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fulfills a longtime goal of anti-smoking activists.

Mayor Bobby Shriver said he was in favor of creating the new rule but cast the dissenting vote because he said he believed the council should have approved additional measures to curb secondhand smoke, including a rule that would have required

ADELAIDE DRIVE Aiming to curb pedestrian traffic and overcrowding near two public staircases that have become ultra-popular workout spots, City Hall officials this week announced new weekend parking restrictions near Adelaide Drive and Fourth Street.

In the past, parking on Adelaide has been by permit only from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. but free from restriction during daytime hours. The new rules will change that, baring all vehicles from parking on Adelaide between Fourth and Seventh streets between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays — peak workout days at the staircases.

Even residents who live on Adelaide near the stairs will be barred from parking on their street during daytime weekend hours.

Those with permits would be allowed to park on the block on weekends between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m.

According to City Hall, the restriction will “provide additional roadway width to better accommodate the legal use of the roadway by pedestrians, bicycles, and vehicles.”

Those who live near the stairs have long been at odds with the health-conscious people who flock to the stairs daily for workouts, taking up parking spots while leaving water bottles and other trash behind. City Hall went so far as to place law enforcement officers on site to warn them about a law prohibiting workouts in grass medians near the stairs. Some were issued citations.

The weekend parking ban will be in place for a six-month trial period.

“What we want to do is test this out,” said Assistant City Manager Elaine Polacheck.

“After that six-month period, we’re going to take a look at whether there needs to be an expansion of preferential parking restrictions in the area.”

For Tom Baker, who lives next to the easternmost staircase just north of Adelaide, the move is welcomed news.

“I think it’s a step in the right direction because the heaviest [pedestrian] traffic is on the weekends,” he said.

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Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com Award-winning artist Janet Rawuka (right) paints a still-life of lotus pods during the weekly Artists League at the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club on Tuesday afternoon. The self-directed workshop is open to all ages of the public and gives every degree of artist a quiet place to work.

Council bans smoking on patios and balconies

BY NICK TABOREK Daily Press Staff Writer

CITY HALL Smokers who enjoy an occasional drag out on their patios better light up while they still can.

That’s because the City Council on Tuesday voted to strengthen Santa Monica’s already strict anti-smoking laws, adding a restriction that bars people from lighting

up within 25-feet of a door or window in any multi-unit residential building. This ban adds to rules in place that prohibit smoking on the city’s beaches, the Third Street Promenade and outdoor dining areas.

The new rule, adopted by a 4-1 vote, is aimed at preventing people from smoking on private balconies or patios that are close to neighboring apartments or condos and

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Praise for phasing out Polystyrene City Hall was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Waste Prevention Award from the California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA) for its “ground breaking” take-out food container program, city officials announced this week.

Santa Monica’s ban on Polystyrene, in place since Feb. 9, 2007, protects the beaches and bay by prohibiting local restaurants from using non-recyclable food containers, including those made from polystyrene (Styrofoam), because these products end up as one of the main components of beach and marine litter.

Restaurants have responded by switching to recyclable plastic, paper and compostable containers which helps keep waste off the beaches and out of landfills.

“We are excited to receive this award for what has been an incredibly successful program” said Dean Kubani, director of City Hall’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment. “Santa Monica’s restaurants and their patrons have embraced it and it has helped create a market for more environmentally friendly food packaging. And it has now become a model for programs in other cities throughout the country.”

In 1990 California passed Assembly Bill 939, mandating all cities and counties to divert 50 percent of their waste from landfills by 2000. Since then many jurisdictions have adopted zero waste goals.

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Residents and visitors with disabilities can now go online to access information about services in Santa Monica.

Santa Monica’s Human Services Division and Disabilities Commission this week launched Accessible Santa Monica, City Hall’s new disability resources web portal at www.smgov.net/accessiblesm.

The site is a one-stop shop for information about accessibility and disability services in Santa Monica, along with an index of online local, regional and national resources. Additional features include news from the disability community, upcoming events, a catalog of disability-related films and a disabilities awareness training module.

