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This is the forgotten, romantic SchĂśn Residence of Franz and Emma SchĂśn in Sosnowiec â an eclectic palace with a striking neoâGothic tower and whispers of neoromanesque, neobaroque, and Art Nouveau touches lurking in the ornate stuccos and arches. Built between 1900 and 1903 on the banks of the Black Przemsza River, it was a jewel of industrial-era grandeur and later served as a court, a community center, and now stands as a silent sentinel of architectural drama and history.
Thanks to the goodwill of the local court administration, I walked its halls and photographed its interiors â a rare passage into one of Sosnowiec's most compelling buildings. If youâre drawn to places that blend fantasy with history, and want to witness the stories behind dramatic facades, your support makes it possible for me to keep uncovering and sharing these hidden wonders. Join the journey:
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Causeway Bay ⢠Hong Kong
A policeman was stabbed outside the Sogo shopping mall in Causeway Bay at about 10 pm on Thursday evening and the suspect died in hospital about an hour later.
Police confirmed the alleged attack on their Facebook page, saying the left side of the officer's back was "seriously wounded" and he was taken to hospital for treatment.
The assailant was arrested at the scene, the force added. Police sources said the assailant had also stabbed himself after the attack. He too was taken to hospital.
The Hospital Hospital said the suspect was pronounced dead at Ruttonjee Hospital at 11:20pm.
Videos circulating on social media showed a man approaching the officer before taking out what appeared to be a knife and stabbing the policeman. Other officers were then seen drawing their guns before subduing the suspect.
After the alleged attack, officers cordoned off the area to carry out an investigation. The Police Commissioner Raymond Siu was also at the scene.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam condemned the attack against the police officer, as well as a number of suspected illegal acts that took place yesterday. In a statement, she said it was clear those acts were intended to "challenge the SAR government's authority."
There had been a heavy police presence in Causeway Bay throughout the day to stamp out any dissent on the 24th anniversary of the handover.
Police earlier said they had arrested at least 19 people across the territory for various offences.
(20210701 RTHK News)
Globally, as of 6:30pm CET, 2 January 2021, there have been 82,579,768 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,818,849 deaths, reported to WHO.
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Whenever I come across people sleeping on the streets, especially in Minnesota winters, I'm struck how their amorphous shape obscures the fact that they are living, breathing, human beings . . . our brothers and sisters for whom life doesn't extend much beyond existing.
The lack of clear definition as a human person symbolizes for me the attitude that society takes towards the poor in body and spirit . . . especially here in the most powerful country in the world.
Let's face it . . . the United States is not . . . and hasn't been . . . in its history particularly kind in it's national priorities of caring for the less fortunate, the suffering . . . among us. As such the poor are merely overlooked lumps living, sleeping, existing on the sidewalks and floors of public areas . . . as our lives move on.
The Central Market Revitalization Project is a conservation and revitalization project under the Urban Renewal Authority (referred to as the âURAâ), and it is also under the new initiative of âConserving Centralâ by the Government. The URA commenced restoration and preservation works for this 80-year-old grade three historic building with the application of innovative restoration methods, repair materials, and project management software, in order to enhance both the work quality and efficiency. In terms of operations, the URA has partnered with Chinachem Group to jointly operate and manage this building located in the center of Central.
The URA and Chinachem Group will work together to inject the concept of âPlayground for Allâ into the Central Market and turn this landmark that had been in operation from 1939 to 2003, into a vibrant community hotspot that combines âApproachableâ, âEnergeticâ and âGregariousâ, which not only preserves collective memories, but also brings new experiences to the community.
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Fidel Castro's ashes were driven through Cuban capital Havana on Wednesday, as they begun a four-day journey across the country to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago.
- Miami Herald News
One doesn't find too many evil eyes being given at Pride. Didn't get any last year . . . this year I received two of them. It seems to me the nation is angry with the tumultuous political situation.
As I mentioned to Flicker mate, "cupitt", the last place I would go if I didn't want my picture taken would be a Pride weekend.
Think about it . . . You dress up in outlandish outfits o rgo partially naked , put on weird makeup, and go out among thousands of people who . . . like you . . . look like the dog's dinner.
Now what makes one even remotely think that someone won't be taking pictures . . . and you might not be in one of them?
The BasĂlica de Nuestra SeĂąora del Cobre, high on a hill 20km northwest of Santiago de Cuba on the old road to Bayamo, is Cuba's most sacred pilgrimage site and shrine of the nation's patron saint: La Virgen de la Caridad (Our Lady of Charity), or Cachita, as she is also known.
