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California Is Drowning In COVID-19 Cases Despite The Stay-At-Home Order
By: Grey Journal Staff
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid 19, Learn Culture, Cap Leimamo Kanaeholo, California

California Is Drowning In COVID-19 Cases Despite The Stay-At-Home Order

Since the beginning of the pandemic, California — like all the other states — has fought to keep people safe and protected from the virus. They introduced a stay-at-home order in March that gave everyone a curfew and strict limitations to how and when they could go out. Basically, anything that wasn’t essential was prohibited.

Because they shut everything down quickly and there wasn’t an alarmingly high number of cases, they were able to recover quickly. This made it possible for people to go out and start to live their lives normally again — well as normal as it could get with face masks and social distancing. In the early months of the holiday season, it was predicted that cases would rise nationwide. That only reigned true for California. Being forced to re-enforce the stay-at-home order previously placed in March, residents were now on full lockdown as soon as the Thanksgiving and Christmas season began.

Those restricts have not been as efficient as it was previously, but why?

Well, California residents are absolutely fed up. They are fatigued by the public health orders being barked at them over and over which is leading to their unhealthy demise. Experts are saying that the most suitable explanation for the recent disobedience is the number of COVID-19 cases in the communities. When the second stay-at-home order went into place, the cases were already out of control. It was unforgiving from the very beginning and because of the holiday season, people just want to be with the ones they love. They stopped being afraid.

Because the cases are climbing every day and the lack of control of the virus that California has, it is very likely that cases will continue to rise. However, the new stay-at-home order is making a very small difference. Experts are saying that if this new order hadn’t been put into place, we would be looking at a very different California than we are currently. That holds a little of reassurance that there are some people following the guidelines.

With Christmas passing and the new year coming, it is unknown what the number of cases will look like. Alongside that, the vaccine being en route and distributed across the country is the hope we are all looking for this new year. What the future holds is always uncertain, but we can just hope for a better and healthier future ahead.

What are your thoughts on California’s response to the stay-at-home order? Let us know in the comments below.

This article originally published on GREY Journal.

This article originally published on GREY Journal: https://greyjournal.net/play/learn-culture/california-is-drowning-in-covid-19-cases-despite-the-stay-at-home-order/
The Rose Bowl Leaves California
By: Jeffrey L Minch
Tags: California, Rosebowl

Some time ago, we noted that many Californians were leaving the state to move to Texas.

Now, even that most-California of sporting events, The Rose Bowl, is moving to Dallas (Arlington).

When asked why they were moving, the Rose Bowl responded, “Don’t be that guy, the last guy to get the memo. We are going to Texas because we want to be free!”

Rose Bowl Game

Alabama v Notre Dame

4:00 PM, Friday, 1 January 2021

AT & T Stadium

Arlington, Texas

See you there.

But, hey, what the Hell do I really know anyway? I’m just a Big Red Car.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!
Covid California Christmas
By: Lauren Mcneese
Tags: California, Coronavirus, Christmas, Family, Covid 19

Mid-December is the time of year in Brea, Ca, where you drive through the Christmas lights neighborhood or take pictures with the giant reindeer on Birch street. Sadly this year was not that easy and joyful for my family. My mother came home first with what seemed like a cold or basic flu. She did not think much of it, because we always get sick around the holidays without fail!! Soon we realized it might be our worst nightmare. I followed with a fever and loss of sense of smell. It felt like my body was in a constant state of war with itself. I had no energy and an enormous headache. I had no motivation nor energy to do anything. The worst part was the disgusting smell that came with the loss of my sense of smell. I was absolutely disgusted and I couldn’t even manage to eat anything. Everything I attempted to eat had a disgusting after taste.

I was hoping this would be the most my family would have to hurdle over. Sadly, my mother still is not doing well at all. She has no energy, and can barely sit up in bed without being out of breath. She is currently on her way to urgent care in an attempt to figure out what is wrong with her. The other unfortunate hurdle is the money of it all. My dad lost his job in June of this year. He is currently getting unemployment, but even that is going to run out soon. He had a gig lined up for the last two weeks in december, but the positive COVID tests messed that one up. Now I won’t even be able to start paying off my credit card debt from paying our bills for december. Instead, I need to go into further debt, just to pay our health insurance for January. We are all tired and overwhelmed.

