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If a City Council member doesn't commit the money by January, the funds would go back into a pool that other City Council members can use to pay for shelters.
To smooth the way for the shelters, the mayor plans to sign an emergency shelter declaration Tuesday that would loosen zoning rules, allowing for quick construction, Garcetti's deputy chief of staff Matt Szabo said Friday.
"We have no intention to force projects on any district or in any location, but we are confident that there is sufficient consensus that we need these projects," Szabo said. "Everybody has to be part of the solution."
Garcetti, who was in Iowa over the weekend as he considers a presidential run, wants to end street homelessness by 2028 and halve the unsheltered population in next five years. The city and the county are beginning to spend the voter-approved funds on new homeless housing and services, but there is growing urgency to h...
There is also mounting frustration with the tents and tarps that dot the city sidewalks, freeway underpasses and alleyways. A program to clean encampments had nearly 6,000 pending requests through early February.
City Council members will debate Garcetti's shelter proposal in the coming weeks.
The city is still discussing the plan with the county, which would help oversee services at the shelters, Szabo said. The goal is to shelter up to 100 people in each district, either at one location or several sites. Homeless-service providers are more successful placing people in shelters in areas where they already l...
Separately, the city has set a goal of building 222 new permanent supportive housing units in each council district.
The shelter program is modeled after Garcetti's planned trailer compound on a city-owned parking lot near Olvera Street. The trailers are scheduled to open this summer and hold beds, toilets, showers, and mental health services.
Szabo said the city will try to prevent street encampments from forming again in communities that agree to host the new shelters. "We won't allow for reencampment in those targeted areas."
The encampment cleanups are controversial, with homeless people complaining that their belongings have been taken away. Officials say the sweeps are necessary to protect against diseases, including hepatitis A, and to keep public walkways clear.
Under the mayor's proposal, neighborhoods that accept shelters would get extra sanitation crews and HOPE teams. The Homeless Outreach and Proactive Engagement teams, led by the LAPD, offer shelter and services to camp residents.
Stuart Waldman, president of the business group Valley Industry and Commerce Assn., praised the mayor's homelessness goals but questioned whether neighborhoods would support the plan.
"We have trouble getting community support for 100-unit apartment buildings, so I can't imagine them supporting camps that size," Waldman said.
Councilman Mike Bonin said the mayor's proposal marks a "significant financial investment" to get people off the street, and a shift in city strategy. "The only way to reduce encampments is to provide alternatives," he said. "It's either shelter or sidewalks."
The city has an alarming lack of shelters for the street population, Szabo said.
"There is virtually nothing available on the Westside, there is virtually nothing available in the Valley, each and every night. If there is any availability, it's generally in the skid row area," he said.
Garcetti's proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-19 also allocates $429 million toward homelessness, compared with about $180 million budgeted last year.
The majority of the increase is revenue from Proposition HHH, a voter-backed bond measure to fund the construction of permanent supportive housing.
Times staff writer Liam Dillon contributed to this report.
By this time most of the fall 2018 pilots have been shot and screened. Notes have been given, and final cuts will come in and then be sent out for the dreaded pilot testing process.
I finally sat down over the weekend and went through the descriptions, casting and auspices for the 70 or so pilots coming out of the five broadcast networks, and I thought I would give you some of my initial reactions, which I am sure have already been expressed by the myriad of TV pundits. I do believe that you can c...
Coming out of this season I would say that there were four shows that you could define as a success: "Young Sheldon," "The Good Doctor," "9-1-1" and "Roseanne." That's it.
"Young Sheldon" was a slam dunk and was well executed. CBS was also smart in keeping it behind "The Big Bang Theory" for the entire season since scheduling still matters. "Roseanne" was the right reboot in the right time and is part of a phase that will continue into next season.
The dramas share two things in common. They both have A-list auspices. David Shore was there for the entire run of "House," and he brings that talent to "The Good Doctor." Ryan Murphy is, well, Ryan Murphy, and bringing his train-wreck vision to a conventional format resulted in a solid and entertaining show in "9-1-1....
The other thing "9-1-1" and "The Good Doctor" share in common is that they are both "healing" shows. They are both about saving lives.
