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THE LEGAL MATTERS ISSUE

City Hall, FAA battle in court

BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer

PASADENA City Attorney Marsha Moutrie motioned in the direction of the courthouse metal detector she passed through Wednesday morning, hoping to make a point to a three-judge panel on why Santa Monica officials believe a jet ban is necessary.

While the U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena has been free of dangerous incidents, such hasn’t been the case for other courthouses, justifying the presence of security measures at all judicial locations, Moutrie said.

Similarly, while all runway overrun accidents at Santa Monica Airport have involved smaller planes, there have been fatal cases involving the larger C and D-type jets at other facilities across the country, bolstering the need for a proactive ban locally on the bigger and speedier planes, especially since homes are located 300 feet from both ends of the runway, Moutrie explained.

The argument was made on Wednesday during a hearing on City Hall’s challenge of a cease-and-desist order that prohibits it from enforcing the jet ban, which was approved by the City Council in March. A decision on whether the court will support or deny the appeal is not expected for at least

three months.

The hearing took place six months after a U.S. District Court judge ordered City Hall to comply with the Federal Aviation Administration’s cease-and-desist order until the agency completes its administrative examination on the legality of the ban.

City Hall and the FAA are currently in mediation to work out their differences before potentially kicking off the agency’s administrative hearing in March.

The City Council adopted the jet ban after it rejected several runway safety proposals by the FAA, including an option to install an Emergency Material Arresting System, which would be designed to stop the

majority of flights taking off. City officials felt the FAA’s proposals were not sufficient and would not provide the level of safety residents are requesting.

Judge Edward Korman questioned why City Hall was insistent on removing the injunction before the administrative hearing with the FAA was concluded, pointing out that no categories C and D jets have accidentally overshot the runway at Santa Monica Airport.

Moutrie said that jet activities have increased by 32 percent since City Hall and the FAA began discussing the runway issue SEE SMO PAGE 11

Sounding off DJ Jason Bentley named new music director at KCRW

BY ROB LAWRENCE Special to the Daily Press

SMC Jason Bentley’s rise to become the music director at KCRW resembles that of a Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches novel. What started out as a volunteer job working the phone banks at KCRW soon blossomed into a meaningful, successful career for the popular DJ. “This is a wonderful KCRW story,” said Ruth Seymour, general manager of the public radio station, which is a community service of Santa Monica College. “Jason began as a phone volunteer in the front office when he was still in high school. He grew up on KCRW because his parents were listeners.”

Bentley was born in Tallahasse, Fla., but spent most of his life in Santa Monica. He lives in Venice with his wife Kahi and he said you can usually catch them strolling down the Third Street Promenade. He attended Santa Monica High School, and that is where he began to develop a keen interest in radio broadcasting.

“At my high school there would be that guy who would do announcements on the PA system,” Bentley said. “I did that at Santa

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BY NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer

MALIBU “Sewer” has always been a dirty word in this celebrity-studded coastal community, which grew up believing that building an underground maze of plumbing would invite the sprawl that covers much of the rest of Southern California.

But the city, which has long relied on septic tanks over sewer pipes, may soon be forced to acquiesce. After a prolonged battle over bacterial pollution in nearby waters, the Regional Water Quality Control Board plans to vote Thursday on a proposed ban on septic tanks in the heart of Malibu — a move some fear could forever alter the rustic character by encouraging rampant development.

“If you come to Malibu you can look up and see the hills still, unlike cities where it’s covered in development,” Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich said. “For people who live here and visit, it’s a sanctuary. We’re famous for our beautiful beaches.”

But those beaches can harbor unhealthy bacteria as human waste leaks from septic leach fields into groundwater, then trickles into creeks and makes its way to the sea.

Even visiting surfers in Malibu know to keep their mouths closed when riding the breaks at famous Surfrider Beach — one of the state’s most popular, scenic and polluted stretches of coast.

“People are always getting sick — sinus infections, stomach, gastrointestinal viruses, and you just chalk it up to this is where I surf,” said Joe Melchione of the Malibu Surfing Association.

For years, the city has weathered lawsuits from environmental groups and threats of fines from regulators. But city leaders argue that the occasional stench and pollution come from other things, including a wastewater treatment plant outside the city, storm runoff and animal droppings.

Resident Walt Keller, who paid just $26,000 for his house decades ago, thinks the septic system works just fine. He worries that his beloved city of multimillion-dollar beachfront homes, oak-shaded canyon roads and locally owned shops could become wallto-wall condos if a sewer line is allowed to snake in.

“We’ve beaten them before,” said Keller, the city’s first mayor, who was elected on a wave of anti-sewer support. “I think we could beat them in court again based on the fact that septic tanks work everywhere else.”

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CENTURY CITY Robert Hacker was minding his own business at work when a colleague complimented him on the fuzz growing above his lips.

Rather than respond with a simple “thank you,” Hacker eagerly asked the coworker if he wanted to hear the story behind the more than two-week-old moustache.

He began a familiar speech that’s been told more than 50 times since the beginning of the month, a story of how more than 180,000 men across the globe are growing their moustaches through the end of November, using the facial hair as a conversation starter about prostate cancer.

Hacker is part of the growing Movember campaign, which seeks to raise money and awareness during the month of November for prostate cancer research, starting with a clean shaven face and receiving money from donors for each day they avoid a razor.

The Santa Monica-based Movember organization was founded in 2004 by Adam Garone who came up with the idea of growing a moustache for an entire month after reminiscing with a group of friends about the famous fashion styles of the 1970s.

The fad that stood out most was the moustache.

“We thought, ‘let’s bring the moustache back,’” Garone said.

Garone enlisted 30 friends to grow their facial hair for fun in November 2003, choosing the fall month simply because it came soon after the idea was born. After receiving nothing but grief from employers and family members, the moustache-clad men decided to legitimize their project, using it as a way to raise money for prostate cancer.

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Bullying animals Editor:

A recent study by University of Chicago researchers showing that bullying behavior might be hardwired in a person’s neural circuitry made us wonder about people who experiment on animals. They pump chemicals into dogs’ stomachs, forcibly remove baby monkeys from their mothers, crush cats’ spines, burn rats’ feet on hotplates, force mice to swim until they almost drown, and implant electrodes into monkeys’ brains. Animals in laboratories are infected with diseases that they would never normally contract, tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, rats are made to suffer seizures, and much more.

Could it be that animal experimenters are yesterday’s school yard bullies, grown up and riding the government gravy train? For the sake of scientific understanding, perhaps animal experimenters should submit to MRI scans.

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Digging a deep pit Editor:

Many Americans seem incapable of making decisions based on their long-term, self interest, being instead hell bent on making a quick profit without regard to the consequences.

It should have been obvious from the very start that the housing price spiral could not continue indefinitely.

But that fact was ignored by nearly everyone, from those at the highest government and corporate levels down to real estate agents, home buyers and sellers.

Mortgages were created, packaged and resold as if the sky were the limit.

We would do well to use the mortgage crisis as a learning tool for a similar but much larger house-ofcards scheme that will collapse if not given attention.

We are digging a deep pit with out-of-control deficit spending in the federal and California governments.

Will Americans forego short-term profits and choose a wise, sustainable future or will the era of ‘90s stock market bubbles continue?

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REELING FROM THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT

drubbing at the polls, the right is relying on a tried and true method to try to redefine the political debate to their advantage — make stuff up.

For example, Rush Limbaugh got the conservative based fired up claiming President Obama would “eliminate free speech” and make 401K accounts part of Social Security. While this is red meat for conservatives, it has no basis in fact.

In the Clinton years, this disinformation was coupled with conspiracy delusions and utter disdain for President Clinton and led to what is known as the “Clinton Wars.”

Nobody embodied this “Triple D” campaign better than Dan Burton who openly called Clinton a “scumbag” and became so obsessed with Vince Foster’s death that he conducted his own investigation despite multiple law enforcement and independents findings that Foster committed suicide.

The Clinton Wars’ front line may have been Capitol Hill but its supply chain came from right wing media outlets such as Limbaugh or Gordon Liddy, who bragged about using drawings of the Clintons for target practice.

