The Local Issue 10

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ISSUE 10, VOLUME 1 MAY 2015 Founder, Editor in Chief

CECE S. WOODS Co-Founder

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STEVE WOODS Executive Editors

CURATORS OF COASTAL CULTURE

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MALIBU LEFT: Debbie Frank, co-host Chris Cortazzo, Carol Levy and Sean Vanderwilt.

On April 30, 2015, Franco Simplicio and Chris Cortazzo hosted a special evening of fun, food and cocktails at the Sunset Restaurant and Beach Bar, in support of Pilot Light, an organization that is working in Africa with people living in extreme poverty, helping them to become economically self-sufficient. Both Chris and Franco are members of the Pilot Light Leadership Board. The event was attended by 150 people who enjoyed the delicious food and wine and the energetic entertainment provided by Sean Vanderwilt. “ Chris and Franco so generously underwrote the entire cost of the event, so 100% of money raised went directly to Pilot Light projects.” - Carol Levy

ABOVE: The event’s live entertainment.

LEFT: Janette Mallory and co-host Franco Simplicio.

Like you have nothing else to do... here is one more thing to add to the list.

the Coastal Development Permit Final EIR No 14-036 by the City of Malibu was posted recently for the unwanted La Paz project to widen PCH and those developers who want to piggy back off this nightmare so we can enjoy more un-wanted development and traffic congestion for generations to come.

Obviou$ly written in the developer$ favor with a developer$ $lant as if the TWO Sycamore trees that are condemned to be axed are only ONE 41 inch tree combined. A one way business loop starting from Webb Way could avoid a PCH widening and the cutting down of Malibu’s most revered native Sycamore trees. Pathetic little one gallon replacements will not reverse the damage done to our scared old ancient native Sycamore Trees in the name of unwanted commercial development profits if they are mowed down.

Please write, do or say what ever you can, to stop this madness before it is too late. Please write our City Council members or show up at the next city council meeting to let our representatives know that this is unacceptable . Let everyone you know about this travesty that will invite increased traffic congestion to local commuters as well as out of town beach visitors. Why should out of non resident developers be allowed to degrade our quality of life for development that we do no want?

Pass this on to those who want to preserve our rural coastal character and Malibu’s Mission Statement Goals.

- Steve Woods

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CINCO DE MAYO

SWELL

By Steve Woods

Allen Sarlo, the mayor of Surfrider takes the high line over the previous mayor of Malibu Skylar Peak. Photo by Dan Merkel

With plenty of time to prepare for the build up of the now famous Cinco de Mayo swell, XXL big wave riders headed to Chile where giant surf was predicted to be the biggest. Other international Pros went to Puerto Escondido in Mexico where some of the biggest surf ever paddled into was pushing the limits of what was survivable. Surf camps along Mexico and Central America were booked up in anticipation. Good friends drove 24 hours down into deepest Baja to meet up with what could be an epic swell with no one around only to find that many others had similar dreams . Though the swell was expected to degrade before it hit Malibu’s shores, it still packed a punch at Surfider and Zuma.

The masses who could not travel to exotic surf spots seemed to congregate at Surfrider where just finding a parking spot was a challenge ,much less a wave without 200 of your best friends . The beach breaks were mostly walled up for the big southern Hemi but the strongest paddlers and the most patient found some perfect little corners if you knew where to look.

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SHIFTING BASELINES

By Randy Olson

Slow-Motion Disaster Below the Waves

When I first read Randy Olson’s article, ’Shifting Baselines’ in Surfing Magazine ( and again later in a Patagonia publication ) I thought this article would be appreciated by those of us in Malibu who may or may not be aware of our subtle coastal shifting and why it matters for the future. Since, I have had the pleasure of becoming friends with Randy who is a Malibu local, a surfer, a writer, a scientist and ecologist and convinced him to let The Local republish this informative piece.