Still, christmas day was one of the best days. We were able to have my sister drop off groceries and have a nice charcuterie board. We watched SOUL on Disney+, and it was the cutest. It was a single day that allowed us to realize not everything will end on an ugly note. I am going to drive for postmates when I am not at work, and hopefully we can pay health insurance. If this Covid Christmas has taught me anything, it is that the one thing that will always pull you through is the power of family. Hug your loved ones and wear a Gosh Darn Mask!!
Candidate profile: Barstow Mayor Julie Hackbarth-McIntyre seeks 3rd term to tackle unfinished business
By: Maria P. Francis
Tags: California, Local News, Chirstmas

Hello friends I am Maria from CA and 25 years old. I believe that I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
California Cannabis Industry May See Loosened Regulations
By: Mg Magazine
Tags: Magazine, Regulation, Cannabis, California, Business

Image: Eric Limon / Shutterstock.com

SACRAMENTO — The Bureau of Cannabis Control‘s Cannabis Advisory Committee approved recommendations that would relax several regulations for the California cannabis industry, aimed at helping struggling cannabis businesses. The recommendations were included in the state panel’s annual report.

While arguably the largest state market for cannabis in the United States, California legal cannabis businesses struggle with competition from illegal cannabis sellers, among many other obstacles to expanded profitability. Though classified as essential services by the state, the businesses also have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and new public health requirements for retail and manufacturing industries.

“The state has faced unprecedented circumstances in 2020: the global COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession, a record-breaking wildfire season, and the nationwide fight for racial justice and equality,” the seventeen-member panel reported. “With the additional pressures the cannabis industry faces during this challenging time in mind, the Advisory Committee sought to recommend policies that promote public health, set the stage for the proposed consolidation of the licensing authorities, and lead to economic recovery.”

Recommendations made by the panel included lifting the $5,000 limit on the cannabis products can be carried by delivery vans, which would allow retail businesses to offer a greater variety of products. The panel also recommended that cannabis lounges eventually be allowed to serve food and beverages.

The committee has not yet posted it’s final report, but a draft is available here.

By Joanne Cachapero

Originally published at https://mgretailer.com/cannabis-news/california-cannabis-industry-may-see-loosened-regulations/ on December 11th, 2020.
Alvarez dominates Smith to capture super-middleweight titles
By: Patricia C. Fountain
Tags: California, Sports

Hello friends I am Patricia from CA and 35 years old. I believe that “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Business News: Why Companies Are Leaving California For Texas
By: Lashaun Turner
Tags: California, Migration, Businessnews

For as long as anybody can remember California has ranked among the most desirable places to live on earth. Its majestic redwood forests, world-class education system, sandy beaches, beautiful people and global food scene have cemented its status as a proven mecca for big money and talent.



But all that seems to be changing. An exodus of tech firms has recently decided to up sticks from the Golden State and make their homes in a very different corner of the United States. So today we’re looking into the burning question — why are companies moving from California to Texas?



Last year, according to data from the US census bureau, 653,000 people decided they’d had enough of California’s glossy charms and opted to set up home elsewhere. The most popular destination for these relocaters? Texas.



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SMOKE AS A DANGER AS FIRE …
Tags: California, Fires, Wild Fire

SMOKE AS A DANGER AS FIRE …

This year, fires raged across the world, reminding us of the sheer devastation climate change can wreak. Fires in California razed a stunning 4 million acres of land, Colorado suffered the three largest recorded fires in state history, and more than 4,000 homes in Oregon burned down. Poor forest maintenance, bad utility infrastructure, increased drought, and man-made climate change mean there is an ever-expanding tinderbox ready to go up at any time.

But as a paper published in the journal Science notes, the dangers of fires do not stop with the fires themselves. After all, there is no smoke without fire. And where there’s smoke, there are potentially deadly infectious agents lurking in the fumes, presenting a massive and wholly underestimated health risk.
Flames torched on the sky
By: H Peter Ji
Tags: Urban, California, Drone Photography, Photography

Sunrise over refinery

I’ve been meaning to post a couple of shots that I took several days ago but never got around to it till now. I dared to fly the drone as close and above the refinery as I could. Although I wasn’t too far from it, I still get a bit of anxiety when flying my drone over a facility like the refinery. Who knows how a machine can fail me in any given moment.

Nonetheless, the sky was perfect, and it was time to fly it over the refinery to compose a shot that I had been wanting to try. As gorgeous as the sky was, I knew it wouldn’t last any longer than several minutes, so I had to be very quick and decisive.

The flames torched on the sky were intense, and I really didn’t want them to go away so quickly. And yet, once I started seeing the colors fade, I knew it was time to bring my drone home.

Torrance, CA

DJI Mavic Air 2

DJI 4.5mm ƒ/2.8

24 mm / 1/30 sec at ƒ/2.8 at ISO 400

Taken 12/17/2020

This photo can be also viewed on Instagram, EyeEm, Twitter, 500px, Flickr, ViewBug, Ello, Facebook and LinkedIn.

You can purchase this and other photos on my website.

