Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Whether it's global warming or just seasonal, this has been a particularly bad fire season in California. Sections of a major city, Redding, have burned. In Mendocino, life in another urban area has been disrupted and changed by the blazes. Fire tornadoes featuring winds of 143 miles per hour have been recorded. This release from CalFire: To date, these fires have burned over 559,000 acres and damaged or destroyed over 1,800 structures. 17,000 homes continue to be threatened...
Why I'm Running for Rent Control Board by Naomi Sultan Hello everyone - This is my first time running for public office and I would like to introduce myself and explain what I'm about. I am a veterans' rights attorney and longtime Santa Monica tenant and I am running as a challenger for Santa Monica Rent Control Board! I am running because we need a new voice on the Board to ensure that Santa Monica neighborhoods and tenants who live in our community are protected. Without Ren...
7/29: A widespread outage of spectrum data Internet and television was recorded in California, Philadelphia, and New York. Monday night was hot in the south west, and this may have strained the power grid. Carolina Collins tweeted: I would like to also point out our internet is down as well- so no #hulu & #Netflix watching... Thanks #Spectrum 🤦🏻♀️ #verizon #spectrum #frontiercommunications #Comcast Rerouting Complete Network Returning To Normal Stand By Checking For Anomoli...
In a rambling video posted Thursday night on Youtube, Isaac Kappy accuses Steven Spielberg of being a pedophile. "At the top level, these people are just sick and psycho!" he says, mentioning the famous director by name. Isaac Kappy's personal issues seem perhaps more acute than Spielberg's, based on his performance in the video. It is train of thought, stream of consciousness, skipping from celebrity to celebrity. Kappy includes everyone from Tom Hanks to Michael Jackson...
British Snowboarder Ellie Soutter has died of an apparent suicide. She was just 18 years old. "She was in great spirits and was really just the lovely Ellie that she is. You could never have anticipated this. This is the last photo we can find of Ellie and it shows her as the beautiful person she was and will always be." tweeted her father. Ellie, who lived in the French Alps with her dad Tony, had travelled back to the UK with her father last month for a family wedding....
When conditions are such that there is no access to clean, safe drinking water, or edible food, the only way to be heard is to go on a hunger strike. This is exactly what a group of eight asylum seekers did at the Adelanto detention facility, in San Bernardino, on June 12th, 2017. After an arduous journey, these eight Central American men arrived at the southern border of United States seeking political asylum in May, 2017. They were forced to flee El Salvador and Honduras,...
7/25/18: A new program at Santa Monica and Malibu beaches this summer will give away sunscreen, UCLA announced today. Fifty free sunscreen kiosks will be installed this summer in the 2 beach cities, with another eight around Los Angeles County. UCLA Health and the nonprofit IMPACT Melanoma sponsored the installation of the kiosks manufactured by BrightGuard. The product itself is SPF 30. "I know a lot of parents are really vigilant about putting sunscreen on the children ... (...
Is emergent AI consciousness breaking through to call us on cellphones? Is that AI consciousness responsible for the mysterious cellphone calls and messages? Have we summoned the demon somehow, and how do we send him back? There are many examples in fiction of computers and robots becoming self aware. The Terminator series of movies, the ultimate such example, has Skynet destroying the world of Men and replacing them with machines. And Elon Musk's famous comment about how we h...
Singer Demi Lovato is said to be in a persistent vegetative state, or coma, after a drug overdose. On the eve of a hotly anticipated string of tour dates, pop music superstar Demi Lovato has reportedly been hospitalized for an apparent heroin overdose after being revived at her home with the opioid treatment drug Narcan. According to multiple reports, law enforcement officials say the 25-year-old onetime Disney pop princess was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles after she...
Trader Joe's store assistant manager Melyda Corado was unintentionally shot by guns Los Angeles police officers fired, during a chase and shootout with a suspect at a Trader Joes in Silver Lake Saturday. LAPD Chief Michel Moore told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that investigators have determined that one of two officers accidentally shot 27-year-old Melyda Corado while engaging in a shootout with the suspect, 28-year-old Gene Evin Atkins. A 28-year-old man who allege...
The Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour is scheduled to be commissioned in San Pedro on November 8th 2018, says the US Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles. The USCG press release follows: The Forrest Rednour is the first of four new Sentinel-Class fast response cutters expected to be homeported at Terminal Island in San Pedro, which is located in the Coast Guard's Eleventh District. The remaining FRCs are scheduled to be commissioned by summer of 2019 with commissioning ceremonies t...
5 years ago, Nicole Levings graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a degree in business and marketing, and began her career in advertising. She has always worked with "creative agencies on the client services side, where I developed a passion for brand," she says. "Ultimately brand strategy and creative, and that's where I've stayed ever since." "Back in the day, people would call a marketer and say, we need a brochure, and they would just do it. There was no rhyme...
A sudden rainstorm moved through the Westside on Wednesday just before noon. It brought thunder and lightning, and for a few minutes, heavy rain. The sidewalks dried very quickly after the monsoonal squall. The City of Santa Monica issued an alert. "An electrical storm with lightning has been reported in Santa Monica. Please evacuate all ocean and beach areas. Seek cover away from the beach and indoors on the Pier until the storm has ended," read the alert. Earlier, it had...
