Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Update, 9/27: Her aunt reports that Amanda Allen has been found, thanks to all for your tips! Tonia Kitts Stephan last spoke to Amanda Allen on July 30th at 9:30 pm."That was the last I heard from her," says Stephans. "I tried to call her phone, but it goes straight to voicemail. "Since then I have put her picture and story all over Santa Monica and with the Department of Justice. Several people have contacted me stating they might have seen her at Venice Beach. Since that...
JOINT TRAINING BASE LOS ALAMITOS, Calif.- 100 years since its initial activation as the 79th Infantry Division, the 79th Sustainment Support Command transitioned to a theater sustainment command in a ceremony here Sept. 23. With the change in unit designation comes a change in mission-from being a sustainment command with a U.S.-facing mission, to one supporting missions on the African continent. The 79th, now regionally aligned with U.S. Army Africa, an active-duty unit...
The Santa Monica Republican Women Federated held their September monthly luncheon at the Beverly Hills Women's Club due to the overwhelming response to speaker Robert Spencer and the subject, "The Left's Jihad Against the Freedom of Speech". Those on the Right are acutely aware that our speech is being censored and silenced. As people arrived and gathered around tables, the talk was of how many ways our speech is being silenced. Robert Spencer began by saying if he were to nam...
We already do a lot in Santa Monica, but obviously the explosion in the regional homeless population (up 23% in one year in LA County) is hitting us with a 26% increase in our annual count here in Santa Monica. No one pretends we can solve homelessness in 8.3 square miles, but Santa Monica is determined to do everything we can within our borders. As to what's new, we are doing several new things and are working on more: · In July we completed a pilot joint effort between...
Not even a month after the United States was united in darkness for reasons other than the Trump Administration (i.e., the Great American Coast-To-Coast Total Eclipse), North America appears to be headed toward a cataclysmic demise. First, there was Hurricane Harvey, which basically swallowed Houston. Then came Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm that was so powerful it sucked up all the water from the ocean in parts of the Bahamas and turned Richard Branson's once luxurious pa...
On September 13, 2017, activist groups Save Porter Ranch and Food and Water Watch hosted a rally, "Health Crisis Cover Up in North Valley! " The purpose of this event was to support Dr. Jeffrey Nordella, the only doctor helping Porter Ranch and San Fernando Valley residents cope with the toxic exposure from Aliso canyon," they said. According to Save Porte Ranch's Facebook page, this sudden termination for Dr. Nordella could be a cover up, since he was the only doctor helping...
On Monday September 11th, 2017 at 10:40 a.m. the Santa Monica Fire Department received multiple 911 calls in the "Wilmont" neighborhood of the City of Santa Monica reporting various emergencies including explosions, and electrical wires down in multiple locations. The preliminary cause of the incidents was determined to be the result of construction crews excavating the athletic field of Lincoln Middle School, located at 1501 California Ave, who dug into buried high-voltage...
Santa Monica Police activity in the area of Cloverfield Blvd and Kansas Ave. Poiice are investigating reports of shots fired. Police are working a containment and are searching for outstanding suspects. Please avoid the area. This in an alert from the SMPD on September 15, 2017 at 3:25 PM...
Three Santa Monica city blocks located between Wilshire Boulevard in Montana Avenue lost power at 8:30 Wednesday morning, when a transformer blew. The outage is unrelated to the trenching incident at Lincoln middle school on Monday morning which caused several other blocks to lose power. The supervisor on the job, Paul, reports that power will be restored at 10 PM Wednesday night....
Update 7:15 pm PST: authorities announce that the Santa Monica pier is now open again to the public. They now term this event a "bomb scare" rather than a bomb threat. It is curious that the Hawthorne and Culver City police received the threat, rather than the Santa Monica PD. Update 6:40 pm PST: The LA County Sheriff's Dept determined that the "suspicious vehicle" on the Pier did not, in fact, present a threat. However, the Pier remains closed, and authorities are continuing...
5pm update: Power restored to all 3600 customers, including stores on Montana Avenue. The excavation taking place on the School's athletic field, caused an explosion and an underground surge of power at the vault 3 blocks away on Montana Avenue. Parents converged at the gate after a robocall went out to all parents. The school does expect to reopen on Tuesday morning, and reports that all power is restored. Construction worker at Lincoln middle school operating a backhoe cut...
Hurricane Irma came ashore as a Category 4 storm in the Florida Keys on Sunday morning. The eye of the storm passed over Cudjoe Key. The Florida Keys are a chain of islands connected by the Overseas Highway. On a Facebook group for the Florida keys, one resident noted that Big Pine experienced "up to 14 foot surge . . . . Ramrod Key aerial view "no longer detectable" which means it's underwater not viewable by drones . . . . Cudjoe, Little Torch, and Summerland all hit hard" O...