The Clinton Wars not only led to the senseless impeachment of the president, but it fueled virulent anti-government sentiments that ultimately found their expression through Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City.

Last week the right wing disinformation campaign found its way to this very page through columns by Greg Vargas and Steve Breen.

Vargas cried foul over African-American bigotry citing exit polls that 95 percent of black voters chose Obama because of his race. The New York Times exit poll he cites, however, merely found that 95 percent of black voters supported Obama — not that they supported him because of race (in fact only 2 percent of voters cast their vote solely on the basis of race).

While 95 percent certainly is a very high percentage, Democrats have consistently won over 80 percent of the black vote with Lyndon Johnson winning 94 percent the last time the Democrats trounced an Arizona senator.

If African Americans voted solely on the basis of race, why then did Sen. Clinton lead Obama among blacks throughout 2007 or black Republicans running against white candidates for Senate in Maryland and Governor in Ohio and Pennsylvania in 2006 receive only 13-20 percent of the their vote?

With Obama getting the endorsement of 287 newspapers representing approximately 70 percent of print readership (including many in markets with few African

Americans, such as the Anchorage Daily News), it is clear that Obama had made a compelling case for his candidacy that had little to do with race.

Yet Vargas apparently believes that black voters were incapable of making such a determination and instead reflexively chose Obama “for one reason — because he is black.”

Nonetheless, Vargas deserves credit for shedding light on bigotry which has no place in today’s society — even if it is his own.

A day earlier, Steve Breen (who has complained about “black liberation Obamaholism”) joined giants of jurisprudence such as Sean Hannity in promoting the Triple D warriors’ new grand conspiracy — Berg v. Obama. Philip Berg is a Pennsylvania lawyer who has been fined over $10,000 for filing frivolous lawsuits, twice sued President Bush for conspiracy in connection with 9/11, and recently filed a lawsuit seeking to disqualify Obama on the grounds that he is not a natural born U.S. citizen.

A Pennsylvania federal judge denied Berg’s request for a temporary restraining order and dismissed his complaint as “frivolous and not worthy of discussion.” A copycat suit has been filed in California by political gadfly Alan Keyes.

Breen evokes a grand media conspiracy to conceal this case, even though it has been reported in the Washington Post, ridiculed by conservative Forbes Magazine and dismissed by the independent FactCheck.org (which has inspected his birth certificate).

Breen also claims “Justice Souter [another Clinton appointee] found merit in the case;” when in reality GHW Bush-appointee Souter denied Berg’s request for a pre-election injunction.

Despite this, Breen has the audacity to claim that we have been “kept in the dark and fed nothing but crap” by the mainstream media when it appears that he could benefit from watching something other than the Fecal News Channel.

Vargas, Breen and Limbaugh have put us on notice that a mere week after his election, the Obama Wars have begun.

The Triple D Warriors are in for a surprise, however, since the vast right wing is no longer vast as the Republican share of the electorate has fallen to pre-Reagan levels and smearing Obama when two-thirds of adult Americans take pride in his election will only hasten their decline.

Americans, after all, do not see ignorance and bigotry as something to grin about.

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When my dad fights the rush-hour crowds to pick up the turkey the day before Thanksgiving only to have to return it until my mom can make space for it in the refrigerator, he and the 22-pound fowl ride tacitly back to the butcher to obligingly make the necessary poult-sitting arrangements. And he always makes sure that the fresh cranberries he buys come from a farm in the Manitowish Waters area of Wisconsin, which, as everyone knows, is the cranberry capital of the world.

My mom’s cranberry sauce is a painstakingly prepared creation of whole berries, lemon and orange zest and freshly grated ginger. But she goes to even greater lengths not to make a face at the canned cranberry sauce she dutifully serves to my sister and me since we both prefer the slimy, gelatinous variety to the gourmet rendering.

In that we eat turkey and stuffing, our meal is traditional. But we don’t eat mashed potatoes and we do eat meatballs and mock liver (the special Cohen family variation of chopped liver).

However, the truth is that even if our gourmet, eclectic meal was replaced with frozen Swanson TV dinners, no guest would cancel at the last minute and make alternate arrangements.

While the effort that goes into the meal is recognized and abundantly appreciated, the only thing that ultimately matters at Thanksgiving is that we’re all together. The fireplace in the living room wishes it could emit as much warmth as the table at dinnertime.

So while the napkin rings on our table weren’t crafted from the oak tree in the back yard and the floral centerpiece won’t be arrayed in a pumpkin-carved case, Martha Stewart could still learn a thing or two from my mom and our family. In fact, we’ll save Martha a seat at the table just in case she happens to be in the neighborhood, as I’m sure she’d find our Thanksgiving experience to be a very good thing.

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The luscious smell of the turkey roasting in the oven and the sound of the sidewalk cheers from the Macy’s parade coming from the TV in the kitchen are my alarm clock on Thanksgiving morning. Like Michelangelo when he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, my Mom doesn’t like to be disturbed when she’s just seven or eight hours away from serving a significant meal to 16 people. However, I’ve found that if I stay out of her way and keep annoying questions to a minimum (“Did the turkey come with a butt this year?”), I’m usually welcome to take a seat in the kitchen to watch her work her magic.

Naturally, though, the Thanksgiving preparations begin weeks before that morning. It all starts with The List.

The List is not an elementary itemization of grocery requirements; rather, it’s derived from a carefully preserved file of menus and guest names from Thanksgivings past.

Former meals are scrutinized. Various recipes, hors d’oeuvres, first and main courses, desserts, wine, liquor and soda selections, seating arrangements, cooking schedules and timelines are considered and analyzed.

Every possible permutation and combination is calculated with NASA-like precision until The List is finalized.

One thing that distinguishes my mom from mere mortals is her astonishing feat of having never, ever stepped foot inside a supermarket. That’s where my dad, the unsung hero of the refrigerator and pantry, comes in.

Besides his normal year-round duties of making sure the milk is fresh, the vegetables crisp, the cabinets stocked with low-sodium chicken broth and Bumble Bee tuna and the bathrooms supplied with ample toilet paper, when The List is released for Thanksgiving, my dad journeys hither and yonder to the nether regions of the surrounding states to scour supermarkets, butcher shops, farm stands and gourmet specialty marts in a Holy Grail-type quest to fill The List exactly as it has been written.

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BEVERLY HILLS A top United Nations climate official said Wednesday that regional government leaders must step up their efforts to combat global warming and press their national governments to follow their lead.

Addressing an international climate summit, the U.N.’s Richard Kinley said state and provincial governments can influence broader efforts to reduce greenhouse gases because they often regulate the sources of those emissions.

Their actions can serve as a model for global cooperation, he said.

“The world needs more of the same if it is to meet the climate change challenges,” Kinley told a gathering of governors on the final day of a summit organized by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.“More in your own states and provinces, more in terms of cooperation and mutual support among your governments and more in terms of encouragement to national governments.”

Kinley is deputy executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He told governors and regional representatives from the U.S., Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia that emissions must be cut at least 50 percent by 2050.

He reiterated the U.N.’s findings that the U.S., members of the European Union and other industrialized nations will have to make steep cuts while developing countries such as China and India must agree to slow their growth of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

Schwarzenegger hopes his summit will inform U.N. negotiations in Poland next month on a new global climate treaty that must be completed by the end of next year.

The Republican governor, 12 other U.S. governors (10 of them Democrats) and regional leaders from Mexico, Canada, Brazil and Indonesia signed a declaration Wednesday pledging cooperation. The document says they will develop policy positions on the industries that produce the most greenhouse gases — forestry, agriculture, cement, iron, aluminum, energy and transportation.

Those reports will then be forwarded to the U.N. The chairman of a state pollution control board in India also signed the declaration.

Schwarzenegger described the declaration as a significant step and said he hopes it will influence the international negotiations.

“We have to draw people into the debate,” Schwarzenegger said during an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. “We have no choice. In the end, we are going to destroy the world.”

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat and one of four other governors co-hosting the summit, said it was incumbent on states to cut emissions because of the lack of action so far at the federal level.

