Public Safety Committee Chair Vice Mayor John Kennedy, City Manager Steve Mermell and Pasadena Chief of Police John Perez at a recent Committee meeting. The Public Safety Committee of the Pasadena City Council will receive interim Pasadena Police Chief John Perez’s Monthly Report, which details statistics on crime in the City over the past year and the steps the Pasadena Police Department is taking to reduce crime incidents.
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Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
👓 Chaka Khan Selected as Rose Parade’s Grand Marshal | Pasadena Now
Khan, a 10-time Grammy Award winner, will both ride in 130th Rose Parade and perform in the pre-game celebration at the 105th Rose Bowl Game. Khan said she has been a fan of the Rose Parade for many years and is looking forward to performing.
👓 Celebrate the Season with a Thanksgiving Centerpiece from Los Altos Auxiliary Benefitting Hathaway-Sycamores | Pasadena Now
Members of Los Altos Auxiliary are creating beautiful handcrafted floral centerpieces, available to order for this Thanksgiving holiday. All proceeds from the centerpiece sales benefit the boys, ages 6-18, who reside at the Hathaway-Sycamores’ El Nido campus in Altadena. “Our popular Thanksgiving Centerpieces are a wonderful way to support the children served by Hathaway-Sycamores,” said Laurie Rodli, who is co-chair of the fundraiser, along with Connie Sutherland. “Each centerpiece is delivered to your door just in time for the holiday, is handcrafted with the freshest materials from the L.A. Flower Mart and is sure to add a seasonal touch to your holiday table. They also make a terrific hostess gift,” added Connie.
👓 ‘I don’t forgive this woman’: Black boy wrongly accused of grabbing white woman | ABC News
The 9-year-old spoke out at a community meeting held to address the incident.
👓 Introducing Alhambra Source’s new publisher | Alhambra Source
Jon Thurber, a veteran journalist whose long career at the Los Angeles Times included serving as managing editor of the print edition, has been named publisher of the Alhambra Source.
👓 Alhambra’s Fosselman’s Ice Cream to ditch ’70s look for 100th birthday | Pasadena Star News
Fosselman’s Ice Cream Co. is set to close Sept. 24-27 for construction to update the shop’s look.
I haven’t been in a while and can’t wait to see what the renovations look like now.
👓 Young African American Male Conference | Black News | Pasadena Journal
The Young African American Male Conference is here again. The Conference is designed to expose young Black men to the various professions and serves as a one day mentoring event. The conference began in 2003 and is a product of the Metropolitan Community Action Services Corporation. It is generally held at Pasadena City College. This year will be held on October 20, 2018.
I’m kind of surprised this wasn’t tied into Connect Pasadena 2018 somehow.
🎧 Lecture 25 of The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
John McWhorter from The Great Courses: LinguisticsLecture 25: A New Perspective on the Story of English
We trace English back to its earliest discernible roots in Proto-Indo-European and follow its fascinating development, including an ancient encounter with a language possibly related to Arabic and Hebrew.
🎧 Lecture 24 of The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
John McWhorter from The Great Courses: LinguisticsLecture 24: Language Interrupted
Generally, a language spoken by a small, isolated group will be much more complicated than English. Languages are "streamlined" in this way when history leads them to be learned more as second languages than as first ones.
👓 Original Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years | New York Times
Mr. Spinney’s remarkable run as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, two of the most beloved characters on television, will end this week.
Goodbye bird. We’ll miss you!
🎧 Lecture 23 of The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
John McWhorter from The Great Courses: LinguisticsLecture 23: Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty
A great deal of a language's grammar is a kind of overgrowth, marking nuances that many or most languages do without. Even the gender marking of European languages is a frill, absent in thousands of other languages.
👓 Some #IndieWeb Firsts | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (Quick Thoughts by jgmac1106)I spent my time digging through my archives trying to find my first #IndieWeb posts
Thanks for the shout out Greg!
🎧 Lectures 20-22 of The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
John McWhorter from The Great Courses: LinguisticsLecture 20: Language Mixture—Words
The first language's 6,000 branches have not only diverged into dialects, but they have been constantly mixing with one another on all levels. The first of three lectures on language mixture looks at how this process applies to words.Lecture 21: Language Mixture—Grammar
Languages also mix their grammars. For example, Yiddish is a dialect of German, but it has many grammatical features from Slavic languages like Polish. There are no languages without some signs of grammar mixture.Lecture 22: Language Mixture—Language Areas
When unrelated or distantly related languages are spoken in the same area for long periods, they tend to become more grammatically similar because of widespread bilingualism.
👓 Pasadena Busing Controversy, 9/14/70 | ColoradoBoulevard.net
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. In the 1970s and 1980s, under federal court supervision, many school districts implemented mandatory busing plans within their district.
Are they revisiting this story every few years as an evergreen? This coverage of it seemed more interesting than the shorter story in 2018… hmmm.
👓 ‘Halloween’ Cinematographer Dean Cundey returns to the scene of the crime | Alhambra Source
Evil is real. The excitement happens when it invades our safe areas. Dean Cundey understands this well. Back in 1978, the legendary cinematographer expertly used shadows to illustrate the encroachment of evil into the otherwise idyllic small town of Haddonfield, Ill. in the original “Halloween.” The film — which revolutionized horror cinema when it introduced the sadistic Michael Myers and scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis as student Laurie Strode — celebrates its 40th anniversary on Oct. 25.