenty-one CPLR activists charged with disrupting a religious service. The arrests did not stop CPLR from keeping the pressure on the church. Throughout 1970, CPLR organized religious fasts, a “bautismo de fuego” event where participants burned their baptismal cards, and other events to embarrass the church and move it to action on behalf of Mexican Americans.78 Disrupting Mass and calling out the opulence of St. Basil’s represented both a class critique and a naming of the church’s historic relationship to white supremacy. Even with the Catholic Church’s history of progressive movements, largely tied to labor, the church paid little attention to issues of racial discrimination, especially in relation to one of its strongest constituent groups, Mexican Americans. “During the period between 1848 and 1960,” historian Richard Martínez argued, [End Page 27] “the church effectively functioned as a partner in the colonization process by helping to maintain the racial and capitalist...

Henry Gaylord Wilshire

Henry Gaylord Wilshire, the developer and namesake of Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard, has often been referred to as a “millionaire socialist.” This article explores Wilshire’s understanding of and commitment to socialism. It also looks at his attitudes toward women, race, and labor, while illuminating the contradictions implicit in the conduct of his business enterprises on the one hand and his espousal of socialism on the other.

Signs, streets, and storefronts: a history of architecture and graphics along America's commercial corridors

Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America's commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America's commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.

Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California (review)

Reviewed by: Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California Brett Garcia Myhren Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California. By Susan Suntree. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xx + 291 pages, $34.95. Sacred Sites is a big, ambitious book. Including the introductions, notes, and bibliography, it has more than 300 pages and almost 30 black-and-white images. Furthermore, it bears the imprimatur of a venerable poet (Gary Snyder) and Native scholar (Lowell Bean). But that's not all: it also tells the history of Southern California from the birth of the universe to the present. Suntree splits this narrative into two parts, one called "Western Science" and the other "Indigenous Myths and Songs." The first part literally begins before "The Big Bang" and ends with the most recent Ice Age (5). Along the way, she frequently juxtaposes the ancient past with the present: "Long-necked llamas and native camels (stroll down Wilshire Boulevard)" (115). Here and throughout the book, Suntree exhibits a strong regional devotion, often remarking that events occur "right here" (119). The second part essentially narrates the same story, though from a very different perspective, via the songs and stories of Natives in Southern California. These narratives, which likely will be new to many readers, introduce Wiyot, Deer, Coyote, Takwish, Mukat, and many other characters in a series of stories that recount the birth of the universe, the arrival of people, the reason for traditions, and the names for landmarks. This section concludes with the arrival of "White People" and a short narrative interspersed with snippets from the story of Spanish colonization. While Suntree's scope is ambitious, this is also one of the book's weaknesses. Narrating the history of the universe is a formidable task. Though not impossible for poetry, it typically requires an elision and compression not associated with scientific explanation. In the first part, apparently, Suntree wants to put scientific data into poetic language. While conceptually interesting, ultimately this approach makes one long for the elegant simplicity of lightning, thunder, and edicts delivered from the sky. Too often the text suffers from overly detailed descriptions of, for instance, weather patterns or a "phosphate molecule" (27). Humans aren't mentioned until almost halfway into the book, and even then they are seen from a distance, "sailing south down the coast from Siberia / walking overland through the breaks in the ice" (116). The second part is more successful than the first. Here Native songs immediately establish a human perspective, even when they speak of non-human figures. The point of having both narratives may be to illustrate different perspectives, but this point could have been made with fewer explosions, freezes, and thaws. [End Page 333] Still, Suntree should be lauded for illustrating how the history of Southern California extends beyond the establishment of the most recent shopping mall. She deserves even more praise for incorporating the history of Native Americans into this epic. Indeed, one of the book's most interesting features is what it omits: the period from Spanish colonization to the present fills just 20 pages. In effect, Suntree tells the story that is least often told, and for that alone readers can be grateful. Brett Garcia Myhren University of Southern California Copyright © 2011 Western Literature Association