Democratic governors Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and Jim Doyle of Wisconsin, along with Republican Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, are the other cohosts of Schwarzenegger’s conference, titled the Governors’ Global Climate Summit.

Schwarzenegger, who has advocated strict reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, said he organized the gathering to show local governments in other countries that emissions can be cut without harming the economy.

Since taking office in 2003, he has entered partnerships with the governors of seven Western states and four Canadian provinces in an effort to help polluting industries buy

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE OF THE SAME IF IT IS TO MEET THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES. MORE IN YOUR OWN STATES AND PROVINCES, MORE IN TERMS OF COOPERATION AND MUTUAL SUPPORT AMONG YOUR GOVERNMENTS AND MORE IN TERMS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger credits from other companies that have been able to reduce their emissions.

In a speech to the conference Wednesday, Schwarzenegger said national economies would be harmed if governments fail to cut emissions. He pointed to California, where green technology companies founded in response to climate change are generating employment and tax revenue.

“We can do it with fairness and equity so all our economies will flourish ... and no one is being held back,” Schwarzenegger said.

Wisconsin’s governor acknowledged that many governments are financially strapped but said his state must find creative ways to reduce emissions.

“You can’t go the other direction,” Doyle said. “I would hate to see us come out of economic doldrums two years from now and find that we have moved 25 years backwards.”

Such moves will not come without costs, however, said Sabine Miltner, a director at Deutsche Bank.

She said sufficiently reducing emissions will require capital investments of roughly $500 billion a year between 2010 and 2030.

Miltner suggested the U.S. and other governments weighing economic stimulus packages invest some of the money in energy efficiency projects, transmission lines for renewable power sources and public transportation systems.

The event also included taped messages from President-elect Barack Obama and Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In his message Tuesday, Obama vowed to engage vigorously in the U.N. negotiations and “help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change.”

The United Nations has a December 2009 deadline to complete a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. That treaty, which expires in 2012, does not include the U.S. or China — the world’s largest emitters.

The U.N.’s Kinley urged regional governors to lobby their national governments to sign the global warming treaty, which is expected to be completed by December 2009 at a meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Restaurant Snapshot Merv Hecht

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11 Year Recipient of The Best Western Excellence Award

Wine selection helps R+D shine THE GROUP THAT OWNS HOUSTON’S

restaurants, and others, has a winning formula duplicated at the new R+D Kitchen on Montana Avenue. The space is open, light, and inviting. The restaurant features a simple menu, reasonable prices, and excellent service. It’s no wonder that while other restaurant business is down, R+D remains busy.

WHERE: 1323 Montana Ave. Telephone: (310) 395-3314.

WHEN: Seven days a week: Weekdays 11:30 a.m. — 10 p.m., Fridays 11:30 a.m. — 11 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. — 11 p.m.

BEST DISHES: The cheeseburger, at $14 is very popular. At lunch the seared tuna salad at $18 is very nice. I last had the Greek chicken, $17, which was very nicely prepared. There was a lemon cream sauce (“avgolemono sauce,” according to the menu) and Tabbouleh on the side, which went well with the chicken.

BEST FEATURE: The atmosphere and the service are big pluses. You can get the same food in lots of places. See “what to drink” below for the bonus!

WORST FEATURE: The limited menu.

WHAT TO DRINK: The best and unexpected feature of this restaurant is the wine list. Here are about 30 unusual wines, which I don’t see on other menus, at reasonable prices and all available by the glass as well as by the bottle. Now that’s customer service.

There are also about a dozen more expensive wines by the bottle.

BOTTOM LINE: It’s worth going to R+D over and over for good solid food, so you can try all the wines over time.

MERV HECHT, the food and wine critic for the Santa Monica Daily Press, is a wine buyer and consultant to a number of national and international food and wine companies. He can be reached at mervynhecht@yahoo.com

Stuffing vs. dressing

BY MICHELE KAYAL For The Associated Press

Is it just a potato-potahto thing, or is there a meaningful difference between Thanksgiving stuffings and dressings?

Depends on whom you ask.

The answer cited most often by chefs, cookbook authors and other Thanksgiving enthusiasts is one of avian physiology: it all comes down to inside the bird versus outside.

“A lot of people will say that ‘stuffing’ is cooked inside the bird, and ‘dressing’ is served alongside,” says Rebecca Hays, managing editor at Cook’s Illustrated. “But I don’t think there’s technically a right or wrong answer.”

The inside-outside theory does fall apart quickly. Hays says her New England-based magazine uses “stuffing” whether the dish — usually some blend of bread laced with seasonings, vegetables, maybe meat — is cooked inside or outside the bird.

Slip below the Mason-Dixon line and the terminology flips: it’s always ‘dressing’ regardless of how it’s cooked.

“It’s ‘dressing’ whether it’s in the bird or not,” says Jean Anderson, author of “A Love Affair with Southern Cooking,” who found “dressing” to be universal in her collection of community cookbooks, those spiral-bound fundraisers that capture a region’s collective culinary wisdom.

Could it be the ingredients? A traditional Northern stuffing begins with sturdy white bread while the most common Southern dressing is based on cornbread. But even those generalities can be challenged, and elements of the garnish vary so widely across the country that it’s unlikely ingredients determine “stuffing” versus “dressing.”

In New England, onions, celery and herbs such as thyme and sage might be added to hearty white bread. Oysters will feature promi-

nently in many coastal communities. Sausage also might also find its way into the mix.

In parts of the Midwest with large eastern European communities, such as Chicago, rye or Bohemian-style bread might be used, says Thanksgiving cookbook author Rick Rodgers.

In northern California, sourdough bread might be added to wild mushrooms, chestnuts and seasonal ingredients such as artichokes.

But it’s all “stuffing,” Rodgers says, even the hyper-regional tamale-based stuffing with pork, chilies and raisins that he uncovered in Texas.

“Pretty much I find the people who live south of the Mason-Dixon line and in some parts of the Midwest call it ‘dressing,’ but everywhere else it’s ‘stuffing,’” he says. “There is no substantive difference. It’s all bread that you put into poultry.”

Even typical Southern dressings contain huge variations. While the most traditional version starts with cornbread, rice figures prominently in the Deep South and in Carolina low country, where it grows, says Anderson.

Cracker crumbs or stale biscuits might form the base in more rural communities. Bits of ham, country bacon or sausage might honor the region’s love of pig, but coastal areas might substitute oysters.

Once you hit Louisiana with its Cajun and Creole influences, Anderson says, andouille sausage and tasso might represent the pork, while chicken livers and hot pepper will spice up a rice-based dressing.

“It depends on whatever came to hand or was available,” she says. “Southerners were very good at improvisation.”

Witness Scott Peacock, the James Beard award-winning chef at Watershed Restaurant in Decatur, Ga., whose childhood table in southeastern Alabama featured dressing that combined corn bread, white bread and Saltine crackers.

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17th St Cafe 1610 Montana Ave.

Andrew’s Cheese Shop 728 Montana Ave.

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BABALU Excellent Carribean dining featuring a fresh menu focusing on seafood, burgers, salads and world famous homemade desserts. Open daily from 11:30 to 10pm. Wine and beer menu, take out available.

1002 Montana Ave

(310) 395-2500

Blue Plate 1415 Montana Ave. Cafe Dana 1211 Montana Ave. Cafe Montana 1534 Montana Ave Di Dio's Italian Ices 1305 Montana Ave.

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The Duck Blind 1102 Montana Ave. Father's Office 1018 Montana Ave. Il Dolce Cafe 1023 Montana Ave #B Le Marmiton 1327 Montana Ave Locanda Portofino 1110 Montana Ave. Louise's Trattoria 1008 Montana Ave. Marmalade 710 Montana Ave. Montana Restaurant & Lounge 1323 Montana Blvd.

Patty's Gourmet Take & Bake Pizza 625 Montana Ave. Pradeeps 1405 Montana Ave. Ristorante Vincenzo 714 Montana Ave. Rosti 931 Montana Ave. Spumoni 713 Montana Ave. Sushi Sho 1303 Montana Ave. Via Dolce 1627 Montana Ave. Vincenzo Ristorante 714 Montana Ave.

