Occasionally genetic mutations cause a living thing to do something it has never done before,
but does that support evolution?
'Gain-of-function' mutations are not evidence for evolution
this week on Creation Magazine LIVE!
Welcome to Creation Magazine LIVE!
My name is Thomas Bailey.
and I'm Matt Bondy.
This week, our topic is: Gain-of-function mutations are not evidence for evolution.
So, we've given away the conclusion already, now we'll give you a summary of evidences
to support that statement.
Right.
We'll show examples of genetic change producing features in living things that
they haven't done before.
Things like bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, fish becoming resistant to polluted
rivers, sickle cell anemia, beetles on windy islands losing their wings so that they don't
get blown off the island and die.
These are all new features that resulted from genetic change.
Yes, these types of things are often hailed by evolutionists as evidence for evolution.
"Look, it's evolution happening right before our eyes.
You Christians, how silly you are, can't you see the evidence for evolution
happening right here?"
But is that really evolution?
We could ask questions like: is all change in living things evidence for evolution?
What kinds of changes are evidence for evolution?
Are there types of changes that would not be evidence for evolution?
Those are helpful questions to ask, and we're going ask those questions today as we explore
examples of genetic change that evolutionists insist support the evolution of particles
into people.
Ok, let's start with the basics: what are mutations and what is the genetic code?
The genetic code is like software that runs the hardware of living things.
It's a very complex instruction code that directs the activity of cells.
Every one of your trillions of cells has the complete genetic code to build and operate
you.
That code is written on a part of the cell called DNA.
And all living things, of course, have DNA.
That's right. Genetic mutations are random changes to the genetic code.
And that's what evolutionists look to as the main mechanism for evolution.
The code changes, which results in new programming, and the organism does
something it hasn't done before.
Now, without the information written on DNA, life would be impossible.
Even if you had all the chemicals to assemble a cell in the hypothetical 'primordial soup',
you still wouldn't have life.
It's the instruction code, the information, that makes life possible.
So let's think for a moment about the type of change that evolution requires.
Think of the story of evolution, let's start with the single cell.
Don't ask where that came from, but let's just start there.
This cell is supposedly going to give rise to all the life we see on earth today.
Now think of the genetic code required for that cell.
We could represent that here with these books.
The cell would have needed the information for things like the thousands of components
inside the cell.
Even granting that it may have been simpler in the past, for it to be living and to reproduce
it must have been extremely complex.
Right.
Now evolution says that the single cell went on, over millions of years, to evolve into
a multi-cellular creature, for example, like this.
So, the kinds of changes to the genetic code that would be needed involve adding huge
amounts of new, never-before-existing, genetic instructions to build all of the things that
the single cell didn't have.
That's right.
The single cell didn't have the genetic instructions for things like hands and fingers, fingernails,
muscles, hair, heart, arms, legs, knees, feet.
It just wasn't there.
So then, for evolution to work, the central feature, the main thing we should see, is
that genetic information is
increasing, to build all these bigger and better structures
that the single cell didn't have.
And after a quick break we'll begin looking at examples in living things where there has
been genetic change to see if it's the right kind of change for evolution.
See you in just a minute.
Have the fish in New York's Hudson River evolved into 'super mutants'?
A large proportion of the river's Atlantic tomcod fish have developed resistance to certain
poisons, and the mass media has heralded this as a dramatic example of evolution in action!
However, far from supporting microbes-to-man evolution, these mutant fish have actually
devolved, not evolved!
That's because the fish have become resistant through a loss of genetic information.
Non-resistant fish have special proteins in their cells that allow the poisons to bind.
However, due to a genetic mutation, the proteins of resistant fish cannot bind the poisons
as readily.
So, 'corrupted' proteins have made the fish resistant.
And in the poison-rich environment of the Hudson River, it's no wonder that the mutated
gene facilitating resistance has quickly spread throughout the tomcod population.
It is misleading to call these changes 'evolution', because evolution requires the addition of
new genetic information, but these resistant fish have only demonstrated information loss.
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If you've just tuned in, this week we're looking at genetic changes and seeing if they are
the kinds of changes that would be predicted if evolution was true.
Yeah, well, there's no mystery here, we already gave away the conclusion: scientists haven't
found the kinds of changes required for evolution.
Okay, but let's look at some examples.
Let's start with antibiotic resistance.
Most of you are probably familiar with that term.
It occurs when bacteria are found to be resistant to the antibiotics that are meant
to kill them.
And that can be very dangerous, even deadly, if you happen to have these resistant bacteria.
Yeah, this actually happened to Dr Wieland, the founder of Creation magazine.
He wrote an article in the magazine about the experience that he had with resistant bacteria.
He says, "After over 12 years as a medical practitioner, I suddenly found myself an avid
consumer, rather than a provider, of medical care.
Involved in a serious road accident in 1986, I spent many months in hospital, including
weeks in an intensive care unit.
While in intensive care, I became infected with one of the varieties of so-called 'supergerms',
which are the scourge of modern hospitals.
These are strains of bacteria which are resistant to almost every (and in some cases every)
type of antibiotic known to man."
He continues, "Several others in the same unit with me died as a result of infection
by the same bacterial strain.
The germs overwhelmed their immune systems and invaded their bloodstream, untouched by
the most expensive and sophisticated antibiotics available.
This 'supergerm' problem is an increasingly serious concern in Western countries.
It strikes precisely those hospitals which are more 'high-tech', and handle more
serious illnesses.
Applying more disinfectant is not the answer; some strains of germs have actually been found
thriving in bottles of hospital disinfectant!
The more antibacterial chemical 'weapons' are being used, the more bacteria are becoming
resistant to them.
The reality of increasing bacterial resistance seems at first to be an obvious example of
onwards and upwards evolution.
But the facts, when carefully examined, show otherwise."
Okay, he hinted here at the end that this antibiotic resistance is not evidence for
evolution.
Does that surprise you?
Most people have heard, through the media and the education system that antibiotic resistance
is evidence for evolution.
