INTERSTATE-10 REPORT--Arson, Shutdown, ---DTLA, LOS ANGELES, NOVEMBER 2023

I-10 11/20/23/1800PST: "Caltrans Reopens All Lanes of I-10, Weeks Ahead of Schedule"--they had no idea where they were going with the time frame--Santa Monica freeway, DTLA Los Angeles.. "..How does he know where we're going? Probably drunk.."
I-10 Grand Reopening 11/19/23/1530PST: Slated for tomorrow--The Three Amigos--Governor Newsom, Mayor Bass and VP Kamala Harris maybe volunteer to be first to ride across the damaged Santa Monica freeway section, DTLA, Los Angeles. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/watch-vice-president-kamala-harris-provides-update-on-10-freeway-fire-response-alongside-gov-gavin-newsom-l-a-mayor-karen-bass/

I-10 Fire-Safety Inspection 11/19/23/0717PST: The violations at the 14th-St. Lawrence St. Apex property under the Santa Monica freeway, DTLA Los Angeles: 16 Sept. 2022. https://scribd.com/document/685346857/Apex-Nowaid-Violations#fullscreen&from_embed https://foxla.com/news/10-freeway-caltrans-documents

I-10 Arson Suspect 11/19/23/0633PST: "Black hoodie, blue shorts, grey shoes, green scarf?" Certainly not very color-coordinated; the "knee-brace" may be hiding body art; and, the fire accidental; street denizen trying to get warm. rf: DTLA, Los Angeles, Santa Monica freeway.