A View from the Booth: Archival Screening Night

A View from the BoothArchival Screening Night Katie Trainor (bio) Archival Screening Night (ASN) takes place on the Friday night of the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) conference. In the months approaching the conference, AMIA members are invited to submit a treasure from their collections to be included in the program lineup. Submissions might include news clips, home movies, travelogues, commercials, restored classics, and experimental films. A wide array of archival gems are then put together into a program that warms the room with shared laughter, delight, and sometimes somber reality. It is almost impossible to encapsulate ASN without bringing my personal insight into this amazing gathering of archivists, scholars, students, and technicians. I look forward to the AMIA conference every year, and I specifically recall the moment I knew I wanted to be involved in what many refer to as a highlight of their conference experience. Los Angeles, November 2000: I was a student in the L. Jeffrey Selznick school of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House and attending my first AMIA conference. Many of us recall the grandeur of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Wilshire Boulevard, where the ASN was held that year: the more-than-life-sized Oscars bookending the red-curtained stage and the excitement of what would enfold before our eyes. I had been to many film festival screenings before, but there was something different about the energy of the room. Of course, I was a starry-eyed student of film preservation and had never been to the Academy before. It was during the intermission, when I was standing in line for refreshments, that I recognized the evening’s organizer, Ruta Abolins, who had at that point been commandeering the screening night for many conferences past. In my young, naive way, I immediately introduced myself and offered my services for screening nights to follow. I explained to her my love for and involvement in film projection and that I had worked at a few film festivals as both projectionist and programmer. I could “help tighten the show” perhaps. I even had “a few ideas that would smooth presentation.” Oh, how bold and inexperienced I was! Ruta listened patiently and then calmly said, “Here’s the baton. It’s yours.” What did I just do? Could I follow in such esteemed footsteps? Lo and behold, the next year, AMIA was in Portland, Oregon, and I took that baton. Ten years later, I am still organizing and now co-organizing what will remain a very special evening of our annual conference. ASN evolved from a previous incarnation. Before AMIA was AMIA, it was the Film and Television Archives Advisory Committees. They, too, held screenings. Current AMIA president Wendy Shay (Archives Center, National Museum of American History) recalls an early gathering from 1985 in Wisconsin at which attendees viewed video footage from the Austrian Film Archives, during which they took nitrate out and started burning it, an undoubtedly legendary screening in the event’s history. Those who started this organization, then, screened films at their annual gatherings from the very beginning. What was initially an informal screening of ten to fourteen films and videos became a more formalized annual screening event based on submissions of recent archival acquisitions, discoveries, and restorations. By 2000, the event was officially titled “Archival Screening Night.” As the membership grew, the need for bigger venues increased as well. Needless to say, the amount of material that members wanted to show and see similarly escalated. Thankfully what is most remembered about ASN are the films that were screened and not the very few technical mistakes (and resulting delays) that may have occurred! We have seen clips of old news programs, restored classics, home movies, experimental and avant-garde treasures, travelogues, poignant interviews, industrial and educational classics, superb trailers, and musical wonders. Some memorable moments include the 2002 Boston conference, for which Margie Compton (archivist at the University of Georgia Media Archives) dressed in a green go-go outfit to go along with a clip from Now Explosion (1970), a popular TV show in Atlanta that featured music of the time. At that same conference, Francis Poole (University of Delaware Library...

