Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Dr. Karen Belkic MD is a clinical scientist with a PhD in neuroscience and physician specialist in internal medicine. On Sunday, December 8th, 2017, she delivered the Gloria Freedman memorial lecture on ovarian cancer to Temple Beth Shalom Sisterhood. Gloria Freedman was her mother. Among women worldwide, Breast Cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer A critical factor impacting survival is the stage at which Breast Cancer is diagnosed. Survival after diagnosis is...
After all other forms of treatment had failed, Ricardo Miranda, L.Ac.cured a little girl of eczema. She was cured primarily through the use of acupuncture, says Miranda. The three year old girl presented with eczema, said Miranda, 49. Her mother, Norma Alcontara, said that they had been to doctors, dermatologists, pediatricians and dieticians. The family had tried everything. "Eczema is a skin condition, she was covered from head to toe with rashes. Whole arms and face," said...
When I bring home something I find in the alley, everyone makes fun of me for dumpster diving. But when three highly educated recent college grads do it, apparently it's research. I ran into three such women in an alley in the heart of Santa Monica's swank North of Wilshire neighborhood, where pretty much everyone drives a Prius. The three women are inspired and employed by Global Green USA to dig through trash in order to save the Planet. The Santa Monica Non-profit pays...
NORMS Restaurant on Pico and Camden Avenue is closing after 47 years. Christmas Eve will be the last day. The large parking lots and one story googy structure will be replaced by "high end condos and multi-use retail, what else?" said David Bowman. He said that their 50 year lease had been bought out three years early. Bowman is a NORMS manager, but not at this location. Like others in the NORMS organization, he had volunteered to help out at the overflow crowds. Many diners,...
We wondered about the fate of Mountain Lion P-39's three cougar cubs. Their mother's death occurred on the 118 freeway east of the Rocky Peak exit on the evening of Saturday, December 3, but NPS heard about the accident a few days later. Jeff Sikich who works for the National Park Service, found the collar and knew the animal had been killed. Her body was collected by sanitation workers, said NPS' Kate Kuykendall. "Navigating our complex road network is a major challenge for...
Update, 12/2: Judge Bruguera today ordered NMS properties to cede control of its Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and West Hollywood "LUXE" properties, to AEW Capital Management. She also imposed attorneys fees against NMS. We previously reported that the LA Superior Court (Judge Suzanna Bruguera), found that Neil Shekhter, the principal behind NMS Properties, had engaged in evidence tampering. We are told that next week's City Council Agenda 13C, reads: "Request of Councilmembers...
In a civil case involving NMS Family Living Trust, and Margot and Neil Shekhter, Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bruguera found that NMS Properties and its owners, fabricated evidence, and destroyed or hid electronic evidence from the Court and the opposing parties. For this reason, she entered a judgment imposing "Terminating Sanctions" against NMS, meaning that they lost the lawsuit and now have a default judgment against them. Terminating sanctions are unusual, though not...
Can you feel left out even if you own the latest iPhone 7? You can if you're Frankenstein's monster. The computer giant has released a 2 minute commercial on their youtube page which shows Frankenstein's monster (Brad Garrett), descending into a town to sing "Home for the holidays." He is encouraged by a little girl, who recognizes that he just needs to feel included. The whole town joins in on the caroling. The ad switches rapidly back and forth from the 19th Century to the 2...
It's an open secret that Santa Monica Police officers and other City employees are the best paid in the world. TransparentCalifornia.com hopes to rip off the mask on why. In Newport Beach, a city about the size of Santa Monica, 13 employees make more than 300,000 per year. In Long Beach, a city six times the size of Santa Monica, 13 employees make more than $300K a year. In Santa Monica, 105 employees make more than $300,000 per year. So says www.Transparentcalifornia.com, A...
Proving that the Santa Monica electorate really, really likes intensive development; local voters returned all 4 incumbent City Council members to Santa Monica City Council. In voting for Terry O'Day, Gleam Davis, Tony Vasquez and Ted Winterer, the voters rejected SMMUSD School Board member Oscar de la Torre and Armen Melkonians. Melkonians ran an outside campaign connected with Measure LV, which would have greatly restricted the size of new developments in San- ta Monica. Som...
Lines were around the block at Christine Emerson Reed park on Lincoln and Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica. Young people who work in offices waited in lines, trying to register their votes before their morning commute. Separately, an incident was reported on Facebook in which a local jogger tripped over "No on LV" signs that a paid solicitor had placed on the median on San Vicente Blvd, where many people go jogging. Signs there are illegal, but since none of the No on LV...
Maria Rita D'Orsogna is a theoretical physicist by training, who teaches mathematics at Cal State University Northridge. She is also a well known environmental activist in Italy. I ran into her in front of St. Monica's Catholic Church one Sunday morning, picketing in support of Measure LV. It would greatly restrict the size and scope of construction projects in Santa Monica. LV is a very contentious issue, with strong feelings on both sides. So I asked the obvious question:...
