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Report: Pier water quality hit hard by dirty birds Two-day worker BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
SM PIER Water quality near the Santa Monica Pier dropped in 2012, reversing much-celebrated gains from the year before, according to a report released Thursday by local environmental group Heal the Bay. Santa Monica went from all A’s during dry weather in 2011 to a B-grade in the summer
and failing grades in both winter reporting periods, according to Heal the Bay’s Beach Report Card, an annual accounting of water quality on the West Coast. Other measurement areas in Santa Monica fared better, with the Montana Avenue, Wilshire Boulevard, Strand Street and Ashland Avenue storm drains all reporting top marks during dry weather. The culprit behind the drop in Santa
Monica’s GPA? Pigeons. The creatures some refer to as “rats with wings” roost underneath the Santa Monica Pier, dropping their waste into the water and bumping up the bacteria counts that Heal the Bay uses to judge water quality. High concentrations of bacteria can put SEE WATER PAGE 9
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WAY OF THE WALK: A man walks his dogs past a young pine tree on Dewey Street on Thursday. The street has recently been planted with new trees.
Forest task force blasts tree reports BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
KEN EDWARDS CENTER Members of the Urban Forest Task Force ripped into consultants’ reports on the health of Santa
Monica’s trees Wednesday, and vowed to send their concerns on to the City Council for further review. The reports examined a small sample of Santa Monica’s 35,000 street trees and management practices surrounding the multi-
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walkout ends at UC hospitals ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES A two-day strike by hospital workers ended on Thursday, with both sides claiming victory even though there was no resolution to a contract dispute involving staffing and pensions. The University of California said the vast majority of union workers had crossed picket lines to work at hospitals in several areas of the state. In a dueling statement, union officials insisted the overwhelming majority of workers had participated in the strike. The strike formally ended at 4 a.m. after thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room assistants and other health care workers joined the walkout organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Dr. John Stobo, senior vice president of the University of California’s Health Sciences and Services, said the strike caused problems for patients. “Make no mistake about it — (the strike) was extremely disruptive to patient care,” he said. “But the human costs were minimized by thousands of our employees who put their patients first.” Union spokesman Todd Stenhouse disagreed, saying the union’s court-validated patient protection plan was responsible for a lack of disruption. The union said a key issue in the labor dispute is dangerously low staffing levels. UC officials counter that the union is refusing to accept a new pension plan Green-shirted picketers marched outside medical centers, prompting the postponement of dozens of surgeries for patients at facilities in San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Francisco and Sacramento. About 450 union employees remained in critical jobs under court order.
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Say cheese Palisades Park 1450 Ocean Ave., 4 p.m. — 6 p.m. Local photographer Fabian Lewkowicz will teach a workshop on digital photography. Participants will learn photographic techniques and thematic considerations, then use that knowledge by taking photos of the surrounding landscape. No experience is required. Bring your own smartphone or digital camera, as well as a USB cable. The class costs $12 at the door, or you can register at ow.ly/jkZpG for $10. For more information, call (310) 458-2239. Live at McCabe’s McCabe’s Guitar Shop 3101 Pico Blvd., 8 p.m. Jay Nash will be performing with long-time drummer Josh Day, who has toured with Sara Bareilles. Also playing the show will be David Ramirez. Admission is $15. For more information, visit mccabes.com. Kats and hounds Sonny McLean’s 2615 Wilshire Blvd., 9:30 p.m. — 12:30 a.m. Kat and the Blues Hounds will play their monthly set at Sonny McLean’s Irish Pub. Enjoy a night of classic blues with a West Coast flair on some originals. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.sonnymcleans.com.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 Kung Fu fighting Santa Monica High School North Gym 601 Pico Blvd., 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. The fourth annual international Wushu Tournament is scheduled for
this weekend. The tournament brings together Wushu experts, competitors, coaches and enthusiasts alike for a day of masterful martial arts. Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors, and free for children under 5. For more information, visit www.wushucenter.com or call (310) 253-9006. Knit, knit, knit Fairview Library 2101 Ocean Park Blvd., 3:30 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. Knitting, conversation and tea. Admission is free. For more information, visit smpl.org. Classic movie night Santa Monica High School 601 Pico Blvd., 5:30 p.m. — 11:30 p.m. Eat-See-Hear, a Los Angeles outdoor movie series presented by Showtime, will be showing “The Princess Bride.” The event will also include live music and food trucks. General admission tickets are $10 and can be purchased online, as can $20 Popchips-sponsored “Fashionably Late” tickets that allow attendees to arrive late and still have access to premium reserved seating. There will also be a limited number of passes available at the door for $12. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit schedule.eatseehear.com. Goodbye to the Civic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 1855 Main St., 7:30 p.m. — 9:30 p.m. The Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra will be conducting a concert as a tribute to the Civic Auditorium, which is slated to be shuttered at the end of June. The concert is free. For more information, visit smsymphony.org.
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Local man commits suicide at UCLA
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office declared on Thursday that a body found near Boelter Hall at UCLA was that of a Santa Monica resident who committed suicide. The deceased was identified as Reynaldo Quitos, 47, a UCLA library employee who suffered “multiple traumatic injuries.” Quitos was an assistant in the Southern Regional Library Facility located across the campus. His body was found Tuesday. Quitos’ passing marks the second suicide this month on a college campus in the Los Angeles area. The first being Tian Lu, 30, a Santa Monica College student who jumped off a parking structure on May 4.
