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Thursday, February 11, 2010
EVACUATIONS LIFTED FOR LA-AREA FOOTHILL AREAS LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — Evacuation orders were lifted for hundreds of foothill homes Wednesday morning as a winter storm that threatened mudslides moved off without causing any serious damage. Residents of 541 homes were being notified that they could return to affected areas in La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Acton and two canyons, said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mark Savage. “The thunderstorm has moved in the other direction and residents are safe to go back to their community,” he said. The homes north of Los Angeles were threatened because they lie beneath slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains that were burned bare by wildfires. Without plants to hold the soil, heavy rain could have sluiced mud, boulders and tree limbs downslope. “We had public works and fire personnel patrolling the area all night, just looking for any activity,” Savage said. “We really did not get any significant rain pass
through the area. That was obviously good news.” Deputies went door to door Tuesday issuing orders for people to leave and making them sign waivers if they refused. Savage said about 40 percent of those contacted chose to stay — despite the fact that a mudslide last weekend damaged 43 homes. Several mountain school districts declared snow days and closed. However, the frequently snow-bound Grapevine area of Interstate 5 remained open. The high mountain pass 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles is a major route between Northern and Southern California. The weather was expected to clear by afternoon and continue dry and mostly sunny through the beginning of next week. Meanwhile, a fleet of 300 dump trucks and backhoes continued to clear debris basins that filled from earlier storms. AP PHOTO
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Water flows past sandbags and a barricade on Ocean View Boulevard where residents are being asked to follow mandatory evacuation orders.
Would older models quell too-skinny debate? NEW YORK (AP) — The models auditioning for New York Fashion Week were undeniably thin. But it was only after the fashion industry started worrying about too-skinny models that casting agent James Scully began asking their age. Most, he found, were under 16. “Things are very seriously wrong at this moment,” Scully said. As another round of runway shows kicks off on Thursday, fashion insiders are again taking up the cause of emaciated models, this time with a new target to blame: youth. The Council of Fashion Designers of America hosted a panel discussion Tuesday night on changing the standard model “sample size,” part of the health initiative it started after the death three years ago of a model with an eating disorder. Spain and Italy adopted mandatory weight guidelines at the time, but the CFDA opted instead for voluntary measures that put the focus on nutritional and emotional counseling. Since then, some models have been red flagged and removed from the runway to focus on eating and living well, said CFDA president Diane von Fursternberg. Tuesday’s panel, “The Beauty of Health: Resizing the Sample Size,” initially focused on whether increasing the size of sample garments used in fashion shows and magazine photo shoots from 0 to 4 would result in healthier models. But designers, models and agents agreed that part of the problem was the dominance of very young models. “You can’t address the sample size 0 without addressing age,” said David Bonnouvrier, head of DNA Models.
Among the CFDA guidelines was a recommendation that models under 16 be kept out of fashion shows, and models under 18 kept out of fittings or photo shoots past midnight. Those guidelines clearly haven’t stuck and remain purely voluntary. The current youthquake happened as runway tastes moved from Brazilian bombshells like Gisele Bundchen to Russians and Eastern Europeans, such as Natalia Vodianova, who previously disclosed her weight struggles, Scully said. When scouts first fell in love with the very angular, narrow Eastern bloc look, those girls were ill-prepared to be away from home in the highpressure, competitive fashion world, added DNA’s Bonnouvrier. Even American models were younger — 17-year-old Karlie Kloss, for example, did her first round of shows with her dad by her side. Designer Zac Posen traced the problem started to Kate Moss back in the early ‘90s, and said it could take a long time to erase the cultural impression of the waif. It’s natural for a 13- or 14-year-old to be slim, have a small bust and hips that measure no more than 33 inches, but as those models age — to all of 18 or 19 — they will do “terribly dangerous things” to fight nature and their increasingly womanly bodies, Scully said. Model Doutzen Kroes, 25, is a Victoria’s Secret Angel but says her fashion-show work has slowed to almost nothing. The reason? She’s too big. “I’d love to do shows but I don’t fit in the sample size,” she said in an interview after the panel. -AP
