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COVID-19 Spreads At Beijing, Leaving Hospital Beds Occupied
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(CTN NEWS) – BEIJING – Most of the elderly, mask-wearing people slept upright in cramped waiting areas with numbered chairs, while others dozed on cots in the hallways. Others were given oxygen, while others received intravenous fluids.
There was a constant sound of coughing and the gurneys carrying new victims.
The COVID-19 outbreak, which is straining public health facilities in the country with the most people, was clearly visible on Thursday at the Chuiyangliu hospital in Beijing's east.
By midmorning, the crowded hospital was so full of patients that no more beds were available. In haste to triage the most critical cases, nurses and physicians took the information.
An elderly patient receives an intravenous drip while using a ventilator in the hallway of the emergency ward in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
After nearly three years of lockdowns, travel bans, and school closures that had a significant negative impact on the economy and caused unusual street protests in a nation that suppresses political dissent,
China abandoned its most stringent pandemic restrictions last month, which was followed by the surge of people seeking hospital care.
Cities with a high population density seem to be where the pandemic started to spread the fastest. Authorities are now worried as it spreads to smaller towns and rural areas with less developed healthcare infrastructure.
As a result of ongoing concerns about opening up, several local governments started requesting citizens on Thursday not to travel home for the approaching Lunar New Year vacation.
Since the Chinese government is not providing enough information about the outbreak, an increasing number of foreign nations are requesting viral tests for Chinese citizens traveling there.
Elderly patients rest along a corridor of the emergency ward as they receive intravenous drips in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Although not all of its member states have implemented pre-departure COVID-19 testing, the European Union "highly recommended" it on Wednesday.
Italy became the first EU member to mandate tests for passengers from China last week, and France and Spain soon followed with their own procedures.
Italy was the first location in Europe where the pandemic exacted a major toll in early 2020.
Within 48 hours of departure, passengers from China must have a negative test result to enter the United States.
China has denounced the demands and threatened to act against those who impose them.
The leader of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed alarm over the absence of epidemic information from the Chinese government on Wednesday.
A man pushes his relative in pain on a wheelchair as patients receive intravenous drips in the emergency ward of a hospital in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
During a daily briefing on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated that Beijing has continuously "shared information and data with the international community openly and transparently."
The COVID-19 issue in China is currently under control, according to Mao.
Many of the remaining restrictions—some of which are already being ignored—will be relaxed on Sunday.
In a notification dated Thursday, the authorities of Shaoyang county in Hunan province, central China, said that it "recommends that everyone not return to their hometowns during the peak of the outbreak, unless essential."
Avoid going to see family and moving across locations. Limit your travel.
People wearing face masks browse their phones as they look after their elderly relatives rest along a corridor of the emergency ward to receive intravenous drips at a hospital in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Shouxian County in Anhui Province, southeast of Beijing, as well as the cities of Qingyang in Gansu Province, northwest, and Weifang in Shandong, east coast, all made similar petitions.
The appeals, which referred to the recent years of severe pandemic restrictions, revealed that some officials are still apprehensive about removing them too soon.
Residents should hold video and phone get-togethers to commemorate the holiday, according to a notification from the Weifang administration.
To protect yourself and others, avoid visiting family and friends.
An elderly patient rests near a medicine collection counter as people wait in the emergency ward of a hospital in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Patients, most of them elderly, are lying on stretchers in hallways and taking oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as COVID-19 surges in China's capital Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Despite these worries, Hong Kong declared on Sunday that it would restore some of its border crossings with mainland China and permit tens of thousands of people to cross without being quarantined daily.
The reopening of the city's land and sea border checkpoints with the mainland, which have been mainly closed for almost three years, is anticipated to provide Hong Kong's tourism and retail industries a much-needed boost.
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Love, Life & Locks (London): My Hair at 5 Months.
Ok, please excuse the razzy eyebrows, I'd just washed my hair and they decided to do their own thing. Besides, you're meant to be looking at the hair on my head not my face lol! Also, His Royal Highness (the husband) wasn't feeling too cooperative so the shots aren't as 'good' as I would have liked in terms of position and angle but you'll get the general idea.
I stretched two front locs to see how far they could reach. If you look carefully, you can see that these have thicker ends (from my eyebrows down). This is from that hair issue I had where I was losing hair from the root but it stayed trapped in the lock.
In this (3rd) image, you can see some of the newly started locs... they look like round fat stumps (at least to me they do). They're my chubby friends. Most of my ends are either open and straight or open and curly. Quite a few at the front have unravelled halfway up the loc (from the ends down), I plait a few of them but for the most part I have just left them open. We'll see what happens.
This last image caused 'bare friction' between myself and HRH (ok it wasn't that bad lol), I had asked him to take a shot of me stretching one of the back locs to see how long it was. This was what he took. He says that if I wanted to actually be able to see the lock at the same time, I should have been more specific. I guess he thought I just wanted to stand in that position to show you guys my watch and rings. LOL. When we're speaking to eachother again, I'll take another shot but for now trust me when I tell you that the loc I am holding is between my index and middle fingers.
Another razzy eyebrow pic but if you pay attention to the hair you can see it kinda has a layered look about it.
You're a mess (and I mean that in the best way)!!! Your locs look good with the curly ends. How do you wear them the majority of the time? Freestyle, curled?
I noticed the thicker ends in your front lock only because you mentioned it. Open or closed ends, we need to all learn to let our hair do its own thing. I started noticing my hair unraveling from the ends too..I don't pay it any mind and keep on keeping on...!! It will lock eventually because there is no turning back!
@Gigglz re: my chubby ends: "d'oh!" I shall never mention them again LOL!
Your locs are coming along just fine. I like those chubby friends. I've got 2 of my own. LOL @ showing us your watch and rings.


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Nowa Góra – wieś (dawniej miasto) w Polsce, położona w województwie małopolskim, w powiecie krakowskim, w gminie Krzeszowice.

Nowa Góra uzyskała lokację miejską przed 1367 rokiem, zdegradowana w 1933 roku. W latach 1975–1998 położona była w województwie krakowskim.

Składa się z dwóch sołectw (Nowa Góra) z 1224 mieszkańcami i (Łany) – 391 osób. Na terenie wsi znajdował się Zespół Szkół im. Marii Konopnickiej (po reformie oświatowej w 2018 r. Szkoła Podstawowa) i biblioteka. Istnieje również nowogórski zespół regionalny.

W 1595 roku miasto położone w powiecie proszowskim województwa krakowskiego było własnością wojewodziców krakowskich: Gabriela, Andrzeja i Jana Magnusa Tęczyńskich. Dawne miasteczko (do I wojny światowej), obecnie wieś leżąca na północny zachód od Krzeszowic.

Nazwa
Nazwę miejscowości w zlatynizowanych staropolskich formach Novomoncze oraz Nowa Gora wymienia w latach (1470–1480) Jan Długosz w księdze Liber beneficiorum dioecesis Cracoviensis.

