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Re: PLUTO
Today is a historic day—one that will bring joy to the hundreds of millions of Pluto lovers around the globe. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the body that is responsible for naming and classifying objects in the cosmos, has just announced that Pluto has been reclassified as a major planet. That’s right, the little dwarf will be rejoining the ranks of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Planet-X (the planet that will surely spell doom for all...
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Re: Pandas Again
The two pandas from China Er Shun and Da Mao have arrived in Toronto. They will be with us for 5 years and then they will spend another 5 years in Calgary. We are so lucky to have them in Toronto. Love, Vicky
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Re: PRINCESS KA'IULANI
During her absence, much turmoil occurred back in Hawaii. King Kalakaua died in 1891, and Princess Lydia Liliʻuokalani became Queen. Liliʻuokalani immediately appointed Kaʻiulani as her heir, and Kaʻiulani became the Crown Princess. In 1893, the Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown and the new government attempted to become a part of the United States. The news arrived to Kaʻiulani on January 30, 1893 in a short telegram that said: "'Queen Deposed', 'Monarchy Abrogated', 'Break News to...
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Re: PRINCESS KA'IULANI
The pro-annexation press of the time often treated Kaʻiulani with contempt, referring to her in print as a half-breed, or calling her "dusky", although she did not receive the blatantly racist treatment repeatedly given her Aunt. (Typical of the time, "positive" accounts of the Princess appearance often tried to emphasize what was thought to be "white" about her, although her "British" half was invoked negatively on occasion by American writers fearing Great Britain was a rival for...
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Re: PRINCESS KA'IULANI
She was a popular subject of photographs. Kaʻiulani returned to Hawaii in 1897. The return to a warmer climate did not help her health. She continued to deteriorate as she struggled to readjust to the tropical climate of the Hawaiian islands. However, she continued to make public appearances at the urging of her father. With the approval of Queen Liliʻuokalani and Queen Dowager Queen Kapiolani and in compliance with the last Hawaiian constitution, Princess Kaʻiulani and Prince Kawānanakoa...
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Re: Franz Liszt's AMAZING B Minor Sonata - Sir Frederick Ashton choreographed especially for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, amazing!
Lang Lang is going to be here in Toronto on September 21, 2013. I have my tickets. He always has a wonderful, totally enjoyable performance.
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Re: Franz Liszt's AMAZING B Minor Sonata - Sir Frederick Ashton choreographed especially for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, amazing!
I wish I could be in Toronto to see Lang Lang's performance. njoy the concert. Love, yoko
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Re: Pandas Again
Some information on Giant Panda from the Toronto Zoo newsletter. Although they once roamed over a large portion of Asia, scientists currently estimate the population of of the Giant panda at only 1,600, making them a seriously endangered species. In the Han dynasty (206BC-24AD), the highly prized and gentle pandas graced the gardens of the emperors. Pandas were believed to have mystical powers. The Giant panda is considered a "National Treasure" by the people of China. The Giant panda is...
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Re: Pandas Again
From the Toronto Zoo Newsletter: Er-Shun gave birth to twins, and she is not aware that her cubs are being swapped. She thinks she is raising only one baby. In the wild a panda mom will not look after twins. The next couple of months will be crucial for their survival
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Re: Pandas Again
The names of the first Canadian-born twin panda cubs — Jia Panpan (which translated means “Canadian Hope”) and Jia Yueyue (“Canadian Joy”) — were unveiled Monday at the Toronto Zoo.
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Re: Our Living Oceans
1. Mind Your Carbon Footprint and Reduce Energy Consumption Reduce the effects of climate change on the ocean by leaving the car at home when you can and being conscious of your energy use at home and work. A few things you can do to get started today: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, take the stairs, and bundle up or use a fan to avoid oversetting your thermostat. 2. Make Safe, Sustainable Seafood Choices Global fish populations are rapidly being depleted due to demand, loss of...
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Re: Neolgism jokes like: Frijoles: A church without a collection plate!
I am bursting at the seams Teo Sue County Seat, n. the public rest room on the courthouse square. Despite mind-bogglingly (or perhaps bog-mindingly) expensive attempts to render it immune to assault, it has been inoperable much of its history because, as Bob Dylan sang, "the vandals took the handle." If it had a video surveillance camera, that would be vandalized, too.
