Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Coast Guardsmen seized more than 5,600 pounds of cocaine and apprehended five suspected drug smugglers from a self-propelled semisubmersible, or SPSS, in the Pacific Ocean off Central America September 6. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche from Alameda, California, in partnership with a Joint Interagency Task Force South patrol aircraft from the U.S. Navy, intercepted a suspected drug smuggling vessel, which was laden with more than $73 million w...
update, 10/28: The Bundy brothers remained in jail Friday following a dramatic acquittal a day earlier in a courtroom that erupted into chaos after an attorney yelled at a judge for their release, resulting in him being subdued with a Taser gun and arrested. A jury delivered an extraordinary blow to the government Thursday in a long-running battle over the use of public lands when it acquitted all seven defendants involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge...
In 1970 nations of the world signed a 50 year deal ending in 2020, not to exploit Antarctica's natural resources, nor to settle people there, and to keep the continent demilitarized and nuclear free. There has been cheating along the fringes of that deal. The Chileans, for example, have 3 villages on the Antarctic Peninsula, so they can claim a native population with the treat is renegotiated 3 years from now. The Russians have made a dump of Belinghausen Island. After years...
Update, Saturday Morning, 10/29: Water was restored to most of the affected homes late Friday night. 10/28: A water main break in Pacific Palisades has left hundreds of homes without water late Friday afternoon. The breach is reportedly on Sunset Blvd and Las Lomas Avenue. "It could be overnight, or even a few days," said a Department of Water & Power spokesman. Some local residents were reportedly looking for hotel rooms. Los Angeles fire Department held a press conference at...
Four people were killed Tuesday in an accident at a popular theme park on Australia's east coast, police and the park said. Local police said two men and two women died while on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld. The theme park said it did not know how the accident occurred and that an investigation was underway. "Dreamworld is working as quickly as possible to establish the facts around the incident and is working closely with emergency authorities and police to do...
Houthi rebels fighting the Western backed government in Aden, have reportedly taken down something definitely not Islamic in nature. This from the local press: On Wednesday 19th of October after evening prayers, a large noise was heard in the sky followed by the sighting of an intense, large light heading from the west above a region east of the capital of Riyadh. Residents said the UFO did not look like a meteor. It was a blue green color, and was shooting out green flashes....
At least 13 tour bus passengers are dead after the vehicle crashed into a big rig on a California highway Sunday morning, authorities said. The crash on Interstate 10 sent at least 30 passengers from the USA Holiday bus to Palm Springs area hospitals, the Desert Sun reported. The big rig driver was not hurt. The cause of the 5 a.m. crash has not been determined. The California Highway Patrol could not immediately be reached. The passengers were mostly European and Chinese...
DELFIE, LLC announces the global launch of DELFIE, the new iphone app that helps you take better selfies with your dog, now available on the app store. The selfie craze is not going away anytime soon. Yet, anyone with a dog and a mobile phone knows how hard it is to take the perfect "delfie" (selfie with your dog). Dogs have no natural reason to look at your phone, they're usually looking someplace else, and hey, there goes a squirrel! After a month-long North American...
Congregations in the United States and Canada have now joined over 300 churches in Australia, South Africa, and across Europe in offering a daily tribute to the people of the besieged city. The protest bells will continue to ring each day until 24 October, United Nations Day. With civilian casualties and deaths increasing daily in Aleppo, this organic, grassroots movement has now seen hundreds of churches ringing bells of mourning. It is an outcry against the devastating...
Clowns Without Borders USA (CWB-USA) condemns the actions of agents who are impersonating clowns to frighten others and the actions of those who are using distorted clown images to make fictitious threats and incite anxiety. The wave of negative and hurtful sentiments expressed against professional clowns pains our community. "While this phenomenon in the U.S. hasn't affected our international programming, it certainly has affected the climate here at home. We honor and...
Devoting a full 49% of its profits towards abused dogs, the high-end clothing brand Antonio Stefano makes its world debut in Los Angeles on Monday, October 17th, with an afterparty the same night. What is probably the world's most cause-related company, was launched with the goal of helping abused and abandoned dogs by building a hospital for them. Stefano Riznyk, the Chief Creative Director, felt a strong need for unique ties as a starting point. As a business lawyer and...
Kismet, a Jack Russell terrier from Salt Lake City, Utah won the 2016 Hambone Award, honoring the most unusual pet insurance claim of the year. Kismet earned the nomination after he bravely intervened during a violent burglary that left he and his owner in critical condition. The 8th annual Hambone Award is presented by Nationwide®, the nation's first and largest provider of pet health insurance. After selecting 11 nominees from nearly 1.5 million claims received, Nationwi...