Boston.com offers readers 6 free webcams they can watch from Key West Florida. Don't read too much into this, but the Live Webcam broadcasts from Key West Florida suddenly went offline. Liveweb cams on Google's Youtube service are also offline. This apparently means the feed, or perhaps the power, has been cut. As I write this, Hurricane Irma is 78 miles from Key West and appears to be heading directly for the island city, home of La Conchas. The lost WebCams are titled "Live...
Update: This from Disney World, 9/10/2017, 7 pm PST: All: We have seen some recent coverage online from your media outlet that incorrectly states that we have not announced any closures. Here is what we shared yesterday afternoon. It would be great if you could please update your information. Based on the latest forecasts for Hurricane Irma and keeping safety top of mind, Walt Disney World Resort will be closed on Sunday,9/10 and Monday, 9/11. Resort hotels will remain open....
The United States Geological Survey reports an extremely powerful Magnitude earthquake has hit Mexico City. A tsunami is possible. An 8 earthquake would make it the largest earthquake anywhere on the planet this year, and the second largest earthquake ever to strike Mexico. The Richter magnitude scale (ML, also Richter scale) assigns a magnitude number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... As measured with a seismometer, an earthquake that registers 5.0 on the Richter...
Merchant Processing company went.com reports that Amazon Web services has contracted a virus or bug, which caused them to be off line for 24 hours. The email from Flint reads as follows: "Dear Flint Team, Over the past 24 hours our engineering team has been working around the clock on an issue regarding our servers. It turns out the issue was related to an AWS (Amazon Web Services) bug. We would like to inform you that the issue has been resolved and you should be able to acce...
Los Angeles police detectives are searching for a suspect after a hit-and-run in West Los Angeles that left a local woman dead. It happened at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday, August 30. The suspect was eastbound on Wilshire Blvd as the pedestrian crossed in the marked crosswalk at Federal Avenue. The driver struck the woman and fled the scene without stopping to help her, police said. The victim is a woman in her 50s. Police have declined to release her identity pending notification of...
Anuj Gupta's primary qualification seems to be that he worked for Democrat such as Gil Garcetti and Barack Obama. And as they usually do, the City of Santa Monica has awarded him with a quarter million dollars a year. Way to go, guys! City Manager Rick Cole has selected Anuj Gupta as Deputy City Manager and Director of Policy. Gupta, a Santa Monica resident, currently serves as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's General Counsel in the Office of Immigrant Affairs. He previously...
Legal Age is Bizarre It is generally accepted throughout the United States that to lawfully drive a vehicle on public streets and roads you must be at least 16 years of age. But upon reaching 16 years and passing both a written and practical test you may legally take out on public streets and roads a one ton vehicle often capable of speeds in excess of one hundred miles per hour and often in close proximity to scores of other people at any given time. So clearly those who...
Not since Wounded Knee in 1973, has there been such a great gathering of indigenous tribes as there were in Standing Rock. The first camps were set up in August, 2016, along the Missouri and Cannonball rivers. A year later, 2017, the tribe has achieved a significant victory over an environmental justice analysis. The case is Standing Rock v U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. What began as the protests aimed to protect and defend the water, sacred burial sites, and wildlife habitat...
A pedestrian was killed at about 5 am Weenesday morning, when he wandered into traffic on Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica Police said. The SSMPD "responded to a radio call for service regarding a traffic collision involving a pedestrian at the 1100 block of Pacific Coast Highway," wrote SMPD Spokesman Saul Rodriguez, Lt. Upon arrival, officers discovered a pedestrian in the roadway with significant injuries. The involved vehicle along with the driver were on scene when...
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District was ranked 29 in the 2018 Best School Districts in California by national academic ranking service, Niche. Nearly 500 school districts are included. The ranking is based on rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of reviews from students and parents using data from the U.S. Department of Education. "We are honored to be recognized for the extraordinary achievements of our students and teachers," Superintendent Dr. Ben Drati...
(August 7, 2017) – The fifth Whole Foods Market 365 opens Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 9 a.m. in Santa Monica, CA at 2121 Cloverfield Blvd at Pico. Regular store hours are 7 a.m. – 10 p.m., seven days a week. This will be the second Whole Foods Market 365 location for the Los Angeles area. The vibrant 30,000-square-foot space takes "neighborhood grocery store" to the next level with its mix of affordable grocery items, unique venues and retail innovations for customers seeking con...
Let's Take a Cruise! Not long ago my wife and I wanted to do something different that would be fun, take us somewhere we hadn't been before, didn't cost too much and with which we could include our granddaughter. We considered many options, many involving driving lots of miles and some involved commercial air travel. But as we talked a little voice in my head started singing: Love, exciting and new Come Aboard. We're expecting you. And Love, life's sweetest reward. Let it...
From SM City Hall, 8/7/17: Today, City Manager Rick Cole announced that Katie Lichtig has been selected to join him in leading the City of Santa Monica as Assistant City Manager/Chief Operating Officer. After a rigorous national search, Lichtig returns to Santa Monica where she began her career in local government as the Assistant to the City Manager for Management Services from 1992 to 2001. She has served as the City Manager for San Luis Obispo for the past 7.5 years and in...