So let's look at why it isn't.
Well, f or starters, note that there are a number of different ways that these 'superbugs' can
become resistant to the antibiotics that are meant to kill them.
A 'superbug' is, by definition, resistant to many different antibiotics.
It may have become resistant to antibiotic A in one way, to antibiotic B in a completely
different way, and to antibiotic C in another way.
So if we look at all the known ways of resistance arising in a population of germs, let's see
if any of them are uphill, information-adding processes.
Yeah, okay. Firstly, some germs already had the resistance.
I mean, out of a million bacteria, if five already have a feature which makes them resistant
to say, penicillin, then soaking them in penicillin will kill all of them except for the five.
That's right. The body's natural defences will often mop up such a small population before it can multiply
and cause harm, so resistance won't become a problem.
But if that doesn't happen, and those five germs multiply, their offspring will also
be resistant and within a short time, there will be millions of germs resistant to penicillin.
Ok, a couple of things to notice here: First, this is why multiple resistances to major
antibiotics is more common in hospitals which treat more serious conditions.
It's because these are the hospitals that will be using the sophisticated, expensive
'heavy artillery' antibiotics, so this sort of 'natural selection' will happen more often.
And secondly, in this kind of instance, the information to resist the antibiotic was already
there in the bacterial population.
It didn't arise by itself, or in response to the antibiotic.
So this is, obviously, not evidence for evolution.
No, it's not
Ok, but how do scientists know that some germs were already resistant to man-made antibiotics?
Well, it's actually common knowledge to microbiologists.
Germs in soil samples from villages where modern antibiotics have never been used, show
that some germs are already resistant to drugs, like methicillin, which has never
existed before in nature.
Also, bacteria revived from the frozen intestines of explorers who died in polar expeditions
carried resistance to several modern antibiotics, which hadn't been invented when the explorers
died.
Okay , so no evidence for evolution here.
Number 2, Some germs directly transfer their resistance to others.
In an amazing process which is, I guess, the closest thing to sex in bacteria, one germ inserts
a tiny tube into another, and a little loop of DNA called a 'plasmid' transfers from one
to another.
This sort of gene transfer, which can pass on information for resistance to a drug, can
even happen between different species of the same bacteria.
But, notice, again, that the information for the resistance must already exist in nature
before it can be passed on.
Exactly
There's no evidence of anything totally new arising which was not there before.
This is information transfer, not information creation.
Right! Okay, now so far, we've dealt with situations in which resistance was already there.
The final way in which bacteria can become resistant is through a mutation.
But where this happens, there is, once again, no clearcut evidence of information arising.
All these types of mutations appear to be losses of information, degenerative changes,
and those kinds of changes will never evolve a single cell into a human.
It's the wrong kind of change!
For example, loss of a control gene may enhance resistance to penicillin.
Some antibiotics need to be taken into the bacterium to do their work.
There are sophisticated chemical pumps in bacteria that can pump nutrients from the
outside, through the cell wall, into the germ's interior.
The germs that do this efficiently, when in the presence of one of these antibiotics,
is going to pump into themselves their own executioner.
Okay, but what if one of these bacteria inherits a defective gene, by way of a DNA copying
mistake or a mutation, which will interfere with the efficiency of the pumping mechanism?
Well, of course the bacterium won't be as good at surviving in normal circumstances, but
the defect actually gives it a survival advantage when there's a man-made poison
right outside the cell.
But once again, we see that information has been lost or corrupted, not gained.
Antibiotic resistance, while on the surface seems to provide support for evolution, when
you examine why the bacteria are resistant, it's actually going in exactly the opposite
direction for evolution.
And we'll continue with that thought after the break.
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Ok, welcome back.
So, as we were just saying, antibiotic resistance doesn't provide evidence for evolution.
The germs are actually going in the opposite direction that evolution requires.
It does seem kinda strange though.
I mean, the germs seem to have gained power over the antibiotic.
But it's because the mutations that cause the resistance are in some form or another
defects.
The so-called supergerms are not really 'super' at all.
They're actually 'wimpy' compared to their close cousins.
Yeah, that's right.
Dr Wieland recalls, "When I was finally discharged from hospital, I still had a strain
of supergerm colonizing my body.
Nothing had been able to get rid of it, after months in hospital.
However, I was told that all I had to do on going home was to 'get outdoors a lot, occasionally
even roll around in the dirt, and wait.'
In less than two weeks of this advice, the supergerms were gone.
Why?
The reason is that supergerms are actually defective in other ways, as explained.
Therefore, when they are forced to compete with the ordinary bacteria which normally
thrive on our skin, they do not have a chance.
They thrive in hospital because all the antibiotics and antiseptics being used there keep wiping
out the ordinary bacteria which would normally outcompete, wipe out and otherwise keep in
check these 'superwimps'."
Let's go roll in the dirt.
Yeah!
So they're 'weaker', and the reason they cause so much death and misery in hospitals is because
the 'normal' bacteria have been eliminated in the clean hospital environment, so the
weaker but resistant bacteria are able to thrive.
Also, environments that tend to 'select' such resistant germs, like intensive care units,
are precisely the places where there will be critically injured people, physically weakened
and often with open wounds.
Okay, so there are four conclusions we can draw.
Number one: 'Supergerms' are actually not 'super' at all.
They are generally less hardy, and less fit to survive outside of the special conditions
in hospitals anyway.
Two: There are many instances in which germs become resistant by simple selection of resistance
which already existed, including that 'imported' from other bacteria.
And three: where a mutational defect causes resistance, the survival advantage is always
caused by a loss of information.
In no case is there any evidence of an information-adding type of 'uphill' change.
Four: 'Supergerms' give no evidence to sustain the claim that living things evolved from
simple to complex, by adding information progressively over millions of years.
Okay, there are other examples that we'll mention, but we've spent a lot of time walking
through the details of this example of antibiotic resistance.
Why?
Because you'll see similarities between this example and the many other examples of genetic
change that evolutionists use to try to support the idea that mutations can cause a
single cell to eventually turn into a horse or a human.
