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In 1944, the land between Midway Drive and Sports Arena Boulevard (then Frontier Street) became combed with the short streets of a wartime housing project. After the war, transients lived in the area. One was Barbara Wood Graham, a party girl who died in the electric chair in 1955 (Susan Hayward won an Oscar for playing her in I Want to Live!). Another was the German scientist Arthur Rudolph, whose Saturn rockets took us to the moon.

By Margot Sheehan, Nov. 5, 1992 | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Life magazine story, March 1972

The scandal that ultimately cost San Diego the GOP convention broke on February 29, 1972, with syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reporting that he had obtained a confidential internal memo from ITT lobbyist Dita Beard that stated the $400,000 convention contribution would favorably influence the federal antitrust action. The story made headlines in papers across the country the following day, while the Union buried it in the fifth paragraph of an article on local convention fundraising.

By Thomas K. Arnold, Jan. 26, 1995 | Read full article

When Pappy acquired part of the estate of actor Leo Carrillo, it inflated his hoard beyond the museum's capacity, so he made a deal with Old Town State Park in 1972. He'd contribute a chunk of money to help build what is now Seeley Stables if the state would take over the management of the Hazard collection. If you go upstairs into the loft, you'll find a couple of those photos of an Old West hanging.

By Matthew Alice, Nov. 7, 2002 | Read full article

Starr lets former councilmember Valerie Stallings off easy for accepting gifts from Padres majority owner John Moores. Starr says Stallings invested in an initial public offering of a stock "recommended to her" by Moores. Actually, Moores put her on the exclusive friends-and-family list of a new issue. That means she got in at the offering price of $15 while others paid much more. It soared, and she made 267 percent in less than a month.

By Don Bauder, Sept. 23, 2004 | Read full article

Mission

The years preceding Americas entry into World War II introduced more neighborhood theaters like the Roxy (1939) in Pacific Beach, the Strand in Ocean Beach, and three in the Logan Heights area: the Coronet (1939) at 1792 Logan, the Metro (later renamed the Corral) at 2175 Logan, and the Victory (1941) at 25th and Imperial. The Victory and Coronet have vanished, the latter razed to make an entrance/exit for I-5, but the Metros building is still up.

By Rick Geary, June 2, 1977 | Read full article

There are 29 Cedar streets, 28 Elm variations, 12 Eucalyptus, 18 Acacias, 15 Oaks, and 27 Palms.

Weve got twenty-nine Cedar streets, avenues, roads, lanes, and ways; fourteen Evergreens; twenty-eight Elm variations, twelve Eucalyptus variations, eighteen Acacias, fifteen Oaks, and twenty-seven Palms. Because olives were the principal orchard trees in San Diegos salad days, there are now thirty-six Olive variations. And sixteen Avocado streets seasoned with several varieties of Haas and Fuertes. Weve got approximately a hundred varieties of Vista and approximately fifty varieties of Hill, including Hillsides, Hillcrests, Hill-views, and Hilltops.

By Sue Garson, Oct. 20, 1983 | Read full article

It's not easy staying green

Tree specialist Bill Nelson has been retained to oversee the trees new fitness program. Although other arborists claim the tree can live another 100 years, Nelson believes it has only another 20 to 30 years left. He says the best way to maintain the tree is to establish a system of absorbing roots beneath the canopy, rather than allow them to remain out under the asphalt. Hes doing this through a regimen of watering, feeding, and mulching.

By Neal Matthews, June 20, 1991 | Read full article

By the time you hear the noise, it's too late to sue

When the first lawsuits were filed against the port in 1986, 1200 families in 12 legal actions were claiming damages for airport noise. By the following year, a judge dismissed 500 of the complaints and the rest were consolidated into a single suit. Mates and others who live under the flight path claimed that airport noise was damaging to their health and to the value of their homes in Point Loma, Golden Hill, and Mission Beach.

By Colin Flaherty, April 16, 1992 | Read full article

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Mary Ellen Flaherty-Ludwig will serve the remaining term of Mike Barbis on the Norwalk Board of Education. Barbis' seat was left vacant after he unexpectedly died in September.

The Norwalk Democratic Town Committee District E members voted to appoint Mary Ellen Flaherty-Ludwig to fill the Board of Education seat left vacant after the unexpected death of Mike Barbis.

NORWALK With only one nomination from District E members at the citys Democratic Town Committee meeting on Monday, Mary Ellen Flaherty-Ludwig has been appointed to the vacant Board of Education seat.

The party was charged with filling the seat left vacant by board member Mike Barbis, who unexpectedly died in September. Since it was a district seat, only District E members of the Norwalk Democratic Party could nominate and vote for his replacement.

Kevin Tepas nominated Flaherty-Ludwig, while his fellow District E members Nora Niedzielski-Eichner and Colin Hosten seconded the nomination. Flaherty-Ludwig was recommended by members of the Norwalk Democrats District E committee who met last week.

