Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The Santa Monica Proper Hotel says it will open June 20th. The new hotel wraps around the Santa Monica Professional Building at 710 Wilshire Boulevard. The landmark Professional Building built in 1928 was originally designed as a medical building and converted into commercial office space in the 1950s. It has been assimilated into the larger, new hotel building which occupies it's former parking lot. The complex includes at least 3 expensive restaurants and an Ayurvedic spa...
Moscow (dpa) - Three of Russia's most popular newspapers united on Monday in support of journalist Ivan Golunov, who has been arrested on a questionable drug charge. The newspapers Vedomosti, Kommersant and RBC each published in large type on their cover page the phrase "I am/We are Ivan Golunov," accompanied by editorials calling for inquiries into the case. Golunov, arrested last week, is best known for writing hard-hitting investigative pieces about the Moscow city governme...
The City of Santa Monica has announced that the Recycling Center located on Michigan Avenue, has closed. The announcement was made on the City's website. https://www.smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Departments/Public_Works/Solid_Waste/Recycling%20Center%20Flyer%20060319(1).pdf "The Santa Monica Community Recycling Center, commonly known as the Buyback Center, will close effective June 15, 2019, until further notice. The City is in the process of identifying an option to work with a...
Washington (dpa) - The United States and Mexico reached a deal Friday on migration that avoids tariffs that would have been imposed on all Mexican goods starting Monday. President Donald Trump announced the deal, tweeting that tariffs against Mexico "are hereby indefinitely suspended." Under the deal Mexico agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through the country. "This is being done to greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration coming from...
Beirut (dpa) - Syrian opposition rebels launched a wide-scale attack against government forces in the northern countryside of Hama late Thursday, a monitoring group and activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels and jihadist groups managed to advance into posts manned by Syrian government troops in the village of al Jabeen. Rebels also shelled several Syrian army posts in the countryside of Idlib and Hama, killing at least 11 soldiers,...
A power outage, or series of outages, caused the evacuation of terminals beginning on Wednesday at 6:20 pm. 310 Southwest flights were cancelled Wednesday night. Thursday morning at 6 a.m., the power failed again. Power crews were told to focus on Terminals 8 and 9. Several terminals saw their emergency backup systems triggered, which created a dim light for some passengers. Planes began to take off again at 11 pm on Wednesday night. But TSA cleared the Southwest terminal....
Vienna (dpa) - The United States is ready to talk to Iran "with no preconditions," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. "We are prepared to engage a conversation with no preconditions," Pompeo told a press conference in Switzerland. However, he reiterated that Washington's goal is to "fundamentally reverse the malign activity of this Islamic Republic." The US has been placing immense economic pressure on Iran for over a year in the form a sanctions that were...
London (dpa) - President Donald Trump promised Britain a "phenomenal" trade deal with the United States once it leaves the European Union, praising Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of Brexit talks. "Our nations have more than 1 trillion dollars invested in each other's economies," Trump told reporters after talks with May on the second day of his three-day state visit to Britain. "As the UK makes preparations to exit the EU, the US is committed to a phenomenal trade deal...
Tel Aviv (dpa) - The Israeli army said on Sunday it struck military targets in Syria in response to two rockets launched from the country towards Mount Hermon in the northern Golan Heights. One of the rockets fired earlier from Syria landed in the Israeli-controlled territory, according to a rare statement released by the army, confirming that it had struck in Syria. The Syrian news agency SANA reported that three soldiers were killed and seven others injured in the strikes,...
Electrical power was out across a wide area of Santa Monica Thursday afternoon beginning just after 2 PM. Power was restored to some areas just after 5 PM Pacific standard time. Ground zero for the power outage appeared to be an underground fire in an electrical vault. Edison crews were working in the alley on Arizona Avenue between Lincoln and Seventh Street. The Chase bank at seventh and Wilshire closed early as did the coffee bean and tea leaf on Ninth Street. The area of...
Beijing (dpa) - Thirty years after a bloody crackdown on students and democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, one of modern China's most defining events was set to go unobserved on Tuesday. However, outside of the mainland, the massacre is officially remembered in Hong Kong and Macau, two former European colonies that returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 and 1999. Hong Kong, an autonomous territory, has held a candlelight vigil annually since 1990. This year's vi...
Washington (dpa) - US President Donald Trump will begin the first day of his three-day visit to Britain on Monday by meeting with the royal family and lunching with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. The visit, planned months ago to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, comes as Britain remains in the throws of the Brexit process and British Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to resign her position on Friday. Even before arriving, Trump had already...
Rome (dpa) - A cruise ship rammed into a moored tourist boat as it docked in Venice on Sunday, leaving at least four people with minor injuries, according to city officials. The ship, which dwarfed the other vessel, crashed as it came into the San Basilio cruise terminal in the popular lagoon city. The people injured were all taken to an area hospital, aid Venice officials. Dramatic footage of the collision appeared to show some people falling into the water as the smaller...
