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Summer49ERCalifornia State University, Long Beach

SUMMER UNDER CONSTRUCTION

CSULB has made many renovations to the dormitories on campus: replacing the roofs, in-stalling elevators, ADA ramps and making other interior renovations. The construction has also extended to the parking lot and sidewalks next to the dorms.

“Every summer we work with housing and there’s sort of a backlog of things that need to be done at the residence halls,” Salazar said. “There’s just a whole gamut of things. Just like if you owned a house, you have to maintain it and work on it.”

With California in an ever-worsening drought, the school began to replace nearly two acres of landscaping around the campus with plants that require less water. The first phase of the project began in April and is scheduled to be completed this month. The total cost of the landscaping project is $920,000, but the school will also receive rebates from the Long Beach Water Department for the turf that has been re-moved, Salazar said. The school estimates that the new landscaping will help save 3.5 million gallons of water per year.

Every summer CSULB has a series of projects to bring the school into compliance with the Amer-icans With Disabilities Act. This summer that list includes upgrading the wheelchair ramps at the Los Alamitos dorm, the International House and the fourth floor of the University Student Union. The school will also make improvements to the university pool.

“Every year we allocate a certain amount of money…and we do upgrades throughout the whole campus,” Salazar said. “We have an active ADA improvement program.

A number of parking lots around campus are getting facelifts. The construction includes re-surfacing the asphalt, installing new lighting and replacing the landscaping around the lots. Cost for the repairs is estimated around $3.5 million, and is paid through the school’s parking pro-gram. Though Lots 1, 3, 6 and 19 will be getting new surfaces, there are no plans to add any ad-ditional parking spots this summer, Salazar said. The school proposed in May adding 100 more employee parking spaces to Lot 7, but those im-provements would not begin until summer 2016.

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Construction workers remove the asphalt from Parking Lot 1 near Brotman Hall. The lot is one of several around campus that have been renovated over the summer with new asphalt, lights and drought-resistant landscaping.

CSULB is spending roughly $13.6 million on construc-tion this summer around the campus. Around 60 different

renovation, construction and instal-lation projects have been in the works since the end of the spring semester.

Many improvements will be no-ticeable to returning students in the fall, including the new drought-tol-erant landscaping, resurfaced park-

ing lots and additions to several classrooms. Rooms in the Fine Arts 2, 3 and 4 buildings and the square classrooms between the Language Arts buildings are being renovated to become “smart classrooms.”

“They’ll be fully renovated, up to date in terms of technology, seat-ing, lighting,” said David Salazar, the associate vice president of Physical Planning and Facilities Management.

“They are really going to mirror what we did in LA [Language Arts build-ings] 1 through 4.”

Salazar added that there is no short-age of construction projects each summer. Lists for improvements and maintenance are sent in from parking, housing and other campus depart-ments. Nearly all of the construction projects are scheduled finish by the be-ginning of the fall semester.

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Long Beach officials announced plans to secure over 300 manhole cov-ers around the city in an effort to better ensure public safety, according to a city press release on Tuesday.

Southern California Edison started attaching steel cables to each manhole cover Wednesday to secure them to the vault walls. The cables give the covers a traveling distance of only two feet, ac-cording to an article on Edison Inter-national.

The construction follows on the heels of explosions in the underground vaults on July 16 that blew some of the covers

into the air and caused the injuries of two people. The incident was related to the power outages that swept the city, as well as three separate underground electrical fires.

“We think this is a prudent safety step in light of the rare incident in Long Beach…” SCE vice president of Distri-bution Business Line Greg Ferree said in the article. “We continue to investi-gate the cause of the outage and appre-ciate the public’s patience.”

Crews from SCE, accompanied by officers from the Long Beach Police Department, inspected all but four of the underground vaults last Friday, ac-cording to the statement. The four that went uninspected were inaccessible, but SCE said that they would be inspected as soon as possible.

Each manhole cover will take about three hours of work to tether, accord-ing to SCE. Crews plan to tether only during the daytime in residential areas and at night in commercial locations. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach Boule-vard, Pine Avenue and Pacific Avenue will be the main streets affected by the construction.

SCE announced that no work will be done from Friday to Sunday on the manhole covers, and that any unfin-ished manholes will be addressed early Monday. SCE expects to complete the work by Aug. 13 at the latest.