For many people with disabilities, navigating multiple sites is not always easy. Accessible Santa Monica makes all of this information available in one place and makes it easy for people of all abilities to access resources easily and efficiently, city officials said.

The portal officially launched July 26, the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), legislation that ensures equal access for people with disabilities to all aspects of life.

Through its programs, grantees and Disabilities Commission, the city of Santa Monica is committed to advancing the mission of the ADA and advocating on behalf of community members of all abilities, city officials said.

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Local beaches some of the most polluted in California

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OCEAN AVENUE Santa Monica continues to have some of the most polluted beaches in California, with the Santa Monica Pier failing to meet clean water criteria nearly half the time, according to an annual study released Wednesday by the National Resources Defense Council.

In a news conference in Santa Monica on Wednesday, Noah Garrison, a project attorney for the NRDC’s Water Program, announced there was a significant drop overall in the number of beach closings and advisories in

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I am the mother of four SMMUSD students, two of whom have received special services at SMMUSD schools. My older child’s experience was an unmitigated success; after four years of therapy provided by the district, she was able to transition into general education classes without any additional services. My son has been diagnosed with autism and is currently a student at Pine Street Preschool.

At the June 18 and July 14 school board meetings, I voiced my concerns about the district’s decision to relocate and separate the three Special Day Preschool classes currently located at the Pine Street facility (“Special ed parents upset over closure,” July 21). I listened to [special ed director Sarah] Woolverton’s answers about the move, and I am aware that the preschoolers will continue to receive the same services and quality instruction that they currently receive from Pine Street teachers, who will move with their classes.

My son will be moving to a transitional kindergarten class, and it would be easy for me to sit back and hope that things will work out well for his former Pine Street classmates. However, board member Oscar de la Torre’s recent campaign statement has inspired me to keep writing and speaking on behalf of the Pine Street students. Part of Mr. de la Torre’s statement is, “I love this school district and have committed my life to providing future generations the same opportunities I was afforded.” Similarly, I am committed to helping the preschoolers, because I hope that all families of special needs children will feel, like I do, that their experience in this district is a positive one. While education is important for all children, it has an even greater affect on children with special needs and the people who care for them. For the family of a child with special needs, the slightest progress can mean a world of difference at home.

At Pine Street, special needs students mingled with “typical” students on their own terms, without the pressure of conforming to a general ed environment.

The school enabled many of the special needs preschoolers to make the transition to less restrictive classrooms, while simultaneously producing the most tolerant general ed kindergartners in the entire district. At their new campuses, the special needs preschoolers will have access to only one other preschool class, which may or may not be able to facilitate interaction between typical and special needs children.

I share the opinion of Special Education Advisory Committee Member Clara Sturak, who voiced concerns about segregating the Pine Street classes. As she said in the article in the Santa Monica Daily Press, “At least at Pine Street they get enormous benefit from being around their peers.”

If future generations of special needs children (particularly those with autism or autistic-like disorders) in this district are to be provided the same opportunities my children were afforded, every effort must be made to co-locate the former Pine Street Special Day Preschool classes, or at least the two classes that provide the most intensive services, to the same campus.

Only in this way will special needs preschoolers continue to benefit from the collaboration that has so greatly improved the lives of children like my daughter and son.

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DEAR NEW SHRINK,

I am wondering if you can give me advise about handling rejection. I have started to feel really bad because I lost my job and cannot seem to find another one; several times I have gone on job interviews, and not even had a call back. But what is really troubling me is dating. I have no trouble getting dates but here too, often there is no second date. I did date someone I met online for about two months but it ended out of the blue. I just don’t understand any of this and I am starting to feel like one big reject.

Signed, Rejected DEAR REJECTED,

Unfortunately, this seems to be a sign of the times. I think you are far from being alone on this one. Searching for a job or a partner, looking for work or dating, they are both two of the most difficult things to do right now.

I am not certain how much of it applies mostly here in California because we are certainly in financial trouble as a state and when it comes to dating, I am constantly being told how difficult it is to meet someone here.

