Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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3 boys and a soccer coach are all out of the cave and safe after 17 days underground in Thailand. A dozen boys and their soccer coach are in isolation at a hospital in Thailand. Some have spoken to their medical care providers, of seeing an old bearded man in a white robe who told them not to be afraid, that life and death were the same, and that if they emerged from the underworld, they would one day return. One boy said the man predicted the end of the world and a coming era of darkness. Othe...
Senator John McCain will resign his US Senate seat on July 4, 2018, says an aide who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "In the end, it was about Kennedy resigning from the Supreme Court," said the aide. "Confirming a (SCOTUS) replacement before the election is considered in the interest of the national Republican party, so that it doesn't become an issue for Dems to run on in every race," said the aide, meaning every race for Senate or Congress. The Aide...
A mysterious "canid animal" shot by a Montana rancher in May is believed by paranormal researchers to have been a chupacabra. It resembled a wolf - mostly - though some features were distinctly un-wolflike, which led to some pretty wild speculation about whether it was a dire wolf (they're long-extinct, so definitely not), a dog-wolf hybrid (dogs and wolves can interbreed) or perhaps a dog-human hybrid , The Washington Post previously reported. Tests conducted at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servi...
A dispute over the attention of a young woman ended with XXXTentacion slumped over the drivers seat of his vehicle on Monday at about 2 pm PST, or 5 pm in Florida. As he left a motorcycle dealership, several men shot in his direction. He was non-responsive and in a coma, said the Broward County Fire Dept. Witnesses reported multiple gunshots were fired. Onfroy was reportedly leaving a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach on June 18, 2018, when he was shot. The suspects fled the scene...
Photographs released by NASA's Australian Deep Space Monitoring facility, reveal the presence of an ancient settlement on Mars. Looking much like Roman ruins, the settlement on Cydonia Plains comes complete with outbuildings, a statue of a giant frog, and a discarded helmet. Mars is the "Red Planet" for a very good reason: its surface is made of a thick layer of oxidized iron dust and rocks of the same color. Maybe another name for Mars could be "Rusty." But the ruddy surface does not tell the w...
The president of Hebrew Union College died this weekend when his small plane crashed in New York State, said the UPI and other news sources. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/05/06/Hebrew-Union-College-president-dies-in-NY-small-plane-crash/2431525630543/ Panken, 53, died when an Aeronca 7AC aircraft, crashed near Dolstontown Road just after taking off from the Randall Airport in Middletown on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. State police said one other person was...
Despite predictions, it was not sexually transmitted diseases that ultimately brought down Craigslist, the king of anonymous meetings. It was Congress that finally ended it. Blaming new legislation, the uncrowned king of free, anonymous personals has taken the ads down. Thousands of couples of every gender have met online though the ads, but they have apparently come and gone. In place of the women seeking men, men seeking men, men seeking women and women seeking women ads, viewers today...
Tesla is reportedly planning on building a charging station and drive in restaurant. One such restaurant has already been built near Kettleman City, about 180 miles up the 5 freeway. Where else would you build a drive through hangout for millionaire Tesla drivers? You guessed it, Santa Monica. The old Volvo dealership on Santa Monica Blvd and 15th Street will be transformed into "be turned into an old school themed drive-in restaurant, complete with roller skates (like what you'd see at a...
Police sources say the Range Rover driven by Rasual Butler the night he died, contained over half a pound of high grade commercial marijuana, and that Butler had been smoking it when he drove his Range Rover off a bridge and into a shopping center on Ventura Blvd in Studio City. Based on evidence found in the vehicle, Butler had also consumed other drugs the night of his death, though exactly what will have to wait for toxicology reports. But it was obvious that the pair had been "hot boxing"...
DirecTV Los Angeles County experienced a widespread outage Saturday night, reported subscribers. The failure of a satellite caused an outage for DirecTV customers in LA, at about 9:10 pm PST on Saturday night, January 27, 2018. The company is probably aware of the problem and working to resolve it. No one returned The Observer's request for comment. All programming distributed by DirecTV is delivered to its broadcast centers in Castle Rock, Colorado, and Los Angeles, where it is then digitized a...
The Los Angeles County Coroner Friday afternoon released the toxicology report on the death of Tom Petty. It says the singer died from "Multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to mixed drug toxicity (fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl)" Petty was found in his Malibu home, dead at age 66 of heart failure on October 3, 2017. The Singer was acclaimed for balads such as "I Won't Back Down," "American...
Some on Twitter profess that it happened just at the moment when shifts at the National Guard changed. The White House says it was not a Federal drill, but a State drill. The State of Hawaii reports it was a drill that got away. "Didn't pot just become legal in Hawaii? Thought so" tweeted one person on social media On Saturday morning. 1.2 million Hawaii residents received a message that said "Balliistic Missile Threat Inbound to Hawaii. Take Shelter. This is not a drill". Given that Kim Jong...
Reports that this year's flu vaccine is not effective against the strain that's circulating most widely: Type A, subtype H3N2. H3N2 "tends to be the strain of virus that most impacts the elderly, that causes the most complications, and up until this point the vaccine results have been quite disappointing," said Dr. Randy Bergen, clinical lead for Kaiser Permanente's flu vaccination program in Northern California. "Those things make us concerned that we're going to have a lot of sick people." 10...
