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LA GALAXY : The football club of West
Tags: Football, Los Angeles, La Galaxy, Headkick, Soccer

LA GALAXY : The football club of West

For Americans the football is something different and it is known as American football. The football is known as soccer there. The game is very popular throughout the world but it is considered as a new sport in America. Soccer has become popular in America in the last decade. For bringing life into MLS the major credit can be given to the LA galaxy. The Los Angeles club brought the English football legend David Beckham from Real Madrid and after his introduction in the MLS the club along with the league reached into top level.

Although the club and the league became popular after that the club was seeded in 1994. LA Galaxy is one of the ten founding teams in Major League Soccer. The name "Galaxy" was derived from Los Angeles being home to the "stars" of Hollywood. A couple of times the club finished first in the Western conference but could not make it up to the MLS in the nineties. Their first MLS cup win came in 2002. In 2005, the Galaxy acquired Landon Donovan from San Jose and also bagged the cup in that year defeating the New England Revolution in extra time, 1–0.

The club is on the rise and the arrival of EPL legend David Beckham in 2007 made LA Galaxy as the most popular club in the USA. His debut was made at Home Depot Center before a record crowd of nearly 35,000, including many celebrities. The match brought unprecedented TV coverage from ESPN, who used 19 cameras to cover it, including one trained only on Beckham, even when he was on the bench. Although they lost in the final of that year despite the presence of EPL legend .

Not only players they also appointed Rudd Gullit as their head coach and started the league with a blast. Something is not going with them properly and could not bring the magic in the team. In the 2008 MLS season, LA went on a seven-game winless streak that saw them drop from first place in the Western Conference to outside playoff contention, prompting the resignation of manager Ruud Gullit and firing of general manager Alexi Lalas. Again in 2009 the club captain David Beckham and vice captain Donovan went to Milan and Everton respectively.

In 2013,following the defeat to Seattle Sounders FC in the final game of the season with the Supporters' Shield on the line, the team entered the 2014 MLS playoffs defeating Real Salt Lake, advancing to face Seattle once again in the Western Conference Finals, advancing to the MLS Cup by away goals. They played the New England Revolution in the 2014 MLS Cup and won 2–1 in overtime, thereby becoming five-time champions, a league record.

The club has landed other high-profile international players, who played in top European clubs, including Zlatan Ibrahimović, Robbie Keane, Luis "El Matador" Hernández, Giovani dos Santos, Jonathan dos Santos, Jorge Campos, Steven Gerrard, Ashley Cole, Javier "Chicharito" Hernández, and American Landon Donovan who is the all-time leading scorer for the club. In 2019, Forbes estimated the club is the second most valuable in the league, worth about $480 million.
Dating is many things: Fun, funny, exciting, enlightening, and sometimes awkward, repetitive, and…
By: Nws Lord
Tags: Dating, First Love, Los Angeles, Love, Life

Dating is many things: Fun, funny, exciting, enlightening, and sometimes awkward, repetitive, and laborious. One thing it isn’t? Simple. It’s the opposite of simple. But what else should we expect from the somewhat colloquial definition of dating that Merriam-Webster defines as “the series of social engagements shared by a couple looking to get married,” which also defines a single date as “a romantic appointment.” Talk about pressure. Of course, we have a much more fluid understanding of the term today, which simultaneously makes it more fun and less consequential and rigid — but it also tends to complicate things further.

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Play Timez Over Clothing, RTB Foundation, and The Community Pays It Forward on Skid Row for the Holidays
By: Inland Times
Tags: Giving, Los Angeles, Business, Holidays, Play Timez Over Clothing

The Community Pays It Forward on Skid Row for the Holidays

Los Angeles, CA — With the holiday season in full swing, local community leaders and businesses teamed up for a mega event centered around giving back to those who need it most. Los Angeles, home to almost four million people, has severely suffered from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. With cases surging at new record highs coupled with large swaths of mass unemployment, the community sprung into action to provide relief to those most afflicted.

This past week Feed The Culture and Play Timez Over clothing hosted their 4th Annual Feed The Culture event. The Feed The Culture event drew hundreds of community residents from the Los Angeles area together around a common cause: paying it forward and giving to those who need it the most. Full course hot meals, shoes, clothes, socks, and Community resources were made available to all attendees.

Marquis Dubois is the CEO of Play Timez Over Clothing, based out of the Inland Empire.

