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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Brave: The Disney-Pixar film scoops best animation at the Oscars
Brave: The film won best animated feature film.
Defying Boycotts, Jagger, Stones, to Honor Israel’s 65th Birthday
By: Yori Yanover
Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones presenting Israel's official symbol.
Photo Credit: Yori Yanover based on Kyle Blair/WENN.com image. Despite a barrage of attacks from British, European and U.S. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) groups, the Rolling Stones will perform their planned concert in Jerusalem on Israel’s Independence Day, Monday, April 15.
“We’ve been slammed and smacked and twittered a lot by the anti-Israeli side,” said Mick Jagger, the band’s leader and most recognizable member since 1963. “All I can say is: anything worth doing is worth overdoing. So we decided to add a concert on Tuesday.”
Needless to say, tickets to both concerts, Monday night in Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem and Tuesday night in Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, have been sold out even as Jagger was speaking...Continue reading...
Israel Restores Wetlands; Birds Make It Their Winter Home
Cranes fly at sunset above the Hula Valley of
northern Israel in January. Millions of birds pass through the area as
they migrate south every winter from Europe and Asia to Africa. Some now
stay in the Hula Valley for the entire winter.
Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images.
Like many countries, Israel tried to drain many of its swamplands, then realized it was destroying wildlife habitats. So the country reversed course, and has been restoring the wetlands of the Hula Valley in the north.
The effort has had a huge and rather noisy payoff. Unlike many birding sites, where the creatures take off when you approach them, you can practically touch the cranes that inhabit the Hula Valley.
The thousands upon thousands of the common cranes are about as tall as a toddler and have a 6-foot wingspan. They seem unperturbed by the sudden arrival of hundreds of gawking tourists, riding in what amounts to a grandstand on wheels...Read here...
Like many countries, Israel tried to drain many of its swamplands, then realized it was destroying wildlife habitats. So the country reversed course, and has been restoring the wetlands of the Hula Valley in the north.
The effort has had a huge and rather noisy payoff. Unlike many birding sites, where the creatures take off when you approach them, you can practically touch the cranes that inhabit the Hula Valley.
The thousands upon thousands of the common cranes are about as tall as a toddler and have a 6-foot wingspan. They seem unperturbed by the sudden arrival of hundreds of gawking tourists, riding in what amounts to a grandstand on wheels...Read here...
Israeli history: it’s all about roots
The oldest of our
ancient trees have lived through wars, religious upheavals, conquests
and defeats; the youngest have seen the return of the Jews to their
ancient homeland.
Legend
holds that after the Temple was destroyed, all the trees in the Land of
Israel shed their leaves in mourning. All the trees, that is, except
for the olive.
“Why are you not sad?” the other trees
asked the olive. “You, who provided oil for the sacred menorah, why are
you not full of sorrow, as we are?” The olive tree replied: “Can you not
see the torment in my heart?” And, indeed, olive trees are twisted and
gnarled, as if their hearts are in travail.
Unless
their leaves are swaying in the breeze — or falling in a forest — trees
rarely make a sound. Yet what if they could talk? As the oldest forms
of life in the universe, they could tell riveting stories about long-ago
events and the people who made them happen!
The oldest of Israel’s ancient trees have
lived through wars, religious upheavals, conquests and defeats; the
youngest have seen the return of the Jews to their ancient homeland.
Here are but a few, together with their fascinating tales!...Read tales here...
