Eliza lam6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() “I have arrived in Laland…and there is a monstrosity of a building next to the place I’m staying,” she wrote. ![]() On January 29, 2013, Lam wrote about her arrival in Los Angeles. Lam posted frequently, often with more than a dozen posts every day. You can still read Lam’s blog, nouvelle-nouveau, today. Lam was very active on Tumblr, and nearly a decade after her death, her account remains active. Lam’s Tumblr Account Remains Active & Was Used by LAPD in Their Investigation Into Her DeathĮlisa Lam Tumblr: Her blog is still online today and this is what it looks like /EDShijmWBt “it’s like she was trying to get away from something but couldn’t poor girl,” one person wrote in the comments of the YouTube video.ģ. The doors of the elevator did not close during the video. The video ends with Lam outside of the elevator. At another point, she steps out of the elevator and moves her arms in strange motions. She eventually hits more buttons on the elevator. At one point, she seems to hide behind the elevator’s metal wall. The door does not close, and she repeatedly peeks in and out of the elevator. The video shows Lam enter the elevator and hit several buttons. “Surveillance video of 21-year-old Elisa Lam, the Canadian woman found dead in the rooftop water tank of the Cecil Hotel, shows her acting bizarrely in the Los Angeles hotel’s elevator,” says the description of the YouTube video, posted by CBS News. She had been wearing a red hoodie, black shorts and sandals. In the two minute, 26 second video, she is seen wearing the same clothes found inside the tank, along with her nude body. The video spurred conspiracy theories about her disappearance. The Los Angeles Police Department released video of Lam in an elevator at the Cecil Hotel, after she was reported missing and before her body was found in a water tank. Video Video related to elisa lam, cecil hotel victim: 5 fast facts you need to know T19:44:08-05:00 Lam Was Recorded on Surveillance Footage at the Cecil Hotel Shortly Before Her Mysterious Death & Disappearance “Typing the post code into Google Maps will take you to a town in Canada, to the exact location of where Elisa Lam’s funeral was held.”Ģ. If you perform a whois lookup of Katie’s website you will see that she has purchased domain privacy, however it gives you a post code address: V5G 4S2,” the website said. “The last known person to see Elisa Lam was Katie Orphan, the manager of The Last Book Store. Tales of Crime detailed another odd detail. The government-administered test for tuberculosis was named “Lam-Elisa.” Internet sleuths also questioned the uncanny similarities to the 2005 film, “Dark Water.” Another conspiracy centered around a tuberculosis outbreak in skid row at the time. They questioned how she was able to get onto the locked roof and climb a ladder to get into the tank. However, web sleuths questioned how she died after the elevator surveillance footage was released. On the Netflix documentary, the investigators said she had not been taking all of her prescribed medication in the days leading up to her death. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled Lam’s death was accidental caused by drowning, and listed bipolar disorder as a significant contributing factor. Some guests were reporting low water pressure and murky water, Esquire reported. Her body was found when a hotel employee was sent to check on the water tanks, her full autopsy report says. On February 19, 2013, he body was found nude in a water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel, 20 days after she failed to check out of her room and police opened their investigation. She was last seen alive Januand reported missing. Lam, 21, was on a solo journey when she checked into the Stay on Main in Los Angeles’ skid row, a budget hostel which shares an elevator with the Cecil Hotel. imane □□♀️ | qaramel on ig February 6, 2021 Elisa Lam: From wanting to “visit a parallel universe,” to ending up in a water tank, dead | unsolved mystery /Gi16yP4HSX ![]()
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Potus twitter chrissy teigen6/19/2023 ![]() “Every person released under it is a victory against a system that eats lives, but it is a modest victory at best. “If you asked the President today what was in the First Step Act he couldn’t tell you,” Ifill wrote in a thread responding to New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman. Ifill, whom Legend called a “national treasure,” broke down why Trump’s thread was so misguided about the First Step Act, the bipartisan-backed reform law Trump has championed alongside celebrity advocates like Kim Kardashian-West. ![]() She was blocked from the POTUS account when Donald Trump was the US President. US President Joe Biden has now unfollowed American TV star and model Chrissy Teigen from official account after briefly unblocking and following her. Legend also retweeted Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Joe Biden, Chrissy Teigen, Donald Trump (left to right) 2548. Legend, a vocal advocate for criminal justice reform, also took aim at the president, writing, “Imagine being president of a whole country and spending your Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody - ANYBODY - will praise you.” He advised that First Lady Melania Trump offer her husband praise and echoed his wife in asking that the “ vile” hashtag not trend. Trump signing the First Step Act.This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. The Washington Post notes that a Holt special that re-aired just before the town hall on MSNBC showed Mr. Trump with crude language, then asked Twitter users not to make it a trending term. I’m cackling at the pointless addition of me.”