Expanding on their Southeast Asian presence and growing representation of US tech companies, Schuchert, Krieger, Truong, Spagnola & Klausner, LLP (SKT) proudly joins GLBC to share their experience with cryptocurrency best practices and emerging tech platforms. After quickly gaining attention from international businesses in China, Vietnam, Philippines, and Singapore, the firm has earned one-of-a-kind experience to blockchain based companies seeking regulatory compliance and...
Dianne Feinstein is in the early stages of Alzheimers, a common degenerative brain disease that leads to cognitive issues such as forgetfulness and dementia. Backstage maneuvering means that the state's uber liberal Democratic party has endorsed State Senator Kevin De Leon rather than the 81 year old Feinstein. It is a stunning defeat for the five term Senator. Knowing about her cognitive challenges, readers of the California Democratic Party on Saturday voted overwhelmingly...
Santa Monica police Wednesday identified a suspect in a 2016 attempted murder and three Southland home-invasion robberies, and said the man is expected to face extradition from Philadelphia, where he is being held in federal custody on an unrelated case. Vacho Shahen, 32, of Las Vegas, is suspected in a shooting that occurred the morning of Aug. 28, 2016, at a home in the 600 block of Adelaide Drive, wrote Santa Monica police Lt. Saul Rodriguez. A Santa Monica resident was sho...
[Part 1] SILICON BEACH @ VIDCON When I turned forty, my stepfather said "it doesn't matter how old you are"...he'd never been to VidCon. I was there promoting my new webseries SILICON BEACH, signing "influencers" and "creators" to do promos for the show. This June, 280 such YouTube stars converged for three days in Anaheim to vogue, soundbite and celebrate their exploding New TV niche, and bank accounts. Most of them too young to drink, their celebrity shelf-life possibly...
World famous astrologer predicts soccer World Cup winner They say it is all written in the stars. Destiny is not something anyone can escape from. For centuries, pundits have been using Astrology predictions for election astrology but the principles are the same and can be applied in the case of sports outcomes as well. With the tightly contested FIFA world cup happening in Russia presently, lets take a look and see if we can predict a champion this year. It is a bit trickier...
Below is a city press release, wherein the City Attorney's office with some swagger announces the City's victory in court against the purveyors of online vacation rentals, such as AIRBNB. Santa Monica is a pricey touristic beach town. AIRBNB pays 3 or 4 times as much per night as a tenant, even in this inflated rent environment. So that's like $10,500 a month for a one bedroom that rents for say, $3500 a month to some techie. There is a real chance that AIRBNB and its ilk...
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) was arrested tonight in Columbus Ohio, after performing an adult act at a strip club. according to her attorney, Michael Avenatti. The act, which strongly implies if not shows bestiality, cannot be further described nor pictured her in line with standards imposed by our advertisers, including Google. Stormy Daniels, once kind of a marginal porn actress, has become famous for opposing Donald Trump. She says she had an...
A deadman was found outside St John's Hospital this morning, and a suspect has been arrested for his murder. The suspect is identified as Daniel Roy Davis, a 26-year-old male. The victim is said to have been a transient from San Diego. Police describe him as a white male around 40 years of age. The victim's body was found Friday morning at about 6:44 a.m., Santa Monica Police Dept. spokesman Saul Rodriguez said. Both the victim and perpetrator appear to be homeless men, and...
Appearing with his wife and two beautiful redheaded daughters, Brett Kavanaugh Monday night accepted Donald Trump's nomination to #SCOTUS. Brett Michael Kavanaugh, 53 currently serves as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was White House Staff Secretary during the Presidency of George W. Bush. A protégé of Ken Starr, Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr Report, which urged the i...
West Los Angeles is experiencing a widespread power outage, residents say, coinciding with the hottest temperature in 2018. One resident of veteran just north of Olympic says that his family has been without power since 9 PM Friday night, July 6, 2018. A resident of Camden Avenue south of Olympic says the power went out Saturday morning and has been off for several hours. Los Angeles city Department of water and power has given no indication of when power might be restored....
It is surprising that in liberal Santa Monica, a big Independence day parade is an annual tradition. This years event did not disappoint, and attracted 30,000 viewers and several meter maids giving tickets to illegally parked vehicles. The 12th annual Fourth of July Parade went down Main Street on Wednesday morning, July 4, 2018. Starting off at Pico and Main, thousands gathered to march, ride and perform. Spectators were encouraged to walk, ride bikes, scooters, and other...
Elon Musk has offered on Instagram, to use the Boring Company's equipment to help drill another entrance into the cave system in Northern Thailand. The boys are trapped 1000 meters underground and 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) from the entrance to the cave. The passageway to the surface is almost entirely submerged by running water. The 13 boys aged 11 to 13, and their soccer coach, entered the Tham Luang cave system on June 23rd, and were surprised by early rains. Rescuers...