© 2020 H Peter Ji
We’re positive: Nine pandemic-proof 650 stories that made us smile this year
By: The Six Fifty Staff
Tags: 2020, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Bay Area, California

The local ties of The Social Dilemma & The Queen’s Gambit

In the year of Tiger King, two other Netflix originals raised the bar for television viewing (beyond a standard of a trashy reality show about con artist weirdos and their giant cats). First, The Social Dilemma took a deep dive in examining where Silicon Valley technology has gotten us to today. The documentary was a sobering view of what the human mind is up against on the other side of our screens…told via the engineers who devised the very tech which now governs our lives. So we caught up with the film’s director, Jeff Orlowski, a Stanford alum who elaborated on the motivation behind his documentary, telling us: “There needs to be enough engineers that say, this is code, we can reprogram it. Let’s do things differently, let’s use a different business model, let’s do things with society’s interest at heart.”

Then, amid our love for unlikely heroine Beth Harmon, we enjoyed exploring how The Queen’s Gambit was authored by a Bay Area native, Walter Tevis, who based the origin story of his female protagonist on his traumatizing experiences at the Stanford Home for Convalescent Children in 1939. It was a local tie that we hadn’t expected to find and left us convinced that Tevis’ life (and all-too-obscure literary career) are highly worthy of further reading for any fans of the chess-obsessed series.
Mobile App Development services
By: M Awais
Tags: Free Mobile App, App Development Services, Mobile App Development, Software Company, California

what is Mobile App Development?

Mobile App is the process of creating application for android operating system user .Mobile app is mostly written java, kotlin and C++ Mostly people use Visual studio for creating mobile app development but Android Studio is one of the best app development tool because it is user friendly

Many software companies provide mobile app development services .if you have any issue for creating you just simple hire these companies for your android app development. If you want create your own app just follow these steps

WHO to Create Mobile APP Development?

1- Simple Download free Android Studio from google

2- Install all API in Android studio

3- After API installation Create new project

4 Import All packages like

import java.util.List;

5-- first create app front end design using drag and drop

6- use tittle bit of xml

7- After this go to backend side

8- First Connect your backend with your front end design that you create using xml
The Cove: Intro
By: Kiki Grace
Tags: Action, Storytelling, California, New Author, Friendship

The Cove is about 6 friends who live in California. They are known as The Riptides. The Riptides go scuba diving one day to discover a hidden cove. They notice that a bunch of workers are drilling for oil and other natural resources for a big company. Once they realize that if the workers keep drilling the ceiling of the cove that it’ll break and parts of California will fall and drown into the ocean. Can The Riptides save their city before it’s to late?
R.I.P. Haruwn Wesley: Pacifica mourns the sudden loss of Shampa’s Pies owner
By: Elena Kadvany
Tags: Baking, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Bay Area, California

Haruwn Wesley, the owner of Shampa’s Pies in Pacifica, died on Dec. 20 following a surfing accident at Fort Point in San Francisco.

Wesley was known as an expert pie baker and generous spirit who often rescued people caught in riptides in the ocean and gave pies for free to people who couldn’t afford to pay for them. He once saved a man whose life vest malfunctioned after the sailboat he was in capsized under the Golden Gate Bridge, for which Wesley received a Congressional Honor from the U.S. House of Representatives and was recognized by the American Red Cross, according to a GoFundMe page established in support of his family. He was an avid surfer who also played upright bass and practiced tai chi, including with the Chinese National Team in Beijing.

Haruwn Wesley and his pies were a popular presence at local farmers markets. (Image via Shampa’s Pies Facbook page)

Wesley’s sweet potato, lemon chess, pecan, chocolate cream and other pies drew a following, both at the Pacifica shop and his stands at local farmers markets. Wesley named the bakery after his mother-in-law, who had encouraged him to open a food business.

“He adjusted his recipes — or ‘mix’ — as he called it depending on the humidity, the salt in the air, the sun or clouds, in addition to the unique aspects of each batch of organic fruit since he felt all of those were essential ingredients,” the GoFundMe page reads. “When a senior citizen or child would ask about the pie and not have the money to buy one, he would say, ‘This one is for you — I can’t sell it, please take it.’”

Pecan, chocolate cream and lemon chess pies from Shampa’s Pies. (Photo by Elena Kadvany)

A GoFundMe campaign was launched in the wake of Wesley’s passing to help his family pay for medical and mortuary expenses, ongoing bills from the bakery and his children’s education, which has been paid for with income from the bakery.

“He loved people deeply and soulfully,” Wesley’s wife wrote on the GoFundMe page. “He never looked back, only forward. He was humble and generous with his time, his spirit, and literally, the shirt off his back.”

