How Sweet The Sound: Pink Saturday and A Miracle Makeover - August 13, 2011. Also I show you a USPS stamp: "Hope for the crippled". Many diseases are "crippling" us: polio, cancer...let's do something against that "fate"

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How Sweet The Sound: Pink Saturday and A Miracle Makeover - August 13, 2011

Let's hope, and let's make it happen, with our combined actions and skills!

From Beverly's website/blog http://howsweetthesound.type

pad.com/my_weblog/2011/08/pink-saturday-and-a-miracle-makeover-august-13-2011.html:

"Welcome to Pink Saturday.   Please link and join in the fun.  Please join us by linking your Pink Saturday post permalink using the linking tool provided at the bottom of this post.

Linking begins at 3 p.m. EST every Friday and continues through midnight Sunday night.

 So, be sure to link and show us your Pink and share your blessings.  Be certain to link using your pink post permalink.  And please remember to include a link back to my blog within your post so that your visitors will be able to visit here.

And,

the big news is that your blessing post will earn another $5 donation toward the next Miracle Makeover.  You just need to e-mail info@miraclemakeover.org so they can count your post toward the total.

I want to thank those of you that take the time to leave me a comment.

  Each comment you leave here and at each of the other Miracle Makeover host blogs earns a $1 donation for the next Miracle Makeover.

The goal this weekend is 5,000 comments.

Please, Please, Please leave your comments here on this post.

One Comment From You Left Here & at the 4 Blogs linked below =

$ 5 Donation on your behalf from Design Gives

 Design Gives Back @Design Gives Back/Kelee

Spiritual Sunday  @Spiritual Sunday/Charlotte & Ginger

Country Wings in Phoenix @Country Wings in Phoenix/Sherry

 Metamorphosis Monday @Between Naps On The Porch/Susan - 

comments on Monday Only

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Following is more information you need

to put your comments and posts

to work for another Miracle Makeover.

Here is a special message


 from Kelee:

Here are some details for you:

There will be many places for folks to help earn donations by JOINING - Commenting  - Like ' ing - Or Posting.  Here is how it works in 4 WAYS:

1) Comments:  Comments at any of the host blogs earn $1 each.

2)  Joining Google Friend Connect:   We have createding our volunteer blogger roster of the future thru Google Friend Connect.  

   
We will Donate $1 for each person that joins Design Gives Back Google Friend Connect.  PLEASE come by now to connect! :):)

3) Facebook:  "Liking" Design Gives Back/or Guideposts Facebook earns  .50 each donation from us and comments earn $1.

4)  Anyone that does a post with something positive, uplifting, spiritual or miraculous and a link to the video or embedded video and link to us will earn a $5 donation from us to the charities!!!

They must email us the link to their post.--- So it gets counted.  E-mail:  info@miraclemakeover.org

Bless your 1,000 Times..... 
HUGS with Gratitude and Anticipation!

Kelee

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I'm so excited.

Let's pull together to be a positive force in this world.

  Over the last three years we have had over 1,100 different

Pink Saturday participants.

Isn't that amazing?

And, just think how amazing it would be if each one of you

left a comment to raise funds for these wonderful

soul-inspiring projects.

Come on.  We can do it.

Visit Design Gives Back here to read more.

Here's our inspiration - Charlie!

Charlie, each and every one of us

are holding you close in our hearts and prayers.

You make us proud to call you our friend.

Here is the heart-warming reveal video.

Click the four arrow icon in the bottom right-hand corner to watch it full screen.

You'll be blessed by taking the time to watch the entire video."

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Happy Pink Saturday! (still open on Sunday!)

^{Please visit "Pretty in pink"/ "Show us your pink" [objects, that is :)] meme here:}

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Design Gives Back. WELCOME TO MIRACLE MAKEOVER REVEAL: Charlie's Room Video... August 12-18 Leave Comments and DESIGN GIVES BACK Donates Money on Your Behalf!. Also, I show you a MAXICARD from ROMANIA, symbolizing the comfort of a "nest", and the love of your family: The European Magpie, also Eurasian Magpie and Common Magpie (Pica pica). The European Magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and it is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all animals.

Please explore this worthy cause! Design Gives Back

"Watch this video & BE HAPPY! You can watch full-screen by clicking the four arrows in the right corner of screen. THEN, leave comments here and at the links below to earn donations for Friends of Kids with Cancer & for another MiracleMakeovertm for someone in-need.