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BBB changes for Memorial Day The Big Blue Bus announced that buses will run on Memorial Day. BBB will run its Sunday schedule on Monday, May 27, to accommodate users of public transportation during the holiday. Regular service resumes on all routes on Tuesday. Routes that do not operate on Sundays will not operate on the holiday. For more information, call (310) 451-5444. — HC
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SMFD hosts free CPR training Get some hands-on, hands-only CPR training for free, in honor of National CPR Week. The American Heart Association is collaborating with the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency to coordinate a countywide effort to instruct hands-only CPR. Throughout the week, emergency responders and healthcare providers will be going out to demonstrate and teach how to save a life. The Santa Monica Fire Department will join the effort by hosting a CPR training session on June 4 at Santa Monica Place. The training will be four hours long and participants will practice on mannequins. The information learned will be valuable in an emergency but will not result in CPR certification, public safety officials said. However, information on how to get certified will be available. For more information call (310) 458-8651.
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HERE IT COMES: Santa Monica High School starting pitcher Whitney Jones delivers a pitch against Paloma Valley during the third round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 playoffs on Thursday. The Samohi Vikings would go on to win, 8-1.
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MEMORIAL PARK By the end of the first inning, it was clear who would be moving on. Santa Monica softball put a five spot on the scoreboard in the first frame punctuated by a leadoff home run by junior Sara Garcia that essentially spelled the end of Paloma Valley’s trip to the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 quarterfinals on Thursday at Memorial Park. The 8-1 win sends the Samohi Vikings to the division semifinals for the first time since the 2010 season when they won it all. For head coach Debbie Skaggs, this year’s squad made up of a number of underclassman, was a year away from competing for another championship. Come to find out, the future may be now. “This is huge,” Skaggs said. “[The} team already exceeded our standards this year.” The victory sets up a matchup on the road at Dos Pueblos in Goleta, Calif. The game begins at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. After blanking the Paloma Valley Wildcats in the top of the first inning, Samohi wasted little time stirring the pot. After Garcia’s lead-off homer, the next three Samohi
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It seems to me that there is a way to make sure all companies pay their fair share of taxes regardless of where they have set up their corporate offices. My proposed change to the IRS tax code: A corporation selling products or services operating in the U.S. pays taxes on all worldwide sales regardless of where an item was sold. The company can deduct taxes paid to other countries, but must deduct from those tax payments any incentives received from that other country. In no way may the tax burden on that company be less than the tax on the items or services sold in the U.S. This would remove incentives for companies to move to other countries, as well as offset incentives given to those companies to move out of the U.S. It should also make certain that all companies pay their fair share of taxes
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Not a fair measurement Editor:
At the historic Jan. 8 City Council meeting, over 200 people marched to save the Pico Youth & Family Center (PYFC), the only organic youth center built by Pico Neighborhood residents, and decry the City Hall reports as false. Twenty eight of 29 benchmarks were met, yet the city staff, under the direction of City Manager Rod Gould, asserted that PYFC did not pass the test. This is what rhetoric scholar Ralph Cintron calls the “Discourse of Measurement.” The city staff’s requirements, modes of measurement, and their selective (if flawed) interpretation of numbers makes up the discourse of measurement. Since the times the first Europeans landed in the Americas and read edicts in foreign languages, drew maps and claimed “ownership,” the discourse of measurement has been an “instrumental rationality.” It is a discourse with material effects. The discourse of measurement belittles other knowledge systems. This discourse of measurement does not measure love (of people or learning), intercultural understanding, self esteem, cultural awareness, improved relationships, new beginnings, mentorship, close calls, awakenings, safe spaces or inspiration. Like standardized testing, the discourse of measurement is not concerned with these things. The discourse of measurement magnifies the most minuscule of dangers and sets off a new round of instability. The discourse of measurement does not measure racism or challenge it. It is an instrument of (institutionalized) racism.
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Is this really how we want to honor our nation’s veterans? JUST IN TIME FOR MEMORIAL DAY, we’re
being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians, corporations and others with similarly self-serving motives eager to go on record as being pro-military. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring for her veterans. We erect monuments for those who die while serving in the military, yet for those who return home, there’s little honor to be found. Despite the fact that the U.S. boasts more than 23 million veterans who have served in World War II through Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, the plight of veterans today, while often overlooked, is common knowledge: impoverished, unemployed, lacking any decent health benefits, homeless, traumatized mentally and physically, struggling with depression, thoughts of suicide, marital stress. Making matters worse, thanks to Operation Vigilant Eagle, a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009, military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are also being characterized as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” As a result, these servicemen and women are finding themselves under surveillance, threatened with incarceration or involuntary commitment, or arrested, all for daring to voice their concerns about the alarming state of our union and the erosion of our freedoms. An important point to consider, however, is that the government is not merely targeting individuals who are voicing their discontent so much as it is locking up individuals trained in military warfare who are voicing feelings of discontent. Under the guise of mental health treatment and with the complicity of government psychiatrists and law enforcement officials, these veterans are increasingly being portrayed as ticking time bombs in need of intervention. In the four years since the start of Operation Vigilant Eagle, the government has steadily ramped up its campaign to “silence” dissidents, especially those with military backgrounds. Coupled with the DHS’ dual reports on right wing and left wing “extremism,” which broadly define extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” these tactics have boded ill for anyone seen as opposing the government. One particularly troubling mental health label being applied to veterans and others who challenge the status quo is “oppositional defiance disorder” (ODD). As journalist Anthony Martin explains, an ODD diagnosis “denotes that the person exhibits ‘symptoms’ such as the questioning of authority, the refusal to follow directions, stubbornness, the unwillingness to go along with the crowd, and the practice of disobeying or ignoring orders.” The case of 26-year-old decorated Marine Brandon Raub — who was targeted because of his Facebook posts, interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption, arrested with no warning, labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “conspiratorial” views about the government, detained against his will in a psych ward for standing by his views, and isolated from his family, friends and attorneys — is a prime example of the government’s war on veterans.