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Re: Burying the Elephant Patsy
Remembering Patsy. Love, Sue Patsy, matriarch of Toronto Zoo's elephant herd, dies at 40 July 25, 2006 - 5:06 pm By: Anne Winstanley http://www.680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20060725_170604_4908 Patsy the elephant has died at the age of 40. The matriarch of the Toronto Zoo's elephant herd for 33 years, CEO Cal White says she was euthanized after a period of failing health due to long term degenerative arthritis. Because elephants mourn the loss of one of their herd, White tells...
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Re: Burying the Elephant Patsy
Thank you all for remembering elephant Patsy, and your wonderful pictures. Here is the message from a letter that I received from the Toronto zoo: Sometimes its just so hard to say goodbye to an old friend. Patsy, the matriarch of our elephant herd, was indeed our friend. She was special...majestic...stubborn...smart...and clearly, the boss! Patsy had to be euthanized on Monday, July 31st due to an ongoing, and progressively worsening, medical condition. Our specialists fought to save her...
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Re: Burying the Elephant Patsy
Thank you for your reply Nick. I think that patsy came from a circus originally and had been poorly treated, as is the case with so many elephants. Their natural habitat is being destroyed by humans, as are so many things in nature. From an article in the Globe and Mail newspaper, Sept. 7th, 2006: As for Thika, Tessa, Tara, Toka, Tequila and Iringa, I know they are most definitely aware that one of their own is missing. The part that creates a lump in my throat is thinking that even though I...
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Re: Alexandre Dumas
Thank you for reminding us of Dumas. I actually like 'The Count of Monte Christo.' Works Fiction Alexandre Dumas père wrote stories and historical chronicles of high adventure that captured the imagination of the French public who eagerly waited to purchase the continuing sagas. A few of these works are: Charles VII at the Homes of His Great Vassals (Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux), drama, adapted for the opera The Saracen by Russian composer César Cui The Fencing Master (Le maître...
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Re: Benefits of Vitamin D
Good post Sue. Thank you. Long recognized for aiding calcium absorption and thus promoting bone health, adequate vitamin D intake helps reduce the risk of osteoporosis. In 2006, studies published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that vitamin D may help reduce the risk of various other diseases and alleviate the symptoms of certain medical conditions as well. "These studies...
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Re: Picture of Buku
Buku is still our adopted elephant at the Toronto Zoo, and Buku is doing very well.
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Re: Willie Lynch The Making Of A Slave-Watch your language!
Thanks for bringing this topic back!!! Well said Gisele. "So called enlightened" is right! So called HUMANITY! Luckily, we have some rather enlightened souls here @ Givnology... thanks God and Angels!!! Those members in Toronto, Canada, well, you have a special place in my heart. Did you know: York the original name of Toronto, was the first place where slavery was illegal? Niagara Falls was where they could sneak over the border, to St. Catherines the town next door. You can see Toronto...
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Re: Starlight showers
Dear Margherita, thank you kindly. Reading your lovely poem is a very nice way to start a busy week. Your beautiful poem adds a lot of light to a very dark day here in Toronto. Love, Vicky
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Re: Dance of the Planets
We could not see the dance of the planets here in Toronto because we had a very overcast sky, however, the sky put on a happy face for many viewers around the world. Stargazers from around the world captured images of rare planetary alignment of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon which created an illusion of a smile in the firmament.
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Re: Somebody also asked me whether Elise plays better than Beethoven
Thank you Teo. I find Lang Lang absolutely fascinating. I try to go to every concert of his when he comes to Toronto. I have a few of his CD's, as well as the book that you mentioned; I even got Lang Lang to sign them. There are quite a few Asian virtuoso musicians, and many more to come. Asia is the new world, drawing on the beauty of the old world, and making it even more dynamic and vibrant than it was. Love, Inda
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Re: Natural Approaches to Hypertension
Thank you Inda. A number of supplements may lower blood pressure, as well. “Herbs such as hawthorn (500 to 1,500 mg), green tea (50 to 100 mg), and ginger (25 to 50 mg) are safe to use in the management of high blood pressure,” says cardiologist Stephen T. Sinatra, MD. He also suggests taking garlic supplements (500 to 1,000 mg) daily. “Garlic has an ACE-inhibiting quality that helps to lower blood pressure,” he explains. “In addition, garlic reduces stickiness, therefore lowering your risk...