As bitcoin futures began to trade Sunday at 6 pm EST, some predicted more stability in the volatile cryptocurrency. That theory appears to be correct an hour and a half into trading. As bitcoin itself moved up to about $14,900, XBT, the bitcoin future, traded somewhat higher for the January 2018 contract. XBT18 traded at $15,350. Meaning that traders saw it moving at least 3 % higher by next month. The alternative theory is that futures will actually cause Bitcoin to trade lower. Futures...
California's Board of Education has approved ten textbooks that it has deemed "inclusive enough," and rejected two others that were not. Banned books included one by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the top textbooks producers in the United States. According to the Los Angeles Times, "The rejected textbooks failed to abide by California's 2011 FAIR Education Act. The law, written by former state Sen. Mark Leno, requires that schools teach about historical figures who were LGBT or who had...
File this one under Life in LA, #WeGoofed. An elderly homeless woman named Mildred Goldman aka Mildred Maxwell died at USC--LA County Hospital on October 9th, 2017. During the last 30 or so years, she succeeded in convincing people including her longtime boyfriend, that she was Marcie Blane, singer of the 1962 hit "Bobby's Girl." The truth is, Mildred Maxwell was someone else. (BTW, she also told people that her dead husband, Arthur Maxwell, had been the heir to the Maxwell House Coffee fortune....
It is an open secret that the City of Santa Monica will have to pay off its enormous debt to its overpaid and under-occupied staff, long past the lives of anyone now living. It apparently intends to pay off that debt, by issuing parking tickets to anyone using the cemetery on Halloween. Signs in the City of Santa Monica's only cemetery, Woodlawn Memorial Park, indicate that zombies will not be tolerated in the park unless they use public transportation. "Tow Away No Parking Anytime on Cemetery...
The gunman enters the college library wearing black fatigues. He left a suicide note, five dead people, and a lot of questions. An episode of Active Shooter: America Under Fire will feature the 2013 Santa Monica College Shooting. The episode will air on Showtime on Friday, November 3, 2017 at 9 pm. On June 7, 2013, a killing spree occurred in Santa Monica that left a total of five people dead, including the gunman, and injured five others. The incident started several miles off-campus before...
Jack Ruby (the man who killed the man who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy), was confused with a strip club operator named HARRY Rubenstein. This according to new documents released by the Federal government this week, and posted online at a government archive website. A few days after the Kennedy assassination, a man named Jack Ruby walked into a Dallas police station and shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Ruby is a dark and mysterious figure. The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald denied the...
At 32, Ronan Farrow has been near the limelight his entire life. The journalist with a Yale law degree is officially the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Farrow's detailed investigative report into the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations drew worldwide attention. Why does it matter? Sinatra was a womanizer, but he also clearly felt that men should protect women. This is present in many of Sinatra's love songs, and it also seems to be a basis of Ronan's thought. Farrow is estranged...
Jason Aldean told the whole world he and they need not back down in the face of inscrutable evil. Appearing on Saturday Night Live, the country music performer sang Tom Petty's hit song about defiance and courage. He preceded this with a brief but brave monologue on the importance of facing evil. Petty died this week also, of cardiac arrest after a brief hospitalization. He died on October 2, the day after the shooting, at age 66. Aldean cancelled several appearances following the October 1 shoo...
Mascot from the boardgame Monopoly is photobombing the hearings on Equifax's massive data breach. Sitting behind Chairman Richard Smith is a dude in a monocle, bushy white moustache and top hat. The clincher is Smith doesn't seem to notice. In September 2017, Equifax announced a cyber-security breach, which it claims to have occurred between mid-May and July 2017, where cybercriminals accessed approximately 145.5 million U.S. Equifax consumers' personal data, including their full names, Social S...
Fentanyl, also known as fentanil, is an opioid pain medication with a rapid onset and short duration of action. It also has a high risk of addiction and death. Did the same pain killer that took Prince Rogers Nelson and others from us, also take Tom Petty from us? The Petty Camp have released very little information. Their public statement is merely that he went into "Cardiac Arrest." Everyone who dies, goes into cardiac arrest. We know that Petty gave a concert at the Hollywood bowl last week,...
Update: This from Disney World, 9/10/2017, 7 pm PST: All: We have seen some recent coverage online from your media outlet that incorrectly states that we have not announced any closures. Here is what we shared yesterday afternoon. It would be great if you could please update your information. Based on the latest forecasts for Hurricane Irma and keeping safety top of mind, Walt Disney World Resort will be closed on Sunday,9/10 and Monday, 9/11. Resort hotels will remain open. We hope to resume...
The mystery surround the June 18th collision of a US Navy Destroyer and a cargo ship near Tokyo harbor has been solved. The North Koreans caused the advanced avoidance detection systems on both ships to fail, through the use of jamming technology. The 2:30 am collision occurred when both ships were on Autopilot. Only a failure of collision avoidance systems on both ships simultaneously, could cause such a collision. The chances of that happening are astronomically improbable. We have previously...