Long Beach may be able to give its citizens better streets and parking and even keep money in the bank, accord-ing to the first proposed budget for the

2016 fiscal year.The draft passed through its first City

Council meeting unscathed and was mostly praised on Tuesday.

City Manager Patrick West proposed a total budget of $2.7 billion for the city beginning on Oct. 1, noting that im-proved revenues bring the city budget from a projected deficit to a small sur-plus.

“This budget reflects a strong fiscal discipline by the city council,” West said. “Over the past 10 years, we have cut $134 million [from the general fund] and almost 700 positions.”

The surplus is estimated to be around $630,000. West noted that this is the

third year in a row that Long Beach is dealing with a surplus instead of a pro-jected deficit, but that the quality of city services are still being maintained and invested in.

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia called the budget “responsible” and “balanced,” and said that it plans to move the structural surplus over to the following fiscal year in order to better deal with future deficit.

The proposal was met with support and suggestions from the council mem-bers present and largely undisputed – unsurprising considering the city is left with more money, not less, at the end of the proposal.

Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal noted that the proposal ful-filled long-term budget priorities, like cutting back on the street-sweeping window to improve parking around the city. Her district, which covers downtown, Redondo neighborhoods, and the Port of Long Beach, often struggles hard with the complexities of little parking and early street sweeping times, she said.

Other areas of proposed develop-ment include efficiency in water and fuel consumption, infrastructure for streets, better beaches, as well as new police stations and libraries around Long Beach.

In particular, Ninth District Coun-cilmember Rex Richardson suggested more money for the North Branch Li-brary on Orange Avenue so that it could stay open on Sundays due to high traf-fic.

The proposal sets aside $412 million in general funds for the improvements in city services, like the parks, libraries, and police. $20.5 million will go toward fixing streets.

There are also plans for a new civic center that should break ground in the next year, West said.

“This budget has a lot to celebrate,” West said, noting that it reflects the city’s improved economy.

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Arby’s, long the butt of Jon Stewart’s tongue-in-cheek jokes on “The Daily Show,” is trying to get the last laugh.

The Atlanta-based fast-food chain decided to buy ads on Wednesday night’s next-to-last show with Stew-art as host of the Comedy Central hit. The spots featured a wrap-up of many of the barbs directed at the roast beef king, including: “Arby’s: It’s like shock and awe for your bowels,” “Arby’s: Isn’t there anywhere else we can eat;” and “Arby’s: Why not challenge your stom-ach to a fight.”

The Arby’s ad used “Thank You for Being A Friend” as its theme song and concluded: “I’m not sure why, but we’ll miss you.”

The reasons for Stewart’s fixation on Arby’s have never quite been clear, and some have even wondered if it was a clever product placement campaign. The company says it wasn’t. But it chose to welcome the visibility and chatter.

“We’re actually going to miss Jon’s mentions of Arby’s,” the company said

Wednesday. “It goes to show, though, that if you keep your sense of humor, you can turn what could have been a negative situation into something posi-tive and fun for the brand.”

When Stewart announced his plan to leave, Arby’s tweeted, “Jon, feel free to reach out to us at careers@arbys.com.” To which the show responded with another barb: “Arby’s, come for the tweets, run from the meats.”

This week, the company introduced the “Daily Deli” sandwich, a double corned beef, mustard on marble rye, in Stewart’s honor. It’s not on the menu but can be had by those in the know who ask for it.

“We’re happy to serve Jon one at his nearest Arby’s whenever he’s ready,” the company said.

Arby’s real last laugh may come from the bottom line. It says same-store sales rose 9.6 percent in the first quarter and 7.6 percent in the second.

—Leon Stafford, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Arby’s to Jon Stewart: ‘Thanks for being a friend’

Photo courtesy comedy central | tnsJon Stewart will air his final episode of “The Daily Show” tonight on Comedy Central.

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Preview: F*ck Yeah to the FYF Fest

Folks, FYF Fest is less than three weeks away, and what better way to expend all that extra energy you’ve been saving up by watching Netflix non-stop all summer long. So wipe the drool from your mouths and sleep from your eyes and join us at FYF the weekend before school starts back up. Here’s a breakdown of some of the artists Daily 49er staff members are looking forward to.

A teaser to the best thing happening on the last weekend before classes start

Photo credit Mike Laye The Jesus and Mary Chain performs on Saturday, August 22.

Photo credit SeSSe Lind HEALTH performs on Sunday, August 23.

