Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Electrical power was out across a wide area of Santa Monica Thursday afternoon beginning just after 2 PM. Power was restored to some areas just after 5 PM Pacific standard time. Ground zero for the power outage appeared to be an underground fire in an electrical vault. Edison crews were working in the alley on Arizona Avenue between Lincoln and Seventh Street. The Chase bank at seventh and Wilshire closed early as did the coffee bean and tea leaf on Ninth Street. The area of...
Beijing (dpa) - Thirty years after a bloody crackdown on students and democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, one of modern China's most defining events was set to go unobserved on Tuesday. However, outside of the mainland, the massacre is officially remembered in Hong Kong and Macau, two former European colonies that returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 and 1999. Hong Kong, an autonomous territory, has held a candlelight vigil annually since 1990. This year's vi...
Washington (dpa) - US President Donald Trump will begin the first day of his three-day visit to Britain on Monday by meeting with the royal family and lunching with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. The visit, planned months ago to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, comes as Britain remains in the throws of the Brexit process and British Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to resign her position on Friday. Even before arriving, Trump had already...
Rome (dpa) - A cruise ship rammed into a moored tourist boat as it docked in Venice on Sunday, leaving at least four people with minor injuries, according to city officials. The ship, which dwarfed the other vessel, crashed as it came into the San Basilio cruise terminal in the popular lagoon city. The people injured were all taken to an area hospital, aid Venice officials. Dramatic footage of the collision appeared to show some people falling into the water as the smaller...
Washington (dpa) - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on Friday holding its first public hearing on cannabidiol, better known as CBD, which has flooded US markets - despite an opaque legal status - as a way to alleviate anxiety and inflammation The compound, which comes from hemp or marijuana plants, has exploded in popularity in recent years, with CBD already available in sweets, oils and cosmetics The FDA has said some companies are marketing CBD with dangerously e...
Dresden, Germany (dpa) - Dense forests and sprawling fields are dotted with farms and villages with small houses and large gardens. The idyllic landscape north of Goerlitz in the German state of Saxony radiates peace and quiet. But ever since the Upper Lusatia region became home to one of Europe's biggest populations of wolves, that peace has been shattered. Since the reintroduction of the protected animals about 20 years ago, the wolf population has soared and spread from eas...
Budapest (dpa) - At least seven people drowned and 21 were still missing after a cruiser rammed a smaller sightseeing boat in the Danube, causing it to sink in just seconds, authorities in Budapest said on Thursday. The smaller boat, Hableany, had 35 people on board - 33 South Korean tourists and two crew members - when it was hit at 9:05 pm (1905 GMT) near the Margaret Bridge in Budapest. The Hableany had turned in front of the cruiser, the Viking Sigyn, police spokesman...
A “drive for social media recognition” is what’s causing the treacherous overcrowding conditions on Mount Everest this year, an expert climber says. “It’s recognition instead of significance,” explained Adrian Hayes, a British mountaineer who has scaled Mount Everest, K2 and Makalu — three of the world’s highest peaks. “People who don’t know a crampon from a tampon,” he told the South China Morning Post. Hayes, 59, said he was disgusted when he saw the viral picture that wa...
(tca/dpa) - The Europa Hotel was once known as the most bombed hotel in Europe, but on a Friday morning in April, it's bustling with tourists and weekenders enjoying a hearty breakfast buffet. Almost no one recognizes Conleth Hill, the actor who plays Varys, the bald eunuch and royal adviser whose cunning enabled him to survive nearly eight seasons on one of TV's bloodiest shows, "Game of Thrones," without ever lifting a sword. The anonymity (aided by the reappearance of his...
Sana'a (dpa) – Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Sunday that they had used an armed drone to attack warplane runways at Saudi Arabia's Jizan airport near the Yemeni border. There has been no comment from Saudi Arabia, which is leading a military campaign in Yemen against the Houthis. The Houthis have stepped up attacks with drones and missiles on Saudi cities over the past weeks. On Tuesday, the Houthis said one of their drones had attacked Najran airport in s...
Thousands of abortion-rights activists rallied across the nation Tuesday in opposition to a recently approved ban on the procedure in Alabama and other legislative efforts seen as challenges to Roe vs. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. Organizers behind the #StopTheBan rallies included Planned Parenthood Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Women's March. More than 400 rallies were planned throughout the country, most...
In a third strike against Monsanto, maker of the weed-killer Roundup, an Alameda County jury awarded over $2 billion to a Livermore couple who each contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The couple, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, received $55 million for compensatory damages and $1 billion each in punitive damages. Punitive damages are related to the goal of punishing the defendant for their malicious behavior rather than to the goal of compensating the plaintiff for injuries...
Pilgrim Lutheran Church celebrated its 105 Anniversary on May 5, 2019 with a special sermon by Rev. Dr. Micheal Gibson, the president of the Pacific SW district of Lutheran Missouri Synod. A community luncheon followed the service. The original church built in 1919 was on 14th street and Arizona. The present building was rebuilt after the Northridge Earthquake at 1730 Wilshire Blvd, with many stained glass windows representing Biblical stories and themes. It the first church...
