When I was a toddler – I've been told – I was very curious. I guess my imagination led me to do things I probably shouldn't have at that age.
My parents always tell me stories of how I would just disappear to venture through "the woods." We lived in the countryside of Juana Diaz at the time.
Or how I would stand on top of a table and mimic speeches I watched on TV. And of course, tossing stuff around. Trying to find ways to break things; only to try to find the means to put them together again.
From what I gather, I was a kid with a wild imagination. Just waiting for it to go bonkers, develop things and whatnot. Unfortunately, things did not go that way.
Once I started to meet new people, I faced a harsh reality: if I wanted to make friends, I had to get rid of my imagination. Because, apparently, my vision made me seem childish. And for the six and seven-year-old tough guys that were in my school, that was a no-no.
So, as time went on, my personality changed, and I became as dull and as vanilla as you could get. Just to make an attempt at fitting in. Whether or not I was successful, I'm not sure to this day. But one thing I do know – now I regret not giving my imagination the room it needed to express itself and go wild during my childhood.
As time passed, I realized the value of imagination. In fact, (I dare say that) without the people who think of things that seem impossible to create, we wouldn't live in the advanced civilization we have.
Ever stopped for a moment to think sports draft events are so popular? I mean, it's just a guy tumbling balls and naming people for two hours. How exciting (on the surface) could that be?
Well, to sports fans, draft events mean so much more. That one good choice by their team could mean there's a chance to have a fresh face come in and reenergize their franchise. It means there's a chance for their team to have a successful run in the upcoming season. It means there's hope.
And offering hope could be the one strategy you need to carry out to take your business to the next level.
We all have problems, and (unfortunately) we don't have all the solutions to every problem. But isn't it great when someone comes in and helps us solve them? That someone could be you and your business!
Be that glimpse of hope that people are looking for. People will thank you in ways you'd like – and faster than you might think.
There are five levels in which people care about you – they love, hate, like, dislike, or not care. I'm going to explain to you what each is, and why being yourself will eventually lead you to success.
Now, ideally you work your way from no one caring who you are to being loved by your peers and customers. But there are times people go from being adored by others, all the way down to people losing all interest in them.
Why is that – I'll talk about it later. Now, let's look at the five levels of caring.


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It was a cold morning of November 2017. Nineteenth of November to be precise. I sat in the waiting area of the Private Secretary's office, waiting to be seen by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (may Allah strengthen his hand).
Among other issues that I had to seek his blessed guidance on, was the proposal for a newspaper, Al Hakam, to be launched again, this time in English.
The idea had come from a colleague and I had instantly agreed to present it to Huzooraa. But as I sat waiting for the blessed audience, I felt that I was extremely nervous in presenting a proposal which did not seemingly fall within the scope of my duties. But the love, affection and attention I have always experienced when presenting any matter was my only and best source of encouragement.
The proposal was last on the list. I had sought guidance on all other matters and the time came to  present the proposal of Al Hakam being launched from London. It was immediately approved and accepted.
Any decision made by Huzooraa is revered by all Ahmadis and held in high esteem, but when a proposal or suggestion is accepted so wholeheartedly by Huzooraa , it means more than just an approval. It brings with it a great deal of motivation, blessings, prayers and everything good that one can imagine.
Thus, it would be a grave injustice not to acknowledge that every step that was taken towards realising this dream, however hard or impossible it may have seemed at the onset, turned simple and every hurdle simply gave way to the fulfilment of a task that had the blessing of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih.
A piece from Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat has been included in this issue where a message of Hazrat Musleh-e-Maudra at the second launch of Al Hakam (Urdu) in 1934 has been quoted. I would like to add here the line that was not quoted by Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat. After stating that whether Al Hakam survived physically or not, its name would always live, Hazrat Musleh-e-Maudra further stated:
"…but I have the desire that, as its very name suggests, the status given to the Promised Messiahas from the very start by his followers, [Al Hakam] should physically survive also…"
It is faith-inspiring to witness the heartfelt desire of Hazrat Musleh-e-Maudra materialised in the time of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih Vaa .
May Allah enable this newspaper to live up to the standards set by the scholarly and pious pioneers in its early phases and also to function in accord with the expectations of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih Vaa.
Every year 23 March is marked as Yaum-e-Masih-e-Maud (the Promised Messiah day) on the calendar of the Jamaat, commemorating the first ever initiations taken at the hand of the Promised Messiahas, thus laying the foundation of the last Jamaat to be divinely established. What better date could be chosen for the launch of a newspaper that has its roots in the blessed time of the Promised Messiahas.
Al Hakam was the first-ever newspaper of the Jamaat when first launched. Its re-launch today makes it the first weekly newspaper of the Worldwide Jamaat in the English language.
The connection of the present phase of Al Hakam with the Ahmadiyya ARC (Archive & Research Centre) will work as a platform to bring the rich legacy of the Jamaat to light, which is a very precious treasure sitting in archive boxes or lying on shelves of various repositories. Scholarly articles, the majority of which were written in Urdu, will insha-Allah be translated into English and presented here, thus providing Ahmadis around the world the knowledge hidden in these articles as well as opening up new avenues for western researchers to tap into.
An English rendering of the Friday sermons delivered by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih will be regularly made available in full. This will insha-Allah make it easier for researchers to cite references from the sayings of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih, apart from providing Ahmadi readers with a quick and easy access to the blessed words of our Imam.
The Promised Messiahas referred to Al Hakam as an arm of the Jamaat. May Allah enable Al Hakam to always live up to the standard and become so in the true sense of the term. On Allah, we rely, and in the prayers of his Khalifa, we believe. We know that there will always be challenges, but we strongly believe that the prayers and guidance of our beloved Imam will always enable us to sail through the turbulent waters that may come our way. Insha-Allah.
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The making and un-making process is an integral part of her sculpture, working with constructive materials and some found objects to create sculptural assemblages that have an architectural resemblance with a raw sense of formation. Drawing from the in-between moment that may be overlooked at first glance, her work evokes performativity in a solid form; the potential state in which there is an element of chance or possible destruction. Her sculptures create an opposition of material and surface – forming tension and fragility, whilst questioning the permanence of the material against traditional sculptural practices.
Catriona was recently artist-in-residence at the Merz Barn, Elterwater, UK and co-ordinated a summer residency programme for Royal College of Art Students in July 2018. In 2015 she was awarded the REFRESH grant by Central Saint Martins for an artist residency in Onishi, Japan at Shiro Oni Studio, as well as artist-in-residence at Liebig 12, Berlin from December 2011-February 2012.