Photo credit chriS carraSquiLLo Andrew Jackson Jihad performs at FYF on Sunday, August 23.

courteSy of fyf Death Grips performs at FYF on Sunday, August 23.

I always thought I skipped the emo music phase. Don’t get me wrong, I know plenty of songs by Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance.That’s probably why it was so odd to discover Andrew Jackson Jihad during my sophomore year of high school. They were the ulti-mate emo band in disguise.

So how did they remain undercover? By calling their genre folk-punk of course. A perfect cover when the band primarily struts along with acoustic instruments. The lyrics are so heavy and disturbing that you will leave the show emotionally disturbed. However, beneath the darkness, every song somehow makes you feel refreshed and extremely happy to be alive in this miserable world.

-— Jesus Ambrosio, Radio Producer

HEALTH will rumble and buzz saw you into obliv-ion with their guttural beats and nocturnal noise-rock. Their newest album “Death Magic” is a mutant-freak that pivots on the darkest aspects of Depeche Mode with one foot and grazes the bombast of sugarcoated pop with the other.

Sometimes breaking into rich soaring melodies, HEALTH’s music still comes around to pummels lis-teners with a force so relentless that the sound waves bulldoze into the visual cortex of the brain. They are antiaircraft artillery going off in your face. They are the industrial ruckus of a haunted oilrig, grinding and banging in the middle of a pitch-black ocean.

— Kevin Flores, Diversions Editor

What better way to celebrate classic alterna-tive rock at FYF this year than with a few of the godfathers of the genre, The Jesus and Mary Chain. This Scottish group of scrappy lads was and is still able to produce catchy melodies dis-solved in loud, rhythmic guitars.

Early sounds of the Mary Chain can remind the listener of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. The Mary Chain was able to slice through the 1980’s electronic pop scene with a unique blend of noise and feedback on their early records. Their tough yet psychedelic sound still sticks to the ears today.

— Madison D’Ornellas, Opinions Editor

As the archetypal music festival virgin at the Daily 49er, the very attendance of FYF is what I most look forward to this summer. On Wednesday EventSprout emailed me to inform me that my bracelet has been shipped. I promptly sent a picture to my personal music sensei and Daily 49er Radio Producer, Jesus Ambrosio.

When purchasing my last-hurrah of the summer, artists like Morrissey and Death Grips piqued my inter-est. However, after allowing Ambrosio to commandeer my old iPod, I have been supplying my ears with doses of La Femme, Thee Oh Sees and Belle & Sebastian. The excitement of seeing these bands and artists live has been building with every listen.

— Amy Patton, Print Mangaing Editor

12:03 p.m.: About forty people, myself in-cluded, are penned in by stanchions, forming a zig-zag line; we’re all sweating like pigs and salivating like stray dogs outside a butcher’s window. The tantalizing scent of hot bacon is swirling around us, and just beyond the heads in front of me, I see food trucks and grills dis-pelling plumes of bacon smoke that would stir a corpse from a cryogenic slumber.

We’re all waiting to be let into the grounds of the 2nd annual Big Bites Bacon Festival outside the Queen Mary. The crowd is getting antsy. A woman besides me yells out the time, reminding the crew that we should have been let in a whole three minutes ago. This level of enticement can only go on for so long before things get ugly. Another tense minute passes. Foots start shuffling, and we’re released into the pork paradise, appetites all a-frenzy.

(Now a fair warning to those of you who don’t eat pork for ethical, religious or dietary reasons: The following contains graphic de-scriptions of bacon in the most improbable, outrageous, and downright obscene incarna-tions known to man. If you read on, you have only yourself to blame for any non-kosher cravings that may arise.)

12:24 p.m. Forgoing breakfast this morn-ing was no doubt a good call. Free bacon-leaden hors d’oeuvres and bite-size samples abound. There’s about 45 food trucks and booths where food artisans are offering up their porcine wares. The question is where to start?

Bacon-stuffed, bacon-wrapped, bacon-sprinkled, bacon frosting, wet-cured, dry cured, bacon grease fried; if it’s got bacon and your mind can conjure it, you can most cer-tainly find it here. And the bacon-ization is not exclusive to food: People are wrapped in bacon-wear and hard at work stuffing them-selves with bacon. The crowd looks to be pre-dominantly middle-aged so far.

