CaliforniaPeggy
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Wildlife--Southern California Style
This squirrel had the audacity to nibble on our Jacaranda tree, so I took his picture as payback!
Take that, squirrel!
Thanks to another member, I am now firmly in the Bernie Sanders camp.
Her unwavering support of HRC has caused me to realize that this is where I belong.
I have subscribed to this group, and I expect to post here now and then.
Go Bernie!
Today's LA Times: Keeping Tabbies.
All of it at the link:
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-cats-for-hire-20150627-story.html
Here's an excerpt:
By Jerome Campbell
Like the characters played by the actor who inspired his name, Pacino was no scaredy cat. The brown tabby had prowled the streets of Los Angeles, a drifter scraping for his next meal.
After the cat was turned in at an L.A. County animal services shelter, there was little hope that Pacino would be adopted. He was too distrustful, too fierce, too mean.
Then Melya Kaplan came along, looking for a cat with grit, street smarts and attitude.
Several hours after the customers and merchants have gone home and the lights are dim, the cats start their patrol in the Los Angeles Flower Market June 25, 2015. The Working Cats program is using unsocialized "feral" cats in a program to keep rodents away from the market.
The Working Cats program is using community cats in a program to rid the Los Angeles Flower Market of rodents. The cats dont kill the rodents they manage to repel them by their scent.
The 10-pound, 6-ounce cat would become the nighttime warden at the Original L.A. Flower Market, making sure rodents and other vermin didn't get out of hand. He's part of a group of tough cats recruited by an animal rights nonprofit to find homes in places that could use their hard-scrabble qualities. Along with another cat named DeNiro, Pacino would prowl the Italian side of the flower market. Of course.
"Mother Nature doesn't make mistakes," said Kaplan, executive director of Voice for the Animals. "We probably just haven't found a purpose for it yet."
As part of the Working Cats program, street cats like Pacino are rescued from animal shelters and sent to locations ranging from police stations, like the LAPD's Wilshire and Foothill divisions, to private homes, businesses and schools. Over the years, the program has placed about 500 cats in nearly 50 locations.
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GOP 'bubble' buster--today's LA Times by Patt Morrison, as she interviews Bruce Bartlett.
Bruce Bartlett has 24-karat conservative credentials. He worked in the Reagan White House, the George H.W. Bush Treasury Department, for former Texas Rep. Ron Paul and the Heritage Foundation. So when he saw Republicans doing things he believed damaged the brand, he said so, and was surprised to find himself first ignored, then struck from the rolls of the GOP talk-ocracy, and even fired from his think tank job. And that, he says, is the problem. Bartlett, who is now an independent, made headlines recently with a scholarly paper about Fox News. In it, he describes a media "bubble" that imperils the GOP by screening out ideas that challenge Republican orthodoxy — in other words, those inconvenient truths.All of it at the link:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-bartlett-20150603-column.html#page=1
From today's LA Times: Toilet to Tap.
It's a technology with the potential to ease California's colossal thirst and insulate millions from the parched whims of Mother Nature, experts say.But there's just one problem — the "yuck factor."
As a fourth year of drought continues to drain aquifers and reservoirs, California water managers and environmentalists are urging adoption of a polarizing water recycling policy known as direct potable reuse.
Unlike nonpotable reuse — in which treated sewage is used to irrigate crops, parks or golf courses — direct potable reuse takes treated sewage effluent and purifies it so it can be used as drinking water.
It's a concept that might cause some consumers to wince, but it has been used for decades in Windhoek, Namibia — where evaporation rates exceed annual rainfall — and more recently in drought-stricken Texas cities, including Big Spring and Wichita Falls.
All of it at the link: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-toilet-to-tap-20150525-story.html#page=1
A few pictures from our visit to the Norton Simon Museum today:
Poor befuddled Adam!
Snaky conniving Eve! (Oh sure.)
Madonna and Child:
Early Renaissance Madonna and Child:
I think these bronze sculptures were by Renoir:
Outside in the Sculpture Garden:
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