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MID-CITY Akbar Cuisine Of India 2627 Wilshire Blvd Back On Broadway 2024 Broadway Bergamot Cafe 2525 Michigan Ave. # A3 Big Jos 1955 Broadway Bistro Of Santa Monica Santa Monica Blvd

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BISTRO 31 Bistro 31, the culinary student-run restaurant of The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles, offers an incredible dining experience at a reasonable price. Students prepare sumptuous international cuisine and deliver it in an elegant setting. Lunch and dinner.

2900 31st St

(310) 314-6057

Bizou Garden 2450 Colorado Ave. #1050 Bread And Porridge 2315 Wilshire Blvd Buon Giorno Caffe 1431 Santa Monica Bl Cafe L'etoile D'or 2311 Santa Monica Blvd Chandni Vegetarian 1909 Wilshire Blvd Coogie's Cafe 2906 Santa Monica Blvd The Corner Cafe 28th St. #121 The Cutting Board 1260 15th St. #105

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DAGWOODS Pizza lovers love DAGWOODS for its real hand tossed authentic NY Style Pizza.

Others come for the delicious Italian food: custom made calzones, 100% semolina pasta dishes, giant subs and zesty salads and side dishes. Whatever you choose, it comes at great prices with friendly service. Free Delivery.

820 Wilshire Blvd.

(310) 899-3030

Daily Grill 2501 Colorado Ave. #b-190 Drago Restaurant 2628 Wilshire Blvd Dragon Palace 2832 Santa Monica Blvd El Cholo 1025 Wilshire Blvd Fromins 1832 Wilshire Blvd House Of Billiards 1901 Wilshire Blvd I H O P 1920 Santa Monica Blvd Casa Escobar 2500 Wilshire Blvd

(310) 309-2170 (310) 828-1585 (310) 829-1462 (310) 899-1106 (310) 829-5443 (310) 828-9203 (310) 829-9100 (310) 828-1315

IZZYS DELI Where the stars meet the locals. Izzys features 10.95 dinners nightly. Since 1970, Izzys has been serving hungry locals the world famous Reuben sandwich and generous omeletes for generations.

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1433 Wilshire Blvd

(310) 394-1131

J P's Bar & Grill 1101 Wilshire Blvd Kaido Japense Cuisine 2834 Santa Monica Blvd Kay 'N Dave's 262 26th St. L A Farm Ltd 3000 Olympic Blvd Lee's Chinese Food 1610 Santa Monica Blvd The Lincoln 2460 Wilshire Bl Lucys Lunchbox 710 Wilshire Bl #100 Maya Japanese Food 2840 Santa Monica Blvd Manhattan Bagel 2216 Wilshire Blvd Nawab Of India 1621 Wilshire Bl Networks Cafe 2700 Colorado Ave. #190 Noma Restaurant 2031 Wilshire Blvd Norms Santa Monica 1601 Lincoln Blvd O' Briens 2226 Wilshire Blvd Our Cafe 2104 Wilshire Bl Overunder 1333 Santa Monica Blvd Pacific Dining Car 2700 Wilshire Blvd Pot & Pan Thai Food 2315 Santa Monica Blvd Santa Monica Pizza 1318 Wilshire Blvd The Shack Restaurant 2518 Wilshire Blvd The Slice 915 Wilshire Blvd Sizzler 2025 Wilshire Blvd Snug Harbor 2323 Wilshire Blvd Sunshine Cafe & Grill 2021 Santa Monica Blvd Sushi King 1330 Wilshire Blvd Tacos Por Favor 1406 Olympic Blvd Taqueria Chihuahua 1909 Lincoln Bl Tazzina 1620 Wilshire Blvd Thai Dishes 111 Santa Monica Blvd Toi On Wilshire 1120 Wilshire Blvd Wilshire Restaurant 2454 Wilshire Blvd

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3 on Fourth 1432 4th St. #A Abode Restaurant 1541 Ocean Av #150 B O A 101 Santa Monica Bl Baja Buds 1315 Third Street Promenade Bangkok West 606 Santa Monica Blvd

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BENIHANA Traditional Japanese teppanyaki room. Sushi appetizers. Open Daily. Please call for specific hours.

1447 4th St.

(310) 260-1423

Bookmark Cafe 601 Santa Monica Bl Bravo Cucina 1319 Third Street Promenade

(310) 587-2665 (310) 394-0374

BRITANNIA PUB Britannia Pub has been a favorite for years for locals and visitors alike. This English pub has a traditonal charm with a Californian flair. A cozy inviting atmosphere makes this a great place to relax and meet new people. Our friendly staff provides you with excellent service for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Cocktails. We also offer live music, karaoke, pool and an unbe-

318 Santa Monica Blvd.

(310) 458-5350

Broadway Deli 1457 Third Street Promenade Brunos Italian Rest Deli 1652 Ocean Ave. Bubba Gump Shrimp Co 301 SM Pier Buca Di Beppo 1442 2nd St. The Cafe 445 Pacific Coast Hwy Cafe Crepe 1460 Third Street Promenade Cafe Paradiso 2408 Wilshire Blvd Cafe Presto 2425 Colorado Ave. #107 B Cafe Sol 2425 Colorado Ave. California Chicken Cafe 2401 Wilshire Blvd California Crisp 13 Santa Monica Place California Pizza Kitchen 214 Wilshire Blvd Callahans Restaurant 1213 Wilshire Blvd Capo 1810 Ocean Ave. Carousel Cafe 1601 Ocean Front Walk Chez Jay 1657 Ocean Ave. Comfort Cafe 420 Broadway Cora's Coffee Shoppe L P 1802 Ocean Ave. Crepes Company Inc 213 Arizona Ave. Dennys Restaurant 1645 1560 Lincoln Blvd Fast Taco 2901 Ocean Park Blvd #115 Fritto Misto 601 Colorado Ave.

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FUNNEL MILL The Funnel Mill features imported, organic coffee and teas from around the world. If you eat McDonalds, drink two buck Chuck, and think Starbucks is gourmet, this place is not for you.

Discover what coffee and tea should really taste like to the discerning palate. Try our traditional tea ceremony to truly appreciate the flavors of the East. www.funnelmill.com 930 Broadway Suite A

(310) 597-4395

Gate Of India 115 Santa Monica Blvd Gaucho Grill 1251 Third Street Promenade Georges Bistro 1321 Third Street Hedwigs Cafe 1509 4th St.

(310) 656-1665 (323) 468-0220 (310) 451-8823 (310) 394-3956

THE HIDEOUT The Hideout is Santa Monica's best lounge! We pay attention to details, so you don't have to. Whether you want to come alone, as a couple, with a group of friends, or throw an unforgettable party, we've got you covered!

112 W. Channel Road

(310) 429-1851

Hot Dog On A Stick 1633 Ocean Front Walk

(760) 930-0456

HOUSTON'S Upscale steak and seafood. Live jazz on thursdays upstairs lounge. Full bar, open 11:00 to 11pm daily. Reservations suggested.

202 Wilshire Blvd

(602) 553-2111

I Cugini Restaurant 1501 Ocean Ave.

(310) 451-4595

IL FORNAIO In the tradition of Italy's trattorias, the sight, sounds and aromas of authentic Italian cuisine are recreated everyday at Il Fornaio.

Mornings bring crisp crusted bread hot from the oven accompanied by the scent of fresh brewed espresso. During lunch and dinner, pastas and flavorful sauces simmer while meats and vegetables roast over hot coals.

