Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Santa Monica and the City of Los Angeles, are full of latte sipping city folk with great sympathy for mountain lions. But not everybody loves the big cats, which are also called cougars, pumas and catamounts in other parts of North America. They are accused of killing pets, and farm animals such as alpacas, goats, llamas and chickens. They are regarded as vermin to be exterminated by some. On various social media such as Facebook, California ranchers and others who live in the hills of Agoura...
Sargassum horneri was brought to LA's waters in 2003 on shipping vessels. Known as devil's weed, it's causing concern for kelp forests, in particular, because local groups did an intensive effort from '97 to 2015 tor restore kelp habitat. A new research effort by LA Waterkeeper (based in Santa Monica), NOAA and UCSB is tracking the spread of it (using a phone app!) and examining effectiveness of removal strategies. It's launching from recent "vacuum" efforts reducing sargassum around Catalina...
Multi-platinum-selling artists, multiple Grammy Award®-winners and music icons, Lionel Richie and very special guest Mariah Carey announced today they will tour together for the first time ever on the ALL THE HITS TOUR. Produced by Live Nation, the 35-show date tour will start on Wednesday, March 15 in Baltimore, MD at Royal Farms Arena and visit cities across North America including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Oakland, New Orleans and more. Tickets go on...
Gunfire broke out Monday at a photo exhibit where Russia's ambassador was one of the speakers, killing the diplomat and wounding others, Turkish media reported. The shooter was a 22 year old M.M.A. in Ankara's special forces unit. He shouted about Syria, Aleppo, Jihad as the ambassador lay dying. Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, was killed in a shooting in Ankara on Monday, a spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry announced on Russian television. NTV described the injuries to...
Despite a Hollywood campaign urging republican electors to jump ship, Donald Trump cross the 270 electoral vote threshold this afternoon at 1:40 PM local time.Trump obtained the required 270 electoral votes to become president, it was announced today. The electoral balloting in Texas put Trump over the majority threshold, according to a tally by the Associated Press. A campaign by leftists and those in Hollywood, had urged electors to turn against the Republican party nominee. In the end,...
The 2017 UK, European and Canadian legs of the Guns N' Roses already hugely successful 'Not In This Lifetime' tour went on sale on December 9th and has already sold more than a million tickets in 24 hours! Tickets for the 2017 US dates go on sale tomorrow, December 10th via Ticketmaster. The 'Not in This Lifetime Tour' has now sold more than 3 million tickets in 2016, making it the year's most successful rock tour. Guns N' Roses 2017 Tour Dates: 01/21 – Osaka, JP @ Kyocera Dome 01/22 – Kob...
Update, 12/20: German police have released a Pakistani man detained for driving a truck through a crowded holiday market in Berlin, says the Washington Post. Police released him for lack of evidence. Also, today the Islamic State in Syria has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the driver was "a soldier of the Islamic State." This is the phrase ISIS employs to indicate the person was actually trained by and employed by Isis. Isis is on the ropes in Mosul and Raqaa, Syria, due to a...
