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In a surprise announcement, the Norwegian committee announced this morning that President Barack Obama would be this years recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
The announcement resulted in gasps from surprised reporters in the room who were obviously surprised by the committees decision to award the Prize to Obama who has been in office only 9 months and will be only the 3rd sitting American President to receive this honor. When asked about the decision Jagland said the decision was “unanimous” and came with ease. “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said.
To read the full story visit CNN.com
Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, the Long Beach International City Bank Marathon and Half Marathon will be held on Sunday, Oct. 11. More than 22,000 are expected to run, walk or ride in the Marathon, Half Marathon, Marathon Bike Tour, Bubba Gump Run Forrest Run 5K and Kids 1 Mile Fun Run. Several special activities are planned as part of the 25th Anniversary festivities.
Marathon weekend includes several related activities. More than 45,000 are expected to attend the two-day Marathon Health & Fitness Expo in Hall C at the Long Beach Convention Center on Fri., Oct. 9 (Noon-7 p.m.) and Sat.,
Oct. 10 (9 a.m.—6 p.m.). Featuring more than 100 exhibitors, the Expo — FREE to the public — will highlight the latest in the running, health and fitness industry. All athletes must attend the Expo to pick up their race?packets, and the Expo is also the last place to register for any of the marathon events. There is no race-day registration or packet pickup.
On race day, 35,000 are expected at the Finish Line Festival on the Marina Green on Shoreline Drive. The festival offers live music, food and fun, and is a gathering place and viewing area for friends, family and guests of?all participants. Like the Expo, the festival is FREE to the public.
2009 event sponsors include: Title Sponsor – International City Bank; Corporate Sponsors, JetBlue Airways – Official Airline; Gotein – Official Race Recovery Drink; Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children’s Hospital – Official Hospitals; the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company – 5K Sponsor; Road Runner Sports – Official Running Specialty Store; Buono’s Pizzeria – Official Pizza, Cliff Bar – the Official Energy Bar; Michelob Ultra – Finish Line Festival sponsor; SA Recycling – Official Recycler; BNSF Railway – Kids Run Supporter; REI – Bike Tour Supporter; and Long?Beach Hyatt Hotel – Official Headquarters Hotel. Media Partners include the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau, Prevention Magazine, the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Downtown Long Beach Associates and California?State University Long Beach.
Founded in 1982, the initial Long Beach Marathon hosted around 1,250 runners. From then until 1995, the marathon was run consecutively under the umbrella of the founding non-profit – Long Beach Marathon. Due to financial?difficulties the race was disbanded in 1996 until it was brought back in 1999 under new management. In 2001, International City Racing (ICR) was awarded the rights to operate the marathon in Long Beach and hosted just?over 4500 participants. Over the last decade, ICR has helped to grow the event in both reputation and participation thanks to the efforts of the City of Long Beach, International City Bank, the many race sponsors as well?as great community support. On race weekend over 2000 volunteers will help staff the course and finish line. On October 11th, a very special group of 15 original “Legacy Runners” will be running in their 25th Long Beach?Marathon.
For more information on the Long Beach International City Bank Marathon, please visit http://www.runlongbeach.com
Crime Reported: Fraud/Theft – Approx Area 16XX MONTEREY RD – Date/Time: 10/07/2009 04:10 PM
More Info: http://spotcrime.com/crime/7039339-09552ebde1a4b7145c2e5b9e62fa5805
Crime Reported: Burglary – Approx Area: 17XX CRESTVIEW Ave – Date:10/07/ 12:21 PM
More Info: http://spotcrime.com/crime/7039343-e186e551c5953f990cd1447182c3e0b8
Crime Reported: Burglary – Approx Area 3XX Regatta Way – Date:10/07 8:08 P.M.
More Info: http://spotcrime.com/crime/7039337-b059b591bd1fa61d67101b0115d89ec7
Crime Reported: Robbery – Approx Area:12XX PCH – Date:10/08 12:21 A.M.