Catriona has exhibited at: the Merz Barn, Elterwater, England, (July 2018), the Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art Kensington, London, (June 2018), 'WIP Show' at the Sculpture Building, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London (January 2018), and at the Futuro House, SafeHouse London (February 2016) and Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross London (January 2016). As well as international exhibitions at the Galeri Mejan, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm (August 2016), the Futuro House, exhibition during artist residency in Onishi, Shiro Oni studios Gunma prefecture at the civic Centre, Onishi, Japan (July-August 2015) and was further selected for the 'Kanna Art Festival' selected Shiro Oni artists, Fujioka Gunma prefecture, Japan (September 2015).
Image 1. Connected – 2016. Exhibition at SafeHouse, Peckham, London.
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Image 3. Moulded 2017, Concrete, plaster, thistle, plywood. 78 x 42 x 30 cm.
Image 4. Merzsaüle 2018, Merz Barn Elterwater, Langdale England. On show until October 2018. Concrete, slate, slate clay, plaster, plywood, found objects (steel, newspaper, rope, card, plastics).


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A documentary produced by UWindsor film professor Tony Lau tells the story of a family-run Chinese restaurant spreading deep-fried holiday cheer.
Film professor documents sweet and sour sides to Christmas
While most Canadians have days off in December to spend time with family and friends, restaurants across the country are scrambling to crank out Canadian Chinese comfort food.
A short documentary produced by UWindsor film professor Tony Lau tells the story of a family-run Chinese restaurant spreading deep-fried cheer.
A Sweet & Sour Christmas is now available through the CBC Gem streaming service and on YouTube. It is a portrait of the Ho family, owners of Kitchener's King Wok Restaurant.
The film explores the bittersweet balance of business and life through two meals: one, the staples of take-out Chinese Canadian cuisine delivered across the city, and the other a traditional Cantonese feast for the entire family coming together on Christmas night.
The production crew included two UWindsor alumni, notes Lau — sound mixer Jordan Cutler and camera assistant Armend Bajrami.
A Sweet & Sour Christmas won the audience choice award at the Boston Asian American Film Festival. Watch it now:
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The Three Feathers
Once upon a time there lived a King who had three sons; the two elders were learned and bright, but the youngest said very little and was often ignored.
When the King grew old and feeble, feeling that he was nearing his end, he wished to leave the crown to one of his three sons, but could not decide to which. He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died.
So that there could be no disagreement as to the way each one should go, the King conducted them to the courtyard of the Palace, and there blew three feathers, by turn, into the air, telling his sons to follow the course that the three feathers took.
Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth.
Therefore, one son travelled towards the east, and the second went to the west, both making fun of the youngest brother, who was obliged to stay where his feather had fallen. Then the youngest brother, sitting down and feeling rather miserable after his brothers had gone, looked about him, and noticed that near to where his feather lay was a trapdoor. On lifting this up he perceived a flight of steps, down which he went. At the bottom was another door, so he knocked upon it, and then heard a voice calling—
"Maiden, fairest, come to me,
Make haste to ope the door,
A mortal surely you will see,
From the world above is he,
We'll help him from our store."
And then the door was flung open, and the young man found himself facing a big toad sitting in the centre of a number of young toads. The big toad addressed him, asking him what he wanted.
The youngest brother, though rather surprised when he saw the toads, and heard them question him, being good-hearted replied politely—
"I am desirous to obtain the most splendid carpet in the world; just now it would be extremely useful to me."
The toad who had just spoken, called to a young toad, saying—
'Tis a mortal here you see;
Let us speed all his desires,
Giving him what he requires."
Immediately the young toad fetched a large box. This the old one opened, and took out an exquisite carpet, of so beautiful a design, that it certainly could have been manufactured nowhere upon the earth.
Taking it with grateful thanks, the youngest brother went up the flight of steps, and was once more in the Palace courtyard.
The two elder brothers, being of the opinion that the youngest was so foolish that he was of no account whatever in trying to obtain the throne, for they did not think he would find anything at all, had said to each other:
"It is not necessary for us to trouble much in looking for the carpet!" so they took from the shoulders of the first peasant they came across a coarse shawl, and this they carried to their father.
At the same time the youngest brother appeared with his beautiful carpet, which he presented to the King, who was very much surprised, and said—
"By rights the throne should be for my youngest son."
But when the two brothers heard this, they gave the old King no rest, saying—
"How is it possible that our brother, who is not at all wise, could control the affairs of an important kingdom? Make some other condition, we beg of you!"
"Well," agreed the father, "the one who brings me the most magnificent ring shall succeed to my throne," and once more he took his sons outside the Palace. Then, again, he blew three feathers into the air to show the direction each one should go; whereupon the two elder sons went east and west, but the youngest's flew straight up, and fell close by the trapdoor. Then the youngest son descended the steps as before, and upon seeing the large toad he talked with her and told her what he desired. So, the big box was brought, and out of it the toad handed him a ring which was of so exquisite a workmanship that no goldsmith's could equal it.
Meanwhile the two elder brothers made fun of the idea of the youngest searching for a ring, and they decided to take no needless trouble themselves.
Therefore, finding an old iron ring belonging to some harness, they took that to the King. The youngest brother was there before them with his valuable ring, and immediately upon his showing it, the father declared that in justice the kingdom should be his.
In spite of this, however, the two elder sons worried the poor King into appointing one test further, before bestowing his kingdom, and the King, giving way, announced that the one who brought home the most beautiful woman should inherit the crown.
Then the youngest brother again descended to the large toad and made known to her that he wished to find the most beautiful woman alive.
"The most beautiful woman is not always at hand," said the toad, "however, you shall have her."
Then she gave to him a scooped-out turnip to which half a dozen little mice were attached. The young man regarded this a trifle despondently, for it had no great resemblance to what he was seeking.
"What can I make of this?" he asked.
"Only place in it one of my young toads," replied the large toad, "and then you can decide how to use it."
From the young toads around the old toad, the young man seized one at hazard, and placed it in the scooped-out turnip, but hardly was it there when the most astounding change occurred, for the toad was transformed into a wondrously lovely maiden, the turnip became an elegant carriage, and the six mice were turned into handsome horses. The young man kissed the maiden and drove off to bring her to the King.
Not long afterwards the two brothers arrived.
In the same way, as the twice before, they had taken no trouble about the matter, but had picked up the first passable looking peasant woman whom they had happened to meet.
After glancing at the three, the King said: "Without doubt, at my death the kingdom will go to my youngest son."
