August 2009
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Stories of Health » Every face has a story →
“Health care in the United States is broken.
To fully understand how severe of a crisis we’re in, people from all over California told us about their experiences with a system in dire need of reform.”
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Michael Jordan’s Top 4 Inspirational Videos →
“It’s heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody … My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, … People may not agree with that … I can’t live with what everyone’s impression of what I should or what I shouldn’t do.”
“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot … when you think about the consequences you always think of a...
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FAQs on H1N1 Swine Flu →
via Anderson Cooper 360/CNN:
“Centers for Disease Control
What is novel H1N1 (swine flu)? Novel H1N1 (referred to as “swine flu” early on) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. This virus is spreading from person-to-person worldwide, probably in much the same way that regular seasonal influenza...
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Rest In Peace: Edward M. Kennedy | GOOD →
via Morgan Clendaniel/GOOD
I think it’s best that we let the Senator speak for himself. Here are three of his best speeches:
I was at the Democratic Convention this year, and while I’ll always hold it in a special place in my memory, I’m now doubly glad that I was able to see Senator Kennedy one last time.
They say you can judge a man by the quality of his enemies, and I am always...
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Save Your Quarters! Park[ing] Day LA Returns for... →
Park[ing] Day LA returns for its third year, when on September 18th metered parking spaces all over the city will be taken over by temporary on-the-fly green spaces where anyone is invited to sit down, relax, play, grab a bite, or chill out. With the aim of promoting the value—and in turn, the lack of—safe, accessible, and plentiful green spaces in Los Angeles, the event is an...
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I ♥ State Parks Weekend Begins Tomorrow - LAist →
To once again bring attention to the massive budget cuts of state parks, the California State Parks Foundation has declared the next two weekends to be those of advocacy. “The Save Our State Parks (SOS) Campaign is holding ‘I ♥ State Parks’ weekends of action from now through Labor Day to unite state parks supporters,” the nonprofit announced. “Events will take place...
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Making the Eco Grade: UCLA 9th Greenest School on... →
Local ecoblogger GreenLAGirl reports that Sierra magazine has published their annual list of the 10 colleges in the country that rank as the greenest, and our UCLA makes the cut at a respectable #9. However, at 60%, the campus’ recycling rate is actually lower than the City of Los Angeles overall, who can boast we have “the highest recycling rate out of the 10 largest U.S....
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Two aging elephants brought to San Diego Zoo for... →
I love elephants, no doubt. But, as bad in shape these animals are, 46 million people need the government’s help, too. Just sayin..
via L.A. Now | Los Angeles Time
August 23, 2009 | 11:08 am
Two Asian elephants in need of better veterinary care have been removed from a Texas facility by the federal government and brought to the San Diego Zoo.
Jewel and Tina, both thought to be in their...
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Food, she thought.: Whole Foods Boycott →
via Food, she thought
Enjoying watching the Whole Foods boycott develop, I thought I would share some opinionated and thought provoking links from both camps. Should Mackey have spoken out publicly against creating a government health care system as health care reform? Will it hurt Whole Foods’ bottom line and public image in the long term among its liberal client base? Or will hearing a...
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WatchRadio Big Boy » Blog Archive » MTV Traces Jay-Z’s Musical History In “J To The Z” Series
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Restaurants vs. Food Trucks: Better Tasting Wins?... →
Despite some Mid-Wilshire restaurants facing a financial loss when “designer food trucks” appear nearby during lunch, Baja Fresh, who neighbors the suffering businesses, tells the LA Times they have no complaints: “Patricio Palacios, manager of Baja Fresh in the 5700 block of Wilshire, said he had no complaints because his business was thriving despite the presence of mobile food...
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Official Google Mobile Blog: The bright side of... →
via Google Mobile Blog
This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. It is cross-posted from the Official Google Blog. - Ed. What if you could do a little something to improve the world during your daily drive to work? Here are a few ideas: tell everybody in the city when you’re stuck in slow-moving...
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from LAist by Caleb Bacon
Cuban Sandwich Pictured, And Not A Tasty Egg and Bacon Croissant
A Recession Obsession is, 1) a meal so great that it stays in your mind long after digestion’s end, and, 2) plays nice with your sensitive wallet. Is there a better place than Los Angeles to eat a wide variety of amazing food that so happens to be inexpensive? Probably not. We’re as lucky as...
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via L.A. NOW
If you’re having a hard time finding a job, don’t take it personally.
According to a recently released survey by Indeed.com, an online job postings aggregator, Los Angeles is one of the worst cities in the nation for finding a job. The city is 47th in the Job Market Competition index, which measures the number of job postings on Indeed.com to the number of unemployed for the 50...
