LouisJalouzot/EN-EWT-UD huggingface dataset:
Then, this month, it said that it opposed moves to refer Iran's nuclear stand-off with the International Atomic Energy Agency to the United Nations Security Council.
A week before, China's second biggest state oil firm had signed a $70 billion deal for oilfield and natural gas development with Iran, which already supplies 13 per cent of China's needs.
This year it overtook Japan as the world's second largest consumer of energy, behind the US.
The two are also set to clash over Russia's oil wealth.
Increasingly, analysts are saying that China's efforts have gone beyond what is safe or even in its own interests.
"It may be a difficult political issue but I don't think the energy content is worthwhile."
"If China's economy falters, which, in my view, appears increasingly likely, then commodity prices will plummet, and with them, the value of the assets that produce them," Jason Kindopp, Eurasia's lead China analyst, said.
China's wider aggression to secure oil and gas was the greatest threat to its international standing in the next decade.
The sun's rays and warmth are still with you, surrounding you.
Imagine you're sitting on top of a mountain, and that it's the most peaceful place you can think of.
Feel that you're sitting there in complete peace, right on top of the world.
Feel you're completely surrounded by that infinite peace and happiness.
Feel the meaning, don't just think of its wordy meaning or try to translate from Sanskrit (BABA NAM KEVALAM) to an English meaning (Infinite peace and happiness).
Think internally, intuitively, not by words, of the meaning, as you're repeating it.
Feel you're surrounded by infinite peace and happiness, and feel that your own sense of existence is in direct contact with that endless peace and happiness all around you.
Don't worry if you have trouble concentrating on the mantra and ideation - that's normal.
If you don't practice, then nothing happens.
But that's not the case.
One of “NCRC4ME's” major efforts is to collect signatures for the attached “Declaration of Religious Leaders,” which has been and will again be presented to members of the NC legislature.
(Since the Declaration is written as coming from “religious leaders,” people who don't consider themselves “religious leaders” can sign as “Supporters of the North Carolina Religious Coalition for Marriage Equality.”)
Yes, it is true that some people don't like the way they think he will vote on the Supreme Court.
"Commander In Chief" doesn't mean that he is the boss of the Military, merely that he is the Administrator, just as he is the Administrator of the Executive Branch, charged with "executing faithfully" all the laws passed by Congress and all the Decisions rendered by the Supreme Court.
Secretive efforts keep outsiders in the dark about the program's goals
A pair of military pilots embarked on China's second manned space flight early today, hurtling into orbit on a test mission that could span five days.
China's "is not a fly-by-night program," said Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on national security who follows space developments in the Asian nation at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.
"They are not going to rush it, because they don't want it to be a budget buster.
China's overtures to join the U.S.-led effort to develop the 16-nation international space station have been thwarted for more than a decade over a range of issues, including the Asian country's human rights policies and worries it could acquire technologies that could pose a security threat.
The freeze thawed some after Yang's 2003 mission.
China was among 30 nations invited to send a delegate to NASA-sponsored roundtable discussions on Bush's strategy to reach the moon with astronauts as the first step in the exploration of Mars and other-deep space destinations.
"We applaud China's space achievements," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said Tuesday.
He stressed, however, that NASA would not follow this week's Chinese mission through formal channels.
The Chinese program's second phase will include spacewalks on future missions and demonstrations of docking and undocking techniques.
At least one expert believes China's intentions might include a surprise attempt to circle the moon with astronauts before NASA's planned lunar return.
The two developments, he said, could eventually enable China's space program to mature to the point that experts could assemble and launch from Earth's orbit a spacecraft capable of circling the moon with astronauts and returning home.
I'm a member of a local animal rights news, and get regular emails from other members and the staff.
It has cat's "Meowing" for the vocals, and you might really find yourself in those furnaces, feeling and thinking those terrible feelings and thoughts that these cats do before they die.