I stop by Tomski Sausage’s food truck and take a bacon egg salad garnished with a round of sumptuous sausage. The salad is delightful-ly fresh and serves as an innocent beginning to what would shape up to be a gastro-odys-sey of epic proportions.

Bacon, which is one of the oldest known cuts of meat, is so mouth-watering because it contains the once-mythical fifth flavor—umami. Now an established and recognized

part of the palate, umami releases endor-phins, which explains why people go gaga for bacon. And it explains why my buds are buzz-ing for more.

12:30 p.m.: Although I should have ex-pected it, I’m still gobsmacked when I see an entire crispy hog being laid out on a booth—snout and all.

“You can say what part of the pig you’d like, if you want loin, belly, or part of the ham,” Dave Robicheau says. His son is the owner of Shady Grove Food, a Long Beach BBQ cater-ing company. This recipe is his, however.

“The shoulders and ham are tougher meats and take longer to cook. The pork belly and the loin are leaner and drier,” he says

But where does the bacon come from? “Pork belly. Bacon comes from the under-

carriage of the belly. You take a slab and you cure it and then you smoke it—or you can roast it.”

I’m handed a piece of skin and loin meat. It’s drenched in a tasty apricot-ginger-haba-nero-pepper glaze. My eyes nearly roll to the back of my head… I’m in hog heaven.

12:48-1:14 p.m.: A blur of excess; my notes are grease-stained and read only, “Struggling.” By the end of my rampage, all that remains is regret and a pair of hands in terrible need of a napkin.

A look back at the photos on my camera re-veal the indignity of my consumption. I have apparently eaten what can only be described as a nesting doll of unreasonable decadence: a bacon-wrapped blonde pepper stuffed with a cheese-smothered shrimp. Known as chili-tos cri cri, it’s the creation of La Puente-based restaurant El Cristalazo.

Others photos show evidence of an assort-ment of bacon-themed confections that have all met the same fate, including a French toast and bacon cupcake slapped with a dollop of maple syrup buttercream from The Cake Ma-

mas’ booth and—are you ready for this?—a salted caramel bacon cinnamon roll.

Sitting down to eat this outlandish concoc-tion, my mouth becomes a theater of war; salty and sweet swirling around with every spongy, gooey sporkful, duking it out to the last bite. Once the deed is done, and crumbs trail down my shirt, it’s the bacon’s saltiness that lingers long after the sweetness has melt-ed away.

1:30 p.m.: Feeling gorged and gluttonous with a newfound rotundness, I cruise past more booths. Even though I’m busting at the seams and near the point of loosening the proverbial belt, I keep feasting. But why? Well, for one it’s so easy. There are hardly any lines and the superabundance of bacon this-and-that seems never-ending. Most of all, every booth seems to outdo its neighbor in innovation and sheer improbability.

When I think I’ve seen it all, someone’s in-fused shaved ice with maple-bacon or some-one’s thought to shove bacon inside a Twinkie and throw it in a deep fryer. And I, showing zero self-control, place every delicious abom-ination I come across in my mouth.

1:50 p.m.: My nose leads me to the Dia de los Puercos booth where there’s a Hot Pocket-looking thing called an empanada. Its bulging belly was full of peanut butter, jelly, banana—and you guessed it—bacon. I bite into it, then again, then again. And it’s gone.

Next thing I know I’m sitting on a bench, doubled-over, utterly defeated.

2:10 p.m.: Sweet surrender. Donezo. Fini-to. With two more hours left in the fest, I shamble toward the exit feeling about twenty pounds heavier and fighting the oncoming bacon-induced coma. I get to my car and there’s a message from PETA placed under my windshield wiper. It has a picture of a frol-icking piglet and below it the words: “I am not bacon. I am a living being, just like you.”

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After being injected with apples juice and cajun spices, left to sit overnight, and cooked for six hours, Shady Grove Foods readies their hog for carving at the 2nd Annual Big Bites Bacon Festival.

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Left, Allie Kappmeyer, Heather Way and Haily Gaital wearing their bacon love. Above, Breakfast in Bed: A bacon and French toast fusion in cupcake form.

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El Cristalzo employees handing out chilitos cri cri during the 2nd Annual Big Bites Bacon Festival in Long Beach.

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The topic of clean energy has con-servatives turning red in the face, while President Obama debates in opposition until he turns blue. In this latest round of verbal fisti-

cuffs, Republicans fight to keep profits rolling in while Democrats are determined to save the environment, to put it simply.