I-10 Fire Inspections 11/19/23/0606PST: "The requirement for fire safety inspections is unclear," posted the morning of the Santa Monica freeway blaze; suddenly, this week, CalTrans preemptive fire-safety checks the talk of DTLA, Los Angeles. 300K cars a day & they never saw it.
I-10 Arson Probe 11/19/23/0600PST: 300K cars daily drove over the top of the dump under the Santa Monica freeway--reporters, editors, LA Times employees--only now does media make a fuss over Cal Trans inspections, DTLA, Los Angeles.
I-10 Fallout 11/15/23/1424PST: Boyle Heights AQI sensor suddenly off the grid with local media reporting big rig convoys cutting through district, DTLA, Los Angeles; Santa Monica freeway bypass route to/from ports. https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/10-freeway-closure-big-rigs-cause-backup-boyle-heights-streets https://map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0?select=147130#11.89/34.00859/-118.23401
I-10 Fire 11/15/23/1414PST: "Newsom’s office directed questions about whether the state has any regular inspection protocols to state transportation officials." In other words, "No." Governor had all the answers at presser, DTLA, Los Angeles, except ...
I-10 Arson Probe 11/15/23/1330PST: LA Times "Under the 10," Santa Monica freeway relates rent-scam details of hoarder lot, DTLA, Los Angeles: "fire insurance was specifically omitted from the lease agreement," no mention if fire inspections were required.
I-10 Arson Probe 11/14/23/1800PST: "additional incidents near the city’s roadways will be watched closely." Copycat dumpster-refuse fires popping up, DTLA, after Vets Day Santa Monica freeway blaze, Los Angeles. Siege in the offing. Trending: Xi Jinping.
I-10 No Ceasefire 11/14/23/1430PST: 500 miles of Los Angeles freeway; two miles burned, city enters Third World. Other news: NBC, big, powerful media, bashes homeless in tents for starting fires, Santa Monica freeway, DTLA. Pick on someone your own size.
I-10 Arson Probe 11/14/23/0615PST: "I hope folks aren’t listening to leadership calling them to work from home!” (Blair Besten, SMDP) DTLA businesses feel impact of shuttered Santa Monica Freeway, Los Angeles. Trending: Shut It Down..
I-10 Arson Probe 11/13/23/1800PST: "Bad actor" of Apex Development, possibly Anthony Nowaid, current subject, unlawful detainer lawsuit, target of investigation, Santa Monica freeway fire, DTLA, Los Angeles, prior legal woes: Trending: Newsom https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/prop65/notices/2006-00267.pdf
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1800PST: Allbiz Profile: Anthony A. Nowaid, Apex Development, principal lessee of property, Santa Monica freeway site, arson suspected, DTLA, Los Angeles: Trending: Newsom, https://allbiz.com/business/apex-development-inc_1r-818-887-0400
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1745PST: Unlawful detainer lawsuit, Apex Development, lease holder, Santa Monica freeway fire, Los Angeles. Airspace Lease #: 07-LAX010-0012-05: Trending: Newsom, DTLA-- https://trellis.law/doc/180558700/complaint-filed-by-people-state-califorina-acting-by-through-department-transportation-plaintiff-as-to-apex-development-inc-a-california-corporation-defendant-anthony-nowaid-an-individual-defendant-max-recycling-a-business-en
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1830PST: Unlawful detainer" lawsuit filed, Apex Development Inc.--et al: Eagle Wood, Eco-Rain Tank, Max Recycling, Mca Trucking, Nowaid, Pacific Express Pallets, Serafim: Santa Monica Fwy., Los Angeles---Trending: Newsom
I-10 Arson Probe 11/13/23/1533PST: "two law enforcement sources who were not authorized to discuss details," adding more suspicion when names hidden, DTLA Santa Monica freeway blaze, Los Angeles. 500,000 commuters demand transparency. State of Emergency.
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1515PST: DTLA "The Row," New York's Atlas Developers ambitious new project in South Los Angeles. Only thing standing in the way was a homeless encampment next to a pallet farm under the Santa Monica freeway.
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1500PST: Atlas Investments, new owner of old Times' plant on Olympic; a paper boy there could toss morning edition and hit location of Santa Monica freeway fire, DTLA soon to be "The Row," following Hollywood makeover. https://atlas-cap.com/portfolio/
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1500PST: "The Times’ lease expires at the end of 2023, according to real estate data provider CoStar." Coincidentally, just downwind from Santa Monica freeway Los Angeles fire, old Times' DTLA due for Hollywood makeover.
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1300PST: Serafin Dist., 1361 Lawrence St., Los Angeles. Location of the massive pallet-storage blaze shutting down Santa Monica freeway-- trending: DTLA--the Zimas parcel map/report: https://zimas.lacity.org https://zimas.lacity.org/reports/dd7fb444475b492fba8313a8aed964d4.pdf
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1130PST: Santa Monica freeway major fire, Los Angeles, registered on the Zoom Earth "Heat Map," 11/11/23/1200AM/PST: https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=34.08814,-118.120258,11z/date=2023-11-11,00:00,-8/overlays=heat,fires
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1120PST: 3D virtual mapping, Google Earth, of the pallet-storage yard, under the Santa Monica freeway, Los Angeles, up in flames over the weekend. https://earth.google.com/web/@34.02516599,-118.23724409,71.06840714a,136.91881737d,35y,-58.19017989h,59.00054498t,0r/data=OgMKATA
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1045PST: Traffic, Los Angeles, above the closed section of the Santa Monica freeway due to major fire last weekend. https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/1030PST: 1962: "take advantage of new federal regulations relinquishing airspace rights on Interstate freeways to the states concerned." Who owns the disastrous blaze shutting down Santa Monica freeway in Los Angeles. https://libraryarchives.metro.net/dpgtl/californiahighways/chpw_1965_sepoct.pdf
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/0900PST: Massive fire under Santa Monica freeway in Los Angeles calls into question statewide Caltrans airspace leasing program; what appears a lucrative business has just created a disaster of monumental proportions. https://images4.loopnet.com/d2/Bk3KO-NocKOjsP9M6xpKnH4vM7AyL_UZHQ0OZkbqqK4/document.pdf
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/0707PST: Metrolink now offering holiday express throughout the Los Angeles region, following leased airspace blaze below vital Santa Monica freeway. No planned reopen date for major federal thoroughfare.
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/0645PST: Los Angeles traffic map, Google, in wake of massive pallet-fire that shut the Santa Monica freeway for repairs. No reopening date scheduled, 2nd major thoroughfare disaster in US this year. (I-95 Philadelphia) https://google.com/maps/@34.0243824,-118.2344848,15.23z/data=!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu
I-10 State of Emergency 11/13/23/0639PST: "dispute between the tenant and the state, who leased them the property, could be the source of the fire." Story made no mention of preemptive fire inspections, Los Angeles site, massive blaze.
I-10 State of Emergency 11/12/23/2130PST: CalTrans "airspace" lease appears the "owner" of the property under the freeway where the massive fire engulfed the pallet-storage facility in Los Angeles. The requirement for fire safety inspections is unclear. https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/right-of-way/documents/rps/resolution-g-19-43-a11y.pdf
I-10 State of Emergency 11/12/23/2020PST: Serafin's Distribution, under the freeway, now shut down due to massive 8-acre fire, downtown Los Angeles, possible initial outbreak. Google street view: https://google.com/maps/@34.0251742,-118.2370555,3a,19.5y,297.1h,96.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTK00dF9qfIOROWTs-MQy5A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Amtrak After Dark 11/12/23/1945PST: Coast Starlight (14) is a great trip from L.A. Union Stn. to Jack London Sq., Oakland. The Pacific Surfliners are a great way to hobnob around Cal. Nothing beats the Cal Zephyr (6) to Chicago for connections into NYC.
I-10 Storage Yard 11/12/23/1930PST: Full report, LAFD. Critical infrastructure damage, Los Angeles: "covering nearly eight acres, required transition to a Major Emergency incident with 26 fire companies assigned." Thoroughfare closed indefinitely. https://lafd.org/news/storage-yard-blaze-downtown-los-angeles
I-10 After Dark 11/12/23/1830PST: Hoarder house under the Interstate-10 freeway, downtown Los Angeles, E. 14th Street, up in smoke; undetermined damage to the major SoCal artery, closed indefinitely: Google street view (Jan 2023). https://google.com/maps/@34.0251107,-118.2376709,3a,75y,25.54h,95.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skQ1YrwOxOEnOG_nLUJ9AgA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu

