Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Noon Sunday 1/08/2016: Flash flooding and mud and debris flows possible for recent burn areas of southwestern California this evening through Monday morning. Locally, rain is expected to start around 4 am Monday morning, and has caused flooding damage and chaos in the Northern part of the State. The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a Flash Flood Watch for the recent burn areas in Los Angeles County, including the sand, fish, and other recent burn...
1/06/2017: It was a dark and stormy night. The Captain of the Maersk Alabama did not see the reef near Langeoog Island, before he was upon it. The good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed, when the witch of the North Sea came calling. So they dumped a container over the side, and the result was a beach strewn with plastic, multi-colored Easter eggs. Authorities say the plastic eggs containing instructions in the Cyrillic alphabet, were dumped from a container that was lost...
UFO's have followed Falcon 9 rockets from Florida to California, and so the company plans to launch it's next rocket from an unmanned barge in the Pacific Ocean. A SpaceX rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad on September 1, 2016. Moving the launch to California did not help, since the same mysterious drone reappeared, and was recorded again by launch pad security cameras. The company has delayed the launch until January 14th, to investigate the latest UFO intervention....
Apparently, Pokemon Go characters have more to worry about than just Poke balls. A Pokemon Go ice cream truck cruising the streets of SoCal lures the little guys with promises of ice cream (and a charging station, say some on social media). Pokémon Go is a free-to-play, location-based augmented reality game developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices. The game was the result of a collaboration between Niantic and Nintendo, by way of The Pokémon Company, and was i...
1/5/17: Two bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed off the coast of San Pedro, according to officials. The bodies were presumed to be that of photographer Michael Justice and pilot Christopher Reed, authorities said during a Thursday afternoon press conference. 1/4/2017: The US Coast Guard and others are responding to reports of a helicopter down in the ocean off San Pedro. So far no wreckage or victims have been spotted in the water. Angels Gate has...
It was a cold, cold New Year's Eve in Times Square last night. Mariah Carey will probably be forgiven for lip-synced her way through her hits onstage. Finally, she threw in the towel, reports the New York Daily News. "It just don't get any better," she hissed before leaving the stage. The pop icon brushed off the flub with a follow-up tweet later that evening."S--t happens," Carey said early Sunday. "Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here's to making more headlines...
After decades of advocating by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) for shutting down domestic ivory markets, the Chinese Government has delivered on their pledge to close domestic ivory markets in 2017. "This is a tremendous victory for elephants and we applaud China for showing such decisive action and leadership on this issue," said Azzedine Downes IFAW President and CEO. The announcement stipulates a phased schedule to revoke some licenses by March 2017 and to...
The announcement culminates months of vigorous internal debate over whether and how to respond to Russia's unprecedented election-year provocations, ranging from the hacks of the Democratic National Committee to the targeting of state electoral systems. Donald Trump will be in power in 3 weeks, and his softer view on Putin's Russia, indicates that he will undo the order. The Obama administration announced new measures on Thursday in retaliation for what U.S. officials have...
Official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of December 25, 2016, have been announced, and Disney's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took in almost twice as much as the next closest contender, Universal's Sing. The top two movies showed a similar income divide in the USA. Scoring is reported by comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), the only theater-level reporting in the world. comScore's Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, "Disney's 'Rogue One: A Star Wars...
3/25: The Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue on Wilshire Blvd was smeared with dog feces on Sunday morning, reports Breitbart news. The Rabbi cleaned it up as best he could and let in congregants for morning prayers. Sunday was the first full day of Hanukah, and a menorah in the window may have attracted attention. According to the LA Times, Congregants arriving for prayers on Sunday morning at the Living Torah Center, a synagogue affiliated with the Orthodox Chabad movement, were...
Update: Dec. 23, 5 PM: Carrie Fisher is in stable condition after suffering a major heart attack on a flight, the Associated Press reports, citing the actress' brother Todd Fisher. He told the AP that his sister was “out of emergency” and stabilized at a Los Angeles hospital, but declined to offer further details. "I ask everyone to pray for her," he said. Update: 2:46 PM PT -- We're told when the plane landed paramedics worked on Carrie for 15 minutes with CPR before the...