Malibu has changed quite a bit since the first Europeans arrived on our shores. Landscapes and coastal ecosystems have changed and depending where you start a baseline comparison, some things have degraded while other things have improved. Traffic has become worse since the 60’s, but the endangered brown pelicans are populous. Grizzily bears are gone but grey whales and dolphins are thriving again. Some types of pollution have been improving while other types of pollution has become worse. By measuring data now we can find a baseline for changes in the future that we can use to correct. The City of Malibu needs traffic baseline studies to determine future development impacts on PCH. The Malibu Lagoon Restoration was mandated to have monitors to test dissolved oxygen salinity, temperature levels that have shown improvements in water quality. Heal The Bay is conducting water quality testing to determine baselines that can help find sources of harmful bacteria. I ran into a team of scientist from all the way up from San Diego to Deer Creek this winter because they needed a baseline data source of natural bacteria from a Southern California stream that had no upstream human development and Deer Creek was the only one they could find.

Some changes are obvious while many other changes are too subtle to notice without detailed baseline comparisons. - Steve Woods There is a new term in the environmental movement. It sounds esoteric, like the kind of thing you don’t really need to understand, something you can leave to the more technical types.

The term is “shifting baselines,” and you do need to know it, because shifting baselines affect the quality-of-life decisions you face daily. Shifting baselines are the chronic, slow, hard-to-notice changes in things, from the disappearance of birds and frogs in the countryside to the increased drive time from L.A. to San Diego. If your ideal weight used to be 150 pounds and now it’s 160, your baseline -- as well as your waistline -- has shifted.

The term was coined by fisheries biologist Daniel Pauly in 1995. It was a term we’d apparently been needing, because it quickly spread to a variety of disciplines. It’s been applied to analysis of everything from deteriorating cities to declining quality of entertainment.

Among environmentalists, a baseline is an important reference point for measuring the health of ecosystems. It provides information against which to evaluate change. It’s how things used to be. It is the tall grass prairies filled with buffalo, the swamps of Florida teeming with bird life and the rivers of the Northwest packed with salmon. In an ideal world, the baseline for any given habitat would be what was there before humans had much impact.

If we know the baseline for a degraded ecosystem, we can work to restore it. But if the baseline shifted before we really had a chance to chart it, then we can end up accepting a degraded state as normal -- or even as an improvement.

The number of salmon in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River today is twice what it was in the 1930s. That sounds great -- if the 1930s are your baseline. But salmon in the Columbia River in the 1930s were only 10% of what they were in the 1800s. The 1930s numbers reflect a baseline that had already shifted.

This is what most environmental groups are now struggling with. They are trying to decide: What do we want nature to look like in the future? And more important: What did nature look like in the past?

These questions are particularly important to ask about oceans, my main research interest. Last year Jeremy Jackson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography brought the problem into focus with a cover article in Science that was chosen by Discover magazine as the most important discovery of the year.

Jackson and his 18 co-authors pulled together data from around the world to make the case that overfishing had been the most important alteration to the oceans over the past millennium. Furthermore, humans have had such a strong effect on the oceans for so long that, in many locations, it is difficult to even imagine how full of life the oceans used to be.

One of scientists’ biggest concerns is that the baselines have shifted for many ocean ecosystems. What this means is that people are now visiting degraded coastal environments and calling them beautiful, unaware of how they used to look.

People go diving today in California kelp beds that are devoid of the large black sea bass, broomtailed groupers and sheephead that used to fill them. And they surface with big smiles on their faces because it is still a visually stunning experience to dive in a kelp bed. But all the veterans can think is, “You should have seen it in the old days.”

MALIBU Without the old-timers’ knowledge, it’s easy for each new generation to accept baselines that have shifted and make peace with empty kelp beds and coral reefs. Which is why it’s so important to document how things are -- and how they used to be.

For the oceans, there is disagreement on what the future holds. Some marine biologists argue that, as the desirable species are stripped out, we will be left with the hardiest, most undesirable species -- most likely jellyfish and bacteria, in effect the rats and roaches of the sea. They point to the world’s most degraded coastal ecosystems -- places like the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, even parts of the Chesapeake Bay. That’s about all you find: jellyfish and bacteria.