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Early Detection: How Social Media May Save The...
via SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
It is a typical Tuesday afternoon in suburbia California. Jenny, a sixteen year old girl is taking a sick day from school. With a runny nose, she sits idly on her bed surfing Facebook. At the same time, 2,000 miles away in Seattle, a twenty-two year old ambitious college drop-out named Kevin is on Twitter complaining about his sore throat. Meanwhile, on the other side...
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North Korean diplomats traveling to New Mexico for...
via CNN
“Two top North Korean diplomats are traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to hold talks with Gov. Bill Richardson, a U.S. source with knowledge of the visit and a senior State Department official tell CNN…”
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Commentary: Slavery needs more than an apology
via Katrina Browne/CNN
“The Senate voted to apologize for slavery on June 18. The House apologized last summer. The first family — descendants of Africans, of enslaved Africans and of slave-holders — visited a slave fort in Ghana.
These were historic occasions, and they occasioned the kind of hue and cry that always accompany the subject of slavery and whether we still...
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Couple from iconic Woodstock photo still a couple
via BoingBoing
Posted by David Pescovitz, July 20, 2009 9:40 AM | permalink
On Saturday, I posted about a new gallery show of Burk Uzzle’s Woodstock photos, including the iconic shot seen above left. Turns out, the couple in the photo who had only met a few months before the concert are still together 40 years later. From the New York Daily News (photo Harbus for News)
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Lunch.com Launches Micro Reviews, Reveals Its...
via TechCrunch
Lunch, a review site that made its debut earlier this year, is launching a new feature it calls micro reviews — highly condensed reviews on just about anything, with a maximum length of 140 characters. You’ll be able to see a stream of incoming reviews on the site’s homepage, and you can also syndicate the microreviews you write to Twitter and Facebook.
Of course, review sites...
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WatchGoing to Work for Subway
Description: Agency.com thinks “outside of the box” and comes up with this “viral video” designed to get the Subway account. Believe it or not, these are actual advertising professionals.
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Kid uses Apple store to shoot audition reel →
Kid uses Apple store to shoot audition reel
Posted by Steven Leckart, August 16, 2009 1:34 PM | permalink
YouTube user nicholifavs is using the Apple Store as his own, personal A/V studio and audition space. So far, the little dude’s shot dozens of lip sync videos including this one of the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow.”
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My Favorite Top 7 Inspirational and Uplifting... →
via The Positivity Blog:
A few years ago I used to post inspirational and uplifting videos once in a while here on the site.
Today I’d like to post 7 of my own favorites from then and more recent times. Maybe you have seen a few of them before, but I hadn’t in quite a while so if was good to revisit them.
I hope you’ll find something here to lift your day and inspire you.
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Final day at free clinic →
via LA Times Blog
As the Remote Area Medical Foundation’s huge, free health clinic winds up its eight-day run at the Forum in Inglewood this evening, organizers said they expected to be able to treat all patients who were given wristbands – or refer them to doctors who will provide free care.
During the organization’s first venture into a large, urban city — and its longest-running...
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How to make shrimps crunchy? →
via rasamalaysia.com
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How do you make shrimps crunchy? More precisely, how do you make shrimps Chinese-restaurant-crunchy?
I’ve been obsessed with this subject matter for the longest time–a topic that took me a while to research. If you’ve tried dim sum or shrimp dishes in Chinese restaurants, you...
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How Health Care Reform Would Work: The Flowchart →
via GOOD blog
Yes, the bill is 1,000 pages long, but you can still understand the broad contours of the new health care system being debated everywhere. Here, via Ezra Klein, is a handy flowchart from Donkylicious.
It seems like it’s to the advantage of those who like the status quo (insurance companies, e.g.) to promote this idea that the whole issue is so complex as to be beyond everyone’s...
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The New Elevator Pitch — A Tweet →
via peHUB
“Billionaire Richard Branson is collecting micro-pitches for startups today on Twitter, forcing entrepreneurs to summarize the most outstanding qualities of their babies in 140 characters or less.
The best Tweet wins its author a trip to Los Angeles, where he or she can attend a conference — called PerfectBusiness — that Branson is throwing to highlight the startup scene...
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L.A.’s Gang Rehabilitation Organization Needs Help... →
via GOOD blog
Close call over at Homeboy Industries, a fantastic organization we’ve profiled in the past that offers jobs, training and tattoo-removal to former gang bangers in the Los Angeles area. When the economy tanked, so did charitable donations, and a few days ago it was looking like organization was going to have to send its homeboys (and girls) packing. And since we all know money’s...
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“People will remember you for what you did, they will remember you for who you...”
– via Michael Magcase
The Desiderata: Whats Important to You?
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