Once more the brothers loudly expressed their discontent, and gave the King no peace, declaring—
"It is impossible for us to agree to the youngest becoming ruler of the kingdom," and they insisted that the women should be required to spring through a hoop which was suspended from the ceiling in the center of the hall, thinking to themselves "Now, certainly our peasants will get the best of it, they are active and sturdy, but that fragile lady will kill herself if she jumps."
To this, again, the King consented, and the peasants were first given trial.
They sprang through the hoop, indeed, but so clumsily that they fell, breaking their arms and legs.
Upon which the lovely lady whom the youngest son had brought home, leapt through as lightly as a fawn, and this put an end to all contention.
So, the crown came to the youngest son, who lived long, and ruled his people temperately and justly.
Citation: Grimm, Jacob and Grimm, Wilhelm. Grimm's Fairy Stories. Edited by S.E. Schlosser. This story is in the public domain and is part of the cited work.
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Sweet Tomato chutney made in a quick and easy way using a pressure cooker. You can make it fresh in small quantities as and when required as it hardly takes 10 minutes from start to finish. You can serve it with parathas, mathis or puris.
1. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add the whole spices.
2. Reduce the flame and add all the remaining ingredients.
3. Close the pressure cooker.
4. After one whistle (when the pressure is full) reduce the flame and simmer for 5 minutes.
5. Allow it to cool. Fill in the sterilized jar.
Note: If you want the colour to remain clear and lighter use normal sugar. I like using demerara sugar.
You can serve it with parathas, mathis or puris.
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Multiple vaccinations weakens the immune system – a myth
If you explore the dark and myth filled back alleys of the antivaccination movement, you will find a wide variety of myths that try to convince people that vaccinating children is dangerous. I've covered and refuted many of the myths, although the vaccine deniers tend to rely on zombie myths that keep returning over and over again, never quite dying.
These myths range from outrageous, such as it's a conspiracy of the government to control population (which I find odd, since the government is barely competent enough to build a post office), to scientific sounding, but ultimately pseudoscientific claims. There are a lot of great websites that debunk many of the myths, and they're easy to find.
One of the most annoying legends of the antivaccination cult is that multiple vaccinations weakens the immune system of the poor baby's tender physiology. About that immune system? It's comparatively strong relative to almost every other organ system in the body.
One of the big proponents of the alternative vaccination is schedule is Dr. Bob Sears, who pushes the myth is that there are a lot of vaccinations. And tries to sell a lot of nonsense on his website, but that's a different story. The meme to the left is one that promoted by a lot of vaccine deniers (or again, vaccine delayers) that the number of vaccines has increased over the years. And, yes it has, partially because we have a lot of new vaccines since the 1980's, but also, we have more scientific evidence that has fine-tuned the vaccine schedule to prevent diseases that can harm.
This unscientific myth has it's basis on a belief that somehow all of these vaccines are going to damage the immune system, because "that's just too many antigens for the young child's immune system." Or the vaccine deniers/delayers invent preposterous claims these excess vaccines "use up" the immune system (yes, use up). Or that because vaccines aren't natural, they mess up the immune system. I'm sure there are other anti-scientific claims, I may not have looked hard enough.
Of course, I'd like to see the evidence for these claims. Anyone? Is there a peer-reviewed paper somewhere that establishes that anyone, a baby, child or adult, other than those with chronic diseases, has an immune system that cannot tolerate the extremely low number of antigens from vaccines?
The medical and scientific evidence tell us a completely different story.
Mark Crislip, in the Quackwatch article, Do Children Get Too Many Immunizations? The Answer is No stated that, "delaying vaccines increases the time during which children are susceptible to certain diseases, some of which are still fairly common. Chickenpox, whooping cough, influenza, and pneumococcus still cause hospitalizations and deaths in previously healthy children. Spacing out or separating vaccines will also require more doctor visits, which will increase overall costs as well as the number of times the children must experience any associated discomfort and stress."
Paul A. Offit, MD Charlotte A. Moser, BS concluded that, "at the heart of the problem with Sears' schedules is the fact that, at the very least, they will increase the time during which children are susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases. If more parents insist on Sears' vaccine schedules, then fewer children will be protected, with the inevitable consequence of continued or worsening outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. In an effort to protect children from harm, Sears' book will likely put more in harm's way."
Once again, Crislip, in the Science Based Medicine article Alternative Vaccination Schedules opined that, "the preponderance of information in the medical literature on vaccinations is as clear as any topic in medicine. Vaccines are effective and they are safe. The best bet for keeping your child, and your community, healthy is to get vaccinated and to do it on schedule. There are people who see the issue differently, and is often the case, the reasons are more subtle and complicated that one would except. And there is still much to be understood as to why people do and do not participate in the vaccination schedule."
But there's more
Let's take a look at what actually happens in the real world with children's immune systems. In this paper, researchers discovered that:
In each cubic meter of air, there are between 1.6 million and 40 million viruses.
In each cubic meter of air, there are between 860,000 and 11 million bacteria.
A child inhales about 5 liters of air per minute (or about .005 cubic meters), so a few hundred thousand viruses and bacteria are inhaled every minute every day of the year. And the researchers discovered that many were unknown species of viruses and bacteria, so the immune system has to adapt to them with each breath.
Thus, the 25-30 antigens from vaccines (depending on the age of the child and the number of different flu vaccines that they've received) is not even a significant number compared to the millions upon millions of viral and bacterial antigens that enter a child's lungs every day or week. The tiny number of antigens introduced by vaccines barely register on the immune system's massive and robust power to deal with antigens.
The antivaccination cultists fail to realize the incredible power of the immune system. It "memorizes" literally billions, if not a 1000 times more, of antigens. The handful of antigens contained by vaccines are critical because of the virulence and danger to human health of those particular pathogens–the immune system just adds that information into its memory bank, it doesn't get overwhelmed by it.
The complicated and powerful immune system doesn't get weakened by the "knowledge" from the vaccines. It just moves on to the next antigen, one of the few million that it sees every day. The immune system does not get weaker, unless you have chronic diseases or malnutrition. You can't make it stronger, but vaccines cause it to adapt to that particular antigen, so that it "remembers" what to do the next time it encounters that antigen.
This is easy. Vaccines simply cause the development of adaptive immunity to a pathogen or antigen. This is something that happens a millions of times a day in a healthy child, teenager, and adult. If the vaccine denialists could bring one tiny bit of evidence that vaccines did something different than cause that adaptive immunity, then we could talk. But they can't.