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city
(Reuters) - Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds."[link]
Help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's with these five foods
A thought-provoking
picture from A Funny Old World, one of the books in the new series for
people with dementia. Photograph: Matthias Clamer/Getty Images[link]
Heartbreaking photo of a man holding his dog's paw through a pound cage prompts well-wishers to donate the $400 to free him after it was secretly posted on Facebook
By
Daily Mail Reporter
[link]
Best of friends: Dave Thomas, from San
Bernardino, couldn't afford to have his impounded dog Buzz Lightyear
released so sat and held his beloved pet's paw.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Siberian Tigers, World's Most Powerful Predator
Deep Down in the Lyme Disease Wasteland (Must Read)
Close up of an adult female and a nymph
tick—carriers of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme
disease. (Getty Images)[link]
Saving 1 Billion People From Themselves
Read article posted by
Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog: The West is almost as in love with improving the world, as the Muslim
world is with conquering it. These two contradictory impulses, the
missionary and the warrior, come together in the Clash of Civilizations.The Muslim world has two approaches to the West; underhanded deceit and outright terror. The practitioners of the former are considered moderates and the latter extremists. The West has two approaches to the Muslim world, regime change and love bombing. With regime change we bomb their cities to save them from their rulers and with love bombing we shamelessly flatter and appease them in our own cities to save them from themselves...Continue reading...
Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs: The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Baird concerned with Iran ties with Venezuela, after democracy push in Cuba
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By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Canada is increasingly concerned with the growing cozy
relations between Iran and Venezuela and intends to press the issue with
the regime of Hugo Chavez in Caracas next week, Foreign Affairs
Minister John Baird said Sunday. By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press"I'm concerned about Iran in general," he told The Canadian Press from Lima, Peru. "I'm concerned about their nuclear program. I'm concerned about their support of terrorism...Continue reading...
Cats, Guns and Spoils of War in Rural Idlib, Syria
Citizen journalist Omar Abu Al Huda plays with his cat at his safe house in rural Idlib Credit:Mohammed Sergie
Monday, February 18, 2013
Cat Grass for Kitty Mittens
Why do cats eat grass?
By Kathy Blumenstock[link]
‘Iranian nuke chief was in N. Korea for atomic test’
In
this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency
(ISNA), an Iranian Shahab-3 missile is launched during military
maneuvers outside the city of Qom, Iran, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 (photo credit: AP/ISNA, Ruhollah Vahdati)
The man whom Western intelligence agencies say
may very well be the head of Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program
was present as an observer last week when North Korea carried out a
critical nuclear test, The British Sunday Times reported.
According to the report Sunday, Mohsen
Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi very rarely leaves Iranian soil due to fear that
Israel’s Mossad will make an attempt on his life, following an alleged
pattern of previous assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi is currently pursuing
technology that would enable his country to assemble a nuclear warhead
compact enough to be fitted to the ballistic missile technology in its
possession, Western intelligence sources reportedly said...Continue reading...
Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining
You Can't Fix Stupid [link]
by Mike Barrett Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming
dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even
hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing
cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One
Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree,
believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with
adverse genetic mutations. But there is more to it than that...Continue reading...
Flashmob Moscow (Russia) : Putting On The Ritz 2012
YouTube: Hundreds of dancers joined together in Moscow on 26.02.2012 to perform
together a great flashmob of "Puttin' on the Ritz", a popular song
written and published in 1929 by Irving Berlin, and introduced by Harry
Richman in the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz (1930). The title
derives from the slang expression "putting on the Ritz" meaning to dress
very fashionably. The expression was inspired by the swanky Ritz Hotel.[link][link]
A still from Passion Pit's "Carried Away" music video.Sunday, February 17, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Predicting Meteorite Impacts - 2013 National Geographic
Astrobiologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Kevin Hand
explains how Asteroid DA-14 could be only the beginning of what we can
expect from space...[link]
Photos: World Press Photos 2012
WARNING: Some graphic and disturbing content. The prizes for best news, nature, arts and sports photography around the world were handed out in The Netherlands this week. Here are some of the award-winning shots.[photos here]
This handout photo
released by World Press Photo and taken by US photographer Micah Albert
of Redux Images shows a woman who works as a trash picker at the 30-acre
dump, which literally spills into households of one million people
living in nearby slums, reading a book she came across on April 3, 2012
in Nairobi. This photo won the first prize in the Contemporary Issues
single category in the World Press Photo 2012 contest.
Photograph by: micah albert, AFP/Getty Images
Friday, February 15, 2013
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Canada to extend Mali mission by a month
[link]
February 14, 2013
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Peter MacKay says a heavy-lift Canadian air force transport plane will continue to assist French forces in Mali for another month.