Flaherty-Ludwig is a retired math and science teacher who taught at the middle school, high school and university levels for 44 years. After retiring from Darien Public Schools, she mentored teachers for four years in a Manhattan public school.

My intent is to bring my experience as a teacher and teacher mentor to the Norwalk Board of Education, the Norwalk native said in her letter of intent for the board position.

Flaherty-Ludwig is set to be sworn in by the school board and serve the remainder of Barbis term, which expires in November 2023

Democratic Town Committee Chair Eloisa Melendez chose to delay the appointment due to Barbis sudden passing and to wait for the results of the 2021 election.

emily.morgan@hearstmediact.com

I'm the education reporter for The Hour. I'm a native of Ohio and a graduate of Quinnipiac University. I wrote for my hometown newspaper in Wooster, Ohio for five years, winning several Ohio Associated Press Media Editors' awards, and previously worked as an entertainment reporter for multiple outlets in New York City. I enjoy spending time at the beach, watching crime dramas, and rooting for the New York Mets.

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Jews around the country have recently been celebrating the annual festival of Hanukkah, eating way too many doughnuts, lighting Menorah candles and celebrating one of many stories in their history of managing to not be wiped out.

Like most Jewish festivals, the Hannukah story is something along the lines of, "they tried to kill us, we survived, so let's eat."

Along with all of the expected festivities, we've also seen the expected rise in hatred and anti-Semitic violence, spiking around the world in timely fashion. In Ukraine, a Jewish religious site was desecrated, in New York, Jewish children were physically attacked on the streets of Brooklyn, and right in the centre of London, a group of Jews were surrounded and spat at, chased onto a bus, from where they had to watch their attackers bang on the windows, and raise Nazi salutes to them.

This was a group, with children, on their way to celebrate in central London, a place where they should have felt entirely safe.

You probably won't have heard about all of this. It wasn't a trending hashtag, and it certainly wasn't responded to with an anti-hate or anti-racism campaign by any of the brands or influencers that usually take a stand when it comes to social issues. In the realm of inclusive marketing and social justice marketing, to use David Baddiel's words, Jews don't count.

Why is this the case? I guess there could be two potentially defensible reasons for such a strange lack of support in our apparently purpose-led world. Firstly, perhaps there are not enough Jews to make taking a stand for them a commercial priority. Or secondly, perhaps anti-Semitism is not seen as a major enough issue to put it on the radar of social justice advocates.

Let's take the first one. Is it because there are so few of us that it doesn't make commercial sense? It is true that Jews make up less than 1% of the UK population, however, brands that seek to include and take a stand for marginalised voices don't do this based on a particular group's market size, they do it based on their brand values and social purpose. And when it comes to marginalised voices, they are inherently likely to be a minority group i.e a small market.

What about the second argument - that anti-Semitism is not a major issue and so it doesn't deserve a high level of attention, or effort, to combat it from all the usual players. Setting aside the attacks this week, the quantitative data makes it very clear this is not the case. This last year has seen the largest rise in anti-Jewish hate crimes across the UK. In the first half of 2021, the Community Security Trust reported a 49% increase in anti-Jewish hate incidents in Britain. That's a staggering increase for a group of people that have remained a flat minority of less than 1% of the make-up of this country.

Furthermore, this tidal wave of anti-Semitism isn't a collection of isolated incidents by crazy people. It is also institutional. What could be more institutional than the Equality and Human Rights Commission being called to investigate one of the two leading political parties, the one that is meant to stand for social justice, and concluding that it had committed unlawful acts of anti-Semitism, to the extent that it was legally bound to tackle the unlawful findings of the independent inquiry?

I can easily tell you from my own experience living as a Jew in this country that anti-Semitism is a major issue. But the data above also makes it categorically clear. Something that makes it even more painful, is the lack of interest it is met with by the big voices in social justice, from influencers to social-justice-centred brands that are usually quick to challenge hate with loud and creative voices.

Why is it so invisible? Why is this probably the first Hannukah/anti-Semitism article you have read in our industry press? My personal experience of anti-Semitism leads me to believe that there is still a pervasive unconscious bias when it comes to the age-old racist stereotype of "powerful Jews". Despite all the contemporary evidence above, and despite the systematic murder of Jews every 50 or so years in history around the world, people still see Jews as some "powerful other" that therefore don't face the challenges required to be included in the social justice movement.

The irony is that the creative industries have always attracted Jewish talent, and this is still the case. Although Jewish people in advertising are a tiny minority when it comes to hard numbers, we still make up a significant 2%, according to the All In Census. The challenge is not that our voices do not exist; it's in raising them.

This issue is deeply ingrained in our cultural experience of being Jewish in Britain. Go back just a couple of generations and we were immigrants escaping from places that forced us out for who we were. When we arrived in this country, many of us changed our names to sound more British, and we tried to keep our heads down at work, and keep our visible Jewishness at home, as much as possible.

