In this topic and in the further few topics we will be discussing about international industrial relations. You know that industrial relations is a aspect of human resource management. But as other aspects of human resource management such as selection and recruitment, training and development, performance management or compensation. These are aspects of micromanagement, management of aspects that relate to individuals working within the organization and the organization manages it within itself. Whereas industrial relations is a macro level aspect in which all the aspects of the economy of the context of the surrounding as well as the direct implications from the environment that come from the associations of employees that are called trade unions that directly affects the organization. So organization is not on its own in taking its decisions about what the policy or strategy will be about the industrial relations. Rather, it is directed and guided by the external forces. What kind of trade unions are existing in the economy? Are existing in that particular country? What type of regulations are existing in that country? How these trade unions are, they create a political pressure? How strong they are? What type of culture there is? All these things, they create a pressure on the organization and therefore it is something which is not the prerogative or it is not the entire, it is not on the entire discretion of the organization that they can take the decision how they will react to these trade unions. These organizations, they have to take into account how the external pressure is created from the trade unions on the organization and it becomes even more complicated in the international scenario because as the organization moves from one country to the other country, they need to understand the industrial relation dynamics of each country. They need to understand all the aspects that I've just mentioned about what type of pressures the trade unions can create and how to react to these kind of pressures which are kind of, they are not structured, these pressures, they are not measurable, they cannot be calculated in terms of finances. They are matters of judgment by the top management of the organization, how to deal and usually that results in kind of conflicts, when trade unions, they go on strikes for the rights of the labor and the employees, that creates a kind of crisis so that includes a lot of crisis management as well as conflict management and because it is a situation which can emerge at any time, that is something which the organization needs to manage at the macro level. So it is a complicated aspect of the human resource management, not very much straightforward as performance management, it can be related with the performance criteria and then measure it and then you can relate the rewards with it. So it is something which is complicated which involves a lot of external pressures and the environment has to be taken into account. So let's see that what is industrial relations and how in various different countries what type of trade unions exist and what is the basic introduction to that. So why do we call it industrial relations? Industrial relations is kind of a traditional term which was used more frequently in the previous academic literature. Now the terms which are used for industrial relations have moved towards more modern words which are sometimes they are called employee relations, sometimes they are called employment relations because now the employment or the employee is considered to be at the forefront. That is why the industrial relation term has faded off and employee relation or employment relation or collective bargaining terms, they are more used in the academic literature. However, we will still be using industrial relations. Why? Because it is consistent with the international organizations. So the term of industrial relations is still used by organizations which are operating internationally to make sure that the employees, they get the proper rights and these are the organizations which work for the rights of the employees and therefore because we are talking in the international context, we are not talking on the domestic context or the local context. So therefore we will not be using the term employee relations or employment relations. We are going to use the term industrial relations because that is the term which is still used by the international organizations. One of the very important international organizations working for the rights of employees is international labor organizations. You know that it is working under the umbrella of United Nations. They have their office in Geneva, their headquarters in Geneva and they work for the rights of employees and they have done a lot of work on making sure that employees they get proper rights, they get equal opportunities, they get proper working conditions and they keep on working for the rights of employees and it is a big pressure on the organizations to make sure that employees they get proper working conditions and are compensated well for their work and for their efforts. Then another very important organization which is working globally internationally is the international organization of employers and that is the organization which is working for the private organizations and they are collaborating with the international labor organization as well and one of the most significant contributors to the international labor organization and they are an association of private organizations and about more than 150 organizations are associated with this and they work for the rights of employees in the private sector. In international industrial relations we need to see that well there are different types of trade unions and collective bargaining agents that work in various different countries and international industrial relations they vary significantly across borders and there are different types of trade unions which look after the rights of employees and the type of trade union that actually affects how the pressure will be built on the organizations for whom the pressure is going to be built depends on the type of trade union. So the type of trade unions that are working in various different countries you see that industrial unions they are usually prevalent in Germany and in most of the Europe and it includes all grades of employees so industrial unions they are association of employees from a particular industry and all type of employees of that industry they are allowed to take part in it and be a member of these associations. Then there are craft unions which are prevalent in Europe, Australia and the US and these are skilled occupational groupings across industries. So it is possible that in one industry there are many different people with a specific kind of skill. These are the type of trade unions which were the first ones to exist in the history. They were called guilds in the UK and the people from the same kind of craft for example if a painter is working in an industry but that painter has got a particular skill so all painters will have a guild and these guilds were then converted into craft unions and these craft unions allow membership of people that belong to the same craft. So a person could be working in the for example construction industry but there are many different kind of skilled workers in the construction industry so there are painters and there are builders and there are woodworks men so all these people have got different kind of skills. So craft unions are for employees or people who are working under a particular craft and these are called craft unions so these are more prevalent in Europe, Australia and US. Then there are conglomerate unions in the US, Canada and Netherlands. They represent members in more than one industry so conglomerates are big multinationals which work in various industries for example Unilever is a conglomerate which is working in various different industries it is working in FMCGs it is working in other sectors of the economy as well. So these are the organizations which are working on various different levels. Then there are general unions they are prevalent in Austria and Europe and they are open to almost all employees in a given country. So these unions they exist in a particular country and they are allowed to be open for all types of employees for example American Federation of Labor is a general union which represents the rights of employees of America and it allows membership from all types of employees and from all types of industries.  So this was most prevalent in Japan. Japan has a culture of collective bargaining with only one organizations union so in Japan usually unions are in one particular organization and if there is any organization then it will have its own union and that same union will bargain with your organization rather than having a collective association which deals with different organizations. The enterprise union is one of the employees of the organization and these enterprise unions work for the employees of the same organization. So enterprise unions they are more prevalent in Japan and they work for the rights of employee of one organization. So these are the different types of trade unions which are prevalent in various areas of the world and the organizations which are working internationally they must know that when they go to a particular country they should know what type of unions are existing in that particular country and how they are going to deal with that particular type of trade union.


