Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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September 6, 2023 - The Los Angeles County Health Department claims they have no idea how deadly Covid-19 is any more. "We are unable to calculate the case fatality rate for COVID-19 using our disease surveillance data because many cases are not reported to Public Health," they wrote in response to a media query. Health officials say that, because of home testing kits, they have no idea how many people actually have had Covid and therefore do not have an accurate denominator to use in order to...
After the 7th and final show of its second season, HBO announced that it would n ot renew the Showtime Lakers documentary for a third season. The show centers on the Los Angeles Lakers NBA team and their rise in the early 1980s. The first season dramatized Jerry Buss' first year as the team's owner and Magic Johnson's rookie year, 1979-80. The second season is set during the four-year period after that. Twitter posters protested the way the series was pulled after the Celtics defeat the Lakers....
Carole Currey, 87, died peacefully at her Santa Monica home on July 30, 2023, surrounded by family. She succumbed to non-smoker's lung cancer. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Carole Ingeborg Lundgren was born on March 24, 1936, the daughter of Svea and David Lundgren, and grew up with her sister, Luelle Lundgren Peavey. She received her bachelor's degree in art and French from Northwestern University, studying at the Sorbonne, Paris for a year. She earned her master's in teaching English from...
Marguerite drew her final breath just less than a year after her husband Jim drew his. She is survived by her children Janis Holt, Ken Downing and Pamela Noel Hughes, seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Marguerite grew up in Mentone, California. She attended the University of Redlands before transferring to the University of California at Santa Barbara where she met Jim, who sold her a pair of shoes and didn't let her walk away. They were married for 72 years. Marguerite earned...
The Greenland's Arctic Command reported that an abandoned research station washed to sea, not far from the fjord where last week, a cruise ship briefly ran aground. The tsunami occurred in remote East Greenland. Greenland is twice the size of Alaska, and has only 53,000 residents. Very few of them live in East Greenland, which is colder than West Greenland. Here is the press release from Greenland's Arctic Command, which is a division of the Danish military: "TSUNAMI IN DICKSON FJORD Arctic...