As Paul Offit summarized in Addressing Parents' Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant's Immune System?:
Current studies do not support the hypothesis that multiple vaccines overwhelm, weaken, or "use up" the immune system. On the contrary, young infants have an enormous capacity to respond to multiple vaccines, as well as to the many other challenges present in the environment. By providing protection against a number of bacterial and viral pathogens, vaccines prevent the "weakening" of the immune system and consequent secondary bacterial infections occasionally caused by natural infection.
So more evidence that vaccines do not do what vaccine deniers claim they do. And they do precisely what scientists think they do–save lives.
So, multiple vaccinations weakens the immune system? Definitely a myth unsupported by real science.
Editor's note: This article was originally published in October 2013. It has been completely revised and updated to include more comprehensive information, to improve readability and to add current research.
Offit PA, Moser CA. The problem with Dr Bob's alternative vaccine schedule. Pediatrics. 2009 Jan;123(1):e164-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2008-2189. Review. PubMed PMID: 19117838. Impact factor=5.119.
Offit PA, Quarles J, Gerber MA, Hackett CJ, Marcuse EK, Kollman TR, Gellin BG, Landry S. Addressing parents' concerns: do multiple vaccines overwhelm or weaken the infant's immune system? Pediatrics. 2002 Jan;109(1):124-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 11773551. Impact factor=5.119.
Whon TW, Kim MS, Roh SW, Shin NR, Lee HW, Bae JW. Metagenomic characterization of airborne viral DNA diversity in the near-surface atmosphere. J Virol. 2012 Aug;86(15):8221-31. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00293-12. Epub 2012 May 23. PubMed PMID: 22623790; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3421691. Impact factor=5.076.
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White House says Vladimir Putin had direct role in hacking US election
Press secretary Josh Earnest argued Donald Trump knew Russia was engaged in cyber-attacks, and Trump went on the attack at a Pennsylvania rally to label him 'foolish'
Latest: Obama promises retaliation against Russia over hacking
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Fri 16 Dec 2016 03.50 EST First published on Thu 15 Dec 2016 17.30 EST
Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington Thursday. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP
The White House on Thursday went its furthest yet in joining the dots between Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump risks damaging intelligence agencies, warns former CIA chief
Press secretary Josh Earnest indicated that he shared the view of US intelligence officials, reported by NBC News, that Putin had a direct role in hacking during the presidential election.
He also argued that Trump knew Russia was engaged in malicious cyber-attacks that boosted him and damaged his rival, Hillary Clinton.
But asked directly if the White House believes that Russia successfully rigged the US presidential election, Earnest told reporters "there are a variety of potential explanations" for Trump's surprise win. It was a question for political analysts, he said, not intelligence analysts.
Although there is no evidence that Russians hacked voting machines on election day, intelligence officials have claimed Russians were behind the raid on Clinton campaign chairperson John Podesta's emails, which were published by WikiLeaks and featured regularly in media coverage of the race.
Earnest pointed White House reporters to a unanimous statement from all 17 intelligence agencies, issued in October, that found "only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities".
The press secretary said that in his personal view, that sentence was "not intended to be subtle", adding that it was "pretty obvious that they were referring to the senior-most government official in Russia".
Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, agreed in an interview on MSNBC.
"I don't think things happen in the Russian government of this consequence without Vladimir Putin knowing about it," he said.
The Kremlin rejected the claim of Putin's involvement, spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissing it as "amusing rubbish that has no basis in fact", in a conference call with reporters.
Despite outward cordiality between Obama and Trump, the issue is straining relations between their teams. Trump himself weighed in on Thursday, using Twitter to ask: "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
Earnest, who normally swerves past Trump's tweets, noted that the intelligence community had in fact issued its statement on 7 October, a month before polling day.
"It was obvious to everyone who was paying attention," he said, "including the gentleman whose thumbs authored that tweet, that the impact of that malicious activity benefited the Trump campaign and hurt the Clinton campaign.
"That is, after all, why the president-elect called on Russia to hack Secretary Clinton's email.
"That is presumably why the coverage of the hack-and-leak operation that Russia carried out was focused on emails from the Democratic party and Clinton campaign staffers and not the Republican party and Trump campaign staffers."
He added: "That is why, in the day leading up to election day, the Republican nominee himself was encouraging people to check out WikiLeaks. He thought it would help his campaign.
"And he knew that when people went to WikiLeaks, they weren't going to find damaging information about [his allies] Steve Bannon or Reince Priebus or the RNC [Republican National Committee]."
Donald Trump to Russia: hack and publish Hillary Clinton's 'missing' emails
At his last press conference, in July, Trump effectively asked a foreign power to carry out cyber-espionage, entreating Russia to find Clinton's 30,000 "missing" emails, from the private server she used while secretary of state.
His aides have since claimed he was joking, but Earnest said pointedly on Thursday: "I don't think anybody at the White House thinks it's funny that an adversary of the United States engaged in malicious cyber activity to destabilise our democracy.
"That's not a joke."
Later on Thursday, Trump launched a brazen attack on Earnest at a post-election rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, branding him "foolish" and speculating, without evidence, that he might be "taking orders from someone else".
At the rally, Trump moved to stop the boisterous crowd booing when he mentioned Obama's name, waving his hand and saying, "No, no, no!"
But then, seemingly as a fresh thought occurred to him, he digressed: "Although this foolish guy, Josh Earnest, I don't know if he's talking to President Obama. You know, having the right press secretary's so important because he is so bad, the way he delivers a message.
"He can deliver a positive message and it sounds bad. He could say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated Isis,' and it wouldn't sound good, OK, all right? I have a feeling they won't be saying it but we will be saying it."
The crowd cheered. The Republican nominee added: "The president's very positive but he's not positive and I mean, maybe he's getting his orders from somebody else. Does that make sense? Could that be possible?"
Although Obama and Trump have been studiously polite about each other, their lieutenants seem to be taking the gloves off. Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, who is said to have turned down the job of press secretary, described Earnest's criticism as "breathtaking". She told Fox News: "I guess he's auditioning to be a political pundit after his job is over soon. That is incredibly disappointing to hear from the podium of the White House press secretary."
But David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Obama, said it was "highly unlikely" Earnest was acting without the president's approval. "A press secretary doesn't go out and make statements like that on an unauthorised basis," he told CNN.
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Al Wong, Title; "Slice in the Park." 2'H X 3'W. medium: photo and mix media. 2018.
Al Wong, Title; "Two, The Park." 3'H X 4'W. medium: photo and mix media. 2017. When the viewer see's their reflection, in the image of the mirror's, one may feel they are also in the environment.
Al Wong, Title: "Break in the Night, part 2." 8'H x 12'W, photo and mixed media. When the viewer see's their own reflection, in the broken glass, one may feel they are also in the environment.
