New ICJ measures towards Israelis
ICJ adopted unanimously an order requesting the unhindered provision by all parties concerned of “urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance, including food, water, electricity, fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation requirements, as well as medical supplies and medical care to Palestinians throughout Gaza, including by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points and maintaining them open for as long as necessary”.
The court also adopted by 15 votes to one an order to “ensure with immediate effect that [the Israeli] military does not commit acts which constitute a violation of any of the rights of the Palestinians in Gaza as a protected group under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, including by preventing, through any action, the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance”
Hopefully Biden gets the memo, and his inane mouthpiece Miller.
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*Shows up years late to the party with a Starbucks*
I have a love-hate relationship with Ass Creed, but I adore Desmond and Elijah. And as far as I can tell, we know that Elijah was born 2005, but not his actual birthday. So here is my most beloved headcanon.
Elijah was born December 21, 2005
There's two parts to this. First of all, this date makes it plausible for Elijah to have been conceived on Desmond's 18th birthday. I can totally see him going and getting drunk to celebrate being legally an adult. Being 18 means that his father couldn't find and bring him back legally. (Not that he ever would have, but humans need reasons to celebrate.
So Elijah is a birthday-sex baby. Up in the air if Des told Elijah's mother that it was his birthday or if he was too paranoid.
Second half, having Des die on his son's birthday is free angst.
Also, Dec 21 is roughly 41 weeks after Mar 13, according to the 2012 calendar, which has Elijah coming quite late, actually. Not yet a post-term baby but close.
Babies come early in fiction all the time for drama. I feel like late and post-term pregnancies are almost never discussed or shown. Post-term can be equally as dangerous, and as someone who was also nearly post-term, I demand representation.
Sidenote: perhaps this is a result of modern medicine. Now that labor can be reliably induced, perhaps post-term is easier to prevent than pre-term, so the concept has been easier forgotten. Pre-term labor can be stopped with medication, but you have to catch it early enough. ???
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What should you do if you find an artifact (arrowhead, pottery shard, etc.), on US public lands?
This is a departure for me, but I recently saw a post here that suggested that if you found an artifact from the 1800s on federal land, you should take it to a museum.
PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!
If you find an artifact on public land, like a national park, please don't move it! Report its exact location to the agency that manages the land, like for a National Park, find the nearest park ranger.
Why?
Any time an artifact is moved, or removed, from its location, valuable information about that object is lost. Even if the object is returned, the context is destroyed.
Also, this is illegal, and most museums cannot accept artifacts collected illegally, i.e. on public land without a permit.
How do you know?
I studied anthropology & archeology in college, and then museum studies in grad school, so I'm fairly familiar with the major issues and US laws in question.
From the 1906 Antiquities Act which, among other things, first established penalties for removing objects from public lands, to the Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act, passed in 1990, which deals with the "repatriation and disposition of certain Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony," US laws have increasingly provided care for natural and cultural objects found on federal land. (Laws concerning natural objects is a whole other subject, and mostly depends on which agency controls the land.)
This is a good thing! So, first of all:
What is an artifact?
Generally speaking, artifacts are things that people in the past made, purchased, collected, or left behind at archeological sites. Sometimes they're objects like arrowheads, but they can be more subtle traces of humanity, like bricks or wood from an ancient house. They might only be a few decades old, or they might be thousands of years old. (In other parts of the world, they may be hundreds of thousands of years old or older!)
What should you do if you find an artifact on public land in the US, including national parks, forests, BLM land, state parks, etc.?
Leave the artifact where you found it. Please don't pick it up, move it, throw it, put it in your pocket or your bag, or bury it.
Note & record your exact location. Snap a picture of the artifact where you found it. Step back and photograph the artifact with a landmark. Please don't post them on social media. (If you take a photo with a recent cell phone, it will automatically record the GPS coordinates if you have location services turned on. This information can be extracted from the original photo file.)
Report what you found. Show a park ranger your pictures and the location of the artifact. If you cannot find a ranger, or you're not on park service land, you can email your photos and findings to the Archeology or Cultural Resources division of the land's governing body. If you're not sure where to turn, I'd email your State Archeologist (Google your state + "office of state archeology") and ask for help.
The agency in charge will appoint an archeologist to properly investigate the site, conduct any necessary fieldwork, and recover and curate the artifacts (or convey them to a museum or other approved repository). Artifacts generally then become available to researchers for study, and sometimes for display in public exhibits.
More about what archeologists do
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