WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 6th June 2013

World Environment Day

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World Environment Day enables everyone to realize their responsibility and their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.

World Environment Day is a day for people from all walks of life to come together to ensure a cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations.

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Watch this beautiful time lapse video of sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 on board the International Space Station from August to October, 2011

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EARTH HOUR 2013

Earth Hour  23rd March 2013 at 8.30PM

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Turn off your Lights for one hour at 8.30PM as an awareness for the Conservation of Energy and the use of Renewable Energy.

This event started in Australia, and is now embraced by the World.

Please watch the official video here.

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CONSERVATION of the ASIAN ELEPHANT

 

Conservation of the Asian Elephants

 

 

 

Following on from the esteemed work of the late Steve Irwin of Australia Zoo,

His Father, Bob Irwin continues Steve's work with the conservation

of the Asian Elephants.

 

Please watch this Video for highlights of the TV program.

 

 

Australian Story looks at three young Australians who saved a starving,

orphaned Sumatran baby elephant called Bona.

 

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Watch "The first song ever recorded in space" @ TVKim

Watch "The first song ever recorded in space" @ TVKim


http://www.tvkim.com/watch/2863/kims-picks-the-first-song-ever-recorded-in-space

THE FIRST SONG EVER RECORDED IN SPACE
Space station Commander Chris Hadfield teams up with Ed Robertson of the group Barenaked Ladies to compose and record the first song ever in outer space!
 It's called I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?).
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http://lybio.net/tag/chris-hadfield-is-somebody-singing-featuring-ed-robertson-lyrics/

Chris Hadfield – Is Somebody Singing – Featuring – Ed Robertson

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On solid fuel and wires
Turn the key and the light the fires.
We’re leaving Earth today
The rockets burning bright
We’ll soon be out of sight
And orbiting in space
Pushed back in my seat
Look out my window
There goes home


That ball of shiny blue houses everybody anybody ever knew

So sing your song I’m listening out where stars are glistening
I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon
If you could see our Nation from the international space station
You’d know why I want to get back soon (get back soon)

Eighteen thousand miles an hour
Fueled by science and solar power
The oceans racing past
At half a thousand tons
Ninety minutes Moon to Sun
A bullet can’t go half this fast

Floating from my seat
Look out my window
There goes Home (There goes home)
That brilliant ball of blue
Is where I’m from, and also where I’m going to

So sing your song I’m listening out where stars are glistening
I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon
If you could see our Nation from the international space station
You’d know why I want to get back soon (get back soon)

All black and white just fades to grey
Where the sunrises sixteen times a day
You can’t make out borders from up here
Just a spinning ball within a tiny atmosphere (atmosphere)

Pushed back in the seat
Look out my window
Here comes home (ho-ho-home)
What once was fueled by fear
Now has fifteen Nation orbiting together here.

So sing your song I’m listening out where stars are glistening
I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon
If you could see our Nation from the international space station
You’d know why I want to get back soon (get back soon)

You’d know why I want to get back soon (getting back to you)
You’d know why I want to get back soon (getting back to you)
You’d know why I want to get back soon (getting back to you)
You’d know why I want to get back soon

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Spider Web Time Lapse Video

Please view this interesting time-lapse video of a Spider which works each night to weave this awesome web in my front yard.

Night Blooming Cereus Cactus Flower

Please view this AWESOME time-lapse video of the Night Blooming Cereus Cactus Flowers in my Garden.

A Walk in MiM's Day Garden

Take a leisurely stroll through my Summer Day Garden and enjoy the sights and sounds of Nature.

Here are some comments (edited) that I received about my "Day Garden" video:

DebV:  Beautiful.. I love watching the video! Thank you

Doreen:  What a wonderful garden  all the work and love that have gone into it. I tawt I taw a puddy tat did I?  Wow such a green thumb. I watched your lovely video and just loved it. 'I tawt I saw a Puddy Tat" laying by a container kind of hiding...if so I bet he/she loves that garden. I bet you really enjoy that garden the sounds were just awesome. Shadow kept looking around for the birds while I played it. The water sound was so relaxing. I could picture finding a nice cozy place and hiding there all day to meditate or read.

Thanks so much for sharing a bit of your life....and hard work.

Ursula:  That is quite large area to care for. I loved the sounds of running water and the birds singing.

The little black and white cat sleeping by the flowerpot was precious as well.

here in ohio usa everything is covered in snow at the moment.

Susan:  I'll have to watch your video whenever I need to de-stress. I could feel the stress melting away as I walked with you along the garden paths. 

What a serene and beautiful place to spend time in your gardens MiM... just lovely... thank you sharing with us!

Laine:  Wow MiM..Your garden is just gorgeous..I loved the video..The sounds were so soothing almost put me to sleep..I love running water sounds.  Love your kitty..Almost didn't see him.  Thank you for sharing.  Wish I could have a garden like this.  Oh man, a fairy garden?  I would love that..I bet that will be gorgeous. You will definitely have to share that one with me.

Cathy:  K...I need to go back to bed now after that peaceful and relaxing walk through your garden! LOL  Lovely!!!  I should have saved it for late tonight....or....maybe I'll just view it again!!!  Thanks for sharing your wonderful garden with us!  I wish I could have seen all the birds who were singing, too!

 

Sharon:  WOW, It's Gorgeous !

Looks like a lot of work & money went into all that..and what a watering chore you must have.