Right.
And it can get complicated because evolutionists focus attention on the new feature (in this
case, resistance to antibiotics) and say that's evolution.
It's complicated because the organism is, in fact, doing something it hasn't done before,
from a certain point of view.
Everyone can see that.
But when the details are examined, that type of change, even though it's doing something
new, is not the kind of change that evolution needs.
Yeah, okay
So after the break we'll look at other examples where there's been a change
( the organism is doing something new) and it's written up as evidence for evolution, but
it isn't evolution at all.
We'll be right back.
In 1994 the prestigious journal Science shocked the scientific world by publishing sequence
data from DNA retrieved from dinosaur bone said to be 80 million years old.
DNA is a fragile molecule, and so it breaks down quickly.
Measurements of DNA stability suggest it could last thousands of years, at best, under the
likely conditions.
But 80 million years was just too incredible for other skeptical scientists.
Eventually, these skeptics were vindicated as it became apparent that the original researchers
had sequenced contaminating human DNA, not dinosaur DNA.
However, in 2012 a different group of researchers published new results supporting the discovery
of actual dinosaur DNA.
These new results appear much harder to disprove, with the researchers applying multiple checks
against contamination from non-dinosaur sources.
The preservation of dinosaur DNA doesn't make sense from an evolutionary perspective.
But it fits biblical history, whereby dinosaurs lived thousands of years ago,
not millions of years ago.
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Our subject this week is: gain-of-function mutations are not evidence for evolution.
Let's look at other examples to clarify why new features in living things, when carefully
examined, turn out to be evidence against evolution.
Living things are actually de-volving not evolving.
Okay, here's an example of genetic change that was, again, cited as evidence for evolution.
This is an example from long ago.
Darwin called attention to wingless beetles on the island of Madeira.
It's often windy on Madeira and many of the normal winged beetles get blown off the island
into the ocean and die.
Ooooh
Yeah
There was a mutation that caused some beetles to lose the ability to produce wings.
The wingless, mutant beetles then became the dominant population on the island, and that's
still the situation today.
So, a genetic mutation causing a loss of wings, caused population change over time.
So, just like in the example of antibiotics, the beetles have become adapted to their environment,
in this case as a result of a mutation.
These wingless beetles are now better adapted to the windy environment than the non-mutant,
winged beetles.
That's a great example of natural selection and adaptation' but it's not evolution.
Still confused?
It's about the kind of change that took place.
The beetles used to have wings, now they don't.
That's actually the opposite of what evolution needs.
They've lost the ability to fly.
If they keep losing abilities, eventually they're going to lose the ability to live.
Yikes!
That sounds more like extinction not evolution!
By the way, creationists wrote on natural selection and adaptation long before Darwin.
Those are scientific facts supported by a lot of good examples.
God created living things with the amazing ability to adapt to changing environments
without going extinct at the slightest climate change for example.
It's good engineering!
It's exactly what we would expect if God created.
Exactly. That's right.
Think of the term 'beneficial mutation'.
Evolutionists use that term quite a bit.
But is there such a thing as a beneficial mutation?
Yes, there is.
A beneficial mutation is simply one that makes it possible for its possessors to contribute
more offspring to future generations than the creatures that lack the mutation.
The mutation in these beetles can be called a 'beneficial mutation'.
I guess from a certain point of view.
But it's not beneficial for evolution!
The mutation puts the beetle on the path to extinction.
It is becoming genetically worse.
And that's the point.
At a genetic level it's going downhill, not uphill; the exact opposite of evolution.
That's right
Another famous example is sickle cell anemia.
Sickle cell refers to the shape of the blood cell.
This terrible disease causes the normally roundish, doughnut shaped red blood cells
to take on a sickle shape.
And this causes all kinds of problems including a higher chance of blood clots.
Yes, but this is taught as evidence for evolution because the people who have this disease are
less susceptible to malaria.
But, again, by looking more closely at the details, it is not evidence for evolution.
Dr Felix Konotey-Ahulu, one of the world's leading experts in sickle-cell anemia says,
"People who have both the sickle gene and the 'good' gene (heterozygosity is the technical
term) will have the benefit of suffering neither from sickle-cell anemia nor dying from malaria
in childhood.
They are therefore more likely to pass on their genes to the next generation than those
with both of the 'good' genes.
Thus, the sickle gene is much commoner in malaria-infested places, especially in Africa."
Hmmmm, so does this mean that Darwinian evolution is a fact?
Well, Dr Konotey-Ahulu firmly rejects this.
He said, "Observing selection/adaptation involving a mutation does not indicate that the more
complicated forms seen today arose from simpler forms traced back ultimately to one-cell organisms."
Then he cautions, "Demonstrating natural selection does not demonstrate that 'upward evolution'
is a fact, yet many schoolchildren are taught this as a 'proof' of evolution."
He pointed out that "the sickle-cell gene is still a defect, not an increase in complexity
or an improvement in function which is being selected for".
And he pointed out the unhappy downside, that "having more carriers of the sickle-cell genes
results in more people suffering from this terrible disease."
Yeah, and as he mentioned, this is yet another example that is taught as evidence for evolution.
But can you see how it isn't?
We'll be right back with one more example.
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Welcome back.
Let's give one more example that was hailed as evidence for evolution, but when scientists
dug deeper, it turns out to be evidence against evolution.
Yes, helicobacter pylori is a bacteria that lives in your stomach.
It attacks the lining of your stomach and can lead to ulcers and even stomach cancer.
Now, it's treated with an antibiotic.
And here's how it works; the antibiotic is absorbed into the cell, into the bacteria,
and inside the bacteria there's an enzyme, which reacts with the antibiotic, and it converts
the antibiotic into a poison.
The poison kills the bacteria.
Yes, however there's a mutant variety of h. pylori.
The mutation causes the bacteria to lose the ability to produce the enzyme.
So the antibiotic is not converted into a poison, and the bacteria lives.
In other words, it survived because of a loss of function.