Most people seem to be using online dating services and while they may be great for finding people and some have found their life partners on them, there is also a lot of inherent rejection as well. There are actually studies and psychological literature that talk about what has been referred to as the “flawometer.” It seems that we tend to look for what we don’t like or what seems wrong with someone rather then giving them a chance, when we are viewing them from an online web site. Part of the problem is that the questions tend to categorize people in a somewhat simplistic way; all of us have a lot more to us than can be expressed by checking off a box. This is simply the nature of the beast; there really is no other way to do it online.

When you first meet, it is somewhat contrived and most likely both parties are a bit nervous. If you use these online sites, it’s best that you get to know each other through email and phone conversations before actually meeting.

But more importantly, regarding the issue of rejection, it is a bit similar in looking for a job these days. Many positions get hundreds of applications. The employer looks through

them very quickly and if your letter of intent and resume are not ideal, just like that “flawometer” in online dating, you won’t even get the first meeting. If you do get the interview but are not the one chosen, you just have to realize that it was not a dislike or rejection of you but that they chose someone better suited for the position; someone they just “clicked” with or had the best chemistry with.

The same goes for dating, if there isn’t chemistry or an attraction, most people keep moving, looking for someone that they have this with. Attraction can and often does grow with time but few of us are willing to wait. In this age of technology, most people want quick results and actually may be passing up some real opportunities without knowing it.

I honestly feel that we can’t or shouldn’t take this all so personally. It is impossible to make yourself attracted to someone; you either feel it or you don’t. Chemistry is a complicated thing; it pulls in the physical, the emotional and sometimes subconscious, and definitely the psychological draw or match. This may or may not be healthy, ideal or even the best choice.

But as much as we would like to think we have control over this, we don’t have as much as we might want to believe.

So what is rejection really? I think of it as a very active and often aggressive act. If we cannot control our attractions, cannot make ourselves be attracted to or have chemistry with someone, then are we rejecting them?

Maybe we need to rethink rejection. In a job interview, there are several excellent candidates but we can only pick one and the one we decide on seems the best fit out of the three. Are we really rejecting the other two?

Or is it simply that we go with what feels the best, then and there. Who knows? It could be a mistake but I really question if we should call it rejection.

Of course there are times that we all “feel” rejected, or are concerned about making someone else feel rejected and I do not mean to minimize these feelings. But feelings are not facts and I think we just might want to start rethinking what rejection really means.

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Further completing the connection, almost four years after I tied the knot, Chelsea is preparing for the details of her wedding to make a big splash in the news in the next couple of days. News of my wedding also made a big splash in the days leading up to it. Actually, technically it was a big splash that made the news in the days before my wedding when a tropical storm passed through town and waves crashed up and over the seawall onto the lawn at the site of the ceremony. In fact, the green grass turned brown. But she needn’t worry about that too much — photographers should be able to Photoshop the lawn green for her, too, if necessary.

If I had been invited, I would have passed along to Chelsea the same advice given to me on my wedding day, which is to take it all in and try to remember each little moment.

After all, this is her parents’ big day, and who knows when they’ll have occasion again to get all dressed up and be surrounded by world leaders and Hollywood elite.

When her father addresses the crowd, er, makes a toast, Chelsea should also check with the director ahead of time to ensure that the TelePrompTer is cued up to the right place and that the stage manager is given strict instructions to give him the high sign if he exceeds 45 minutes. You know, basic bridal stuff.

Lastly, if I were Chelsea, I’d open Oprah’s gift before the main course is served. That way, if it’s something lame, like a crockpot, she can withhold her short ribs or sea bass (I’m not privy to which one Oprah checked off on the RSVP card). After all, chick owns half the free world — she can do better by Chelsea than a set of champagne flutes or dish towels.

Oprah should take a page out of my book and be generous. I sent Chelsea the fourpiece Toaster Oven Baking Set from Crate and Barrel. It was actually only $19.95, so I hope she wasn’t expecting something more.

