{"id":10598,"date":"2015-08-15T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T22:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10598"},"modified":"2015-08-15T15:07:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T22:07:48","slug":"doubles-and-singles-news-chum-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10598","title":{"rendered":"Doubles and Singles: News Chum for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5009\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px; border: 1px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicobservations.jpg\" alt=\"userpic=observations\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" \/>Now for the rest of the news chum, which seems to fit into the theme of doubles and singles &#8212; that is, we have a bunch of groupa-twos and a few singlets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Family History and Judaism, Intertwined<\/strong>. Two articles present some interesting stories of the juxtaposition of Judaism and families escaping the Holocaust: the first is <a href=\"http:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2015\/08\/10\/capturing-a-legacy-family-run-bel-air-camera-switches-ownership-after-decades\/\">the retirement of the original owners of Bel Air Camera<\/a>, a long time institution in Westwood. I&#8217;ve known the store for ages; never knew the backstory. The second is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/seattle-jews-weigh-becoming-spanish-citizens-500-years-after-expulsion\/\">the Jewish Community of Seattle, which is dealing with the question of whether to accept Spanish citizenship<\/a>. The Seattle community was derived from the Spanish Jewish Community, and there&#8217;s a long tradition of Ladino there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drought Impacts<\/strong>. First, have you ever through about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/article30553818.html\">the impact of letting lawns go gold on the gardners, mowers, and composters<\/a>? Every winner has its losers. Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-shower-heads-20150812-story.html\">even stronger shower head restrictions are about to go into effect<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Times They Are A&#8217;Changin&#8217;<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-hy-cutting-edge-beepi-20150802-story.html#page=1\">Virtual car dealers are growing in popularity<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2969567\/entertainment\/columbia-house-is-the-latest-victim-of-optical-media-s-irrelevance.html#tk.rss_all\">Columbia House files for bankruptcy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>News Businesses of Interest<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/la.eater.com\/2015\/8\/5\/9101067\/cream-ice-cream-sandwich-northridge-new-opening-freebies-giveaway\">Cream opens in Northridge<\/a>;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/offramp\/2015\/08\/13\/44088\/nudie-s-rides-again-rodeo-tailor-to-reopen-with-a\/\">Nudie&#8217;s granddaughter opens a coffeehouse in Newhall<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/OShops\">O opens a shop on Etsy<\/a> with neat stuff at the intersection of wine, wood, and candles; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Off-Kilter-Kilts\/487420404742217?ref=br_rs\">JT is about to open a kilt store in Pasadena<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Privilege.<\/strong> Why do men kill their families, as well as torture them in the divorce process. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2015\/08\/10\/eight_people_dead_in_houston_domestic_homicide_it_s_a_tragedy_but_not_a.html\">It&#8217;s another legacy of male privilege<\/a>. All of this implied privilege is at the heart of so many societal problems. We&#8217;re all aware about the Ferguson case, but a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/562\/the-problem-we-all-live-with\">This American Life looked at a different aspect<\/a>. I disgree with the answer: it isn&#8217;t integration: it is the white and wealthy privilege that permits the schools in the white neighborhoods to have more, and to have more parental involvement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>And Lastly: Bagels<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/08\/06\/429437860\/cut-your-bagel-the-mathematically-correct-way?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=thesalt\">Why you should cut your bagel the mathematically correct way<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now for the rest of the news chum, which seems to fit into the theme of doubles and singles &#8212; that is, we have a bunch of groupa-twos and a few singlets: Family History and Judaism, Intertwined. Two articles present some interesting stories of the juxtaposition of Judaism and families escaping the Holocaust: the first <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10598\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,46,56],"tags":[138,171,415],"class_list":["post-10598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-judaism-2","category-news-chum","tag-california","tag-san-fernando-valley","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10599,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598\/revisions\/10599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}