give it a little spray since we are there. Welcome back to my channel, really welcome back since I was filming just yesterday and here I am today which is crazy for me as you guys know but I have to, I want to get these end-of-year videos out to y'all. The least I can do right once a year, get some content out so here I am. This is day four in my wash and go. I'm pretty much doing like a week in my wash and go also since you guys saw my day two and day three so day four um she sent it plum next to an agave. So today I'm doing my best products of 2019 which is basically one of my holy grails now at the end of 2019. A few new items but really honestly mostly it's just like last year except for just a few changes but let me let you know what they are if you're new you may not have seen them. One note, Blue Rose Beauty, I still love their products but I haven't seen her selling in a few months. I don't want to say it's going but like I'm not sure if she's still selling anymore or what. I did have two favorites from her that I'll just mention now. Maybe sadly I might have to remove them if she's not selling anymore permanently I don't know. This Cocoa Rose Creamy Shampoo was in my favorite shampoos as you can see. This Chai Hair Tea was like my favorite tea treatment other than just using tea bags this is what I use and I loved it. I hope everything's well with her and I hope she starts back the store. We'll see I guess next year I guess. If I don't mention these at all next year she probably hasn't started the store back so yeah sad news on that. But now let me just get on with the list starting as usual from shampoos and going two refresher sprays. I still have the Bath the Bloom Urban Cleanser which is a nice gentle cleanser. It almost feels like just a coat wash or something but it's a shampoo. It has some Cocoa Glucosidus as a factor but it's kind of halfway down so it's a really gentle cleanser so I really enjoy this when I want a shampoo but I don't want a shampoo shampoo you know what I mean that's this for this so I don't really have a clarifying shampoo on my list just because I try not to put stuff that I need to clarify on there on my hair. So I would just probably just use one of my whatever shampoo was kind of stripping or strong I'll just use that when I want to clarify but mostly I'm just going to start with moisturizing shampoo because that's my routine. So I have this Bath the Bloom Gentle Urban Cleanser and then I have the new new something new on the list. I have the She Scented Plum Nectar and I gave shampoos so I love the shampoo.  Spoiler alert. I really enjoyed it I think I've left it on too long because it was on there for like several minutes. I could even detangle with it in which was nice but still when I rinsed my hair my hair was soft my hair was smooth. I was just super moisturizing which was nice so my hair was just clean and moisturized perfection. So I'm loving the shampoo as well and I would say it's a bit stronger than the Urban Cleanser. So this is like a shampoo shampoo and the Urban Cleanser almost feels like a co-wash shampoo. You can see this one goes water plum and then with surfactants whereas this one is surfactants are halfway down in Bath the Bloom. Definitely a shampoo but definitely moisturizing plus I love the scent has a kind of sweet fruity but slightly perfumy scent. So I love the scent. Scent is like my favorite shampoo scent. So I like the color of the liquid and the consistency like love. Let me get into like kind of co-washy stuff. This Camilo's caramel co-wash is still on here. Perfection again. This is like the one product I sell us every year. I could just use this and go pretty much.  If I say your hair feels clean after this and your scalp feels clean it definitely feels clean but your hair just feels moisturized, conditioned, defined, everything as well. Then runner-ups I have the Blueberry who are watching the J&T and Jensen co-wash. They're both super moisturizing. This one's a bit creamier. This one is kind of lighter. So I don't know but they both cleanse my scalp and moisturize my hair really well and these are like my staples these are the ones I reach for at least back in my co-wash days. Like I said I haven't co-washed in about a year just because I've been working out and I just really need a shampoo by the time I get to wash day but like this week I didn't work out much I was lazy so this is a week where I could probably reach for the co-wash. Definitely if you like co-washers go for these and then the other new new on the list well not new new new but new is this. She sent a passion fruit and flax charcoal scalp detox so you guys saw the video if you haven't seen the video go look at it y'all y'all. I didn't want to rinse this out ever I was just running around screaming about how amazed and happy I was it felt kind of like a clear treatment but a light one it wasn't messy spreads easily light moisturizing cleanse my hair my hair just felt so good slip was there like this was like perfection it has like a light minty feeling your scalp just go wash the review because this was everything again I didn't try that much new stuff this year mostly just a bunch of honeys handmade which like I said are good products but they're not about to knock anything off any podium so I don't think I itemized the deep conditioners last year so maybe I'm gonna make more of an effort to itemize them this year definitely deep conditioners she sent it in terms of which ones I want to say the original rich moisture mask the original kind of cool moist conditioner used that as a deep conditioner in the newer ones the pomegranate and pear and I think just there's like another restore and repair mask as well so this rich moisture this restore and repair no particular order because like I said they're really all awesome this pomegranate restore hair mask the flax seed deep conditioner which I think I'm out of but that one was also amazing although I use it after the super amazing cleanser so that one I would need to buy again and use after like some stripping shampoo or something to really let you guys know but that one also is going to be on this list because my hair felt amazing after but pretty much everything she sent it I gave these the edge just because for my hair they instantly penetrate her instantly while me some of the others it wasn't like as soon as it hit my hair hearts were flying it was amazing at first but not oh my god amazing but these are like oh my god amazing instantly like that's how I kind of help narrow it down basically because for me with my ultra low porosity anything kind of rich and creamy sometimes takes a while to penetrate deep conditioners everything she sent it and this basket bloom brahmi root hair mask this again is an instant penetrator moisturizer for me so that's why it made this list anything that I can put on and rinse out within five minutes and my hair is super amazing it's on the list someone wanted to see like a bestie conditioners list from me that's pretty much the list my favorite protein treatment although I haven't done a protein treatment in like all of 2019 but I'm still putting this on the list this is my favorite protein treatment whenever I have to do one I really have to do the video for y'all because my hair went from this to like this it just sprung up after I used this which was amazing and of course the moisture was there as well the color rich and marula and keen one damage control operative conditioner my favorite protein treatment so it's probably still not as strong as apogee but it doesn't have silicones which I love so in terms of all natural protein treatment this is the strongest one I found plus the moisture is there plus the boing the effectiveness is there so if you haven't tried this yet definitely get you some is she for sure I don't want to say and forever but always and forever I'm thinking about but you know I'm the lawyer so I can't say that but is she for sure leave in again I have the soltanicose frizz with which gives me moisture definition and even a slight hold I would say so I really enjoyed that about this I think there is some gum in here so there's some cellulose gum some Irish moss and so on so I'm kind of seen that I don't think I tried it isn't even only wash and go but it's something I would even consider for that it's just a business it's the business the becquero honey latte here milk this one is like super light and airy very moisturizing and it just gave me great definition and volume at the same time which I said wowed me so everything here of course is moisturizing everything here pretty much has great slip let me just say that right off the bat from the cleansers to the gels I can tell you moisturizing and great slip for everything but I just love the light volume and definition that this gave me so that's why this is on this list and then the anasi natural type is because leaving is also on my issue list I want to say it's a little bit between the frizz with and the becquero it does give me that moisture definition I wouldn't say it has any hold per say and then it's also a little bit heavier than the becquero so but the moisture is definitely there I want to say this is probably the most moisturizing of the three this gives me a little bit of like hold and this gives me light airy volume with definition pick whichever but they're all good to me I have this honey hydrate leaving in here not for wash and go but for like twist outs and protect the styles because this gives me the longest lasting moisture so I can like do a breakout with this and my hair stays moisturized for the whole week or whatever sometimes longer so that's why this is in here and that's why we purchase this not for like wash and goes like my everything else is kind of geared towards my wash and go life this is geared towards my struggle weeks when I have to do something I just want to twist it up and not have it dry out on me I grab this and I put some little cream over it and be good forever basically this is like my perpetual motion machine of moisture I love it for that in terms of creams I still want to say the she sent in peach nectar moisturizing yogurt and curling jelly and I again I really haven't used creams this year because I've been busy being a super lazy natural and just spending all my time either working or working out or sleeping really I have just barely done the minimum