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[Editor’s Note: Here are the prepared remarks of former Culver City Mayor Andy Weissman, pertinent to the Inglewood Oil Field, delivered this afternoon in Hermosa Beach. He testified before the State Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety & Toxic Materials
for the Investigative Hearing on Oil Drilling and Production Hazards.]

With all that has been written and said lately, you’d think Wall Street was a hotbed of organized crime.

Many years before the home computer, I used to play with sorting rods and punch cards. They were the first home “computer-like” devices. I would place the sorting rod through the holes in a stack of cards on which I had written things like the names of countries and the items found on the state seals of those countries. The item I was looking for, say “trees,” would then show up when the cards with those items fell out of the stack. Now I could see which countries had trees on their state seals.

Dateline Boston — This week I celebrated my birthday. We had tofu “ice cream” sandwiches at my preschool. I went out with my Significant Other and a bunch of friends. We had a lovely dinner with lots of laughs, gifts and a resounding edition of the birthday song. It was great.

Dateline Jerusalem — This week a friend from California, who converted to Judaism, became Orthodox and moved to Israel a few years ago, observed a milestone birthday.