u/DougOsborne

I'm not largely on-board with Amazon for many reasons.

This program, and the general idea of localization of delivery programs and employing people to pedal, are not the worst thing to come along.

Is this what we want Culver City to be known for?

I have a Guild GAD JF-30 12-String acoustic that I bought new around 15 years ago.

The bridge lifted, after a couple of months of the playability getting worse. I keep it in a room that is pretty well climate controlled.

Guild was in transition from being independent to being owned by Fender when they farmed out production of this line to a factory in China. Yamaha has since bought Guild. It's a nice Jumbo maple 12-string sunburst.

I was ready to use it as a learning experience to reset the bridge, and possibly the neck. After researching this, I contacted Yamaha with the original receipt, and they said they would pay for repairs under warranty.

Yamaha gave me three authorized repair shops, all of which were about an hour away (I was surprised, since I live on the Westside of L.A. and there are a couple of good shops much closer. Vez Guitar Academy in Alhambra, CA did a good job, and the guitar now plays and sounds great. It took almost four months, mostly in waiting time from Yamaha for me and the repair shop, but I wasn't in a hurry.

Thank you, Yamaha!

I have a Guild GAD JF-30 12-String acoustic that I bought new around 15 years ago.

The bridge lifted, after a couple of months of the playability getting worse. I keep it in a room that is pretty well climate controlled.

Guild was in transition from being independent to being owned by Fender when they farmed out production of this line to a factory in China. Yamaha has since bought Guild. It's a nice Jumbo maple 12-string sunburst.

I was ready to use it as a learning experience to reset the bridge, and possibly the neck. After researching this, I contacted Yamaha with the original receipt, and they said they would pay for repairs under warranty.

Yamaha gave me three authorized repair shops, all of which were about an hour away (I was surprised, since I live on the Westside of L.A. and there are a couple of good shops much closer. Vez Guitar Academy in Alhambra, CA did a good job, and the guitar now plays and sounds great. It took almost four months, mostly in waiting time from Yamaha for me and the repair shop, but I wasn't in a hurry.

Thank you, Yamaha!

Culver City Police Department
NEWS RELEASE
Jason Sims, Chief of Police

Suspects Arrested Following Culver City Shooting Investigation

On June 24, 2026, Culver City Police officers responded to multiple reports of gunfire in the area of Washington Boulevard and Hughes Avenue. Shortly afterward, officers learned that a gunshot victim had arrived at a nearby hospital for treatment for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

Detectives immediately began investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident. Through the review of evidence, investigators identified a vehicle believed to have been used during the shooting.

Utilizing the automated license plate reader camera system, Detectives subsequently arrested the driver of that vehicle,19-year-old Marryanah Busby of Los Angeles, who was determined to have been involved in the incident and was booked on suspicion of attempted murder.

As the investigation continued, detectives served multiple search warrants. That investigation led detectives to identify 18-year-old Nicholas Laushaul, of Los Angeles, as the suspected shooter.

At approximately 4:00 a.m. on July 27, 2026, members of the Culver City Police Department Emergency Response Team, Crime Impact Team, Special Enforcement Unit, Crisis Response Team, and detectives served a search warrant at a residence in Los Angeles.

Officers safely detained Laushaul without incident and located a loaded firearm. Laushaul was transported to the Culver City Police Department Jail for booking. This arrest is the result of weeks of investigative work involving surveillance, digital evidence, the use of the automated license plate reader camera system, and coordination among multiple Culver City Police Department units. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has filed felony charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury in this case.

The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information related to this case is encouraged to contact the Culver City Police Department Lieutenant Ryan Thompson at (310) 253-6302.

For media inquiries, please contact Public Information Officer Jennifer Atenza at (310) 253-6120 or email jennifer.atenza@culvercity.org.

Heat and humidity are our lives now.

"Many Palisadians and several Los Angeles City Council members have called for public agencies to clear brush on public land next to homes. While that may sound reasonable, it would be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

There are several reasons it is unwise to remove brush from public land.

First, chaparral is the dominant vegetation. If it is removed, grasses and weeds grow in its place. Unlike chaparral, which is fire-resistant except in drought years, grass and weeds die quickly and become far more of a fire hazard.

Second, chaparral has a wide, deep root system that prevents soil erosion and mudslides.

Third, chaparral provides habitat for wildlife; as any hiker in the mountains can see, its bushes are often filled with quail.

Fourth, removing the brush surrounding the Palisades would be impractical and costly. The distance from Sullivan Canyon on the east to the northern Los Angeles city boundary at the ridgeline is approximately 8.3 to 8.8 miles or about 43,800 to 46,500 feet.

That distance matters because most embers land within half a mile to 2 miles of the flame front, and a significant number travel 2 to 3 miles. The largest, lightest embers— lofted into strong updrafts—have occasionally been documented traveling more than 5 miles before igniting new spot fires.