Notice the similarities here to the other examples we've mentioned.
And that is: a loss of something produces a survival advantage.
Or, let's say something that was working becomes degraded, or stops functioning altogether,
and that produces a survival advantage.
Yes, these are great examples of natural selection and adaptation, but terrible examples of evolution.
Evolutionists focus on the new thing that the organism is doing, and, from a certain
point of view we could agree that new things are happening.
But 'gain-of-function' mutations are not evidence for evolution.
That's right. To clarify these examples, and how they don't help evolution, we could change the terminology
a little.
In the case of the H. pylori, for example, instead of saying that the enzyme not metabolizing
the antibiotic was H. pylori 'doing something new', it's perhaps more accurate to say that
it's just not doing something old, that is, something that it did before
which was metabolizing the antibiotic.
Right.
So then it's not really doing anything new.
You can think of it this way: if I used to run but then had an injury and am no longer able to run
my not running isn't doing something new, it's not doing something old simply because
I've lost that ability.
And, by the way, adding millions of years isn't the answer.
For instance, a challenger might say, 'Mosquitoes have evolved resistance to DDT in
just forty years.
If that's not evolution happening before our eyes, what is?
Most Christian responses focus on the amount of change.
For instance, they will say, 'Well, that's just variation within a kind.'
Or, 'The mosquito's still a mosquito'.
Yeah, well both those replies are true, but they're not completely adequate, because they miss
the main point.
It's also rarely impresses the challenger, who thinks, 'Well, give it a million years
and imagine what sort of change will happen then!'
The point is the direction of the change.
Right
If the sorts of changes that scientists see happening in living things, like the examples
we mentioned today, continue for millions of years those creatures will be extinct.
They will not have evolved into something bigger or better or more robust.
All groups of living things are getting worse over time not better.
Yeah, that's right.
So things like antibiotic resistance are not a gain of function, they are a loss of function.
And of course, evolution needs genetic information to increase over time, and science doesn't
support that.
On the other hand, the creation account in the Bible has the information for all living
things appearing right at the start.
Genetics, and what we know about the information in living things supports the biblical account
in this area.
Genetic information, or programming must have been there when living things began.
Yeah, that's right.
Originally the creation was described as "very good" by God.
There was no sin, death or disease, and the Bible also describes the current world as
cursed.
Once again, science confirms that things are deteriorating, the creation groans, so we
would expect to see genetic information getting corrupted.
And science supports that, it happens all over the place really.
For those of you who've never considered the Bible and the claims that it makes about God,
Heaven, Jesus and what happens after we die, can we encourage you to think about what the
Bible says about these things?
Amen.
So we'll see you next week and remember Christianity is an evidence based faith.
And science supports scripture.
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"Gifts To The United States" For "General Use By The Federal Government," But Donating
To Specific Government Projects Is A Much More Complicated And Unclear Process, According
To Business Insider.
"In Light Of All The Publicity Surrounding Benton's Border Wall Fundraiser, His Father
Told Fox News That It's Actually Inspired Some Reconciliation Across Party Lines In
Their Texas Town.
"People Who Were Originally Very Mean Have Started Apologizing For What They Said And
Sticking Up For Benton," Shane Said.
"He Is Close To $5,000 Raised Now And Is Thinking About Doing A Free Hot Chocolate
Stand For People From Both Sides Of The Debate Since There Are So Many From Both Sides Sticking
Up For Him."'
The Family Should Send Their Funds To Triple-Amputee Veteran Brian Kolfage For The "We Build
The Wall" Movement.
They Are Already On The Border And Working On The Wall.
And I Bet There Is A Visit To The White House In Benton's Future Somewhere.
#Webuildthewall
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Glitter Baby Carriage Coloring and Drawing | Learn Colors for Kids | Magic Fingers Art - Duration: 6:10.
Magic Fingers!
Hello guys! Today we are going to draw a baby in a carriage. Let's draw!
First I'm drawing the carriage.
I'm drawing the wheels of the carriage.
And here is the baby! Look how cute he is.
Wakey wakey!
Magic finger!
Ta-dah!
How are you little cutie?
Yellow
The baby has brown hair.
The wheels are brown.
Look the baby is so happy. He loves his carriage.
Pink
Blue
Red
Purple
Green
This carriage is so colorful.
Orange
And now it's glitter time!
Purple glitter
Green glitter
Orange glitter
Red glitter
Let's blow!
Pink glitter
Look at those colors!
Now, let's take a tour with the baby!
He loves wandering around
Bye-bye little baby.
If you want me to draw something, please comment below. See you on next video...
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Non elemosinare l'amore - Duration: 5:20.
hello everyone does not beg for love one of the biggest mistakes you can
to do is to beg for love that is, to think that love can be
actually required from a point of view sentimental affective go a law
who says that who asks for a loser only those who can offer emotions and
winning what this means means that if we want to get
in love we must not ask not we must beg but we must offer
and what we have to offer we must offer emotions offer emotions allows us to
reach a very high level of seductiveness and capacity for involvement
capacity for seduction and ability to make fall in love because love must be taken by us
we must be like a flower garden that attracts butterflies we do not have to
stay to really ask if in love we beg for we are so
in need of affection that we go to minds carlo around we can not not
we manage to be somehow satisfied
in love those who show themselves hungry die of hunger
so it is really important to learn how to give emotions and what emotions we must
give with the emotions we have to offer we must offer the emotions that
they concern the deepest part of the person amplify the upsets
pre-existing in people's lives and then through the analysis of the
not verbal communication I have done a lot of videos
non-verbal communication go to see we can understand what are the
emotions to be amplified already present within the emotional mental sphere
emotional of the person that there it affects these emotions can be
of various kinds are usually emotions that the logical part interprets as
negative emotions that we must going to urge to abandonment
affective we must go and urge the refusal
we must go and urge meaning of guilt
we must go and solicit dis-ease we must go and urge fear
fear of being conditioned the fear of not being wrong is wrong
adequate as a man or as a don like male or as a female and therefore these
are the various fears that went to tease but we must understand which of
this is not that everyone has one sniper two in short, check in to three
therefore and non-verbal communication he confirms it and then in which area they go
solicit these disturbances in the air sentimental affective or in the area of
self-realization of the person or in the relationships this person can
have family with your family acquired the family of origin
in the money in the flight it happened what is the resistance that we must go to
flush out to amplify these emotions this too we can understand it from
careful analysis of the language does not verbal
so if you went to browse the channel found video you can make it
on the contrary, on the top of my happiness channel well-being or just an address book one
playlist dedicated to communication overall so I suggest you go to
on the top of my channel happiness well-being of which I leave the link in description e
in the playlist communication signal non-verbal find all these signals
that will tell you are so many videos that they will show you how to understand both
the area is let's say the upset from to solicit this once we do
how we must urge it we must solicit it through ours
behavior through our way to do through ours
communication move away or approach us leave or do not leave it this way
instead of music and love we will attract an hour in our lives and people
that interest us will be involved with we are fine for this video everything
follow me also on the instagram page maximum for amasco subscribe to the channel e
subscribe to the new channel happiness well-being of which you place the
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America Ferrera Thinks How to Train Your Dragon Broke Ground for Game of Thrones - Duration: 3:48.