We have already become comfortable with a new term, “jellyfish blooms,” which is used to describe sudden upticks in the number of jellyfish in an area. The phenomenon has become sufficiently common that an international symposium was held on the subject in 2000. Meanwhile, other types of world fisheries are in steep decline.

It is easy to miss changes in the ocean. It’s big and deep. But sometimes, if people have studied the same oceanic trends over time, we get a glimpse of a highly disturbing picture. The Scripps Institution’s Jackson, for example, has documented the nearly complete disappearance of the ecosystem he built his career studying: the coral reefs of Jamaica. “Virtually nothing remains of the vibrant, diverse coral reef communities I helped describe in the 1970s,” Jackson says. “Between overfishing, coastal development and coral bleaching, the ecosystem has been degraded into mounds of dead corals covered by algae in murky water.” Nothing you would want to make into a postcard. Next year two major reports will be released on the state of the oceans: the Oceans Report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the report of the U.S. Oceans Commission. The advance word on both is that the news will not be good.

The last major U.S. report on the oceans was 30 years ago. That report warned that “there may be a risk some day of severely declining oceans.” The inside word on the upcoming reports is that they will conclude that the oceans are today in severe decline.

The Ocean Conservancy, Scripps Institution and the Surfrider Foundation are mounting a major media campaign for early next year to call attention to the overall fate of the oceans and the problem of shifting baselines. The solutions are already known: We must care more about the environment and work to prevent its decline. Hundreds of environmental groups have action plans to help achieve such goals. The only thing they are lacking is mass support.

The oceans are our collective responsibility. We all have to ask the questions: What did they used to look like? What are we putting into them? Where did these fish we are eating come from? Are my food preferences jeopardizing the health of the oceans?

And, in a more philosophical vein, we should consider the shifting baselines in our own lives, examining how and where have we lowered our standards to the point that we accept things that once would have been unacceptable. Our environment has clearly suffered from our increasing comfort with shifting baselines. I suspect our lives have suffered in other ways as well. http://www.shiftingbaselines.org/op_ed/index.html

Shifting Baselines seems to be manifesting on Malibu’s Shores...

An unprecedented number of elegant Terns have invaded some Malibu beaches

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with numbers reaching over 3,000 at the Malibu Lagoon.

These migratory birds usually make a quick stop over while following schools of anchovies from the north to their breeding grounds in Mexico but this year, instead of groups of 20- 40, thousands of these loud squawkers have decided to stick around. Bird enthusiasts are intrigued to see such an unusual phenomena and it is being reported that the birds are actively mating in preparation of nesting but will conditions lead to local nesting?

One day while watching a large group of Terns on the perch island, I observed the funny courtship antics of the males dancing around females with little fish offerings in their large orange beaks. The crowd of these social aliens cracked me up when I saw two males both with fish in their beaks insisting that one special female take their offering and every time the female stepped in to take a male offering , the other male blocked the other just as the female was about to take the little fish out of his mouth.

Large numbers of Pelicans that were on the the endangered list in the 70’s are also hanging out with their noisy cousins on the shores of the new islands and are fishing both in the lagoon and out at sea. - Steve Woods

Photo by Tim Horton

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MALIBU HOT SUMMER KEVIN COSTNER AND THE MODERN WEST FEATURED AT FIRST ANNUAL MALIBU GUITAR FESTIVAL

By Ben Marcus Google “Can Kevin Costner sing?” and the first hit is a YouTube video of Kevin Costner and Modern West doing a rocked-up version of Mr. Tambourine Man. They’re a little loud, might be a little tipsy, but it sounds good. Costner connects with the audience, and reminds them that the song was written by Bob Dylan and made famous by The Byrds.

This is Kevin Costner, the actor – whose first credit – coolly enough – goes back to 1981: Malibu Hot Summer. Since then, Costner has been very good in some very good movies He’s one of those actors – like Robert Duvall or Sean Penn – whose greatness unfolds on IMDB: Untouchables, No Way Out, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Dances With Wolves, Waterworld, Tin Cup and many many more.

Three Golden Globes, two Oscars an Emmy and a nice living.

