The 234 Apartment

Claudia Angulo and her four children live in Orange Cove, California, a corner of Fresno County known for its citrus. She says when planes fly over the orange grove next to their apartment building and spray pesticides on the trees, she and her family experience headaches , exhaustion and difficulty breathing. But Angulo is concerned about an even more serious health problem in her 11-year-old son Isaac. When she was pregnant with him, she worked at a packing house, handling freshly picked citrus . After Isaac was born, Angulo says she noticed his development seemed slow and strange. “I saw that he didn’t play the same as other kids,” she says. “He didn’t learn the same.” She says his behavior was aggressive and antisocial. And she tells a story about the time he even threatened suicide — when he was only four years old. When he was five, a doctor diagnosed with him ADHD. Angulo says several other pregnant women she worked with at the packing house also had children who developed behav...

A 5-year-old boy and his grandfather sat down together to watch a game. The television was muted, and the grandson was speaking. “My grandfather has been blind for 40 years,” said Morey Hershgordon, now a professional sports broadcaster . “From a young age, I would go over to his house, mute the television, and broadcast him baseball, hockey, football, soccer – anything you could imagine. We shared a love and a bond over it.” Hershgordon’s passion for sports broadcasting started with his grandfather, but was nurtured by Play By Play Sports Broadcasting Camp , a summer camp with 11 locations across the country, including one at UCLA. Co- owners Jeremy Treatman and Steven Goldstein started the camp in Philadelphia in 2002, and brought it to Westwood seven years later. The two utilized Treatman’s experience in sports broadcasting and Goldstein’s time working on sports and entertainment events to get the camp off the ground and take it across the country. “The original intent was to in...

Fr Mario Sant is urging more people to donate blood, an essential part of treatment. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier Donating an hour of your time would not cost much, except for a bag of platelets, but it went a long way to improve the life of cancer patients , a Conventual Franciscan said. Fr Mario Sant, 35, is one of two Conventual Franciscans who are based in London and who see to the spiritual needs of Maltese patients and their relatives during their stay there for treatment. When he is in Malta on a break, he helps out patients in another way: donating blood platelets , which are mainly used for cancer treatment. As Fr Sant was speaking to the Times of Malta , blood donors received an appeal from the National Blood Transfusion Service unit because blood supply is still low. READ: The man who has donated 100 bags of blood At the beginning of the month, the unit had issued an appeal because the 50 bags needed daily were not being collected and if the situation persisted, patients ...

Three of the four men charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl are also behind bars. The men are from Honduras, immigrants who found a home at the Heatherwood Apartments. The complex, near Peoria and Colfax in Aurora, is a racial melting pot , one that came to a boil on August 7, when a girl trying to leap to womanhood in a single summer got a very adult lesson. The violence bred more violence -- and more victims. News accounts the next day reported that a seventy-person mob had delivered street justice to one of the accused rapists. Although the reports weren't quite right -- nothing in this saga is -- street justice may be the only justice here. Anna grew up in the neighborhood and has a huge family of siblings and half-siblings. Anna has another daughter who was also taken away by Social Services when Anna went to prison. The girls have a baby brother, too, a child Anna gave birth to after she got out of prison two years ago. That baby has a different father w...

Kwame Onwuachi (Rey Lopez) Ever since the Shaw Bijou closed in January after three turbulent months, chef Kwame Onwuachi has lived with a constant visual reminder of one of the fastest crash-and-burns in recent restaurant history . “It’s right there on the corner,” said the former “Top Chef” contestant, as he gestured to the window from his Shaw high-rise apartment at his maiden venture, once one of the most expensive restaurants in the city and slammed by critics before its demise. “I still have to wake up and make eggs and see this building.” And he did, every day for a month after it closed, when he was in what he refers to as his “ Netflix rabbit hole ” period. Seemingly everyone saw the closing of the Shaw Bijou coming except for the 27-year-old chef, who was blindsided. He got plenty of job offers in the aftermath, but he spent those days contemplating whether he should quit forever. [Another restaurant closes. That doesn’t mean the industry is headed for a crash.] Onwu...

AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (NYSE:AVB) Q2 2017 Earnings Call August 03, 2017 1:00 pm ET Executives Jason Reilley - AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Timothy J. Naughton - AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Sean J. Breslin - AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Matthew H. Birenbaum - AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Kevin P. O'Shea - AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Analysts Nicholas Joseph - Citigroup Global Markets , Inc. Nick Yulico - UBS Securities LLC Richard Allen Hightower - Evercore ISI Juan Sanabria - Bank of America Merrill Lynch Andrew T. Babin - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. Austin Wurschmidt - KeyBanc Capital Markets , Inc. Dennis Patrick McGill - Zelman & Associates Wes Golladay - RBC Capital Markets LLC Alexander Goldfarb - Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP Vincent Chao - Deutsche Bank Conor Wagner - Green Street Advisors , LLC Richard Hill - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC Robert Stevenson - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to AvalonBay...