1551 Ocean Ave.

(415) 945-0500

Infuzion Cafe 1149 3rd St. #100 Interactive Cafe 215 Broadway Ipanema Cafe 150 Santa Monica Place Ivy At The Shore 1535 Ocean Ave. Jinkys Cafe 1447 2nd St. Jiraffe Restaurant 504 Santa Monica Blvd

(310) 393-9985 (310) 395-5009 (310) 838-8586 (310) 278-2908 (818) 981-2250 (310) 917-6671

JOHNNY ROCKETS Every Johnny Rockets restaurant boasts an all-American look and feel with great tasting food including juicy hamburgers, classic sandwiches and hand-dipped shakes and malts. Come in and see for yourself why Johnny Rockets is the place Where the Good Times Roll!TM” 1322 Third Street

(949) 643-6100

Kaiten Restaurant 1456 Third Street La Botte, Inc. 620 Santa Monica Blvd #A La Salsa #44 1401 Third Street Promenade La Serenata 1416 4th St. Le Merigot Hotel 1740 Ocean Ave. Leonidas 331 Santa Monica Blvd Light House Buffet 201 Arizona Ave. The Lobster 1602 Ocean Ave. Locanda Del Lago 231 Arizona Ave. Loews Santa Monica 1700 Ocean Ave. Manchu Wok 11 Santa Monica Pl Mariasol 401 Santa Monica Pier Michaels 1147 3rd St. Musha Restaurant 424 Wilshire Blvd Newsroom Santa Monica Inc 530 Wilshire Ocean Avenue Seafood 1401 Ocean Ave. Ocean Cafe 100 Wilshire Blvd #B1-10

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THE ORCHID Asian fusian at it’s best. This Thai restauraunt blends eastern spices and traditional Thai ingredients to make a unique and special dining experience, just a block from the ocean.

119-121 Broadway

(310) 801-5240

P F Chang's China Bistro 326 Wilshire Blvd Panera Bread 501 Wilshire Bl Perrys Pizz 930 Ocean Front Walk Perrys Pizza 2600 Ocean Front Walk Perrys Pizza 1200 Ocean Front Walk Perrys Pizza 2400 Ocean Front Walk Promenade Cafe 321 Santa Monica Bl R A W 609 Broadway Real Food Daily 514 Santa Monica Blvd Renees Court Yard 522 Wilshire Blvd Rustic Canyon 1119 Wilshire Blvd

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RUSTY’S SURF RANCH Rusty's Surf Ranch on the Santa Monica Pier is a multi-use facility, featuring the best in live music, dancing and awardwinning cuisine in a California beach environment. With an extensive collection of historic surfboards and memorabilia, Rusty's pays homage to the "Surfing '60s", the Golden Era of California Surf Culture. Rusty's lunch and dinner cuisine are consistent award winners, but great meals share the stage with great music at Rusty's when the Dining Room stage welcomes live music and dancing with top area bands and national acts. Rusty's is available for Special Events during normal operations or as a restricted facility for Private Parties. Rusty's Surf Ranch is a perfect reminder of a simpler time in California's beachfront history, with good food in a casual environment, live music and FUN. Open daily at noon. Happy Hour 4-7p.m.

256 Santa Monica Pier

(310)393-PIERS

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Scarboni 312 Wilshire Bl

(310) 704-8079

SONNY MCLEAN’S A true bit of Boston on the west coast. A haven for all Boston Sport fans and the west coast home of Red Sox Nation West with an excellent menu offering including fried calms, bellies and all, lobster rolls and great clam chowda’.

2615 Wilshire Blvd.

(310) 449-1811

Stefano's 1310 Third Street Promenade Sunset Bar & Grill 1240 Third Street Sushi Mon 401 Santa Monica Blvd Sushi Roku Santa Monica 1401 Ocean Av Sushi Shogun 1315 Third Street Sushi Teri Express 1551 Ocean Ave. #130 B

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SWINGERS The local diner, serving traditional diner fare with a southern california twist. Open 24 hours, the crowd in Swingers will change from late night clubbers to early morning coffee drinkers around 4am.

802 Broadway

(323) 656-6136

Tandoor Cafe 395 Santa Monica Place #009 Tastie16 Santa Monica Place Thai Dishes Restaurant 1910 Wilshire Blvd Tokyo Kitchen 15 Santa Monica Pl T's Thai 1215 4th St. Tudor House 1403 2nd St. Victoria Pizzeria 1607 Ocean Front Walk Villa Italian Specialties 8 Santa Monica Pl Wahoo's Fish Taco 418 Wilshire Blvd Whist 1819 Ocean Av Yangtze 1333 Third Street Promenade Yankee Doodles 1410 Third Street Ye Olde Kings Head 116 Santa Monica Blvd

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PICO/SUNSET PARK 310 Lounge & Bistro 3321 Pico Blvd.

Abbots Pizza Company 1811 Pico Blvd Acapulco Restaurant 3360 Ocean Park Blvd.

Air Conditioned 2819 Pico Blvd Ameci Pizza Pasta 2218 Lincoln Bl B B Q Garden 1707 Pico Blvd.

The Bread Factory Inc 1900 Pico Bl Buddha Boba 1701 Pico Bl Bud's Famous Deli & Desserts 2727 Ocean Park Blvd.

Cafe Bolivar 1741 Ocean Park Blvd.

Campos Mexican Food Inc 2008 Pico Blvd Classic Pizza 2624 Pico Blvd The Counter 2901 Ocean Park Bl #102 The Daily Pint 2310 Pico Blvd El Indio 2526 Pico Blvd El Pollo Loco Restaurant 1906 Lincoln Blvd El Torito 3360 Ocean Park Blvd.

El Texate 316 Pico Blvd.

Fresh & Natural Cafe 1900 Pico Blvd Ocean Park Pizza 2819 1/2 Ocean Park Blvd Georges Burgers 3101 Lincoln Blvd Gilbert's El Indio Mexican Food 2526 Pico Blvd.

Hotel Casa Del Mar Restaurant 1910 Ocean Way The Hump 3221 Donald Douglas Loop South The Hungry Pocket 1715 Pico Blvd Il Forno Caffe & Pizzeria 2901 Ocean Park Blvd Josie Restaurant 2424 Pico Blvd La Playita 3306 Lincoln Blvd Lazy Daisy Inc 2300 Pico Blvd Le Pain Du Jour 828 Pico Blvd #2 Mandarin Food Service 2618 Pico Bl Michael D'S Cafe 234 Pico Blvd Miyako 2829 Ocean Park Blvd

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THE OP CAFE A Small Neighborhood Place With A Family Feel – Serving Breakfast and Lunch Daily. The Freshest Foods, Friendly Service At Unbelievable Prices! So when you want to be treated like family and enjoy some delicious food –The OP CAFÉ is the PLACE!!

3117 Ocean Park Blvd

(310) 452-5720

One Pico Restaurant One Pico Blvd.

Panchos Tacos 2920 Lincoln Blvd Pedals Cafe One Pico Blvd.

Raes Restaurant 2901 Pico Blvd Santa Monica Bar and Grill 3321Pico Blvd Santinos 3021 Lincoln Blvd Sheraton Delfina 530 Pico Blvd The Slice 1622 Ocean Park Spitfire Grill 3300 Airport Ave. Star Of Siam 3133 Lincoln Blvd Subway 2901 Ocean Park Blvd Sunset Grill 1701 Ocean Park Blvd Tandoor India 2622 Pico Bl Tom's No 1 Pico 2350 Pico Blvd.

Typhoon 3221 Donald Douglas Loop UnUrban Coffeehouse 3301 Pico Blvd.

Valentino Restaurant 3115 Pico Blvd

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RICHIE PALMER’S PIZZERIA Owned and operated by Richie Palmer, founder of the worldfamous Mulberry Street Pizzeria in Beverly Hills. Palmer says he had to open in Santa Monica so all the people here would stop calling Beverly Hills for delivery. Same great pizza and Italian food.

1355 Ocean Ave

(310) 255-1111

Vitos 2807 Ocean Park Blvd Windows Restaurant 530 Pico Blvd.

Yongs Cafe 3020 Nebraska Ave. Yuni Sushi 1928 Lincoln Blvd Zabies 3003 Ocean Park Blvd

(310) 450-4999 (310) 399-9344 (310) 828-4775 (310) 396-4039 (310) 392-9036

MAIN STREET Amelia's 2645 Main St. Bravo Pizzaria & Deli 2400 Main St. Chinois On Main 2709 Main St. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Ocean Park Blvd.

