query: where does the water in los angeles come from

pos: Water in California show progress towards decreasing its dependency on the excess , or face cuts. The Colorado River Water Use Plan called for Imperial and Coachella Valley agriculture to give up water in order to reallocate within the state. The plan's proposals generated much controversy, and the deadline arrived with no agreement reached. The Department of the Interior reduced MWD's access by . The Los Angeles Aqueduct carries water from the Eastern Sierra Nevada to Los Angeles. The construction of the aqueduct marked the first major water delivery project in California. The city purchased of land in the Owens Valley in order

pos: Los Angeles Aqueduct Los Angeles Aqueduct The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The Owens Valley aqueduct was designed and built by the city's water department, at the time named The Bureau of Los Angeles Aqueduct, under the supervision of the department's Chief Engineer William Mulholland. The system delivers water from the Owens River in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains to Los Angeles, California. In 1971 it was recognized by the American Society of

pos: History of Los Angeles and need new sources of water. Legitimate concerns about water supply were exploited to gain backing for a huge engineering and legal effort to bring more water to the city and allow more development. The city fathers had their eyes on the Owens River, about 250 miles (400 km) northeast of Los Angeles in Inyo County, near the Nevada state line. It was a permanent stream of fresh water fed by the melted snows of the eastern Sierra Nevada. It flowed through the Owens River Valley before emptying into the shallow, saline Owens Lake, where it evaporated. Sometime between 1899

neg: The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere an untruth that one believes to be true does. Conversely, profound or universal truths can actually remove moisture from the air. In the midst of this phenomenon, Matt decides to come out to his traditional Chinese family after his partner, Gus, refuses to marry him until he does. "Water" won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. "The Guardian" called it "deeply personal", while "Lambda Literary" said it was a "standout". "Kirkus Reviews" described it as "so beautiful it hurts;" however, the "Los Angeles Review of Books" described it as "(u)ndoubtedly sweet but also rather sappy." The Water That

neg: Mulholland Dam have revealed Mulholland Dam to be within the state guidelines for dam safety. The Mulholland Dam was portrayed in the 1974 disaster film "Earthquake", where after a large earthquake destroys much of Los Angeles, the dam threatens to collapse and does due to aftershocks. It is also the location of the photograph "Man on Steps, Bowl (The Thinker)" by Hiromu Kira Mulholland Dam The Mulholland Dam is a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dam located in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. Designed with a storage capacity of of water at a maximum depth of , the

neg: Steven Johnson (author) London, cholera rendered this apocalyptic vision a terrifying reality... Johnson traces the courageous and ultimately successful attempt by an anesthetist/scientist/sleuth named John Snow to discover how the disease was transmitted. And he does so in a way that brings to nightmarish, thought-provoking life a world in which a swift but very unpleasant death can be just a glass of water away." Author Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, in "The Los Angeles Times", called 2010's "Where Good Ideas Come From" "a vision of innovation and ideas that is resolutely social, dynamic and material" and "fluidly written, entertaining and smart without being arcane," --

neg: Mike Bonin the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, and the Los Angeles Times. Bonin was re-elected on March 7, 2017, defeating Mark Ryavec and Robin Rudisill. Bonin won District 11 with 71% of the vote. Bonin launched his "Access 11" program shortly after being sworn-into office in order to "bring City Hall to the Westside." The program features "Open Office Hours," where Bonin meets with constituents at Farmers Markets or other community gatherings, "Neighborhood Service Fairs," where Bonin coordinates City departments to come to Westside communities to demonstrate available services (such as emergency preparedness and water

neg: Where Does This Door Go door does go, it is a place that calls for boat shoes, a relaxed attitude, and a returning fan's patience." Harriet Gibsone of "The Guardian" stated, "Packed with cleverly crafted production, "Where Does This Door Go" may be a sonic adventure, but it's not quite slick enough to challenge the current crop of R&B luminaries." August Brown of "Los Angeles Times" stated, ""Where Does This Door Go" feels like a once-promising OK Cupid date that's gone off the rails." Mike Powell of "Rolling Stone" stated, "From modest goals come modest returns." The album debuted at number 30 on the US

neg: Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. on the grounds that the flow of water from an improved portion of a navigable waterway into an unimproved portion of the same waterway does not qualify as a "discharge of a pollutant" under the Clean Water Act. The Los Angeles County Flood Control District (District) is the petitioner in this particular case. The District was established upon adoption of the Los Angeles County Flood Control Act in 1915, after a disastrous regional flood occurred. The District's primary purpose is to provide flood protection, water conservation, recreation, and aesthetic enhancement within its boundaries. As of 1985, the responsibilities and authority

neg: Magic Matt Alan Times. October 26, 1991. Part F - Pg 3 Jump up ^ "KIIS DJ Magic Matt Does a Vanishing Act." Los Angeles Times. October 26, 1991. Part F - Pg 3 [1] Jump up ^ "KIIS-off was his Q to come here." The San Diego Union-Tribune. Mar 26, 1992. Jump up ^ The Radio Genius Interview:Magic Matt Alan! http://www.radiogeniushowprep.com/printable_interviews.htm Jump up ^ "KIIS deejayer runs his 2-6pm show like a high-energy crazed morning program." Los Angeles Times. May 8, 1991. Part F - Pg 1 Jump up ^ "KIIS DJ Magic Matt Does a Vanishing Act." Los Angeles Times. October

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W.B. Mathews River Aqueduct. It was dedicated to him in November 1940.