What else can a poor boy do, but sing for a country and western band? Kevin Costner is coming to Malibu on May 17, as one of the featured performers for the all-star, all-day jam on the final day of the First Annual Malibu Guitar Festival.

On Sunday, May 17, Costner will take the stage at 5:00 PM – after Orianti, before White Buffalo - at the grand finale of a four-day event that hopes to establish itself as one of the premier music festivals on the California coast – and lure a lot of musical talent from behind the gates and out of the canyons of Malibu, and into the light.

Maybe even that tambourine dude himself. We all know Malibu has been home to a great deal of musical talent – from Jascha Heifetz to Joni Mitchell to Sting to some Chili Peppers and even Hannah Montana. There’s a great deal of musical talent hidden away behind gates and up canyons and along the beaches of Malibu. Legends. Everywhere. The Malibu Guitar Festival aspires to establish itself as a world-class musical event, which could draw those local heroes from behind the gates and onto the stage.

The First Annual Malibu Guitar Festival begins Thursday, May 14 with a benefit for the Malibu Boys and Girls Club, Little Kids Rock and The Malibu Special Education Foundation.

Featured performers for opening night include Rebel Soul Children featuring Randy Jackson and special guests, along with Robby Krieger from The Doors, Heartbreaker Steve Ferrone, Marcus Eaton and DJ Eve Speciall.

Tickets and information on the entire festival schedule and lineup are available at: www. malibuguitarfestival.com

BEHIND THE SCENES Jim Jordan is a world-renowned fashion and celebrity photographer based in LA and NYC. He has shot for many fashion magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair, and Marie Claire; as well as exclusive campaigns such as Mercedes Benz and American Express. He has also shot many celebrities including Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba, Mila Kunis, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Drew Barrymore to name a few. www. jimjordanphotography.com

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ABOVE: Goji berries are one of the key ingredients in the Epicurean Himalayan Superfruit Enzyme Treatment at Veronica Spa & Skincare.

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A new treatment has come to Malibu; it’s haled as one of the best facials around town. It’s called the Epicuren Himalayan Superfruit Enzyme treatment.

It is an incredible exotic enzyme puree of Pomegranate, Goji, Bilberry, blueberry, Cranberry, Acai, and Noni.

It dissolves lifeless skin cells while their seeds delicately buff them away.

It leaves your skin hydrated and dewy, its also the perfect summer facial as its one of the only peels that you don’t have to hide from the sun, even though we all know a daily SPF is essential.

Sliced agate, wood beads with black diamonds, turquoise and ivory are just some of the key pieces you’ll need to dress your best for this festival - style staple to bring you straight into the summer season.

The treatment is available at Veronica Spa and Skincare, which is a local favorite. I have always referred to Veronica as the godmother of skincare she has helped and educated so many of us on the importance of looking after your skin, she is passionate and dedicated and also has her own skincare line.

With the launch of her new Spa at the Malibu Beach Inn, the treatment is also available overlooking the ocean.

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LIFESTYLE It’s a lifestyle Two great sources of protein for the vegan athlete are quinoa, top left served with almond milk and fresh berries and below, a delicious black bean “burger” served on a whole wheat bun with organic veggies.

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VEGAN ATHLETE THE

By Diana Nicholson

Is it possible to be Vegan and athletic? Absolutely, it’s not only possible it’s more common than you think. Whether your an athlete (someone who trains all day for compeition) or have an active lifestyle (someone who exercises regularly) or if your reason’s are purely esthetic, a plant based diet can be very effective.

Clinical studies found that vegans performed endurance tests 2 to 3 times longer than meat-eaters and took one fifth the time of meat-eaters to recover. These top athletes didn’t need meat for strength and energy.

Proffesional tennis players eat bananas between games not burgers. Tri-athletes don’t eat steak the night before a competiton they eat pasta.

The big question is “where do I get my protein from?” I say a better question is where don’t we get our protein from? There’s protein in almost every whole food. The average American meat eater’s intake is double the recommended protein, which means a lot of fat, and increased cancer risk. The world’s largest, most comprehensive study of nutrition found that protein from animal sources, even at low levels, is associated with disease. The safest proteins are known to come from plants.