Right now, while we're sitting at our computers enjoying the internet, those innocent, beautiful, loving cats, are dying, somewhere in this troubled world a slow, agonizing death.
If I love cats so much, why aren't I DOING something???
I don't want to appear before God on judgment day and have to explain why I didn't do anything like this in my life.
Here's the text of the email:
So, if anyone can give me some advice, I'd sure appreciate it!
I've pasted the email for those who haven't seen or would like to re-read it.
It's also got the website where the song has been uploaded.
I was thinking, that while I'm sitting here, relaxing and enjoying myself, those poor innocent animals are being cooked to death with heat in those Holocaust-esque death chambers.
I'm not sure if any of you know much about civet cats, but to brief those who might not know, I will quote James Rachels, author of World Hunger and Moral Obligation among many other animal rights-related books and articles.
Here Kant's rule--"Animals are merely means to an end; that end is man"--is applied with a vengeance.
If anyone is interested in listening to this song, and in offering their opinion, whether it be positive or negative, I'd appreciate it.
Again, if anyone wants to read Rachels' entire article, let me know.
It's also on the net.
Heisenberg wasn't sure.
I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't care about the useless pre-fabricated crap this message usually says.
In the third week I had more than $10,000.00 and it's still growing!!
This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of $42,000.00 and it's still coming rapidly.
It's certainly worth $6.00 and six stamps, and I have spent more than that on the lottery without ever winning!!!
This is not a rip-off, it is decent; it's legal; and it is virtually no risk - it really works!!
Send it now, add your own name to the list and you're in business!!!
This will copy the entire letter into the computer's memory.
If you want to do your posting in different settings, you'll always have this file to go back to.
THAT'S IT!!
Blue Planet: Who's afraid of Big Bad Wolf?
Ever since he ate up Red Riding Hood's grandma and blew down the houses of two-thirds of the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf has held a persistently bad reputation.
In part because of that reputation, the gray wolf was nearly exterminated from the lower 48 states by the 1920s, except for a small remnant population on Isle Royale National Park in Michigan's Lake Superior.
Over time, the wolf's absence seemed to rehabilitate its image.
OSU forestry professors William Ripple and Robert Beschta have found that wolves actually promote stream-bank stabilization, although they have given the phenomenon the unfortunate name of "the ecology of fear" -- something that smacks of the horrible PR resulting from the wolf's relationships with Riding Hood and the Three Pigs.
"All you have to do is look at the photographs," Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told UPI's Blue Planet,
Where there had been only one beaver colony in the park's northern range before the wolves returned, now there are nine.
"There's a lot of impact on plants and they say, 'Who cares?'
But we've been looking at streamside communities.
It's important with regard to the quality of streams.
"I'm pretty suspicious of making broad generalizations," however, he cautioned.
They've only been there for 10 years.
In 10 more years we'll have a better idea."
Wolf reintroduction in the northern Rockies has been so successful the Fish and Wildlife Service has moved to reduce the animal's status from endangered to threatened and, eventually, to remove it from the endangered species list altogether.
He vacated the FWS decision to downgrade the wolf's status.
Regardless of the wolf's legal status, its future expansion into new areas now seems likely.
Scientists can argue all they want about how many degrees Celsius -- or Fahrenheit -- the planet is warming and what the trend portends, but meanwhile Earth's plants, insects and animals are not waiting for the outcome.
Phenology studies an organism's development and life cycle -- the pulse of life.
Bradley's record of 300 phenophases found that even prior to 1999, spring was arriving in higher latitudes several weeks earlier than in the earlier years of her data.
"Half of the studies provide strong evidence of a causal link between the biological change and climate change," said Camille Parmesan, a University of Texas-Austin biologist and one of the world's leading experts on this issue.
These changes are occurring across all species, Parmesan told UPI's Climate.
"Across the United States, the northern edge of species' range is expanding," she said.
According to Parmesan's earlier studies, one extinction event, for instance, was triggered when a checkerspot population migrated north prematurely, relying on a warming temperature signal, then was caught in a severe snowstorm in its northern habitat.