A View from the Booth: Archival Screening Night

A View from the BoothArchival Screening Night Katie Trainor (bio) Archival Screening Night (ASN) takes place on the Friday night of the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) conference. In the months approaching the conference, AMIA members are invited to submit a treasure from their collections to be included in the program lineup. Submissions might include news clips, home movies, travelogues, commercials, restored classics, and experimental films. A wide array of archival gems are then put together into a program that warms the room with shared laughter, delight, and sometimes somber reality. It is almost impossible to encapsulate ASN without bringing my personal insight into this amazing gathering of archivists, scholars, students, and technicians. I look forward to the AMIA conference every year, and I specifically recall the moment I knew I wanted to be involved in what many refer to as a highlight of their conference experience. Los Angeles, November 2000: I was a student in the L. Jeffrey Selznick school of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House and attending my first AMIA conference. Many of us recall the grandeur of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Wilshire Boulevard, where the ASN was held that year: the more-than-life-sized Oscars bookending the red-curtained stage and the excitement of what would enfold before our eyes. I had been to many film festival screenings before, but there was something different about the energy of the room. Of course, I was a starry-eyed student of film preservation and had never been to the Academy before. It was during the intermission, when I was standing in line for refreshments, that I recognized the evening’s organizer, Ruta Abolins, who had at that point been commandeering the screening night for many conferences past. In my young, naive way, I immediately introduced myself and offered my services for screening nights to follow. I explained to her my love for and involvement in film projection and that I had worked at a few film festivals as both projectionist and programmer. I could “help tighten the show” perhaps. I even had “a few ideas that would smooth presentation.” Oh, how bold and inexperienced I was! Ruta listened patiently and then calmly said, “Here’s the baton. It’s yours.” What did I just do? Could I follow in such esteemed footsteps? Lo and behold, the next year, AMIA was in Portland, Oregon, and I took that baton. Ten years later, I am still organizing and now co-organizing what will remain a very special evening of our annual conference. ASN evolved from a previous incarnation. Before AMIA was AMIA, it was the Film and Television Archives Advisory Committees. They, too, held screenings. Current AMIA president Wendy Shay (Archives Center, National Museum of American History) recalls an early gathering from 1985 in Wisconsin at which attendees viewed video footage from the Austrian Film Archives, during which they took nitrate out and started burning it, an undoubtedly legendary screening in the event’s history. Those who started this organization, then, screened films at their annual gatherings from the very beginning. What was initially an informal screening of ten to fourteen films and videos became a more formalized annual screening event based on submissions of recent archival acquisitions, discoveries, and restorations. By 2000, the event was officially titled “Archival Screening Night.” As the membership grew, the need for bigger venues increased as well. Needless to say, the amount of material that members wanted to show and see similarly escalated. Thankfully what is most remembered about ASN are the films that were screened and not the very few technical mistakes (and resulting delays) that may have occurred! We have seen clips of old news programs, restored classics, home movies, experimental and avant-garde treasures, travelogues, poignant interviews, industrial and educational classics, superb trailers, and musical wonders. Some memorable moments include the 2002 Boston conference, for which Margie Compton (archivist at the University of Georgia Media Archives) dressed in a green go-go outfit to go along with a clip from Now Explosion (1970), a popular TV show in Atlanta that featured music of the time. At that same conference, Francis Poole (University of Delaware Library...

Clinical Trial Report: Eradication of Helicobacter pylori Reduces the Risk for Subsequent Gastric Cancer

Curr Gastroenterol Rep (2010) 12:427–430 DOI 10.1007/s11894-010-0138-8 CLINICAL TRIAL REPORT Clinical Trial Report: Eradication of Helicobacter pylori Reduces the Risk for Subsequent Gastric Cancer Joseph R. Pisegna & Bijal Surti & David R. Scott Published online: 22 September 2010 # The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Fuccio L, Zagari RM, Eusebi LH, et al.: Meta-analysis: can Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment reduce the risk for gastric cancer? Ann Intern Med 2009, 151:121– Aims The study’s purpose is to examine whether eradication of H. pylori infection can reduce the risk for the development of gastric cancer. Rating Methods •Of importance. The authors examined the results of seven studies that met inclusion criteria by using relevant clinical trials. Relevant trials were identified through searching PubMed, Embase, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Library. To be eligible to include subjects in this analysis, the randomized clinical trials were required to compare an eradication treatment group to an untreated group and to provide an analysis of the number of gastric cancers occurring during follow-up evaluation. Introduction Helicobacter pylori is a carcinogen and has been associated with the development of gastric cancer. The hypothesis to be tested in this meta-analysis is to determine whether eradication of this organism is associated with a long-term reduction in the risk for development of gastric cancer. Results A total of seven studies were considered adequate to meet the inclusion criteria. One of the studies was excluded after further analysis. Overall, 27 of 3388 (1.1%) treated patients in the H. pylori antibiotic treatment group were identified as having gastric cancer, compared to 56 of 3307 (1.7%) in those subjects who did not undergo treatment. The authors identified the relative risk for gastric cancer as 0.65 (95% CI, 0.43–0.98). J. R. Pisegna : B. Surti : D. R. Scott CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA J. R. Pisegna : B. Surti : D. R. Scott Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA J. R. Pisegna (*) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA e-mail: jpisegna@ucla.edu Discussion The authors conclude that eradication of H. pylori reduces gastric cancer risk.

