(Yoonj Kim) They put their plan to empty Los Angeles' most affordable (rent control) buildings on their website. Want to become a real estate mogul like Don John Trump and his racist German dad, F. Christ Trump (his real name)? The way is to join a literal conspiracy of robber barons (either including his son, Barron, or other aspiring billionaires
What NORMAL, usual Russian neighborhood looks like
Buddhism in Russia (Snelling)
(Arisha in Russia) Buddhism is the third-largest religion in Russia, behind Christianity and Islam. As of 2025, it was practiced by approximately 1.4 million Buddhists, representing about 1.0% of the country’s total population [1].
In America we misuse the term "White Russian" as if that were the exception, when it is the largest of Russia's 93 ethnicities. Russia is massive and includes many indigenous peoples from Northern Europe to the Arctic Circle.
We have so many Russian ethnicities! (Eli)
Buddhism is considered one of Russia's traditional religions -- with the only indigenously Buddhist region in the world in Kalmykia -- and is legally a part of Russian historical heritage [2]. Russian dictator Vlad Lenin, a disaffected Christian who became a nominal/official communist-atheist, had at least one indigenously Buddhist relative.
I'm very Asian and 100% Russian
Historically, Buddhism was incorporated into Siberia in the early 17th century [3]. Besides the historical monastic traditions of the Buryats, the Kalmyks (Kalmykia being the only majority Buddhist republic in Europe), the Tuvans, and a part of the Evenki people (in Buryatia) [4], Buddhism is now spreading all over Russia, with many young ethnic Russian converts [5, 6].
Ancient Tartaria/Tartary was probably in Russia.
The main form of Buddhism in Russia is Vajrayana, particularly the Gelukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, to which the Dalai Lama belongs, informally a tradition known as the "Yellow Hats" [6, 7] with other minority Tibetan and non-Tibetan Buddhist schools, such as the Mongolian.
Although Tibetan Buddhism is most often associated with Tibet, it spread into Mongolia. Via Mongolia, Buddhism spread into Siberia before spreading to the rest of Russia.
In the early 20th century, the famous Datsan Gunzechoinei in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) was the northernmost Buddhist temple in Russia. More
The Illuminati has two more weeks to reign and rule before P Diddy's trial gets underway and stars as big as Jay-Z and Beyonce get named as possible co-conspirators, dragged into court to defend themselves after being implicated by Sean Diddy Combs, who suddenly ends up indisposed in his maximum security cells while under watch. He apparently placed a sheet in his [blank] and drained himself of all fluids, succumbing to a kind of "dehydration" that only seems to happen in the Hollywood press when stars do something papers like Variety do not want to mention or name by its name. Queen Bey was shunned by the country music spectacle that is Stagecoach in the neighboring county when Lana Del Rey and even Ke$ha go attention, not to mention all the top rappers going gay country for the stay.
Fans saddle up for kickoff of Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter Tour’
Our God (the Devil?) will take care of us.
(TODAY) April 28, 2025: Beyoncé is set to kick off her highly-anticipated "Cowboy Carter Tour" tonight, Monday, in Los Angeles. But Ticketmaster’s handling of concert prices is drawing criticism from fans once again with other artists like Katy Perry, The Weeknd, Oasis, Bruce Springsteen, and Lady Gaga also set to hit the road. [Check tickets. Seats have been forcibly reassigned.
You trying to throw shade my way, Ms. Swift?