Raub’s case exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting Americans for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state. In a hearing on Aug. 20, government officials pointed to Raub’s Facebook posts as the sole reason for their concern and for his continued incarceration. Ignoring Raub’s explanations about the fact that the Facebook posts were being read out of context, Raub was sentenced to up to 30 days’ further confinement in a psychiatric ward. While in the psych ward, Raub reported being interrogated by medical staff about his views about the government and threatened by a doctor with brainwashing. Raub’s legal team, provided by The Rutherford Institute, immediately began petitioning the courts for his release. On Aug. 23, Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett declared the government’s case to be lacking in factual allegations and ordered Raub immediately released. However, for the tens of thousands of individuals detained under civil commitment laws every year, regaining their freedom is nearly impossible, predicated as it is on a bureaucratic legal and judicial system. Within days of Raub being seized at his Virginia home, news reports started surfacing of other veterans having similar experiences. That the government is using the charge of mental illness as the means by which to immobilize (and disarm) these veterans is diabolically brilliant. With one stroke of a magistrate’s pen, these service men are being declared mentally ill, locked away against their will, and stripped of their constitutional rights. Make no mistake, these returning veterans are being positioned as enemy number one. Given the government’s increasing view of veterans as potential domestic terrorists, it makes one think twice about a new Michigan law that adds a veteran designation on Michigan driver’s licenses and state IDs. Hailed by politicians as a way to “make it easier for military veterans to access discounts from retailers, restaurants, hotels and vendors across the state,” it will also make it that much easier for the government to identify and target veterans who dare to challenge the status quo. Particularly telling is a training exercise for the Explorers program, which trains young people for careers in law enforcement, in which teenaged boys and girls dressed like quasi-SWAT teams and armed with pellet guns attempt to take down “a disgruntled Iraq war veteran [who] has already taken out two people.” As a side note: this Explorers program is unnervingly similar to the Hitler Youth program used by the Nazis to indoctrinate young people into a police state mindset. This brings me back to present-day America, with its penchant for endless wars that empty our national coffers while fattening those of the military industrial complex. Does anyone else find it heartbreaking and ironic that we raise our young people on a steady diet of violence and military action, sell them on the idea that defending freedom abroad by serving in the military is their patriotic duty, then when they return home, bruised and battle-scarred and suddenly serious about defending their freedoms at home, we treat them like criminal suspects? Constitutional attorney and author JOHN W. WHITE HEAD is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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Miriam battles the bulldozers THE RECENT $4 MILLION BEAUTIFICATION
of Ocean Park Boulevard between Main Street and Lincoln Boulevard has received rave reviews. But Miriam Ginzburg, an Ocean Park resident since 1948, wasn’t one of them. One day during the construction Miriam was sitting in the house she’s lived in since 1957, when she had an unsettling experience. (Pun intended.) When the asphalt-flattening bulldozer rolled back and forth, Miriam’s walls shook, or, as she recalled, “It felt like a 7.0 earthquake.” She suddenly saw large cracks forming in her walls and ceiling. Fearing the house might collapse, Miriam ran outside and confronted the driver. (Ocean Park’s version of Tiananmen Square?) With a job to do, the driver wouldn’t back down but Miriam wouldn’t be steamrolled. (Pun intended number two.) After many phone calls to the city, Miriam was told her house was old and any damage was her responsibility. Thousands of dollars later, the cracks and foundation are fixed, but now Miriam is on a mission. For months Miriam has been rallying against overdevelopment in the city where she was raised, went to school and lived in for the past six decades. “I’m in for the long haul,” Miriam says proudly and I believe her. Miriam’s roots in Santa Monica go deep. Her mother and father, Ben and Hilda, who barely escaped the Holocaust (Ben was a Nazi prisoner of war for six years), moved here in 1948. When she was 5, Miriam went to Washington Elementary on Fourth Street (now Santa Monica Alternative School House) only blocks from her house. Miriam attended John Adams Jr. High and graduated from Santa Monica High in 1964. She is Santa Monica through and through, which is why it pains her to see the quality of life in our city suffer from massive real estate development. In 1957, Ben opened Benny’s Barber Shop on Main Street. (Between St. Matthew’s Thrift Store and the Pink Elephant bar.) It’s almost impossible to imagine such hatred now, but in the beginning his shop was picketed by local bigots carrying anti-Semitic signs. A “survivor,” Benny was not dissuaded and stayed in business 31 years. Benny was beloved in the neighborhood and for good reason. He was always giving free haircuts to kids from poor families. Around the holidays he would have Hilda take the kids to Sears and buy them new clothes. Benny only raised the price of haircuts once, to $3.50, in the 31 years. Sadly, in 1987, when his rent tripled due to gentrification of Main Street, Ben was forced to retire. But he always hoped Santa Monica wouldn’t turn into Westwood or Beverly Hills. This is exactly what Miriam
A different route A recent Daily Press article discovered that 20 percent of Santa Monica’s biggest employers are not compliant with ride share rules. Instead, those companies opt to pay for the option to drive into the city. So, this week’s Q-Line question asks: Do you think City Hall should crackdown on companies that don’t take the necessary steps to limit traffic by promoting ride sharing and other forms of alternative transportation? Contact qline@smdp.com before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in the weekend edition of the Daily Press. You can also call 310-573-8354.