-Welcome back. It's so great to see you.
-Thank you! I love being here. -"How to Train Your Dragon."
This is three films over the course of 12 years.
That is -- A lot of things have happened in your life.
Will it be sad for you to say goodbye to this character?
-Yes. I mean, yes.
12 years and six seasons of a TV series.
It's been over a decade of my life.
-Yeah.
-And, also, you know, the series is just so beloved,
which you can never -- You know, you can never really
guess what a movie is going to go on to become.
But I have just had such an incredible time
getting to sit back and watch this world come to life
and to be a small part of it.
It's like a childhood fantasy of, you know,
watching "The Lion King"
and wishing you could exist in that world.
-Yeah. -And I do, so I'm excited.
-Also, let's say you guys were real
ahead of the curve as far as dragons.
I mean, dragons are in everything now.
-Yes.
-But you guys -- 12 years ago, you thought,
"You know what's going to be the next big thing?
Dragons."
-Yeah, we broke boundaries for dragons
and we brought them into the mainstream.
I really think "Game of Thrones"
would have been nothing if we hadn't, like,
made the foundation.
-Everybody says that. -Yes.
-I mean, they had be like, "We'll do dragons and incest,"
which is, like, super-hacky.
-Well, you haven't seen the third movie yet, so...
-Oh, that's right. I haven't seen it yet.
-No, I'm kidding. No. Oh, God.
-It's a really -- Yeah, this is a hard "R,"
which was surprising for an animated film.
-Well, you know, the characters evolve.
-Yeah, yeah. -Story lines evolve.
-You -- Also, you mentioned your television show, "Superstore."
You are not only one of the stars of the show,
producer of the show, and you have directed an episode.
You directed one last year.
-And one before, so I've directed a couple episodes.
-And one this year.
-And now I'm directing again,
one of our last episodes of this season.
And I love it. Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Do you really love it? -I love it. I love it.
I love our show.
I love that, "A," it's funny and smart,
but it always has something to say.
And this season, my character, Amy, there is so much for her.
She has her second child, after getting a divorce,
and wants a promotion.
And so there is so much incredible material there
for, you know, a woman trying to step into leadership.
And one of my favorite episodes this season
was called "Maternity Leave," where Amy had to come back
48 hours after giving birth,
which you think is, like, some ridiculous sitcom setup.
And then, when the episode came out,
there were so many women who were like,
"Yeah, like, that was my life."
And, you know, it's funny, but, also, you're crying,
because it's a little too real.
-It's really lovely to have a show that, as you say, like,
it's very comic, but it addresses real stories.
And it must be so nice to be able to do that.
-Yeah. And I went back to work 10 weeks after having my baby,
which I realize is so much more than a lot of women
get in this country.
But, you know, it was all right there on the surface for me.
I didn't have to dig too deep to play that story line.
-Your son is about the same age as my youngest,
so about 8 months now?
-Yes, he's almost 9 months.
And I actually remember when your wife gave birth,
because it terrified me.
-Yeah, well, she gave -- Yeah.
-Because I was, like, very pregnant,
and every day, it was like, "Oh, what was that?
Is it happening? Oh, is this it?"
And then you told us that -- You told the world
that your wife gave birth in the lobby.
-Yeah.
-And I went to my doorman and I was like,
"How equipped are you-all to give birth --
You know, to, like, deliver a child?"
And I let my husband know. I said, "Seth was amazing.
Seth knew what to do. I hope you know what to do."
-By the way, if my wife is watching this,
she would, right now, be saying, "He did not know what to do.
He was present."
If I got a trophy, it would have been, like, participation.
Yeah.
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Siblings Song
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FOX TV - SSE sell half of telecoms network business to Infracapital for £380m - Duration: 4:28.
Energy giant SSE is to sell half of its telecoms network business to Infracapital for up to £380 million, days after it called off a merger with rival npower
SSE is to offload a 50% stake in its SSE Enterprise Telecoms business to Infracapital, the infrastructure arm of Prudential, with the proceeds used to pay down the company's debts
The deal values SSE Enterprise Telecoms at more than £700million.SSE said £215 million will be paid when the transaction is completed, which is expected at the end of June, and up to £165 million will be paid in instalments depending on the performance of SSE Enterprise Telecoms
Energy giant SSE is to sell half of its telecoms network business to Infracapital for up to £380 million
The deal will mean SSE Enterprise Telecoms can keep SSE as a key funder and customer as well as gain from Infracapital's experience of driving growth, telecoms knowledge and providing access to additional funds
Enterprise Telecoms is a telecoms infrastructure company, with a 12,000-kilometre fibre network across the UK providing connectivity services to businesses
The capital injection from the deal will help with SSE Enterprise Telecoms' expansion plans as it aims to become a leading player in the UK telecoms sector
It is planning on developing projects in a number of areas including the 5G network, SD-WAN technology and smart cities
Colin Sempill, managing director at SSE Enterprise Telecoms, said Infracapital's investment in SSE's telecoms network business 'shows the confidence it has in the future growth of the business' and 'it recognises the success we have achieved to date, building out a great network, winning notable contracts and being relentlessly focused on customer satisfaction'
He added: 'Both parties see this as an opportunity to help develop the network infrastructure that this country needs to turn the vision of the UK's digital economy into reality
'The deal comes after SSE and npower called off their merger on Monday, blaming 'challenging market conditions' and the Government's price cap
The two firms had planned to seal the merger of their retail operations in the first quarter of 2019
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Top Remedies For Cure Diabetes - Duration: 9:03.