 W.B. Mathews W.B. Mathews (1865–1931) was a "pioneer figure in the water development program of Los Angeles" and chief counsel for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. He was also city attorney of Los Angeles. William Burgess Mathews was born in Ohio in 1865, and the family moved to Kentucky a year later, where he grew up. He was graduated from Centre College. He moved to Los Angeles in 1889. He died in Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, on December 9, 1931, after an operation for

neg: W.B. Mathews W.B. Mathews W.B. Mathews (1865–1931) was a "pioneer figure in the water development program of Los Angeles" and chief counsel for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. He was also city attorney of Los Angeles. William Burgess Mathews was born in Ohio in 1865, and the family moved to Kentucky a year later, where he grew up. He was graduated from Centre College. He moved to Los Angeles in 1889. He died in Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, on December 9, 1931, after an operation for intestinal trouble. He left his widow, Susan (died December 22, 1946); two

neg: Jack Smith (columnist) highest honor, the Joseph M. Quinn Memorial Award, in 1991. According to his "Los Angeles Times" obituary: "He occasionally joked that he had come close to winning a Pulitzer Prize but that 'one can't talk about having won second place in the Pulitzer Prize.'" In "Westways" Magazine, Smith wrote about driving down the Los Angeles River: "As we came out of the river I saw the "Queen Mary". I thought that it was fitting to have a ship without engines sailing up a river without water." On critics of Los Angeles: "Critics have despised us in Los Angeles as worshippers

neg: Bouquet Reservoir is where it gets much of its water. Both are owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The reservoir's drainage basin is only where the average annual rainfall is . Its purpose is to provide regulation of releases and to store water in case there is an interruption upstream. Bouquet Reservoir Bouquet Reservoir is an artificial lake in the Angeles National Forest of Los Angeles County, California about west from Palmdale. At elevation of in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, the reservoir capacity is and is formed by Bouquet Canyon Dam on Bouquet Creek, which is a tributary

neg: Aimee Semple McPherson cellar to a canary bird. At this time, Los Angeles had become a popular vacation spot. Rather than touring the United States to preach her sermons, McPherson stayed in Los Angeles, drawing audiences from a population which had soared from 100,000 in 1900 to 575,000 people in 1920, and often included many visitors. Wearied by constant traveling and having nowhere to raise a family, McPherson had settled in Los Angeles, where she maintained both a home and a church. McPherson believed that by creating a church in Los Angeles, her audience would come to her from all over the country.

neg: Children's Hospital Los Angeles has also received Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. While most of the children admitted come from Los Angeles County, others come from the seven-county area near Los Angeles that includes Kern, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Additional referrals come from elsewhere around the world. CHLA also has five outpatient specialty centers (located in Arcadia, Encino, Santa Monica, South Bay/Torrance, and Valencia), as well as dozens of specialty physician offices across the Los Angeles Area. Children's Hospital Los Angeles is home to The Saban Research Institute, one of the largest and

neg: Los Angeles Aqueduct formation of the MWD would be limited to a mere 27.65 square miles. Notes Further reading Los Angeles Aqueduct The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The Owens Valley aqueduct was designed and built by the city's water department, at the time named The Bureau of Los Angeles Aqueduct, under the supervision of the department's Chief Engineer William Mulholland. The system delivers water from the Owens River in the Eastern Sierra

neg: 1st Street, Los Angeles on a walking path starting from First Street Bridge. LA voters in 1924 passed the Viaduct Bond Act that would allocate 2 million dollars through a tax, the funds allocated would go towards revitalizing the Downtown Los Angeles Bridges.The friends of the Los Angeles River mobilized the La Gran Limpieza to clean up the Los Angeles River with an educational feature where they invited elementary,middle,high school students.A collaboration the friends of the Los Angeles had was with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps’ Clean & Green program that monitored the water quality at the rivers monthly.Under their collorbarted event efforts activities

neg: Frederick Eaton the platform of establishing a new municipal water system for the city of Los Angeles. One year later in 1899, a 2.09 million US dollar bond measure was approved by city voters for the purchase of Los Angeles City Water Company's system. (the private water company that leased the city's waterworks and provided water to the city) A few years later, Los Angeles was faced with a problem: a burgeoning population that threatened the city's water supply. Desperate to find a new water source for the city, Eaton recalled a camping trip in the Sierras where he "gazed down upon

neg: Castaic Dam if water deliveries from northern California are interrupted, whether due to construction, equipment malfunction or severe drought. Below the dam, the majority of the water flows to Los Angeles via a system known as the Foothill Feeder, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The water travels about south via a diameter pipeline to the Jensen Filtration Plant near San Fernando, where it connects to the municipal water system. The mostly underground, pre-stressed concrete pipe has walls nearly thick. Water from the Foothill Feeder is stored in the smaller Los Angeles Reservoir in the San Fernando Valley. The

neg: Drinking water supply and sanitation in the United States growing cities such as Los Angeles exceeded local water availability, requiring the construction of large pipelines to bring in water from far-away sources. The most spectacular example is the first Los Angeles Aqueduct built between 1905 and 1913 to supply water from the Owens Valley over a distance of 375 km. Drinking water quality standards were first issued in 1914 by the United States Public Health Service. However they were only enforceable for interstate transportation carriers at specific points where water was transferred. Most of the first sewer systems in the United States were built as combined sewers (carrying both

neg: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power city council to relinquish its rights to the water in the Los Angeles River in 1868, which benefited John S. Griffen, Solomon Lazard, and Prudent Beaudry, three already successful businessmen. This change was at the expense of the city of Los Angeles, which could no longer benefit from their municipal water distribution business. The three men created the Los Angeles City Water Company, which violated many of the provisions of its lease on the Los Angeles River, including secretly tunneling under the river to extract 150 times as much water as the lease allowed. As a result, as the end

neg: Nick Patsaouras Nick Patsaouras Nikolas "Nick" Patsaouras (born 1943) is a Greek-American who is best known as an engineer, urban planner, and public official in Los Angeles, California. He served on the board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where he was a proponent of bus transit. Patsaouras Transit Plaza at the MTA Gateway Center is named in his honor. He also served on the City of Los Angeles Board of Zoning Appeals and is the Past President of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners with oversight of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Patsaouras is Chair

neg: California water wars the California water wars and features a fictionalized version of the conflict as a central plot element. California water wars The California water wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights. As Los Angeles expanded during the late 19th century, it began outgrowing its water supply. Fred Eaton, mayor of Los Angeles, realized that water could flow from Owens Valley to Los Angeles via an aqueduct. The aqueduct construction was overseen by William Mulholland and was finished in 1913. The water

neg: William Mulholland bigger than the Los Angeles of the start of the 20th century. The limiting factor to the growth of Los Angeles was its water supply, because it has a semi-arid climate with unreliable rainfall. "If you don't get the water, you won't need it," Mulholland famously remarked. Mulholland shared the vision of a much larger Los Angeles with Frederick Eaton, the mayor of Los Angeles from 1898 through 1900. They both worked together in the private Los Angeles Water Company in the 1880s. In 1886, Eaton became City Engineer and Mulholland became superintendent of the Water Company. When Eaton was