Integralne części wsi

Historia
Osada, która pierwotnie nazywała się Gory (kopalnie), została najprawdopodobniej spalona podczas najazdu tatarskiego w XIII wieku. Parafia w Nowej Górze, należąca do dekanatu sławkowskiego, istniała już w 1276 roku (świadczy o tym dokument z kancelarii Bolesława Wstydliwego dot. lokowania na prawie magdeburskim wsi Przeginia, gdzie świadkiem był Jan syn Trojana "rector ecclesiae de Gory"). Wkrótce potem w 1335 roku miejscowość została siedzibą dekanatu nowogórskiego. Nowa Góra była miastem już w II połowie XIV wieku założonym na prawie magdeburskim. Jest wspomniana przez Długosza w Liber Beneficiorum, gdzie kronikarz nazwał ją oppidum, czyli miasteczko, i wymienił, że posiada drewniany kościół. Pierwszy murowany kościół wzmiankowano w 1598 roku. Od średniowiecza osada była znana z górnictwa galmanu i srebra. Z tego też powodu holenderski kartograf Andreas Cellarius znał Nową Górę i wymienił ją w swoim Descriptio Poloniae (Amsterdam 1639). W czasach Jana Kazimierza wydobywano w Nowej Górze sporo rud ołowiu, z których odlewano kule armatnie. Król nadał mieszkańcom przywilej na odbywanie jarmarków raz w miesiącu jako zadośćuczynienie za dewastację okolicznych gruntów przy wydobywaniu ołowiu. Króla Jana Kazimierza wspomina kolumna przez niego samego ufundowana i ustawiona na rynku w Nowej Górze. Przywilej królewski, wystawiony na pergaminie, był jeszcze na pocz. XX wieku przechowywany przez lokalną gminę. Miasto wchodziło w 1662 roku w skład hrabstwa tęczyńskiego Łukasza Opalińskiego. Pod koniec istnienia I Rzeczypospolitej Nowa Góra była ważnym ośrodkiem rzemieślniczo-produkcyjnym, skupiającym 63 rzemieślników, w tym 22 tkaczy i 21 garbarzy. Miasteczko liczyło wówczas (ok. 1794 r.) 750 mieszkańców i było głównym ośrodkiem targowym dóbr tenczyńskich, a także ważnym ośrodkiem wydobycia galmanu. Jednak w 1827 roku pozostały w Nowej Górze już tylko 2 kopalnie galmanu, sygnalizując zmierzch tej dziedziny eksploatacji w miasteczku. W 1795 roku Nowa Góra została przyłączona do austriackiej Galicji, a w latach 1809–1815 należała do departamentu krakowskiego Księstwa Warszawskiego. Po pożarze w 1800 r. Nowa Góra, niegdyś drewniana, została odbudowana murowana z polecenia ks. Izabeli z Czartoryskich Lubomirskiej. Wydarzenie to upamiętniała marmurowa tablica umieszczona nad drzwiami drewnianego domu w rynku, zwanego ratuszem (istniała jeszcze na pocz. XX wieku). Wielki pożar, poza zniszczeniem 1/3 zabudowy miasteczka, doprowadził do całkowitego upadku znaczenia gospodarczego Nowej Góry. W czasach Wolnego Miasta Krakowa miasteczko było prężnym ośrodkiem tkackim, lecz okres industrializacji w II połowie XIX wieku odebrał Nowej Górze podstawy jej egzystencji. Na dodatek przeprowadzenie linii kolejowej łączącej Kraków ze Śląskiem przez Krzeszowice, doprowadziło do odsunięcia Nowej Góry od głównych szlaków komunikacyjnych i przypieczętowało jej upadek gospodarczy. Nowa Góra utraciła znaczenie jako ośrodek handlowy, targowy i górniczy. Zjawiska te doprowadziły do stałej lub sezonowej migracji miejscowej ludności, która w poszukiwaniu pracy udawała się do okolicznych miejscowości (Siersza, Trzebinia) lub poza granice regionu. W latach 1815–1846 Nowa Góra należała do Wolnego Miasta Krakowa, a od 1846 do 1918 roku do Wielkiego Księstwa Krakowskiego. Od lat 60. XIX wieku do 1975 roku należała do powiatu chrzanowskiego (z przerwą w latach 1939–1945, kiedy Nowa Góra została włączona do Generalnego Gubernatorstwa). W latach 1973–1976 miejscowość była siedzibą gminy Nowa Góra.

Zabytki
 Kościół pw. Zesłania Ducha Świętego – neoromańsko-neogotycki, z lat 1885–1895 fundacji Potockich. Pierwotny kościół erygowany w roku 1313, spłonął w 1875 roku. Odbudowany został w 1885 roku wspólnymi siłami parafian i Potockich. Koszt odbudowy wyniósł 100 tys. koron. Początkowo odbudowę prowadzono według projektu krakowskiego architekta Jacka Matusińskiego, lecz później wprowadzono szereg zmian w projekcie odbudowy i dzieło kontynuował krzeszowicki architekt Kazimierz Piotrowski. Został poświęcony przez księcia biskupa krakowskiego Jana Puzynę 11 września 1896 roku. Drewniana dzwonnica, która pamięta czasy świetności dawnego miasta, znajduje się w Nadwiślańskim Parku Etnograficznym (skansenie w Wygiełzowie).
 Kolumna Jana Kazimierza z XVII wieku, kamienna z barokowym posążkiem Jezusa Frasobliwego, dwukrotnie odnowiona (1807, 1959) ustawiona na ryneczku. Ufundowana przez króla.

Religia
Na terenie wsi znajduje parafia rzymskokatolicka wraz z kościołem parafialnym oraz w przysiółku Łany Sala Królestwa Świadków Jehowy.

Kościół rzymskokatolicki
 parafia Zesłania Ducha Świętego

Świadkowie Jehowy
 Sala Królestwa – (zbór Ostrężnica) – Łany, ul. Polna 6

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Stanisław Polaczek: Powiat chrzanowski w W. Ks. Krakowskiem. Kraków 1914.
 J. Szablowski: Powiat Chrzanowski. Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, t. I, woj. krakowskie, zeszyt 4. Warszawa 1952, Państw. Inst. Sztuki.
 Ziemia chrzanowska i Jaworzno, Kraków 1969.
 Bronisław Rzepecki: Zarys historii Nowej Góry. Nowa Góra 2018.

Linki zewnętrzne

Dawne miasta w województwie małopolskim
Hrabstwo tęczyńskie

Prywatne miasta szlacheckie I Rzeczypospolitej (województwo krakowskie)
Prywatne miasta Opalińskich herbu Łodzia
Prywatne miasta Tęczyńskich herbu Topór
Miasta w Polsce lokowane w XIV wieku
Wsie w powiecie krakowskim

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Every house has their own mashed potatoes recipe. Our potato mash is, as always, with a twist. There is no need to buy ready spice mixes and flavour enhancers if you know just a few tricks in the kitchen – and we will show you one of them.
You've probably seen recipes that call for liquid smoke to add a very special smoky flavour to a dish. In traditional kitchens, before a process to create additives with smoke flavour was created, different methods were used to add the same taste to the recipes. Watch the video below to learn how to add a smoky chilli flavour not just to you mash potatoes, but to any dish you like.
DISCLAIMER: be very careful when using this method in your kitchen. Open all doors and windows and make sure that there are no kids or sensitive people around. The fumes of burned chillies can make you cough really hard.
Step 2. De-seed and cut in small pieces the green chilli. Mince the garlic. Chop the onion and fresh coriander leaves. Add everything to the mixing bowl with potatoes.
Step 3. Take a fork and mash the potatoes together with the rest of ingredients.
Step 4. Add 2 tsp of mustard oil and salt. Mix and mash the potatoes once again.
Step 5. Now, smoke the dried red chilli. Cover it with a thin layer of mustard oil and burn with a lighter above the mixing bowl with potatoes. The chilli should burn completely. Drop the ashes into the mixing bowl and mix everything thoroughly.
Serve in a desired shape.
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Last night's session went well and I'm still enjoying the superhero fun very much. I'm beginning to weave multiple of the Issues chosen by the characters together and forming them into a coherent narrative (even if sometimes logical consistency suffers to a degree due to the improvised nature of what I'm doing).
If you're just joining us you can read about the first session here or if you need to catch up the last session is here.
Last week the group finally rendezvoused in Baghdad to try and track down the Metahuman Jihad. In the closing minutes of the previous session Blue Sun found a minion of the terrorists and tracked him back to their lair. Flashbang was stranded outside Baghdad in a minefield and started to make his way to the city and The Purist and Jed & Harvey were wandering around the streets in their cunning burqa disguises while they waited.
The blog for session 1 is here.
As you may recall, last week's session ended neatly with the group heading off for some rest and relaxation following a job well done. We ramped gently up into this week's session with a bit of a recap on what they were doing during a week's rest period and then I threw them into an ongoing disaster.
Hi all. We had the first actual session of the supers game tonight and it went very well. Everyone was happy with the breadth of their powers and the way using them worked and we didn't run into any hiccups with balance.