with my hair but in terms of creams this one gives great moisture and definition this one gives a little less moisture but more definition but definitely still moisturizing so if you want hydration for sure loads of hydration but not much whole if you want great hydration and great whole then you know pick your poison again so that's why I have multiples in each category just because you know it's like once the smell like I said each one might give you something slightly different but still good so it's a height to this is not just I can't just give you the favorite one because I feel like it's short changing you of the other one that you might want based on what you're looking for if you're looking for moisture and light moisture too so I would say like all cool types I know have a few like fine hair people follow me this will be for you if you want like just a kind of one product twist out or something this would be for you and it has more whole and stuff then this will be for you gels I want to put as I am killing jelly kind of officially on the list just because it does everything all the rest of these do which is give me moisture definition and hold for an entire week or more in terms of results it's probably the best one right now I'll I really have to be honest and let you guys know that so I don't buy that often I don't go to Sally's that often in fact I don't even I haven't been using any did I use I think I used Uncle Funky and Camero's a few times this year but I've mostly been just trying out new gels because I had like so many gels to try so between my few DIYs and try out new gels I really haven't used much of my staples a lot of people say like youtubers you'll say or love something and you all don't come back and use it it's because my youtubers and we have to be reviewing other things for y'all so sometimes you don't even get back on the things we want to be using so that's kind of the case with these gels the kinky curly curling custard of course so I would probably put this second in terms of hitting all the moisture definition and hold and then of course just softness and just like all of these are all natural botanical gels because I don't really I can't really get with the cabbama kind of PVP ethyl methyl kind of life it just feels weird when I'm applying it to my hair so all of these are like all natural botanical I think except as I am killing jelly as a matter of fact but I think they hide it really well so I can't detect that what I'm putting it on so then probably after that I would give it to this one for a second but it's a close second I mean it's all of them pretty close like that's erase it all so all of them are pretty close between the two of these this one gives a little bit more moisture but can get kind of build upy a scalp can get kind of icky when I use a lot of this so this can kind of build up this uncle funky's daughter Kelly magic so and this one is a little bit less moisturizing but other than that it's good and it's still super moisturizing it's just a little teeny less moisturizing than this one so yeah I think just try them all I guess if you're looking for something that doesn't build up and not gunky use this one if you're looking for something that your hair just stays laid forever use this one because that's a problem I have with this I like my hair to get bigger as the week goes on I'm gonna use this my hair is kind of stuck in day one which I know for some people is their dream for me it's kind of a horror I think both of these give a lot of elongation I think all of them give a lot of elongation as a matter of fact except the cameiros and the basket boom took twilly hair gel next I would say the basket bloom twilly hair gel it's super moisturizing but it's not as defined it's more of a natural look I think it's still more defined than this so it's not as defined but my hair just feels super soft and moisturized and still very defined and just amazing like all of these gels my hair feels amazing when it's on and I think that's the main point I don't want to feel like I have a gel in my hair I just wanted to feel like I don't have anything but moisture and it's just super soft and natural to the touch flowing and so on that's what I like for my gels that's all I'm looking for okay so yeah and then I would give the cameiros last but not least in a sense to me this is like least and best in a way because in terms of my hair feeling like there's nothing on it this wins it gives me the lightest most volume most moisturized and everything it's just not as much definition and I guess it's not as laid as the others so in terms of lasting they all last so it just depends on what you're going for so in a sense this is my favorite just because it's like I said in terms of the most volume and softness and feels like there's nothing there this will be the favorite so it just depends on what your mood is at the at the time so it's weird they're all pretty much even so let me know which ones you like the best and which ones you don't like and stuff like that because I'm just curious about that especially in terms of this list but just what are your favorite gels on the whole because like I said this is it this is like the awesome gel list the end whereas like I said other leave-ins and the conditioners and stuff leave me super happy as well even if they're not on the podium like this the podium and then is a huge gulf in terms of gels until I get to others that my hair looks all right but feels a little or whatever whatever so let me know about your botanical gels all right in terms of sprays I still have the soltanical hair sorrow the jane catcher revitalizing leaving got dumped because now it has silicone in it and yes it's the water soluble silicone but I just don't play with that I may want to test it but I'm not like overly curious and there's not a lot of jane catcher that I'm really looking for now these days anyway maybe I might see the target and lose my mind one day but I don't know could be the end for that so for now I just have this hair sorrow it's very hydrating I wouldn't say it adds anything in terms of whole or definition or frizz control and stuff the revitalizing hair even did do great things for me for frizz control even kind of like redefining my hair whatever this one is just super moisturizing so I'm going to take that that's going to be a win for me and this is pretty much the only spray on my top list now the other sprays you know they moisturize okay yeah but they don't get me that extra um of moisture this is like extremely moisturizing and it smells great sorry I love well because I discuss in there but yeah so that's it I hope you guys didn't enjoy this video I don't know I feel like a lot of us naturals have pretty much found our products is that you have you pretty much found your holy grails I find my holy grail hasn't been changing all that much in the last few years after you've tried a hundred products or whatever like you kind of find your 10 best or 20 best and it doesn't change that much I'll be honest I'm expecting to find at least one more thing from an assi to be on this podium next year whatever else she says it might bring out in the year to come I don't know definitely will be trying it till the region you know maybe something from that feature I don't really foresee honey's handmaid going up there becrua I have more becrua to try as well so you might see some of that blue rose even have one blue rose to try like I said with the store kind of being closed these things make me so sad I don't know I don't know what changes we'll see in 2020 but I guess that's why it's like happy new year and everything like you know all that excitement of change and new things to come because you really don't know what's gonna happen and that's the case with my issue is my best oh let me know what new products you found out you really love that made it up to let's say your best top three or something because the only things that are new for me are these two so I'm kind of disappointed I'm kind of happy because in a sense that means my age is really my age and the best for me but I was like maybe I want to show different things but I'm sorry I don't have much new things this year but I hope you guys appreciate it anyway so that was it thanks again for watching and I really hope you enjoyed and appreciated this see you in the next one bye


If all these open panels are a bit of distraction to what you're doing, you have a number of options for you, you can hit this small cog icon and you'll see that now you only have only the writing space and you can go on to add on more content and you can type away and paste and do everything, if you are a minimalist, this would be ideal for you so that when you're ready to deal with your content. You just hit this, come to the document and update or publish the post that you do have. So the other part that could help you reduce this but also keep this tag is by hitting these three navigation buttons. So what it does is that you have what we call spotlight mode which will only highlight whatever is active in your content, whatever you're working with the others immediately go out of focus for you. So if you don't choose a spotlight mode, you can use the full screen mode which takes everything else away and allows you to only have only this part and you can use them even in combination. When you go and say I don't want any of those modes and maybe I want to use the toolbar, you realize that initially we had our toolbar up here. We could change paragraph, we could make this bold but now everything has gone up here in the top toolbar. So for every other block that we shall come up with let's say if we want to use an image, you will see that all the options that we do have are actually up here. So that's also another tool to make everything cleaner. So if you actually use all these, you will see that you will have a much cleaner interface for yourself. Now for people who are coders and you like to look into your code, what's going on behind here, the option you have is actually to use the code editor and you move away from the visual. So you're able to see what's going on here. 