neg: University High School (Los Angeles) as Westchester and Palisades, University High School enrolls a diverse mix of students from its enrollment area and various parts of the city; on top of Westside neighborhoods, Uni draws students from areas such as Koreatown and South Los Angeles. The school also enrolls many Capacity Adjustment Program students which come from areas zoned to heavily overcrowded high schools. Two new LAUSD high schools opened in fall 2005, four more in fall 2006, and one more in fall 2007, decreasing the number of transfer students in other high schools. Underground water from the Kuruvungna springs sustains seven mature Indian Laurel

neg: California water wars California water wars The California water wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights. As Los Angeles expanded during the late 19th century, it began outgrowing its water supply. Fred Eaton, mayor of Los Angeles, realized that water could flow from Owens Valley to Los Angeles via an aqueduct. The aqueduct construction was overseen by William Mulholland and was finished in 1913. The water rights were acquired through political fighting and, as described by one author, "chicanery, subterfuge ... and a

neg: Frederick Eaton Southern California water supplies. He became the Mayor of Los Angeles. Fred Eaton taught himself engineering and was the superintendent of the Los Angeles City Water Company by age 19 in 1875. As head of the Water Company, in 1878 Eaton first hired William Mulholland as a ditch-digger for distribution canals from the Los Angeles River to the city. In 1886 Eaton redesigned and renovated Los Angeles Park, present day Pershing Square, with an 'official park plan,' and it was renamed 6th Street Park. Eaton was the Los Angeles mayor from 1898 to 1900. For the office, he ran on

neg: Phill Wilson "Where will you be when they come?" at a candlelight vigil for AIDS victims, which he also helped organize. After organizing the candlelight vigil in 1983, Wilson began working as the Director of Policy and Planning for the AIDS Project in Los Angeles. During this time he was also the AIDS Coordinator for Los Angeles. From 1990 to 1995, Wilson served as the co-chair of the Los Angeles HIV Health Commission. In 1995, he became a member of the HRSA AIDS Advisory Committee. Wilson took a break from work in 1997, when his disease became too immobilizing. Wilson went back

neg: Living Proof: The Farewell Tour everyone does, come back in five years, I'd be driving around in one of those carts you know, the ones with the joysticks you see in Costco. There are two reasons people come back. Because, like the Stones, they're broke. Again. Or they're old divas who can't wait to be out among their adoring fans. But this, this truly is it." The tour kicked off in Toronto in June 2002 and would continue onward for a record-breaking 326 shows, ending in Los Angeles April 2005. The final show was performed at the Hollywood Bowl, incidentally where Cher made her first

neg: California water wars strategy of lies". Since 1913, the Owens River had been diverted to Los Angeles, causing the ruin of the valley's economy. By the 1920s, so much water was diverted from the Owens Valley that agriculture became difficult. This led to the farmers trying to destroy the aqueduct in 1924. Los Angeles prevailed and kept the water flowing. By 1926, Owens Lake at the bottom of Owens Valley was completely dry due to water diversion. The water needs of Los Angeles kept growing. In 1941, Los Angeles diverted water that previously fed Mono Lake, north of Owens Valley, into the aqueduct.

neg: William Mulholland from the Sierra Nevada in Owens Valley could be delivered to Los Angeles through a gravity-fed aqueduct. From 1902 through 1905, Eaton, Mulholland, and others engaged in underhanded methods to ensure that Los Angeles would gain the water rights in the Owens Valley, blocking the Bureau of Reclamation from building water infrastructure for the residents in Owens Valley. While Eaton engaged in most of the political maneuvrings and chicanery, Mulholland misled Los Angeles public opinion by dramatically understating the amount of water then available for Los Angeles' growth. Mulholland also misled residents of the Owens Valley: he indicated that Los

neg: California water wars D. Walcott. In this meeting, Roosevelt decided in favor of Los Angeles. Many argue that Los Angeles paid an unfairly low price to the farmers of Owens Valley for their land. Gary Libecap of the University of California, Santa Barbara observed that the price that Los Angeles was willing to pay to other water sources per acre-foot of water was far higher than what the farmers received. Farmers who resisted the pressure from Los Angeles until 1930 received the highest price for their land; most farmers sold their land from 1905 to 1925, and received less than Los Angeles was

neg: Ham on Rye his highly dysfunctional parents during his formative years. Like his previous works, "Ham on Rye" is set in Los Angeles where the author grew up. Bukowski keeps his descriptions of his hometown grounded in reality, paying more attention to the people that make up Los Angeles than to the city itself. This type of description does not venerate or idealize the city, a contrast to other so-called "Los Angeles Novels". Scenes outside of Los Angeles show Chinaski as an intruder, as with an early scene where he and his family are chased out of an orange grove. The story takes

neg: Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. the District for its permit violations in four rivers: the Los Angeles River, San Gabriel River, Santa Clara River, and Malibu Creek. The District argued that this issue was resolved by the Court's earlier decision in the "South Florida Water Management Dist. v. Miccosukee Tribe" (541 U.S. 95) case, which determined that transferring water within a single water body does not constitute a "discharge." The District Court initially denied summary judgment because the evidence did not clearly show whether the standards-exceeding pollutant had been discharged through the District's MS4. Thus, the District Court concluded that NRDC failed to show whether

neg: Man Against the Mob of evidence leads Peppard to a group of visiting Chicago mobsters, and ultimately to several of Los Angeles' better known citizens. Set in Los Angeles in the 1940s just after the War, the script has some pointed humour and there are witty lines and dialogue exchanges. Kathryn Harrold plays a War widow who is the love interest. He has lost his wife, Kathryn has lost her husband, and they both slowly get attracted to one another. Steven Stern does a satisfactory job of directing. Peppard's character is heroic, straight and honest, and fights the Mob's attempts to come in from

neg: John F. Kennedy International Airport between Shannon and New York. The flight from New York to London is non-stop. Flights from Kuwait to New York–JFK make a technical stop in Shannon. However, Kuwait Airways does not carry local traffic between Shannon and New York. The flight from New York to Kuwait is nonstop. Qantas flies the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from New York to Brisbane with a stop-over in Los Angeles, where passengers will have the option to connect onto the airline's flights to Sydney and Melbourne. However, the airline does not have eighth freedom rights to solely transport passengers between New York and Los Angeles

neg: Los Angeles Aqueduct (stream) flows to specified minimums, and raise Mono Lake to 6,391 feet above sea level. The agreement limited further exports from the Mono Basin to 10,000 afy. In 1956 the State Department of Water Resources reported that Los Angeles was only exporting of water of the available in the Owens Valley and Mono Basin. Three years later, the State Water Rights Board warned Los Angeles that they could lose rights to the water they were permitted for but not appropriating. Faced with the possible loss of future water supply, Los Angeles began the five-year construction of the aqueduct in 1965

