It's entirely possible he wanted the $5 and was foolish enough to think that this complicated scheme was the only way to get it. But I decided it wasn't about money, or food... [MORE].
DETERMINEDLY WAIT -- Line of applicants for F.H.A. permits to build houses extends around corner of Main and Ninth Sts up to door of agency, 112th W. Ninth, in long vigil due to end today.
The Los Angeles Housing Department has paid thousands of dollars to a Zen Buddhist priest from Hawaii for management training that includes teaching breathing with sphincter control, learning "how to stand" and playing with wooden sticks.
Norma Wong, a former Hawaii state legislator and leadership consultant, has been paid $18,819 since 2005 to conduct at least four training sessions for executives and other staff. The most recent one was last week.
Mercedes Marquez, the general manager of the department, said the training was designed to help "center" Housing Department managers and teach them to react nimbly to problems such as the city's housing shortage. Up to 30 people attended each session.
"She asks when you center yourself to hold yourself in," Marquez said of the instructor.
The breathing exercises and stick play, she said, were a small part of two-day sessions, which also included discussions of team building and improving department procedures.
Many gems have already come out this afternoon about the Paris Hilton sentencing, but my personal favorite was an extremely descriptive paragraph buried deep in the LATimes.com story, which said...Read the new post at LA Observed.