LOS ANGELES - The Coast Guard rescued a 50-year-old male diver Friday at 7 a.m., after he was stranded for more than 40 hours on the backside of Catalina Island. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach command center received a call at 10:45 p.m., Thursday, reporting that an individual aboard a 38-foot sailing vessel had departed Dana Point at 7 a.m., Wednesday, and was headed to Catalina Island to dive. Although the individual was not scheduled to be back a...
If you're going to harass Ivanka Trump, her husband and children to the point where you get kicked off the flight, it's probably best not to brag about it on Twitter. Because when you do, everyone knows who you are. "Your father is ruining the country. They ruin the country now they ruin our flight!" said Dan Goldstein to Ivanka, on a Jet Blue flight. Both the gay couple and the Kushner-Trumps had their children with them. Lasner also suggested Ivanka and her family should be...
Affected Area: Los Angeles The National Weather Service In Oxnard Has Issued A * Flash Flood Warning For The Old Burn Area In Western Los Angeles County In Southwestern California... * Until 1115 PM PST * At 914 PM Pst, Doppler Radar Indicated Heavy Rain With Rainfall Rates Exceeding One Half Inch Per Hour Across The Old Burn Area. Additional Heavy Rain Offshore Is Expected To Move Over The Bur Area. Flash Flooding With Mud And Debris Flows Is Expected To Begin Shortly. *...
My people have a word for people who wait in line to mail packages just before Christmas: Goyim. Monday was the busiest mailing day of the year for the United States Postal Service, reports the New York Times. Today, the USPO will handle 611 million cards, letters and packages. Sue Brennan, a spokeswoman for the post office, told the Times that Christmas did not exactly catch the organization by surprise. "We plan all year for this," she said. "This is something that we've...
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...
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...
Nice try, but no cigar for the City Council. The City filed eviction actions against both FBO's, companies who provide services to the Airport's 272 aircraft, last month. The City agreed in the 1970's, when accepting Federal funds, that it would make the airport available for public use and benefit. It cannot discriminate against aircraft types or uses and must make space available for aviation tenants on reasonable terms based on good faith negotiations. "The city has failed...
Kanye West and Donald Trump discussed more than just "life" Tuesday morning. After their meeting at Trump Tower in New York City, Donald Trump nominated Rapper Kanye West to be the nation's 23rd Under-Secretary of the Interior. No one we spoke to is entirely sure what Secretary of the Interior actually does. So the fact that West is a musician who dropped out of Chicago State University to pursue music, is no barrier. "West knows many of the players in Hollywood, where he...
Open Letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: We are Electors who were selected by the voters of our states to represent them in the Electoral College on December 19, 2016. We intend to discharge our duties as Electors by ensuring that we select a candidate for president who, as our Founding Fathers envisioned, would be "endowed with the requisite qualifications." As Electors, we also believe that deliberation is at the heart of democracy itself, not an empty...
Updated: Additional closure dates for the I-10 sign replacement project:Thursday, December 8; Friday, December 9; December 11 through Wednesday, December 14 It is likely that the closure will continue on Thursday, December 15 and Friday, December 16, but the contractor is hoping to have the work completed Wednesday. Closures are from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. The same detour information applies. In it's ongoing effort to spend money and create high paying jobs for City of Santa...
Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm to deliver energy to the American power grid, began generating electricity in commercial operation on December 12. The project was developed by Deepwater Wind, a Providence, RI company invested in building offshore wind farms on both the east and west coasts. Aside from generating pollution-free energy, this technology has the potential to create thousands of jobs and power millions of U.S. homes and businesses. The...
Mitt Romney posted on his Facebook page on Monday night that that Donald Trump had selected someone else to be US Secretary of State. The post is the most prestigious cabinet position, in part because the SOS not only leads the State Department, but is 4th in line to the President. "It was an honor to have been considered for Secretary of State of our great country," the 2012 Republican nominee wrote. "My discussions with President-elect Trump have been both enjoyable and...
On Sunday afternoon, the Secretary of the Army contacted tribal leaders at the protest site to inform them that the Dakota Access Pipeline will NOT proceed according to its current plan. "We will not fight tonight, we will dance!" said Rami Bald Eagle, Cheyenne River Lakota Tribal Leader as he shared the news with supporters. The protester were joined by thousands of US veterans this week who vowed to form a human barrier to protect the water protectors from North Dakota...
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...