neg: Scott Benzel Various Small Fires, Los Angeles 2014 Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles 2014 Maccarone, New York 2013 "LAAIR / The Traveller’s Companion Addenda" Shanaynay, Paris 2013 "“Scott Benzel” and What does Possession Mean to You?" Human Resources, Los Angeles 2013 "…plays selections from…" Dem Passwords, Los Angeles 2013 "W.W.A.R./ Die Dritte Generation" Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles 2012 "The Academy / The Chthonic at Eleusis" Public Fiction, Los Angeles 2012 "(Threnody) A beginner’s guide to Mao Tse-Tung" Made in LA 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2012 "Funhouse after the Penultimate Sequence of The Lady from Shanghai" Ball of Artists,

neg: History of Los Angeles and 1903, Harrison Gray Otis and his son-in-law successor, Harry Chandler, engaged in successful efforts at buying up cheap land on the northern outskirts of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. At the same time, they enlisted the help of William Mulholland, chief engineer of the Los Angeles Water Department (later the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power or LADWP), and J.B. Lippencott, of the United States Reclamation Service. Lippencott performed water surveys in the Owens Valley for the Service while secretly receiving a salary from the City of Los Angeles. He succeeded in persuading Owens Valley farmers

neg: San Fernando Valley from the United States to Europe. Through the late-19th-century court decision "Los Angeles" v. "Pomeroy", Los Angeles had won the rights to all surface flow water atop an aquifer beneath the valley, without it being within the city limits. San Fernando Valley farmers offered to buy the surplus aqueduct water, but the federal legislation that enabled the construction of the aqueduct prohibited Los Angeles from selling the water outside of the city limits. This induced several independent towns surrounding Los Angeles to vote on and approve annexation to the city so that they could connect to the municipal water system.

neg: Water in California subject to a water rights claim from people/government in the area of origin. That later claim would be senior despite its temporal disconnect. As a result of its pueblo rights, Los Angeles has rights to all or almost all water from the Los Angeles River. In the same way, communities along major water sources such as the Sacramento River theoretically have senior water rights to support growth despite a downstream user holding otherwise senior appropriative water rights. Area of origin laws were passed in reaction to the controversies related to Los Angeles diverting water from the Owens Valley. Despite being

neg: William Mulholland hard to find. On his way to the port at San Pedro to find a ship, he accepted a job digging a well. After a brief stint in Arizona where he prospected for gold and worked on the Colorado River, he obtained a job from Frederick Eaton as Deputy Zanjero (water distributor) with the newly formed Los Angeles City Water Company (LACWC). In Alta California during the Spanish and Mexican administrations, water was delivered to Pueblo de Los Angeles in a large open ditch, the Zanja Madre. The man who tended the ditch was known as a "zanjero". In 1880,

neg: Watts Station was re-opened in 1989 as a customer service office for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and a small museum of Watts history. Mayor Tom Bradley attended the dedication ceremony and said: "Those days of glory are going to return, and we are going to be at the heart of the action right here at the Watts train station." In 1990, the Metro Blue Line resumed train service from Los Angeles to Long Beach along the old Pacific Electric right of way. Though the old Watts Station does not serve as a passenger platform or ticket booth for

neg: Bishop, California in the Owens Valley was purchased from farmers and ranchers at bargain prices by William Mulholland, superintendent of the Water Department for the City of Los Angeles under the guise of a local irrigation project. Their real goal was to send Owens Valley water south to Los Angeles. By the time the now famous Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed in 1913, it was too late for valley residents to take any action. The aqueduct, 223 miles long, used no pumping stations and only gravity siphons to send water from the Owens Valley to Southern California. The City of Los Angeles

neg: Eugene List Eugene List Eugene List (July 6, 1918March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher. Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) was a language teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and his mother, Rose, a pharmacist. Louis Lisnitzer had immigrated to America from Odessa, Russia and settled in Philadelphia, where he met and married Rose, whose family had also come from the same region. In 1937, Louis decided officially to change his name and that of his family to "List". The

neg: Eugene List actively pursuing their respective concert and teaching careers. Eugene List Eugene List (July 6, 1918March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher. Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) was a language teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and his mother, Rose, a pharmacist. Louis Lisnitzer had immigrated to America from Odessa, Russia and settled in Philadelphia, where he met and married Rose, whose family had also come from the same region. In 1937, Louis decided officially to change his name

neg: Smiling Can Backfire Smiling Can Backfire Smiling Can Backfire was the first release by band Pistol Youth, released in 2007. To make the EP each member had to record their own parts of the song from where they were, then send them back to Brad Carter in Los Angeles where they were finally put together. Following the release, Carter invited the other members of Pistol Youth to come visit him in Los Angeles so they could finally meet each other and write music together in the same room. Three tracks from this EP were included on their first album, "My Own Private Amsterdam".

neg: Smiling Can Backfire Smiling Can Backfire Smiling Can Backfire was the first release by band Pistol Youth, released in 2007. To make the EP each member had to record their own parts of the song from where they were, then send them back to Brad Carter in Los Angeles where they were finally put together. Following the release, Carter invited the other members of Pistol Youth to come visit him in Los Angeles so they could finally meet each other and write music together in the same room. Three tracks from this EP were included on their first album, "My Own Private Amsterdam".