At least he isn't using this disaster for cheap political point-scoring."
"I do not feel it has changed the US citizens which is what was needed, even now the majority want "Gas" despite the fact they are polluting the world more than any other country in the world and refuse to stop, perhaps this natural disaster, which let's face it looks like a product of Global Warming, will change their views, why not pick things up with your hands and walk with your legs, other people in the world do it, "Gas" is not the be all and end all!"
Here, cars are absolutely necessary, and he'd have to have one, too.
I don't believe that folks who believe that America is the land of opportunity will change their views from this recent news.
You know, I've lived in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex most of my life.
There is a lot of racial diversity in all of these places... and I've vacationed through the south... visited my folks when they lived in Mississippi, and where they live now and are in the racial minority being white (less than 20%) in northeastern Arkansas.
I didn't expect to react that way, but when I was looking around my workplace in Nashua, New Hampshire, and everyone else looked pretty much like me, it was really very eerie.
Additionally, reviewing the standings of Louisiana and Mississippi in the educational stakes, you'll find they usually land near the bottom of a list of 50 states.
Yes, it's a valid reflection of America - we do have cities like this.
I don't know if this will change other nation's perceptions of America.
I'm interested in what America will look like in 5 years.
These are some of the things I've been wondering...
Okay, I'm new to this forum and really don't like Bush, so my view point is slanted and I admit that.
I rarely listen to the news or to what politicians or lawyers say because so many tell lies that none have credibility so what's the point?
My friend didn't have computer capability, so I spent the day searching and posting online.
What I heard was the Mayor of New Orleans, saying that he didn't order the buses or anything else to be used because he was waiting on someone else to tell him what to do.
Even he can't believe that he is trotting out this old saw again.
I guess if you have a schtick that is a resounding success once, you can't help but trot it out every time your act is going sour.
I'm sorry he makes me want to puke so I shut him off.
You'll be among the first to seize upon new societal trends to create new opportunities for yourself, as your creativity will be at an all-time high.
This is the year you'll want to take stock of your career and ask yourself if you're doing the work you want to do for the rest of your life.
Your cycle of learning through the school of hard knocks has come to an end, Gemini, and now you're going to start reaping the rewards these "lessons" have left in their wake.
By the end of 2005 you'll have a whole new start with regard to your career and your earning potential - and a possible new partnership to top it off!
Finding a balance between your personal and professional lives may be one of the year's strongest challenges.
You'll be making radical changes in your work habits, but you'll be a lot happier for it, and in the end you'll know it was worth it.
By the end of 2005, you'll feel more confident, more determined, and far more capable of making the mountains come to you!
You'll be able to create opportunities for advancement almost out of thin air.
Romance in 2005 will make it a year to remember - and you'll be the envy of all your friends.
Yet, this is no comparison to the advancements you'll make overall, and by the end of 2005, you'll look back in sheer wonder and happiness.
For much of 2005, you'll be putting your nose to the grindstone.
Just don't take it for granted - you still need to be cautious this year.
And, you're going to develop a hopeless romantic streak.
In spite of a lot of worry over your career, by the year's end, you'll see that 2005 has filled your life with prosperity and accomplishments.
If you're not presently married, and want to be, you just might wed by the end of the year.
This is the year you're going to be doing a lot of travel and learning about your world, as expansion is the theme.
The one department of life that may not quite be as hopeful as you'd like could be your career, where advancement may be slow and satisfaction rare.
By year's end, you may find yourself seriously considering a major change - all for the best.
While this is most apparent in the area of your career, you'll see it showing up in other important aspects of your life.
Your life might take on an entirely new direction you've never dreamed of.
Whether you start the year as a single person looking for a partner, or you've been married for many years, happiness in love does lie ahead.
Don't cling to the banks; instead, flow with the tide in 2005.
There's so much punch packed into this combination that it's almost scary.
