Jade (玉, Yù) is a type of stone that has been a part of Chinese art, culture, and history for thousands of years since the ancient Chinese empire. This stone was used as material for grave goods for the imperial family, and it is highly valued because it is believed to completely capture both the yin and yang qualities of heaven and earth (thus serving as a link between the spiritual and physical worlds). Jade is thus dubbed as The Stone of Heaven.
During the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1050 BC), jade were crafted into ornaments that were used by kings and were also created for ceremonial purposes. The stone was established as an aid to immortality and continually used in burial rituals by 200 BC. But the custom changed in the Ming and Qing dynasties when jade was primarily used as décor and art for the imperial court. In the modern day, jade is worn as jewelry such as earrings and bangles, and are worn specifically to ward off bad luck.
The Chinese define jade as the “fairest of stones” for its five virtues: charity, rectitude, wisdom, courage, and equity. The colored stone (ranging from translucent shades of white, green, brown, and black) is a metaphor for human virtues because of its durability and hardness. In a cultural sense, it stands for beauty, grace, and purity. There are even superstitions that jade absorbs bad chi and calms the mind.
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During an afterschool babysitting kinda program, me and the rest of the girls but baskets on these collected all the balls and brought them into the girls bathroom as vengeance for when the guys did it. They thought we wouldn’t go into their bathroom to get them…they were wrong. But they were to afraid to go into ours ;)
Surprisingly Marceline is the only one that doesn’t hurt him XD
Anti-Black Race Riot Erupts In Tel Aviv, Israel
Violent race riots that shook south Tel Aviv sparked shock in Israel last Thursday, but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants.
The latest unrest to sweep the impoverished neighbourhoods around Tel Aviv’s central bus station erupted when a demonstration of around 1,000 people who were protesting against the rising number of Africans moving into the area, turned violent.
“Shock, violence and hatred of foreigners in Tel Aviv” was the headline in the Maariv daily, which described scenes of chaos as demonstrators went on the rampage with sticks and stones, attacking African-run shops and smashing up a car driven by two African men.
“Blacks out!” shouted demonstrators in the crowd, while others yelled: “Send the Sudanese back to Sudan,” several news reports said, as other protesters derided the “bleeding-heart leftists” working to help them.
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The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
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