neg: Randolph Roque Calvo Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, was also present. Bishop Calvo's coat of arms depicts in the dexter impalement the diocesan arms of Reno. The sinister impalement depicts the Golden Gate Bridge, symbolizing the San Francisco Bay Area where he exercised his presbyteral ministry. The bridge is placed over a field of wavy lines symbolic of Msgr. Calvo's affinity to the water and the outdoor environment. His episcopal motto, "Come Creator Spirit," is placed at the bottom of the shield and derives from the ancient hymn attributed to Rabanus Maurus, "Veni Creator Spiritus", asking the Holy Spirit to assist him

neg: Castaic Dam water continues south via the Sepulveda Feeder, which provides water to Los Angeles proper and other municipalities in south Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The main customer water agencies are the Central Basin Municipal Water District, West Basin Municipal District, and Municipal Water District of Orange County. As many as 12 million people in these areas receive their full or supplemental water supply from Castaic Lake and the feeder system. A smaller portion of the water supply is distributed by the Castaic Lake Water Agency. The service area covers about in Ventura and north Los Angeles counties, providing water to

neg: Ciel (beverage) bottling company in Toluca merged its bottled water brand "De los Angeles" with Ciel and renamed it as "De los Angeles por Ciel" and later as "Ciel De Los Angeles". The "De Los Angeles" trademark is still property of CIMSA. At the end of 2008, Coca-Cola acquired Manantial Water from Grupo Yoli and became part of the Ciel lineup. Ciel products are bottled and distributed by the Coca-Cola system, but only two Coca-Cola bottlers (Bebidas Refrescantes de Nogales and Bepensa) are selling their own bottled water brands, Nana and Cristal respectively, instead of Ciel water in their territories. Arca Continental

neg: Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival aside, Peter Anthony Freeman was elected President and spoke of the importance of the event: “The celebration of Saint David’s is more than commemorating the life of an ancient monk. This is a celebration and a reminder of where we come from. One of the greatest features of America is that it does not ask us to abandon our culture, rather we are asked to contribute our culture, so that the whole may become greater than the sum of the parts.” On October 10, 2015, the WLSC with involvement by Marco Marenghi held several meetups including their second Gymanfa Ganu

neg: Reverse osmosis Rain water collected from storm drains is purified with reverse osmosis water processors and used for landscape irrigation and industrial cooling in Los Angeles and other cities, as a solution to the problem of water shortages. In industry, reverse osmosis removes minerals from boiler water at power plants. The water is distilled multiple times. It must be as pure as possible so it does not leave deposits on the machinery or cause corrosion. The deposits inside or outside the boiler tubes may result in underperformance of the boiler, bringing down its efficiency and resulting in poor steam production, hence poor

neg: San Angeles as a setting for the 1982 movie "Blade Runner" in an early script. Ten years later, the 1993 script for the 1994 movie "Double Dragon", post-earthquake California merged Los Angeles and San Diego into one megalopolis called San Angeles, half of which was under water. At about the same time, the San Angeles concept city also was used in the 1993 movie "Demolition Man", where the earthquake-destroyed Los Angeles of 2010 was replaced by the city San Angeles that stretched from San Diego to Santa Barbara. The Demolition Man/San Angeles, a modified Irvine, California set in the year 2032, maintained

neg: Venice Boulevard into the Crestview neighborhood in West Los Angeles, the SR 187 designation terminates at the intersection with Cadillac Avenue and the ramp carrying traffic from westbound I-10. Continuing to parallel Washington Boulevard directly to its south, as it does for much of its length, the route proceeds between the Pico-Robertson neighborhood in West Los Angeles and Lafayette Square in Mid-City, through the Mid-Wilshire district, through Arlington Heights and Harvard Heights, dips under the Harbor Freeway, and continues into the heart of downtown Los Angeles, where it turns into East 16th Street at Main Street. Metro Local line 33 and Metro

neg: Frederick Eaton Angeles Department of Water and Power, where Crowley Lake was created for the aqueduct system's new storage. Fred Eaton died in Los Angeles in 1934. Frederick Eaton Frederick Eaton (1856 – March 11, 1934), known as Fred Eaton, was a major individual in the transformation and expansion of Los Angeles in the latter 19th century through early 20th century, in California. Eaton was the political mastermind behind the early 20th century Los Angeles Aqueduct project, designed by William Mulholland. Frederick Eaton was born in Los Angeles in 1856, into a prominent family who were among those that founded what has

neg: Los Angeles Aqueduct were first being recognized in the Mono Basin and Owens Valley. This was followed by a series of court ordered restrictions imposed on water exports, which resulted in Los Angeles losing water. In 2005, the Los Angeles Urban Water Management Report reported that forty to fifty percent of the aqueduct's historical supply is now devoted to ecological resources in Mono and Inyo counties. Between 1909 and 1928 the city of Los Angeles grew from 61 square miles to 440 square miles. This was due largely to the aqueduct, and the city's charter was worded such that it stated the City

neg: Big Pine Creek (California) Pine Canal before joining the Owens River near the town of Big Pine. The total average runoff from the watershed is , mostly from Big Pine Creek itself. Despite its name, Big Pine Canal does not divert water from Big Pine Creek, it comes from the Owens River upstream. The canal provides water to the Big Pine area for irrigation, recreation and groundwater recharge. There are no storage dams or reservoirs, but the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power operates a 3.2 MW hydroelectric plant on the creek, which dewaters it. Also, some water is diverted for domestic use

neg: Los Angelenos Angelenos" celebrate the diversity of Los Angeles. They observe that the inhabitants of Los Angeles mostly have come from elsewhere, many far from California. They are searching for something that caused them to come to Los Angeles, but many get seduced by the nice weather and the availability of sex and drugs, and so remain even if they cannot find what they originally came for. Joel notes that these people are "goin' nowhere." Author Ken Bielen describes the song as having a "funky rock beat." Joel biographer Fred Schruers describes it as having "hip-swinging rhythms." Music critic Mark Bego states

neg: Pistol Youth record their own parts of the song from where they were, then send them back to Carter in Los Angeles where they were finally put together. The band's first EP 'Smiling Can Backfire' was released in December 2007. Following the release Carter invited the other members of Pistol Youth to come visit him in Los Angeles so they could finally meet each other and write music together in the same room. Once together they started work on their full-length album My Own Private Amsterdam. A second EP followed in November 2009 'Every Eight Weeks', and their debut album was released

neg: Transit Access Pass for fare collection and has no plans to do so, but the agency does use TAP-capable paper fare media. The TAP functionality is only enabled on one-way, round trip, 7 day, weekend and monthly passes issued for trips to or from a Los Angeles County destination, allowing passengers to transfer to connecting services. While the Orange County Transportation Authority does not use TAP, the agency will honor TAP cards when passengers board lines that directly serve Los Angeles County (lines 1, 30, 38, 42, 46, 50, 60, 560, 701, and 721) and at bus stops where OCTA buses directly connect

neg: History of Los Angeles and mutual water companies to pool their interests and surrender the water rights to 200,000 acres (800 km²) of land to Fred Eaton, Lippencott's agent and a former mayor of Los Angeles. Lippencott then resigned from the Reclamation Service, took a job with the Los Angeles Water Department as assistant to Mulholland, and turned over the Reclamation Service maps, field surveys and stream measurements to the city. Those studies served as the basis for designing the longest aqueduct in the world. By July 1905, the "Times" began to warn the voters of Los Angeles that the county would soon dry

