Photographs October 2018 1
Credits: The Alfred Fried Photography Award, Associated Press, China Stringer Network, The Guardian, NASA, The Observer, Reuters.
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Bible Verse for Today
- Deuteronomy 18:15 Monday, 10 December, 2018“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.”
Haleakala National Park
Quote of the Week
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892).
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Imago Dei
The Mapuches are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of present-day Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who shared a common linguistic heritage as Mapudungun speakers. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture. Today, many Mapuche communities are engaged in conflict over land and indigenous rights in both Argentina and in Chile.
CDC Travellers’ Health Notices
- Watch - Measles in Madagascar Thursday, 29 November, 2018There is an outbreak of measles in Madagascar. Travelers to Madagascar should make sure they are vaccinated against measles with the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine.
The Human Brain
There are 150,000 miles of blood vessels scattered throughout the brain. These blood vessels carry blood and oxygen to various parts of the brain.
Relief Web
- Más de 150 países adoptan el Pacto Mundial para la Migración Monday, 10 December, 2018Source: UN News Service Country: World El titular de la ONU acogió con satisfacción el abrumador apoyo mundial para el acuerdo no vinculante, recalcando que, a las personas en movimiento "voluntario o forzado", sin o con autorización legal, se les debe respetar sus derechos humanos y su dignidad.El Pacto Mundial para la Migración Segura, Ordenada […]
Astronomy Picture of the Day
NGC 7822 in Cepheus.
Credit & Copyright: Neil Fleming. Pillars of gas, dust, and young, hot stars seem to fill the gaping maw of NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star-forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. The image includes data from both broadband and narrowband filters, mapping emission from atomic oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur into blue, green, and red hues powered by the energetic radiation from the hot stars, whose powerful winds and radiation also sculpt and erode the denser pillar shapes. Stars could still be forming inside the pillars by gravitational collapse, but as the pillars are eroded away, any forming stars will ultimately be cut off from their reservoir of star stuff. This field spans around 60 light-years.
2018 Sky Guide This Week
December 9: The Moon passes 1.1° north of Saturn, 5h UT (12 AM EST).
December 10: The Moon passes 0.7° north of Pluto, 4h UT 11 PM EST).
December 12: The Moon is at apogee (405,177 km from Earth), 12h25m UT (7:25 AM EST).
December 14: Geminid meteor shower peaks.
December 14: The Moon passes 3° south of Neptune 7h20m UT (2:20 AM EST).
December 14: The Moon passes 4° south of Mars, 23h UT (6 PM EST).
December 15: First Quarter Moon occurs at, 11h49m UT (6:49 AM EST).
December 15: Mercury is at greatest western elongation (21°), 12h UT (7 AM EST).
Credit: Astronomy.
NASA
- NASA’s Newly Arrived OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Already Discovers Water on Asteroid Monday, 10 December, 2018Recently analyzed data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up its scientific target, the asteroid Bennu.
Mars Exploration Programme
- NASA InSight Lander 'Hears' Martian Winds Friday, 7 December, 2018Vibrations picked up by two spacecraft instruments have provided the first sounds of Martian wind.
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Conservation International
- Companies largely blind to magnitude of climate change risks, new study finds Monday, 10 December, 2018A new study found companies are largely underreporting the financial implications of climate risks to investors.Bruno Vander Velde
National Flag of The Niger
The Flag of Niger was inaugurated in 1959, a year prior to its formal independence from France, consisted of the colours of orange, white and green, in equal horizontal bands, with an orange roundel in the centre. The upper orange band represents the northern regions of the Sahara Desert, the white band represents purity, and the green band represents both hope and the fertile regions of southern Niger. The orange circle is said to represent the sun or independence.
The U.S. Department of State Travel Warnings
- Russia - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution Monday, 10 December, 2018Exercise Increased Caution due to terrorism, harassment, and the arbitrary enforcement of local laws. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. Do not travel to: The north Caucasus, including Chechnya and Mount Elbrus, due to terrorism and risk of civil unrest. Crimea due to Russia’s occupation of the Ukrainian territory and abuses […]
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The UK Foreign Service Travel Advice
- France Monday, 10 December, 2018Latest update: Summary - revised information on protestsGOV.UK
Work of Art
Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
Idiom of the Day
- leave well enough alone | let well enough aloneIf you leave well enough alone, or let well enough alone, you don't try to improve or change something that's already good enough.
Pray for Christians in Egypt
BELIEVER IMPRISONED FOR INSULTING ANOTHER RELIGION. Click on the image to read more.