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cool318:
I Guess it's called Phototropism in Biology

Yeah, Positive Phototropism to be exact.

(CNN) - International students who are pursuing degrees in the United States will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their universities switch to online-only courses, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday.

The move may affect thousands of foreign students who come to the United States to attend universities or participate in training programs, as well as non-academic or vocational studies.

Universities nationwide are beginning to make the decision to transition to online courses as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. At Harvard, for example, all course instruction will be delivered online, including for students living on campus. For international students, that opens the door to them having to leave the US.

In a news release Monday, ICE said that students who fall under certain visas "may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States," adding, "The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States."

The agency suggested that students currently enrolled in the US consider other measures, like transferring to schools with in-person instruction. There's an exception for universities using a hybrid model, such as a mix of online and in-person classes.

Visa requirements for students have always been strict and coming to the US to take online-only courses has been prohibited.

"These are not some fly-by-night universities, these aren't scams, these are legit universities who would normally have in-person curricula but for coronavirus," said Theresa Cardinal Brown, director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. 

"The bigger issue is some of these countries have travel restrictions on and they can't go home, so what do they do then?" she added. "It's a conundrum for a lot of students."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/international-college-students-ice-online-learning/index.html

NewBea:
Connection between phone call and gas explosion is what i still don't understand!

Mobile phones are believed to produce electric field which in some cases can ignite gas/petrol fumes. It is same reason you are advice not to make calls in a gas/petrol station.

There has been back and forth argument about the fact of this but it's better to err on the side of caution they say.

See her idiotic face

StillWiz:
God help my country

Bros, Nigeria has never been in the list of state sponsor for terrorism.

https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/

How did I become an Arsenal fan? A question I've not been able to answer.

Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast. In May 1803, the Igbo and other West African captives arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on the slave ship the Wanderer. They were purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants John Couper and Thomas Spalding to be resold to plantations on nearby St. Simons Island. The chained slaves were packed under deck of a coastal vessel, the York, which would take them to St. Simons. During the voyage, approximately 75 Igbo slaves rose in rebellion, took control of the ship, drowned their captors, and in the process caused the grounding of the ship in Dunbar Creek.

The sequence of events that occurred next remains unclear. It is known only that the Igbo marched ashore, singing, led by their high chief. Then at his direction, they walked into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek, committing mass suicide. Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation, wrote the first account of the incident. He and another man identified only as Captain Patterson recovered many of the drowned bodies. Apparently only a subset of the 75 Igbo rebels drowned. Thirteen bodies were recovered, but others remained missing, and some may have survived the suicide episode, making the actual numbers of deaths uncertain.

Regardless of the numbers, the deaths signaled a powerful story of resistance as these captives overwhelmed their captors in a strange land, and many took their own lives rather than remain enslaved in the New World. The Igbo Landing gradually took on enormous symbolic importance in local African American folklore. The mutiny and subsequent suicide by the Igbo people was called by many locals the first freedom march in the history of the United States. Local people claimed that the Landing and surrounding marshes in Dunbar Creek where the Igbo people committed suicide in 1803 were haunted by the souls of the dead Igbo slaves. The story of Igbo, who chose death over slavery which had long been part of Gullah folklore, was finally recorded from various oral sources in the 1930s by members of the Federal Writers Project.

In September 2002, the St. Simons African American community organized a two-day commemoration with events related to Igbo history and a procession to the site of the mass suicide. Seventy-five attendees came from different states across the United States, as well Nigeria, Brazil, and Haiti. The attendees designated the site as a holy ground and called for the souls to be permanently at rest. The Igbo Landing is now part of the curriculum for coastal Georgia schools.

1. In May 1803, the Igbo and other West African captives arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on the slave ship the Wanderer.
2. Slave merchants, John Couper and Thomas Spalding paid $100 for each African. The Africans were to be resold to plantations on nearby St. Simons Island.
3. The chained slaves were packed under deck of a coastal vessel, the York, which would take them to St. Simons. During the voyage, approximately 75 Igbo slaves rose in rebellion, took control of the ship, drowned their captors, and in the process caused the grounding of the ship in Dunbar Creek.
4. The Igbo captured Africans marched ashore, singing, led by their high chief. At the chiefs direction, they walked into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek, committing a mass suicide.
5. Apparently, only a subset of the 75 Igbo rebels drowned. Thirteen bodies were recovered, but others remained missing, and some may have survived the suicide episode, making the actual numbers of deaths uncertain.
6. Although for more than two centuries most authorities considered the accounts to be an Afro-American folktale, research since 1980 has verified the factual basis of the legend and its historical content. The site was included as a historic resource in a 2009 county survey.

* Also in Beyonce's latest Album; she referenced this story of slavery and ibo landing in "Love Drought", scenery from the video matches folklore descriptions of this historic incidence and the second photo below portrays unity in the resistance to slavery which is a follow up to the initial story as they flew back to Africa in a bid to escape.

Sources:
https://www.google.com/amp/tink-africa.com/stories/6-facts-to-know-about-ibo-landing%3fformat=amp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Landing

Caseless:
You're ignorant of the situation.

He is very ignorant.

