Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Residocracy, a group known mostly for snarky remarks on their Facebook page, held a Rally and Kickoff for the LUVE Ballot Initiative Petition signature-gathering campaign. LUVE's supporters say the it will require voter approval for major developments, and for Developer Agreements. The City of Santa Monica is famous for signing Developer agreements that promise parks, schools, funding for programs, low income housing, even ice skating rinks-and then the agreements are completely ignored and...
The New York Times reports that Zika virus has begun to spread across Puerto Rico, now the United States' front line in the epidemic. Zika is asymptomatic for the great majority of people. However, for pregnant women, it is a disaster because it can cause an infant to be born with a small head and brain (in medial terms, "microcephaly"). Zika virus has also occasionally caused paralysis in adults. (It should be noted that linkages of Zika to microcephaly and paralysis are intuitive and based on...
War of the Letters: Airport Group Calls for City Attorney to Resign From: Jonathan Stein Subject: City Attorney Marsha Moutrie resignation and Atlantic Aviation Lease Renewal for which she vehemently argues All, It has been an open secret at City Hall for several months that City Attorney Marsha Moutrie is being forced into resignation, in part because she epitomizes the preference for special interests shown by our City Council, and in part for her utter contempt for residents who might...
Jenny Resnick, who teaches accounting and personal finance courses at Santa Monica College (SMC), was shocked to hear her daughter – a recent college graduate – say that her contemporaries consider themselves "the generation of despair; the American dream is not alive [for them]." SMC Associate Professor of Accounting Ming Lu hears students bemoan the costs of their education but notices that they're wearing expensive clothes and carrying the latest gadgets. Eleni Hioureas, vice-chair of SMC...
Clive Owen is always a welcome presence in any film, but particularly in one as smartly subtle and engaging as Bob Nelson's THE CONFIRMATION, and in which Owen shares the screen with (and is often upstaged by) one of the greatest young talents of the next generation, Jaeden Lieberher. THE CONFIRMATION is quietly moving, laced with the humor and pain inherent to life. A beautiful character study in the dynamics of a father and son, the chemistry between Owen and Lieberher is magical - and...
Award season in Hollywood is always an exciting time and the 2016 Oscar season was witness to a variety of different gifting suites happening all around tinsel town in honor of the nominees. Los Angeles based niche entertainment agency, Distinctive Assets was once again the host of their flagship Oscar gift bag. This year they treated the stars to an array of exciting and cutting edge brands and products from the USA and international. Distinctive Assets is a leader in celebrity gifting was...
THE BRITISH COMMUNITY in Santa Monica lost one of its more famous members last week, with the death of musician Keith Emerson, keyboardist of the English supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer and one of the key figures of the progressive-rock era in the 1970s. Emerson was found dead on Friday at his home on Fifth Street in Ocean Park, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Emerson's death was confirmed by Martin Darvill, an associate of Mr. Emerson's longtime manager, Stewart Young....
Still in the midst of spring break and with baseball season fast upon us, it's a moviegoing grand slam this week with everything from a biopic on an American institution, Hank Williams, to a foul-mouthed, hard talking, stuck-in-the-past Olympic bronze medalist comedy to the tenderness of a young woman with Asperger's looking for love to a look at one aspect of the greatest American pastimes, baseball. First up to the plate. . . FASTBALL Justin Verlander. Sandy Koufax. Bob Gibson. Bob Feller....
(From our March 3, 2014 issue, with an update at the end.) Olaf Pooley is a very special man. He turns 100 years old on March 13. This man has seen many changes throughout the years he's been alive. Having lived through both World War I and World War 2 and countless other wars, this man has seen it all. He was born in Parkstone, Dorset, England on March 13, 1914. His father was English and his mother was Danish. Olaf was a student of architecture at the Architectural Association, London, and of...
For over 30 years, American Family Housing (AFH) has been providing a continuum of housing and a broad spectrum of related services to vulnerable populations facing barriers to achieving housing stability, including war veterans and adults with disabilities and mental illness. Operating 63 housing sites, with 283 units that serve more than 1,300 adults and children each year in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties, AFH is committed to permanently ending the cycle of homelessness-helpi...
Belgian police have announced that they have charged three men for terrorist offenses Saturday, including a man notorious as the "man in the hat" shown on surveillance video at Brussels Airport minutes before Tuesday's attacks. Belgian prosecutors confirmed that they have charged a man identified as "Faycal C." for "involvement in a terrorist group, terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder." Belgian state TV and the newspaper Le Soir ("The Evening"), identified the suspect as Faisal...
A knife reportedly found at the O.J. Simpson's former estate is not connected to the one-time football star's infamous 1994 murder case, Los Angeles police confirmed Friday. Forensic testing concluded that the small buck knife was unrelated to the grisly deaths of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, the Los Angeles Times reported. The strange blade, allegedly found when Simpson's Brentwood manse was being leveled in 1998 and kept as a souvenir by a retired...
