Just the other day, at the base of the trunk of my neighbor’s eucalyptus tree, I spotted a laurel sumac (Malosma laurina) seedling that had only recently sprouted. I have frequently seen volunteer seedlings of Mexican fan palm, Shamel ash, mulberry, Brazilian pepper, and fig trees in my neighborhood, but never a laurel sumac. Such…
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LOS ANGELES — Sparks coach Curt Miller has nothing but great things to say about his former Connecticut Sun team, which he guided to the WNBA Finals last season. “I think (Connecticut) is the odds-on favorite to win it. I don’t care (if) I say that. I think Connecticut is loaded and so we know…
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Justin “Brick” Howze has a saying: “You can’t be it, if you can’t see it.” “Just seeing Black people at the beach, surfing on waves, encourages others to enjoy the ocean,” Howze said. The majority of surfers in the United States are white males, but a recently released study that tracks the sport’s participation highlights…
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Akin to having 50-yard line seats to the Super Bowl, very few people have experienced selling a company and crafting a lease with the buyer on a building that you own. As you’ll recall, last week I delved into clauses and terms that you – as the owner of the real estate – should consider.…
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Haven’t done the AI thing. Haven’t got the ChatGPT app, apparently the most popular in history. Because now we’re supposed to let the whole evil network of artificial intelligence around the world listen in? Haven’t done one of those fun columns where you instruct the 0s and the 1s to write a column in the…
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Within two weeks we’ll have one of the most important numbers of the year: The funding level of the California Public Employees Retirement System, the nation’s largest public pension fund. It serves 2.2 million members and pays out monthly to 669,876 retirees. On June 30, 2022 it was only 72% funded, down from 81.2% a…
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LOS ANGELES — Another major, another weekend in contention for defending United States amateur champion SamBennett. The former Texas A&M standout posted his second straight round in the 60s on Friday (67-68), leaving him at 5 under and in prime contention to challenge for the U.S. Open title this weekend at Los Angeles Country Club.…
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Several VA Loma Linda Healthcare System whistleblowers have come forward with new allegations of retaliation, harassment and hostile working conditions amid a widening investigation by the House Veterans Affairs Committee, according to a lawmaker. On Friday, committee member U.S. Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, met behind closed doors with VA Loma Linda’s interim director Bryan Arnette,…
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LOS ANGELES ― Dodgers manager Dave Roberts wondered aloud when the team last had as many young arms in their starting rotation as they did on Friday, when Emmet Sheehan was promoted from Double-A Tulsa to start against the San Francisco Giants. The answer: 2016, Roberts’ first season as manager, when Julio Urías, Ross Stripling,…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As Patrick Sandoval has endured a disappointing start to his season, one of the issues he faced was that the new pitch timer didn’t always allow him to get the pitch call that he wanted. So he eliminated that problem by using PitchCom to call his own pitches for the first…
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