Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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With Covid-19 case counts exploding in Los Angeles County and across the U.S., schools are mostly still planning to reopen. On Sunday night, the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District issued a "Superintendent’s Message" signed by Dr. Ben Drati. It reaffirms the school districts commitment to reopening Monday and Tuesday, even with Omicron. It does say the school is monitoring the situation and will regard a school closure "as a last resort and considered only after all available resources h...
December 31, 2021 - Free at-home PCR Covid tests are available from the County of Los Angeles's Department of Public Health website. "If you're sick you shouldn't be leaving your house," Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health, said at a virtual press conference on Thursday. Instead, you can go the county health department's website and order a free Covid test to be sent to your home. It will arrive via express mail in two business days. A free prepaid overnight Fedex shippi...
Russia has 175,000 troops massed along the border with Eastern Ukraine. But he has placed calls to US President Joseph R. Biden, offering peace talks. What exactly does he have in mind? This is clearly the size of an invasion force. The United States had only 120,000 troops in Saudi Arabia before she invaded Iraq in 1992. Vladimir Putin is a strongman, and his Country loves him for it. He has been in office for 20 years. At 68 he could win another 3 or 4 elections in Russia. Russia's elections...
Craziest predictions for 2022: President Ron Paul has lifted the quarantine. Spirits are high. Joe Biden comes out as Bisexual, as a political move. The NFT of Biden’s podium stroke has sells for 2 million dollars. Chic-Fil-A begins to accept Crypto. Elon Musk Launches a new mission to Mars despite not knowing where the last crew went. Covid lockdowns begin in highly vaccinated countries. Lockdown protest continue and become more violent. Queen of England Dies, and Canada begins to sever ties w...
Collectively, humanity is using 70 percent more resources than the Earth can naturally renew each year. Living beyond our means, which is what we are doing, is inherently unsustainable: Pollution, natural disasters, and generally reduced quality of life for everyone, now and increasingly in the future, are some examples of the fallout. Small businesses are in the driver’s seat SMEs have a disproportionate impact on the ecosystem, thanks to their sheer numbers, size, and scope of operations. T...
Comedian and Producer Jimmy Shin is back already and he means business for 2022 - with his outdoors Covid safe comedy shows packed (as always) with a stellar and talented lineup! Shin is one of Los Angeles most hard working, leading comedy show producers and has kept the city laughing with his non stop weekly supply of comedy shows in the city and across the country. Shin takes the ever looming Covid concerns front and center for his shows making sure audience members adhere to covid...
A joint project of the European Space Agency and NASA, on Christmas Day an Ariane Rocket will launch the most ambitious space telescope ever. It will be placed in orbit at a LaGrange point beyond Earth's orbit, where it will hopefully not fall back to the sun or earth. At 46 feet wide by 66 feet long by 20 feet high, the James Webb Space Telescope is the size of a yacht. It will peer into the universe much further than the Hubble Space Telescope ever could. It will also be much farther from...
December 30, 2021 - New numbers released by the Los Angeles County Health Department show that vaccinations are providing ever decreasing protection from infection by Covid-19. Of the new cases identified since November 27, 66.4% were in fully vaccinated individuals. The percent of the county population fully vaccinated is 68.5%. Therefore, vaccines appear to give only marginal protection from infection compared to no vaccine. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health, was una...