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NO! Miriam Ginzburg in front of her Ocean Park Boulevard home. The longtime Santa Monica resident is waging a battle against development.
fears is happening right before her eyes. The first ominous sign may have come in the early 1960s when the city, using the power of eminent domain, seized the front of Miriam’s parents’ house (including the yard and the house’s bay window) to build the Fourth Street overpass. Since then, little by little, the city has developed the neighborhood to the point where now to be inside Miriam’s house sounds almost like being on the street. Because of busses, heavy trucks and sanitation vehicles all using Ocean Park, Miriam has installed two-ply and three-ply windows, but it can’t keep up with the increased noise. With traffic, gridlock, overcrowding and pollution seemingly getting worse by the day, Miriam attends city planning and City Council meetings to voice her concerns. “Sometimes I feel like cattle going to slaughter because no one seems to be listening,” she laments. “Developers have the money and power, but that’s not going to stop me, just like it didn’t stop my father.” Ben and Hilda were married 44 years and among the traits they passed on to Miriam were their commitment and strength. Recently retired, Miriam now has time for her two passions — her cockatiel birds, Rosie and Zoey, and her original oil paintings of Ocean Park’s picturesque landscapes and colorful characters. Like a modern day Paul Revere, she also goes door to door warning neighbors against over development. In addition, she writes letters to the editor, some of which have run in the Daily Press. In one, describing the new mall, she refers to it as “Dubai by the bay.” In another she laments that Santa Monica, which used to be a charming, sleepy beach town is becoming “Manhattan West.” There’s an old expression, “You can’t fight City Hall.”Given Miriam Ginzburg’s charm and chutzpah, all I can say is watch out City Hall. To join Miriam’s battle against overdevelopment in Santa Monica, e-mail Ellenbren@roadrunner.com. JACK can be reached at jnsmdp@aol.com.
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LOS ANGELES Google’s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers. The All Access service represents Google’s attempt to grab a bigger piece of the digital music market as more people stream songs over mobile phones. Such services are also meant to further wed smartphone users to Google’s Android operating system, where the search leader makes money from advertising and transactions on its digital content store, Google Play. For a monthly fee, All Access lets you listen to as much music as you want over an Internet connection. You can also download songs onto mobile devices for smooth playback later when you don’t have cellphone or Wi-Fi access. It’s worth a try for the discounted monthly rate of $8 if you sign up by the end of June. Those who sign up later will pay $10 a month, the same amount charged by the main competitors, Spotify and Rhapsody. Either way, you get the first month free and can cancel at any time. All Access works on the free Google Play Music app for Android devices and over Web browsers on computers — but not on the iPhone. (Spotify and Rhapsody work on both Android and the iPhone). Visually, the app that I tested on Google’s Nexus 4 smartphone is engaging. Iterating on the list-heavy layouts of its competitors, Google Play Music jazzes up the interface by adding plenty of big artist photos along with little animations, including bouncing equalizer bars and screen-size cover art that moves slowly back and forth when a song is playing. Some of the touch features require a pixie-like dexterity, though. It’s one downside to this solid entrant to the world of unlimited music streaming. You can re-order songs that are in your queue on the fly — something not offered by either Spotify or Rhapsody. But this takes gripping a very thin digital handle to the left of a song title and sliding it up or down. Because it’s much thinner than the thumb I’m using to grip it, I ended up playing songs that I only wanted to move, or deleting them from the queue by accident (which takes a swipe right or left). The options icon on each song title (three dots stacked on top of each other) is also tiny and caused frequent mis-taps. This means a lot of accidentally playing songs and mistakenly erasing queues that I had spent time creating. I wasn’t that impressed by the service’s recommendations, although perhaps it’s because I haven’t used it that much. It recommended artists “like Madonna” even though I don’t really listen to the Material Girl. The top recommendations were the same ones I saw onstage during Google’s official unveiling of All Access last week. Digging a little deeper revealed recommendations for other works by artists whose songs I already own, like Sara Bareilles or Maroon 5. But I could have looked that up on my own. Where the service starts to get interesting is in its radio function. Like other Internet radio plans, it takes some traits of a particular song and finds others like it somehow. Doing this with Reggie Watts’ comedic beatbox tune “(bleep) (bleep) Stack,” I discov-