A year earlier, "This Is Us" exploded on the TV landscape. It's rare that a pilot can surprise me, but that one did. It's not my kind of show in that I could see that the driver was going to involve manipulating emotions (nothing wrong with that), but you could sense that NBC was on to something.
I bring this all up because when you look at the entire development slate, there is only one medical drama, maybe one or two other pilots that you could describe as "healing" shows, and virtually no family dramas in the vein of "This Is Us."
This is nothing new in the business, and it's tied into the current development cycle. Each network has a development budget for pilot scripts and pilots. It's based on how many new hours will be needed for the FOLLOWING season, a ratio of scripts to pilots and how many pilots are needed for those hours, assuming some ...
Tomorrow I'll talk about why this often results in pilot development being a year behind in responding to the popularity of product, and I'll also talk a bit about the themes in pilots this year.
You can question me at masked.scheduler@gmail.com and tweet me @maskedscheduler.
Ratings for “The Voice” dropped some on Monday, allowing a steady “American Idol” to come very close to a tie among adults 18-49.
The CW was down week to week, as both “Supergirl” (series low 0.4) and “iZombie” (0.2) lost a tenth of a point. “The Resident” also slipped a tenth to 0.8 on FOX. “Lucifer” (0.7) held steady, as did “Good Girls” (0.9) on NBC and “The Crossing” (0.7) on ABC.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) Kenneth Ogbe and Ivory Young each scored 16 points and led Utah Valley to a surprise 84-72 win against New Mexico State Thursday night, ending the Aggies’ 14-game home win streak.
New Mexico State entered the game with a five-game winning streak against the Wolverines. Utah Valley hadn’t beaten the Aggies since Feb. 27, 2014 in a 66-61 overtime win at Orem, Utah.
Utah Valley (12-15, 4-8 Western Athletic) entered Thursday’s game having lost four of its last five. The Wolverines used a 22-3 run over a 7 1/2-minute span in the second half to stun the Aggies and grabbed a 69-52 lead on Ogbe’s 3 with 6:45 left to play.
Young was near perfect from the floor making all four of his shots and 7 for 8 from the foul line. Brandon Randolph finished with 15 points and Jordan Poydras had 14 for the Wolverines, who shot 27 for 49 (55 percent) from the field.
Ian Baker had 21 points for New Mexico State (23-5, 9-3), Matt Taylor 11, Jemerrio Jones and Braxton Huggins 10 each and Eli Chuha grabbed 10 boards. The Aggies shot 27 for 70 from the floor (39 percent), 5 for 27 from 3 (19 percent) and 13 for 28 (46 percent) from the foul line.
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The Lakeland Police department is reviewing a video that shows officers engaged in a struggle with a man under the US 98 North and I-4 overpass.
Joel Alfaro took the video and posted it to Facebook on Tuesday evening.
"Earlier this afternoon, the Lakeland Police Department was notified about a social media post showing two of our officers in a struggle with a subject under the 98 North and I-4 overpass that took place around 4:20 p.m. We have reviewed the video, and it is understandable that some may form an opinion based solely on ...
Then around 11:00 Tuesday night, they posted a lengthier post detailing what happened before Alfaro hit record.
According to the post, Officer J.R. West saw 38-year-old Justin Abbott sleeping on the side of US 98 North under the I-4 overpass and approached him to explained it was too dangerous to sleep there. He then gave Abbott a warning for trespassing and told him to leave. At that point in time, Officer DeAngelo Anthony arri...
When Abbott refused to leave, both officers tried taking him into custody, but Abbott struggled with them and pushed Officer Anthony. That sent all of them tumbling to the ground.
As they continued to struggle, Officer West decided to use his taser on Abbott. When the taser failed to stop Abbott, he reached for West's taser - and that is where the video begins.
According to the department, "both officers used various physical tactics, including strikes to the upper torso, in an attempt to gain control of Abbott and take him into custody."
They said their "preliminary investigation shows that Officer West and Officer Anthony were justified in their response and acted within their Use Of Force policy."
Abbott has been charged with trespassing and resisting with violence.