Many have offered gifts and keepsakes to the Virgin of El Cobre - some of them famous. The most celebrated donor was Ernest Hemingway, who elected to leave the 23-karat gold medal he won for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 to the 'Cuban people'.
Rather than hand it over to the Batista regime, Hemingway donated the medal to the Catholic Church, who subsequently placed it in sanctuario. The medal was stolen temporarily in the 1980s but, despite being retrieved a few days later, it has since been kept locked away from public view .
In 1957 Lina Ruz left a small guerilla figurine at the feet of the Virgin to pray for the safety of her two sons, Fidel and Raul Castro, who were then fighting in the Sierra Maestra. Fate - or was it the spirit of El Cobre? - shone brightly. Both sons are now into their 80s and still going!
More recently, dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez visited the Virgin and left her Ortega and Gasset journalistic award in the sanctuary where, in her own words, 'the long arm of censor does not enter.'
Lonely Planet
I have no idea what the gang sign means, but the yellow nebbish brought a smile to my face. Perhaps it is suppose to express fear instead of laughter or a smile.
It was ground level on the side of a grain silo. No other graffiti was around it or on any other of the grain silos that line Hiawatha Avenue.
For the past three days, the processional carrying the ashes of Fidel Castro has traversed Cuba along a route that has taken it past sugarcane fields, towering stands of palm trees, oxen working the red earth, colonial cities, and places of historic significance.
All along the way, Cubans have gathered on the sides of rural roads, on overpasses and lined urban streets to say their last good-byes to Castro, who has dominated life on this island for more than a half century and by extension life in exile.
-Miami Herald News
An American Airlines plane arrives at Jose Marti International Airport becoming the first Miami-Havana commercial flight in 50 years, coinciding with the beginning of the tributes to late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, on November 28, 2016 in Havana.
Ladli â which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means âbeloved daughter.â
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on womenâs lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Womenâs Day 2007 Message.)
âAlmost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.â (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are âdemographically missingâ from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who arenât. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. âSexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nationsâ âUS Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure â which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs â that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and womenâs deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are âmissingâ due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarismâ. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public â whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only womenâs and human rights groups who are protesting â the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Womenâs Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Children as young as 12 years old were getting their first shots of the BioNTech vaccine on Monday â with some of those at vaccination centres speaking about how they wanted to do their part to help things return to normal.â
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Monday was the first day that children aged 12 to 15 were able to get the jabs, after appointments for the age group opened last Friday.â
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Authorities had announced the extension of the inoculation programme last week, but only the German-made BioNTech vaccine is available for the younger age group. The mainland-developed Sinovac vaccine is only available to those aged 18 and up.â
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One 15-year-old who had his vaccination at the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park Sports Centre told RTHK getting the jab was very quick and staff there had been helpful.â
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He said he wanted to get the vaccination because he plans to return to Europe over the summer, and hopes to return without needing to undergo quarantine.â
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âItâs a very small percentage of people who have very severe side effects, so Iâm confident,â he said. âItâs also to just do my part to vaccinate, and hope that I donât infect other people and they donât infect me â that way we can all go back to normal soon.ââ
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âI think we need to do our part for this, we all need to get vaccinated if we can, and I think Hong Kong is giving a big opportunity to everyone,â the boyâs mother said.â
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âIn Europe, people are dying⌠they really want a vaccine. India is also very bad. We are glad to be here, and we are glad that the government is providing all this for everyone,â she added.â
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(20210614 RTHK News)
A residential building at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak was put on lockdown on Thursday evening, the second such "ambush-style" operation by the government this week.
Tung Fat Building on Kam Ping Street features four housing blocks, and the government announced that all residents will have to be tested and stay put.
The lockdown order took effect at 7pm, and authorities hope the operation will end by 7am on Friday.
After inspecting the 56-year-old building on Wednesday, University of Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung said while the pipes are in good condition, the building's design in terms of ventilation is not ideal, as it was built a long time ago.
"If the residents don't open their windows while their exhaust fans are on, the heat wave will easily go up [the light well] and create vertical transmission," Yuen told reporters.
"Some residents also told us there was odd smell in their toilets from time to time. They believe it too come from the the light well. So we have reason to believe there is a danger to residents of C-6 and C-7 if they continue to stay there."
Yuen urged authorities to do another round of tests for all other residents in the block, noting only around half of the 400 residents had complied with a compulsory testing order.
Yuen also warned virus could spread quickly in old buildings, noting North Point is an old district like Yau Ma Tei.
(20210128 RTHK News)