Traffic is horrible due to two other events, a Latin artist in the neighboring venue and Japanese Heritage Night at Dodger Stadium, meaning downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is at an impasse. Plan ahead. Get a WaymoUberLyft and do not plan on being home anytime soon. Doors at 5:00 pm, show at 7:00 pm, tickets still available for as low as $50.] NBC’s Kaylee Hartung reports for TODAY. #beyonce #ladygaga #concert
TODAY, April 28, 2025; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
It is strange how some days on the calendar have too much going on. We have to parties to choose from when we were expecting to enjoy the annual punk rock festivities at the Disneyland House of Blues. California life is tough. Not all SoCal punk bands held up, but the Vandals sure have. Their line of classic singalong songs are a strange juxtaposition to all the capitalist holiday fluff and fanfare. Outside the club, in Disney Town, there's endless shopping, eating, and baby-raising; meanwhile, inside, there will be a festive pit, moshing, jumping around, yelling and screaming the lyrics, and see what insane thing the bassist gets up to. Our personal favorite Vandals' song is "Urban Struggle" (aka "I Want to Be a Cowboy"). It's like, what's the use of Halloween if one can't let loose? Kwanchannukkmas is worse, tinsel for the masses, so this is a fun annual event to consider: The Vandals 29th Annual Christmas Formal | House of Blues Anaheim, OC
Dad rock: Limp Bizkit covers Ludacris' "M*ve B*tch," "Smells Like
Teen Spirit" live in the Netherlands where Fred Durst is persona grata
House of Blues Anaheim at GardenWalk is Orange County's incredible home for live music. This expansive venue features four distinctive and exciting environments under one roof. House of Blues Restaurant is open for dinner. The legendary Foundation Room features a beautiful lounge offering the ultimate star treatment and access to preferred ticketing benefits through the Foundation Room VIP Club membership program. The Parish showcases intimate artist performances and private events and the Music Hall features multiple... Voted Best Live Music Venue, Best Rock Club, and Best Night Club by OC Weekly's Reader's Choice, House of Blues Anaheim is OC's one-stop entertainment spot. Bring the whole family and join us for official pre-show fuel. Reservations are encouraged.
(nature video) Oct. 23, 2024: An isolated plateau in the highlands of southeastern Uzbekistan in Central Asia looks like an expanse of rolling hills. But look closer and a shard of pottery or the stony remnant of an ancient wall might hint at an archeological secret hidden for hundreds of years. Now a team of archeologists have used drone-mounted LiDAR to virtually peel back the layers of sediment and vegetation. Revealing two ancient cities, much larger than previously imagined, built 2,000 meters above sea level. The finding of these urban centers, called Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, at such high altitudes, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought.
Asia (the East) connected with the Roman Empire (the West) for centuries through the Silk Road
A mountaintop discovery is changing everything we knew about the Silk Road
A new LiDAR survey of previously discovered Silk Road sites reveals a more sprawling urban history than first imagined.
An aerial survey of the Tashbulak and Tugunbulak sites in Uzbekistan, Central Adia, uncovered more than 300 medieval archeological features, suggesting a robust urban community.
The Silk Road or Route — which existed from 114 B.C. to 1450 A.D. — was a vital and expansive trade route that connected the Eastern and Western worlds.
A new survey of two archeological sites along the Silk Road has unveiled a stunning new discovery that rewrites our understanding of the famed Eurasian (Europe-Asia) trade route that spanned continents and centuries.
As reported in Newsweek, a new aerial survey of Tashbulak and Tugunbulak — two archeological sites roughly three miles apart in the Uzbekistan mountains — utilized LiDAR (a remote sensing technology that uses laser pulses to penetrate obstacles and create 3D images of a landscape) to reveal more than 300 medieval archeological features.
[Buddhism in Central Asia was prevalent along the Silk Road. Its history there is closely related to the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism during the first millennium of the common era. It has been argued that the spread of Indian culture and religions, especially Buddhism, as far as Sogdia, corresponded to the rule of the Kidarites over the regions from Sogdia to Gandhara [4]. Islam invaded and displaced Buddhism. Uzbekistan [5] and Kazakhstan [6] have the most Buddhists, largely practiced by their Koryo-saram minority, although the former has the lowest percentage of Buddhists. Due to historical Tibetan, Mongol, and Manchurian influence, Kyrgyzstan [7] has the highest percentage of Buddhists in Central Asia. More]
Empires of the Silk Road (C. I. Beckwith)
The two sites, which were discovered in 2011 and 2015, are located 6,562 to 7,218 feet above sea level. At that elevation, the land was unlikely to have supported large-scale urban development at the time, given the difficulties posed to construction and agriculture.
But this new survey — the results of which were published in Nature — indicates that that’s exactly what occurred at Tashbulak and Tugunbulak.
“The LiDAR results indicate that the scale of urbanization in this area was much more expansive than previously known,” Brown University researcher Zachary Silvia told Newsweek.
Silvia, while not involved directly in the study, has published a News & Views article for Nature about the results and singled out the significance of this revelation
“This is the first — and probably only — ancient or medieval city located at this elevation in Central Asia, which forces us to reconsider what we know about urbanization in the area.”
Among the structures discovered by the study’s LiDAR flights were “watchtowers connected with walls along a ridgeline, evidence of terracing, and a central fortress surrounded by walls made of stone and mud brick.”
