Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The founders of True Zero have completed a scenic drive throughout California in a fuel-cell-electric Toyota Mirai, covering 1,438 miles in a 24-hour period, thus breaking the official Guinness World Record for electric miles driven in 24 hours. The goal of the drive was to demonstrate how a zero-emission electric vehicle can serve as a replacement for a gasoline vehicle. The car was refueled with four-minute "fill ups" using the True Zero retail hydrogen network between southern and northern...
In a storm that threaten to take down Twitter Tim, Donald Trump Jr compared Syrian refugees to poisonous skittles. That's right, the candy. You can't make this stuff up. But wait, there's more. The meme, sent by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's son, used poorly punctuated language to say, "If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. [sic] Would you take a handful? That's our Syrian refugee problem." In a related story concerning relatives of...
Four burglars engaging in "knock-knock" burglaries in Pacific Palisades received heavy sentences today after their no-contest pleas in court on Monday. Two men and two women working together were observed on June 8, 2015 by members of the LA County Sheriff's Department Major Crime Bureau Burglary Task Force entering and robbing a home in the 800 block of Oreo Place in Pacific Palisades. Donte Lamont Caldwell, 24, was the driver, using a rented Toyota. After casing the area, he parked in front...
The Buckeye Singles Council started "National Singles Week" in Ohio in the 1980s to celebrate single life and recognize singles and their contributions to society. The week is now widely observed during the third full week of September (Sept. 18-24 in 2016) as "Unmarried and Single Americans Week," an acknowledgment that many unmarried Americans do not identify with the word "single" because they are parents, have partners or are widowed. In these Facts for Features, unmarried people include...
Actor Jim Carrey has been sued by Cathriona White's husband, for allowing her access to his prescription drugs, such as Percocet and Fentanyl. The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court Monday Morning, and includes causes of action for wrongful death, and for alienation of affection. On September 28, 2015, White, was found dead from a possibly intentional prescription drug overdose. Carrey's on-off girlfriend, the two met each other sometime in 2012. Carrey was a pallbearer at her...
In Afghanistan, Herat University is holding a peace rally just weeks after the deadly attack on the American University in Kabul killed 14 students and faculty. In Chicago, a moment of silence and a peace flag procession will cap three weeks of events calling for an end to violence in a city rocked by more than 500 homicides this year. In Washington D.C., youth leaders from Nigeria, Morocco and Uganda will share their personal stories that led them to create organizations dedicated to...
Donald Trump's effort to woo black voters has gotten off to a rocky start. The GOP nominee's main argument -- that black communities have been poorly served by Democratic leaders -- is certainly powerful. But, as recent polls have shown, this strategy has yet to move the needle with African Americans. What's missing from Trump's appeal is a positive vision for how he will improve the lives of black Americans. And a Republican proposal for creating stable inner-city jobs is exactly the plan the T...
A man whose victim wrote his name in her own blood was sentenced today for her murder. James Duane Grzeslo, 59, was found guilty on August 10 of the first-degree murder of his girlfriend. Grzeslo was convicted of slashing the woman's throat with a knife at her Beverly Hills apartment in October, 2011. His victim, Cathy Ann Carrasco-Zanini, 58, managed to write Grzeslo's name in her own blood before succumbing to her injuries and dying in her apartment. At the trial, witnesses claimed that...
As any Lyft or Uber driver knows, drinking (and drugs) are pervasive among students of all ages in Santa Monica. This is from personal observation. I mean that a significant percentage of underage students at Santa Monica High School, and probably Santa Monica College, drink, get drunk, have drinking problems. It impacts them, their families and friends, and others. Something does need to be done about it. Lt. Saul Rodriquez, Public Information Officer from the Santa Monica Police Department,...
If you are a single parent in America, don't vote for Donald Trump unless you want to pay more taxes. The latest incarnation of the Donald's tax plan could as much as double the tax bill for unmarried parents. At the same time, it would greatly reduce payments made by the wealthiest citizens. The single parent penalties would come about with three of the major revisions that Trump proposes for the tax code. First of all, he wants to get rid of the Head of Household status for filers, forcing...
