WASHINGTON: A senior US official told Reuters on Friday that Washington would not send ground troops into Pakistan to attack militant positions in North Waziristan. “There will be no boots on the ground,” the official said. “That has been communicated to them (the Pakistanis).”
PM feared riots over power crisis: WikiLeaks – GEO.tv.
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Updated at: 1451 PST, Saturday, October 01, 2011 KARACHI: WikiLeaks has revealed that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani feared that the electricity shortage in the country could lead to riots as well as political insecurity. A diplomatic cable sent to Washington by then US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson on November 2, 2009 discussed the meeting between PM Gilani and US Secretary’s Advisor on Energy and the head of the US delegation to the US-Pakistan energy dialogue David Goldwyn. During the meeting Gilani told Goldwyn the energy shortage along with terrorism and stabilising the economy were the main challenges Pakistan was facing. Goldwyn conveyed to Gilani that if Pakistan wanted to deal with the energy crisis then the country would have to make difficult decisions. |
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10 Ways to Get Vitamin D After Summer | Reader’s Digest Version.
© iStockphoto/Thinkstock During the summer, the body can convert light from the sun into ample amounts of vitamin D with just 10-15 minutes daily exposure. That’s not possible during the winter months when the angle of the sun sinks lower into the southern hemisphere. From the beginning of October through March, the angle of the sun prevents much of North America from getting vitamin D making vitamin D-rich foods essential during the winter months. While getting out in the winter to play in the snow, jog, and ski are all ways to remain healthy and happy you should still be consuming vitamin D foods. The current recommendation is 400-600 IU per day.
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Fire up your grill or indoor grill pan and enjoy this Mexican-inspired dish. Thick grilled slices of eggplant are topped with warm salsa and cheese for a quick and healthy meal.
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China’s “Heavenly Palace” launches – GEO.tv.
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Updated at: 0647 PST, Friday, September 30, 2011 JIUQUAN: China successfully launched an experimental craft on Thursday paving the way for its first space station amid a blaze of national pride, bringing the growing Asian power closer to matching the United States and Russia with a long-term manned outpost in space.The Tiangong 1, or “Heavenly Palace,” blasted off from a remote site in the Gobi Desert at 9:16 pm (1316 GMT), adding a high-tech sheen to China’s National Day celebrations on October 1. Premier Wen Jiabao watched as the small, unmanned “space lab” and the Long March rocket that heaved it skyward from a pad at Jiuquan in northwest Gansu province, lifted off under clear skies, in images shown live on state television. It is the latest show of China’s growing prowess in space, and comes while budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches. “Its name … speaks for a dream home the Chinese have long envisioned in the sky. In Chinese folklore, a heavenly palace often refers to the place in outer space where deities reside,” the official Xinhua news agency said. The big test comes weeks after its launch, when the eight tonne craft attempts to join up with an unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft that China plans to launch. Space docking tests conducted with the Tiangong 1 will provide experience for the building of a permanent manned space station around 2020, mission spokeswoman Wu Ping said. And the launch, just before China’s National Day holiday, was accompanied by an outpouring of proud support for the country’s technological achievements. “I feel great pride in being Chinese today. This is another great step forward for China in space,” wrote Shi Zhongshan on the popular Twitter-like microblogging site Sina Weibo. In July, 40 people died in a collision on a high-speed rail line in eastern China, and Engineers had been watching launch preparations nervously, after another Long March rocket malfunctioned and failed to send an experimental satellite into orbit last month. Russia, the United States and other countries jointly operate the International Space Station, to which China does not belong. But the United States will not test a new rocket to take people into space until 2017, and Russia has said manned missions are no longer a priority for its space program, which has struggled with delays and glitches. Earlier this month, NASA unveiled plans for a deep-space rocket to carry astronauts to the moon and Mars. President Barack Obama has called for a human expedition to an asteroid by 2025 and a journey to Mars in the 2030s. China launched its second moon orbiter last year after it became only the third country to send its astronauts walking in space outside their orbiting craft in 2008. It plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover in 2012, and the retrieval of lunar soil and stone samples around 2017. Scientists have talked about the possibility of sending a man to the moon after 2020. China is also jostling with neighbors Japan and India for a bigger presence in space, but its plans have faced international wariness. Beijing says its aims are peaceful, and military involvement natural given the enormity of the undertaking. “The military enjoys unique advantages in organizing and coordinating such large-scale activities, and its involvement in aerospace missions is an international practice,” Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said this week. (Reuters) COMMENT: | ||
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