Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Latest update: http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/05/news/all-evacuations-lifted-as-clabasas-topanga-fire-is-80-contained/1363.html Update, Sunday 6/5, 1:15 PM: Thousands of residents of Calabasas have been evacuated, and officials have asked them not to return yet due to the possibility of flareups. The fire has now consumed 525 acres of hilltops and burned several structures. Topanga has not been evacuated, as it is in Zone 1, but residents have been told to prepare to...
"Pity the poor Russians, the heirs to Byzantium, in an Era dominated by the descendants of Rome." -- Richard Pipes According to a poll conducted by the Levada Center, 72% of Russians consider the U.S. is a threat, 48% think Ukraine is "hostile" and 29% think Turkey is an enemy, newspapers reported. The United States topped the list of countries, being named as hostile by 72 percent of respondents, followed by Ukraine with 48 percent of respondents. It is the highest level...
Fox News is reporting that US Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders, will jump out of an aircraft, and parachute into a stadium in California this evening. The event comes close to California's June 7th primary, this Tuesday. The jump would not be without American presidential precedent. George Bush Sr. jumped out of airplanes to celebrate his 88th and 90th birthdays, for example. He would have continued to jump, but Barbara put a stop to it. And former Illinois governor...
What better place for a 73 year old to close out a US Presidential campaign, then a 100 year old pier? Bernie Sanders made a surprise visit this afternoon on the Santa Monica Pier. He looked like any other grandfather, as he rode the Pier's 120 year old carousel with his grandson. Sanders shook hands and stopped for photos and mingled with the always huge summer crowd on the pier. For more than an hour Sunday along the shops, restaurants and amusement park rides of the...
Today Hillary Clinton wrapped up the Democratic Presidential nomination (AP). Roger Clinton, half-brother of former president Bill Clinton was arrested in Redondo Beach over the weekend on drunken driving charges, police said. Roger Clinton, who resides in Torrance, was taken into custody at around 7:20 p.m. Sunday after police stopped his SUV near the intersection of Torrance and Prospect Blvd. He refused a blood test, which is a defendant's right when pulled over, and...
Update: At a 5 PM press conference, LA County Fire announced that residents will be allowed to return to their homes at 6 PM. 400 Firemen declared victory over a fire near Topanga, as the weather turned cooler and 5,000 evacuees were allowed to return. Topanga Canyon Blvd is now open to traffic. Residents said the hills has sharp lines distinguishing burned areas from unburned areas. "The footage is amazing. Acres of charred hills ending right at the edges of the residential...
Early Sunday morning, 4 passengers clinging to the side of an overturned small boat were rescued from the water by Los Angeles County Lifeguards. A tanker saw the hapless sailors and called County Lifeguards at 6:20AM. The County Fire Department Lifeguard Division was on scene minutes later, in the waters just off Long Beach. " Long Beach Fire Department Rescue Boat 2 found an 18′ Aluminum Crestliner capsized with 4 passengers in the water," says the Lifeguard press r...
Update 6/5: Muhammed Ali shared his name with the Prophet of Islam, so he asked that his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame be up on a wall, not on the ground. It would have been disrespectful for people to step on the Prophet's name, so he made that request. Muhammad Ali has died of respiratory failure brought on by Parkinson's disease, an illness he battled for 3 decades. He died at Scottsdale Osborne Hospital near Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by his nine children,...
A public school in Palmdale directed a Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff to call on the family of a seven-year-old child in order to forbid him from handing out bible verses and stories on a public sidewalk outside of the school. The deputy told the family that "someone might be offended." The child, who attends Desert Rose Elementary, had originally been receiving short notes with bible verses from his mother, Christina Zavala, packed with his lunch. After sharing the notes with...
Residocracy, the group behind signature gathering for the Land Use Voter Empowerment Initiative, has announced that they believe they have enough signatures from qualified local voters, to qualify for the November 2016 ballot. Enough signatures is about 6,500, and is based on a percentage of the number of registered voters in Santa Monica at any one time. Led by Laura Wilson, the group feels that City Hall has been too quick to grant large developers with massive projects,...
A Houston middle school teacher who police say had a long term sexual relationship with a former student, turned herself in to Police Wednesday. The odd thing about the case is, the parents approved of the relationship, knew about it, let the boy stay with Vera overnight. Odd that is, from an American Cultural Perspective. The whole thing has been highly destructive to Vera's life, and it's hard to say why, given that the boy and his parents both consented and approved, and...
A 24-year-old Los Angeles man was charged today with attempting to slip a drug into a woman's drink that was thwarted by three good Samaritans, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. The three women, Marla Saltzer, Sonia Ulrich and Monica Kenyon, who call themselves "Charlie's Angels" in a Facebook post that went viral, saw Hsu pour a black vial into a woman's drink while she was in the ladies' room at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica. Deputy District...