The incident is still undergoing administrative review, which according to the Lakeland Police Department, is standard protocol in use of force cases.
IPhone users are being warned about a scam email purporting to be from the Apple iTunes Store.
The email claims that your order as been placed and that if you did not authorise the purchase, you need to click a ‘cancel’ link.
But the email is not from Apple and is a phishing scam designed to trick people into sending their Apple ID and other financial information.
If you click the ‘cancel’ link you will be taken to a fraudulent website, which looks like the real Apple ID login page. After entering your ID and password you are then taken to a fake site, which contains the bogus cancellation form, which asks for your personal details, including credit card numbers.
If you receive such an email, do not click any links or open any attachments that it contains.
Apple say it is always safest to login to your Apple account by entering the address into your browser’s address bar or via a legitimate Apple app.
Cubs manager Lou Piniella turned 64 on Tuesday, and he wanted just two presents. “I want to get (Alfonso) Soriano back and get a win,” Piniella said in the afternoon. The first part was easy. The National Central-leading Cubs activated Soriano off the disabled list before Tuesday night’s showdown with Milwaukee. He had...
BALI, Indonesia, Sep 20 2014 (IPS) - When she talks about the forests in her native Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, Maridiana Deren’s facial expression changes. The calm, almost shy person is transformed into an emotionally charged woman, her fists clench and she stares wide-eyed at whoever is ...
“The ‘boohmi’ (earth) is our mother, the forest our air, the water our blood,” says the activist, who has been taking on mining and oil industries operating in her native island for over a decade.
Deren, who counts herself among the Dayak people, works as a nurse and has had numerous run-ins with powerful, organised and rich commercial entities. They have sometimes been violent – she was once stabbed and on another occasion rammed by a motorcycle.
After years of taking on wealthy corporations, Deren is now facing a new opponent, one she finds even harder to tackle – her own government.
“They want to [designate] our forests as conservation areas, and take them away from us,” she tells IPS.
She alleges that under the guise of the scheme known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), which provides financial incentives for developing countries to cut down on carbon emissions, governments are encroaching on indigenous people’s ancestral lands in remote areas like Kalimantan.
The REDD scheme, which came into effect at the close of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Bali, Indonesia in 2007, works by calculating the amount of carbon stored in a particular forest area and issuing ‘carbon credits’ for the preservation or sustainable management of ...
The carbon credits can then be sold to polluting companies in the North wishing to offset their harmful emissions. Now, according to indigenous communities worldwide, the programme has become just another way for interested parties to strip small communities of their ancestral lands.
It is not only in Indonesia that large, multi-national and multi-million-dollar environment conservation efforts are running headlong into the interests of local communities. In the Asia-Pacific region, India and the Philippines are witnessing similar conflicts of interest, a pattern that is repeated on a global scale,...
In India, activists claim, successive governments have been trying to use the 1980 Forest Conservation Act to take over forests from indigenous communities for decades.
“Now they can use REDD+ as an added reason to take over forests, it is becoming a major issue where communities that have lived off and taken care of forests for generations are deprived of them,” Michael Mazgaonkar, a member of the Indian advisory board at the U.S.-based Global Greengrants Fund, which specialises in s...
In the northern Indian state of Manipur, for instance, the Asian Human Rights Commission reports that forest clearing for the purpose of constructing the Mapithel dam on the Thoubal River in the Ukhrul district has, since 2006, ignored the objections of indigenous communities in the region.
Well-oiled global entities undermining grassroots interests under the guise of ‘development’ is a frequent occurrence, according to Mary Ann Manahan, a programme officer with the think-tank Focus on the Global South in the Philippines.
She takes the example of assistance provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan that devastated the country in late 2013.
“It was a one-billion-dollar loan, that came with all kinds of conditions attached. It stipulated what kind of companies could be [contracted] with the funding” and how the funds could be spent, she said.
“By doing that, the loan limited how local communities could have benefited from the funds by way of employment and other benefits,” Manahan added.
What is clear is that the bulk of that funding goes to governments and large corporations, while only a small portion of it ever reaches the communities who live in areas that are supposedly being protected or rehabilitated.