ered the song fits within a kind of sub-genre of humorous rappers, after it played Flight of the Conchords’ “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros,” and MC Chris’ “I Want Candy.” I gave these songs a digital thumbs up, which marks them in a playlist so I can find them later. Google Play Music attempts to do something that Samsung Electronics Co.’s Music Hub did before it. Music Hub, which launched last July on Samsung’s Galaxy S III phone, blended four things: a music store, an online storage service, unlimited song streaming and an Internet radio player. Google’s app does all those things. In addition, because it comes as an update to the existing Google Play Music app, it preserved the music I took the trouble of uploading to my Google Music storage space prior to the revamp. When Google first launched its music store in November 2011, it merely sold songs or albums a la carte. But it offered users free online storage for up to 20,000 songs, including ones they had bought at other stores such as Apple Inc.’s iTunes. Starting last December, Google’s uploader software added the ability to scan your hard drive for songs and match them with songs Google already has on its servers. That way, you have to upload only the songs Google didn’t recognize. With that, your personal library of owned songs still exists, but the sense of ownership has blurred. With All Access, you still see your library of owned songs in a place called My Library on the Google Play Music app. A lot of that music is stored online, or in the cloud, and requires an Internet connection to listen to. But you can “pin” a song to download a copy for offline listening, something that Google Play Music and other cloud lockers had offered already. You can toggle the view in My Library to see everything you can access in the cloud, or just the stuff you can access on the device without a cellular or Wi-Fi connection. If you start running out of space, you basically “unpin” the song to free up the memory, even though your ownership still exists in the cloud. All Access also allows you to “pin” songs you don’t own. Copies will get downloaded for offline play. Or you can mark songs as favorites by adding them to My Library in the cloud. But because those favorites are stored in the same place as songs you actually own, your sense of ownership will suffer a hit. You might not know which is which until the All Access songs disappear should you ever stop paying the monthly fee. You can share songs from the app to the Google Plus social network, but there’s no Facebook integration as is the case with Spotify and Rhapsody. It also doesn’t integrate with Twitter’s new (hash)music service, the way Rdio and Spotify do quite well. Google’s new music service covers the fundamentals of unlimited on-demand music with Google-like solid execution. And with the radio function running on Google’s vaunted ability to tweak algorithms, it adds a healthy dose of serendipity to the mix, turning up songs and artists I wouldn’t have discovered on my own. That puts it at least on an equal footing with streaming services that have come before it and will persuade some subscribers of those services to switch. Although you need an Android phone to use All Access fully, I don’t believe that in itself will get Apple fans to drop their iPhones. But it’s one more nice thing Android has going for it.
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SUNDAY, MAY 19, AT 4:17 P.M., Officers responded to the 100 block of Broadway regarding a burglary at the Ocean Luxury Lofts & Suites. When police arrived they spoke with the owner, who said that one of his maids had entered a room to clean it. The room was being rented to someone staying long-term. When the maid opened the door to the room she saw a man inside who was not the tenant. She said the room looked like it had been ransacked. The man inside was yelling and pacing back and forth. The owner confronted the suspect, but he went back inside the room and shut the door. The owner then called the registered tenant, who confirmed that no one was supposed to be in his room. The owner checked a lock box where he keeps keys to the rooms and found it had been pried open and all the keys were gone. As officers approached the room, the suspect was seen leaving with two large trash bags full of property. The suspect was placed under arrest for burglary. He was identified as Gojel Lemaun Davis, 36, a transient. His bail was set at $50,000.
SATURDAY, MAY 18, AT 3:10 A.M., Officers responded to the 300 block of Santa Monica Boulevard — Hooters — regarding a report of someone trying to break into the restaurant. When officers arrived they took two men into custody. They then spoke with a witness who said he was inside the restaurant when he heard a loud bang and the sound of metal hitting a side door. He went outside to investigate and saw the two suspects trying to force open double-doors using a coat hangar and two knives. The suspects were identified as Jonathan Lincoln Paine, 26, and Tracy Lee Osbourne, 35; both of Long Beach, Calif. They were booked for burglary and possession of burglary tools. Their bail was set at $20,000 each.
FRIDAY, MAY 17, AT 12:55 A.M., Officers responded to a home on the 1400 block of Yale Street regarding a report of domestic violence. When officers arrived they made contact with the residents and began interviewing them. While inside the home officers said they could see methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in plain view. Officers used a canine to search the home and also allegedly found heroin in a bedroom. One of the suspects admitted that the drugs were hers and she was placed under arrest for possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. She was identified as Catrina Soldevila, 26, of Placerville, Calif. Her bail was set at $10,000.
THURSDAY, MAY 16, AT 3:55 A.M., Officers responded to the Loews Hotel, located at 1700 Ocean Ave., regarding a report of an assault that just occurred. When officers arrived they made contact with the alleged victim, who said that he was in the lounge having drinks when he was approached by the suspect, who wanted to speak with him. Both were staying at the hotel. The suspect was drunk, but cordial, police said. After speaking for some time, the victim walked into the lobby restroom and was immediately attacked by the suspect, who began striking him in the head with an unknown object, police said. The suspect then ran out of the front doors. The victim, who suffered many cuts to his head and arm, left the restroom and asked for help. The suspect was seen leaving the hotel. He was eventually arrested when he returned to the hotel at 11 a.m. to attend a conference. He was placed under arrest for assault with a deadly weapon. He was identified as Charles Carter, 31, of Encino, Calif. His bail was set at $30,000.
