Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Alexander Anthony Clever, 28, today pleaded no contest to murdering his then-35-year-old girlfriend in a motel in Pomona. Clever not only plead to first degree murder, but admitted the special circumstance of committing torture during the course of the murder. On November 29, 2014, Clever, his girlfriend, Yvette Silva, and two others were in a motel on South Garey Avenue, near the junction of the 60 and 71 freeways. The couple's companions could hear Clever and Silva arguing i...
- 7 PM 7/26 Return Home for Many Evacuees - Cloud Caused by Controlled Burn - FEMA provides Fire Management Assistance Grant - Wildfire Regions are No-Fly Zones for Drones - Donations can go to the Red Cross or your Local Fire Station - Donations Also Needed for the Care of Hundreds of Animals - LA County Declares Local State of Emergency - Acting Governor Tom Torlakson declares LA County State of Emergency On Monday afternoon, a huge cloud of smoke from the Sand Fire was...
Churchgoers pleaded with attackers not to kill priest, nun tells CNN affiliate Tuesday , in Normandy, northern France, two Islamic State terrorists killed 86-year-old priest Jacques Hamel (born 1930 in Darnétal) of the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, during Mass. Two nuns and two churchgoers were taken hostage. The attackers were shot and killed by Rouen's BRI police after they left the church. A Priest was killed after two men take hostages in Catholic church in N...
Update 7 PM 7/24: Sand Fire continues to move at a rapid speed. The Santa Monica Animal Shelter is collecting animal crates to help relocate animals. There are many animal sanctuaries and rescues in the areas now being evacuated. Contact your local shelter or go to #sandfire on Twitter to see if there is a way for you to help. Current Evacuation Zones: Sierra Hwy at Shady Lane to Sierra Hwy at 14 / Escondido at 14 to Sierra Hwy at 14 Agua Dulce Canyon Road north to the 14...
The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties for the weekend of July 23–24. All residents are urged to exercise extreme caution during these hot, dry days because a simple spark could cause a major wildfire. A Red Flag Warning is the highest alert level, issued for weather events which may result in extreme fire behavior that will occur within 24 hours. Red Flag Warnings & Fire Weather Watches are i...
The Sand Fire has burned an area the size of Manhattan. The 1,500 families who have been evacuated no doubt find this very real, and if they didn't subscribe to climate change theories in the past, they certainly do now. Like a Hollywood film about the Apocalypse, the huge fire North of Los Angeles has caused an exodus of people, death, destruction and hand wringing. I don't mean to make light of this tragedy, and I'm hardly a religious person. But even I see a few...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has posted the following information for those who might be affected by the ongoing Sand Fire northeast of Los Angeles. Posted 7 pm Sunday July 24. #SandFire Spreading North into Placerita Canyon, Thank you for Evacuating, Sand Canyon Los Angeles County Firefighters and Sheriff's Deputies, along with many other police agencies, organizations, and volunteers continue to battle the Sand Fire affecting residents in the Sand Canyon are...
Two people were killed and at least 16 others wounded in a shooting early Monday morning at the Club Blu in Fort Myers, Florida. A 14-year-old and a high school basketball star lost their lives as the nightclub hosted a late night teen event called the "Swimsuit Glow Party." Two other locations were involved in the incident, and the police have detained three people for questioning. Police were first called to Club Blu at 12:30 a.m. on Monday. They arrived to find several...
7/23: In Santa Monica and elsewhere in Los Angeles, the sunlight appears to be red. Particles arise into the atmosphere from a forest fire, sometimes traveling for miles. The particles produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of white light. The Sand Fire in Santa Clarita has now burned more than 20,000 acres. Update 4 PM: it's now cooler outside my apartment then inside in Santa Monica. This is because the cloud of smoke has completely obscured the sun....
Attorney Jonathan Stein has informed the City Manager Rick Cole, that he is filing 8,473 tort claims against the City of Santa Monica for running a "nuisance" at the airport. A government tort claim is a condition precedent to filing a class action lawsuit against the City. The jet noise and other pollution at the airport, Stein says, constitutes a nuisance and in one particular case filed by the City Manager himself, the jury found "jet-powered aircraft operations at Santa...
A shooting began at a McDonald's in a shopping mall in Munich Germany, with as many as 9 people reported shot and killed, plus the perpetrator, a man of Iranian descent. At 0:34 CEST (22:34 UTC), the Munich Police department tweeted their belief that they had found the suspect, a lone gunman, who committed suicide. At 02:20 CEST, the Munich Police Department held a press conference. Police commissioner Hubertus Andrä confirmed the events that took place and identified the...
The Super 8 Motel, a large hotel near the 215 and 10 freeway interchange was heavily damaged by a brush fire that crossed the road and involved two buildings belonging to the Super 8 late Thursday night. The fire in the San Bernardino County has caused considerable damage to the Super 8 Motel. It was evacuated, along with 2 other hotels, La Quinta Inn and the Doubletree Motel. No people were reported as injured. The San Bernardino County Fire Department extinguished the fire...