The Silk Road (Valerie Hansen)
But while this survey revealed what structures were once present at Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, there are still more questions to be answered.
“Typically, remote sensing techniques are one tool within the broader tool kit of the archaeologist,” Silvia noted to Newsweek. “The next step for the team would be to confirm their findings through geophysics — techniques that ‘see’ below the surface — and targeted excavations that can confirm whether or not this is indeed such an extensive settlement. I am optimistic that this is precisely what the team will find in the coming years.” Source
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(BBC Select) Aug. 6, 2024: In June 2013, an international team of archaeologists uncovered a lost urban landscape deep inside the Buddhist Cambodia's jungle, close to the magnificent 12th-century temple complex of Angkor Wat.
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This year’s theme is BOOKS THAT MADE THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
Neighborhoods, whether real or imagined, conventional or boundless, changing for better or worse, bestow an identity. They give us a way to see things – a way to see the world.
A neighborhood’s more than a collection of houses on a network of streets.
A neighborhood could be defined as a collection of people with unique experiences, conditions, and desires, who together form something bigger and more deeply affecting.
It’s where people engender powerful stories together.
“It could be that the neighborhood, not the individual, is the essential unit of social change…when you think in neighborhood terms you see things previously rendered invisible.”
— David Brooks, New York Times
Those bald eagles are totally unreliable, possibly due to DDT contamination of the environment by humans that reaches LA's neighboring forest and waterways at Big Bear Lake, next to Mt. Baldy, which is not named after its nesting eagles.
There are legends of this great bird.
Eaglets are cute and beautiful but, as stated, unreliable. Everyone had their eyes trained on the Eagle Cam. And for what? Nothing but disappointment. Thanks for nothing, corporate polluters, who hurl heavy metals and other contaminants into the atmosphere, landing on bodies of water to poison the fish and selling pellets that kill rodents and poison the birds and mountain lions.
Imagine taking van into the woods to see nature
But good news: the Los Angeles Zoo has succeeded in birthing five critically endangered condors, the majestic vultures of California and other parts of Mexico. (California is, after all, part of Mexico, now divided in two parts, Alta and Baja, but no one has told the birds, who are illegally crossing over into American airspace all the time). There are only approximately 350 condors left in the wild. There are soon to be five more.
Alas, these chicks are not nearly as cute as their hoary cousins of the north. But their mothers and many others may love them all the more for it.
(LA Zoo) California condors have soared in the skies of North America (mostly in Mexico) for some 11,000 years, since the Pleistocene era. Their range once extended across the southern half of North America and along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
With a nine-and-a-half-foot wingspan, these ancient birds can fly more than 100 miles each day in search of carcasses to feed on.
Condors roost on rocky ledges and in treetops, where they can easily launch into the warm air rising in morning thermals.
These vultures are highly intelligent, inquisitive, and social birds. By 1982, the wild population had dwindled down to 22 birds due to human contamination of the environment.
Humans did this largely through lead poisoning from bullets aimed at murdering and injuring living beings, which were left in the carrion (dead beings) the birds consume to survive as they clean up the environment.
In 1987, the last condor was removed from the wild. With a population of just 27 captive birds, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in collaboration with Los Angeles Zoo and the San Diego Zoo began an intensive breeding and reintroduction program.
It eventually increased the population to more than 500 birds. The release of condors bred in captivity with human care began in 1992. So far about 300 California condors have been re-introduced into the wild. More
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A new survey of two archeological sites along the Silk Road has unveiled a stunning new discovery that rewrites our understanding of the famed Eurasian (Europe-Asia) trade route that spanned continents and centuries.
[Buddhism in Central Asia was prevalent along the Silk Road. Its history there is closely related to the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism during the first millennium of the common era. It has been argued that the spread of Indian culture and religions, especially Buddhism, as far as Sogdia, corresponded to the rule of the Kidarites over the regions from Sogdia to Gandhara [4]. Islam invaded and displaced Buddhism. Uzbekistan [5] and Kazakhstan [6] have the most Buddhists, largely practiced by their Koryo-saram minority, although the former has the lowest percentage of Buddhists. Due to historical Tibetan, Mongol, and Manchurian influence, Kyrgyzstan [7] has the highest percentage of Buddhists in Central Asia. More]
Silvia, while not involved directly in the study, has published a News & Views article for Nature about the results and singled out the significance of this revelation
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