[ad_1] China’s capital closes more public venues, and Shanghai to impose strict entry rules from Thursday. Parks and museums have been closed in Beijing while Shanghai has tightened rules for people entering China’s financial hub as authorities grapple with a spike in COVID-19 cases and growing concerns about the economy. China reported 28,127 new domestically transmitted cases on Monday, close to its daily peak from April. About half of the total infections are in the…
"Beijing shuts parks, Shanghai tightens entry as COVID cases spike | Business and Economy News"Author: Staff Reporter
[ad_1] Can Bondage Help You Understand Your Sexual Boundaries? Written by: Liz Goldwyn | Published on: November 17, 2022 Particularly in heterosexual relationships, there’s little to no discussion about sexual boundaries. Many of us women are so used to pleasing other people that we often do things out of guilt instead of desire. A lot of us learned this as kids: We were taught to give hugs to people we didn’t really want to hug,…
"Can Bondage Help You Understand Your Sexual Boundaries?"
[ad_1] In July, the Taliban announced a meeting of handpicked clerics to decide on the fate of the education ban. But only two clerics came in support of the girls’ education. Since then, the Taliban has not made any progress on whether they are willing to compromise “Initially, we were hopeful that they would reopen schools, but with the passage of time, we noticed that, no, they are doing something else. They just issue anti-women…
"Teacher In Afghanistan Defies The Taliban By Running Secret School For Girls"
[ad_1] Opinion by Matti Kohonen (london) Friday, November 18, 2022 Inter Press Service The G20 summit motto was “Recovering Together, Recovering Stronger” yet the Joint Declaration failed to deliver any alternatives to the wave of austerity engulfing the world. It ignored the option of raising enough tax revenues from large corporations, taxing the wealthy and tacking illicit financial flows and tax abuses which alone accounts for over US$200 billion of tax revenue lost per year due…
"G20 Summit, a Missed Opportunity to Tackle Global Cost of Living Crisis — Global Issues"
[ad_1] Enlarge / Priest in Meditation, 15th century. Possibly the blind Chinese priest Jianzhen (Ganjin in Japanese; 688-763). Heritage Images/Getty Images The practice of herbal medicine in Japan is known as Kampo, and such treatments are often prescribed alongside Western medicines (and covered by the national health care system). The first person to teach traditional Chinese medicine in Japan was an 8th century Buddhist monk named Jianzhen (Ganjin in Japanese), who collected some 1,200 prescriptions…
"Lost 8th century Japanese medical text by Buddhist monk has been found"
[ad_1] Eight billion: That’s the number of people now living on planet Earth, according to a UN report. And it took only 11 years for the world’s population to grow from 7 billion to 8 billion. In a symbolic move, a baby girl born today in the Philippines was welcomed as number 8 billion, especially since it’s difficult to accurately calculate the number of people in the world, with sums possibly being off by a…
"As Earth surpasses 8 billion people, ‘the planet can feed and sustain billions more,’ demographer says"
[ad_1] U.S. Catholic bishops begin their fall meeting Monday and will be electing new leaders — a vote that may signal whether they want to be more closely aligned with Pope Francis ‘ agenda or not. Several of the 10 candidates to be the next president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are part of its powerful conservative wing, and have not fully embraced some of the pope’s priorities, such as focusing more on…
"US bishops to elect new leaders, mark abuse reform milestone"
[ad_1] NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Chrysostomos II, the leader of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Saturday with a ceremony that reflected centuries of ecclesiastical tradition, eulogized as his church’s greatest reformer and an outspoken fighter for his people. The spiritual head of the world’s 300 million Orthodox, Istanbul-based Patriarch Bartholomew, was dressed in resplendent Byzantine vestments to preside over the funeral service at the St. Barnabas Cathedral on the grounds of the church’s…
"Cyprus Church leader Archbishop Chrysostomos II laid to rest"
[ad_1] Austin likes keeping it weird, but ask anyone who works and lives there: They also like their internet fast. In fact, they’re in one of the fastest cities in the country when it comes to internet speed. Thanks to its multiple fiber options, Austin has a spot in the top 10 fastest cities in the USA. The speed-testing site Ookla keeps track of the top cities in the US for median download speeds based on…
"Best Internet Providers in Austin"
[ad_1] (neonhoney / Los Angeles Times; photos from Ralph Lauren; archival photograph of Ralph Lauren by Buffy Birrittella) “Preppy” is a loaded word. It carries all kinds of associations with class, wealth and exclusion. In fashion, a preppy look conjures up feelings of stuffiness and sartorial rigidity — think Matt Damon social climbing in “The Talented Mr. Ripley” — but there’s also some flexibility baked into its DNA. Preppy clothes are active, first and foremost.…
"The enduring appeal of Ralph Lauren’s prep aesthetic in L.A."