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Nice links Karl. Hard to grasp that Janis Joplin would have been 70 years of age.....wonder what she would have thought of today & the era we live in. What a shame that she never got the chance to get the help she needed to get back on track....like so many of the musicans of that era.
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Experts say the new polymer $20 bill features the Norway maple leaf, a plant species that is not native to Canada. The tell is in the lobes; Norway maple leafs have five, while sugar maple leaves have only three!!!
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Did you have a nice lunch Wolfie - if so go ahead and have a really nice dinner - it's your Birthday afterall!!!
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Elephant tug of war: Story of Toronto Zoo transfer
By Staff Torstar News Service
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http://en.wordpress.com/imgpress?url...px&w=618&h=408 Torstar News Service The Toronto Zoo's three elephants -- from left, Toka, Thika and Iringa -- have been at the centre of a 15-month battle over where they should live out the rest of their lives. From a viewing platform in the Toronto Zoo’s African Savanna, a mother and child are watching Iringa, Thika and Toka trudge around in the cold.
“Mommy,” the little one says, “why do the elephants have chains on their feet?”
“Because they’re going to be leaving soon.”
The chain bracelets, clasped around their thick, wrinkly ankles, are part of training for the big move south. The elephants have been wearing them daily since last January.
“When are they leaving?” the child wants to know.
Good luck trying to answer that one. A better question: Why has this gone on for so long?
A turbulent 15 months have passed since city council first voted to send the Toronto Zoo’s aging elephants to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), which runs a California animal sanctuary that takes in retired zoo and circus elephants.
And still, the ladies remain in limbo, shuffling around the same small paddock they called home long before the debate about their future erupted in outrage, name-calling and wild accusations; before the elephants needed lawyers and their own PR team; before we all ran out of puns about trunk packing; before Bob Barker came on down.
The bizarre saga is not just about the Toronto trio.
Iringa, Thika and Toka are part of a larger battle that has been waged in cities across North America over the past decade, as elephants have taken centre stage in what many are calling a zoo identity crisis.
In the face of escalating criticism about animal welfare, the zoo industry has waged a campaign to lead the public to believe elephants thrive in zoos, when mounting evidence points to the contrary.
Many elephant experts believe sanctuaries — with their wide open spaces and natural habitats that closely mimic the wild — provide a far better standard of care for pachyderms. The zoo industry does not accept this.
“North American zoos are in a state of denial about keeping elephants,” says Dr. Benjamin Beck, a former director at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and an expert in the management and psychological welfare of zoo animals. “They are so convinced that they can keep elephants effectively that they’re simply, I think, denying the facts.”
With city council’s decision to send the elephants to PAWS now reaffirmed, the Toronto Zoo is working toward a spring departure deadline. But behind the scenes, there is evidence some elephant handlers and zoo supporters are still debating ways to thwart the process, and whispers that others have no intention of co-operating with a plan they fundamentally disagree with. Will Toronto’s elephant saga ever end?
The answer lies in a more complicated question: How did it come to this?
On a cold November morning in 2009, Toronto zookeepers found Tara, the 41-year-old matriarch of the all-female pachyderm group, lying on her side in the elephant house, unable to get up. It can be dangerous for elephants to lie this way for long periods because it puts pressure on their internal organs. Despite attempts by staff to right Tara, she died. An autopsy was inconclusive, but her death — the zoo’s fourth elephant fatality in four years — set off a firestorm of criticism from animal rights groups.
For beep's sake let the poor things go - it can only be better for them than walking around in circles here in the cold!!!! They've given enough of their lives so people can "see" them:mad:
Don't know that song on riffer madness - for tickets to see The Zombies at the S.A. - hopefully there will be other ways to get tickets - I'd like to check that show out!
Jethro Tull - okay, now I get it!!! but not the tickets!!!
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Yes, Lunch was Good.
We Tried a Place where the Food & Service were not that Great.
I did not Care... it was the Company that Mattered the Most. :top:
Not sure what to have for Dinner.
Just Lazying It Up with a Few Pina Coladas.
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It is snowing like mad here...
Hope what you are doing today makes you smile...
Happy Birthday my dear bff Wolfie... :sweet:
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No snow here as of yet.