Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Expanding on their Southeast Asian presence and growing representation of US tech companies, Schuchert, Krieger, Truong, Spagnola & Klausner, LLP (SKT) proudly joins GLBC to share their experience with cryptocurrency best practices and emerging tech platforms. After quickly gaining attention from international businesses in China, Vietnam, Philippines, and Singapore, the firm has earned one-of-a-kind experience to blockchain based companies seeking regulatory compliance and...
Dianne Feinstein is in the early stages of Alzheimers, a common degenerative brain disease that leads to cognitive issues such as forgetfulness and dementia. Backstage maneuvering means that the state's uber liberal Democratic party has endorsed State Senator Kevin De Leon rather than the 81 year old Feinstein. It is a stunning defeat for the five term Senator. Knowing about her cognitive challenges, readers of the California Democratic Party on Saturday voted overwhelmingly...
Santa Monica police Wednesday identified a suspect in a 2016 attempted murder and three Southland home-invasion robberies, and said the man is expected to face extradition from Philadelphia, where he is being held in federal custody on an unrelated case. Vacho Shahen, 32, of Las Vegas, is suspected in a shooting that occurred the morning of Aug. 28, 2016, at a home in the 600 block of Adelaide Drive, wrote Santa Monica police Lt. Saul Rodriguez. A Santa Monica resident was sho...
[Part 1] SILICON BEACH @ VIDCON When I turned forty, my stepfather said "it doesn't matter how old you are"...he'd never been to VidCon. I was there promoting my new webseries SILICON BEACH, signing "influencers" and "creators" to do promos for the show. This June, 280 such YouTube stars converged for three days in Anaheim to vogue, soundbite and celebrate their exploding New TV niche, and bank accounts. Most of them too young to drink, their celebrity shelf-life possibly...
World famous astrologer predicts soccer World Cup winner They say it is all written in the stars. Destiny is not something anyone can escape from. For centuries, pundits have been using Astrology predictions for election astrology but the principles are the same and can be applied in the case of sports outcomes as well. With the tightly contested FIFA world cup happening in Russia presently, lets take a look and see if we can predict a champion this year. It is a bit trickier...
A dispute between two members of the Board of Directors of Santa Monica's only co-op, may put the prestigious property into receivership on Wednesday. In a hearing conducted on June 13, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Hart Cole said that she was inclined to appoint a receiver. "there is sufficient evidence to show misappropriation of funds," she said. She continued the hearing to June 27 and recommended that the two parties, John Spahi and Michael Reach, attempt to...
Below is a city press release, wherein the City Attorney's office with some swagger announces the City's victory in court against the purveyors of online vacation rentals, such as AIRBNB. Santa Monica is a pricey touristic beach town. AIRBNB pays 3 or 4 times as much per night as a tenant, even in this inflated rent environment. So that's like $10,500 a month for a one bedroom that rents for say, $3500 a month to some techie. There is a real chance that AIRBNB and its ilk...
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) was arrested tonight in Columbus Ohio, after performing an adult act at a strip club. according to her attorney, Michael Avenatti. The act, which strongly implies if not shows bestiality, cannot be further described nor pictured her in line with standards imposed by our advertisers, including Google. Stormy Daniels, once kind of a marginal porn actress, has become famous for opposing Donald Trump. She says she had an...
A deadman was found outside St John's Hospital this morning, and a suspect has been arrested for his murder. The suspect is identified as Daniel Roy Davis, a 26-year-old male. The victim is said to have been a transient from San Diego. Police describe him as a white male around 40 years of age. The victim's body was found Friday morning at about 6:44 a.m., Santa Monica Police Dept. spokesman Saul Rodriguez said. Both the victim and perpetrator appear to be homeless men, and...
Appearing with his wife and two beautiful redheaded daughters, Brett Kavanaugh Monday night accepted Donald Trump's nomination to #SCOTUS. Brett Michael Kavanaugh, 53 currently serves as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was White House Staff Secretary during the Presidency of George W. Bush. A protégé of Ken Starr, Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr Report, which urged the i...
West Los Angeles is experiencing a widespread power outage, residents say, coinciding with the hottest temperature in 2018. One resident of veteran just north of Olympic says that his family has been without power since 9 PM Friday night, July 6, 2018. A resident of Camden Avenue south of Olympic says the power went out Saturday morning and has been off for several hours. Los Angeles city Department of water and power has given no indication of when power might be restored....
It is surprising that in liberal Santa Monica, a big Independence day parade is an annual tradition. This years event did not disappoint, and attracted 30,000 viewers and several meter maids giving tickets to illegally parked vehicles. The 12th annual Fourth of July Parade went down Main Street on Wednesday morning, July 4, 2018. Starting off at Pico and Main, thousands gathered to march, ride and perform. Spectators were encouraged to walk, ride bikes, scooters, and other...