Lovely though .You gotta be proud of that. I'll share with my sister she would love that video. 

Very impressive MiM..  MiM your gardens are wonderful my sister loved it.

Paradyce:  Absolutely beautiful gardens MiM...Love your little 'sleeping lion'... Lol  So cute, I remember him/her from the Night-time Garden video... Love it, thank you so much for the wonderful view into another world so different from my own... Beautiful.  Thank you for sharing with us... 

Barbara:  Mim I finally got a chance to go see your garden and it is so charming!  I loved seeing it in the daylight.  It looks like you have a lot of shade areas for the heat you have been having!  I could see you sitting out there with an iced tea.....What a wonderful stroll thru the paths.

Thank you for sharing it.  After seeing it at night I was hoping you would show us during the day. 

(MiM's reply: the shade has developed over the years as I had planted some Australian Eucalyptus trees on the "hot side" of the house many years ago. So now they provide shade, falling leaves all year round, peeling bark in the Summer which I crush and use for mulch, and a habitat for native birds, possums and fruit bats!!!)

Rosie:Your Day Garden is lovely! You have the touch, that's for sure. Gorgeous...you have done an awesome job. A lot of work went into it. Creative and lovely!! Thanks for sharing.

Eileen: I love your garden, Mim.   You must be down South.  I recognize a lot of plants that I grow here in Florida. 

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A Science Lesson with Brian Cox - ABC Sydney - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

 Brian Cox received his doctorate in physics from the University of Manchester, completing his thesis in 1998. In 2005, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He splits his time between work at the University of Manchester and at the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the Large Hadron Collider. He still loves to play music, when he's not appearing in clever TV shows and radio programs like 'The Infinite Monkey Cage'. 

PROFESSOR BRIAN COX INTERVIEW 7th May 2012

BRIAN COX Interview in Australia
7th May 2012

Pop Star, Professor of Physics, and TV presenter, Brian Cox, was recently in Australia filming his new series for the BBC 'Wonders of Life'. Catalyst caught up with him to discuss his experiences communicating science, Cern's Large Hadron Collider, and what it's like being a pop star and a scientist.

Stunning view of the earth released by NASA

 Stunning view of the earth released by NASA.

(Please click the link above to view the video)

NASA has released mesmerising footage of the earth shot by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

The four-minute video captures the bright lights emanating from the cities of the world and the eerie green glow of the aurora

australis above the atmosphere.

Shot 400km above the earth, the astronauts of Expedition 30 also spotted flashing purple thunderstorms over Africa and the

stunning Comet Lovejoy.

Though the footage consists of still images, time-lapse photography creates the impression of movement.

It was shot over the last five months.

The video is set to the song 'Walking in the Air' by Howard Blake.

The International Space Station has been in continual operation since 1998.

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A crew aboard the International Space Station has captured mesmerising footage as it orbits around the planet.

  

A TRIBUTE TO SKY WATCHERS

This time-lapse production is a tribute to all skygazers around the world who enjoy exploring the night sky with their telescopes. This was released in April 2012 in celebration of the Global Astronomy Month (gam-awb.org), an international program of Astronomers Without Borders in partnership with world-wide astronomy centers and clubs.

Sky Gazers from Babak Tafreshi on Vimeo.

AUSTRALIA DAY 2012

AUSTRALIA DAY 2012

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Icehouse - Great southern Land 1989

Great Southern Land Lyrics
Artist: Icehouse
Album: Primitive Man

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Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
city on a rainy day down in the harbour
watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay
looking everywhere 'cause I had to find you
this is not the way that i remember it here
anyone will tell you its a prisoner island
hidden in the summer for a million years

Great Southern Land, burned you black

so you look into the land and it will tell you a story
story 'bout a journey ended long ago
if you listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains
maybe you can hear them talking like I do
". . they're gonna betray, they're gonna forget you
are you gonna let them take you over this way . ."

Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
you walk alone like a primitive man
and they make it work with sticks and bones
see their hungry eyes, its a hungry home
I hear the sound of the stranger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
they burned you black, black against the ground

Great Southern Land, in the sleeping sun
you walk alone with the ghost of time
they burned you black, black against the ground
and they make it work with rocks and sand
I hear the sound of the stanger's voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
you walk alone, like a primitive man
you walk alone with the ghost of time
and they burned you black
yeah, they burned you black
Great Southern Land

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AVATAR The Movie- Extended HD Trailer

The Friendship Song - "Friends are Quiet Angels"

"Friends are Quiet Angels"

Friends are quiet angels
Who lift us to our feet
When our wings have trouble remembering how to fly
They stand by us and give us
the strength to try

Friends are quiet angels
Who somehow make you see
The light that's in the darkness
before the dawn
All at once the journey's not so long

But it's the laughter and the fun
Sometimes the feeling that we're one
All the tears we cry together you and I
That will keep us heart to heart
as time goes by

Friends are quiet angels
Who fill your life with grace
Thrilled to share your joy
when a dream comes true
And on this special day
I'm blessed 'cause I can say
I've found a quiet angel
You're a special angel
I found a quiet angel in you.

© 2007 G. Sklerov & B. Rothstein All rights reserved

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Michael Jackson's last rehearsal video: THIS IS IT

Machu Picchu Post

Machu Picchu Post is a short 3D film made at Supinfocom Arles in 2008.
This is the story of the unexpected meeting between a young peruvian boy living with his lama and a pilot from the airmail flying above the boy's house.