Comments on the GoFundMe page and Shampa’s Pies Facebook consistently describe Wesley as an infectiously kind soul and cherished member of many communities, from Pacifica to local surf breaks.
Scotland helped me rediscover my California backyard birdlife
By: Natalie Rhoades
Tags: Birding, Education, Discovery, California, Conservation

Grab your binos, it’s time to birdwatch! || Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Do you know how sometimes you are reminded of a whole entire world of something that you had previously not considered to the degree it deserves? I’m talking about cheese varieties and their tasting notes… the grain patterns of different wood types in furniture… the genius inventions of double-sided sticky tape and post-it notes. They make you pause, and question, how those things came to be and how you didn’t notice them before. You can’t stop thinking about them now.

Well, for me, it’s the backyard birdlife of the San Francisco Bay Area home I grew up in.

I was raised in a scientific home by scientific parents and studied scientific things at universities. I was familiar with plants and animals, habitats, processes, etc. However, birds were just “birds” and the common and larger species e.g. mourning doves and scrub jays were basically the extent of my bird identification abilities.

This wasn’t a problem for my undergraduate degree in Marine Biology since fish and marine mammals were the stars of the show. I admit that albatross, cormorants, and terns were discussed, but not necessarily on the species level, nor extensively.
Jane Doe №16
By: Leslie Stahlhut
Tags: California, True Crime, History, Crime, Missing Persons

Jane Doe №16

September 17, 1979

On an otherwise unremarkable late summer day, boaters in the Carquinez Strait of California came across the torso and legs of a woman.

Authorities were notified, the items on the body were catalogued, an attempt at identification was made, but eventually, the bones of the unknown woman were laid to rest in a cemetery in Solano County.

Who the woman was would remain a mystery for 41 years.

As the crow flies

The distance from the short looping Road known as 94C just west of Woodland in Yolo County, California, to the Carquinez Strait near East 5th Street in the City of Benicia, where Jane Doe №16 was pulled from the water, is approximately 45 miles.

But even if you are going to travel by car, it is a drive that can easily be made in under an hour, and that drive is easier still when it is made in the late night or early morning hours. Without the traffic of commuters or large trucks carrying the summer harvest of nearby fields, it can be the kind of drive where you can think about your place in the world, and what you want to do next.

A Tuesday in July

Located just fifteen miles northeast of Sacramento, California, Woodland is a world away from the relative sophistication of the nearby capital city. It is the seat of Yolo County — one of the original counties of California — and just outside of the town is acre upon acre of farmland.

To the outside observer, Woodland would have appeared to be a quiet and almost bucolic town, but underneath that veneer burbled an anger and rage that would — late on July 31, 1979 — spill over into the evening of what had been a hot, midsummer day, and Dolores Wulff would disappear into the night never to be seen alive again.

The search

It was early on August 1, 1979, that Dolores’ family realized she was missing. At six o’clock that morning, Dolores’ daughter — who was married and lived in her own home — called her parents’ house. Carl Wulff, Sr. answered and told his daughter that her mother was gone but that her car was in the garage.

Soon, Dolores’ brothers and sisters knew that she was missing and the search for Dolores Wulff began in earnest. Her family contacted law enforcement and a missing persons report was filed, but her husband — who was the last person known to have seen her alive — was remarkably uncooperative.

When the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department found Dolores’s blood, some of her hair, her palm print, and one of her earrings in the trunk of her husband’s car, Carl Wulff, Sr. insisted that his wife had simply run off to start a new life. For their part, Yolo County Sheriff’s Department felt that without a body, their hands were tied, and there was nothing more to be done.

No one who knew Dolores believed that she had run off, so her family continued their search, determined to find what they thought must be her body so she could be properly laid to rest.
Where to get Christmas meals on the Peninsula
By: The Six Fifty Staff
Tags: Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Bay Area, California, Foodies

Here’s a list of restaurants and bakeries offering Christmas specials for pickup and delivery on the Peninsula, from prime rib and bûche de Noël to Jamaican beef oxtails and a Thai meal set. Also, the Dungeness crab season is set to start on Dec. 23, if you can hold out for some local crustaceans.

This list will continue to be updated, so check back for more options.
@STATS Update for December 21, 2020 COVID-19 in California
Tags: Covid 19, Social Media, California

As of December 21, California has 1,892,348 confirmed cases of COVID-19, resulting in 22,676 deaths. The number of COVID-related deaths increased by 0.4 percent from the prior day total of 22,593.

Updated December 21, 2020, with data from December 20, 2020.

Note: Numbers do not represent true day-over-day change as these results include cases from prior to yesterday. All-time series data is by reported date (the date information was reported to the California Department of Public Health).

Daily cases and deaths

California has 1,892,348 confirmed cases of COVID-19, resulting in 22,676 deaths.

Testing for COVID-19

The number of COVID-19 diagnostic test results in California reached a total of 29,860,404, an increase of 395,234 tests from the prior day total. The rate of positive tests over the last 14 days is 12 percent.