Creative Sushi 2518 Main St. Dhaba Cuisine Of India 2104 Main St. Elvira's Cha Cha Chicken 1906 Ocean Ave. The Enterprise Fish Co 174 Kinney St. Euphoria Loves RAWvolution 2301 Main St. Finn McCools Irish Pub & Restaurant 2700 Main St. Goudas & Vines 2000 Main Street

Groundwork Coffee Co. 2908 Main St. The Galley 2442 Main St. Holy Guacamole 2906 Main St. It's All Good Bakery 2629 Main St. Joes Main Street Diner 2917 Main St. La Vecchia Cucina 2654 Main St Library Alehouse 2911 Main St. Lula Cocina Mexicana 2720 Main St. Main Street Bagels 2905 Main St. Malia 2424 Main St. Manchego 2510 Main Street

Mani's Bakery & Cafe 2507 Main St. O'Briens Irish Pub Oar House 2941 Main St.

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OCEAN PARK OMELETTE PARLOR The best breakfast in town, featuring locally grown vegetables from the Farmers Markets. Sinc 1962, the Omelete Parlor has

2732 Main St.

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Great Western Steak & Hoagie Company 1720 Lincoln Blvd.

Hal's Bar & Grill 1349 Abbot Kinney Blvd.

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Rose Cafe 220 Rose Ave. Shima 1432 Abbot Kinney Blvd.

Siam Best Restaurant 2533 Lincoln Blvd.

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Ramayani 1777 Westwood Blvd.

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A broader philosophy for KCRW FROM KCRW PAGE 1 Monica High.”

Bentley, who is a self-proclaimed, lifelong “The Who” fan, dates his interest in radio back to his early childhood.

“I was always, from a very young age, fascinated with radio,” he said. “I even had a mock radio station.” Bentley would record himself impersonating a radio DJ then he spliced it with music to simulate a real radio segment.

After Bentley graduated from high school he went on to study at Loyola Marymount University and was able to participate actively in radio broadcasting as a DJ for their station KXLU. In 1991 Bentley was recruited by former KCRW Music Director Chris Douridas after

a softball game between KXLU and KCRW staff members. Then in the summer of 1992 Bentley hit the airwaves and has been hosting his self-titled show for the past 16 years.

Bentley feels a strong connection with his nighttime show, and he became a bit sentimental when discussing his departure from the program.

“It has allowed me to go into a more specialized mode of electronic music,” he said.

“You can be a little more adventurous and creative at night, and I’ll miss that.”

As music director, Bentley will be trading his night show for the morning show, “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” which current Music Director Nic Harcourt is hosting.

“It’s a real responsibility because people feel personally connected with ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic,’” said Bentley, who plans

to add a new flavor to the program over time. “I definitely want to engage a slightly broader philosophy. It’s been a little more specialized than what I would do.”

Beyond his duties at KCRW, Bentley has had a flourishing career in music. He served as music supervisor for “The Matrix” trilogy soundtracks. For now Bentley has to put outside projects on hold while he concentrates on his new responsibilities.

“I know that opportunity will come but I can’t afford to take my eye off the ball.

KCRW is very important to me and it will be the priority,” he said.

On Dec. 1, Bentley will officially assume Harcourt’s position and adjust to the key position at KCRW. He acknowledges that it will require him to evolve, grow and reinvent himself as he finds his voice as the station’s

new music director.

“Just managing the music department, internally, is very much behind the scenes.

It’s probably a bigger task than the ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ program,” Bentley said.

He isn’t very stressed about his new duties because of the warm reception he has already received from his co-workers.

“The nice thing is, we have a real family at the station, and I know I can go to those guys for support,” he said. “I think together we can really take the radio station to another level.”

The promotion hasn’t quite hit Bentley yet.

“It’s one of those things, you never let yourself believe it’s possible, until it happens,” Bentley said. news@smdp.com

Campaign expected to raise $29 million for cancer research FROM RESEARCH PAGE 3 can compel you to explain your newfound look.”

The campaign officially kicked off a year later when 450 men participated, raising $550,000 for various cancer research organizations around the world.

Approximately 180,000 men are participating this year, raising what is estimated to be about $29 million. The beneficiary of the Movember money raised in the United

States will be the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which is based in Santa Monica.

While prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer, affecting one in six men in the United States, awareness of the disease remains minimal.

“We really think that we’re reaching out to another demographic — the younger demographic — that we haven’t been able to make inroads to,” Jan Wolterstorff, the spokeswoman for the Prostate Cancer

Foundation, said. “It’s not going to happen overnight, but a program like Movember will go a long way to changing the awareness of men’s health issues.”

Several organizations are also participating in the campaign, including the Santa Monica Rugby Club in which many of its members will grow moustaches.

Dominic Riebli, the captain of the men’s team, said he has spoken to about five people since growing his ‘stache.

“It’s a bit odd,” Riebli said of his mous-

tache. “It’s definitely out of the ordinary.”

Hacker, who was a member of the men’s team for 24 years and now serves on the Board of Directors, said he receives comments about his moustache at least twice a day.

“I would say the moustache is not particularly common these days, unless perhaps you’re a fireman or a police officer,” Hacker said. melodyh@smdp.com

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Protect yourself The Santa Monica Chapter of the American Red Cross will be hosting a Los Angeles County Department of Public Health free flu shot clinic today from 9 a.m. to noon at 1450 11th St. If you are pregnant, a health care worker, nursing home or chronic-care facility resident, over 50-years of age and/or have a chronic condition such as asthma, heart disease, kidney disorder or diabetes, you are eligible for the free flu shot. If you are allergic to eggs or have any other serious illness, consult with your doctor before obtaining any flu shots.

The free flu shots are made possible through the county Department of Public Health and the American Red Cross of Santa Monica. Limited free parking is available.

For additional information or to inquire about other programs or assistance, call (310) 394-3773 or go online at www.redcrossofsantamonica.org.

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Queen of green Santa Monica City Councilmember Pam O’Connor on Tuesday received the first ever Green Leadership Award from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for her leadership in enhancing community livability and environmentally sustainable climate protection throughout the region.

“Pam’s leadership and personal commitment to the environment has put both the city of Santa Monica and MTA on the national stage,” Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke said. “As a council member, Pam’s ability to motivate and inspire others has led to revolutionary innovations including the adoption of the first local green building code and the Solar Santa Monica initiative.”

As chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, O’Connor leadership was fundamental in establishing a Sustainability Committee to ensure that MTA reduces its own operational environmental footprint, and has led MTA to partner with other stakeholders to implement regionally effective climate adaptation strategies.

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Court decision on jet planes expected in several months FROM SMO PAGE 1 in 2001-02.

She added that there have been accidents involving the larger jets at other airports where the runway is much longer than at SMO. “We don’t know when the accident is going to occur,” Moutrie said.

Alisa Klein, the attorney representing the FAA, called the ban unprecedented, adding that officials in Burbank and Van Nuys petitioned the FAA when it wanted the noise issues at their respective airports resolved.

“Santa Monica stands alone in unilaterally making changes on aircraft operations over the FAA’s objections,” Klein said.

The FAA has argued that the ban would affect operations at other airports in the area because jets accustomed to landing at SMO would be forced to land elsewhere.

Residents from Mar Vista and Sunset Park who attended the hearing came away with little hope, fearing City Hall’s chances for victory are slim. Several expressed frustration that some of the judges repeatedly interrupted both attorneys as they were

attempting to make their arguments.

“It defies logic that a judge would say that there is no apparent danger from C and D jets at an airport configured like Santa Monica’s simply because there has yet to be an overrun accident involving those kinds of planes at that airport,” Brian Bland, a Sunset Park resident, said.

He pointed to an overrun accident that took place at Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina in September that killed four passengers and injured two others, including former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM. The runway at that airport is much longer than the one in Santa Monica, Bland said.

Martin Rubin, who heads the Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution, said that it was frustrating to hear the judges make statements that led him to believe they were not aware of the situation at SMO. “It’s obvious they don’t understand the real safety concerns with faster jets coming in here with the concentration of the homes,” Rubin said. melodyh@smdp.com

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Neighborhood Community Meeting Ocean Park Boulevard Pilot Project Update Monday, November 24 – 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Avenue http://www.smgov.net/opbsurvey Responding to a desire to increase safety for drivers and pedestrians, Ocean Park Boulevard was restriped this past winter between Lincoln Boulevard and 25th Street with one lane of traffic in each direction and a center turn lane to provide fewer lanes of traffic for pedestrians to cross and resulted in more overnight parking and new bike lanes. This change was made on a trial basis and now the city will have the opportunity to decide whether to maintain the current arrangement.