Several factors determine how far embers travel. Stronger winds carry them farther. Large fires create powerful convection columns that lift embers high into the atmosphere. Ridges and canyons channel winds and increase transport distances. And burning eucalyptus bark, pine cones and palm fronds can produce large, long-burning embers.

In sustained 70 mph winds, embers can travel more than 5 miles from the flame front. Illustration courtesy of Jack Allen

The diagram above illustrates how extensive brush clearance would have to be to reduce the chance that embers from a brush fire threaten structures in the Palisades. Removing brush along an eight-mile-by-two-mile perimeter is not out of the question and, given how far embers can travel, it might not even be enough.

There is also the problem of disposal. All the tons of cut brush must go somewhere. It cannot be placed in landfills or burned because burning produces carbon dioxide and methane, worsening climate change. Grinding the brush in a wood chipper is the only practical option, and it is labor-intensive and costly. In Los Angeles, standard rates run $100 to $150 an hour to chip the wood and $150 to $250 an hour for a full crew of two or three people.

The scale is enormous. The area in question amounts to 5,309 to 5,636 acres—roughly 8.3 to 8.8 square miles—of steep hillside. Clearing terrain of that size in Los Angeles County moves out of the realm of standard residential contracting and into multiyear civil engineering and wildland forestry management.

For a project of that scale, the total cost would range from $31.8 million to $112.7 million. That is so high it cannot be justified unless Palisades property owners are willing to pay an assessment. Pacific Palisades has roughly 10,500 to 11,000 property parcels. If enough owners voted to form an assessment district, the cost would come to between $2,272 and $4,285 per parcel.

Even then, because embers can fly over a one-mile cleared zone, clearing that brush would only reduce—not eliminate—the chance that flying embers ignite landscaping and homes in the residential Palisades.

The bottom line is what the landscape will look like once all the brush is removed: eight miles of denuded hillside. With the first heavy rains, this will create mudslides, sending tons of mud down the canyons into the Palisades. In the spring, the normally fire-resistant chaparral will be replaced by flowers and weeds that will die by summer, creating a dangerous fire hazard.

Jack Allen has lived in Pacific Palisades since 1943 and lost his home in the Palisades Fire. A longtime student of wildfire with training and experience fighting it, he has spent years examining brush clearing and prescribed burns as strategies for protecting the community."

I watched PoI in its original run, but my wife had never seen it. We had some good discussions about the operatic violence, Caviezel's off-screen life, etc., but we are really happy to have chosen to binge this and are both invested in the series.

Tonight, we'll watch the final two episodes. Wish us luck!

Let's make Culver City the new Dayton, Ohio.

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In 2018, Melrose Industries acquired GKN Aerospace in a hostile takeover. Melrose openly promoted a “buy, cut, sell” strategy — even describing its approach as “buccaneering.”

Following the takeover, GKN reduced its global manufacturing footprint from 51 facilities to 33, shutting down eight plants across the United States and Europe as part of aggressive cost-cutting efforts.

That same year, California regulators inspected GKN’s Garden Grove facility and cited the company for safety violations involving inadequate maintenance and inspection of active machinery. OSHA separately identified ten violations at the site, including issues tied to equipment maintenance and cooling systems.

In 2019, GKN was fined again over unpaid civil penalties connected to failed inspections and deficient maintenance practices at the same facility.

In 2021, GKN paid nearly $1 million to the South Coast Air Quality Management District for violations that included operating equipment without permits and failing to properly track the use of hazardous chemicals at the Garden Grove plant.

Additional complaint-driven inspections in 2021 and 2022 resulted in further citations.

Then in March 2025, regulators once again issued notices to comply over operating records and equipment registration deficiencies at the same location.

In January 2025, GKN agreed to a $909,935 settlement with state regulators for permit and recordkeeping violations — and continued operating.

On May 22, 2026, the facility’s internal tank cooling system failed. The valve was reportedly inoperable. Attempts to stabilize the system failed. Nearly 50,000 residents across six cities were evacuated, and a State of Emergency was declared.

Regulators documented violations at this facility year after year:

Fines were issued. Penalties were paid. Operations continued.

No shutdown. No mandated structural overhaul. No permanent remediation requirement.

For a corporation reporting £3.6 billion in annual revenue, the penalties appear small compared to the consequences now absorbed by surrounding communities.

Now 50,000 people are paying the real price.

Very clear analysis from the Edlen Team.

"Looking forward, the path back to a fully functioning community will be measured, not fast. Based on comparable post-disaster recoveries, from Santa Rosa after the 2017 Tubbs Fire to Malibu following Woolsey in 2018, neighborhoods of this scale and complexity typically take a decade or more to fully reconstitute their population. The Palisades will likely follow a similar arc: approximately 80% repopulation over an 8–10 year horizon. This is not pessimism... it's pattern recognition. Recovery of this kind is not just a real estate cycle. It's a layered process involving insurance outcomes, permitting timelines, construction capacity, and hundreds of individual owner decisions playing out asynchronously."