Impact on hospitals and ICUs

The number of hospitalizations due to confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases in California reached a total of 18,359, an increase of 609 from the prior day total. The number of ICU patients due to confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases in California reached a total of 3,756, an increase of 46 from the prior day total.

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Man Rides His Bicycle From California To Alaska, After Being Declared Unfit For The Army,
By: Wonder Earth
Tags: Ridesharing, Alaska, Army, California, Bicycles

Man Rides His Bicycle From California To Alaska, After Being Declared Unfit For The Army, wonder earth ·Dec 20, 2020

Reddit user ClimbRunRide recently was declared unfit for the Swiss Army. Rather than being upset, he took a plane to San Francisco and he began his journey
Apple Shuts 53 Stores In California, 16 In UK.
By: Shubham Thakur
Tags: Covid 19, California, Apple, Covid 19 Crisis

Apple Temporarily ShutsApple Inc has briefly closed the entirety of its 53 stores in California due to a Covid flare-up and 16 stores in the United Kingdom following limitations presented by the public authority in London, a representative said on Saturday.

The organization said on Friday it was incidentally closing a few stores in California following a flood in COVID-19 cases, sending the iPhone producer’s offers down in exchange after the ringer. That declaration covered at any rate of 12 stores.

“Because of current COVID-19 conditions in a portion of the networks we serve, we are incidentally shutting down stores in these territories. We make this stride with a wealth of alert as we intently screen the circumstance and we anticipate having our groups and clients back at the earliest opportunity,” the representative said in a messaged articulation.

Clients would even now have the option to get existing requests for the following not many days, the representative said. The assertion didn’t make reference to when Apple anticipates that the stores should return.

Covid cases are expanding in the United States and the United Kingdom, with the US has had over 17.4 million diseases and around 314,000 passings. 53 Stores In California, 16 In UK Amid Covid
The Reconciliation Of The Moonlight
By: Sostenes Lima
Tags: Brasil, BlackLivesMatter, Poetry, Poem, California

When the reconciliation of the moonlight

Runs after you like ageless waves

You can’t help but reminisce on the millions of years

It has swallowed the dripping blood

Off your great grandfather’s back
California Department of Insurance’s Supplier Diversity Initiative Is Paying Dividends
By: Jaymie White
Tags: California, Dividends, Insurance, Supplier Diversity

The latest California Insurance Diversity Survey showed that the insurance industry spent $2.1 billion with diverse suppliers in 2019, around half of which went to women-owned businesses. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said their efforts are paying dividends and having a tangible impact on the state’s diverse business owners. He acknowledged that the industry has much work to do, but it is heading in the right direction.

https://suppliertynews.com/2020/12/20/california-department-of-insurances-supplier-diversity-initiative-is-paying-dividends/
The THREE U.S. Senate seats I Care About
By: Michele Barnwell
Tags: California, Democracy, Georgia, Senate

U.S. Capitol | Washington D.C.

When thinking about the U.S. Senate, all my energy and attention lately has been on the two seats up for grabs in the Georgia run-off election.

Democratic candidates Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff have a good chance, thanks to engergized Democrats in Georgia, as well as the work of social justice organizations on the ground and many more around the country sending their resources to the peach state. Here’s hoping for a landslide win for these two Dems.

When phone-banking with the Warnock campaign (and clearly for all the Dems on the ballot essentially) earlier this week, I spoke with a “life-long” Republican, as he referred to himself. After he sat through my slightly awkward phone-banking bullet points, he then began sharing his story with me. He was gentle yet clear: No one in his immediate family has ever voted for a Democrat. Ever. They’ve never wanted to… until now. He said, with resolve, that he would be giving both Warnock and Ossoff his vote in the Senate run-off election because the Republican Party no longer reflects his values. They felt unrecognizable to him. His disappointment was palpable. [To be clear, I didn’t flip his vote. He was fed-up before I recited my well-scripted phone-banking soliloquy to him. But, I was happy to hear his every word!]

Yet the two Senate seats in Georgia aren’t the only ones gaining attention right now. There’s also the Senate seat being vacated by Madam Vice President Elect, Kamala Harris in California.

Except, in California, there’s no committee of concerned citizens braving the elements to return to the ballot box to make the decision there. The decision in CA squarely rests with CA Governor Gavin Newsom to appoint a replacement.

Without Harris, there will be NO Black women in the Senate. This well-known fact is important. In a year where there’s been renewed interest (if not genuine concern) for representation in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, how can this seat be filled with anyone other than a Black woman? Really. How?

Even more importantly, there are two exceptionally viable options in CA — Congresswomen, Karen Bass and Barbara Lee. Since we’re talking about replacing the only Black woman represented in the Senate… the choice here seems pretty straightforward.

So, let’s GO Governor Newsom.