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'Catch a Predator' Vigilante Sued by Pervs He Caught on Video
TO CATCH A LAWSUIT
Two men claim they were wrongfully persecuted by a 23-year-old man who posed as an underage girl to find pedophiles and turn them in to police.
Updated Apr. 13, 2017 3:27PM ET / Published Jul. 06, 2016 1:00AM ET
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast
When a 23-year-old Michigan man posed as a 15-year-old girl on Craigslist, he claimed to be bringing justice to perverts—but now he's finding himself getting accused in court.
In December 2015, Zach Sweers of Grand Rapids, Michigan created a YouTube channel called "Anxiety War" where he uploads videos of confrontations with alleged pedophiles. The videos followed the style of To Catch A Predator: posing as an underage teenager, Sweers messages men online and agrees to meet for sex. When the men appear, Sweers films them and turns the footage over to police. The channel had more than 200,000 subscribers before the videos were removed or made private by YouTube.
Seven of the 11 men featured in Sweers's videos have been arrested on felony charges, after Sweers sent police the videos, accompanied by chat logs with the men.
In one video, Sweers films a would-be assailant outside a Taco Bell, where the man claims he only wanted to warn Sweers' fictional teenager of the dangers of internet dating. "To be honest with you, I was gonna talk her out of it," the man says. (During an earlier online conversation, he allegedly offered to buy Sweers a dildo.)
Two men are are suing Sweers though, claiming he's nothing more than a vigilante.
Zachary Snoeyink, 29, and Alastaire Kolk, 25, are suing Sweers separately of libel, slander and invasion of privacy.
"The Defendants have taken it upon themselves to be Judge, Jury, and Executioner in the eyes of public opinion to smear Plaintiff's name in a negative light across the Internet and local news media outlets all for Mr. Sweers' own Internet fame and/or financial gain," attorney Ross Plont, who represents both men, claimed in a suit.
Snoeyink faces up to four years in prison if he is convicted on charges of accosting a child for immoral purposes as a result of Sweers's YouTube series.
While Kolk was not charged, he claims Sweers's video cost him his job. The video, which racked up more than 1 million views, purportedly showed Kolk arriving to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex (who was actually Sweers). Kolk and Sweers allegedly began messaging on Omegle, a chat service that pairs random users for conversations.
"Defendant Sweers intentionally engaged in sexual conversation BEFORE indicating that the woman that he was pretending to be was a minor in an intentional effort to entrap [Kolk] and in an effort to manufacture the false presentation that [Kolk] is an alleged predator," Plont wrote in the suit.
Even where Sweers's footage led to arrests, the unusual nature of his civilian stings have complicated matters at the courthouse. Sweers "clearly seems to be a person who is mentally unstable," attorney Andrew Rodenhouse argued during Snoeyink's criminal trial in May, adding that the video series was "creating criminals."
Rodenhouse and Plont both accuse Sweers of editing his videos and using his new fame for financial gain.
"Simply, upon information and belief, this entire affair has been Mr. Sweers' media campaign by using the police, the prosecutor's office and the courts to further his financial interest," Rodenouse claimed in a court motion, implying that Sweers would have earned money from his popular YouTube videos.
In a GoFundMe campaign titled "Help me fight a frivolous lawsuit," Sweers hit back at the accusations.
"I am being sued for using the Plaintiff's name and image for monetary gain even though I have made NO MONEY on that video, other videos, or from my site anxietywar.com. NONE WHATSOEVER," he wrote.
The GoFundMe campaign has currently raised more than half of its $50,000 goal.
Sweers, who declined to speak to The Daily Beast, wrote that he has also declined offers for his own television show "major Hollywood production companies," though he does not disclose which companies made the offers. In early May, 2016, he registered "Anxiety War" as a limited-liability corporation but claims to have never earned any money from his perv busts. says has never earned any money.
But lawsuit or no, Sweers' vigilante crusade might be over.
Calling Sweers "freelance law enforcement," county prosecutors and local police have asked him to call off his sting video efforts, MLive reports. On his GoFundMe page, Sweers says local prosecutors will no longer issue charges for people depicted in his sting footage.
"Since I received a letter from the Kent County, MI prosecutor stating he wouldn't authorize charges for more suspects I find as he fears for my safety, I haven't confronted more predators," Sweers wrote on GoFundMe.
"I know posing as a minor online is a little different but it's for the betterment of society."


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Inmarsat Delivers First Ever Live Demonstration using Global Xpress at NATO TIDE Sprint 2019
Demonstration highlights successfully ability to quickly deploy mobile, high-throughput satellite communications solutions in commercial and military frequencies
9 December 2019: Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, showcased its ongoing commitment to support government communications needs at the 'Fall 2019 Think-Tank for Information Decision and Execution Sprint (TIDE Sprint)' by providing a live demonstration of its ability to deliver seamless, interoperable, high-throughput and easy-to-use capabilities via its worldwide Global Xpress service. This was the first time in 17 years that a live technology demonstration has taken place at this prestigious event.
During the demonstration, the Global Xpress SATCOM as a Service – an end-to-end managed services capability – enabled the Panther II 96cm portable Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) system from L3Harris to provide secure streaming video from an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform. This video feed was uplinked through the terminal on a secure network to the Joint Operation Center (JOC) via Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking (MANET) radios, where it was used in conjunction with other video feeds to form a Common Operating Picture (COP). Further, an additional Mil-Ka antenna, GetSat's Milli SAT W GX, was mounted to a vehicle in under 10 minutes and demonstrated the ease-of-use and quick deployment and adaptability of the terminal.
"We achieved our goal for participating in this important exercise, which was to demonstrate that Inmarsat services can seamlessly complement NATO's own satellite resources with innovative, reliable and cost-effective communication technology that is readily available today," said James Marley, Global Government Sector Director. "Global Xpress has proved to be a responsive and resilient solution that enables interoperability with military satellite resources across the globe to confront security challenges."
The NATO requirements of interoperability and assured access were met by the Inmarsat demonstration. As a trusted owner operator and commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) partner to the government sector, Inmarsat's Global Xpress meets the most stringent Information Assurance requirements and enables NATO and Allied Nations to complement their core MILSATCOM capability by leveraging the capacity, coverage and resilience features of Global Xpress. This enables access to high-performance Ka-bandwidth for optimal redundancy and diversity in contested operational environments.
"The Inmarsat live demonstration allowed us to see first-hand the ease of use and high performance that the Global Xpress solution can deliver to NATO to ensure users have a reliable, core communications link," said NATO Allied Command Transformation's SATCOM Programme Director SQN LDR Nick Bolan. "The opportunity to see this in action has been invaluable in shaping our understanding of how capabilities such as this can be used to augment our future SATCOM portfolio."
In addition, Josh Cryer, Principal Engineer and Scientist, NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA), commented, "High Throughput Satellite (HTS) technology has proven essential to match the ever-increasing insatiable appetite for global, real time access to information in support military operations. The Global Xpress capability not only demonstrated delivery of high throughput transport, it also provided an ease of engagement that enables users of all skill levels to employ the technology with ease. This powerful technology demonstration will inform HTS applicability to future NATO operations."
Global Xpress is the world's first and only, globally available, seamless mobile wideband service. In government service since 2014, Global Xpress has established itself as the gold standard for reliable communications across land, air and sea for assured mobile connectivity and interoperability with government satellite systems. Enhanced by the launch of GX5 in late November 2019, and with a further seven advanced GX payloads scheduled to launch in the coming four years, Inmarsat is ensuring the long-term satellite capabilities demanded by its customers, including NATO governments.
The TIDE Sprint is one of the Allied Command of Transformation (ACT) and NATO premier think-tank events. This event focuses on promoting innovation and evolves concepts and specifications in order to progress, improve and federate interoperability between NATO and Partner Nations Command and Control (C2) capabilities and IT services.
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Funding boost for building works at Innisfail State School
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[singlepic id=407 w=320 h=240 float=left] Member for Mulgrave Curtis Pitt today announced more than $16,900 in funding for two projects at Innisfail State School as part of the Bligh Government's Special Building Needs program.
Mr Pitt said the funding would enable Innisfail State School to repaint the exterior of the amenities block and replace the old timber beam over the sliding glass door opposite the shade area in the Music/ Arts block.
"This funding is great news for the students, parents and teachers of Innisfail State School," Mr Pitt said.
"Sometimes it's the small projects that can make a big difference. It's an investment in the future for the students themselves, and for the entire local community.
"Education is the building block for employment and success later in life and the Bligh Government will continue to invest in public education to give our kids a brighter future.
"This work is important to the entire school community, and I look forward to seeing the works completed."
"I know that Innisfail State School acting P&C President Tracey Torrens and Principal Tania Kaitara are very excited and welcome the repainting of the music block and amenities block," Mr Pitt said.
Ms Torrens said the areas are near the school tuckshop where the school is intending to use chalkboard paint to update the tuckshop.
"Our fantastic tuckshop volunteers will write the menu on one side and the Prep students will draw healthy food," Ms Torrens said.
"These options will further assist our school in promoting healthy eating within our school community.
"Next year Innisfail State School celebrates the 125th anniversary of the schools opening, this facelift will come at a fantastic time for our school."
Mr Pitt said he was delighted the government was able to provide this funding boost through the Department of Public Works' Special Building Needs program.
"The Special Building Needs program was developed in addition to existing maintenance programs to provide extra funding for projects that arise in the course of the year or are unable to be completed by the school because of the cost," he said.
"This funding demonstrates the Bligh Government's commitment to maintaining public infrastructure for the benefit of the community.
"It also ensures we are on the path to achieving our Towards Q2 targets of a stronger, smarter, fairer Queensland."
The work will be programmed for completion as soon as possible, with every effort being made to minimise disruption to the day to day running of the school.
QBuild – the State Government's construction and maintenance division – will manage the project.