neg: Toluca Lake, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce serves the entire community in Burbank and Los Angeles, while the City of Los Angeles understandably considers it’s neighborhood called Toluca Lake to be entirely within its city boundaries" The geologic Toluca Lake is a body of water located near the district’s southeastern boundaries. The historic natural lake was fed by springs of upwelling groundwater from the substantial Los Angeles River and San Fernando Valley subterranean aquifers. Late 19th and 20th century L. A. DWP well extraction and 1930s concrete river channelization lowered the water table, and currently community wells at the lake’s edges maintain the water

neg: Arrowhead Water Arrowhead Springs Company was formed and the company's water products were marketed in Southern California. The water was transported from Arrowhead Springs, north of San Bernardino, California, to Los Angeles in glass-lined railroad tank cars. In 1917, the bottling operations moved to a new plant in Los Angeles. In 1929, the Arrowhead Springs Company merged with the company that marketed Puritas water, and began co-marketing the Puritas products with Arrowhead water. Puritas water products were first introduced in Los Angeles in 1894. The Arrowhead and Puritas brands were bottled in the same plants and co-marketed until the 1970s. Arrowhead Springs

neg: Joseph Widney Los Angeles, California, where his last home (a Victorian mansion at 3901 Marmion Way) stood. During the Los Angeles boom in 1885, Widney bought of land ( northeast of Los Angeles) comprising the relatively undeveloped township of Hesperia, California. Widney formed the Hesperia Land and Water Company to create a town. Horace Bell, in his "On the Old West Coast", a personal reflection on that period, critiqued the boomers, as a "speculative conspiracy against all that was honest." No houses were built in "Widneyville." The "Los Angeles Times" of June 2, 1887 said that Widney had purchased a hotel and

neg: Water & Power Water & Power Water & Power is a 2013 American crime-drama film set in Latino-centric Eastside Los Angeles, starring Enrique Murciano, Nicholas Gonzalez, Clancy Brown, and Yvette Yates. The film was written and directed by Richard Montoya for SunCast Entertainment, Roberts/David Films and North/South Pictures. Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the powerful and corrupt of Los Angeles. "Water & Power" began as a play by Montoya, premiering at the Mark Taper Forum in 2006.

neg: Samuel Bradford Caswell Santa Susana Mountains east of the Pico Canyon Oilfield near Newhall Pass. 2½ years later, in August 1879, they received a mineral lode patent from the U.S. government, which gave them title to the oilfield. In 1878, he became auditor of the Los Angeles City Water Company, In 1890, he was arrested "on three charges of violating the water ordinance, charging higher rates than those fixed by the Los Angeles Common Council. He was taken before Justice Austin, where the cases were set for trial, and was released on his own recognizance. There is no record of the disposition of

neg: California water wars Angeles, and was instrumental in converting the Water Company to city control in 1902. When the company became the Los Angeles Water Department, Mulholland continued to be superintendent, due to his vast knowledge of the water system. Eaton and Mulholland had a vision of a Los Angeles that would become far larger than the Los Angeles of the start of the 20th century. The limiting factor of Los Angeles's growth was water supply. "If you don't get the water, you won't need it," Mulholland famously remarked. Eaton and Mulholland realized that the Owens Valley had a large amount of runoff

neg: Bishop, California far north as Reno, Nevada, and as far south as Lancaster, California. The Bishop Creek post office operated from 1870 to 1889 and from 1935 to 1938. The first Bishop post office opened in 1889. In order to support the growth aspirations of the City of Los Angeles, water was diverted from the Owens River into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. From the 1910s to 1930s, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power purchased much of the valley for water rights and control. The result was substantial change to Owens Valley cultures and environment. The economy of Bishop

neg: Thomas J. Cuddy then to El Oro within the State of Mexico, where he managed a mine. He suffered from Bright's Disease, his death in El Oro was reported on October 4, 1901. <br> Thomas J. Cuddy Thomas Jefferson Cuddy, known as T.J. Cuddy, nicknamed Tom, (died 1901) was a 19th-century police chief in Los Angeles, California, until bribery forced resignation, and member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the city's governing body. He served a six-month jail term for contempt of court. Cuddy began his career with the city as an assistant "zanjero," working on the Los Angeles water system. He served

neg: Magic Matt Alan on 7 channel. In 2013, Matt Alan landed a supporting role in the motion picture CATEGORY 5, starring Burt Reynolds. Alan's character, Michael Scott Shannon, was named in honor of Alan's real life radio career mentor. "KIIS-off was his Q to come here." The San Diego Union-Tribune. Mar 26, 1992. Jump up ^ The Radio Genius Interview: Magic Matt Alan! http://www.radiogeniushowprep.com/printable_interviews.htm Jump up ^ "KIIS deejay runs his 2-6pm show like a high-energy crazed morning program." Los Angeles Times. May 8, 1991. Part F - Pg 1 Jump up ^ "KIIS DJ Magic Matt Does a Vanishing Act." Los Angeles

neg: California water wars lifetime savings of many people, including payments gained from the sale of homes and ranches to Los Angeles. In the face of the collapse of resistance and of the Owens Valley economy, the attacks on the aqueduct ceased. The City of Los Angeles sponsored a series of repair and maintenance programs for aqueduct facilities, that stimulated some local employment and the Los Angeles water employees were paid a month in advance to bring some relief. But it was impossible to prevent many businesses from closing their doors. The City of Los Angeles continued to purchase private land holdings and their

neg: Jacob Frankfort Jacob Frankfort Jacob Frankfort (born 1801, date of death unknown) was the first Jew to come to Los Angeles. He immigrated from Poland in 1841. He would be joined by other Central European Jews. By 1855, there were 60 Jews living in Los Angeles. Jacob Frankfort arrived in Los Angeles as a member of the Rowland-Workman exploratory party. The party had come to the city from Sante Fe, New Mexico. Jacob's position in the team was bolstered by skills of tailoring and ownership of a rifle. Jacob Frankfort was a wealthy man. This fact is reflected in Rafael Gallardo's declaration