Death on Display: Reifying Stardom through Hollywood’s Dark Tourism

n his 2001 book Hollywood Remains to Be Seen: A Guide to the Movie Stars’ Final Homes travel writer Mark Masek reports that 350 visitors pay their respects at Marilyn Monroe’s grave each day (187). This is noteworthy not only because Monroe died in 1962—before many visitors were born—but also because the tiny cemetery in which she is interred, Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, is tucked behind high-rise office buildings next to a multiplex theater off busy Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. One must set out to locate Westwood; visiting the cemetery is a deliberate act, and for many it is a pilgrimage. Monroe is one of a handful of iconic stars who, long after their deaths, continue to gain new fans and remain powerful cultural commodities. Her image adorns posters, T-shirts, magnets, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and scores of items sold in gift shops lining Hollywood Boulevard. Pierce Brothers Westwood welcomes those who wish to pay their respects to the celebrities buried there, and the cemetery is one of the stops on tour guide Brian Sapir’s Haunted Hollywood tour. Sapir brings his clients to the cemetery because it is reputedly haunted, yet it is also a star-studded landscape where visitors can reminisce about film and television stars they admire, standing just a mere six feet from their mortal remains. Sapir is among a handful of tour guides participating in the commodification of death sites and burial sites of the famous in Los Angeles for the sake of entertainment, education, and profit. In their seminal 2000 text Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster John Lennon and Malcolm Foley exclude cemetery tourism from the growing trend of turning sites of death and disaster into tourist destinations. Lennon and Foley define dark tourism as a postmodern phenomenon in which sites of catastrophe become commodities of spectacle, in part as a mirror of our mediated experience of disaster. Categorizing the Death on Display:

Near-Surface Location, Geometry, and Velocities of the Santa Monica Fault Zone, Los Angeles, California

High-resolution seismic-reflection and seismic-refraction imaging, combined with existing borehole, earthquake, and paleoseismic trenching data, suggest that the Santa Monica fault zone in Los Angeles consists of multiple strands from several kilometers depth to the near surface. We interpret our seismic data as showing two shallow-depth low-angle fault strands and multiple near-vertical (∼85°) faults in the upper 100 m. One of the low-angle faults dips northward at about 28° and approaches the surface at the base of a topographic scarp on the grounds of the Wadsworth VA Hospital (WVAH). The other principal low-angle fault dips northward at about 20° and projects toward the surface about 200 m south of the topographic scarp, near the northernmost areas of the Los Angeles Basin that experienced strong shaking during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The 20° north-dipping low-angle fault is also apparent on a previously published seismic-reflection image by Pratt et al. (1998) and appears to extend northward to at least Wilshire Boulevard, where the fault may be about 450 m below the surface. Slip rates determined at the WVAH site could be significantly underestimated if it is assumed that slip occurs only on a single strand of the Santa Monica fault or if it is assumed that the near-surface faults dip at angles greater than 20–28°. At the WVAH, tomographic velocity modeling shows a significant decrease in velocity across near-surface strands of the Santa Monica fault. P -wave velocities range from about 500 m/sec at the surface to about 4500 m/sec within the upper 50 m on the north side of the fault zone at WVAH, but maximum measured velocities on the south side of the low-angle fault zone at WVAH are about 3500 m/sec. These refraction velocities compare favorably with velocities measured in nearby boreholes by Gibbs et al. (2000). This study illustrates the utility of combined seismic-reflection and seismic-refraction methods, which allow more accurate reflection imaging and compositional estimations across areas with highly variable velocities, a property that is characteristic of most fault zones.

Mercury General Corp.

Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 3, Issue 3 p. 186-186 U.S. Dividend Achievers Mercury General Corp.† First published: 30 June 2006 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.4412 † Contact: : George Joseph — Chmn., C.E.O. Address: : 4484 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010 Web Site: : www.mercuryinsurance.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Insurance (MIC: 8.2 SIC: 6331 NAIC: 524126) Mercury General and its subsidiaries are engaged primarily in writing automobile insurance in a number of states, principally California. The percentage of direct automobile insurance premiums written during 2005 by state was 72.4% in California, 9.2% in Florida, 7.5% in New Jersey, 4.2% in Texas and 6.7% in all other states. Co. also writes homeowners insurance, mechanical breakdown insurance, commercial and dwelling fire insurance and commercial property insurance. The non-automobile lines of insurance accounted for 10.0% of direct premiums written in 2005, of which approximately 57.0% was in the homeowners line. Volume3, Issue3Summer 2006Pages 186-186 RelatedInformation