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The Standing Youth is a terracotta Tanagra figurine in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich with the inventory number SL 162, which was formerly part the collection of James Loeb. The red-brown clay statuette measures 30.7 cm high and was created around 325–300 BC in Boeotia.

The statuette depicts a young man standing on a base of two steps. His head is crowned by a ring of beads and a round hat. He is dressed in a belted chiton and a himation. He grips the draped fabric with both hands. His right hand is lost in this fabric. It probably held a stick, as shown by a round bore hole.

Bibliography
 Johannes Sieveking: Die Terrakotten der Sammlung Loeb. Vol. 2. Buchholz, München 1916, p. 1 (online)

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Q: In Visual Studio can I run the Performance Profiler on a specific unit test? I would like to see where I have bottle necks in a specific method. I believe that this is input dependent (a specific set of inputs will cause a much longer run time than others). I already have unit tests exploring the various input possibilities.
Is there a way for me in Visual studio to get the Debug > Performance Profiler to run on a specific unit test the same way I would debug a specific test (Test Explorer > Right Click > Debug)?
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Hey – Make sure you vote in the annual election to the Ocean Beach Planning Board today Wednesday, March 2nd.
Seven of the 14 seats on the Board will be up for election.
In order to vote as a resident, property owner or business owner, you need to know in which OB Planning District you live or own property – see map and review of each district below.
Here's OB's frontline against gentrification : District 1.
Here's the "Heart of OB" : District 2.
Here's OB's north-east quadrant: District 3.
District 4 – the Hub of the Village .
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I'm having trouble zooming in on your map enough to see the street names. Which district is Newport Ave between Froude and Guizot in? Based on my reading of your map, it looks to be in "Peninsula". Does that place it in Point Loma instead of Ocean Beach?
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Star Wars star Donald Glover meets LEGO Lando Calrissian
03/03/2018 05/09/2018 Graham 0 Comments Donald Glover, Lando Calrissian, LEGO, LEGO Star Wars, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars
Donald Glover was introduced to his LEGO doppelganger, the new Lando Calrissian minfigure, on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Solo: A Star Wars Story actor Donald Glover, who portrays Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Lucasfilm release, was introduced to the LEGO minifigure version of his character on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
During the interview, Glover reminisces about playing with a Lando Calrissian action figure as a child and damaging Darth Vader. He even drops a nugget of information about the film, that host Stephen Colbert claims as an 'exclusive', confirming that his character will wear a cape during the film… as the minifigure has already revealed.
Fans will be able to get the new Lando minifigure in LEGO Star Wars 75212 Kessel Run Millennium Falcon, the largest set that will be released to build up to the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Solo: A Star Wars Story will be released on May 25. The LEGO Star Wars sets based on the film will launch on April 20.
The current range of LEGO Star Wars sets are available at shop.LEGO.com, with double points for Star Wars VIP card holders during February.
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Nel ASA: Receives purchase order for a 1.25 MW containerized PEM electrolyser from NREL
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(Oslo, 22 October 2020) Nel Hydrogen US, a division of Nel ASA (Nel, OSE:NEL), has received a purchase order for a 1.25 megawatt (MW) containerized Proton PEM® electrolyser from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for installation in the ARIES research initiative at the NREL campus in Boulder, CO.
"This project will enable an exciting collaboration between Nel and NREL, by providing an advanced and flexible electrolyser platform for integrated energy system research at NREL's Flatiron campus in Boulder," says Steve Szymanski, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nel Hydrogen US.
"The ARIES project is a first of its kind research platform that can match the complexity of the modern energy system and conduct integrated research to support the development of groundbreaking new energy technologies. Nel is proud to be delivering a key technology component to the project, to demonstrate the flexibility and utility of electrolysers when integrated into renewable energy systems," Szymanski concludes.
NREL will be installing and testing the electrolyser system at the Flatirons Campus and conducting applied research in the application of hydrogen for various use cases in the ARIES system platform. The delivered electrolyser system will offer unique capability and flexibility, including the opportunity to expand it to 2.5 MW in the future.
Nel will also be providing collaborative research support for the installed system, as an important contributor toward the development of technical and financial models of power-to-gas business cases. More information about the "Advance Research on Integrated Energy Systems" (ARIES) research initiative can be found at https://www.nrel.gov/aries/
The purchase order has a value of around USD 2 million, and the electrolyser system will be delivered in 2021.
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A standing committee has found several students guilty of "sitting on a dharna" resulting in them getting debarred from the university.
Where Vivekananda valued secularism and tolerance, the ABVP only seems to care about shutting down "anti-national" activities.
Filthy bathrooms, no drinking water, garbage dumps in the common areas – students are striking against inhumane living conditions.