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that an invitation to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this weekend has yet to appear in my mailbox. Actually, no one is surprised but me. Nevertheless, I’m still surprised.

We don’t actually know each other, although for years I’ve often imagined that the former first daughter and I have led parallel lives. As such, I thought she might know about me and feel the same way, too, and want me to be among the guests at her nuptials this Saturday. (To the Secret Service: This should in no way be constituted as a threat.)

Hers might boast former and current titles like governor, senator, president of the United States, secretary of state, New York Times best-selling authors, and defendants, but I too have high-profile parents. At one time my dad was arguably the winningest bridge player on the 7:28 a.m. express train from Mamaroneck to Grand Central Terminal. And my mom easily racked up more World’s Best Teacher mugs than any other educators at Central School in Larchmont. So like Chelsea, I understand all too well how it feels to live under a global microscope fraught with issues such as transportation, commerce, education and politics.

Chelsea once famously wore Versace, straightened her hair and hung out in Paris with Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. I, too, have had my hair straightened, am aware that the Versace clothing line exists and traveled to Paris (twice).

We’ve both demonstrated academic distinction: She skipped the third grade; I stumbled through all the grades.

After finishing college, Chelsea and I each made extraordinary marks in the real world.

She joined the prestigious consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where, for a starting salary of $120,000, she helped advise leading companies on issues of strategy, organization, technology and operations. I became an NBC page, wore a uniform only slightly more attractive than standard-issue prison garb, and for $9.23 an hour gave tours of all the locations in 30 Rock in which John Belushi snorted lines of cocaine and pointed out fire exits and where Seinfeld T-shirts were available for purchase.

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Schwarzenegger re-orders furloughs JUDY LIN Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday brought back furloughs for thousands of state workers until California passes a budget that addresses a $19 billion deficit.

Schwarzenegger released a new executive order requiring state workers to take three unpaid days off per month starting in August. State workers were furloughed a total of 46 days when Schwarzenegger issued a similar order in February 2009, which translated to a pay cut of about 14 percent.

Those furloughs just ended in June.

It’s unclear how long the latest round of furloughs could last, as Schwarzenegger and lawmakers enter the fifth week of the new fiscal year without a balaaanced budget.

Earlier this week, the governor hinted that he might not sign a budget before he leaves office next January unless it includes pension, tax and spending reforms.

“Without a budget in place that addresses our $19 billion budget deficit, every day of delay brings California closer to a fiscal meltdown,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement. “Our cash situation leaves me no choice but to once again furlough state workers until the Legislature produces a budget I can sign.”

State Controller John Chiang has warned he will start issuing IOUs in August or September if the budget stalemate drags on in the Legislature. Chiang said the cash-saving measure is necessary because the state is projected to run out of cash in October.

The new order exempts employees who work for departments that collect revenue, such as the Franchise Tax Board, and public safety agencies, including the California Highway Patrol.

It also exempts about 37,000 workers in six unions that recently reached tentative labor agreements with the administration.

Those unions agreed for their members to contribute more of their salaries toward their pension benefits and to take one day of

unpaid personal leave a month, the equivalent of a nearly 5 percent pay cut.

The latest furlough will affect about 156,000 of the state’s 237,000 workers. The Schwarzenegger administration estimated it will achieve $80 million in general fund savings and nearly $150 million in overall savings per month.

The furlough puts pressure on remaining unions that have not agreed to the governor’s demands for pension changes.

Schwarzenegger’s last furlough order triggered more than two dozen lawsuits, but the administration said the furloughs achieved about $1 billion in general fund savings and $2.2 billion in overall savings during the state’s last budget crisis.

Unions also have been fighting the governor’s efforts to impose the federal minimum wage $7.25 per hour while the state operates without a budget.

“To once again force state employees to take unpaid furloughs is just another punitive measure by Gov. Schwarzenegger because he couldn’t impose minimum wage,” said Patty Velez, president of the California Association of Professional Scientists, which represents 3,000 state employees.