The belief that only protein gives energy and protein equals meat, are both myths. We need protein, but not for energy, and ample protein is available from a multitude of sources besides meat. It’s plentiful in beans, corn, lentils, peas, chick peas, oatmeal, broccoli, tofu, nuts, and wholemeal bread.

Once animal products are eliminated, so is a large portion of the fat. Cutting all fat out of the diet is not the goal, although saturated fat should be minimized for optimum performance. A very low fat diet is okay for a low to moderately active person. However, a highly active person, especially an endurance athlete who has adopted a plant-based diet, will benefit by adding good quality fats to his/her meals. As with protein, fat helps to slow the rate at which the carbohydrate enters the bloodstream, providing sustained, consistent energy. Flax and hemp are extremely valuable to the vegan athlete because they contain omega-3 fatty acids, and, most importantly, have anti-inflammatory properties, which speed the recovery and repair of soft tissue damage, a result of daily training.

Eating a plant based diet is a lifestyle choice. Whether you’re a practicing vegan or considering becoming one, the effects on your athletic performance, enviroment, health, or esthetic purposes is generally astounding.

Give it a try for 30 days, see how it makes you feel. Don’t base your opinion on not knowing. That would be like a film critic giving a review on a movie they never saw.

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LIFESTYLE LOW ENERGY? LACKING MOTIVATION? FEELING OUT OF SORTS? It’s time to cleanse!

By Ted Mc Donald

JOIN DELECTABLE YOU AND 5 POINT YOGA FOR OUR SPRING CLEANSE MAY 19 -JUNE 2

You will receive 2 weeks of unlimited yoga, a copy of a 14 day Nutrition Reset e- book, a 3 hour plant based cooking lesson, unlimited email and phone support, and a potluck with all of your favorite recipes from the cleanse!

Space is limited. For more information and to register call us at 310-455-6681 or email Lauren@delectableyou.com

We all have times when we don’t feel like we’re living up to our greatest potential. Many of us fall into a routine of wake up, have coffee, eat, work, eat, work, have some family time, eat, maybe workout, snack, sleep and repeat. Ok, maybe that’s exaggerating a bit, but it’s not far from the truth. It’s a miserable existence that none of us signed on for and it’s time to change. You can start feeling great and living life with enthusiasm, energy, passion, love and plain old fun! It’s completely up to you.

Our culture of mingling, drinking and socializing, whether it’s around your kids with tons of sugar or around you with a big barbecue, junk food, wine and great tequila, it’s all putting us in the grave earlier than necessary. The parties for us just might not be as clear and shameful as overloading on sugar…yet.

Deepak Chopra recommends once a week with no solid food in order to allow your digestive enzymes time to recover. Once a week you can puree your meals or just live on smoothies and juices. Dr. Mark Hyman, in his book The Ultra Simple Diet, recommends 7 days on vegetables and fruit to clean out your system. Then begin adding things, one at a time, back into your diet. See how you feel. See if the juice, bread, meat, etc. work for your body, then decide to keep them in your diet or not.

We’re all individuals and our lifestyle choices therefore, must be individualized. What works for me, most likely will not work for you. It’s important to start looking at your life and your body as a science experiment. Doing a cleanse if the perfect reboot.

Join 5 point yoga and Delectable You for our 2 week cleanse from May 19 - June 2. With it you’ll receive a copy of A 14 Day Nutrition Reset, a 3 hour plant based cooking lesson, unlimited email and phone support during the cleanse, 2 weeks of unlimited yoga and a closing potluck with your favorite recipes from the cleanse. Join us and kickstart your way to a better life!

In the meantime start with the following 5 tips and begin to clean out the old and prepare for the new, fresh and the clean!

Make sure you set yourself up for success. Don’t plan your cleanse during Christmas week.

Make sure you don’t have client dinners where you know you’ll be drinking and eating sushi.

Elicit support from your spouse, friends and family. If you meet yourself half way and gain help from those around you, you’re much more likely to optimize the cleanse.