You'll find the ultimate power is the ability to choose your own destiny.
You'll find practical ways of increasing your effectiveness in the world by gaining new skills that allow you to live more abundantly.
Overall, 2005 is sure to be a year you won't forget.
You've got plenty of lucky breaks headed your way in 2005, friend Capricorn.
The long awaited relief you've needed in your love life is around the corner, and by the end of the year you will feel much clearer about your partnerships in general.
Your career opportunities will expand exponentially, and you're likely to change jobs or positions this year.
By year's end, your creative decision-making will have carried you to whole new peaks - and a whole new view from above.
It's a big year for you, friend Pisces.
No doubt, in 2005 you'll find yourself pushed more and more out into the world.
You'll experience a new sense of purpose and make plenty of new friends.
It's important that you take retreats and plenty of time for yourself to regenerate, as the rate of change in your personal and professional life will be fast and unpredictable.
Like William Shakspere RAPHAEL (the painter) died on his April birthday Laura & Bridget's day:
BRIDGET Vere's birth: April 6, 1584 Monday
Thomas Hobbes' birth: April 5, 1588 Good Friday
<<In "Love's Labour's Lost" we find a character Don Adriana de Armatho, full of affection and bombast.
1584 Lopez's book translated into Italian by Tarsia and published in Venice.
"Ay," said Sancho; "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it>>
How they murdered him I do not know, save that it was Murillo's hand who struck him down, for Lopez had remained to guard me.
It is interesting to observe that this nation is nicknamed "the Devil's Island".
The antichrist John Lennon, one of the Devil's main puppets to destroy family, social and moral values and to begin the disintegration of mankind, did hit Stuart Sutcliffe (the first bass player of the Beatles) in the head with a club repeatedly in Hamburg.
Some months later Sutcliffe died from brain haemorrhage because of John Lennon's bruises.
That was the day that GOD'S CURSE fell upon the world of Rock.
John Lennon's divorce followed, as well as his entering the world of black magic, as deeply as to buy the apartment. where the "Rosemary's baby" had been filmed, previous property of Roman Polansky, and in that same apartment John Lennon had a room upholstered with black silk where he used to do his black magic operations.
To Paul McCartney whose company's logo was a person toying with the planets as if he was a god, and who was being very much deluded in his ego trip by the fact that he was made "Sir" (when in England even the road sweeper is made Sir, as long as he produces money for the nation), GOD provided cancer to the wife.
The advertising farce of how much he loved Linda (woman whose quality he did not deserve), was exposed when it was known that Paul had an affair with Heather Mills, Linda's intimate friend, with whom McCartney went on a trip to New York and to whom he bought things and presents, while he was still mourning for his "dear Linda".
At the same time McCartney was going out with Heather Mills, he used Linda's death for promotional ends, due to his waning popularity.
Paul admitted that he made Linda suffer a lot, but he didn't say that it was because he felt insecure as a man due to his womanish face and effeminate manners and also because with his age his sexual power was not the same, even though it has never been much.
It is easy to note the uneasiness of McCartney when he sings: "I've got a feeling, a feeling I can't hide..." in front of Yoko in the film.
Because of the trauma that his homosexual relation with Brian Epstein had left him, he made lyrics such as: "You can wear a collar and a tie, one thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside" and gave declarations to the "Rolling Stone" magazine saying that "sometimes he wore Texan boots to feel more secure as a man".
In the Beatles' song "Get Back" they advise black Joe to "get back to where you once belonged", as if England was not a place for black people.
The Jewish marriage living to the right of George's house said that he is an arrogant person who does never return a greeting.
The newly married couple living on the corner in front of the entrance of George's house (Friar Park) refers to him as an overbearing person to stay away from.
The receptionist of "Hand made", the former film making company of George Harrison said: "we don't have any relation with that man anymore and we don't want to know anything about him".
