Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Archeologists have found what may be the remains of King Henry I under a parking lot on the site of Reading prison. The discovery was made by a team exploring the location of the ruins of Reading Abbey, which was established by Henry in 1121. While it was known that the king and his queen Adeliza were both buried in the Abbey, the exact place of the graves was unknown. Henry was the fourth son of William the Conqueror. He ruled England for 35 years after the death of his older brother William...
Santa Monica city attorney Marsha Moutrie publicly announced that she will be retiring at the end of the year. Her 20 year reign has not been without controversy, so some are glad, some are not. But it is beyond question that the most powerful official, elected or unelected, in the City of Santa Monica will be gone at the end of the year. Moutrie blames her family. "Santa Monica is an incredible place and my 22 action-packed years as City Attorney have flown by. My husband has been retired for...
Los Angeles Unified School District has decided to push back the start of school to a later date, unnamed LAUSD board members told Fox 11 News (KTTV). Parents complained that the school beginning on August 16th as it did this year, was just too early. Kids had to endure the lack of school air conditioning, and the District had to pay increased air conditioning costs. The downside: The new plan will cut into the December holiday break. And pupils will no longer get an entire week off for...
Over the weekend, a work crew used a crane to hoist a 30-ton meteorite out of the Campo del Cielo (Field of Heaven) about 670 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the border between the provinces of Chaco and Santiago del Estero. The meteorite, named Gancedo, has been tentatively declared the second largest yet discovered on Earth. Careful weighing will have to be done before that title can be formally declared, as well as tests to confirm that it is an actual meteorite. This...
China's first space station, the Tiangong-1 or "Heavenly Palace 1," is expected to fall back to Earth in 2017. The laboratory was launched in 2011 as part of China's ambitious plan to catch up with other space powers. Experts and amateurs alike have speculated for several months that the 34 foot-long module might have suffered some kind of technical or mechanical failure, and may no longer be in communication with the Command and Control Center in Beijing. Harvard astrophysicist Dr Jonathan...
Since introducing himself to the world in 1994 with his genre-defying, multi-platinum debut, Mellow Gold, Beck has blazed a path into the future while simultaneously foraging through the past. Throughout his singular career he has utilized all manners and eras of music, blurring boundaries and shattering expectations with each album. From the world-tripping atmospherics of 1998's Mutations and the florescent funk of 1999's Midnite Vultures through the somber reflections of 2002's Sea Change,...