You would never run your car without having an oil change or tune up, why do we think our bodies deserve something less? The first step is to take away the chemicals. Start with alcohol, sugar and caffeine. If you can, avoid gluten, meats, dairy and soy products.

Stop the bad habits. We all have them, whether it’s a late night snack, too much food at the buffet, or that extra glass of wine. Do what you can to be disciplined enough to say no for a week.

Increase the good habits. Now is the time to replace your old negative habits with some reinforcing. Make your choices healthy and life affirming. Add exercise, meditation, yoga, etc.

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WILDLIFE WINS!

Malibu’s Kian and Joel Schulman have scored another important victory for local Wildlife with an unanimous decision at a Simi Valley City Council meeting that passed a Resolution against anticoagulant rodent poisons in response to the tremendous harm that is being done to wildlife, pets, and children. The resolution will be an example of how Simi Valley is a leader in caring for the environment. Simi Valley is a very important city in the campaign to remove the anticoagulants as it is adjacent to the Simi Hills, one of our area’s largest open spaces. Research by the National Park Service and UCLA showed that in the mid-2000’s mange deaths from anticoagulant rodent poisons resulted in the complete loss of bobcats from many open space areas in the Conejo Valley, as well as the poisoning of coyotes, hawks, owls, foxes, mountain lions, and other species in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills. In 2004, the death by rodent poisons of mountain lions P3 and P4 in the Simi Hills initiated the awareness of this problem.

It is essential that the Resolution is recognized as just the first step. Most important is following up with an outreach campaign to businesses and residents. A major contributor to the ocean of rodent poisons in the ecosystem is the poison bait stations that are in our shopping malls, housing complexes, schools, and many other locations. An extensive educational effort is needed to inform people of the harm to wildlife and to provide alternatives. .

Last year Malibu activist Kian Schulman, who worked to get anticoagulant rodenticides off the shelves of Malibu stores and ended up buying the remaining stock in at least two instances, told me about her experiences trying to safely dispose of the poison. It was too toxic for the quarterly hazardous household waste collection event, she said. They wouldn’t have anything to do with it. In the end, she had to transport the pesticide to a specific toxic waste facility.

photo by Carol Stoddard

PONY

CROSS CREEK FARM

CAMP

Cross Creek Farm offers pony camp throughout the summer, weekly from Tuesday through Friday. In addition to lessons on horseback, students will learn a variety of horse care skills, and will establish a connection to the horses outside of time in the saddle.

Activities each day will vary, and campers will enjoy games, arts and crafts, and observing various equine professionals such as veterinarians and blacksmiths. Students are encouraged to participate with grooming, feeding, and caring for the horses and learning the importance of human’s roles in a well-balanced horse.

No previous riding experience is necessary, we offer camp to riders ages 4-15.

Contact: crosscreekmalibu@gmail.com 310.650.7146

CROSS CREEK FARM Malibu, California

H U N T E R S, J U M P E R S, E Q U I T A T I O N, P O N I E S

LESSON HORSE PROGRAM Welcoming riders of all ages and abilities We have a quality selection of horses and ponies for sale or lease.

Lesley Bulechek (310) 909-3883 Diane Dufau (310) 650-7146 Karli Postel (805) 496-6057 3661 Cross Creek Rd. Malibu, CA. 90265

PETS

CANINE CONVERSATIONS

PROTECTION

By Robert Cabral

DOGS

Personal Protection Dogs have been popular for many years. People spend tens of thousands of dollars on a well-trained dog to protect their families and their homes.

They are considered the Rolls Royce of dogs, but are they right for everyone?

There are many things to consider when deciding on a protection dog. First off, not every dog is a protection dog, and 99.99% of dogs can’t ever become protection dogs. These dogs have immense training and are screened to be good with people, children and most of all they must be clear headed. They are bred through select lines and are conditioned from very early on for the job they will do. You’ll spend top dollar for one of these dogs but you must consider it is still a dog. They require attention, exercise, structure and most importantly continued training. Once the skill is taught it must be reinforced regularly.