Leaders of the Black Lives Matter Movement have charged Pokemon Go, Nintendo's new hit game app, with inherent racism. No, I'm not making this up. There are three respects in which Pokemon Go is regarded as racist by those in the know in the BLM movement. The first respect, is that it's much safer to play Pokemon Go, which requires you to walk around your own neighborhood; if you're white and living in your own neighborhood. Second, if you're black and you play Pokemon in Beve...
A Santa Monica area transient has been charged with the kidnapping and rape of four women between January of this year and July 2. Pablo Carlos Pineda, 32, though homeless, resides in the bay community of Santa Monica. According to the LA District Attorney, Pineda is alleged to have conducted his first sexual attack in Santa Monica on January 13. He is also believed to have raped a woman the next month, on February 5. By April, he'd moved his criminal activity to Beverly...
In his words, she made him hurry up and wait. An Uber driver called a woman he drove to Kaiser Hospital a "f-----g moron," then accused her of being "extremely rude." Apparently he didn't know the man in the back seat was videotaping him, and intended to post their encounter online. All this and more, in a YouTube posted Thursday, the Uber driver howls "Get out of my car" repeatedly. Uber suspended the driver's access as their "Trust and Safety Team" review the encounter,...
Update: Mike Van de Ven, Chief Operating Officer at Southwest, says the website is now fully functional. He says customers may rebook at Southwest.com at no additional charge. "Our systems are back up and running. We have an incredible backlog of customers and their bags. The recovery is staring off slowly, we have 335 cancellations, which will allow us to improve during the day." "We had a technology failure in our network yesterday, we're doing a deep dive on it to...
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office believes they have apprehended the man responsible for defacing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on Sunset Avenue in Venice. Before the Memorial Day weekend, graffiti appeared on the wall, which has become an icon for the Venice and West Los Angeles neighborhoods regarding the service and sacrifice given to the United States by those in the armed services. The mural bears the title "You Are Not Forgotten" and lists the names of...
It has allowed people to travel more cheaply and allows tenants to make money off of spare bedrooms. But at the same time it has emptied out entire neighborhoods of homes and replaced families with hotel guests. It is called AIRBNB, short for Air Bed N Breakfast. And it is about to be legal and taxed in the city of Los Angeles. Airbnb will soon begin collecting a 14% tourist tax for the City of Los Angeles. The deal, announced on July 18, is expected to provide more than $5...
Malibu residents reported feeling two mild earthquakes Monday evening. One was in the ocean at 1:52 PM and measured 3.3 on the Richter scale. The second was at 4:17 PM and measured 2.7 magnitude. No damage or injuries were reported...
A man suspected in 4 sexual assaults that took place in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West LA was arrested Wednesday. He was not immediately identified He was suspected in sexual assaults that took place in Santa Monica January 13 and February 5th, an April 15th assault in Beverly Hills, and a July 2nd assault in West LA The Beverly Hills and West LA assaults were very violent. Initially, a sexual assault in Beverly Hills on July 2nd, was also thought to be related, but police...
The rest of California has declared "Drought Over," and put aside it's penalties and emergency measures. Not so the City of Low Flush Toilets. They like to tax and they like to spend, so like leftists everywhere, City Hall is maintaining controls. Water in California is very closely managed, with an extensive pipeline network to serve the most populated and dry areas of the state. Precipitation is limited, with the vast majority of rain and snowfall occurring in the winter...
Donald Trump introduced his wife, model Melania Trump to the Convention floor tonight. The potential future First Lady has rarely spoken publicly, so she is a bit of a mystery to the American public. Shrouded in dramatic fog, the Republican Presidential candidate took the stage to "we are the champions" by Queen. He promised a big win in November and then presented "the next first lady of the United States, my wife Melania Trump." In an accent that sounded a little like Zha Zh...
A sewage spill in downtown Los Angeles flowed into the L.A. River on Monday and prompted officials in Long Beach to shut down the city's beaches. The spill occurred near 6th Street and Mission Road in Boyle Heights, according to Paul Gomez, a spokesman for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works. Long Beach officials estimate the spill involved about 108,000 gallons. Dr. Mauro Torno, the acting health officer for Long Beach, decided to shut down swimming along the...
Anti-Trump delegates from Texas and Colorado openly revolted on the floor of the Republican national convention in Cleveland, to the delight of the national media. Breaking with tradition, Trump himself will appear at the convention to introduce his wife, Melania Some camps of delegates wanted an open roll call vote on the rules. They weren't able to get that rollcall vote, primarily because the Trump campaign and the Republican national committee, did not want to open it up...
A winner of the "So You Think You Can Dance" competition has been charged with two felony counts of domestic violence, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, a glass vase, and misdemeanor counts of simple battery and vandalism. Joshua Demon Allen, 27, had already been convicted on January 13, 2016 of willfully injuring his girlfriend after which a restraining order against him had been granted. The order prohibited him from even communicating with his girlfriend. Then, on...
