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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón (D) says he is ready to "severely downsize or outright dissolve the City's Hardcore Gang and Major Narcotics units. It occurred to me that the old 'fight fire with fire' strategy may be past its 'use by' date. Not only will dissolving these police units save money that could be better spent elsewhere, it allows us to pioneer new methods for dealing with violent crime." One of the new methods, Gascon suggested is "passive resistance. Few people are aware that Gandhi liberated India from British rule by using passive resistance. This non-violent revolution...

Major League Baseball announced Friday afternoon that the game would be moving out of the Atlanta Braves' Truist Park because of the state's new law that restricts voting rights. The MLB draft is also being moved out of Georgia.Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that "the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's All-Star Game and MLB draft."You can read Manfred's statement in its entirety below. No replacement location was immediately announced.

ALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (WPEC) — A 27-year-old teacher at Grove Park Elementary School in Florida is behind bars for soliciting and traveling to meet a 2-year-old, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. Xavier Donte Alexander, who teaches fourth grade, was arrested Thursday and will appear in court Friday morning. According to Alexander's LinkedIn profile, he's been teaching at Grove Park for six months and has been an employee for the Palm Beach County School District since 2012. Detectives learned through an investigation that Alexander is also a babysitter on Care.com and other nanny websites, according to the sheriff's...

Any doubts over whether hard seltzer was just a “fad” were put to bed after last year’s sales figures came out: In 2019, U.S. drinkers bought more hard seltzer by volume than vodka. To be exact, we purchased 82.5 million 9-liter cases, or almost 2.1 billion 355-milliliter cans, according to global data firm IWSR. In the last 12 months, hard seltzer’s total share of the overall alcohol market in sales by volume rose to 2.6 percent — a small figure until you consider it’s more than a third of the total volume sales of all spirits, which stands at 6.8...

(h/t Secret Agent Man) SARS-COV-2 is uniquely also replicating itself using bacteria cells which changes everything. Explains how it has colonized sewers.Machine translated from Italian“Sars Cov 2 is also a bacteriophage virus. It means that it enters the bacteria and replicates its RNA from there as well. We finally have the scientific evidence, complete with photos of the virus colonizing the bacterium. This means that we are following procedures to be integrated. To eradicate it it takes more than classic viruses. Not only are closures needed, you need to disinfect and prevent. And now there is the scientific rationale for...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy snapped the incredible image this week He altered the image to highlight things the human eye can't see The incredible picture was created by processing the image with an inverted luminance layer to enhance the lunar texture

A Stafford County woman was charged with carjacking and other offenses following a bizarre incident Wednesday in Triangle during which police accuse her of briefly taking a vehicle from one motorist and assaulting another after she blocked traffic on the roadway. Yasento Maria Lobor Koroma, 29, was also charged with DUI, obstruction of justice and assault and battery. She was placed in the Prince William Adult Detention Center. According to a news release from the Prince William Police Department, officers went to the intersection of U.S. 1 and Locust Shade Drive in Triangle at 6:25 p.m. in response to reports...

Give us this day our Daily bread…(Luke 11)We have been learning prayer, according to none less than Jesus. He is the best qualified to teach us to pray, having a perfect and complete knowledge of God; what He requires and desires of men, and of man; His needs, limits, weakness, and our deepest longings. According to the LORD’s prayer, man’s needs are fourfold. We need to pray for our daily bread, as well as to pray for the forgiveness of Sin, and along with that, we must forgive any who have offended us. Finally we must pray for deliverance from...

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s I worked in the music industry, doing marketing for record labels including Sony, Universal and Interscope Geffen A&M. My love for all things smooth, granted as a birthright to all born within the Santa Cruz county lines, never waned. I was often teased for being an aficionado of the soft-rock genre by colleagues at the office and bands I toured with. It was completely uncool to admit to being a fan of glossily produced songs in the era of indie rock, grunge and riot grrrls.

