Jesus,
A beauty contest
is only to focus on judging and ranking
body traits of the players.
So these contests disturb societies,
especially our Eastern society.
These contests make our society
focusing only on judging and ranking
body traits of our women and girls. Continue reading Prayer 573
30 Nov 2018 by Energiewende Team at Energy Transition
Coal is now more expensive than renewable energy – and while this is good news for the climate, it’s bad news for developing countries who have invested in coal. Renato Redentor Constantino looks at how Japan and Korea are divesting, and the IMF’s opinion on stranded assets.
A barge transports coal on the Mahakam river, Indonesia: the country is subsidizing coal, despite its risks (Photo by Andrew Taylor/WDM, CC BY 2.0)
Countries in Southeast Asia who have invested in coal are finding themselves high and dry.
Because of competition from renewable energy, the Philippines is facing at least $21 billion in stranded coal plant assets, representing all new proposals in the pipeline. The figure represents over a fourth of the country’s national budget.
By David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, Glenn Thrush and Alan Rappeport
WASHINGTON — The cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain that collected personal details of roughly 500 million guests was part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering effort that also hacked health insurers and the security clearance files of millions more Americans, according to two people briefed on the investigation.
TĐH: Mình đăng lại bài này của một người hoc trò nói về GS Phil Grub, vì GS là một thành viên trong ban giám đốc thời mình thành lập Vietnamese American Education Foundation năm 1992 để bắt đầu công cuộc giúp phát triển đất nước.
GS Grub, với một network bạn ở Châu Á là người giúp được mình nhiều việc thời bấy giờ, đặc biệt là việc mở lớp luật tại Bộ Tu Pháp VN tháng 9 năm 1992, là việc mà lúc đó nhiều người cho là “không thể.”
The passing of Phil Grub, my Professor, Academic Advisor, and Friend
I recently learned of the passing of my Professor, Academic Advisor and Friend, Phil Grub (picture ) who succumbed to cancer on April 14, 2008. Phil was a unique American who had the ability to sport and develop talent, especially from the developing world. He took a particular interest in my education at the George Washington University School of Business, Washington DC.
Jesus,
“A time for everything
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build, Continue reading Prayer 572
Jim Finkle, Christopher Bing, Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A senior U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday that Chinese cyber activity in the United States had risen in recent months, targeting critical infrastructure in what may be attempts to lay the groundwork for future disruptive attacks.
“You worry they are prepositioning against critical infrastructure and trying to be able to do the types of disruptive operations that would be the most concern,” National Security Agency official Rob Joyce said at a Wall Street Journal cybersecurity conference.
Jesus,
Please give me concentration and intelligence.
I want to finish works on earth
in order to spend more time with you.
Amen.
PTH
3-14 December 2018, Katowice, Poland – In its latest report, WHO highlights health as the biggest issue to be prioritized during COP-24 and provides key recommendations to the negotiators on how to maximize the health benefits of tackling climate change and avoid the worse health impacts of this global challenge.
Although there has been hugely positive progress in tackling health and climate change issues, there is a still a long way to go. Millions of people are still exposed to air pollution globally, resulting in 7 million premature deaths every year; 3 billion people still lack access to clean and reliable energy; and nearly a quarter of all deaths worldwide result from people having to live or work in unhealthy environments.
Unless significant changes are made and stronger action taken, we are risk of failing to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement and the SDGs.
Countries are discovering that the promise of Xi Jinping’s signature infrastructure program is too good to be true.
By Iain Marlow and Dandan LiIn late August, President Abdulla Yameen of the Maldives hailed the opening of a Chinese-built bridge connecting two islands in the archipelago as “the gateway into tomorrow and the opportunities beyond.”
One month later, Yameen was voted out and the new government of the palm-fringed nation off the coast of India began to uncover the mountain of debt with which he’d saddled the country.
Jesus,
Love today is fast love.
Just making a date is to think about having sex.
Oh,
our traditional love,
the Eastern classical love,
the slow love,
the romantic love,
when will he come back to our country, Jesus?
I miss him.
I love him.
Amen.
PTH
December 10th, 2018 by Joshua S Hill at Clean Technica
Despite countless warnings and mounting economic evidence to the contrary, countries continue to expand the number of new coal-fired power plants, a push which is currently being led by China, Japan, and South Korea, according to the latest figures from CoalSwarm released last week.
Dangerously, even as these three countries seek to transition their own economies away from coal-fired power and towards large-scale renewable energy sources — sources such as solar and offshore and onshore wind — they are also providing significant funding for overseas coal plants in developing nations.
On September 30, 2018, the United States, Mexico and Canada (the Parties) reached an agreement to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The new agreement is called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). As has been widely reported, the Parties conducted many months of negotiations to reach this agreement.
It is important to note that the USMCA still has to be ratified by all the Parties. Until this ratification has taken place, the current NAFTA rules and regulations remain in place. This means that there is no immediate change to existing legal structure in place.
Reuters“China and the United States agreed to a ceasefire in their bitter trade war on Saturday after high-stakes talks in Argentina between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, including no escalated tariffs on Jan. 1.”
“Trump will leave tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports at 10 percent at the beginning of the new year, agreeing to not raise them to 25 percent ‘at this time’, the White House said in a statement.”
Jesus,
To live is an art,
the art of living.
I love art,
so I love the art of living.
Can I become an artist of living?
I want to be like you,
the artist of living.
I want to be one with you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
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