Update, 10/31: We received another appeal last week as well. The adoration of the neighbors and the charm of the tree, the urban forestry division has decided to leave the redwood standing at this time. The tree is in decline and has significant dieback. We will re-inspect the tree in March 2017. At that point we will reassess the health and its overall vigor.--Peter Provenzale, Urban Forest Supervisor, City of Santa Monica The old, beautiful redwood tree in front of my Santa...
At $350,000 per year, City Manager Rick Cole is the best paid City manager in the state, maybe the world. City Clerk Denise Anderson-Warren earns $189,000 per year. 105 Santa Monica City employees earn more than $200,000 per year. The average Santa Monica policeman or fire fighter makes $94,000 per year, spitting distance of six figures. Cops and firemen get to retire at 55 with a full pension. But are residents happy? Hmmm .... let's spend $325,000 and find out!! If the City...
I must admit I'm fascinated with Greenland. Maybe it's the idea of man against the elements. Maybe it's the colorful towns and villages, painted pastel against an icy landscape. To this day, the generous Danes give $5 billion in grants to the Islanders every year. Which is somewhat surprising, since Greenlanders have voted no less than 3 times over the last 30 years, that they want to be more independent. $5 billion a year is about $90,000 for each of 56,000 Greenlanders....
$3000 in bicycles were stolen from the ElectroBike store last night, on the 2600 block of Main Street, Santa Monica. A brick was apparently thrown through a window, sometime around 2 AM. The thieves made off with three bicycles worth approximately $1000 each. Police would not say whether there was security video. Some residents say that local crime has increased since the advent of the Metro Rail in May, 2016. Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrook says that crime here has...
If you follow what goes on in Santa Monica City Hall, it's really been pretty much the same since 1982. The City grants massive development permits to favored developers. The City Staff grant developers permits to build huge buildings that are not in the best interest of residents, because they generate traffic, noise, density, trash, without generating jobs or money for local residents. Every 4 years, residents return the same City Council members to office, because they...
An instantly iconic photo of four workers posed on top the 1100 foot high Wilshire grand center, is making the rounds on social media. The building's developer assured everyone that the workers were strapped into harnesses and climbed up the stairs in the center of the spire. The spire has not generally been permitted on Los Angeles buildings, because they are required to have helicopter landing pads for potential earthquake evacuation. The building was granted a variance....
A Federal Jury today ordered the City of Santa Monica to pay $1.1 million in damages to Justin L. Palmer, who was pepper sprayed during his arrest on April 21, 2015. Police Lt. Saul Rodriguez, SMPD Spokesman, said that the Department had not yet decided whether to appeal Justin Palmer, 36, was at the public car-charging station at Virginia Avenue Park (map) on the evening of April 21 when he was approached by officers who said the park had closed at 11 p.m. Palmer refused to...
After almost 18 months of construction, the new seismically safe California Incline opened to traffic on Thursday morning at 5 PM. The California Incline connects Ocean Avenue with PCH below. Since it closed in April of 2015, drivers have had to go through Santa Monica Canyon. This added 20 minutes to drives to Malibu or Pacific Palisades. Regular readers know that I'm very skeptical of anything the City does, but they really did need to improve the 1930's era California...
A young man was fatally injured in a collision with a car Tuesday night, just after 9 pm. He was skateboarding on Ocean Park Blvd near 23rd Street at the time, which is very near the Fairview Branch library. Below are details to the yesterday's fatal accident, from Saul Rodriguez, SMPD Public Information Officer On August 30, 2016 at approximately 2107 hours, SMPD received 911 calls of a vehicle versus a pedestrian collision just south of 23rd St and Ocean Park Blvd. Officers...
Southern California Gas Company has announced that they are closing their Santa Monica storefront payment location after 40 years. The location at 1300 6th Street, allowed you to pay your bill "Low tech" way, i.e. with cash. It will close on November 1, 2016. Those who wish to pay their Gas Co. bills in cash in Santa Monica, may still do say at Patton's Pharmacy, 734 Montana Avenue; at Mike's Liquor Store, 2402 Wilshire Blvd, or at Ocean Park Pharmacy, 2731 Ocean Park Blvd....
For the third time the Santa Monica City Council has voted to close it's 100-year-old airport, Cloverfield. Residents living nearby hate the airport, despite the fact that there has never been a fatal accident there, because of the noise and smoke it produces. It is also rather close to homes. Don't be fooled. The Council's action is largely symbolic, because the Federal Aviation administration has a lease on the land which is restricted to aviation until at least 2023....
In a Star Trek episode, the Enterprise discover a powerful alien who possesses an unknown painting by Leonardo da Vinci and an unknown work of music by Johannes Brahms. Kirk and Spock confront him and the man admits that, yes, he is both da Vinci and Brahms. He is in fact immortal and omni-powerful. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the move. His special forces units are preparing for another invasion of eastern Ukraine. In a recent piece in the Washington...
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have duked it out for so long in the national consciousness, that they have entered our subconscious. It's an open secret that no one is excited with our choices, except perhaps fans of The Apprentice ("You're fired.") The Great Excommunicator will probably continue stumbling along, saying stuff that outrages the press and offends the groups that compose the Democratic party. Meanwhile, Clinton will continue to stumble along, with questions...
