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Friday, January 29, 2016

Piglet and Her Kitten Companion Find Love ♥

Rescued Piglet and Her Kitten Companion
Find Love In an Animal Sanctuary
Dos bebés dándonos una lección de amor♥

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World, meet Laura the piglet and Marina the kitten — two rescued babies who are overcoming some very sad pasts thanks to plenty of love and care. And, of course, plenty of snuggles.

The pair are the youngest residents of Santuario Igualdad Interespecie (Interspecies Equality Sanctuary), a refuge for farm animals in Santiago, Chile.

While their backgrounds are quite different, not unlike their species, Laura and Marina have already begun to forge an inseparable bond that makes the future for each so much brighter than before.

Marina was saved by a Good Samaritan after being found sick and alone, having been abandoned on the street as a newborn. When she arrived at the sanctuary earlier this month, it wasn’t clear that she would even survive. Her rescuers, nevertheless, promised her they’d do everything they could to see that she did.

Laura’s story is no less tragic. She was born into the meat industry on the grounds of a factory farm, where she was lucky to be rescued and brought to the sanctuary. Sadly, her mother remains confined there, so it’s been up to volunteers to keep her warm, fed and cared for.

Naturally, it was only a matter of time before the piglet and kitten were introduced — and they became fast friends.

Not only have the young animals begun to help one another find peace after the rough starts to their as-yet brief lives, they’re also living proof that love has a way of making differences seem obsolete, as the sanctuary wrote online:

“Since her arrival, Laura has been treated with love and care that a baby deserves, and has formed a deep friendship with Marina the kitten, showing by example, that when it comes to relations of friendship and respect, no matter the species to which one belongs.”

Nowhere is that more clear than in seeing the Laura and Marina cuddle.
https://www.facebook.com/santuarioigualdadinterespecie
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Floating Bonsai Trees Are Now A Reality

Floating Bonsai Trees
Are Now A Reality


                              
Floating Bonsai Trees

                                   
Bonsai Tutorials for Beginners: 
How to Bonsai a Lemon Tree from Nursery Stock


How To Create Bonsai in 5 Hours

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Things You Can Do With a Double Clips

Things You Can Do
With  Binder Clips
 

Phone stand   Cable organize    Phone charging station   Shaving Cover    Cable clips    Earphone winding holder Hanging Pants    Sponge stand   ......And many others.

12 Binder Clips Life Hacks



 




Monday, January 25, 2016

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Tian Tian in the Snow Jan. 23, 2016

Tian Tian in the Snow
Jan. 23, 2016



Jan. 23, 2016---Male giant panda Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN) woke up this morning to a lot of snow, and he was pretty excited about it. Giant pandas have thick woolly coats that keep them warm in the snowy mountains of China.






Winter Storm is here


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Winter Storm Jonas :-)

Winter Storm Jonas

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Winter Storm Jonas - GOES Animation of January 2016 Blizzard

Winter Storm Jonas
  GOES Animation of  Blizzard
January 2016


High winds and a full moon could combine to create a high tide of nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) in Atlantic City, officials said, still shy of the 10 feet (3 meters) Sandy caused in Ocean City.

In New York City, the National Weather Service issued coastal flood warnings for the boroughs of Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. Officials prepared for possible evacuations from low-lying areas.

Post-Sandy reconstruction has put the area in a stronger position to face the storm, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.


 
This full-disk image from the GOES-13 satellite was captured at 23:45 UTC (6:45 p.m. ET) and shows a winter blizzard blanketing the eastern United States on January 22, 2016.




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Winter Storm Jonas
NASA supercomputer model shows flow of 2016 blizzard 





 

Friday, January 22, 2016

Winter Storm Jonas

NASA Show Scope of the Blizzard Jan 21, 2016

NASA Satellites
Show the Immense Scope of the Blizzard
About to Hit the East Coast
January 21, 2016

GOES Animation
of
January Blizzard 2016
VIDEO


A 21 second animation of infrared and visible imagery from NOAA's GOES-East satellite from Jan. 19 to 21 shows the movement one system that moved across the southern U.S. on Jan. 20 followed by a second storm system that is expected to bring the powerful winter storm to the Mid-Atlantic. Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project

There's a blizzard coming! Are you aware? If you live in the Northeast, you've likely heard some rumblings about it. Maybe because forecasts have predicted that some areas will be buried in up to 18 or even 24 inches of snow this weekend. That's the height of a small child. Yikes.


If you'd like to increase your anxiety levels even more so, NASA has you covered. The agency just released this awe-inducing picture, captured from space, showing immense Winter Storm Jonas headed toward the East Coast. The photo was taken with the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite — a probe operated jointly by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It shows the low pressure system over the south central United States before it's expected to make its way east.


NASA
Supercomputer Model Shows
The Flow of Blizzard 2016.
VIDEO

If that still image isn't enough to freeze your appendages prematurely, NASA also released a short animation of the storm's movements thus far, made using visual and infrared data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite. So if you're lucky enough to live on the East Coast, you can watch the storm slowly creep toward you, preparing to make its precipitative attack — all before you actually experience it on Saturday.


Sunday, January 17, 2016

Chanting Monks Become Bestselling Recording Artists

Chanting Monks
Become Bestselling Recording Artists

Allen Pizzey reports. January 17, 2016

The sound of Gregorian chants filled the valley and town of Norcia, Italy, until 1810. 

That's when the 9th century Basilica went silent because of laws imposed on the monks under the new Napoleonic code. 

It took several hundred years, but an American has brought music back to this sacred place in Italy - and music lovers around the world have responded. Allen Pizzey reports.