mango and coconut oil smoothie ingredients 1 tablespoon virgin coconut
oil 1 by 4 cup chopped fresh mint 1/2 cup Organic mango and coconut milk
virgin coconut oil the best results in terms of diabetes that we have seen from
user testimonials over the years has been from those who replaced a toxic
vegetable oils with healthier fats such as coconut oil and reduced their refined
carbohydrate intake with higher amounts of healthy fats in the diet mint
peppermint is also used as an herbal medicine especially for digestive and
skin problems it may also help diabetics who have in the addition bloating and
nerve complications mangoes mango contains a lot of natural sugar a number
of studies have shown that the fruit is actually very good for the blood sugar
management of the body coconut milk coconut milk is rich in vitamin C C
amine vitamin b1 folate potassium manganese copper selenium iron
phosphorus and potassium take a blender jar add all the ingredients and blend
well take a serving glass and pour the smoothie into it mango and coconut oil
smoothie is ready to serve thank you for watching this video like and subscribe
for more videos low-calorie ginger carrot apple smoothie
ingredients 5 grams ginger 1 medium carrot sliced 1 medium
Apple sliced 1 tbsp lemon juice 1/2 TSP cinnamon and water ginger has been shown
to help reduce blood sugar levels and help regulate insulin response in people
with diabetes in 1 2014 animal study urbis rats with diabetes were given a
mix of cinnamon and ginger these rats experiences a wealth of
benefits including the used bodyweight carrot carrots are rich
in vitamin A and K vitamin C and potassium and manganese complex vitamin
B with folate prosperous and vitamin G in smaller quantities Apple Apple's
helps stabilize blood sugar levels in addition to providing other health
benefits cinnamon the researchers found the cinnamon cut cholesterol by about
18% and blood sugar levels by 24% lemon juice lemon water is good for diabetics
as a means of controlling blood sugar levels lemon juice is good for diabetics
mainly because of its high concentration of vitamin C vitamin C is a powerful
antioxidant that helps boost the body's immune system and has a beneficial
effect on heart health take a blended or add all the
ingredients add some water and blend well take a serving glass and pour the
smoothie into it now low calorie ginger carrot apple smoothie is ready to serve
thank you for watching this video like and subscribe for more videos fat
burning green tea and visible smoothie ingredients - cauliflower florets
- pineapple spears green tea - the fill line cauliflower the American Diabetes
Association recommends eating half of one's plate or at least three to five
servings of non-stretch Eavis tables pie day
one serving is equal to 1/2 cup cooker or 1 cup raw non starchy vegetables are
increased because of the nutrition contributions they make to our diabetes
they are high in vitamins minerals fiber and phytochemicals I would like to
encourage you to use a cauliflower as part of this recommendation for people
with diabetes pineapple pineapple can be a healthier choice for people with
diabetes certain fruits contain vitamins minerals and fiber that can be
beneficial to your diet green tea green tea contains high amounts of polyphenols
and antioxidants polyphenols are known to have antioxidant properties which
help protect against inflammation and carcinogens it has been shown that these
properties in tea can help to prevent type 2 diabetes as well as some cancers
epic a locater chin gullet EGCG is the key fully phenol in green tea it is
known to be the main attributable factor to the beneficial health effects of
green tea through a complex biochemical reaction AGC G in green tea helps
sensitize cells so they are better able to metabolize sugar which is beneficial
for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes take a blender jar add all the ingredients
and blend well fat-burning green tea and visible smoothie is ready to serve
Bloody Mary smoothie ingredients 1 and a half cups of low-sodium tomato juice 1
small tomato 1 cup cucumber chopped 1 tbsp lemon juice and 5 ice cubes
tomatoes tomatoes another superfood for diabetes or Patra with vitamin C are an
excellent source of vitamin A and are a good source of potassium they are also
low carb and low calories koo kumba Kakuma juice along with carrot juice is
extremely effective for rheumatic conditions caused by excessive uric acid
in the body it is a good for digestion especially of proteins and it controls
blood pressure and diabetes mellitus drinking Kakuma juice on a regular basis
also helps to cure gout and eczema lemon juice lemon water is good for diabetics
as a means of controlling blood sugar levels lemon juice is good for diabetics
mainly because of its high concentration of vitamin C vitamin C is a powerful
antioxidant that helps boost the body's immune system and has a beneficial
effect on heart health take a blender jar add all the ingredients and blend
well pour into a serving glass Bloody Mary smoothie is ready to serve thank
you for watching this video like and subscribe for more videos
homemade oil vedic powder to control diabetes
this oil reading powder brings amazing changes in diabetes and helps to cure
diabetes naturally without any medicines coriander seeds coriander seeds are
being used to cure diabetes since a long time also in many studies it has been
proved that coriander is helpful in reducing diabetes coriander reduces the
glucose levels of your blood fenugreek seeds fenugreek seeds are being used as
traditional herbal treatment for diabetes it is a good supplement to cure
diabetes ingredients fenugreek seeds 1 cup coriander seeds 1 TSP fennel seeds
called some 1 tsp cumin seeds called jeera 1 TSP and turmeric powder 1 TSP
preparation add fenugreek seeds in hot pan and roast on medium high heat for
one or two minutes still frequently until it gets a red brown in color as
shown in video and keep it aside now fry fennel cumin and coriander seeds until
it gets light red brown color now add ingredients in grinder and switch on
mixer to make ingredients into powder check the powder for solid parts to be
grinded and mix turmeric powder and once again switch on grinder to mix
thoroughly coriander + fenugreek powder is now ready and use it in regular diet
for good results usage rule mix 1 TSP of coriander
fenugreek powder in glass of water and take it daily usage before breakfast and
dinner and check diabetes levels for every 3 days
by taking this powder regularly you can reduce your high blood sugar levels
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Market Leaders 'Arrested' For Demanding PVCs In Exchange For Trader Moni Loan - Duration: 2:06.