THURSDAY, MAY 16, AT 4:44 P.M., Officers responded to an apartment located in the 1500 block of Santa Monica Boulevard regarding a report of domestic violence. When officers arrived they spoke to a woman who said that her live-in boyfriend had accused her of cheating on him. When she tried to get her belongings, he allegedly threw her to the floor, took out a Katana-like sword and placed the sharpened edge to her throat. He then threatened to kill her before he slammed her head into kitchen cabinets and choked her, police said. A witness was able to separate the two before police arrived and placed the boyfriend under arrest for domestic violence, making criminal threats and assault with a deadly weapon. He was identified as Rickey Bolton, 33, of Santa Monica. His bail was set at $50,000.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, Police responded to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. on the Santa Monica Pier regarding a patron who refused to pay his bill. Employees at the restaurant said the man’s credit cards were declined and he did not have any other means of payment. He was placed under arrest for defrauding and innkeeper. He was identified as Vladimir Grishchenko, 22, of Sacramento, Calif. His bail was set at $500. editor@smdp.com
Editor-in-Chief KEVIN HERRERA compiled these reports.
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TREES FROM PAGE 1 arborist that WCA was deliberately planting defective trees and then charging to replace them. He also accused former city employees of being complicit. His charges are under review by the District Attorney’s Office. Wednesday night was the first time that task force members had a chance to speak to the reports themselves, which had originally been presented at their meeting in April when they’d had only a few hours to review dozens of pages of documents. They used the intervening month to go over the reports in detail. Task force members found fault in what they considered overly-rosy conclusions in a report by HortScience, the company that looked into the condition of the trees, and challenged the methodology used to select specimens that resulted in a sample that had little to do with the overall composition of Santa Monica’s tree population. They also took issue with a report by Management Partners, the consultant that hired HortScience, for not digging deeper after discovering shoddy billing practices followed by city officials in charge of monitoring the contract with WCA. Both reports concluded that although there were problems with the health of the trees and the consistency in the billing, the overall condition of the urban forest was fine and there were no obvious indications of fraud. City officials have accepted the conclusions in the report and WCA has since gone ahead with normal pruning and tree care after a period of months where work stalled so that HortScience and Management Partners could finish their reports. That didn’t sit well with Grace Phillips, chair of the task force. “I just don’t understand that math,” she said. The HortScience report, written by arborist James Clark, found that 30 of the 54 trees inspected were in poor or fair condition and reviewed pictures taken of severely damaged root systems, but ultimately concluded that poor-quality trees and circling and girdling roots were not pervasive problems in Santa Monica. Roots that grow in a circular pattern can eventually lead to girdling, a condition where the roots choke the tree off at its base, killing it. Despite the fact that more than half of the
trees sampled were considered to be in poor or fair condition and that many more that had been pulled by Robin Beaudry, the city arborist who raised the concerns, showed painfully girdled roots. “I just don’t understand how he gets from A to B,” Phillips said. Task force members also struggled with the depth of both reports, or lack thereof. That had more to do with the speed with which city officials reacted to the complaints by task force members, said Karen Ginsberg, director of the Community & Cultural Services Department. Officials had to keep the cost of the report under $5,000 to avoid putting the project out to a formal bidding process, which would have taken time, Ginsberg said. “We wanted to do this quickly,” she said. “We wouldn’t be here tonight, probably, had we gone out to bid.” The HortScience report came in under the $5,000 mark, but the low cost translated to a relatively small sample size. Clark chose every 20th tree to examine, a method called systematic sampling. That resulted in a mix of trees that had little to do with the variety encompassed by Santa Monica’s treescape, Phillips said, and would make it difficult to draw conclusions for the population. Given that there was no momentum for further study beyond an analysis of billing practices by city officials, the task force members concluded they had to raise their concerns to the City Council. “I don’t know what else to do,” Phillips said. Although the task force was unhappy with the results of the reports, City Hall has made moves in recent months to fix problems raised by both the task force and the reports themselves. The Public Landscape Division, which cares for the urban forest, will move to the Public Works Department under the eye of Martin Pastucha, the director. The department handles multiple large-scale contracts like that with WCA, and Pastucha himself has been responsible for street trees in other cities in which he’s worked. Public Works is still trying to assimilate the new division. When it comes into the fold, Pastucha first plans to fill key vacancies and meet with WCA to make his expectations for their contract clear. He would not elaborate on what that meant Wednesday night. ashley@smdp.com
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WATER FROM PAGE 1 swimmers, surfers and others who enjoy the beach at risk of illnesses like stomach flue, eye or ear infections, respiratory infections and full-body skin rashes, according to the report. It’s an issue that Santa Monica officials have faced before, and ultimately solved by installing a large net beneath the pier between 2009 and 2010 to ward off the avian invaders. That net, made out of high-density polyethylene twine, developed tears that gave the birds an opportunity to slip back into their old spots by the pier. Heal the Bay discovered the situation when weekly tests near the site began to turn up significantly higher levels of bacteria, said Kirsten James, director of water quality for the nonprofit. The pier scored a B for water quality during the summer, but between November and March, called the “winter dry” period, the scores began to slip into F territory, causing Heal the Bay officials to ask why. When they went down to investigate, they noticed tears in the netting, James said. City officials are already in the process of having the net replaced, and suspect the netting was vandalized. “The netting doesn’t tear that easily under normal conditions,” said Rick Valte, a principal civil engineer with City Hall. With that addressed, officials will be able to pinpoint any other potential factors in the precipitous drop in water quality. Overall, the Santa Monica Bay reported excellent water quality during the summer, with 92 percent of beaches up and down the coast earning A and B-grades, up 6 percent from the last report. Grades began to drop further north, with Malibu Pier taking a spot on the Beach Bummer’s list, a run-down of the 10 beaches with the worst water quality in California. Four of those, including Malibu Pier, were from Los Angeles County, down significantly from the 2012 report in which the county claimed seven of the bummers. That may reflect an improvement in Los Angeles water quality overall. This year, 86 percent of beaches in the county received A or B-grades, besting its five-year average by 16 percent. It fared even better during wet weather, increasing its number of clean beaches by 23 percent from the last year and 24 percent compared to its five-year average. There’s still work to do. Los Angeles County fell short by as much as 12 percent compared to the statewide average for each of the three time periods measured despite a helping hand from the weather, which pumped 3 inches less water into the Southland last year than the last five. Less rainfall means less water streaming
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NOT A GOOD SIGN: Water quality around the Santa Monica Pier declined in 2012.