You are here: Home / Discrimination / An Employer Is Responsible for Employees' Housing and Transportation? Whaaaat?
The general rule is that employers are not responsible for their employees when they leave the workplace if there is no connection to the employee's job. OK, so when would an employer have any responsibility for an employee's living conditions or really anything unrelated to the job or work site? Some jobs do require housing, because they require a temporary relocation. In particular if your business uses temporary seasonal or foreign guest workers your responsibilities will extend beyond the actual work site. You must then provide your workers with clean, safe housing and transportation to and from the work site. You'll also have to provide nominally priced meals or free access to cooking facilities.
What if you don't? If your workers are the aforementioned foreign guest workers, you could face a discrimination claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act –even if you contracted those functions out to someone else. Let's look at a real case to see how that works.
Two fruit growers in Washington State hired Global Horizons, a now-defunct labor contractor to recruit workers from Thailand under the H-2A guest worker program. The H-2A program allows employers to specifically recruit and hire foreign workers when there are not enough domestic workers to perform the work in question. Under the H-2A program, the employer must then provide all such workers with housing, transportation and meals.
Global Horizons and both fruit growers agreed to share responsibility for managing the Thai workers' work at the work site, but Global Horizons was also contractually responsible for their housing, transportation, meals or access to cooking facilities. The EEOC sued Global Horizons and the fruit growers for discrimination under Title VII, alleging that Thai workers were given more demanding work and worse housing conditions than Mexican workers. The Thai workers allegedly were given unsanitary, unsafe housing, transportation and cooking facilities, whereas Mexican workers allegedly received better housing, transportation and cooking facilities.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing the trial court's ruling held that the growers and Global Horizons could be held jointly liable for the deplorable treatment of the Thai workers, even though they delegated those responsibilities to Global Horizons. Why? The court found that Global Horizons and the growers are joint employers. They jointly controlled the work and work conditions of the Thai workers. Even though the fruit growers contracted out the responsibility of managing the living conditions, the growers had ultimate responsibility under the H-2A guest worker law. The growers still could have ended the contract with, held back payment from or made other demands of Global Horizons if it was dissatisfied with how Global Horizons discharged those responsibilities. As the court said, "The power to control the manner in which housing, meals, transportation, and wages were provided to the Thai workers, even if never exercised, is sufficient to render the Growers joint employers as to non-orchard-related matters." The court further held that if the growers knew or should have known of the alleged discrimination and did nothing about it then they would be jointly liable with Global Horizons.
The EEOC alleged that one grower did have the requisite knowledge, as workers had complained about the substandard treatment and how it compared to treatment of the Mexican workers. The court remanded the case to the trial court to allow the EEOC to get evidence that the other grower knew or should have known about the discrimination and for further proceedings consistent with its ruling.
If you outsource functions you are legally required to perform with respect to your employees you may be jointly liable with the contractor for any discrimination or other bad acts by the contractor. If you can't do it directly you can't do it through a third party.
You may be liable for discrimination against one legally protected class, even though you hire members of another protected class and treat them well. In this case, the growers and their contractor still mistreated a group of people on the basis of their national origin.
Sometimes an employer will be liable for harm arising out of matters not directly related to the work or the work site, if they are required by law to take care of those matters. In this case, housing and transportation and cooking were not related to the work or the work site–and they usually aren't–but the H-2A program requires employers to provide these necessities to foreign guest workers. Performing these functions in a discriminatory manner in turn can give rise to a discrimination claim.
I think I've made my point, so Bye for now!


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Publishing Advice for the New Scholar
By: Penny Freedman, Thu Mar 8 2018
Author: Penny Freedman
This advice from former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory provides some valuable insight from a seasoned journal editor for new scholars embarking on a long and successful publishing career.
By: James Skibo
Intimidating might be the feeling for young and new scholars who are looking to publish in national and international journals. The pressure to "publish or perish" in a recognized publication can cause scholars to make mistakes.
"I've seen a lot of first-time submissions, and there are simple rules you can follow to make sure your paper is not cast aside right away," said Distinguished Professor of Archaeology James Skibo.
After 18 years as co-editor of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Skibo will be stepping away from editing the top international journal in his field. But not before offering some advice to new scholars on what to avoid when looking to publish in journals.
Keep to the rules
According to Skibo, it's the little things that get you into the door.
"Every journal will have rules about what kind of paper they want. Every journal will have a house style," he said. "It makes editors mad when scholars do not follow that."
He encouraged scholars to study the publication and look at everything from the formatting of citations to tenses. "With word processing programs, it's simple to get papers in the correct style, and it looks just plain lazy if people are not following that."
Keep to the mission
Understand the mission and goal of the journal. If the journal is international, know a regional subject might not fly.
"The primary reason we reject a paper is that it is too regional," said Skibo, whose publication is in more than 8,000 libraries around the world. "We'll get papers studying the woodland period of the upper Great Lakes, which will have no interest for someone working in Europe, Africa, or Asia. A paper talking about a particular technique for analyzing artifacts, a new theory, or new computer application will have a broad appeal."
Keep the process in mind
Some institutions require faculty members to publish in a journal that has a high ranking from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). That can be even rougher depending on the field.
"There are few highly ranked ISI journals in archaeology," noted Skibo, whose journal carries a high rank of 2. With a high ISI ranking comes high rejection rates, and generally a strenuous review process. In a peer-reviewed journal, editors could look for multiple reviews for every paper.
"If the paper is about a new theory or process, it is bound to be controversial, and that means people will debate," said Skibo. "Be ready to defend your paper and answer questions."
Keep working
If a paper is accepted for review, generally it is headed for publication, but not before the author receives suggestions from reviewers. Skibo's advice? Answer the questions—all of them.
"You might not agree with the reviewer, and that is fine, but make your case," said Skibo. "Remember that the reviewers are experts in their particular field, so more often than not, authors are able to find things they can change or edit in a way that the reviewer will then agree upon."
Note: Skibo added that—depending on the publication—authors can request not to have certain scholars as reviewers. "This may surprise you, but not everyone gets along in the academic world," he said with a chuckle. "There are factions and schisms, and people who live and die by one theoretical approach." Though the reviews for his journal are "blind" or unsigned, it can be easy to tell who is doing the reviewing. "Actually, I typically sign my reviews anyway, because that means they can contact me directly with questions."
Keep the faith
The road for a new scholar to be published can be long, and trying.
"What I have discovered over the years is that new Ph.D.s get hit really hard in the reviews," said Skibo. "They are not members of the club yet. Their network is not built up enough. They don't have enough political capital."
He noted that editors have to be committed to getting new scholars published, and scholars need to be prepared for a long haul. One tip is to look for publications that accept new authors. "Recently, (co-editor) Cathy Camerons and I went through four revisions with a first-time author. I think he gave up before we did. We just kept sending it back to reviewers until it was approved for publication."
Skibo recommended scholars contact editors directly to ask about turnaround time and acceptance rates. This also goes for scholars who are pulling together tenure packets. "My co-editor and I are very sympathetic to scholars trying to get things published on their way to tenure," he said.
The academic payoff can be great—articles from the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory were downloaded more than 50,000 times by scholars across the globe in 2016. The
quarterly journal, however, can only accept a fourth of the 160 annual submissions for publication.
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Watch the 2020 SAG Awards red carpet livestream
By Lauren Huff January 19, 2020 at 05:26 PM EST
The 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are taking place tonight, and for those who want to be in on all the star-studded action, EW has you covered.
In partnership with TNT, TBS, and PEOPLE, EW editor in chief JD Heyman and PeopleTV hosts Jeremy Parsons, Lola Ogunnaike, and Andrea Boehlke will co-host the official pre-show: PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly & TNT Red Carpet Live: 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
In addition to interviews with all of the night's biggest stars and insights into this year's awards season, the pre-show will feature the announcements for the winners of the Outstanding Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles. Every year, the awards, which are voted on by actors and other members of the SAG-AFTRA guild, celebrate the year's best performances in film and television.
The livestream begins at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT. You can watch it here, in the video above, but it will also be featured on PeopleTV, PEOPLE's website, the SAG website, and the social channels for PEOPLE, EW, PeopleTV, TNT, and TBS.
This year's SAG Awards will be simulcast on TNT and TBS live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles tonight at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
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UC defends its best and brightest: its DACA students
By John A. Pérez Nov. 8, 2019 Updated: Nov. 9, 2019 1:20 p.m.
The Trump administration is trying to strip protections from about 700,000 "Dreamers" nationwide.
Earlier this year, Ken Cucinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, proposed rewriting the famous words at the base of the Statue of Liberty to read: "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge."
In twisting the iconic verse of poet Emma Lazarus, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," Cucinelli was peddling one of the Trump administration's fundamental myths: that immigrants are presumed to be a burden on society, unless they can prove otherwise.
At the University of California, where I chair the Board of Regents, we see the fallacy of that mind-set every day, at each of our 10 campuses, five medical centers and three national laboratories. Immigrant students, scholars and professors have helped make UC the premier public research university system in the nation, the academic home to 65 Nobel Prize winners, and students from 166 countries representing every continent except Antarctica.
About 1,700 of our undergraduate students were brought to the United States as children by their undocumented parents. Under the previous administration, these students (sometimes known as "Dreamers") registered for protection from deportation through a policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
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As part of its misguided immigration policy, the Trump administration announced plans to strip these protections from our students and about 700,000 DACA recipients nationwide, in essence making these outstanding students pay for a decision made by their parents.
In an effort to protect those students, the University of California is suing the Trump administration. The Supreme Court is about to hear our argument, and I believe it's important to reflect on the vital principles at stake.
First, DACA recipients pose no threat to public safety, national security or the economic stability of the United States. Quite the opposite. Each has been thoroughly vetted by the Department of Homeland Security, and our students earned their coveted places at the University of California through their high academic achievement.
On average, DACA students nationwide are more likely to attend a four-year college, to earn a degree, to be employed (and thus pay taxes on that income), or to serve in the military than the U.S.-born population at large.
In 2016, UC Merced granted the nation's first doctorate to a DACA recipient, Yuriana Aguilar, in quantitative and systems biology. It's in our collective interest to take advantage of tremendous social and economic contributions that she and other DACA students like her offer this country.
Second, it's our collective obligation to uphold the deal that the U.S. made with these talented and productive young people.
Under President Barack Obama, the Department of Homeland Security created DACA in 2012, in part to inject a degree of order and logic into a broken immigration system.
As long as DACA recipients are enrolled in school or the U.S. armed forces, or hold a job and have a clean criminal record, they are eligible for a deferment of deportation action, along with a work permit.
DACA cannot begin to address the backlog of immigration cases created by the 11 million people estimated to live in the U.S. without legal status. The real solution is comprehensive immigration reform; until it is enacted, maintaining DACA is essential.
Politicians often say undocumented immigrants should just "get in line," if they want to enter the United States legally.
The problem is: There is no line in any meaningful sense.
Even prior to restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, immigrant visas to the U.S. were often granted in random ways that did not reflect the demand for labor or humanitarian needs. According to the latest Department of State data, a relative of a U.S. resident applying for an immigrant visa from Mexico faces a wait of up to 23 years. For residents of the Philippines, that waiting period can be over 11 years.
In 1903, when my grandfather immigrated to California from the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, he was made to fill out a single piece of paper, pay a nominal fee (family lore has it at one penny) and wait two days for his U.S. papers. One hundred and seven years later, I was sworn in as speaker of the California Assembly.
As the son and grandson of immigrants, living a life they could not have imagined, I feel a deep obligation to uphold that mutually beneficial tradition.
The DACA students we are proud to claim as our fellow Californians have done everything the government asked of them — enriching our classrooms, workplaces and communities in the process.
Where is the justice — or the common sense — in deporting them?
If the Trump administration succeeds in revoking DACA, we might as well rewrite the Emma Lazarus poem once more: "Let's get rid of our most vibrant and talented, yearning to shape the future."
The University of California is determined not to let that happen. And neither should the Supreme Court of the United States.
John A. Pérez is chair of the University of California Board of Regents and speaker emeritus of the California Assembly.
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Researchers at the University of L'Aquila investigated the effects of acute and chronic administration of cocoa flavanols on different cognitive domains. Flavanols are beneficial plant-based nutrients found in a number of foods but in far greater amounts in cocoa than any other. Flavanols have been shown to improve blood vessel function in a significant body of published reports.
The Italian study looked at what happens to the brain up to a few hours after eating cocoa flavanols and the effects of a cocoa flavanol enriched diet for prolonged periods of time.
Most controlled trials pointed toward beneficial effects on cognitive performance. Participants showed enhancements in working memory performance and improved visual information processing. A study of women subjected to a night of total sleep deprivation showed that eating cocoa actually counteracted the cognitive impairment that sleep loss brings about.
Studies of the long-term ingestion of cocoa flavanols have generally looked at elderly individuals and it turns out that for them cognitive performance was improved by a daily intake of cocoa flavanols. The effect was most pronounced in older adults already exhibiting some memory decline or other mild cognitive impairments.
There have been many reports of various health benefits associated with chocolate. Of course, cocoa is most often ingested in combination with sugar and milk and a variety of additives, all of which may have less than desirable effects as well as high caloric content. But the basic substance that makes chocolate chocolate appears to be very good stuff.
Photo, posted July 9, 2017, courtesy of Marco Verch via Flickr.
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Here is a list of some of the dim sum restaurants in Kota Kinabalu.
Located at Lintas Plaza, the dim sum is steamed upon order. The place is quite small so it's pretty crowded during the weekend.
Served wide selection of noodles and rice with Dim Sum.
Lot 4, 5 & 6, Wisma HCS, Jalan Kolam, Luyang, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Penampang, Kota Kinabalu, P.O.Box 11863, 88820 K.K.
New WK Restaurant 旺角酒 also open a new outlet at Suria Sabah.
Opening hours: Dine in open from 7am to 2pm.
Dim Sum and Seafood Restaurant franchise from Australia. Serve good quality Dim Sum and Seafood with a spectacular view.
Alu Alu serves their dim sum made using organic chicken and fresh prawns from their organic farm. A wide variety of dim sum and fried items are available at affordable price.
They serve dim sum daily from 7am to 2pm.
Served halal dim sum. Great location at the center of Kota Kinabalu and you get free parking when you dine-in.
Hong Kong style Dim Sum served on Saturdays, Sundays & Public Holidays.
Address: No. 4, Lorong Api-Api 3, Api-Api Centre, 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Kedai Kopi Hin Loi @ Tg.Aru Township is located opposite Tg. Aru Post Office. The morning session has Dim Sum (Big Pau, Siew Mai, Spinach Siew Mai, Steamed Chili spicy bean paste fried chicken claw, Chee Mei, Century Egg Siew Mai – all not salty), Stir fried Bee Hoon/Tuaran Mee/Yellow Noodle (man by an elderly couple), Hainan Kaya-Planta Roti Khawin (Kaya-Planta Toast) and a Mee Soup/Curry Laksa stall. In the evening session that have a Ginger marinated Fried Chicken and Fish Balls on skewers.