More Info: http://spotcrime.com/crime/7039333-f70d76ca6530daca6d9a2e03defe7dc4
Crime Reported:Burglary – Approx Area:14XX Catalina Ave – Date:10/07 10:15 P.M.
More Info: http://spotcrime.com/crime/7039335-b7ba177367a2e6be2d95db2b6a17823e
For More Updates go to: http://spotcrime.com
When you go to the above site you can click on “Alerts” for other areas as well as Seal Beach. Spot Crime is also looking for people to report crimes to them.
Well it might cost more than that unless you’re already a resident of Sunset Beach.
The county told the Sunset folks to join Huntington Beach or Seal Beach. The county can no longer afford the services that Sunset needs. Huntington Beach said OK but Sunset said “No Thanks” and then approached Seal Beach.
Seal Beach said “No Thanks” and the county, more or less, said find your self a partner or we will annex you to Huntington. Sunset Beach said give us some time and we’ll become a city on our own.
Well that’s what Sunset is going to do. Try to become a city on their own. They like their laid back lifestyle, their tiny post office, (no mail delivery in Sunset) and they are prepared to handle any forthcoming tsunamis by themselves. It may cost each household approximately $500 just for the application process of city-hood.
For the complete story go to:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sunset-beach4-2009oct04,0,7820720.story
Non-profit organization Iemanya Oceanica today announced that they are organizing a shark-tagging research expedition to Baja California in October 2009. The organization is actively seeking up to 20 scuba divers/snorkelers from the Southern California community as a means to educating consumers to the challenging processes of today’s ocean preservation efforts.
Departing the L.A. Area on October 15, 2009, Iemanya (pronounced ya-MAHN-ja, a Brazilian goddess of the sea), partnering with the CICESE Research Institute in Baja and Dr. Rachel T. Graham, world renowned shark scientist, will travel to a known population of whale sharks in Bahia de Los Angeles on the Sea of Cortez side of Baja California. Their goal is to apply satellite tags to 2-3 whale sharks during this 5 day expedition.
Iemanya executive director Laleh Mohajerani explained that “there are 3 reasons why we are gathering data on these animals. The first being to track their feeding, breeding and calving habits. The second reason,” Mohajerani continued, “will enable us to add them to the ‘family’ of sharks that we feature on our AdoptAShark.com website to expand consumer knowledge about sharks, and lastly,” she concluded, “these efforts play into a global effort to increase public awareness of the urgent need for protecting our oceans through selecting sustainable seafood in their diets.”
Whale sharks are the largest living fish species on the planet. They can grow to up to 40 feet long and weigh up to 15 tons. They can live up to 70 years, and although they have very large mouths, they are harmless, feeding solely on plankton, which are microscopic marine plants and animals.
This expedition will be filmed by professionals from Dokument Films in Los Angeles, utilizing their experience at increasing public awareness of non-profits through the use of professional productions for educational purposes.
Sponsored by Redondo Beach-based Body Glove International, National Scholastic Surfing Association champion Holly Beck will be joining the team to learn more about preserving the oceans in which she spends most of her time.
Additional details and application forms for this expedition can be found by visiting www.Iemanya.Org.
Warren Rootlieb and his Grandpa
The proud parents, Tyler and Rebecca Rootlieb of Laguna Beach think their new son, born on 9-11-2009 are hoping their boy will grow up to be President of the United States or at least Mayor of New York.
Grandparents Jerry and Janet Rootlieb of Seal Beach don’t want him that far from home, however, and are already planning his first campaign for Mayor of Seal Beach. Jerry wants him to come from District One, of course.
One thing we can be sure of..he’ll get all the women’s votes – – right ladies?