VAERS data as of 4/2/2021 for Covid Vaccines administered in the US.The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Request (cdc.gov)Covid Vaccines top the list of all recorded vaccines listed in the CDC's database only 3 months of startup.It's not just deaths, it's life threatening illnesses (strokes, cardiac arrests,) ER Visits etc. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Request (cdc.gov)https://i.imgur.com/y7djbpj.png Social media images comments by people, or their families before/after their vaccination:

The driver who killed a US Capitol cop before he was gunned down by police is a Nation of Islam devotee from Indiana, according to reports and his social media. Noah Green, 25, who may have been living in Virginia, described himself as a “Follower of Farrakhan” on his Facebook page, in reference to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Green appeared to have come on hard times from his Facebook page reviewed by The Post before his account was taken down.

The judge, a former Los Angeles prosecutor, addressed the lawyers sharply and sarcastically, according to a transcription of his remarks, and turned down their requests to release the defendants. “OK,” Connolly told one of the lawyers. “I’m going to stop you there. Because we’re done. All right. I am not releasing either of these people, with these charges. There are multiple charges. If you wished to present this evidence, you should have been here or had someone represent you.” The commission said the attorneys appeared polite and respectful, and there was “no apparent justification for the judge’s display of impatience...

The term is called vaccine breakthrough. It's defined as someone fully vaccinated who still tests positive for COVID-19 after their last shot. "They've either received the two doses of Moderna or Pfizer and have waited 14 days after that, or the one dose of Johnson & Johnson and 14 days after that, then they test positive," said Nebraska Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Gary Anthone. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services believes there are about 15 cases in the state. Anthone is not surprised. "It's to be expected. The vaccines are not 100% effective against, you know, getting infected...

Labour peer Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, a member of a cross-party group of politicians warning against introducing vaccine passports, has called their possible use a “tool of discrimination, oppression and bullying”. The former shadow attorney general told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It’s dangerous, it’s discriminatory, it’s counter-productive. “It seems to me, and many others, that on the one hand, if this level of intrusion into our lives were to be proportionate, then probably it’s not safe to open up the economy. “On the other hand, if it is safe to open up the economy, to come out of this lockdown...

Rep Matt Gaetz is expected to be indicted within the next few weeks as former Florida official and friend Joel Greenberg is believed to have turned on the congressman in the sex trafficking investigation against him, a source close to the probe tells DailyMail.com. Greenberg, who was elected Seminole County Tax Collector in 2016, is currently in jail awaiting trial after being slapped with a string of charges last year including sex trafficking a minor between the age of 14 and 17. Earlier this week Gaetz was revealed to be under investigation for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with...

Three state senators said they plan to introduce legislation that would prohibit the governor from implementing a vaccine passport program in Pennsylvania. Susquehanna Valley Sens. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-28) and Judy Ward (R-30), along with Sen. Michele Brooks (R-50), said requiring people to show proof of being vaccinated to do certain things is "an extreme government intrusion into people’s personal lives." The lawmakers agree that anyone who wants a vaccine should get one but said there are reasons why some people may choose not to get immunized, and the government should not ask residents to reveal personal health information. News 8...

Professor Chris Whitty said the virus is "not going to go away" and we will have to learn to live with it. The Chief Medical Officer said: "You've got to work out what's a rational policy to this. Here I would differentiate quite a lot between an epidemic or pandemic environment and what you get with, let's say, seasonal flu. Every year, on average somewhere between 7,000 and 9,000 citizens die of flu, most of them very elderly. And every few years you get a bad flu year where 20,000 to 25,000 die of it and it really dominates hospitals....

Explanation: Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the constellation Leo. Relatively bright in planet Earth's sky, NGC 3521 is easily visible in small telescopes but often overlooked by amateur imagers in favor of other Leo spiral galaxies, like M66 and M65. It's hard to overlook in this colorful cosmic portrait, though. Spanning some 50,000 light-years the galaxy sports characteristic patchy, irregular spiral arms laced with dust, pink star forming regions, and clusters of young, blue stars. Remarkably, this deep image also finds NGC 3521 embedded in gigantic bubble-like shells. The shells are likely...

Subheading: ‘2112’ can be considered many things – a band manifesto, a conceptual landmark, maybe even the birth of prog metal – but above all, it was the band’s play for creative independence.The year 1976 was a make-or-break time for Rush. It found them with ambition to spare, a growing cult audience, and a label that wasn’t sure what to do with them. It was time to pull together all of their disparate ideas into one major statement and they accomplish just that with their fourth studio album, 2112. This was the crucial turning point for the band, the album...