Al Wong, This is a video of the piece titled "Break in the Night, part 2." to give a feeling of how one might experience the work.
Al Wong "Our Reflection," ©2017, 6'W x 3'H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong, Video documentation of "Our Reflection," ©2017, 6'W x 3'H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong "Three Equals One," ©2017, 17″W x 22″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong "Studio Window 1," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong. Video documentation of "Studio Window 1," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong "Kitchen Window 1," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong, Video documentation of "Kitchen Window 1," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong "Kitchen Window 2," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong, Video documentation of "Kitchen Window 2," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong "Red Room Window," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong, Video documentation of "Red Room Window," ©2017, 24″W x 36″H, color digital photo & mixed media.
Al Wong "Break in the Night," ©2017, 5'W x 5'H or size variable, 16 color digital photos & mixed media.
Al Wong, Video Documentation of "Break in the Night," ©2017, 5'W x 5'H or size variable, 16 color digital photos & mixed media.
Al Wong "Point of View," ©2017, Size variable, color digital print & mixed media.
Al Wong, Video documentation of "Point of View," ©2017, Size variable, color digital print & mixed media.
Al Wong "In Between," ©2017, 24″H x 36'W, color digital print & mixed media.
This work brings the viewer in between two different spaces.
Al Wong "Light & B.B. Standing," ©2017, 18″W x 24″H, color digital photo & light.
Photo of sunlight on a wall. By having the sunlight lit from the back of the photo, it reveals how the sunlight was like on the wall.
Al Wong, "Four from the Sun," ©2017, 2'H x 4'W, Wood and Color Photos.
I am collapsing past and present in capturing sunlight that is elusive but remains fixed in time in this work.
Al Wong, "Cutting Through," ©2017, 3'H x 4'W, Multiple Color Photos.
Al Wong, "Silverware," ©2017, 3'H x 4'W, Multiple Color Photos.
Al Wong, "The Light is Up," ©2018, 8'H x 11.5″W, Photos.
This piece depicts photos of candles with the flame on the photo burned by the candle itself.
Al Wong, "Reflection of You," ©2016, 5'4″H x 4'W, Photos and Varnish.
This piece depicts photos of mirrors with varnish added which mirrors back the viewer.
Al Wong, "Ladder," ©2017, 8'H x 3′.4″W, Photos.
This piece consists of twelve photographs installed on a corner.
Al Wong, "Yesterday and Today," ©2015, 3'H x 1.5'W, Plant leaves and Black and White Photograph.
The plant leaf exists today and the photo is yesterday; everything is impermanent.
Al Wong, "Paper Sister," ©2017, 8.5″W x 11″H. Series of 73 Photo collages.
Al Wong, "Lost Sister," ©2014, 8.5″W x 11″H. Series of 64 Photo collage.
I am pleased to share pictures of "Lost Sister" on display at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive from March 28, 2018 to June 17, 2018.


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'It's embarrassing. It's brought a mark on our country': Belarusian Olympic long jumper hits out at Timanovskaya for Tokyo row
Mironchyk-Ivanova has criticised Belarusian teammate Kristina Timanovskaya (left & right) - Instagram / Mironchyk-Ivanova; Kristina Timanovskaya - Reuters (centre)
Belarusian Olympic long jumper Nasstasia Mironchyk-Ivanova has criticised teammate Kristina Timanovskaya for the "embarrassing" situation surrounding her row with Belarusian national team officials at Tokyo 2020.
READ MORE: 'We got signals something was going on': Belarus coach says Timanovskaya 'behaving strangely' at Olympics before flight scandal
Timanovskaya was due to compete in the 200m women's event on Monday but was withdrawn after criticising the Belarusian team hierarchy and athletes after a mix-up with the required amount of doping tests for competition resulted in certain athletes being ruled ineligible to race.
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That meant Timanovskaya was brought in as an emergency replacement to compete in the 4x400m relay, which led to her hitting out at what she claimed was incompetence by team officials.
Fearing she will be jailed upon returning to her homeland, Timanovskaya is currently seeking asylum elsewhere, with neighbouring Poland and Czechia having offered a visa to the 24-year-old athlete for protection, and her husband and son in Belarus having reportedly fled across the boarder Ukraine.
Mironchyk-Ivanova, who finished 6th in Group B of the women's long jump in Tokyo on Sunday, has however spoken out about the "negativity" and "chaotic energy" that she says emanated from Timanovskaya towards her and her teammates, and labeled the entire fallout "embarrassing" in an interview with Belarusian television.
"I think it is very embarrassing for an athlete of such a level," the 32-year-old said on a broadcast for state-owned news channel Belarus-1. "For an athlete of our national team, defending the honor of the flag, the honor of the country, to become embroiled in such a situation."
READ MORE: 'I am worried about my safety': Athlete fears she will go to jail if she returns to Belarus, could seek asylum in Germany, Austria
"Unfortunately we're all very upset. There were many times I observed her and felt that negativity that was also directed me, and not only me, other athletes can back that up.
"We saw some kind of anxiety, some kind of chaotic motion, something was worrying her, gnawing away at her. At that time she was very calm and quiet in the sense that she didn't hang out her dirty laundry in public as they say.
"But after that there were some actions that really disappointed us all and all the supporters and brought blemish on our country. It's really not a nice situation."
Timanovskaya was booked onto a flight back to Belarus by national team officials after being withdrawn from the Olympics due to perceived disruptive behaviour, but the 24-year-old sought help from police at Haneda airport.
It is understood Timanovskaya did not board the flight and the plane is still grounded at Haneda.
She reportedly feared being repressed under president Alexander Lukashenko's government upon returning to Belarus, however officials said she was being removed from the Olympic team due to her "emotional and psychological condition."
Speaking at the weekend, Timanovskaya said she feared for her safety due to the matter having spiralled out of the control of the national team's jurisdiction.
"I am worried about my safety. And I think that at the moment it is not safe for me in Belarus," she said.
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"As Moisevich told me, this issue is no longer at the level of the [athletics] federation, not at the level of the Ministry of Sports, but at a higher level.
"[They decided] I need to be eliminated from the Olympics and returned home because I interfere with the team's performance."
A 22-year-old Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova became well-known when her hairstyle prevented her from winning gold at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, when the tip of her ponytail landed behind her body, ending up with bronze instead.
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These passages outline an evolution of concepts that try to give the field of son ta the complexity and discourse it deserves. But to me the most important part of my work and the most ineffable, is studio work. As eloquent as written text can be, to me it sits only on the threshold of what paint and substance is for the painter. I am not referring to the mere production of an image or the image as the object of analysis but the mind and human productivity as it pushes and pulls inert substances to become something.