īut she also referred to Mr. Teigen chimed in on her Twitter account, noting, “The absolute best part of his tweet is I literally didn’t speak in the special, nor was I mentioned. Then, another Legend tweet, for emphasis: “Your country needs you, Melania.” Legend was quick to fire back, opining, “Imagine being president of a whole country and spending your Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody–ANYBODY–will praise you. They only talk about the minor players, or people that had nothing to do with it…And the people that so desperately sought my help when everyone else had failed, all they talk about now is Impeaching President Trump!” “….the importance or passage of Criminal Justice Reform. “Anchor” even bring up the subject of President Trump or the Republicans when talking about…. ![]() “….musician and his filthy mouthed wife, are talking now about how great it is – but I didn’t see them around when we needed help getting it passed. But now that it is passed, people that had virtually nothing to do with it are taking the praise. I SIGNED IT INTO LAW, no one else did, & Republicans deserve much credit. “….A man named and many others, were profusely grateful (at that time!). I got it done with a group of Senators & others who would never have gone for it. Trump clearly felt dissed, calling Legend “boring” and Teigen “filthy mouthed.” In four tweets, he said, “When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me as a group and asked for my help. Among other things, it gives nonviolent inmates a chance to shorten their sentences. The special didn’t mention the sweeping First Step Act the president signed into law in late December. The Grammy- and Oscar-winning Legend took part in the town hall filmed inside New York’s Sing Sing prison and hosted by “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt. President Trump got into a war of words on Twitter late Sunday night and early Monday with singer-songwriter John Legend and his wife, model Chrissy Teigen, after an MSNBC special on criminal justice reform. Naval vessel during the D-Day invasion, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Washington. FILE: President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony where Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will present a 48-star flag flown on a U.S. ![]() Western union money transfer tracking6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Never give your Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) to a person who you do not know or worse, don’t trust. ![]() Keep the details of your order somewhere safe to avoid fraud.Check periodically the status of your Western Union order.Top tips for tracking a Western Union money transfer Choose whether you’re the sender or the receiver. Click on Track transfer on Western Union’s website. 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This means that they are likely to live in their property longer than renters, they can make physical changes to their property, and they can build home equity through improvements to their property, all good indicators of solar readiness. Unlike the broader low- and moderate-income population, most manufactured housing residents are homeowners. Most manufactured homes are situated in rural areas. Median income in these households is typically half that of people in other housing types. In some states, the percentage of households in manufactured homes reaches as high as 17%t. Manufactured homes, formerly referred to as mobile homes, account for 6.1% of the nation’s housing stock, totaling more than 8,500,000 residences. A new report by the Clean Energy States Alliance explores the opportunities and challenges of bringing solar to an often-overlooked market that is ripe with potential: manufactured homes. 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Yaba dababada when da beat drop (beat drop) Metamorphosis aporphis of morkle laborth laba gorbalib (laboratory) Labo dababo glabo gluglug guhglable lable (ooh, tongue twister) Soobelooboop babalooboop glabaloogoop (oohoo) Yama da llama llama chgamba gamba (voice crackin’) Shamba da mamba damba gamba (damba gamba) It’s off the top for real, all this off the top (I feel, I feel, I feel) Here’s the full lyrics, which are oddly relatable. Here’s a compilation of some of the TikToks using this sound: One of the most popular versions of the sound is a bit sped up, which gives it a more of a cartoon, innocent quirkiness that enhances the humor. On June 2, 2021, Dville Santa released a music video for the song that depicted a business meeting, which is the perfect setting for Simlish vocal droning. He wrote “i was told to bring this to tik tok □□♂️ if i drop the full song imma go triple vibranium” was told to bring this to tik tok □□♂️ if i drop the full song imma go triple vibranium □ #fyp #viral #foryoupage On April 29, 2021, TikToker and rapper Dville Santa dropped the first hint of track on TikTok. The sound is traced back to just April of this year. Whether the nonsense comes from the talker, the listener, or a little bit of both, it’s a very human experience of feeling like you’re not being heard, or maybe that even you don’t fully understand the topic you’re rambling about. The appeal of Dville Santa’s “Laboratory/Like A Meebo” is that it’s used to perfectly capture that feeling of trying to explain your point of view, or something that you’re passionate about to someone who doesn’t understand, doesn’t care, fully agrees with you anyway so it doesn’t matter or maybe even knows more than you and can see through the bs you’re spilling. 