Community Corp. of Santa Monica (CCSM) will be holding a public hearing this month on their proposal to build 55 affordable housing units on 14th Street, across the street from Woodlawn Cemetery. The public input hearing will be held on May 21 at 6:30 at Virginia Avenue Park. The project will demolish an existing natural pet food store, a dog grooming facility, and an automotive repair business. It is a block from the Santa Monica Freeway overpass and three quarters of a mile...
Housing prices and sales are falling in California, according to a report by the California Association of Realtors. Although the statewide median home price is up a tiny 0.2 percent, at $565,880, home prices are down in half of all California counties. And home sales across the state are down 6.3 percent. Hardest hit is Los Angeles County, where the median price of a house fell 0.7 percent from last year, to $525,520. Worse than this, though, are the number of house sales....
Somehow, the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica opened two years ago with a Coastal Commission permit. Wednesday, the hotel, which bills itself as sustainable and environmentally sensitive, will appear before the Commission and seek the necessary permits. Shore Hotel's PR person, Melendy Britt, sent us the following: We are pleased to share a statement from Shore Hotel before tomorrow's hearing at the California Coastal Commission. "The owners of Santa Monica's first LEED...
Apparently, A Man Needs caffeine to get through a dark and stormy night on Westeros. A Starbucks coffee cup was spotted in a scene of "Game of Thrones" on Sunday night. Many such errors have become famous in movie making. Nevertheless, the coffeecup took on a life of its own on Twitter after the episode aired. "Movie blunders: Daenerys' Starbucks cup. Because even the Mother of Dragons needs a good cup o' Joe." wrote former US Presidential candidate, Ted Cruz. "Surprised ppl j...
Officer John Gallagher has worked for the Santa Monica Police Department for 18 years. He loves the traffic division, which he has served for the last eight years. “I enjoy traffic. There’s nothing I’d rather do,” he says while installing a radar speed sign on 9th street. The sign is located just two blocks down from Roosevelt elementary school. Parents and children may frequently be seen walking North in the morning, and South from school in the afternoon. Officer Gallagh...
As a British ex-pat I am going to go all out here and place my bet, faith, journalistic research and good ole British sources and wager that HRH Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have already welcomed a beautiful son. There it is, I said it. And here is why. Firstly, let us look at the dates leading up to this much anticipated arrival. Markle's engagement to Prince Harry was announced on November 27, 2017, by Clarence House and Kensington Palace. Markle announced that...
An LAPD motorcycle officer was thrown off his bike and into a fountain from a crash near USC. One of the vehicles that was involved appears to have been carrying the mayor of Inglewood. ABC News reports that their Newscopter was over the scene near an entrance to USC around 9 a.m. when first responders were seen treating a woman and her 4-year-old child, who was not hurt. The officer suffered substantial injuries but is in stable condition. "He was stationary in front of the...
Power flows from the barrel of a rifle. -- Mao Tse Tung The military was going to have to eventually settle this dispute, between Maduro (Bad socialist), and Juan Guaido (Brave western oriented challenger, who has the backing of the Venezuelan courts and parliament). Maduro has invited in Russian and Cuban soldiers. He has kept out shipments of food from Brazil. He's a bad dude, and only guys with guns can remove him. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has called for a...
A suspect in a terror plot arrested by the FBI planned to bomb the 100 year old pier last summer. Domingo recently converted to Islam. He bought a bag of nails to put into an IED. Mark Steven Domingo, 26, of Reseda, a former U.S. Army infantryman with combat experience in Afghanistan, faces federal charges in a terrorist plot in which he planned to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) for the purpose of causing mass casualties. The complaint alleges that he intended...
The Santa Monica city's blog page sought to remind us this Earth Day that our elected leaders are so good and saintly as to be constructing a "global environmental statement" in the form of a 50,200 square-foot annex to City Hall. The three-story building that will centralize all city workers is projected to open on Earth Day next year, in 2020. "City leadership has embraced the CSB [City Services Building] as an opportunity to make a global environmental statement." Okay,...
Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60 was killed, a girl and 2 men were injured in a shooting Saturday at Chabad Synagogue in San Diego suburb of Poway. San Diego Sheriff's Department have been deployed to other local churches and synagogues. The alleged shooter, 19-year-old John T. Earnest, was booked on one count of murder in the first degree and three counts of attempted murder in the first degree, according the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. He is suspected of having set a fire in...
On Wednesday April 24th, 2019 at 8:19 p.m. the Santa Monica Fire Department began receiving multiple 9-1-1 calls reporting a fire at the "Pacific Plaza" apartments, 1431 Ocean Avenue in the City of Santa Monica. Firefighters arrived on scene in 3 minutes to find a large volume of fire visible on the roof of the 15-story residential high-rise apartment building. Firefighters were required to ascend up the stairwells to access the fire, carrying tools and special hose packs...