Washington (dpa) - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on Friday holding its first public hearing on cannabidiol, better known as CBD, which has flooded US markets - despite an opaque legal status - as a way to alleviate anxiety and inflammation The compound, which comes from hemp or marijuana plants, has exploded in popularity in recent years, with CBD already available in sweets, oils and cosmetics The FDA has said some companies are marketing CBD with dangerously e...
Manila (dpa) – A cargo ship carrying rubbish dumped in the Philippines by Canada more than five years ago, causing a diplomatic row, left the South-East Asian country on Friday. The Liberian-flagged MV Bavaria, a private ship hired by the Manila government, set off from Subic Bay port, 50 miles north of Manila, to Vancouver with 69, 20-ton containers. The ship will take more than 20 days to reach the Canadian city, said Wilma Eisma, chairman and administrator of the Subic B...
Dresden, Germany (dpa) - Dense forests and sprawling fields are dotted with farms and villages with small houses and large gardens. The idyllic landscape north of Goerlitz in the German state of Saxony radiates peace and quiet. But ever since the Upper Lusatia region became home to one of Europe's biggest populations of wolves, that peace has been shattered. Since the reintroduction of the protected animals about 20 years ago, the wolf population has soared and spread from eas...
Budapest (dpa) - At least seven people drowned and 21 were still missing after a cruiser rammed a smaller sightseeing boat in the Danube, causing it to sink in just seconds, authorities in Budapest said on Thursday. The smaller boat, Hableany, had 35 people on board - 33 South Korean tourists and two crew members - when it was hit at 9:05 pm (1905 GMT) near the Margaret Bridge in Budapest. The Hableany had turned in front of the cruiser, the Viking Sigyn, police spokesman...
A “drive for social media recognition” is what’s causing the treacherous overcrowding conditions on Mount Everest this year, an expert climber says. “It’s recognition instead of significance,” explained Adrian Hayes, a British mountaineer who has scaled Mount Everest, K2 and Makalu — three of the world’s highest peaks. “People who don’t know a crampon from a tampon,” he told the South China Morning Post. Hayes, 59, said he was disgusted when he saw the viral picture that wa...
(tca/dpa) - The Europa Hotel was once known as the most bombed hotel in Europe, but on a Friday morning in April, it's bustling with tourists and weekenders enjoying a hearty breakfast buffet. Almost no one recognizes Conleth Hill, the actor who plays Varys, the bald eunuch and royal adviser whose cunning enabled him to survive nearly eight seasons on one of TV's bloodiest shows, "Game of Thrones," without ever lifting a sword. The anonymity (aided by the reappearance of his...
Sana'a (dpa) – Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Sunday that they had used an armed drone to attack warplane runways at Saudi Arabia's Jizan airport near the Yemeni border. There has been no comment from Saudi Arabia, which is leading a military campaign in Yemen against the Houthis. The Houthis have stepped up attacks with drones and missiles on Saudi cities over the past weeks. On Tuesday, the Houthis said one of their drones had attacked Najran airport in s...
Thousands of abortion-rights activists rallied across the nation Tuesday in opposition to a recently approved ban on the procedure in Alabama and other legislative efforts seen as challenges to Roe vs. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. Organizers behind the #StopTheBan rallies included Planned Parenthood Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Women's March. More than 400 rallies were planned throughout the country, most...
In a third strike against Monsanto, maker of the weed-killer Roundup, an Alameda County jury awarded over $2 billion to a Livermore couple who each contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The couple, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, received $55 million for compensatory damages and $1 billion each in punitive damages. Punitive damages are related to the goal of punishing the defendant for their malicious behavior rather than to the goal of compensating the plaintiff for injuries...
Pilgrim Lutheran Church celebrated its 105 Anniversary on May 5, 2019 with a special sermon by Rev. Dr. Micheal Gibson, the president of the Pacific SW district of Lutheran Missouri Synod. A community luncheon followed the service. The original church built in 1919 was on 14th street and Arizona. The present building was rebuilt after the Northridge Earthquake at 1730 Wilshire Blvd, with many stained glass windows representing Biblical stories and themes. It the first church...
Community Corp. of Santa Monica (CCSM) will be holding a public hearing this month on their proposal to build 55 affordable housing units on 14th Street, across the street from Woodlawn Cemetery. The public input hearing will be held on May 21 at 6:30 at Virginia Avenue Park. The project will demolish an existing natural pet food store, a dog grooming facility, and an automotive repair business. It is a block from the Santa Monica Freeway overpass and three quarters of a mile...
Somehow, the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica opened two years ago with a Coastal Commission permit. Wednesday, the hotel, which bills itself as sustainable and environmentally sensitive, will appear before the Commission and seek the necessary permits. Shore Hotel's PR person, Melendy Britt, sent us the following: We are pleased to share a statement from Shore Hotel before tomorrow's hearing at the California Coastal Commission. "The owners of Santa Monica's first LEED...
