$1.50 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER Solar, wind firms may get a boost 52 PAGES © 2015 WST D latimes.com THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 Terrorist attack stuns Paris Gunmen kill 12 at Charlie Hebdo magazine, known for profane images of the prophet Muhammad. By Carol J. Williams, Kim Willsher and Christina Boyle Gov. Brown’s call for half of state’s power to come from renewable sources could spur more large projects. By Julie Cart Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal this week to significantly boost the amount of energy California derives from renewable sources could reinvigorate the state’s utility-scale solar and wind industries, as well as launch another land rush in the Mojave Desert. In his inaugural address, Brown didn’t say how the state’s Renewables Portfolio Standard could be raised to 50% by 2030 — the previous benchmark was 33% by 2020 — but his commitment was clear: “This is exciting, it is bold, and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system,” the governor said. He also outlined a plan to reduce petroleum use in cars and trucks by 50% and double the energy efficiency of new buildings in the state. The reverberation was instantaneous. “Is it significant? Absolutely. Will it stimulate the market? Absolutely,” said Jerry R. Bloom of the Los Angeles law firm Winston & Strawn, who guides renewable-energy developers through the financing and permitting processes. Because utilities already are on track to meet California’s 2020 goal, they have [See Renewables, A13] Chefs, diners toast the return of foie gras By Russ Parsons and David Pierson Foie gras is back on the menu. A federal judge issued a ruling Wednesday that overturned California’s law banning the sale of the fatty duck or goose liver, a delicacy prized by gourmands for its rich flavor. The ruling at least briefly reverses what stood as a major victory for animal-welfare advocates trying to stop the common practice of force-feeding birds to enlarge their livers. U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled that the California ban was unconstitutional because it interfered with an existing federal law that regulates poultry products. Many in the state’s restaurant industry were rejoicing Wednesday shortly after the news was announced. “I’ve been jumping up and down for about 90 minutes,” said Napa Valley chef Ken Frank, who has been active in the pro-foie gras movement. Foie gras from force-fed poultry was outlawed in California by a bill that passed the state Legislature in 2004 and went into effect in 2012. The ban had been challenged in court by the Hot’s Restaurant Group in Cali[See Foie gras, A12] Anne Gelbard AFP/Getty Images GUNMEN FACE police officers near the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris during an attack in which eight journalists, a maintenance man, a visitor and two policemen were killed. PERILS OF THE PEN Cartoonists enrage, more so than writers, because their work is visual and transcends language barriers By Christopher Goffard and Maria L. LaGanga Key locations in Charlie Hebdo shooting They are accustomed to poison-pen letters, furious emails, and insults. Now and then, politicians demand they be fired or critics send them excrement. In the tiny fraternity of American political cartoonists, the apoplectic anger their work can elicit speaks to something intrinsic to their craft. If cartoons are uniquely infuriating, that is because their signature tactics — caricature, ridicule, distortion, hyperbole — do not just flout the ordinary rules of engagement but also jeer at them. Editorials have the luxury of saying, “On the one hand, on the other hand,” and invite rebuttal. But a cartoon “is not a series of points you can take issue with,” said Kevin Siers, a Charlotte Observer cartoonist who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. “That’s the point of humor — it bypasses intellectual steps and gets to the heart of things.” Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes was up early working Wednesday when Twitter came alive with news of the shootings at Charlie Hebdo. [See Cartoonists, A6] Twelve people were shot and killed Wednesday when masked gunmen stormed into the offices of a satirical magazine in the center of Paris. 3 Attackers PARIS abandon car, hijack another GARE DE L’EST PLAZA DE LA REPUBLIQUE JARDIN DES TUILERIES La Boulevard Richard Lenoir Se ine Paris FRANCE THE LOUVRE 1 Police officer shot, 2 shooters flee in car PARIS — Gunmen struck the heart of Paris with a commando-style execution of a dozen people Wednesday at the offices of a satirical magazine that had caricatured the Muslim prophet Muhammad, angering the Islamic faithful with its taunting push against the boundaries of free speech. The dead are the chief editor of the Charlie Hebdo weekly, Stephane Charbonnier, nine others at the magazine office and two policemen. One of the officers was gunned down in the street by the masked attackers as their escape was captured on video broadcast by French television. Attacks by outraged Islamic militants had been threatened for years, and the raid on the magazine offices in the shadow of the Bastille monument shattered the nervous calm and creeping complacency that had settled over the French capital in the absence of major terrorist attacks since Charlie Hebdo’s publication of controversial cartoons in 2011. The shocking strike mobilized counter-terrorism forces in Europe and the United States and stirred massive outpourings of sympathy for the victims and solidarity with the people of France. “#JeSuisCharlie” — I am Charlie — became a rallying cry among journalists and average citizens who took to social media by the tens of thousands to send messages expressing horror at the deaths and support for the magazine’s provocative lampooning of religious and political leaders. A massive manhunt was underway, but police were unsure even of the number of gunmen. Some reports said the 11:40 a.m. attack was carried out by two hooded, black-clad assailants, while others said a third was in[See Attack, A4] Shootings at Charlie Hebdo offices Nothing is sacred to Charlie Hebdo NOTRE DAME Left Bank ƒ MILE Sources: Charlie Hebdo, Reuters, Google Earth, Arthur Benchetrit/YouTube, Martin Boudot/ Agence-Premiérs Lignes, BBC, Times reporting. Los Angeles Times The act of publishing profane images is at the heart of the magazine’s mission of free speech at all costs. WORLD, A7 COLUMN ONE Iraq’s accidental tattooist Superbugs may meet their match Scientists cultivating dirt have found a bacteria that can defeat drug-resistant microbes. Clinical trials could begin in two years. NATION, A11 An interpreter for U.S. forces found his true calling in wartime. Now, the young artist is making his mark at his own parlor. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske reporting from baghdad Francine Orr L. A. Times He sculpted famous works Milton Hebald has died at 97. He created large public art in Los Angeles and New York. OBITUARY, AA6 Weather Partly sunny. L.A. Basin: 75/55. AA8 7 85944 00150 3 T he short, chubby Iraqi interpreter watched as the massively biceped American soldiers he worked for shot hoops during their breaks from guarding the Baghdad airport. It was 2006, and although Mohammed Akram Taher, 17, shared the troops’ love of motorcycles and Metallica, he couldn’t compete with them on the basketball court. So he sat on the sidelines, sketching. One day, an Army sergeant from Los Angeles glimpsed the Baghdad native’s artwork: macabre drawings of grinning skulls and demons. The sergeant was intrigued. He happened Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times IN BAGHDAD, Mohammed Akram Taher, also known as Dante, works on Iman Jamil’s eyebrows. He also tattooed the initial of her slain son, Yassir, on her wrist. to be a tattoo artist with a sleeve of tats on each arm. “You should do tattoos,” the sergeant told Taher, who, like most interpreters, went by a nickname. His was Dante, in homage to the medieval Italian poet. And that is how Dante, now 25, ended up inking his first tattoo: a smiley face drawn freehand on the arm of the American sergeant. As word quickly spread around the airport, Dante attracted unlikely customers. “I started doing them on the Iraqi soldiers,” recalled the tattoo artist, who still goes by his nickname. That was a switch. Tat- toos have been stigmatized for generations here for the same reasons they were for many years in the U.S. — seen as the purview of criminals, with the exception of some simple tribal tattoos in rural areas. With the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi attitudes [See Iraq, A8]
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