Calling out a lack of Jewish representation, calling out anti-Semitism, and talking openly about our experience doesn't come naturally. But it becomes an especially tall order against a backdrop of silence.

So, following this year's Hanukkah, where we told the story of age-old Jewish resilience alongside news of rising Jewish hate crimes, I've decided that I'm no longer going to be a silent Jew. Because the longer we are silent about anti-Semitism, the more we let it go unchallenged.

Matthew Waksman is a planning partner at Ogilvy UK

This article first appeared in Campaign.

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When it comes to social justice and inclusive marketing, Jews don't count - PR Week

PR pros and marketers know plenty about Gen Z, the group of Americans born after 1996. In addition to their racial and ethnic diversity and the potential to be the most-educated generation, theyre probably known best for an affinity with social media. Indeed, they average 2 hours and 55 minutes per day on social.

Yet PR pros and marketers have saddled Gen Z with several stereotypes. They reflect Gen Z behavior, but miss the underlying psychology. A better understanding of Gen Z's social media motivation may bolster your targeted campaign.

Peer pressure is an important factor driving Gen Z's heavy engagement. Humans are inherently social and desire a sense of belonging. Gen Z seeks this connection online, having created a rich, quickly evolving culture through social media.

Members of this generation feel pressure to be in the know with the latest humor, nostalgia, lingo and pop-culture references. Remaining current requires consistent engagement, as social media enables rapid virality and changes in trends.

In addition, Gen Z feels pressure to engage with peers on social, which has become an extension of day-to-day interactions. Unspoken rules, which vary by platform, guide online etiquette. For example, in many friend groups, there is an expectation to like and comment. Gen Z is receiving marketing and advertising content while adhering to these online social norms.

While Gen Zs high level of online engagement seems tantalizing for PR and marketers, its rarely a direct line. For instance, engagement often occurs in distracting settings. Theres a lot of automatic processing and users often expend little cognitive effort on content.

When creating content, marketers should be aware of how environments unique to Gen Z affect consumption. For example, much of Gen Z is in school, and students frequently check social media while walking between classes (or even in class).

Furthermore, 66 percent of Gen Z frequently use multiple devices simultaneously. A typical Gen Z is streaming Netflix while checking Instagram. Many descriptions of Gen Z fail to address these environmental factors. Offline behaviors provide important insights to online behaviors.

Moreover, environments Gen Z engages with social media vary by platform. Instagram and Snapchat feature primarily visual content and allow engagement in distracting, public settings.

In contrast, TikTok depends on audio, and users are more likely to use the platform privately. Platform-specific content can be optimized for these settings and their resulting psychological impact.

Social platforms serve as catalysts for word-of-mouth communication amongst Gen Z. As a result, peer content is critical.

While influencers can reach Gen Z, non-influencers also are extremely important. Their low-key content is perceived as raw and authentic, characteristics Gen Z values.

Gen Z greatly enjoys reading and engaging with the comments section on social. Members spend as much or more time on it than viewing original content. Gen Z is quick to post and comment, contributing immediate, blunt reactions. As Gen Z users compete for likes, comments are humorous, dramatic or even antagonistic.

As such, marketers should pay close attention to comments, as they shape and reframe how viewers interpret content. Furthermore, marketers can directly observe Gen Zs communication, gaining insight about lingo, memes and trends.

When creating Gen Z content, consider algorithms. Just as SEO determines web search results, algorithms underlying social media platforms determine which content achieves popularity, and thus, cannot be ignored.

Many algorithms are heavily dependent on engagement. Development of provocative, intriguing, comment-worthy content that stimulates engagement can leverage algorithms to achieve greater reach.

Elise Karinshak is a Foundation Fellow at University of Georgia, class of 2023

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First off, we must acknowledge that when this drinking game started, it was not called "Smirnoff Icing." No, back in the bad old days of 2010, it was called "Bros Icing Bros." As much as this prank has transcended its frat boy roots, it very much started as a trick that fraternity brothers played on each other.

Unlike most other drinking games, the origins of Smirnoff Icing can be precisely traced back to the very beginning. That beginning, we're sorry to say, was an email from some frat bros at the College of Charleston in South Carolina to the website BroBible. The email laid out the two crucial rules of the game: First, that if a friend surprises you with a Smirnoff Ice, you must immediately drop to one knee and drink it, regardless of the setting. Second, if you happen to have a Smirnoff Ice on your person when somebody attempts to Ice you, that unlucky trickster must drink both your Ice and the one they tried to prank you with.

Although the original email to BroBible hid the identity of Smirnoff Icing's inventor, quite soon after that, a South Carolinian who identified himself to Fortuneas "Joe" registered the brosicingbros.com domain name. Whether or not Joe was the true inventor of the fad, he certainly brought it to the mainstream.

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The Untold Truth Of Smirnoff Icing - Mashed