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Re: Little Piggy is not going to Market
Thank you for the post Inda. This is from the Toronto Star newspaper Susan Sampson TORONTO STAR Wiggles got a lucky break. The piglet broke her leg, likely after falling off a livestock truck on Highway 401. But she was rescued and will end up at a good home instead of an abattoir. Good Samaritan Brian Bowes was on his way to work in Cambridge on Monday morning when he saw the piglet lying by the side of the road, "shivering like crazy." There was an accident up ahead, Bowes says, so he was...
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Re: Little Piggy is not going to Market
Thank you for your replies, and thank you Sue for all the information. Here is some of the latest update, May 29, from the 'Toronto Sun' newspaper: ... the little piggy that didn't go to market, is doing better but still awaiting surgery. A Good Samaritan saved the piglet Monday after spotting her clinging to the inside shoulder of Hwy. 401, near Mavis Rd. She's set to have surgery tomorrow to fix a broken ham hock. Toronto Humane Society officials took in Wiggles -- she had a broken leg and...
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Re: Albinos in Danger
Thank you for the post Sue. I read about it in the newspaper, and this is absolutely shocking. What is the matter with human beings? With all the technology we have available to us we are de-evolving instead of evolving. ********************************************************* This article was in the Globe and Mail newspaper tis morning: Mr. Ash, a 44-year-old B.C. businessman who himself has albinism, is trying to change all of this. He has spent $1-million in a campaign against the albino...
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Re: Stem Cells Give Hope...
Thank you for this information Sue. This is wonderful news and I hope that the research will continue. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic condition that causes central vision loss. It affects millions of people. In fact, it is a leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older. The older you are, the greater your chance of being affected. ***************************************************** http://www.theglobeandmail.com...mans/article1818396/ The Toronto group is hardly...
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Re: Lang Lang is in Toronto
I was lucky enough to see Lang Lang last year. I also read his book. I think that he is a wonderful pianist. I wish that I could come to Toronto, but at the moment my schedule does not permit it. Love, yoko
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Re: Lang Lang is in Toronto
Thank you for your replies. Lang lang is not only a great pianist, but he works with children to try and get them to appreciate music. He is at the moment working with 101 children at our concert hall here in Toronto. He is a very dedicated human being, trying to make the world a more beautiful place. In 2004 Lang Lang was appointed International Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). He has contributed and worked to raise funds and awareness for earthquake...
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Re: Rhino Poaching
From the Toronto Zoo newsletter. There are 5 rhino species left in the world. The southern white rhino numbers approximately 20,000.The northern white subspecies is considered extinct with only 7 known animals left on earth. The black rhino has a population of less than 4,900 animals. The Java rhino, found in Vietnam, at less than 50 surviving individuals is the most endangered.The Great Indian is found in India and numbers about 2,900 and, the Sumatran fewer than 200. Rhinos have been with...
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Re: Remembering Philip Coppens
Thank you dearly Inda for such a beautiful topic!!! From his blog: http://philipcoppens.blogspot.ca/ Saturday, September 29, 2012 History Will Give Us a Future My personal motto is that Ancient Knowledge Will Give Us a Future. What stands between those two concepts, is often history – not the events themselves, but the way the story of history has been carefully molded and transformed into something it never was, but which somehow we are led to believe. Some of this is because of our natural...
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Re: Yoga For Cats
Great Stuff!! Kitty sends her regards to all her givnology buddies. Here's to catnip and purr motors! If you have Quicktime, the password 'sesame' (no quotes) will open the theater listed below. From the link on that page there's a sixteen megabyte file of Teo's in the stack - a small loop out of one of the Body Music files - "Looperstitious." For those of you with connections that don't take an hour you'll find that and some other stuff in my "public" files. For the Kitty By the Bay Movie...
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Re: Lioness Goddess Sekhmet brings forth Ra
Dear Teo, Thank you for giving us an insight into the highly advanced Egyptian civilization, as well as their religion. Greek and Roman scholars were fascinated by the Egyptian civilization, which was already ancient in their days; they were also much interested in their complex religion. The Egyptians left us records in a wide range of media from temple walls and tombs, papyrus scrolls, wooden coffins and colossal statues. Classical accounts as well as discoveries made by Egyptologists over...