POLICE: PHOENIX GIRL KEPT IN BATHROOM FOR 2 MONTHS PHOENIX (AP) — A malnourished Phoenix girl was locked in a bathroom without running water for two months, beaten with metal rods, and forced to exercise until exhaustion because her father said she had stolen food and cheated on a home-school test, police said Wednesday. Scott and Andrea Bass, the 14-year-old girl’s father and stepmother, were arrested Feb. 4 for investigation of child abuse, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment. “No one on this earth needs to be treated the way this child was treated,” Phoenix police Officer Luis Samudio said. Andrea Bass, 31, who was released from custody Tuesday after posting a $36,000 bond, did not immediately return a message left at her home Wednesday morning. The Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office did not immediately respond to a request Wednesday to interview Scott Bass, 33, who remained jailed on a $45,000 bond. The girl escaped from the bathroom through the attic on Feb. 4 and rode her bike to a nearby
movie theater, where a concerned couple gave her $50. She then rode about 13 miles to a Phoenix strip mall and bought water, food, a backpack and clothes because she hadn’t been allowed to change for weeks, Samudio said. The girl then rode to a coffee shop in Scottsdale, where she asked an employee to call police. Samudio said when police arrived at the girl’s home to interview Scott Bass, he thought the girl was still in the bathroom and was “visibly surprised” when he unlocked the door and she was gone. Inside the bathroom, police found a 5-gallon bucket containing human waste and a blanket on the floor that served as the girl’s bed, according to a probable-cause statement released Wednesday. Scott Bass told investigators that he locked his daughter in the bathroom because she stole food from the kitchen and cheated on a home-school test, according to the document. -AP
THIS WEEKEND AT YOUR UNIVERSITY Thursday, Feb. 11
Revisiting the New Deal: Government Patronage and the Fine Arts | new exhibition on display now through May 9 in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Visit www.ou.edu/fjjma for more information. Intramural Update | Racquetball and dodge ball entries today at the Huston Huffman Center! For more information visit recservices. ou.edu or call Jonathan Dewhirst, (405) 325-3053. Student Success Series: Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions (Motivation) | 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall 245. Presented by University College.
Friday, Feb. 12 Free Candy and Spring Movie Schedules | 11:30 a.m. in the first floor lobby. Get some FREE candy and a schedule of the movies that the Union Programming Board and CAC Film Series will be showing in Meacham Auditorium this semester. Men’s Tennis: OU vs. Arkansas | 3 p.m. at the OU Tennis Complex. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information. Free Movie: “New Moon” | free screenings at 4, 7, 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. The Union Programming Board will have prize drawings and giveaways at the 10 p.m. showing. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council Film Series. ALWAYS SOMETHING at the union! Dance Marathon | 4 p.m.-midnight at the Huston Huffman Center. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information. Dance Marathon is a Dance-A-Thon raising money for Children’s Miracle Network. There will be a free children’s carnival, a volleyball and basketball tournament as well as nonstop dancing. For more information, please call 405-325-3163. Participants can register at http://www. helpmakemiracles.org. Presented by the Campus Activities Council. Art a la CART | 6 p.m. at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Live music from the acoustic singer/songwriter showcase presented by NormanMusicScene.com, short film screenings and printmaking. Visit www.ou.edu/fjjma for more information.
Beauty & the Beast: Women’s Gymnastics and Wrestling | 7 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. Come and watch the OU Women’s Gymnastics and Wrestling teams compete side-by-side at this unique event. Women’s Gymnastics: OU vs. Iowa State. Wrestling: OU vs. Chattanooga. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information. Blood, Love, Chocolate: New Moon & Chocolate Factory | 9 p.m. in Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Team Edward? Team Jacob? Or Team Chocolate? Nothing says Valentine’s Day like teen angst, vampires and chocolate! Come to the Union Programming Board’s Chocolate Factory for free chocolate and Valentine’s goodies and stay for a free screening of “New Moon,” at 10 p.m. There’s Always Something at the Union, www.ou.edu/upb. “To Kill a Mockingbird” | 8 p.m. in the Max Weitzenhoffer Theatre. University Theatre presents Christopher Sergel’s dramatization of author Harper Lee’s classic novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The production will continue at 8 p.m., Feb. 13 and 18-20 and Feb. 14 and 21 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for seniors and OU faculty/staff and $14 for OU students. Call the Fine Arts Box Office for more information, (405) 325-4101.
Saturday, Feb. 13 OU Track: Oklahoma Christian III | All day at the Everest Training Center. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information. Women’s Basketball: OU vs. Colorado | 2 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information. Men’s Gymnastics: OU vs. Nebraska | 7 p.m. at the McCasland Field House. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.
Sunday, Feb. 14 Women’s Tennis: OU vs. Penn State | 11 a.m. at the OU Tennis Complex. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information. Wrestling: OU vs. Oregon State | 2 p.m. at the McCasland Field House. Visit soonersports.com for ticket information.
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