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Everybody hurts
One of the songs I love most
When your day is long
And the night
The night is yours alone
When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life
Well hang on

Don’t let yourself go
Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts
Sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it’s time to sing along
(When your day is night alone)
Hold on, hold on
(If you feel like letting go)
Hold on
If you think you’ve had too much of this life
Well hang on

Cause everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts

Don’t throw your hand

Oh, no
Don’t throw your hand
When you feel like you’re alone
No, no, no, you’re not alone

If you’re on your own
In this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you’ve had too much
Of this life
To hang on

Well, everybody hurts
Sometimes, everybody cries
And everybody hurts
Sometimes

And everybody hurts
Sometimes

So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
(Everybody hurts
You are not alone)

The Corrs Everybody Hurts Lyrics
Artist: The Corrs Lyrics

December 27, 2013

Source: fromquarkstoquasars.com 

Galaxies. The Universe is littered with them. They have speckled the
vast darkness of intergalactic space for 13-billion years with their
numerous stars and planets.

Galaxies are grouped within three size variations: dwarf galaxies, mid-range spiral galaxies, and gigantic elliptical galaxies.

Dwarf galaxies – these are the smallest galaxies that have been classified. And they are rather small (relatively speaking; they’re still unbelievably large in “human terms”). Many of these galaxies are only about 200 light-years across, and contain only a few tens-of-millions of stars, weighing only slightly more than a star cluster.

The second grouping includes the Spiral galaxies, such as our very own Milky Way (more specifically, it’s a barred spiral galaxy). These are the most common galaxies observed in the Universe, making up 60% – 75% of all galaxies ever found.

Now we approach the largest galaxies – the Ellipticals. They range in shape from nearly spherical to nearly flat, and they can contain as many as a trillion stars.

Image Credit: NASA

Let’s get to the feature of this article – IC 1101. Shown in the image, IC 1101 is the single largest galaxy that has ever been found in the Universe. It is located almost a billion light-years away.

Just how large is it? Prepare to have your mind blown, because this galaxy has a diameter of 6-million light-years and a mass of about 100-trillion stars. It is nearly 50x the size of our very own Milky Way galaxy and 2000x as massive. If our galaxy were to be replaced with this super-giant, it would swallow up both Magellanic clouds, the Andromeda galaxy, the Triangulum galaxy, and almost all the space in between. That is simply staggering.

Over billion of years, galaxies the size of our own have collided and combined together to form this immense structure. Telescopic observations have also revealed an interesting fact about the stars within this galaxy. Normally, blue-tinted galaxies signal active star formation, while yellow-red hues indicate a cease in the birth of new stars. IC 1101 is giving birth to very few new stars. Unless it continues to collide and join with other younger galaxies, IC 1101 will eventually fade away.

Caption: A photograph released to Reuters on August 22, 2014 shows the remains of an ancient Mayan city in Lagunita May 30, 2014. Archaeologists have found two ancient Mayan cities hidden in the jungle of southeastern Mexico, and lead researcher Ivan Sprajc, an associate professor at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, says he believes there are “dozens” more to be found in the region. (REUTERS/Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Archaeologists have found two ancient Mayan cities hidden in the jungle of southeastern Mexico, and the lead researcher says he believes there are “dozens” more to be found in the region.

Ivan Sprajc, associate professor at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, said his team found the ancient cities of Lagunita and Tamchen on the Yucatan peninsula in April by examining aerial photographs of the region.

Sprajc said the two cities reached their heyday in the Late and Terminal Classic periods (600-1000 AD). At each site, researchers found palace-like buildings, pyramids and plazas. One of the pyramids is almost 20 meters (65 feet) high. (Reuters)

Caption: A photograph released to Reuters on August 22, 2014 shows the remains of an ancient Mayan city in Tamchen April 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

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Greenwich Thames seal Touching moment. A seal plays hide and seek
with a pet Golden Retriever. Seal pup and Golden Retriever filmed
playing for around five minutes.

Sunrise at Sraas Srang, Siem Reap, Cambodia

By Lance Ekum, Jungle of life

There’s a sun­set within the soul of each of us. Have you lis­tened to your heart and your soul? 

This sun­set within each of us…it’s there.  We just have to find it.  Maybe it’s over­cast in the world of you today.  Maybe it has been for a while.  Or maybe it’s a full-fledged storm.  In either case, when our sun­set within is blocked, we are not being com­pletely authen­tic and true to our­selves.  And we’re not liv­ing a life that is con­nect­ing with our deep­est being.

What keeps it hidden?