Market Leaders 'Arrested' For Demanding PVCs In Exchange For Trader Moni Loan
The distribution of Trader Moni, a no-interest loan scheme championed by the Nigerian government, was disrupted by violence on Tuesday.
During the distribution at Lafenwa Market in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Tuesday, trouble started when the traders were allegedly asked for their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) numbers in exchange for the no-interest loan.
The Nation newspaper reported that the market leaders, who led the distribution, were taken away by some persons, who were about 50 in number.
Members of the Abeokuta North West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) were accused of leading the hoodlums to hijack the process.
Monsuru Shorunke, Chairman of the LCDA, took responsibility for the action, stating that he had heard that some people came to the market to collect names of traders, including PVC numbers, in exchange for money.
He said: "We heard that some people came to Lafenwa Market, collected people's PVCs from the traders with their names and PVC numbers.
"Governor Ibinkunle said we should go out. It was Governor Amosun that sent us. I was in front of the Governor when we heard the Information. So, I collected Iyaloja's phone number from Akintona.
We took Iyaloja to the Governor's house alongside the Babaloja of Lafenwa. "We believed it was wrong for them to come and collect people's PVC with numbers before the election day. That was what they came to do at Lafenwa." .
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40 Ideas for Independent Work (Not Busywork!) - Duration: 18:50.
You're working with this child, and that child has nothing to do.
What do you do?
Here are some ideas!
Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.
I'm Sonya Shafer.
Homeschooling comes with its own set of blessings and challenges.
One of the challenges is figuring out what one child can do while you're busy helping
a different child.
A home school is very much like a one-room schoolhouse.
You're managing several children across several grade levels—with only one teacher.
It's a fact of life that you won't be able to be with each child all the time.
Sometimes you will need to assign work to be done independently.
But remember that any independent work that you assign to a child should have a purpose.
And that purpose is not just to keep him busy.
Don't require a child to spend his time doing busywork.
Especially in a Charlotte Mason home school, we want to be careful that we're respecting
the child as a person.
So make sure that any independent work you assign will be of real benefit to the child,
will contribute to educating the whole person.
The trick is coming up with independent work that meets that criteria, especially in the
younger grades when a student might not be reading and writing fluently yet.
So today I want to share 40 ideas for purposeful independent work in a Charlotte Mason home
school.
These are ideas taken from the programmes used in Charlotte's schools.
They are based on actual assignments that Charlotte mentioned or extensions of those
assignments.
All of them have educational value.
They are not just busywork.
They will help your child to grow in different aspects of learning and living.
They will encourage your child to develop and practice the techniques of self-education
that Charlotte valued so highly and used so often.
Now, one caveat: Your student will gain the most benefit from these assignments if the
habits of obedience and full attention are in place.
These suggestions assume that your child will purposefully stay on task even without your
direct supervision.
Of course, you'll want to keep an eye on the time and make sure any independent work assignment
doesn't overstay its welcome.
But hopefully, these suggestions will give you some ready-to-go ideas when you need to
assign independent work to one child while you're working with another.
Ideas for Younger Grades Let's start with ideas for the younger grades—about
first through third, students who are still solidifying their reading and writing skills.
(And, by the way, if you want a printed copy of these ideas, follow the link to the blog
post.
You'll find them all written out there.)
1.
Listen to a portion of an audiobook.
It could be a professionally narrated audiobook or, if you know ahead of time that you're
going to be unavailable, you could make a recording yourself, reading the book aloud.
2.
Draw a narration or audio-record a narration, using a digital voice recorder.
3.
Do word-building.
Give a word-building challenge that fits the level of your child's reading skills.
For example, you might assign a beginning reader to see how many words he can build
with -en at the end.
For your more experienced readers, you could assign more difficult words to build, such
as thinking of words with a silent gh or words that have at least one silent letter.
You can level this assignment up or down to fit the student.
4.
Prepare the next reader story.
If your student is at the stage where he is reading aloud to you from a reader, assign
him to look through the next story in that reader and see how much he can pre-read so
he will be ready to go when it comes time to read it aloud.
If he gets stuck on a word, he can write it down or put a sticky note on that page.
5.
Copy or transcribe some favorite lines from a poem.
If you have a third grader, you can also have him study the spelling of the words he is
transcribing and be prepared to write some of those words from memory.
6.
Play dominoes.
Line up dominoes, end to end, making sure that any ends that touch have the same number
of dots.
That is a good way to work on visual discrimination and the skills of matching patterns.
Plus, the child can be creative and decide which dominoes he wants to turn in which direction.
Ideas for All Grades Now here are some ideas that could work for
both younger and older students.
7.
Work on memorizing (or reviewing) a poem or Bible passage or lines from Shakespeare.
If your student isn't reading yet, audio-record the selection for him to listen to as he memorizes
or to check as he reviews.
8.
Listen to a song or story or rhyme in the foreign language that you are learning.
Mason's Living Languages dot com is a great resource to help you find those.
9.
Listen to music of the term's selected composer.
10.
Look through pictures of the term's selected artist.
Have your student select one picture from the ones that you've already introduced, look
at it, then turn it over and try to draw its elements from memory.
This isn't an exercise in duplicating technique; it's an exercise in remembering details accurately.
11.
Determine a given route on a world map or U.S. map.