The breeds that are most common used are working line German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, Dobermans, Rottweilers and a small handful of others. The most common is the German Shepherd namely because of their lineage and their overall temperaments. Malinois are the hands down best choice for police work or military work, but are one of the worst choices for house dogs because of their immense drives. A well trained protection dog is usually around 3-4 years old, has learned the skills through sport training such as IPO, Ring Sport or KNPV and was then further trained, they are good in the house, car or when travelling.

Some people will sell protection dogs based on levels, for example Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. I don’t believe in this grading namely because a level one dog is not a protection dog, only a level 3 dog should be considered for the task, that is why it is best to buy a dog based on the dog, not because of the graded level that someone placed upon him. The level is most always related to the grading level of the dog sport the dog competed in. One of the most important things to consider is the dog’s overall temperament. Since most of the time he will be a dog and not a protector. We expect these dogs to live in our homes and be members of the family, not rogue warriors.

Undoubtedly most people who purchase these dogs get them as an extension of their personality, not because they really need them. That being said, I would hope that people think twice before getting a dog like this. I’ve worked with several clients who spent $40K on a dog and can’t control the dog now that he’s in a home where he’s not working regularly.

If you are looking for a dog to protect you, your family and your home, most any dog will be a good deterrent against a break in. One of the very best deterrents to a burglar is a dog. A barking dog will scare away most criminals because they are looking for an easy target. So even Fluffy the shelter mutt will suffice to ward off the bad guys.

If you are thinking about a protection dog ask yourself, “Am I ready for this commitment? Will I be able to continue the dogs training throughout it’s life to keep the dog happy and balanced?” The commitment is more than just the initial purchase price, it’s like buying a Lamborghini, you need to brace yourself for a lifetime of upkeep and service to keep it running perfect.

If anyone offers to train your pet for protection, RUN. Personal pets should never be considered for as candidates and neither should most breeds of dogs. As I mentioned above, protection dogs are bred and raised with that goal in mind, it is NEVER an afterthought.

MALIBU

MY FRIEND PAUL ALMOND

By David Stansfield It is the evening of April 9th, 2015 and there are eighteen of them clustered around his bed in the little hospital room. The medical staff have never seen anything like it, most patients in their final hours are lucky to see two or three. But here they all are, the three generations: his wife Joan and their children and their children’s children, their “doodles,” as he always said. Here they all are, singing songs, reciting poems and saying prayers for their hero as he drifts slowly away. Eighteen souls…

But of course it isn’t just eighteen souls; it is many hundreds of souls crammed into this tiny room. Just to name the players who strode across Paul Almond’s film and television stage: the Scottish milkman he transformed into a Scottish King in Macbeth and who went on to become the archetypal James Bond; the young actress he cajoled into joining his troupe of traveling actors after coming down from Oxford, who went on to become the Dowager of Downton Abbey; the future Captain Kirk on the good ship Enterprise; the yetto-be male lead in The Avengers; the soon-to-be star of Bonanza; the embryonic nemesis of The Fugitive; the incipient Munster; the man who would sing with Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, the budding thespian who would play the doctor in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the theatrical chameleon who would morph into the villainous President in The Hunger Games, the comic actor who would become the hilariously oblivious passenger in Airplane!…

But forget Sir Sean Connery, Dame Maggie Smith, William Shatner, Patrick Macnee, Lorne Greene, Barry Morse, Fred Gynne, Christopher Plummer, Denholm Elliot, Donald Sutherland and Leslie Nielsen, let’s pan over to the poets lurking behind Paul’s bed.

