themselves and you could be happy, that unfortunately was not the case and Carlos's wife ended up leaving him alone with their young son Luis. The main difficulties that Carlos and Luis face are that they live in a rough neighborhood in south central Los Angeles and even though Carlos has what seems to be a steady job with Blasco, Carlos is unable to save up the money needed to move to a better location. The biggest obstacle Carlos faces is when in an effort to become self employed and borrowing twelve
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The program that I chose to implement into my hometown is “How to Build a Cooler City.” “From 1878 to 2005, Los Angeles temperatures rose 4 degrees on average, climbing from around 62 degrees to 66 degrees.” Urban areas such as Downtown Los Angeles are likely to rise 4 to 4.5 degrees within the next 10 years. My goal is to cut the cost of electric energy and make the city of Los Angeles a much cooler place. The first challenge I will have is to go to city council and try to get them to back
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Business Crimes Business Crimes Recently the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Donald Sterling made some racial comments that were recorded by an associate. These comments caught the National Basketball association by surprise and his ownership with the team could be in jeopardy. The day to day business operations have be handed over to the chief operating officer of the team. Donald Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million by Commissioner Adam
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Donald Sterling’s fall from the NBA Controversy has surrounded Donald Sterling for much of 2014. Donald was the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers for thirty three seasons until April 2014. He was banned for life after a recording of a conversation between himself and a female friend was released to the public. In the recording Sterling was irritated over a photo his female friend posted on Instagram, where she was with Basketball Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson. Sterling said to her: "It bothers
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LA Galaxy Players Will Participate in Beach Clean Up Carson, CA (Wednesday, April 8, 2015) – In celebration of 20 years in Major League Soccer, the LA Galaxy will be participating in 20 acts of community service within Los Angeles throughout the 2015 season. All of these events will be open to the community, fans, players, alumni, and supporters of the LA Galaxy. This Friday, April 10 from 1-4 p.m. the team will take part in cleaning up Redondo Beach. Several well-known
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takes place in modern day Los Angeles and revolves around an alcoholic superhero named Hancock that doesn’t care about his appearance and seen as a homeless, played by Will Smith. Unfortunately, due to his alcoholic problems, when he is saving people and taking out criminals, he causes a lot of property damage and puts other civilians in danger, which makes the citizens of Los Angeles somewhat despise him. The beginning of the movie follows Hancock in his adventures around Los Angeles bringing criminals
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Adam Rubenacker Mrs. Ellis English 1101 24 October 2011 The Comparison of Two NBA Lockout Articles The NBA lockout is when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the NBA and the NBA Player's Association (NBAPA) expires. It began on July 1, 2011 and has resulted in the cancellation of regular season games. The NBA wants to implement a "hard" cap and decrease the salary cap, below $50 million. In the meantime, players cannot get signed, teams cannot report to training
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YAS Fitness Studios were created and founded in 2001 by Kimberly Fowler. Kimberly Fowler is an avid athlete and actively involved in the day-to-day operation of her company, including teaching and a regular in class. YAS Fitness Studio downtown Los Angeles is located on 8th and Hope Street. The studio opened in 2010. The studio offers 3 types of fitness classes: indoor cycling, YOGA for Athletes all level, and Yoga for Athletes Ripped. Indoor cycling is a high-energy 40 minutes class taught
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mark is inherently strong and some may say it’s suggestive or at least descriptive with secondary meaning. This is because the dodgers have been using the same if not similar mark they use today since 1960 when they moved from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California. It is likely that using the same mark for the past six decades shows the Dodgers have a strong mark and the Chargers using a similar mark may dilute the
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9/27/2010 Doug Hanlon 55 May Everett,Ma 02149 Mr. Jeff Eldersveld Staples Center 1111 S. Figueroa St. Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA, 90015 Business: (213) 742-7500 Dear Mr. Eldersveld, I am very interested in applying for the 2010-2011 Clippers Team Writer Internship. For the past year and a half I have been working with the Sports Information Director at Mount Ida College. During this time I have conducted interviews, press conferences, published
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