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Celebrating Love!
February 13th, 2018 by tisner
Just hearing or seeing the date, February 14th, conjures images of hearts and flowers in our minds. Valentine's Day. A "holiday" named for St. Valentine. A day set aside each year to celebrate love. But how did Valentine's Day begin? And who is St. Valentine?
Have you ever wondered how Valentine's Day got its name? While it is believed that the name came from a saint, the origins of how it became attached to a day to celebrate love are a bit of a mystery. One legend claims that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When the Emperor during that time decided that single men made superior soldiers than those with wives and children, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine felt this was unjust, so he defied the Emperor and continued to secretly perform marriages for young lovers. Another story contends that Valentine may have sent the first "valentine" letter while imprisoned in a Roman prison. He allegedly fell in love with a young girl, possibly the jailer's daughter, who visited him during his confinement. It is said that he wrote her a letter signed "From your Valentine", an expression that is still used today. While we may never know the true story about St. Valentine, the common theme throughout these stories is that he was sympathetic, heroic, and most significant…a romantic figure.
The origins of Valentine's Day began with a pagan festival during the month of February. By the end of the 5th century, February 14th was declared Valentine's Day by Pope Gelasius. It wasn't until much later that the day became associated with love. During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in England and France that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the date should be celebrated as a day of romance. While Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, written Valentine's didn't begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known Valentine known of was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. It is also believed that King Henry V hired a writer to compose a Valentine note to a woman he admired.
It is believed that people began exchanging hand-made Valentine's in America in the early 1700s. By 1840, a woman named Esther Howland was selling the first mass- produced Valentines in America. Known as "the Mother of the Valentine", she created elaborate cards using real lace, ribbons and colorful paper. Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, and estimated 1 billion Valentine's Day cards are sent each year, making it the second largest card sending holiday behind Christmas.
While exchanging, cards is the most common way to observe Valentine's Day, there are numerous other ways that people celebrate love on February 14th. Check out this list of unique gifts/activities that go beyond cards, candy and flowers!
Get a couple's massage. What could be better than escaping the stress of every-day life together and spending time together in a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere?
Take your sweetheart on a scavenger hunt. Ask him/her to answer riddles to find the clues to items that you placed somewhere around town. The last item should give instructions that lead to your Valentine's Day activities.
Make a meal with symbols of love. For example, write "I love you" with string beans, make a pizza in the shape of a heart or go on a picnic and use a cookie cutter to make heart shapes sandwiches.
On individual notecards write all the reasons you love your partner and place them in a small photo album. You can put photos of times spent together in the album as well.
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Митрополи́т Валенти́н (в миру Тимофе́й Ада́мович Мищу́к; род. 14 октября 1940, Брест, БССР) — архиерей Русской православной церкви на покое, бывший митрополит Оренбургский и Саракташский.