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Re: The Challenge of the Highest Self
Thank you Inda, Sue and Vicky. I am reminded of something a dear friend Nina told me: "There is a Ninja technique where you are completely non-confrontational. You simply slip over to the side and allow your opponant to fall of his own energy." This is the kind of think (he he..) I believe the world needs nowadays. We can't keep putting ourselves into "sides," saying "you won, we lost" and junk like that. If we are truly all aspects of one being, then our lesson now is in how to play part in...
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Re: Happy St.Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day has had a little bitter with the sweet for me, having once lost my heart to one Jenny Valentine who was a double major at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music on both the Piano and the violin. (I was in the College of Arts and Sciences but both share the same campus, dorms, and dining halls). We made beautiful music together when she came to visit after my separation to my wife of seven years. The first time we jammed Jenny started playing "Where did our love go?" by the...
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Re: Prayer for the People in New Orleans
RE positive consequences of Katrina: The degree of attention given on TV and radio and the newspapers to poor people hasn't been seen for decades, and ditto for poor black people. The attention is making your middle class american actually think about what it means to poor. Eyes are opened to the reality of what it means to not own an automobile - because you are poor, or because you are too old to drive, or because you are disabled. In a bitter irony, Katrina's waters may have sunk Bush's...
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Re: The Bird
Beautiful words dear Alanna! I agree, I don't understand that either -- But I fully understand compassionate words like yours and the love and beauty within them! "They took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum. Then they charged the public a dollar and a half just to see 'em! Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone. They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot." - Pink Cadallac by Carly Simon Music is often reminiscing, remembering things and...
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Re: "The soul flexes its wings..." -Merlin quote
What a "wizard" topic Teo. Love from the White Witch in Toronto, Sue.
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Re: Take The Edge Off
Welcome to Givnology Susan. Thank you for sharing Daniela Siggia's site with us. She lives in the Toronto area, so it will be easy to get in touch with her.I will study her website more carefully when I have a little extra time.
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Re: Excellent animated diagrams of yoga techniques! HathaYogaLesson.com
EXCELLENT POINTS! So many things are automated away, we study what used to be ONLY aural tradition... music sure has a lot of this!!! And someone loaded up on "cheat-sheets" and quick whiz tricks, when in the presence of a real teacher, will probably just annoy them... I guess for someone like me who just needs reminders of the postures, and variations, I like these. Also, simply the MEDIA-MAKING ability of layering drawings into an animated GIF graphic like these do, well, the nerd in my...
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Re: GIVNOLOGY UPGRADE SOON!: Use email to log in.
ATTACHMENTS WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK!!! 3 years of paying Infopop's bill, making useful suggestions, and what do they do? DELETE MY POST in the support forums listed above... and insult my intellingence in the support ticket about disk usage... hey, mom and pop bird DO need to kick baby bird out of the nest and make him fly huh? I guess so... HARD LOVE... Well I'm just relating THE TRUTH to you here, I give up completely trying to communicate to Infopop/Groupee - why go get insulted more? Why...
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Re: First try MIDI - snippet
It seems to work! I MADE IT PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND TOO! Did that work? Next test... The above file (that is now background sound) was EXPORT AS MIDI from Quicktime player on my Mac G3. The attached file below is SAVED AS from the same Quicktime player, I want to know if the TAGS that I included, Artist=Teo come through, maybe in Media Player, Quicktime Player or what have you - it would be nice to give credit back to the artist / creator now wouldn't it?
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Re: Pop Wisdom
Eric this is just awesome! Is this.. InfoPop wisdom? he he.. I AM in complete agreement with your statement of "watch out saying I AM angry.." all these things we say "I am" to eh? how silly! I AM joy and abundance, wisdom and wit, shiney bright light happily bouncing off of various colors and textures, all to please you, and I and I[/b. I love you Eric, you are the greatest. All of you here are the greatest and know I love you deeply. You are an angel to remind people to speak of their love...
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Re: Senses
Teo 's presents: Givnology forums , tradigital music , Third Millennium Thinking , new media When we appreciate our diversity we have abundance
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Re: Happy Hanukkah
Amen! Love n light, Teo Teo 's presents: Givnology forums , tradigital music , Third Millennium Thinking , new media When we appreciate our diversity we have abundance