Painting returns to full response to the Act of living in the world doing without mediatization of the rational mind. As a process, it is a way of empirically verify the philosophy on the body of a particular craft that resists the tragic alienation of the systems and the passage of time. Always timeless, is for me the most singular space of heterotopia.


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Q: Read Parquet files directly while using Postgres I am trying to install an extension to postgres that will help me write postgres queries to read data directly from parquet files.
This is the extension I found - https://github.com/pgspider/parquet_s3_fdw
After installing the required dependencies I went ahead and tried running the 'make' command.
make install

But ends up with an error
Makefile:45: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target '/contrib/contrib-global.mk'.  Stop.

Has anyone else tried using this extension ? Or can you suggest me some other way to read data directly from parquet files while using postgres ? (Please note: conversion from parquet to any other format is not allowed under the circumstances that I'm trying this)
Thanks

A: I'm not sure about the error there but the FDW you referenced is for accessing parquet files on S3 which you didn't mention as a requirement. You might want to try a simpler version like https://github.com/adjust/parquet_fdw

A: For reference see the answers to Patel's question here: https://github.com/pgspider/parquet_s3_fdw/issues/7
Long story short, the solution is to append USE_PGXS=1 to the make install command:
$ make install USE_PGXS=1

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首页 > 新闻 > Kyrsten Sinema
Deng Zhongxia said a famous quote, Look! Is the world a work of art? Without labor there is no world.Then, the next problem is easy to solve.This sentence brings us to a new dimension to think about this problem.
Tagore said that inadvertently, We should not be at any price to keep our friendship, so that it is defiled. If you have to sacrifice friendship for that great love, that's no way to do it; but if you can keep it, it will be a perfect state.In this inevitable conflict, we must solve this problem.I hope everybody can also understand this sentence well.
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Mencken once said a famous say, Loyalty can be simply defined as an illogical belief in an impossible situation.This issue has caused wide public concern for Kyrsten Sinema.This inspired me how to develop next.
Compton said a famous quote, What is the greatest gift that science has given to mankind? Is the power to believe in the truth.A large number of people tend to live under the illusion that for Kyrsten Sinema. Obviously,they seem to fail to take into account the basic fact that for Kyrsten Sinema.With these words, we have to examine this issue more carefully!
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Montaigne once said a famous say, One must have three heads, a natural mind, a mind that comes from a book, and a mind that comes from life.As we all know, as long as it is meaningful, it must be carefully considered.This seems to answer my doubts.
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BMW Fall 2020 Model Update Focuses On Increased Efficiency
BMW has just announced a number of upgrades and updates for some of its models as a part of the company's annual fall update cycle. The improvements for Fall 2020 focus mainly on increased efficiency and reduced emissions but there are also other novelties worth talking about.
First of all, BMW says all its models, in all their versions, now comply with the Euro 6d emissions standards. The 5 Series benefits from the introduction of three additional plug-in hybrid models, the 545e xDrive Sedan, 530e Touring, and 530e xDrive Touring. The first one of them uses a six-cylinder PHEV system, while the 530e models rely on four-cylinder 2.0-liter gasoline units. All in all, the 5 Series now offers a portfolio of five different plug-in hybrid models, for which BMW says is "the largest selection of models with electrified drive" in the segment.
Diesel may be a dirty word here in the United States but customers on the European market are still hungry for torquey compression ignition engines. BMW answers those needs with new six-cylinder, 48-volt mild-hybrid diesel engines for the 3 Series and 8 Series models. The new units generate 286 horsepower (210 kilowatts) and 340 hp (250 kW) in the 30d and 40d variants, respectively. Thanks to the added electrical support, the 330d Sedan, for example, sprints from a standstill to 62 miles per hour (0-100 kilometers per hour) in just 5.3 seconds.
BMW's smallest vehicles on sale also get new engines. There's a new 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine in the 116i, as well as a new four-cylinder unit in the 120i. The 216d Gran Coupé receives a new three-cylinder diesel with a peak output of 116 hp (85 kW), which gives the model a 0-62 mph (0-100 kph) sprint in 10.3 seconds.
Other upgrades that will be available from November 2020 include the Urban Cruise Control function, new digital services for the infotainment system, new headlights variants for the X1 and X2, and new paint finishes for a number of models. Full details are available at the press release section below.
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Prestressed concrete is a form of concrete used in construction which is "pre-stressed" by being placed under compression prior to supporting any loads beyond its own dead weight.: and fast construction often results in prestressed concrete showing significant cost benefits in building structures compared to alternative structural materials.
Advantages and disadvantages of ready-mix concrete Materials are combined in a batch plant, and the hydration process begins at the moment water meets the Portland cement, so the travel time from the plant to the site is critical over longer distances.
With mobile ready-mix, the concrete isn't mixed until it is time to pour, meaning that you get it at its maximum strength. Advantages of a mobile mix dispenser: • Concrete is mixed and discharged as it is needed.
Sustainable Benefits of Ready-Mix Concrete We continuously work to improve the properties of concrete that make it a key component of sustainable construction: durability, resistance to aggressive environments, light reflection, and capacity to store energy, among others.
Introduction to Ready Mix Concrete Plant Posted on February 22, 2012 by Mitul Patel The ready mix concrete plant is used to manufacture ready-mix concrete which is used in all the construction projects.
CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V., known as Cemex, is a Mexican multinational building materials company headquartered in San Pedro, near Monterrey, Mexico.It manufactures and distributes cement, ready-mix concrete and aggregates in more than 50 countries. It is the second largest building materials company worldwide, only after LafargeHolcim.
The cost of ready-mixed concrete, since it is a bought commodity, is some what higher than that mixed at the site, but this is often offset by savings in site organization, in supervising staff, and in cement content.
what is ready mix concrete.what are the advantage of ready mix concrete,what are the disadvantage of ready mix concrete.


Your estate plan will contain space to list instructions for burial, cremation and/or organ donation.
For burial or cremation, many places offer prepaid plans in which you can purchase your plot and pay for costs upfront. People will often take out a small insurance policy to cover final expenses. It is not uncommon for these costs to average between $5,000 and $10,000.
Resomation, or green cremation, is a new alternative to cremation being introduced to the United States.
It may be surprising to some to learn that with only a few exceptions all of the major religions affirm and celebrate organ and tissue donation.
Words like caring, sharing, compassion, and sacrifice are at the heart of most religions.