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SHE’S IN THERE: Samohi's Sara Garcia beats a throw to first against Paloma Valley during the third round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 playoffs. Samohi would go onto win, 8-1.
SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 3 She cruised through six innings, scattering just four hits. It wasn’t until the seventh inning, holding a 8-0 lead, that she let up. Paloma Valley would breakthrough in the
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Stocks edge lower as investors reassess Federal Reserve fears STEVE ROTHWELL AP Markets Writer
NEW YORK Investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on Wall Street that sent stocks sharply lower. U.S. markets plummeted immediately after the opening bell Thursday following a global slump prompted partly by an unexpected slowdown in Chinese manufacturing. Concern that the Federal Reserve might ease back on its economic stimulus program sooner than expected had also riled investors. The dip gave investors who missed this year’s stock market surge an opportunity to get into the market, and by midday the market had recouped most of its early loss. Stocks even climbed into positive territory by midday, then ended the day marginally lower. “Most institutions, most hedge funds and most individuals have watched the market go up without them, so the dips are being bought,” said Jim Russell, regional investment director at U.S. Bank. “There’s a very strong case for U.S. stocks.” For the most part, the U.S. stock market has been going up steadily since the beginning of the year, with only infrequent declines. Investors’ optimism has been stoked by a pickup in hiring at U.S. employers, a recovery in the housing market and record profits at U.S. corporations. All that has helped push the Dow up 16.7 percent this year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is 15.7 percent than at the start of 2013. On Thursday, however, trading was volatile. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day just 12.67 points lower, or 0.1 percent, at 15,294.50. It fell as much as 127 points during the first hour of trading. A sell-off in global markets came after minutes from the latest Fed meeting, released Wednesday afternoon, indicated that several policymakers were leaning toward slowing the central bank’s bond-buying program as early as June if the economy continues to recover. The central bank is spending $85 billion a month buying bonds. That program has been keeping interest rates low in an effort to encourage borrowing, spending and investing. It’s also meant to encourage investors to buy risky assets like stocks. Investors were also unsettled by the
report that showed manufacturing in China, the world’s No. 2 economy, unexpectedly shrank this month. HSBC Corp. said the preliminary version of its monthly purchasing managers index had dropped to a sevenmonth low. China’s booming economy has been a major driver of global growth in recent years and investors worry when they see signs that it’s slowing down. Stocks fell sharply in Asia Thursday. Japan’s Nikkei index dropped 7.3 percent after news was released about the slowdown in Chinese manufacturing. The declines extended to Europe, where Germany’s DAX index, which has been at a record high, slid 2.1 percent. The sell-off looked set to continue when trading opened in New York, but the market quickly hit bottom and reversed course. Some investors also reevaluated the concern about the Fed easing, or tapering, its economic stimulus program. Any pullback of the Fed’s stimulus should be seen as a positive signal because it would mean that the U.S. economy is getting stronger, said Joe Quinlan, chief market strategist at U.S. Trust. “When the Fed starts to taper, the fundamentals of the U.S. economy have improved even further than we have already seen,” said Quinlan. “The Fed tapering is actually a good story for U.S. equities and the economy.” Encouraging news about the U.S. economy also helped the case for stock market bulls Thursday. Sales of new homes rose in April to the second-highest level since the summer of 2008, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Also, the median price for a new home hit a record high, another sign that housing is recovering. There was good news on the labor market, too. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth, the Labor Department said. That suggests employers are laying off fewer workers. The decline in claims has coincided with steady job growth over the past six months. In other U.S. stock trading, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed down 4.84 points to 1,650.51, or 0.3 percent. The Nasdaq composite fell 3.88 points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,459.42.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. One of the quietest players in NFL history sure had a lot to say Thursday. Former Denver Broncos center Tom Nalen made up for all those “no comments” during his 15-year career during an extraordinary half hour that at times showed precisely why he was wise to stay silent rather than speak his mind. While meeting with the media to talk about his election into the team’s Ring of Fame, Nalen insisted he wasn’t a dirty player but acknowledged trying to injure San Diego Chargers defensive lineman Igor Olshansky in a game in Denver in 2006. Nalen dived at Olshansky’s knees while his quarterback was spiking the ball in the waning seconds of a game the Chargers held on to win 35-27 on Nov. 19, 2006. Olshansky threw two punches at Nalen and was ejected. Both players were fined. Nalen insisted it wasn’t a cheap shot but payback for what had happened on the previous play. At the time, his teammates said Olshansky had grabbed Nalen’s facemask. Asked what was the difference between being dirty and being tough, Nalen said: “Probably penalties. You get called for it, right? No, I played clean football. I wasn’t a cut blocker, I wasn’t like those other four guys next to me. Those were the dirty ones. If