The commitment involving the C-17 Globemaster, which has been shuttling war material, vehicles and troops between France and the Malian capital of Bamako, was set to expire Friday.
MacKay confirmed the extension to March 15 outside of the House of Commons on Thursday following question period...Continue reading..
Patrick Chappatte
.The Canadian Press
/
February 14, 2013
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Peter MacKay says a heavy-lift Canadian air force transport plane will continue to assist French forces in Mali for another month.
The commitment involving the C-17 Globemaster, which has been shuttling war material, vehicles and troops between France and the Malian capital of Bamako, was set to expire Friday.
MacKay confirmed the extension to March 15 outside of the House of Commons on Thursday following question period...Continue reading..
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Valentine’s Day - 2013 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
[link]
Valentine’s Day, also called St. Valentine’s Day, day
(February 14) when lovers express their affection with greetings and
gifts. Although there were several Christian martyrs named Valentine,
the day probably took its name from a priest who was martyred about ad
270 by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus. According to legend, the
priest signed a letter to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended
and with whom he had fallen in love, “from your Valentine.”...Continue reading...
Valentine’s Day, also called St. Valentine’s Day, day
(February 14) when lovers express their affection with greetings and
gifts. Although there were several Christian martyrs named Valentine,
the day probably took its name from a priest who was martyred about ad
270 by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus. According to legend, the
priest signed a letter to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended
and with whom he had fallen in love, “from your Valentine.”...Continue reading...
The Lesson Of The Butterfly
the wings-become-windows butterfly. by Eddy Van 3000[link]
There are so many lessons we can learn from nature. From plants we learn to keep our keep our focus on the sun. Peter heeded that lesson when he walked on water – although he kept his eyes on the “Son”
Through the butterfly’s emergence from the cocoon we learn about transformation and rebirth.
Here in this video we learn two more very valuable lessons from the butterfly – that strong determination is necessary if we are ever going to succeed and more importantly – the value of patience. [link]
![OMG! Anowl got caught in the grill of truck and then took the ride for 60 MILES! Florida Fish and Wildlife officials freed the owl eventually, the animal was fine.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
It's Raining Spiders In Brazil
Coming to a Sky Near You: Drones
Posted by Dan Stone of National Geographic Magazine in Change Reaction on February 4, 2013
About a year ago, a delicious idea proliferated through the
Internet. A small start-up company in San Francisco had an idea to
deliver tacos anytime, anywhere in San Francisco using unmanned drones.
The source of the tacos was irrelevant, and so was the price. All that
anyone could imagine was a flying robotic Tacocopter delivering fresh, airborne Mexican food to your door...Continue reading...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Bear surprises Samsung crew on washing machine shoot
Paying strict attention to my posting, and will respect the government of Britain and the president of the USA.. Posts are taken down. Sorry, the posts were quite childish and without thought. Again, I apologize. That said, this is a cool video, check it out!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Could a Canadian become the next pope?
(photo courtesy Getty Images)[link]
A Bird Ballet | Music Video
A bird ballet | Music Video from Neels CASTILLON on Vimeo.
We were shooting for a commercial with my DP waiting for an helicopter flying into the sunset, when thousands and thousands of birds came and made this incredible dance in the sky. It was amazing, we just forgot our job and started this little piece of poetry... Enjoy !
Thanks to the birds...
And thanks to Ariane Cornic (Masterfilms) and Philippe Pangrazzi who let us shoot during our working time.
Please watch it in HD or download it in best quality (if you have a vimeo account)
Made by: Neels CASTILLON
DP: Mathias Touzeris
Music: Hand-made - Alt J / Buy on iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/AnAwesomeWave
Location: Marseille, France
PS: Now I know it's called a murmuration and the birds are Starlings.
BBC Nature says "starlings are known for these wonderful swirling aerial displays, done at dusk as they get ready to roost for the
Photo of male Victoria's Riflebird.
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