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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. ![]() ![]() ![]() A song made up of pure gibberish is one of TikTok’s more popular trends/sounds. ![]() George lopez yaamava6/18/2023 ![]() – midnight Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information. as well as eateries such as Rock & Brews and George Lopez’s Chingon. Event starts on Saturday, 29 April 2023 and happening at Yaamava Resort & Casino, Highland, CA. Yaamava’ matches the birth of this new building, the birth of this new endeavor, Bird said. at CHINGON a George Lopez restaurant at Yaamava Resort and Casino. Chris Burr Trio Return to George Lopez Kitchen-Chingon. Location: San Manuel Casino, 777 San Manuel Blvd., Highland have it with pork, chicken, carne asada, veggies. ![]() “My grandmother took the measuring spoon out of it and cooked by feel.” George Lopez’s Chingon Kitchen “Sometimes the simplest way to do it is the most difficult,” he said about creating delicious dishes. Lopez grew up eating home-cooked meals and said he strives to bring that same quality, simplicity and freshness to diners as evidenced by home-made tortillas, traditional spit-fired al pastor, a giant red rotisserie filled with chickens and house-made churros. It’s crunchy yet soft and perfectly cooked.” 11 reviews 5 star 3 4 star 2 3 star 2 2 star 1 1 star 3 4 years ago George Lopez's Chingon Kitchen Restaurant Yaamava’ Resort & Casino at San Manuel Initially wanted to come for breakfast buffet but I didn't make it in time so I waited for dinner for steak & seafood weekends special. ![]() “I am stuck on the corn and the taquitos,” Lopez said. George Lopezs Chingon Kitchen at Yaamava Resort & Casino - YouTube On this episode Bonsai is at his local Yaamava Resort & Casino eating at George Lopezs Chingon Kitchen. Then, they choose fillings such as al pastor, shredded chicken or carne asada and add toppings and salsas. Similar to Chipotle, guests walk up to the bright and open kitchen and custom order items such as tacos, burritos, roasted corn, taquitos and even a baked potato. Diana Ross, CNCO and more headed to Southern California casinos next week ![]() Overflow episode 1 bilibili6/18/2023 ![]() ![]() The harem members also have actual lives, goals, and motivations not limited to wanting to be MC’s property (ironic, considering one of them is a literal slave). The very premise of the protagonist having to TRY to be chill already implies that it’s not an attitude that comes to him naturally, deep down he believes that with great power comes great responsibility, so he can’t walk five steps without trying to bring the dead back to life or thwart demonic conspiracies - attracting unwanted attention (everyone with half a brain suspects him to be some kind of a demon) and having companions calling him out on straying from the original goal. This show makes its story work by putting intelligent thought into it. Other isekai shows I’ve mentioned earlier still aren’t worth watching despite interesting protagonists because their writing simply isn’t good enough. What really brings it all together, however, is quality writing. No, he isn’t dense, he is 20-30 years older than her and treats her like an adopted daughter, and, I know this might be shocking for isekai-watching weebs, but when a normal 40-year-old man hears his 15-year-old daughter describe what kind of a man she wants to marry, his first thought isn’t supposed to be, “wow, she wants to marry ME.” Such recontextualizations are more than enough to make the story feel fresh. I’ve seen so many unthinking complaints about the protagonist being dense in regard to one girl’s crush on him. Except he doesn’t treat them as a harem, he treats them as acolytes, that is, half retainers, half pupils, half daughters. Likewise, the supporting cast is just girls that make up the MC’s harem. His version of “redo” isn’t to have sex, it’s to take the chill pill and follow his occult pursuit without getting involved with the fates of the world. ![]() Except he wasn’t an otaku shut-in that regrets masturbating to anime figurines, he was a mastermind occultist that threw his weight around too much, made too many enemies, and ended up betrayed and murdered in a political conspiracy. For example, the protagonist regrets his previous life and wants to have a redo. ![]() Even if all the other elements of the story remain cliched, a unique main character completely recontextualizes them. Just this single change of protagonist is enough to shake up the entire dynamic of the genre. Seeing a 19th-century engineer wrecking medieval knights with dynamite and electricity is the same kind of fun as seeing an oriental occultist wrecking medieval-Europe-inspired-JRPG with curses, ayakashi, paper talismans, and machiavellian scheming. Take a cliched fantasy setting, add a protagonist that normally belongs in a completely different kind of story, watch how he fucks shit up with his out-of-place skillset, toolset, and above all else, mindset. but a meme, yet that novel and this anime have fundamentally the same premise. ![]() Now, there is a meme that Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” is the first-ever isekai novel. In just one season, we have such isekai protagonists as a professional handyman, a legendary king, or, in the case of this show, an onmyouji from a fantasy version of ancient Japan. The secret ingredient all along was having a protagonist with some actual personality rather than a basement-dwelling incel. Winter 2023 marks the truly historical moment when the anime industry has finally figured out how to make generic isekai that isn’t utter trash. The anime version of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.” ![]() |