A law-enforcement official tells The Associated Press that tests show the music superstar died of an opioid overdose. The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 in an elevator at his Minneapolis-area estate. "An official who wants to remain anonymous, but is close to the investigation," spoke to a reporter without authorization. Coroners and pathologists have been researching whether Prince died of an overdose or some other cause. Police are investigating whether a doctor...
The body of a woman named on a "kill list" found in the home of Mainak Sarkar, the man who shot himself and killed a UCLA professor in a murder-suicide on the university's campus, is at the morgue in Minnesota, KTLA reported Thursday. LAPD chief Charlie Beck told the station that a note found at the crime scene prompted authorities to search Sarkar's residence, where they found the list. Beck said it included several names. One of them was William Klug, the 39-year-old...
As Southern California wrestles with historic drought, there may be one silver lining in the lack of rain clouds: steadily improving beach water quality. With a fifth consecutive year of below-average rainfall in Southern California in 2015-16, local beaches experienced less polluted runoff, which is funneled untreated into our seas via the vast stormdrain system. As a result, water quality remained in the excellent to very good range at the vast majority of beaches in Los...
Aeronautical engineering professor William S. Klug has been identified the victim of a fatal shooting on the UCLA campus on Wednesday. According to students and the UCLA online catalog, Dr. Klug taught aerospace and mechanical engineering at the university and was a married father of two. The professor was one of two pronounced dead following what police called a "possible murder-suicide" that took place around 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday. The campus was placed on lockdown for...
UCLA (AP) -- In the minutes after a fatal shooting at a UCLA engineering building, panicked students seeking a safe place to hide used belts, cords and other items to try to secure doors they said did not lock. There was no where for them to run and nowhere to hide. With rumors swirling that there could be as many as four shooters, senior Daphne Ying, 21, and others struggled to secure a door that swings out into a hallway of the building. They tied one end of a long cord to...
It looks like enough is finally enough. After paying 14 employees each more than California Gov. Brown, the Assembly has finally had it. The State Bar, funded entirely by bar dues, is unable to fund its operations without billing its members. "This is new territory for me," said Assemblyman Mark Stone (D-Scotts Valley) as he counted the votes for his committee's simple bill to reauthorize membership dues imposed on attorneys, who must join the State Bar of California in order...
A French search vessel has picked up signals from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804, Egyptian and French investigators said, a potential breakthrough in efforts to uncover why it plummeted into the Mediterranean last month. Search teams are working against the clock to recover the two flight recorders that will offer vital clues to the fate of the plane that crashed en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19 killing all 66 people on board. Without the black boxes,...
One day in 1984, an 81 year old immigrant turned entertainer, walked into to a Hollywood recording studio. Bob Hope came to Sunwest Recording Studio to sing a comedic number about another entertainer, an old friend of his named Bing Crosby. It lasts for three minutes and is entitled, Of Bing I Sing. The song was intended to be incorporated into a television broadcast of the Pebble Beach Masters Golf Tournament of 1984. Perhaps it was, perhaps it wasn't; but either way, the...
Studying the movements of animals can reveal certain behaviors. Earlier this spring, biologist Joanne Moriarty saw something familiar with Bobcat-339. Her GPS points indicated denning. So we went to check it out last month and, lo and behold, kittens! Meet B-340 and B-341, residents of the central Santa Monica Mountains. We found the brothers in a commandeered woodrat nest, took samples and measurements, placed ear tags, returned them, and set up a camera trap to monitor for...
One of the two bodies found at UCLA had a suicide note, indicating that one of the dead people shot the other, UC Police confirmed. All finals for June 1 have been cancelled, and students have been asked to stay away from campus, as the LAPD conducted a search to be sure there are no other suspects. Los Angeles Police Department officers in tactical gear were all over the campus, and the FBI and ATF were also reportedly responding. Los Angeles Police chief said the shooting...
As Americans across the U.S. begin Memorial Day weekend, vandals defaced veteran memorials in California, Kentucky, and Virginia. ABC News reports: Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day. A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti. The vandalism occurred sometime during the...
An eyewitness who saw a boy climb into an animal enclosure before seeing zoo workers shoot and kill an endangered Western Lowland gorilla named Herambe, claims the animal wasn't actively hurting the boy, and was in fact trying to protect it. The 17-year-old gorilla was shot dead by a zoo DART team at Cincinnati Zoo yesterday when a four-year-old child fell up to 12 feet into an enclosure. The worldwide debate is all over the internet: There are only about 200,000 Western...
Officials have shut down 3 miles of Corona Del Mar State Beach in Orange County, after a young woman was bitten by an animal on her upper torso and shoulder.The woman was rushed to an OC hospital, with injuries consistent with a shark attack. She had been swimming about 100 yards off Newport Beach, when she was apparently attacked or bitten. Witnesses say she was bleeding heavily. Authorities don't know if it was a shark attack, as opposed to some other animal or some other...