Биография
Родился 14 октября 1940 года в Бресте, в Белоруссии, в семье рабочего.

В 1957 году по окончании средней школы поступил в 1-й класс Минской духовной семинарии.

В 1958—1962 годах служил в Советской армии.

В 1962 году по увольнении в запас некоторое время работал шофёром автоколонны.

Осенью 1963 года поступил во 2-й класс Московской духовной семинарии.

В 1966 году окончил семинарию по первому разряду и поступил на 1-й курс Московской духовной академии.

30 марта 1969 года пострижен в монашество в Троице-Сергиевой лавре с именем Валентин, в честь святого мученика Валентина (память — 24 апреля), наместником Лавры архимандритом Платоном (Лобанковым).

20 апреля 1969 года рукоположён во иеродиакона митрополитом Крутицким Пименом (Извековым) (Патриарх Московский с 1971), 18 июля 1969 года им же — в иеромонаха.

В 1970 году окончил Московскую духовную академию со степенью кандидата богословия за сочинение по кафедре византологии на тему «Святитель Григорий Палама и Николай Кавасила (обозрение жизни и трудов)».

28 августа 1971 года патриархом Пименом был возведён в сан игумена.

В ноябре 1975 года назначен ответственным за приём иностранных гостей в Троице-Сергиевой Лавре и в Московской духовной академии.

20 июля 1976 года возведён в сан архимандрита.

Архиерейство
25 июля 1976 года хиротонисан во епископа Уфимского и Стерлитамакского. Хиротонию совершали в московском Богоявленском патриаршем соборе патриарх Пимен, митрополиты Ленинградский и Новгородский Никодим (Ротов), Таллинский и Эстонский Алексий (Ридигер), Тульский и Белёвский Ювеналий (Поярков), Минский и Белорусский Антоний (Мельников), архиепископы Волоколамский Питирим (Нечаев) и Дмитровский Владимир (Сабодан).

16 ноября 1979 года назначен епископом Звенигородским, викарием Московской епархии — представителем Русской православной церкви при патриархе Антиохийском.

С 26 апреля 1985 года — епископ Тамбовский и Мичуринский.

С 12 мая 1987 года — епископ Владимирский и Суздальский.

30 декабря 1988 года возведён в сан архиепископа.

27 октября 1990 года назначен архиепископом Корсунским.

18 февраля 1992 года назначен архиепископом Гродненским и Волковысским.

С 26 февраля 1994 года — архиепископ Бакинский, викарий Ставропольской епархии и ректор Ставропольской духовной семинарии.

17 июля 1995 года почислен на покой с официальной мотивировкой: «резкое падение дисциплины в Ставропольской духовной семинарии», которое привело к тому, что «семинаристы голодали».

19 июля 1999 года назначен архиепископом Оренбургским и Бузулукским.

25 февраля 2004 года возведён в сан митрополита.

24 октября 2004 года возглавлял делегацию Русской православной церкви на интронизации патриарха Александрийского Феодора II.

5 октября 2011 года в связи с образованием Бузулукской и Орской епархий титул изменён на Оренбургский и Саракташский. С 6 октября 2011 года — глава новообразованной Оренбургской митрополии.

26 декабря 2012 назначен ректором Оренбургской духовной семинарии.

22 октября 2015 года почислен на покой в связи с достижением 75-летнего возраста. Патриархом Кириллом митрополиту Валентину предоставлен для служения храм Петра и Павла в Лефортове в Москве.

Награды
Российские:
 Орден Святого благоверного князя Даниила Московского II степени (2000) — к 60-летию со дня рождения
 Орден Преподобного Сергия Радонежского II степени (2009) — к 30-летию представительства в Дамаске (при патриархе Антиохийском)
 Орден Дружбы (2010) — за достигнутые трудовые успехи и многолетнюю добросовестную работу, активную общественную деятельность
 Орден Преподобного Серафима Саровского III степени (2021) — во внимание к усердным архипастырским трудам и в связи с 80-летием со дня рождения

Поместных православных церквей:
 Орден Митрополита Гор Ливийских (1981)
 Два ордена апостолов Петра и Павла (Антиохийская православная церковь, 1985)
 Орден Иерусалимской церкви (1991)

Примечания

Литература
 Наречение и хиротония архимандрита Валентина (Мищука) во епископа Уфимского и Стерлитамакского // Журнал Московской Патриархии. 1976. — № 10. — С. 5-8.
 Зимина Н. П. Валентин (Мищук), епископ Уфимский и Стерлитамакский // Башкирская энциклопедия. Т. 2. — Уфа: Научное изд-во «Башкирская энциклопедия», 2006. — С. 12-13.

Ссылки
 Валентин, митрополит (на покое) (Мищук Тимофей Адамович)  на сайте patriarchia.ru
 Валентин (Мищук) На сайте Русское Православие

Епископы Белорусской православной церкви
Митрополиты Русской православной церкви
Религиозные деятели Белоруссии
Выпускники Московской духовной академии
Кавалеры ордена Дружбы (Россия)
Персоналии:Оренбургская область
Персоналии:Оренбург
Ректоры Ставропольской духовной семинарии
Оренбургская митрополия
Персоналии:Корсунская епархия
Ректоры Оренбургской духовной семинарии
Епископы Русской православной церкви, почисленные на покой
Епископы Гродненские
Персоналии:Троице-Сергиева лавра


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Boomers Embrace Luxury Van Life
Empty nesters and retirees abandon RVs for the freedom and mobility of converted high-end vans
Edward and Betsy Lawlor took an overnight detour to explore Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada in December 2016.
Photo: Betsy Lawlor
By Anne Marie Chaker
April 21, 2018 7:01 am ET
The latest luxury getaway: a van trip.
Attracted by Instagram images of a free-spirited, simpler way to travel, older consumers are turning to vans for their trips, while adding the high-end spin they can afford. Forget the beat-up Volkswagen bus: These travelers are shelling out for custom-fitted Mercedes-Benz or Ram ProMaster vans for their life on the road.
"The thing I like so much about van life is the simplicity," says 55-year-old John Kennedy, now on his first big road trip, to California, in his $75,000 revamped Ram ProMaster. Mr. Kennedy, owner of a window-cleaning business in Aspen, Colo., bought the van last summer and two months ago picked it up from a conversion specialist, now outfitted with a double bed, stove and custom maple cabinets. The one thing his van doesn't have: a bathroom, which means using public facilities.
That is a small price to pay for freedom, he says. "It's being able to go down a road, stop and pull over to sleep, and start again when you're ready."
The van life—or #vanlife—phenomenon began on social media several years ago with photos of twentysomethings peering out at beach and mountain vistas from vans decorated with flowing drapes and colorful quilts. The images took off on the internet and caught the attention of older consumers who not only can afford luxury setups, but are also at a point in life when they can take extended, if not permanent, time off.


