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SunSeeker's JournalLooks like Southern California got its January rain in July.
Normally we get our rains in January and our July is bone dry. But this year the months seemed to swap in terms of rain totals.
It's also more rain than San Diego saw in all of January this year; on average, January is the second-wettest month and July the second-driest, with January averaging 66 times more rainfall than July. The only other time July has out-dampened January in San Diego was 1976, when July had 0.02 inch to January's trace.
Later in the day, Los Angeles broke its own July records. Downtown Los Angeles picked up 0.28 inch, which broke the July full-month record of 0.24 inch from July 1-31, 1886. Los Angeles International Airport saw 0.32 inch of rain, tying the record for all of July set in 1992.
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/southwest-flood-threat-july-2015-tropical-storm-hurricane-dolores
Rare Honor for U.S. Women’s Soccer Team as New York City PlansTicker-Tape Parade
Source: NYTimes.com
New York City will hold a ticker-tape parade on Friday for the United States womens national soccer team, breaking with decades of precedent to bestow a rare honor upon a group that competes outside the metropolitan area.
Two days after the teams World Cup triumph, the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that the players would be saluted along the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan at 11 a.m. Since Monday, lawmakers had noted that a parade would be a landmark city honor for a womens team.
The people have spoken, the mayors wife, Chirlane McCray, wrote on Twitter, and they want a ticker-tape parade.
Read more: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/nyregion/new-york-city-ticker-tape-parade-for-us-womens-soccer-team.html
I wish I could be in New York for this historic event!
FIFA Under Pressure To Pay Women's Soccer Teams Fairly
Yet FIFA paid the winning women's team a $2 million prize, which is four times less than the $8 million it pays men's teams that lose in the first round. The total payout for the Womens World Cup this year is $15 million, while FIFA awarded a total of $576 million to men's teams in the World Cup last year.
Ultraviolet, a women's rights advocacy organization, started a digital campaign on Monday to press FIFA to pay women's soccer teams fairly for equal work. Roughly 60,000 people signed the campaign in the first 24 hours -- more than twice the signatures a typical Ultraviolet campaign receives on its first day.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7745892
Victory Party for US World Cup Team TODAY at L.A. Live!
If you're near downtown Los Angeles, come show your appreciation for our amazing women's national soccer team!
There will be free parking beginning at 9 a.m. in Lot W- Gate B (1005 W. Chick Hearn Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90015). You may also park in Lot C- North (1150 L.A. LIVE WY, Los Angeles CA 90015).
http://patch.com/california/losalamitos/world-cup-victory-celebration-planned-tuesday?utm_source=article-mostrecent&utm_medium=rss&utm_term=sports&utm_campaign=recirc&utm_content=aol
Victory Party for US World Cup Team TODAY at L.A. Live!
There will be free parking beginning at 9 a.m. in Lot W- Gate B (1005 W. Chick Hearn Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90015). You may also park in Lot C- North (1150 L.A. LIVE WY, Los Angeles CA 90015).
http://patch.com/california/losalamitos/world-cup-victory-celebration-planned-tuesday?utm_source=article-mostrecent&utm_medium=rss&utm_term=sports&utm_campaign=recirc&utm_content=aol
Come show your appreciation for our amazing women's national soccer team!
World's most endangered marine mammal could go extinct
The animal is found exclusively in the upper part Mexico's Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. But it's not fishing for the vaquita that is the problem. Rather, the commission concluded illegal fishingand trading of another critically endangered species called totoaba caught using huge gill nets was the driver, resulting in "a high entanglement risk for vaquitas."
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Uhlemann said that the totoaba's swim bladder is illegally exported to Asia to make soup and traditional medicine. Demand for totoaba bladders has spiked recently, and a single totoaba bladder can sell for $14,000.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-most-endangered-marine-mammal-could-go-extinct/
Charleston cop fired for posing in Confederate flag boxers.
A North Charleston police officer who posted a photo of himself wearing Confederate Flag boxer shorts to Facebook has been fired.
The photo spread across the Internet on Thursday after the post had been online for a few days.
Police Chief Eddie Driggers issued a termination letter to the officer, Sgt. Shannon Dildine, saying the photo undermines the officer's "ability to improve trust and instill confidence when working with our citizens."
"Your posting in this manner led to you being publicly identified as a North Charleston Police officer and associated both you and the Department with an image that symbolizes hate and oppression to a significant portion of the citizens we are sworn to serve," Driggers wrote.
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/29411843/north-charleston-police-chief-fires-officer-for-confederate-flag-display-found-on-facebook
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Yes, a pic of the guy in his boxers is at the link.
Charleston Confederate Statue Spray-Painted With 'Black Lives Matter'
Source: NBCNews.com
Police say someone spray-painted the message "Black Lives Matter" on a statue memorializing the Confederacy in Charleston several days after a shooting at a historic black church.
Police spokesman Charles Francis said city workers used a tarp to cover up the graffiti marking the stone pedestal beneath the statue. He said he didn't know when the graffiti was spray-painted there, but said it would be cleaned off.
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Photos on local news websites from before the tarp was put up show the phrase written in bright red paint, along with the message "THIS IS THE PROBLEM. #RACIST." The pedestal's permanent inscription is "To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston."
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/charleston-confederate-statue-spray-painted-black-lives-matter-n379376
I agree with the person who spray painted this. The inscription "To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston" is wrong on so many levels:
1. Glorifies the Confederacy.
2. Inaccurately describes what the Confederates were doing; those Confederates were not "defending" all of Charleston but seeking to keep its African American residents enslaved (and thereby implying black lives don't matter and are not actual Charleston citizens).
3. Suggests that anyone opposed to the Confederacy ought to be fought.
America’s Seniors Find Middle-Class ‘Sweet Spot’
Supported by income from Social Security, pensions and investments, as well as an increasing number of paychecks from delaying retirement, older people not only weathered the economic downturn that began in 2007 but made significant gains, a New York Times analysis of government data has found.
As a result, Americas middle class is graying.
People on the leading edge of the baby boom and those born during World War II the 25 million Americans now between the ages of 65 and 74 have emerged as particularly well positioned in the nations economic timeline. While there are plenty of individual exceptions, as a group they are better off financially than past generations and may well enjoy a more successful old age than future ones, even those merely a decade younger.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/business/economy/american-seniors-enjoy-the-middle-class-life.html
No, Jim Bob, most brothers don't molest their sisters.
It IS "cause for great concern." Indeed, you yourself said child molesters should get the death penalty.
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