Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Courts & Rulings C.A. denies Gascón's plea to limit judges' reconsiderations The Court of Appeal for this district yesterday avoided the issue of whether a judge may reinstate dismissed special circumstances allegations and enhancements sua sponte, shunning a request by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón to declare that no such power exists absent a motion for reconsideration by the prosecution, and despite an apparent desire by the state Supreme Court that t...
WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 15 – In the first decade of the last century a young German psychiatrist discovered a new disease. But it took the worldwide medical community some seven decades to fully acknowledge the devastating impact of Dr. Alois Alzheimer's diagnosis. As a result the "A-word" now has a particularly scary connotation for senior citizens. Perhaps it is because it is normal to experience memory loss as we age. But the news about the correlation between age and memory lo...
A photograph of the Russian cruiser Moskva has emerged, during the 48 hours after being hit on April 14th, but before sinking. In the photo, the stricken ship displays missing panels on her sides, such that one can see the second deck. Smoke pours out of the superstructure in the aft of the ship. From Wikipedia: "On 18 April, two images circulated on social media showing Moskva after the alleged missile strike/ammunition fire and prior to the final sinking. The images show...
Editors note: Ukrainian troops in Mariupol are confined to a large factory with 6 underground levels. There are thought to be 700 Ukrainian troops, outnumbered ten to one by Russian forces, in far Southeastern Ukraine. About 1000 civilians are hiding from the Russians, with the Ukrainian soldiers. This about 30 miles from the border with Russia. On 4/18, one of their commanders posted the following to Facebook: I, Sergey Volina, the commander of the 36th separate brigade of...
Update 4/17: The first video of survivors from the Russian Black Sea Cruiser Moskva has appeared in Russian media. It appears to show about 50 uniformed survivors from the crew of 510. Presumably they were removed from the sinking ship on April 14th. This from Liveuamap on Twitter: "Russian ministry of Defense: commander of Navy admiral Nikolay Evmenov and command of Black Sea navy met with crew of Moskva cruiser in Sevastopol. Video shows about 50 sailors in first row, and...
April 12, 2022 - The National Weather Service says they have been forced to cut back on the number of their weather balloon launches because of global supply chain issues and an allegedly temporary problem with one hydrogen supplier. Normally, the NWS launches the weather diagnostic balloons from 101 "upper-air" sites, 92 in the United States and 9 in the Caribbean. The balloons carry radiosondes. Battery-powered radiosondes, instruments slightly bigger than a cell phone, can...
Gilbert Gottfried died Tuesday after a long illness, his family announced. The actor and stand-up died after a long battle with the heart ailment recurrent ventricular tachycardia. Gottfried, 67, was a comedian who's persona featured an exaggerated shrill voice and emphasis on crude humor. His numerous roles in film and television include voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin animated films and series, Digit LeBoid on PBS Kids's long-running Cyberchase, and Kraang...
UPDATE: Santa Monica Police have identified a suspect in the mail carrier assaults. See https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/04/11/news/santa-monica-police-department-identifies-suspect-in-mail-carrier-assaults-that-suspended-service-on-14th-street/6677.html Citing local sources, Fox News says the United States Postal Service has refused to deliver to the neighborhood of 14th and Arizona any more, after a "local resident" repeatedly swung a broomstick at a letter carrier. Nei...
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) released a photo of Viktor Medvedchuk in police custody. "Putin's Best friend in Ukraine" as he is known, is seen in handcuffs and wearing a military uniform. Medvedchuk, 67, is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, business oligarch, and current People's Deputy of Ukraine as of 29 August 2019, says Wikipedia. He is the chairman of the pro-Russian political organization Ukrainian Choice and an opponent of Ukraine joining the European Union. He...
What is the situation in Crimea today? It is a closed military zone, and during the Ukraine Russia war little information has come out. According to one source, from the native Crimean Tatar group, Russian army deserters are shot. Commanders don't report their war dead, so they can pocket the soldiers families' death benefits. The following is from Ukrainian Pravda. As you no doubt are aware, it's wartime and such reports should be read with a little skepticism. On the other...
Ukrainians have begun to post photos of Russian soldiers engaged in looting. Social media posts taken from security cameras and from other social media, such as Instagram, have been posted to twitter. One of them concerns a soldier named Kovalenko Evgeny Evgenyevich. The post alleges that he sent home packages weighing a total of 1,000 lbs to his wife. It says: "A thread about a most greedy Rashist marauder! Meet officer 🇷🇺 Kovalenko Evgeny Evgenyevich. He took out almos...
April 5, 2022 - This morning Santa Monica Police arrested and detained a homeless man who attacked a city maintenance worker on the Third Street Promenade. A witness says a homeless male confronted a long-time city employee, Jose, who was driving the street cleaning service truck. He physically attacked Jose, who later claimed to be unhurt. Police arrived and were able to detain the attacker. He was handcuffed and driven away. Since no serious bodily harm occurred in the assau...
