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PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Billboard Agreement 2017BA02
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the City
Council of the City of Hawthorne will hold a
public hearing to consider the following matter:
BILLBOARD AGREEMENT 2017BA02: A
request to approve an agreement to allow for
the construction and operation of a new digital
billboard within the Freeway Overlay Zone.
PROJECT LOCATION: 14901 Inglewood
Avenue, (APN: 4149-001-146) on the east
side of the San Diego 405 Freeway, City of
Hawthorne, California.
MEETING DETAILS:
Day: Tuesday
Date: October 24, 2017
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: City Council Chambers
4455 West 126th Street
Hawthorne, CA 90250
Those interested in this item may appear
at the meeting and submit oral or written
comments. Written information pertaining
to this item must be submitted to the
Planning and Community Development
Department prior to 5:30 PM October
23, 2017, at 4455 West 126th Street,
Hawthorne, California 90250 or emailed
to bjames@cityofhawthorne.org. For
additional information, you may contact
Brian James at (310) 349-2970 or at the
email noted above.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: Billboard
Agreement 2017BA02 is consistent with
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) Section 15332. The proposed
project is exempt from the requirements of
preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
or Negative Declaration because the project
meets the criteria for a Class 32 Categorical
Exemption pursuant to Section 15332, (In-Fill
Development Projects) of CEQA. This provision
exempts projects that are consistent with the
applicable general plan designation and all
applicable general plan policies as well as with
applicable zoning designation and regulations.
In addition, the proposed billboard project is
covered by the Mitigated Negative Declaration
prepared for the Freeway Overlay
Zone (Billboard Overlay) and adopted
by the City Council on September 13,
2016, through Ordinance 2122, in that the
proposed project meets design guidelines
and restrictions created by the Freeway
Overlay Zone.
PLEASE NOTE that pursuant to Government
Code Section 65009: In an action or
proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void,
or annul a finding, determination or decision
of the Planning Commission or City Council,
the issues raised shall be limited to those
raised at the public hearing in this notice or
in written correspondence delivered to the
Planning Commission or City Council at or
prior to the public hearing.
Hawthorne Press Tribune Pub. 10/12/17
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Billboard Agreement 2017BA01
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the City
Council of the City of Hawthorne will hold a
public hearing to consider the following matter:
BILLBOARD AGREEMENT 2017BA01: A
request to approve an agreement to allow
for the conversion of an existing billboard
sign into a digital billboard within the Freeway
Overlay Zone.
PROJECT LOCATION: 14900 Hindry Avenue,
(APN: 4149-009-027) on the west side of the
San Diego 405 Freeway, City of Hawthorne,
California.
MEETING DETAILS:
Day: Tuesday
Date: October 24, 2017
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: City Council Chambers
4455 West 126th Street
Hawthorne, CA 90250
Those interested in this item may appear
at the meeting and submit oral or written
comments. Written information pertaining
to this item must be submitted to the
Planning and Community Development
Department prior to 5:30 PM October
23, 2017, at 4455 West 126th Street,
Hawthorne, California 90250 or emailed
to bjames@cityofhawthorne.org. For
additional information, you may contact
Brian James at (310) 349-2970 or at the
email noted above.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: Billboard
Agreement 2017BA01 is consistent with
California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) Section 15302. Replacement or
Reconstruction Class 2 consists of replacement
or reconstruction of existing structures and facilities
where the new structure will be located on
the same site as the structure replaced and
will have substantially the same purpose and
capacity as the structure replaced, including
but not limited to replacement of a commercial
structure with a new structure of substantially the
same size, purpose, and capacity. In addition,
the proposed billboard project is covered by the
Mitigated Negative Declaration prepared
for the Freeway Overlay Zone (Billboard
Overlay) and adopted by the City Council
on September 13, 2016, through Ordinance
2122, in that the proposed project
meets design guidelines and restrictions
created by the Freeway Overlay Zone.
PLEASE NOTE that pursuant to Government
Code Section 65009: In an action or
proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void,
or annul a finding, determination or decision
of the Planning Commission or City Council,
the issues raised shall be limited to those
raised at the public hearing in this notice or
in written correspondence delivered to the
Planning Commission or City Council at or
prior to the public hearing.