Choose a region that the student is familiar with and challenge him to find the best route
from point A to point B. You can designate whether he is allowed to fly or must go by
land or by sea.
12.
Complete a math number sentence card or two.
These cards contain a handful of number sentences related to one specific number or one specific
table.
They can also contain a combination of number equations from previously studied tables.
If you have to step away from a math lesson for a moment, give your child a number sentence
card and have him write the answers to the equations on his slate.
Allow him to use concrete objects to find the answers if needed.
13.
Sketch or paint something from the nature table.
If you have brought some nature items indoors, your student can take some time to look closely
at an object of his choice and try to draw or paint it in his nature notebook.
14.
Sketch or paint a nature object of interest from a field guide.
Some nature friends do not live close to you, so your child might like to look through a
beautifully illustrated field guide and choose a nature object that he doesn't usually get
to see.
By drawing or painting that object from the illustration or photograph, he will be encouraged
to look at it more closely.
15.
And speaking of looking closely, you might assign your child to watch a nature friend
quietly for a few minutes to see what habits he can observe.
Such friends might include birds on a feeder, ants on a sidewalk, or kittens in a box, for
example.
16.
Do a special outdoor study.
Part of nature and science lessons for Charlotte's students included doing a special study, whether
dog training, flower pressing, gardening, or whatever.
Time to work on that special study makes a good independent assignment.
17.
Build a model of a building from the historical period you are studying.
If you have read about a famous construction, assign your student to build a model of it.
You can level this assignment up or down by determining the amount of detail that should
be included and what materials you want him to use.
Younger students can build with wooden blocks; older students might create more intricate
models by designing their own interlocking pieces from cardboard.
18.
Exercise.
Assign your student to do a certain number of sit-ups or push-ups or jumping jacks.
Or give him some heavier objects to move from one location to another.
Physical strength and fitness play an important part in being healthy and able to serve others
well in life.
19.
Practice a musical instrument.
If your child takes piano lessons or violin lessons or guitar lessons, or any other musical
instrument, assign him to practice while you're occupied elsewhere.
20.
Look through interesting reference books with photographs.
Your child could look through field guides; science picture books; large books of animals,
plants, inventions, distant lands, birds, famous architecture, Bible lands; or even
an illustrated book on first aid.
21.
(Okay, Charlotte didn't include this one, but I think we can use it if we're careful.)
Watch pre-approved educational videos.
Try to select videos that contain ideas, not just dry facts.
You could use videos on nature, history, science, famous people, fine arts, math, geography,
and more.
Be sure to preview them, in order to make sure the content is appropriate for the child
who will be watching.
22.
Tidy the school supplies area.
Students at Charlotte's schools were responsible to help with work around the property.
Teach your child to leave a place better than he found it.
23.
Work on chores.
Home skills make excellent independent work assignments.
Just make sure you assign a chore that the child already knows how to do, so he can accomplish
it successfully without the need to interrupt and ask you for help.
24.
Work on a handicraft project.
Select a handicraft that the child has already had lessons in and is ready to work on a larger
project.
You can level this assignment up or down by having the child follow a pattern or by challenging
him to design his own pattern.
25.
Practice drawing in perspective.
If you keep a simple guide handy, even your non-readers should be able to follow the sample
drawings and learn about perspective.
As an example, take a look at the little book, Beginner's Guide to Perspective by Victor
Perard, available from Dover Publications.
26.
Practice drawing an object in the house.
The student could select a piece of furniture or a household scene to draw, or tell him
to gather 3–5 small objects and create a still life picture using them.
27.
Draw a plan of one room in the house, or your yard, your property, or even all the rooms
in the house.
Younger students could draw the plan in a tray of sand.
Older students could be required to draw the plan to scale.
28.
Create your own pictures with parquetry blocks.
Most parquetry block sets come with cards that have design ideas already printed on
them.
Get rid of the cards and challenge your student to create his own picture using the geometric
shapes.
Ideas for Older Grades And here are some ideas for older students—around
fourth grade and up—who can easily read and write.
29.
Read leisure-time books.
Charlotte had a list of extra books that students could read in their spare time, on weekends,
or during the holidays.
You might do the same.
30.
Read school book assignments.
As students gain confidence and fluency in reading for themselves, they should begin
to read more and more of their school books independently.
31.
Write a narration or go through a previously written narration and polish it.
32.
Study a passage for dictation.
This might be a passage from one of your student's school books or from another good literary
selection.
33.
Work on your Book of Mottoes.
Some people call this journal a commonplace book.
It's basically a record of interesting quotes from the books you are reading.
Charlotte had older students transcribe two lines per week into their Book of Mottoes,
and I'm sure many students did more.
34.
Work on your Book of Centuries.
An older student might make sure he is current on making entries in his Book of Centuries,
recording pertinent historical people and events in their respective centuries.
He might also look over a century already studied and write a short description of those
years as a whole.
35.
Review Latin words and conjugations.
If your child is studying Latin, you might assign a few minutes to look over the vocabulary
he is learning.
36.
The same applies to any language your child is learning.
Assign him to review any foreign language vocabulary words.
37.
Parse and analyze an assigned sentence.
If your child has learned how to parse and analyze or diagram a sentence, pick a sentence
or two out of a book and let him review those important grammar skills.
38.
Plan a nutritious and delicious meal.
This assignment is a mixture of science, economics, and home skills.
For the economics part, you can give a maximum amount that he is allowed to spend on that
meal or meals.
Have him plan a whole week of lunches, if you want to increase the challenge level.
39.
Study a portion of a world map or a regional map and create some questions for you or a
younger sibling about that map.
The questions should be designed to help the person look closely and notice details.
For example, how many rivers flow through our town?
What are their names?
What is the closest mountain range to our town?
What is the closest ocean?
40.
Read current event articles and locate any mentioned regions on a world map.
There you go: 40 ideas to keep your student engaged and learning even when you need to
help someone else for a few minutes.
With these independent work assignments, you can encourage your children to keep learning
for themselves.
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