you’re cut-blocking at center, you’re doing the wrong thing probably. So, I wouldn’t consider myself a dirty player.” “I know people will bring up the Igor Olshansky play in 2006,” Nalen added, “but if people would look at the play before that and realize why I did what I did — and even on that play I missed the cut — so you know definitely I wanted to blow his knee out on that play because of what happened the play before. But that, you know, is that dirty? I don’t know. It’s revenge, kind of, so.” Too bad he wasn’t quoted more often during his playing days, someone suggested. “I know,” Nalen concurred. “I needed to save it all. So, I can spew it out.” Actually, Nalen’s been speaking his mind on his ESPN radio show he shares with Les Shapiro in Denver over the last several months, but this had to be the first time he was asked — and answered — 40 questions. Except for rare exceptions during his playing career, Nalen stuck to the offensive linemen’s code of silence that was fostered by his position coach, Alex Gibbs, who recently returned to the Broncos as an offensive consultant. Nalen said he hasn’t heard from Gibbs but can only guess what he’d think of his radio gig: “sellout, hypocrite, all that good stuff.” The 42-year-old Nalen played 14 seasons with the Broncos, including their back-to-back Super Bowl years, before a balky knee sidelined him in 2008, after which he retired as a five-time Pro Bowl player. His 188 career starts are secondmost in franchise history behind John Elway. During his career, Denver’s running backs topped 1,000 yards 11 times and the 395 sacks allowed by the Broncos during his tenure were the third-fewest in the league over that span. His induction ceremony will be at halftime of the Broncos’ game against Philadelphia on Sept. 29, and Nalen said that
while he’s thrilled to be the 24th member of the Ring of Fame, he’s dreading his acceptance speech already. “At halftime, I’m hoping there won’t be 76,000 fans. Hopefully, they’ll be getting a beer when I’m speaking for 12 seconds or so,” he said. “I’m not looking forward to that at all, no. I think I’ll put my helmet on, I’d feel much more comfortable.” Centers and safeties don’t tend to get bronze busts in Canton, Ohio, and Nalen isn’t counting on getting elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame anytime soon, but he said getting into the team’s Ring of Honor means more anyway. “It comes from the team. I spent 15 years here and they felt like I was worthy of the 23 other guys that are in the Ring of Fame and that means a lot because they knew everything about me, warts and all,” Nalen said. Asked for his secret to sticking around so long with one team, he cracked, “I had naked pictures of somebody.” Actually, in the era of the 300-pound-plus linemen, at 280 pounds, Nalen said he was the prototype for Gibbs’ and Mike Shanahan’s zone-blocking schemes that highlighted agility and lateral movement more than raw power and bigger bodies. Elway called Nalen “the epitome of grit, toughness and athleticism for centers.” Nalen was stunned when team president Joe Ellis surprised him with the news of his election on his radio show Wednesday. He said he never expected to get elected — that’s why he promised so many different teammates toward the end of his career that they could introduce him if he ever made it. “Two of my kids were old enough to watch me play and my youngest was not,” Nalen said. “My kids know what I did but this gives them some sort of tangible evidence that Daddy did his job well and was honored for it,” Nalen said. “I think it’s pretty cool. I got in my back pocket: ‘Daddy’s name’s going to be on the stadium, so, you know, do your damn homework.’” Nalen also acknowledged he was intimidated by Elway, the team’s Hall of Fame quarterback who is now the Broncos’ executive vice president. “Even his last year in ‘98 was my fifth year and I still couldn’t get the strength to go up and ask the guy for an autograph, I was so intimidated,” Nalen said. Nalen said that while he hated the meetings, he still loves football and wants to coach offensive linemen in college or the pros someday. He helped out high school teams in the Denver area for four years after his playing career was over but found the Xs and Os too remedial. He said he got no responses to any of the 50 resumes he sent out to small colleges, however. Nalen even spoke with Elway a couple of years ago “and he said he was going to put me on a list, but that list must be pretty long,” Nalen said. “I would like to coach football. It’s in my blood. It’s what I like to do. It’s where I’m most comfortable. But I don’t think it’s going to happen, so I’m cool with it now. I kind of resigned myself. I mean, I was putting out resumes to Division III schools that you never heard of in New England and got no reply,” Nalen said. He said he’d love to tutor Broncos center J.D. Walton “and go out and drink beers after, too.”
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■ When Evan Ebel was killed in a roadside shootout in March, it was clear that he was the man who had days earlier gunned down the head of the Colorado prison system (and his wife) at the front door of their home and then fled (and killed another man while on the lam). Ebel should not even have been free at the time, having been accidentally released from prison in January only because a judge's assistant had mistakenly marked Ebel's multiple prison terms to be served "concurrently" instead of one following the other ("consecutively"). (The supervising judge "extend(ed) condolences" to the families of Ebel's victims.) [Reuters, 4-1-2013] ■ Apparently feeling feisty after a successful stint in February hosting the Bassmaster Classic, local officials in Tulsa, Okla., announced in April that they were considering preparing a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. (The Winter Games sometimes get awarded to small venues, but never the Summer Games.) [Associated Press via ABC News, 4-27-2013]
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