Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The statue of the Virgin Mary that stands at the corner of 7th Street and California Avenue was vandalized early Friday morning. Someone tagged the statute with yellow paint, possibly between 1 and 5 am, police said. This is in a week when the priest sex abuse allegations have caused church officials to apologize, but it is not clear if the vandals were so motivated. Church employees cleaned off the statue that same day, August 17 2018. The statue was been a target of vandals...
They charge $800 a night for their smallest rooms, but the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica apparently wasn't paying all their illegal alien labor, the $15 or so an hour the law guarantees them. The Santa Monica City Attorney's Office inand the Wage Enforcement Program of the County of Los Angeles Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA) say they have settled two wage enforcement cases at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. One case was against Loews Hotel itself and the...
8/14: Concerned about the effect on marine wild life, the Santa Monica City Council has tightened existing law banning plastic. The City will require restaurants and those selling food to go, to supply marine degradable materials. After January 1, 2019, this will include straws, lids, plates, bowls, trays, containers, utensils, stirrers, cups, and lid plugs. Plastic straws will no longer be available, even upon customers' request. All materials used to enclose take out food...
8/14: In a press release, the City of Santa Monica denies that it has frozen Bird and Lime companies out of the process. It says scooter decisions will be made after August 30th, and not tonight at the 8/14 City Council meeting. https://www.smobserved.com/story/2018/08/13/news/city-issues-update-on-the-shared-mobility-pilot-program-in-santa-monica/3591.html Those using the Bird Scooter app in Santa Monica Monday night got a pink not working signal from the company. Why? Becaus...
On Friday, August 10, the City of Santa Monica released recommendations for its Shared Mobility Pilot Program set to start on September 17, 2018. These recommendations are not final. The City's Planning and Community Development Director David Martin will make the final decision based on the applications, the selection committee's recommendations, public comment, and any additional information he requests on or after August 30. Public comment is open through Friday, August 17...
8/12: Yesterday, firefighters quickly contained a new fire, the Gulch Fire in Monterey County, to 650 acres, as well as reaching full containment on the Nelson Fire. Almost 13,200 firefighters are on the front lines of 11 large wildfires across California. To date, these fires have burned over 695,000 acres and damaged or destroyed over 2,000 structures. Over 12,000 residents remain under evacuation orders. A gradual cooling trend has started across much of the state, helping...
You were over the line, Smokey The bowling alley across Pico Blvd from the Santa Monica Civic Center will be bowled over by a wrecking ball next year, and replaced by a mixed-use apartment complex. This according to the agenda of this week's meeting of the Santa Monica Architectural Review Board. GRT Portfolio Properties owns the property at 216-234 Pico Boulevard. Like every other landlord in Santa Monica with a building built prior to 1998, they intend to tear it down and...
The pilot hoped to avoid encounters with savage earthlings. Or perhaps he came from a planet which, like Saturn's enormous moon Titan, is cooler than 200 degrees fahrenheit. We may never know for sure. But one thing is certain: The fireball that lit up the sky over Greenland early Tuesday morning, July 25, 2018, was of extraterrestrial origin. Ultima Thule is the northernmost military installation on this planet. So some would ascribe a far more sinister motive to whatever...
Former City Council candidate and Facebook maven Armen Melkonians has decided not to run for City Council. His former slate mate, Kate Bransfield has made the same decision. They issued the following statement: Special Announcement to our Residocracy Supporters and Santa Monica Neighbors: Kate Bransfield and I have decided not to enter the race for City Council for the November 2018 election. This was a difficult decision for us to make but one we felt was necessary at this...
From bartender to rising political star, Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez, Bronx born congressional candidate, whirled through Los Angeles last week during her campaign fundraising tour. Running on a message of economic, social and racial dignity for the working class, Cortez, in a stunning victory, unseated 10th term incumbent, Joe Crowley, in New York’s 14th congressional district in the elections this past June. During her primaries campaign, she called to attention Crowley’s vote...
What a drag it is, getting older. Well, you can ride the MTA busses for 35 cents (Santa Monica Busses are 50 cents after 55, still a major discount). Anyway, on August 6th, 2018, the County and City of Los Angeles Released Age-Friendly Action Plan for the Los Angeles Region. Their press release is hereinbelow: As part of the Purposeful Aging Los Angeles (PALA) Initiative, the County and City of Los Angeles released the Age-Friendly Action Plan for the Los Angeles Region...
It is time to ask an inevitable question: Is it possible that Bigfoot is not only real, but speaks French? The ‘Gollum' figure seen stalking moose in creepy video as a 6 foot tall, humanoid creature appears lurking in the forest. In North American folklore, Bigfoot or Sasquatch is a hairy, upright-walking, ape-like being who reportedly dwells in the wilderness and leaves behind large footprints. Strongly associated with the Pacific Northwest (particularly Washington state and...
Whether it's global warming or just seasonal, this has been a particularly bad fire season in California. Sections of a major city, Redding, have burned. In Mendocino, life in another urban area has been disrupted and changed by the blazes. Fire tornadoes featuring winds of 143 miles per hour have been recorded. This release from CalFire: To date, these fires have burned over 559,000 acres and damaged or destroyed over 1,800 structures. 17,000 homes continue to be threatened...