NY JETS s Tenn +2 1/2
HOUSTON Jacksonville + 4
PHILLY Kansas City +9
BALTIMORE Cleveland +13 1/2
NY Giants TAMPA BAY + 6 1/2
Wash DETROIT + 6 1/2
Green Bay ST. LOUIS +6 1/2
MINN San Francisco + 7
NEW ENGLAND Atlanta + 4
Chicago SEATTLE + 2 (give the points)
New Orleans BUFFALO +6
SAN DIEGO Miami +6
Pittsburgh CINCY + 4
Denver OAKLAND +1 1/2
MONDAY NIGHT
Dallas CAROLINA +9
* Home Teams all capital letters
** Best Bet – In Bold Print (Go to archives to see previous ‘best bets’)
The Japan America Society of Southern California (JASSC), in coordination with the Up Up & Away Kite Club, announce Southern California’s largest kiting event, the Japan America Kite Festival , will take place on the beach at the Seal Beach Pier in Seal Beach, Calif., on Oct. 4, 2009, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It is free to the public and attracts some 10,000 visitors each year.
Japanese Kite Master Mikio Toki will visit from his home and kite workshop in Chiba, Japan, to display and fly his traditional edo-dako (traditional Tokyo-style kites constructed with washi rice paper and bamboo). Toki also will conduct free children’s Japanese kite workshops where every child can build and fly a sode (kimono-shaped) kite.
In addition to Japanese kites, the festival will feature more than 1,000 kites of all sizes, including Susan and David Gomberg’s giant 300-400 square-foot “Show Kites.” The Gombergs perform at 20-30 events each year and have participated in festivals in 35 states and 25 countries, including providing kite shows for Disney, the London Millennium Celebration, and the Super Bowl. There also will be performance stunt and sports kite demonstrations, synchronized kite “ballet,” as well children’s activities, including kite candy drops and other fun kids games.
Japanese cultural activities at the Festival will include sushi provided by Toro Sushi, the official sushi vendor for Angels Stadium; Edo Ame-zaiku (Traditional Japanese candy art); and cultural demonstrations such as Taiko Drum performance and Naginata (long handled, wood sword fighting).
Held annually at the Seal Beach Pier since 1996, the Japan America Kite Festival is free to the public, thanks to generous support from the Festival’s presenting sponsor, Mattel, Inc., and sponsor, Hitachi, Ltd. Other sponsors include Ayres Hotel, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Bogart’s Coffee House, Bridge USA, Kinokuniya Bookstore, Toro Sushi Bar & Grill, Yakult USA, Inc. and Up Up & Away Kite shop in Seal Beach.
About Japan America Society of Southern California
Founded in 1909 to build economic, cultural, governmental and personal relationships between the people of Japan and America. It is the West Coast’s premier educational and public affairs forum dedicated to the United States-Japan relationship. JASSC is a qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit, charitable education organization and is supported by 120 Japanese and American corporate members and 2,000 individual members.
Seal Beach’s own “Save Our Beach” group cleaned up…literally last Saturday.
All told almost 150,000 pounds of trash was picked up by thousands of volunteers on Coastal Clean Up Day. This is not just the trash on the beach but also the trash on the riverbeds…which was on the way to the beach when it got “delayed.”
“Save Our Beach” is a local Seal Beach group and they have been instrumental in getting locals out on the annual clean-up day. People come from far inland to help and even though there is more junk every year there are more Californians willing to be presses into service to protect our environment. Over 1500 people were present at three local sites on Saturday.
Now, if only we could get the polluters to stop the dumping we could all take the day for some other worthy cause.
For the entire article go to: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/cleanup-trash-beach-2573677-one-volunteers
Saturday, September 26th is the annual Wag ‘n’ Walk at the Seal Beach Pier. The walk which will benefit the Seal Beach Animal Shelter is great opportunity for you and your pet to get out there and help other animals at the same time! Grand Marshals Justin Rudd (HauteDogs.org) and his bulldog Rosie will lead the parade starting at 10:00 am at the Eisenhower Park across from the Seal beach Pier. Events included a dog walk, raffles, a SBACC Adoptable Dog Show, a training demonstration and contests for dogs and their people.
Individual and Team registrations are now available online! Please click here to register online or you can print and fax a registration form found at the SBACC website. The Seal Beach Animal Shelter is also selling tickets for their Super Opportunity Drawing for which you do not need to be present to win.
To find out more information about the event or to register visit the event website here.
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