“My grandmother always gave back to the local neighborhood. So any chance I can give back helps me connect with the fundamentals she has instilled in me,” says Marquis Dubois. Marquis Dubois, CEO of Play Timez Over Clothing, expresses his deep passion for benevolence, and building up his community motivates him to make a difference in the community. Play Timez Over Clothing, established in 2005.

Other sponsors included were: Flip Major, Romeo Tha Boss (RTP), The Bakery, and NuWaves. This event drew crowds of hundreds of people in need. “as our communities continue to find ways to stay strong and come together. I urge you to send prayers to the less fortunate. our commitment during this covid-19 pandemic remains the same. Our goal is to give back and spread positivity,” says Romeo, founder of the RTB Foundation, who has spearheaded the effort for almost half a decade.

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Cupidity Today
By: Clint Allisone
Tags: Property, Los Angeles, Congress, America, Cupidity

Never have so few stolen so much from so many, and all in the name of public safety. This pandemic has been a convenient way to make the rich richer, push the working class into ruin, and remove the publics focus off of global warming. I might wonder at how our government is okay with the many properties being bought up after all the foreclosures that will follow the ruin of so many working class families, except that the people making the decisions to destroy the income of others will also be the ones buying up their property.

Nothing seems to have changed since the Native Americans treaties were broken, except now it is the social contract that is being broken in order to furnish the land grab, and in the name of the social contract of public safety, what a joke.

The elite rich, the politicians, the CEOs, and the lobbyists of America, these are the lowest bottom feeders of society, right next to to the serial killers and the pedophiles in the order of their future place in hell.

What is most intriguing to me is how anyone, even a sociopath, can actually believe they are entitled to the wealth of others when they already have so much more wealth than others. The ideas of taxation of the rich to redistribute wealth, caps on property ownership to keep power at bay, and the equitable use of public lands have everything to do with democratic rule, but it would be too easy to simply make sure everyone gets their due.

As 40 million Americans face complete ruin and homelessness in the coming weeks, myself included, I wonder at the size of the balls of congress, with no doubt in my mind they have no problem destroying the lives of 1/4 of us in order to feed their cupidity, do they have the balls for it? I think they are testing the waters to see if they can get away with it, and if they think they can, they will, the only thing holding them back being self preservation.

I wonder what it will look like with 40 million homeless Americans, most of which come from the working class. It will probably look like some very full FEMA camps.

Angelenos have these protests in front of the mayor and supervisors houses, and in my minds eye I see them inside drinking $300 bottles of wine wondering when the protestors will go away. Once a person becomes homeless it is no longer the mayor’s, or the supervisors’ problem, in their minds I believe that puts citizens in the hands of death, and they simply hope things take their natural course.

Who’s getting ever richer off all this? The elite rich, the politicians, the CEOs, and the lobbyists — parasites all.
Los Angeles Daily 12/05/20
By: Clint Allisone
Tags: Progressive, Employment, Self Love, Los Angeles, Recovery

And so it goes. The senior student at the Shinkendo Dojo I’ve recently started practicing at was the Double Blade Master of He-Man the movie (1987). He has an action figure from that one. Over all he’s a good guy, but sometime says or does inappropriate things around the female students. Its difficult to know what the norms are from the bottom of the totem pole. I’m keeping an open mind.

I’m in a 12 step program, and a guy had said something about a womans boobs getting in the way of him seeing her tattoo. It was inappropriate, I didn’t know what to do, but decided not to steal her chance to draw a healthy boundary, and repeat my own co-dependent dysfunction by saying anything. It’s difficult to know the exact moment when to step in.

Obsessive compulsion seems to be the art of finding so many things to do, nothing gets done. I’m working on it. My neighbor told me about how he works it on Doordash, he’s got a good system, he makes $10 an hour. I couldn’t even make that much when I did it, because I didn’t have a system, and I have to pay back my over-mileage on my Honda. The stress of all the bills piling up is getting to be too, much, but when my neighbor says, “you can make $40 every night between 5–9pm, all I think about is the miles I’m gonna owe. OCD.

There was a guy last year that hired me for a Christmas Eve bartending position in Bel Air through a company called National Bartending Staffing. They offered the cheapest bartending rates, and also paid less than anyone, but sometimes the tips were good. Once I got a $350 host tip, and yes I claimed it on my taxes. That was from a guy who was middle upper, the guy in Bel Air who had an 8 million dollar estate, and had me pour from $1000 bottles of wine gave me a $60 tip- on Christmas Eve.