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like the crack of a rifle, the shot at order. Go, go, and the airborne soldiers marched into history. We are here to mark a battle that future generations will long remember is one of the defining moments for the 82nd Airborne Division. For our Army, and for the great noble crusade to free Europe from the pressure. It was, as General Eisenhower had said, the hopes and prayers of people everywhere that they would overthrow tyranny and provide security for a free world. At Lafayeur-Cosway, these paratroopers did not fail. Today, let us not fail them. Let us honor their valour and sacrifices of those who surrendered their lives. With renewed resolve, let us continue the great noble undertaking of freedom. Airborne, all the way, merci.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. New report confirms evidence of extrajudicial execution of Palestinian man by Israeli forces. Bus drivers in London go on strike to demand fair pay and compensation. Biden administration reopens detention facilities for unaccompanied migrant children. And report reveals deaths of over 6,500 migrant workers in Qatar over a decade. El Salvador faces worsening institutional and economic challenges ahead of legislative elections. A report released on February 23rd has confirmed evidence that the killing of a 26-year-old Palestinian man by Israeli forces was an extrajudicial execution. London-based research group Forensic Architecture confirmed that Ahmed Erakat had not posed any threat to Israeli forces of property when he was killed in June 2020. Erakat was killed on June 23rd by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. He was going to pick up his family members from a beauty salon on the day of his sister's wedding. Video footage from the checkpoint used for the report showed Erakat's car veering into a booth and hitting a soldier. Forensic Architecture has shown that Erakat did not accelerate his car to hit the booth and has disputed claims made by the Israeli military that the crash was intentional. After the crash, Erakat left his vehicle and moved away while raising his hands in the ear. Israeli soldiers proceeded to shoot Erakat six times with three shots fired after he had already fallen to the ground. This directly contradicted the Israeli military's claims that Erakat had run towards the soldiers and also violated Israel's open fire regulations. Videos from the scene also show that a Palestinian ambulance was not allowed to reach him. He was left lying on the ground for nearly two hours before an Israeli ambulance finally took him away. During this time, all of his clothes were removed and photographs of the scene were taken by Israeli personnel. Forensic Architecture has termed this denial of immediate medical attention, killing by time. Israeli authorities have refused to release an autopsy report with details of his death. They have also refused to hand over his body to his family for a proper burial. Erakat is among 70 Palestinians whose bodies have been confiscated by Israeli authorities in violation of international humanitarian law. Forensic Architecture has called this a practice of collective punishment. Around 2,200 bus drivers from the United Union concluded the first round of the strike action on February 24. Drivers employed by the French-owned RATP Group went on strike on February 22 to demand fair pay and compensation. The RATP has been accused of attempting to use the pandemic as a smokescreen to implement pay cuts. The attempted cuts will leave drivers with a pay decrease of up to 2,500 pounds per year. The night regional officer, Michelle Brayboy, has stated that these permanent changes will lead to workers suffering a substantial financial loss. A dispute over zero contract hours has reportedly also not been resolved. Workers at the other two RATP subsidiaries also went on strike this week. Workers at Quality Line based in Surrey went on strike on February 22 and 23. Drivers at London Sovereign, which operates in northwest London, went on strike on February 22. They have reportedly also planned strikes on March 1 and March 3. Workouts in other RATP subsidiaries will also be held next week. The United Union has stressed that the workers have been left with no choice but to resort to strikes as the RATP has refused to listen to reason and continue negotiations. As reported by the Surrey Comet, some workers were reportedly offered a raise of only seven pens, which they rejected. The Biden administration has started reopening detention facilities for unaccompanied immigrant children. On 23rd February, it was reported that a Trump-era homestead temporary shelter for unaccompanied children is being reopened. The facility, which was run by a for-profit organization, was shut down in August 2019 following protests by rights groups joined by several members of the Democratic Party. The facility has reportedly been reopened after being renamed as the Biscayne Influx Care facility in the state of Florida. Another Trump-era detention facility to hold around 700 immigrant children was also opened at Carrizo Springs in the state of Texas on February 22. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has claimed that the reopening of these facilities are a temporary measure to comply with COVID-19 protocols. Activists have criticized the decision as the United States continues to detain unaccompanied children crossing international borders. President Joe Biden has promised to take steps to undo the anti-immigrant policies of his predecessors and Donald Trump. However, the reopening of detention facilities has been announced as a continuation of Trump-era policies. Over 6,500 South Asian migrant workers have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the FIFA World Cup in 2010. The figures were published by The Guardian on February 23 after compiling Kerm and data from five South Asian countries. These include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. 5,927 workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka died in Qatar between 2011 and 2020. 69% of these deaths were categorized as natural in official records. However, such rulings are often done without an autopsy or forensic investigations. Other causes of death listed in official data include blunt injuries sustained after falling from a height, asphyxia due to hanging and undetermined causes. The Guardian had previously also reported that severe heat in Qatar was a likely factor in a significant number of deaths. Qatar has in today undertaken large-scale infrastructure projects in preparation for the 2022 Football World Cup. According to local advocacy group Fair Square Projects, it is likely that many of the workers who have died in the country were employed in these projects. The Guardian reports that 37 deaths have been of workers directly linked to the construction of World Cup stadiums. 34 out of these have been classified as non-work related by the tournament's organizing committee. However, experts have contested this term as it includes deaths that have occurred at the work site. The Guardian's report has revealed discrepancies and lack of transparency in the recording of deaths, of workers' deaths in Qatar. Several rights groups have also urged the Qatar government to amend laws to mandate forensic investigations in cases of sudden deaths. For our final story of the day, we go to El Salvador, which is set to hold its legislative elections on February 28th. The country is facing a health crisis and worsening economic conditions under the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the administration of President Naib Bukhwile has been accused of pursuing an increasingly authoritarian political agenda. Here is Victor Swazer from the Progressive Farabundo-Marthi National Liberation Front to talk more about the current scenario and the challenges facing the incoming legislative assembly. Mr. Naib Bukhwile has taken advantage of this crisis to increase his authoritarian policies that had already been initiated even before the pandemic. However, the product of this national emergency has been seen to have increased the violations of human rights and the violation of the State of Rights and even the Constitution. We have seen with concern that the budget has been doubled in armed forces despite the fact that our Constitution delimits very well the functions of the armed forces to protect the national territory and the national sovereignty and is using this armed force politically and in the same way to the national civil police and has put them to the service of their new political party and have left them to be at the service of the population. The main challenge is to take care of democracy, to fight against authoritarianism and to defend the institutions that have been created and that has also implied that Salvador has a serious crisis in terms of public finances since the government has been fulfilling a law of fiscal responsibility and we have had a high public budget, zero transparency and this has implied that already organisms such as the International Monetary Fund are talking and there are some agreements that the government intends to apply after the elections that we have this February 28th agreements that imply a fiscal adjustment of three points per cent of GDP and are prevented from massive demands, cut off social spending and increase indirect taxes as is the case of IVA that comes to affect the poorest so we have to be very aware of this type of situation. And that is all the time we have for this episode of the International Daily Roundup. 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We have a lot of control measures in place to eliminate heat stress from their day-to-day basis. Working at the council is a great opportunity and a challenge. I facilitate the management of beach access maintenance. So you've really got to be aware of the elements, especially during the summer months. My role is to eliminate or mitigate risk and in doing that we have a lot of procedures that we have in play. So for instance with our asphalt workers we have a risk assessment that would be able to deem whether the area that they're working in is going to exceed temperatures that are not safe to work in. We always ensure that people are working in pairs. There's always somebody that can watch the other person for signs of heat stress and be able to call up either their workplace health and safety advisor or the direct supervisor. I'm always looking at making sure my workers have got adequate protection against the heat. It's not just the simple things.