Hawthorne Press Tribune Pub. 10/12/17
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
MELVIN LEE GREEN
CASE NO. 17STPB08767
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent
creditors, and persons who may otherwise be
interested in the WILL or estate, or both of
MELVIN LEE GREEN.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed
by ERNESTINE GREEN in the Superior
Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests
that ERNESTINE GREEN be appointed as
personal representative to administer the estate
of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer
the estate under the Independent Administration
of Estates Act . (This authority will allow the
personal representative to take many actions
without obtaining court approval. Before taking
certain very important actions, however, the
personal representative will be required to give
notice to interested persons unless they have
waived notice or consented to the proposed
action.) The independent administration authority
will be granted unless an interested person
files an objection to the petition and shows
good cause why the court should not grant
the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in
this court as follows: 10/31/17 at 8:30AM in
Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS
ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition,
you should appear at the hearing and state
your objections or file written objections with the
court before the hearing. Your appearance may
be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent
creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim
with the court and mail a copy to the personal
representative appointed by the court within the
later of either (1) four months from the date of
first issuance of letters to a general personal
representative, as defined in section 58(b) of
the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days
from the date of mailing or personal delivery
to you of a notice under section 9052 of the
California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority
may affect your rights as a creditor. You may
want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable
in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the
court. If you are a person interested in the
estate, you may file with the court a Request
for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of
an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided in Probate
Code section 1250. A Request for Special
Notice form is available from the court clerk.
In Pro Per Petitioner
ERNESTINE GREEN
3210 WEST 82ND STREET
INGLEWOOD CA 90305
10/12, 10/19, 10/26/17
CNS-3060732#
Inglewood Daily News Pub. 10/12, 10/19,
10/26/17
HI-25773
Looking Up
Caltech Scientists Awarded 2017 Nobel Prize
in Physics for Gravitational-Wave Detection
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been
awarded to three key players in the development
and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).
One half of the prize was awarded jointly to
Caltech’s Barry C. Barish, the Ronald and
Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus
and Kip S. Thorne (BS ‘62), the Richard P.
Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Emeritus; and the other half was awarded to
MIT’s Rainer Weiss, Professor of Physics,
Emeritus.
On September 14, 2015, the National Science
Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO made the
first-ever direct observation of gravitational
waves—ripples in the fabric of space and
time predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years
earlier. The public announcement took place
on February 11, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
Each of the twin LIGO observatories—one
in Hanford, Washington, and the other in
Livingston, Louisiana—picked up the feeble
signal of gravitational waves generated 1.3
billion years ago when two black holes
spiraled together and collided. Two additional
detections of gravitational waves, once again
from merging black-hole pairs, were made
on December 26, 2015, and January 4, 2017;
and on August 14, 2017, a fourth event was
detected by LIGO and the European Virgo
gravitational-wave detector.
The detections ushered in a new era of
gravitational-wave astronomy. LIGO and Virgo
provided astronomers with an entirely new
set of tools with which to probe the cosmos.
Previously, all astronomy observations have
relied on light—which includes X-rays, radio
waves, and other types of electromagnetic
radiation emanating from objects in space—or
on very-high-energy particles called neutrinos
and cosmic rays. Now, astronomers can learn
about cosmic objects through the quivers in
space and time caused by changes in gravitation.
The Nobel Prize recognizes Weiss, Barish,
and Thorne for their “decisive contributions
to the LIGO detector and the observation of
gravitational waves.”
“I am delighted and honored to congratulate
Kip and Barry, as well as Rai Weiss of
MIT, on the award this morning of the
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics,” says Caltech
president Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the Sonja
and William Davidow Presidential Chair
and professor of physics. “The first direct
observation of gravitational waves by LIGO
is an extraordinary demonstration of scientific
vision and persistence. Through four decades
of development of exquisitely sensitive
instrumentation—pushing the capacity of our
imaginations—we are now able to glimpse
cosmic processes that were previously
undetectable. It is truly the start of a new era
in astrophysics.”
“The prize rightfully belongs to the hundreds
of LIGO scientists and engineers who built
and perfected our complex gravitationalwave
interferometers, and the hundreds of
LIGO and Virgo scientists who found the
gravitational-wave signals in LIGO’s noisy
data and extracted the waves’ information,”
Thorne says. “It is unfortunate that, due to the
statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the prize
has to go to no more than three people, when
our marvelous discovery is the work of more
than a thousand.”