It’s difficult for me not to loath the super wealthy, and it spills over onto anyone who’s not doing too bad. Again, I’m bitter. It gets even more confusing because I know some very nice people who are worth in the billions, and many more who are in the high single digit millions, and I wonder if I’m just angry at myself for not being capable of earning like they are. Part of it is my inner Gilligan. The part of me that will never let me get off the island.

I’m trying to love that part of myself, and help him reframe his message of blame. He feels like all the abuse was my fault, and that I must not deserve anything good. It’s also old modelling and recapitulation around finances from childhood. The truth is even with all the wrong turns I took along the way, I have had a few incredibly lucrative opportunities at work, and I just couldn’t stay steady, it’s all mixed up and sideways how shot myself in the foot on all those occasions, or straightforward how I did it in becoming a writer, or director, or even just a photographer, but it all goes back to my Gilligan anchoring me to the only island I’ve known.

Blame is the chain.
This is How to Sell A Home that Didn’t Sell
By: Corey Chambers
Tags: Expired Listings, How To, Sell Home, Dtla, Los Angeles

Out of 185 homes that were listed, attempting to sell in the Downtown Los Angeles area in the last month, only 27 sold. The other 158 are still trying to sell, or have already given up.

If your home has just come off the market and hasn’t sold, don’t be discouraged. The reason it didn’t sell may have nothing to do with your home or the market. In reality, your home may have been one of the more desirable properties for sale. If your listing has expired and you still want results, before you put your home back on the market, take a step back and review your situation.

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THE JOURNEY OF JOSE ANGEL CASTRO
By: José Ángel Manaiza Jr.
Tags: Success, Inspiration, Los Angeles, Legacy, Martial Arts

1. Tell us about the journey of your success.

The first thing I will say about the journey of my success is that my journey continues. The second thing I would say is that my definition of success is unconventional. For me, success is based on how much I feel I am contributing to the world around me which is a pretty broad spectrum. It can include so many things from little things like making someone I’ve never met before smile or something big like helping students discover a new mindset that may affect the rest of their lives.

I have been extremely fortunate to acquire a range of skills throughout my life, creative and otherwise, that allow me to contribute to my world and therefore contribute to my success.

2. What advice would you give to people who want to follow in your footsteps?

The advice I would give to anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps is that if my path is a way you find valuable, take the most important elements that work for you and use them to find your own path. There is not only one way. This is a way.

The other thing I would say is, “Contribute.” Find ways that you can offer something of yourself to improve the world around you. We each have “Personal Legacy”. Be aware and deliberate about what you leave behind you.

3. What do you do for your well-being?

Like I said before, I am fortunate to have acquired some important skills over my life. That has given me a number of practices that I can rely on to stay as balanced as I can. I have been practicing martial arts since I was a kid. That’s a big one. I also rely heavily on singing as one of my go-to self-care practices. And, I also have to mention that I reap a great deal of benefit from contributing as I mentioned before. That practice has a kind of self-perpetuating reward that is really important to me.

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Portraits. Fashion. Tattoos. in Los Angeles With Kevin Laroy
By: Nailah Lovell
Tags: Art, Tattoo, Los Angeles, Entrepreneurship, Fashion

Courtesy of Kevin Laroy

Fashion. Tattoos and Style exude Kevin Laroy. With his, God-speed impeccable eyesight, and attention to detail his gift for portraits is undying, I don’t see him slowing up any time soon. Kevin is an amazing creature, a gentle soul which is not often showcased to appease his public persona his artistic and gentle side was captured in the exclusive with Subject Thread Podcast.

Dubbed the portrait king, Kevin has been a tattoo artist for 15 years and is renowned all around the world for his seamless and impeccable tattoos. He is best known for his extremely true to life and unparalleled photo-realistic portraits.

Courtesy of Kevin Laroy

Raised in Dallas, Migrated to NYC, and finally landing in Los Angeles Kevin’s first steps towards becoming an artist was when he would tattoo in his mentor’s garage in Dallas. Kevin has always gravitated to the arts and fashion world from youth.

Other than being a tattoo artist with stunning and flawless work each and every time Kevin is a fashion forerunner and has also ventured into the television world. He has appeared in numerous television shows including How Far is Tattoo Far, Ink Master, and Black Ink Crew: New York.

Kevin also recently collaborated on an exclusive URBN WTR Artist Collection which was immediately sold out.

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During the conversation, Kevin spoke about entrepreneurship and the importance of structure, tattoo mastering classes in the future, fashion, brand collaborations, taboo subjects in the black community such as sexuality, and his love for the 90s especially rap icon Lil Kim.