The City has spent the past few months measuring the impacts of the restriping and evaluating whether the changes have addressed Santa Monicans’ concerns.

Are there fewer accidents?

How is bus service affected?

What changes have occurred on neighborhood streets?

Transportation Management staff would like your opinion and is surveying residents, visitors, business owners and employees on the redesigned street.

Please take the survey online at http://www.smgov.net/opbsurvey or request a copy at transportation.management@smgov.net or 310/458-8291.

A community meeting is also scheduled, at which we would like to: • Review the recent changes on Ocean Park Boulevard, • Provide an update on safety, traffic and feedback received regarding the changes, • Receive feedback on the pilot project and what should be done next, and • Encourage community participation in planning for this area.

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DALLAS It seems as if the gracious couple has told the story a thousand times — how the crack of an assassin’s bullet struck the president just a few feet from where they stood.

Sometimes it’s a reporter or author, but often it’s a curious citizen who hopes Bill and Gayle Newman can uncover a sliver of evidence to buttress their own theory about the death of John F. Kennedy.

Who wouldn’t want to hear from the couple who were so close to the assassination that is arguably the most scrutinized in American history — particularly as the tragic event marks its 45th anniversary on Saturday?

“At the time, we were both 23 years old and we didn’t realize the part in history that we played, because we were the closest people to him when that third shot rang out,” Gayle Newman said in a recent interview.

“Now as we have grown older, we do realize that this is something that will be a part of all of our life.”

The Newmans settled into a spot on the lawn at Dealey Plaza — just below the infamous grassy knoll — a few minutes before Kennedy’s motorcade glided by on Nov. 22, 1963. Their two young sons, 4year-old Billy and 2-year-old Clayton, were in tow.

Bill Newman said he had voted for Nixon in the 1960 election but wanted to get a glimpse of the popular president.

“It’s not every day the president of the United States comes to your hometown,” he said.

The presidential motorcade arrived in Dealey Plaza by turning right on Houston Street, then left on Elm where it passed by the Texas School Book Depository.

As the president’s black convertible came into sight, Bill Newman said, he heard what he thought were fireworks.

“I didn’t recognize it as a gunshot,” he said, clapping his hands twice with a pause to simulate the sounds.

But as the limousine drew closer, Newman said he could see blood on Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally, who was in the car with the president.

“Ten, 12 feet in front of us, the third shot rang out, and that’s when the side of his head flew off and I could remember seeing” the blood, Bill Newman said. “I turned to Gayle and I said, that’s it, hit the ground.”

An iconic picture of the Newmans shielding their two boys is on display the depository building, which has since been converted into a museum.

“It seems like everybody around us was running up the grassy knoll hill,” Gayle Newman said. “The police officers had their guns drawn.”

Do the couple feel a second gunman fired from the grassy knoll?

“I do tend to want to lean in the direction that it was a conspiracy, meaning more than one person was involved. But so far, no one’s ever come forward with concrete evidence,” Bill Newman said.

In the 45 years since that day, the Newmans have rarely rebuffed a curious questioner.

“I get calls and letters all the time,” Bill Newman said.

But some witnesses to the assassination are not as accommodating as the Newmans and would rather forget the day they saw Kennedy killed.

“The witnesses, for the most part, have very mixed feelings about everything connected to the assassination, beyond the fact, obviously, that a president died in front of them,” said Gary Mack, curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which occupies the same space as the former book depository.

“This subject rarely goes away for most of them,” Mack said.

The Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at Kennedy’s motorcade from the sixth floor of the depository, which overlooked Dealey Plaza. Oswald was arrested as a suspect but was slain two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

Astronaut who lost tool bag admits to making mistake

BY MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she’s still smarting over the whole thing.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said in an interview with The Associated Press that it was “very disheartening” to lose her bag full of tools. She was trying to clean up grease that had oozed out of a grease gun in the backpack-size bag, when the tote and everything in it floated away Tuesday.

The bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut.

For a split second, she thought she might be able to grab it and she tried to judge how far away it was. Just as quickly, “I thought, no, that would probably just make things

worse and the best thing to do would be to just let it go.”

“There’s still the psychological thing of knowing that we made a mistake and having to live through that,” she said. “During the spacewalk ... it was easy to put it aside because I knew that we still had five hours of spacewalk work to do and the work needed to get done and you can’t dwell on a mistake.

It was hardest coming back in and having to face everybody else.”

She noted there were three more spacewalks and promised not to let the mistake happen again.

“You’re not going to see us lose another bag. We’re going to double- and triple-check everything from here on out,” she said.

The next spacewalk is Thursday; Stefanyshyn-Piper will venture back out of the international space station for more work on a jammed joint at the space station that controls some of the solar wings.

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Animal rights video shows turkey abuse THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEWISBURG, W.Va. Global poultry grower Aviagen Inc. said Wednesday it has suspended a supervisor and would investigate a video released by an animal rights group that appears to show horrific abuse of turkeys at the company’s West Virginia farms.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the video, which includes workers stomping on turkeys’ heads and twisting their necks to kill them, was shot by an undercover investigator who worked on the companies’ farms for more than two months.

The undercover worker, who was not identified, described stifling, dusty barns where the animals were kept and caught video of several workers killing turkeys, slamming them into metal cages and bragging about previous abuse of the animals.

The New York Times first reported the allegations.

Representatives of subsidiary Aviagen Turkeys Inc. on Tuesday were shown the video that “appears to show inappropriate actions and violations of our animal welfare policies,” the company said in a statement.

“We condemn any abuse of the animals in our care and will take swift action to address these issues,” the statement said.

The company said it was investigating the actions and workers shown in the video and they could be fired. The supervisor involved has been suspended pending the outcome.

PETA filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday alleging animal cruelty, according to the Greenbrier County Sheriff ’s Department.

In West Virginia, felony animal cruelty can be punished by one to three years in prison and up to $5,000 in fines.

Sherrie Rosenblatt of the National Turkey Federation in Washington, D.C., questioned the timing of PETA’s sting.

“I think it’s interesting that PETA, allegedly this vegetarian group, would go into a place and actually see something that is not common, and not say anything about it until about a week before Thanksgiving,” Rosenblatt told Associated Press Television Network on Wednesday. “To me that is not making sure there is ethical treatment of animals, but it’s more about public relations propaganda.

“The turkey industry really takes pride in the health and well being of its flock because that’s the way we can provide safe and nutritional and affordable foods for consumers especially around Thanksgiving when everyone is going to have turkey at the center of the plate.”

Rosenblatt said industry guidelines for turkey handling have been in place since 1980 and called the video “very much an isolated incident.”

PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich in Washington, D.C., said Wednesday the timing was only a coincidence.

“We did actually complain about it more than a month ago and nothing changed,” Friedrich said. “The company president responded to our letter and said they would take appropriate action, but the gratuitous abuse continued.”

Norfolk, Va.-based PETA campaigns most years against the practices of turkey growers before Thanksgiving and encourages Americans to find vegetarian substitutes for the bird, such as tofu. The video showing the turkey abuse was posted on PETA’s Web site.

In 2004, PETA carried out a similar undercover video sting in West Virginia against Texas-based Pilgrim’s Pride at the company’s Moorefield plant.

The company fired 11 employees and provided animal cruelty training throughout its North American operations after that, but a Hardy County grand jury in 2005 refused to indict any of the workers involved.

Airport workers program stresses how to de-stress

BY DAVID PORTER Associated Press Writer

NEWARK, N.J. An irate traveler once raised his hand threateningly at Kaisy Belfon when told a flight was overbooked. Another petulant passenger tossed a piece of luggage at her.

Such stressful moments can happen anytime at an airport, but they’re never more likely than when people are trying to get home for the holidays. So Belfon and hundreds of other workers at Newark Liberty Airport are getting a crash course in keeping their cool.