While editor of Isis, Oxford University’s literary magazine, Paul befriended such postwar legends as Dylan Thomas, Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis, the father of another doodle, “little Danny.” Or perhaps we should turn our camera on the great authors hovering in another corner of the room, the towering figures whose works Paul’s TV adaptations introduced into the living rooms of the world for the first time ever: Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Christopher Fry, Somerset Maugham, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen…

What is that giggling? A gaggle of seven year olds are hiding under Paul’s bed. Did they let in some more grandchildren? No, these are the doodles from Seven Up! Paul’s brilliant precursor to the subsequent series of once-every-seven-years movies Roger Ebert described as “possibly the most important television film ever made,” with Andrew, Charles, John, Suzy, Jackie, Lynn, Sue, Tony, Paul, Symon, Nick, Peter, Neil and Bruce still going strong 49 years on at Fifty-six Up! We’re already up to our own necks in names in that hospital room, and we haven’t yet come to the longest list of all. So let us gloss over Paul’s more than 120 television dramas for the CBC, ABC, NBC, BBC, Granada Television and Alfred Hitchock Presents, and his magnificent film trilogy Isabel, Act of the Heart and Journey with Geneviève Bujold, not to mention his first use on Canadian television of hand-held TV cameras, the insertion of location film shooting, “stop frames,” colored images and bilingual talk.

Instead, let us turn directly to the cast of yet more hundreds, who when they’re not squashed into a hospital room inhabit Paul’s greatest work of all, his sweeping eight-volume “Alford Saga,” a series of romantic adventure novels based on the lives and loves of four generations of his pioneering family. These ancestral tales — published in both English and French — span 200 years of Canadian history from the moment Paul’s great grandfather jumped ship off the Gaspe coast of Quebec in 1810 in The Deserter to his settling of that wilderness in the The Survivor; his grandfather working on the building of the Victoria Bridge in Montreal in The Pioneer, then battling one of the most forbidding climates on earth on the coast of Labrador in The Pilgrim; his uncle fighting in the Boer War in The Chaplain, his father fighting in World War One in The Gunner, then struggling through the Great Depression and the horrors of PTSD in The Hero. The series comes full circle in Book Eight, The Inheritor (269 people mentioned in this book alone, see its Index of Names at paulalmond.com): an intimate account of Paul’s own life and loves and pioneering dramatic work in the Golden Age of Canadian Television.

Why are so many, many people crowded into Paul’s little room on this evening of April 9th? Why are there such legions of friends who would have so longed to join them? Why did he affect so many? Why was he so universally loved? What was this man like in person?

Come with us to a typical dinner party at Joan and Paul’s house in the Colony. We walk in and we are immediately greeted by roars of appreciation: Oh, the beautiful Denise, the brilliant David! To Paul all women were beautiful, all men brilliant. He was the ultimate uplifter, a permanently rising tide of enthusiasm, lifting all us little boats up to his level, he had more enthusiasm in his left foot than most of us have in our entire bodies. Everyone immediately felt better about him or herself in his company. And then to Joan’s perfect table – itself a work of art – where at the tinkle of a tea spoon Paul would leap to his feet, raising our glasses and our spirits and our hearts, extolling all our virtues like Dicken’s “jolly giant” Ghost of Christmas Present. Every day was Christmas at the Almond’s.

AN APPRECIATION OF PAUL ALMOND TV AND FILM DIRECTOR AND NOVELIST EXTRAORDINAIRE

ENVIRONMENT And then our weekly walks along the Colony’s briny shore like the Walrus and the Carpenter “to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings,” of his books and my books, taking turn and turn about. We covered the pages of each other’s books with notes. In Paul’s almost indecipherable scrawl (he should have been a doctor) his comments were almost always binary: dreadful or brilliant. There were never any in-betweens with Paul. I dreaded his frequent dreadfuls and cherished his rare brilliants – when it came to TV, films or novels, he was ruthless. But when it came to “turning” a scene or arcing a character he was peerless. I learned so much – as did everybody else – from that man.

From his earliest days, Paul dreamed of making a living from the poetry he wrote in every spare moment, but he got sidetracked by those 120-odd TV dramas and those wonderful motion pictures with Geneviève. The oddest – and most perfect – thing of all though, is that his whole life was a poem, captured so beautifully in his great Saga. From the moment great grandfather jumped ship into a new world in The Deserter to the moment when Paul finished the last page of the last chapter of his last book and almost to the day jumped ship into the greatest world of all.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.  Good night, Paul. Sleep well.

LEFT: Paul Almond. ABOVE: Paul’s family who he referred to as his “doodles”.

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