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Rare lightning strikes all over Southern California Support grows kill 20-year old and injure several others for 2nd by jennifer schlueter annual “Keep On the weekend of July 25Calm & Beat 27, Southern California experienced a rare weather phenomenon for its region: Hundreds H.E.A.T. of lightning strikes jolted LA and its surrounding counties. Rocking & In Venice Beach, one strike proved to be fatal for 20-year Rally” to take old Nick Fagnano, who was in the ocean when it hit him, and injured 13 additional beachgoplace at ers. On Santa Catalina Island, a 57-year-old golfer was struck, Chapman hospitalized, and according to Steve Denning, a law enforcement technician with the Los University Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, in a stable condition. A National Weather Service map shows 858 lightning bolts in San Bernardino, 228 in Western and Central Riverside County, 248 in inland San Diego County, 75 in San Diego County along the coast, and 28 in LA County. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than a total of 1,400 lightning strikes were reported in Southern California (see National Weather Service map) throughout the weekend and the following Monday of July 25-28. James Thomas, a meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
Commission Director General Jorge Rescala Pérez. “Mexico and California have a long and rich history of environmental cooperation, and recognize each other as strategic partners in coping with climate change challenges and
Just a few months to go and the support keeps growing as new sponsors sign on to stand up against human exploitation and trafficking for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) 2nd Annual “Keep Calm and Beat H.E.A.T. Rocking & Rally” this coming October. The event will be held on Oct. 24, 2014, at Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange. This is the first year Chapman University will co-host and co-sponsor this event to fight against Human Trafficking and Exploitation (H.E.A.T.) as part of the initiative to go after perpetrators of human trafficking and exploitation with vigor, while taking a comprehensive approach to solve the problem and bring community stakeholders together. There will be an all-day symposium, food trucks, informational booths, and a rock concert at this event. The symposium will be held to increase community awareness on human exploitation and trafficking, the secondlargest criminal enterprise in the nation and a $32 billion a
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ministration told the LA Times: “It’s an unusual amount of lightning strikes... for any time of year for that matter.” The lightning resulted from an unusual high-pressure system pulling hot, moist air up from the Gulf of California and Mexico towards the Southern California coastlines, explained
climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the LA Times. “Coastal Southern California is virtually lightning proof,” he added. “Because it’s so unusual, people are not sensitized to the dangers.” Please see page 2
Governor Brown signs agreement with Mexico to reduce dangerous greenhouse gases On the first full day of California’s Trade and Investment Mission to Mexico, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Mexican environment officials signed an agreement to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. “California can’t do it alone and with this new part-
nership with Mexico we can make real progress on reducing dangerous greenhouse gases,” said Governor Brown. July 28th’s agreement was signed by Governor Brown, Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Rodolfo Lacy and Mexican National Forestry