Welcome to the Endnotes, where I put all the fun facts I can't fit into the main videos. Today, some extra bits of information for my video about the word ghost, and if you haven't seen that yet, click on the card. In the main video, we identify the ultimate edamon of ghost as the Proto-Indo-European root geis, used to refer to the emotions of fear or amazement. We should be careful not to confuse this root with Proto-Indo-European ghosty, meaning guest and host. You might think it odd to have the same root meaning both host and guest, but in fact it reflects an ancient cultural value, the importance of the reciprocal relationship between guest and host, almost a quasi-family tie, a concept which in ancient Greek is expressed with the word Xenia, one of the key themes of Homer's Odyssey. Anglo-Saxon texts often pund on these similar-sounding roots. When Old English ghost was used to refer to a disembodied spirit, it was often in a pun with the word ghost, meaning visitor-stranger. Another similar string of letters that we should be careful not to confuse here is G-H-O-T-I. In this case, it's not an Indo-European root, but a demonstration that English needed spelling reform, because this string of letters could be said to spell the word fish. The G-H makes an F sound in tough, the O makes an IH in women, and the T-I makes a SH sound in nation. Silly English. This demonstration of spelling irregularity has often been attributed to George Bernard Shaw, who was certainly an outspoken supporter of spelling reform, but doesn't actually seem to appear in any of his writings. Speaking of Shaw, in addition to his early ghost writing, he continued his music criticism in his own name after his literary fame grew, and also made witty use of Hamlet in a satire of the more academic style of his fellow music critics by describing the famous to be or not to be speech thusly. Shakespeare, dispensing with the customary exhortium, announces his subject at once in the infinitive, in which mood it is presently repeated after a short connecting passage in which, brief as it is, we recognize the alternative and negative forms on which so much of the significance of repetition depends. Here we reach a colon, an appointed posatory phrase in which the accent falls decisively on the relative pronoun, brings us to the first full stop. Well, that is indeed the question, I think. And this brings us back to Hamlet. Not only does this same basic plot of son pretending to be insane while avenging his father on his murderous uncle, who married his mother and took over the kingdom, appear in the Latin Gestodonorum by Saxo Grammaticus, but there are also other Old Norse versions of the story, including a close parallel in Rolf's Saga Kraka, or the Saga of King Rolf Kraki. In this analog of the story, the role of the Hamlet character is actually divided between two brothers named Helgi and Hroar, who by the way appear as Helga and Hrothgar in the Old English poem Beowulf. The basic storyline of Helgi and Hroar follows that familiar plot in Hamlet, avenge the father on the uncle who married the mother while pretending to be mad. In another part of the saga is the story of a monster who attacks the hall, much like Grendel in Beowulf, but it's specified that the attacks always come at Yule, in other words Christmas, and the Yule time visit is a common pattern in many sagas, and indeed ghost stories. Think A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. You might think that Halloween would be the time of year when reports of ghost sightings was highest, but in fact, this isn't necessarily so. In the Old Norse sagas, we also find a parallel for zombies, the Apterganger, literally againwalker, or draugr, a word which can be traced back to a root which means to harm or deceive, and is thereby cognate with English dream, the stuff of nightmares I suppose. The draugr often appear in Norse stories, such as Gretis saga, which also by the way, like Rolfsaga Kraka, contains a close parallel to the Beowulf story. The more general European tradition that this falls under is the Revenant, from Latin, Reveniens, literally returning or coming back, referring to the dead come back to life in physical form to haunt the living. Usually the Revenants were wrongdoers in life, and were thought to spread disease. The only way to stop them would be to exhume the body during the day when they rested, and either decapitate them or remove and burn the heart. And perhaps most famously, there's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which the living dead is reanimated, not through necromancy, but through science. Well, even the living dead have to keep up with the times. And speaking of the word reanimated, it comes from Latin anima, meaning spirit or ghost, or breath or air, which can be traced back to the root meaning to breathe.  That's some creepy CPR. As always, you can hear even more etymology and history, as well as interviews with a wide range of fascinating people on the Endless Knot podcast, available on all the major podcast platforms as well as our other YouTube channel. Thanks for watching!


Let's discuss the Messiah. Before we get into the subject, let's first talk a little bit about why this topic draws people's hearts, attracts people's attention. In the second chapter of Isaiah, the prophet tells us they shall beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift sword against nation. They shall learn war no more. The prophet is speaking about a glorious age of peace, brotherhood, harmony at the end of time. And this message has a universal appeal. People look forward to. They yearn for a time when there's no conflict. There's no fighting. There's no war. There's only peace. And the prophets associate a person, a righteous king, with this glorious age at the end of time. For example, in Isaiah chapter 11, it speaks about a righteous king ruling in a time when the knowledge of God covers the earth like the waters cover the sea. This righteous king came to be known as the Messiah. So when people speak about yearning for the Messiah, hoping for the Messiah, or the Messiah, they're speaking about this universal yearning, this hope for the glorious future of mankind. And the word Messiah came to represent that yearning that mankind has for a future of peace, a future without war. So what is the Bible? What is the Jewish Bible? When I say the Bible, I mean what Christians call the Old Testament. So what is the Jewish Bible? What does the Bible teach us about the Messiah? Well, let's word the question this way. What is it that the author of the Bible wants you to know about the Messiah, to know with confidence and with clarity? What piece of information about the person of the Messiah does the author of the Bible want to make sure that you won't question. You know, clearly this has to do with the Messiah. These are the qualities of the Messiah. Now, there are actually many details and many qualities that we could talk about. But I think there are two qualities. There are two qualities that I want to focus on over here. And as far as I am able to tell in all of my interactions with Jews, with Christians, with atheists, with any student of the Bible, these are two qualities that everyone acknowledges that the author of the Bible associated with the Messiah. And these two qualities are King of the Jews sitting on the throne of David. These concepts, King of the Jews, the throne of David are almost synonymous with the Messiah. As far as I could tell, no one ever disputed that these are personal qualities of the Messiah. King of the Jews, throne of David. Now, even though the prophets teach us that the Messiah will rule over all the nations, but it is clear from the prophets that first and foremost, the Messiah will be a King of the Jews. And many references in Scripture, Ezekiel 37, Ezekiel 34 are two references. Look it up, read about it. So I suggest that instead of trying to figure out details that are in question disputable, let's focus on what the author of Scripture made abundantly clear. The Messiah is going to be a King of the Jews. He's going to sit on the throne of David. Let us try to absorb the full weight of these simple truths. What does it mean to be the King of the Jews? What does it mean to be the King of any nation? If someone were to tell you that you were chosen to be the King of a nation, you could think of the advantages of royalty, the privileges, the honor, the fame.  It's not just a privilege, it's a responsibility. The responsibility of the King of any given nation is to lead the nation to its destiny. And the Messiah is no different. The responsibility of the Messiah, the role of the Messiah is to lead his nation, the Jewish people, to its destiny. So if we understand the destiny of the Jewish people, we will understand one of the primary, one of foundational teachings about the Messiah. When the Bible tells us that the Messiah is sitting on the throne of David, what the Bible is telling us that the Messiah will not be operating in a vacuum. He will not come in to a blank page. He's going to be continuing something which began way back when. He's going to be continuing the legacy of his ancestor, David. In fact, the entire concept of the Messiah is a fulfillment of a promise to King David. God promised to King David, and this promise is recorded several times throughout the Bible. Psalm 89 is one place where you could read about it. Second Samuel chapter seven is another place where you can read about it. God tells David, your throne, David, is going to be established before God forever. So if we understand the legacy of David, we understand what the throne of David stands for, that's another way of understanding what the Bible is teaching us about the Messiah. Because again, the two truths that the Bible makes very clear about the Messiah is that he is King of the Jews and that he is sitting on the throne of David. So let's start with the destiny of the Jewish people. What is the destiny of the Jewish people? Because again, as the King of the Jewish people, the Messiah's responsibility to lead Israel to her destiny, the destiny of the Jewish people begins with a promise to Abraham in the book of Genesis. God promises to Abraham that God will make a great nation out of his children and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through that nation, through the children of Abraham. So this is the destiny of the Jewish people to be a blessing to all the nations. This promise to Abraham is recorded in Genesis chapter 12 in Genesis chapter 17, chapter 18, chapter 22 and chapter 26. In the book of Exodus, we see how God brings this promise to fruition through suffering in Egypt, through the miracles of the Exodus, the splitting of the Red Sea, the Sinai Revelation, having God's trustworthy prophet, Moses, living amongst them and imparting God's teaching to them, the construction of the Tabernacle, God's presence coming to dwell in the Tabernacle. We see how God created and formed and forged a nation for himself. How is this nation now going to be a blessing to the nations of the earth in fulfillment to the promise to Abraham? Because again, that is the destiny of the Jewish people to be a blessing to the nations of the earth. Ideally, what is supposed to happen is that the Jewish people are supposed to be obedient to God, follow God's law and they will experience God's blessing. God's temple will be in their midst and that means that God will make his love for them open and manifest. The nations of the earth see the Jewish people standing in this special relationship with God and they see how Israel experiences the blessing of standing in a relationship