“Pressure causes people to do a lot of things,” said Belfon, a 27-year-old customer service representative for US Airways.

“Afterward they can’t believe they acted that way, but under pressure they just tend to react, and then later they say they’re sorry.”

Stress may be higher than usual at airports this Thanksgiving, with 24 million

passengers expected in the air and many airlines cutting back on numbers of flights due to the weak economy. To help employees cope, Newark Liberty is offering a customer service program with roots in the aftermath of 9/11.

“Resiliency Edge” was developed by Tom Murphy, a longtime aviation trainer and head of the Human Resiliency Institute in Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. About two dozen people got a first look at his presentation Wednesday on the concourse inside Terminal B as travelers hurried past to their gates.

“Understand where they’re coming from, so you can put yourself in their place,” Murphy told the group. “Understand that they’re basically not bad people.”

About 500 employees at Newark are scheduled to undergo the 90-minute training program, which received high marks when it was introduced at New York’s JFK Airport in May.

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Call us at (310) 458-7737 NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL SUBJECT:

Proposed creation of new fees and revision to existing fees charged by the City related to development review, records, inspection and general services in the Planning and Community Development Department.

WHEN:

TUESDAY, November 25, 2008 5:45 P.M.

WHERE:

Santa Monica City Hall, Council Chambers- Room # 213 1685 Main Street Santa Monica, California

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The City Council will conduct a public hearing on the proposed creation of new fees and revision to existing fees charged by the City’s Planning and Community Development for the provision of a variety of services including, but not limited to: processing of applications related to development review, planning approvals, construction permits on private property and in the public right of way, related inspections and plan reviews, review of related reports, building records and other related administrative services.

The proposed fee revisions are intended to more fully recover the City’s cost of providing services and processing applications. The proposed fees are based on a comprehensive study of costs incurred in providing services, processing permit applications and regulating construction activity. A copy of this study and of the proposed fee schedule is available at the City Clerk’s office in Room 102 of City Hall, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, California no later than October 28, 2008. The public hearing will also consider the reaffirmation of existing fees at current rates for services charged by other City departments for a variety of services.

MORE INFORMATION The Council Chambers is wheelchair accessible. To request a disability related accommodation, such as sign language interpreting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (310) 458-8211, TDD (310) 917-6626 at least three days prior to the meeting. Santa Monica Bus Lines #1, #2, #3, #7 and #8 serve City Hall.

Pursuant to California Government Code Section 65009(b), if this matter is subsequently challenged in court, the challenge may be limited to only those issues raised at the Public Hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Santa Monica at, or prior to, the Public Hearing.

ESPAÑOL El Concilio Municipal de la ciudad de Santa Monica tendra una audiencia pública sobre la creacion propuesta para aumentar el costo del procedimiento de aplicaciones y para suministrar la variedad de servicios de la Division de Edificio y Seguridad. Para màs información, llame a Elsa Gonzalez al número (310) 458-2275.

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Those involved in the bowl business say that, with the national economy flailing, events which are as much about tourism and corporate sponsorship as football now are staring at a set of challenges that will level off the number of second-tier bowls if not reduce them.

There are a lot of second-tier bowls to choose from.

“We’re talking about disposable income and that’s drying up as fast as water in the desert,” said Paul Hoolahan, chairman of the Football Bowl Association and CEO of the Sugar Bowl.

The bowl roster now stands at 34, giving 68 teams the opportunity to play a nationally televised game and be pampered by the host community. That’s more than half of the 119 schools playing college football at its highest level.

The NCAA has been liberally licensing new bowls in recent years. Since 2002, 11 new bowl games have been established, while only three have closed up shop. Two games will debut this season, the EagleBank Bowl in Washington D.C., and the St. Petersburg Bowl in central Florida.

To get a license, organizers need a stadium, sponsorship, an agreement with two major college football conferences to put teams in the game and a network willing to televise the show.

People in the industry suspect that getting licensed and keeping that license will be tougher because of the economic crisis.

“As they are evaluated on an annual basis, I think a stricter criteria would probably be implemented to establish the fiscal viability of the business model,” Hoolahan said.

In other words, can you raise enough money to pull this off?

Hoolahan runs a game with little to worry about. The Sugar Bowl is part of the Bowl Championship Series, along with the Rose, Orange and Fiesta bowls, and the national championship game.

ESPN agreed this week to a pay the BCS $125 million per year over four years, starting in 2010, to televise its games, excluding the Rose Bowl, which has its own lucrative TV deal. That’s up about $40 million a year from the current deal the BCS has with Fox. The Sugar and the other BCS games pay about $17 million to each participating team, and the school splits that money with the rest of its conference.

With all that TV money, plus insurance giant Allstate as the title sponsor, the Sugar Bowl will have no problem paying its bills.

Hoolahan expects another sellout crowd or close to it at the 72,000-seat Superdome on Jan. 2.

Bowls attract thousands of fans/tourists and media members, who fill hotels and restaurants and boost local businesses.

Whether they’ll be as big a financial bonanza this year is uncertain.

“That’s the reason we do a bowl game,” said Scott Ramsey, executive director of the Music City Bowl in Nashville. “We want people to come to Nashville and spend money and to get 3Ω hours of television time for

our sponsors and city.”

Ramsey said he’s seeing an uptick in local ticket sales. Usually, the Music City Bowl’s goal is to sell about 20,000 tickets locally, before a matchup is set in early December.

Each team is on the hook for between 10,000 and 15,000 tickets. While the numbers vary, every school that plays in a bowl is obliged to buy tickets and do its best to get them in the hands of its fans.

Ramsey said the Music City Bowl is already close to its local ticket sales target.

“I don’t know if that’s more people staying home for the holidays and we’re creating a local option for fans,” Ramsey speculated.

Ramsey said the Music City Bowl builds its budget around 55,000-57,000 tickets sold to LP Field, which seats 67,000. So it, like many second-tier games, doesn’t need a sellout to meet its financial needs.

“We need to raise $5-$5.1 million to break even,” said Ramsey, who has also served as the Football Bowl Association chairman.

For the majority of bowl games, breaking even is the goal, Ramsey said The Music City Bowl matches teams from the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference. It’s a model most second-tier bowl games use: Pick teams from the region so fans don’t have to spend a fortune to get to the game.

Ramsey said that in this economic climate, bowl organizers and conferences will likely emphasize, as best they can, keeping teams closer to home.

“All things being equal, the more regional the fan base, the better this year,” he said.

It’s a good plan, but for some bowls, it’s impossible. The Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho, has the ACC as one of its partners.

And nobody wants to get a bid to the Hawaii Bowl this year.

The Music City Bowl guarantees a total payout of $3.4 million to its partner conferences. It’s one of 21 games with a payout of less than $2 million dollars per teams.

Thirteen games guarantee less than $1 million per team.

For teams playing in games that dole out less than $1 million, going to a bowl can be a financial loss, especially if its a long trip.

The bowl explosion in recent years has provided more bowl opportunities for teams with smaller athletic budgets in less prominent conferences, such as the Western Athletic Conference, Mid-American Conference and Sun Belt Conference.

Even before the economic downturn, those leagues have had to be careful about where they commit to send their teams.

The FBA has been warning about oversaturating the bowl market for years.

Now, with money tight for everyone, MAC commissioner Rick Cryst said, “I think it’s brought us into better rhythm with the Bowl Association.”

Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters, who is also the chairman of the NCAA’s postseason football licensing subcommittee, said he believes over-saturation, and not the economic crisis, is more likely to keep the bowl lineup from growing.

He said the passion of college football fans is the game’s greatest resource.

“I’m not willing to say college football is recession proof,” he said, “but it sure is close.”

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Notices NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE(S) Date of Filing Application: November 13, 2008 To Whom it may concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are: DINING SOLUTION INC The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 111 SANTA MONICA BLVD., SANTA MONICA, CA 90401-2201 Type of License(s) Applied for: 41 – ON-SALE BEER AND WINE – EATING PLACE.

LOCATION 410 Broadway, Suite B, Santa Monica, CA 90401

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