                               You give "comments" or "likes" 

                                                      &

                  DESIGN GIVES BACK provides the money."

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A MAXICARD from ROMANIA, symbolizing the comfort of a "nest", and the love of your family: The European Magpie, also Eurasian Magpie and Common Magpie (Pica pica).  The European Magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and it is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all animals. 

The European Magpie, also Eurasian Magpie and Common Magpie (Pica pica), is a resident breeding bird throughout Europe, much of Asia and northwest Africa. 

It is one of several birds in the crow family named as magpies, and belongs to the Holarctic radiation of "monochrome" magpies. 

In Europe, "Magpie" is used by English speakers as a synonym for the European Magpie; it is the only magpie in Europe outside the Iberian Peninsula. 

The European Magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and it is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all animals.^[1] The expansion of its neostriatum is approximately the same in its relative size as is found in chimpanzees, orangutans and humans^[2]"

European Magpie
In Helsinki, Finland  Bird sound (help·info)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Pica
Species:	P. pica
Binomial name
Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sub-species      hudsonia      melanotos      galliae     germanica      pica      fennorum      asirensis     bactriana      hemileucoptera      leucoptera     jankowskii      sericea      battnensis     kamschatisa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_pica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elster_wikipedia2.jpg

Intelligence

The European Magpie is believed to be among the most intelligent of birds, and among the most intelligent of all animals. Magpies have been observed engaging in elaborate social rituals, possibly including the expression of grief.^[6] 

Mirror self-recognition has been demonstrated in European magpies.^[7] 

The magpie is thus one of a small number of species, and the only non-mammal, known to possess this capability.^[8] 

The cognitive abilities of the European Magpie are taken as evidence that intelligence evolved independently in both corvids/crows and primates. 

This is indicated by feats such as tool use, their ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic-like memory, and the ability to use one's own experience in predicting the behavior of conspecifics.^[1] Various behaviours have been observed that indicate intelligence. 

It has been observed that they cut up their food in correctly sized proportions, depending on the size of their young. 

In captivity magpies have been observed counting up to get food, imitating human voices, and regularly using tools to clean their own cages. 

In the wild, they organise themselves into gangs, and use complex strategies when hunting other birds, and when confronted by predators.^[9] Along with the 

Jackdaw, the European Magpie has been found to have a neostriatum approximately the same relative size as is found in chimpanzees and humans, and significantly larger than is found in the gibbon.^[2] Like other corvids, such as Ravens and Crows, their total brain to body ratio is equal to that of great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than in humans.^[10]"

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_pica}

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ (wait until Beth posts the today's Linky tool for the meme, then make your entry, if you want to join).

Situational Awareness: How Everyday Citizens Can Help Make a Nation Safe | STRATFOR. Also, I show you a maxicard from Venda (no, not a vendor) with a CHEETAH (Acinonyx jubatus) that goes up a tree (a little bit) to increase its SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

Situational Awareness: How Everyday Citizens Can Help Make a Nation Safe | STRATFOR

 Also, I show you a maxicard from Venda (no, not a vendor) with a CHEETAH (Acinonyx jubatus) that goes up a tree (a little bit) to increase its SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.

A king cheetah showing its distinctive coat pattern

""Racing Stripes"

The King Cheetah has a recessive fur pattern mutation. First discovered in Zimbabwe in 1926, this very rare animal has been seen in the wild only 6 times.

About 10K years ago, the population of cheetahs plummeted, perhaps to a single pregnant female worldwide.[MY NOTE: how the hell heaven do you know? :) ] 

Modern cheetahs are so genetically similar as to be virtual clones, making this novel coat pattern all the more interesting.

Photo by: Steve Jurvetson

Source: http://flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/12020752/"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_cheetah.jpg

"The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large-sized feline (family Felidae) inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. 

The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws. 

As such, it is the only felid with non-retractable claws and pads that, by their scope, disallow gripping (therefore cheetah cannot climb vertical trees, although they are generally capable of reaching easily accessible branches). The cheetah, however, achieves by far the fastest land speed of any living animal—between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph)^[3][4] in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.^[5]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah

You can see heart shapes if you visually GROOM his coat long enough, or you can consider the head outline.

Or, in my maxicard, you can swallow accept my explanation that a heart shape is visible between his front legs and the "small", distant tree. :)

Guest Heart Thursday #70

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