The state Assembly’s Republican leader, Martin Garrick, said Democrats who control the Legislature were to blame because they have refused to make cuts that Republicans, including Schwarzenegger, have demanded.

“I believe they’ve brought it on themselves and their constituents — and mine — that have been furloughed, because they haven’t made the reductions,” Garrick said in a telephone interview. “The longer we go, the deeper the cuts have to be.”

Democrats have vowed to protect education and social service programs, such as CalWORKS, the state’s welfare-to-work program. They have proposed delaying corporate tax breaks and a new oil tax.

“It’s shocking that every single one of the governor’s budget moves deliberately hurt people,” said Shannon Murphy, spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker John Perez.

UCLA launches hand transplant program THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES UCLA says it is launching a hand transplant study and is looking for amputees, including war veterans, willing to undergo the experimental surgery.

The clinical trial program is only the fourth of its kind in the United States.

“Many patients who have lost one or both hands find that prosthetic devices are not enough to help them get back the life they had enjoyed previously,” Dr. Kodi Azari, the program’s surgical director, said earlier this week. “In these cases, hand transplantation can offer a unique opportunity to regain dynamic function and the feel of a real human hand.”

The procedure does not restore full hand strength and sensation, but Azari said it may enable people to perform many tasks.

“It’s never like your (old) hand, unfortunately, yet we have found really quite remarkable results,” Azari said.

Only about 40 people have received hand transplants since French surgeons performed the first successful operation in 1998. Nine people had received hand transplants in the United States, including two who had both hands transplanted.

The University of California, Los Angeles, study will try to confirm that current surgical techniques are successful. The program also will study the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to prevent the recipient’s body

from rejecting the transplanted hand.

The UCLA Hand Transplantation Program could help veterans who lost a hand in Iraq and Afghanistan, the school said.

UCLA said people applying for the procedure must be adults who have had an amputation at the wrist or forearm. The amputation cannot have been the result of cancer or a birth defect.

Patients will be placed on a waiting list to receive a hand matched from a dead donor.

The hands will be matched to donors sharing the same blood type, gender, size and skin color.

A team of doctors then will attach the hand, connecting bones, blood vessels, nerves and about 20 tendons.

Patients will receive immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection and undergo therapy to restore hand function, UCLA said in a statement.

Hand transplantation does have critics, who cite the risks from rejection and note that increasingly sophisticated artificial limbs are available.

“I question whether it’s justified to put a patient on lifelong immunosuppressive medication with the increased risk of cancer and infection for a non-life-threatening ailment, which can be treated with excellent mechanical devices,” said Dr. Tjerk Bury of Thousand Oaks, a plastic and hand surgeon.

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a change of clothes. Now let me explain why: when you take Joe Rivera’s Kickboxing Burn at Burn Fitness you will sweat so much you will be sopping wet by the time you leave.

Rivera, a black belt in two styles of martial arts with 30 years of training behind him, structures his class so that it runs like a professional boxing match. There are 12 rounds; each round is three minutes long — with a specific purpose in mind.

The first two rounds deal with jumping rope, a warm up, which Rivera explains,“gives you timing, which means that every time the rope moves over you and you jump forward to the time it takes the rope to go back around, that rope travels a distance and the distance is measured in a unit, and that unit is called ‘time.’ When you start to get a sense of how fast that rope is traveling in that distance of time you’ll have a sense of calculating how fast a person’s fist might move toward you before you have to get out of the way.”

Thankfully, in Rivera’s class, no one punches me in the face!

Round number three is designed to set the tone and intensity. Rivera has us crawling like Spider-man back and forth across the floor.

“If you crawl across the room correctly several things start to happen. You get a sense of rotation, while you shift one hip left to right. You strengthen the striking muscles; hips, quads, legs, gluts and shoulders and triceps. Your heart is in an anaerobic zone. And lastly, when you have to move backward doing those Spider-man’s and you have other people coming at you and you’re trying not to crash into them you must truly focus on the exercise at hand,” he says.

It forces you to be present in the moment.