Righteousness89:
Sleepy joe and the Demonrats will say and do anything just to get to Power by all means and confuse the whole system!



It Shall not Stand! Neither shall it come to Pass!

MAGA 2020 all the way!

This man quoting MAGA what do you think you know? From which country are you "MAGA-ing"? Nigeria or America? Please, find out from the people directly affected if America is being made great again. Almost all African Trump supporters I know are outside the US and their grounds for support is about two things: His stands on Gay Marriage and his aggression on Iran. There are a million and one other critical issues he has jeopardized.

An honorable thing to do

That shows that in the first place its not a sin to not pay tithe, or is he permitting them to sin by 'robbing God'.

This is beginning to look childish! Can this man get his act together? Why is he toying with people's right to live

You just wanna rub it in I guess, spoil some persons' day. Otherwise, what's the point of the question?

Exc2000:



1. The first tithe (Gen. 14:19–20) before Moses laws on tithing

And he blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”
And Abraham gave him a tenth of everything.

Abram had just returned from war, rescuing Lot, and reclaiming his possessions, and he’s met by an enigmatic priest of God Most High named Melchizedek. The priest attributes Abram’s victory to God—possessor of heaven and earth—and he blesses Abram.

In gratitude to God’s authority and blessing, Abram gives Melchizedek a tenth of his possessions.

2. Jacob offers a tithe (Gen. 28:20–22) Before Mossaic Law

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

Jacob responds to a dream he has received from God by building an altar and vowing that, in exchange for God’s care and provision, he would give God a tenth of his belongings.

3. The tithe is introduced as law (Lev. 27:30–34)


Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

pre mossiac law .. Tithe goes to the Terbenacle, post mosses isreal tithe still goes to the synagogue , all over middle east, tithe , zakar , offerings or sacrifice goes to the Synagogue , Mosque and Altar, where the Shiek , Priest , Imam , Rabbi prays onto it before distributing it to the less privileged members of the community


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Show me where tithe was mentioned by the new covenant.

Kobojunkie:
That only seems to apply to those out there in UTAH who attend the one church.

Utah is the headquarters. This is obviously order from the headquarters.

Due to the evident hardship occasioned by the Coronavirus pandemic The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have decided to refund her members 3 years of tithing (2017-2020). I can't help but commend this church and I wonder what other ministries are waiting for.

PresidentAtiku:
Oga Femi just shut the Bleep up

If you had shame you would have resigned

You and everyone that liked your post are FOOLS!

ignis:
Meanwhile Germany Just Donated Additional N2.2bn To Nigeria To Fight COVID-19.

Something must be wrong somewhere.

US had same problem. The problem is not lack of money, the problem is the availability. Imagine that the world develop need for an item all at once.

Avalancheman:
Shut up!

Even those countries are already opening despite still recording daily deaths in hundreds...

Bros, the countries you're talking about took time (months of lockdown) to put their acts together, understood what they were up against, before considering reopening.

Already, from what we've been seeing in Nigeria, out of 20, about 18 recover. Is it that when you pray and 80% recover as God has already been doing, it will be that your prayers have been answered.

Chapii:
When I say Lockdown will kill 1000times more people than Covid-19, I was not exaggerating. Many have died on the street like this woman, we are not talking of many more that are dying from hunger and preventable diseases in their houses. The white house yesterday confirmed what we've been saying for weeks now that Coronavirus is not potent in this part of the world because of our weather. It dies quickly at temperatures over 26oC. Our average city temperatures is over 30oC. Nobody is showing symptoms of Coronavirus but NCDC keeps releasing audio numbers of cases and deaths.

I pity you

I've always had the feeling that though he may not be a saint but this man was not the devil he was painted to be.

Btw...I'm Ibo

The virus doesn't survive outside a host for too long

encriagona:
what is the difference between 5&6

Multiply each by million, you will see the difference

Very good one. God bless you immensely. I am seriously looking out to men of God, Daddy G.Os and and their donations. They should lead this example.

dancok:
This is my first salary though but debt was already on ground before the salary showed, so am clearing the debt now and the situation of corona virus now.

I don't how long this will last, so am cautious of my spending.

Have I not sinned? Can I shift my tithe till next payment? Pastors in the house.

Bros, no new covenant Christian is obliged to pay tithe. Una eye never still open

There's one Pastor that said he can't be there and Coronavirus is killing people in China (was yet to hit Nigeria then). Can someone remember the topic/link

sarrki:
Ok

Cool was there 2 weeks ago

We stayed in same city


Stay safe man

Thank you, stay safe too

cococandy:
I was in New York less about a week ago. Went through la guardia . People didn’t seem to care that much. I guess it’s gotten more serious in the past few days?

You're right, two weeks ago we were watching China and Italy on TV thinking America is untouchable.

sarrki:
Which part of Newyork are you?

Brooklyn (Crown Heights to be specific)

We wish our brothers in Nigeria will realise shit is real and give it the seriousness it deserves. I see on social media people making a fun of it and some purporting conspiracy theories about it been a hoax or avenue to make money.

Shit is real and it's is not funny at all here in New York. Health systems are stretched already. I fear how Africa will cope if the America and Europe are squealing.