neg: WriteGirl There are screenwriters, technical writers. That variety in our volunteer base gives texture to the organization," said volunteer Teresa Huang in an interview with Los Angeles magazine in 2013. 100% of WriteGirl's graduating seniors have entered college, many on full or partial scholarships. This is particularly noteworthy because many of the girls come from at-risk communities where they are beating the odds just graduating from high school. In its 12th season, WriteGirl will be working with over 350 teens from over 80 high schools throughout Los Angeles County. Each year, WriteGirl publishes an anthology of work from the girls and

neg: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Water Company, he headed a large expansion of the company's water system. Eaton left his position in 1886 when he was elected City Engineer. In his new public position, Eaton devoted his time to updating and expanding the sewer system. Eaton felt that the Los Angeles City Water Company was not serving the citizens of Los Angeles well because of high rates, and because the company frequently paid dividends to its stockholders instead of improving the water system. In early 1897, city engineers began creating plans for an updated water system while the city council informed the Los Angeles City

neg: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project five largest southern California metropolitan sanitation agencies (City of San Diego, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sanitation District, Orange County Sanitation District, and Ventura County). In subsequent years, additional member agencies were added to the JPA. These include water quality regulatory agencies added in 1990 (United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX; California State Water Resources Control Board; Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board; Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board; and San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board) and the largest southern California stormwater management agencies added in 2003 (Ventura County Watershed Protection District, Los Angeles

neg: Los Angeles Recording School from $33,000 - $36,000 for an individual associate's degree. The Los Angeles Recording School is a division of The Los Angeles Film School which is accredited by ACCSC, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges. The Los Angeles Recording School's campus is an urban one and does not have residential facilities. Instead, students either commute or rent nearby apartments. Los Angeles Recording School The Los Angeles Recording School is a private, for-profit college and is a division of the larger Los Angeles Film School. It is located in Hollywood, California. The school offers Associate of Science degree programs in

neg: Julie & Julia reviews. "Los Angeles Times" critic Kenneth Turan commented, "["Julie & Julia"] does it right. A consummate entertainment that echoes the rhythms and attitudes of classic Hollywood, it's a satisfying throwback to those old-fashioned movie fantasies where impossible dreams do come true. And, in this case, it really happened. Twice." "The A.V. Club" gave the film a "C", explaining, ""Julie & Julia" is two movies in one. That's one more movie than it needs to be." "Entertainment Weekly" gave it a "B+". The review by "Slate" was also positive. Streep has been widely praised for her performance as Child. Movie critic

neg: Iva Toguri D'Aquino including confessions from key witnesses that they had perjured themselves at the various stages of their testimonies. Toguri received a pardon in 1977 from U.S. President Gerald Ford. was born in Los Angeles, a daughter of Japanese immigrants. Her father, Jun Toguri, had come to the U.S. in 1899, and her mother, Fumi, in 1913. Iva was a Girl Scout, and was raised as a Christian. She began grammar schools in Mexico and San Diego before returning with her family to complete her education in Los Angeles, where she also attended high school. Toguri graduated from the University of California,

neg: Los Angeles in the 1920s also controlled all movie halls and held full film distribution rights. The city also got the nickname of "Emerald City of Los Angeles". Los Angeles Port became the second busiest deep water port and the banking sector became very large. As the emergent economy, fueled by oil and Hollywood real estate boomed, though with a growth fluctuation during 1924-25, one third of the homes in Los Angeles were privately owned by home owners, unlike other major cities in the US where the housing was largely rented. During the process of development of the city the largest fossil area was found

neg: Philip Johnston (code talker) I. It is here that he may have heard about Comanches being used as code talkers by U.S. Army units. Johnston attended the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he earned his graduate civil engineering degree in 1925. Afterwards he took a job with the city of Los Angeles water department. Though he worked in Los Angeles he maintained his social connections with the Navajo people with whom he grew up. He was working as a civilian in Los Angeles when the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. After the attack he had read of the U.S. Army using

neg: Angeles Tunnel at an elevation of in Pyramid Lake, and then falling over to the turbines of the Castaic Power Plant at . The water is then stored in the Elderberry Forebay, adjacent to Castaic Lake. During off-peak hours, water is pumped uphill through the tunnel in the opposite direction from Elderberry Forebay and returned to Pyramid Lake. This operation reduces the energy cost of moving water along the California Aqueduct. Angeles Tunnel The Angeles Tunnel is a , water tunnel located in the Sierra Pelona Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, about north of Los Angeles. It was constructed between 1967

neg: Owens Valley Angeles Aqueduct, completed in 1913, which diverted water from the Owens River. The water rights were acquired in a deceitful manner, often splitting water cooperatives and pitting neighbors against one another. In 1924, local farmers were fed up with the purchases and erupted in violence, sabotaging parts of the water system. Eventually Los Angeles acquired a large portion of the water rights to over of land in the valley, almost completely diverting the inflows of water away from Owens Lake. This acquisition was made following negotiations in which Los Angeles and the Owens Valley farmers were engaged in a bilateral

neg: Daken where the Los Angeles crime bosses are holding a secret meeting. Daken then goes to the nightclub where the dealer's supplier is enjoying a night out, and the situation worsens, but Daken does not care, because he loves the euphoria of the "heat pills". During an investigation, Daken has a confrontation with the hero Moon Knight before he can discover the identity of the mysterious kingpin of Los Angeles. A beaten up and broken Daken discovers the properties of the heat pills are from non-human blood, confirming his suspicions that the blood belongs to a member of the Pride. An

neg: Los Angeles flood of 1938 Fernando Valley, where many communities had been built during the economic boom of the 1920s in low-lying areas once used for agriculture. In fact, many properties were located in old river beds that had not seen flooding in some years. Swollen by its flooded tributaries, the Los Angeles River reached a maximum flood stage of about . The water surged south, inundating Compton before reaching Long Beach, where a bridge at the mouth of the river collapsed killing ten people. To the west, Venice and other coastal communities were flooded with the overflow of Ballona Creek. The "Los Angeles Times"

neg: Transportation in Los Angeles and directly connects Los Angeles to San Francsico and Las Vegas. Greyhound connects smaller communities and departs from various locations within metro Los Angeles. The main station is located in downtown Los Angeles. Greyhound Lines operates several stations within the city of Los Angeles: Greyhound Lines operates stations in the following cities and areas surrounding Los Angeles: Greyhound Lines also services bus stops at: The Port of Los Angeles is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood, approximately south of Downtown. Also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT L.A., the port complex occupies of land and water

