Magnificent Pictures

My obsession!

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Arctic Shine

Photograph by Max Edin, Your Shot

Earth's most famous light formation hangs over a landscape saturated by the glow of a full moon in Longyearbyen, Norway. The photographer, who recently submitted this image to National Geographic's Your Shot, said it was the most beautiful northern lights display he had ever witnessed.

Referred to as the aurora borealis around the Arctic Circle, the light show also appears in southern polar latitudes, where it's known as the aurora australis. In addition, the naturally occurring phenomenon has been spied on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (See "Auroras Seen on Uranus For First Time.")

Green light is the most common for Earthly auroras, but blue and red hues also appear from time to time. (Kastalia Medrano).

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Stardust

Photograph by Kwon O. Chul, TWAN

Far above Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, the band of the Milky Way cuts through a sky dusted with stars. This recently released photo, a single frame from a time lapse video, was taken near the town of Moshi on Kilimanjaro's lower southern slopes.

The smaller, almost opalescent blur on the left of the frame is the Small Magellanic Cloud-a dwarf galaxy far, far away that's home to hundreds of millions of stars.

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Dynamic Earth

Illustration courtesy SVS/NASA, U. Illinois, Thomas Lucas Productions, DMNS

Solar particles get bent as they sweep around Earth's magnetic field, as seen in a still from a new NASA planetarium show called Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine.

The image shows the full scale of a coronal mass ejection, an eruption of charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere.

When the particles reach Earth, they can interact with our planet to produce the northern and southern lights. Under the right conditions, CMEs can trigger especially intense solar storms that can damage satellites or cause power outages.

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Stellar Nursery
Image courtesy VLT/ESO

Awash in gritty, pinkish light, this image is the best view to date of the lively stellar nursery known as NGC 6357. The newly released visible-light picture was made by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Swaths of color represent glowing dust and gas clouds, while dots of blue and white light show the hot young stars growing inside the nebula.

NGC 6357 is also called the War and Peace Nebula, due to the fantastical shapes of a skull and a dove that seem to appear in infrared images of the cosmic cloud. Located within the constellation Scorpius, the nebula lies about 8,000 light-years from Earth.

~Source: www.nationalgeographic.com~

"Have you not known? Have you not heard? 

The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. 

He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable."

(Isaiah 40:28)

XoXo,

Lindsay

KOKO, the Gorilla

Have you heard of Koko, the gorilla? I was browsing some videos in YouTube and found some videos of Koko. She is a genius gorilla, so cute and a fast learner. I also admire the people who taught her everything she know with dedication, passion, patient and love. I do not believe in evolution, but I do believe in God who created everything beautiful. Koko is one of His masterpiece and human has the ability to teach animals and to care for them.

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"A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel."

Proverbs 12:10

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"Koko (born July 4, 1971) is a female gorilla who, according to Francine "Penny" Patterson, is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language,and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English.

As with other ape language experiments, the degree to which Koko masters these signs has been controversial, as has been the degree to which such mastery demonstrates language abilities.

Koko was born at San Francisco Zoo and has lived most of her life in Woodside, California, although a move to a sanctuary on Maui, Hawaii, has been planned since the 1990s. Koko is short for the name Hanabiko (花火子 lit. "fireworks child"^?)in Japanese, a reference to her date of birth, the Fourth of July.

Although not unique, Koko is one of the few non-humans known to keep pets. She has cared for several cats over the years and Koko's relationship with All Ball was featured in the 1987 book Koko's Kitten (Scholastic Press, ISBN 0-590-44425-5), which was written by Patterson. In the book, Patterson reported that in the summer of 1984 Koko asked her for a cat. Koko selected a gray male Manx from a litter of abandoned kittens and named him "All Ball". This breed is unusual in that it has no tail. Patterson wondered whether that influenced Koko's choice. Patterson wrote that Koko cared for the kitten as if it were a baby gorilla.

In December of that same year, All Ball escaped from Koko's cage and was hit and killed by a car. Later, Patterson said that when she signed to Koko that All Ball had gone, Koko signed "Bad, sad, bad" and "Frown, cry, frown, sad". Patterson also reported later hearing Koko making a sound similar to human weeping. Drawing upon this incident, Patterson argues that non-human species can have human-like emotions.

In 1985, Koko was allowed to pick out two new kittens from a litter to be her companions. The animals she chose, later named "Lipstick" and "Smokey", were also Manxes like All Ball.

Though he was not a pet of Koko's in the same way her cats were, the Gorilla Foundation also briefly played home to a male green-winged macaw of mysterious origin who had been found inhabiting the grounds and feeding on the loquat trees. Initially frightened of the parrot, Koko named him "Devil Tooth", "devil" presumably coming from his being mostly red, and "tooth" for his fierce-looking white beak; the human staff adjusted the name to "Devil Beak", and ultimately to "DB". (Personal communication)" 

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Have you seen the movie, "Rise of the planet of the Apes?", I thought only in a movie that an ape could learn the sign language and all, but Koko proved me wrong. I think Koko inspired that movie because its location is in San Francisco and Koko was born in San Francisco Zoo LOL.

Speaking of San Francisco Zoo, I visited the San Francisco's Zoo last Sunday and I was actually disappointed. The Zoo is big and clean, but there were not a lot of animals to see, most of the big cats were hiding and those animals looked lonely and sad.

Yours Truly in SF Zoo lol

Anyway, please Google about Koko and you will be amazed of this beautiful creature. These are some of her videos that I love but she has a lot more videos in YouTube, please check her out and help spreading the word of how to teach and love the animals. They deserved our help, care and love! 

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P.S  6:27, I do not believe in Evolution, just to be clear lol, I do believe in God's creation :)

♥♥Save the gorillas ♥♥

http://www.koko.org/index.php

xoxo,

Lindsay

Happy Earth Day!

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Happy Earth Day Everyone and Everything!

God is a creative creator and artist,

He created this beautiful earth and told us to take good care of it,

Therefor..

We must do so in our everyday lives.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Genesis 1:1

"It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me."

(Jeremiah 27:5)

"God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good."

(Genesis 1:25)

"And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

(Genesis 1:28)

God trusted us to take care of the earth and not destroying it.

Yes, we need food and water and God provides it all for us through the earth.

He also gives us a brain and creativity to use the earth properly.

Understand that you are not the only one who is on this earth!

There are other people, present and the future generation to come,

Animals, plants, and etc.

Use wisely.

Be a good steward of anything that God entrusted us!

 "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,"

(Psalm 24:1)

So, make no mistake!

God entrusted us this earth

(Thank You God),

But

HE IS STILL THE OWNER.

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"And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.  But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful."

(Luke 12:42-46)

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Everything that we have now comes from those before us.

Be thankful and be a good steward so that your children will enjoy the earth.

Create, enjoy, planted, and use everything on this earth with great responsibility and love.

Take good care of your body and those around you, including the animals and other living creatures that God created to be our source of food, companion, worker, etc.

LOVE them, not abusing them and taking advantage of their well being.

There are a lot of things that we could do to love and celebrate the earth daily.

Eat right, recycle, use water and electricity according to your needs, save, clean up, create, share, help others in need!

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XOXO EARTH,

Lindsay

Some useful websites:

http://www.earthday.org/

http://www.thinkgreen.com/earth-day2012/

http://www.wikihow.com/Love-the-Earth

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6378292/101-Ways-to-Help-Planet-Earth

http://www.green-talk.com/2009/04/20/take-care-of-the-earth-and-yourself-on-earth-day/