The Clean Power Proposal by the Environ-mental Protection Agency, under the Obama Administration, requires that the country cut its carbon emissions by 32 percent from the previous level in 2005, by the year 2030. The plan also proposes the idea of working towards replacing coal-produced power with renewable energy such as solar and wind power.

As valuable of a proposal this is for the environment, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton and Ed Whitfield, Chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, have been two, among many Republicans, are providing the friction needed to take their fight to the Supreme Court.

The two Republicans have been active in their campaign against the new proposal, recently issuing a statement on Monday in response to Obama’s CPP.

“It’s lights out for jobs and the economy,” the statement read. “The administration has

defined itself by its unilateral regulatory overreach – this plan goes well beyond the authority Congress granted to EPA and will be challenged in the courts.”

Even the wealthy Koch brothers are joining in the fight against clean energy, as they are set to spend up to $1 billion in campaign con-tributions for the upcoming 2016 presidential election, according to The Guardian.

Obama’s rebuttal to these claims came dur-ing his speech on Monday concerning the CPP.

“There will be critics of what we’re trying to do,” Obama said during the speech. “There will be cynics who say it cannot be done. Long before the details of this clean energy plan were even decided, the special interest and their allies in congress were already mobiliz-ing to oppose it with everything they got.”

Obama also began disproving the fables pre-sented by his Republican counterparts during

his speech on Monday concerning the CPP. “They will claim that this plan will cost

you money,” Obama said in his speech. “Even though this plan, the analysis shows long-term, will save the average American eighty-five dollars a month on their energy bills.”

Money-hungry conservatives who oppose this proposal have no interest in providing a safer environment nor do they want Middle America to save a hard-earned dollar, especially when they feel it should be going to their pockets.

During the heated debate over the Keystone XL pipeline construction, Republicans also hid behind the security blanket of providing jobs. However, the construction of the pipeline will do more harm than good for the country.

Analysts state that if the pipeline were built, it would produce carbon emissions equivalent to 46 coal-fired power plants, according to the Huffington Post. The jobs for constructing the

pipeline would also be temporary, meaning once the pipeline is constructed, only an in-significant amount of workers will be needed to maintain the pipeline.

A similar situation applies for the CPP against coal production. While arguing that the new energy proposal isn’t a “ job killer,” Obama claims that the green energy industry has created jobs “ten times faster than the rest of the economy.” That includes the coal indus-try, which Obama has also proposed to reform by providing miners with better healthcare as well as healthier jobs.

With debates taking place this fall, the sub-ject of clean energy will definitely be one of the topics up for discussion in the upcoming presidential election of 2016. But regardless of who is right and who is wrong, the bottom line is about who has the most money to bankroll their party’s viewpoints.

Shortsighted Republicans fight to mar the environment Michael Mendoza

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Republicans are fighting tooth and nail with Democrats to maintain their greenhouse profits.

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What is the TPP?

It is not an acronym for toilet paper.

The TPP is a free trade agree-ment involving 12 nations, mostly concentrated in and around the Pacific Rim.

Ostensibly, its main objective is to eliminate taxes imposed on import-ed goods and services, otherwise known as tariffs, and to facilitate trade between the countries entering into the agreement.

However, of the 29 chapters in the TPP, only five deal with trade.

Other chapters involve intellec-tual-property law and financial regulations.

What countries are involved?

Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zea-land, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the U.S.

Is this the first time we’ve entered into a free trade agreement?

Nope. Previous trade agreements we’ve been involved in include the North America Free Trade Agree-ment and the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

Okay, so where can I get a copy of this TPP?

Unless you’re part of an exclusive

contingent of corporate executives, union leaders or government nego-tiators given express permission to view the 1,200-plus-page document, you’re out of luck, chump.

And even then, the TPP is being held under tight wraps. The drafting of the TPP has been conducted un-der the rose, and the document itself is classified.

Senator Barbra Boxer has com-plained about the strict restrictions placed on viewing the document.

Namely, that she was only allowed to take along a limited number of staffers who had security clearance.

Keep in mind Congress members often rely on staffers’ expertise to decipher jargony texts.

She also said she had to give up any handwritten notes to guards upon exiting the viewing area.

Critics have argued these security measures don’t allow our represen-tatives to do their job and analyze the trade agreement properly.

Also, without public input, it’s only the interests of the privileged few who have a chair at the table—aka multi-national corporations and union leaders—that will shape the final agreement.