Stream new episodes weekly on Spotify, Deezer, Amazon, Google Podcast, Podchaser, TuneIn, Player FM, Listen Notes, and www.subjectthreadpodcast.com

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My Hometown, Kind Of
By: Kayla Vokolek
Tags: Traveling, Travel Writing, Los Angeles, City Living, My City

I liked Palos Verdes, but I couldn’t consider it my hometown. Twelve was too late to find a hometown, I figured. Plus, I wasn’t sure if I’d move again like I had a few times before.

Then, towards the later years of high school, I couldn’t wait to leave. Part of that is natural teenage sentiment I’m sure, but I also haughtily imagined myself “above” Los Angeles, more fit for places I imagined were more intellectual, less superficial — the Northeast, the Pacific Northwest, maybe Northern California. Now, I acknowledge that while Los Angeles is admittedly not as broadly intellectual as some other cities, it has a lot of well-established cultural and educational institutions. And even in a better-off area, I find that people are generally very down-to-earth.

As I went through college, I found myself rooting my identity more and more in Los Angeles, missing the nearby pupuserias and cliff trails and familiarity of home, realizing how lucky I had been to live in a community that prioritized education and safety, even if attitudes had been myopic in some ways. I looked forward to trips back and took advantage of being close to sights of Los Angeles I had taken for granted. But I never expected to live here again.

But, due to my Peace Corps plans being upended soon before I was scheduled to leave and then the pandemic following soon after, I have now been living back home for almost a year now. Not exactly what I expected, but now I feel even more grateful to be here. With few safe quarantine activities, the amount of open space that is unique to most cities in Los Angeles is something I try to take advantage of. And a feeling of home —in terms of place and people — is especially valued in uncertain times like these. It still doesn’t feel quite like a hometown, given my late start, but if I had to choose one, it’s here. Most of my close friends are from middle or high school here, I know this area so instinctively, and by this point, I’ve lived here longer than anywhere else. I’ll take it.
Top Female Producer GEM Releases “Daydream”
By: Michael Stover
Tags: Grammys, Spotify, Australia, Los Angeles, Music

Emerging LA-based, Australian Producer GEM is an artist with the world at her feet and a burning ambition to use her platform for good. Her latest single DAYDREAM is another chilled out, feel good track aiming to raise our vibration and it does just that.

This love song is a gateway for manifesting with your heart.

Having been named #2 in The Top 5 Female Producers in the world to watch by Showbiz Magazine, and securing a place into music’s inner circle as a member of the 20–21 Grammy® NEXT program, GEM is making waves with some of the industry’s biggest names. GEM collected a string of award nominations with her covers album, the2070s including Producer of the Year/Electronic Album of the Year for the IMAs and HMMA Best Downtempo Song. Chill Out radio USA listed GEM’s relaxed remix of Australian chart-topping country artist, Max Jackson’s Billionaire — the #1 remix of 2020 … and now GEM is releasing her own original music, achieving major press worldwide — all whilst remaining independent.

As a fierce advocate for equality and owning your own destiny, GEM is inspired by producers like Russ and Petit Biscuit — who have navigated the independent waters to major international success. GEM blends new age elements with electro-pop and her feel good, retro signature style has found its way onto the Chilled playlists of Spotify. BILLBOARD magazine featured GEM in their GRAMMY® edition quoting, “It’s like DJ GEM flew down from space when the world asked where are the young female producers?”

Her latest single, “Daydream” achieved over 70,000 views on YouTube in the first week of release and she is authoring a book about raising your vibration using sound. GEM creates genre blending music with wellness benefits and she is the resident DJ of Soul & Spirit Magazine, leading meditations and ambient DJ mixes live across the globe. Here to raise your vibration through sound — GEM.

DAYDREAM has dropped on Spotify and Apple Music Today.

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The Synchronicity of Gronk
By: M. H. Rubin
Tags: Artists Way, Hispanics, Synchronicity, Los Angeles, Painters

The Synchronicity of Gronk

“Cabin Fever,” Gronk 1984

Lauraine dragged me to LACMA to see the “Hispanic Art in America” show in 1987. It was stunning. Among my favorite pieces in that show was this one, by the artist Gronk. It’s from his series of scenes from the Titanic. I got a poster.

She and I broke up a year later, and when I started going out again, I treated myself to season tickets to the LA Theater Company; I enjoyed being able to see a real performance every month. One show I noticed had backdrop and props with a similar look to the Gronk I remembered from the museum. I didn’t think much of it until the show ended and someone came on stage and announced the theater was going out of business that evening, and the rest of the 1991 season was canceled. Things got crazy after that.