Macerich Co. (THE)

Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 3, Issue 2 p. 172-172 U.S. Company Reports Macerich Co. (THE)† First published: 20 April 2006 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.3980 † Contact: : Mace Siegel — Chmn. Address: : 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Web Site: : www.macerich.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Property, Real Estate & Development (MIC: 8.3 SIC: 6798 NAIC: 525930) Macerich is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust involved in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of regional and community shopping centers located throughout the U.S. Co. is the sole partner of, and owns a majority of the ownership interests in, The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership. As of Dec 31 2005, The Macerich Partnership owned or had an ownership interest in 75 regional shopping centers, 20 community shopping centers and two development/redevelopment properties aggregating approximately 78.9 million square feet of gross leasable area. Volume3, Issue2Spring 2006Pages 172-172 RelatedInformation

Macerich Co. (THE)

Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 3, Issue 4 p. 170-170 U.S. Company Reports Macerich Co. (THE)† First published: 10 October 2006 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.4813 † Contact: : Mace Siegel — Chmn. Address: : 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Web Site: : www.macerich.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Property, Real Estate & Development (MIC: 8.3 SIC: 6798 NAIC: 525930) Macerich is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust involved in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of regional and community shopping centers located throughout the U.S. Co. is the sole general partner of, and owns a majority of the ownership interests in, The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership. As of Dec 31 2005, The Macerich Partnership owned or had an ownership interest in 75 regional shopping centers, 20 community shopping centers and two development/redevelopment properties aggregating approximately 78.9 million square feet of gross leasable area. Volume3, Issue4Autumn (Fall) 2006Pages 170-170 RelatedInformation

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AbstractInsurance (MIC: 8.2 SIC: 331 NAIC: 24126)Mercury General and its subsidiaries are engaged primarily in writing all risk classifications of automobile insurance. The percentage of gross automobile insurance premiums written during 2004 by state was 76.2% in California, 9.6% in Florida, 4.6% in New Jersey, 4.3% in Texas and 5.3% in all other states. Co. also writes homeowners insurance, mechanical breakdown insurance, commercial and dwelling fire insurance and commercial property insurance. Co. offers automobile policyholders the following types of coverage: bodily injury liability, underinsured and uninsured motorist, personal injury protection, property damage liability, comprehensive, collision and other hazards.

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Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 2, Issue 2 p. 166-166 U.S. Company Report Macerich Co. (THE)† First published: 22 April 2005 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.2337 † Contact: : Mace Siegel — Chmn. Address: : 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Web Site: : www.macerich.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Property, Real Estate & Development (MIC: 8.3 SIC: 798 NAIC: 25930) Macerich is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust involved in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of regional malls and community centers located throughout the United States. Co. is the sole general partner of, and owns an 82.0% ownership interest in, The Macerich Partnership. As of Dec 31 2003, Co. owned or had an ownership interest in 58 regional malls, 18 community centers and two development properties aggregating approximately 58.0 million square feet. Co. conducts all of its operations through the Operating Partnership and its management companies. Volume2, Issue2Spring 2005Pages 166-166 RelatedInformation

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Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 2, Issue 4 p. 165-165 U.S. Company Reports Macerich Co. (THE)† First published: 23 September 2005 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.3161 † Contact: : Mace Siegel — Chmn. Address: : 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Web Site: : www.macerich.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Property, Real Estate & Development (MIC: 8.3 SIC: 6798 NAIC: 525930) Macerich is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust involved in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of regional and community shopping centers located throughout the U.S. Co. is the sole general partner of, and owns a majority of the ownership interests in, The Macerich Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership. As of Dec 31 2004, The Macerich Partnership owned or had an ownership interest in 60 regional shopping centers, 18 community shopping centers and six development/redevelopment properties aggregating approximately 62.5 million square feet of gross leasable area. Volume2, Issue4Autumn (Fall) 2005Pages 165-165 RelatedInformation