Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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1. The closing ceremony is a recording of the opening ceremony, played backwards #FakeOlympicsFacts. Carl Hult 2. The Canadians actually apologized for winning so much. #FakeOlympicsFacts. --Innocent Illusion (Diana) 3. Figure Skaters take about 5000mg of Dramamine before competing... #FakeOlympicsFacts @HashFakeFacts-- CK Charley 4 . In 2022, they're adding a Soul Train line component to the Ice Dancing event.-- Seth from the 70's 5. if you don’t watch the Olympics your c...
The John Adams Middle School "RoboVikings" squad is among just a few Middle School robotics teams competing over the past year with students from 7th through 12th grade. For the second year in a row, the team is advancing to the LA Regional Competition this Saturday in Monrovia. "Last weekend, in Palmdale, the RoboVikings won the prestigious "Connect" Award for educating their peers, parents, teachers and the Santa Monica community about robotics, the First Tech robotics...
Bubba Watson is moving to challenge for the lead in the morning tee times, reaching 5 under to join first round leader Tony Finau, Patrick cantlay, and Jamie lovemark Friday morning. The move of the day so far has been made by Rafa Cabrera Bello, who is five under through ten holes and one stroke behind. Watson's playing partner, world number one Dustin Johnson has failed to make a charge and is three over par. Marquee players Tiger Woods, Phil mickleson, and Rory McIlroy tee...
Scottrade Bank NA has formally announced that it's branch on Wilshire Blvd near 5th Street is closing in February. Scottrade was purchased by TDA Bank/ TD Ameritrade last year, and two branches within 3 city blocks of each other are redundant. Scottrade was a discount brokerage firm that operates both online and at branches. The company offers an electronic trading platform for the purchase and sale of financial securities including common stocks, preferred stocks, futures...
Hammers pounding, saws cutting and drills buzzing were some of the sounds heard by the media in front of Legoland Castle Hotel at Legoland California Resort as Merlin the wizard unraveled his scroll officially declaring the Hotel's opening day: April 27, 2018. Legoland California's General Manager Peter Ronchetti and Legoland Hotel Manager Frank Idris also addressed the crowd providing Resort updates and new details about North America's first Legoland Castle Hotel. "It's...
In a way, it is a contest no one wants to win. Wednesday night, the Cat of Santa Monica conducted its annual homeless count. The count is expected to show a growing population of homeless people are over 60 years in age, women. College graduates have also increased in size. And of course, a surprising number of homeless are native born residents. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tracks the results in each community to determine the amount of federal f...
The Santa Monica City Attorney's Office says that it has settled a wage enforcement case against Merchants Building Maintenance, LLC, a janitorial and security services company. Merchants was charged with failing to pay 36 employees their Santa Monica minimum wage. For many months, Los Angeles County Department of Consumer & Business Affairs ("DCBA") – contracted as the Wage Enforcement Division of the City – sent letters that didn't result in full compliance. So the City att...
According to neighbors a "big accident" on Wilshire Blvd between 17th and 18th street occurred late Wednesday afternoon. The Santa Monica Police Dept closed Wilshire Blvd between 16th and 18th into the evening hours. According to Blue Bus drivers, there were reportedly fatalities. @SantaMonicaPD advised one person transported to the hospital in very serious condition. Wilshire Blvd was reopened at 9 pm....
Jacaranda presents Pre-Concert Talk and the Concert "Indivisible: Music of Frederic Rzewski & Julius Eastman" Saturday, January 20, Pre-Concert Conversation 7pm, Concert 8pm Renee Levine Packer, author of Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music (2015), will join Artistic Director Patrick Scott for a pre-concert discussion on protest music and revising history on Inauguration Day. The author will be available for book signings after the concert. The concert, INDIVISIBLE,...
Santa Monica Place commemorates the Year of the Dog with its annual Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday, February 17 from 2 – 6 p.m. Hosted by Katherine Ho from The Voice on NBC, celebrations will include authentic cultural performances and activities such as the traditional Chinese dragon dance, Korean fan dance, stilt walkers, classical folk music from a Chinese musical duo, New Year's Wishing Trees and family-friendly arts and crafts for all to enjoy. Santa Monica Place'...
The Santa Monica Airport Association and the airport's Museum of Flying will host a public event on Saturday, January 20. featuring George Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace, who will discuss the benefits of electric flight and the future of flight training. The museum will provide a special $5.00 admission from 9:30 AM to 11:00 am. Bye's presentation will begin at 10:00 AM. Bye is the creative innovator behind Bye Aerospace, which he founded in 2007, and has two decades of experience...
Today is the 170th anniversary of the treaty of Cahuenga, which resulted in brief California independence and then US statehood the next year. Pico Blvd is named after the last Spanish governor of California, Andres Pico. Like nearly all the Californios, became an American citizen with full legal and voting rights. Pico later became a State Assemblyman and then a State Senator representing Los Angeles in the California State Legislature. The Treaty of Cahuenga, also called...
eHarmony, one of the largest and oldest dating websites in the United States, has agreed to change its website and sales practices to better protect California consumers. The company was founded by Christian clinical psychologist Neil Clark Warren and emphasizes religion in some of its advertising. It promotes enduring positive values, such as faith, long term marriages, love and family. The conservative internet company was dumb enough to open an office in liberal Santa...
