L.A. lion and the News of the World

Ashley Wells, Xochitl, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; SCPR.org; DemocracyNow.org

VIDEO: Health improving for mountain lion P-22 (Jed Kim) Famous LA mountain lion was diagnosed with mange from rat poisoning when scientists captured him in March. Treatment provided seems to have helped (Griffith Park Connectivity Study).

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“Reminds me of the current company culture where everyone is expected to be super happy all day at work...No thanks, I am human, and I have my ups and downs in life, and I don't live my life on social media.” - Are you working for a corporate cult? 

• Proposed [laughable] "clean coal" power plant in Kern County divides community and scientists
• Emergency shelter for migrant kids opening in Ventura

New Armenian-American reality TV show

New Outsider Sheriff in Town

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How will military handle Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl?

Uber driver sex-kidnaps woman in WLA

Last of WW II Navajo "Code Talkers" dies

Western couple held in Afghanistan

Can diversity be taught?

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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Idaho hometown cancels "Welcome Home"; backlash grows

Seattle’s Socialist City Council Member Kshama Sawant: $15/hr Minimum Wage

Veteran: Politicians using POW Bergdahl as "chess piece to win political matches"

EPA moves to cut coal pollution; critics say plan falls short on real emissions reductions

Scary LA: LIONS! Don't visit this summer

Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly; Ipagn28 (buzzfeed.com)

"I met some Los Angeles people once. I hated them." The Grumpy Guide to Life (Chronicle Books). See Grumpy Cat live, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, 6:00 pm, at Kitson, Santa Monica Place, Ste. 120 and Aug. 5, 2014, 6:00 pm in Las Vegas, Nevada (shopkitson.com)

L.A. with its own Himalayan foothills (Nat'l Forest) just behind the megalopolis (buzzfeed)

Sightings of big cats in our "Central" (Griffith) Park have been confirmed near the Hollywood sign. They are peaceful but not safe for children or crouchers. (Burma Charwoodland/Firstfire53/flickr).

 

According to the last census, Los Angeles is the Most Densely Populated Urban Area in the US. At nearly 2,000 more people per square mile on average than New York, we can’t compare Manhattan to Culver City and call it a day.

 

"Entering a space of privilege and prejudice"

Where does anyone think the traffic comes from? It’s people, commuting from one place to another. It has already been pointed out that due to the lack of a center, people move from where they live to where they work or play. It is a great expanse to cover, and most of it is covered in concrete and asphalt, which facilitates travel. It is actually just much more evenly distributed in terms of density than east coast cities.
 

A dozen Southern California fires rage destroying Pendleton military base. Arson, sabotage, Pentagon incompetence, Santa Ana winds? Mother Nature avoiding violence? (scpr.org)

 

Post-Native Los Angeles, Old Mexico

What L.A. really is is BIG. It’s massive. It's not a metropolis but a megalopolis. It is widely spread out, spilling into neighboring cities and counties...

And there are A LOT of people there, too, distributed in hundreds of communities, living in any number of configurations, speaking hundreds of languages (the L.A. Almanac says 224). More

After the earthquakes and the toxic petroleum street spill, there were some fires.

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Traveling up Beachwood Canyon to the old Hollywood sign, circa 1932 (weirdca.com)

Hollywood sign with 8-ft. long nocturnal predator lurking in the dark (Maya Sugarman)

On ridge above the lights of Los Angeles, a male cougar labeled P-22 made his way from the Santa Monica Mountains to Hollywood's Griffith Park -- an island of habitat surrounded by homes and freeways (Steve Winter/National Geographic/scpr.org)

Preliminary DNA evidence shows that P-32, one of three cubs recently born in the Santa Monica Mountains of the City of Los Angeles, is inbred (National Park Service/SCPR.org)

Not fit for cat food -- massive LA fish die off over the weekend. Rat poison runoff? (LAT)

Know why L.A. has so much smog? So the God can't see what we're doing down here.

Tibetan Buddhism: "The Lion's Roar" (video)

CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

This documentary is about the life, teachings, and passing of the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. Narrated by James Coburn, we enter the world of this Tibetan spiritual master, who heads the Kagyu Order of Vajrayana Buddhism and explore the rituals and religious significance of his work. 

Tibetan monastics (aljazeera.com)

"The Lion's Roar" takes us to northern India to see where the Tibetan leader fled and other locales of his various travels. There are interviews with high lamas of this esoteric school of Buddhism who speak of the 16th Karmapa's works and influence in Tibet and beyond. We also learn through his life some of the basic beliefs and principles of this form of Buddhism.

(IAH) "The Lion's Roar" (full-length documentary feature on the 16th Karmapa)