Jesus, the Alpha & the Omega
2 Samuel 5 – 7 After decisively defeating the Philistines in the valley of Rephaim, King David brought the Ark of the Covenant from the house of Abinadab at Baale-judah to Jerusalem. En route, Uzzah, the latter’s son, reached out to stabilize the Ark, as the oxen on which it
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To Care ‘Care’ has a Proto-Germanic root meaning, ‘to grieve or lament.’ In our upside-down world, it is often expressed in terms of the able towards the disabled, the monied towards the poor, and the powerful towards the powerless. But ‘care’ concerns an uncomfortable invitation to entering into someone else’s
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Bible Verse for Today
IC 59 and IC 63 in Cassiopeia.
Image Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs). Looking toward the constellation Cassiopeia, the colourful skyscape features the swept back, comet-shaped clouds IC 59 (left) and IC 63. About 600 light-years distant, but they are slowly dissipating under the influence of ionizing ultraviolet radiation from hot, luminous star gamma Cas. Gamma Cas is physically located only 3 to 4 light-years from the nebulae, off the upper right edge of the frame. Slightly closer to gamma Cas, IC 63 is dominated by red H-alpha light emitted as the ionized hydrogen atoms with electrons. Farther from the star, IC 59 shows proportionally less H-alpha emission but more of the characteristic blue tint of dust reflected starlight.
NASA Mars Exploration Programme 
The attention span of the human brain is getting shorter. We have lost almost four seconds of our attention span in the past 15 years. This means we cannot concentrate on a thing for more than 8 seconds on an average.
American Psychological Association
Conservation International 
The Kayapo are an indigenous people in Brazil, from the plain islands of the Mato Grosso and Pará in Brazil, south of the Amazon Basin and along Rio Xingu and its tributaries. They call themselves "Mebengokre," which means "people of the wellspring." In 2010, there was an estimated 8,638 Kayapos. Subgroups include the Xikrin, Gorotire, Mekranoti and Metyktire. Their villages typically consist of a dozen huts.
CDC Travellers’ Health Notices Relief Web 
The flag of Mauritania is a green field containing a gold star and crescent, with a red stripe at the top and bottom of the field. It was adopted on 1 April 1959. Green is used to symbolise Islam, and the gold is for the sands of the Sahara desert. The two red stripes, which represent the efforts and sacrifices of the Mauritanians, the price of their blood to defend their country.
The U.S. Department of State Travel Warnings
The UK Foreign Service Travel Advice 
Known as “the prehistoric Sistine Chapel,” the Lascaux Caves, a cave complex in southwestern France, contain some of the most remarkable palaeolithic cave paintings in the world, from at least 15,000 years ago. The cave was discovered on 12 September 1940 by four teenagers, Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas, as well as Ravidat’s dog, Robot. Public access was made easier after World War II. By 1955, the carbon dioxide produced by 1,200 visitors per day had visibly damaged the paintings. The cave was closed to the public in 1963 in order to preserve the art.
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FATHER AND SON BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY RADICALS. Click on image for more information.
