The Luminaries and Novas of Torrance Memorial Medical Center are non-profit volunteer groups founded in 1990 providing services and financial donations to the hospital. To date, they have donated over $530,000 to support many important hospital projects.

Storyline: At Caltech a theoretical cosmologist from U. Penn. describes a new form of matter that he has invented. Impossible! Exclaims a Nobel Prize winner in physics. An experimental scientist announces the creation of this “impossible” material, but is not believed, and nearly loses his research position. This stranger-than-fiction tale takes us to the desolate tundra in Far Eastern Russia and to a meteorite created at the birth of the Solar System.

We are currently wading through the dreamy, sometimes murky waters of Pisces season, looking ahead to what we hope will be brighter days in the Spring. This time of year is ruled by The Moon card in the Tarot, which often means feeling lost in a fog of feelings, confusion, and old, repeating patterns that seem to want to tell us something.

As I sit to write this, memories of my childhood are flooding back to the forefront of my thoughts. I was raised on a ranch in Northern California, and our parents bravely had 5 kids to keep track of and feed. Eating was a constant issue in our house because feeding 7 people three times each day meant that my mother had to prepare for and clean up 21 meals per day, 147 meals per week, 651 meals per month.

Quite simply, Los Serenos (losserenos.org ) is an organization of over one hundred docents and volunteers who contribute thousands of hours and dollars every year to enrich the experience of life on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. In conjunction with the establishment of the Point Vicente Interpretive Center (PVIC) (Point-Vicente-Interpretive-Center) by the city of Rancho Palos Verdes (RPV), the organization was formed in 1984 to provide a broad base of knowledge about the contents of the new museum's collection.

At thirteen years of age, Taylor Deen never imagined she would be piloting one of the most iconic aircraft in aviation history, but she did envision becoming a commercial pilot and traveling across the skies to new destinations and experiences.

The dark side of Bitcoin: Misusing cryptography (99bitcoins.com)

In four essays I’ve recounted the evolution of digital money from the Diner’s Club card to the Bitcoin revolution. (See References) The story has been generally rosy. On the other hand, every new technology has the potential to be harmful. Nuclear energy is one example, social media is another. It depends on how the technology is used. In this concluding essay, therefore, I think it’s appropriate to say a few words about the dark side of the cryptocurrency ledger.

When I think of the genesis of some of the most glamorous actresses in the motion picture industry, I often recall the story of Lana Turner sipping a Coke at Schwab’s Drugstore, soon to be discovered as the next top studio star.

You deserve luxury.

This is the bedrock belief that iconic fashion houses have declared for decades.

How you feel, how you walk, the connection you have to those in your everyday circles. That’s the golden thread of the brands you will wear.

Chanel’s little black dress. Louis Vuitton’s Monogram Canvas. Ralph Lauren’s Purple Label. Father, son, House of Gucci.

I’d like to close out this series on cryptocurrency with a look at the people involved, especially the female people. New research has identified the characteristics of those in the crypto space. Market Research Reports – Bitpanda

"One good picture will reestablish me," declared silent screen actress Barbara La Marr before beginning her final film, The Girl from Montmartre (1926), the summer of 1925.

The twenty-nine-year-old former stock theater actress, dancer, vaudevillian, and screenwriter had ascended to international film stardom rapidly, appearing in nearly thirty films in five years, seducing audiences as a sultry vamp.