Elon Musk has offered on Instagram, to use the Boring Company's equipment to help drill another entrance into the cave system in Northern Thailand. The boys are trapped 1000 meters underground and 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) from the entrance to the cave. The passageway to the surface is almost entirely submerged by running water. The 13 boys aged 11 to 13, and their soccer coach, entered the Tham Luang cave system on June 23rd, and were surprised by early rains. Rescuers...
The Santa Monica Police Monday apprehended a man as he was attempting to throw himself off the bluffs at Palisades Park Palisades Park is a 26.4-acre park in Santa Monica, California. The park is located along Ocean Avenue on top of the coastal sandstone bluffs, offering breathtaking scenic views of the Pacific Ocean and the coastal range. It extends over 1.5 miles from the Santa Monica Pier at its southern end to Adelaide Drive at its northern end. It is lined with more than...
Senator John McCain will resign his US Senate seat on July 4, 2018, says an aide who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "In the end, it was about Kennedy resigning from the Supreme Court," said the aide. "Confirming a (SCOTUS) replacement before the election is considered in the interest of the national Republican party, so that it doesn't become an issue for Dems to run on in every race," said the aide, meaning every race for Senate or...
9-year-old US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced that he is retiring. Seen as a centrist, who often decides close cases, Kennedy recently sided with the conservative majority in upholding the latest version of the Trump administration's travel ban. Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is the senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President Ronald Reagan nominated Kennedy to the Supreme Court in 1987, and Kennedy was sworn...
As yours truly predicted in 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration or FDA, has approved marijuana for medicinal use. http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/07/10/news/dea-source-confirms-schedule-ii-medical-marijuana-is-in-the-works/1562.html The DEA approves drugs derived from plants, rather than plants for medicinal use. But a THC derived drug means that Marijuana is no longer any more illegal than the grapes from which gallo makes wine. It is now a legitimate plant for...
The Santa Monica father who shot himself on the lawn of John Adams Middle School on Saturday has been identified by friends and associates as Daniel Callahan. His son's mother wrote to us to say: "He was my son's father. He did not kill himself over custody. I am the mother." A donation page has been set up for Callahan's family. It says: Liam Callahan lost his father, Daniel Callahan, on June 23rd. We are hoping to support Liam in starting a nest egg for his future...
As Jerry Brown finished his 4th term as California governor, he opened the prisons and the border. He also gave the people of California one more gift: Impossibly long lines at the DMV. In May 2016, Brown announced that anyone, no matter what their citizenship status, could get a California Drivers license. The FAA threatened to keep Californians from boarding planes, because as ID, California Drivers licenses would be worth nothing. After litigation and negotiation, the...
It is widely understood that despite local laws, Tenants rent out their Santa Monica units on Air BNB and other apps. If a tenants puts one apartment online, he's unlikely to be prosecuted. A local real estate agent was charged with unlawfully leasing nine residential housing units on Air BNB. Because that's just pushing it too far. The danger is that tenants will be replaced by vacation rentals. The NMS built properties along 7th street in Downtown SM, for example, are...
Saturday afternoon, the father of a John Adams Middle School student killed himself in front of the school. The father who was not identified, did not injure anyone else. School superintendent Ben Drati issued a statement of condolences, which is posted below. Dear SMMUSD parents, staff and community members, We are sadly reporting the passing of a John Adams Middle School (JAMS) parent today, who took his own life in front of the school this morning with a firearm. We are...
A court denied a pilots' group petition claiming the FAA exceeded its authority when it agreed to allow the city to shorten the airport's single runway last year. NBAA had petitioned the court to vacate the 2017 agreement, arguing that the FAA defied requirements set by Congress as well as the agency's own responsibility to support aviation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the petition on procedural grounds. As authorized by the agreement with...
National Park Service researchers recently discovered a litter of four mountain lion kittens in the Simi Hills, a small area of habitat wedged between the larger Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountain ranges. All four kittens are females and are now known as P-66, P-67, P-68, and P-69. The mother is P-62, who researchers have been tracking since January. Biologists visited the den site while she was away on June 11, locating it after several previous attempts failed because...
A dispute over the attention of a young woman ended with XXXTentacion slumped over the drivers seat of his vehicle on Monday at about 2 pm PST, or 5 pm in Florida. As he left a motorcycle dealership, several men shot in his direction. He was non-responsive and in a coma, said the Broward County Fire Dept. Witnesses reported multiple gunshots were fired. Onfroy was reportedly leaving a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach on June 18, 2018, when he was shot. The suspects...
A group of expatriate Korean Americans held a summit watching party Monday night, as President Donald Trump met DPRK leader Kim Jong Eun in Singapore. Due to the time shift, much of the activity was late at night The two Koreas have been separated since Josef Stalin insisted on a Communist government for the North in 1948. They have developed very different economies and governments. South Korea is affluent, while North Korea is among the worlds poorest economies and most...