Everything is centered on enhancing performance for the combative arts. The class is regimented and precise, even the music is timed to specific sections of the class.

“Boxing is a total body workout,” says Rivera.

Rivera made the class so hard that it’s impossible not to get in shape. The first 12 minutes of the class my heart rate is completely jacked up. I feel like I’m going to die.

Rivera smiles and yells out, “How you doing there, Taylor?” I can barely speak.

Subsequent rounds include kickboxing poses. This is NOT EASY. Grrrrr!

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You need to know how to align your fist, how to align your wrist, what area of the fist to strike with, how much you need to penetrate through the target, you need to know the difference between perceived target and actual target, which no one ever discusses.

Perceived target is the target that you think you’re going to hit; i.e. a bag. Actual target is the eight inch thrust beyond the bag,” explains Rivera.

Rivera also has us moving around constantly. You jab (leading with your left), cross (with your right) then administer a left hook while moving around the target. Your target BTW, is another human being (holding focus mitts). Part of me just wants to stand still. No chance here.

“You know that old adage, ‘It’s better to give than receive?’ In boxing it rings true for everyone.” The idea being: you don’t want to get clipped in the face. It’s a little daunting.

Your hands must be wrapped (with hand wraps), you wear gloves for part of the class, and you’re constantly working.

I have to admit to you folks, I had grand plans these last two weeks — while my trainer was out of town — to double up on cardio, workout in the morning and hit the gym again at night … but I have to be honest, a certain, very special guy came back into town and well … time got away from me.

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The council majority indicated interest in eventually enacting the so-called “designate and disclose” rule for non-smoking units but opted to postpone considering the measure, citing concerns the restriction could lead to evictions.

“One of the concerns with secondhand smoke laws has been giving landlords new tools to harass and evict lower-income, lower-rent tenants,” said Councilman Kevin McKeown.

McKeown and council members Gleam Davis and Terry O’Day said the council should wait until after November’s election, when voters may approve new eviction protections for tenants, to consider additional smoking restrictions.

“The passage of the renter protection measure in November would alleviate some of those concerns, and let us move forward with stronger secondhand smoke protections,” McKeown said.

The new restriction on smoking near apartment and condo buildings augments a ban on smoking in multi-unit common areas that took effect in March of 2009.

The new smoking restriction will begin in September.

There’s no fine for violating the law, but transgressors could be held to account in small claims court. Under the current ban in common areas neighbors are responsible for enforcing the law by filing suit against neighbors who smoke. Penalties start at $100.

WATER FROM PAGE 3 water samples and for posting signs notifying swimmers of risks, according to Heal the Bay, a nonprofit aimed at cleaning up Southern California beaches.

Though California had many five-star beaches according to the NRDC report, Los Angeles County received the lowest star rankings in the state.

Venice beaches in the study received either two or three stars, and all Santa Monica beaches in the study received two stars. The stars were awarded because officials acted quickly in notifying the public about closings and advisories, but the beaches did not receive any additional stars because of poor water quality, Garrison said.

The study found the area around the pier was one of the most polluted beaches in the state as it failed to meet clean water criteria 46 percent of the time. In the previous study, it failed to meet clean water criteria 43 percent of the time.

The NRDC is the second organization this year to note the pier’s high water pollution. Heal the Bay released a study in May saying the pier was the fifth most polluted beach in the state. NRDC’s study differs in its national scope, allowing people who live out of town to use it as a reference guide of safe beaches, Garrison said.

Despite Santa Monica’s low rankings, Garrison noted there are programs in place to try to improve water quality. A parking lot

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On Tuesday, several council members questioned whether using the small claims court to enforce smoking laws was effective and asked staff to return with options for changing how the laws are enforced.

Possibilities include giving City Hall’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment authority to enforce smoking laws or using a dispute resolution service to help resolve problems between smokers and their neighbors.

City Hall staff was also asked to look into banning smoking at newly constructed apartment buildings and hotels.

Despite Shriver’s dissenting vote, the council was united in its support for stronger protections for non-smokers.