with God and they are inspired and uplifted and they follow Israel's example. And in the Messianic age, this ideal will come to fruition. Isaiah chapter 60 describes how the light of God will shine upon Israel and all the nations will walk by that light. The verse that we quoted earlier in the book of Isaiah about the nations not lifting sword against nation, learning war no more in chapter two in the book of Isaiah. It speaks of the teaching of God coming forth from the temple that's in Jerusalem in Zion. In other words, the people of Israel with their temple stand in this beautiful relationship with God. The nations that see the relationship, they see the blessing that's inherent in the relationship and they are inspired to learn from it, to enter into their own relationship with God, to follow the message of God that's relevant to them to practice justice, mercy, morality. That is the ideal. We tasted a bit of this ideal in the days of Solomon, in the days of Hezekiah, in the days of some of the righteous kings of the Davidic line, in the days of Solomon we had a temple and the purpose of the temple, like it says in first Kings chapter eight, was in order that the nations of the world know that there is no God but the God of Israel and the nations of the earth that were around the land of Israel saw the blessing that Israel experienced and they learned from it. The miracles that God did for Hezekiah in the days of Hezekiah taught the nations around the land of Israel about the greatness of God. So in a miniature aspect we experienced this ideal in the days of Solomon and the days of Hezekiah, in the days of some of the righteous kings. But throughout most of our history we were disobedient, we sinned and we did not live up to this ideal. And therefore we experienced curse, we experienced dispersion, exile and suffering. But even in our suffering and even in our exile we still play a part in God's plan for all of humanity and we are still walking towards our destiny, towards that promise that God promised to Abraham. Because you see, God promised that His truth will never depart from our midst. No matter how much we sin, no matter how much we stray, God will preserve His truth in our midst. This promise is recorded in many places throughout Scripture. Psalm 78 is one place that you can read about it, how God planted His testimony in Jacob, He established His teaching in Israel, and that will never depart from us. And in all the nations of our dispersion, wherever we walked we carried the basic points of God's message. Did we live up to that message? No, not necessarily, but we still carried that truth with us. And many nations and many individuals from the nations benefited from learning about God's message through us. They learned about how all of humanity is equal before God, how God loves justice and mercy. And people were inspired to enter into a relationship with God, to improve their own relationship with God, and to improve their relationship with their fellow man on the basis of the message that they absorbed from interacting with the Jewish people. But by and large, most people looked at us. They saw the message that we were carrying, they heard that message, a message about one God, about God desiring justice and mercy from simple human beings, from sinful human beings, and they looked at our message. They saw our suffering, they saw the curse that we were experiencing, and they came to the conclusion that the reason we were suffering and the reason we were experiencing exile and dispersion and curse is because our message is wrong. They didn't interpret our suffering as an indication that our behavior is off, that we are not being loyal to our message, but rather that our message is wrong. And throughout Scripture, we find that the nations taunt the Jewish people, where is your God? For example, in Micah chapter 7, our enemies taunt us and say, where is your God? The prophet speaks on behalf of Israel and says, I bear the wrath of God, and our nations are saying, where is your God? In other words, the nations see how we're suffering and how we're not experiencing God's blessing. They see the message that we're carrying, and they're telling us, if you guys are carrying the true message, why is God not with you?  The arm of the Lord will be revealed upon those who are loyal to God's message, who are still carrying God's message. Again, it's not a vindication of our behavior, it's a vindication of our message. And the arm of the Lord, we know what the arm of the Lord is. It's very clear. In Isaiah chapter 51, the prophet directly talks to the arm of the Lord, and he describes the arm of the Lord as the one who brought Israel out of Egypt, crushed her enemies, brought Israel through the dry land, through the sea on dry land. So the arm of the Lord is when God's strength and might is manifest here in this world in open and obvious way on behalf of his people, crushing the enemies of his people, not the personal enemies of Israel, but rather those who stand in the way of Israel's message. So the arm of the Lord will be revealed in open and obvious way over the people of Israel. And at that point, our message will be vindicated. And the people, the nations of the earth will see, they'll see how those who hoped to God from their state of sin, from their state of imperfection were vindicated. Not, again, not the behavior is never vindicated. In fact, in Ezekiel chapter 39, when it describes our vindication, it says that when we're vindicated, the nations will know that it's because of our sin that we were exiled. In other words, not because our message was wrong, but because our behavior was wrong, but our message will be vindicated and the arm of the Lord will be revealed upon us. Isaiah chapter 52 speaks about this, Psalm 98 speaks about this, how all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our Lord.  Again, it's the hope of Israel that will be vindicated. So even in our exile, we are still God's witnesses. We still serve God's purpose to bring the world to its destiny. What does all this have to do with the Messiah? What does it have to do with the throne of David? David, King David, in his lifetime, ruled over Israel in one of the ideal times. The temple wasn't actually built in David's times, but in the first book of Chronicles, chapter 28 and chapter 29, we learn how David prepared the materials for the temple, how God gave the architectural details of Solomon's temple to David through prophecy. In second Chronicles chapter 3, we read how the place where Solomon built the temple was built on the place that David found. This is described vividly in Psalm 132. So David directed Israel towards its destiny in the ideal way, in the way of Israel experiencing an open and manifest relationship with God in a way that's open and obvious towards the people all around them. And David didn't just do this by preparing physical materials, by preparing a place, because the temple is not just a geographic, building on a geographical location. The temple is an expression of Israel's love and obedience to God, and that's where God comes to dwell. So David guided Israel in obedience to God and loyalty to God, and it bring out the heart of Israel in love towards God. But David's career didn't end with his death. In the second book of Samuel chapter 23, the prophet gives us a very brief description of David. It says he was the man that was exalted, that was lifted up to be the Messiah, the anointed of the God of Israel. And then it gives us another little description. It tells us, I'm going to quote the words in Hebrew, On ne'im zami'ra is Israel. Generally these words are translated as the sweet singer of Israel. I think a more accurate translation would be the one who gives pleasantness and beauty to the song of Israel or to the songs of Israel. In other words, the bumper sticker description of David is the author of the Psalms, the sweet singer of Israel. You see, David lived a very colorful life. He experienced victory and defeat. He experienced glory and shame. He experienced guilt and he enjoyed forgiveness. He sinned and he came into favor. He experienced God this favor and he experienced God's favor, repentance coming into favor of God after sinning. And David composed songs from each of these situations. He looked in the Psalms, you find a song or several songs giving expression to a heart that trusts in God from a situation of sin, from the struggles of success, failure, victory, defeat, honor, shame. And David gives expression of a heart that's trusting God, yearning for God, hoping to God from each of these situations, from each of these emotional places. And as Israel traveled through the travails of exile and the troubles and the sufferings of exile, they found guidance and direction in the songs of David. David is still our king today. David still gives us direction. He teaches us how to hope to God, how to trust in God from every situation. And David actually gives articulation to the message that Israel carries throughout history.  That's in Psalm 145. David speaks about the beauty of God's law, the love that's inherent in observing God's law in Psalm 19 and in Psalm 119. David, throughout the Psalms, speaks about the love of God, feeling the love of God in every facet of existence, experiencing the kindness of God in every breath of life. That is the message of Israel. And that is how David leads us still while we're in exile. So David led us in the time of when we were loyal to God, when we were obedient to God in an ideal time. And David still leads us through our suffering. He guides us with his songs, with the book of Psalms. When the Messiah comes, the Messiah will be a king of Israel. He will lead Israel to its destiny. He will sit on the throne of David. He will continue the legacy of David. He will not contradict the message of David. He will not oppose the message of David. He will not oppose the message that Israel has been carrying throughout its long exile. He will confirm it. He will affirm it. He will pick up the tune where David, his ancestor, left off. He will bring the message of David out into the light. He will inspire Israel just as David his ancestor did before him with his own humility to God. Messiah, as David his ancestor before him, will emphasize his own helplessness before God and teach mankind the joy that's inherent in recognizing that helplessness, not fighting that helplessness, but recognizing God's love and embrace that's inherent in every breath of life. And the Messiah will just take David's legacy and bring it to new heights. He'll build a temple in Jerusalem. He'll bring Israel to loyalty to God. He'll bring Israel to a great and beautiful relationship to God. And the nations of the earth will walk by that light, the walk by the light that flows from the people of Israel as the prophet Isaiah promised in chapter 60. He'll, the nations of the earth will walk by the light that flows from the temple that the Messiah will build in Jerusalem as Isaiah described in chapter two. All the nations of the earth will come and rejoice together with the people of Israel and worship God together with the people of Israel and the temple in Jerusalem under the leadership of the Davidic king. So again, what does the Messiah, what does the Bible teach us about the Messiah? The Messiah is the king of the Jews. That means he will lead Israel to its destiny, the destiny that was promised to Abraham, and he will do so by fulfilling David's legacy, by continuing the legacy of David, of expression of humility before God, of singing the praises of God, the Messiah will pick up the tune where his ancestor David left off.


