scholarly journals The Lebanese Ladies Cultural Society in Southern California: Celebrating Twenty Years

1970 ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
Nancy Jabbra
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Orange County ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Downtown Los Angeles

The earliest Lebanese in Southern California arrived around the turn of the twentieth century. Originally, they lived in an area east of downtown Los Angeles, still home to recent immigrants. Later, they moved west of downtown, as the location of their principal religious institutions shows us. Today's Lebanese are more widely scattered, with a substantial community in Orange County east of Los Angeles County. Most of the founders of the Lebanese Ladies Cultural Society live in or near Pasadena, an affluent city northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

The Sunland Grizzly

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Josh Sides
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Grizzly Bear ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Founding Director

In 1916, Cornelius Birket Johnson, a Los Angeles fruit farmer, killed the last known grizzly bear in Southern California and the second-to last confirmed grizzly bear in the entire state of California. Johnson was neither a sportsman nor a glory hound; he simply hunted down the animal that had been trampling through his orchard for three nights in a row, feasting on his grape harvest and leaving big enough tracks to make him worry for the safety of his wife and two young daughters. That Johnson’s quarry was a grizzly bear made his pastoral life in Big Tujunga Canyon suddenly very complicated. It also precipitated a quagmire involving a violent Scottish taxidermist, a noted California zoologist, Los Angeles museum administrators, and the pioneering mammalogist and Smithsonian curator Clinton Hart Merriam. As Frank S. Daggett, the founding director of the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, wrote in the midst of the controversy: “I do not recollect ever meeting a case where scientists, crooks, and laymen were so inextricably mingled.” The extermination of a species, it turned out, could bring out the worst in people.

Development of neurosurgery in Southern California and the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center

1993 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
John H. Schneider ◽  
Martin H. Weiss ◽  
William T. Couldwell
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Southern California School ◽  
The University

✓ The Los Angeles County General Hospital has played an integral role in the development of medicine and neurosurgery in Southern California. From its fledgling beginnings, the University of Southern California School of Medicine has been closely affiliated with the hospital, providing the predominant source of clinicians to care for and to utilize as a teaching resource the immense and varied patient population it serves.

“An Honest But Fearless Fighter”: The Adversarial Ideal of Public Defenders in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-666
Author(s):  
Sara Mayeux
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Public Defender ◽  
Public Defenders ◽  
Downtown Los Angeles ◽  
The City

Early one Sunday in 1948, Frederic Vercoe set out from his home in San Marino, California, for a speaking engagement in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he took the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which had opened for drivers 8 years before, linking the city more tightly with its “vast agglomerate of suburbs.” Although the roads may have changed, Vercoe had been making some version of this commute for decades. He had recently retired after a long career with the Los Angeles County Public Defender—13 years as a deputy, followed by 19 years as head of the office—and now maintained a small private law practice downtown. Many mornings, Vercoe would have had business at the Hall of Justice, the ten-story box of “gray California granite” that housed the jails and courtrooms. On this particular morning, he was headed instead to Clifton's Cafeteria at Seventh Street and Broadway. Perhaps, as he drove the dozen miles west into the city, he admired the “geraniums, cosmos, sweet peas, asters and marigolds” that lined the “gardens, parkways, and driveways,” or perhaps he was used to the foliage by now. Vercoe had lived in California for more than 30 years, making him, by West Coast standards, a real “old-timer.”

scholarly journals The Southern California Twin Register at the University of Southern California: II

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 933-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Baker ◽  
Mafalda Barton ◽  
Dora Isabel Lozano ◽  
Adrian Raine ◽  
James H. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Birth Records ◽  
Adult Twins ◽  
The University

AbstractThe Southern California Twin Register was initiated in 1984 at the University of Southern California, and continues to grow. This article provides an update of the register since it was described in the 2002 special issue of this journal. The register has expanded considerably in the past 4 years, primarily as a result of recent access to Los Angeles County birth records and voter registration databases. Currently, this register contains nearly 5000 twin pairs, the majority of whom are school age. The potential for further expansion in adult twins using voter registration records is also described. Using the Los Angeles County voter registration database, we can identify a large group of individuals with a high probability of having a twin who also resides in Los Angeles County. In addition to describing the expansion of register, this article provides an overview of an ongoing investigation of 605 twin pairs who are participating in a longitudinal study of behavioral problems during childhood and adolescence. Characteristics of the twins and their families are presented, indicating baseline rates of conduct problems, depression and anxiety disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnoses which are comparable to nontwins in this age range.

Initiating a Standard Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Order Set Designed to Improve Patient Outcomes at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (10) ◽  
pp. 1000-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gardner ◽  
Andrew Liman ◽  
Victoria Autelli ◽  
Casey O'Connell ◽  
Nicholas Testa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Venous Thromboembolism ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Vte Prophylaxis ◽  
Safety Net Hospital ◽  
Order Sets

Improving patient safety is vital for all hospitals due to increasing public reporting and pay-for-performance reimbursement. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains a leading cause of preventable mortality accounting for 5 per cent of inpatient deaths. The purpose of this study was to outline the process of implementing standard VTE prophylactic order sets in a 600-bed academic safety net hospital and assess the resulting change in patient outcomes. Outcomes were assessed by comparing the rate that eligible inpatients receive VTE prophylaxis and the rate of preventable VTE's compared with total VTE's. From 2011 to 2015, random samples of 60 Los Angeles County+University of Southern California inpatients were generated monthly to examine compliance rates by comparing ICD-9 diagnostic codes to ordered VTE prophylaxis. All inpatient VTE's are retrospectively analyzed. Baseline-ordered VTE prophylaxis was 37 per cent in 2010. The target of 85 per cent was exceeded by the second quarter of 2012 to 2013 when compliance reached 88 per cent, a 51 per cent increase from baseline ( P < 0.01). These results suggest VTE protocols are effective though standardization across service lines is often difficult. Despite these challenges, after implementing standard order sets, we saw compliance increase significantly. Ongoing analysis to determine whether VTE rates have significantly decreased is presently underway.

Three Futures For California: The Orange County Trilogy

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Robert Markley
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Orange County ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
First Century ◽  
Active Force ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Bomb Attack

The Orange County or Three Californias trilogy offers radically different histories of Southern California in the mid twenty-first century. In The Wild Shore, the survivors of a neutron-bomb attack live like post-apocalyptic, pioneers, foraging among the ruins of destroyed California cities, while Tom Barnard, a survivor from the twentieth century, preserves his own vision of a pre-apocalyptic past, shot through with myths, tall tales, and quickly vanishing knowledge. The Gold Coast depicts a quasi-dystopian future of cheap, cookie-cutter condominiums and sprawling, triple-decker freeways. In trying to recover California’s socioecological history, Jim McPherson struggles, as a writer and an activist, to imagine how a more just and sustainable society might emerge. Pacific Edge envisions a utopian society that has transformed the landscape of Orange County by its commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice. In a solar and wind-powered future, the land is not a passive backdrop but an active force in Kevin Clairborne’s fight to sustain the principles and practices of socioeconomic justice.

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