March 31st, Los Angeles- This Award season, GBK, the veteran Luxury Lifestyle Gifting and special events company honored the 2022 Academy Award Nominees and Presenters by hosting its Annual Nominees and presents Luxury Oscar gifting lounge. Held on the 25th and 26th March at gorgeous Four Seasons Hotel nestled in Beverly Hills, appropriately so, this year the guests were treated to a lavish array of gifts and services. This Oscar season saw the GBK collaborate with eBay, a pio...
April 1, 2022 - At a media briefing yesterday, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, grasped wildly for all available evidence she should maintain a stranglehold on the lives and livelihoods of area residents despite the continuing decline in hospitalizations and deaths. Having devised an "Early Alert signal" System that makes certain some "signal," no matter how irrelevant, will be triggered, Ferrer yesterday triumphantly pointed to the...
A Russian soldier killed in Irpin, Ukraine replaced the Kevlar in his vest with a stolen MacBook. It didn't work out too well for him, apparently. Or for the Macbook, which still has an uncracked screen and may still work. Russian conscripts and other soldiers were told that they were fighting "Nazi's" in Ukraine. In at least one town North of Kyiv, Bucha, they shot hundreds of civilians, mostly men, as they were pulled out of the town after about 5 weeks of fighting. Russian...
10: Reports from several sources say that Russia has committed unspeakable war crimes, unprecedented in modern Europe, during its occupation of Kyiv's Northern suburbs. In a Ukrainian town called Bucha, the Russian Armed Forces methodically murdered all men between the ages of 16 and 60. This is the town seen on American news shows Friday night April 1st. A video shows a car driving through Bucha's streets showing corpses lying on the ground. It should be emphasized at...
Sacramento police are investigating a mass shooting incident in downtown Sacramento. The shooting followed a concert by rapper Taylor the Creator, at about 2 am Sunday. Sixteen people were shot. Six are dead and 12 are injured. Video of the incident on social media shows a group of young people brawling in the street, then shots breaking out. This on the corner of 10th Street between J and K Streets. The video may be seen on Twitter at https://twitter.com/M...
Hours before California's eviction moratorium was set to expire, the State Legislature extended renter protections through the end of June. The extension only applies to tenants impacted by COVID who applied for rental assistance by Thursday, March 31. This three-month extension is intended to give the state enough time to distribute $5 billion in federal funds intended for landlords, while tenants remain in their homes. California received the funds last May. Landlords and...
11: Russian state owned website RT.COM alleges that the shootings of civilians in Bucha were staged. Bodies were brought to Bucha several days later, alleges the news source, quoting Russian defense ministry sources. Ukrainian government actors tied hands of the bodies behind their backs, then shot them in the head, so as to fake their deaths and execution by the Russian army, says the English language website. We repeat these allegations not because we think they have...
6 Ukrainian female soldiers, who were among the 86 Ukrainian soldiers released from Russian captivity on April 1 in prisoner exchange, had their hair shaved off by Russians. This according to Dmytro Lubinets, the head of the human rights committee in Ukraine's parliament, According to the Ukraine defence ministry, 4 or 5 female corpses are left on top of tires and under a blanket, in preparation for burning them to cover crimes by Russian troops. Russians shot women and...
A fire broke out at an oil depot in Belgorod, Russia, near the Ukrainian border after a daring raid by two low flying Ukrainian helicopters. Interestingly, the raid was reported by Russian news agency TASS, citing tothe governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov. Russian state owned publications "RIA Novosti" and RBC also reported on the incident. Gladkov said that two people were injured - employees of the oil depot. He said that the fire was caused by an air strike...
Seven busses packed with Russian soldiers suffering from Acute Radiation Syndrome arrived to #Belarus from the #Ukrainian #Chernobyl exclusion zone. Source: member of public council of state #Ukraine agency of exclusion zone, according to Ukrainian journalist Yaroslav Yemelianenko via Unian news agency. He resides in Belarus. Yemelyanenko on his Facebook quoting Belarus TV: "Seven medical busses with people inside arrived at 12:20 pm to Homel, Belarus, to the Center of radiolo...
Even Mark Twain was only mis-reported dead once. James Vasquez, an American volunteering with the Ukraine Army, has now been reported dead not once but twice. "Ground Report," a blog intended as a compendium of war stories, reported on March 30th that Vasquez had died. "I got killed again☹️" Vasquez tweeted the afternoon of Thursday March 31, 2022 alongside a screenshot of the false report. Proving of course, that he was alive. Or tweeting from the afterlife. The inc...
In the first act of the Russo-Ukraine War to take place across the frontier and in Russia, a munition storage facility exploded in Belgorod, Russia. Ukraine claims to be the responsible party. Belgorod is 25 miles from the Ukraine border. The ammunition depot was on the edge of town, a mere 15 miles from Ukraine. There is still no official confirmation of what caused the explosion at a Russian munitions depot near Belgorod last night. Unconfirmed reports suggest it was a...
Bellingcat says that three members of the delegation attending the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on the night of 3 to 4 March 2022 experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons. One of victims was Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich, who has been critical of Putin over Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal has also published the story. https://www.wsj.com/articles/roman-abramovich-and-ukrainian-peace-negotiators-suffer-symptoms-of-suspected-poisoni...