neg: Candy (Drippin' Like Water) Candy (Drippin' Like Water) "Candy (Drippin' Like Water)", is the third single by Snoop Dogg from his 2006 album "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment", produced by Rick Rock. It features E-40, MC Eiht, Goldie Loc and Tha Dogg Pound (Daz Dillinger and Kurupt), and Ladybug on the chorus. The song title and sample come from Ladybug Mecca's vocals on Digable Planets's "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)". "Candy" refers to a high gloss paint finish applied to automobiles. In the song it is also used as a euphemism for marijuana, cocaine and sex. The video was filmed on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

neg: John Marshall High School (Los Angeles) Food on KCRW John Marshall High School (Los Angeles) John Marshall High School is a public high school located in the Los Feliz district of the city of Los Angeles at 3939 Tracy Street in Los Angeles, California. Marshall, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Marshall is named after jurist John Marshall, who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States for three decades. Students at Marshall primarily come from Los Feliz, Atwater Village, East Hollywood, northeastern Koreatown, Elysian Valley, and Silver Lake. John Marshall High School offers

neg: John Marshall High School (Los Angeles) John Marshall High School (Los Angeles) John Marshall High School is a public high school located in the Los Feliz district of the city of Los Angeles at 3939 Tracy Street in Los Angeles, California. Marshall, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Marshall is named after jurist John Marshall, who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States for three decades. Students at Marshall primarily come from Los Feliz, Atwater Village, East Hollywood, northeastern Koreatown, Elysian Valley, and Silver Lake. John Marshall High School offers a good number

neg: William Mulholland William Mulholland William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California. As the head of a predecessor to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mulholland designed and supervised the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a -long system to move water from Owens Valley to the San Fernando Valley. The creation and operation of the aqueduct led to the disputes known as the California Water Wars. In March

neg: Come Away with Me Best Albums of the Decade. "Come Away with Me" received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 9 reviews. The album received 3.5 out of 4 stars from both the "Chicago Sun-Times" and the "Los Angeles Times" reviews. AllMusic's David R. Adler wrote that "while the mood of this record stagnates after a few songs, it does give a strong indication of Jones' alluring talents." Robert Christgau of "The Village Voice"

neg: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving over four million residents. It was founded in 1902 to supply water to residents and businesses in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. In 1917, it started to deliver electricity. It has been involved in a number of controversies and media portrayals over the years, including the 1928 St. Francis Dam failure and the books "Water and Power" and "Cadillac Desert". LADWP can currently deliver a maximum of 7,880 megawatts of power and, in each

neg: William H. Perry (Los Angeles) the city took over water service in 1902. He was also president of the Crystal Springs Land and Water Company and the Ventura Valley Water and Improvement Company. It was said that Perry made the acquaintance of William Mulholland, who later became the noted general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, when Perry rode by a ditch where Mulholland was clearing weeds and asked him what he was doing. "None of your damned business," Mulholland answered gruffly, without looking up. After being told by a fellow worker that the man he had just spoken to was

neg: California water wars the terms of the California Environmental Quality Act. Los Angeles did not stop pumping groundwater, but submitted a short EIR in 1976 and a second one in 1979, both of which were rejected as inadequate by the courts. In 1991, Inyo County and the city of Los Angeles signed the Inyo-Los Angeles Long Term Water Agreement, which required that groundwater pumping be managed to avoid significant impacts while providing a reliable water supply for Los Angeles. In 1997, Inyo County, Los Angeles, the Owens Valley Committee, the Sierra Club, and other concerned parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding that specified

neg: Adam Levine their post-Grammy Awards show because of the "unnamed Los Angeles restaurant's backing of Proposition 8". In 2013, Levine was mentioned in a hostile work environment lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by an unnamed security guard who claimed that Universal Music Publishing Group's Santa Monica location was "infiltrated with pervasive drug use where you could smell marijuana seeping from various offices and openly used in common areas, and lounges". The guard claimed that when she complained about the cannabis smoke coming from one of the studios, she was told that "it's Adam Levine ... if he wants to come

neg: Mono Lake River to gather acorns, different plant species, and to trade. The Western Mono traditionally lived in the south-central Sierra Nevada foothills, including Historical Yosemite Valley. Present day Mono Reservations are currently located in Big Pine, Bishop, and several in Madera County and Fresno County, California. The City of Los Angeles diverted water from the Owens River into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. In 1941, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power extended the Los Angeles Aqueduct system farther northward into the Mono Basin with the completion of the Mono Craters Tunnel between the Grant Lake Reservoir on Rush

neg: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power starting with its initial acquisition of water rights, as well as buying out farms and asserting control over Mono Lake and Owens Lake. The LADWP and William Mulholland played a key role in the development of Hoover Dam and bringing its energy to Los Angeles. The LADWP continued to operate the Hoover Dam electrical facility until 1987. On October 10, 2011, the LADWP, along with the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, founded the LA Cleantech Incubator. The LADWP is governed by the five-member Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, who are

neg: Bernard Kinsey Americans about who we are and where we come from and what we don't know about ourselves, comes from being able to look at this collective work. And so this collection is powerful for that reason." Bernard Kinsey Bernard Kinsey is a Los Angeles philanthropist and entrepreneur with a passion for African-American history and art of the 19th and 20h centuries. He and his wife, Shirley, have been called "one of the most admired and respected couples in Los Angeles." They are known for espousing two life principles, “To whom much is given much is required" and live “A life

neg: History of the Los Angeles Angels if any, complaints from Anaheim officials about the dropping of "of Anaheim" from common parlance when referring to the stadium. On January 3, 2005 Angels Baseball, L.P. announced that it would change the name of the club from "Anaheim Angels" to "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim". As stated in the club's 2005 media guide: The inclusion of Los Angeles reflects the original expansion name and returns the Angels as Major League Baseball's American League representative in the Greater Los Angeles territory. The new name sparked outrage among Anaheim and Los Angeles city leaders, who argued that a team that does

neg: Frederick Eaton 1924, when Los Angeles had taken so much water from the valley that Owens Lake dried up, the farmers and ranchers rebelled. They turned to violence and dynamited the aqueduct's concrete canal. Fred Eaton used his inside advance information about the aqueduct project to enrich himself and his associates at the expense of the city of Los Angeles and the Owens Valley landowners. Eaton claimed in a 1905 interview with the "Los Angeles Express" that he turned over all his water rights to Los Angeles without being paid for them, "except that I retained the cattle which I had been