“If you want to smoke, go take a walk,” Councilman Bob Holbrook said during the panel’s discussion.

McKeown said the new restriction will address the concern raised most often by those opposed to secondhand smoke.

“Based on months of correspondence from residents still bothered by secondhand smoke, we realized balconies and patios were the biggest remaining problem — and they will be covered by the new 25-foot rule,” he said. nickt@smdp.com

SANTA MONICA HAS STARTED TO EMBRACE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE TO PREVENT POLLUTION AT ITS SOURCE. THESE THINGS ABSOLUTELY DO HELP, BUT YOU NEED MORE THAN ONE STREET OR ONE PARKING LOT.” Noah Garrison, Project attorney for the National Resources Defense Council’s Water Program

on Ocean Avenue has been “greened,” meaning the asphalt has been replaced with a grass-like turf to absorb rain run-off, and there is a plan to make a similar “green street” on Ocean Park Boulevard from Neilson Way to Lincoln Boulevard.

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Still, Baker said residents believe Adelaide needs 24-hour permit parking, a change that would require approval from the California Coastal Commission.

With the City Council’s support, residents on Adelaide sought approval for round-the-clock preferential parking from the Coastal Commission in 1995 but were denied.

According to a City Hall report, there’s no indication the commission has changed its position that the two sets of stairs are vital to coastal access.

To Baker, that position makes no sense.

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LOS ANGELES Only at the X Games, where athletes sometimes win medals before they graduate the eighth grade, would Travis Pastrana be considered an old man.

But it was a taunt about his decrepitude, and a wager to go with it, that brought the multi-sport star back to freestyle motocross where he made his name.

The 16th annual circus of twists, flips, and stunning risks returns for a four-day stint in downtown Los Angeles starting Thursday, and Pastrana, who has taken a relatively low profile in the last few games, is set to compete in a record five events.

Pastrana was on a spring tour for “Nitro Circus,” the MTV show where athletes combine action sports with “Jackass"-style stunts. His co-star Blake Williams, who has thrived in freestyle motocross since Pastrana shifted his focus to rally car racing a few years ago, teased the 26-year-old Pastrana about returning to the event this summer.

“He told me ‘You should come back to X Games and get smoked old man,’” Pastrana said. “I’m a-year-and-a-half older than him.”

The Australian Williams added an extra enticement, a bet of five dollars, though it wasn’t clear whether it would be Aussie or U.S. currency, Pastrana said.

Taking up the challenge, Pastrana will return to the event known here as Freestyle Moto X on Thursday night. He’s also set to compete in Moto X Best Trick, Rally Car Racing, the new Rally Car SuperRally and

Moto X Speed and Style The X Games have seen bigger stars — including virtual household names like Tony Hawk and Shaun White — but Pastrana has been the festival’s most enduring and versatile star, who embodies its combination of athleticism, personality and death-defying insanity.

He has won nine gold medals at the games, but in recent years hasn’t even attempted to conquer several events like he did in 2006, when he won three golds and pulled off the first-ever-in-competition double back flip, one of the Everests of the sport and one of the top moments in X Games history.

He’s got something tougher and safer set aside for Moto X Best Trick this year.

The trick, a 720 upright spin that doubles the unprecedented 360 he pulled off in 2003, initially had a scatological name that ESPN’s announcers couldn’t say. It was then dubbed the “toilet paper roll” and finally, in a play on the rider’s initials, “the TP roll.”

Unlike the double back flip, which Pastrana has often said is not technically difficult but requires fierce will and fearlessness, the “TP Roll” is a methodical nightmare, requiring the rider to turn in an unnatural direction the moment he comes off the ramp.

But it does have its advantages over the double back flip.

“If you don’t land it, you’re not gonna die,” Pastrana said with a giggle.

Pastrana expressed some concern that the lingering effect of a collarbone broken on

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X GAMES FROM PAGE 10 the Nitro Circus tour could leave him without the upper-body strength to do the trick, but at midweek he was still slated to try it.

He isn’t the only major name back in the X Games spotlight.