Defenders of the secrecy have said that confidentiality in any multi-national trade agreement is vital because deals are still being hashed out.

Making drafts public, they say,

would be akin to revealing your hand in a poker game.

So, will I ever get to see this thing?

Once finalized, the trade agree-ment will be made public for 60 days before the president signs it on the nation’s behalf.

Then it will go to Congress, which recently passed a fast-track bill—something the Obama admin-istration and corporate lobbyists have been pushing for—meaning Congress won’t be able to amend the agreement and will only be able to cast an up-or-down vote on the TPP.

Furthermore, legislators will have 88 seconds apiece to debate the complex, tome-like document. The average person can hold their breath longer than that.

Okay, so what’s at stake here?

Because the entire document has still not seen the day of light, there is no way to know for certain what all is contained in the TPP.

However, partial working drafts of the document have been leaked as recently as Aug. 5.

From these leaks and from what we know of previous free trade agree-ments, we can make pretty educated guesses of at least some of the TPP’s provisions.

Let’s talk about the TPP

Kevin Flores

Diversions Editor We need to talk, readers. More specifically: We need to talk about what could potentially be the biggest trade deal to go down in history, involving 40 percent of the world’s economy; the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We need to talk because not enough people are talking. Oh, I know, I know. I already I hear the groans and the snores. Look, I get that this sounds mind-numbly boring and unsexy—because it is. But after slurping ungodly amounts of coffee and expending more psychic energy than I want to admit trawling through TPP documents, articles and analysis, one thing became clear: If passed, this trade deal will have major and direct

effects on all of our lives. Need more reasons to care? It will affect the environment, 800 million people worldwide, our children, our grandchildren and maybe even our great-grandchildren. With so much at stake, the mainstream media has been strangely hush-hush on the subject. In February, Media Matters put out a study showing that in the previous 18 months ABC, NBC and CBS had not mentioned the TPP once in their nightly news broadcasts. Only PBS’s “NewsHour” offered substantial coverage of the historic trade deal. So without further ado, here are the need-to-know specs and speculations surrounding the TPP all boiled down for your reading convenience.

The main thrust here is that the TPP will cause wide-ranging, big picture-type changes. Some of this is hard to grasp, but I’m telling you, it’s important stuff. The mainstream media seems set on ignoring the topic, even though there are many groups coming out and speaking for or against it. Just remember, Congress will still get to vote yay or nay on the deal, so get on it, read up and start talking people.

Proponents of the TPP say it will:* Stop China from dominating trade in the Pacific Rim region and further U.S. interests, according to the Obama administration.

* Improve the economies of impoverished nations such as Vietnam, according to the Peterson Institute.

* Add $223 billion a year to incomes of workers in all the countries, with $77 billion of that going to U.S. workers, according to the Obama administration.

* Increase the U.S.’s GDP and exports, according to the Brookings Institute.

Critics of the TPP say it will:* Increase income inequality because gains in income would go to those

making $88,000 or more, according to Public Citizen.

* Further restrict fair use and expand copyright laws, according to a TPP draft leaked by Wikileaks earlier this year. This has the potential to put a chokehold on innovation in the arts, sciences and beyond.

* Increase dirty fracking and cause “increased stress on natural resources and species including trees, fish and wildlife,” according to the Sierra Club.

* Extend the duration of patents, which according to the New England Journal of Medicine could threaten millions of lives around the world by reducing access to cheap, life-saving generic drugs.

* Expand the power of corporations by allowing them to sue sovereign na-tions in private courts over environmental, health or any other laws that may undermine their profits, according to a TPP draft leaked by Wikileaks earlier this year.

The trade agreement will have far-reaching effects on the economy, environment and innovation.

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Water polo coaches Gavin Arroyo and Liz Grimes and former track and field star Colin Dunbar will represent the USA in the coming days.

International 49ers

Three current and former 49ers were selected this week to take part in their respective United States national teams, continuing this summer’s trend of LBSU athletes representing the red, white and blue.

Gavin Arroyo, head coach of LBSU’s men’s water polo team, and Liz Grimes, assistant coach with both the men and women’s water polo teams, accepted positions on USA water polo coaching staffs. Former 49er and volunteer track and field assistant coach Colin Dunbar will compete for the U.S. at the NACAC Senior Area Championships in Costa Rica.