BENEDICTA:
Marian Chant from Norcia 
by The Monks of Norcia



These monks are convinced:
Gregorian chant will make your life better

Norcia, Italy - The Monks of Norcia, a community of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy released their new album "Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia" on June 2, 2015. Credit: Christopher McLallen, courtesy of de Montfort Music.
By Carl Bunderson

Rome, Italy, Jun 3, 2015 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Benedictine Monks of Norcia spend their lives in prayer and labor – “ora et labora” – chanting the psalms and producing crafts to support themselves. This week, they also released an album meant to share their prayer with the world – music, they say, that has what your soul needs.

“The monks spend hours every day chanting the Mass and the Divine Office. It’s part of the air we breathe. There’s a lot of pollution in our world, and so the pure oxygen of Gregorian chant is like a breath of fresh air,” Father Cassian Folsom, prior of Norcia's Benedictine monastery, told CNA.

The monastery on June 2 released its first major label album, BENEDICTA: Marian Chant from Norcia, through De Montfort Music together with Decca Classics and Universal Music Classics. The album, available at Amazon, includes 33 tracks, drawn largely from the liturgical chants with have characterized the life of Benedictine monks for more than 1,000 years.


“The chant is beautiful, and our souls need beauty in order to grow and thrive. The chant is the Church's love song to her Lord; it expresses the love-longing of the monk’s heart,” reflected Fr. Cassian.

“Now monks are ordinary men, and what we experience is, in a real way, the experience of Every Man. I'm convinced that this beautiful chant will give spiritual nourishment to those who listen to it.”

The chants include hymns, antiphons, and responses from the liturgy, ranging from well-known pieces such as the Salve Regina and the Ave Maria, to hidden gems such as the Virgo Parens Christi.

“The particular selection we made is unique because it includes not only chants from the Mass (sequences that are no longer used, for example) and the Divine Office (including solemn responsories that are rarely heard any more) but also chants from the repertoire of popular devotion. Some pieces are from the common of the Blessed Virgin, but many are proper to specific feasts,” said Fr. Cassian.

The album also includes several capitula – biblical readings of only a few verses, chanted very simply – which are read in the Divine Office.

Fr. Cassian noted that the capitula were included because “the short Scripture reading is an important part of all the Day Hours, and we wanted to involve our listeners in an experience of prayer.”

The CD even includes a new chant, Nos Qui Christi Iugum (We who have received Christ's yoke), which was composed specifically for Benedicta.

“Fr. Basil Nixen, our choirmaster, is very talented; he has both musical and poetic skills. It was he who wrote the text and composed the music for this piece,” Fr. Cassian explained.

“The image used in the title, 'Christi Iugum', is from the Rule of St. Benedict, which describes the monk as one who bears the yoke of Christ – like a good ox who puts his whole weight into the work at hand. In this piece, Mary is called 'Regina Monachorum', queen of monks, obviously a very fitting title coming from the monastic tradition. Fr. Basil weaves together images from the Rule with a rich Marian piety. In the melody there are hints of the solemn tone used for one of the readings of Christmas Matins.”

In addition to their desire to share their own prayer with listeners, the monks also hope that Benedicta could contribute to the provision of better music at Catholic parishes.

“It would be wonderful if our album could inspire a re-discovery of Gregorian chant in parish liturgies,” Fr. Cassian reflected. “You know, Sacrosanctum Concilium [Vatican II's constitution on the liturgy] strongly promoted the chant. There is a terrible misconception that Vatican II did away with Latin and Gregorian chant. Quite the contrary! We really need to rediscover what the Council said about liturgical music.”

He added that “in addition to the classical repertoire in Latin, lots of good work has been done in the U.S. in the area of English chant,” and that “these resources are readily available.”

De Montfort Music has had tremendous success sharing the sacred music of similar communities, including the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. It has released several albums with the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, and in 2014 its releases accounted for three of Billboard's Top 5 Classical Traditional Album Imprints.

The monastery at Norcia – the birthplace of St. Benedict – was founded in 1998, and is now comprised of 18 men, half of whom are American, and whose average age is only 33.

Sales of Benedicta will help support the monastery, where Fr. Cassian said “there are always projects in the works!”

The community is working on its grange, a property it holds outside the walls of Norcia. “There are the ruins of an old Capuchin monastery on the property, and we’re renovating the church and adjacent spaces so that the monks can go there for their monthly 'hermit day' or for longer periods of retreat. We’ve also started a vegetable garden and planted fruit trees.”

Outside monastic circles, the community is known for its craft brewery, Birra Nursia.

“The beer, if I say so myself, is very good!” exclaimed Fr. Cassian. “We learned the art from the Trappist monks in Belgium. Our master brewer, Br. Francis, and his capable team work with real dedication and skill.”

However, “At the moment our beer is not available in the U.S., but we’re working on that. In the meantime, you have to come to Norcia!”

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/these-monks-are-convinced-gregorian-chant-will-make-your-life-better-76789/
Of Benedict and His Order
Posted By Thom, On 21 March 2015
http://www.thomryng.com/amateurmonk/of-benedict-and-his-order/
INTERVIEW:
How A Vow of Silence Earned Monks a #1 Album
 June 16, 2015 by Stephen Raskauskas
http://blogs.wfmt.com/offmic/2015/06/16/how-a-vow-of-silence-earned-monks-a-1-album/
Singing Benedictine Monks Hit High Note
Judith Valente  Aug 7 2015
http://americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/singing-benedictine-monks-hit-high-note
 

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The Cure for Boredom 👀 is Curiosity

Dorothy Parker
The Cure for Boredom is Curiosity.
There is no Cure for Curiosity.

Dorothy Parker