Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Hindus are urging Santa Monica headquartered Leaf Group Limited to immediately withdraw some of the products sold on its marketplace Society6 which mock-distort-disrespect various Hindu deities, calling it highly inappropriate. They are also urging its Board Chairman James R. Quandt and Chief Executive Officer Sean Moriarty to offer a formal apology. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that such depicted Hindu deities-Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesha, Krishna, Durga, Lakshmi,...
While consumers increasingly alternate between alcohol categories depending on the drinking occasion, everyone has a favorite beverage to sip on – a trusted go-to regardless of the time or place. For nearly 4 in 10 regular drinkers (U.S. adults ages 21+ who drink alcohol several times a year or more), beer is the beverage of choice (38%), followed by wine (31%), and spirits/liquor (28%). Has it always been like this? Most regular drinkers who say beer is their beverage of choice today also s...
The startup scene in Los Angeles is running strong - the city is now the third-most established outpost for startups in the country, behind San Francisco and New York. Lower costs, warm weather, and a relaxed culture give entrepreneurs plenty of reasons to start new businesses in the area. One such business, Revival Roots, aims to transform the way everyday consumers grow and harvest food from their own backyards. Revival Roots builds vegetable gardens for homeowners and businesses in the Los...
God's Problem Child, Willie Nelson's new studio album, will be released on Friday, April 28 by Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. An album of all-new recordings, God's Problem Child adds 13 new songs to the artist's repertoire, including seven recently written by Willie and Buddy Cannon, his longtime collaborator and producer. The album is Willie's first to debut all-new songs since Band of Brothers reached #1 on the Billboard Country chart and #5 on the Billboard 200 in...
Music history will be made when Deep Purple and Alice Cooper, joined by special guest, The Edgar Winter Band, visit 19 cities across America this summer on an epic rock tour. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will also serve as the Long Goodbye Tour for Deep Purple, and begins Saturday, August 12 in Las Vegas, with stops in Los Angeles, Boston, including Cooper's hometown of Detroit, and more. More information can be found at www.livenation.com and itinerary is below. Tickets go on sale Friday,...
A prosecutor's job is to seek justice for all people who are victims of crime, whatever their legal status in this country. To accomplish this goal, there needs to be cooperation from victims and witnesses, willing to both initially tell the police what they observed and then willing to testify in court. However, people will not cooperate when they believe there is a personal downside for aiding law enforcement. Sometimes it is because there is a threat of retaliation from a criminal or their...
February 2017 Los Angeles – Film and Music have always served as the inspiration to the soul, mediums where dreams and ideas can become a reality where millions can come together to share in the experience. Cinemagic is an award winning festival that embraces the magic of film, television, digital technologies and music, to educate, motivate and inspire young people through film screenings, industry workshops, practical masterclasses, filmmaking projects and outreach activities. Cinemagic has e...
Sierra Nevada snow drifts are at a drought-busting 173 percent of average, with the most snow recorded since 1995, California water managers said Thursday. State water managers poked rods into drifts as high as tree branches to measure the snowpack. They found far more snow than at the height of California's more than five-year drought, when the measurement was done in almost-bare mountain meadows. "The winter storms across California are a welcome relief from five years of record low rainfall...
A study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory revealed that legal indoor marijuana-growing operations are highly energy intensive, and are responsible for an alarming percentage of the nation's total energy use. In California, the top-producing state, indoor cultivation uses about 3% of all electricity use. A single cannabis cigarette represents 1.5 kg (3 pounds) of CO2 emissions, an amount equal to driving a fuel efficient hybrid car 22 miles, or keeping a 100-watt light bulb on...
An SMMUSD robocall informed parents Monday afternoon, that Santa Monica High School was on Lockdown as the Santa Monica Police Department searches for a Robbery suspect. The lockdown began at 1 pm and lasted for about an hour. At 152 PM, the Lockdown was lifted, and SamoHi apparently resumed with a modified schedule: "Lunch will go until 2:05 pm; period 5, 2:10-2:40 pm, period 6, 2:49-3:16 pm," said the School Principal in an email to parents. Most SamoHi students finish the school day at 2:10...
Sat, Feb 4th at Los Angeles International Airport, opponents and backers of President Trump's travel ban exercised their first amendment rights flanked by a team of LA's finest. Even though Federal Judge Robart temporarily suspended the President's executive order banning people from seven majority Muslim countries from entering the US, protesters in Los Angeles , among other cities across the United states, took to the streets for a second weekend in a row to protest Trump's travel ban. The opp...