Arroyo will be the head coach for the under-16 Men’s Cadet Team that will participate in the Darko Cukic Memorial tournament staring on Aug. 13 in

Serbia. Arroyo, a former Team USA member himself, has coached at the international level before, as an as-sistant coach for the senior national team in 2005.

Grimes, on the other hand, already had her first game as the team manager with the USA senior women’s national team. Grimes, a former LBSU ath-lete herself, has vast national team experience; she was the Associate Director of Sporting Development with USA water polo before joining the LBSU coach-ing staff in 2010.

She coached with the women’s national team on July 18 in a friendly against Spain in Madrid as prep-aration for the FINA World Championships, a major competition involving only aquatic sports, in Russia. In Grimes’ first game back with the national team yesterday, USA defeated Australia 8-6 to advance to the gold medal match on Friday.

Dunbar will represent the U.S. in the men’s ham-mer throw on Aug. 9 at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica. The former LBSU athlete quali-fied for the competition through the U.S. Outdoor Championships in June and owns a lifetime best dis-tance of 241 feet 4 inches.

Arroyo and Grimes will be back with the men’s water polo team in time for the start of the season on Sep. 5. The LBSU track and field team is in its off-season.

Colin Dunbar, the former Big West Men’s Field Athlete of the Year, helped the 49ers to a Big West championship with 29 points in 2011.

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Six months ago, Tom Brady lifted his record-tying fourth super bowl tro-phy on a night in which he should have never been allowed to put on a Patriots uniform and touch a single football.

It’s been six long months since the deflategate scandal first broke, in which 11 of 12 footballs used by the Patriots in the AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts were underin-flated, quarterback Tom Brady’s pun-ishment of a four game suspension has been upheld. But, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick exits the investigation completely unscathed.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft made an agreement in March to pay a fine and lose a couple draft picks with the hopes of the NFL reducing Brady’s sentence. But his punishment was not reduced.

Saying Brady is innocent is like say-ing Sanjaya should have won season six of American Idol. But, Brady is not the only person who should have been pun-ished in this case. Belichick should have received the same punishment that Brady is receiving for using deflated footballs during a game.

The whole world knows that Belich-ick is a man willing to bend the rules after the spygate incident in 2007 where the Patriots were caught videotaping the New York Jets’ defensive signals. The NFL fined the Patriots head coach $500,000, the largest fine ever imposed on a coach in the league, but Belichick never missed any time.

Belichick is like the politician of the NFL, always weaseling his way out of sticky situations that he created him-self. In 2007 he returned to the sidelines the very next game and proceeded to go undefeated on the season. This year once again, he will be able to call plays from the field.

While Brady and Belichick are prob-ably innocent in the sense that they did not personally deflate any football, there is no doubt that they knew it was happening. John Jastremski and Jim McNally are the two locker room equip-ment assistants who are at the center of the scandal. In the investigation report, it is noted that the two had exchanged text messages with each other and with

Brady discussing ball pressure. No sane person would believe that

the two locker room attendants would deflate a football that was fit to Brady’s liking without his knowledge of the sit-uation. Also, Brady threw his innocence out the window when he destroyed his phone, which contained tens of thou-sands of text messages, before speaking with investigators.

I doubt Brady broke his phone be-cause he didn’t want the investigators to see the things that he was texting his wife, model Gisele Bundchen.

Of course, Brady spewed even more lies when he posted to Facebook claim-ing that he replaced his broken phone with a new one after he was told the NFL would not need to investigate his phone.

Kraft even issued a statement saying how he was in disbelief of the NFL’s de-cision to sustain Brady’s suspension. He was probably just heartbroken because his best friend, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell went behind his back and suspended his star player anyway.

But the icing on top of the world’s nastiest cake is that the NFL Players Association is filing a counterclaim to the NFL’s decision to uphold Brady’s punishment.

The NFLPA provided four reasons for arguing Brady’s innocence: he had a lack of notice for what policies he was being punished for breaking, insuffi-

cient procedures regarding the methods used to gather information for the case, an unfair process put on by Goodell and the commissioner’s partiality.

It is funny that the NFLPA believe Goodell to be partial when he is always cozying up side by side to Kraft. Does anyone else see the irony here?

All of the written submissions from the NFLPA must be filed before Aug.

14 and the union asked for a ruling to be announced before Sept. 4, six days before the Patriots open the season against the Steelers.