We #wewinwithBlackWomen. We already know that we do. This decision is a no-brainer.
Consistently blown away by how good these wines are.
By: Stephen Mcconnell
Tags: Sierra Nevada, Food And Drink, California, Wine, Wine Review

Consistently blown away by how good these wines are. Don’t mean to sound surprised, but face it: there’s always an asterisk dangling on wines from some regions. When you see Lodi, there’s an asterisk. When you see Temecula or Sierra Foothills, there’s an asterisk in the back of your mind from the wine’s you’ve tasted from there. For some people, Paso Robles or Oregon or even Napa get an asterisk, maybe even the entire state of California. But these wines are so solid, so pure and clean–I don’t want to say ‘mainstream’, as homogenousness is something we should all be working against. But we have all tasted enough Sierra Foothills wines to know there can be a *profile*: extra baggage the region sometimes carries which can, on one hand, make them unmistakable, but frequently they are in heavy doses, making the products stand out heavily from the typicity of the variety grown in more established regions.

This thing right here? It would be fun to taste this in a line-up of usual suspects from Santa Barbara–anywhere on the Central Coast–or Sonoma or North Coasts. There’s none of those things which often come raging out of Foothills wines: burnt, pruny nuances, overt alcohol or fleshiness. Bright and rich in the nose, the light garnet pumps spiciness and volcanic soil hard into your nostrils. Clean pitchy leather, a bit of blackstrap, gorgeous stewed-cherry fruit calm and even-keeled. Thick and sweet-smelling, it’s got a lot of flesh to cover, and I don’t think the alcohol is particularly low: I’m gonna guess 14-7.

Tasting it confirms everything in the bouquet. Concentrated FAR beyond the density in the glass, brightly acid-edged berry–dark and ridiculously extracted–coats all surfaces, causing teeth-wiping reflexes from your tongue. It is a BIG Grenache, with fiery tannins going head-to-head with the buttery depth of the cherry, blackberry, plum and blood orange. The black heart of the structure creases the middle, forming a small crevice all paths flood to, and–despite the almost sinful young age–provides a clean exit for all contributing parties.

An astounding version of the variety–one I would highly recommend to all fans of this chameleon grape.

2018 LAVA CAP Grenache Sierra Foothills California 14.7

http://www.lavacap.com/
Family Stronger Through COVID-19
By: Patrick Cannon
Tags: Pandemic, California, Small Business, Covid 19, Business

Army Veteran, Husband and Father breaking into the blog space for the first time. This will be a new, exciting and challenging time for myself and my family as I learn to navigate these waters. At 30 years old, I’ve found myself unemployed for the first time in my life due to COVID-19. I was working on a new but strong contract at my local Air Force base and when funding needed to be found within the Department of Defense to help offset Quantitative Easing and borrowing, my contract was deemed not essential. This all happened back towards the end of June.

Throughout this endeavor I have felt like I struggled with an identity crisis. My skillset is largely available only on the East Coast and we have our whole lives nestled here in the greater Sacramento, CA area. I was accustomed to making over 6 figures per year and to have that income cut off in the blink of an eye really put my family in a bad way. I began to notice my behaviors change, my attitude change, weight gain began and things just weren’t going well. In an effort to make up lost income I started delivering for Instacart, as many people in my community are quite wealthy and had no need/desire to do grocery shopping in the midst of the Pandemic.

This income was great and was enough to offset my bills but my mental struggle continued. I know I am not the only individual who is struggling with the mental shenanigans that this Pandemic is causing. One minute you are on top of the world, hitting personal and financial goals to the next minute scrambling in an attempt to figure out where the next paycheck will come from. This has all lead to this point we are at now. Me coming to the conclusion that I no longer want to rely on others providing a paycheck for myself. I want to create my own income streams which can provide for my family.

The purpose behind my blogging will be to keep everyone current on the income streams my family and I will be creating for ourselves. I hope this can also serve to encourage others who are thinking of ways they can begin creating revenue streams for their families. My wife and I will begin our journey with one revenue stream we’ve always wanted, which is to grow our clothing line. This has always been on the back burner but will not get our full attention. Coupled with that we will also begin growing our online presence through social media, blogging and YouTube.

I’ve always felt like I have insight that others would find interesting and intriguing. Getting this information available and in front of as many people as possible will be great. I know millions of Americans and people around the world will be able to learn something and hopefully regain some encouragement lost in their lives and move forward stronger than before. Thank you for reading!
Mother Perplexed That 3-yo Son is Not Gay, Trans, and/or Demisexual Yet
By: Planet X Media
Tags: News, Confusion, Parenting, California, Sexuality

CALIFORNIA — A mother was expressing total confusion at the fact that her 3-year-old son Tommy is not Gay, Trans, and/or Demisexual yet.