• Doing what we’re told is the right thing to do
• Pur­suit of the pay­check over the heart
• Not lis­ten­ing to that voice inside
• Going through the motions of life

Telling our­selves that some­day we’ll pur­sue our dreams (does some­day ever come?)
When we allow any on this list to be the pre­vail­ing force in our life, we sup­press that sun­set that is within.  And all of this is not to say that some­times we might have to do things for rea­sons our heart does not agree.  There will be unex­pected storms that come into our life — and it may mean doing some­thing that isn’t nec­es­sar­ily in line with what our heart speaks.

Life hap­pens.

Still, though, it doesn’t mean we have to be locked into these choices.  Even in the midst of an unex­pected storm, or for that mat­ter, a period of much cloudi­ness in our life — we can still  search for the sun­set within.

It’s there.

“Twenty years from now you will be more dis­ap­pointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow­lines. Sail away from the safe har­bor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Dis­cover.” ~ Mark Twain

Take some time to really lis­ten to your heart.  Explore what mat­ters deeply to you.

Your Sun­set

We have this one life here on earth that we’re liv­ing.  How are you choos­ing to live that life out?

Don’t wait for some­day…it’s a day that may never come.

“Today is your day! Your moun­tain is wait­ing. So… get on your way.” ~ Dr. Seuss

What can you do, today, that will take you one step closer toward that amaz­ing sun­set within your soul?  And if you’re there already, what can you do to keep that sun­set shin­ing , illu­mi­nat­ing your life and all you do?

You are amaz­ing — each and every one of you!  And when you allow your heart-filled sun­set to shine onto the world, that light and all it’s mag­i­cal col­ors will fill the world around you with the pas­sion you have within the depths of your soul.

By CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE
August 23, 2014

A giant tortoise known as ‘Pepe the missionary’ after he spent time living with Franciscan missionaries on the Galapagos islands has died aged 60.

During his life Pepe became famous as a mascot for the missionaries and was a favourite with tourists who came to visit and take photographs with him.

Pepe, who ended his days in a corral at the Galapagos National Park’s
Interpretation Center, died yesterday of natural causes, said the park
ecosystems director Victor Carrion.

After the death of Lonesome George (pictured), who passed away at an estimated age fo 100 in 2012, the missionaries handed Pepe over to the Galapagos National Park’s Interpretation Center

Pepe was first adopted from the wild by by a family from San Cristobal island in the 1940s before being given over to the mission in 1967.

He lived there until 2012 when he was given over to the national park following the death of Lonesome George, another giant tortoise who was thought to be the last of his species left.

George was thought to be around 100 years old when he passed away, which only made him a young adult, as the species can live up to 200 years old.

While it is not known exactly why Pepe died at such a young age, Mr Carrion  said that several of his organs had been slowly failing, adding that Pepe was also overweight.

Pepe the tortoise, who became famous as the mascot for Franciscan missionaries in the Galapagos Islands, has died aged 60 of natural causes

Park director Arturo Izurieta paid tribute to the tortoise on Twitter, saying: ‘After 60 years of life, Pepe the Missionary will remain in our memories forever.

‘The disappearance of Pepe the tortoise does not put his species in danger.’

Pepe was a member of the Chelonoidis becki species native to Wolf Volcano on the island of Isabela.
About 2,000 tortoises from the same species still live in their native habitat.

The Galapagos Islands are famous for their unique flora and fauna studied by Charles Darwin as he developed his theory of evolution.

Giant tortoises still exist in the wild on the Galapagos islands, near Ecuador. The unique and diverse range of flora and fauna on the islands were studied by Darwin as he developed his theory of evolution

Impartial to all, free from excessive attachment or false hope and expectation; accepting, tolerant, and forgiving. Buddhist nonattachment doesn’t imply complacence or indifference, or not having committed relationships or being passionately engaged with society, but rather has to do with our effort to defy change and resist the fact of impermanence and our mortality. By holding on to that which in any case is forever slipping through our fingers, we just get rope burn. ~Lama Surya Das

At her job, Maria Torero cares for sick human beings. At home, she lavishes love on slowly dying cats — 175 of them at last count.

The 45-year-old nurse has turned her two-story, eight-room apartment into a hospice for cats with feline leukemia, scattering it with scores of feeding dishes and at least two dozen boxes litter boxes.
Some have suggested she shelter healthy cats instead. “That’s not my role,” she told The Associated Press. “I’m a nurse. My duty is to the cats that nobody cares about.”

She said that “people don’t adopt adult cats, especially if they are terminally ill.” (AP)

In this Aug. 2, 2014 photo, Maria Torero, plays with a group of 175 cats
with leukemia in her home in Lima, Peru. Torero says caring for cats
with feline leukemia is her responsibility. Anybody else can care for
healthy animals. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)