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ANTH281.1001-Assignment Five: GIANT (1956) – (dir. George Stevens) “Men’s Stuff”--U OF NEVADA, SPRING 2023

ANTH281.1001
James L'Angelle 

University of Nevada, Reno Spring 2023
S. Narayanan, Professor 

Assignment Five: GIANT (1956) – (dir. George Stevens) “Men’s Stuff”

What kinds of language ideologies are present in the clip?
     Patriarchal hierarchy, race, class stratification, sexism, condescending male superiority, gendered ideologies of language. Explain how these language ideologies manifest in the specific things that characters/actors in the clip say.

 
152:
JUDGE WHITESIDE (Charles Watts) issues a string of conative imperatives to FIDEL GOMEZ (uncredited), who “is an ostentatiously dressed man of Mexican descent.” In a conciliatory tone, out of fear and respect for the powerful Texan judge, Gomez, in broken English, responds, “Everything will be bueno, Senor.”

 
156:
BICK (Rock Hudson): This is business, honey. Leslie, this is about politics. This is men’s stuff. 157:
LESLIE (Elizabeth Taylor): I’ll join the harem section in a minute.
WHITESIDE: You don’t want to fret your pretty little head about politics. LESLIE: You mean my pretty, empty head.
BAWLEY (Chill Wills): Can I get the coffee for you?
LESLIE: You too, Uncle Brutus?
BICK: Leslie, you don’t feel well.

 
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LESLIE: You men date back about one-hundred thousand years. You ought to wear leopard skins and carry clubs. What’s so masculine about conversation that a woman can’t enter into it?

     Here are several ideologies of language with the judge’s direct orders to his vote organizing coyote Gomez, his assumption that Leslie would roll over and play dead; the husband’s expectation that his wife would play a subservient role in the household, and the uncle’s effort to serve as enforcer by condemning her to coffee making duties in the kitchen. She rejects them wholesale, comparing them to extinct species of the human race.

 
Explain not only what is said, but how it is said that is reflective of those ideologies.
     Throughout the scene, the language ideologies of race, class and gender are crystal clear; with an emphasis on the subordinate role of Hispanics and women to the cattle ranching men. Bick classifies politics as “men’s stuff,” the judge through language of ideologies, describes Hispanics as “sitting on their honkers,” and suggests Leslie has a “pretty little head,” and Bawley offers her coffee, hinting to go to the kitchen, slave over the stove and wash dishes.

 
Explain how those specific things and the ways that they are said connect with ideological perspectives of social difference.
     Bick first makes the comment that the conversation concerns business. When Leslie responds she will be “quiet as a mouse,” Bick notes it is dull, Leslie presses him and he finally adds “it’s about politics.” She reminds him she is from Washington, DC and “lived next door to politics.” The ideological line is then drawn by Bick when he responds it’s “men’s stuff.” There is a clear cut worldview conflict where Leslie feels she is qualified to participate in the conversation; Bick is confined to his role of male domination, not just by being in the company of his peers, but also as an election organizer and cattle baron.

 
Explain how other aspects of the performance reinforce these ideologies within the clip.
     What is striking is how Bick, the pushover, comes to the aid of his Texan big shots at the expense of his wife, drawing the line in defense of the judge’s belittling Leslie’s brain capacity, and Bawley’s offer of coffee that’s rejected with a reference to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Bick then stands and concludes that Leslie doesn’t “feel well.” Throughout the exchange, these are all direct references to reality constituting capacities, through the judge’s superior conative inflections to Gomez, his face-to-face patriarchal attitude toward Leslie, and the overall dominant male roles played by Bick’s associates in general. The other women in the scene are timid, subservient and apprehensive at Leslie’s challenging the men.

 
     Yet another aspect are the camera shots themselves. Director Stevens makes a point of Leslie facing away from the camera, glancing to the side only briefly, possibly to emphasize the dominance of the men in the scene, and the anonymity of the faceless, powerless Leslie as she criticizes the hypocrisy of the group. To say the director made an effort to amplify the race, class stratification and patriarchy of the Texas cattle baron era would be an understatement. This particular scene was one of many that clearly illustrated language ideologies that dominated the lives of the characters represented in the film.

References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUm2M0tmMUk
Shooting Script: https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/giant.pdf
Camera Shots: 152-163 (pages 63-65)