“Billions of dollars are spent on climate-friendly projects the world over, but very little of that really trickles down to the level of the communities that are affected,” Terry Odendahl, executive director of the Global Greengrants Fund, told IPS.
She and others advocate for donors to take a much closer look at how funds are allocated, and who reaps the benefits. Others argue that without the input of local communities, ancestral wisdom dating back generations could be lost.
Mazgaonkar pointed to the example of development in the Sundarbans, the single largest mangrove forest in the world, extending from India to Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. The region has long been vulnerable to changing climate patterns and the increasing prevalence of natural disasters like cyclones, typhoons and ri...
He said the project went ahead, even though local women advocated growing mangroves as a more viable solution to the problem.
“What is lacking is priorities on how and where we are spending money,” Maxine Burkett, a specialist in climate change policy at the University of Hawaii, told IPS, adding that a clear policy needs to be laid out vis-à-vis development and assistance that impacts indigenous people.
In March, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a collection of organisations that work on land rights for forest dwellers, found that despite the hype on REDD+ it has not led to the predicted increase in recognition of indigenous lands. In fact, recognition of ancestral lands was five times higher between 2002 an...
The report warned that because of the opaque nature of carbon trading laws, governments could use the 2013 Warsaw Framework on REDD+, adopted at last year’s Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 19) held in the Polish capital, to transfer the rights of indigenous co...
New RRI research released last week in the run-up to U.N. Secretary-General’s Climate Summit, said that the 1.64 billion dollars pledged by donors to develop the REDD+ framework and carbon markets could secure the rights of indigenous communities living on 450 million hectares, an area almost half the size of Europe.
In order for that to happen, however, the land rights of indigenous communities have to become a priority among major donors and multilateral institutions.
“Secure land tenure is a prerequisite for the success of climate, poverty reduction and ecosystem conservation initiatives,” according to RRI.
Solved by 1901. Nikola Tesla’s Radiant Energy, Solar Patent. No. 685,957. Nov. 5 1901]. NIKOLA TESLA. APPARATUS FOR THE UTILIZATION OF RADIANT ENERGY. (Filed March 21 1901), 6 months prior to the assassination of the US President William McKinley in Buffalo at the Temple of Music on September 6th 1901, just 30 seconds ...
Finding and connecting similar patterns of behavior throughout Islamic history is one of the most objective ways of determining whether something is or is not part of Muslim civilization.
Consider the issue of forced conversion in Islam, a phenomenon that has a long history with ample precedents. Indeed, from its inception, most of those who embraced Islam did so under duress, beginning with the Ridda wars and during the age of conquests, and to escape dhimmi status. This is a simple fact.
then started questioning them about their faith and later tried to force them to recite the Kalma [Islamic conversion creed, "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger"] and become Muslims, telling them that this was the only way they could live peacefully in the city. They also offered monetary incentiv...
"After cajoling the two Christians for some time," the Muslims pretended to go away, only to ram their car into the Christians: "The Muslims [then] got out of the car armed with iron rods and attacked Ishfaq and Naeem, shouting that they should either recite the Kalma or be prepared to die…severely beating[ing] the two...
In the year 1522, two Christian brothers in Ottoman Egypt were denounced by local Muslims "mostly out of jealousy and envy"; so the emir arrested them and "began flattering them and asking questions about their faith." The brothers made it clear that they were firm adherents of Christianity. "The Muslims in the audienc...
The Muslim judge deciding their case told the Christian brothers that if they simply said the Kalma and embraced Islam, they "would be given many honors and much glory"; otherwise, they would die. At that point, the brothers' mother came to support them, but "when the Muslims in court noticed her, they fell upon her, t...
After rebuking them for their savagery, the brothers reaffirmed that they would never deny Christianity for Islam, adding "behold our necks, do what you wish, but do it quickly."
Hearing this, one of the Muslims in the audience became so angry that he took out a knife and stabbed Kyrmidoles [one brother] in the chest, while someone else kicked him as hard as possible, and another dropped a large stone on his head. Finally, they plucked out his eyes. Thus Kyrmidoles died. As for Gabriel [his bro...
The Muslims first begin by talking to the Christians about their religion, suggesting they convert to Islam.

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