The Iraqi Prime Minister Ahbadi has announced that the Iraqi Army is attempting to take Mosul from a 2 year long ISIS occupation. Iraq's military has launched an offensive aimed at wresting control of Mosul from Islamic State militants, according to the country's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi. Mosul, the site of a University (now closed by ISIS), once had 2 million residents. At least half escaped ISIS, a potential death penalty offense. Iraqi Army and 5000 US Special...
Santa Monica, 10/3 The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint against the Shore Hotel alleging that management of the Shore Hotel illegally terminated three workers: Jonah Breslau, Krista Fonseca, and Felecia Scott. One worker, Ms. Fonseca, was fired on September 9, 2015-three weeks after she testified at the California Coastal Commission that the head of security at the hotel told her and her coworkers: "If we were about to be sexually...
Typhoon restaurant is located in the terminal at Santa Monica airport. The business has decided to respect the City's Thirty Day Notice to Quit and move out of the building on November 15, 2016. "The City of Santa Monica has nearly tripled our rent and made business conditions so difficult that it has become impossible to carry on without incurring financial ruin," said the owners in a press release Consistent with the desires of many residents, the City of Santa Monica...
The pedestrian bridge connecting Palisades Park to the PCH pedestrian bridge, over the new California Incline, opened Friday at 3 p.m. The overcrossing was completely reconstructed with the California Incline, which opened last month on September 1. The entire project cost more than an Aircraft carrier, but the City of Santa Monica spends like its money is unlimited. After conducting a structural assessment of the overcrossing in 2014, the City determined it was time to...
It appears that the suspect ultimately evaded police, in a barricade situation at 201314 Roseton, Cerritos. A barricade situation in Lakewood that triggered school lockdowns and residential evacuations ended Tuesday after the suspect, who was involved in a reported assault, was not found in the home. Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said they were alerted to an assault situation between a girlfriend and boyfriend in the 20300 block of Roseton Avenue around 5:30 a.m. The...
A widespread outage on certain Google products has been reported at 1:28 am PST, October 11, 2016. Downdetector.com says it has 50 reports of inability to login into Gmail, other Google products in US, Australia. Google Adsense is reporting obviously incorrect figures. We are able to use search and Gmail functions here in Los Angeles County, California. Google is the world's largest search engine. The company also offers Youtube, Android phones, Google maps, Google Talk and th...
Dear Governor Pence, I know this is a painful time for you. I know you pride yourself on your family values and faith. The recent revelation of your running mate's bragging about sexual assault flies in the face of everything you, and every decent American, believes in. It is now abundantly clear that Donald Trump does not have the character appropriate to be the next President of the United States. You and I may not agree on some other things but I know we can agree that...
At 00:56 hours on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, The Santa Monica Fire Department responded to a well involved structure fire, located at 2643 Centinela Ave, in the city of Santa Monica. On arrival, the first arriving engine company reported heavy fire from a third story apartment unit. Under the command of Platoon Commander Frank Evaro, units were directed to advance 3 – 1 ¾" hose lines to extinguish the fire. The fire was reported as a "knock down" at 0105 hours. One a...
NBC News, Friday Morning 10/7: Hurricane Matthew is leaving a trail of damage along Florida as it continues to bear down on the eastern side of the state Friday, and Florida's governor warned the worst could is still likely to come. "We are very concerned about storm surge and the worst effects are still likely to come," Gov. Rick Scott said in a press conference Friday morning. The storm left more than 590,000 people without power, as of 9 a.m. ET on Friday. Additionally,...
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it is investigating the City of Santa Monica's policy intended to "starve" the airport into leaving. It has asked the City to withdraw its 30 day Notices to Vacate. The stakes here are very high. Can a city close a Municipal Airport by starving it of services? Pilots, the FAA and towns all across America are watching. "The FAA strongly recommends that the city withdraw the notices to vacate until such a time as this...
Matthew is expected to scrape western Haiti on Monday as a major storm bringing 145 mile per hour (230 kph) winds and life-threatening rain to the southern coast, while simultaneously lashing Jamaica. Eastern Cuba also will feel bands of fierce wind and rains on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. They added that Matthew is closely tracking Hurricane Hazel from 1954, which damaged North Carolina after killing 1000 people in Haiti. The last time a Category 4 storm...
Friday September 23, started as any other evening for Roto-Rooter assistant manager Mike Jennings. He had just finished an estimate for a water heater repair in the Citrus Heights community of Crosswoods. On his way into the job, he had noticed several Sacramento Metro Fire units and Citrus Heights police cars parked on the main road of the intersection between Auburn Boulevard and Crosswoods Parkway. After leaving the job an hour later and noticing the fire units and police s...
9/30: This week the Vons and Pavilions stores in Santa Monica and the local region have been selling customers "reusable" plastic bags instead of providing the usual, more environmentally-friendly paper bags. The plastic bags of thicker plastic than the old, free grocery bags, cost 25 cents. The paper bags, when they were available, cost 10 cents. The use of plastic bags became a hot issue when local marine biologists and other environmentalists decried the eventual...