With so much time and effort put into a case about deflated footballs, one would hope that Brady would have confessed by now so the world can en-joy the upcoming football season, sans cheating.

Brady guilty as chargedJust when the football world thought deflategate had been put to an end, the NFLPA starts its fight to save Tom Brady.

With several major figures returning to the team, the LBSU women’s soccer team is poised to take back the Big West.

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GeorGe BridGes | TNsPats quarterback Tom Brady threw for 226 yards and three touchdowns in New England’s 45-7 win over Indianapolis in the AFC Championship game where 11 of the 12 footballs used were tampered with.

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Junior Mimi Rangel, the 2014 Big West Midfielder of the Year, will look for her first title as a 49er in the 2015 season.

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49ers ready to get ball rolling on new season

Big West coaches pick Hawaii over LBSU

The LBSU women’s soccer team will start a new quest for the Big West championship next week by hitting the road and taking on San Diego State in the first game of the 2015 season.

The 49ers will be looking for a little vengeance this year after just missing out on the NCAA tourna-ment in 2014. LBSU lost 2-1 in a hard fought Big West tournament final against Fullerton that would’ve put them into the post season.

Several important figures will be returning to the field or to the side-lines once again for the 49ers in 2015.

Head coach Mauricio Ingrassia will be returning for his 12th year in charge of the women’s soccer team. Ingrassia has a record of 124-76-26 in 11 years at LBSU and has taken his teams to four NCAA tournament ap-pearances in that span.

The 49ers will also benefit from returning players like Big West Goal-keeper of the Year Ashton McKeown, Big West Midfielder of the Year Mimi Rangel, Big West Freshman of the Year Ashley Gonzalez and senior for-ward Vania Robles.

McKeown had nine clean sheets and a Big West leading 91 saves last season. Rangel, Gonzalez and Robles provided 16 of LBSU’s 20 goals and eight of the team’s 17 assists.

LBSU will play an alumni game at George Allen Field on Sunday, Aug. 9 before heading out to San Diego to play the Aztecs on Aug. 14 at 7p.m. The first home game will be against UCLA on Aug. 21 at 7 p.m.

The 2014 Big West women’s volley-ball defending champs, Long Beach State, has been pegged to finish second in the 2015 preseason coaches’ poll.

The poll, consisting of votes from the nine head coaches from the Big West, chose the 49ers (16-0, 27-5) to finish behind Hawai’i (13-3, 22-7) as they re-ceived eight first place votes for the poll while LBSU received one.

The Rainbow Warriors had their streak of 19 straight Big West titles snapped last season, with the 49ers tak-ing home the honor.

Hawai’i is welcoming back most of its team from last year including All-Big West First Team outside hitters junior Nikki Taylor and senior Tai Manu-Olevao, as well as American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America Hon-orable Mention team member Olivia Magill.

The Big West Player of the Year and LBSU senior setter Jenelle Hudson re-turns for her final season alongside the Big West Freshman of the Year, middle blocker Ashley Murray.

The 49ers lost senior libero Tyler Jackson, outside hitter Bre Mackie and middle blocker Chisom Okpala after LBSU’s season ended at the second round of the NCAA tournament.

UC Santa Barbara, Cal State North-ridge and UC Davis round out the top five of the coach’s poll behind the 49ers.

The 49ers kick off their season against UC Davis and have their first matchup against the Warriors on Oct. 11 in Hawaii.

KEY GAMESSan Diego State: The 49ers start

the season off with a difficult road game against the San Diego State Aztecs on Aug. 14.

UCLA: LBSU’s first home game will probably be the toughest of the season. The 49ers host 2014 NCAA quarterfinalist, No. 4 UCLA, at George Allen Field on Aug. 21.

Auburn: The 49ers won’t get a break following the matchup with UCLA as they take on Auburn on Aug. 23. Auburn will be looking to avenge a 2-1 overtime defeat to the 49ers in Alabama in 2013.

DePaul and BYU: The 49ers will have two tough games in a row be-fore starting Big West play. First, the team will have to travel to No. 21 De-Paul on Sept. 20, then back home to take on No. 19 BYU at on Sept. 26.

CSU Fullerton: After facing two ranked opponents in a row, the 49ers start league play against conference rivals Fullerton on Oct. 4. LBSU lost 2-1 to the Titans in last season’s Big West tournament championship game and missed the NCAA tourna-ment as a result.

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