OSLO – The World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe.
The announcement was made Friday in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee.
5 minutes ago.
"Trump demands a recount and refuses to believe he didn't win
" Maybe
Sitting here, watching the rain trickling down the windows in a steady stream, I thought about what God was doing. Was he watching the rain too? Placing bets on which spidery raindrop would touch the bottom of the panel first? Or maybe he was somewhere warm and dry, thinking about his recent mistakes.
We have lots of proof here in CS-land, that God chose Trump to be the worlds greatest superpower leader. We also have been told that mankind was given "free choice". So my thoughts turned to the idea that maybe God was giving us a test. To be more precise, giving Trump a test, to see if he can follow common sense or cast it aside as unimportant?
God works in mysterious ways, he giveth then he taketh away.
I guess being stuck in a house on a cold wet English autumn day is not conducive to clear thinking, maybe I should go for a long drive to clear my head.
Ah, a pub lunch will fix everything lol.
I arrived at the station in good time and bought a ticket, here they have various classes, hard or soft seat and hard or soft bed or standing, my journey was to take around 8 hours so I opted for a soft seat, which cost about £15 ($27). I found my carriage and seat and we left right on time.
It was still dark when we left so I slept for a while, awaking to a dawn filled with new sights, there is no doubt that to travel by train gives a wonderful view of any country, we passed rivers where men fished with large nets, women were busy washing clothes and kids were playing, I saw incredibly beautiful countryside with small towns made up of high rise buildings, some new and some very old and in awful condition, however, my immediate impression was that China is developing rapidly, everywhere there was construction, new housing blocks, new factory and business centres being built together with new rail and road networks, China is obviously invest billions into renewing her infrastructure, my train companions included a French journalist who spoke excellent English, she told me that Chinese government was paying tenants of old dilapidated buildings to move into new modern housing blocks and then clearing the slum areas to make way for new businesses and homes.
Sometimes as we passed through small villages the local people would stare at the train and give a wave always accompanied with a broad grin, Chinese people seem to smile more than any other people I have seen, so refreshing to see happy faces around you .
We stopped at various places on the way, where there were stalls selling fresh fruit, hot drinks and of course pot noodle, A pot noodle cost about 10 pence and a coffee (Still very sweet and strange tasting) about 20 pence, as we travelled through the city of Nanging it just seemed to go on for ever, a huge place by western standards, I saw both new modern towers and very old typical Chinese buildings side by side, there is a long and interesting history to this city and I hope soon to revisit and explore it.
As we continued we started to climb a mountain, the train slowing to just above walking pace, then went through a long tunnel breaking out the far side into a sunlit and warm region, very green and little sign of habitation, we continued at walking pace for about 2 hours, this was supposed to be an express train!!, then as time passed we started to see people, then housing appeared and we arrived in the city of Wuhu, again the tall towers and new construction everywhere. We stopped here for quite a long time as apparently there was a fault with the brakes, but this was fixed with a very energetic group of engineers including women members.
It took a further 3 hours to reach our destination of Chizhou, arriving at about 2pm, as I left the train I could smell the freshness in the air and it was quite cold although very sunny, snow lay around where it had been bulldozed away to make paths.
I was met at the station entrance by my new Dean of the English Faculty together with the head of English studies and my new classroom assistant, a smiling vivacious young woman who insisted on trying to carry my suitcase oblivious to the fact it probably weighed more than her!!.
I was taken to the college where, opposite the main entrance, were a row of maybe 40 tents all housing kitchens and small shops, we stopped at one and I was introduced to my first taste of Anhui province food, hot spicy vegetables with noodles and stick rice, as I looked around I could see that the college was built on the very outskirts of the city, in what looked like a new development of shops and business park, and was told that when the area was finished all the businesses in tents would move into proper shops and restaurants.
My first view of the College was how big it all seemed, 6 very new and beautifully designed buildings lay on each side of a wide boulevard which also contained round ponds and sculptured lights.
To be continued
Better still write March 3rd 2020, because writing /20 gives another person the easy option of adding say 15 or 25, thereby creating a totally different date.
Suppose you have a debt dated 01/01/20, an unscrupulous person could change it to 01/01/2015 and then charge you for the outstanding years.
Just be aware that this year it could be changed to your detriment.
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