Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Just minutes after blast-off, the unmanned Progress 65 cargo ship crashed on December 1, along with the 700 pounds of supplies it carried. The communication was lost only 383 seconds after it had left Baikonur, confirmed the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos). This should have been a routine operation, as Russia sends 3-4 of these cargo ships to the International Space Station every year. The ship was carrying more than 2.6 metric tons of cargo, which included food, fuel and supplies for the...
Update 12/1: An attorney for the woman who has the permit to kill P 45 said at a public meeting, that she would be happy to have CDFW relocate him instead. Ideally, to a nature reserve far away. The male mountain lion known as P-45 moved into the Santa Monica mountains, but unfortunately seems to have developed a taste for alpacas. He ate 11 alpacas and a goat in the hills above Malibu on Saturday and Sunday following Thanksgiving. The unidentified ranch owner applied for, and the CDFW issued a...
Update: Sig alert cancelled at 10:45. All freeways have been reopened, the suspicious packet turned out not to be explosive or dangerous. The 210 Freeway near Pasadena was completely shut down Wednesday morning as bomb squad investigated a suspicious item that a pedestrian threw into eastbound lanes, Pasadena Police Department Officer Peter Nicholson said. The pedestrian was at the Gold line station and tossed his jacket onto traffic. Said pedestrian had multiple outstanding police department...
A University of Southern California graduate student has been charged with fatally stabbing a professor on campus last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Jonathan Brown (dob 7/11/88) was charged in case BA452257 with one count of murder as well as a special allegation that he personally used a deadly and dangerous weapon, a knife. He is scheduled to be arraigned today in Department 30 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Deputy District Attorney Beth...
In yet another unsupervised early morning tweet, Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the government was shelling out $4B for a new Air Force One from Boeing: "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!" Boeing was quick to correct his error, issuing a statement to inform the public that they only had a $170M contract for research: "We are currently under contract for $170 million to help determine the ca...
A honey oil lab exploded in Sun Valley on Wednesday afternoon. The Los Angeles Fire Dept. responded. The garage of a recently renovated home was blown off its foundation. The force of the explosion also blasted 2 men out of the garage. Both of them were critically inured, they were transported to a local hospital suffering from 2nd and third degree burns. Honey oil is synthesized from marijuana plants using butane. The fire broke out around 3:50 p.m. in the 8300 block of Glencrest Drive. The...
In a civil case involving NMS Family Living Trust, and Margot and Neil Shekhter, Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bruguera found that NMS Properties and its owners, fabricated evidence, and destroyed or hid electronic evidence from the Court and the opposing parties. For this reason, she entered a judgment imposing "Terminating Sanctions" against NMS, meaning that they lost the lawsuit and now have a default judgment against them. Terminating sanctions are unusual, though not unheard of, in civil...
John Herschel Glenn Jr., 95 has died, reports the Washington Post. Cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but was rumored to be cancer. Glenn was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. He was one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the...
Eat Poison Live Long? Yes I know that sounds ridiculous but pay close attention because there is something important to learn about our food you just might not be aware of. Generally speaking when we consider the wholesomeness of the food we eat we consider things such as freshness and freedom from harsh even dangerous chemicals. More and more people are opting for "organic" foods for their claim of less contamination and indeed they do often even taste better. But totally ignored in this food...
Update, 12/2: Judge Bruguera today ordered NMS properties to cede control of its Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and West Hollywood "LUXE" properties, to AEW Capital Management. She also imposed attorneys fees against NMS. We previously reported that the LA Superior Court (Judge Suzanna Bruguera), found that Neil Shekhter, the principal behind NMS Properties, had engaged in evidence tampering. We are told that next week's City Council Agenda 13C, reads: "Request of Councilmembers McKeown and...