But I wanted to check on those props. Before leaving the theater I went backstage to find someone to talk to. The building was going to be padlocked that night at midnight, or maybe the next morning, and it was already pandemonium behind the scenes. I could see the gravestones stacked up near the door, and I tried to find someone to pay so I could take them. Different people kept starting to agree to a deal, and then hedged to go find someone else to decide. Finally I was told they’d charge me $100 for the stack, but they would put them aside and I had to come back at 7am to pay and pick them up.

I couldn’t sleep, and got there at 6:30am, nervous about what I’d find. There were still people milling around everywhere, moving everything, but I didn’t see the gravestones. When I finally found my guy he told me that it was a good thing we waited — when he checked, he said, he found those props had been painted by a “famous artist” and were worth thousands of dollars. So they had been taken away. He was sorry.
Guy 1 — Date 225. The Split the Bill Guy
Tags: Dating, Relationships, Los Angeles, Love, Life

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Now, you do not know me yet, but after 225 first dates, I am like to Tom Brady of Los Angeles dating in that it seems I am never going to retire and keep coming back for more; how many opening games am I going to play? I wish I were as good at dating as he is at throwing touchdowns, but then we would not be here.

I used to use the reach for the bill, glance at my purse, offer to pay the bill gesture, simply as that, a gesture. A gesture not to be ever taken up by these “men”, but more of a test to see if these eligible bachelors would take me up on it. Also I cherished the nod to Seinfeld, mulling over the accolades of “the reach” as an obligatory gesture by women. A gesture not be taken up by the men but done to show that we greatly appreciate knowing that the men will still pay…thanks a lot, Costanza! For a first date, I struggle back and forth with the societal norms of men paying for dates versus equal rights for women. Should we be splitting? Should I be paying eighty-one cents on the dollar?

We can answer this however we want but dating in LA leaves a lot to be desired, and finding a man with manners and chivalry is harder to come by than you would think. Date 225 really took the cake and agreed to split the bill after we each ordered three beers, but he ordered an entire entrée that he ate completely to himself on a 9pm date! Not to mention that he ordered wings and fries and then wolfed the whole thing down with sauces flying everywhere, oozing from his mouth and fingers like a foamy eruption of froth and lava… gag. To top off the animalistic display of “dining”, he then proceeded to do a sneak attack kiss on me as he walked past me to get the bathroom. Do you think I want gross buffalo breath and a froth tongue in my mouth? The fact that I had to pay for half of that food that was literally regurgitated into my mouth with the attack kiss? No thanks. Where do I sign off? Oh, right here on the bill.

I do not know if it is fair or not to expect the man to pay on the first date or to use “the reach” gesture as a test, but I do think it shows a man’s character and how they were raised. The fact that this man (he did not like when I called him dude) did not even stumble a nanosecond over me offering to pay and easily agreed and allowed me to pay for half of his wings makes me saddened by the whole dating convention these days. I think of what my mom went through to find her husbands and it wasn’t sneak bathroom attack kisses from dudes that cannot afford a few beers and wings. I know working retail at minimum wage must be tough right now, but then maybe you should not be taking women out on dates?

All You Need to Know

Sorry Costanza, but “the reach” is going to have to be sidelined (unlike Brady) in Los Angeles dating for this girl. All women should maybe consider the vetting process and more carefully scrutinize the words that come after “Job” in the man’s dating profile. Red flag would be none listed or “luggage handler” like “Split the Bill Guy”. I should have seen that red flag a mile away.
Driving While Black!
By: Oshea Luja
Tags: Food4thought, 2020, Los Angeles, One Love, Black Men Stories

Just me. Staring into the eyes of America, wondering will this feeling ever ease. To this day, when the police get behind me, something strange happens. A feeling of tightness, my children faces pass through my mind. Will they hit the sirens? Do I have a broken tail light? Did I forget to signal when getting over? To this day, I still get uncomfortable whenever they are behind me.

Many people that grew up in my section learned to move flawlessly through traffic. It has become a dance to us, a cha-cha of sorts; that will usually get us home safe. But every now and then, they somehow manage to get behind us, and the all to familiar feeling of helplessness, tightness and whatever gone happen, let it happen, comes up again.

…and when they pass by, and turn the lights on somebody else, a feeling of temporary relief comes over you, until you pass by the car they pulled over and see that it’s another black man. So you say a silent prayer for the brother, and keep dipping to assure one of you will certainly make it home this day!