White, coming off an Olympic gold medal in Vancouver, will return to the vert ramp from a year off spent focusing on snowboarding.

He’s entered in Skateboard Vert, where he won his first summer X Games gold in 2007, and Skateboard Vert Best Trick.

On the women’s side, Ashley Fiolek, the deaf motocross rider who has quickly gone from teen phenom to X Games veteran, will seek her second straight gold in Moto X. And athletes including Kevin Robinson and Bob Burnquist will take on the X Games’ now-near legendary mega ramp, where skateboarders and BMX riders annu-

ally challenge gravity and sanity.

After several years of indoor competition on the mega ramp, athletes will have to deal with the wind as they fly through the sky over the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The Coliseum is part of a new layout for the games this year, which have settled into semi-permanent status with seven years in the Los Angeles area.

Events have in recent years been split between the Home Depot Center in Carson and the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, but in 2010 the games will virtually all be centered in a revitalized downtown Los Angeles. Most of the events and the games’ carnival-style village will be at the L.A. Live entertainment and sports complex, where ramps have been erected at the Staples Center and next door at the Nokia Theater.

Bigger events, including Pastrana’s Moto X Freestyle, will be held a short hop down the freeway at the Coliseum, instead of miles to the south in Carson.

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NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that, based upon the time reasonably necessary to prepare and print the arguments and sample ballots for the election, the City Clerk has fixed Thursday, August 5, 2010, 5:30 p.m., during normal office hours, as posted, as the date after which no arguments for or against the City measures may be submitted to the Clerk for printing and distribution to the voters as provided in the Article 4. Arguments shall be submitted to the City Clerk, accompanied by the printed name(s) and signatures(s) of the author(s) submitting it, or if submitted on behalf of the organization, the name of the organization, and the printed name and signature of at least one of its principal officers who is the author of the argument, at City Hall, Santa Monica, California.

Arguments may be changed or withdrawn until and including the date fixed by the City Clerk.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN THAT pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 11.04.125 rebuttal arguments not exceeding 250 words, as submitted by the authors of the opposing direct arguments, may be filed with the Clerk, and shall be signed by any one of the persons filing the original argument, any combination of the persons signing the original argument or by all of the persons filing the original argument. The rebuttal shall not be signed by any person who did not sign the original argument nor shall it contain more than five signatures. The deadline for filing rebuttals with the City Clerk may be not more than ten days after the final date for filing original arguments, the date being Monday, August 16, 2010, 5:30 p.m.

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★★★ Mars, the fiery planet of energy, anger and sex, moves into your sign. In the next few weeks, somehow you manage to manifest several, but perhaps not all, Martian elements.

Focus this energy on your work, and achieve much more of what you desire right now.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 21) ★★★★★ Listen to forthcoming news involving another person and perhaps an important friendship. You can make peace and come up with unusual ideas, only to have a group consensus toss chaos back in. Tonight: Where the action is.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★★ Your innate creativity peaks. Though you might apply it to any issue in your life, squeeze in some humor and laughter. A meeting could spotlight a new supporter, and perhaps an admirer. Use care with this person.

Tonight: Use some of that imagination.

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GEMINI (May 22-June 20) ★★★ Stay on top of your game. Understanding evolves to a new level as you discover what needs to happen. Dealings with loved ones could become difficult. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You will zero in on what you want in the next few weeks. If you feel limited right now, don't worry -- you are about to change the shape of your shackles. This experience is necessary to further your long-term desires. Tonight: Mosey on home.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Your creativity emerges around domestic matters or your home. Listen to feedback from someone you trust. Take advantage of an opportunity that drops on you out of the blue.

Someone needs to understand where you are coming from. Verbalize; talk. Tonight: Eye the total picture.

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★★★ Curb a more possessive side that keeps emerging. It simply doesn't become the freedomloving Aquarian. Look more at the big picture in the coming months. You could gain enormous understanding into you and others. Tonight: Your treat.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.

Tongzhou Incident

1932

1937 1945

The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.

Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin open in London.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

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