👓 Student brawl at Hoover High brings Glendale police, school lockdown | Los Angeles Times

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A brawl between students at Hoover High School in Glendale on Wednesday resulted in the campus and two other nearby schools to be placed under lockdown and brought around two dozen police officers to the area.

👓 Here are the Best Events in Pasadena on Saturday! | Pasadena Now

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Events on October 13, 2018 Saturday, October 13, 2018 Time: 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Black Public Theology and Race In America click for more information » Fuller Seminary’s William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies will host a public symposium on

👓 Google hopes Pixel 3 razzle-dazzle will blind you to its privacy problems | CNET

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The search giant's reputation for security has taken a beating.

👓 Typhus Outbreak Spreads To SGV | South Pasadena, CA Patch

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About 20 residents in Pasadena have been sickened with flea-borne typhus. LA health officials confirmed an outbreak Downtown as well.

👓 I Overcame Glossophobia at WordCamp Riverside | WordCamp Riverside 2018

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After attending my first conference at WordCamp Orange County in 2014 and watching the volunteer speakers passion for design, business, and web development I craved sharing my own experiences, but my fear of public speaking always kept me from submitting a talk. I faced them head on at WordCamp Rive...

👓 Looking Back to Go Forward. | WordCamp Riverside 2018

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It’s been a “totally” hot summer in Southern California and here in The Inland Empire, we’re super ready to celebrate getting through the heat and looking forward to cooler days. We’re grateful for where we are currently and realize that we must also learn from the lessons of our past in o...
I like this theme.

I also notice that the Back to the Future “date” was November 5th, so Camp is on some apropos dates…

👓 Webrings are Dead | Kicks Condor

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This reminds me of these “useless web” sites—this being the primary one—that have managed to stay very popular. (A lot of YouTubers make videos of themselves clicking through this site and I often see kids at school using the site.) And it’s basically a webring. But it’s not a code-based...

👓 Coroner’s Report: Webrings are Dead, Part II | Brad Enslen

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This is Part II of my series on the Death of Webrings.  Part I is here. For this article I am going to use two examples.  I want to make it clear that I am not picking on the example rings, their creators or their intended uses.  I do want to point out what I see as flaws in their model that unle...

👓 Why is Heidi Heitkamp voting against Kavanaugh? | Washington Post

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She is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat running for reelection in November, if not the most vulnerable senator on the ballot in 2018. Her race, in a state President Trump won by 36 points, is ground zero for the argument that the drama surrounding Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court may actually help Republicans keep control of the Senate. And yet, Sen. Heitkamp (D-N.D.) is voting against Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, a decision that thins the margin of error Republicans have to confirm Kavanaugh. That’s despite one local poll taken after Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault showing 60 percent North Dakota voters want Kavanaugh confirmed.

👓 Dishing up lies while proclaiming the love of facts, Trump and Sarah Sanders gaslight America | Washington Post

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President Trump’s assault on truth — and would-be truthtellers — has hit a new low. It may not seem possible, considering that this is a president who has misled or lied to the public thousands of times.

👓 Trump’s attorney suggests he may sue the New York Times. Don’t bet on it. | Washington Post

Read Trump’s attorney suggests he may sue the New York Times. Don’t bet on it. by Paul Farhi (Washington Post)
Donald Trump has threatened to sue all of them for something they wrote or said about him. In each case, the threat proved hollow, sound and fury signifying nothing more than Trump’s peeve at a critic. Trump has sued on occasion, though far less often than he says he will.

👓 11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting | Psychology Today

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Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed. For example, in the movie Gaslight (1944), a man manipulates his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind.

People who gaslight typically use the following techniques:
1. They tell blatant lies.
2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof. 
3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition. 
4. They wear you down over time.
5. Their actions do not match their words.
6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you. 
7. They know confusion weakens people. 
8. They project.
9. They try to align people against you.
10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.
11. They tell you everyone else is a liar.

Interesting to see that this was published on January 22, 2017, immediately after the inaugural of Donald J. Trump.

👓 Pasadena’s “Darth Vader” Building to Be Demolished | ColoradoBoulevard.net

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Last Saturday, a 1936 film called The Shapes of Things to Come played at the Pasadena Main Library, and a block south, two days later on Monday evening, the City Council and attendees got a glimpse of those shapes, in predevelopment plans presented for two significant real estate projects.

👓 Prep, Poly, Westridge Ranked Among Top County High Schools | Outlook Newspapers

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A trio of Pasadena-area high schools scored in the top five among private schools in Los Angeles County, while eight San Gabriel Valley campuses were ranked among the top 20 Catholic scho...