A few decades of this feeling can indeed distort your view of America. Blessings and prayers sent to everyone who has ever felt this terrible feeling, when simply… Driving while black!
🇪🇨 William Velasco 🇺🇸
Tags: Los Angeles, El Caserio, Ecuador

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The Los Angeles Christmas Market Opens This Friday Opposite The Grove In LA
Tags: Amber Bollard, The Grove, Christmas, Los Angeles, The Christmas Market

Looking for something to do that’s festive and a wonderful escape during these difficult and trying times? The Los Angeles Christmas Market is the perfect place to enjoy and take your family to celebrate the holiday season. Open to the public this Friday from 10am to 8pm, this exciting pop-up display is located opposite The Grove on the corner of Fairfax and W 3rd Street in Los Angeles. This incredibly detailed display was set up for guests to enjoy and is free of charge — while keeping within the safety guidelines for Covid 19 at 25% capacity.

The Los Angeles Christmas Market features immersive winter wonderland decor, holiday themed markets and a special photo op with Santa Claus for $45. The safety guidelines for the photo op features a non-reflective plexiglass separating Santa from the guests so they can feel comfortable for the photo and walk away with a beautiful memory to share. To secure your place for a photo, reservations can also be made online and for a reduced price. guests can take a photo with family and friends in the sleigh, without Santa.

The Los Angeles Christmas Market which will remain open till January 3rd, 2021 also offers merchandise for purchase such as shirts, hoodies, ornaments, masks and more — incase you’re looking for some special gift ideas.

For more information on this wonderful experience and to follow all the latest updates, be sure to check out the official website below and thank you to Rogers & Cowan for the amazing and informative work, as always.
Don’t limit yourself.
By: Higgins Linda
Tags: Florida, American, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Los Angeles County Has Approved the Development of MacLaren Community Park in River East, El Monte
By: El Monte In Time
Tags: Los Angeles, El Monte, San Gabriel Valley, The Present

The Los Angeles County Board of Directors approved LA County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis’ motion to transform the MacLaren Children’s Center building on Durfee Ave, near Ramona Blvd, into McLaren Community Park.

The MacLaren Children’s Center is a County owned building that is still being used for office space. But it has largely been empty since the LA County foster-youth facility that was in operation at the Center was shut down in the early 2000s.

LA County Supervisor Solis’ issued a press release on November 24th, 2020 sharing the news about one of the newest and upcoming developments in the city of El Monte.

The addition of a new park in El Monte is very much needed in the City. This is because, as reported in the release and the motion, “The City of El Monte has been identified, through the Los Angeles County Parks Needs Assessment, as an area that lacks sufficient access to parks and recreational opportunities and amenities — having only 0.4 park acres per 1,000 persons compared to the County’s average of 3.3 park acres per 1,000.”

The new MacLaren Community Park will create an additional 4.99 acres of green space in the city of El Monte.

But this coincidentally comes at a time when, The Gateway Project, an impending economic developmental project in El Monte, “is going to be built on Pioneer Park, but [they] have to replace the 6-acre park before development can get underway,” according to a 2019 San Gabriel Valley Tribune article about the project.

The development of MacLaren Community Park will likely increase the rate at which The Gateway Project is completed on the opposite end of the City.

Nonetheless, MacLaren Community Park will include two soccer fields, a basketball and tennis court, children’s play areas, and walking paths among many more amenities on the almost 5 acre site.

The River East side of El Monte will be a notably greener space with Zamora Park and MacLaren Community Park in close proximity to each other.

Related: As Los Angeles Cuts the LAPD’s Budget, South El Monte Opts To Maintain Police Funding
South Central Los Angeles Girl
Tags: History, Home, California, South Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles

South Central Los Angeles Girl

“I lived in south central Los Angeles.”

For very a long time, this was my standard response when someone inquired where I lived. I had been adjusted to undertake not to title my region: South Central Los Angeles. That is on the grounds that when I did, the reactions changed. Caused a blend of stun. Thoughtful, however stooping words or looks of sympathy. Request concerning why I live there or people securing their entryways driving me within the region.

Regardless how people see South Central, it is my domestic. It’s a wealthy neighborhood of nuance, culture, and activity. It’s comprised of families that do everything they can to oblige their children, regardless not having a part. It’s square social occasions with chuckling so tumultuous you’ll be able listen it over Cumbia music booming from speakers. It’s the paleteros and tamaleros who I basically developed up with. My family and I have been acquiring tamales from these gemelas, or twins, who very frequently have their puestos, remains, on the contrary square of one another. For an awfully long time and for my people 10 a long time, this was neighborhood has been my domestic. Certainly, there are discouraged spots within the zone and indeed previews of fear.

