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Los Angeles leads California and the nation in water conservation
Los Angeles is not only top in California, but also leads the nation’s large cities in water conservation. Since June 2009, when Mandatory Water Conservation took effect in the City of Los Angeles, Angelenos have saved more than 75 billion gallons – more than one-third of what Los Angeles uses in one year. Water use …
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The long-term unemployed make up half of those unemployed
4 important facts about unemployment from economist Lee Ohanian: The economy should be creating 500,000 jobs/month, instead of 200,000. Long-term unemployed makes up half of those unemployed, and they have little or no value in our economy. The retirement age is certainly going to rise. Those with only a high school degree or less are …
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Wanna join the Academy Awards? Well don’t be a female and pray if you’re not white…
About 37 million people tuned in to the Academy Awards last year, and a great deal rides on the show’s outcome…Yet the roster of all 5,765 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a closely guarded secret. The organization does not publish a membership list. A Los Angeles Times study …
Wanna join the Academy Awards? Well don't be a female and pray if you're not white…
About 37 million people tuned in to the Academy Awards last year, and a great deal rides on the show’s outcome…Yet the roster of all 5,765 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a closely guarded secret. The organization does not publish a membership list. A Los Angeles Times study …
Mike Myers as Sir Cecil Worthington for the 2012 Academy Awards – Oscar Etiquette
Sir Cecil Worthington (Mike Myers) takes Academy Award Winner Kevin Kline through an Oscar refresher course.
Sticking to Neapolitan tradition in pizza making – the Marinara and Margherita
The dish that has been called “almost certainly the most widely eaten food on the planet” originated in Naples, though Neapolitans would be aghast at the pizza toppings such as chicken tikka, ham and pineapple, and chicken pesto that have taken root in this country. Back in the home of the pizza, people keep it …
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New Apple OSX adds share buttons for Vimeo, Flickr, Twitter – continuing to snub Facebook, Google
Apple’s decision to unfriend Facebook has turned out to be a boon for third-party social services that are now finding their way into Apple operating environments. The biggest winner of them all is Twitter. In iOS 5, Apple integrated Twitter. And just like that the company saw “sign-ups more than double and the number of tweets …
Incredible video of the Hindenburg in 1937 going up in flames
This footage from the British Pathe archive shows the Hindenburg flying peacefully around and then cuts to the mighty airship in flames as it hits the ground. via Kottke The incredible shot shows the airship exploding and disintegrating in less than half a minute in New Jersey, 1937. It had departed from Frankfurt, Germany, …
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Watch short films from the Sundance Festival 2012 at Yahoo Screen
Starting today, the short films premiering at Sundance are viewable at sundance.yahoo.com via Yahoo, a sponsor of the festival. Through Jan. 27, Web users can watch the films and vote on them for the Yahoo! Audience Award. The winning filmmaker will be announced Jan. 28 and will receive $5,000. “Some of the best filmmakers started their careers …
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