George Harrison said in a video that "Oasis is a very untalented band and they shouldn't be playing at all", all of it being the truth, but the Beatles is also a band of very poor musicians, if musicians at all, who could only play a couple of elementary guitar chords and who are as untalented as Oasis.
Paul McCartney said recently that he believes in using magic, and he does lots of charity, thinking that in this way he will compensate for the CURSE OF GOD that is upon him and that took his wife's life because of his Satanism and involvement in black magic.
We recommend you to take that curse out of your house throwing away everything related to the Devil's main nine puppets....
This 'all options are open' line has been President George W Bush's publicly stated policy throughout the past 18 months."
2. Iran's Armaments
While Iran's conventional army is not what it was during the heyday of the Iran-Iraq war - their armaments have deteriorated and the veterans of that last war have retired - the nation enjoys substantial military strength nonetheless.
Iran's military also includes holdings of 1,613 main battle tanks, 21,600 other armored fighting vehicles, 3,200 artillery weapons, 306 combat aircraft, 60 attack helicopters, 3 submarines, 59 surface combatants, and 10 amphibious ships."
It is Iran's missile armaments that pose the greatest concern for American forces in the Gulf, especially for the US Navy.
Iran's coast facing the Persian Gulf is a looming wall of mountains that look down upon any naval forces arrayed in those waters.
Of all the missiles in Iran's armament, the most dangerous is the Russian-made SS-N-22 Sunburn.
The missile's manufacturers state that one or two missiles could cripple a destroyer, and five missiles could sink a 20,000 ton ship.
This was a specific reaction to the American invasion of Iraq, and a reaction to America's condemnation of Syria after the death of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which was widely seen as an assassination ordered from Damascus.
Like Iran, Syria's military is nothing to scoff at.
Damascus has been intent for years upon establishing significant military strength to serve as a counterweight to Israel's overwhelming capabilities.
China's economy is exploding, hampered only by their great thirst for petroleum and natural gas to fuel their industry.
Further, any fighting in the Persian Gulf would imperil the tankers running China's liquefied natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz.
China's accumulation of dollars is approximately $600 billion.
When China's currency ceases to be undervalued, American shoppers in Wal-Mart, where 70 percent of the goods on the shelves are made in China, will think they are in Neiman Marcus.
China's strong hand in this even extends to the diplomatic realm; China is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and could veto any actions against Iran proposed by the United States.
Iran's position over the Gulf would make resupply by ship and air support from carriers a dangerous affair.
Therefore, any attack upon Iran's nuclear facilities will bring Russia into the mess.
Karl Rove, Bush's most senior advisor, notoriously told Republicans on the ballot during the 2002 midterms to "run on the war."
1 - Number of paragraphs devoted to global warming in the EPA's 600-page "Draft Report on the Environment" presented in 2003.
14 - Percentage carbon dioxide emissions will increase over the next 10 years under Bush's own global-warming plan (an increase of 30 per cent above their 1990 levels).
200 - Number of regulation rollbacks downgrading or weakening environmental laws in Bush's first three years in office.
50 - Percentage decline in Environmental Protection Agency enforcement actions against polluters under Bush's watch.
62 - Number of members of Cheney's 63-person Energy Task Force with ties to corporate energy interests.
0 - Number of environmentalists asked to attend Cheney's Energy Task Force meetings.
6 - Number of months before 11 September that Cheney's Energy Task Force investigated Iraq's oil reserves.
2 - Percentage of the world's population that is British.
2 - Percentage of the world's oil used by Britain.
5 - Percentage of the world's population that is American.
25 - Percentage of the world's oil used by America.
24,000 - Estimated number of premature deaths that will occur under Bush's Clear Skies initiative.
750,000 - Tons of toxic waste the US military, the world's biggest polluter, generates around the world each year.
50- Percentage of screened workers at Ground Zero who now suffer from long-term health problems, almost half of whom don't have health insurance.
$3,500 - Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who could confirm Bush's Alabama guard service.
600-700 - Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that period.
0 - Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with information about Bush's guard service.