Like when my people walked past the lushes, laying on the ground late around evening time with void containers in their get a handle on. Or on the other hand listened gun shots essentially around the twist of our street. At the point when my father would return domestic at late around evening time and fight to open the front entryway with what negligible light is on my square. At the point when clues of alerts and helicopters fill the discuss. At the point when we listened some person in our zone was plundered, shot, killed or cut. Those things happened within the past a long time. Truly, there are issues in my neighborhood maybe more serious issues than those completely different zones. Moreover, how around we be honest to goodness: It’s not totally immaculate Santa Monica or Beverly Slopes. In any case, the extraordinary, cheery minutes have reliably surpassed the awful. My persevering, enterprising neighbors and the kids in my ancient zone have the proper to feel happy for calling South Central domestic.

I am.
The Spell
By: Gerardo Rene Paz
Tags: Scuzzbucket, Beach, Los Angeles, Life, Night

“Dew” by Thomas Weary, 2016.

In a dead garden of evergreen somewhere deep in L.A. you made me laugh the hardest. You said your name was Donna but I knew you were lying and I loved that about it all. The fib, this big life you had dug up in the beaches of New Atlantis.

The morning I woke up to your somber song, I had to move slowly between the salted freshness of the Pacific’s stray hairs. Her locks forever waving on this metropolis. How beautiful it was to know that we had left our great machines at the end of oblivion.

Often I wonder what it would be like if I went with you. In those memories; a nasty craving for the way you said, “We could live anywhere.”

The days we had, those stupid hours where we shone so bright, so utterly needy. We talked too much, we waited too long. The gaping forever, a kiss, a connection in a brain, in a coma, in an idea to escape.
Los Angeles Neighborhood Analysis
By: Chaitanya Krishna Kasaraneni
Tags: Los Angeles, Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Visualization

Analysis

Location Data

Using BeautifulSoup, a Python library used for pulling data out of HTML we parse the Wikipedia page to get the list of neighborhoods and districts in Los Angeles.

Using Google’s Geocoding API, we collect the location data such as Latitudes and Longitudes of each neighborhood and store them into a pandas dataframe.

DataFrame containing location data

Using Folium Geospatial visualization library, we then plot these Los Angeles neighborhoods on the map.

Los Angeles Neighborhoods plotted on a map

Note: For interactive maps, please open the Jupyter Notebook in this website by pasting the notebook’s GitHub URL.

Crime Data

Now, we collect the crime data of 21 divisions of LAPD and load the data into a pandas dataframe. This data includes features like Date the case was reported, area, crime committed, etc.

Counting the number of crimes for each community Police station and plotting it as a graph, we have:

Graph for Area vs Number of Crimes

It can be seen that 77th Street division has the most number of reported cases followed by Central division. Let’s plot this information on a choropleth map using folium library. The boundary data for LAPD divisions is taken from this website

Choropleth Map based on Number of Crimes

Adding the neighborhoods from previously stored neighborhoods dataframe

Venue Data

Taking the neighborhoods information from the Location data, we gather the data of venues using Foursquare API and load it into a pandas dataframe. We then classify the venues into 6 general categories:

Shop & Service

Outdoors & Recreation

Travel & Transport

Food

Nightlife Spot

Arts & Entertainment

Let us plot the count of each venue category

Popular Venue Category among business owners

Of all the categories, “Shop & Service” venue category has many outlets i.e. popular among business owners, followed by “Food”

Clustering these venues into 5 clusters using k-Means algorithm and plotting them onto a map, we have

Clusters of Venues

Plotting these cluster on the LAPD divisions choropleth map
How to Tell an Amazing Story Every Time
By: Debbi Mack
Tags: How To Write A Screenplay, Videos, How To Write A Blog, How To Write A Book, How To Write A Novel

Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash

Here’s a video I ran across on YouTube that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about plotting a novel or screenplay.

In less than six minutes, you can save yourselves a bundle in courses on this subject! 🙂

And here’s a free writing course given by the late Warren Murphy! Comes with a money back guarantee!

You’re welcome! 🙂

PS: Avoid these cliches which nearly every movie I’ve seen uses in one way or another. 🙂

PPS: Happy holidays! Is it too late to air grievances? 🙂

PPPS: Call me a traditionalist, but …!