Funny is from Jack Daniels standpoint, they're claiming that they're trying to be responsible and not market towards kids and that this toys make me more difficult because kids have pets and it's associating it with drinking and Jack didn't. So, best annuals response I think was funny and they said if your kids know, see this and they're automatically thinking about Jack Daniels whiskey, then they knew about the whiskey before our toy came out.


It was Liam Hems' 29th birthday and Miley Cyrus celebrated it in a very cute way. In the hotly anticipated sequel to her 2008 banger, Seven Things, she listed a lot more than Seven Things she likes about Liam. But they're not the only couple to remind you that love is real and not every relationship ends in tears and passive-aggressive Instagram stories about finally getting the whole meal to themselves. So here's the list of our favorite celebrity couples. John Lynch and Chrissy Teigen. John does cute things like introducing her with glowing words at award ceremonies and writing songs about her hairband of the day. Hairband of the day, it's the hairband of the day. Chrissy does cute things like throwing mini-John parties and tweeting bah-ha-ha-ha loser about him. Amanda Stenberg and King Princess, a.k.a. Mikaela Strauss. Not only are they two of the coolest and smartest young women, nay, people in the entertainment industry independently, together they co-wrote a song called F*** This God. Troy Savan and Jacob Bixonman, as well as being potentially the most beautiful couple to grace the internet, they've also received the most coveted relationship approval. Ariana Grande setting a portrait of them as a phone background. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. Shared humour is the hallmark of any good relationship and as Blake has said, Ryan's great because he has her laughing all the time at appropriate places like funerals. Ryan on the other hand has said that he would take a bullet for her, unless their family is under attack in which case he would use Blake as a human shield to protect their baby. True love. If Brexit has taught us anything, it's that one way to get around not having to make important decisions of your own is by declaring a vote of no confidence in someone else. Thanks, Chezza. So, here are some other things I have no confidence in for 2019. I have no confidence in the return of low-rise jeans. If the 10-year challenge has taught us anything, it's that emo fringes were bad and low-rise shorts should stay in 2009 and Instagram videos are pretty sparse dancing. No confidence whatsoever in airport drone security. I have no confidence in the new Cats film starring Taylor Swift and James Corden. I have no confidence in the Marie Kondo technique.  No confidence in you not losing one of your AirPods. Actually, no confidence in AirPods full stop. Goes without saying that I've got no confidence in the Cheeto running the USA, but unfortunately he doesn't care at all about anyone's complete and utter lack of respect. He's too busy posing in front of mounds of fast food and making the caricature of America a reality. That all said, I don't want to be too neggy. There are some things I do have confidence in. I have confidence in the Toy Story 4 film, the death of single-use plastic, the return of the Spice Girls, cats and bowls, the rise of actually edible vegan meat alternatives, Generation Z being the only one smart enough to save the world and the fact that whatever happens, the UK is democratically, politically, economically and irreversibly f**ked. Want to eat delicious food, improve your health and save the planet? Well, there's a group of scientists who say we can. The Edelhansa Commission have released a report on how we can achieve planetary health diets for nearly 10 billion people by 2050. 37 scientists from around the world have laid out a new food plan that they say has the potential to prevent 11 million deaths caused by unhealthy food per year, as well as preventing the collapse of the natural world that humanity depends upon. And guess what? You can still eat burgers. Just less of them. If you're Donald Trump, a lot less. In fact, with the planetary health diet, you can still eat nuts, beans, meat, dairy, eggs, carbs and vegetables. It just means upping the plant products and cutting down the animals. Essentially, you can have about one burger a week and a couple of portions each of chicken and fish.  Obviously, this is much healthier for us than inhaling animal flesh at every meal. Sorry, keto diet is. But more importantly, it's much healthier for the environment because in case you haven't noticed, we're really f**king it up right now, guys. But this plan gives us a bit of hope because not only are the Elanza Commission giving us some practical tips on what we ourselves can do to help, they're also briefing the likes of farmers, policymakers and food service professionals because the owners can't be on us as individuals to do all the work. We need the big guys to get on board, too. So can we do it? Only time will tell. But hopefully, 2029's 10-year challenge will be a bit more encouraging when it comes to the planet. You're still definitely going to regret those designer crocs.