Organ and tissue donation is generally considered to be the ultimate humanitarian act of benevolence. If you have questions, consult your religious advisor and contact Four Peaks Planning, Inc. if you find incorrect information below.
While the church has no official policy on organ and tissue donation, the denomination has been highly supportive of donation in the past. However, the decision to donate is left to each individual.
Donation is supported as an act of charity; the decision to donate up to the individual.
Buddhists believe the donation of organ and tissue is a matter of individual conscience and place high value on acts of compassion. Reverend Gyomay, President and Founder of the Buddhist Temple of Chicago says, "We honor those people who donate their bodies and organs to the advancement of medical science and to saving lives."
Catholics view organ/tissue donation as an act of charity and love. Transplants are morally and ethically tolerable to the Vatican. Pope John Paul II called upon Catholics and people of good faith everywhere to move from a "culture of death" toward a celebration and reflection of the glory of God in a "culture of life."
The Church of Christ Scientist does not have an explicit position; the question of organ and tissue donation is an individual decision. Christian Scientists normally rely on spiritual means of healing instead of medical. They are free, however, to choose whatever form of medical treatment they desire � including a transplant.
The donation of organs and tissues is a selfless act that often results in great benefit to individuals with medical conditions. The decision to will or donate one's own body organs or tissue for medical purposes, or the decision to authorize the transplant of organs or tissue from a deceased family member, is made by the individual or the deceased member's family. The decision to receive a donated organ should be made after receiving medical counsel and confirmation through prayer.
The Church encourages members who do not object personally to support donor and recipient anatomical gifts through living wills and trusts. Additionally, the Church appeals for morally and ethically fair distribution of organs to those eligible to receive them.
The Episcopal Church now recognizes the life-giving benefits of organ, blood, and tissue donation. All Christians are encouraged to become donors "as part of their ministry to others in the name of Christ, who gave his life that we may have life in its fullness."
Hindus are not prohibited from donation as confirmed by religious laws. This act is an individual's decision. Nothing in the Hindu religion indicates that human tissue and organs cannot be used to ease the affliction of other humans.
Islams strongly believe in the principle of saving human lives. The majorities of Muslim scholars, belonging to various schools of Islamic law have called upon the principle of saving human lives and have permitted organ transplant for the same reason.
Jehovah Witnesses believe donation is a matter of individual decision. However, there are limitations pertaining to blood transfusion. Jehovah Witnesses are often presumed to be opposed to donation because of their belief against blood transfusion. This only means all blood must be removed from the organs and tissues before being transplanted. It would not be tolerable, though, for an organ donor to receive blood as part of the organ recovery process.
All four branches (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist) support and encourage donation.
Lutherans believe donation contributes to the well-being of humanity and can be "an expression of sacrificial love for a neighbor in need." They call on "members to consider donating organs and to make any necessary family and legal arrangements, including the use of a signed donor card."
Mennonites have no official position on donation, but are not opposed to it. They believe the decision to donate is up to the individual and/or their family.
Pentecostals believe the decision to donate should be left up to the individual.
Presbyterians encourage and support donation. They respect the right to make decisions for their own body.
Because of the many different Protestant denominations, a generalized statement on their attitudes toward organ/tissue donation cannot be made. However, the denominations share a common belief in the New Testament. (Luke 6:38 Give to others and God will give to you.) The Protestant faith respects individual conscience and a person's right to make decisions regarding his or her own body. It is also generally not believed that resurrection involves making the physical body whole again.
Donation and transplantation are strongly encouraged by Seventh-Day Adventists. They have many transplant hospitals, including Loma Linda in California.
In Shinto, the dead body is considered to be impure and dangerous, and thus quite powerful. Families are often concerned that they not injure the itai - the relationship between the dead person and the bereaved people.
Unitarian Universalists affirms the natural worth and dignity of every person and respect the interdependent web of all existence. They state the value of organ and tissue donation, but leave the decision to each individual.
Organ and tissue donation is to be encouraged, assuming appropriate safeguards against hastening death and determination of death by reliable criteria. United Methodist recognize the life-giving benefits of organ and tissue donors by signing and carrying cards or driver's licenses, attesting to their commitment of such organs upon their death, to those in need, as part of their ministry to others in the name of Christ, who gave his life that we might have life in its fullness.
Four Peaks Planning, Inc. does not endorse any particular action for one's final remains. However, we have agreed to provide links to accredited programs dealing with organ donation and whole body donation for medical research, training and professional education.
Science Care pays all costs for donation: transportation from the place of passing to their medical facility, death certificate filing, cremation and return of cremated remains. Their programs contribute to new breakthroughs and developments in medicine, including advanced phyisician training and development of new medical devices for more effective treatment of patients.


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Tackling global warming through the promotion of clean cooking energy in Ghana
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The world's poor are continuously affected by the low availability of sustainable and reliable energy, with increasing difficulty in remote areas. Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being as well as to countries' economic development. Mark Kojo Medegli, Sustainability Leader of United People Global, explains what the way forward looks like.
Mark Kojo Medegli, Sustainability Leader, United People Global, Switzerland
Monday April 11 2022
Globally, over 1.1 billion people live without access to electricity and almost 3 billion people lack clean cooking facilities (SNV, 2022).
The world's poor are continuously affected by the low availability of sustainable and reliable energy, with increasing difficulty in remote areas. Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being as well as to countries' economic development.
As of 2020, roughly two million metric tons of wood charcoal were estimated to have been produced in Ghana. The production volume of this product increased by 56.71 thousand metric tons from 2017. Furthermore, between 2010 and 2020, the quantity of charcoal produced from wood increased progressively. Charcoal and fuelwood have been identified as major sources of cooking energy used by households in both rural and urban areas leading to 136,600 tree cover loss (Dokua, 2022).
Despite a dip in CO2 emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP, 2020).
But a low-carbon recovery could cut 25% off the emissions UN Environment Programme (UNEP,2020).
Aside from causing global warming, nearly four (4) million people a year die from illnesses linked to cooking with polluting fuels, and women are most affected(World Economic Forum, 2021).
Inhaling these toxic fumes kills more people than malaria – and women are disproportionately affected.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) latest data estimates that around 3.8 million people die each year from illnesses, including pneumonia and lung cancer, linked to household air pollution (HAP) from cooking over stoves indoors with these solid fuels and kerosene.
In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 80% of the population has to rely on these fuels (World Economic Forum, 2021).
In Nigeria alone, firewood smoke kills 93,000 women and children (Chido, O.W,2020).
The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Report, released on December 9, 2020, highlighted the need for urgent investments in climate action as part of COVID-19 recovery, to bring the world closer to the Paris Agreement goal of at most a 2-degree Celsius temperature rise.
Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, highlighted that a truly green recovery from the pandemic can take "a huge slice out of greenhouse gas emissions" and slow climate change.
"I urge governments to back a green recovery in the next stage of COVID-19 fiscal interventions and raise significantly their climate ambitions in 2021," she said.
The green recovery could cut expected emissions in 2030 by up to 25 per cent, and boost the chance of keeping temperature rise to below 2-degree Celsius, up to 66 per cent, according the report.
Measures such as supporting zero-emissions technologies and, fossil fuel subsidies, stopping new coal plants, and promoting nature-based solutions – including large-scale landscape restoration and reforestation – must be prioritized.
In the case of Ghana and other African countries, governments, NGO's and corporate organizations must invest into initiatives and emerging businesses that aims at producing sustainable clean and affordable cooking energy to local dwellers and the entire citizenry in Ghana and Africa to mitigate global warming.
Tax waivers must be issued to young local entrepreneurs who are striving to start clean cooking business.
More so, urgent investment into green farming, live stock farming must be prioritized to ensure the adequate availability of organic raw materials for the clean cooking energy production.
Furthermore, measures must be put in place to ensure access to equitable funding from financial institutions for businesses that are into clean cooking energy production.
Finally, there is the need to encourage less red meat consumption whilst promoting aqua farming to ensure adequate availability of fishes as an alternative consumption for red meat.
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July 27, 2018 7:50 PM PT
The NL East-leading Philadelphia Phillies acquired infielder Asdrubal Cabrera from the New York Mets for double-A pitching prospect Franklyn Kilome.
Cabrera was hitting .277 with 18 home runs and 58 RBIs as the Mets' second baseman. The 32-year-old Cabrera was a two-time All-Star shortstop for Cleveland earlier in his career. He can also play third base and shortstop.
The 23-year-old Kilome was 4-6 with a 4.24 ERA in 19 starts for Reading in the Eastern League.
The Seattle Mariners bolstered their bullpen by acquiring right-handed reliever Sam Tuivailala (3-3, 3.69 ERA in 31 games) from the St. Louis Cardinals for minor league pitcher Seth Elledge. ... The Arizona Diamondbacks acquired switch-hitting infielder Eduardo Escobar from the Minnesota Twins for three prospects. The 29-year-old Escobar hit .274 with 15 home runs, 63 RBIs and a major league-best 37 doubles in 97 games this season, his seventh with the Twins.
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Studio 85 is used as a general fitness studio and is also programmed for spin classes. This room houses 21 spin bikes and TRX anchors.
Studio 87 is known as the CORE room and is typically programmed for ball workouts focusing on an individual's core body strength. This studio also houses our kickboxing stations.


I've been planning to write about wine tourism for a while. To talk about the sheer pleasure of visiting vineyards, trying the wines, and learning a bit about different varieties and customs associated with wine. So where better to start than with my recent forays into wine tourism in Cyprus.
Cyprus is blessed with ideal conditions for viticulture, particularly in the central region of the Troodos Mountains. It is an ancient tradition: archaeologists have found flasks used in wine production almost 6000 years ago. The Cyprus grape is even mentioned in the Old Testament.
The importance of wine in the classical era is shown by the fact that the Pafos Archaeological Site, on the west coast of Cyprus, has a whole house dedicated to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. This is a Roman villa from the 2nd century which is full of mosaics, including pictures of Dionysus revealing the secret of wine, and quaffing from his own cup while tempting a nymph with a bunch of grapes. There is even a mosaic with two drunken shepherds, the earliest known depiction of drunkenness.
One of the most famous Cypriot wines is Commanderia, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest named wine in the world. This is a rich, sweet dessert wine, also used as a communion wine in Cypriot churches. King Richard I of England is reputed to have drunk Commanderia at his wedding in Limassol in 1191, and to have declared it "the wine of kings and the king of wines".
If you want to learn more, and to try some of the wines for yourself, a good place to start is the Cyprus Wine Museum, to the north of Limassol. We were shown round by Maria who explained a bit about modern wine production in Cyprus. Then we looked at the displays, which traced the history of wine making in Cyprus from the earliest times to the present day.
The museum was small and didn't take long to explore, but for us the most important part of the visit was the wine tasting. Maria poured a succession of wines from different vineyards, starting with Xinisteri, made from a white grape that is native to Cyprus. Then there were a variety of rose and red wines, including the all-important Commanderia. When we had finished we bought another glass of red wine and spent some time relaxing in the sunny courtyard outside the museum.
The Cyprus Tourism Organisation has produced a list of seven wine routes in different parts of the island. We were based in Larnaca, which we discovered wasn't the best area for viticulture. However, the Mountainous Larnaka – Lefkosia route did have a couple of vineyards close to us, and we went to have a look.
The first mentioned was Ktima Dafermou, which turned out not to be offering wine tastings. But we got a friendlier welcome at Ktima Christoudia, close to Kato Drys. Here Alexia, the co-owner of the vineyard, let us try a selection from their production. This included Xinisteri and Commanderia, and the Christoudias Spourtico, billed as one of the top ten wines of Cyprus. There was even a sweet red wine named after Alexia herself!
An added bonus of Ktima Christoudia was that Alexia offered to show us the production area. We saw all of the machinery, starting with a machine to separate grapes from their stems. Then there were the vats and the bottling area, and the darkened room where the barrels were kept once they had been filled. One area of interest was a room where soutzoukkos were setting. These are a Cypriot speciality – sweets made from almonds dipped in grape jelly.
We came away with a few bottles of wine and a packet of soutzoukkos. One point to note before you embark on a bit of wine tourism: although there was an entry fee for the Cyprus Wine Museum, most vineyards in Cyprus don't make a charge for wine tastings. There is therefore an expectation that you will purchase a bottle or two. This limited us a bit as we were travelling hand luggage only, and we could only buy as much as we could drink before we flew home!
I've not yet been to Cyprus, but as I now know it is a wine destination, it's just moved up a few notches on my wish list! Thx for the great post.
We have timeshare weeks in Cyprus and we have not been. Possibly next year! I would love to taste that soutzoukkos! And my husband is a wine connoisseur!
Cyprus is on my list of places to visit, and I would definitely enjoy following the wine trail. Just sitting and sipping in the courtyard of the Cyprus Wine Museum looks divine.
Cyprus is definitely on our future's list so this is now definitely on the 'what-to-do-when-we-are-there' list. Interesting post!!
I enjoy the way wine tours reveal so much of the history and geology of a place. Long live Dionysus.