The hiring of a reporter with apparent racist tweets is stirring up the Deplorables on social media. Sarah Jeong replied by posting some rather astonishing commentary about white people, which would definitely get her fired at say, Fox News, had she written the same stuff about any other group. I am not part of an institution that systematically oppresses white men," tweeted Jeong on Wednesday, August 1. "White men are not oppressed. And in closing, please fuck off. Thanks for...
Why I'm Running for Rent Control Board by Naomi Sultan Hello everyone - This is my first time running for public office and I would like to introduce myself and explain what I'm about. I am a veterans' rights attorney and longtime Santa Monica tenant and I am running as a challenger for Santa Monica Rent Control Board! I am running because we need a new voice on the Board to ensure that Santa Monica neighborhoods and tenants who live in our community are protected. Without Ren...
7/29: A widespread outage of spectrum data Internet and television was recorded in California, Philadelphia, and New York. Monday night was hot in the south west, and this may have strained the power grid. Carolina Collins tweeted: I would like to also point out our internet is down as well- so no #hulu & #Netflix watching... Thanks #Spectrum 🤦🏻♀️ #verizon #spectrum #frontiercommunications #Comcast Rerouting Complete Network Returning To Normal Stand By Checking For Anomoli...
In a rambling video posted Thursday night on Youtube, Isaac Kappy accuses Steven Spielberg of being a pedophile. "At the top level, these people are just sick and psycho!" he says, mentioning the famous director by name. Isaac Kappy's personal issues seem perhaps more acute than Spielberg's, based on his performance in the video. It is train of thought, stream of consciousness, skipping from celebrity to celebrity. Kappy includes everyone from Tom Hanks to Michael Jackson...
British Snowboarder Ellie Soutter has died of an apparent suicide. She was just 18 years old. "She was in great spirits and was really just the lovely Ellie that she is. You could never have anticipated this. This is the last photo we can find of Ellie and it shows her as the beautiful person she was and will always be." tweeted her father. Ellie, who lived in the French Alps with her dad Tony, had travelled back to the UK with her father last month for a family wedding....
When conditions are such that there is no access to clean, safe drinking water, or edible food, the only way to be heard is to go on a hunger strike. This is exactly what a group of eight asylum seekers did at the Adelanto detention facility, in San Bernardino, on June 12th, 2017. After an arduous journey, these eight Central American men arrived at the southern border of United States seeking political asylum in May, 2017. They were forced to flee El Salvador and Honduras,...
7/25/18: A new program at Santa Monica and Malibu beaches this summer will give away sunscreen, UCLA announced today. Fifty free sunscreen kiosks will be installed this summer in the 2 beach cities, with another eight around Los Angeles County. UCLA Health and the nonprofit IMPACT Melanoma sponsored the installation of the kiosks manufactured by BrightGuard. The product itself is SPF 30. "I know a lot of parents are really vigilant about putting sunscreen on the children ... (...
Is emergent AI consciousness breaking through to call us on cellphones? Is that AI consciousness responsible for the mysterious cellphone calls and messages? Have we summoned the demon somehow, and how do we send him back? There are many examples in fiction of computers and robots becoming self aware. The Terminator series of movies, the ultimate such example, has Skynet destroying the world of Men and replacing them with machines. And Elon Musk's famous comment about how we h...
Singer Demi Lovato is said to be in a persistent vegetative state, or coma, after a drug overdose. On the eve of a hotly anticipated string of tour dates, pop music superstar Demi Lovato has reportedly been hospitalized for an apparent heroin overdose after being revived at her home with the opioid treatment drug Narcan. According to multiple reports, law enforcement officials say the 25-year-old onetime Disney pop princess was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles after she...
Trader Joe's store assistant manager Melyda Corado was unintentionally shot by guns Los Angeles police officers fired, during a chase and shootout with a suspect at a Trader Joes in Silver Lake Saturday. LAPD Chief Michel Moore told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that investigators have determined that one of two officers accidentally shot 27-year-old Melyda Corado while engaging in a shootout with the suspect, 28-year-old Gene Evin Atkins. A 28-year-old man who allege...
5 years ago, Nicole Levings graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a degree in business and marketing, and began her career in advertising. She has always worked with "creative agencies on the client services side, where I developed a passion for brand," she says. "Ultimately brand strategy and creative, and that's where I've stayed ever since." "Back in the day, people would call a marketer and say, we need a brochure, and they would just do it. There was no rhyme...
A sudden rainstorm moved through the Westside on Wednesday just before noon. It brought thunder and lightning, and for a few minutes, heavy rain. The sidewalks dried very quickly after the monsoonal squall. The City of Santa Monica issued an alert. "An electrical storm with lightning has been reported in Santa Monica. Please evacuate all ocean and beach areas. Seek cover away from the beach and indoors on the Pier until the storm has ended," read the alert. Earlier, it had...