Readers — In our desperation to create "smarter" kids, we have practically pinned them to their desks. Now educators are realizing this may be just the opposite of what is best for kids — including those with special needs, as Andrea Gordon writes in Toronto's TheStar.com (a paper run by my favorite editor-in-chief from back when he and I were at the NY Daily News, Michael Cooke). – L.
It was a crisp March day outside Blaydon Public School when teachers discovered that 4-year-old Alex Wong could spell his name.
There were no pencils or paper in sight. Everyone was bundled in winter jackets. Alex, who has autism, was in the outdoor classroom where his special-needs class played and explored for at least an hour every day, alongside 25 kids from the mainstream kindergarten class.
Teacher Sue Cooper noticed Alex march over to a pile of wood, put three sticks in a small wheelbarrow and push it to a spot on the pavement. One by one, he placed the sticks on the ground, forming the letter A. He made three more trips and came back with sticks to make three more letters, which he placed in a row: L, E and X.
Cooper's jaw dropped. The teachers ran for a camera.
Alex is non-verbal and for a long time, his only interactions had been to throw things or hit. But in the fresh air, day after day, something started to change. Over several months Alex had watched the other children making structures. And that March morning, he was ready to take his turn.
The teachers say his is one example of how daily outdoor time is changing the way their young students — including those autism and other special needs — learn and behave.
"I've never see them come around like this, doing things I didn't know they were capable of," says Cooper, a special-education teacher for 20 years.
The article goes on to explain that there is a growing "outdoor classroom" movement (I'd dub it the movement movement) in Canada, for which I salute that country! Read the rest of the article here. View the inspiring 90-second video here. And, of course, kick your kids outside while you're doing this! – L.
An old idea makes sense anew.
Fascinating that some of the most effective nurturing and encouragement are aimed at kids with "special needs," while the "neurotypical" kids are at the mercy of the whims of faddish parenting.
"Special needs" kids are offered extra opportunities to become self-directed, while the balance of the young population is hovered over and told the world is too dangerous, the disappointments too great.
"Special needs" kids are benefiting from the research, the kind of research that has most of us smacking our foreheads and saying, "DUH!" — Research about playing outdoors, meeting challenges, facing disappointment, and having less emphasis on academics overall.
Here's an idea: let's treat all kids equally. They all will benefit from challenges, time outdoors, and facing disappointments.
I am the father of a 7 year old higher functioning Autistic child. We have noticed a pretty strong relationship between how much physical play and/or activity he gets and his behavior.
We live in northern Michigan. And the most difficult times we have with him in terms of behavior are the winter months of January through March. Then as days get longer and outdoor play increases, his mood, behavior and school work blooms as well.
Within the last week I saw Temple Grandin speak locally. She too was emphatic in advocating more vigorous outdoor activity. For ASD in particular, but really for all kids.
I love it. My kids are always wishing their classes would go outside more, although the current school is better about this than the old one. Kids need to move around and play.
More than one special education teacher has told me that their children seem to favor blue light. This made me wonder if some neurologically abnormal children don't have normal color vision and therefore need more shortwave light. I wonder if there has been any research on this? Incandescent lights and some fluorescent lights are deficient in short wavelengths whereas sunlight is rich is all wavelengths.
As a homeschooler, I often did my work outside. And loved it!
Kids are smarter than society gives them credit for. Why should autistic children be any different?
My son's school (also in Toronto) is also building an outdoor classroom for the all-day Kindergarten classes that begin this fall.
I hate the idea of all-day Kindergarten. For most students in our school board it means spending most of the day indoors (especially if there's ANY rain or snow) and not having much time for unstructured play or self-guided learning. I would not have put my boys into an all-day Kindergarten program, especially one that kept them locked up inside all day. I wrote letters against the implementation of the all-day program, but when it happened anyway I was left trying to figure out a way to make it the best experience possible for the students. I became a parent representative on a committee that developed our Outdoor Learning Environment and worked on curriculum that will use the outdoor space on a daily basis for all subjects, not just active play or the occasional nature study.
My sons are already past Kindergarten age, but I hope our new space gives the younger students a chance to be a little more free range while in school. Parents need to put pressure on our school systems to give our children more outdoor (and free range!) opportunities while at school.
T. Doyle–Why stop at kindergarten? Kids of all ages can learn in an outdoor setting, for at least part of the time. You could do nature walks, field trips to swamps/ponds to observe tadpoles turning into frogs, and weedy fields to observe caterpillars turning into butterflies, and to the forest to learn about other kinds of animals, and to count the rings on stumps to determine the age of the trees. Older kids could do plein air drawing and painting for art class, and experiments in physics (paper airplanes, rocketry, etc.), outside. Even lessons that don't have to be taught outside, still can be. For example, English class could consist of a class of high school students reading Romeo and Juliet in a circle under a tree, or acting out the parts Readers Theatre style, as opposed to sitting inside at their desks reading the same book. If you need access to a blackboard or similar, then a rolling whiteboard, or a small portable whiteboard propped up on a chair or a folding easel, would work just as well. Don't get me wrong, outdoor kindergarten is a start, but I'm not sure I like the idea of having a big chunk of kindergarten taking place outside, only to switch to a "traditional" indoor, sit-down-and-shut-up format for grade one, because it'd be a rude awakening for a lot of kids, that might turn them off of learning far too early in life.
Emily – I agree that switching to the traditional indoor setting in grade 1 is not a good idea! My son's school already has many outdoor areas for the older students to use, including an outdoor classroom, vegetable and flower garden, and a naturalized area. The Kindergarten area is an additional project aimed at (but will not be used exclusively by) Kindergarten students, designed for their different curriculum and physical size and gives more space so that more classes can use the outdoor areas at the same time.
I can't believe it took the educator ( and one who worked with children with a disability) 20 years to figure that one out. Seriously, shouldn't all educators know that kids learn and make sense of their world, and communicate, through their play. It is sad that everyone sees children with autism or other disabilities through a deficit lens. Play belongs to all children.
Sticks, dirt, sidewalk chalk- all more stimulating than paper and pencil confinement. I can't believe "daily outdoor time" is newsworthy, but I'm glad it's helping autistic children learn to communicate.
Charlotte Mason said it more than a hundred years ago: Children learn best from real things in the real world. Children must begin by exercising their bodies and senses, preferably outdoors where sensory and motor opportunities are without limit. Then they can work with concrete objects, moving gradually to abstractions, as their brains mature.
She also argued–using 19th-century metaphors, of course–that a child's mind is not a game of Tetris that requires a teacher's careful hand on the controls. Children presented with the context can isolate and synthesize the data on their own. Example: Alex!
It is a crying shame that after 20 years in the field, this educator is surprised by this! But that is the educational climate we have. Charlotte Mason's outlook did not become the mainstream, unfortunately.
As a nursery nurse over 40 years ago we were told that most learning for under 7s should be through play and exploration. No reason why it shouldn't carry on after this.
I just got back from a short trip to Japan, and one of the most striking things we noticed (especially in light of how much we hear about their rigid schools), is that there were school children everywhere, at all hours of the day. They were in uniform, usually in small groups. I don't know what they were doing, but at least they were getting some time away from school. We did ask one elementary-age kid what time he went to school, and he said 11-4. I sure wish my kids could do that. BTW, they were all over the public transportation, and of course knew how to handle it and how to behave.
Simply amazing that we have built such a bizarre construct where kids playing outside is a bold, new idea.
CLamb – Temple Grandin talks about the impact of colors, and the related research, in The Autistic Brain.
My primary school was&is from 8.45 to 12.15 (including a short break around 10.15 to eat a little something, and a 'outside play break' of which I don't remember how long it was, just that it was long enough for this bookwurm to take my book with me and read outside in the sun…) and then from 13.15 to 15.15 (afternoon off on Wednesday).
The 4- and 5-year-olds get PE both in the mornings and the afternoons, outside if possible, inside if necessary (I presume this is on top of the normal playbreak the older kids get too, otherwise they wouldn't get the legally required 'break from learning', unless the lunchbreak counts as break from learning too….?).
I love it! Play is an important part of learning. This will someday become common knowledge.
In Germany they have "Waldkindergarten" (forest pre-schools) which spend nearly all day outside, wandering in the woods– only going inside in the worst weather.
Well shoving kids outside doesn't always make them smarter. Just look at Asia, whose kids are at the top tier if intellect and education and they do not AT ALL focus in outdoor play. And then in the U.S., here are people saying that kids should play outside trying to become smarter like their Asian counter mates.