The paper presents a new 3D point cloud classification benchmark data set with over 4 billion manually labeled points. The data set is meant to be used as input for deep learning methods, specifically convolutional neural networks, CNNs. The authors discuss first submissions to the benchmark that use CNNs and show remarkable performance improvements over state-of-the-art. The paper aims to close the data gap for 3D point cloud labeling tasks by providing a massive data set consisting of dense point clouds acquired with static terrestrial laser scanners. The semantic 3D.NET data set contains eight semantic classes and covers a wide range of urban outdoor scenes. The authors describe their labeling interface and show that the data set provides more dense and complete point clouds with much higher overall number of labeled points compared to those already available to the research community. They also provide baseline method descriptions and comparison between methods submitted to their online system. The paper hopes that semantic 3D.NET will pave the way for deep learning methods in 3D point cloud labeling to learn richer, more general 3D representations. This article was authored by T. Hackel, N. Savanov, L. Ladiky and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


We were near the bottom of the shaft, about 15 feet from the bottom, and we were pouring concrete into a concrete wall. And at one point I recall pushing against the concrete bucket.  It's such a helpless feeling, thinking that you're safe and then all of a sudden you're completely out of control. Since 1997, 32 miners have lost their lives in falls from elevated work areas. The third leading cause of fatalities at metal non-metal mines for the past three years. Sadly, these tragedies could have been avoided. All of us who work in the mining industry need to be able to recognize and avoid the hazards that go with working at elevated locations. We also need to know how to properly use fall protection equipment to help prevent accidents. You place yourself at risk if you say it could never happen to me. The day of the accident we were blowing the muck and broken up concrete down the hole. Louis Rogers was tied off, he had his body harness on and was tied off to a salad block. And he had a one inch blowpipe and he was blowing this debris into the hole or away from it, off the existing pad that was there. He was tied on one side of the rib, he walked around to the other side of the hole and moved too quickly because of a low spot in the ground and the salad block stopped him right away. Of course, he started going right towards the hole. Ken, he was tied off but he just released his hook and Kenny reached for him and they both went into the hole.  We were both very, very close as father and son and also co-workers with the same company. Safety was always number one on his mind, contact daily or every second day, no matter where we were. He would always discuss jobs with me, always discuss how to do it safely. His concern was for his employees. In Kenny's case, Kenny had an accident because he was trying to save one of his employees. The employee was tied off and was not in an unsafe situation but Kenny didn't have the time to think about that. Personally, it's something you'll probably have to, you have to live with it but you'll never get over it. It's not something that you can replace by any means. It will take you a little more than half a second to realize that you are accidentally falling. By this time you've already fallen over seven feet and reached a speed of 15 miles per hour. After another 1.3 seconds you have fallen 65 feet and your speeds 44 miles per hour. A rate that usually results in death or serious injury upon impact. As a result of the accident, we did review all our policies and procedures with respect to working around open holes and elevated positions. We have updated those policies and procedures looking for zero. MSHA regulations require the use of fall protection. A mining company should have a fall protection program designed to identify, manage and control fall hazards. The fall protection program should be prepared by a qualified person and be site specific. Develop policies and procedures for the protection of employees and supervision. Have a specific plan written and explained to each member of the crew. You can't afford to have a member of your crew that is not aware of what the others are going to be doing. Where there's work to be done and there's a risk of falling, you need to carefully evaluate the potential hazards. Appropriate fall protection measures can be taken when the hazards are identified. Each task that you're going to perform should be analyzed prior to when you start and the proper protective gear assigned to it with the proper training. It's important to inspect your personal safety equipment and your equipment that you're going to use in the daily activity. Identify the position that you're in, the height, and use the appropriate equipment to actually keep you from hurting yourself if there is a fall. Common types of fall protection systems at mines include fixed barriers such as guardrails and handrails, surface opening protection such as removable covers, surface protection like non-slip flooring, travel restraint systems and fall arrest systems. In construction I think you'll see a lot of people with fall restraint. But in everyday mining, there is maybe pressures around open holes, conveyors in the maintenance shops where we're up in large man lifts or if we have it down in one of our process facilities in man lifts that's connected to a piece of equipment or machinery. Large structures if we're doing some welding or some repair work. Use railings, barriers or covers to prevent accidents at surface openings in floors and other walking surfaces. Where it is impractical to install such protective devices, adequate warning signs must be used. A fundamental part of any fall protection plan is to ensure that work surfaces are free from tripping and slipping hazards. This can be accomplished by good housekeeping practices. Keeping the work area free of equipment and materials that are not required for the task at hand and immediately cleaning up material spills. Miners need to wear appropriate footwear as well. Personal fall protection systems must be worn with lifeline secured to proper anchorage if works to be done near unprotected openings. There are two primary types of personal fall protection systems, travel restraint and fall arrest. A travel restraint system is designed to limit a miner's movement so they can't reach a location where there is a risk of falling. The restraint system is made up of a safety belt or harness, lanyard and anchor. Under no circumstances is a travel restraint system rigged so that a miner is in a position to fall. A fall arrest system is designed to reduce the chance of injury if a fall occurs. A complete fall arrest system consists of a full body harness, shock absorber, lanyard, lifeline and anchorage point. This system may also include a fall arrestor device. Personal fall protections only as good as its anchorage. Nothing in the system will work if the anchor point fails. That's one of the things that I think all mines and companies and employees have to work with is the proper tie off. People can wear them properly and can equip them properly. But where exactly do you top, especially in those areas where you don't readily have a solid tie off and you have to run static lines or other structures. Anchor points for tying off must be structurally sound and able to support an impact load of 5,000 pounds. The anchor point is located above the miner to limit a fall to the shortest possible distance. It is highly recommended that only a full body harness with a retractable or shock absorbing lanyard be used. The shock absorber is designed to cushion a fall. Be sure to compensate for the additional distance the shock absorber will need. Before use, all personal fall protection equipment should be inspected to make sure it meets specifications. Employees need to be trained in the proper inspection and use of personal fall protection equipment. Accidents, near misses. Whether they be fatal or not to try and bring back to people, yes this can happen. Look at this man, 30 years doing this job. The simple task that he did every day, he lost his life over. When we have a fatality, and generally a fatality, most of us are in a fairly small community of miners. And we know the people personally or intimately that are involved in the accident. And so there's a somber move, there's a resolve to try to do things to avoid having a repetition of that type of accident. We should all be aiming for zero. It's attainable. And to attain this zero, it requires policies, procedures, compliance, training and education. I recognize the benefit of zero tolerance and I strongly endorse it. I believe that it's achievable. I believe that our efforts should be from a management standpoint, should be directed toward achieving that. It's important to conduct safety meetings that are on current subjects and not something that's two or three months down the road. It's important for you as a supervisor to personally exhibit safe work habits.


The representatives of the female deputy governors in Nigeria have paid a curtsy visit to the First Lady, Senator Uluremi Tinobu, at the State House of Buja. During the visit, they pledged their support towards uplifting the lives of Nigerian women through the Renewed Hope Initiative, a pet project of the First Lady, Senator Uluremi Tinobu. Speaking on behalf of the female deputy governors, Ugun State Deputy Governor Noemot Salako Oyedile noted that Nigeria's human capacity and the future of the country is dependent on the investment made in women, youth and children. As mothers and politicians, we all agree that the future of our country is dependent on the investment we make in our children. To ensure that future generations of Nigerians are healthy, educated and productive, the health and nutrition of underfives, the quality of compulsory basic education for our children, and skills, acquisition and empowerment for our youth must be a priority. As representatives of our respective states and deputy governors, we pledge our support for the extraordinary initiatives your Excellency will spare head. Together, we commit to working with you to create an enabling environment where women can thrive and excel in all spheres of life. Thank you.


You see where I'm going. Day five of Targaryen's in here from the square in Palmerston North, a lovely barmy about nine degrees here in Parmy. I used to live here so I don't know what it's all about. Incredible day yesterday as well. Some awesome roads again. A lot of weather yesterday that caused some interest around here on some of these roads especially around Konganui and bits of this would have been a lot of damage done a few a month or two back with those floods, a lot of slips and things around the roads and a few bit of dirt and clay and stuff around the place so it made it for pretty interesting stuff. Fongamomina was incredible, the roads through there, backwards and forwards through, that sort of 35, 36Ks of road going into Fongamomina and just a nominal situation. The scenery and the roads there just sensational today. We head off again and we're heading to Taihabi and going to go through the gentle Annie into Hawkes Bay back to where I live, back in the hometown, back and have a lot of north. So looking forward to getting back into the air on again some incredible days, tarmac to pound across and now GDS here doing a look and after me well and doing a great job having a ball here on Targaryen's edge.