The death toll has been raised to 13, in the wake of severe mudflows in the affluent Santa Barbara town of Montecito. The town just 6 miles down the road from Santa Barbara toward Los Angeles, is the residence of numerous wealthy people including Oprah Winfrey and Ellen de Generes. The 101 freeway is reportedly closed. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept has confirmed 5 dead to ABC News. Earlier January 9, the SB Sheriff released the following press release: "The...
Rain began to fall in the Southern California region early Monday morning, the first significant rain since last December. Areas that burned just weeks ago were ordered evacuated. The National Weather service warned that a "Significant STORM system approaching, peaking tonight into Tuesday. Flash flooding and debris flows likely near recent burn areas. Major travel delays and flooded roads for Tuesday morning commute. #CAstorm #cawx #Larain". this of course on Twitter. It is...
Update, 1/07/17: From Rudy Flores, SMPD PIO: On 01/05/2018 at approximately 1540 hours, a grand theft and assault with a deadly weapon occurred at the L’Oliphant jewelry store, located at 1621 Montana Ave, Santa Monica. An unidentified female suspect entered the business and asked to try on several rings, then fled the business on foot wearing a ring and a eternity band valued at approximately $12,250. The victim followed the suspect into the alley and observed her entering a...
SMFD has cleared a Structure Fire incident #18000255 in the 1000 Block of 14th, tweeted the Santa Monica Fire Department just after 11 pm Friday Night. The fire caused first responders to divert traffic from the area for about an hour. There were no reports of injuries. The Santa Monica Fire Department (SMFD) is the primary fire and medical response agency for the city of Santa Monica, California. It is responsible for protecting approximately 92,000 residents spread out...
The United States District Court, Central District of California has dismissed a case challenging the Consent Decree between the City of Santa Monica and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the immediate shortening of the runway at Santa Monica Airport (SMO) and the closure of the airport after 2028. Plaintiffs Kate Scott and James Babinski had argued that the City failed to follow certain state law requirements when it entered the Consent Decree. In October 2017,...
A SpaceX rocket taking off from Vandenburg AFB Friday evening caused millions of residents of the Southwest alll the way to Arizona, to wonder if they were seeing a UFO. Or a North Korean Rocket. I thought it was a meteor, personally. But no, it was a Falcon 9 rocket streaking across the night sky while excited onlookers snapped photos and recorded video. At first the mysterious white light appeared during the evening rush hour, sparking questions and speculation from the many...
It's not shocking to those used to Chaparral fires in So Cal, but blackened hillsides are visible during the drive through the Sepulveda pass on the 405 freeway in West Los Angeles. This is an area where an undeveloped, 5000 square foot lot would have a theoretical value of $3,000,000 or more. So it may be the most expensive completely burned land on the planet. The Skirball Center Fire, as it is sometimes known, fire burned 422 acres -- that's an area very close to the size o...
Really, you can blame Khalid for this one. After 60,000 people came to see Khalid perform on June 22, 2017, the rapper tweeted: "Around 60,000 people came out to Santa Monica to see me last night at the free show. The Staples Center holds 21,000 people. Holy f*ck." Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks apparently said pretty much the same thing. She (and others) complained to the Staff and Council and it was decided that something must be done. Seabrooks estimated that the full...
A fire broke out Saturday afternoon at the tall Huntley Hotel just above the Third Street Promenade. Passers by phoned into the Santa Monica Fire Department as the restaurant on the tall hotel began to burn. Fire crews arrived minutes later and found a large volume of fire visible on the exterior of the top floor of the 18 story high rise building at Second Street North of Wilshire. "Due to the complexity of the building, a 2nd Alarm was immediately requested which brought in...
Every year Santa Monica policemen, Fire fighters and paramedics give out candy canes and allow kids to have their photos taken with Santa. The official press release reads in part as follows: Santa Claus is coming to town with Santa Monica's police officers and firefighters leading the way as he makes his way around town. Santa and his public safety helpers will be distributing good cheer and thousands of candy canes as part of the 25th Annual "Candy Cane Drive." Everyone is...
The Barnes and Noble on Third and Wilshire is closing, reports several sources. In January 2017, it will be replaced by four tenants, one on each floor of the historic building that used to house a department store. Barnes and Noble has been in that location for 20 years. "Those who have stumbled upon the news that we will be starting 2018 without our Barnes and Noble at Wilshire and 3rd are very distressed. There are no signs and little buzz about this. The rent is going up a...
Latest on #CreekFire: -Fire is 10% contained-15 buildings destroyed, 15 damaged-Some evac orders will be cleared. Updates here: http://emergency.lacity.org/creek-fire -LAUSD schools remain closed, but libraries will be open. The situation is STILL insecure - embers & hotspots are a risk. State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, Twitter. Smoky Monica: 405 and other Fires Smoke Out the Town The worst wind blown, Santa Ana fire event in Southern California history, resulted in smoke and health...