“I am humbled and honored to receive
this award,” says Barish. “The detection of
gravitational waves is truly a triumph of
modern large-scale experimental physics.
Over several decades, our teams at Caltech
and MIT developed LIGO into the incredibly
sensitive device that made the discovery. When
the signal reached LIGO from a collision
of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3
billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong
LIGO Scientific Collaboration was able to
both identify the candidate event within
minutes and perform the detailed analysis that
convincingly demonstrated that gravitational
waves exist.” •
Film
Treat Yourself to the Moving, Magical
Testament to Childhood, The Florida Project
By Ryan Rojas for www.cinemacy.com
In 2014, Boyhood stunned audiences by
showing a boy growing up and coming of age over
a 12-year span The film’s depiction of childhood
captured these universally familiar moments so
simply, so beautifully. The naturalness of such
well-chosen non-actors conjured up a sense of
cinema verité magic in a way that most movies
cannot. Another indie film that recaptures this
sense of magic is this year’s The Florida Project.
Writer/director Sean Baker, whose previous
film, Tangerine (which was shot on an iPhone),
tells the story of childhood and the theme of
limitless boundaries that either dance around
reality or run straight into it.
Quite simply, The Florida Project is a story
about kids being kids. Taking place at an
extended stay motel where folks and families
of all types live while they scrape together next
month’s rent, the kids scurry through the stairs
and parking lot with a sense of boundless energy
that leaps off the screen and into audiences’
hearts. We follow one precocious six-year-old
girl, Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), and friends
over one mostly-unsupervised summer. They
run, play and cause mischief throughout a
string of motels (called the Magic Castle
motel and Wonderland Inn) where they live
with their financially strapped single mothers.
Their general safety is overseen by the motel’s
manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe), who, despite
needing to clean the grounds and the bed bugs,
keeps an eye on the group of little ankle biters
before they zoom off each day.
To execute a film like this, putting your trust
in one largely unproven young star, would
seem like an impossible task--and yet it’s not
for Baker, whose casting of Brooklynn Prince
makes the film soar. Prince as Moonee is a
petite package of rambunctiousness and nonstop
energy. But although she’s sugar-hopped
and manners-deprived, it’s not Moonee’s fault.
She is being raised by Halley (Bria Vinaite),
a single mother who could easily pass as her
older sister.
Halley is pierced, tattooed, stoned, and
encourages her child’s untethered ways– for
who is she but a grown-up child herself?
Moonee is always brimming with life and
charisma, which makes her interactions with
Bobby heartwarming ones. This beautiful
guardian-from-afar relationship is brought to
life by Dafoe, whose often manic-obsessed
performance is dialed all the way down, and
he shines in such a humanist light that it should
be remembered come awards season. Dafoe
also navigates working with the non-actors
beautifully; lending the soft and patient heart
that sees him stand as paternal to young Moonee
when things go south for her mom.
Baker, whose previous film Tangerine so
beautifully captured and celebrated the fringe
society that lives outside the middle class, does
so again here on an even grander scale. The
Florida Project more artfully compels audiences
to recognize what Baker is showing as the most
glaring hardship of all: the tragic conflict of
expectation versus reality in America. These
motels, so seedy under the weight of oncewonderful
facades, live on the outskirts of Disney
World itself--road signs, disheartened tourists
and knock-off merchandise further illustrate
how they all live in this B-dream.
These snapshots of scenes, stitched together
to show the life of these characters day-in and
day-out, culminate and then crash in the film’s
tear-jerking final sequence, reminding us that
the dream ends--and in the eyes of a child,
that is heartbreaking. The Florida Project, a
beautifully photographed film with such natural
performances, is a gentle reminder that while
wonderland might be a myth, it’s the wonder
of childhood that makes living magical.
115 minutes. The Florida Project is rated R
for language throughout, disturbing behavior,
sexual references and some drug material.
Now playing at The Landmark and ArcLight
Hollywood. •
Christopher Rivera, Brooklynn Prince and Valeria Cotto in The Florida Project. Courtesy of A24
Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne. Courtesy of Caltech