Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America Wikipedia

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• Rwanda’s Hope Hostel once housed genocide survivors. Now it awaits migrants from Britain
• Family Support Services (FSS)
• House of Representatives Committee on Rules
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House
• Medieval development of the Germanic longhouse
• U.K. leader dealt a blow by Conservative rebellion over his Rwanda asylum plan
• Fact Sheet: Vice President Harris Announces Historic Advancements in Long-Term Care to Support the Care Economy

These structures are generally built with clapboard sides, and their interiors have no stalls. Separate doorways for males and females are still provided in some cases. The longhouse may be an old building tradition among the people of Austronesian origin or intensive contact.[citation needed] The Austronesian language group seems to have spread to southeast Asia and the Pacific islands as well as Madagascar from the island of Taiwan. Groups like the Siraya of ancient Taiwan built longhouses and practiced head hunting, as did, for example the later Dayaks of Borneo. This rule will not only benefit residents and their families, it will also ensure that workers aren’t stretched too thin by having inadequate staff on site, which is currently a common reason for worker burnout and turnover.

Rwanda’s Hope Hostel once housed genocide survivors. Now it awaits migrants from Britain

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Family Support Services (FSS)

The hostel once housed college students whose parents died in the 1994 genocide, the most horrific period in this African nation’s history, when an estimated 800,000 Tutsis were killed by extremist Hutus in massacres that lasted over 100 days. According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants. One organizer complained that the White House Correspondents' Association - which represents the hundreds of journalists who cover the president - largely has been silent since the first weeks of the war about the killings of Palestinian journalists.

House of Representatives Committee on Rules

One of the largest homes Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed has been listed for sale for $4.5 million in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Created for his cousin and the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune in the 1920s, the 10,500-square-foot house known as Westhope is on the U.S. The home’s exterior was made using 5,200 panes of glass and it includes five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a concrete pool. One of the first three houses built on top of Mt. Washington, this 1909 Craftsman was designed to accommodate a large pipe organ. Owner J.B. Merrill, an accomplished musician, frequently hosted concerts and parties here.

The walls would not have supported much weight and would have been quite short beneath the large roof. Sill beams ran in foundation trenches along the sides to support the low walls. The long houses would measure around 20 meters (66 ft) in length and 7 meters (23 ft) in width and could have housed twenty or thirty people.

Light and ventilation came by shifting the position of roof planks, which were simply weighted with rocks, not fastened in position. Makes in order only those further amendments printed in part E of the Rules Committee report. Makes in order only the amendment printed in part C of the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. Makes in order only the further amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report. The “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” final rule, finalized today, will help improve access to home care services as well as improve the quality caregiving jobs through its new provisions for home care. Specifically, the rule will ensure adequate compensation for home care workers by requiring that at least 80 percent of Medicaid payments for home care services go to workers’ wages.

U.K. leader dealt a blow by Conservative rebellion over his Rwanda asylum plan

Some were large, capable of housing multiple families; others were smaller and were used by a single family together with their livestock, or for storage of cereal grains. The longhouses were divided into sections for different families, who slept on raised platforms, several of whom shared a fire in the central aisle. In an Iroquois longhouse there may have been twenty or more families which were all related through the mothers' side, along with the other relatives. Each longhouse had their clan symbol, a turtle, bear, or hawk, for example, placed over the doorway.

Houses described as above may be used by the Iban Sea Dayak and Melanau Sea Dayak. Similar houses are built by the Bidayuh, Land Dayak, however with wider verandas and extra buildings for the unmarried adults and visitors. The buildings of the Kayan, Kenyah, Murut, and Kelabit used to have fewer walls between individual bilik units. The Punan seem to be the last ethnic group that adopted this type of house building.

The frame is covered by bark that is sewn in place and layered as shingles, and reinforced by light swag. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect and to have access to quality care. That’s why, today, Vice President Harris is announcing two landmark final rules that fulfill the President’s commitment to safety in care, improving access to long-term care and the quality of caregiving jobs. The buildings were generally built with double wall dry-stone walls packed with earth and wooden rafters covered with a thatch of turf with cereal straw or reed.

Like most other groups of the Vaupés system, they are an exogamous patrilineal and patrilocal descent group, with a segmentary social structure. The constitutive groups live in isolated settlements in units of four to eight families dwelling in multifamily longhouses.[6] Their practice of linguistic exogamy means that members of a linguistic descent group marry outside their own linguistic descent group. As a result, it is normal for Tucano people to speak two, three, or more Tucanoan languages, and any Tucano household (longhouse) is likely to be host to numerous languages.

The 3,000-square-foot residence includes curved walls, built-in furnishings, three bedrooms, three baths, a library and a media room. It is usually for many people living together.[1] Many buildings were made out of wood. They were for long-term usage and not for people who moved around a lot. It is thought that these Neolithic houses had no windows and only one doorway. The end farthest from the door appears to have been used for grain storage, with working activities being carried out in the better lit door end and the middle used for sleeping and eating. Structurally, the Neolithic long house was supported by rows of large timbers holding up a pitched roof.

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Large longhouses can also be used for community gatherings or ceremonies. While the traditional structures were often dark, smoky, and smelly, the design is practical both in physical and social aspects. A longhouse or long house is a type of long, narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world. Many were built from timber and represent the earliest form of permanent structure in many cultures. Indigenous peoples of the Americas, particularly the Iroquois on the East coast and the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, have significant longhouse traditions which continue to this day.

Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report. Meals will be prepared in the hostel’s main kitchen but provisions are also being made for those who want to prepare their own meals, he said. The migrants will be free to walk outside the hostel and even visit the nearby Kigali city center. The measure is also meant to be a deterrent to migrants who risk their lives in leaky, inflatable boats in hopes that they will be able to claim asylum once they reach Britain. Also signed a new treaty with Rwanda to beef up protections for migrants, and adopted new legislation declaring Rwanda to be a safe country.

The Rungus of Sabah in north Borneo build a type of longhouse with rather short stilts, the house raised three to five feet of the ground, and walls sloped outwards. The longhouses inhabited by the Iroquois were wood boards/bark-covered structures of standardized design "in the shape of an arbor" about 6 to 7 metres (20 to 23 ft) wide providing shelter for several related families. The longhouse had a 3-metre-wide (9.8 ft) central aisle and 2-metre-wide (6.6 ft) compartments, about 6 to 7 metres (20 to 23 ft) long, down each side. Hearths were spaced about 6 to 7 metres (20 to 23 ft) apart down the aisle, with smoke holes in the roof.