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Tags: Shortform, YouTube, Video, 2020, Social Media

My YouTube viewers spent 1.3 million minutes watching my videos in 2020

That’s according to my 2020 Year in Review from YouTube. It’s equivalent to over 21,000 hours, or nearly 1,000 person-days of watch time. Basically it means that statistically, someone was always watching my videos this year, 24/7/365.

The review also showed that I uploaded 713 minutes of content, got 4,906 likes, gained about 1,400 subscribers, and got 935,000+ views. That’s a lot of random product videos, vacuum cleaner pro-tips, and strange survival meal bars eaten!

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By: Pedro Gonçalo Ferreira
Tags: Circl, Streaming, Video, Mainz

Through the crisis with live video shopping

The Mainz start-up circl is launching the first “live video shopping experience with price comparison and bonus program” throughout Germany. On circl.link , customers are inspired by friends and influencers with product recommendations. Expert advisors can, for example, from stationary retailers or from home, advise in video chat. Pedro Gonçalo Ferreira Follow Dec 16, 2020 · 2 min read

circl offers a social shopping platform with over 350 shops (60 million products) and price comparison. The purchase and the recommendation are rewarded with redeemable points via circl (1 point per 2 €). The affiliate partner programs include well-known names such as MediaMarkt, Bonprix and Quelle, but also niche providers and start-ups.

In times of Corona and the lockdown, brick-and-mortar retail in particular needs a fast but also sustainable solution in order to stay in contact with customers and develop new sources of income. circl offers stationary retailers the opportunity to use their shops as showrooms and to advertise products through the independent partner shops. This is how retailers benefit from their customers’ online shopping. All commercial persons with specialist knowledge can apply here as a live host .

The live shopping function will be available for the market launch on December 16. available in the iOS & Android app. In the livestream, consultants have the opportunity to answer questions from the community. Customers buy directly via the price comparison in the shop of their choice and collect points.

Live video shopping is very popular in the Far East. Forecasts assume that the sales generated through live shopping shows in China will add up to 134 billion euros by the end of 2020. (Source: OMR )

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[Verse 1]

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I used to rule the world

G Em

Seas would rise when I gave the word

C D

Now in the morning I sleep alone

G Em

Sweep the streets I used to own





[Interlude]

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I used to roll the dice

G Em

Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes

C D

Listen as the crowd would sing:

G Em

“Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!”

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One minute I held the key

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Next the walls were closed on me

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And I discovered that my castles stand

G Em

Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand





[Chorus]

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I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

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Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

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Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

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My missionaries in a foreign field

C D

For some reason I can’t explain

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Once you go there was never, never an honest word

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That was when I ruled the world





[Interlude]

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It was the wicked and wild wind

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Blew down the doors to let me in.

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Shattered windows and the sound of drums

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People couldn’t believe what I’d become

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Revolutionaries wait

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Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

C D

Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

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My missionaries in a foreign field

C D

For some reason I can’t explain

G Em

I know Saint Peter won’t call my name ,

C D

never an honest word

Bm Em

But that was when I ruled the world





[Interlude]

C Em x3

D x2

C D G Em x2

(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)





[Chorus]

C D

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

G Em

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

C D

Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

G Em

My missionaries in a foreign field

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For some reason I can’t explain

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never an honest word

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[Intro]

C D G Em x2





[Verse 1]

Em C D

I used to rule the world

G Em

Seas would rise when I gave the word

C D

Now in the morning I sleep alone

G Em

Sweep the streets I used to own





[Interlude]

C D G Em x2





[Verse 2]

Em C D

I used to roll the dice

G Em

Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes

C D

Listen as the crowd would sing:

G Em

“Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!”

Em C D

One minute I held the key

G Em

Next the walls were closed on me

C D

And I discovered that my castles stand

G Em

Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand





[Chorus]

C D

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

G Em

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

C D

Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

G Em

My missionaries in a foreign field

C D

For some reason I can’t explain

G Em C D

Once you go there was never, never an honest word

Bm Em

That was when I ruled the world





[Interlude]

C D G Em x2





[Verse 3]

Em C D

It was the wicked and wild wind

G Em

Blew down the doors to let me in.

C D

Shattered windows and the sound of drums

G Em

People couldn’t believe what I’d become

Em C D

Revolutionaries wait

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For my head on a silver plate

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Just a puppet on a lonely string

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Oh who would ever want to be king?





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C D

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

G Em

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

C D

Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

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My missionaries in a foreign field

C D

For some reason I can’t explain

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I know Saint Peter won’t call my name ,

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never an honest word

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But that was when I ruled the world





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(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)





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Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

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Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

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