“It’s very strange to me. He knows he can be whatever he wants to be, I tell him multiple times a day, so I just can’t understand why he isn’t Trans or Pansexual yet, or both,” the mother said. “I mean, every other local parent I know has already made their kid a boy, then a girl, and then a boy again, so why isn’t little Tommy like that yet? What’s wrong with him? Why can’t he just be normal and say he’s Non-Binary or something? Come on!

“I just know he’s giving me signs, though. I just know it. Yesterday he accidentally called me ‘daddy’ instead of mommy. He knows he has two mommies and no daddies, he knows it! It must be some kind of sign, yeah, some sign that he’s confused because he’s in the wrong body, the wrong gender, of course! That’s it! I think I’ll make him a girl just to be sure. It’s okay anyway, the operation is totally safe and a reversible if Tommy changes his mind. Now I can finally not be the only one at my book club that has a normal child. Now my opinion actually matters! Now Tommy, choke on those hormone blockers for me, okay?”
California quiere unirse a la demanda antimonopolio contra Google
By: José Manuel Rodríguez
Tags: California, Google

in THE SIX FIFTY
SO WON’T YOU CARRY ME BACK TO CALIFORNIA
By: Linda Mancini, A Forkful Of Italy
Tags: Muffins, Los Angeles, Guacamole, California, Recipe

We are very fortunate. Being strangers in a strange land, we can get medical care in Italy and the USA … just by flying back to the city of our choice. We picked Los Angeles, so David could see a specialist at UCLA. Good results, good trip.

WELL I JUST GOT INTO TOWN ABOUT AN HOUR AGO

Standing on the curb at LAX … (standing on the corner of Winslow, Arizona) … David was the first to sight the blue Super shuttle van slowing down to take on passengers.

Edging his way among the people standing, dazed and confused, waiting for transportation, we made our move … and got in. We had saved un sacco di soldi by arranging our rental away from the airport. We picked up the car (with an upgrade), made our way north on what locals call the San Diego Freeway and others refer to as the 405, into the San Fernando Valley. We checked into the hotel and schlepped our bags into the room.

David is the unpacker … I’m the unzipper.

Despite going back in time, it had been a long travel day … super-early alarm, very early shuttle, early flight followed by a long flight … so for dinner we ordered in, something familiar without too much thought involved. 88 CHINESE AND SUSHI in Sherman Oaks was at our door in 30 minutes. The ambiance of a hotel room … using the hassock as our table, with a terry-cloth towel as the table cloth. The chicken with green beans had lots of flavorful beans with tender chunks of chicken … the Sichuan pork, big juicy pieces, had the right level of peppery spice … even the brown rice was good (for a place that specializes in sticky white rice). Oh so very L.A.
Why Everyone is Fleeing California
By: Matthew Jester
Tags: Silicon Valley, Texas, Bay Area, California, Venture Capital

COVID’s Affect —

And suddenly . . . no one needed office space. Everyone could work from home. Some large cap companies have already come forward and said that no small percentage of their employees will work from home indefinitely.

The pandemic has upended some of the most coveted aspects of working in Silicon Valley:

The relative ease of networking and collaborating with like-minded tech workers.

Startup founders and investors congregating at the local bar or coffee shop to hash out deals.

— but if you can’t see each other in person anyways, why stay in Silicon Valley?
The COVID-19 problem in CA is getting really bad
By: Sultan Haleem Khane, Shk
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid 19, California, Los Angele

The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has gotten so bad in California it’s becoming clear anticipation is outdoing parts of reality. As we reported in Bazaar Daily News , areas like Los Angeles and San Diego are among the hardest hit in the Golden State. Because of such, Governor Newsom has taken scary new precautions in anticipation of the very dark winter that lies ahead for his state.

Those precautions as we’ve learned range from ordering hundreds of refridgerator trucks to building dozens of field hospitals amid concerns that hospitals likely will collapse. The Associated Press reports that some hospitals in the San Diego and San Francisco aareas are even bringing in beds to nearby buildings whilst hiring doctors from outside areas in an effort to prepare themselves.
California Hot Melt Adhesives Market Worth $159.7 Million By 2022
By: Rajesh Varma
Tags: California

California hot melt adhesives market is expected to reach USD 159.2 million by 2022, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing requirement for quicker bonding time in high speed product assembly and industrial applications is expected to boost industry growth over the forecast period.

Rising environmental concerns regarding VOC emissions has driven substitution of conventional adhesive technologies, such as solvent-based, with hot melts. Stringent environmental regulations regarding adhesive additives implemented by federal agencies such as EPA & U.S. Chemical Safety Board are expected have a major impact on industry dynamics, particularly in terms of product formulation and production.

Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) adhesives are expected to remain the largest product segment owing to high utilization by numerous end-users seeking better adhesion on non-porous substrates such as metals and glass. The segment accounted for over 37% of total market volume in 2014. It is also expected to witness the highest growth of 3.1% over the forecast period. With increasing consumer requirement for greater flexibility in curing & setting times, polyurethane (PU) hot melts are expected to gain in terms of utilization.

To request a sample copy or view summary of this report, click the link below:

www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/california-hot-melt-adhesives-market

Further key findings from the report suggest:
My Home Buying Journey with Toll Brothers
By: Krishna Yalamanchi
Tags: New Home Builders, Tassajara Hills, California, Dublin, Toll Brothers

This will be the 5th home I am buying and wanted to share my story as i think this will be the last home.

For now this is a piece of land.

Buying a home is an emotional decision and this time our whole family liked it, below is the home which is in the community

Toll Brothers first started building in The Knolls at Tassajara Hills here in 2017 and we are the last to buy it towards the tail end in 2020 and the builder is moving out soon.

My future home in Dublin, CA

10 Things i learnt my first 2 weeks during contract

Always take your realtor with you in the first appointment and during contract signing Make an appointment before you visit Model homes have so many upgrades that you lose track, nothing including the electric panel is standard Plan to spend no less than 3 hours in the model home and figure out what you would like Eg. Model A, B, C or D Cost of home + 20% upgrades is reasonable estimate Cost per fq ft increases 12–15% year over year (Bay Area, California) Most contracts have language suitable for builder only. Eg. Always arbitrate, use our mediator etc. Deposit is 1000$ to reserve in line and contract is a week apart to pay 5% of purchase price Measuring tape, iphone for pics and measure everything windows, doors etc find an empty book and write questions for — design studio, engineer, project manager, sales office, electrical

These basic Structural upgrades are after Contract signing are another 150K

outdoor living space and deck on second floor Multi Panel stacking doors Solar Panels (mandatory in CA) Shower in lieu of Tub Water Softener loop Flat screen TV wiring + Home Theater wiring Integrated outdoor space heaters Laundry room sink & cabinets Wireless glass break detector Same stud wall wiring

Week 3 & 4

Structural appointment completed and signed an addendum via DocuSign along with 20% of the cost of down payment.

This was my feedback to SunPower

Toll Brothers IT can help their customers by providing updated master Data for contract options since it had many options which don’t exist.

Finally scheduled an appointment with Design center to have an all day appointment in early January.

Week 6 is Design Center Appointment

This is the most fun appointment and the design center consultant was super awesome to work with. There is a method to the madness and it is very organized and in this order
Get to Know Aisha Noel : Emerging Caribbean Artist
By: Matthew Khloe
Tags: Singer Songwriter, Aisha Noel, Emerging Artists, Trinidad And Tobago, California

Singer/Songwriter

Genres- Soca/Pop/Fusion

Aisha Noel, was born in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. With a love for the performing arts she began her musical education at a young age in piano in addition to singing, songwriting and classical ballet. As a young girl she partook in various calypso song writing camps where she learned about the local art form. Aisha also competed in multiple music festivals representing her school choir, St. Josephs’ Convent San Fernando. After achieving her bachelor’s degree with honors in International Relations and Psychology, at the University of the West Indies, Aisha’s free-spirited and adventurous nature led her to Latin America where guided by her passion for music she performed at various schools in the country of Colombia. This journey outside of her home country in many ways pushed Aisha to begin her musical journey as a performing artist and to embark on a career in music, her life- long dream.

On her return to Trinidad and Tobago, Aisha landed a place as one of the top finalists in this year’s official “Uncovered Live” showcase 2018, with her own show, Aisha Uncovered Live, at Kaiso Blues Cafe being a tremendous success. Since then she has performed in many shows thus far, including but not limited to New Fire Festival 2018 and the Republic Bank Decibel Expo 2018. Within that same year, the talented and determined songstress released her first production entitled, “Nobody be Safe” an r&b/soca infused track produced by the Ballistik Boyz. A track that gained the artist attention in her home country and fans in Japan and Korea. Aisha Noel has a desire to bring her own unique style and sound to Soca music.

It then came as no surprise that within the following year, Aisha released her first Soca Single, “Soca Fever (Baile). This song spear heads the, “Hello Bacchannal Riddim”, alongside artistes, Orlando Octave, 5Star Akil, Ricardo Drue, Fadda Fox accordingly. To date the artist has released four songs which includes her recent release, “One Dance” off the One Link Riddim and has written for Soca Artist, Nailah Blackman on her latest released track, “Trouble Wine”. Aisha Noel names Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Bunji Garlin and Buju Banton. as some of her idols. Aisha has a single-minded vision for her future and aims at honing her craft and becoming a world-renowned international artiste.